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186358667Lovell Reeve & Co. 1863. 1st. Ed. pp.xxxvi 324 with 23 hand-coloured plates 1 b/w. plate all with letterpress plus 16-page Reeve catalogue not dated. 8vo. Hardback. Neat inscription. Very minor spotting at ends o/w. contents fine. Original green cloth binding spine expertly relaid so well undertaken it is barely noticable all in excellent nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy indeed. Lovell Reeve & Co. hardcover
186549535London: Hurst and Blackett 1865. Two volumes. 8vo. xii 383 1; xii 358 2 pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards spines with raised bands gilt lettered red and black labels endpapers and all edges marbled. Frontispiece portrait to volume I. Some wear to the covers foxing to the front and rear leaves only. The author was an author politician and sportsman. London: Hurst and Blackett unknown
1867016005London: Richard Bentley 1867. Hardcover. Fair. Three quarter leather binding hardcover edition in fair condition with marbled boards and gold tooling on spine. Vol. II is missing front cover front cover of Vol. I is almost fully detached. Otherwise bindings are secure pages clean. Questions welcome. We ship internationally from the United States and Canada every week. If buying internationally please be aware that additional charges may apply for heavier books. We guarantee a safe quick and secure transaction. 10 years in online bookselling experience. <br/> <br/> Richard Bentley hardcover
1861101448London: Hurst and Blackett Publishers 1861. First edition. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece title vignette and 8 plates. xi 3 431 1 pp. with half-title. Contemporary half red morocco gilt; joints and corners rubbed. Ex-Newberry Library with deaccession label shelflabel and call numbers to verso of title. An English sportsman hunts buffalo and smaller game on the American prairie. The voyage out includes descriptions of New York and Pittsburgh. PROVENANCE: Robert Clarke Bibliotheca Piscatoria bookplate; Edward Everett Ayer bookplate presenting this volume to the Newberry in 1911 and small library label on rear pastedown REFERENCE: Graff 277; Howes B374; Wagner-Camp 368. Sabin 4883 Hurst and Blackett, Publishers unknown
1863110190AB1863. First Edition. London Lovell Reeve & Co. 1863. Octavo. B/W - Frontispiece XXXVI 324 pages plus 23 lithographic plates in colour with juxtaposed explanations plus a 16-page-catalogue "List of Works on Natural History Topography Antiquity and Science by L.Reefe and Co." Hardcover / Original green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor staining to the cover. Nissen BBI 147 / Stafleu & Cowan 464 hardcover
18217083Dublin: John Cumming 1821. pp 215 Blue paper covered boards strengthened to corners rebacked with a vellum spine handwritten paper spine label. Ownership inscription of Samuel Lawrence to first flyleaf; foxing to endleaves and sporadically throughout. Text block not trimmed. An attractive copy of a work credited to Bishop Berkeley but actually by Simon Berington. Very good Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1821 John Cumming hardcover
1863932Q8London: Lovell Reeve & Co. 1863 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. A brightly illustrated first edition of M. J. Berkeley's handbook of British mosses complete with twenty-four plates. The first edition. Bound in the publisher's cloth. A comprehensive handbook of British mosses comprising all native mosses found in the British Isles. Written by Miles Joseph Berkeley an English clergyman and botanist known for his important contribution to the field of botany with his surname abbreviation 'Berk' often cited in botanical works to this day. Illustrated with twenty-four brightly coloured plates. Collated complete.Previous owner's inscription of M. P. Forsters dated Jan 8th 1881. Bound in the publisher's cloth. Externally very smart with light rubbing to the extremities causing a small area of loss to the cloth. Light bumping to the spine with the odd mark to cloth. Internally binding is strained in places particularly after page 305 with a few leaves starting. Pages are bright and generally clean with just the occasional mark. Inscription to half title. Very Good Lovell Reeve & Co. hardcover
182134921Dublin: For John Cumming 16 Lower Ormond-Quay 1821. A later edition of a work first published in London 1737 as: The Memoirs of Signor Gaudentio de Lucca. Period brown half-calf with marbled paper boards. General binding wear. Some age toning to paper. Pencil pos to front eps. Lacks rfep. A VG copy of a book now somewhat uncommon on the commercial market. 2 xxiii 1 blank 215 1 blank pp. Head- tailpieces. 12mo in 6s. 6-7/8" x 4" <br/><br/>Attributed to Berington by Halkett & Laing v. I p. 42. Sometimes attributed erroneously to George Berkeley as is the case here. For John Cumming, 16, Lower Ormond-Quay hardcover books
1836BP111111836 pp. [1], 227-386, i-xv, contemporary hcalf. Interleaved copy in which the worth is not so much the book itself but the 19th century aquarel drawings of mushrooms and the notes added to these drawings by an unknown painter. In all there are 13 coloured drawings, some have notes and dates added to them some have not. Dates range from 1856 to 1897. For instance there is a drawing of which the note reads ''Cordiceps capitata - on truffles; found on under-beech, Shedfield, Oct. 24/78.''
1860B3-F15267Lovell Reeve London 1860. Hardcover. Good. Volume 1 contains coloured plates. Volume 2 Supplement Lovell, Reeve, London hardcover
1861794A31London: Hurst and Blackett 1861. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 9.5" by 6" . None . The first edition of this work concerning the hunting trips of an English sportsman. The first edition of this work concerning the sporting travels of Grantley Berkeley English sportsman. Recounting the author's hunting journey to the Western prairies sharing impressions experiences and recollections of his travels in the American West. Illustrated with seven full page plates and a vignette to the title page lacking one plate. With Draycot House bookplate on leather to the front pastedown medieval manor largely re-modelled by the Long family over the years and in 1864 after Lord Cowley's inheritance. It was demolished in 1952-4. From the library at Julian Park Hertfordshire belonging to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Audrey was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire sister to Edward James a key figure in the Surrealist movement and the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. She was an English socialite known for her beauty and for charming various wealthy men she was included in The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton. A patron of the arts she assisted Viscount Carlow financially in the publication of limited editions of numerous works by leading literary figures such as T E Lawrence James Joyce Wyndham Lewis and others. A hedonistic pursuer she was recognised as one of the 'Bright Young Things'. In a half calf binding over marbled boards and edges with new marbled endpapers. Externally sound with minor shelf wear and a touch of edge wear minor chipping and some rubbing to the boards and spine. With Draycot House bookplate on leather to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. With a minor faint spotting to the first and last few leaves otherwise the pages are bright and clean throughout. Illustrated with seven full page plates and a vignette to the title page lacking one plate. The frontispiece is protected by tissue guard loose but present. Very Good Hurst and Blackett hardcover
189173666Cambridge: Riverside Press 1891. First edition of Updike's first book. Tall octavo. 154 1 colophon 1 pp. Complete with both fold-out charts. Publisher's half black morocco over marbled boards expertly rebacked to style gilt spine lettering marbled endpapers. Minor foxing to first three and last three leaves mainly blanks. Armorial bookplate. An untrimmed and very handsome copy of this scarce title. According the RBH the last copy to appear at auction was in 1940.The first book designed by Mr. Updike printed under his supervision at the Riverside Press. “Before he began work on his own account Updike had made one book and only one in which he had had entirely his own way. It is a simple volume with little that is distinctive or decorative about it except that there is nothing wrong; the proportions of page and margins title size of types and composition tone of paper and quality of press work offer nothing for obvious criticism. The book is ‘An Inquiry into the Naming of Churches in the United States’ compiled by two laymen of the Diocese of Rhode Island that is Mr. Updike and his closest friend Harold Brown of Newport. . . .â€---G. P. Winship The Merrymount Press of Boston. Riverside Press hardcover
1861635261861. BERKELEY Grantley F. The English Sportsman in the Western Praries. London; Hurst and Blackett 1861. 1st ed. xi431pp. Frontis. title page vignette plates. Contemporary 3/4 blue polished calf and marbled boards ruled in gilt marbled endpapers light scattered foxing else a very good copy. "Buffalo hunting around Fort Riley and western Kansas"--HOWES B-374. Graff 277. Wagner-Camp 368. . unknown
189192699New York: The Berkeley Lyceum 1891. Very Good. Modest-sized broadsheet flyer. 24 cm. Text printed in red on both sides. Two horizontal creases. List of 30 "patronesses" printed on other side. The first patroness listed is Mrs. Valentine G. Hall who was the grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt whom little Eleanor went to live after her mother's death. We were unable find information about a "Summer Home for Colored Women and Children" other than an online reference identifying it as organized in 1890. The Berkeley Lyceum unknown
182042166Richard Priestley London 1820. First Thus. Hardcover Full Leather. Fair Condition. Size: 8vo <9 3/4". lxxvi 411 / 455 / 476pp. 3-volume set complete. Vols 1 & 3 rebacked with handwritten title pieces and reinforced hinges. Vol 2 both boards detached title pieces absent slight loss to extremities. Foxing front/rear pages but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's book-plate laid in and ink signature. Covers marked. Corners bumped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-5 kilos. Category: Philosophy; Ireland; 18th century; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 42166. . This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Richard Priestley hardcover
1891071993Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. 10" x 7.5" x 1. Rebacked this copy is bound in half brown leather and brown cloth boards. Gilt trims the seams along the cover. Hubbed spine bears four raised bands with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Deckled foredge and foot. Teal endpapers. Leaves are a laid cotton rag paper. Title page bears small black and white engraving also present on the last page. Two large fold-out data tables are present in beautiful condition printed on vellum. Other printed data tables throughout. Includes seven appendices. x 154 pp. <br><br>CONDITION: Very good. Cover shows wear and spine repair is solid. Reinforced inner hinges with a dark teal publisher's cloth. Leaves have lightly toned with light foxing throughout. Text is very bold and bright. Occasional small tears on page edges. Unmarked except for previous owner's name written within the front endpapers and notation about the book's contents in pencil on a front flyleaf. A solid handsome copy. Full refund if not satisfied. <br><br>ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Daniel Berkeley Updike 1860-1941 was an American printer and historian of typography. In 1880 he joined the publishers Houghton Mifflin & Company of Boston as an errand boy. He worked for the firm's Riverside Press and trained as a printer but soon moved to typographic design. In 1896 he founded the Merrymount Press. . Updike was greatly interested in the history of printing types and in 1922 published Printing Types: Their History Forms and Use. An extensively revised second edition was published in 1937. He was involved in the Anglo-American 'Typographical Renaissance' of the time together with Frederic Goudy Stanley Morison Bruce Rogers and Theodore Low De Vinne." Wikipedia. Printed at the Riverside Press hardcover
180365193New Haven: From Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke & Co 1803. First American from the fourth London edition. First published in March 1732. 8vo. Contemporary tree sheep red morocco label gilt spine ornamented in gilt. Some rubbing remains of glue marks on pastedowns upper joint starting 2 pages advertisements of books available at Increase Cooke & Co. at back some light browning and offsetting. In a leather tipped brown cloth open end case. First American from the fourth London edition. First published in March 1732. 8vo. With a leaf concerning the "Character of the Work" by Timothy Dwight Yale College Dec. 23 1802. In 1728 Berkeley went to America to look into founding a college in Rhode Island. He lived on a farm outside Newport Rhode Island until 1731 when he returned to England. It was during his residence in America that most of "Alciphron" was written and many of the descriptions of scenery are of the Newport area. Berkeley was close friends with the American Samuel Johnson. Johnson's "Elementa Philosophica" "the first text book in philosophy to appear in English-speaking America" Cremin "American Education" p. 296 owed much to the influence of Berkeley. In 1733 Berkeley sent a large contribution of books to Yale for its library. "A finely written work in the form of dialogue critically examining the various forms of free-thinking in the age and bringing forward in antithesis to them his own theory which shows all nature to be the language of God" Ency. Brit. Colby Library Quarterly p. 233; Shipton and Mooney 3784. For the first edition: Jessop 16a; Keynes 15; Rothschild 374 From Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke & Co unknown books
180365194New Haven: From Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke & Co 1803. First American from the Fourth London edition. First published in March 1732. 8vo. Contemporary calf red morocco gilt label. Spine worn rubbed some spotting and browning of leaves 2 pages advertisements for books available for sale at Increase Cooke & Co. with the signature of John S. Mabow and bookplate of Charles D. Spencer. In a leather tipped brown cloth open end case. First American from the Fourth London edition. First published in March 1732. 8vo. With a leaf concerning the "Character of the Work" by Timothy Dwight Yale College Dec. 23 1802. In 1728 Berkeley went to America to look into founding a college in Rhode Island. He lived on a farm outside Newport Rhode Island until 1731 when he returned to England. It was during his residence in America that most of "Alciphron" was written and many of the descriptions of scenery are of the Newport area. Berkeley was close friends with the American Samuel Johnson. Johnson's "Elementa Philosophica" "the first text book in philosophy to appear in English-speaking America" Cremin "American Education" p. 296 owed much to the influence of Berkeley. In 1733 Berkeley sent a large contribution of books to Yale for its library. "A finely written work in the form of dialogue critically examining the various forms of free-thinking in the age and bringing forward in antithesis to them his own theory which shows all nature to be the language of God" Ency. Brit. Colby Library Quarterly p. 233; Shaw and Shoemaker 3784 From Sidney's Press, for Increase Cooke & Co unknown books
186755192London:: Richard Bentley 1867. First edition. old 3/4 red morocco over marbled sides; gilt panelled spines; t.e.g. Very handsome: both volumes unworn tight and sound. 8vo. Richard Bentley, unknown
190036719New York London: Geo. C. Whitney Hildensheimer & Faulkner 1900. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. A die cut shape book in the shape of a shoe bound with cord and tassle. Chipping and wear to edges of both covers with a few creases to rear cover. The cord has pulled out of several pages and at some point the book was resewn with thread; however the pages were rebound out of order. The title page is near the end of the book and one additional page is out of order but no missing pages. Pen marking to one page smudge marks and soiling to other pages. Short closed tear to one page. Includes 6 chromolithographs and 6 sepia illustrations. A well loved copy of this classic children's tale. 14 pages. CHILD/080923. Geo. C. Whitney, Hildensheimer & Faulkner paperback
1890e4974London: H K Lewis. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Foxing to eps and light scattered foxing elsewhere. Plates bright. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. 1890. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 250mm x 150mm 10" x 6". viii 47pp catalogue. 6 coloured plates. . H K Lewis hardcover
1857803P13London: Longman Brown Green Longmans & Roberts 1857. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5". John Leech. A Zaehnsdorf bound first edition hunting work by Grantley Berkeley complete with two hand coloured plates by John Leech. The first edition of this work.In a lovely half morocco binding by Zaehnsdorf.Illustrated with a hand coloured frontispiece and one hand-coloured plate by John Leech frontispiece titled 'The Meet'.A fascinating sporting account of a month spend within the forest regions of France. Following thrilling hunts vividly described by the author in a delightful manner.By Grantley Berkeley a politician and sportsman.Bookplate of Reuben Jay Flick to the front paste down. In a half morocco binding with cloth to the boards by Zaehnsdorf. Externally smart. A few light marks to the boards. Very light rubbing to the spine and extremities. Bookplate to the front paste down. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean with a few light spots. Very Good Indeed Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts hardcover
18316206Paris, Librairie classique de L. Hachette, 1831 ; in-8, plein veau havane mouchetée, pièce de titre rouge, auteur et titre dorés, grands décors romantiques dorés, tranches marbrées ; (1) f. , 219 pp. , 10 pp. , (1) f.
18268894Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1826. 2 volumes in-8 de [6]-391 et [6]-305 pages, demi-veau moucheté à petits coins, dos lisses ornés de filets, roulettes, mentions "G. Roman", tomaison et titre dorés, étiquettes de titre brunes, tranches mouchetées. Un coin épidermé.
186111London: Hurst and Blackett Publishers 1861. First British Edition. Finely bound in three quarter leather gilt and marbled boards with six compartments and five raised bands to the spine. Marbled end pages and book block edges. Large 8vo. 431 pp. Contains 9 engraved illustrated plates. In very good condition. No ownership marks/writing within. Moderate edge wear to the covers including board exposure at the extremities. Darkened spine panel and board extremities. Scarce especially so when in presentable condition. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers hardcover
