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1895282266Thomas H. Evans Publishing Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1895. Ex-library. Hardcover. Ex-library book with withdrawn ink stamp on the copyright page the only marking. Inner hinges have been reinforced with binding tape. Covers have slight wear to the lower outer corners slight rubbing to the upper outer corners and the spine ends. ; Volume One only. Inscribed on the title page "To James G. Gibbs Esq with compliments of the author Thos. H. Evans July 2nd 1896." . Thomas H. Evans Publishing Company hardcover
1829mon0000141382Jones & Co 1829T. unknown_binding. Good. in x in x in. circa 1829 orgional illustrations with firstn plate being sussex place regent's park writtten in ink designed by nash architrect to HMH the King. Many plates have accompanying ink with hand inked notes on each plate on half bound green and black cloth. Bets to ask for images a unique document of classic views of old london Jones & Co unknown
1827185415London: Jones & Co 1827. Softcover. Fair sold as a collection of plates only. Missing front cover and spine. Rear cover unattached. Foxing spots. Expected age toning but plates and text are otherwise clear. Map has small tears and creases. Missing front cover and spine. Rear cover is green cloth boards; bw illustrated title page; 132 pp of text 69 leaves of bw illustrations with two plates on each of the 69 pp; 1 bw map. From original drawings by Thomas H. Shepherd. Jones & Co paperback
1831186545London: Jones & Co 1831. Hardcover. VGG Cover has wear fading edge/corner damage. Spine has cracking peeling damage at top/bottom. Interior pages have age toning and foxing. Front end page coming loose from binding Writing from previous owner on inside covers. Red leather spine and corners. Brown cloth boards. Gilt lettering on 5 raised band spine. Full edge gilt. 12 172 ii 92 pages 122 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations. London in the nineteenth century / by Thomas H. Shepard: 92 pages at end. Imperfect: title page and all of text after page 92 wanting./ The plates dated 1827-1831 are from both Metropolitan improvements and London in the nineteenth century./ Includes index. Jones & Co hardcover
182835893London: Jones and Co 1828. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Includes 80 plates plus 1 map and 2 engraved title pages. Bound in three quarter dark brown leather over marbled paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Heavy wear and rubbing to boards with some losses to marbled paper. Heavy wear to corners and edges of boards. Front hinge is cracked and rear hinge is worn. Boards remain attached and textblock is tightly bound. Text pages have occasional spots of foxing but are clean overall; although there is browning to a few pages where flowers appear to have once been pressed. There is heavier foxing to the plates which are bound into the rear. Dampstaining to margins of many plates; however images are not affected. Two pages of plates have open tears to the margins and one has been repaired with extra paper adhered to the verso. A few short closed tears and chips to margins of some pages. Bookplate of a goat wearing a crown to front pastedown. Ownership name of James G. Morgan in pen to front free endpaper. Front free endpaper has been adhered to verso of frontispiece. 172 plates plus plates. ENG/080522. Jones and Co hardcover
18299999_02607London Jones and Co. 1829. 1st Edition . Soft cover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Quarto. Pp. 117-120. Plus 4 steel-engraved plates on 2 sheets separated with tissue-guards. Original wrappers sewn as issued trifle edge frayed plates bit foxed. ~ FIRST EDITION. Extremely rare survivor of work in installments this is the 33rd installment of this much appreciated illustrated work. The cover is dated 1829. Z-1 <br/> <br/> London, Jones and Co. paperback
1829178728London: Jones & Co. 1829. First edition extensively illustrated with engravings after Thomas H. Shepherd. Several of Edinburgh's best-known landmarks including Edinburgh Castle Holyrood Palace and Calton Hill are reproduced. Modern Athens is accompanied by an illustrated guide to the castles and stately homes of Scotland in which most engravings are after John Preston Neale with a couple after Shepherd and H. Gastinean. Jones & Co and Thomas Hosmer Shepherd 1793-1864 collaborated on three other books in the late 1820s two showing London and one showing Bath and Bristol. His lifelike scenes which were typically populated with figures horses and carriages are "outstanding for their skill and beauty" Houfe. Quarto 229 x 264 mm pp. vi ii 88 86. Steel-engraved title page and 87 plates most with tissue guards containing 181 engravings. Contemporary red half morocco marbled paper sides brown endpapers edges sprinkled red. Shallow loss to spine ends a little wear to extremities joint repaired sides slightly rubbed contents a little foxed: a very good copy. Houfe p. 298. unknown
1833D12959London: Jones & Co. 1833. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary half polished calf and marbled paper gilt-stamped lettering in dark brown leather spine label gilt-stamped ornament in spine compartments 5 raised bands all edges marbled; 4to; pp. vi ii 88 with additional steel-engraved title-p. and 101 illustrations on 48 plates. BOUND WITH an untitled work likely Neale's "Scotland Illustrated" lacking a title-page as usual but with 80 engraved illustrations on 40 plates as called for. Some light scuffing at spine tips and along joints and edges of boards; foxing throughout some plates more than others but nonetheless an attractive copy internally clean and unmarked in a nice binding. <br/><br/> Jones & Co. hardcover
182910105London: Jones & Co. Fair with no dust jacket. 1829. First Edition. Hardcover. Overall quite heavy foxing throughout the volume. Plates about good. Foxing predominantly in the margins of the plate leaves but most plates have some degree of foxing within the engraved area also. Heavy rubbing to leather spine. Cloth peeling from front board near head of front joint. Moderate loss of cloth at edges of corners of boards. ; Incomplete. A mixed volume made up of parts of several works. Page dimensions: 280 x 214mm. Green leather spine and cloth boards. The book begins with "Modern Athens" vi 74 of pages 40 of plates of Edinburgh extra engraved title page. This is followed by text pages 13-20 on Kent and 4 plates of Kent followed by an engraved title page "Ireland Illustrated in a Series of Views of Cities Towns Public Buildings Streets Docks Churches Antiquities Abbeys Towers Castles Seats of the Nobility &c. &c." Fisher Son & Co. London 1829 with 16 text pages and 10 plates of Ireland. Finally followed by a third title page for "Paris and its Environs displayed in a series of picturesque views from original drawings taken expressly for this work comprising views on the Seine Churches Palaces . . . The drawings under the direction of A. Pugin Esq. the engravings under the superintendence of Mr C. Heath." London: Robert Jennings / Paris: Treuttel & Wurts no date c1830. 12 text pages text in French with English translation on facing page 6 plates of Paris. Spine title: "Edinburgh Illustrated". Each plate leaf has two illustrations on it. Guard leaves present to all plates. NB: The "Athens" of the title refers to Edinburgh and not to Athens Greece.; 4to . Jones & Co. hardcover
1829r9017London: Jones & Co. G : in good condition. Rebound with new eps. Scattered foxing and offsetting throughout. One plate loose. The second section 'Scotland Illustrated' lacks a title page. Aeg. 1829. First Edition. Blue hardback quater-leather cover. 280mm x 220mm 11" x 9". 89pp 77pp plates. 176 tissue guarded engravings. 96 in Modern Athens and 80 in 'Scotland Illustrated'. Contents comprise two separate sections 'Modern Athens' and 'Scotland Illustrated'. The latter ' comprising interesting and beautiful Views of the Castles Noblemen and Gentlemen's Seats Romantic and Picturesque Scenery &c.' Piblished 1829 & 1831. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Jones & Co hardcover
1880608441880. Boston Med. Surg. J. 110. - Cambridge: Printed at Riverside Press 1880 kl.-8° 34 pp. orig. Broschur. Rare reprint! "On strangulated veins of the uterus and the importance of restoring their circulation and function of drainage thereby preventing engorgement and morbid nutrition. By T. H. Buckler M. D. Baltimore MD.". Dr. Thomas Hepburn Buckler 1812-1901 took his M.D. in 1835 with a thesis on "Animal Heat." He practiced afterwards in Baltimore as physician to the City Almshouse. From 1866 to 1890 he and his family lived in France where he became a physician in Paris under a license from the French government. He was best known as a teacher and writer. The "Medical Annals of Baltimore" gives a list of thirty-two of his writings a great many of them on sanitary and social subjects. unknown
1882309581London: George Bell 1882. hardcover. very good. xi 392 pages. 8vo original decorative green cloth; lightly worn and some bubbling. London: George Bell and Sons 1882. A very good copy with clean text.<br/> <br/> George Bell unknown
18531356860Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea 1853. Hardcover. Octavo 2 17-150 pp. Good; bound in contemporary black embossed cloth with gilt titling with chipping and small tears to spine and corners; binding tight; text block age-toned but clean; very minor foxing to pages; inscribed by author of first title page "For Dr. Th. Murdoch with the best respects of his friend the author;" ex-library copy with usual markings including a bookplate to front pastedown institutional stamps to several pages and call number written in pencil; MF consignment. 1356860. Special Collections. Blanchard and Lea hardcover
1852186456Bruges Belgium: Vanhee-Wante 1852. Hardcover. Good vellum smudged & speckled w/ foxing; back spine edge & corner stained. from center of spine to lower spine vellum torn & flapped; tear through spine plate. two corners rubbed to boards; back corners curled. textblock has slight split binding threads intact; textblock firm. green marbled boards w/ vellum spine & corners; green & gilt spine plate. 5 pgs w/ 100 bw plates. all edges red. text in French. Remains a handsome copy. Many double page plates. Plates may have instances of smudges or speckled foxing some plates have darker spotted concentrated foxing. Some plates dark tanned. Illustrations remain dark and detailed. Uncertain of volume number but title page is subtitled 'Representes En Plans Elevations Coupes Et Details Measures Et Dessines.'. Vanhee-Wante hardcover
184375497Lymington: Printed and published by R. King 1843. 12mo. xvi 215 pp. Unusual full calf binding with gilt-decorated borders and geometric pattern tooled in gilt and black to boards; raised bands gilt decorated compartments and gilt lettering to spine; yellow patterned endpapers. Rubbing and light chipping or abbrasions to leather. A previous owner whose name is at the ffep dated 1845 has written on the title page 'one of the Lymington Policemen'. Light and rather scattered spotting. The poems were composed over the course of Glamorgan's life and cover themes and subjects such as Waterloo the Clyde the death of Nelson Llangollen Vale The Rose of Abergenny and Three Nights in Corwen Churchyard. OCLC records copies in the British Library University of California Davis and the National Library of Wales only. Scarce. 16.5cms tall. . Very Good. Gilt-decorated Calf. 1843. Printed and published by R. King 1843 unknown
1862DEMO007851IPhiladelphia: Wm. S. & Alfred Martien 1862. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Darley Hoppin and Others. 12mo 321 pages brown embossed cloth front hinge cracked various minor faults. Scarce. <br/><br/>T.H. Stockton was the Chaplain to Congress during Lincoln's Presidency and was half-brother to Frank Stockton. Rev. Stockton lead the Opening Prayer at the Dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery preceding Lincoln's Address. This book has 7 engravings by Frank Stockton - his first book appearance. Frank earned his living as a wood engraver until 1866 and invented an engraving tool before turning to writing as a second career. This is his earliest published work but for a pamphlet in 1860 relating to the Civil War. See BAL v.7 p.680. The sketches are by by Darley Hoppin and Others. Stockton's last engraving is "A Scene on the Youghiogheny River ". Wm. S. & Alfred Martien hardcover
187548365London: George Bell & Sons 1875. Small 8vo pp. 14 ads iii-xv 1 587 1 14 ads; ads also on pastedowns; large folding map 2 engraved plans of the city 1 folding engraved frontispiece and 5 plates 1 folding numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout; original green cloth gilt lettering on spine; spine browned small cracks in cloth at joints; good and sound. This copy with the bookplate and ownership signature of William Dunwoody the Minneapolis banker art patron and philanthropist. George Bell & Sons unknown
18671381jBell & Daldy 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Complete with map. The boards are shelf rubbed edge worn and marked with a little light fraying along the edges but they remain strong and sturdy with bright gold gilt to the front and spine. Internally there is light tanning throughout but there are no other markings or inscriptions and the pages within are neat and complete. Tightly bound and in very good condition indeed considering the age of the book! JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Bell & Daldy hardcover
188740673George Bell & Sons. 1887. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Rebound in full leather binding with gilt tooling. 5 raised spines. All edges and endpapers marbled. School prize plate to front inner cover. Some foxing. Crack along half of rear joint of spine cover.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 587 pages . George Bell & Sons hardcover
1880360320Philadelphia: Printed by J.B. Lipincott & Co 1880. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Turquoise printed wrappers. Light soiling to the edges a moderate chip to the rear wrap at the corner very good. Inscribed by Thomas Haines Dudley a New Jersey Quaker and lawyer best known for his abolitionist activities. In 1845 he disguised himself as a slave trader in a successful scheme to rescue a New Jersey African-American family that had been kidnapped into slavery. During the Civil War Lincoln appointed him Consul to Liverpool England an important city in the cotton industry. As United States Consul Dudley was able to stop the illegal delivery of cotton by many ships from the Confederate states. Printed by J.B. Lipincott & Co unknown
1846838991846. JAMES Thomas H. Rambles in the United States and Canada during the Year 1845 with a Short Account of Oregon. By Rubio. London: John Ollivier 1846. viii 259pp. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards red morocco spine label spine gilt with raised bands. Occasional light foxing a bit tanned. Very good. Howes J-50. Clark III 186. Sabin 73850. TPL 2721. Gagnon I:3097. Howes and Clark call for a frontispiece but no copy has been seen with one. James travelled through New York New England the Great Lakes region eastern Canada and down the Ohio River. He also includes cursory descriptions of the southern and Midwestern states and Vancouver and the Queen Charlotte Islands and a chapter on Oregon. He paints a scathing portrait of American manners and customs. Thomas Horton James 1792-1867 was a notable English settler of Australia who founded the colony's first successful tobacco manufacturing plant. He contributed to Australia's early political life becoming the foreman to its first Grand Jury and helping to established its print culture by financing the "Sydney Times" and "Commercial Journal and Advertiser. unknown
1855582751Baltimore: John Cole 1855. Softcover. Good. Unknown edition. Folio. Single sheet printed on the recto only and folded in half making for two pages of content. Mostly separated along the fold notched along the fold from once being bound within an album and foxing a good only copy. For voice and piano. Plate number 437. OCLC locates only one physical holding of this score. John Cole unknown
1829608116Boston: James L. Hewitt & Co. at their Music Saloon 1829. Softcover. Very Good. Unknown edition. Folio. Single bifolium making four pages. Notched and worn along the fold from once being bound within an album minor edgewear and foxing and soiling throughout still a complete and very good copy. For voice and piano. The front cover states "Sung by Miss Mallet. James L. Hewitt & Co. at their Music Saloon unknown
1831608275New York: E. Riley 1831. Softcover. Very Good. Unknown edition. Folio. Originally two nested bifolia making eight pages. Notched and worn along the fold with paper remnants and exposed thread from once being bound within an album as a result the bifolia remain bound together light foxing and offsetting throughout and light bumping to the corners still a complete and very good copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "Come dwell with me. 6." The front cover reads "A favorite ballad sung with unbounded applause by Miss Hughes at the Park Theatre. E. Riley unknown