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189733899NY: Harper & Bros. 1897. TWO VOLS. with. FOUR MAPS in pockets of the first volume. 3 smaller maps in rear pocket; fourth larger map in front pocket. Boards show moderate wear. Gilt. Both volumes are a bit rubbed at the base of their spines. 3/4 inch closed tear at top of Vol. II. Hinges sound. Owner's name and number at front flyleaves of both volumes. Pages mildly toned. A clean and sound set. Careful packing and fast efficient shipping including delivery confirmation. Please note: International and Domestic Priority orders for this item will require additional shipping. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Harper & Bros. Hardcover
1869097710Bailey and Noyes 1869 Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. Light normal age/use wear. Volume 1. "With an Appendix on the Voyages of the Cabots." Published by the Maine Historical Society Aided by Appropriations from the State. Bailey and Noyes hardcover
1857089920London: The Camden Society 1857. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. xiv 188. Larger 8vo. Bound in original green cloth blocked in blind and gilt. Laid-in loose at the end of the book is an enclosure described as follows: 'The two leaves inclosed were accidentally omitted from the DIARY OF DEAN DAVIES where they are to be placed after page 120; and the leaf of Index is to be added after the former Index.' These pages now a bit ragged at foredges. Binding shows sl. bumping to tips light rubbing to extremities and light scuffing to cloth. Hinges tight contents very clean. Overall in good plus to very good condition. Publication no. LXVIII of the Society. Report of the Society's Council bound-in at end as well as List of Works. First published in 1857 by the Society and now a very scarce title having recently been reprinted in facsimile by AMS Press but almost impossible to find in the original edition. The Camden Society hardcover
187311666New York: The Tribune Association. Fair with no dust jacket. 1873. First Thus. Hardcover. Ex-library Riwaka Library a small 19th century provincial New Zealand library Riwaka is situated 5km from Motueka in the upper part of New Zealand's South Island. Rebound in late 19th Century half-calf library binding. Cloth lifting from boards. Hinges broken. Damp wrinkles to endpapers. One leaf nearly detached. A 1" tear to frontispiece. Creasing to frontispiece. Large 5" tear to one leaf. ; Uncommon in this edition. xv 1 17-624 pages frontispiece facsimile letter 2 plates 5 in-text illustrations an appendix of lxiii 1 pages. Lacking the half-title page. The appendix is found between pages 430 and 431 i.e. it precedes the section titled "Miscellanies". Half-calf binding. "The 'Recollections' as prepared by Mr. Greeley originally for a newspaper are in no full sense of the word an autobiography. Many incidents of his life he preferred or was obliged to leave unmentioned; and certain slight memoranda of his life subsequent to the period at which his own 'Recollections' close may have a value to the reader of this volume." - from the Appendix. Greeley was an editor of the New York Tribune. Selected contents: Adieu to New Hampshire; A Year by Lake Erie; My First Experiences in New York; Log-Cabin Days; Socialism; Margaret Fuller; Beggars and Borrowers; The Great Senators - The Compromise of 1850; The Slavery Controversy; My Farm; Two Days in Jail; A Ride across the Plains; The Rocky Mountains - The Great Basin; Utah - Nevada; The Sierra Nevada - The Yosemite - The Big Trees; Secession - How Confronted; Abraham Lincoln; Jefferson Davis; Literature as a Vocation; Poets and Poetry; Reforms and Reformers. ; Ex-Library; 8vo . The Tribune Association hardcover
1897106029New York: D. Appleton. 1897. 3rd authorised edition octavo original half-leather binding with marbled sides gilt lettering to spine top edge gilt three fold-out maps pp xx 344. Some scraping to the sides. Rubbing to the spine and the corners: the central area of the spine is significantly darkened. Internally clean. With the three fold-out maps two of which have coloured details and in excellent condition. Very good condition. First published in its original form as Darwin's first monograph under the title "The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle under the command of Capt. Fitzroy R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836" The monograph set out Darwin's theory of the formation of coral reefs and atolls. He extensively revised and rewrote the book for its 1874 second edition to take into account James Dwight Dana's 1872 publication 'Corals and Coral Islands' and work by Joseph Jukes. This is the third edition with Darwin's prefaces to the first and second edition and a preface to this edition by his son Francis Darwin. It also includes an appendix by the geologist Thomas George Bonney on the study of coral reefs since 1874. "The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs" remains an important landmark in the science of coral reefs and is relatively uncommon. Includes references to North-West coast of Australia and the Great Barrier Reef 3rd edition. Half leather. D. Appleton hardcover
1874036423London: Longmans Green & Co. 1874. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp xv 282 complete with title pages bound in. Cloth spine with some wear gilt lettering and marbled paper covered boards again with some wear and loss to paper board corners worn and rounded. Contents clean and tight cancellation stamp to the rear endpaper from Devon Library services. Text block is firm and clean without annotation. A very good scarce copy of this title. Longmans, Green, & Co. Hardcover
1885W120831Paris, Gauthier-Villars 1885 Complet en 2 tomes, I: xx + 103pp. (+ 4 & 32pp. catalogue de l'éditeur) + 1 feuillet d'errata, II: Atlas de 34 planches, 25cm., brochures originales (dos du t.1 renforcé, bien protégée d'une couverture supplémentaire de papier cristal), qqs. rousseurs, 1e édition française (traduit de l'italien par Louis Bossut), W120831
1891298428London : Cassell & Co 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Finely bound in contemporary gilt-blocked calf over buckram boards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description: 3 preliminary leaves v-viii 328 pages frontispiece illustrations including plans plates 28 cm. Subjects: Historic buildings - Great Britain. Country homes - Great Britain. Dwellings - Great Britain. London : Cassell & Co hardcover
1839012367London: George Rutlledge 1839. New Edition and First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. A New Edition in Two Volumes" Three quarter black polished calf over marbleized boards all edges marbleized gilt to spine. A handsome set. Solid bindings. George Rutlledge hardcover books
1839012367London: George Rutlledge 1839. New Edition and First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good . A New Edition in Two Volumes" Three quarter black polished calf over marbleized boards all edges marbleized gilt to spine. A handsome set. Solid bindings. George Rutlledge hardcover
18111355404Philadelphia: Edward Parker 1811. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo viii 412 pp. Good; contemporary leather on boards with rebound spine in modern leather; some surface marks to boards and wear to edges and corners; binding tight; text block slightly discolored; extensive foxing and age-toning throughout; previous owners' names in ink on inside front cover and title page "Robt M. Sullivan" and "J. Sullivan Thomas"; ex-library copy with usual markings including a bookplate to front pastedown. MF consignment. 1355404. Special Collections. Edward Parker hardcover
186420961Oxford and London: John Henry and James Parker. Good with no dust jacket. 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Small tears and chips to cloth at ends of spine and at tips of corners of boards. Hinges split and reinforced with red cloth tape. Signs of label removal from front endpaper. Contemporary owner's signature on title page "Geo C. Smythe / Coole Glehn illegible". ; x 2 xviii 2 282 2 blank pages chromolithograph frontispiece 3 chromolithograph plates 6 tinted lithograph plates 4 maps 1 with hand-coloured route of Col. Smythe; 2 folding 2 lithograph plates. 3 in-text engravings. Original green cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine gilt sailing vessel illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 223 x 138mm. Pink coated endpapers. "The circumstances which led to my official mission to the Fiji Islands and an account of the voyage to them by way of Sydney and Auckland and on return to England by San Francisco and Panama will be found briefly related in the Introduction. Mrs. Smythe's Letters written originally to friends at home contain a personal narrative of our cruise aomng the Isaldns and of our subsequent sojourn at them." - from the Preface by W. J. Smythe. The illustrations are: Levuka Island of Ovalau; The 'Pegasus' towed to her Moorings; Interior of the Great Chapel at Mbau; Mbau; Chapel in process of erection at Vutia; Navatu; Meeting at Nanduri Mathuata; Meeting at Nakorotumbu; View of the Reef Lakemba; Fawn Harbour Vanua-levu; View from the Observatory Levuka; Cocoa-nut Trees in a Storm; View from Observatory looking towards the Wood. The 4 maps are: Map of Pacific Ocean; Map of Fiji Group; Map of Route from Navua to Namusi; Map or portion of Melanesia. ; 8vo . John Henry and James Parker hardcover
1818049328Boston: Samuel Avery 1818. Published 1818. Biography of this this notable Revolutionary War military leader from Connecticut with an appendix describing the Battle of Bunker Hill. Full brown leather with red spine label engraved frontis portrait 276 pages. Worn but sound front joint cracked but cover secure spine label chipped additional expected wear text block sound endpapers removed pages age-toned with some sporadic foxing and finger soil no names or other markings. Hard Cover. Fair. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Samuel Avery Hardcover
189210431<p>London Printed at Chiswick Press 1892. HB NODJ ISSUED 1892 1st edition with colophon on Last pageSoft Light Brown Tweed with White Vellum Leather Spine with Gold Gilt Decorations & Titles NF/VG AS-IS NODJ Minor Cover Rub & Scuff Minor Soil Spine Some Fox 194 pgs Interior Nice Tight Clean . First Edition. Hard Cover.</p> London Printed at Chiswick Press hardcover
1881098587London: Published By Holtzapffel 1881. Book measures 23 x 15 cm. 144pp 31 full page plates half title. Bound in original publishers embossed cloth with gilt lettering yellow endpapers. Cloth very slightly faded. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally pages clean throughout. A very nice copy. . Publishers Binding. Very Good Plus. 8vo. Published By Holtzapffel Hardcover
18752096253Paris: Dunod 1875. VIII, 204, (19) Seiten. Unbeschnitten und teils unaufgeschnitten. Mit schönem lithograophiertem Frontispiz (Standuhr), vielen physikalischen Schemata und Formeln im Text sowie zahlreichen technischen Abbildungen auf 19 lithographierten Falttafeln im Anhang. 4° (28 x 18 cm). Lithographierte Interimsbroschur. [Softcover / Paperback].
1875288042Wm Wood & Co. 1875 Black Leather Gilt Title Spine Gilt Fore Edges. Damp Stains To Fep. Crease Front Cover Tight.277 Pgs. Publisher's Ads Rear 3 Pages Clean. Rare Copy medical miniature. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Wm Wood & Co. paperback
18709137<p>Full green cloth gilt title to spine. Top edge gilt. Wear to front hinge as well as wear to head of spine see image. Previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper. Overall a nice clean copy.</p><p>6.5 x 9.5 in</p> Robert Clarke & Co. hardcover
1870BOOKS8106London UK: Lockwood & Co. FR/NO DUSTJACKET. 1870. 5th editon. Cloth. 4to. xxii 336 pp. 64 pl. cover rubbed bumped frayed spine torn writing on ffe page toning plate edges frayed . Lockwood & Co. hardcover
1897012476NY: Harper & Brothers 1897. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Apparently unused near fine copies both volumes. All maps extant and on original folds in pockets front and rear volume 1. Illustrated. ARCTIC NORWAY NORTH POLE EXPLORATION. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1860198302London : Walton and Maberly 1860. 2nd edition revised. Hardback. Very good copies bound in contemporary gilt-blocked sand-grained leather. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Minor library marks. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 1682 pages; Physical description: 2 v. 1682 78p. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Bible. O. T. - Concordances Hebrew. Bible. O. T. - Concordances Chaldee. Notes: Based on the work of William Burgh / edited by George V. Wigram. Lacks introduction xvi pages. Text in double columns. Includes 78-page appendix and index. London : Walton and Maberly hardcover
1893041886Philadelphia PA: Boericke & Tafel 1893. Book. VG. Half-Leather. First Thus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Original black 1/2 leather black pebbled cloth spine panel lettered in gilt. Light rubbing to corners and spine extremities minor surface rubbing to covers. Firm binding intact hinges clean interior a very nicely preserved copy. 804 pp. Boericke & Tafel Hardcover
18171356611New-York: Collins & Co 1817. Fourth American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xvi 915 pp. Fourth American Edition from the Fifth London Edition. Good plus; bound in contemporary leather with some slight surface marks to covers minor tear to spine edges and wear to corners; binding tight; text block slightly age-toned with some scattered ink marks; extensive foxing and some age-toning to pages throughout; previous owner names in ink on ffep; tear to lower corner of ffep; MF consignment. 1356611. Special Collections. Collins & Co hardcover
18171363370New York: Collins & Co 1817. Fourth American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xvi 915 pages 3; G; Bound in full tree calf with banded spine and morocco spine label with gilt lettering; Boards show light wear overall with moderate wear to bottom edges some light bumping to fore- and top-edge minor chipping to head of spine some light bumping to head and tail of spine and several faint scratches to front cover; Partial splitting to text block spine at page 514 all pages intact; Text block has moderate age toning to edges light to significant uneven age toning and foxing throughout interiorly owners inscriptions in 19th century hand on ffep and title page with several ink emendations to front paste down; With three pages of publishers ads at back; In protective mylar cover. RWO. 1363370. Special Collections. Collins & Co hardcover
1856009851Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Blanchard and Lea 1856. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. Large Thick Octavo. xxiv 724 pp 64 page catalogue adverts. Index. list of 434 wood engravings. 6.25" x 9.4" brown cloth boards with blind stamped design to fr cover and spine gilt spine titles. Binding tight pages clean unmarked paper well-preserved. Faint wear to spine cloth tips very bottom surface edges show boards in places visible looking from the bottom else very little wear to exterior. Text block edges darkened with age. . Blanchard and Lea Hardcover