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1854633Washington: Office of Pacific Railroad Exploration & Survey War Department 1854. 22 3/4 x 10 inches. Very good condition. This is a finely detailed map of the geology encountered between the Rio Grande River and the Red river during the 32nd parallel survey. It is based in a riverine underlying map. The majority of the findings was a Ccrustceous base. The map goes from Ft. Towson to El Paso. Around Ft Belknap is found a Carboniferous sandstone. The expedition was an early attempt to locate a southern based route for a railroad to the Pacific Ocean. It was supported by influence of senators and Representatives of the Southern States. Office of Pacific Railroad Exploration & Survey, War Department unknown
183419986Boston Allen And Ticknor 1834. First Edition. Hardback. Finely bound in modern analine-calf coverd marble boards. Raised bands with gilt cross-borders tooled decorations and titles. A superb copy and highly uncommon in such positive condition. Scans on request. ; 0 pages; Xvi 377 1 p. 19 cm. Europe; Description and Travel. Small institutional mark to the title. Boston, Allen And Ticknor hardcover
1837428851837. Chir. Hand-Bib. 16. - Weimar im verlage des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs 1837 8° VIII 311 pp. Pappband der Zeit; feines Exemplar mit rotem Rückenschild. Erste deutsche Ausgabe von Bransby Blake Cooper 1792-1853: Surgical Essays: the result of clinical observations made at the Guy's Hospital by B.B.Copper F.R.S. Surgeon of Guy's Hospital Lecturer on Anatomy etc. etc. London 1833. unknown
1861056267Columbus Oh: H. Miller 1861. Early Reprint . Hardcover. Good. Plates. Xvi 17-866 Pp. Full Black Morocco Spine Gilt Covers Stamped In Blind. Marbled Edges And Endpapers. Copyright 1857 This Reprint Dated 1861. Wear Fraying At Edges Joints Completely Broken But Covers Still Held Securely By Cords Alone. Complete With The Famous Plate Of The Interior Of A Slave Ship. Pure Capitalism Devoid Of Unnecessary Concerns About Consequences In All Its Moronic And Mainly Southern Glory With A History At Beginning From Ancient Times Brought Up To The Present. Quite Timely As A Majority Of Americans Begin To Envisage Freedom As The Ability To Do Whatever Is One's Own Interest And Fancy And No-Cost Labor Looks More And More Enticing. Except Now As The Us Becomes A Source Of Cheap Labor-Saving Electronic Goods America Is Becoming The New Africa A Source Of Untold Exportable Wealth And Financing Of Advantage To The Importing Nations And Easily Obtained Due To Lax Internal American Controls. <br/> <br/> H. Miller hardcover
1833220076Boston Printed and published by Lincoln & Edmands 1833. Boston Stereotype Edition. Hardback. Finely bound in modern speckled calf-backed marbled boards. Gilt-blocked leather label to spine with raised bands and gilt-decorated spine compartments. Scattered foxing and dust-toning. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight and strong. Further scans images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 252 pages; ""Improved by appropriate questions for the examination of scholars also by illustrative notes and a dictionary of philosophical terms by J.L. Blake."" --title page. viii 252p. frontis. 23p. of plates; 19cm. Subjects: Physics -- Science -- Natural philosophy -- Astronomy. 19th century science book aimed at a younger audience. The author Jane Marcet was a successful writer of popular introductory science books. Boston, Printed and published by Lincoln & Edmands hardcover
18501032421Auburn NY: Derby MIller and Co. 1850. Full blind-stamped black leather spine gilt. Light cover rubbing text foxing else clean tight copy: VG. 8vo. Illustrated with black and white engravings. 1st edition Derby, MIller, and Co. hardcover
1898845G0876USA: Granite Monthly Company 1898. Magazine. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Pages 311-362. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: Index to Volume XXIV; Fitzwilliam N.H. - feature article with many great photos; Spring Ghosts poem; New Hampshire Men of Mark - William Augustus Gile; Military Law and Courts Martial; Jonathan's visit to Jeremiah; Lake Winnipesaukee - New Hampshire's largest lake and its orthography; "Lord Timothy Dexter in New Hampshire; Fantastic full-age glossy photo ad inside back cover for the Boston and Maine Railroad; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy copy. Granite Monthly Company Paperback
18507856Auburn N.Y.: Derby Miller and Company 1850. Full Leather. Good/No Jacket. Some water damage to pages however binding in surprisingly good condition. No loose pages all in one piece. Noticeable shelf-wear and damage to edges. <br/> <br/> Derby, Miller and Company hardcover
189829284London 1898. unknown books
1824212463Warwick 1824. VG. unknown books
1806107755Single leaf. London: printed for Longman; by T. Bensley 1806. Single leaf 200 x 130 mm being the frontispiece by Blake engraved by Cromek. Trimmed to the image recently cleaned with a couple of almost invisible creases and an ink smudge on the child’s nose. § A sentimental commercial engraving. The child was Malkin’s son apparently an infant prodigy who died at the age of seven. Bentley Blake Books p. 18 a good note on the book and #482. printed for Longman; by T. Bensley unknown books
189829284London 1898. unknown
1824212463Warwick 1824. VG. unknown
1854329901Washington: U.S. War Department 1854. unbound. Map. Lithograph with Sheet measures 10 3/4" x 39".<br/> <br/> Long geological expedition map of one of the proposed routes for the Pacific Railroad route. The map depicts the Western United States from Los Angeles to Memphis along the 35th parallel with careful notes on different types of stone. The map was published in 1854 as part of the Explorations and Surveys to ascertain the best and most economical route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. William Phipps Blake 1826-1910 was an American geologist and mining consultant and an artist.<br/> <br/> U.S. War Department unknown
1849019213Baker & Scribner. Maroon cloth with bright gilt titles on spine. Prior owner historical society stamp on ffep. No DJ as issued. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1849. Baker & Scribner hardcover
1900634620Edson & Irish 1900. First Edition. Wraps. Good. A Scarce Pacific Northwest poetry publication; published in New Whatcom which today is Bellingham WA. 28pp. in red handsewn wraps. Water damage along the spine top corner chipped else a Good copy. Carrie Blake Morgan was the older sister to the better known Norhtwest poet and writer Ella Higginson who encouraged her to write and had this her first collection of poetry published. She's also a notable Oregon pioneer having come out west on the Oregon Trail in 1864. Poems in this collection such as The Path of Gold To a Mountain and The Old Emigrant Road have poetic connections to her experiences as a young woman in the west. SMITH 7001. Edson & Irish unknown
1868124106London: John Camden Hotten 1868. Second edition of Swinburne's work on seminal Romantic poet William Blake. Octavo original cloth with illustrations from Blake's designs in facsimile including 6 hand-colored plates. In very good condition. Bookplate. English poet painter and printmaker William Blake is widely considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. He produced a diverse and symbolically rich oeuvre which embraced the imagination as "the body of God" or "human existence itself". Although Blake was considered somewhat mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views he is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. John Camden Hotten hardcover books
188455357Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1884. Very good. First edition of this posthumous selection from Thoreau's journal aptly following the theme of the season. Transcendentalist Thoreau idealizes one of the most powerful strains of the American spirit a "spiritual seeker philosopher and poet . who encouraged his readers to try the experiment of life for themselves" Walls xiii. Independent-minded and a committed naturalist his writing have had an enormous impact on popular American environmentalism. 7.5'' x 4.75''. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Black coated endpapers top edge gilt. Illustrated with double-page map of Concord. Publisher's ads at fore and rear. 2 vi 382 16 pages. Early Connecticut bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. Moderate spotting and wear to binding. Faint tidemark to margin of last few leaves else clean. Tight. Houghton, Mifflin and Company unknown
189322803London: Lawrence & Bullen; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1893. First Yeats edition. Frontispiece portrait. 1 vols. Sm. 12mo. Original bue-green cloth with the gilt decoration of "The Muses' Library." Cloth quite rubbed some soiling light marginal browning of text with the initials and engraved card of Genevieve F. Winterbotham dated 1901. First Yeats edition. Frontispiece portrait. 1 vols. Sm. 12mo. NCBEL 3:1921 Lawrence & Bullen; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1874205169New York: Harper & Brothers 1874. Hardcover. Very Good-. 486 pages plus advertising. Pages are clean and in v/g condition. Many illustrations including frontispiece. Foxing on fore-edge. Endpapers clean. Both hinges are torn but pages and binding are tight and intact. Green cloth with faded titles on the spine. Corners and edges lightly worn. VG- <br/> <br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover
1897ABE-142266614Dublin: Sealy Bryers And Walker c1897. 1897. 8vo. pp. xv 1 58 1 leaf. with half-title. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth. folded sheet inserted 'with Edward Blake's respects' printed. First Edition. F. Hardcover. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers And Walker, [c1897]. Hardcover
1826001875New York: Cooke & Co 1826 Bound in 1/2 leather over marbeled boards i-ix 1-196 folding world map plus 17 colored charts. Spine with a long vertical crack and chipping boards rubbed otherwise a good solid copy. Cooke & Co hardcover
1893985N21London: Lawrence and Bullen 1893. Hardback. Good. 7" by 4.5". John Linnell. A limited edition of The Poems of William Blake a comprehensive collection of the romantic giant's work. Edited by acclaimed Irish poet W.B. Yeats. A limited edition of The Poems of William Blake edited by huge Blake admirer and acclaimed Irish poet W.B. Yeats. Published in 1893 by Lawrence and Bullen. This particular edition is no.69 out of 200 copies to be printed on large handmade paper.Quarter white parchment in the publisher's original green cloth. A frontispiece of Blake by John Linnell.Despite not receiving great critical acclaim during his life William Blake was one of the most influential poets in English History. A key figure within the 19th century Romantic movement Blake inspired huge swathes of poets including W.B. Yeats who would later become a very successful poet himself and win the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature. This particular collection contains over 100 of Blake's poems and have been separated into each of his books including Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence. Quarter white parchment in the publisher's original green cloth. Externally mostly smart with fading to the spine and the occasional mark heavier towards spine and extremities. A spot to bottom edge of both boards. Offsetting to end papers. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the occasional mark and spot to leaf extremities. The odd pencil annotation. Good Lawrence and Bullen hardcover
1870220806Government Printing Office 1870. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. 6 books about 4000 pages total. Illustrated some folding. Ex-university library marks some wear and tear to the edges and spines. The back cover of volume I is water damaged. Cracked binding; the pages are tanned a little staining of foxing; a couple pages loose one illustration is torn and taped. A complete set of 6 books still. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Inventory No: 220806. . Government Printing Office hardcover
18551508010002Leavitt & Allen 1855. 5th. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Bound in publisher's tooled cloth. Hardcover. Gold lettering and stamping to spine. Good binding and cover. Unmarked pages. Minor foxing mostly marginal. 408 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. 72 engravings.Originally written by J. Aspin improved and adapted by Rev. J.L. Blake. Subjects Leavitt, & Allen hardcover