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A CATALOGUE OF SIGNIFICANT AND UNUSUAL IMPRINTS RELATING TO AMERICA

July 1, 2019

A CATALOGUE OF SIGNIFICANT AND UNUSUAL IMPRINTS RELATING TO AMERICA

July 1, 2019

Catalog 19-2b (Late June, 2019) contains over 75 items, primarily first-person original source Americana: correspondence, documents, journals, postal history, photograph albums, as well as other ephemera in a variety of subjects: Advertising, Abolition (including a raging manifesto by a Conductor on the Underground Railroad in Maryland), African-Americana (including sheet music composed by Jim Europe, Noble Sissle, and Eubie Blake while members of the Harlem Hellfighters), Business & Labor, Crime & Law, Music & Theater, Maps & Cartography (including a finely-done 1720 surveyor's map from Richmond County, Virginia), Maritime & Whaling (including a candid and detailed letter by an African-American whaleman), Military & War, Native Americans (including a long detailed letter about the Seminole War and mistreatment of the Creek Nation), and Women<br /><br /> <br /><br />

July 1, 2019

Civil War, Americana, Literature, Travel, Presidential . . .

June 27, 2019


To commemorate the landing on the Moon by Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969 we present a catalog showcasing Lunar travel in fact and fiction.

June 24, 2019


Astronomy, Natural History, Chemistry, Physics, Botany, Medicine, Inventions, ETC

June 17, 2019

60 BOOK WRITTEN OR CONTRIBUTED BY (or about): Robert Merrihew ADAMS; Carola BAUMGARDT; George BIRTWISTLE; Tycho BRAHE; Percy Williams BRIDGMAN; Hermann Alexander BRUCK; Francois de CALLIERES; John CARY; Gale E. CHRISTIANSON; George V. COYNE; Roy CRAIG; Rene DESCARTES; Antonio R. DAMASIO; John Baptist DE FREVAL; John Louis Emil DREYER; Sir Arthur Stanley EDDINGTON; Desiderius ERASMUS; James EVANS; William Suddards FRANKLIN; GALILEO GALILEI; John GRIBBIN; Michael HAVEMANN; Edwin HUBBLE; Samuel HUMPHREYS (translator ); International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life; Louis Charles KARPINSKI MILLER; Johannes KEPLER; Gottfried Wilhelm LEIBNITZ; Malcolm Sim LONGAIR; Conrado LYCOSTHENE [alias Konrad WOLFFHART]; Barry MACNUTT; Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MASSEY; Christian MOELLER; Nevill Francis MOTT; Otto E. NEUGEBAUER; Isaac NEWTON; NICOMACHUS OF GERASA; Niels NIELSEN; Nobel Prizes; James William NORTON-KYSHE; Charles P. Pollard OLIVIER; M. E. OMELYANOVSKY; Octav ONICESCU; Carl OPPENHEIMER; J. ORÓ; Syozo OSAWA; Max OSTERBERG; George Barry O'TOOLE; David PARK; Robert Hodson PARSONS; Pio PASCHINI; Cecilia PAYNE-GAPOSCHKIN; Karl PEARSON; Henry PEMBERTON; S. S. PENNER; Noel Antoine PLUCHE; Robert Wichard POHL; C. PONNAMPERUMA; Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum Scripta Varia; Felix Archimede POUCHET; Otto RAHN; Richard RAPPORT; Roshdi RASHED; Alfred A. ROBB; Frank Egleston ROBBINS; Vasco RONCHI; Svein ROSSELAND; Henry Norris RUSSELL; Erwin SCHRODINGER; Ludwik SILBERSTEIN; William Marshall SMART; Ian Naismith SNEDDON; Filippo SOCCORSI; Lyman SPITZER, Jr.; Alexander Dees de STERIO; Walter SULLIVAN; Victor E. THOREN; Clifford Ambrose TRUESDELL; R. S. YOUNG.<br /> <br /> SUBJECTS: Anecdotes, Antiquity (science during), Arabic Science, Archeology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Atomic Theory, Bacteriology, Bees, Biochemistry, British Roads, Chemistry, Creationism, Electricity, Freethought, Genetics, Hydrodynamics, Jewish Theology, Law dictionary, Mathematics, Meteors, Neuroscience, Optics, Physics, Planetary Systems, Power Stations (industry), Relativity, Russian science, Scientific Biography, Spontaneous Generation, Stars, UFOs, Wave Mechanics

June 17, 2019


Catalog 19-2a (June 2019) contains over 50 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana: correspondence, documents, journals, postal history, photograph albums, as well as other ephemera in a variety of subjects including Advertising, African-Americana, Business & Labor, Circus & Fairs, Crime & Law, Entertainment & Theater, Maritime & Whaling, Military & War, Native Americans, Suffrage, and Women. <br /> <br /> Also, we still have some items unsold from our last two catalogs and will accept reasonable offers if you find something of interest: Catalog 18-5 and Catalog 19-1. To view them, please visit https://www.read-em-again.com/catalogs.php

June 11, 2019

30 first and limited editions -- many signed -- all at 30% - 50% off their regular price

June 7, 2019

New Catalog on Early Aviation and Automobiles

June 7, 2019

June 7, 2019

AUTHORS [Authorship]: Alfred ALLEN, John ASPINWALL, Edward Collins BOUSFIELD, Benjamin BRAMAN, James Bryant CONANT, George E. DAVIS, Aubrey H. DREW, S. H. HIGGINS, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, Antoni van LEEUWENHOEK, K. MICHEL, New York Microscopical Society, New York Microscopical Society, Jean Francois NICERON, Henry Alleyne NICHOLSON, The Northern Microscopist; (editor), C. W. OATLEY, Theodore E. OERTEL, Donald L. PADGITT, Louis PASTEUR, John PHIN, Postal Microscopical Society , Andrew PRITCHARD, Mary PROCTOR, Richard A. PROCTOR, John Thomas QUEKETT, Oscar W. RICHARDS, Maria ROOSEBOOM, Royal Microscopical Society, Science Heritage Collection, Garrett P. (Putnam) SERVISS, Sir Arthur Everett SHIPLEY, Society of Chemical Industry, Herbert SPENCER, Spencer Lens Company; , Edmund J. (Johnson) SPITTA, Alfred Cheatham STOKES, Rev. Lewis TOMLINSON, Gerard L'Estrange TURNER, John TYNDALL, Unitron Scientific, Inc, Newton Highlands, Mass, Hon. Mrs. Mary WARD, W. WATSON & Sons, Ltd, London, Wilfred Mark WEBB, William WHEWELL, Rev. John George WOOD, Lewis WRIGHT, Joseph Henry WYTHES, (Wythe, M.D.), J. L. ZABRISKIE, Carl ZEISS. TOPICS: Astronomy, Bacteriology, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Infusoria, Medical microscopy, Microscopy, Optics, Spontaneous Generation

June 6, 2019


Containing 52 books from the library of Frederick A. Frye, MD: Marguerite ABBOTT, American Orthopaedic Association; Chicago, ANDRÉ-THOMAS, Association for the Aid of Crippled Children, Inc., New York, William W. Belford (owner), Phillip BIEDERT, Kenneth D. BLACKFAN, Harry BLOCH, Lynett Root CABLK, James CALDER, George Washington Carver, Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, William COCKBURN, Mme. Suzanne Saint-Anne DARGASSIES, William C. DEAMER, Wayne DENNIS, Alice DESCOEUDRES, James DOUGLAS, Hugh DOWNMAN, Marion P. DOWNS, The Drucker Foundation, The Dry Milk Company, Murray FEINGOLD, Heinrich FINKELSTEIN, R. FISCHL, Frederick A. FRYE (owner), Eugen GALEWSKY, Sydney S.GELLIS, Joseph GIBSON, Francis GLISSON, Marshall GOLDSMITH, Robert Edward GROSS, Walter HARRIS, Philippe HECQUET, Robert William HEGNER, Frances HESSELBEIN, Thomas HILLIER, HIPPOCRATES, Conrad Philipp HOFFMANN, Rackham HOLT, John INNES, Kenneth LYONS JONES, Margaret H. Jones (owner), John KENNEDY, Le Grand KERR, Monica KIEFER, Leopold LANG, Thomas LEVACHER DE LA FEUTRIE, Williams McKim MARRIOTT, William Stirling MAXWELL (owner), Victor Almon MCKUSICK, Lois Hayden MEEK, Jean Jacques MENURET DE CHAMBAUD, George Milligen, A. Graeme MITCHELL, Alexander Monro, Charles-Philippe de MONTHENAULT D’EGLY, Jerry L. NORTHERN, Arthur Hawley PARMELEE, Aegineta PAULUS [Paul of Aegina], Robert PEMELL, Herbert Gerhard Peterson, Jr., William PORTERFELD, Grover Francis POWERS, Claude QUILLET, Joseph RALPH, Richard Beverly RANEY, Hanns REICH, James W. SAYRE, & Robert F.SAYRE, Bela SCHICK, Roland B.; SCOTT, Alfred Rives SHANDS, Jr., Thomas SIMSON, Irene SJOGREN, David Weyhe SMITH, Samuel Thomas von SOEMMERRING, Iain SOMERVILLE, Sir Conrad SPRENGELL, John STEDMAN, George Frederic STILL, Helen TAUSSIG, B, James THACHER, Marcelino Herrera VEGAS, Alfred VOGEL, Martin G. VORHAUS, Joseph I. WARING, Gilbert WAUCH, Israel Judah WOLF, P. YAGLOU. TOPICS include: Allergies, Aphorisms, Cardiology, Cerebral Palsy, Childbirth, Child Development, Childrens Hospital, Crippled Children, Dental, Dermatology, Drinking, Echoencephalography, Eugenics, Experimental Psychology, Farming, Hearing (for children), Heredity, Hopi Indians, Kidney Stones, Lungs, Male-female issues, Malformation, Management, Medical Biography, Medical Humor, Medical Poetry, Mental Retardation, Medical Zoology, Meteorology, Midwifery, Mineral Waters, Mothering, Nephritis, Neurology, Nutrition, Orthopedics, Otology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Rickets, Smallpox, Surgery, Syphilis, Worms.

June 3, 2019

Our new catalog, completely devoted to WALT WHITMAN, has been posted on our website. It contains 28 select items, mostly new arrivals. Highlights include an exceptionally scarce Family Association Copy of SPECIMEN DAYS IN AMERICA; Whitman's first appearance in print published when he was only 15; SIGNED copies of NOVEMBER BOUGHS and TWO RIVULETS; as well as other interesting books and ephemera.

May 28, 2019