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184514958Boston: Bradbury Soden & Co 1845. 1st edition thus American Imprints 45-2774. Original buff printed wrappers. VG avg wear/usual light foxing/pos/Vol I front wrapper starting. 2 volumes iv 5 - 176; 4 177 - 328. Frontis & title page vignette. 4 3/4" x 7 1/8" <br/><br/> Bradbury Soden & Co unknown books
185811073London: Pr. by C. Whittingham 1858. 8vo. 44 pp. <br><br>Sole edition. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2C12358. Disbound. Final few leaves with small chips at fore-edge. Inked owner's signature at top of title-page partly cropped out. Pr. by C. Whittingham unknown books
18992221708<p>ORIGINAL 14 PARTS</p><p>First edition in the original 14 parts. 11" x 8 1/2" circa 400 b/w illustrations by Lemercier and Helen Stratton who gets sole credit on the title page. Original stitched green pictorial wrappers. Part 14 with half title title page contents and list of illustrations 320 pages. No dust jacket. Very good minor rubbing; signs of handling and some light foxing. Scarce.</p><p>Printed by Butler & Tanner The Selwood Printing Works.</p><p>Some illustrations in first two parts are signed "Lemercier" in the plate.</p> George Newnes paperback books
19002440Port Sunlight U.K.: Lever Brothers Ltd. c. 1900. Staplebound. Color illustrated wraps. Very good. Neilson Harry B. Unpaginated. 8 pp. 12 x 9 cm. Charming advertising pamphlet establishing a connection between big business and the homemaker's new purchasing power. The solid yellow bar of soap first introduced in 1884 was one of the first packaged branded soap used to clean clothes dishes and hair. Some light bleeding to illustrations staple rust to spine. <br/><br/> Lever Brothers Ltd. paperback books
1862134741Washington: Smithsonian Institution 1862. Hardcover. Good ex-library with spine numbering/labeling bookplate. Covers have only light soiling little wear. Clean and crisp pages endpapers have crease/ crack. Green library buckram with gilt spine titles. Numbered in 4 parts: xvi 96 pp. ; viii 68 pp. ; xxv 286 pp. ; ii 259 pp. Approx. 720 pp. total A few black and white illustrations. Four parts/ articles bound in one volume. Smithsonian Institution hardcover books
1893162993NY MCLOUGHLIN 1893 1893. GILT STAMPED NAVY BLUE CLOTH OVER GLAZED BLUE PICTORIAL BOARDS FRONT FREE ENDPAPER DETACHED. VERY GOOD. Hardcover. NY, MCLOUGHLIN, 1893 hardcover books
184429742Boston: Bradbury Soden & Co 1844. 1st edition thus American Imprints 44-2697. Original salmon-colored printed wrappers. Series advert to rear wrapper. POS to top of front wrappers. Part I spine paper mostly perished with lower 1" of Part II lacking. Tide-line stain to upper quadrant of last quarter of text Part II. A Good set. 2 volumes 160; 2 161 - 352 pp. Frontis & engraved title page to Part I. Wood engraving p. 8. 7" x 4-5/8" <br/><br/>Contents include: Lucretia and Margaret Davidson; Mrs. Adams; Mrs. Washington; Madame de Sael; Lady Hester Stanhope; Hannah More; Mrs. Barbauld; Madame de Genlis; Josephine; Marie Antoinette; Madame Roland; Madame de Sévigné; Mary Queen of Scots; Elizabeth Queen of England; Isabella of Spain; Joan of Arc. Uncommon especially in original wrappers. Bradbury Soden & Co unknown books
184414957.1Boston: J. E. Hickman 1844. Early printing circa mid-to-late 1840s. Cf. American Imprints 44-2693. Original brown publisher's cloth with gilt spine stamping & boards stamped in blind. VG gilt bright/sq & tight/usual light foxing/crinkle in upper corner of leaf A2. 320 pp. Frontis of William Tell title page vignette & intratextual cuts. Sm 8vo. 4 3/8" x 7" <br/><br/> J. E. Hickman hardcover books
184514956Boston: Bradbury Soden & Co 1845. 1st edition thus American Imprints 45-2739. Original buff printed wrappers. Nr Fine little wear w/ Part I prelims unopened/pos. 2 volumes 176; 177 - 336 pp. Frontis & title page vignette. 4 3/4" x 7 1/8" <br/><br/> Bradbury Soden & Co unknown books
184414971Boston: Bradbury Soden & Co 1844. 1st edition thus American Imprints 44-2688. Original buff printed wrappers. VG some wear to spine paper/pos on wrappers. 2 volumes vi 7 - 160; 161 - 320. Frontis title page vignette & occasional intratextual cut. 4 3/4" x 7 1/8" <br/><br/> Bradbury Soden & Co unknown books
184414970Boston: Bradbury Soden & Co 1844. 1st edition thus American Imprints 44-2679. Original buff printed wrappers. VG some wear to spine paper/pos on wrappers/Part I wrapper misprinted as 'Part 2' which has been corrected by hand. 2 volumes iv 5 - 176; 177 - 336. Frontis engraved title page & occasional intratextual cut. 4 3/4" x 7 1/8" <br/><br/> Bradbury Soden & Co unknown books
1867001538Paris: Garnier Freres 1867. Quarter Morocco over Pebbled Cloth. Very Good . Grandville. 4to French text. 667 pp total. 50 hand-colored plates of women personified as flowers 2 hand-colored frontispieces 2 black and white plates and also black and white text illustrations. Probably Grandville's most famous work and one that epitomizes best his fantastical imagination. Plates and text clean and attractive. Quarter red morocco with blindstamped red pebbled cloth covers which perfectly match appears full red leather. Raised spine bands and gilt. Rubbing around gutters and the raised bands and some typical shelfwear besides. Endpapers are a silky moire material and they have some soiling. Gilt foreedges. <br/><br/> Garnier Freres hardcover books
182436381Milano: Dalla Societa Tipog. De' Classici Italiani 1824. Hardbound. VG Ex archival library copy with letters at base of spine. A beautiful copy with a hint of foxing at front end papers. Green library buckram. 142 pp. 27 engravings printed on recto only. Tissue guards over plates. A superb example of this rare title. The book measures 11" x 15". Beautiful collection of the main painters in Cremona during the Renaissance as well study of some of their works and their relevant illustrations: Bonifacio and Gianfrancesco Bembo Cristoforo Moretto Boccaccio and Camillo Boccaccino Altobello Melone Bernardino Gatti Tommaso Alessi the "Campi Brothers" Galeazzo Giulio Antonio Vincenzo Bernardino Sofonisba Angussola Giambattista Trotti et al. Text in Italian in lovely large font on soft rag paper. Dalla Societa Tipog. De' Classici Italiani hardcover books
184311033Boston: Bradbury Soden & Co 1843. 1st edition. Faux vellum spine lettered in gilt w/grey paper-wrapped boards appears turn-of-the-century. Red top-stain. VG some foxing to text/corners worn. 310 pp. Illustrated. sm 8vo. <br/><br/> Bradbury Soden & Co hardcover books
1895830091895. EHON - FAIRY TALES BARBATOU P. FABLES CHOISES DE FLORIAN. The first volume only. Paris: Librairie Marpon & Flammarion; Tokyo: Shueisha Meiji 28 1895. Fukuro toji cord-bound in printed paper covers. This first volume is 26.6 X 19.8 cm with 14 full page color woodcuts by Kano Tomonobu and Kajita Hanko. #167 of 200 from a deluxe edition on Japanese hosho paper. Covers soiled and a bit edgeworn one cvorner chipped. The contents are very good and the impressions and colors are quite lovely. This work despite its French text may be seen as squarely in the tradition of the Japanese ehon and it shares many characteristics of the revival of picture book printing in mid to late Meiji demonstrated by other works: an emerging Nihonga style skilled printed increasingly restrained coloration etc. In that context the large scale of its illustrations renders it particularly interesting. The first volume only of two. unknown books
1888222New York: D. Appleton and Company 1888. Sm. 8vo. xviii344pp. Index. Plus 10pp. ads. Orig. olive cloth. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
185823190Firenze: Presso Angelo Romei 1858. Later printing. Cloth. Good. Later printing. 10 XII 277 1 blank 2 pages plus 2 plates 1 folding. Ex-library properly withdrawn. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. Blue buckram with red spine label and remnants of library label. Notes 1816 on the spine but the blue wrappers which are bound in before the 1816 title page note 1858 as the date of publication. Volume 1 and possibly part one of that ONLY. Note the page count! Clean internally other than the occasional library marking. Cloth. One volume of a 5 volume set published on the works of Volta. The first edition was published in 1816. Presso Angelo Romei unknown books
1895389441895. EHON - FAIRY TALES BARBATOU P. CHOIX DE FABLES DE LA FONTAINE. 2 volumes in 1. Tokio: MDCCCXCIV. Imprimerie de Tsoukidji-Tokio. Printer: Kimura Tokutarô; First Series printed September 20th published September 30th; Second Series printed October 10th published October 20th Meiji 27 1894. Large format plain paper book bound with the original covers into a contemporary Western style half leather binding. The first volume is 20 X 30 cm with 14 double page color woodcuts by Kano Tomonobu Kajita Hanko Kawanabe Kyôsui and Okakura Shôsô called for. The "deuxieme serie" is similarly bound 20 x 30 cm with 14 prints by the four previously listed artists along with Eda Sadashiko. This work with its French text and literary origins may be placed in the mainstream of an emerging international style in Japan. Yet it may be still be seen as squarely in the tradition of the Japanese illustrated book. It shares many of the characteristics of the revival of Japanese picture book printing in general at the end of the 19th century: an emerging Nihonga style which was an amalgam of theme and technique from East and West skilled printing increasingly restrained coloration etc. An interesting document of East-West cultural and artistic accommodation which gave rise to such hybrid vigor in world art. The bound-in covers and contents are perfect. However the leather binding is worn and was rebacked at some point. The two volumes complete and bound as one. unknown books
187538698San Francisco: Francis & Valentine 1875. 103pp. plus nine original mounted albumen photographs. Inscribed on front fly leaf. Original blue cloth front board gilt. Small tear in lower outer corner of mount of second photograph not approaching printed border.<br/> <br/>Provenance: Signed by one of the members of the University Excursion Party Everett Pomeroy "Compliments of Everett B. Pomeroy"<br/> <br/>A beautiful book with superb original photographs depicting the range of northern California's natural splendor.<br/> <br/>This copy is signed by one of the members of the University Excursion Party Everett Pomeroy "Compliments of Everett B. Pomeroy" and is quite rare. Everett Pomeroy was one of five graduates who received a B.A. from the University of California in 1871 the school's second graduating class. Pomeroy went on to earn a Master's degree in 1875 and was also a member of the California state National Guard. In 1875 President Grant appointed him United States Attorney for Arizona Territory. A rare photographically-illustrated account of a tour of Yosemite and the High Sierras by one of the pioneer founders of the University of California. Joseph Le Conte studied with Louis Agassiz at Harvard before going to California to serve as professor of geology and he was among the charter members of the Sierra Club. This work describes Le Conte's first expedition with students of the University into the Sierras and the text wonderfully conveys Le Conte's enthusiasm for the region and its natural beauty. While in Yosemite the group visited James Hutchings's hotel and met John Muir who accompanied the group to Lake Tenaya Tuolumne Meadows Mount Dana over Tioga Pass and down to Mono Lake. In his autobiography he describes his first years in California as "very active ones for me the wonderful new country so different from any that I had previously seen the climate the splendid scenery the active energetic people and the magnificent field for scientific and especially for geological investigations." "A record of an excursion by Prof. Le Conte and nine members of one of the early classes of the university. It is stated that but 20 copies were printed" - Cowan. The actual number of copies printed was almost certainly higher perhaps as many as 120 twelve for each member of the party. The images are captioned on the mounts as follows: 1 ".Great Yosemite Fall" frontispiece group portrait of the party. 2 "The Grizzly Giant." 3 "The High Sierras." 4 "The Gates of the Valley." 5 "Bridal Veil Fall." 6 "The Heart of the Sierras. Lake Tenaya." 7 "Day-Dawn in Yosemite. The Merced River." 8 ".North Dome South Half Dome." 9 "Montgomery St. San Francisco. Where our trip ended." The photographs are very handsomely composed and printed images of Yosemite and the High Sierra in very good condition. Farquahar speculates that the photographs "must have been procured from one or more of the professional photographers who operated in Yosemite Valley." The source of the photographs was likely J.J. Reilly a professional photographer active in the Yosemite Valley at the time.<br/> <br/>Cowan 1914 p.137; Farquhar 14a; Currey & Kruska 230; Howes L175 "aa." Kurutz California Books Illustrated with Original Photographs p.16 and item 27; Zamorano Select 64.;Cox Classics 64; Robinson High Sierra Classics 1; Rocq 16596; Eberstadt 124:38. Francis & Valentine unknown books
1875WRCAM41643CSan Francisco: Francis & Valentine 1875. 103pp. plus nine original mounted albumen photographs. Original blue cloth front board gilt. Cloth a bit soiled moderate wear at spine ends and corners. Inscribed on front fly leaf see below. Small tear in lower outer corner of mount of second photograph not even approaching the printed border. Very nice tonality in the photographic prints. Very clean internally. Very good. This copy is signed by one of the members of the University Excursion Party Everett Pomeroy "Compliments of Everett B. Pomeroy" and is quite rare thus. This firm has handled five copies of this book - and noticed several others in the market - and this is the first association copy we have seen. Everett Pomeroy was one of five graduates who received a B.A. from the University of California in 1871 the school's second graduating class. Pomeroy went on to earn a Master's degree in 1875 and was also a member of the California state National Guard. In 1875 President Grant appointed him United States Attorney for Arizona Territory. <br> <br> A rare photographically-illustrated account of a tour of Yosemite and the High Sierras by one of the pioneer founders of the University of California. Joseph Le Conte studied with Louis Agassiz at Harvard before going to California to serve as professor of geology and he was among the charter members of the Sierra Club. This work describes Le Conte's first expedition with students of the University into the Sierras and the text wonderfully conveys Le Conte's enthusiasm for the region and its natural beauty. While in Yosemite the group visited James Hutchings's hotel and met John Muir who accompanied the group to Lake Tenaya Tuolumne Meadows Mount Dana over Tioga Pass and down to Mono Lake. In his autobiography he describes his first years in California as "very active ones for me the wonderful new country so different from any that I had previously seen the climate the splendid scenery the active energetic people and the magnificent field for scientific and especially for geological investigations." "A record of an excursion by Prof. Le Conte and nine members of one of the early classes of the university. It is stated that but 20 copies were printed" - Cowan. The actual number of copies printed was almost certainly higher perhaps as many as 120 twelve for each member of the party. <br> <br> The images are captioned on the mounts as follows: <br> <br> 1 ".Great Yosemite Fall" frontispiece group portrait of the party. <br> <br> 2 "The Grizzly Giant." <br> <br> 3 "The High Sierras." <br> <br> 4 "The Gates of the Valley." <br> <br> 5 "Bridal Veil Fall." <br> <br> 6 "The Heart of the Sierras. Lake Tenaya." <br> <br> 7 "Day-Dawn in Yosemite. The Merced River." <br> <br> 8 ".North Dome South Half Dome." <br> <br> 9 "Montgomery St. San Francisco. Where our trip ended." <br> <br> The photographs are very handsomely composed and printed images of Yosemite and the High Sierra. Farquhar speculates that the photographs "must have been procured from one or more of the professional photographers who operated in Yosemite Valley." The source of the photographs was likely J.J. Reilly a professional photographer active in the Yosemite Valley at the time. <br> <br> A beautiful book with superb photographs depicting the range of northern California's natural splendor. COWAN 1914 p.137. FARQUHAR 14a. CURREY & KRUSKA 230. HOWES L175 "aa." KURUTZ CALIFORNIA BOOKS ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS p.16; item 27. ZAMORANO SELECT 64. COX CLASSICS 64. ROBINSON HIGH SIERRA CLASSICS 11. ROCQ 16596. EBERSTADT 124:38. Francis & Valentine hardcover books
1875WRCAM41643ASan Francisco: Francis & Valentine 1875. 103pp. plus nine original mounted albumen photographs. 20th-century three-quarter morocco and blue cloth spine gilt. Spine sunned. Frontispiece photograph with three small stains and the final two photographs exhibiting some moderate fading else quite clean internally. A very good copy. A rare photographically illustrated account of a tour of Yosemite and the High Sierras by one of the pioneer founders of the University of California. Le Conte studied with Agassiz at Harvard before going to California to serve as professor of geology and he was among the charter members of the Sierra Club. This work describes Le Conte's first expedition with students of the University into the Sierras and the text wonderfully conveys Le Conte's enthusiasm for the region and its natural beauty. In his autobiography he describes his first years in California as "very active ones for me the wonderful new country so different from any that I had previously seen the climate the splendid scenery the active energetic people and the magnificent field for scientific and especially for geological investigations." "A record of an excursion by Prof. Le Conte and nine members of one of the early classes of the university. It is stated that but 20 copies were printed" - Cowan. The actual number of copies printed was almost certainly higher perhaps as many as 120 twelve for each member of the party. <br> <br> A beautiful book with superb photographs depicting the range of northern California's natural splendor. The images are captioned on the mounts as follows: <br> <br> 1 ".Great Yosemite Fall" frontispiece group portrait of the party. <br> <br> 2 "The Grizzly Giant." <br> <br> 3 "The High Sierras." <br> <br> 4 "The Gates of the Valley." <br> <br> 5 "Bridal Veil Fall." <br> <br> 6 "The Heart of the Sierras. Lake Tenaya." <br> <br> 7 "Day-Dawn in Yosemite. The Merced River." <br> <br> 8 ".North Dome South Half Dome." <br> <br> 9 "Montgomery St. San Francisco. Where our trip ended." HOWES L175. COWAN 1914 p.137. FARQUHAR 14a. CURREY & KRUSKA 230. KURUTZ CALIFORNIA BOOKS ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS 27. ZAMORANO SELECT 64. Francis & Valentine hardcover books
184529741Boston: Bradbury Soden & Co 1845. 1st edition thus American Imprints 45-2728. Original pink printed wrappers. Series advert to rear wrapper. POS to top of front wrappers. Paper wear to spine ends. A VG set. 2 volumes vi 7 - 160; 2 161 - 320 pp. Cancel copyright notice pasted over that printed on copyright page. Frontis & engraved title page to Part I. 7" x 4-5/8" <br/><br/>First Part begins with a section on Phrenology. Uncommon in original wrappers. Bradbury Soden & Co unknown books
