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18944511London: Harrison and Sons Ltd 1894. Octavo 52 pages. Advertisements with thirteen plates mostly chromolithographs of various whole animal and prime cuts. Second and last printing. This small military guidebook is mostly aimed at providing an outline for detecting substandard meat through inspection. The detailed chromolithograph illustrations include various sides and cuts of ox bull heifer old cow whether and ewe. A few neat ink notes to one of the black and white plates. Fine in publisher's blind- and gilt-stamped dark green cloth. OCLC locates ten copies of this printing just two in the US. Harrison and Sons, Ltd hardcover books
1849019049London: John Murray 1849. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. xii 335 pages of text. Newly rebound with a full leather spine and marbled paper-covered boards. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. John Murray Hardcover books
181115786Boston 1811. Second American Edition 28 7 1 pp. Disbound and loosening. Good. unknown books
189553862Washington DC: The Volta Bureau 1895. First edition 8vo pp. 25 3; printed paper selfwrappers; light soiling to covers with tipped in slip reading "compliments of The Volta Bureau." A speech covering errors in elocution education and a brief aside on Bell's universal system of visible speech. Alexander Melville Bell father of the more famous Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist and inventor in his own right and is aside from being a prominent teacher of elocution invented the precursor to the international phonetic alphabet called the Universal System of Visible Speech. A scarce piece of neographic history. One of two variants the other lacking the slip and with the cover title reset to include "With the Author's Compliments." <br/><br/> The Volta Bureau unknown books
189553863Washington DC: The Volta Bureau 1895. First edition 8vo pp. 25 3; printed paper self-wrappers including "with the Author's Compliments" printed at the head of title; light soiling to covers. A speech covering errors in elocution education and a brief aside on Bell's universal system of visible speech. Alexander Melville Bell father of the more famous Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist and inventor in his own right and is aside from being a prominent teacher of elocution invented the precursor to the international phonetic alphabet called the Universal System of Visible Speech. A scarce piece of neographic history. One of two variants the other lacking the compliments of the author and with a tipped in slip reading "compliments of the Volta Bureau." <br/><br/> The Volta Bureau unknown books
1864WRCLIT85064Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey 1864. xi2001pp. Quarto. Polished plum-colored cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Lithographed manuscript facsimiles and illustrations. Spine a shade sunned with shallow chips at crown and toe slight edge-wear a bit of foxing early and late old French bookseller's description in corner of verso of front free endsheet offset through tissue to upper blank portion of title old offset from an ancient and absent floral specimen in gutters of pages 42-3 generally a very good copy. First edition of this considerable undertaking to raise funds contemporary with the Baltimore Sanitary Fair to support relief for the aid of soldiers and their families. Includes faithful facsimiles of the contributors' works and includes the first facsimile of Lincoln's handwritten Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg. Other facsimiles of works by other important 19th Century authors include: Francis Scott Key Edward Everett Washington Irving Harriet Beecher Stowe Nathaniel Hawthorne John Audubon Oliver Wendell Holmes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Herman Melville Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau William G. Simms J.J. Audubon and many many others. Melville's "Inscription to the Slain at Fredericksburg" was not collected in book form until 1947. BAL 2418 13672 etc. Cushings & Bailey hardcover books
18522564671852. 2 pp. pen-and-ink on folded sheet. 1 vols. 12mo. Fine. 2 pp. pen-and-ink on folded sheet. 1 vols. 12mo. Secretary of State Trying to Help the Disgraced Oakes Shaw. Secretary of State Edward Everett writes to Secretary of the Navy John Pendleton Kennedy on Justice Lemuel Shaw's behalf to recommend his son John Oakes Shaw for a position in the Navy. Oakes Shaw as he was known was the eldest son from his father's second marriage to Hope Savage. He became the brother-in-law of Herman Meville when the author married Justice Shaw's daughter Elizabeth from his first marriage. In fact Oakes had truly disgraced his family when in 1844 he married an "inopportunely preganant Caroline Caro Sarah Cobb."<br/>Reading in full "Mr. John O. Shaw of Boston a son of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw of Massachusetts is desirous of being appointed a pursor in the Navy. His father equally respectable as a Magistrate & a citizen desires me to speak a good word for him. I have no knowledge of the young man but I am sure the Chief Justice would not recommend him if he did not think him fully qualified for the place". Parker Herman Melville Volume 1: 1819-1851 pp. 341-343 unknown books
18906040141890. "Melville D. Landon" in black fountain pen ink n.d. ca. 1890. 5" x 3"; 1 page recto only. Very good. "And my heaven continue to protect you from Yours truly' "Eli Perkins" Melville D. Landon Fifth Ave. Hotel New York.". No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
1855008113New York: Dix & Edwards 1855. SCARCE. The first appearance of this novella about a revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno appearing in the magazine in three installments on pages 353-367 459-471 and 633-644. Acknowledged as one of Melville's greatest achievements it was included with some revisions in his short story collection "The Piazza Tales" published May 1856. Very Good indeed bound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards five raised bands with dark brown calf volume label in gilt title label missing marbled end papers and edges. The complete six monthly magazines with title pages well bound and lacking only the original wrappers. Moderate toning to end papers only interior pages clean and with no foxing or toning. Quite uncommon especially so in collectible condition. Basis for the 1969 French film of the same title winner of a Gold Medal at the 1969 Venice International Film Festival and the NET Playhouse television episode in 1967. American Literature Science and Art Volume VI. First Printing. Quarter Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dix & Edwards Hardcover books
18964772Chicago: Caxton Club 1896. Attractively bound The Club Bindery for James William Ellsworth prominent industrialist and president of the Caxton Club. One of only 3 copies printed on Japan vellum. Superbly bound in full tan morocco by the Club Bindery in 1898 with gilt binder's pallet on front dentelle: ìFor James W. Ellsworth 1898 For James W. Ellsworth" who was for a time the president of the Caxton Club. The binding features and ornate spine gilt stamped design motif on five of six panels covers with single gilt fillet rule and wide gilt-decorated dentelles. With Ellsworthís bookplate on front pastedown. Measures approx. 6.25î x 9.25." Light rubbing to edges and spots to covers; and small closed cracks approx. 1.5" to the top and bottom of the front hinge but still quite sound. ìOf the three copies on Japanese vellum one was reserved for the Club archives and two were sold at auction at the annual meeting in February 1897 to James W. Ellsworth and George S. Payson for fifty and forty-five dollars respectively. The practice of printing and auctioning unbound vellum copies was discontinued after 1917.îìWright Howes eminent authority on Americana called Joutelís JournalÖ The ëmost reliable eyewitness account of LaSalleís two-years wanderings in Texas. The map based on LaSalleís Mississippi explorations was the first accurate delineation of that riveríî Piehl.A reprint page for page and line for line of the first English translation London 1714; with the Map of the original French edition Paris 1713 in facsimile; and Notes by Melville B. Anderson.ì Fold-out map bound in opposite the original title page. Fine. <br/><br/> Caxton Club hardcover books
18803283New York: F.H. Melville 1880. Tri-fold pamphlet 14 x 24.1 cm. Illustrated. Promotional brochure for a New York paper warehouse with products that serve grocers and general stores. Features descriptions and prices for available items including satchel-bottom and old-style paper bags flour sacks twines paper butter dishes spring brass tea coffee and spice scoops and more. Very fine condition. F.H. Melville unknown books
1807245236Boston 1807. Printed customs declaration accomplished in pen and ink with blindstamp seal. 5 1/8 x 10 in. Repaired 5 in. closed tear else fine. Printed customs declaration accomplished in pen and ink with blindstamp seal. 5 1/8 x 10 in. Customs declaration accomplished and signed by Thomas Melvill Inspector of the ports of Boston and Charlestown Revolutionary War hero and grandfather to Herman Melville. The "e" was added to the surname by Herman's mother after the death of her husband. unknown books
1853228171853. 8vo Ex-library copies with pocket in rear and bookplate in the front. A very good clean copy bound in 3/4 brown morocco. The first 6 issues of this influential magazine. Mott notes: "the first number . consisted on 144 octavo pages printed in small type in double columns on a good paper stock . Two serials were begun "Charles Lever's historical romance "Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune" and Mrs. Anne Marsh's "Lettice Arnold." There were three short stories two by Dickens- one of his lesser-known Christmas stories and "A child's Dream of a Star". There were biographial sketches some travel essays and popular articles on scienc- in all over sixty items . in great variety of subject matter.Vol. II p. 384. Vol III includes "The Town-Ho's Story" by Herman Melville The only portion of "Moby Dick" to be published prior to the book issue and the first portion to be published anywhere. unknown books
1851140940978New York: Harper and Brothers 1851. First Edition. Near Fine. Volume III June to November. Bound in brown ribbed cloth decorated in blind and stamped in gilt. A handsome volume which contains the first material from Herman Melville's Moby Dick to ever be published: the story "Town's Ho" which would later become Chapter 54. Near Fine. Cloth lightly rubbed splitting at spine joints though binding remains solid. Foxing to pages. Still a rather lovely copy. Harper and Brothers unknown books
18511273457New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. First Edition. thick 8vo. viii 864pp.; VG-; spine brown cloth with gilt lettering and blind-stamping same on front board only blind-stamping on rear board; protected with a mylar covering; cloth on front hinge separated cloth on spine beginning to peel still attached; some wear to rear hinge corners head and tail of spine; mild foxing throughout; small booksellers sticker on front pastedown; First publication of any part of Moby Dick; "The Town-Ho's Story" on page 658 which became Chapter 54 of the novel still at that time titled "The Whale"; NM consignment; shelved case 2. 1273457. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Harper & Brothers unknown books
185191604NY:: Harper & Brothers. Good. 1851. Hardcover. B00LU5XE98 . Contributions include the first appearance of any part of Melville's MOBY DICK - "The Town-Ho's Story" Chapter 54 of the novel. Illustrated with 171 engravings. First edition thus. Thick quarto bound in decorated brown cloth with gilt lettering marbled endpapers. Worn and frayed at the spine ends and corners previous owner's name on front endpage and title page occasional foxing throughout text block else good. ; 864 pages . Harper & Brothers, hardcover books
18605528London: John W. Parker & Son 1860. 8vo. 2 vols. I: Frontis. 3 ff. 325 pp. II: 2 ff. 344 pp. 3 1 pp. ads. <br><br>By a "Sporting" Novelist. First book edition complete with color lithographic frontispiece. First chapter a loving portrayal of "Hounds and horses and sportsmen" by this writer who died on the hunting field. "The Pytchley hounds have had a run. Io triumphe!" First published in Fraser's Magazine. Publisher's cloth. Signatures split from bindings at several places one more reading and this will very likely achieve "binding now a portfolio" status though it will be readable and shelvable even then. John W. Parker & Son hardcover books
1885022295Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company; Cambridge Riverside Press 1885. 1st Edition. xv 497p. plus ads maps b/w illus. original cloth very lightly rubbed on the extremities former private owner's 1885 signature on front endpaper. Houghton, Mifflin & Company; Cambridge, Riverside Press unknown books
185545515New York: G.P. Putnam & Co 1855. Third Edition but Third Printing. 12mo 19cm.; publisher's purple blind-embossed "T" cloth gilt-lettered spine; 276pp. Slightly ex-library with contemporary markings discreetly effaced spine faded to tan and a bit cocked a couple signatures proud light foxing else Very Good and sound. Tragic novel following the increasingly devastating events in the career of Israel Potter beginning with his volunteering during the Revolutionary War and concluding with his anonymous death having finally made it back home to the Berkshires after fifty years away only to find it nearly unrecognizable. BAL 13667; SABIN 47481; WRIGHT II 1700. G.P. Putnam & Co unknown books
18854819New York G.P. Putnam & Co. 1885. 1885. First edition second printing. 8vo. 276 pages. Original full brown cloth gilt stamped and blind ruled spine covers stamped and bordered in blind pale yellow endpapers spine faded to tan slight rubbing. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. BAL #13667 with all second printing issue points present. Spine title: Fifty Years Exile. F. Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam & Co., 1885. hardcover books
185551835NY: Putnam 1855. First edition first state. as called for by Blanck on pp. 141 237 238 and 239. 12mo pp. 276. Bound in brown cloth first issue with pendants under the "F Y E" on the spine. Some rubbed. Front hinge little tender. Some foxed throughout a very good copy. BAL 13667. Wright II 1700. Israel Potter "is based on Henry Trumbull's biography The Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel Potter 1824 In search of freedom and adventure Israel become involved in the battle of Bunker Hill. He meets three Americans: Benjamin Franklin who robs him . John Paul Jones who genuinely befriends him and Ethan Allen who posses America's most admirable characteristics. An archypal American he is taken prisoner by the English exiled for 50 years and returns home to die"p. 507. Putnam unknown books
18803292New York: F.H. Melville Manufacturers' Agent 1880. Handbill 14.3 x 8.25 cm. single leaf printed recto only. Illustrated advertisement for Spring Brass Coffee and Spice Scoops. "They make goods show up to a good advantage". With size options and price list. Offered by F.H. Melville a New York manufacturers' agent. Fine. F.H. Melville, Manufacturers' Agent unknown books
187747442Philadelphia PA: Claxton Ramsen & Haffelfinger 1877. 8vo.; 192pp. Original gilt-stamped cloth spine faded; lacking the slip tipped in at the title page front endpaper adhering to the coated fly leaf. A very good copy. First edition. <br/><br/> Claxton, Ramsen & Haffelfinger hardcover books
190067672Chicago: The Werner Company. Very Good. 1900. Hardcover. 570 pages 10 3/4" x 7 1/4" green cloth covers with gilt stamping. The covers are slightly soiled and rubbed with bumped spine ends and cover corners. The contents are bright complete and nice. Very Good. . The Werner Company hardcover books
1855279935Washington D.C.: Gilliss James Melville 1855. Three maps. Lithograph. Sheet I II and III image sizes 16.5 x 9.75 inches each; page sizes 19 x 11.25 inches each.<br/><br/> Unusual set of maps on thin paper that illustrate the U.S. Naval expedition to the Southern Hemisphere 1849-1852. In good condition. Some chips and small tears to edges each map shows some staining and foxing.<br/><br/> Gilliss, James Melville unknown books
