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1845021331Halifax: William Milner 1845. Hardcover 1st Edition. 32mo with 253 pages. Original binding in brown cloth with gold lettering and decoration on spine. The edges are gold gilt. The book is in good condition for its age with very slight ink dots on the front/back cover probably from an ink well. The front free endpaper contains the previous owner's signature. The interior is clean and tight. The spine is in light brown with gold text. . 1st Edition. Boards. Good. 32mo. Hardcover. William Milner Hardcover
188530824Glasgow: David Bryce & Son 1885. First English language edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. XXX 333 1 3pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine. The present work is a captivating survey of the German Universities for the last 50 years between 1835 and 1885. It forms the second part of the third volume of a series of statistical inquiries in various departments of the national economy of Germany conducted by Dr. Conrad Professor of Political Science at Halle. Minor age wear on binding with spine slightly age toned. Previous owner's signature in ink on half-title page and dated 1885. Very minor age toning along paper margin. Binding and interior in overall good condition. David Bryce & Son 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
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
1898010720New York: D. Appleton 1898. 1st English ed. . Hardcover. VG for Age/No Jacket assume none issued. 13.5 Cm x 19 Cm. xxvi341; scrap of New York book dealer's label bottom back pastedown which also has thin split in the blue endpaper due to knock which has left the faintest of creases to back cover otherwise internally clean tight and quite unmarked in clean dark blue cloth covers unworn bar faint hints of spine end rubbing. A remarkably good copy of this influential classic one of the founding texts of comparative or animal psychology and ethology which identified the evolutionary functions of play as rehearsal for adult lbehaviour e.g. hunting. Groos also published a companion work 'The Play of Man'. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range. <br/> <br/> D. Appleton 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
184629155Philadelphia: For the Editor 1846. Hardcover. With New Notes and an Appendix. 5 x 7.5in. vi. 392pp. portrait frontispiece. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth with gilt titling. VERY GOOD. Shows marginal shelf rubbing of the edges corners and boards preliminaries with moderate foxing otherwise the binding is strong and tight the text is clean and unmarked and the boards remain distinct. As pictured. For the Editor hardcover
18602010204NY.: Mason Brothers 1860. Blind stamped brown cloth. Front cover & cover edges heavily rubbed in several places to boards spine ends rubbed and chipping: VG-. 8vo. Musical notation. Translated from the third German edition & edited by Herman S. Saroni. Sixth American Edition with appendix & notes by Emilius Girac. Mason Brothers hardcover
1812056178Dundee: A. Smith & Co. for J. Chalmers 1812. Third Edition with Additions . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. DUNDEE : 1812. First published: Glocester: : Printed by R. Raikes for J. Robson and Co. New Bond-Street London. M. DCC. LXXXIX. 1789. This edition has a 52-page appendix. Hardback. Black full calf-leather; boards detached. Gilt lettered and ruled spine; raised bands. No owner name or internal markings. Bright tight and clean. Ideal for rebind. Minor wear only. Internally VERY GOOD INDEED. xvi xxviii 613 i pages. Errata: 1-page at end. Referenced by: NSTC H2676. FULL TITLE: Tracts in controversy with Dr. Priestley upon the historical question of the belief of the first ages in Our Lord's divinity. Originally published in the years 1783 1784 & 1786 afterwards revised and augmented with a large addition of notes and supplemental disquisitions by the author Samuel Horsley Lord Bishop of St. Asaph. CONTENTS: A charge to the clergy of the archdeaconry of St. Alban's.--Letters from the Archdeacon of St. Alban's in reply to Dr. Priestley.--A sermon on the incarnation.--Remarks on Dr. Priestley's second letters to the Archdeacon of St. Alban's with proofs of certain facts.--Supplemental disquisitions on certain points in Dr. Priestley's second and third letters. 8vo. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books CHS Cumberland Everyman GKC Inklings Keswick Literature MacDonald Rarities Theology and History. . We accept PayPal. SCARCE <br/> <br/> A. Smith & Co., for J. Chalmers 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