[Rarebooks] FS: MISCELLANEA

Norman Kane nkane at kanebooks.com
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                                        MISCELLANEA



MAPS.  ** BERKELEY. Dr, John Mitchell.  1974. Cloth, d.w. ** CLAUSSEN.  MAPS PUBLISHED BY CONGRESS 1817-43.  1941. Wraps. ** SOTHEBY’S.  18TH C. MAPS BY THE BLAEU FAMILY. 1978. Wraps.  ** JOLLY.  ANTIQUE MAPS, &c. PRICE RECORD. 1985. Cloth.  ** TREASURE MAPS & CHARTS. 1964. Wraps.  **LYNAM.  BRITISH MAPS. 1947. Boards, d.w.  ** STEPHENSON.  CIVIL WAR MAPS. 1961.  Wraps.  ** 6 OTHERS, in wraps.  $25



TWAIN.  CONVERSATION AS IT WAS … Privately printed in Chicago, 1951. Edition of 1000 printed by John Hecht.  8vo, plain stapled wraps, 5 COPIES.  $15.00



SOTHEBY’S.  ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES. 1970s. Orig.wraps, very good. 8 DIFFERENT.  $15



AGENDA [MAGAZINE].  APPROX. 25 ISSUES, 1959 AND LATER, INCLUDING THE RARE FIRST YEAR. EDITED BY WM. COOKSON. Orig. wraps, very good. 

(Wm. Carlos Williams, Theo. Roethke, Zukofsky, et al.)  $15



MITCHELL, S. WEIR.  THE WONDERFUL STORIES OF FUZ-BUZ THE FLY AND MOTHER GRABEM THE SPIDER.  Phila.: Lippincott, 1867.  Large paper issue of his scarce 2nd literary work.    BAL 14065.  Original plain dark boards with cloth spine,some spine wear and  rubbing. Old inscriptions and some soiling of fly leaves. Some foxing.  Complete with frontispiece and 8 plates. ( A charming children's book  written and published for the benefit of the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia. Of the numerous copies examined by BAL, only the Boston Atheneum, the N.Y.Public Library, the University of Virginia & Yale had large paper copies. None now on line.)$75



[NEW JERSEY].**  STOCKTON, JOHN POTTER.  A.L.S. 1874 TO E. PERRY, RE AN APPOINTMENT. WITH: A CUT SIGNATURE OF HIS FATHER ROBT. STOCKTON (NAVAL OFFICER).  (U.S. SENATOR, DESCENDANT OF RICH. STOCKTON, A SIGNER.)  ** 7 PAMPHLETS, ON OLD GLOUCESTER COUNTY, &c. $30



[RRs].  ** HASKELL.  EARLY EUROPEAN RAILWAY LITERATURE.  Harvard, 1955.  4to, cloth. Over 4000 items.  ** MODELSKI. RAILROAD MAPS OF THE U.S. 1975. 4to, pict. wraps, good.  ** ONE OTHER.  $20  



PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. **VOL. 13.  1919. 

Half leather, some wear but sound, ex library. (Speeches of Webster, Books about Cats, Books Printed by Franklin, &c.) ** VOL.ONE, PART 2, 1907. Orig. worn wraps, cancelled ex libr.  Scarce early volumes, accompanied by the INDEX for vols 26-45 (1932-51), wraps. $15



BOOK NOTES. 3 ISSUES FROM 1927, ONE WITH A DICKENSIAN COVER. Orig. wraps, some wear.  Short articles, poems, &c, on bookish topics. $7.50



THAT’S ALL, FOLKS.  PRICES NETT.  POSTAGE EXTRA.  HAPPY NEW YEAR !!



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