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18941531<p>Original 1894 commemorative medal nautical clasp. Scene of boat passing on the River Thames through Tower Bridge accompanied by lettering "THE TOWER BRIDGE OF LONDON OPENED BY THEIR R.H. // PRINCE & PRINCESS // OF WALES // JUNE 30TH 1894". The obverse bears conjoined busts of H.R.H. The Prince Of Wales & H.R.H. The Princess Alexandra facing left. Engraved by Alexander Miesch. Very Good condition. Rare especially with clasp.</p>
18221205M004London: T. Cadell 1822. 3rd Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 78. Good Plus. 5.5 x 8.5 inches 14 x 22 cm. Full calf leather binding. Rebacked in a poorly matched tan calf. Marking to boards wear to corners chipping to board edges. Foxing and marking to text light stain to most upper corners. A scarce early 19th century mathematics title. Overall condition is Good Plus. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £11.00; USA £15.00; Oceania £16.00; Rest of World £18.00. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches 14 x 22 cm. T. Cadell hardcover
18111150326.33Cadell and Davies London 1811. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo hardcover. No dj. Vg condition. Rebacked original boards new endpapers and attractive leather spine and title. Contents age-toned though clean with no marking or writing. Binding solid and tight. 132 pp. Cadell and Davies, London hardcover
18899540Philadelphia: Billstein & Son 1889. Original Wrappers. Fair binding. Oblong 12mo. 61 3 pp. fontis map illus. As issue stitched in printed wrappers; folding map and plate serve as frontispieces; full-page in-text illustrations throughout. Wrappers are soiled and chipped; scattered foxing; closed tear to the folding map. <br /> <br /> Despite going into multiple editions this remains a fairly uncommon description of Virginia's Natural Bridge. In addition to a description and history of Natural Bridge this comprises excerpts from other works about the bridge including a few pages from Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia. Additionally information on accommodations and transportation to the site. Quite rare with only 5 institutions reporting ownership of any edition according to OCLC. Haynes 4892 though the pagination noted in Haynes appears to be in error. Billstein & Son unknown
188610570New York: Henry Holt. New York Henry Holt 1886. First edition first impression. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed by the author to the half-title. "Light satirical romance of the adventures of one Captain Grizzle. Able to propel his spirit about at will he visits the planet Jupiter one hundred years in the future which he finds to be an enlarged version of Earth; an exact counterpart in fact with Britain America etc. featured but with somewhat advanced technology including airships." Some tanning to the spine and a little bumping and rubbing to the boards. A little foxing. Various sellers' pencil notes to prelims. 10570 Hyraxia Books. . Very Good. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1886. Henry Holt hardcover
188610571New York: Henry Holt. New York Henry Holt 1886. First edition first impression. Hardback. A very good copy. "Light satirical romance of the adventures of one Captain Grizzle. Able to propel his spirit about at will he visits the planet Jupiter one hundred years in the future which he finds to be an enlarged version of Earth; an exact counterpart in fact with Britain America etc. featured but with somewhat advanced technology including airships." Some tanning to the spines and a little bumping and rubbing to the boards. A little foxing. Owner's inscription 10571 Hyraxia Books. . Very Good. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1886. Henry Holt hardcover
1836006694New Haven CT: Hezekiah Howe & Co. 1836. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original boards: front board detached but present rear board partially detached lacking back strip but text block and binding are firm fully intact; both boards show typical spotting and rubbed edges but no major defects. vii128 pp. illus. w/ line drawings diagrams. Interior is foxed ranging light to moderate. The bottom fore-edge corner of the final 30 pp. or so shows some discoloration progressing toward rear with some paper loss corner only not affecting text to several last leaves discoloration also on rear pastedown. From the Second London Edition with additions and alterations by the American Editor. This "American Editor" named in the publisher's advertisement of which he was author was F. A. P. Barnard then 1831 of Yale College later founder of Barnard College. Reasonably preserved copy of an exceptionally scarce New Haven imprint easily improved by rebacking. Hezekiah Howe & Co. Hardcover
1890221741890. Ephemera. Very good overall. A large wrapping paper with advertising printed for E. Hammann & Son Successors to Hammann Bros. for custom repair of Boots Shoes and Rubbers. At top an illustration of the Brooklyn Suspension Bridge completed in 1883. Brown paper wrapper 20 x 16.5" some wrinkles and fold lines edges slt. ruffled yet clean and interesting image. unknown
188810969Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. Good with no dust jacket. 1888. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. The textblock has separated from the covers. The pages were stapeled to cloth strips which were bound to the covers. The staples tore loose. The contents are very good with some surface soil from handling. 18 pages of nice plates plus 16 photos. The covers are rubbed at the corners & edges. ; 13 1/2x11"; 32 plates & photos pages . J. B. Lippincott hardcover
1884044563J. S. Cushing & Co. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1884. Hardcover. Hardcover; Hardcover. Brown textured cloth boards with title in gold on front board and spine. Some soil and scuffing. Corners and spine ends frayed. Endpapers foxed and tanned. Occasional foxing to text. Hinge lightly cracked. Previous owner's notations on one page. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.; B/w Illus; 8VO; 142 pages . J. S. Cushing & Co. hardcover
1818228647London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1818. Fourth Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. 227 pages in fair condition. Occasional foxing and notes throughout the margins. Page edges are darkened and foxed. Bound in full-leather wearing away around the edges and spine. Hinges are weakened and worn. Titles on the spine are rubbed away. Fourth Edition. RARE. Fragile. FAIR. <br/> <br/> T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
185023992New York 1850. Very good overall. An interesting letter detailing the negotiation over wooden vs. iron railroad bridges. In this letter addressed to Strong M. M. White agent of the New York Iron Bridge Co. seeking to persuade the Vermont railroad to eschew a wooden bridge and setting out advantageous terms for purchasing an iron bridge.<br /> <br /> Strong was "liable as endorser on paper for the Rutland and Washington Railroad Company which subsequently failed to an amount considerable exceeding all his property." He was sued in the Supreme Court of Vermont lter in the 1850s and looks to have been bankrupted losing his real estate marble quarry share etc. See "Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Vermont vol. 42 Montpelier Vt 1870 by Wheelock Veazey a Vermont Civil War hero.<br /> <br /> Letter written on blue laid paper 4pp 8 x 10 1/4"written on 1pp docketed on the verso with period folds. A small raised oval in the top left corner unreadable by this cataloguer. Verso a little marked a little creased. unknown
19001882151025070BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER PAUL SIMON 1969 SHEET MUSIC FOLDER 572 1900-01-01. Sheet music. Very Good. Nice looking book has minor edge wear. has name on front cover. BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER PAUL SIMON 1969 SHEET MUSIC FOLDER 572 unknown
189032067East Berlin CT: Berlin Iron Bridge Co ca. 1890s. Large broadside 31.75x47cm.; previous mail folds as issued very slightly postally used on verso else a Very Good or Near Fine example. Advertisement issued by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company depicting their "Patent" municipal signboards including information on production materials and a price guide. Text includes extracts from pertinent New England and mid-Atlantic state laws regarding guide boards. Presumably issued sometime after 1888 the laws in Vermont having been approved November 2nd of that year. As of today many of bridges built by the Company can be found on the National Register of Historic Places. One copy catalogued in OCLC as of November 2016 at the Connecticut Historical Society. Berlin Iron Bridge Co unknown
189445967London Harrison and Sons 1894. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1893 Vol. 184 B. Pp. 65-333 and 9 fine photolithographed plates with many figs. <br/><br/><em>A classic study on the Weberian Ossicles. </em> unknown
1883207828New York: The Trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge 1883. Few incidental marks; an excellent pair. Invitation engraved on cream-colored card 9 x 6-1/2 in.; ticket is 6-1/2 x 2-3/4 in. Original invitation issued to Edwin C. Gibson with his name added in ink by a calligrapher. The invitation card includes a fine image of the span then known as the "New York and Brooklyn Bridge" flanked by two crests representing the two cities. The ticket has a small embossed emblem with the initials "NY & BB" within a leaf. Both items were engraved by Tiffany & Co. with their mark at the lower edge of each. The Trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge unknown
1883207829New York: The Trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge 1883. An excellent unblemished copy with remnants of its original mailing envelope. Invitation engraved on cream-colored card 9 x 6-1/2 in. Invitation issued to Mr. E.C. Mollman of the Metropolitan National Bank with his name added by hand in ink; the envelope is addressed to him. The invitation card includes a fine image of the span then known as the "New York and Brooklyn Bridge" flanked by two crests representing the two cities; engraved by Tiffany & Co. with their mark at the lower edge. Also present is a 1983 U.S. postage stamp from 1983 commemorating the bridge's centennial. The Trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge unknown
1883207830New York: The Trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge 1883. Toned at edges; corners slightly chipped; few marks. Invitation engraved on cream-colored card 9 x 6-1/2 in. Invitation issued in the name of Mr. James Ryan with the name added by hand in ink. The invitation card includes a fine image of the span then known as the "New York and Brooklyn Bridge" flanked by two crests representing the two cities; engraved by Tiffany & Co. with their mark at the lower edge. The Trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge unknown
1899010643Navy Records Society 1899. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First English language edition of the Russian original and no.15 in the Navy Records Society's series of well produced publications. Stock toned to edges and moreso to endpapers but otherwise all is in VG internal order. Neat signature of former owner dated 1899 to fep. Cream and black cloth boards with bright gilt decoration and titling lightly marked and with a couple of small bumps. Scarce. 8vo. 161pp <br/> <br/> Navy Records Society hardcover
1899449910London : Printed for the Navy Records Society 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Slightly shadow stained. Remains well-preserved overall. Series; Publications of the Navy Records Society ; v. 15. Physical description; xxvi 161 pages ; 25 cm. Notes; ""The ms. of which the present edition . is the first that has been printed in English has already been published in Russian . It is really a history of Peter the Great's Baltic Fleet."" The ms. is the property of Count E. Poutiatine. The author presumably a naval officer in the tsar's service has not been identified. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects; Russia. Voenny flot History 18th century. Peter I Emperor of Russia 1672-1725. Russia History Naval Sources. [London] : Printed for the Navy Records Society hardcover
18991302London: Navy Records Society 1899. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo. Pp. xxvi 161. Appendices. Index. Blue cloth spine with white buckram-covered boards gilt device to cover gilt lettering to spine. Vol. 15 in the series. Bookplate; spine a tad faded. An anomaly in the Navy Records Society series in its focus outside the Royal Navy. Written by a mercenary English seaman employed in the Russian navy with a focus on the Baltic Fleet. A handsome copy well preserved. Navy Records Society hardcover
189900212737London: Navy Records Society. Bound in white buchram cloth with contrasting navy blue buchram backstrip and gilt titles to spine this dated 1899 hardcover First English Edition is Good plus. Signed and inscribed by Admiral Bridge on FFEP as follows "Arthur Walter from Cyprian A.G. Bridge. 6 July 1899". XXV1/161pp with Introduction 31 Chapters 5 x Appendices and Index. Minor stains to boards corners bumped slight damage to spine edge binding sound and otherwise Good plus . Good. Limp Wraps. First English Edition. 1899. Navy Records Society paperback
1845306297New York: Wiley & Putnam 1845. First edition BAL printing B with 3-line copyright Clark's presumed second printing. iii-vi v-viii 179 pp. lacking first blank and half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter morocco richly gilt spines raised bands t.e.g by Stikeman. Foxing and staining to text throughout. Bookplate of Agnes Neustadt. First edition BAL printing B with 3-line copyright Clark's presumed second printing. iii-vi v-viii 179 pp. lacking first blank and half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Bridge and Hawthorne were classmates at Bowdoin and became lifelong friends with Bridge at times offering needed encouragement and financial aid. Bridge helped finance the publication of Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales 1837 and gave the proceeds of this popular work his first to Hawthorne. Bridge published his Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1893. BAL 7597; Clark A14.1.b1 Wiley & Putnam unknown
1853308026New York: George P. Putnam 1853. First edition BAL printing C with cancel title page dated 1853. iii-vi v-viii 179 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green publisher's cloth publisher's blindstamp on both covers spine faded to brown and chipped at extremities. First edition BAL printing C with cancel title page dated 1853. iii-vi v-viii 179 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 7597; Clark A14.1.c1 George P. Putnam unknown
185345888New York: George P. Putnam & Co 1853. Presumed Third Printing First Issue. Octavo 19.25cm; brown vertically-ribbed cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine triple-ruled border and decorative centerpieces stamped in blind to covers; pale yellow endpapers; iiviii1793pp. Inscribed in pencil on the front flyleaf: "Hon. J. Collamer / With respects of The Author" possibly Jacob Collamer judge and U.S. Senator from Vermont. Tiny chip to upper left corner of rear endpaper handful of dog-eared pages smoothed out else very Near Fine. `. Handsome copy of this volume Hawthorne edited for his friend and patron Horatio Bridge 1806-1893 a United States Navy officer. First printed in wrappers in 1845 Journal is the narrative of Bridge's trip on the USS Saratoga "the flagship of Commodore Matthew Perry with the mission to stop and search all American ships on the west coast of Africa that might be carrying slaves. That mission was fruitless they saw none but Bridge's comments on the efforts of the American Colonization Society in Liberia and on Africa in general were vivid" Moore Margaret B. the Salem World of Nathaniel Hawthorne p.135. An interesting printing not noted by BAL - "What appear to be first-issue sheets with the Putnam title page intact gathered in the same form as the Putnam publication are also found in a typical Ticknor format A binding.When Ticknor and Fields bought the Putnam plates for Mosses and Cruiser at the Bangs Bros. Trade Sale in New York March 1854 they may have acquired some Putnam sheets that were later bound up in Ticknor style and distributed in an effort to recover some of the purchase costs" Note: CLARK A14.1.c1. Presentation copies uncommon with only two noted in Rare Book Hub PBA 2019; Goodspeed 1910. cf.BAL 7597. George P. Putnam & Co unknown
