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London: Printed for H. Serjeant and G. Woodfall, no date (1880s?). Early reprint. Hardcover. Edges ob boards rubbed, corners bumped, free endpapers darkened, else about very good.. (104) pp., small octavo, blue cloth spine and marbled boards. An irreverant look at matrimonial practices around the world and down through the ages, with the farcical "Adventures of Sir Harry Fitzgerald" for dessert.
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MATRIMONIAL CEREMONIES DISPLAYED: Wherein are exhibited the various customs, odd pranks, whimsical tricks and surprising practices of near one hundred different kingdoms and people in the world, now used in the celebration and consummation of matrimony, collected from the papers of A Rambling Batchelor. With a variety of remarks by him, serious and humorous, to which is added the comical Adventures of Sir Harry Fitzgerald, who had seven wives, with the character of each, - a genuine story; also an epigram on matrimony, in English and Latin.
by "A Rambling Batchelor" [Louis De Gaya].
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LE ROI DES MONTAGNES
by About, Edmond. Illustrated by Gustave Dore
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Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1861. Fifth edition overall, first edition with Dore illustrations. Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo, dark green morocco and boards, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, 3 fl, 363 pp., 3 fl. All edges gilt. 158 engraved illustrations by Gustave Dore, including 12 fine full-page illustrations. Slight wear to spine foot and corners of boards, else fine. A fairly early work by the prolific French artist and illustrator.
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A TREATISE ON THE ART OF MAKING WINE FROM NATIVE FRUITS: Exhibiting the Chemical Principles upon which the Art of Wine Making Depends the Fruits Best Adapted for Home-Made Wines and the Method of Preparing Them.
by Accum, Frederick.
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1823. Second edition. Hardcover. Boards worn at corners and spine ends, contents quite clean and free of foxing. Original tan and blue paper over boards, printed spine label, 12mo, viii, (9)-92, xxiii, [1] pp., title page engraving. Recipes for making wines from virtually every fruit available in Britain at the time. The first edition was published in 1820. The section at rear is devoted to promoting the second edition of the author's "Treatise on Adulteration of Foods and Culinary Poisons." Gabler G6930, Noling p. 21, Simon 16.
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THE NEW LUCILE COOK BOOK: Compliments of Acker. Merrall & Condit Company
by (Acker, Merrall & Condit Company)
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(Boston: P. R. Warren Co., Printers, 1906). First edition. Mild wear to covers, else fine.. Original green cloth, octavo, 303 pp., including several leaves of advertisements. A basic book of home cooking offered by Acker. Merrall & Condit Company, a large grocery firm with several stores in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Maryland. They also had a mail-order department. A section at the rear of the cook book is headed "Forty Recipes of the 'Four Hundred'" and contains signed recipes from the elite of New York society.
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Veduta del Piazza, e Colonna Antonina eretta dal Senato Romano in onore dell' Imperadore M. Aurelio . . . (copperplate engraving from Raccolta di No. 40 Vedute Antiche e Modern Della Citta di Roma e Sue Vicinanze)
by Acquaroni, Giuseppe
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Rome: Agapito Franzetti, [1816]. Light foxing to margins, faint tideline to upper right corner just touching image, overall very good.. Original copperplate engraving, image size 7.25 x 9.25 inches on 10 x 15 sheet. Matted. Engraved by Giuseppe Acquaroni (1780-1847). Signed in the plate Gio. Acquaroni inc. Caption text also in French.
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Veduta del Campidoglio sul Monte Capitolino sopra del quale salivano i Vittoriosi Romani . . . (copperplate engraving from Raccolta di No. 40 Vedute Antiche e Modern Della Citta di Roma e Sue Vicinanze)
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Rome: Agapito Franzetti, [1816]. Light foxing to margins, faint tideline to upper right corner just touching image, overall very good.. Original copperplate engraving, image size 7.25 x 9.25 inches on 10 x 15 sheet. Matted. Engraved by Giuseppe Acquaroni (1780-1847). Signed in the plate Gio. Acquaroni inc. Caption text also in French.
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Veduta della Basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano primo e principale Templo del Mondo . . . (copperplate engraving from Raccolta di No. 40 Vedute Antiche e Modern Della Citta di Roma e Sue Vicinanze)
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Rome: Agapito Franzetti, [1816]. Light foxing to margins, faint tideline to upper right corner just touching image, overall very good.. Original copperplate engraving, image size 7.25 x 9.25 inches on 10 x 15 sheet. Matted. Engraved by Giuseppe Acquaroni (1780-1847). Signed in the plate Gio. Acquaroni inc. Caption text also in French.
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Veduta dell' Avanzi del Foro Trajano, e Colonna la quale su eretta dal Senato Romano in onore dell Imp. Trajano . . . (copperplate engraving from Raccolta di No. 40 Vedute Antiche e Modern Della Citta di Roma e Sue Vicinanze)
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Rome: Agapito Franzetti, [1816]. Light foxing to margins, faint tideline to upper right corner just touching image, overall very good.. Original copperplate engraving, image size 7.25 x 9.25 inches on 10 x 15 sheet. Matted. Engraved by Giuseppe Acquaroni (1780-1847). Signed in the plate Gio. Acquaroni inc. Caption text also in French.
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TO AND FRO IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA with Sketches in Arizona and New Mexico.
by Adams, Emma H.
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Cincinnati: W. M.B. C. Press, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. Slight wear to edges of covers, overall about fine. 288 pp., 12mo, original dark brown pictorial cloth with cover design and lettering in gilt and black. Compiled from letters to "certain Eastern journals - chiefly to the Cleveland "Leader & Herald" written during 1884 and 1886. The author was a fairly prolific writer of travel literature as well as juvenile fiction and short stories. The present text is intended as a "pleasant and readable book" that in some sense can function as a guide for visitors to the region. An expanded version was published the following year.
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TOULOUSE-LAUTREC: His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints.
by Adhemar, Jean.
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NY: Abrams, (1965). First edition. Hardcover. Very good; book and dustjacket quite clean and unworn. Original orange cloth, folio (10 x 13.5 inches) , xxxviii pp tex and 370 plates. 54 of the plates are in full color.
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ADTYPE WORK BOOK: a complete showing of hundreds of type faces in current use, each in complete fonts and in all available sizes. linotype, monotype, foundry, photo lettering and associated photo processes.
by (Adtype).
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Los Angeles: Adtype, (1956). First edition. Hardcover. Covers moderately faded and scuffed, page edges moderately frayed, contents quite clean and overall near very good. Folio (14.5 x 13 inches), black cloth 4-ring metal-hinged binder; v, 498 pp. 2 index tabs at fore-edge. A massive mid-century type catalog. Text, display, and ornamental types of all sorts. OCLC locates only 6 copies.
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A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
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NY: McDowell, Obolensky, (1957). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Mild wear to covers, small stainto bottom edge, else near fine in lightly edgeworn jacket. Original blue cloth with title and cover ornament in silver and green, title page printed in blue, 339 pp. Typo on page 80: "Walking" instead of "Waking.
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Poems & Pictures Number Six. December 1955
by Edited by Henry Evans. Contributors include Sylvia Phillips; Philip Rhynd; Jack Pustilnik; Mitchell Lifton; et al
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San Francisco: Peregrine Press / Porpoise Bookshop, 1955. First edition. Fine. [14] pp. (7 double leaves, folded, unsewn), 12.5 x 9.5 inches, tan wrappers. Contributions by 8 poets, 4 color engravings by LaVonne Curtis, cover block by Lavonne Curtis, colophon cut by Patricia Evans. Edition of 50 copies printed by Henry Evans at the Peregrine Press.
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THE YOUNG MINER; or, Tom Nelson in California.
by Alger, Horatio. Introduction and bibliographical note by John Seelye.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1965. Limited edition of 450 copies. Hardcover. Fine. Beige cloth and brown paper over boards, octavo, xxi, 187 pp. Illustrated. Printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley.
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A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND TREATMENT OF THE GRAPE VINE: Embracing Its History, with Directions for its Treatment in the USA, in the Open Air and under Glass Structures with and without Artificial Heat.
by Allen, J. Fiske.
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Boston: Dutton & Wentworth, 1848. Second edition - enlarged . Wrappers quite worn and toned, text foxed. Good. 247 pp, frontispiece and 2 engraved plates, many engraved illustrations in the text, octavo, original printed wrappers . Originally published in 1847. John Fisk Allen is credited with producing and marketing the first hybrid between the native American grape "Vitis labrusca" and the European "Vitis vinifera." "Allen's Hybrid" was a major breakthrough for American viticulture. Amerine & Borg 30; Gabler (2nd ed.) 7232.
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A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND TREATMENT OF THE GRAPE VINE: Embracing Its History, with Directions for its Treatment in the USA, in the Open Air and under Glass Structures with and without Artificial Heat.
by Allen, J. Fiske.
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New York: C. M. Saxton, 1855. Third edition - enlarged and revised. Slight wear to spine head, plates quite toned, else very good. 330 pp. + 6 pages adverts at rear, frontispiece and 2 engraved plates, many engraved illustrations in the text, small octavo, black cloth embossed in gilt and blind. John Fisk Allen is credited with producing and marketing the first hybrid between the native American grape "Vitis labrusca" and the European "Vitis vinifera." "Allen's Hybrid" was a major breakthrough for American viticulture. Originally published in 1847. Amerine & Borg 32; Gabler (2nd ed.) 7232.
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1830. ON THE AMBITIOUS PROJECTS OF RUSSIA IN REGARD TO NORTH WEST AMERICA, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO NEW ALBION & NEW CALIFORNIA
by (Allen Press). "An Englishman." Introduction by George P. Hammond
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San Francisco: Book Club of California. Printed at the Allen Press, 1955. First edition, limited to 350 copies. Hardcover. Owner name to front free endpaper, else fine. Original white parchment and blue-gray boards printed in red; octavo; 79 pp. Map. Text was originally published anonymously in London in 1830 in reaction to (and borrowing freely from) Otto von Kotzebue's "A New Voyage round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26," also published in the same year. The Russian navigator's book made plain Russia's intention to extend their fur-trading operations in California and the "Englishman" sought to wake his countrymen to an awareness of the potential value of the land for England. Allen Press #17; BCC #90.
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ROUGHING IT IN CALIFORNIA.
by (Allen Press). Mark Twain.
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Kentfield: The L - D Allen Press, 1953. Limited edition. Hardcover. Slight fading to spine, else about fine in glassine wrapper. 90 pp., 6 full-page woodcut illustrations by Mallette Dean printed in 3 colors; 8vo (10 x 6.5 inches), bound in wood veneer over boards with rose Fabriano paper spine. Prospectus laid in. The 12th book from the Allen Press. Edition of 200 copies.
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THE FIRST CALIFORNIAC: Being a Reprint of PROSPECTS OF CALIFORNIA, Written by Dr. Victor H. Fourgeaud for the April 1, 1848 Issue of "The California Star," San Francisco's First Newspaper, of Which Samuel Brannan Was the Publisher.
by (Allen Press). Fourgeaud, Dr. Victor H. Prolegomenon by Carroll D. Hall.
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San Francisco: The Press of Dorothy and Lewis Allen, 1942. Limited edition. Hardcover. Slight bumps to corners, small bookplate to front free endpaper, usual darkening to endpapers at gutter from reactive binding materials.. Half calf and decorative boards, 12mo (7x 6 inches) (xv), 44, [1] pp., frontispiece and 2 full-page illustrations. Edition of 225 copies. The second book from the Allen Press.
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In Bookbinding Then." (Golden Rules for the Bookbinder).
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n.p.: The Allen Press for the Roxburgh Club, 1968. First edition. Fine. Handset broadsheet with decorative woodcut initial by Malette Dean, 12.5 x 8.5 inches, mounted in double folded plain paper wrapper. Reprint of the 1900 Doves Press broadsheet as a keepsake for Roxburgh Club members for the April 16, 1968 meeting with Norman Strouse as speaker. Produced by The Allen Press in the manner of the original: handset types and English handmade paper printed damp on a London-made handpress. The woodcut initial is by the artist-printer Malette Dean. Number of copies printed is not divulged. Allen Press Bibliography pge 109.
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