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Aequanimitas,
with other Addresses to Medical Students, Nurses and Practitioners of Medicine,
by Sir William Osler. Philadelphia:
Blakiston, 1932. Green cloth, 451
pages. From Bed-Side Library for
Medical Students. Presentation copy to
newly graduated M.D. from Eli Lilly and Company, 1935, with presentation letter
tipped in. Worn. $20 American
Pheasant Breeding and Shooting, by E. A.
Quarles. Wilmington, DE: Hercules Powder, 1916. Soft brown wrappers, 132 pages plus
index. Spine ends chipped. Good. $22 The
Apple Culturist: A Complete Treatise for the Practical Pomologist. To aid in propagating the apple, and
cultivating and managing orchards.
Illustrated with engravings of fruit, young and old trees, and
mechanical devices employed in connection with orchards and the management of
apples, by Sereno Edwards Todd. NY: Harper & Bros., 1871. Dark green clothbound duodecimo, gilt title,
gilt apple on front board. 334 pages,
index, illustrations. Only light
wear. Scarce. $400 The
Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft, by Dan Beard,
founder of the first Boy Scouts Society, illustrated by author. Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co.,
second edition, 1930. 270 pages. Front hinge cracked. $125 The
Boy’s Nature Book of Birds, Flowers and Trees, ed. by
G. Clyde Fisher. NY: The University
Society, 1933. Profusely illustrated
with line drawings and in color. Brown
cloth. Minor shelfwear. $30 The
Butterflies of North America, by William H.
Howe. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975. This copy is #51 of a limited edition of 200 copies signed by the
artist. 633 pages; index; illustrated
endpapers. Red leather, ex-lib. Only slight shelfwear. $300 By-ways
and Bird Notes, by Maurice Thompson. NY: John B. Alden, 1885, first edition. Green cloth. Worn. $20 (See Claude’s
Big Trout below.) The
Calculation of Horse Power Made Easy: A Manual of Simple and Non-Technical
Information for the Use of Engineers, Machinists, Students and Designers. Chicago: Frederick
J. Drake, 1905. Green cloth; 80 pages
of tables; following text are pages of advertising for other technical books of
the period from Drake. G+. $45 The
Carriage Journal, Volumes 11-12 (Summer 1975).
Staten Island, NY:
Carriage Association of America, Inc.
Historical & contemporary advertisements, illustrations, information
on vehicles, breeds and events concerned with horse-drawn carriages. Clothbound quarto. VG. $80 Claude’s
Big Trout, by Maurice Thompson. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., 1884. Elusive title for collectors of this Indiana
and Georgia author of The Witchery of Archery and 25 other books the two
listed in this section. Small blue
clothbound 16mo. with illustrated, decorative front board. Cover worn and soiled. Scarce title. $275 Experimental Science: Elementary Practical and Experimental Physics, by George M. Hopkins. NY: Munn & Co., 1890. 719pp w/ index; over 680 engravings; illustrated front board. Beautiful copy. $200 Fifty
Famous Farmers, by Lester S. Ivins and A. E.
Winship. NY: Macmillan, 1925, second
printing. Octavo, xiv, 407 pages. Ex-lib.
Clean, tight copy of this scarce title. $65 [Third
and Fourth Annual Reports of the] Geological Survey of Indiana, Made During the
Years 1871 and 1872, by E. T. Cox, state
geologist. Indianapolis, IN: R. J. Bright, State Printer, 1872. 488 pages. $50 [Sixth Annual Report of the] Geological Survey of Indiana, Made During the Year 1874, by E.T. Cox, State Geologist. Indianapolis, IN: Sentinal Co., printers, 1875. $50 SPECIAL
OFFER: 1871 and 1874 Geological Surveys of Indiana (2 titles directly above) together for $90
The
Illustrated Stock Doctor and Livestock Encyclopaedia, including Horses, Cattle,
Sheep, Swine and Poultry, with all the facts concerning the various
breeds…. Also, the recent, approved,
humane methods for the preservation and care of stock, the prevention of any
disease, and restoration of health… to which has been added A Complete History
of Bees…, by J. Russell Manning.
Philadelphia: Hubbard Bros.,
1882. Clothbound, 1082 pages,
illustrated. Front hinge cracked; heavy
edgewear. $50 Illustrations
of North American Pitcher Plants, by Mary Vaux
Walcott, with descriptions and notes on distribution by Edgar T. Wherry, notes
on insect associates by Frank Morton Jones.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1935.
First and only edition. Fifteen
color lithographs, accompanying text bound separately, all held in ribbon-tied,
quarter-leather portfolio. Leather
soulfully worn, plates and text immaculate. $225 The
Indiana Gazetteer, or Topographical Dictionary of the State of Indiana. Indianapolis, IN: Chamberlain, 1849, third edition. Leatherbound octavo, 440 pages with illustrations. Geographic, demographic, commercial and
agricultural features minutely noted.
Worn and foxed. $250 An
Introduction to Critical Path Analysis, by K. G.
Lockyer. London: Sir Isaac Pitman &
Sons, Ltd., second edition, 1967.
Scarce title in beautiful condition.
VG/VG. $45 Leather
Technician’s Handbook, by J. H. Sharphouse, B.Sc. Northampton, England: Leather Producers’ Association, 1983,
revised edition. Green cloth. Good+ condition. Hard-to-find title. $150 Lessons
from the Out-of-Doors, by Ida M. Folsom. Boston: Stratford, 1927. Natural science lessons for teachers. Light shelfwear. $25 A
Manual of Coaching, by Fairman Rogers. This is copy #114 of a limited edition
(1500) reprint of the original 1900 Lippincott edition. 579 pages including index with plates
following. Private library stamp;
otherwise immaculate. $600 The New Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, Volume 3, by Henry A. Gleason. NY: Hafner Press (Division of Macmillan) for the New York Botanical Garden, 1952, 6th printing. Green cloth, 595pp. The following plant orders are included in this volume: Ericales; Primulales, Plumbaginales; Ebenales; Gentianales; Polemoniales; Plantaginales; Rubiales; Cucurbitales; Campanulales; Asterales. Also included are line drawings and keying information and the general index to the three-volume series. VG. ATTENTION! Miracle of miracles, Vols. 1 and 2 have come my way. Full three-volume set now offered at $120. Our
Farming: How We Have Made a Run-down Farm Bring Both Profit and
Pleasure—Potato, Wheat and Clover Culture, Tillage, Tile Drainage, Manure
Saving, etc., etc. Treated
independently from A to Z, by T.
B. Terry. Philadelphia: The Farmer
Company, 1893. 367 pages. Illustrated. Shelfworn with minor cover stain. $40 Practical
Blacksmithing: A collection of articles contributed at different times by
skilled workmen to the columns of “The Blacksmith and Wheelwright” and covering
nearly the whole range of blacksmithing from the simplest job of work to the
most complex forgings, compiled and edited by M. T.
Richardson. NY: Richardson, 1895. Volume IV. Clothbound,
illustrated front board, 276 pages, illustrated, with index. Hinges repaired; new endpapers. Slight musty odor but scarce in this 19th-century printing. $75 Sunny Jim: The Life of America’s Most Beloved Horseman, James Fitzsimmons, by Jimmy Breslin. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1962. 238 pages, illustrated with photographs. Ex-lib. copy of scarce title. G/VG-. $180 |