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189562320<p>Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Musty boards worn front boards spotted. 1895. Reprint. Hardcover. Navy cloth binding titled in gilt on spine. Top edges gilt xix 540pp engravings. Reprint of this 1867 title describing the natural history and collecting trip undertaken by the renowned naturalist and his wife to Brazil. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .</p> Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
1892D9-7WG2-R1M51892. Hardcover. Very Good. Lenox Library 1892. Extremities rubbed with a hint of fraying at top spine edge. Pages yellowed with an occasional minor blemish binding firm. hardcover
187052488c.1870. Scene showing woman cooking. Woodcut hand coloured In fine condition. unknown
1855240500New York: Gurdon Bill 1855. New edition. Hardcover. poor. 8vo; 1-636 ii 639- 640 pages - the last page is mistakenly numbered 702 contemporary black leather covers effectively disbound. <br/><br/>An intriguing compilation illustrated with 40 portraits and plates most hand-colored six or so in black-and-white and half a dozen of animals such as an eagle bison grizzly bear black squirrel cougar and portraits of Tecumseh Joseph Brant King Philip John Smith Osceola Samoset and more. Note: the verso of p. 639 reads p.720 but should be 640. Sabin 8681. Note: Field in his INDIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY pp. 49-50 of the 1857 edition opined "The last half of the title-page must have been written by the publisher and the illustrations drawn by his infant son as the Preface and Text indicate too respectable a mind to have concocted such a farrago involving at least half a dozen falsehoods regarding the plates which are the most tawdry and offensive daubs." Field continued "The work is fairly executed and contains much condensed information . . " Bennett's AMERICAN COLOR PLATE BOOKS 1800-1900 lists the later 1856 edition and as having only 34 full-page plates. Gurdon Bill hardcover
1826100363Editions Elisée Aubanel - Tarascon 1826. Bonded Leather. <b>Livre en français</b>. Couverture rigide. Reliure pleine basane frottée trous de ver coiffes usées. 443 pages. <i>ref. 100363</i> Editions Elisée Aubanel - Tarascon hardcover
182541367Elizabethtown NJ: J. & E. Sanderson 1825. First edition. Self wrappers. A very good- copy with 4 large semi-circular dampstain marks throughout. Unpaged 4 pp. Illus. with b/w in-text drawings. 20 3/4 x 13 inches. Contents include: a full column on the Liberation of Peru led by General Sucre; the first meeting at the new seat of Government in Florida where the governor states "No part of North America is so little known.Visitors.had pronounced it a bank of sand not worth the money paid for it"; republished letters from Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. This issue not at the American Antiquarian Society. Uncommon. J. & E. Sanderson unknown
18528235London. Samuel Bagster. 1852. Bound in full blind ruled morocco. Blind ruled spine compartments with raised bands. Gilt titles. a.e.g. 32mo 2" x 3.5". A bit of rubbing to extremities. A Near Fine crisp sweet little copy. Samuel Bagster. hardcover
1802001909Paris: J. F. Barrau 1802. Apparent First French Language Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus . Modern ca 1900 green cloth binding with author's name in hand-script on spine. Light wear. Bound-in wraps with most of front cover missing partial loss to rear page cover. Small paper chipping to front inner hinge o/w well bound. Former ownership ink stamp on title page upside down: "Mo. Bot. Garden 1897" and most likely refers to the Missouri Botanical Gardens. No other institutional markings and otherwise clean with some age toning unmarked with generally light foxing. Half-title page; 220 1. Some woodcut head and tail pieces. Questions welcome scans of book available. <br/><br/>Questions welcome. Images can be made upon request. J. F. Barrau hardcover
186837791J. B. Lippincott Company. 1868. 1st U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Fair cover soil or toning a narrow 1 1/2 inch top rear edge strip worn down a top spine end small worn spot a surface scratch on the back page edges darkened. A solid sewn binding despite one signature being a bit pulled. Unmarked text. No dust jacket if issued. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. This is an original edition not a recent reprint. ; 277 pages . J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover
1897036243Philadelpha: J. B. Lippincott Company / Fred J Feldman 1897. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. Photographs Throughout; Two Original Studio Photographs. 445 Pp. Gray Cloth Gilt All Edges Gilt. First Printing. Also With 8 1/4" X 5 1/4" Studio Photograph Of An Officer In Uniform Inscribed "Truly Your Friend. Col. Quintas. Mex. Army. March 24Th 1896" Photograph Mounted On Card Gilt Edges Verso With Printed Information Of Antonio Codero Fotografo Callejonde La Olla Num. 6 Mexico. Also With A 6 1/8" X 3" Formal Portrait Photograph Of A Seated Lady Signed In Pencil "Feldman 1902" Possibly By Fred J. Feldman Of The Stout-Feldman Studio Active In El Paso As The Bushong Studio 1895- And Later As Feldman And Stout-Feldman. Book With All Gilt Bright Covers Worn And Lightly Soiled With Fraying At Corners And Broken Hinges At Endpapers. Quintas Photograph With Crease / Crack Across Lower Image Lady's Photograph Fine. Per Wikipedia Marie Robinson Wright Née Robinson; May 4 1853 - February 1 1914 Was An American Travel Writer Of The Long Nineteenth Century. She Was Elected Member Of Learned Societies In Various Parts Of The World; And Served As A Special Delegate Or Representative To International Expositions. It Was However As An Observer And Especially As A Writer That Wright Gained Her Fame. Her Books Were Written About Brazil Bolivia Chile Peru And Mexico. These Volumes Were Generous Octavos Well Illustrated And Filled With Facts Gathered Chiefly From Authoritative Sources Or Confirmed By Her Own Observations. In 1895 With Her Daughter Ida Dent Wright For Her Sole Companion She Went To Mexico. Secretary Of Foreign Affairs Ignacio Mariscal And President Porfirio Díaz Were Already Her Warm Admirers And It Was To Them She Went With Her Plans. Both These Executives Furnished Her With Letters To Every Governor In Mexico And The President Ordered Not Only A Military Escort Wherever Needed But That Special Trains And Steamboat Facilities Should Be Given Her Throughout The Country. Then She Spent A Year In Thoroughly Inspecting And Studying The Country. Besides Thousands Of Miles Of Railway And Steamboat Traveling Wright And Her Daughter Went Nearly 900 Miles 1400 Km In Mountain Regions On Mules Attended By Military Escort And Penetrating Regions Where None But Indigenous Women Had Been Seen Previously. The Result Of Her Experiences Was Put In A Large Illustrated Book On Mexico Which Was The Most Comprehensive And Beautiful Book On Mexico Ever Written In Any Language And Which Was Ordered In Advance By 8000 Mexican Officials. <br/> <br/> J. B. Lippincott Company / Fred J Feldman hardcover
185140499Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown. Good with no dust jacket; Boards have minor wear owner bookplates Fanny . Hazard Bond on front pastedowns foxing musty. 1851. Eighth Edition. Hardcover. Xxxiv 488 pp 509 pp 531 pp. All three volumes uniformly bound in three-quarter dark brown pebbled leather with marbled sides and matching endpapers. Four raised bands on each spine with titles stamped in gilt. Top edges gilt. Each volume contains a frontispiece engraving Hernando Cortes Montezuma with tissue guard. Map of Mexico in Volume One. The 1843 first edition of this title was Number 51in the Grolier Club's 1946 exhibition and publication One Hundred Influential American Books Printed Before 1900. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Charles C. Little and James Brown hardcover
1849OB922<p>Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co.; Uriah Hunt & Co. Philadelphia; M. W. Dodd NY 1849. Hard Cover. 333 p.; 20 cm. "The Review has far loftier object than those of the historical record. It aims to recommend and enforce the duty of preserving Peace by exhibiting the wickedness the baseness and the calamitous consequences of a victorious War." Sabin 35864. Bound in original blindstamped purple cloth gilt title on spine. Corners top & bottom of spine slightly worn minor splitting along top of front gutter some water discoloring to spine & edges of front and rear covers; scattered light foxing; Good. Stock#OB922.</p> Benjamin B. Mussey & Co.; Uriah Hunt & Co., Philadelphia; M. W. Dodd, NY,. hardcover
1893041565Geneva: George & Cie Libraires -Editeurs 1893 Book. Illus. by Edited Jules Nicole. Good>Very Good. Original Wraps. First Thus. ` ` = Le livre du prefet ou l'edit de l'empereur Leon le Sage sur les corporations de Constantinople : texte grec du "Genevensis 23"To Eparchikon Biblion : Le Livre du Préfet ou l'Édit de l'empereur Léon le Sage sur les corporations de Constantinople. Texte grec du Genevensis 23 publié pour la première fois par J. Nicole. Avec une traduction latine des notices exégétiques et critiques et les variantes du Genevensis 23 au texte de Julien d'Ascalon.Parallel Greek and Latin texts with introduction and notes in French. 102p.index. Pages clean and unmarked but loose in original but damaged paper wraps. George & Cie, Libraires -Editeurs paperback
18950007511895. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Rare item of Historical importance to the history of Venezuela and the Spanish speaking world. 582pp Covers detached from text - which is still tightly bound and clean. Protected by polythene covers. Signed by the author in the front. <br /><br /> Tipografía Artística Mijares, hardcover
1891023363New York: Robert H Lamborn 1891. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Plates With Tissue Guards. #424 Of 500 Copies Printed For The Author. Original Beige Cloth Elaborately Gilt Covers With Wear At Corners Frayed At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Two Front Tips Spine And Cover Gilt Still Brilliant But Spine Darkened And Covers Dusty With A Little Soiling. Inscribed By The Author To Mrs. Brinton And Dated In 1892. <br/> <br/> Robert H Lamborn hardcover
18250006996Edinburgh: Archibald Constable 1825. Fourth edition Revised and Enlarged . Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimos; xx 379; xii 320 80 pages contemporary quarter calf marbled boards tips of spines worn tight scuffed boards. Lacks the frontispiece chart in vol.1. Light tidal marks on endpapers bookplate front hinge of vol. 1 and heel chips repaired. <br/><br/>These chapters have been re-ordered. The chapter on the Mexican Revolution is enlarged with an account of the death of Iturbide the ex-Emperor. The treatment of the Spanish Colonial System is corrected and enlarged. There is additional material about the climate of South America and diseases supplied by George Birnie Surgeon of The Conway. Several new Extracts have been added plus additions to the Appendix. Archibald Constable hardcover
1873006768London: Longman Green and Co 1873. 556pp/illus. Publisher's blind and gilt embossed cloth covered boards. Illustrated with eight chromooxylographic plates and numerous woodcuts. A popular scientific acount of the natural history of the animal and vegetable kingdoms in the equatorial regions. The binding is firm though beginning to show the wear in places both covers are attached. There is some light wear to the extremities including some bumping to the spine and corners. Internally the book is clean with only light foxing in places. . Revised Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Longman, Green, and Co hardcover
18530008336Boston: Horace Wentworth 1853. New edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo; 1-636 ii 639- 640 pages - the last page is mistakenly numbered 702 contemporary black leather covers newly rebacked saving as much of the original spine as possible new endpapers. <br/><br/>An intriguing compilation illustrated with 40 portraits and plates most hand-colored six or so in black-and-white and half a dozen of animals such as an eagle bison grizzly bear black squirrel cougar and portraits of Teumseh Joseph Brant King Philip John Smith Osceola Samoset and more. Note: the verso of p. 639 reads p.720 but should be 640. Sabin 8681. Note: Field in his INDIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY pp. 49-50 of the 1857 edition opined "The last half of the title-page must have been written by the publisher and the illustrations drawn by his infant son as the Preface and Text indicate too respectable a mind to have concocted such a farrago involving at least half a dozen falsehoods regarding the plates which are the most tawdry and offensive daubs." Field continued "The work is fairly executed and contains much condensed information . . " Bennett's AMERICAN COLOR PLATE BOOKS 1800-1900 lists the later 1856 edition and as having only 34 full-page plates. Horace Wentworth hardcover
18290005575Boston: Bowles and Dearborn 1829. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo xv 256pp. original quarter linen & boards untrimmed 250mm x 145mm chipped paper label on spine shaken inked name on free endpaper needs some resewing. <br/><br/>Rev. Abbot went to Cuba to restore his fragile health. This eloquent Harvard graduate then traversed a thousand miles on horseback through Sumidero and Lemonal Matanzas a week in Havana etc. "The pictures he has given are of things which were immediately before him as exact in circumstances and as true to the life as his pencil could pourtray; and the statement of facts is correct according to his convictions - Preface." Sabin 14; Palau 519; Shaw & Shoemaker 37345. Abbot died on his return trip before reaching his Massachusetts home. Bowles and Dearborn hardcover
1806ALEX139Impensis by S. F. Bradford Philadelphia: 1806 1806 561 p. i.e. 571 p. Various pagination. Double column. Text in Greek and Latin. Early manuscript ownership of Samuel Helffenstein 1775-1866. Also Peter Plug 1816 and J.N. Wagner. Crude pencil drawings on rear fly leaves. Text beginning to brown but not brittle. 12mo. 185 mm. Original full leather binding scuffed and worn. Original leather spine label. Loss at head of spine. Hardbound. Good. Helffenstein was Elected as minister of the Pennsylvania Bible Society in 1799 and served as a manager of the Bible Society from 1808-1854. The Society probably sponsored this Greek/Latin Edition. He was pastor of the First Reformed Church St. Peter's German Reformed in Philadelphia. His father - Rev. John Christian Albert Helfenstein was a minister of the German Reformed Congregation in Germantown. S&S/AI 9974. First American Edition of a Greek & Latin New Testament. SCARCE. Apparently not listed for sale on-line anywhere. PRICE JUST REDUCED! PAIMP 10. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Impensis by S. F. Bradford, Philadelphia: 1806 hardcover
182822814London: William Pickering and John Major 1828. Assumed First Edition . Hard Back. Very Good/No Jacket. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 389 Pages. Printed for the Author by William Nicol At The Shakespeare Press in 1828. Book 1 Ends on Page 97. Book 2 Ends 0n Page 159 and Book 3 Ends on Page 389 the last page of the book. Sixteen pages of subscribers names. Mr. Major Bookseller subscribed to fifty copies. Raised bands on spine with marbled endpapers and page edges are gold. Front boards show light wear at the spine area. <br/> <br/> William Pickering and John Major hardcover
187916318Little Brown and Company 1879. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. Ninth edition. Revised and brought down to date." Page edges browned and foxed; extensive foxing of front endpapers especially frontispiece and facing title page despite protective rice paper transparency and again on the map facing first page of chapter one - fewer than ten pages are foxed but it is disheartening that it includes two sets of illustrations. There are 150 engravings in all. There is a three inch tear to the foldout map where it is attached to the page. On the verso of the front board is a former owner's bookplate. On the third front endpaper there is a 1886 gift inscription from Alencar Cintra to Colonel Henry B. Davenport. Binding is visibly rounded with rub marks on corners and spine tips otherwise the beveled decorative borders and gilt lettering on green cloth boards and spine are in very good plus condition. There is a three inch split at front pastedown gutter hinge emanating from the tail. <br/> <br/> Little, Brown, and Company hardcover
1820E0028xxxvi396 pages Octavo 9" x 5 1/4" bound in stiff boards with cloth spine and spine label. Howes R380. Sabin 72202 First edition.<br /><br />Francisco Xavier Mina Spanish revolutionist and filibuster was born at Idocín Navarre in northern Spain on December 3 1789. As a student at the University of Zaragoza in 1808 when his countrymen rebelled against French control he joined the Spanish liberals and quickly became a leading guerrilla. When Ferdinand VII returned to the Spanish throne and renounced the liberal constitution of 1812 Mina opposed him and was eventually forced to flee. In October 1814 he arrived in England where he became acquainted with General Winfield Scott of the United States and Father José Servando Teresa de Mier Noriega y Guerra an ardent Mexican liberal who encouraged Mina to strike at Ferdinand VII through an invasion of Mexico. Scott also is thought to have encouraged Mina and to have assured him of the support of the United States for an expedition to free Mexico from Spain. As a result of this encouragement Mina made preparations to form an expedition. On May 15 1816 he left Liverpool in the ship Caledonia expecting to attack Mexico. On June 20 1816 the Caledonia reached Norfolk Virginia. Mina left it there to proceed to Washington while the ship moved on to Baltimore. At Washington he presumably conferred with high officials but this is not certain. He proceeded then to Baltimore where merchants of that city were willing to gamble on the expedition by furnishing the ship Calypso and arms and munitions for the enterprise. In July Mina visited Philadelphia and in August he went to New York always enlisting aid for his cause. New York merchants gave him two vessels and supplies. By the end of August 1816 he was ready to sail but complications arose with the Spanish minister in Washington who was bringing pressure to bear on the United States to prevent the expedition. Two vessels the Caledonia and the Dolphin however were dispatched to Port-au-Prince on September 1 1816. Father Mier who was with Mina on the expedition was sent ahead on September 19 1816 to contact revolutionary forces in Mexico. Mina in the Calypso left Baltimore on September 26 bound for Port-au-Prince where he arrived on October 13 1816. After difficulties and delays including disease and desertion he was able to set sail from Port-au-Prince on October 27 with four vessels headed for Galveston to join Louis Michel Aury who was also planning an invasion of Mexico. Mina reached Galveston on November 22 with about 140 officers and men. After some bickering with Aury Mina was permitted to land and began to organize his forces. Mier meanwhile had been forced by bad weather to land in New Orleans and in early December left for Galveston with the information that aid and assistance could be raised in New Orleans probably with the proviso that Mina proceed to Pensacola rather than Mexico. Mina proceeded to New Orleans in February 1817 and conferred with his New Orleans associates but decided against an attack on Pensacola deploring the commercial character of such an expedition. He bought two ships the Cleopatra and the Neptune at New Orleans. On March 16 he was again at Galveston where he received the force of Colonel Henry Perry 100 men. An arrangement was made whereby Aury was to be naval commander of the expedition while Mina was to have command of the military. The invasion point of Mexico was to be Soto la Marina Tamaulipas. The expedition left Galveston Island on April 7 with a force of eight ships and 235 men. After stopping at the mouth of the Rio Grande for water the force reached the mouth of the Santander River on April 11. The troops were disembarked on April 15. Mina captured Soto la Marina without difficulty and proceeded inland. After many small victories over the Spanish all the while trying to restore unity among insurgent leaders he was defeated and captured at Venadito on October 27. He was taken to Mexico City tried and executed at Fort San Gregorio with twenty-five companions on November 11 1817 at the age of twenty-eight years.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />New cloth over boards with original label attached to spine spine reinforced with later fabric back-strip some toning to the pages throughout hinges tender else a good copy. Printed for the author [by] Lydia R. Bailey, printer hardcover
18953iiiGb0012New York et al.: Benziger Brothers Printers to the Holy Apostolic See 1895. Book. Illus. by Jesus Most Suffering! Mary Mother Most Sorrowful! Be Ye My Love Henceforth Till Death Frontispiece. Very Good. Hardcover Canvas. May 1 1895. 16mo or 16° Sextodecimo: 5¾" x 6¾" tall. 800 pp. A rare hard-to-find out-of-print scarce true collectible gem! A wonderful copy! A 19th-Century copy! Solidly bound copy with moderate external but minimal internal wear and use. Copy with crisp pages and clean text. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page. No jacket. . Benziger Brothers, Printers to the Holy Apostolic See Hardcover
18512010AG1851. London & New York J & F. Tallis 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Plate Size: 32.4 cm x 27.3 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 27.4 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. John Tallis 7 November 1817 3 June 1876 was an English cartographic publisher. His company John Tallis and Company published views maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846 and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis and Company. He started The illustrated news of the world and national portrait gallery of eminent personages in 1858 selling it for £1370 in 1861; it folded in 1863. Wikipedia The most important project John Tallis undertook was the 'Illustrated Atlas' from 1851. The original map we offer here was part of this exceptional Atlas and all the maps it contained are still today considered as the last reminder of an era of lavish map production. Tallis worked the project together with John Rapkin 1815-1876 and it was Rapkin's style and talent that we have to thank for when we marvel at these maps today. What makes these maps so special is the detail of engraved vignettes that surround the map and often show indigenous scenes people in their environment and even more so historical buildings or historical views of towns and cities architecture and landscape. The project of 'The Illustrated Atlas' was designed to be finished just in time for the anxiously awaited "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" or The Great Exhibition sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park London from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century and it was a much anticipated event. The Great Exhibition was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert husband of the reigning monarch Queen Victoria. It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time including Charles Darwin Samuel Colt members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson. Music for the opening was under the direction of Sir George Thomas Smart and the continuous music from the exhibited organs for the Queen's procession was "under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett". Wikipedia unknown
