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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
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
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
189449633London: Robert Cocks & Co. 1894. Hardback. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Robert Cocks & Co. hardcover
18701409214Washington: Government Printing Office 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 234 pages plus 5 plates. In Very Good minus condition. In black leather half binding with green cloth boards with gilt stamped decoration on front cover and gilt titling to spine. Significant rubbing and wear to leather elements of boards and spine with exposed board at the fore corners cracking along the joints and chipping at the head and tail. Text block shows moderate toning and wear along edges with dust soiling to top edge. Lightly age toned and sparsely foxed throughout. Ex-library with faint ink stamps and sparse penciling present on some pages throughout. Bookplate on front pastedown from U. S. Navy surgeon and medical director Ninian Pinkney who was especially prominent and recognized for his work during the Civil War. Shelved in Room A. 1409214. Special Collections. Government Printing Office hardcover
1892BOOKS351444Harrisburg PA: Edwin K. Meyers State Printer. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1892. . Hardcover. Sm 4to. 187 p.p. Shelf wear; head and tail of spine and corners of cover bumped and frayed; cracked inner hinge; shelf lean; previous owner's inscription on first front free-end paper; edges of cover rubbed; top page edges soiled; top right corner of pastedown torn; spine faded; pages clean and unmarked. . Edwin K. Meyers, State Printer hardcover
1889041606Privately Printed 1889. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light brown 1/2 calf rust textured cloth covered boards 5 raised spine bands with title label in gilt marbled text block edges and endpapers. No. 36 of a first limited edition limited to 52 copies hand-numbered on limitation statement on main title verso followed by an issue of 300 copies. Leather is nicely intact darkened along spine panel with mild rubbing/exposure to corners. Firm binding. xl586 pp. Exceptionally scarce in this limited edition. Privately Printed Hardcover
1879614344London: Edward Stanford 1879. From an enormous collection which belonged to a deceased ex-customer of ours for over 40 years. A retired civil servant with an academic interest in philosophy and history of science particularly Victorian around the generation of Darwinism. Hundreds of books in these genres being catalogued and shelved daily. Cloth hardcover with gilded pictorial front board and spine no dust jacket in very good condition for its age. With illustrations and several fold out maps neaty reinforced with white tape in some areas. Boards are slightly scuffed and marked. Spine is sunned and a little cocked. Edges corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed with small tears at the spine ends. Page block is tanned and blemished. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Foxing on the endpapers and spots of foxing and the occasional mark on a few of the pages which are otherwise clear. Hinge and gutter breaks noted however binding remains sound. LW. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. Edward Stanford Hardcover
1889009116London: George Bell and Sons 1889. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Autograph Letter Signed. New and Enlarged Edition. Wide 8vo. Autograph Letter Signed by author of appendix and noted English shipbuilder J. Wigham Richardson attached at front end page dated 30 March 1889 on his Newcastle on Tyne stationery and adressed to prior owner of the book W.E. Adams. 4 1/2" x 7" note card single fold with writing on all 4 sides. " I have forwarded your letter to Miss Gatty requesting her to give effect to it. Yes I sent you that volume but not in your editorial capacity." W.E. Adams 1832-1906 was editor of the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle. Richardson goes on to talk about his embarrassment at having been given authorial credit for his contribution particularly ".had I known what Miss G. was going to do I should have omitted the verse at the end." The book is Very Good in original quarter beige buckram over pale red buckram gilt lettering bit of soiling rear end page page block uniformly browning light wear to boards at corners and spine ends. George Bell and Sons Hardcover
189788173Westminster London: Archibald Constable and Company 1897. First Edition. First impression. Two tall octavo volumes 24.5cm. Publisher's gilt-pictorial blue-green cloth; xvi510; xvi671pp; gravure frontispiece to both volumes plus 125 unnumbered leaves of plates sixteen in color after Nansen's original sketches; the remainder in halftone or gravure mostly from original photographs; four color-printed folding maps. Collated complete. Contemporary gift inscription to front endpaper of v.1 dated 1897. Scattered mild foxing to texts; mild external wear and some wrinkling to cloth at spines; together a complete sound Very Good set of what is arguably the greatest 19th-c. narrative of polar exploration. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 11983. PMM 384 the Norwegian edition. Archibald Constable and Company unknown
18221357889London: T. Cadell 1822. Hardcover. Octavo vii 548 pages with 15 plates. In Good condition. Bound in contemporary leather. Surface somewhat marked and scratched with wear to spine edges and corners and some chipping to top of spine. Binding tight. Text block age toned with foxing throughout. An ex-library copy with usual markings including a bookplate to front pastedown institutional stamps to several pages and call number written in pencil. Fifteen plates present and intact including one plate opposite title page. MF Consignment. 1357889. Special Collections. T. Cadell hardcover
1876016575D.Appleton and Company 1876. Book. Fine. Full-Leather. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Full Dark Brown Leather. Great Classic Biography Of This Great Confederate General. Rare In This Condition And in Original Full Leather. Personal Library Label. D.Appleton and Company Hardcover
189236028New York: D. Appleton & Co. As New. 1892. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - -- with a bonus offer-- . D. Appleton & Co. hardcover
18582111902160200928Toeizan zohan 1858. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 7 books Toeizan zohan paperback
