Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1937. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. This beautiful 1937 pictorial map of the White Mountains of New Hampshire is very detailed with shading to show topography. It features White Mountain Scenery in vignette, surrounding the map, depicting iconic landmarks..... More
Los Alamos, NM: U.S. Department of Energy, 1984. 1st Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9. RARE. Plastic comb binding. Clean interior. Mild age toning and edge wear to wraps. A valuable reference of U.S. Nuclear testing throughout most of the Cold War. 80 pages, the first 8 being the..... More
Paris: 1751. Louis-Jacques Goussier, engraved by Robert Bénard. 1st Edition. Beautiful 1751 French copperplate engraving illustrating the complexities of 18th-century ship building From the "Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers", edited by Denis & Jean le Rond d'Alembert. Published in Paris, France... More
New York: Mystery League, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7. Beautiful 1st Edition of this tough-to-find Beeding classic in original dust jacket. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in green. Square Tight Binding. Clean interior. Little wear to binding. Jacket..... More
American Mathematical Society, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7. Three volumes complete. Red cloth gilt. Square Tight Bindings. Clean interiors.Mild wear to bindings. Spines moderately sunned but gilt nice and bright. A handsome set of an uncommon title. More
Mulholland Books, 2011-05-12. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7. This is the signed, limited edition, this being #81 of 100 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies. Signed by Block on a special limitations page. issued with no jacket, specially bound in half blue leather gilt over marbled..... More
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. 1st Edition. 8vo. A beautiful two-volume set of this important Discovery & Exploration work on the American West before the Civil War. Domenech was a French Catholic missionary stationed in several mid-western and his job was to not only to attend the..... More
Paris: Loterie Nationale of France, 1939. Edgar Derouet, Charles Lesacq. 1st Edition. This is one of a series of beautiful Art Deco posters created for the Loterie Nationale (National Lottery) in France by artists Edgar Derouet and Charles Lesacq. This Art Deco style poster is for a lottery..... More
New York: MacMillan, 1915. 2nd Edition. 8vo. A beautiful 1915 2nd Edition of this classic memoir of discovery through the American West, published the year after the 1st Edition. Inscribed by Emory Kolb, brother of and expedition partner of the author as well as expedition photographer, on the..... More
Paris: Chez Ch. Ant. Jombert, 1775. 2nd Edition. 8vo. An important 18th-century work on state-of-the-art fortifications, published the year the Revolutionary War began and likely would have been used during the war by American and French engineers. Profusely illustrated with charts and architectural fortification plans, most are fold-outs..... More