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182634041Edinburgh and London: Archibald Constable and Co. and Longman Rees et al. 1826. 3 volumes. First Edition. With fine Scottish provenance being Ex-libris of the Bellfield Library Kilmarnock and James Buchanan merchant of Glencoe. With half-titles in each volume. 8vo handsomely bound in vellum over blue paper-covered boards with the publisher's original printed paper labels on the spines top edge gilt others untrimmed xvi 315; 332; 370 pp. A set in beautiful condition the text fresh and as pristine but for a bit of the typical mellowing or occasional age evidence. The bindings are sturdy and strong and show little wear or use a little bit of spotting from age to the bindings publisher's printed labels are fresh and very legible. Ownership signature of James Buchanan unobtrusively at top of the titlepage and stamp of the Bellfield Library on each title-page and occasionally at chapter openings no other markings within hard-to-see evidence of small circular shelf labels once being on the spine tops. FIRST EDITION OF A SCARCE AND EXCELLENT WORK THIS SET IN UNCOMMONLY FINE AND WELL-PRESERVED CONDITION and with all half-titles as is often not the case. Sir Walter Scott was considered to be the inventor of the historical novel and the success of his Waverley series was immediate and long lasting throughout the English speaking world.<br> Set shortly after the English Civil War WOODSTOCK was inspired by the legend of the Good Devil of Woodstock which in 1649 supposedly tormented parliamentary commissioners who had taken possession of a royal residence at Woodstock Oxfordshire. The story deals with the escape of Charles II in 1652 during the Commonwealth and his final triumphant entry into London on 29 May 1660. David Hume's HISTORY OF ENGLAND gave Scott most of the historical background.<br> As with all the Waverley novels prior to 1827 WOODSTOCK was published anonymously. Archibald Constable and Co. and Longman, Rees, et al. hardcover
1880009032London Paris & New York: Cassell Petter Galpin & Co 1880 60 leaves printed on rectos only. Color pictorial boards with a 2" abrasion to front cover heavy shelf wear losss to spine ends gift inscriptions and a few small marks inside but generally clean. Entertaining verse accompanied by color artwork on every page. The verses and images range from everyday scenes whimsy and nearly fantastical including a humanized kite cat and insects. Originally published in booklet format in 3 volumes. Scarce. Pictorial Boards. Good/No Jacket. 4to. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co unknown
1853004458Schoonhoven: S.E. Van Nooten 1853 160 pagina's. 1 Gravure / titelplaat door W.F. Wehmeyer / H.F.C. ten Kate. Vertaling door C.M. Mensing. Kleine gebruiksspoortjes. 1ste / 1st. cloth / linnen hardcover. good / goed. A5 formaat. S.E. Van Nooten hardcover
1820P1324Paris 1820. Excellent. Notes: Published in the important and comprehensive work on Egypt commissioned by Napoleon: "Description de l’Egypte ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont ete faites en Egypte pendant l’expedition de l’armee Francaise." Image Size : 287x440 mm 11.25x17.25 Inches Platemark Size : 385x535 mm 15.125x21 Inches Paper Size : 520x692 mm 20.5x27.25 Inches Coloring: Black & White Medium: Copper Engraving Categories: Crafts & Trades unknown
1817P3022Paris c.1817. Very Good. Notes: From the grand series of Description d'Egypte. Image Size : 345x480 mm 13.58x18.90 Inches Platemark Size : Paper Size : 375x495 mm 14.76x19.49 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Medium: Copper Engraving Categories: Views Africa Egypt;Religious Islamic; unknown
189401809New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1894. First edition. Twelvemo. Brown pictorial cloth stamped in gilt; v 437 1 pp.; illustrations. The scarce first edition of Twilight Land a collection of fairy tales written and illustrated by Howard Pyle and the result of Pyle's "untrammelled imagination an inexhaustible vocabulary and a long-practised pencil." Illustrated with black & white illustrations profusely throughout. A Very Good copy with some rubbing to cloth; gilt to spine rubbed and dulled; corners bumped; owner's penciled name to front endpaper bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown else clean throughout. We find no other copies of this first edition in commerce 2015. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
1802LZZraGOZ17<p>Tübingen: J.G.Cotta 1802. 1802. small 8vo. pp. 2 p.l. 155. contemporary half calf gilt back worn but sound some foxing throughout former owner's signature & stamp on title. First Edition in German Translated and Adapted by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. F. Hardcover.</p> Tübingen: J.G.Cotta, 1802. hardcover
1899009612No Place: Juvenile Publishers 1899 Unpaginated. Pictorial boards accented in gilt cloth spine corners worn edges rubbed clean overall with a few signs of use internally. The publishers really tried to pack a lot into this one little book! We start out with an alphabet with two examples and brief verse for each letter then we go on to counting then days of the week then months and finish off with some natural history. Peppered throughout the book are Mother Goose rhymes. The book is illustrated in two-color plus line art printed with blue ink and there is a color frontis depicting Little Red Riding Hood. There are even some Wain-esque cats! Something for everyone really. . Pictorial Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Various. 8vo. Juvenile Publishers unknown
1886009502New York: McLoughlin Bros 1886 Covers printed in red green & black cover illustration signed W Momberger small loss to corner of cover base of spine with later stitching occasional soil but clean overall. A rather gruesome version of the Three Little Pigs illustrated with colored engravings printed on one side of paper only. AAS dates this version from around 1886. Pictorial Wraps. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by William Momberger and Other Engravings. Large 8vo. McLoughlin Bros unknown
189631358London: Dent 1896. 1st ed. Hardcover. Rackham Arthur. 1st ptg. 8vo full green pebbled cloth with pictorial gilt titling. The earliest book showing Rackham identified as illustrator on the title page and the first to display his classic style of fantastical illustration. Toning to endpapers else a fine bright interior. Dent hardcover
18858996N.p.: Privately Printed 1885. First edition. 7x5" 19pp. Vignette on title page. String bound in beige printed card wrappers. Light chipping to edges of wraps clean internally and very good. <br /> <br /> Rare booklet from one of the early pioneers of the Puget Sound Edward Jay Allen 1830-1915. Unusual for immigrants heading west Allen was college-educated and single. He settled near Olympia in 1852 after his overland journey from Pennsylvania. Interestingly Allen negotiated with the local Native Americans to pay for the land before he took up residence. He played an important role in early surveys and road building in the area before returning east in 1855.<br /> <br /> This story likely written for his children is told by a fater to his 7-year-old and begins "Once upon a time there was a Prince." An epic battle ensues between the Fairy Godmother and the Great White King to preserve the wildflowers the Prince loved so well. "If you build these Walls of Sand around the Prince's flowers the power of the Great White King shall be naught and the flowers may bloom on forever."<br /> <br /> OCLC cites a single holding at the University of Pittsburgh and we find no mention of this booklet elsewhere. <br /> <br /> . Privately Printed unknown
1897014614New York/London: The Macmillan Company/Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1897 Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Original maroon cloth over boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Top edge gilt. Front free endpaper has been carelessly torn out and damaged the front endpaper's inside edge webbing showing through. Some minor edge wear. The author was the daughter of a doctor geologist and professor at Berkley. This book is suggested on a forum for readers wishing to read "weird 19th century fiction." The author uses characters from Greek mythology to tell the romantic fantasy story of people threatened by evil forces. Scarce. 120 pp. plus five pages of ads. The Macmillan Company/Macmillan & Co., Ltd. hardcover
1897A36120New York: MacMillan Company. Very Good. 1897. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author with a short inscription on the front endpaper. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners have some bumping rubbing and light fraying. The text pages pages are clean and bright. Both front and rear endpapers have spots of toning. This copy has been signed by the author with a short inscription on the front endpaper. "Bleiler 1978 p. 120. Not in Reginald 1979; 1992. Wright III 3244." "It is a weird allegory of the power of love to overcome all the forces of darkness" from Overland Monthly 1897 The author uses Greek Mythology to people a heroic fantasy romance imperiled by the Underworld. ; Signed by Author . MacMillan Company hardcover
19000005500Chicago: George M. Hill Company 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Good. W.W. DENSLOW. Quarto 84 pages pictorial boards rubbed edgeworn corners worn rebacked in brown leather with new endpapers. <br/><br/>Verse by L. Frank Baum. Music by Alberta N. Hall. There was only one printing of this edition. Bienvenue & Schmidt p. 171 report no known copies with a dust jacket. Illustrated by W. W. Denslow who of course also did THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ. George M. Hill Company hardcover
184450909London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1844. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Half-leather 21 cm 69 ff. tp chromolithographic page and illustration boarders etc. designed by Owen Jones. Scarce. Fair copy but for light foxing throughout; leather spine deteriorating at edges. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans hardcover
188712874AB1887. Tokyo Hasegawa 1887. 15 : 105 cm. 12 leaves With many coloured woodcuts. Bound in Japanese style in coloured illustrated original wrappers. Japanese Fairy Tale Series 16. - Printed on crepe-paper. - Catalogue Crepe-Paper Books and Woodblock Prints no. 24. - A beautiful copy. unknown
189956593Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Near Fine. 1899. Hardcover. Stapled printed wraps. Offprint from the Journal of Geology Vol. VII no. 6 September-October 1899. Pp. 525-544. Near fine trace thumbing. Inscribed to the front cover by Le Conte. PO stamp to cover of John C. Merriam American paleontologist. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author . University of Chicago Press hardcover
1874093826London: Cassell Petter & Galpin 1874. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. W.C. Walter Crane; E.G. Ernest Griset; F.B. F. Barnard and others. Third edition dated 1874 from the printer's mark at rear octavo hardback Pictorial gilt brown cloth all edges gilt viii 226 pp 7 coloured plates by Walter Crane deduced from his monogram on some plates so probably lacking a colour frontispiece. Many wood cut illustrations by Griset and Barnard Gilt rubbed and dull Good condition overall. No inscriptions. <br/> <br/> Cassell Petter & Galpin hardcover
189313006London: Lawrence & Bullen 1893. Limited ed. Hardcover. Weguelin J.R. #123 of 150 numbered copies 4to imitation parchment stamped in gilt. Translated by R. Nisbet Bain. J.R. Weguelin's illustrations were printed on tissue and mounted to the page then protected with tissue guards. Owner's name and date to front pastedown lightly edgeworn with soiling to cover and mild foxing to preliminaries else a very good copy of an uncommon collection of classic tales. Lawrence & Bullen hardcover
1852379901London : R. Bentley 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Provenance: Initialed bookplate. Spine bands worn. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description : 2 volumes 20 cm. Notes : ""I have here and there omitted some passages which did not appear essential to the narrative.""--Pref. p. viii.""I have here and there omitted some passages which did not appear essential to the narrative.""--Pref. p. viii. Donated by John Forster. Includes bibliographical references. Contents : Vol. 1 -- Vol. 2. Subjects :Dante Alighieri 1265-1321 Biography. Italy. Homes and haunts Italy. London : R. Bentley hardcover
186241698AB1862. First Edition of a comic-style publication. London Ward And Lock 158 Fleet Street / Printed by Levey Robson and Franklyn 1862. 11 x 17cm. IV 220 pages with numerous grotesque illustrations. Original Hardcover with patterned cloth. Binding slightly shaky only. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With illustrations in "Punch - Style". Includes for example the following chapters: The Opium Dream / Hippodrollery / Speculations Upon Masquerades / Shakesperian Fancies / Shakesperian Fancies / etc. hardcover
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
18831709020008Boston: S.E. Cassino 1883. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes. 24 cm. Collated: xxiv 412; 2 iv 814 6 pp. 54 hand-colored plates. Rebound in modern green cloth with gold lettering. Pages generally clean with a few scattered spots. Say was one of the most important early American Entomologists. He founded the Entomological Society of America and described over 1500 new species of insects. ABPC 23 S.E. Cassino hardcover
18586047Washington. 1858. Folio 31.8cm. Pp. vi58 col. frontisp. map 33 finely lithogr. figs. on 2 pls. Plain new wrs. Washington. unknown
18606496alJames Nichol. Fair. Hardcover. 1860. Text tanned in all volumes very readable for a copy this age. For more information see Description<br><p>Vol I: cover and spine scuffed on edges spine worn name on inside cover pa ge edge tanned and stained</p> ide cover page edge worn and tanned</p> . James Nichol hardcover
