Paris: Chez G Boun, 1585. Unbound. This leaf (M.CLXXV-M.CLXXVi) measures approximately 8.25” x 12.5” and came from the 1585 printing of Les Oeuvres d’Ambroise . . . Des Distillations. The images are strong. The leaf has some minor soiling and edge-wear. The two images on this leaf show (roughly translated... More about 16th-century leaf with two illustrations, one showing the harvesting of white pepper and the...

Philadelphia: George W. Taylor, 1853-1854. Half leather. 24 monthly issues bound together. Complete; each volume contains 104 text pages. Half-leather with marbled boards; 6.75” x 10.25”. Sound binding. Clean pages with light intermittent foxing. Old pencil annotation at top of the first title page. Light dampstain to the first six... More about The Non-Slaveholder, Volumes 1 and 2 bound together

New York: Books Inc., 1934. 1st Printing. Faux leather. Approximately 4.25” x 6.25”. Complete with 93 pages including the index. Original red faux leather cover. Sound binding, clean pages, almost no wear. Doesn’t appear to have ever been read. Over 250 drink recipes including 14 classics that Burke identifies as... More about Burke’s Complete Cocktail & Drinking Recipes with Recipes for Food Bits for the Cocktail...

Mohawk, New York: circa 1857. Unbound. This envelope features a hand-drawn pen illustration of a young man trudging along a road and pushing a wheel-barrow with a large crate addressed to “James Johnson, Clinton Liberal Institute, Clinton, N.Y.” It is franked with a 3-cent, plum or deep claret, Type III..... More about HUMOROUS LETTER TO A STUDENT AT THE CLINTON LIBERAL INSTITUTE FEATURING A DRAWING OF HIM...

San Antonio, TX: Clegg Company, 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to. Complete with 99 pages. Color and sepia photographs throughout; map. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages; a former owner has highlighted one column on Koehler's list of taxidermy mountings in light green. Light cover wear. Presentation inscription on... More about Ku-Winda (To Hunt

Baltimore: The C. H. Pearson Packing Co., 1905. Envelope. Nice advertising cover for The C. H. Pearson Packing Company, located at the Chesapeake Warf in Baltimore. The cover (envelope) freatures an illustration of a woman holding a large oyster while standing upon a mound of fruits and vegetables in front... More about Oyster Packing Company Advertising Envelope