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185555159London: Longman Brown Greenand Longmans 1855. First edition small 8vo pp. viii 160 24 ads; 40 wood engravings in the text; orange endpapers printed advertisements on pastedowns; original green cloth stamped in black and gilt; spine rather sunned else near fine. "The object of the following pages is to explain familiarly such points of physiological science as could not appropriately been noticed in the Guide to the Knowledge of Life just published by the author" Prefatory Remarks. The initial chapter deals with population growth and Malthusian developments. Longman, Brown, Green,and Longmans unknown
1879058963London: Cambridge University Press. 1879. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio - 11 x 9 Inches Tall. FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1879. Preface to Original Edition & Preface to Revised Edition. Hardback. Words. Original black sand-grained-cloth; gilt-lettered spine & cover. Original black end-papers. All edges red. Bright tight and clean. No owner name or internal markings. Minor wear only. NEAR FINE. xix 233 pages. 1p advert. Folio; approx 11 x 9 inches. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Cambridge University Press. SCARCE. <br/> <br/> Cambridge University Press. hardcover
186664257Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers 1866. 8vo. 23 cm. 120pp. Library withdrawal stamp on titlepage. Waterstain top of pages throughout disbound. McDADE 774: "The Dearing family of six plus a hired boy and woman guest were all brutally hacked to death by him." <br/><br/> T. B. Peterson & Brothers unknown books
18487556Boston MA: Published by the author at 22 Water Street and sold by.; printed by Freeman and Bolles 1848. 16mo. 16.5 x 11 cm. 166 2 pages. Publisher's advertisement at rear. FIRST EDITION. A very complete handbook or manual of cage-bird maintenance with sections on Thrushes Finches Grossbeaks Warblers Larks South American Asiatic and African Birds Doves Parrots and with instructions for breeding canaries and the treating the diseases for which they are liable. An author/publisher's advertisement at the rear describes James Mann as "Taxidermist Dealer in American and Foreign Singing Birds Fancy Pigeons Rare Fowls &c.". Light soiling to some leaves; a few pencil annotations to front endpapers. Blind-stamped decorated brown cloth; professionally rebacked with original spine panel laid-down; gilt-titled at spine. Generally very good. Sabin A-67: 784-67786. Published by the author at 22 Water Street, and sold by...; printed by Freeman and Bolles hardcover books
188820391Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Company. Good. 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers are lightly rubbed at the corners with a few spots. The inner hinges on volume 2 are starting to separate. Large and heavy volumes. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 7891180 pages . Lea Brothers & Company hardcover
1840100449<p>Albany NY: Albany Arbus.Extra 1840. 1840. Good. - Octavo 10 inches high by 6-3/8 inches wide. Softcover unbound sheets in printed self-wraps. 8 deckle-edged pages. There is a small hole at the top of the first leaf and another tiny hole which touches on a couple of letters on both pages. There is foxing throughout. Good.</p><p>RARE. We have only been able to locate a single copy in the New York Public Library.</p><p>George W. Patterson 1799-1879 a prominent Whig was a member of the New York State Assembly serving from 1832-1833 and 1835-1840. He was elected lieutenant governor of New York in 1848. He also served one term in Congress 1877 to 1879.</p><p>Charles A. Mann 1803-1860 a Democrat was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1840. He was a member of the New York State Senate in 1850 and 1851 and was among the 12 state senators who resigned on April 17 1851 to prevent a quorum in the Senate.</p> Albany, NY: Albany Arbus...Extra, [1840]. paperback
1817ZB1324767London: Sherwood Neely and Jones 1817. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item 224 4 ads pp. original boards and parchment backstrip now lacking the front cover and any prelims spine worn and chipped a few instances of foxing else internally clean and untrimmed. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones hardcover
185872604Leipzig, Friedrich Voigt, 1858. IV, 251 S. (18 x 11 cm). Marmor. Pp. d. Zt.
1900056139London: John Long Ltd. 1900. 96pp publisher ads 16 bw ills. Pictorial bw card. Chipped at base of spine with a little other minor damage to spine small abrasion to front cover 2 different bookseller stamps at/near front piece torn from upper magin of frontis. A very uncomplimentary contemporary note of 7 lines deriding the intelligence of the Boers reading in part "Their intelligence is dull and dry like the country of their birth". Scarce title usually found in abysmal condition-this one quite nice. First Edition Tenth Thousand. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. John Long Ltd. Paperback
1839088636Boston: Marsh Capen Lyon and Webb 1839 Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. Lacks the spine strip has light exterior marks foxing on the endpapers. The "First number of "The Common School Journal" the object of the work being "the improvement of Common Schools and other means of Popular Education. Also intended to make it a depository of the Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in relation to Schools and of the Reports Proceedings &c. of the Massachusetts Board of Education". Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb hardcover
184853917Washington: printed by J. & G. S. Gideon 1848. First edition 8vo pp. 20; self-wrappers. Mann was elected to Congress in 1848 to fill the vacancy left by the death of John Quincy Adams. This is his first speech to Congress and it left a mark advocating Congress's right and duty to exclude slavery from the territories and in a letter in December of that year he said: "I think the country is to experience serious times. Interference with slavery will excite civil commotion in the South. But it is best to interfere. Now is the time to see whether the Union is a rope of sand or a band of steel." <br/><br/> printed by J. & G. S. Gideon unknown books
184853917Washington: printed by J. & G. S. Gideon 1848. First edition 8vo pp. 20; self-wrappers. Mann was elected to Congress in 1848 to fill the vacancy left by the death of John Quincy Adams. This is his first speech to Congress and it left a mark advocating Congress's right and duty to exclude slavery from the territories and in a letter in December of that year he said: "I think the country is to experience serious times. Interference with slavery will excite civil commotion in the South. But it is best to interfere. Now is the time to see whether the Union is a rope of sand or a band of steel. printed by J. & G. S. Gideon unknown
188836819NY: Thomas Whittaker. Good with no dust jacket. 1888. Hardcover. Brown cloth stamped in gilt. Presentation copy to Bishop Nathaniel Thomas inscribed by Mann. With Bishop Thomas's bookplate. Spine ends frayed edges rubbed cloth lightly insected. Minor pencilling to text. Tight and square. Mann was the third bishop of North Dakota and the first bishop of South Florida in the Episcopal Church. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author . Thomas Whittaker hardcover
184616563Boston: Redding & Co 1846. 32pp bound in modern marbled wrappers. Good. Mann who entered the copyright attacks free traders. Allies of the southern planter class they would "reduce the people of the free States.to the amount that barely sustains life" "to the level of the pauper laborers of Europe." American manufactures will suffer "stagnation that must follow a transfer of our work to the workshops of Europe." This "will curtail the profits of our capitalists and thereby put a period to the extension of railroads and other operations that employ many laborers whence the motive to stimulate emigration will be greatly weakened." FIRST EDITION. AI 46-4413 4. 359 NUC 0176397 3. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker BEAL. Redding & Co unknown
184616563Boston: Redding & Co 1846. 32pp bound in modern marbled wrappers. Good. Mann who entered the copyright attacks free traders. Allies of the southern planter class they would "reduce the people of the free States.to the amount that barely sustains life" "to the level of the pauper laborers of Europe." American manufactures will suffer "stagnation that must follow a transfer of our work to the workshops of Europe." This "will curtail the profits of our capitalists and thereby put a period to the extension of railroads and other operations that employ many laborers whence the motive to stimulate emigration will be greatly weakened." FIRST EDITION. AI 46-4413 4. 359 NUC 0176397 3. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker BEAL. Redding & Co unknown books
1804M15034Boston:: Printed for Young & Minns Printers to the State 1804. 1804. 24 cm. 51 1 pp. Later marbled wrappers; text-block edges "thumbed" and spotted foxed. Bookplate of Frederick A. Frye. Very good. Rare. The author won the Boylstonian Prize for 1803 with this work. "Cholera infantum" refers to an outdated term for a severe diarrheal illness affecting infants historically prevalent in hot humid conditions. / James Mann was a prominent American military surgeon particularly known for his service during the War of 1812. He was the Medical Director of the Northern Army during that conflict where he managed hospitals established new ones and oversaw the care of soldiers. His experiences and observations were later documented in his book "Medical Sketches of the Campaigns of 1812 13 14." / The author was a Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society. See: Joseph I. Waring "American Pediatric Writings of the 18th Century" JAMA Pediatrics vol. 130 No. 7 July 1976. Printed for Young & Minns, Printers to the State, 1804. unknown
189899645Paris, Paul Ollendorf, [Ca 1898. 1 Gestoch. Frontispiz, XIX, [1], 297; [1], 1 Gestoch. Frontipiz, 409 S. 22 cm. Rotes OHLdr mit Rsch und Rückenvergoldung.
18764446557<p>8vo original brown cloth all illustrations present 2 maps colour lithographs mounted photographs gilt titles on spine slight external wear some marks on flyleaf otherwise bright unmarked.</p> L. Reeve & Co. hardcover
1887004576Philadelphia: Lea 1887. Published 1887-88. Covers lightly rubbed. First Edition. Original Sheep. Very Good. Lea Hardcover
1894ABE-1680761205283Houghton Mifflin Co Boston 1894. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The uncommon or scarce first edition green boards with gilt lettering. Studies of birds in the West as we understand it now Utah Colorado and in the Midwest Ohio which as Miller writes in her brief foreword is "West only relatively to New England and New York where most of my studies have been made." Harriet Mann Miller writing under the nom de plume of Olive Thorne Miller was one of the first three women accepted in 1901 into the American Ornithologists Union the others being Mabel Osgood Wright and Florence Merriam Bailey and like them she was a pioneering woman writing about the environment publishing articles in prominent venues like Harper's Weekly The Atlantic and the Chicago Tribune; chapters in this particular book had appeared in The Atlantic Monthly the Independent and Harper's Bazar. Ultimately Miller wrote an estimated 780 articles and 24 complete books and in particular she wrote prolifically about birds. A very good book with a slanted spine and light wear to corners and spine ends. Library stamp for the Christian Union Sunday School Rockford Illinois on the front pastedown and an 1896 gift inscription by B.R. Waldo to that school on the third blank. Slight edge loss to upper corner of first 20 pages. // Wood River = Books specializes in ecology natural history nature writing the environment and environmental literature with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston hardcover
1853922F31London: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1853 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 6.5". None. A vanishingly scarce work presenting the data and information on religious worship gathered in the 1851 United Kingdom census. A very scarce work.Containing the 'Report and Tables' which were 'Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty'.Of those who identified themselves as attending church serviced regularly 5292551 48.6% of total attendants attended Church of England services 4536264 41.6% attending other Protestant churches and 383630 3.5% attending Catholic services.This was a unique experiment not repeated at any later census.Rebound with the publisher's original front and rear wraps bound in.Edited by Horace Mann.A very scarce work which includes bibliographical references and index. Rebound in cloth. Externally fine. Internally firmly bound. Publisher's original front and rear wraps bound in and significantly age toned with instances of loss to wrap perimeters. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode hardcover
1896860F12London: None 1896-1934 . Loose Pages Articles. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". None. The signatures of four prominent British painters: Alfred Parsons Harrington Mann Ernest Crofts and Henry Tanworth Wells. The first two signatures flat signed to a sheet of folded paper are of the miniaturist and portrait painter Henry Tamworth Wells and the painter of historical and military scenes Ernest Crofts the latter of whom dates his signature 'Oct. 12th. 1896'.Wells was most famous for his 'Victoria Regina' showing the young Queen Victoria receiving the news of her accession to the throne while Crofts was celebrated for his depictions of the Napoleonic Wars.Excised from a letter and mounted is the inscription of Alfred Parsons a popular English artist illustrator landscape painter and garden designer.Also present is a signed 1899 letter from the Scottish portrait artist and decorative painter Harrington Mann along with the prospective for a 1934 Exhibition of his portraits. Mann's letter addresses one M.H. Spielmann a Victorian art critic who edited 'The Connoisseur' and 'Magazine of Art'.He begins 'I have unfortunately just had my picture photographed - but of course it was photographed for the catalogue!'. He is concerned about the outcome and explains 'you must do what you think best - have it photographed again or borrow the first one from the . catalogue'. He continues 'as to my artistic career there is not much to be said. I studied at the Slade and in Paris under Boulanger and Lefebvre afterwards I worked in Rome and in different parts of Italy for 2 years. Of course my work has always been associated with that of the Glasgow men I was born in Glasgow. I have shown at the RA regularly for a number of years beginning at the age of 19!'. Consisted of four loose leaves two folded. Small hole to tail of Wells and Crofts leaf. Spotting to Mann letter and brochure with closed tear to fold of brochure and letter age toned. Very Good Indeed None unknown
18476085-11282<p>Slight toning else content appears as unread and unblemished with Fine black cloth covered boards displaying no significant surface/edge wear in DJ held together with tape as shown but it is still protecting. ;- Many of my books are from the 19th & Early 20th. Century. Books were not written in at that time instead an index card with info. Am enclosing the one found in this book for you. Enjoy.</p><p><strong><strong>Synopsis: </strong> </strong>Sixteen essays a rich course in European literature for he writes not only of the specific personalities he has chosen but abundantly of their contemporaries their place in history in the arts. Brilliant scholarship profound philosophical as well as historical content these essays are for my choice Thomas Mann's security in the hall of fame. I felt that when I read his slighter volume Past Masters ten years and more age. A few of those essays are reprinted here- one on Lessing one on the Suffering and Greatness of Richard Wagner. A good quarter of the text is concerned with Goethe with essays and lectures done ever some six years- Goethe's Faust Goethe's Career as a Man of Letters Goethe and Tolstoy etc. He brings into awareness of the uninitiated such figures as Chamisso I knew only his Peter Schlemihl Theodor Strom I studied Immensee but otherwise would have groped for knowledge of him. He writes of Schopenhauer of The Old Fantane of Kleist's Amphitryon. And he closes with an essay entitled Voyage with Don Quixote a diary of the trip to America a voluntary exile from a country that had sold out to Hitler… For students of literature. Essays</p><p><strong>Insurance & handling is included free. Extra Charges/Fees apply on Shipments Outside The U.S. and Expedited Shipments. Oversize and/or heavy books may require additional fees. Will advise. Written 11.19.2021SK #6085-11282 Img.7484 Updated 9.9.25 </strong></p> A Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. hardcover
180189449CBLübeck, 1801. 1 Blatt; 32,2 x 20 cm.
185589445CBLübeck, 1855. 1 Blatt, 42,9 x 26,8 cm.
