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1853851F25London: Chapman and Hall 1853 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. The scarce first edition of British explorer James Richardson's evangelical mission to central Africa in the early 1850s. Richardson's work discusses the wildlife climate people customs and politics of Central Africa during Richardson's travels. His mission under the orders and at the expense of Her Majesty's Government was to propagate Christianity and suppress the slave trade.Among the party of the first Europeans to cross the stony elevated plain of the Hammada Richardson succumbed to fever and died before reaching Lake Chad. This work was posthumously published and constructed from Richardson's notes and diaries.With each volume retaining the original half title.Collated illustrated with a folding map frontispiece to volume I. Lacking a map to volume II.An excellent copy of this scarce first edition. Rebound in half morocco with marbled paper covered boards. Fading to back strips with light rubbing to joint heads and tails and raised bands. Small instance of lifting to the leather of the tail of the rear joint of volume I not affecting joint. Boards exceptionally bright. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean with only the odd spot and light tide marks to fore edge of contents leaves of volume II. Very Good Chapman and Hall hardcover
1811214942London: James Carpenter and William Miller 1811. Quarter Bound. VG. With a sketch of the author's life and writings by The Rev. Edward Mangin. Pages are in very good clean condition. Previous owner's name on page following the ffep. Books have been rebound with new endpapers new brown leather spines and bottom boards. Front boards are the original; brown marbled. Gilt titles and decoration on the spines. Very nice set. VG very heavy - will require extra postage <br/> <br/> James Carpenter and William Miller unknown
182827154London: Henry Colburn 1828. Very Good. London: Henry Colburn 1828. First U.K. Edition. Two volumes; octavos 21.5cm.; full contemporary blind-ruled calf by J. Mackenzie gilt spines in six compartments red and green spine labels all edges speckled red; xxiv4591; xi14771pp. Leather a bit dried and scuffed at extremities uneven dark spotting to spines moderate foxing to early leaves else a Very Good internally quite fresh set of James Fenimore Cooper's travelogue first composed in 1830 while traveling through the United States.<br /> <br /> Provenance: Armorial ex libris of Frances Mary Richardson Currer to both front pastedowns. By the age of thirty Currer 1785-1861 the unmarried sole heir to both the Richardson and Currer estates had amassed one of the most celebrated private libraries of her generation. She was considered the first as well as the greatest female bibliophile in Europe with "a heart as big as St Paul's Dome and as warm as Volcanic lava" Dawson Turner cf. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.<br /> <br /> As well as collecting in the areas of the natural sciences topography antiquities history classics illustrated and early printed books Currer was also an active and generous patron of many charities and public institutions including the school at Cowan Bridge attended by the Brontë sisters. In fact their lives may have intersected more than once with the imminent bibliophile who is believed to have paid off Patrick Brontë's debts when he was newly widowed. It has also been reasonably surmised that Charlotte Brontë borrowed the name for her pseudonym "Currer Bell."<br /> <br /> BAL 3841; HOWES C750; SABIN 16486. Henry Colburn unknown
18486522London: Richard Bentley 1848. First Edition. First edition ex-library. Measuring approximately 9" x 6" with 440 and 482 numbered pages respectively. Complete in two volumes.<br /> <br /> The volumes are in good plus condition. Moderate surface wear and staining to the cloth boards. Library markings on the spine and both pastedowns. Interior pages have moderate foxing. <br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory #O8-106. Richard Bentley unknown
184836970London: T. McLean 1848. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. English architect Charles James Richardson 1788 - 1875 studied under Sir John Soane and designed the Earl of Harrington's mansion in Kensington Palace Gardens. He also conducted multiple design studies while traveling around England including this impressive set which features drawings of architectural elements such as stairways entrances ceilings and ironwork as well as decorative pieces of furniture vases silverwork etc. from multiple English Mansions. Some of the mansions were studied while in disrepair or partial ruin. Includes the Gorhamburg House in Hertfordshire Montacute House in Somersetshire Old Town Hall in Nantwich Charlton House in Wiltshire and many more. <br /> <br /> Elephant Folios. All four volumes are bound in matching quarter red leather over green moire cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spines. Ex-library with remnants of white markings to spines and inconspicuous number stamps to top margins of title pages in each volume. All volumes have wear and rubbing to joints edges corners and spine ends. Rubbing and minor soiling to boards and spines. Foxing to margins of many pages heaviest on first and last few pages of each volume. A few non-consecutive plates in various volumes have dampstaining to margins which suggests this may have occured prior to binding. Occasional smudge marks and spots of soiling. Occasional small pencil markings to margins. Star sticker partially covering penned ownership name to each front pastedown. Partial loss to edge of front pastedown in fourth volume. All plates have tissue guards; however some are creased and some have small tears. <br /> <br /> The first volume includes a small bound in descriptive four page booklet that offers details about each of the unnumbered 25 plates. It accounts for 25 plates; however one of them is actually a double plate. The other three volumes include plates with descriptive text of the mansions depicted bordered with architectural details. Aside from the booklet in the first volume there are no lists of plates the plates are unnumbered and there is no pagination. Some plates are in black and white; however most are in duotone and a few are in color. Volume I: title page dedication page 25 plates including a double 2 page plate; Volume II: title page full color dedication page 35 pages; Volume III: title page dedication page 38 plates including a double or 2 page plate; Volume IV: title page dedication page 37 plates. Size: 19.75 x 13.5 inches. Unpaginated. ARCH/122623. T. McLean hardcover
1804205844London: Richard Phillips 1804. First Edition. Bound without half-titles; covers a bit rubbed at extremities. Six vols. 12mos; ccxii 192 340 332 379 348 317 1pp; frontispiece engravings in Vols. 123 and 6 including hand-colored folding plates in Vols. 2 and 3; nineteenth-century three-quarter polished calf gilt and marbled boards by Henry Young & Sons Liverpool; a.e.g. A lovely set. Richard Phillips unknown
188734765London: Longmans 1887. <p>Signed Presentation Copy</p> <p>Chadwick Edwin 1800-1890 Richardson Benjamin Ward ed. The health of nations. A review of the works of Edwin Chadwick. With a biographical dissertation. 2 vols. 8vo. lxxiv 2 377; viii 440pp. 24-page publisher's catalogue in the back of Vol. II. Frontispiece portrait in Vol. I. London: Longmans Green 1887. 214 x 138 mm. Original maroon cloth gilt-lettered spines shaken some wear spines darkened. Presentation copy with printed presentation note addressed to the Liverpool Library completed in manuscript and signed by Richardson bound into Vol. I. Liverpool Library labels on front covers and free endpapers of both volumes. <p>First Edition of Chadwick's collected works prefaced with a biographical essay by Richardson. In 1838 Chadwick who was then the secretary of the Poor Law Commissioners initiated a series of investigations into the living conditions of London's working poor and pauper classes. The findings of these investigations published in 1842-43 resulted in the passage of the Public Health Act of 1848 and a number of other important public health reforms. Chadwick was the first to advocate national responsibility for proper drainage street cleaning lighting and water supply and health care; the principles he enunciated form the basis of public health as we know it today.</p> <p>This copy of The Health of Nations was presented by Richardson to the Liverpool Library on Jan. 24 1889. The presentation notice reads: "Dear Sir My much esteemed friend Mr. Edwin Chadwick C.B. this day entering his ninetieth year desires me to present in his name the two accompanying volumes of "The Health of Nations" to the library of your Institution. I am Dear Sir Faithfully yours B. W. Richardson signature in ms. The Librarian Liverpool Library Liverpool last 3 words in Richardson's ms." </p> . Longmans unknown books
185533122London: Reeve 1855. First edition. Volume one only 383pp. Illus. 2 folding charts 11 plates colored folding map at p.90. Contemporary half morocco. Reeve unknown books
1884014209London: Longmans Gree and Co 1884. Volumes 1 to 11. Published bwteen 1884-1895. Books measure 23x16.cm. Bound in period half calf cloth boards raised bands gilt lines crest leather title labels. Calf rubbed scuff wear minor loss hinge joints worn but boards attached. Generally alll bindings in good condition. Internally very occasional library stamp. Pages and plates in good clean condition. A good bound run. . Half Calf. Near Very Good. 8vo. Longmans, Gree, and Co Hardcover
1804869A57London: Printed for Richard Phillips 1804. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". None . The first edition of the correspondence of Samuel Richardson in six uniform volumes. The first edition of this work. In six volumes. Correspondence of important English writer and printer of the eighteenth century Samuel Richardson. Author of 'Pamela' 'Clarissa' and 'Sir Charles Grandison.' Selected from original manuscripts. With a biographical sketch and observations on his writings by prominent poet and literary critic Anna Laetitia Barbauld. With frontispiece volumes I and VI folding hand-coloured frontispiece volumes II and III tinted frontispiece volume IV folding facsimile frontispiece to volumes V and nine folding facsimiles to rear vol VI. Bound without publisher's catalogue volume VI.Six leaves of advertisement to follow title page vol. I. Rebound in uniform half calf with gilt panelled spine titles in gilt to morocco spine labels. Externally with light rubbing to joints and extremities as well as boards. Internally firmly bound. Light offsetting to title page and odd light spotting to occasional leaf only. Pages otherwise generally bright and clean throughout. Very Good Printed for Richard Phillips hardcover
189731237<p>This beautiful set includes writings letters speeches and other messages from each United States president from George Washington through Theodore Roosevelt. The first edition of this series was only included enough copies in 1897 for each member of the senate. This 1789 to 1908 edition includes papers to Theodore Roosevelt's second term. A beautiful display! Quarto 4to 11 volumes. Condition: Very Good with the half leather binding tight and secure with edges and corners moderately worn especially along the spines where the leather is driest; internally clean and complete with mildly age-toned pages and color illustrations retaining their tissue guards. Collation: Each volume individually paginated. Edition: New York: Bureau of National Literature and Art 1908. #31237. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.</p> Bureau of National Literature and Art hardcover
180455610London: Richard Phillips. Very Good. 1804. First Edition. Hardcover. 6 volumes. Original speckled calf morocco labels gilt. Small losses to spine ends wear to points leather somewhat dried/worn. Tissued frontis portrait Volume 1. Folding color frontis Volume 2 and 3. Tissued frontis volume 4 and 6. Volume 5 has folding facsimile of Dr. Johnson's letter. Volume 6 has 7 folding facsimile letters at p. 288 and catalogue at rear. Occasional foxing offsetting or spotting. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Richard Phillips hardcover
184827443London: Thomas McLean 1848. Hardcover. G tears in leather spines some loss or partial separation on all but third volume. Cover wear some damp stains to covers and some plates: Series 4 has some dampstaining at top edge affecting the image on one plate. Two private library labels on each volumes' spine penciled cataloging numbers written on toc and some marks/labels inside covers. Images of plates clean with occasional margin smudging. Series 1 has small ink numbers at very top corner of plate leaf. Tape reinforcing on inner hinges pages fragile at hinges. Binding sound; endpapers and some tissue guards have occasional tears or folds. Each vol: green cloth red leather spine gilt lettering decorative or illustrated title pages tissue guards over each plate. Series vol 1: 24 plates mostly two- or three-tones 4 chromolithographs TP and dedication with smaller-size explanation of plates bound in. Series 2: 12 highly decorative plates with text followed by 23 illustrative plates 35 total in two- or three-tones and 2 chromolithographs. Series 3: 37 plates two- or three-tones with 1 chromolithograph TP and dedication page complete according to desc. Series 4: 4: 37 plates with one 1 chromolithograph. Comprised completely of illustrations of English mansions which includes engravings of exterior and interior views as well as architectural details; staircases mouldings ceilings walls doors newel posts and much more. Thomas McLean hardcover books
187125699Baltimore Maryland : Richardson & Bennett 1871. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Bendann Brothers. Bendann Brothers. First Edition. 562 pages separately engraved title page noting illustrations are by Bendann Brothers. 4to. 3/4 leather over pebbled cloth covered boards. Illustrated with sixty two tissue protected photographic unsigned portraits of luminaries fifty-one from life the balance copyprints after paintings or engravings. The photographs are in excellent condition strong and rich. Gilt ruling and decoration on raised bands on spine. Overall minor wear to extremities. Where leather rubbed toned to match. Page edges tinted red. One front endpaper with inked previous owner names and past purchase date. Small chip missing from front marbled endpaper occasional corners turned from past readers with bad habits. Seven pages noted with a few words underlined. No doubt the publisher's trade edition the deluxe edition which we've also owned had facsimile signatures underneath each portrait and a deluxe binding. Cloth. The first 146 pages are a historical sketch of the area by Brantz Mayer titled "Baltimore As it Was and As it Is: A Historical Sketch of the Ancient Town and Modern City from the foundation in 1729 to 1870; Compiled and written from Authentic Materials.". The second section is titled "Biographical" and provides biographical sketches and in many cases photographs from life of those worthy of inclusion. John W. Woods printer. Richardson & Bennett unknown
187125699Baltimore Maryland : Richardson & Bennett 1871. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Bendann Brothers. Bendann Brothers. First Edition. 562 pages separately engraved title page noting illustrations are by Bendann Brothers. 4to. 3/4 leather over pebbled cloth covered boards. Illustrated with sixty two tissue protected photographic unsigned portraits of luminaries fifty-one from life the balance copyprints after paintings or engravings. The photographs are in excellent condition strong and rich. Gilt ruling and decoration on raised bands on spine. Overall minor wear to extremities. Where leather rubbed toned to match. Page edges tinted red. One front endpaper with inked previous owner names and past purchase date. Small chip missing from front marbled endpaper occasional corners turned from past readers with bad habits. Seven pages noted with a few words underlined. No doubt the publisher's trade edition the deluxe edition which we've also owned had facsimile signatures underneath each portrait and a deluxe binding. Cloth. The first 146 pages are a historical sketch of the area by Brantz Mayer titled "Baltimore As it Was and As it Is: A Historical Sketch of the Ancient Town and Modern City from the foundation in 1729 to 1870; Compiled and written from Authentic Materials.". The second section is titled "Biographical" and provides biographical sketches and in many cases photographs from life of those worthy of inclusion. John W. Woods printer. Richardson & Bennett unknown books
1889016894London: Field & Tuer 1889. Book measures 23x15.cm. xvi380pp 8pp catalogue. Bound in original publishers blue cloth red boarder line gilt lettering bevelled edges. Bindin lightly rubbed very minor wear. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally pages clean. A very good copy of a rare book. F. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus. 8vo. Field & Tuer Hardcover
183830869London: William Pickering 1838. Second edition 2 volumes thick 4to pp. 4 71 1 1183 1; 4 1185-2222 1; text in triple column; publisher's 1/4 brown morocco scuffed prelims and terminals spotted; a good sound set. First published in the same format in 1836-37. Based on the "historical principle" of lexicography this work formed the most substantial link between Samuel Johnson and the OED. Kennedy 6429; Vancil p. 204. William Pickering unknown
183830869London: William Pickering 1838. Second edition 2 volumes thick 4to pp. 4 71 1 1183 1; 4 1185-2222 1; text in triple column; publisher's 1/4 brown morocco scuffed prelims and terminals spotted; a good sound set. First published in the same format in 1836-37. Based on the "historical principle" of lexicography this work formed the most substantial link between Samuel Johnson and the OED. Kennedy 6429; Vancil p. 204. <br/><br/> William Pickering unknown books
184620069Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co 1846. First edition printed in America from William Pickering's stereotype plates; 2 volumes 4to pp. 4 71 1 1183 1; 2 1185-2222 1; contemporary full calf red morocco labels on spines some rubbing and wear but generally good and sound. The most substantial lexicographical undertaking in England between that of Samuel Johnson and the O.E.D. "First published as part of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana 1818-37 it consisted of a great many illustrative quotations drawn from literature but with relatively few and brief definitions . Richardson's approach was based on the notion that quotations alone if sufficient in number could serve to elucidate 'true etymological meaning.' He went far beyond Johnson in collecting quotations beginning at the fourteenth century Johnson went back only to the end of the 16th century . Richardson sought by his vast collection of quotations to justify the preposterous theory of John Horne Tooke that each word had a single immutable meaning. In his own work each word and its derivatives were given one etymology and one meaning. His etymologies were as preposterous as his theories but his dictionary was of great interest to lexicographers because it foreshadowed the historical collections of quotations that were later to form the basis of the Oxford English Dictionary" Landau Dictionaries p. 66. Based on the "historical principle" of lexicography this work formed an important link between Johnson and the O.E.D. Kennedy 6449. <br/><br/> E.H. Butler & Co unknown books
184815040London: Richard Bentley 1848. With 3 engraved plates 2 of which are frontispieces a large folding map and 24 text woodcuts. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards; foxing limited to endpapers overall in excellent shape. First edition of this account of Richardson's first expedition to Africa. The idea to reach the “celebrated Oasis of Ghadames . . . amidst the most appalling desolations of the Great Saharan Wilderness†came to Richardson via the accidental reading of a brochure on a table in the Algiers public library. This glance resulted in a journey from Tunis and Tripoli in Libya to Ghadames and Ghat in the middle of the Sahara chronicled in his Travels in the treat desert of Sahara. Readers travel with Richardson and his group through cities trader routes and more oases learning the language the culture and the religion of the people whom they encounter. It is as fascinating and rich as any nineteen th-century travel narrative.<br /> <br /> A review in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society states: “These volumes are useful contributions to our knowledge of the interior of the imperfectly known regions of Northern Africa; and they describe some hundreds of miles of desert routes over which no Europeans had previously passed as well as several of the cities of the Desert of which we had not before received accounts from European visitors†Vol. 18 p. lix. Indeed Richardson returned to the area in 1850 to cross the elevated plain of the Hammada the first European to ever do so. It was on that journey that he died of a mysterious illness.<br /> <br /> Richardson 1806-1851 was an English explorer with an ambition to propagate Christianity and suppress slavery in Africa. He frequently refers to the trans-Saharan slave trade and the position of slaves in local Tuareg communities. Richard Bentley unknown
1821ST12949Paris: De l'imprimerie de Plassan 1821-22. 212 x 133 mm. 8 3/8 x 5 1/4". Two volumes. <br/> Very attractive quarter calf blind-stamped in "cathedral" style over marbled boards by Thouvenin stamp-signed in gilt at foot of spine corners tipped with green vellum spine blindstamped with a design of gothic-arched windows gilt titling marbled endpapers and edges. Half title with ink inscription in French stating that this book was purchased at the sale of the library of the Duc de Coigny at Chateau de Franquetot on 24 April 1912. ◆Occasional insignificant smudges or spots of foxing the paper a little on the inexpensive side otherwise an appealing copy with virtually no signs of use.<br/> <br/> This is an early 19th century French edition of Richardson's first major work offered here in a well-preserved unusual contemporary binding and with intriguing provenance. Samuel Richardson 1679-1761 was a printer who loved to write letters and who at the age of 50 began writing novels using the epistolary form. His major works are important stepping stones toward the modern novel. Day says that "Pamela is the first great character creation of English prose fiction. As much as we may dislike her prudential morality we must recognize here a complete human being." The work initially appeared in French in 1741 shortly after its original printing in English. The unusual binding is typical of the fine work produced by Joseph Thouvenin 1779-1834 the eldest of three bookbinder brothers. Ramsden describes Thouvenin as one of the three great French binders of the Empire and Restoration periods Simier and Purgold are the others and the Walters Art Museum catalogue says that "in his heyday . . . he was the giant among Paris bookbinders." Deriving its name from the use of design motifs taken from gothic architecture the so-called "Cathedral Binding" or "Cathedral-Style Binding" was fashionable in England and France for about three decades beginning ca. 1810. In France--as here--the design was usually blocked while in England it was typically accomplished with gilt tooling. Thouvenin is sometimes credited with popularizing the style. The provenance of our copy is distinguished: it was apparently in the library of the family of the duc de Coigny 1737-1814 who was Maréchal and Peer of France. Although the duke himself was not alive to read this edition it likely was part of his descendants' library remaining on its shelf until purchased by a collector at the sale of family books nearly a century later. De l'imprimerie de Plassan unknown
184526913London: Charles Knight & Company Ltd. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1845. Second Edition. Hardcover. 8vo; 648 pages; 3 folding engraved maps outlined in color. Maps with some foxing and splits at folds. Contains a detailed geographic description of every location in America based on leading authorities of the day including a chapter on the Republic of Texas. The map of North America shows Texas with the Panhandle extending up to Santa Fe. Second and best edition text revised and with the maps that did not appear in the first edition of 1841. . Charles Knight & Company Ltd. hardcover
1845B1627Suffolk: Thomas McLean 1845. Minor wear to extremities. Occasional foxing otherwise a very good to excellent set. Binding: Contemporary maroon half calf with marbled boards. Spine with raised bands gilt title and gilt decoration. Cover with gold fillets. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Size: Folio Illustration: Illustrated with lithographed title-page 23 paper-guarded lithotint or lithographed plates of text surrounded by decorative carvings and plasterwork and 47 lithotint plates of exteriors of manor houses mansions and gardens room interiors decorative fireplaces doorways staircases cabinets and paneling 3 double-page. Volume: 4 vols in 2 References: Abbey Life 54. Pages: Pages unnumbered. Category: Book Art Architecture & Design; Book Europe United Kingdom; Thomas McLean hardcover
1824008222London: Hurst Robinson and Co 1824. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Edinburgh : Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. Ballantyne's Novelist's Library v. 6-8.edited by Sir Walter Scott. Three volumes bound in contemporary full polished calf the backs with two brown calf labels lettered in gilt and three sections ornately decorated in gilt printer's name in gilt at tail edges marbled prior owner name and small gift inscription in pencil light wear at edges mild toning approx. 25 pp. Vol. III with creasing a Very Good Plus set. RARE the last copy sold at auction 1972 RBH. The first editions of these novels published 1740-1742. . "Pamela" is considered by most to be the first novel published in English. A heavy set please be advised added shipping charges will be requested for priority mail and international orders please inquire before ordering. v. 1. Pamela or Virtue Rewarded. The History of Clarissa Harlowe in a series of letters -- v .2. The History of Clarissa Harlowe -- v. 3. The History of Sir Charles Grandison Bart. in a series of letters. Hurst, Robinson, and Co Hardcover
1841750851st Series 26 plates including letterpress of which 3 are coloured; 2nd Series 35 plates 5 of which are coloured; 3rd Series 44 sepia plates including title pages and illustrated letterpress also included are 9 loose plates/letterpress which appear to belong to one of the volumes and are dated 1841 Published by Thomas McLean hardcover
