Author: Grose, Francis

London: S. Hooper

Folio, unpaged; 6 engraved half-page illustrations; self wrappers, edges a bit toned and spotted, faint stain at bottom right-hand corner of upper cover, else very good. Prospectus for a 6 volume work (1772-1787), in which are reproduced specimen illustrations from Canterbury, Ipswich, Odiam, Colchester, and Southampton, with detailed descriptions. The whole printed on exceptionally thick paper. Penn State and Toronto only of the prospectus in OCLC.

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Author: Alexander, William

London: G. Nicol.

Broadside, folio (321 mm.); a few shallow tears along left-hand edge, evidence of having been previously tipped-in on right margin; a very good copy. Prospectus for the rare first edition, issued in four parts, 1797-1799, containing 48 colored engravings by Alexander, the junior draftsman on the Macartney Embassy to China. Full page contemporary manuscript "Curious Predictions 2" on verso, entirely about the predicted fall of Napoleon. This prospectus unrecorded.

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Author: Eastman, Edwin

Jersey City, N.J.: Clark Johnson

8vo, pp. 8; wood-engraving portraits and illustrations throughout, text in two columns, first describing Eastman's supposed kidnapping before giving over to the advertising of a magical panacea discovered by Eastman during his time with the Indians. The work is described by G.P. Garrison as "a revolting fictitious story written to advertise Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian blood syrup."

Missing as of 9/9/2014

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Author: Frazer, Alexander

Philadelphia: David Hogan

Broadside, 4to (263 mm.); toned, edges trimmed, very good. Prospectus from the Philadelphia Repository, Extra, for Saturday, November 13, 1802; provides the work's table of contents. Postscript to the Extra printed on verso, along with a small advertisement for James Carson's "A Practical Grammar of the English Language" and a proposal for a collection of sacred music.

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Author: [Dennie, Joseph]

Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep

8vo, pp. 11; prospectus for Dennie's periodical, either written wholly or in part by him. Soiling, tear to front leaf not affecting text, edges and corners worn and chipped. BAL 4640.

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Author: Arrigo da Settimello

Milano: Giovanni Silvestri.

Broadside (170 x 104 mm.); fine. Sample title pages of this and the publisher's "Saggio Poetico ossia le tre guerre puniche in ottava rima".

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Author: Chesterfield, Lord

Milano: Tipografia di Giovanni Silvestri.

Broadside (167 x 99 mm.); near fine. Prospectus for an Italian translation of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman.

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New York

Broadside, 4to (320 mm.). Proposal "for the printing by subscription" of this work, which does not appear to have made it to print. Manuscript list of subscribers bottom 2/3 of leaf. Previous folds, ink stains to Broadside verso, name of compiler and original price have been crossed out, small circular loss where the price has been marked out. A rare, unrecorded prospectus.

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Author: Hornor, Thomas

London: Hornor, T.

Second edition, 8vo, pp. 31; folding engraved frontispiece, 1 lithographic folding plate, and 2 additional multifolding plates; original pictorial wrappers, respined, edges worn with small losses to corners; some interior foxing, else very good and sound. Thomas Hornor, a talented perspective draughtsman, obtained permission to build a shack on the scaffolding erected on St. Paul's for replacing the ball and cross above the Cathedral's dome. On it Hornor proposed to draw a huge panorama of London, which this Prospectus offers to the public in the form of four engravings. This was to be supplemented by a Select View in London and its Neighbourhood, a work of one hundred engravings available in ten fascicles. Neither project was ever completed, making the prospectus itself the only printed result of Hornor's work.

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Torino: Marzorati, Vercellotti, e Comp.

Bifolium, 4to; previous fold, else near fine. Prospectus for the Biblioteca Economica, religious works, and others.

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Author: Vallardi, Giuseppe

Milano: Pietro e Giuseppe Vallardi.

8vo, pp. xvi; self wrappers; some spotting along top edge, else fine. Contains an important programmatic manifesto followed by the description of the new work with prices.

Filed under V.

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Paris: François Pastori et Comp.

8vo, pp. 6, [1]; steel-engraved vignette, full-page illustration on p. [7]; unbound self wrappers; small loss to bottom right-hand corner not affecting text, else very good. Subscription bulletin laid in.

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Author: Yes

Washington City: Blair & Rives

Broadside, folio (340 mm.); stains, small tear to top edge and loss between heading and text, not affecting text; printed in two columns. Prospectus for this Washington-based newspaper "made up of the daily proceedings of the two Houses of Congress...The Appendix is made up of the President's annual message, the reports of the principal officers of the Government that accompany it, and all the long speeches of members of Congress." Blank space at bottom in which to list the subscribers' names. OCLC locates one copy of this prospectus, at the New York Historical Society.

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Author: Neale, Wm. L.

Lexington, Kentucky: True American

Broadside printed receipt (approx. 5.1 x 15.9 cm) accomplished in manuscript; typographical decoration along left-hand edge; fine. Receipt from the office of the anti-slavery newspaper The True American, which ran in 1845 and 1846, made out to the publisher George Merriam. Dated June 8, 1845, just a few days after the first appearance of this publication, on the 3rd. Merriam paid $2.50 for a year's subscription. Signed by Wm. L. Lane. The paper was published weekly by Cassius Marcellus Clay (cousin of Henry Clay).

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Washington, D.C.: Gales & Seaton

Single sheet folded into 4 leaf pamphlet, pages uncut, 4to; prospectus with integral address leaf. Address panel "To the postmaster at Lyme, N.H.", postal stamps. Previous folds.

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Author: Webster, Daniel.

Boston: Little and Brown i.e. Little, Brown

4to, bifolium printed on blue paper; text printed on p. [1] only; previous folds, small loss from wax seal damage not affecting text, else very good. Announcement of a new annotated edition of the minor works of Webster to be published in six volumes, including 200 copies to be printed on large paper. Manuscript lettered signed "Little & Brown" addressed to Messrs. G and C. Merriam regarding an order of 10 copies of two titles (Chitty's Pleadings (?), in 3 volumes, and one other).

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Author: Pitts, F.E.

Louisville: Stevenson, E.

New edition, "very much enlarged, and otherwise improved," bifolium, 4to; previous folds, contemporary hand has cancelled the drop title "Will be ready about the first of June, 1852," and replaced it in manuscript with "is now ready & out"; minor ink spots and soiling, else very good and sound. Advertisement for three religious works, the first being a collection of hymns; the latter two titles are "Sermons for the College, being a collection of original sermons, contributed by distinguished ministers of different Protestant denominations in the United States together with two sermons by eminent living ministers of England: to which is added a supplementary essay by Rev. Thos. F. Akers," third edition; and "Lights of Temperance. A new work," edited by James Young, third edition.

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Author: Cooper, J. Fenimore

New York: Stringer & Townsend.

Broadside, large 4to (277 mm.); a bit toned along previous folds, shallow tears not affecting text; a good copy. Prospectus for this one-volume edition of Fenimore's works, announced 3 years arter his death. Includes a "blurb" by Victor Hugo, "the greatest of contemporary romanticists and critics, declares that Cooper is a creator indeed 'a prodigious genius'".

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San Francisco: Kenny & Alexander.

Broadside (210 x 132 mm.); printed on blue paper; previous folds, small embossed stamp, Kent Mills Commercial; near fine. The earliest publishing prospectus for the Nevada Territory, here issued just after Nevada was organized as a territory and, auspiciously, advertising the impending publication of its first session laws: "Containing the Organic Act creating the Territory; a full List of all the Federal and Territorial Officers; also, the names of Members and Officers of the Legislative Assembly".

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New York: S.R. Wells

Single leaf folded into 8-sided brochure, 8vo; prospectus for the 1871 issue of the periodical; wood-engraving illustrations of six examples of phrenological types (Intelligence vs. imbecility, for example). Includes offer of a Grover and Baker sewing machine, the year's premium list, an order form, and publicity for the publication of Samuel R. Well's Works for home improvement and Works on physiology and hygiene. Previous folds.

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Author: Hotze, C.L.

St. Louis: Hendricks, Chittenden & Co.

Bifolium, 8vo, wood-engraving illustration of experiment intruments, red bordering, blue advertisement for Hotze's first lessons in physiology pasted to front. Previous folds with small loss left edge not affecting text, stain to back cover.

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Modena: Tip. Pontifica ed Arciv. dell'imm. Concezione.

Oblong 8vo, pp. 15; text printed in triple columns; self-wrappers; covers foxed, the whole rather toned, else very good. Prospectus for a portrait of Father Pius IX promising books for parish libraries to be free of charge.

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Author: Green, Samuel A.

Boston: Geo. E. Littlefield

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for "a chronicle and narration of the part taken by the brave and earnest settlers of Groton, in the struggles with King Phillip and the Indains of later date"; list of titles from the same author and list of titles from the Town Histories series included. Edges and corners slightly worn, some discoloration, previous folds.

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Author: [Lewis, Harriet Newell O'Brien]

New York: The New York Ledger.

Broadside (304 x 195 mm.); decorative mast head of the newspaper, half-page illustration of the title character signed "Filmer Sc."; cream colored wove paper, name and address of Alice Pratt, Connecticut, in manuscript on verso with stamp and Brooklyn, NY postal cancelation; previous folds, else very good. Promotional Broadside for the May 12, 1888 issue of the New York Ledge, advertising its serialization of the novel Lady Kildare. Written by Irish-American author Harriet Lewis, the book was published posthumously in New York the following year by R. Bonner's Sons, publishers of the literary weekly newspaper. The novel's subject matter, life and love among the Irish aristocracy, would have been appealing to the newspaper's audience for romantic fiction.

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Philadelphia: Peerless Publishing Co.

Publisher's advertising kit, comprising of one large bifolium, 3 Broadsides printed on yellow and pink paper, one order blank, one typescript letter, and a pre-addressed envelope; accompanied by original envelope addressed to [?] Chase of Newcomb, New York. Broadside illustrated with 7 large steel-engraved illustrations; edges dust-soiled and chipped, previous folds; a very good, sound collection.

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Chicago: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company

Bifolium, 12mo; text on front leaf only; prospectus for a history of the reaper, based on the "investigation into historical records upon this subject". Some toning.

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Saco, Maine: Mitchell, Daniel L.

12mo, bifolium printed on blue paper; text printed on p. [1] only; previous fold; Mitchell's pressure stamp; fine. Announcement of a new stand by a former employee of Messrs. Balch & Son of Providence, R.I. with a manuscript note signed by Mitchell on p. [3] addressed to Messrs. G. & C. Merriam regarding the lowest cash price for their unabridged Webster dictionary.

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Author: Samuel Johnson

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown

8vo, pp. 8; prospectus for a new edition of Johnson's Dictionary, mostly comprised of H.J. Todd's introduction, dated 1814. Losses from holes from previous binding, not affecting text, edges and corners bumped.

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Author: Staples, Estevan M.L.

New York

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for an atlas of Mexico that does not appear to have made it into print (the prospectus found in OCLC, not the work proper); order form provided. Printed on yellow paper, previous folds. Not in Imprints.

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Baltimore: Hitchcock, I. Irvine

Bifolium, 4to; text printed in triple column on p. [1] only; previous fold, else about fine. Autograph letter, approx. 125 words, signed by Hitchcock on p. [3]. Description of the establishment and its merchandise and services offered, as well as its periodical The Farmer and Gardener. Hitchcock describes his establishment as "comprising a stock and experimental farm; a nursery and seed and flower garden; a store for the sale of field and garden seeds and agricultural implements and books; a general agricultural and horticultural agency; the publication office of the 'Farmer & Gardener,' and Live-Stock Breeder & Manager,' and of 'Hints to Farmers,' and an office of application for farmers, gardeners, overseers, managers, &c." The integral autograph letter is addressed to C. Bernie of Taney Town, Maryland, and asks about any Merino rams for sale. The American Farmer was a weekly focusing on rural economy and printed in Baltimore, 1819-1897; Hitchcock (1793-1868) was one of its editors and the proprietor of various business establishements associated with it. Not in OCLC.

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Author: Saunders, John Simcoe

Philadelphia: Small, Robert H.

Bifolium, 4to; previous folds, else about fine. Text on p. [1] only; autograph letter signed by the publisher on p. [3]; integral envelope addressed in his hand to G. & L. [illegible], Booksellers, Springfield, Masstts., wax seal mostly intact.

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Author: Dana, Charles A.

New York: Hermann J. Meyer

4to, pp. 24, [8] leaves of plates; a salesman's sample bearing the original printed wrapper of the first part and containing original text on the West and Eastern states; two parts with two title leaves are included in the same wrapper. Back cover of the sample copy is a prospectus for the work, setting terms and conditions of publication. Foxing, edges and corners worn. In modern burgundy cloth box with burgundy and gold-stamped morocco spine. Charles A. Dana had been one of the leaders at Brook Farm, writing for The Dial and The Harbinger, and later edited the New York Tribune and became world-famous as "Dana of The Sun".

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Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, & Worthington.

Broadside (222 x 159 mm.); darkened with a bit of spotting, tear affecting a couple of letters without loss of meaning, edges worn from handling; good. Advertisement announcing "Republican voters you want this campaign edition," in which they will find biographies of John Charles Frémont and William L. Lewis, illustrated with 2 steel portraits; also included in the volume will be the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, "and other valuable matter". At bottom of advertisement Broadside: "Fremont Clubs supplied at low rates by the hundred or thousand". Not in OCLC; see OCLC no. 3908809 and Sabin 70021 for the published work, "Republican campaign edition for the million: Containing the Republican platform, the lives of Fremont and Dayton, with beautiful steel portraits of each, and their letters of acceptance. Also, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States."

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Springfield, Mass.: Samuel Bowles & Company

Broadside, long 4to (314 mm.). With note and rates to advertisers ("among the choicest advertising mediums in the country); special prices; and terms and conditions. Previous folds, some foxing.

Filed under B.

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Author: Logan, Olive.

Philadelphia: Parmelee & Co.

Bifolium, 4to; tear from previous fold affecting text without loss of meaning, else good and sound. Prospectus and call for agents of actress and author Logan's work, aimed "to exhibit in all its phases that peculiar realm known as the Show World" (that is, "a scathing onslaught on the Incidences and Immoralities of the Play-House"). At head of title: "10,000 Copies the First Month" (Sold? Ordered? Dreamt-up?) Also described as "The Greatest moral work ever published on amusements". Includes agent conditions and press testimonies. Accompanied by 3 Broadside circulars and blank and previously-addressed envelopes of bright orange and red.

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Author: Kenly, John R.

Philadelphia: Lippincott & Co.

Broadside (approx. 216 mm.); previous fold, minor soil spots, else about fine. Advertisement for "A Valuable Historical Work," with press opinions from the New York Herald and 4 others newspapers.

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Author: [Whittaker, Frederick]

New York: Sheldon & Co.

Broadside, 4to (279 mm.); wood engraving of "Rain-in-the-Face. The Indian who killed General George A. Custer"; verso touts work as "A fascinating biography. 'Twill beguile many a long winter's evening". Includes three excerpts, "The Woodstock races," "Private correspondence," and "The last charge". Previous folds, two small stains, book publisher's stamp.

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Author: [William, Earl.]

Harrisburg: B.G. Stauffer

Broadside (approx. 30.5 x 23.5 cm) printed on thing peach stock; 4 illustrations, text printed in triple column; splits along previous folds affecting text without loss of meaning, else very good. "It is not proposed in the limits of this Handbill to give anything but a fair outline of the merits of The New Illustrated Silent Friend." Given that the prospectus employs what must be the better part of a tray of agate type outlining this vade mecum's inclusion of such secrets as "how to produce the most Delightful Sensation over anyone, or any number of people, and when this feeling passes off, will only have the faint recollection of an *Oriental Dream,*" or a "rule with diagram and figures, by which any one can calculate what are *Lucky Numbers.* This table was made by a Southern gentleman, after twenty years' study, who died a *Millionaire,*" or "how any one may become a Ventriloquist," as well as the hints at sex noted in the promised marriage guide and health tips, the handy volume must be wonderful indeed. Little wonder the distributor notes in one of his display lines, "Agents Can Make $10 to $15 per Day by the sale of The Illustrated Silent Friend." With another display line noting, "The First Edition Published in 1858. Revised Edition 1878." The Illustrated Silent Friend is of note in part for including one of the earliest published American accounts of a purported UFO sighting, in Jay, Ohio, in 1858.

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Author: Michelet, Jules

Hartford: James Betts & Co.

Bifolium, 4to; two specimen illustrations; previous folds, else very good. An immensely popular book in France, England, and America originally published in Paris in 1860. There was also an American edition that same year (Woman (La Femme)), with the same pagination as this 1881 Harford printing and an 1881 New York, Carleton printing, all apparently from the same plates. The text covers woman's place in society, her emotional life, and not least, her situation during conception, pregnancy, confinement, and nursing. The prospectus includes a pitch to sales agents; information on bindings; a detailed description of the contents; and press notices (Atlantic Monthly: "Its great lessons are on the side of humanity, and especially of justice to women, founded on a study of her organic and spiritual limitations").

Filed under B.

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Author: Foster, Joseph

Westminster: Nichols and Sons

Small 8vo, pp. unpaginated; woodcut heraldic emblems throughout; edges toned and spotted, very good. Prospectus comprised almost exclusively of press opinions. Apparently the first volume of a short-lived annual series; prospectus not in OCLC.

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Author: [Rayne, M.L]

Detroit: Dickerson, F.B.

Broadside (approx. 275 mm.); printed on pink paper; previous folds, else fine. Accompanied by a blank Application for Agency and the original postmarked envelope. At head of prospectus: Confidential terms to Agents Selling...," available in 4 bindings (cloth and morocco, plain or gilt edges). "We advise all agents to send for the Complete Outfit, and thus be Fully Equiped for the work."

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New York: Orange Judd Company.

Broadside (307 x 151 mm.); text in double column; slight wear from handling to left-hand edge, else fine. Advertisement for works available from the Orange Judd Company, "Publishers and importers of all works pertaining to rural life," including titles "Published to this Day," "Nearly Ready," "In Press," "Recent Importations," "Just Published," and "Recently Published". Also advertised is the June number of the American Agriculturalist, "(43 years old), The oldest, ablest, and cheapest Journal for the Farm, Garden & Household". Among the title listed are Gordon Stables' "Our Friend, The Dog" and "Ladies' Dogs, as Companions, Also a Guide to their Management in Health and Disease, with many Stories, humorous and pathetic, from life"; Robert Barnwell Roosevelt's "Superior Fishing; or, The Striped Bass, Trout, Black Bass and Blue Fish oof the Nothern States"; as well as works on ornamental gardening, bee-keeping, hunting, horse management, fly-fishing, farm drainage, flax culture, grape growing and wine making, truck farming, soil, pigs, and cattle.

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Author: Burr, Frank A.

Philadelphia: National Publishing Co.

2 printed Broadsides (316 x 150 mm.); very shallow tears from previous folds not affecting text to one, some worm-holing in the other affecting text without loss of meaning; contemporary rubber stamp accomplished in manuscript at head of title of first Broadside, "We can give you an agency for these works in [your own county]"; very good. Prospectus for agents, most likely part of the initial salvo of the National Publishing Company to promote Burr's work.

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Boston: Perry Mason & Co.

8vo, unpaged; decorative borders highlighted in green and pink; original stitched pictorial chromolithographic wrappers highlighted in gilt; about fine. Announcement for the 1887 issue, the publication's 60th volume.

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Author: Taylor, Henry O.

Philadelphia: Kay & Brother.

Second edition, Broadside (267 x 203 mm.); previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for the second edition of Taylor's work, "Just Published". Two other works advertised on verso, Francis Wharton's "Law of Evidence in Civil Issues. With special reference to the modern improvements in the law"; and George Tucker Bispham's "Bispham's Principles of Equity," fourth edition.

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Author: Farmer, John S.

London: Alexander P. Watt

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus provides the "Scheme of publication" in six Roman-numeral points; reviews; special features and synopsis; and three specimen pages (pp. 331-332, 344), the former two loosely inserted. Text in red and black, previous folds.

Filed under W.

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Author: Beach, Charles F., Jr.

New York: Baker, Voorhis & Co.

Broadside (305 x 216 mm.); previous folds, else about fine. At head of prospectus: "Uniformly pronounced by those who have use it,'The best lawyer's tool in equity causes.'" Twelve testimonials provided on verso.

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Author: Ward, Mrs. Humphrey

New York: Macmillan and Co.

Bifolium, 12mo; a bit chipped along bottom left-hand edge, else fine. Prospectus for a new work by the novelist; a list of her previous pieces printed on the back.

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Author: Ladd, Paris B.

New York: The Truth Seeker Co.

Broadside, 8vo (253 mm.); prospectus provides the table of contents and "Some comments on the Commentaries". Previous folds, very good.

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Author: Banks, Louis Albert

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company.

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrations; fine. List of titles by the author, including his latest "Anecdotes and Morals". Other featured titles include "The Christian Gentleman" and "Sermon Stories for Boys and Girls".

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Bielefeld: Velhagen & Klafing

Bifolium, 8vo; map; corners a bit creased, else fine. Prospectus printed in blackletter. Integral order form on back.

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Author: Edgeworth, Maria

London: Baldwin and Cradock

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus of "an uniform edtion of...illustrated with superb engravings. To be published in monthly volumes, of the size and price of the Waverley novels". Also includes a list of the Works for young persons by Edgeworth and other Baldwin and Cradock publications, including The Swiss family Robinson, A complete edition of Robinson Crusoe, and Tales from Shakespeare. Three holes from previous binding, one of which has torn, not affecting text.

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Author: Sears, Robert

New York: Robert Sears

Bifolium, folio; illustrations, including wood engraving portrait of George Washington; prospectus for a magazine "established for the diffusion of useful knowledge. Also lists previous publications from Sears' Popular Pictorial Works, including the Pictorial History of the American Revolution. Back side provides terms for agents. Integral postage addressed to Otis Killburn Esq of Milford, Mass. Postmarked Jul. 10. Previous folds. Not in OCLC.

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Author: Kitto, John

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black.

8vo, pp. 2, [6]; disbound; spine starting to split, else about fine. Publisher's catalogue and prospectus for the first of ten parts of Kitto's abridged encyclopedia, "designed to furnish a Dictionary of the Bible, not framed, as others had been, out of old materials, but embodying the products of the best and most recent researches in Biblical Literature, in which the scholars of this country and of the continent had been engaged." The subsequent 6 pp. list additional recently published works on geography, architecture, engineering, and the other sciences, as well as school books.

Filed under B.

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Author: Goodrich, S.G.

New York: George W. Elliott

Broadside, 4to (250 mm.), advertised as "A book for every man's library" by the late American consul at Paris. Previous folds, tear to left-hand edge not affecting text, verso with penciled note to "Mr. Editor".

Filed under E.

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Author: Shakespeare, William

London: W. & R. Chambers

Broadside, 12mo (183 mm.); prospectus for what appears to be the beginning of a complete set of bowdlerized Shakespeare; Broadside verso provides sample page 71.

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Author: Murray, James A.H.

Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.

Bifolium, 4to (330 mm.); specimen page (pp. 139 and 259) inserted; discoloration to front leaf.

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Author: Murray, James A.H.

Oxford: Clarendon Press

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus for volumes 1-3 of the dictionary provides reviews from the press and a reduced facsimile of page 846. Printed on pink paper, previous folds, some discoloration to top edge.

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Author: [Heston, Watson]

New York: The Truth Seeker.

Broadside, large 8vo (264 mm.); wood engraving illustration, list of the illustration classifications. Prospectus heralds Heston as "the artist-hero of Liberalism". Pink paper, tears from previous folds, affecting the engraving.

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Author: Frye, Alex E.

Boston: Ginn & Company

Broadside, 4to (260 mm.) wood engraving illustrations of a Kaffir boy and girl and a Sudanese woman; verso side of Broadside shows a relief map of the United States ("the largest and most artistic relief map of the United States ever placed in a book"). Previous folds, upper left hand corner torn, not affecting text. Tauted as "The only geography which meets the requirements of the 'Committee of Ten'".

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Author: Hyde, James Nevins, & Frank H. Montgomery.

Philadelphia: Saunders, W. B.

Broadside (approx. 18 x 11 cm.), printed on rose wove stock; small loss at lower corner, else very good. Prospectus for a work "profusely illustrated," "with a view of elucidating the text." Advertisement on verso for Carl Beck's "A Manual of the Modern Theory and Technique of Surgical Asepsis."

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Author: Longus

Paris: Imprimerie de Crapelet.

Small 8vo, pp. 16; 20th-century marbled paper-covered boards, white printed paper cover label; fine. Prospectus for a new edition of Daphnis et Chloé to be published in Florence by Piatti, 1810.

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Milan: Gio. Silvestri.

Bifolium, 12mo; near fine. Publisher's catalogue of available titles, including "Collezione di Poeti Classici italiani" in 30 volumes; and Gaetano Termanini's "Chirurgia minore".

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New Albany: Foster & Campbell.

Bifolium, 4to; previous folds, loss along top edge affecting first line of p. [3] drop title, additional tears affecting text; fair. Circular accomplished in manuscript, integral manuscript address to Coll. Sutton, Louisville.

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New York: American Pictorial Book Establishment

Broadside (21.6 x 140 cm); engraved steel-cut illustrations, one nearly full-page; edges rather ragged, one tear at top edge affecting a letter, recent ballpoint pen note at head of verso; else very good. Most likely removed from a book. "Agents Wanted" printed at head of verso. Includes rather lukewarm or hasty testimonials from, among others, Hamilton Fish, governor of New York. Call for agents "in every section of the Union."

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London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt.

Broadside, 12mo; edges a bit toned, bottom left-hand corners abit creased, else fine. Prospectus for the "Drawing-room Edition," and mostly comprised of press opinions.

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Author: Agnew, J. S. and J. Holmes Agnew

New York: Wright, J.S.

Broadside (305 x 114 mm); previous fold, small loss to top edge not affecting text; very good. Advertisement circular for a Civil War-era pamphlet urging the uniting of the North. At head of title: "A Book For Every Citizen! For every citizen-soldier! Citizenship, State and Federal, Endangered! State Sovereignty Dishonored!" Contents includes a short description of each of the work's 21 sections.

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New York: Munn & Co.

Broadside (286 x 210 mm.); pictorial blank subscribers' list lithographically printed in black, red, and gilt depicting various scientific and mathematical tools and apparti, as well as the throw-away putto; previous folds, else about fine. Printed by Schumacher & Ettlinger.

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Author: De'Brignoli, Giovanni

Bologna: Tipografia Sassi.

Bifolium, 8vo; previous fold, else near fine. Prospectus for a work on flowers, apparently never published.

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Author: Hoover, S[amuel] W.

Dayton, OH: Brethren's Book and Tract Work

Two leaves of letterhead, 4to (approx. 28 x 20 cm.); a little browning along previous folds, else very good. A lengthy letter giving a glimpse of the ways in which a religious group like the Brethren move toward corporate discernment in doctrinal matters in their publications, in this case the move away from the traditional "double mode" of foot-washing (one man washes, another dries) and into the "single mode" (a man both washes and dries) and how the practice is portrayed in the tract The House We Live In (by the here-unnamed Daniel Vaniman). Includes a somewhat minute schedule of committee meetings and logistics for having the single mode noted in the ordinances of new editions of the above-mentionted tract: "The examining Com. place the 'Tract' into our hands for publication just as it reads. If the Com. decide to request the S. C. to make the change, we hope you will not let it go any further than your District meeting." Hoover closes with the observation that the Brethren Book and Tract Work "has a great future before it"--but that it "needs the support of the brethren and means to make it effective."

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Stamperia del Seminario di Padova.

Broadside (189 mm.); near fine. Publisher's advertisement for 2 series, the above-mentioned and "Bibliotheca Classica Scriptorum Prosaicor. Græcor..."

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Author: Sanguinetti, B.P.

Bologna: Francesco Cardinali.

Broadside (274 mm.); previous fold, some foxing, else very good. Prospectus for a work apparently never printed.

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London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.

8vo, pp. 7, [1]; illustrations; self-wrappers; about fine. Announcement of the publication of the first of 2 volumes, providing extracts from the preface; opinions of the press; and 4 specimen pages. The reasoning behind a new dictionary of the Bible, argues the author, lies in the failings of extent works, which "are too expressly designed and constructed in order to support current opinions, to appear...suitable to afford to the public, especially to its more intelligent members, either such information as they need and may receive with confidence, or such views of the nature and evidence of Divine Revelation as may in the present day be least open to assault."

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Boston: Watchman and Reflector.

Bifolium, 4to; text printed on p. [1] only, blue paper; previously folded into self envelope addressed in manuscript; autograph letter signed "Upham, Ford, and Olmstead" on p. [3]; minor spotting, else very good. Publisher's special offer: "To any old subscriber who will send us a new subscriber to the Watchman and Reflector, with advance payment, we offer as a premium either of the following named Works..." These include "Journal of a Voyage from Boston to the West Coast of Africa"; "Lectures to Young Men," by Rev. Rufus W. Clark; "Ida May" ("pronounced by competent judges to be fully equal if not superior to Mrs. Stowe's famous work, Uncle Tom's Cabin"); "The Modern Horse Doctor" by G.W. Dadd; or "The American Reformed Cattle Doctor," also by Dadd. Additional premiums: "To any old subscriber sending four dollars in payment for his own subscription, and that of one new subscriber, we offer--Forrester's Boys and Girls' Magazine"; and "We also offer for one new subscriber, cash in advance, either of the Theological Works of Rev. Dr. Cummings". Of these premiums, the autograph letter notes: "It is the most liberal we have offered our friends, and we hope you may find among so large a variety a strong inducement to obtain one or more subscribers to an old friend and acquaintaince--The Watchman & Reflector. Of one thing we feel certain in making these offers, yours is the Best Side of the Bargain." Self envelope addressed to B. Hodgdon, Portsmouth, N.H.; postal cancellation dated Boston, December 12. Not in OCLC.

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New York: Benjamin Wood.

Broadside, 4to (352 mm.); a few faint ink stains, very minor wear from previous folds, contemporary notes on verso, manuscript list of subscribers tipped in. Prospectus for this New York newspaper (1855-1906), which had previously been shut down for 18 months in 1861 for being sympathetic to the enemy. Accordingly, the text begins with: "The New York News has battled against despotism for four years of blood and terror in assertion of the sanctity of the Constitution. A patriotism sufficiently broad to embrace both sections has been its only guide, and it refers now with honest pride to its record to show that it has not turned to the right or to the left under all the violence of arbitrary power." A list of terms as well as a blank table for agents to list subscribers. Benjamin Wood (1820-1900) purchased the paper in 1860 and would remain its editor until his death; he would also be a Democratic member of the House of Representatives (1863-5) and the U.S. Senate (1866-7).

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Author: Frueauff, J.F.

Columbia, PA: J.F. Frueauff.

Bifolium, 8vo; previous folds, light spotting to p. [1], else very good. Prospectus heading title: "What competent judges say of..." the author's catalogue, here in its second edition, corrected and completed. Original envelope, addressed in manuscript, stamped, and postmarked with request for payment along with pre-addressed return envelope laid in.

Filed under F.

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Rochester, N.Y.: Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

Miniature (71 x 39 mm.), bifolium; fine. List of titles available from this cigarette company, "any one of which will be mailed FREE on receipt of Thirty (30) Album Certificates, one of which is packed in each box of our cigarettes". A clever incentive to take up smoking and/or reading. Not in OCLC.

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Author: Rice, Allen Thorndike, ed.

New York: MacCulloch, Hugh B.

8vo, bifolium; printed on pale pink paper in brown; a few short tears from previous folds not affecting text; very good. At head of title: "Vivid pen-pictures of the real Lincoln as he lived, moved, and talked". Contributors include Ulysses S. Grant, Frederick Douglass, Henry Ward Beecher, and Walt Whitman. Contents include a sample anecdote by Grant and nearly 60 press notices. From the Washington National Republican: "A supremely interesting volume"; from the N.Y. Church Press: "It is an interesting volume"; from the Kingston Daily Leader: "It is a most interesting volume". "The North American Review," also advertised on p. [4].

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Rochester, NY: Lawyer's Cooperative Publishing Co.

2 items, bifolia, 4to and 8vo ; illustration to one, printed in red, tan, and black, the other printed on green paper; several tears from previous folds affecting text without loss of meaning, some archival tape repair. Blank order form laid in. Established in 1888 and entering a second series in 1906, the Lawyers' Reports Annotated is one of the most important of the modern American reporters. Asking the attorney, "Is Not This What You Want?," the brochure promises "The Best Reports Ever Published" for lawyers with ambitions beyond "police court and cow cases".

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Cincinnati: Barclay & Co.

Broadside (300 x 230 mm.); 2 woodcut illustrations; previous folds, one panel tanned, 1 1/2-inch tear expertly mended; very good. Bilingual prospectus with German blackletter text on verso: "Der graufame mord der schönen Pearl Bryan". Announcing the publication of a gruesomely illustrated account of how a "murdered girl's head was carried in a valise through the streets of Cincinnati" by two men who murdered her in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. The headless horror resulted from an abortion, botched by two medical students, who, to cover their crime, cut off the head of the woman they killed from a cocaine overdose during the operation. Despite the advertisement's account, the head was never found, although the doctors, Jackson and Walling, would eventually be convited and hanged. Described here as "A good lesson to wayward inclined young folks". See McDade 502.

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Cincinnati: Barclay & Co.

Broadside (300 x 220 mm.); 2 illustrations; previous folds, else near fine. Bilingual prospectus with German text in black letter on verso: "Die schanervolle und aufregende geschichte der weltbekannten Hatfield-McCoy fehde". Announcing the vivdly illustrated account of "this widely known Family War that has waged for many years in the Cumberland Mountains of West Virginia and Kentucky, and a mountain wooing that has suddenly reconciled two families after almost thirty years of shooting at sight and defiance of the law in the BLOODIEST FEUD IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES". The prospectus is almost certainly for Barclay's rare pamphlet, The Great Hatfield-McCoy Feud. A True Story of Love and War in the Cumberland Mountains of West Virginia and Kentucky (OCLC locates 4 copies of the pamphlet, and there is no mention of the prospectus).

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Author: Howard, O.O. and W. Fletcher Johnson

Philadelphia: Dickey-Hanna Co.

Broadside (559 x 406 mm.); photographic portrait of Sherman; previous folds with a few short neat tears affecting text without loss of meaning, else very good. Advertisement recruiting sales agents for the as-yet unfinished work. The publisher promised to make the book available in two bindings and on easy terms to prospective agents.

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Author: Drummond, William Henry

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Broadside (194 mm.); some toning, bottom edge a bit worn, else very good. Prospectus for the "Library Edition" and the "Large-paper edition," consisting mainly of press notices from England, Canada, and the United States.

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Author: Groppali, Alessandro

Torino: Fratelli Bocca.

Bifolium, small 8vo; previous fold, light toning, else near fine. Detailed table of contents provided.

Filed under B.

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Modena: Vincenzi.

Broadside (290 mm.); previous fold; edges and fold darkened, a bit worn from handling, else very good. Announcement of the publication of a volume "in folio reale aperto carta velina fina, con caratteri de signori fratelli Amoretti di Parma," with 40 plates.

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Author: Ferrario, Giulio

Milano: Ferrario, Giulio

Large 4to, pp. 18; orginal blue printed wrappers; near fine. A very rare, extremely extensive, and luxuriously printed prospectus for the famous and successful work by the editor Giulio Ferrario, "Costume ancien et modern; ou, Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religion, des arts et des usages de tous les peuples anciens et modernes, d'après les monuments de l'antiquité, et avec des figures analogues aux divers sujets qui y sont traités, which was published in 17 large 4to volumes between 1815 and 1829 (4 volumes of additions appeared later between 1831 and 1834). Two versions were issued, one in Italian, for the domestic clients, and one in French, for the international market. The copies on fine paper with colored plates were sold for 2288 francs, while the copies in black and white cost 1716 francs. The work was sold in installments by subscription. Widely appreciated throughout Europe, Il costume antico e moderno was frequently reprinted and translated outside Italy as a pictorial encyclopedia containing historical, geographical, ethnological, and anthropological information related to every part of the world. Following Batelli's Florentin reprint of 1826, all the numerous editions published subsequently appeared in octavo format. In this prospectus, Ferrario explains why it is so important to know the costumes of all nations; then describes the contents of the work and its distribution. Finally in the subscription terms he writes: "Nous avons entrepris avec confiance cette dispendieuse édition, et nous n'avons rien épargné pour qu'elle fut exécutée avec toute la perfection, et avec tout le luxe typographique que peuvent comporter le plan que nous avons adopté, ainsi que la modicité du prix auquel nous nous sommes restreints, pour en faciliter l'acquisition aux personnes de toutes les classes...Mais quelle garantie leur [les abonnés] assurerons nous, pour empêcher, comme il arrive ordinairement, que ceux qui n'auront contribué en rien à la confection de cet ouvrage, ne viennent, après en avoir attendu tranquillement la publication, à se le procurer à un prix au dessous de celui qu'il aura coûté aux abonnés? Nous avons donc cru nécessaire de prendre des mesures propres à prévenir d'une manière efficace un semblable inconvénient; c'est pourquoi nous faisons un devoir de déclarer ici formellement, que nous considérons cette édition comme la propriété de tous ceux qui s'y seront abonnés, et que par conséquent il nous sera impossible dans aucun temps, ni pour un prix quelconque, de la livrer à d'autres personnes, qu'à celles qui se seront inscrites au nombre des souscripteurs. Nous diviserons ceux-ci en deux classes, selon la qualité des éditions: les exemplaires en grand in quarto en papier vélin sous imperial superfin, et avec les figures coloriées, n'excèderons pas le nombre de huit cents, dont la moitié en italien, et l'autre moitié en français...L'autre classe d'abonnés ne sera que de deux cents, comme le nombre d'exemplaires, qui seront imprimés en papier vélin de même grandeur, mais de seconde qualité, et avec les figures non coloriées...Nous nous ferons un devoir de remplir nos obligations avec une exactitude scrupuleuse...; et pour qu'on pense pas que nos intentions à cet égard se reduisent à de vaines protestations, nous offrons pour cautionnement la Maison de banque Bonola De-Simoni et Comp., laquelle s'engage à payer pour nous mille livres italiennes à tout abonné...Chaque volume sera partagé en cahiers qui contiendront chacun environ huit feuilles d'impression avec dix planches...Le prix de chaque cahier en papier vélin sous-impérial superfin avec les planches coloriées est de 16 livres italiennes, et de 12 livres même monnoie pour ceux de seconde qualité...La première livraison sortira le premier avril prochain. Milan le premier mars 1815" (pp. 15-18). Giulio Gerrario, a native of Milan, was editor and director of the Braindense Library from 1838; founder in 1802 of the "Società tipografica de' Classici italiani"; and the author of many historical-literary works (cf. C. Frati, Dizionario biobibliografico dei bibliotecari e bibliofili italiani, Firenze, 1933, pp. 221-222).

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Author: Moody, D.L.

Hartford, CT: James Betts & Co.

Bifolium, 8vo; wood engraving portraits of D.L. Moody and two others. Special emphasis on the size of the piece (one volume in "861 octavo closely printed pages," as opposed to the usual three volumes) and superiority of this edition to other "so called Moody books". Also includes conditions of publication and prices for different bindings (English cloth, Parlor edition, or "Sheep, Library Style" for $3.25).

Filed under B.

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Stamperia del Seminario di Padova.

Broadside (190 mm.); fine. Publisher's advertisement listing 3 available titles as well as 3 additional titles in production.

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London: George Bell & Sons

Single folded sheet; 16mo; prospectus also includes advertisement for recent additions to Bohn's Libraries, including Henry Fielding's "Adventures of Joseph Andrews," Molière's Dramatic Works, and Jean Paul Frierich Richter's Flower, Fruit and Thorn pieces.

Filed under B.

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Author: Yes

Washington: Blair & Rives.

Broadside (235 mm.); text printed in double columns; light wear and some foxing, else a very good, untrimmed copy. Provides subscription terms, with a description of the nature and importance of the Globe.

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Boston: S.N. Dickinson

Folio, unpaginated, [2] leaves of plates. Includes short descriptions of both the Profile Mountains and the Profile Rock.

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Augusta, ME: Vickery, P.O.

Broadside (approx. 400 x 290 mm.); large engraved portrait (of Vickery?) on recto; previous folds, a few short tears, else very good. Advertisement calling for agents to sell this semi-monthly journal: "Now is the time for agents to make money! My New Premiums for the Coming Year in every way Surpass all others heretofore offered." Prospectus not in OCLC as of January, 2014.

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London: Varley, John.

Large folio Broadside, outlining the features of A Treatise on the Principles of Landscape Design for Students and Amateurs in that Art, 1816-1817, with aquatint plates by Frederick Christian Lewis. See Abbey, Life, 187: "He was particularly happy in the unconventional sayings with which he sought to impress upon his pupils the principles that he considered of chief importance, and this gift of vivid illustration, with its striking perception of forcible analogies, appears also in the text of his treatises."

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Author: Agassiz, Louis

Boston: Little, Brown and Co.

Broadside (248 x 191 mm.); previous folds, else about fine. Integral order blank printed on verso. "Without entering into a detailed account of the contents of this work, it may be sufficient here to state, that it will contain the results of my embryological investigations, embracing about sixty monographs, from all the classes of animals, especially selected among those best known as characteristic of this continent."

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New York: De Witt, Robert M.

Broadside (12 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches); two illustrations; minor spotting, previous fold, else about fine. Prospectus for two pugilistic works, promising that "Immediately on the arrival of the steamer, we shall issue New Editions, with additional Illustrations, of the above two Sporting Books. This 'Battle Edition' will contain the Official Report of the Fight between Sayers and Heenan for the Champion's Belt, together with Full Accounts of the Training of the Combatants, their Movements, Incidents connected with the Contest, and closing with the Great Result!" The fight as described in the DNB: "Sayers's last and most famous fight was with the American, John C. Heenan...for 200l. a side and the championship. They met at Farnborough on Tuesday, 17 April 1860, and fought thirty-seven rounds in two hours and six minutes...Time after time Sayers was knocked down by blows, each of which seemed sufficient to finish the fight; but he always returned good-humoured, though serious, and delivered blow after blow on the American's eyes while on one occasion he actually knocked his opponent down...Heenan, apparently aware that in fighting he could gain no advantage, closed with Sayers whenever possible, and on one occasion got him in such a position on the ropes that strangulation was imminent. The ropes were cut, the crowd pressed into the ring...nevertheless a few more rounds were fought, when Heenan, who had hitherto fought fair, behaved in a way which would have lost him the fight had the referee been efficient...The result was declared a draw." (DNB XVII, p. 882.) The fight as described in the DAB: "Despite sercrecy to avoid police interference, there were 12,000 spectators of every degree from costermongers to peers. Even Queen Victoria is said to have requested the news of the result be conveyed to her. In a suppressed note of approval, the crowd marveled at Heenan's powerful physique...In the thirty-seventh round, the ring was broken by the 'bobbies,' but the enraged 'Benecia Boy' fought on, while some sixty Yankees held off the constables. Although he had knocked down Sayers repeatedly and the time was poorly kept, the referees declared a draw, a decision which the American press denounced as due to British partisanship." (DAB IV, p. 500.) Prospectus not in OCLC as of April, 2014.

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Author: [Worcester, Joseph E.]

New York: The Independent

Broadside, 4to (319 mm.), front side prospectus for Worcester's pictorial dictionary, verso advertising for The Independent as well as Rev. Joseph Cook's "Biology" and "Transcendentalism"; The works of Charles Dickens; and Frank B. Carpenter's The inner life of Abraham Lincoln. Small marginal tears at previous folds; two small tears on bottom quarter affecting text.

Filed under Ind.

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New York: Stohlmann, J. E.

Quarto Broadside on blue paper approx. 8 x 11 advertising two versions of certificates of marriage and of baptism in German and English; included with a sample of a folio certificate of marriage; edge wear and a few short tears, but overall very good. "The undersign flatters himself that these Certificates, as far as his knowledge goes, surpass, as to artistic execution,and ingenious and emblematical meaning, any heretofore published."

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Philadelphia, PA: Jones Bros. & Co.

Broadside, long 4to (384 mm.); prospectus advertising the "Contrasted Edition" of this family Bible, with commission rates for agents and pricing for the different bindings available (American Morocco, Panelled Sides, Marbled Edges, $8.00). Verso provides information on the Bible canvassing-book for agents because "The Bible is so large and heavy that an Agent cannot conveniently carry a sample copy in canvassing". Previous folds. Very good.

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Author: Rodenbough, T. F.

New York: Dillingham, G. W.

Broadside (22 1/4 x 7 inches); illustration; a few very small tears from previous folds, else fine. Advertisement for "A History Of Heroism of the Rank and File of the Union Army...might be compiled from the Records of the War Department, by taking at random, sketches of those who won the rare and distinguished decoration of The United States Medal of Honor, given, by Act of Congress, to 484 out of nearly 3,000,000 men who fought for the Union." Includes press reviews and subscriber opinions, including that of Mrs. Gen. Geo. A. Custer ("With gratitude I embrace the opportunity to add my tribute"). The finished work was published as a large illustrated 8vo, in cloth ($3.50) or library-style sheep ($4.50). Broadside not in OCLC as of April, 2014.

Filed under Dill.

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New York: Eaton & Mains

Folio bifolium, (approx. 18" high), the whole dealing with publication details for qa half-dozen books, including Famous Authors and Best Literature of England and America edited by William Wilfred Russell and Rufus M. Jiones, Haverford; True Stores for Great Americans for young Americans by Elbridge S. Brooks; and, Historical Stories of Americajn Pioneer Life, all "sold only by subscription through our regular agents." "To agents: This is the line of books you should sell ... Do not be persuaded to handle any other line."

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Author: Young, James Rankin

Philadelphia: Standard Publishing Co.

Broadside (approx. 486 mm.); text printed in blue and red, 5 illustrations printed in blue, additional decorative vignettes printed in red and blue; previous folds, else about fine. Prospectus for Young's account of the Spanish-American War, published as "History of Our War with Spain," "Containing a Complete Account of the Destruction of the Battleship 'Maine;' Outbreak of Hostilities; Great American Naval Victory at Manila; Total Destruction of Admiral Cervera's Fleet; Hard Fought Battles in Cuba; Surrender of Santiago; Invasion of Porto Rico..." Also published in the Swedish language "at same prices" in cloth or full morocco.

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Author: Yes

Washington: Blair & Rives.

Broadside (344 mm.); text printed in double columns; light wear, else very good. "Prospectus for an extra Globe. The presidential election-principles involved in the result-extra Globe." Francis Preston Blair, President Jackson's confidant and member of his Kitchen Cabinet, began publication of the Globe in 1830. John C. Rives was its business manager. This Broadside analyzes the 1836 election prospects of the Whig Party, that enemy "of Democratic principles" whose goal has already been "to put the chief power at the disposal of a few". In order to win, the Whigs count on the patronage and muscle wielded by the Bank of the United States, "the great wheel in the political organization of the [Whigs]". Its metamorphosis into a State Bank is a "mere imposture". In order to prevail, the Whigs must carry "the three equally divided States" of Mississippi, Missouri, and North Carolina. They can do so only be treachery, deception, and abandonment of all principle. Not in AI, Wise & Cronin, Sabin, or OCLC (as of 5/13). Evidently not in NUC.

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Chicago: Butler, Sheldon & Company

Broadside, 4to (271 mm.); small loss affecting text, else very good. Advertisement for the publisher's Progressive Readers, "the very best nature stories ever written". Printed on birch bark prepared by the Chippewa Indians of Michigan's upper peninsula. Does not appear to be in OCLC.

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St. Louis, MO: Historical Publishing Co.

Broadside (584 x 229); 3 wood-engraved portrait vignettes in text printed in triple columns; previous folds wtih some closed and intertextual tears with minor losses of letters; good. Advertisement peppered with references to James W. Buel's The Beautiful Story; a Companion book to the Holy Bible (see OCLC no. 25524437). The testimonials were received by the company in response to a survey sent out by them to discern how their customers were being treated: "Sometimes, in a large business like ours, where there are many clerks employed, little things will occur, unintentionally and unexpectedly, that leave an impression on the minds of customers that they are not being fairly treated. Desiring to learn if anything of this kind had occurred in connection with our house, a short time since we sent out a circular letter to all our agents and patrons, requesting them to let us know how matters stood with them, and specially urging that...[they] speak right out and tell the whole truth, so that we would have an opportunity to set matters right." Well, apparently the circular letter work. "There was a perfect flood of letters" sent to the Company, and excerpts from about 85 of these are reprinted on the Broadside. The caption titles of these letters gives a sense of the comments and provides insights into the book canvassing business: "Has tested us and found us square"; "Selling our books beats farming to all smash"; "Likes our Purchasing Agency"; "Took 279 orders in six weeks"; "Our books and plans touch the people in the right spot every time"; "Intends to devote all his time to selling Mr. Buel's books"; "A young lady makes more money in 7 weeks than she could by teaching a whole year"; "A ringing endorsement from Bishop Witmore"; "Admits that he is a 'Hard-Times Agent"; "An invalid boy makes more money than his father does on his farm"; "A Spirited Young Lady Builds an Ark to Canvass in"; "A voice from distant Idaho"; "A happy mother of Twin Babies, and a worker of every good cause"; and "Sold 50 copies in one School District". There is also one fly in the ointment, but publishers always get the last word: "A Scorcher without cause.--You have not done with me as you agreed. You neither paid the freight nor allowed me 5 per cent. for discount.--Mary Ella Bravier, Meridian, Miss. (This lady was mistaken; that is all. We do not agree to pay freight or give 5 per cent. discount except on cash orders, and the order to which she refers was shipped C.O.D. by her instructions.)" Turning a negative into a positive. A cranky agent is here used to highlight the company's favorable shipping and discount policies. The Broadside also includes a review of the Company's new plans for a "Library Association" and a "Purchasing Agency". This latter scheme shows the company branching out as a wholesaler of goods other than books, articles including machinery, carriages, plows, and other merchandise.

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Author: Barnum, P.T.

Cincinnati: Forshee & McMakin.

Broadside (298 x 235 mm.); three engraved portraits, text printed in double column on grey paper; previous folds, small rubbing to recto affecting drop title word "period"; very good. Prospectus addressed "To Canvassers Everywhere," providing a concise description of the work and promising that "This book supplied Agents at one-half retail prices. Send 75c. for a copy" and "Prospectus Book Sent For Fifty Cents". Offered with gilt edges ($2.00) and without ($1.50). Portraits included are of the author, the Siamese twins Chang and Eng, and General Tom Thumb.

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Author: Redpath, James

New York: J.H. Colton

Broadside printed in brown, green, and red.

Filed under J.H. Col.

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Author: Habersham, A. W.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.

Broadside (approx. 75 x 189 cm.); border decorated with 9 engraved illustrations, most signed Van Ingen Snyder; previous folds, some foxing and discoloration; small losses to corners not affecting text or illustrations, old pin holes; large advertisement for Habersham's memoirs of the North Pacific surveying and exploring expedition, 1853-1856. "On Sale Here" printed at bottom edge. Broadside not in OCLC as of June, 2014.

Filed under J.B. Lip.

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Author: Jones, Sam. P.

Philadelphia: Scammell & Company

Broadside (approx. 737 mm.); 17 engraved illustrations along borders; about fine. At head of Broadside: "Hard Hits By Sam." Large advertisement for "The Most Extraordinary Book of Sermons Ever Published"; contents also include a life of the author by Theodore M. Smith. Availabe in 3 bindings of varying quality.

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Author: [Boyd, James Penny]

Philadelphia: P.W. Ziegler & Co.

Broadside (578 x 419 mm.), large folio; 19 steel-engraved vignettes, 18 of which are portraits; previous folds, shallow tears along edges not affecing text; a very good copy. Advertises "640 sparkling pages! 200 illustrations!" Includes a call for agents: "$65. a month and board for teachers, students, enterprising men and women in each County to take orders for this Popular and Fast-selling Book". Prospectus not in OCLC.

Filed under P.W. Zie.

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Author: Northrop, Henry Davenport

Philadelphia: W.W. Houston & Co.

Bifolium, large 4to; 11 engraved illustrations, including one depicting the finished workd: "This engraving conveys but a faint idea of the Exquisite Beauty of the Magnificent Cloth Binding"; some minor tears from previous folds occasionally affecting text without loss of meaning; a fine copy. Provides contents for each of the work's 6 sections; a call for 5,000 agents, and glowing press reviews, even from critics who haven't read the work: "The 'Pictorial History of the United States' is illustrated, printed and bound in excellent style. The great reputation of the writer is an assurance of the instrinsic value of the work" - Free Press, Waltham, Mass. This prospectus not in OCLC, nor is a W.W. Houston-published edition; there is, however, a record for the title published by the International Pub. Co.

Filed under W.W. Ho.

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Philadelphia: Hubbard Bros.

Broadside, elephant folio; a whole of 22 lithographic vignettes along the borders, previous folds, shallow tears and minor losses along edges not affecting text. At head of title: "A Grand Combination, unequaled in actractiveness, intensely interesting and highly useful. Agents wanted!" Verso heading: "Valuable standard books represented in the combination prospectus"; lists titles in Biography, Agriculture and Practical, Standard Cook-book, Travel and Adventure, War Books, Medical Book, Humorous Book, Religious, Miscellaneous, T.S. Arthur's Books. These include biographies of Daniel Boone, David Crockett, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and "Heroic Women"; "Diseases of the American Horse" and "The Horse and his Diseases"; "Female Life among the Mormons"; "Our Boys: Rich and racy scenes in army and camplife"; "Ladies' Medical Guide"; and "Southern Matron and New England Bride". Not in OCLC.

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Philadelphia: World Bible House

Folio bifolium (approx. 18" high), previous folds, else fine. Amply illustrated, these four pages detail four featured books: The Child's Book of Trades, The Life Story of the Hero of Manila, True Stories of the Favorite Sons and Daughters of America, and The Light of Life or the Teaching of Jesus and the Lives of the Apostles, by the Rev. Ingram Cobbin.

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Author: Atkinson, Wilmer, ed.

Philadelphia: Atkinson, Wilmer

Broadside (approx. 622 mm.); illustrations, text printed in red and black; previous folds, else fine. Advertisement for prospective subscribers to Atkinson's Journal ("Why Subscribe to this Paper? Because it is Cream, not Skim Milk.") Also being advertised is "The Handy Housekeeper," a work "prepared with great labor and care for the housewife readers of the farm journal" in which they can learn about soap making, drying fruit, household embellishments, and upstairs work. Broadside not in OCLC as of March, 2014.

Filed under Atkinson.

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Author: [Poe, Edgar Allan.]

Philadelphia: Bowen, Eli

Bifolium (42 3/4 x 27 1/4 inches), printed in red and black, illustration cuts; some wear and small losses at fold line; minor foxing; very good. At head of title: "Subscriptions Received Here. The Pioneer Journal of the Age!...A Record of Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, Literature, Mining, &c...Edited by Eli Bowen." Issued less than six months before Poe's death, the this prospectus comprises the interior, horizontal two-page spread within the April 17, 1849 "issue" of Bowen's short-lived (if at all lived) Philadelphia newspaper. Interestingly, the newspaper itself contains a reference to Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" with an article by Poe-friendly New Orleans editor of the "Picayune," George W. Kendall. Bowen highlights the newspaper's contents within the prospectus: "Some of the most distinguished men of our own country and Europe contribute to its columns; among whom we are privileged to mention the eminent...[in red]: Edgar A.Poe, Esq., The Celebrated Reviewer, and author of sundry Literary Works." In the spring and summer of 1844, Poe had contributed seven "letters" addressed to Bowen to the Columbia, Pennsylvania newspaper "Columbia Spy," for which Bowen was senior editor. Poe's first-hand impressions of New York City, "Doings of Gotham," were published by Bowen beginning in May, 1844. Six months later Bowen editorialized: "To enable us to do this [pay more attention to the editorial department] the more effectually we have procured the aid of several skillful writers--Mr. Poe, a well-known critic, leading the troupe!" In "Doings in Gotham," Poe transformed the newspaper convention of the distant correspondent's report into a vibrant literary form. In July, 1844, Poe contributed three newspaper articles to the Philadelphia Ledger. When one of these articles was reprinted by Bowen in the Columbia Spy, it was Bowen who there attributed or intimated that the three Philadelphia Ledger articles were by Poe. This was good marketing by Bowen and a sure aid to spreading Poe's literary reputation. In 1848 and 1849, troward the end of his life, Poe lectured widely on "The Poetic Principle". During this time he sought to, at last, edit his own literary journal and to publish it under his own terms and to a high literary standard. This journal was to be called "The Stylus". The Stylus never came to fruition. During this time, however, Poe continued to seek some outlet for his writing, to continue to elevate American literature--even if he could not publish it himself. In October 1848 (if you are to believe the prospectus) Eli Bowen commenced publishing "Bowen's North American Farmer". At this time he corresponded wiht Poe about Poe contributing some articles about the Hudson River Valley to this new newspaper venture. Poe wrote to Bowen on October 18: "About three weeks ago I wrote you quite a long letter, enclosing a MS copy of 'The Raven' and making you a proposition in regard to the establishment of a Magazine--but have received no reply. In addition to what I then said I have now to say that I am willing to accept your offer about the Correspondence, and will commence whenever you think proper--provided you decline the tour &c as I suggested." Despite the touting of the 1849 prospectus, it does not appear that any of Poe's contributions ever appeared therein (if the paper ever even made it to the presss). Interestingly, the "Prairie Du Chien Patriot" issue of July 3rd, 1849, shows Bowen advertising for subscriptions to his newspaper and stating: "specimen copies may be seen at any post-office". The present artifact, with its published date of April, 1849, appears to be a specimen copy that a postmaster would have had on hand, if not discarded. Poe died on October 7, 1849. Perhaps the last Broadside or Broadside prospectus mentioning Poe printed in his lifetime. Note, also, the reference to German chemist expert Justus von Liebig being marketed as a contributor. OCLC 16060352 shows only three holdings as of April, 2014, at Duke, University of Texas at Austin, and the Texas Newspaper Project. Not mentioned in BAL or Heartman et al. See Jacobs, "The Courage of a Critic".

Filed under Bowen.

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New York: Orange Judd Company

Broadside (approx. 654 mm.); illustrations; previous folds, else about fine. At head of title: "1842-1883: The Great Agric ultural Journal of the World". Also advertising the German edition, "Amerikanischer Agriculturist," "The only purely German agricultural journal in the United States". All subscribers for the year promised a "Grand (17 1/4 x 12 inch) plate copy of Dupré's great painting valued at $4500.00 entitled 'In the Meadow'". This Broadside does not appear to be in OCLC as of March, 2014.

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New York: Nelson & Phillips

Large folio Broadside, approx. 29" x 21", printed in metal and wood type, descriptive text surrounded by 12 wood-engraved portraits (among them Frances Willard, Mother Stewart,and Lyman Beecher); previous folds, one small break at one fold, ink inscription on verso showing through the portrait of Beecher; all else very good. "Agents wanted everywhere ... Agents are having fine success, as many as fifty copies sold in one day." Daniel's The Temperance Reform and its Great Reformers was published by subscription in 1878-79, and appeared under several imprints, including Hitchcock & Walden in Cincinnati, and Phillips & Hunt in New York (successors to Nelson & Phillips). This Broadside notes that the books is "one of the most spirited and successful assaults on the kingdom of darkness," and that the author is "one of the most successful historians of modern evangelism." Not in OCLC.

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New York: B.H. Day.

Broadside (532 x 543 mm.); large, nearly full-page engraved illustration on verso signed "Gavit & Co."; small tears from previous folds, a few affecting text with minor loss of meaning; very good over all. Heading title: "Extra Brother Jonathan." An all-encompassing prospectus from publisher B.H. Day advertising the literary magazine "Brother Jonanthan," ("The Best Family Newspaper in the United States" and "The Best and Cheapest in New York"); as well as Song and Joke Books ("Berry's Comic Songs for White Folks"; "Wood's Minstrel Songs," which are "interspersed with Nigger Jokes..."); a new and much improved edition of James Ashton's "The Book of Nature," which "contains highly important and interesting information for Married People, or those who think of marrying, on Sexual Physiology." Also provided is an extensive backlist of cheap books; and a full description of the amenities of the "Monster Steam-Ship Great Eastern," illustrated with a view of the ship in harbor as well as a plan of her interior.

Filed under B.H. Day.

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Author: Mason, Augustus Lynch.

Cincinnati: Jones Brothers & Co.

Broadside (approx. 914 mm.); text printed within border of 12 vignettes; about fine. Prospectus for "A popular account of the heroes and adventurers who, by their Valor and War-Craft, beat back the Savages from the Borders of Civilization and gave the American Forests to the Plow and the Sickle". With a call for Agents.

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Author: Bauer, Ferdinand

London: The Basilisk Press

Bifolium, folio; prospectus includes information on publication specifications, payment, delivery, and the print run (500 copies for sale). Mission statement reads "This new volume, containing a fine sleection of full-size colour facsimiles of drawings made by Ferdinand after he set off with Matthew Flinders on the first circumnavigation of Australia in 1801, will...be of considerable importance". Color plate proof loosely inserted. Also includes the year's other Basilisk Editions, THe Kelmscott Chaucer and The red books of Humphrey Repton.

Missing as of 9/9/2014

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Author: Bauer, Ferdinand

London: The Basilisk Press

Bifolium, folio; prospectus includes information on publication specifications, payment, delivery, and the print run (500 copies for sale). Mission statement reads "This new volume, containing a fine sleection of full-size colour facsimiles of drawings made by Ferdinand after he set off with Matthew Flinders on the first circumnavigation of Australia in 1801, will...be of considerable importance". Color plate proof loosely inserted. Also includes the year's other Basilisk Editions, THe Kelmscott Chaucer and The red books of Humphrey Repton.

Missing as of 9/9/2014

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Author: Gay, Walter

New York: Japan Paper Company

Single folded sheet, 8vo; prospectus for a privately printed memoir used as an example of the Papier de Rives available from the Paper Company. With a history of wove paper printed to front.

Missing as of 9/9/2014

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Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society.

8vo, unpaginated; printed in red and black; original white printed wrappers, fine. Order form and typed letter on Society letterhead laid in. With envelope in which the catalogue was mailed.

Missing as of 9/9/2014

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Philadelphia: A.J. Holman & Co.

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for "a combination of the Authorized and Revised Versions"; specimen page. Text in red and black.

Missing as of 9/9/2014

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New York: Limited Editions Club

8vo, printed at the Merrymount Press, pp. 23-[28]; ornamented title-p. printed in red and black; a fine copy in orig. red cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, paper label on upper cover. Accompanied by TLS dated September 10, 1929 from George Macy, LEC Director, to Wulling soliciting his subscription, accompanied by a subscription enrollment form. See Smith, p. 252.

Missing as of 9/9/2014

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Springfield, Mass.

Bifolium, 12mo; color illustrations; fine. List of 8 recent children's books from the Company.

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St. Paul: Ally Press.

Bifolium, 8vo; black and white illustration; previous fold, else fine. Short catalogue of new and available titles from the Press, as well as ordering information on back. With TLs on Press letterhead addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and original envelope.

Missing as of 2017/1/17.

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Author: Blake, William

Philadelphia: Carl J.H. Anderson

Broadside, folio (311 mm.); prospectus for this addition to the Linweave Limited Editions. Illustration by Theodore Ross and printed by Carl J. H. Anderson for the Franklin Printing Co.

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Author: Best, George

London: The Argonaut Press

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this reprint of the original 1578 edition, "issued in two volumes and printed at The Cambridge University Press on Japon Vellum, Crown 4to size, and bound in quarter real goat vellum with buckram sides, bearing a polar medallion in full colours specially engraved for the Argonaut Press by W. Monk, R.E. The edition is limited to 475 numbered sets." Also makes mention of a work in preparation, "A relation of a journey begun An. Dom. 1610..." by George Sandys; printed with the list of previous publications on the back page. Text in green and black.

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New York: Aldus Book Company

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a work limited to an edition of 950 copies; only one reproduction of a French incunabula initial on back page; integral order form addressed to the press. Previous folds.

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Author: Brown, Helen Evans

Pasadena, California: Ampersand Press

Bifolium, 12mo; illustrated prospectus for the second in a series of recipe books from the press, "designed by Grant Dahlstrom and printed at his Castle Press"; integral order form on back addressed to the distributor Philip S. Brown of Pasadena, Calif. Previous fold.

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Author: Varro, Margit

Chicago: Apprentice House.

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for Varro's work on music and visual design. Also includes list of other upcoming publications, including Wood-engraved illustrations by the Swiss designer Imre Reiner; A treatise on the technique of making decorative papers; Everyman's almanac; and Wildflowers of northern Illinois. Also gives the publisher's mission statement: "Apprentice House has been founded as a cooperative non-profit effort in publishing. The books to be published will consist of small editions about cultural and educational activities in the arts and related subjects." Varro's work to be limited to 2000 copies. Previous folds.

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Author: Dupont, Pierre

Ascona, Suisse: Artibus Asiae.

Bifolium, large 4to; black and white photographic illustrations; fine. Text printed in French and English. Prospectus for a work that "concerns itself with the earliest Khmer sculpture". Provides 4 specimen plates; integral order form.

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Author: Collins, Wilkie and Charles Dickens

L-D Allen Press

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Author: Ho-Shang-Kung

Ascona, Switzerland: Artibus Asiae.

Broadside, folio (305 mm.); fine. Prospectus of the second printing of Erkes's translation; specimen page printed on verso.

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Author: Soper, Alexander Coburn

Ascona, Switzerland: Artibus Asiae.

Broadside, folio (305 mm.); fine. "The literary evidence collected and translated in this book, primarily from Six Dynasties or early T'ang texts, is designed to make possible a much more accurate estimate of the achievements of the period." Table of contents and integral order form printed on verso.

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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Bifolium, folio; facsimile; previous fold. Prospectus for a title from the series Codices Selecti; German and French.

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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Bifolium, folio; facsimile, text in blue and black; edges and corners showing some wear. Prospectus for 4 titles in all; German.

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Author: Strouse, Norman

Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio

Single sheet folded into six-sided pamphlet, 8vo; prospectus for this history of the Doves Press and the third publication from the press; order form loosely inserted.

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Author: Bischoff, Bernhard

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Bifolium, folio; black and white facsimile; rubber stamp on front. Prospectus for a title from the series Codices Selecti; German and English. List of titles from the series printed on back.

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Author: Kaiser Friedrich II

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Bifolium, folio; large stain to bottom right-hand corner. prospectus for a title in the series Codices Selecti as well as the 31st volume in the series "Codices e vaticanis selecti". Text in German and English. A list of previous titles from the Codices Selecti printed on the back.

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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Bifolium, folio; prospectus for Group C of the series Codices Selecti, with emphasis on Manuscripts from Foreign Cultures; titles from the list include the Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus, Codex Tro-Cortesianus, Codex Vaticanus B and A, and Codex Dresdensis. Printed in German and English. Rubber stamp at top of front page.

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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Folio, unpaginated; black and white photographic illustrations, facsimiles throughout; self-wrappers. Prospectus for Vol. XIII of the series Codices Selecti; text in German and English. List of previous titles from the series printed on back.

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Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers.

8vo, pp. 40; illustrations; original green pictorial wrappers, mostly fine. Titles from the catalogue include Neil Jorgensen's "A Guide to the New England Landscape"; and Edmund T. Delaney's "New York's Greenwich Village".

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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Bifolium, folio; prospectus for this title from the series Codices Selecti; color photographic illustration pasted to brown paper laid in. 2 hole punches, not affecting text. List of previous titles from the Codices Selecti printed on the back. German and English.

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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Bifolium, folio; black and white photographic illustration. Prospectus for Vol. XXVIII of Codices Selecti, Group A: Bilderhandschriften (illuminated manuscripts); text in German, English, and French. List of other titles from the series printed on the back.

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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Bifolium, folio; color photographic illustration pasted to brown paper laid in; rubber stamp to front. Prospectus for a title from Group A (illuminated manuscripts) of the series Codices Selecti; text in German and English; list of previous titles from the series printed on the back.

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Barre, Massachusetts: Barre.

8vo, pp. 56; illustrations; original green and white pictorial wrappers; fine. Titles from the catalogue include E. Newbold Smith's "American Naval Broadsides (1745-1815)"; and Nicholas Zook's "A Guide to Gardens in New England Open to the Public". Also provides backlist and order form bound in back.

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Author: Unterkircher, Franz

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Broadside, 8vo (228 mm.); color illustration; prospectus in German.

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Brooklyn, New York: Angelica Press

12mo, unpaginated; bound in black orange-brown wrappers; catalog of books available from the press, with specimen pages, and illustrations throughout; also includes selection of bookplates, reproduced in the back; order form has been removed.

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Author: Grabhorn, Robert

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Broadside, folio (452 mm.); pictorial vignette, text printed in red and black; previous folds, else fine. Printed for the North Point Press. A selection of proverbs printed within decorative border ("Whoever tells a lie cannot be pure in heart--and only the pure in heart can make a good soup" - Ludwig van Beethoven).

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Author: Hahn, Robert

Omaha, Nebraska: Abattoir Editions

Broadside, 16mo (138 mm.); prospectus postcard from the press advertising three new poetry titles, Hahn's piece, Paul Dilsaver's "Malignant Blues," and William Heyen's "Of Palestine: A meditation"; text in brown and black. Postcard addressed to Emerson G. Wulling.

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Author: Lalande, Joseph Jerome La Francais de

Clare, Ireland: The Ashling Press

Bifolium, large 8vo; illustrated prospectus of this edition limited to 405 copies.

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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Bifolium, 4to; photographic illustration, black and red lettering, text in German, French, and English, list of titles from this series, Codices selecti, of which this is Vol. XL. Color facsimile specimen picture Broadside, one image per side, loosely inserted. Very light foxing.

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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt

Bifolium, 4to; photographic illustration, red and black lettering, text in German, Italian, and English, chronological table, list of titles from this series, Codices selecti, of which this is Vol. XXV. Color facsimile specimen picture pasted to brown paper loosely inserted.

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Author: Martin, Fred

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Bifolium, 8vo; fine. Prospectus for the Press's fourth publication; TLs from Andrew Hoyem on Press letterhead laid in.

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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Bifolium, 4to; photographic illustration, black and red lettering, text in German and English, list of titles from this series, Codices selecti, of which this is Vol. L, color facsimile specimen picture pasted to brown paper loosely inserted. Light foxing.

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Author: Melville, Herman

San Francisco: Arion Press.

8vo, pp. 23; illustrations; original blue printed wrappers, fine. Prospectus for the Press's 6th publication, an illustrated, handset, folio edition limited to 250 copies of Melville's novel. Copies of a type letter and autograph letter from the Press laid in. With original, specially-printed envelope in which this prospectus was mailed.

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Author: Breitkopf, J.G.L.

Ennis, Ireland: The Ashling Press

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this edition limited to 460 signed and numbered copies; order form loosely inserted. Text in red and black, previous folds.

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San Francisco: Arion Press.

Bifolium, large 4to; printed in red and black; fine. With 16mo bifolium, "The enclosed type specimen is sent with our compliments".

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San Francisco: Arion Press.

Small 4to, unpaginated; illustrations, text printed in red and black; fine. 2 unbound folded leaves. Subscription form and envelope laid in.

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Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Bifolium, 8vo; color illustrations, text printed in red and black; fine. Text printed in German and English for this bilingual edition of "the most popular poem of one of this century's greatest poets". Edition limited to 300 copies. Order form laid in. With original, specially-printed envelope.

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Author: Catlin, George

New York: Abbeville Pres

Oblong 4to, unpaginated; illustrated prospectus of a limited edition facsimile of the lithographed portfolio of Catlin's paintings; pamphlet reproduces seven of the pieces from the work; also makes mentions two other limited edition Abbeville facsimiles, The Vatican Frescoes of Michelangelo and Audubon's Birds of America. Photocopy of Abbeville's "Collector's Editions" information and a business card of Morley Klausner, director of the Abbeville Press, both loosely inserted.

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Author: Hammett, Dashiell

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Bifolium, 4to; fine. Prospectus provides specimen pages 3-5; order form laid in.

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Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott

San Francisco: Arion Press.

4to, 5 leaves with additional 16mo Broadside stapled together; illustrations; previous fold, else fine. Photocopy of a New York Times Magazine article for Sunday, October 28, 1984, featuring the work of the Arion Press. Broadside advertising the newest publication, not mentioned in the article, The Great Gatsby.

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Author: Berry, Duc de

New York: Harry N. Abrams

Single sheet folded into six-sided pamphlet, folio; illustrated prospectus for a facsimile edition of "The King of Illuminated Manuscripts"; also advertises a specially-designed plexiglass case for the work.

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Author: Grayson, Andrew Jackson

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Bifolium, large 4to; color reproduction of "Song Finch or Pretty Bird, Tepic, Dec. 1865"; fine. Seasons greetings from the Press, with advertisement for this holiday publication.

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Author: Chandler, Raymond

San Francisco: Arion Press.

4to, unpaginated; black and white photographic illustration, blue-green decorative borders; fine. Integral publication party invitation printed on back. Typed letter on Press letterhead laid in.

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San Francisco: Arion Press.

Large piece of paper folded into bifolium pamphlet. Printed in red and black. Inside is a reproduction of a 1760 letter from Lawrence Sterne (?).

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Author: Thistleton, Francis [William Henry Fleet]

San Francisco: Arion Press

8vo, pp. 8; two-tone illustrations throughout; fine. Prospectus for the Press's 28th book, "A satire on colonial government from Canada in 1852"; edition limited to 300 copies.

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San Francisco: Arion Press

8vo, unpaginated; original blue printed wrappers; the checklist of books includes Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick, or The Whale"; Rudolph Koch's "The Typefoundry in Silhouette," translated by Alexander Nesbitt; Dashiell Hammet's "The Maltese Falcon," illustrated with 46 period photographs; Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles"; Gertrude Stein's "The World is Round"; Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"; Czeslaw Milosz's "The World"; "Poems of W.B. Yeats"; Ludwig Wittgenstein's "On Certainty"; and Edgar Allan Poe's "Eureka: An Essay on the Material and Spritiual Universe".

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Author: Wheatcroft, John

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Press of Appletree Alley

Broadside, tall folio (330 mm.); prospectus for No. 1 of the Press's chapbook series, a poem by the Professor Emeritus of English at Bucknell University; illustrated by Colleen Shannon, borders by W.A. Dwiggens; limited to 125 numbered and signed copies. Previous fold.

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San Francisco: Arion Press

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated; fine. Price list for titles available from the Press, including "Herman Melville: Selected Poems," frontispiece portrait engraved by Barry Moser; and Ludwig Wittgenstein's "On Certainty". Laid in order form and TLs on Press letterhead.

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Author: Seymour, M.C.

Brookfield, VT: Ashgate

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus provides two sample pages (74-75) as well as the contents and information on Volume 1: Works before the Canterbury Tales. Order Options forms included in text. Previous folds.

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Author: Senior, Dorothy

London: Adam and Charles Black

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus provides 2 specimen pages from the novel; advertisement for Senior's over novel, "The Clutch of Circumstance" printed on the back; integral order form.

Filed under B.

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Author: Horace

Eden, New York: The Aries Press

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus for this edition of Horace's piece, "printed in black and tile red from Goudy's 'Garamont' type on English hand made 'Kelmscott' paper," limited to 100 copies; also advertises for "The Book Mark of Santa Maria de Jesus: 1515-1582. New translated from the Spanish by George Clinton Jr" and also limited to 100 copies. Text in red and black.

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Author: Harte, Bret

Berkeley, Calif.: The Archetype Press

Bifolium, 12mo; illustrated prospectus for a companion piece to Harte's "The Right Eye of the Commander"; edition limited to 450 copies; prospectus postmarked and addressed to Eleanor Pitcher, c/o the Hutington Library, San Marino, California. Text in brown, previous folds.

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Author: Brigham, Clarence S.

Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this authoritative bibliography by the director of the Society, includes sample page and the terms of subscription. Text in red and black, previous fold.

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Author: Montaigne

Alma, Calif.: L-D Allen Press

Broadside, 4to (303 mm.); illustrated prospectus for this edition of Montaigne's "immortal" essays; the press has "based their design on the exquisite books of the Montaigne period...Mallette Dean has drawn unusually attractive headbands and initials"; edition limited to 200 copies and distributed by Roy Vernon Sowers, Alma, Calif. Previous fold.

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Author: Aesop

Ithaca, New York: Elfriede Abbe

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a limited edition of 500 numbered and signed copies, illustrated and hand-printed by Abbe; integral order form on back page; pre-addressed envelopes and a leaf providing praise from various authorities loosely inserted. Text in red and black.

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Author: Tolstoy, Leo

Los Angeles, California: L-D Allen Press

Single folded sheet, 16mo; illustrated prospectus for this edition of Tolstoy's parable, limited to 150 copies; illustrated by Mallette Dean and hand-illuminated by Dorothy Allen; distributed by Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, California.

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Author: Aeschylus

Ithaca, New York: Elfriede Abbe

Single folded sheet, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for an edition limited to 150 copies, numbered and signed; integral order form on back page; pre-addressed envelope loosely inserted.

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Author: Stendhal

New York: L-D Allen Press

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for this limited edition of 175 copies; "hand-set in Romanée type from the Enschedé foundry in Holland, and printed by hand on an 1830 Acorn-Smith press; the paper is hand-made Crown and Sceptre from England, printed damp. The book is decorated with handsome wood engravings done by Mallette Dean in the French manner of the early Nineteenth century. There are 150 quarto pages, which we have bound in a handmade, antique crimson and gold Fortuny print from Venice"; distributed by the Chiswick Book Shop, New York. Order form loosely inserted. Comes with the original envelope in which this prospectus was mailed, addressed to E.G. Wulling and postmarked Dec 2 1954.

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Author: Turner, Frederick Jackson

Ithaca, New York: Elfriede Abbe

Bifolium, oblong 8vo; illustrated prospectus of this limited edition of 275 copies; printed by Abbe for the Cornell University Press; also provides list of other Abbe limited editions still available.

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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Bifolium, folio; 2 color facsimiles; text in red and black. Prospectus in German and Italian.

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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Broadside, 4to (300 mm.); illustrated prospectus for a title belonging "to group 'C' ('Manuscripts from Foreign Cultures') of the series Codices Selecti"; previous owner's notes in pencil and red ink. Text in German and English.

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Brooklyn, NY: Angelica Press

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; lists works available from the press, which includes bookplates and Washington Irving's "Christmas at Bracebridge Hall"; upcoming offerings include "Wood type of the Angelica Press" and "Little Angel Books"; sheet with eight specimen book plates loosely inserted. Text in red and black, with original envelope in which this brochure came, addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, La Crosse, Wis.

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Author: Bahr, Leonard F.

Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for "a collection of ten entirely different typographic exercises"; Broadside giving the press's mission statement loosely inserted.

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Author: Bahr, Leonard F.

Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio, Leonard F. Bahr

Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); prospectus for the second title from the TypoGraphia series, "planned for typophiles and private press enthusiasts who seek a publication combining the unusual types with a text relating to various aspects of typography and the private press"; the them of this number is "the challenging enigma of defining private press". Text in brown and black, previous folds.

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Author: Blake, William

Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio, The private press of Leonard F. Bahr

Broadside, 4to (279 mm.); prospectus for this limited edition of Blake's proverbs, providing the first and last of the sixty-nine; "The types have been set by hand and printed in three colors, a page at a time, on cream Frankfurt text. The wrapper is two sheets of Canson Mi-Teintes. The principal text type is Trump Mediaeval Italic. Eight of the Proverbs have been set in Jaguar...The rugged Houtsneeletter was used for the title and American Uncial Initials for the wrapper." Edition limited to 198 copies. Text in red and black, previous fold.

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Author: Stein, Gertrude

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Round 8vo, unpaginated; illustrations, printed in red, blue, and black; fine. Prospectus for the Press's 18th publication, illustrated by Clement Hurd with a companion volume "The World is Not Flat," by Edith Thacher Hurd. Gift certificate and envelope laid in.With original, specially-printed envelope in which the prospectus was mailed.

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Author: Raby, Julian, Zeren Tanindi, and Tim Stanley

London: Azimuth Editions

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus printed to resemble a 15th century Turkish book; edition limited to 1000 copies and printed on behalf of the Association Internationale de Bibliophile; order form laid in.

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Author: Inez, Colette

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Press of Appletree Alley

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a new addition to the Series in Contemporary Poetry; edition limited to 125 signed copies.

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Author: Peacock, Molly

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Press of Appletree Alley

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a title from the Bucknell University Fine Editions: A Series in Contemporary Poetry; bound by Don Rash and limited to 125 signed copies. Previous fold.

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Afton, Minnesota: Afton Historical Society Press

Oblong 8vo, pp. 13; color illustrations; pictorial self-wrapper, fine. Titles from the Press, including Rena Neumann Coen's "Minnesota Impressionists," Bertha L. Heilbron's "Christmas and New Year's on the Minnesota Frontier," Susan Davis Price's "Minnesota Gardens. An illustrated history," and Mary Henderson Eastman' "Dahcotah: or, life and legeds of the Sioux". Order form printed on back wrapper verso.

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Author: Smith, Bruce

Lewisburg, PA: Press of Appletree Alley.

Bifolium, 8vo; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a title from the Bucknell University Fine Editions, a series in contemporary poetry. Edition limited to 125 copies.

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Author: Denman, Frank

Broadside, 8vo (199 mm.); illustrated; prospectus for a work that would be published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1955, and described here, in four bullet-points, as "an important contribution to the literature on type and typography". Printed on yellow paper with red ink, previous folds.

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Berkeley: Arif Press

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; list of books available from the press and distributed by Granary Books.

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Author: Carrà, Massimo.

Milan: Edizioni dell'Annunciata

4to, unpaged; staplebound self-wrappers printed in grey and black (light foxing along edges); one color plate, additional illustrations, plain and color, in text; light wear from handling, else very good. Text in Italian.

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New York: Association Press

12mo, bifolium printed on tan paper; illustrations, text printed in purple; previous fold, else about fine. Prospectus for a seven-volume series; press opinions. Contents include works by W.D. Weatherford, Edgar Gardner Murphy, Gilbert Thomas Stephenson, Albert Bushnell Hart, and two titles by Booker T. Washington. Integral order form printed on p. [4].

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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Bifolium, 4to; text in German, bibliograhy provided at the end in German and English; list of titles from this series, Codices selecti; color facsimile specimen picture pasted to brown paper loosely inserted.

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Author: Nowotny, Karl Anton

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Biflolium, folio; illustrated prospectus for this facsimile forming part of the series Codices Selecti; text in German and English. A list of previous titles from the series printed on the back.

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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Bifolium, folio; prospectus for the "Complete colour facsimile edition," forming part of the series Codices Selecti; specimen page, expert opinions, and chronology provided. Published in conjunction with the Mladinska Knjiga-Ljubljana Staroslavenski Institut "Svetozar Ritig" Zagreb. Rubber stamps to front cover. 1 without specimen page,

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Author: Pratt, Frances and Carlo Gay

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for the third titles from the series Artes Americanae, edited by Ferdinand Anders; the other two titles from the series printed on the back: Irmgard Weitlaner Johnson's "Design Motifs on Mexican Indian Textiles" and Ignacio Bernal and Andy Seuffert's "The Ballplayers of Dainzú.

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Author: Thomas, Marcel

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Broadside, 12mo (200 mm.); color facsimile on Broadside recto, black and white photographic illustration on verso. Prospectus for the color facsimile of the 78 miniatures from the manuscript psautier of Saint Louis in the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris; introduction by Thomas. Text in French, German, and English.

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Author: Lukesch, Anton

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Broadside, 4to (300 mm.); illustrated prospectus for this monograph documenting "a first encounter with an aboriginal Indian tribe in the 20th century." Prospectus also mentions another title available from the Press, Theodor Koch-Grünberg's "Zwei Jahre Unter den Indianren," a reprint of the 1909-1910 edition.

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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Broadside, folio (340 mm.); black and white photographic illustration; right-hand edge a bit bumped. Prospectus for Vol. XII of the Codices Selecti series; text in German.

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Author: Hammerschmidt, Ernst

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Broadside, folio (337 mm.); color illustration; previous fold. Prospectus in German and English.

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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Bifolium, 4to; photographic illustration and facsimile of musical score; text in German and English; list of titles from this series, "Codices selecti," of which this is Vol. XLVII. Color facsimile speciment picture pasted to brown paper loosely inserted. Light foxing.

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