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1855M6993California: Office of P.R.R. Exp & Surveys c. 1855. Very Good;. Notes: "Canada de las Uvas" is now the present route of Hwy 5. This is the border between the Sierra Nevada and the Mojave desert. Size : 158x232 mm 6.22x9.13 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Category: Maps Geological; Maps United States West California; Office of P.R.R. Exp & Surveys unknown
1870134851Washington DC: GPO 1870. Hardbound. VG ex library set with minimal markings small ancient paper label on each spsine bookplates. Perforation stamp to each title-page. Six volumes uniformly bound in 3/4 leather with 5 raised bands and exquisite marbling to all page edges. Many plans fold-outs illustrations. Pagination as follows: Volume I: 4 184; 324; 43 1; 8; 47 1; 39 1; 66pp. Folding plan 33 folding plates. Volume II: 4 v 1 183 1; vii 1 369 1; ix 1 146pp. 8 folding plates. Volume III: 4 ix 1 669 1pp. 8 folding plates. Volume IV: 4 166; 72; 49 1; 21 1; 31 1; 96; 104pp. 16 folding plates. Volume V: 4 26; 19 1; 90; 19 1; 19 1; 13 1; 28; 13 1; 213 1; 70; 18pp. 16 folding plates. Volume VI: 4 143 1; 2 115 1; 51 1; 86; 2 401 1pp. A fabulous set in wonderful condition and very minimally marked. An indispensible reference. Uncommon in leather. GPO hardcover books
1870134851Washington DC: GPO 1870. Hardbound. VG ex library set with minimal markings small ancient paper label on each spsine bookplates. Perforation stamp to each title-page. Six volumes uniformly bound in 3/4 leather with 5 raised bands and exquisite marbling to all page edges. Many plans fold-outs illustrations. Pagination as follows: Volume I: 4 184; 324; 43 1; 8; 47 1; 39 1; 66pp. Folding plan 33 folding plates. Volume II: 4 v 1 183 1; vii 1 369 1; ix 1 146pp. 8 folding plates. Volume III: 4 ix 1 669 1pp. 8 folding plates. Volume IV: 4 166; 72; 49 1; 21 1; 31 1; 96; 104pp. 16 folding plates. Volume V: 4 26; 19 1; 90; 19 1; 19 1; 13 1; 28; 13 1; 213 1; 70; 18pp. 16 folding plates. Volume VI: 4 143 1; 2 115 1; 51 1; 86; 2 401 1pp. A fabulous set in wonderful condition and very minimally marked. An indispensible reference. Uncommon in leather. GPO hardcover
182961047Boston: Richardson Lord & Holbrook 1829. First Edition. 12mo 18cm. Modern plain buckram with gilt spine label; xii13-162pp. Early perforated stamp to title page Rhode Island Historical Society; scattered foxing and toning to text still a complete fresh copy Good and sound. <br /> <br /> An anonymous early work by Blake identified as such in the catalog of the American Antiquarian Society which adds the following note: "Later editions which include additional stories describe themselves as "By the author of Evenings in Boston." That work a juvenile reader first published in 1827 has been attributed to John Lauris Blake. Five of its twelve chapters are set in Cuba where Blake may have traveled during a period of failing health in the 1820s." SABIN 67664. Richardson, Lord & Holbrook unknown
1868105253Small 8vo. London: Pickering 1868. Small 8vo xiv 112 pp. and 8 pp. of ads at the front. Original cloth red printed paper backstrip label darkened some pencil annotations in the text. A very good copy. Ink signature at front of Wm. C. Pritchard. § New edition taken largely from the 1866 edition with some slight changes including an expanded preface and two more poems. Although a typographic issue of the Songs had appeared in 1839 and Gilchrist and Rossetti had included them in the 1863 biography neither of those versions were faithful to Blake’s original text with Rossetti in particular standing accused of efforts at “improvementâ€. The editor of this edition Richard Herne Shepherd gives for the first time in accessible form the exact text of Blake’s idiosyncratic engraved publications of 1789 and 1794 only twenty-two complete copies of each of which survive though omitting lines from “Mary†and from “Auguries of Innocence†which contained the word “whoreâ€. The additional poems two of them previously unpublished are printed from Blake’s original manuscripts. Bentley Blake Books 335 B. Pickering hardcover books
1848005705Baltimore: American Society of Dental Surgeons 1848. Foxing. This American edition published without the plates that accompany the first edition Dublin 1801. First American Edition. Modern Buckram. Very Good. American Society of Dental Surgeons Hardcover
18681052531868. London: Pickering 1868. <br /> <br /> Small 8vo xiv 112 pp. and 8 pp. of ads at the front. Original cloth red printed paper backstrip label darkened some pencil annotations in the text. A very good copy. Ink signature at front of Wm. C. Pritchard.<br /> <br /> § New edition taken largely from the 1866 edition with some slight changes including an expanded preface and two more poems. Although a typographic issue of the Songs had appeared in 1839 and Gilchrist and Rossetti had included them in the 1863 biography neither of those versions were faithful to Blake's original text with Rossetti in particular standing accused of efforts at "improvement". The editor of this edition Richard Herne Shepherd gives for the first time in accessible form the exact text of Blake's idiosyncratic engraved publications of 1789 and 1794 only twenty-two complete copies of each of which survive though omitting lines from "Mary" and from "Auguries of Innocence" which contained the word "whore". The additional poems two of them previously unpublished are printed from Blake's original manuscripts. Bentley Blake Books 335 B. unknown
1849232160New York: Baker & Scribner 1849. First. hardcover. very good. 368 pages. Thick 12mo rebound in older brown cloth with leather label label rubbed page 145 with small repaired tear with no loss of text scattered light foxing. New York: Baker & Scribner 1849. First edition. A very good copy.<br/> <br/> Stuyvesant Fish's own copy with his signature and bookplate. Stuyvesant Fish was a banker in New York City and president of the Illinois Central Railroad from 1887 to 1906. He had an estate in Garrison New York in Putnam County. Some pages are annotated in pencil by Stuyvesant Fish. The author William Blake was a lawyer with an office in Cold Spring New York in Putnam County. Howes B-501. Nestler 1190.<br/> <br/> Baker & Scribner unknown
189320476London:: Lawrence & Bullen 1893. original gilt cloth. Former owner's blind-embossed name stamp in the upper corner of each title page; a few ink notes and underlining; light rubbing to the cloth at extremities and tanning to the spine. 12mo. Edited by W. B. Yeats. Wade 219; ordinary issue. The Muses' Library. Lawrence & Bullen, hardcover
1870144611870. Third Edition. Fine. Single sheet 37.5 x 28.4cm : plate impression 29.7 x 17.5cm : text and image after the design by William Blake. From the third edition of Robert Blair's meditation on death and resurrection. Blair's poem is remembered today for having some of William Blake's most memorable designs. These were executed by Italian engraver Luigi Schiavonetti who was awarded the commission for executing the plates despite Blake having been asked to create the designs Blake Books 435 E. unknown
1870286735Washington: Government Printing Office 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Volumes I-VI. Very good with wear at the spine ends a short tear at the top of the spine on volume III corners are bumped stain spot on front cover of volume I and a thin stain line on the spine of volume III. Reports on various exhibits and pavillions includes numerous illustrations and folded plates. Government Printing Office hardcover
186808981William Blake: A Critical Essay John Camden Hotten 1868 first edition first state of title page some wear and recoloration to the corner tips spine relaid with some wear to the extremities of the cloth of the spine but no wear to the extremities of the renewed spine itself inner hinges strengthened text block recased else a tight near vg copy with all 9 William Blake full page plates 7 in full color and 2 in black & white present and in fine condition. John Camden Hotten 1868 hardcover
189718061Astronomical Myths; Based on Flammarion's "History of the Heavens" Macmillan 1877 first edition a tight bright vg to vg copy with all engravings diagrams illustrations and folding "Chart of the Constellations" present and in fine condition. Macmillan unknown
186819454Providence: George H. Whitney 1868. First edition. Cloth a little worn with a small split near the foot of the front joint; hinges just a little loosed from the inserted material but overall a very good copy. . 8vo original green cloth gilt lettering 297 pages. A unique augmented copy of this detailed local theatre history with the pencil ownership signature of Samuel W. Brown--presumably Providence worthy Samuel Welch Brown 1824-1907--and the semi-legible pencil signature of perhaps his son Arthur Brown; this copy includes a CDV portrait mounted to the verso of the front blank and annotated in the margin in pencil as Charles Blake; also with a folded printed column similar to a galley proof mounted to the rear endpaper and headed "Charles Blake" with the pencil annotation at the head "Written in imitation of the obituary notices by E. H. Hazard in the Journal by Mr. Blake himself" as well as two tipped-in playbills--one a large approx. 17 x 6.25 inch playbill advertising a performance of Howard and the Foxes among other attractions at Cleveland Hall and with an imprint for Greene Granite Building; and smaller 6.75 x 4.75 inch handbill advertising the "the Young and Beautiful American Actress!" Alice Placid Mann appearing in 1862 at the Providence Theatre on Pine at Dorrance. Also includes a marginal pencil note to one page alluding to the performance style of one actor a mounted clipping from 1880 relating to the Dorrance Street Theatre and some promiscuous inserted 20th century newspaper clippings. Sabin 5764. George H. Whitney, unknown books
1890323142London: Reproduced in facsimile by W. Briggs 1890. One of 50 copies. Facsimile of London 1783 edition. 70 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Morocco spine and boards spine perished. One of 50 copies. Facsimile of London 1783 edition. 70 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. After the extremely rare 1783 edition only 23 copies are traced by Bentley several of these imperfect which was distributed by Blake to friends. Bentley 129; Keynes 26 note Reproduced in facsimile by W. Briggs unknown
184323568London:: John W. Parker 1843. publisher's blue-green cloth. Neatly supplied with new sympathetic endpapers; bookplates; very slight use to cloth. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait. John W. Parker, hardcover
189328488New York: Harper & Brothers 1893 1893. First edition. BAL 6465 state 1 binding 1; Wright III 2077. Cloth slightly spotted and worn; fine copy. 8vo original pictorial sage-green cloth gilt lettering. Frontis and 23 plates. Four pages of publisher's terminal ads. ¶ The first American novel to take a serious look at life in that uniquely American urban innovation the skyscraper and "the first important American novel with city life at its theme" - Andrews Chicago in Story. Henry Blake Fuller 1857-1929 a native of Chicago was one of the most interesting American realist writers of the late 19th century. See the DAB Wikipedia etc. <br/><br/> New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893 hardcover books
1881Embry 182499Houghton Mifflin & Co. Boston: 1881. First edition first printing. Page 26-27 browned from previously laid in article title page and front free endpaper foxed minor foxing to first few pages light wear to spine tips but for foxing to title page near fine in custom mylar cover. Green cloth no dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin & Co., Boston: 1881. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
188870421Boston:: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1888. First edition. publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth t.e.g. Very slight use to cloth at extremities; clean tight and sound. 8vo. BAL 20129. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, hardcover
1808123899Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper margins slightly spotted image clean. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davies unknown books
1808107772Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper trimmed to the image recently cleaned. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. Cadell and Davies unknown books
1808123896Single plate. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper cleaned and in fine condition. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. Cadell and Davies unknown books
18081238991808. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. <br /> <br /> Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper margins slightly spotted image clean.<br /> <br /> § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. unknown
18081077721808. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. <br /> <br /> Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper trimmed to the image recently cleaned. <br /> <br /> § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435 A. unknown
18081238961808. London: Cadell and Davies 1808. <br /> <br /> Single plate etching on wove unwatermarked paper cleaned and in fine condition.<br /> <br /> § From the first 4to edition. Bentley Blake Books 435b. unknown
