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Showing Rare Items OnlyAnnals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. vols. 1-500. (1890-1990)
American Academy of Political and Social Science.
/ Phila: 1890
volumes 1-500 in 125 bindings, lacks one vol. & several supplements, partly bnd., some early volumes require repairs or rebinding; still in all a good useful set; various ownership markings passim;. Volumes
Included: 125
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Sociology Political Political Economy Labor Relations International Affairs Cross-Cultural Urban Affairs Social Education
Item #: 121290
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$1,150.00
American Antiquarian Society. Proceedings. volumes 1-27, lacking vols. 18 & 24, (1881-1917)
American Antiquarian Society.
/ Worcester: 1881
volumes 1-27, lacking volumes 18 & 24, partly bound; library markings, still good-very good. Volumes
Included: 25
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Americana History Archaeology Literature Politics Government Travel Exploration Geography
Item #: 121296
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$299.70
American Federationist. Volumes 48 to 86 (1941-1979)
NA
/ Washington: American Federation of Labor. 1941
volumes 48-86, partly bnd., ex library, still good;. Volumes
Included: 39
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Unionism Labor Economics Politics
Item #: 121319
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$1,040.51
Libraries: A Monthly Review of Library Matters and Methods.
American Library Association.
/ Chicago: 1896
volumes 1-36, last published, lacks volumes 31 and 34, library buckram, some external chipping and internal stamps or other ownership markings but in all still a useful set;. Volumes
Included: 36
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Library Library History Books about Books Library Administration
Item #: 122915
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$519.48
Annual Review of Plant Physiology. Volumes 1 through 45 (1950-1994)
/ NY?: 1950
Volumes 1 through 45 (1950-1994), hardcovers, ex library but text clean & bindings tight. Volumes
Included: 45
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Chemistry Botany History of
Item #: 174519
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$244.88
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Later: Daedalus)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
/ NY 1929
volumes 64, 66-72, 74-82, large octavo, partly bnd., illustrated, library markings, still good-very good. Volumes
Included: 17
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: History of Natural History Medicine Mathematics Archaeology Americana
Item #: 208361
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$235.93
American Weave: A Magazine of Poetry and Light Verse. vols. 16-23, 27, 28 (1940-1968)
L.E. Williams , A.C. Williams
/ Cleveland: L.E. Williams and A.C. Williams 1940
volumes 16-23, 27, 28 (1940-1968), all complete volumes in original paper wrappers,very good, price is for the lot. Volumes
Included: 10
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Little Magazines Poetry ExperimentalWriting
Item #: 211838
$292.53
Handbook of Latin American Studies: A Selective and Annotated Guide to Recent Publications, etc. Nos. 1-5, 7-9, 11-47
American Council of Learned Societies
/ Austin, etc.: 1935
Nos. 1-5, 7-9, 11-47, hardcovers, thick quartos, ex library, good-very good PRICE IS FOR THE LOT. Volumes
Included: 45
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: HISTORY CULTURE POLITICS Hispanic periodicals
Item #: 357374
$200.00
Official Gazette of the Patent Office. vols. 1-1196 (Years 1872-1997), lacking vols. 1062-1073, 16mm. microfilm
United States. Commissioner of Patents.
/ Princeton: Princeton Microfilm Corporation 1872
very good, minor ownership stamps, 16mm MICROFILM spooled, reels #1-856 lacking reel 730 and covering volumes 1-1196; PRICE IS FOR THE LOT:. Volumes
Included: 45
ISBN: x
Subject/Keywords: Law BAK
Item #: 393623
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$325.48
Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada Europeo-Americana. 82 vols.
Espasa, J., editor
/ Barcelona: Hijos de J. Espasa 1924
main work in 70 volumes in 72 (i.e., volumes. 18 & 28 in two parts each) and Apendice in 10 volumes; each ca. 1500 pages, illustrated, mostly in original quarter leather, some spines detached or lost, textually good. Volumes
Included: 82
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Works History Literature Religion Humanities BAK
Item #: 393672
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$399.60
l'Action Francaise (Later: l'Action Canadienne-Francaise). vols. 1-3, 5-20
Ligue d'action canadienne-fran
/ Montreal: 1917
volumes 1-3, 5-20, complete volumes, bound (some bindings require repairs or replacement), ex library, text darkened, still a useful collection; PRICE IS FOR THE LOT:. Volumes
Included: 16
ISBN: x
Subject/Keywords: Canadian History Social Literature Economics Agriculture
Item #: 506222
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$240.00
Slavistic Printings and Reprintings: Russkoye Bogatstvo. 1896 Nos. 1-6, 12; 1897 Nos. 1, 3-4, 9-12; 1898 Nos. 1-11; 1901 Nos. 1-8
Schooneveld, C. H. van, ed.
/ The Hague: Mouton 1969
33 volumes, original cloth, octavos, facsimile reprints of 19th publications, ex library, still very good and seldom perused. Volumes
Included: 33
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Russian Literature Politics
Item #: 506361
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$145.70
Abhandlungen und Berichte der Deutsche Museum, Munchen. Volumes 1-11, 16-21, 24-26, 29-32, 41-44, 47-50
Munchen. Deutsche Museum
/ Deutsche Museum, Munchen 1929
volumes 1-11, 16-21, 24-26, 29-32, 41-44, 47-50, all complete volumes but lacking vol. 2#1, bound (hardcovers), ex library, else text clean & bindings tight. Volumes
Included: 40
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: art museology big sets
Item #: 547262
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$627.59
American Catholic Historical Researches. vols. 3#3; 5#1, 3, 4; 6#3-4; 8#2-3; 9#1, 2, 4; 10#1-2; 11#1-3; 12#1, 3-4; 17#4; 18#1-3; 19#1-2; 23#1, 4; 24#2, 4; 25#3; 26#2-4; 27#1, 4; 28#2-3; 29#1-3
M. I. J. Griffin,
/ Philadelphia 1888
volumes 3#3; 5#1, 3, 4; 6#3-4; 8#2-3; 9#1, 2, 4; 10#1-2; 11#1-3; 12#1, 3-4; 17#4; 18#1-3; 19#1-2; 23#1, 4; 24#2, 4; 25#3; 26#2-4; 27#1, 4; 28#2-3; 29#1-3, complete issues, most covers lost or fragmentary, textually about good, various ownership or library markings; PRICE IS FOR THE LOT:. Volumes
Included: 18
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Americana Roman Catholicism Historiography Apologetics
Item #: 560007
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$98.81
Consumer's Guide
War Food Administration
/ Washington: War Food Administration, etc. 1939
volumes 1 nos. 18-26; vol. 2 nos. 1-26; vol. 6 nos. 1-20; vol. 7 nos. 1-19; vol. 8 nos. 1-20; vol. 9 nos. 1-12; vol. 10 nos. 1-13; vol. 11 nos. 1-12; vol. 12 nos. 1-12; vol. 13 nos. 1-7, bound in 4 parts, ex library, still very good, well illustrated PRICE IS FOR THE LOT. Volumes
Included: 10
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Consumerism Business History Food Marketing American Social History World War II Great Depression bak
Item #: 603263
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$299.70
Paradis Lost. A Poem, in Twelv Bucs. Bi Jon Miltun
Miltun, Jon. (i.e. Milton, John.)
/ Lundun: Publist Bi Izac Pitman, At The Fonetic Depo ... 1846
first Phonotypic edition; small octavo, x, 321 pp, original cloth with all edges gilt; binding chipped at head and tail of spine, both hinges cracked and sides barely attached, front free endpaper gone, text lightly shaken and with light age toning and minor penciling, complete text but good only; "... first complete book (expect elementary works) that is published in phonetic dress" -from Pitman's preface. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: whx English literature, Paradise Lost, phonography, phonotypic alphabet
Item #: 611844
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$240.66
Illustrissimi ... Domini Augusti, Ducis quondam Saxonie ... Ordinationes & Constitutiones de processu iudiciario, dubiisque aliquot, et in iure controversis casibus ... anno LXXII. ...
August I, Elector of Saxony (1526-1586). Mollero, Daniele, ed.
/ Lipsiae: M. Lantzenberger; sumtibus I. Rosae, 1612
editae omnes, ex Germanica in Latinam lingvam translatae, et in easdem commentarii ... cum summariis et indice ... autore Daniele Mollero ... Editio altera non modo a mendis purgata plurimis, sed & novis remissionibus atq; folio (leaves slightly taller than 31 cm.); [18 leaves] (beginning with title in red and black with vignette illustration, a1), 654 (actually 656, page numbers 178 and 179 used twice) pp., [23 leaves] (index), [1 leaf] (colophon with verso blank); three quarter pigskin decorated with rolls in blind, paper covered sides added later; binding darkened and rubbed, title leaf on a later vellum stub but detached and creased with margins tattered also a small sticker at one corner, and an eighteenth century owner's name and note, signature of a modern owner (noted surgeon Dr. Gustav C. E. Weber) on front pastedown, general age toning and some interior leaves damp stained in top margin, occasional ink marginalia, pinhole worming throughout but mostly confined to bottom margins with only a few letters touched, fair. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: August Sachsen, Kurfurst, Germany, Saxony, law, legal procedure, LZX
Item #: 644723
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$749.25
Journal of Applied Microscopy. Volumes 4#1-9, 11-12; 5#1-12; 6#1-8, 10-11 (1901-1903)
Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
/ Rochester: Bausch & Lomb Optical Company 1901
volumes 4#1-9, 11-12; 5#1-12; 6#1-8, 10-11 (1901-1903), else all complete volumes OR issues in softcover with indices, some external darkening, overall very good PRICE IS FOR THE LOT:. Volumes
Included: 8
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: optics histoy of history of mk8
Item #: 664217
$48.71
Common Sense; addressed to the Inhabitants of America, On the following interesting subjects. I. Of the Origin and Design of Government in general, with concise Remarks on the English...
Paine, Thomas (anonymously)
/ [Norwich, Connecticut]: Philadelphia: Printed. Norwich: Re-printed and So 1776
...Constitution. II. Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession. III. Thoughts on the present state of American Affairs. IV. Of the present Ability of America; with some miscellaneous Reflections. [two lines from Thomson]. first Connecticut edition; octavo (19 cm. tall), 56 pp., signatures [A]4 B-G4; general toning with age staining throughout, a light damp stain near center of title leaf and the verso has ink signatures of two previous owners, one modern and the other in an old hand (Eliphalet House?), untrimmed and string tied in self wrappers; all 1776 printings of Common Sense are now very scarce and this first Norwich printing is less frequently seen than the second; Evans 14857. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana mw8x
Item #: 667777
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$245,000.00
Joannis Dlugossii. Annales seu cronicae incliti regni Poloniae. Liber Quintus, Liber Sextus
Dlugosz, Jan (sometimes as Dlugossius, Johannes, etc.)
/ Varsaviae: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe 1973
431, [4] pp.; hardcover, book plate to the front paste down, else very good in a good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN:
Subject/Keywords: poland ndz
Item #: 716980
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$162.34