Two Miccosukee Children in Native Dress on the Bank of a Stream. by Phyllis Sheffield and Florence Stiles Randall - 1995

Philadelphia: P. H. Nicklin & T. Johnson, Law Booksellers. Very Good. 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce first edition in later clean brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Hinges & text tight and intact. (xvi, pp13-415). Foxing mainly first & last few pages. Small ding in front cover near hinge. From the BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN ECONOMISTS: "His thinking is largely orthodox and classical; he is a proponent of laissez-faire and opposes government intervention in the economy. He criticizes current economic thinking for its limitations, but believes Adam Smith and his successors are broadly following the right lines. In Principles of Political Economy, Vethake shows awareness of the need to broaden the classical concept of value, and shows it can be applied to technology and to knowledge". Usiana, Business, Economics, Finance, Banking. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 415 pages .

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.. Very Good+. 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. From the original German and English Manuscripts and Records in the Wachovia Archives, Salem, North Carolina. Clean red buckram cloth has gilt titles on spine & front cover. Pictorial frontispiece. Illustrated with B/W portraits, drawings and maps. Prior owners signature. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Religion; B/W illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 365 pages .

Boston: C.E. Goodspeed & Co, 1918. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 volumes: xiv, 391 p., 60 leaves of plates; xi, 403 p., 44 leaves of plates; xi, 417 p., 70 leaves of plates: frontispieces, many portraits; 24 cm. Very dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine titles. Top page edges gilt. Oval stamp on front fixed endpapers of Moore Institute School of Design Library; bookplate on front fixed endpapers of Moore Institute of Art Library; Moore College of Art Library stamp at foot of title pages. This was the first book on the history of art in the United States. The author, William Dunlap (1766-1839), was an American portrait painter, playwright, and theater manager. He helped to found the National Academy of Design in 1825, and he also wrote several books, publishing this work in 1834. In this edition, the editors have employed "judicious pruning and corrections of conspicuous errors" in the original text and have added addenda containing "brief accounts of several hundred painters, engravers, sculptors, and… Read More

Pasadena Circa 1920 / 1927: Carnegie Institution, Mt Wilson Observatory, 1925. Original Astronomical Photographs . No Binding. Near Fine/No Jacket. Black and White Photographs. Original Astronomical Photograph, Approximately 19 7/8" X 16". High Quality. 3/4" Tear And Faint Crease At Left Margin.

Kiev, 1945. Original Photograph . No Binding. Near Fine. 23 Photographs, 7 3/4" X 5 3/4", Reprints By The Photographer, And Purchased Directly From Him In Moscow Circa 2000 By Me. Each Photograph Annotated On Reverse In Russian, One With A 13 Line Explanation. The Russians Sustained Huge Losses Due To Or Direction By Stalin, No General, And Hence Feel A Strongly Tht They Won Back Ukraine For Themselves, Forgetting The Slow And Bloody History Of The Russian Conquering Of Ukraine Over Many Hundreds Years From People Who Didn't Want Them There. Mankind Has A Short Memory, Remembering Only The Last Battle.

Philadelphia: Barker Moore & Mein Medicine Co.. Very Good+. ca. 1910. Softcover. No date: Ca: 1910. Clean soft pictorial covers with cloth spine. Text tight, clean & intact. . Pages lightly age toned. B/W drawing illustrations. Humor based on ethnic, racial or sexual stereotypes. Comic book filled with cartoons, stories & jokes - all have one of Barker's products as the punch line. Humor; B&W Drawing; Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Unpaginated pages .

Grasse, 1931. Livre. Très bon. Cartonnage D'attente. Signé par l'auteur. Ed. originale. In-8. Grasse, [privately printed], 1931 (imp. de "l'Eclaireur de Nice"). 25, 5 x 17 cm, 8vo, 87 pp., wood engraved ex-libris of James C. Mc Coy on the frontispiece (designed and engraved by Eric Gill for exclusive use in the collection old Jesuit Relation of New France included in this hand-list), original quarter black buckram, spine lettered in gold. Scarce first edition. Inscribed by the author to Mrs Grace Whitney Hoff, a philantrop and reputated book collector. Four brown spots on title page, else fine..

Signed and framed 8 x 10 Presidential Portrait of Jimmy Carter professionally authenticated by JSA. Includes their ironclad Certificate of Authenticity. Frame measures 11x14. Condition is as new. Inv #2.

This listing is for a large 16x20 matted photo display featuring a lovely portrait photo of President Jimmy Carter paired with a PSA-authenticated and encapsulated full name autograph. Backing boards totaling 1/4" were added to facilitate framing. Full-name Jimmy Carter autographs are quite scarce, especially so with professional certification.

Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A captivating look at fishing and outdoor sports in late 19th century Florida. Henshall (1836-1925) was popularly known as the "Apostle of the Black Bass", the acknowledged authority on this game fish, as well as an enthusiastic yachtsman. Octavo: xvi, 248, 12 p. advertisements with wood engraved plates and illustrations. Original green cloth binding, with pictorial gilt and black stamping. Period previous owner's ink signature to a prefatory blank leaf. Some general dust staining to the top edge. The spine and front panel are darkened a bit, with moderate wear to the corners and tips and a few minor stains; else very good. Bruns H149, calling it very scarce.