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19051273Boston: The Society Americana 1905. 8vo. Frontis. 63 1 blank pp.; 7 plts. 2 double-spread. <br><br>Massachusetts series volume one." This is a digest of Massachusetts press items to 1783 containing matters of historical interest. The plates include facsimiles of Massachusetts newspapers and portraits of important figures e.g. Increase Mather. Good. In printed wrappers. Wrappers soiled with front wrapper and frontispiece detached; partially unopened and untrimmed. The Society Americana unknown books
1911118688Boston: The Society for Americana Inc 1911. Hardbound. Very good clean and tight; museum ex-lib. but a great copy. Blue chambray with brown leather title block on spine and gold lettering; 564 pp. with 15 illustrations. A collation of all items of personal and historic reference relating to american affairs printed in the newspapers of the Provincial Period beginning with the apperance of the present state of the New-English affairs 1689 publick occurrences 1690 and the first issue of The Boston News-Letter 1704 and ending with the close of the Revolution 1783. The Society for Americana, Inc hardcover books
1911244353Boston: Society for Americana 1911. hardcover. good. to American Affairs Printed in the Newspapers of the Provincial Period. Massachusetts Series. Volume One. All published. Illus. facsimiles. 564pp. 8vo rebound in later blue cloth with red leather label cloth and margins throughout dampstained lacks front flyleaf. Boston: Society for Americana 1911.<br/><br/> Excerpts from Boston newspapers from 1689 through 1707.<br/><br/> Society for Americana unknown books
1760693471760. Final Edition of Selden's Historical Discourse Selden John 1584-1654. Bacon Nathaniel 1593-1660 Editor Attributed Author. An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England From the First Times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. With a Vindication of the Antient Way of Parliaments in England. Collected from Some Manuscript Notes of John Selden Esq; By Nathaniel Bacon Of Grays Inn Esq; Corrected and Improved by a Gentleman of the Middle-Temple. London: Printed for D. Browne and A. Millar 1760. iv viii xiii-xix 1 203 1; xii 178 8 pp. Complete. Includes one-page publisher advertsiemenst. Quarto 11-1/4" x 9". Recent library buckram red and black lettering pieces gilt-stamped library name and paper shelf label to spine endleaves added blind-stamped library name and small security tag to front board. Light rubbing corners bumped library stamps to edges endleaves and title page front endleaf partially detached light browning and light foxing to text. Light soiling to title page gift inscription dated 1841 From C.A. Paulson to C.A. Paulson Jr. and owner signature of C.B. Paulson dated 1850 to head faint embossed library stamp to foot. $500. Fifth and final edition. Often attributed to Bacon the Historical Discourse "is a sort of constitutional history of England showing much knowledge of the development of the institutions civil and ecclesiastical and pervaded by a strong spirit of hostility to the claims of the royal prerogative and to hierarchical pretensions." DNB. "The first edition having become so rare a second edition was secretly printed in 1672 which was suppressed. It was again secretly reprinted in 1682 and the publishers were prosecuted. The 1682 edition appears to have been reissued in 1689 with the 1682 imprint" Sweet & Maxwell. Dictionary of National Biography 1:836-837. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:99 9. English Short-Title Catalogue T108171. unknown books
192614240New York: Harper and Brothers 1926. First Edition. Very good. 8vo. Green cloth title labels affixed to front spine. INSCRIBED by the author: "Helen Thompson / with L.B.'s warmest / wishes" Mild exterior handling wear small spot of discolor to front. Endpapers age toned trace foxing else sound clean. <br/><br/> Harper and Brothers hardcover books
17754783London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty 1775. Octavo-sized title plus one leaf. Removed from a larger collection of acts. With creases from folds and some age toning otherwise near fine. Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty unknown books
28986Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. NY Praeger 1971 . 293 pages very good in dust jacket. . Other hardcover books
1971022412New York Washington: Praeger Publishers 1971. ix 293p. 100 b/w illus. maps original brown cloth. Praeger Publishers unknown books
190110934Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1901. Paperback. Good. 24pp. Lacking the outer wraps. Outer pages foxed staples rusted. Good copy. <br/><br/> [Government Printing Office] paperback books
1975173659New York: Artforum 1975. First edition. Softcover. Art magazine edited by John Coplans Features an article by Harry F. Gaugh on Franz Kline Patricia G. Forschi writing on Robert Cumming Donald Kuspit writing on Francis Bacon Lucy Lippard writing on Rosemarie Castoro. Also includes other reviews and numerous black and white illustrations. A very good copy in stapled wrappers with some minor wear and some underlining and notes to the Bacon article. Artforum unknown books
76842hardcover. Illustrated some in color. Short 4to cloth d.w. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1969. A very good copy.<br/><br/> unknown books
1954M1497St. Louis:: Mosby 1954. 1954. 4to. 301 pp. 403 illus. drawings index. Blue cloth; rubbed. Very good. Harry E. Bacon 1900-1981 a proctologist and specialist in intestinal surgery was a professor emeritus of surgery at Temple University. He served as President of the International Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons. "His stellar contribution was the establishment of the Journal Diseases of the Colon and Rectum of which he was the Editor-in-Chief. He was a past president of ASCRS and ABCRS. Dr. Bacon was the founder of the International Society of University Colon and Rectal Surgeons." ASCRS. Mosby, 1954. hardcover books
1997172024Urbana and Chicago IL: University of Illinois Press 1997. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 445 pages. A clean near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. University of Illinois Press unknown books
17756BACON Leonard. Autograph Letter Signed. Two pages on personalized stationery to Leonard Kennedy no year but dated Feb. 9. "Thanks for your learned but brief epistle. The great Sir John certainly left nothing to be desired." Discusses forwarding a signed book and seeing Kennedy soon. Also urges him to read Parker's "A Thousand Years of the Tartars". "It will give you new ideas about China if you haven't." Also "What a remarkable record the city of Buffalo has achieved." $75.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
1904WRCLIT73548New York: Printed for Dodd Mead & Comp'y 1904. 12mo. Full chocolate brown calf raised bands gilt label t.e.g. Small bookplate. extremities rubbed but a very good copy. One of sixty copies printed on Imperial Japan paper in addition to 940 copies on regular paper. Printed for Dodd, Mead & Comp'y hardcover books
19139027071London: Macmillan 1913. Hardcover. Fine. With notes and glossorial index by W. Aldis Wright. Bound by Zaensdorf in burgundy morocco with spine elaborately stamped in gilt with five raised bands boards stamped and ruled in gilt inner dentelles gilt edges gilt and grey endpapers. Golden Treasury Series. 6 x 3 3/4 inches. 388 pages. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover books
266LONDON MACMILLAN 1891. FULL RED MOROCCO BY BRIAN FROST VERY GOOD. LONDON, MACMILLAN, 1891 unknown books
190315626LONDON MACMILLAN 1903 1903. 3/4 VELLUM OVER GREEN CLOTH BY BUMPUS VERY GOOD. Hardcover. LONDON, MACMILLAN, 1903 hardcover books
19078414London. Macmillan and Company Ltd. 1907. Bound by Riviere in 3/4 gilt ruled grain morocco and cloth covered boards. Gilt titles to spine. Gilt tooled raised bands. Gilt tooled decorative fleural motif to spine. t.e.g. 12mo. Illustrated with monochrome drawing to title page. Rear cover slightly bowed. Pencil inscription to front free endsheet else a Fine tight crisp copy. Macmillan and Company, Ltd. hardcover books
185729112New York: C. S. Francis & Co. 1857. 8vo. xx 536 pp. <br><br>First U.S. edition of Bacon's essays with Whately's annotations. "From the second London edition revised." Whately 1787-1863 the archbishop of Dublin was a philosopher and political activist for Irish political reform. Bacon's essays are wide-ranging covering such topics as truth death revenge envy love boldness sedition cunning friendship suspicion discourse innovations empire travel suitors prophecies beauty deformity praise ceremonies faction anger and judicature to mention just a few. Publisher's textured dull green cloth; covers stamped in blind; lettered in gilt now dull on spine. Top of spine pulled with small loss of cloth and with a small paper label. Exsocial club library: 19th-century bookplate call number on endpaper no other markings A rather nice copy. C. S. Francis & Co. hardcover books
18673282London: Longmans Green Reader and Dyer 1867. Lg. 8vo. xxiv620pp. Indices. Plus 24pp. publisher's catalog. Early 20th c. 1/2 calf gilt black morocco spine label over cloth lightly soiled. Whately the editor was Archbishop of Dublin. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer hardcover books
1928011452London: G. W. Bacon & Co 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Undated but neat previous owner inscription on cover sates "purchased July 1928". Near fine no apparent signs of use. 36 panel folds out to aboout 38" x 29". Green cloth covers with 24 page text titled "Strangers' Guide to London" which includes detailed street index. A collectible copy. G. W. Bacon & Co hardcover books
190771256bdLondon: Arthur L. Humphreys 1907. The Royal Library Belles Lettres Series. Printed on handmade Van Gelder paper. Octavo bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in Scotch deerskin replicating a medieval style with the title and the monogram of Charles Edward Ballard hotelier and circus owner gilt-stamped on front cover title and publishing date gilt-stamped on spine top edge gilt uncut panelled dentelles vii 323 pp. Fine. Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907. The Royal Library, Belles Lettres Series. Printed on handmade Van Gelder paper. unknown books
1996139183Paris: Les Belles Lettres / Archimbaud 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 211 pages. Text in French. Includes numerous color images with several fold out plates. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Les Belles Lettres / Archimbaud unknown books
1679045996London: J.D. 1679. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Contemporary tree calf front board detached spine varnished old signature to title scattered browning mostly minor trimmed a little close in spots touching the running title small repaired tear to b1 with no loss; generally bright and unmarked internally. 104 3-270pp with 5 divisional titles in the second part but paginated continuously - lacking the first divisional title . With the portrait frontis. Size: Octavo 8vo. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Science & Technology. Inventory No: 045996. <br/><br/> J.D. hardcover books
