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[Norman Kane]

R. HOE & CO.  STEREOTYPING MACHINERY, ACCESSORIES AND SUPPLIES DESIGNED AND MANUFACTURED BY R. HOE & CO. INC..  N.Y., 1926.

11 x 8 inches.  Title stamped in gold and blind on front cover.  Illustrated throughout.  4 page advertisement for Hoe Combined Jig-Saw and Drilling Machine laid in at rear.  Robert Hoe, who led R. Hoe & Co. for a number of years, made several important innovations in the field of printing and was a noted bibliophile, amassing a world-class library.  He was the founder and first president of the Grolier Club and one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  This book shows the machinery, tools, and supplies used in the creation of a stereotype plate.  A nice copy. ($50)  $25



SMITH, Timothy D'Arch.  R. A. CATON AND THE FORTUNE PRESS.  London, 1983.  First edition.  Original cloth, nice copy in a d.w. Review slip tipped in with an amusing comment.  ($75)  $30



HAYWOOD, Charles.  A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN FOLKLORE AND FOLKSONG.  1 of 1500 copies.  10.25 x 7.25 inches.  Thick 4to, original cloth, map end-papers, xxx, (1), 1292 pages printed in double columns.  Lists books, periodical articles, and musical recordings.  Many items are annotated.  ($50)  $15



WOOD, Charles B.  A COLLECTION OF 20 CATALOGUES.  1967-87.  4tos, original 

wrappers, very good. Arts & Sciences, Early Technology, Trade Catalogs, Early American Architecture (the largest number), &c. ($95)  $20



PARLIAMENT.  MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, PART ONE, PART 2, INDEX TO PART ONE, INDEX TO PART 2 [4 VOLUMES].  London: Hansard, 1878-91.  COMPLETE SET, WITH THE 2 INDEXES. Quartos, half leather, rubbed but sound, Armorial bookplates of Gerald W. E. Loder, First Baron Wakehurst, 1861 - 1936.  (Includes: Parliaments of England 1213 - 1702; Parliaments of Gt. Britain 1705-1796; Parliaments of the United Kingdom 1801-1874; Parliaments & Conventions of the Estates of Scotland 1357-1707; & Parliaments of Ireland 1559-1800. Of great usefulness to the historian & genealogist, and rather scarce.)  ($275)  $150



WALPOLE, HORACE. LETTERS OF HORACE WALPOLE SELECTED BY W. S. LEWIS, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY R. W. KETTON-CREMER.  London, 1951.  

Blue cloth, 9 x 6 inches.  Top edge blue.  A nice copy, with just some light sunning to the spine.  Inscribed by Lewis, who edited the volume, with a signed autograph note also tipped-in.  Both are signed "Lefty."   Lewis was the premier collector of Walpole in his day.  Also two pieces of ephemera laid-in; a contemporary review of another of Lewis' books and a retained copy of a letter to Lewis. ($60)  $25



DEL MAR, Anthony.  THE WORSHIP OF AUGUSTUS CAESAR, DERIVED FROM A STUDY OF COINS, MONUMENTS, CALENDARS, AERAS AND ASTRONOMICAL AND ASTROLOGICAL CYCLES, THE WHOLE ESTABLISHING A NEW CHRONOLOGY AND SURVEY OF HISTORY AND RELIGION.  N. Y., 1900.  Grey cloth, 9.25 x 6 inches.  Somewhat worn, but sound.  Newspaper clippings relating to Augustus Caesar pasted to front end-paper.  A scarce work.  ($55)  $20



THE TALLY OF THE GOATS.  (Phila.,), 1927.  Limited edition of 100 copies.  Pictorial green boards stamped in black with cloth spine.  7.25 x 6 inches.  Printed in several colors.  A light-hearted list of members of the Goats Club in 1927, with a prose essay by Robert H. Durbin at the end and a poem at the beginning by someone named Karl; presumably Karl Bloomingdale, who is the only Karl listed as a member of the Goats Club.  ($40)  $10



ALLISON, A. F.  ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS FROM THE SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE TO THE YEAR 1700, AN ANNOTATED CATALOGUE OF EXTANT PRINTED VERSIONS (EXCLUDING DRAMATIC ADAPTATIONS.)  London, (1974).  First edition.  [1974]  8.75 x 5.75 inches in blue cloth.  Near fine.  ($50)  $20



JOHNSON, Deirdre (compiler and editor.)  STRATEMEYER PSEUDONYMS AND SERIES BOOKS.  Westport, 1982.  9.5 x 6.25 inches.  Blue cloth stamped in gold; fine condition.  1971 Saturday Review article about Stratemeyer laid-in.  ($55)  $25



DEMAREE, Albert Lowther.  THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL PRESS 1819-1860.

N. Y., 1941.  8.5 x 5.5 inches.  Blue cloth stamped in blind on front cover and in gold on spine.  Some light rubbing to rear cover.  "Columbia University Studies in the History of American Agriculture Number 8."  ($50)  ($20)



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