17th, 18th, and 19th CenturyMiniature Books
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FEATURED BOOKS
 New Testament in Greek
Sedan, 1628 Click here for full details
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 Bijou Illustrations of the Holy LandHamilton, 1864 Click here for full details
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 L'Arche De Noe
Paris, 1820; 3 of 4 volumes Click here for full details
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MISCELLANEOUS TITLES
| Early (2,000 bce & earlier) cuneiform clay tablets from Sumeria and the Eastern cradle of civilization are among the earliest artifacts of record history still available. We are pleased to offer two such examples |
| | Clay Tablet | 1 1/4" x 1 1/4", inscribed on one side only, typically a record of materials offered or shipped | LN
#33 | $750.00 | | Clay Tablet | 1 1/2" x 1 1/2", inscription on both sides, the hole in the tablet was probably for a ring to seal this record to specific goods | LN
#34 | SOLD |
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| Bible | c 1898, David Bryce & Son, Glasgow, 1 3/4" x 1 1/4", cloth wrappers | LN
#1 | SOLD |
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| Bible in Miniature for Children | c 1835, Dorr, Howland, Co, Worcester, 2 1/8" x 1 5/8", cloth boards, 25 engravings, Adomeit A84 | LN
#35 | $150.00 |
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| Bijou Almanack | 1855, Rock Brothers, London, 1 1/8" x 1", 64 pp., gilt leather | LN
#2 | $300.00 |
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| Bijou Illustrations of the Holy Land | c 1845, Rock Brothers, London, 1 3/16" x 1", gilt leather, 31 lithographic plates | LN
#51 | $500.00 |
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| Bijou Illustrations of the Holy Land | 1864, J. Hamilton, Philadelphia, 1 3/16" x 1 1/16", 32 pp., gilt cloth, all edges gilt, a bright clean copy | LN
#50 | $500.00 |
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| Book of Common Prayer | 1864, Thomas Nelson & Sons, New York, 3 5/8" x 2 3/8", 244 pp., embossed leather boards | LN
#3 | SOLD |
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| Cabinet of Lilliput:
Instructive Stories Consisting of The Utility of Commerce, Theresa, The Gardener & Nightingale
with Tom Restless and The History of Theodore | 1802, J. Harris, London, 2 5/8" x 2 3/8", contemporary gilt leather, two volumes in one, each with a separate title page, some vermin damage to spine, some text pages closely trimmed | LN
#4 | $750.00 |
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| Charles Dickens Album | 1878, England, 2 13/16" x 2 5/16", wooden boards with front-cover hand painted with flowers and red morocco spine. Inscribed on the fly leaf "Louie with love from her sister Emily," 5 original drawings in oval frames of characters from the Pickwick Papers: Mr. Pickwick; Sam Weller; Mr. Micawber; Captain Cuttle and Betsy Trotwood, covers aged and somewhat soiled, unique | LN
#34 | $125.00 |
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| Columbian Souvenir Medal | 1893, Chicago Worlds Fair, 2 1/8" dia pewter case with title and bust of Columbus on front and relief image of the U. S. Man of War on back, housed inside is a connected series of twelve colored images of featured fair attractions | LN
#36 | $750.00 |
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| Complete Angler, The; Walton, Issac and Cotton, Charles | 1825, William Pickering, London, 4" x 2 1/2", 314 pp., cloth boards, 1st edition thus | LN
#5 | SOLD |
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| Complete Angler, The; Walton, Issac and Cotton, Charles | 1825, William Pickering, London, 4" x 2 1/2", 314 pp., cloth boards, damage to front hinge and endpaper | LN
#6 | SOLD |
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| Complete Angler, The; Walton, Issac and Cotton, Charles | 1826, William Pickering, London, 4 3/4" x 3", 325 pp., cloth boards, with engraved title page of 1827 edition tipped-in | LN
#7 | $75.00 |
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| Elergy in a Country Churchyard; Gray, Thomas | 1904, David Bryce & Son, Glasgow, 2" x 1 7/16", 384 pp., gilt leather boards | LN
#53 | $200.00 |
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| Évangile de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ Selon Saint Matthieu; after a version by J. F. Ostervald | 1900, Jean Enschede & Sons, Haarlem, 2 1/2" x 2", 52 pp., gilt cloth boards, set in 4 point brilliant type, Welsh/Richards bookplate | LN
#8 | SOLD |
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| Eunice Williams | c 1919, Olde Deerfield Doll House, Deerfield MA, 2 3/4" x 2 1/4", 9 pp., printed wrappers, not listed in Welsh or Bradbury | LN
#34 | $35.00 |
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| Figures Grotesques | c 1850, French, 1 3/8" x 2", 15 hand-colored topsy-turvy caricatures in a contemporary slipcase with printed label | LN
#9 | $650.00 |
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| Golden Vase: A Miniature Gift, The | 1851, G. W. Cottrell, Boston, 3" x 2 1/4", 96 pp., gilt cloth | LN
#10 | $65.00 |
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| Gray's Elergy | 1911, D. Bryce & Son, Glasgow, 3/4 x 9/16", 93 pp., gilt leather | LN
#52 | SOLD |
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| Guirlande de Roses | 1808, chez le Fuel Doreur, Paris, 2 1/8" x 1 3/8", 72 pp., gilt leather with matching slipcase, engraved titlepage and 12 full page plates | LN
#43 | $500.00 |
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| Hazelton's Pocket-Book Almanac, 1880 | 1880, E. T. Hazeltine, Warren PA, 1 7/8" x 1 3/8", later gilt leather boards, original printed wrappers intact | LN
#11 | $45.00 |
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| History of the Bible | 1857, Phinney & Co, Buffalo, 2" x 1 5/8", 192 pp., embossed leather boards | LN
#12 | $40.00 |
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| History of the United States | 1858, John P. Jewett & Co, Boston, 2 1/8" x 1 5/8", 160 pp., gilt and red cloth boards | LN
#45 | $850.00 |
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| History of the United States | 1858, John P. Jewett & Co, Boston, 2 1/8" x 1 5/8", 160 pp., gilt and green cloth boards | LN
#46 | $395.00 |
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| Japanese Set | 19th c?, 3 1/8" x 2", two volume set with ties and elegant black silk binding with paper labels and silk spines, housed in a brocaded silk case with ivory closure pins, text content unknown | LN
#42 | $125.00 |
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| Joan d'Arc | nd, 1" x 3/4", 3 pp., photgraph album in an embossed silver hinged binding | LN
#13 | $45.00 |
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| Lara, A Tale; Byron, George Gordon | 1848, Webb & Millington, Leeds, 2 7/8" x 2 1/2", 96 pp., gilt cloth wrapper, Welsh/Richards bookplate | LN
#14 | SOLD |
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| London Almanack, The | 1835, William Suttaby, London, 1 5/16" x 2 5/8", 8 pp. printed wrapper | LN
#15 | $200.00 |
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| Little Lovers | c 1880, E. P. Dutton Co, New York, 3" x 2 3/8", 8 pp. pictorial die-cut boards in a printed paper envelope, printed by Ernst Nister, London | LN
#16 | SOLD |
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| Miniature Almanack for 1826 | 1826 Richardson & Lord, Boston, 2 7/8" x 1 7/8", 28 pp., marbled paper wrappers, covers loose | LN
#17 | $60.00 |
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| Miniature Almanack for 1827 | 1827 Richardson & Lord, Boston, 2 7/8" x 1 7/8", 28 pp., marbled paper wrappers, covers loose | LN
#18 | $60.00 |
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| Miniature Almanack for 1828 | 1828 Richardson & Lord, Boston, 2 7/8" x 1 7/8", 28 pp., marbled paper wrappers, Robert Massmann bookplate | LN
#39 | $85.00 |
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| Miniature Almanack for 1829 | 1829 Richardson & Lord, Boston, 2 7/8" x 1 7/8", 28 pp., marbled paper wrappers, Robert Massmann bookplate | LN
#40 | $85.00 |
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| Miniature Almanack for 1831 | 1831 Richardson & Lord, Boston, 2 7/8" x 1 7/8", 28 pp., marbled paper wrappers, Robert Massmann bookplate | LN
#19 | $40.00 |
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| Miniature Almanack for 1834 | 1834 Carter, Hendee & Co, Boston, 3" x 1 7/8", 32 pp., marbled paper wrappers, Robert Massmann bookplate | LN
#38 | $85.00 |
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| Miniature chained Bible | c 1900, Bryce & Co in association with Oxford University Press, 2" x 1 3/8", renaissance style binding with magnifier in front pocket, housed in an oak lectern with chain as was early church practice, tattered Bryce lable on base of lectern | LN
#49 | SOLD |
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| New York State Pocket Almanac for 1837 | H. Ivison & Co, Auburn NY, 3 1/2" x 1 7/8", 24 pp., paper wrappers | LN
#39 | $20.00 |
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| Parental Duties; Abbott, Jacob | 1836, Allan Bell, London, 3" x 1 3/4", 186 + 18 pp., contemporary gilt tree calf, first edition thus, OCLC records three copies, not listed in Spielmann or Welsh | LN
#20 | SOLD |
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| Photo Album | c 1850, 1 3/8" x 1 1/4", decorative molded red cover with gilt clasp and gilt edges, 12 albumen images | LN
#41 | SOLD |
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| Pocket Almanack for 1841 | 1841 Thomas Groom, Boston, 3 1/4" x 1 7/8", later marbled paper wrappers, Robert Massmann bookplate | LN
#21 | $30.00 |
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| Psalms of David | 1829/1832, Samuel Bagster, London, 3 1/2" x 2 3/8", seven volumes, each in a different language, contemporary full leather gilt bindings, a beautiful set, finely printed, and uncommon thus | LN
#33 | SOLD |
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| Quintus Horatius Flaccus | 1826, Gulielmus Pickering, London, 3 5/8" x 2 1/4", cloth boards, lacking frontis engraving | LN
#22 | $25.00 |
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| | Short Histories of Great Civil War Generals | c 1888, Duke Cigarette Company, Park Place NY, 2 3/4" x 1 7/16", pictorial printed wrappers, 14 pp. | | |
| General Winfield Scott | | LN
#23 | SOLD |
| General W. J. Hardee | | LN
#24 | SOLD |
| General H. W. Halleck | | LN
#25 | SOLD |
| General Joe Hooker | | LN
#26 | SOLD |
| General A. E. Burnside | | LN
#27 | SOLD |
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| Scrap Book | n.d., n.p., flexible black leather wrappers; 19th century, with numerous small chromolithograph pictures pasted in | LN
#40 | $40.00 |
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| Small Rain Upon the Tender Herbs | n.d., American S. School Union, Philadelphia, 1 1/4" x 1 1/16", leather wallet wrappers | LN
#28 | SOLD |
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| Twelve Brothers or the History of Joseph, The | c 1840, S. Babcock, Boston, 2 7/8" x 1 3/4", 8 pp., printed yellow wrappers | LN
#29 | $35.00 |
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| Songs of Innocence, The; Blake, William | 1899, Wells Gardner Darton & Co., London, 3" x 2 1/2", printed cloth boards, illustrated by Celia Levetus | LN
#30 | SOLD |
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| Stephen Williams | c 1919, Olde Deerfield Doll House, Deerfield MA, 2 3/4" x 2 1/4", 12 pp., printed wrappers, not listed in Welsh or Bradbury | LN
#35 | $35.00 |
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| Victoria Miniature Almack and Fashionable Remembrancer for 1866, The | 1866, Kent & Co., London, 2 1/2" x 1 1/2", leather wallet-style binding | LN
#31 | SOLD |
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| Whole Book of Psalms in Meter
According to the Art of Short-Writing, written by Jeremiah Rich, Author and Teacher of the Said Art | 2nd posthumous edition c. 1673, London, printed and sold by Samuel Botley teacher of the Said Art over against Vintners Hall in Thames Street and no where else, 2 3/8" x 11 9/16", 7 pp. of dedications, 205 pp. engraved text, engraved frontis portrait, early full black morocco with gilt tooling, a. e. g., marbled endpapers, ref Part IV, Shorthand Books by William J. Carlson | LN
#37 | SOLD |
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| Yachting Hints: Tables and Useful Memoranda; Franklin, A. C. | 1900, Spon C., London and New York, 1 7/8" x 2 7/8", 103 pp. with erratum leaf, gilt cloth, Welsh 2902 | LN
#33 | $225.00 |
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| Zion's Bank of Bible Promises | n.d., Henry Hoyt, Boston, 1 7/8" x 1 3/8", 29 pp., gilt printed paper wrappers | LN
#32 | $75.00 |
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