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1801289249Dublin: Luke White 1801. Sixth Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. The set in the Sixth Edition complete in five volumes with Volumes 6 and 7 being An Appendix to Bacon's New Abridgement of the Law in two volumes alphabetically digested by Henry Willims. The five volume set printed by Luke White in Dublin in 1793 and the Appendix volumes printed by White in 1801. Each of the seven volumes with the signature of Philip Lightfoot -- perhaps the same Lightfoot of Culpeper County who served in the Continental Army Artillery from 1778-1781 and was a prominent lawyer and merchant the little town of Lightfoot Virginia near Williamsburg bears his name . The volumes also have the name of another Culpeper lawyer James French Strother. Uniformly bound in contemporary calf with a decorative roll in blind to the perimeters of each board and morocco labels minor loss to one label. Numbers are stamped in blind. Very Good binding. Luke White unknown books
185958527NY and Savannah: D. Appleton and William Thorne Williams 1859. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: xiii 2 503; 524 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Oglethorpe in volume one 3 plans folding view of St. Augustine. Typed letter in pocket at rear of volume one related to the provenance of this set. "Writing with precision and accuracy and using the documentary sources Stevens produced a history which has not yet been supplanted." Howes S-974. Sabin 91574. De Renne catalogue II pp. 516-516. Harwell & Willingham Georgiana 36. Ex-institutional library copy with stamp on title page overstamped "duplicate" and bookplates on front pastedown stamped "released" otherwise very good. Original embossed black pebbled cloth gilt spine title. #5772. <br/><br/> D. Appleton and William Thorne Williams hardcover books
182856557New Haven: Hezekiah Howe 1828. First edition 8vo pp. 36; removed from binding wrappers wanting; last couple leaves lightly foxed otherwise clean and sound. Jehudi Ashmun a caucasian was a member of the American Colonialization Society which founded the colony of Liberia. Ashmun moved there and served as the de facto governor and supported a constitution that gave black citizens the ability to serve in government. He grew ill shortly after his second term and died soon after returning to the States. Leonard Bacon was an influential anti-slavery advocate. His work Slavery Discussed in Occasional Essays from 1833 to 1846 was an influence on Lincoln. American Imprints 32060; not in Afro-Americana. <br/><br/> Hezekiah Howe unknown books
189662111Tuscumbia AL: O.G. Simpson job printer 1896. First edition . 8vo. 30 pp. Folding map; title-page printed in red ads for local businesses including one for the printer and another for the compiler both printed in red several buildings illustrated from wood engravings and a photograph. Detailed prospectus for this Alabama county lying just south of the Tennessee River near Florence. Signed by the compiler at the head of the front wrapper. Apparently not recorded in OCLC and we have not been able to trace a copy in other bibliographical or online sources. Very good. Original decorated green and white wrappers stapled. 8917. <br/><br/> O.G. Simpson, job printer unknown books
16183463London: Bonham Norton and John Bill 1618. Rare first edition first issue of the defense of James Is execution of Sir Walter Raleigh written by Francis Bacon and with according to Bacon very material additions by the king himself. The work describes the circumstances surrounding Raleighs final voyage to America in 1618 with the purpose of locating a fabled gold mine and includes the text of Raleighs commission. In the event his expedition ended up seizing the island of St. Thomas and killing its Spanish governor an ostensible act of war against Englands ally. Back in England Raleigh who had already been sentenced to death in 1603 on another conviction was tried by a commission headed by Bacon and executed in October 1618. The English public was appalled: To sacrifice to a concealed enemy of England the life of the only man in the nation who had a high reputation for valor and military experience was regarded as meanness and indiscretion and the intimate connections which the king was now entering into with Spain being universally distasteful rendered this proof of his complaisance still more invidious and unpopular David Hume History of England. The present volume is the governments hasty attempt to justify the execution. Bacon as a member of the council that had sentenced Raleigh appears to have been the main author. In a letter to a friend he mentioned the work and the kings input: We have put the Declaration touching Raleigh to press with his Majestys additions which were very material and fit to proceed from his Majesty cf. Pforzheimer 819. The work is known in at least two issues a first issue of 63 pages and a second of 68. STC and Pforzheimer originally took the present to be the second issue but the STC has since revised its opinion based on the research by Starkey published in his Library article of 1948. STC 2nd ed. 20652.5; Gibson Francis Bacon 369c; Starkey The printing of a declaration of the demeanor and carriage of Sir Walter Raleigh 1618 The Library 5th series 3 1948 124-34. 4to. 16.6 x 11.4 cm 4 63 1 pp. including initial blank signed A in a woodcut tailpiece. Bound in later paneled calf title stamped on spine lower portion of spine damaged slightly worn at extremities. INTERNAL CONDITION Generally very good. Bonham Norton and John Bill books
19893089Dayton Ohio: The Dayton Art Institute 1989. VG. Blue wraps. 76 pp. 34 color 35 bw plates. Catalogue lists 48 works. Essays by Peter Bacon Hales Sublime Commodity: The Nineteenth-Century American Landscape and Naomi Vine A Certain Slant of Light. Vine has also written the essays on the artists. Nice plates 1500 copies printed. The Dayton Art Institute paperback books
188037675Tarrytown: Geo. L. Wiley & Bro. civil engineers and surveyors 1880. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. About very good wrappers chipped at edges front wrapper partially detached map split at joint a few small tears along folds otherwise quite bright. 24 pp. Illus. with 1 hand colored folding map and 1 b/w engraving. 8vo. Issued on the centennial anniversary of the capture of Major André on September 23 1780 at Tarrytown N.Y. "The Andre papers": pp. 12-18. The title vignette which is also reproduced on the front wrapper is captioned "Monument erected near the spot where Major Andre was captured September 23d 1780" and signed E.M. Bacon. The map which measures 18 x 14 inches and hand-colored in yellow blue and green is captioned: Tarwe-town in the manor of Phillipsburgh Westchester Co. N.Y. One hundred years ago. Uncommon and quite fragile due to mounting of map on front wrapper. OCLC locates six copies under two accession numbers: NYPL NYS Hist. Asn NJ Histo. Soc. 19111384 and NY Hist. Soc. Westchester Lib. and Boston Athenaeum 82174650. Geo. L. Wiley & Bro., civil engineers and surveyors unknown books
2012UBAC8HA00MELGrand Central Life & Style 2012. Very Good. Bacon Ed. 8 Habits of Love: Open Your Heart Open Your Mind. Boston: Grand Central Life & Style 2012. 204pp. 12mo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Grand Central Life & Style hardcover books
2002151855San Francisco: Backbeat Books 2002. First Edition. First Edition. Photo-illustrated throughout. <br/><br/>Near Fine in illustrated wrappers with French flaps. Backbeat Books unknown books
1638WRCLIT65585London: Exculum typis Edwardi Griffini . 1638. 14176179-386164751pp. with occasional misnumbering as per Gibson. Large quarto. Contemporary gilt armorial calf rebacked and recornered to style at some point in the 20th century with the original label chipped laid down. Lacks the portrait frontis marginal repairs and discolorations to title leaf and terminal leaf not affecting text and with a long closed tear in lower margin of title repaired intermittent faint old marginal tide-marks occasional marginal smudging and soiling early ink name and shelf designation on endsheet the latter repeated on title; otherwise a good sound and reasonably tall 32.5 cm copy. First collected edition of Bacon's Latin works and the first issue prior to the inclusion of unsold sheets from the 1620 NOVUM ORGANUM and the alteration of the title- page to include it. The edition was overseen by William Rawley Bacon's secretary and chaplain. Although the register is continuous the major constituent works were equipped with full title leaves some of them bearing the imprint of John Haviland. GIBSON 196. STC 1109. ESTC S106899. Exculum typis Edwardi Griffini ... unknown books
169419001Lipsiae: Impensis Johannis Justi Erythropili excudebat Christianus Goezius 1694. Folio 33.5 cm 13.25". 8 ff. 1584 columns 49 index pp. half-title lacking. <br><br>Simon Johann Arnold's edition of Bacon's collected works translated into Latin from the original English published simultaneously at Leipzig and Copenhagen. Sir Francis Bacon 15611626 in addition to rising to the office of Lord Chancellor was a prolific and lively-minded writer noted by the Oxford Companion to English Literature as "capable of varied and beautiful styles" and as exhibiting "a peculiar magnificence and picturesqueness in much of his writing." This Opera is a more complete collection of Bacon's literary scientific and philosophical productions than the first which was published in 1665.<br>Â Â Â Â This offers evidence of early readership in form of underlining in ink and occasional marginal notations confined to early portion of the tome. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Gibson Bacon 243a. On Bacon see: Oxford Companion to English Literature 5657. Contemporary vellum spine with gilt-stamped title; vellum showing minor scuffing and spots of discoloration. Front pastedown with a 19th-century bookplate; front free endpaper with edge nicks and short edge tears. Lacking half-title. Early inked marginalia and underlining as above; leaves age-toned with intermittent light offsetting and foxing. One leaf with short tear from upper margin not extending into text. Impensis Johannis Justi Erythropili, excudebat Christianus Goezius hardcover books
