Portsmouth: 2018. 4to, original red cloth, gilt, inset of scrip on front cover. xvi, 471, (1) pages; illustrated in color throughout. New. Foreword by Q. David Bowers. More
Providence: Society of Colonial Wars, 1942. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt. x, 112 pages; 10 plates, 4 of them impressions of colonial currency taken from the original copperplates, printed on parchment and tipped into place. Fine. A well-preserved copy of this less-frequently seen work on colonial counterfeiting. Clain-Stefanelli 13653. Davis..... More
New-York: 1859. 4to [29.5 by 22.5 cm], later brown half morocco, gilt, with brown linen sides; original blindstamped dark brown cloth, gilt-stamped with title, trimmed and mounted on front board; spine with two raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. 39, (1) pages. A worn copy, with staining throughout and..... More
Dated January 25 and February 15, 1875. Both cards entirely handwritten in black ink on the blank verso of a pre-paid United States Post Card. Postmarked and canceled. Fine. Jeremiah Colburn was one of the few people willing to assume the responsibility for the publication of the American Journal of..... More
Boston: Manufactured by Laban Heath & Co., Patented, December 25, 1877. Two tilting glass lenses housed in a folding nickel-plated brass frame with decorative scrollwork. The microscope when open to its maximum extent is 14.5 by 5 cm wide at the base and 3 cm in height. The lens has..... More
Boston: Heath, 1864. First edition, no stated printing or imprint. Newman 1-P-20. 16mo, original blindstamped brown cloth; front cover lettered in gilt, without price. 32 pages; 10 engraved plates of bank note design elements, with original tissue guards, interspersed in the text, with plate 6 serving as a frontispiece, plate..... More
New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1894. 4to [29.5 by 23.5 cm], contemporary green three-quarter morocco with marbled sides; rebacked spine with five raised bands, dated and lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; top page edges gilt; other page edges untrimmed. Magnificent engraved frontispiece portrait of A.B. Durand by Alfred Jones, with..... More