Dated July 1, 1913 / Due August 1, 1951. Overleaf dated February 1928 at Scranton. Folio sheet folded. When folded to make 4 pages this measures 14 x 8.5 inches. Diagonally printed in red on each of 4 sides: "Proof - Preliminary And Subject To Change / Figures And Statements Herein Not To Be Relied On As Final". Pencil notation to foot of page 1 and on blank page 4; pen to margin of page 2. Three horizontal creases with half-inch closed tear along the centre crease at right margin, and tan line to page 4 (blank). View More...
146, 14 pages. 8.4 x 5.2 inches. Contemporary full leather binding sound. Endpapers front and rear heavily stained; light staining throughout. 1 x 5.5 inch long strip cut from front blank (on which numerals in pencil). Some top outer corners frail, no loss to text. Cornell and Harvard have pagination as 145, 14; in fact verso of 145 is the Book Of House Expences, B. page; thereafter the 1-14 Synopsis. Complete. Longer title: Dilworth's Book-Keepers Assistant Improved: showing him, in the most plain and easy manner, the Italian way of stating debtor and creditor ... To which is annexed, A synop... View More...
79 pages. From the Foreword: "During recent weeks several unfair attacks have been made upon 'The Chicago tribune'. A small number of selected cartoons and excerpts from a few editorials have been advanced as if they were typical of the contents of that newspaper with a view to showing that the Tribune's policy was unfavourable to the British cause. In this booklet a selection of 49 cartoons and 22 editorials, published since the outbreak of the war, is re-published as an illustration of 'The Chicago Tribune's' policy of fair American comment upon international affairs of deep interest to both... View More...
147 pages. Purple cloth unevenly sunned, rubbed at extremities. Old ink to rear clover with a touch of spillage to fore-edge. Frontispiece of Nathan Meyer De Rothschild tissue guarded. Front hinge slack. Light foxing. Pen circle on page 33 : Sam Slick's Notion. Full title: Fortunate Men, how They Made Money and Won Renown: A Curious Collection of Rich Men's Mottoes and Great Men's Watchwords, Their Financial Tests and Secrets, Their Favourite Sayings and Guiding Rules in Business, with Droll and Pithy Remarks on the Conduct of Life, Mostly Taken Down in Their Own Words : to which are Added Man... View More...
[31] pages. Covers stamped in blind, with gilt titles to front. Cloth stained and faded. Original yellow endpapers; text printed in red and black. No indication of printer or place (London presumed). No indication of date except for the Samuel Wilson's Loan page with date of 8 December 1863 at foot. Binding sound and contents clean. View More...
vi, 42 leaves printed recto. All edges gilt. Light rubbing and soil to cloth; foxing to first few and final few leaves. "With the kind regards of the family" inked to first white leaf. 10.2 x 7.7 inches. View More...
166, [2] pages. Spine panel chipped at head and foot. Cover detached in one piece. Spot of ink lower fore-edge. Tideline throughout. Binding of textblock is sound. A comprehensive resource. View More...
Two items simultaneously issued under one cover, each folding out to a large sheet for teaching purposes. 12.75 x 9.5 inches folded; 25.75 x 38.5 inches opened. Opening of Parliament painted for Pictorial Quarterly by A. Egerton Cooper. Raw Materials drawn for Pictorial Quarterly by E. H. Judd and Ellis Silas. Unobtrusive pinholes to margins of the latter. Each in excellent condition. View More...
104 pages, and one page in manuscript bound in. Signature of one Alex. Maitland to head of title page. This I presume to be Lt. Col. Alexander Maitland. "Colonel Maitland" is listed as one of the subscribed members of the Society, with his place of residence amended from Camphill to Chipperkyle in ink on page 89. On p. 95 Colonel Maitland appears in the Committee of Management list. Bound in near-contemporary half leather with marbled boards, with two free endpapers at front and rear. Binding is sound; light foxing throughout. The page of ms. bound in facing p. 76 deals with corn. View More...
992, 225 pages, but lacking title and pages 1-8 of the first section; six leaves with considerable silverfish damage midway through the second section ("The Mercantile Agency special edition of Bullinger's postal and shippers' guide for the Dominion of Canada, containing every post office and railroad station ... "), and with considerable and unsightly damage/loss to the final ten leaves. A nasty but early example. Binding is sound. View More...
78 pages, with front cover as p. 1. Paper onlay to front bearing the name Abner Hendee. Abner is herein listed with comparatively large numbers: Real.: 57,055, and Pers'l: 39,125; prospering in his new home designed by Richard Williams in the Shingle style at 703 Whitney Avenue. View More...
388, 180 pages, followed by Reports of Proceedings of the Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society with separate title page and imprint: Glasgow: Bell and Bain, 1843: 16 pages and advert leaf for D. Macdonald, engraver. Covers detached; Amicable Society tract detached as a unit from the rest. General soiling. View More...
[ix], 228, [3] pages. Spine panel chipped at head and foot. Tideline to spine, fore-edge and from page 161-end. Binding is sound. A comprehensive resource. View More...
One sheet folded to make 4 pages (3 of which have text), concerning the railway company's lack of funds: "The effects of the great panic - its resulting suspensions and failures to realize money - make it necessary for the Company to request the bondholders to extend the payment of coupons maturing November 1st, 1873, May 1st, and November 1st, 1874, until the first day of March, 1877." Extra folds; wear and soiling, including a curved closed tear upper right page 3. View More...
iv, 321- 392pp, with fold-out image of Mr. J. Hawter's nursery at Bridgetown. Front cover chipped and torn; title page likewise torn. Binding sound; contents clean. View More...