North America

# 39762

CIRCUMNAVIGATORS' CLUB (NEW YORK)

The Circumnavigators’ Club. (Including an early Certificate of Membership)

New York, NY : The Circumnavigators’ Club, 104 Pearl Street, 1912. Duodecimo (155 x 118 mm), original limp pigskin (moderate wear to edges, corners and spine), front lettered in blind ‘Circumnavigators’ Club’; marbled pastedowns and endpapers; pp. xxi, [2 blank], [1 List of officers], printed on parchment, text in black with vignette decorations and initials …

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# 39188

LEWIS, John W. (composer)

[SHEET MUSIC] Australia March

/ Composed for the piano by John W. Lewis. Boston : Oliver Ditson, 1854. First edition. Folio bifolium (330 x 250 mm), disbound; 2 pp music notation (arrangement for piano), the first page with decorative title; as issued, with plain front and rear sides; on this copy, the original owner has annotated the front with …

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# 39446

THE INTER-STATE NARCOTIC ASSOCIATION (USA)

Beware! Young and old – people in all walks of life! This may be handed you by the friendly stranger. It contains the Killer Drug “Marihuana” – a powerful narcotic in which lurks Murder! Insanity! Death!

[Chicago, Illinois : Insanity Inc., ca. 1970 ]. Poster, offset-printed, 48 x 68 cm; in fine condition, unbacked and unmounted. This anti-marijuana propaganda sheet was originally issued by the USA Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1935. It was reproduced and sold commercially around 1970, its alarmist claims and emotive language making it a ready-made piece …

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# 30091

MEARES, John (c.1756 - 1809)

[HAWAII; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; CHINA] Tvänne resor från Ostindien till Americas nordvästra kust, åren 1786, 1788 och 1789, af Johan Meares. Sammandrag utur engelska originalet.

Stockholm : Hos kamereraren J.S. Ekmanson, på Bokhandl. Mag. I. Utters Förlag, 1797. Small octavo, contemporary half mottled calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine in compartments with gilt ornament and contrasting title labels lettered in gilt; pp [12], 404; text in Swedish; heavily scored early ownership signature to bottom margin of title page, with resultant …

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# 37823

BOSS, Martha

Building Poems.

Dennis, Massachussetts.: Salt Works Press, 1977. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. [28], colour frontispiece by the author. Printed in an edition of 335 copies.

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# 37820

KING, Scott

The hills

Illustrated by Clarisse Parrette. [Northfield, MN]: Thistlewords Press, 2005. Folio, illustrated handmade paper wrappers, pp. [16], illustrated. Limited to 25 copies printed letterpress.

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# 37746

OSBORN, Robert (1904 - 1994)

Osborn on Osborn (with a manuscript letter)

New Haven and New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1982. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (spine a little sunned, corners bumped), gift inscription to endpaper, pp. 190, illustrated. Loosely enclosed, a manuscript letter from the satirical artist Robert Osborn (signed ‘Bob O.’) to Margaret, who had written to Osborn with admiration of this book, wishing …

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# 35151

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY (LONDON)

Missionary lotto.

London : Church Missionary Society, [circa 1900]. “Second series. (Revised)”. Original card box, 235 x 115 x 21 mm, with title and imprint to lid (light marks and handling wear, but sturdy and without any edge or corner splits); the inside lid with printed Missionary Lotto Rules (mild foxing); the interior of the box is …

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# 35361

HADDON, Alfred C. (1855-1940)

Evolution in art, as illustrated by the life histories of designs

London : Walter Scott, Ltd., 1895. The Contemporary Science Series, edited by Havelock Ellis. First edition. Octavo (185 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked maroon cloth over boards lettered in gilt (lightly rubbed), spine titled in gilt (softened at the ends and with a couple of small marks); pp [4 publisher’s ads.], xviii, [2], 364, [14 ads.]; illustrated …

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# 30173

VANCOUVER, George (1757-1798)

A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world;

in which the coast of North-West America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed. Undertaken by his Majesty’s command principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and performed in the year 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, in the Discovery sloop …

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# 35604

DUENSING, Paul Hayden

25 : A quarter-century of triumphs and disasters in the microcosm of the private press & typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing

Kalamazoo, MI: The Private Press & Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing, 1976. Quarto, illustrated cloth, offsetting to endpapers, pp. [40], illustrated with examples of type. Limited to 250 copies.

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# 33733

STATE PENITENTIARY FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA

[PENNSYLVANIA] Report of the Board of Inspectors of the Western Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, for the year 1838 [1842; 1846; 1847].

Pittsburgh, Pa. : Johnston and Stockton, 1839; 1843; 1847-1848. Four issues, uniform octavo (215 mm), three with original colour wrappers, issue for 1838 with contemporary plain wrappers, each with wet stamp, spine label and ms. markings of the nineteenth-century German library Bibliothek Bruchsal; pp 12; 20; 24; 27; two issues with light vertical crease, otherwise all …

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# 34202

KYNE, Peter B.

[WESTERN AMERICANA] Lord of Lonely Valley.

By Peter B. Kyne. Complete book-length novel. Supplement to the Australian Women’s Weekly. Issue June 6, 1936. [Sydney : Consolidated Press], 1936. Folio newspaper (300 x 225 mm), cover illustration by Wynne W. Davies, pp 32, text printed in three columns; a fine example. Very scarce. The only copy of this edition of Kyne’s story located on …

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# 34127

KAZANJIAN, Dodie et al.

Jeff Koons : Lost in America

Milan : Skira Editore S.p.A, 2022. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 248, illustrated. Text by Dodie Kazanjian and Sophia Al Maria. New copy, sealed in shrink-wrap. Edited by curator Masimilliano Gioni, this book focuses in particular on Koons’ art as seen in relation to contemporary American culture. With his aesthetics of plenitude and his pop-up dreams …

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# 33652

[COLUMBUS]

The Latin letter of Columbus : printed in 1493 and announcing the discovery of America. Reproduced in facsimile, with a preface.

London : Bernard Quaritch, 1893. Royal octavo (220 x 180 mm), publisher’s printed stiff wrappers, pp vi, [8], partially uncut, a near fine copy. Published by Quaritch to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s letter. Three copies traced in Australian collections: University of Sydney Library; National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales …

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# 32032

H. G. HIBBARD

[WOOL INDUSTRY] H. G. Hibbard, breeder of thoroughbred Spanish Merino Sheep, Orwell, Vt.

East Shoreham, Vermont [U.S.A.] : F.L. Webster, [circa 1880]. Lithographed business card, 77 x 132 mm; printed recto only, illustration signed David No. 77. Fine condition. Having fiercely protected its merino bloodlines from foreign powers for so long, Spain had relinquished its monopoly on the hugely lucrative merino wool industry by the early 1800s. Merinos were introduced …

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