John Lauris Blake, Alexander V Blake [Author of Evenings in Boston and Ramon the Rover of Cuba]Biblio.com
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1844111111112781Alexander V Blake 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Alexander V Blake; NY 1844. Hardcover. First edition. Fair only Heavy wear to binding some loss spine top with moderate to heavy foxing to text some splits/breaks to text block but nothing missing a well-loved copy suitable as a filler or working copy only. 16mosextodecimo or approx. 4 x 6.75 inches 252 pp frontis & in text woodcuts throughout. Select standard shipping and receive free upgrade to domestic 1st class. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scans are available for any item please inquire. Alexander V Blake hardcover
185423989Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Son Lith 1854. Very good. Full title: Geological Map of the Route Explored by Capt. Jno. Pope Corps of Topl. Engrs. Near the 32nd Paraellel of North Latitude 1854 from the Red River to the Rio Grande. Prepared in the Office of Pacific Rail Road Exploration and Survey War Department by William P. Blake. 11.25" x 24.5" sheet size. Folding creases otherwise very good. Shows the route from Fort Towson Oklahoma to El Paso and Dona Anna on the Rio Grande and includes much of the region's watershed including the Rio Grande Concho Brazos Trinity and Red Rivers. An "index of colors" indicates various rock and mineral deposits and formations. P.S. Duval & Son, Lith unknown
184016710Philadelphia: James Kay Jun. and Brother 1840. 3rd Ed. hardcover. Good. large 8vo brown leather binding with black ang gold spine labels leather is scuffed and worn hinges are tight some foxing on interior pages " A General Biographical Dictionary Comprising A Summary Account of the Most Distinguished Persons of All Ages Nations and Professions Including More Than One Thousand Articles of American Biography" 1096 pages James Kay, Jun. and Brother hardcover
1844007578New York: Alexander V. Blake. 252pp. Brown leather black spine labes with gold stamp. Cover has wear and some surface losses. Previous owner info on fly leaf. Light foxing. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" Tall B7 . Good. Leather Bound. First Edition. 1844. Alexander V. Blake hardcover
1870111111112518Government Printing Office 1870. Paperback. Good. Government Printing Office; Washington 1870. Trade paperback. A Very Good binding sturdy and intact some handling/scuff marks to covers bit of edge/corner wear some age toning to pages ink stamp top text block edge handwritten title information on front cover and spine ink stamp on title page discoloration to title page margins a nice and overall clean copy in wraps. 8vooctavo or approx. 6 x 9 213pp. fold outs b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scans are available for any item please inquire. Government Printing Office paperback
1834091914Boston: Allen and Ticknor 1834 Book. Good Only. Leather. A rare volume. Moderate age wear. Rear cover is crudely stitched to spine. Normal leather aging with scuffs rub marks and edge wear. Text block has some waving and foxing. Allen and Ticknor hardcover
1895001225London: Seeley. GOOD book. TEG. Gilt lettered marroon cloth. Bevelled boards. 1895. Hardcover. GOOD book. Bright & tight. Cover extrems worn some plate margins foxed o/w VG inside. . Frontis struck from an original Blake etching copyright Mar 8 1825 by Will Blake N3 Fountain Court Strand. Titled in the etching "When the morning stars sang together and all the Sons of God shouted for Joy" titled below the etching "The Sons of God. Design fromn the book of Job." Tho struck 70 years later image still bright & clear. There's no evidence the plate was reworked. The last section on Davis has 4 steel engravings by him. . Seeley hardcover
183457018101098Baldwin & Craddock London 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Half-leather with marbled boards and end-papers gilt lettering and decoration on spine light wear at joint ends sound binding clean pages end-papers and plates. All plates are present these are: Title vignette showing a Fox-Hound with puppies; Hunting - Throwing Off; The Right Ho. Earl of Chesterfield; Rabbit Shooting; The Carp; Vespa a horse; William Crockford; Hunting - The Find!' Beauty and General celebrated trotting pony and setter; Hunting - Gone Away!; The Farquharson Vase; Pincher and Shivers two dogs; The Bittern Contents include some topics noted in earlier numbers also feature in later numbers but are not listed again here: November 1833 No. 31: List Of Fox-Hounds in Great Britain for the Present Season with the names of the Masters and the Countries they Hunt; Miss Sheridan's Comic Offering; Ackermann's Pictures of Count Sandor's Exploits in Leicestershire; Scenes in South America - Guanaco Hunting in the Pampas; October; Hunting Reminiscences - The Crack Riders of England; The Surrey; A Fishing Question; Baron D'Haussez and English Field Sports; Hunting in India The Calcutta Hunt; Gallery of Celebrated Sporting Characters - The Right Ho. Earl of Chesterfield; Racing - Newmarket First and Second Meetings; Lord Marrowbones and His Man; The Classical Fox-Hounds; General Monthly Miscellany - The Chase - The Turf etc.; Racing Calendar bound at rear. December 1833 No. 32: Reviews; Steeple-Chaises; My Sporting Box; The Cheshire Hunt; A Trip to Brighton; Hints on Pheasant Shooting; A Man of the World's Confession; Lord Segrave; Lines on the Fuschia; The Benighted Sportsman; Racing - Newmarket Houghton Meeting with a Glance at the Present State of The Turf; Miscellany - Hunting and Steeple-Chasing in Oxfordshire - Bettings at Tattersall's etc.; Coursing Calendar bound at rear. January 1834 No. 33: Review of the Last Number of the Old Sporting Magazine; Turfiana; Racing In India - The Madras Spring Meeting 1833; Parody on the Classical Fox-Hounds; A Day Near Limerick; The Woore Country; Stanzas on seeing a Steamboat Leave Dieppe in a Storm; On Equestrianism; My Coal Black Steed; William Crockford; Real Wild Sports of the West or the Wanderings of Ernest Fitzfulke; Fine Arts; Miscellany - The French Turf - Gambling Match for 50000 Napoleons - Mr Osbaldeston's etc. February 1834 No. 34: Swell and the Surrey; Fatal Duel at Hamburgh Nominations for the Docaster St Leger 1834; Pomponius Ego; Dick Hyperbole; The Wet Sunday; The Sorrows of a Sportsman; The Rambler; The Chase - the cause of the scarcity of foxes - Oldham the Miller and hostile Farmers - The Farquharson Vase etc. March 1834 No. 35: List of Stallions for 1834; The Hampton Court Stud; The Race for the Belfast Cup and a few Remarks on Breeding Hunters; On Betting; The Swiss Hunter's Address to his Rifle; Anacreontic; Road Accidents; Death of Mr Berkeley's Old Horse Jack O'Lantern; Nimrod; The Chase - Doings in Dorset - The New Forest Hounds - His Majesty's Stag hounds etc. April 1834 No. 36: Winners of Two-Year-Old Stakes; Engagements at Newmarket of the Derby and Oaks Favourites; Steeple Chases; On Vehicles; The Omnibus; The Marquess of Lansdowne a character; Rinaldo's Horse; On Falls; The Horrors of Horsemanship; James's Horse Blister; On Private Training; The Alnwick Hounds; The Surrey Hunt - Jorrocks in Reply to Rasper; Jorrock's Address to the Members of the Surrey Hunt; Mr Farquharson's Country; Who is the Rambler in Green; The Chase; The Oxford Hack; A Sporting Tour Through Munster; The Duke of Nassau's Hunting Seat; How to Shoe a Vicious Horse; Coach Accident; A Sailor's Description of a Hunt etc. No dust jacket as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57018101098. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. Baldwin & Craddock hardcover
1881GEN34-G-4London : Frederick Warne and Co. 1881. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6.5". None. A collection of stories for children set in Africa featuring ostriches lions buffalo and more. Illustrated throughout with numerous engravings in the text. In a decorative green cloth binding. Externally smart though with some bumping and slight wear to the extremities. Spine is a little cocked. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with just a few instances of foxing. Very Good Frederick Warne and Co. hardcover
1886063965Ottawa: House of Commons 1886. Stapled Wraps. pp. 61. 21.5 cm. Two old tape repairs from front to back cover otherwise separated from fold a few chips and tears occasional spotting contents unmarked; good. In double columns. Concluding sentence hereof being: "I am unable honestly to differ from the view that it is deeply to be regretted that this execution should have been allowed to take place and therefore in favor of that view I must record my vote. House of Commons unknown
18774401Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London 32 130: 1877. pp. 260-405 several figs. of fossils on 5 lithogr. pls. 1 large fold. col. pl. of columnar sections 22 sections in text notes & refs. Plain new wrs. uncut. - Classic paper on the Oxfordian Upper Jurassic. Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London, 32 (130): unknown
187917594Franklin MA.:Committee of the Town 1879. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Franklin Mass.:1879. 2889pp. errata slip tipped-in. Extensively illustrated. Ex-lib. copy. Library plate pasted down inside front biding; small library name and release stamp in title pages; and small library name stamp at base of page 279. Otherwise an excellent copy. Franklin, MA.:Committee of the Town hardcover
189815981G. P. Putnam's Sons. Good. 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce. Tan pictorial cloth cover has general wear and light soiling to back cover but in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Former owner's name on front end sheet. Pages are lightly toned but clean and very good. .; 351 pages . G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
18741859N.Y.: Harper & Brothers Publishers Franklin Square 1874. 1st. 8vo 486 4 ads pp. original blue gilt stamped cover beveled boards rebacked with 1/2 of original spine laid down spine gilt rubbed covers lightly rubbed with gilt good recent endpapers and bookplate name of binder bottom obverse of upper ned leaf 10 full page engraved plates including the frontispiece with tissue guards and a map plentiful wood cut text illustrations and maps contents very clean and bright with a few small soils. A History of the Polaris Expedition the Cruise of the Tigress and Rescue of the Polaris Survivors rebacked good copy Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square hardcover
1898939T49Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1898. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A smart copy of this very scarce study of modern geology from English geologist Alexander Henry Green. Very scarce work. With numerous in-text illustrations. A collection of lectures or short lessons in modern geology focusing on what geology can teach us. With chapters on sandstone quartz clays limestone rock-salt crystals plutonic rocks the distribution of materials how rocks are bent into folds the surface of countries and more. Written by Alexander Henry Green an English geologist. Edited by John Frederick Blake a British geologist and Anglican clergyman. Bound in full green calf. Externally smart with light wear to the extremities and fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. School prize bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good Oxford at the Clarendon Press hardcover
18761029001876. London: Spottiswoode & Co. 1876. <br /> <br /> 4to 71pp. Tipped-in illustrations between pages 14 & 15. Original wrappers worn contents good.<br /> <br /> § An astonishing exhibition catalogue of 333 entries with a 9pp. introduction by William B. Scott. Bentley Blake Books 571. unknown
187522709New York: D. Van Nostrand Publisher 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth lettered in gilt. Near fine. 148 pages of text. 23 x 15 cm. The author was United States Centennial Commissioner and Delegate to the International Jury Group 1 Vienna. This book from the volume of Reports of the Massachusetts Commission to Vienna. 7 pages of adverts and 48 pages of Scientific Van Nostrand titles. Signed presentation copy. Illustrated. Chromolithograph of Minton floor tiles from Miller & Coates. Fresh clean copy. Nicks to backstrip head and foot. D. Van Nostrand, Publisher hardcover books
1882108773Oblong quarto. London: George Bell 1882. Oblong quarto bound in original pale brown cloth with gilt title on cover lightly worn at edges and corners. The Hesiod Works and Days and Theogeny follows the Iliad and Odyssey and collates: - 4 half title and contents list of plates 37 plates being original engraved title plus 36 of the Blake engravings. The Aeschylus follows as the last. Generally very good internally with occasional foxing at ends of the volume. The binding has been repaired at some stage: due to the oblong format and weight of the pages the first signature is loose but the remainder holding firm. § Bentley BB 456. This reduced-size edition appears to be a re-issue of Bentley's C edition of 1881 by Bell only the Hesiod being present is implied by Bentley for that edition. 4 volumes in one of Flaxman's designs reduced to half size from Blake’s original prints for use by art students including Blake's designs for Hesiod published in 1817. George Bell hardcover books
18761029004to. London: Spottiswoode & Co. 1876. 4to 71pp. Tipped-in illustrations between pages 14 & 15. Original wrappers worn contents good. § An astonishing exhibition catalogue of 333 entries with a 9pp. introduction by William B. Scott. Bentley Blake Books 571. Spottiswoode & Co unknown books
1892050666London: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office By Eyre and Spottiswoode 1892. With an introduction by Professor Roberts-Austen. xi 435p. partially unopened original blue cloth with gilt trim. Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office By Eyre and Spottiswoode unknown
1845000178Cazenovia NY: Henry & Sweetlands 1845. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Fair condition leather bound first edition 1845. No DJ. Binding is still tight and all pages are firm. Front cover is not fully shaken but is in the process of separating from the spine from the bottom. The original leather and lettering have flaked off the right half of the spine and what remains is in poor condition. It appears that some brown tap was applied to secure the spine in the distant past and two strips of it remain on the front and back covers. Shelf wear to top and bottom of spine corners of covers are rounded and worn. Pages show mild tanning commensurate with age but quite good overall. 1/8 inch creases to bottom corners of pages 50-90. 252 pages. <br/> <br/> Henry & Sweetlands hardcover
1887316879Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company 1887. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Blue cloth and paper spine label. Hinges professionally repaired with book cloth cloth repaired along the edge of the spine about good. Inscribed by the author with a presumably pre-publication inscription: "My brother Fred. D. Blake from V. Nov. 13 1886. Charles H. Kerr & Company hardcover
184417962NY: Alexander V. Blake. Good. 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine ends are rubbed. In the original fragile cloth. Owner's inscription dated 1847 on the second endpaper. Rear endpaper missing. Slight cock to the spine. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 252 pages . Alexander V. Blake hardcover
185331686New York: Sarony Major & Knapp 1853. Other. The map was originally folded the old folds are visible. In excellent condition. 563 by 400mm 22¼ by 15¾ inches. Original lithograph hand colored in wash when published. This early geological map depitcs the Witchita Mountains in the north El Paso in the west to the Missisippi River in the east and the Gulf of Mexico in the south. At the left side with find a color explanation key for the various geological formations. On the upper left side is the cartouche with the mileage scale. This geological map was prepared to accompany Blake's report of the transcontinental railroad. Sarony, Major & Knapp unknown
1826530082Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke and Co 1826. Hardcover. Very Good. Tenth American edition from the eighth London edition revised corrected and enlarged. Octavo. 348pp. Illustrated with wood engravings. Contemporary leather over boards with leather spine label. Binding modestly rubbed with a bit of loss at the corners likely lacking flyleaves light to moderate foxing throughout tiny splits at the crown very good and sound. Oliver D. Cooke and Co hardcover
