Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1836. xvi,[13]-238pp. 12mo. Original publisher's blue boards with black sheep spine, gilt. Boards rubbed, corners and spine moderately worn. Text lightly foxed. Scarce work addressing the anti-slavery work of George Thompson following his visit to America. Thompson (1804-1878) was British lecturer and reformer who worked as a......
[Mainly Germany: 1961-1964]. Twenty-two leaves, illustrated with ninety-one photographs in corner mounts, the first forty captioned in white ink on the album leaves. Oblong quarto. Contemporary red fabrikoid, belt bound, paper label on spine. Decorative stamping on front cover has faded significantly. Minor edge wear and soiling, top corner of.....
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[N.d., but Paris]: Le Breton, [n.d., but between 1854 and 1910]. Hand-colored lithograph. Image area: 9.75 x 14.25 inches, overall sheet size: 14 x 19.5 inches. Mounted to later board. Small bump to lower left edge, some chipping to bottom edge, paper remnants along top edge and some marginal discoloration.....
Richmond, Va. February 2, 1864. Autograph document, signed, [1]p., folio, on blue paper. Old folds, minor wear. [with:] Two autograph letters, signed, by De Voss, Richmond, Va., totaling [6]pp. [and with:] Autograph letter, signed, by William Bradley, Assessor, Richmond, Va., [2]pp. Mailing folds, minor wear. A collection of manuscript documents.....
[Germany: 1956-1963]. [24] leaves, illustrated with 192 tissue-guarded photographs, including over a dozen large-format images, with the first 112 photos captioned in ink manuscript in the margins, and a few scattered captions thereafter. Oblong large folio. Contemporary presentation photograph album bound in cream leather, with leather belt-strap on spine, with.....
![Item #2979 Dios Lo Quiere. [bound with]: Continuacion a Dios Lo Quiere [bound with]: La Italia...](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2979.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762020294)
Mexico City: Tipographia de R. Rafael, 1851. [4],56pp., plus lithograph portrait; [4],81,[1]pp.; [4],xxv,224,iii pp. Quarto. Contemporary red quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Corners worn; head of spine detaching, boards a bit rubbed. Varied toning, scattered foxing. Rare Mexican editions of three polemical works against the revolutions of 1848.....
Madrid: November 26, 1718. [3]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Minor toning and creasing. Very good. An interesting pair of communications from Spain to colonial Mexico involving debts owed by local religious orders in the Yucatan and how to enforce collection of said debts. The transcripts of these letters were.....
Pisa: Dallas Tipografia Nistri, 1868. 91,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor chipping and partial separations along spine, light edge wear, ownership signature on front wrapper and ink inscription on front flyleaf. Very good. A scarce Italian work on indigenous American linguistics, one of only seventy copies printed "e non sono in.....
[Utrecht: 1857]. Illustrated broadside, 17 x 13.75 inches, with large illustration at top printed in black, and title and body text printed in gold in three columns. Old folds, minor toning around edges, a few short closed tears, two small repairs on verso to short line separations, light surface wear.....
[N.p., likely London: ca. 1890s]. Lithograph on silk handkerchief, approximately 24 x 24 inches, with additional lithographed scene printed around the outer margins in brown and blue ink. Previously matted and framed, with resultant edge wear and adhesive staining around margins. Old folds, some foxing and staining in image area.....
Paris: Aux Bureaux du Magasin Pittoresque, 1853. viii,399pp. Contemporary maroon pebbled cloth, leather backstrip, gilt spine titles. Minor wear and bumping to boards, minor soiling. Light toning to text. Very good. An early French edition of A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in order to.....
Hessigheim: 1850. [380]pp. in pen, interspersed with thirteen color printed illustrations. Small quarto. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards, pastedown manuscript title to front cover. Light wear to binding, some light toning and foxing to contents. The present work is the original manuscript ‘Liederbuch’ (Songbook) compiled in 1850 by Gustav.....
Paris: Ladvocat / Chez Beguin, 1819. viii,247,[10],135pp., plus a folding plan. Contemporary French tree calf, expertly rebacked, preserving original gilt leather spine label. Boards noticeably scuffed, with minor losses to boards, edges worn. Tiny wormtracks in lower right margin of a handful of leaves, not approaching text, a few scattered.....
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Paris: Jean fils, Quai des Augustins, [1819]. Aquatint engraving, 14.5 x 11 inches. Tipped in along top edge, partially splitting along plate mark. Mildly and unevenly trimmed along left edge, moderate foxing and dust-soiling, short tear at right edge repaired on verso. About very good. A very rare engraving relating.....
[Various locations in the United States and France: 1917-1918]. [60]pp. of manuscript entries. Contemporary pocket notebook, 5.25 x 2.5 inches, with a small collection of news clippings and a few ephemeral items laid in. Moderate wear and soiling, as expected, hinges cracked but holding. A manuscript journal and daybook maintained.....