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1889H27162Pittsburgh: Wm. G. Johnston & Co 1889. First Printing. Wraps. Very good. 8vo 9 x 6 inches salmon wraps very good light wear and loss to edges of covers contents very good occasional light pencil mark and one pencil correction to a date. 67 pp engraved frontispiece of the courthouse programme of the dedication a detailed history of how Richardson was chosen as the architect how much money was needed and the steps taken to complete its construction Richardson was engaged as the architect in 1883 and began work on it almost immediately. Uncommon Pittsburgh item; the court house is still there and is still one of Pittsburgh's great landmark downtown buildings. Wm. G. Johnston & Co unknown
1820a004B.015GB: Edward Walker Newcastle printer 1820. Bookplate of L.P. Shawe-Storey in both volumes which are both insctibed "George Thirkeld Gibson Vestry clerk of St MNicholas from the collection of Joseph Garnet Esqr". Fairly clean tight text in VERY WORN covers. Spines largely disintegrated. So just a good working set. Hardback. Good/No DW. Edward Walker (Newcastle) (printer) Hardcover
184730338<p>quarto two page illustrated printed promotional circular letter describing and illustrating William H. Richardson's Patent Walking Cane Umbrellas formerly folded very good clean condition.</p><p>The printed letter from Richardson lithographed on the first page of the circular describes and promotes Richardson's umbrellas particularly his "Patent Walking Cane Umbrella." Richardson describes his manufactory which ran on steam power enabling him to make 1200 umbrellas a day or "between 7 and 8000 umbrellas per week". This enabled him to keep his costs low and ensure a low price for prospective purchasers. Richardson claimed his was "the only manufacturer in the United States using steam I have no fear that any can or will undersell me…" The circular states that umbrellas and parasols were 25 cents each. The illustration instructs the potential customer how to use the patent walking cane umbrella.</p>
1900251507London: Horace Marshall 1900. First edition. Frontispiece in two states coloured and uncoloured as are all plates in book several folding facsimiles. viii 308 pp. Bound in three quarters green morocco spine gilt faded to brown t.e.g. Fine. First edition. Frontispiece in two states coloured and uncoloured as are all plates in book several folding facsimiles. viii 308 pp. Signed by Author on verso of title-page and with an ALS from author tipped in about his book and an edition by the Publisher to whom this is addressed. Horace Marshall unknown
180840252Boston: Printed by Munroe Francis & Parker Shakespeare Bookstore no. 4 Cornhill 1808. Second American Edition. 187pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf morocco spine label front cover detached. Second American Edition. 187pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The second American edition of the first known American publication on Shakespeare Philadelphia 1788.<br /> <br /> Richardson 1743-1814 was a professor of humanity in the University of Glasgow. First published in Edinburgh in 1774 this work contains essays on Hamlet Macbeth on the melancholy Jaques Imogen King Richard the Third King Lear Timon of Athens and "On the Faults of Shakespeare." In this last essay Richardson faults the admirers of Shakespeare with excessive indulgence of his faults: "I am inclined to believe and shall now endeavour to demonstrate that the greatest blemishes in Shakespeare have proceeded from his want of consummate taste .". Jaggard p. 263 Printed by Munroe, Francis & Parker, Shakespeare Bookstore, no. 4, Cornhill unknown
1820ST16983London: Robert Triphook 1820. ONE OF 40 COPIES PRINTED. 235 x 142 mm. 9 1/4 x 5 3/4". iii-xi 1 308 pp. lacking the first of the two title pages at front. <br/> In a very nice replica binding of honey-brown sheepskin over marbled boards raised bands ruled in gilt gilt titling. Front free endpaper INSCRIBED IN INK BY CURRER: With Miss Currer's Compliments"; small ownership perforation of the Bradford Free Library on title page and p. 99; two small ink stamps on p. 59 and 99. Front free endpaper with thinned area where indication of earlier ownership likely appeared. The boards just very lightly scuffed though probably to provide a feeling of authenticity otherwise only trivial imperfections. Apart from the signs of library ownership a very fine copy the text showing virtually no signs of use.<br/> <br/> This is a presentation copy of the first library catalogue of Frances Mary Richardson Currer an Englishwoman described by De Ricci as "England’s earliest female bibliophile" and hailed by Dibdin as "the head of all female collectors in Europe." An only child Currer 1785-1861 inherited considerable assets from both her father's and her mother's families: her relative Dorothy Richardson wrote in 1815 "She is in possession of both the Richardson and Currer estates and inherits all the taste of the former family having collected a very large and valuable library . . . in addition to what were collected by her great grandfather and great-uncle." Dibdin noted that her library at Eshton Hall in North Yorkshire was surpassed only by three collections those of Earl Spencer and the dukes of Devonshire and Buckingham. According to DNB "the library had substantial holdings in natural science topography antiquities and history together with a collection of the classics. There were rarities some early printed books a collection of Bibles and a fine gathering of illustrated books. . . . Dibdin first estimated the number of volumes at 15000 and later 18000. In 1852 Sir J. B. Burke put the number at 20000." With just 40 copies printed this first printing there was a 1933 second edition is very rarely seen on the market. Robert Triphook unknown
1842ST16673London: Richard Bentley 1842. FIRST EDITION. 195 x 115 mm. 7 3/4 x 4 5/8". Three volumes. <br/> Contemporary half calf over brown marbled boards raised bands with gilt tooling spine panels blind-stamped in a scolloped pattern red morocco label marbled endpapers and edges. Front pastedown with the bookplate of the celebrated book-collector Frances Mary Richardson Currer of Eshton Hall in each volume. Provenance: Dibdin "Reminiscences of a Literary Life" 1836 pp. 949–57; De Ricci "English Collectors of Books and Manuscripts" 1930 pp. 141-43. Extremities a bit rubbed boards lightly chafed occasional minor marginal stains or light patches of foxing but a pleasing copy generally clean and fresh in sturdy original bindings with no significant condition issues.<br/> <br/> This novel of the British navy during the Jacobite Rebellion comes from the library of a woman described by De Ricci as "England’s earliest female bibliophile" and hailed by Dibdin as "the head of all female collectors in Europe." An only child Frances Mary Richardson Currer 1785-1861 inherited considerable assets from both her father's and her mother's families: her relative Dorothy Richardson wrote in 1815 "She is in possession of both the Richardson and Currer estates and inherits all the taste of the former family having collected a very large and valuable library and also possessing a fine collection of prints shells and fossils in addition to what were collected by her great grandfather and great-uncle." Dibdin noted that her library at Eshton Hall was "surpassed only by those of Earl Spencer the duke of Devonshire and the duke of Buckingham." According to DNB "the library had substantial holdings in natural science topography antiquities and history together with a collection of the classics. There were rarities some early printed books a collection of Bibles and a fine gathering of illustrated books. . . . Dibdin first estimated the number of volumes at 15000 and later 18000. In 1852 Sir J. B. Burke put the number at 20000." Although best known for his Leatherstocking Tales set on the early American frontier James Fenimore Cooper 1789-1851 had originally intended a career in the navy and spent several years at sea before an inheritance from his father allowed him to pursue a literary career. Deemed by Day "an excellent naval novel" the text here is a poignant tale of conflicting loyalties and the importance of friendship seen through the eyes of the titular "Two Admirals" lifelong friends supporting opposing political forces in the contest over the Stuart succession to throne of Britain. Richard Bentley 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
1852D59641852. Hardcover. Very Good. Original full red morocco ornately stamped in blind and gilt; 8vo; 31 manuscript pages including an illustrated short story landscapes in pencil Havana the Hudson River harbor of St. Thomas Martinique and 3 colored-pencil cartoons of American Indians these seemingly contributed by a child. Just a little scuffed along joints and edges of boards else fine. Likely the work of Horace Richardson the title-page and "publication information" see above states that this unique item was "copied" by him and one of the drawings most of which are clearly by the same artist is initialed "H. R." The book does indeed seem to correspond at least in part with a journey on the Winfield Scott a sidewheel steamer that transported cargo and passengers from San Francisco and Panama during the California Gold Rush -- then sank in December of 1853. The landscapes are nicely accomplished: "Yosemite Falls from Black's Hotel" signed "H.R." "Highland Park Hotel Aiken S.C." "Vineyard Haven" "View from the Window in our Parlor in the Hotel El Telegrafo Havana 1872" "View from my Window at the West Point Hotel Looking up the Hudson 1872" and "Fort de France Martinique from the Sea." Opens with a weird little short story in which the malefactor Joseph Shed spends his entire life stealing stockings even dirty ones punishment be damned. <br/><br/> hardcover
186135164Richmond: West & Johnson 1861. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. 12mo. 36 pages. Stitched printed wraps. Lower right corner front cover is chipped. Light soil to the paper edges and lower corners of the first 2 leaves. Light toning to the contents. Contents include anatomical sketch of a man Government and Generals of the Confederate States etc. <br /> <br /> Parrish & Willingham 5781. West & Johnson unknown
186235163Richmond: West & Johnson 1862. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. 12mo. 35 pages 1. Stitched printed wraps. Rear wrap advertises the publication of Edward Pollard's First Year of the War. Wear and fading to the outer wraps. Light toning to the contents. <br /> <br /> Parrish & Willingham 5789. West & Johnson 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
1885261Grant1<p><strong>The Personal History of Ulysses Grant. </strong></p><p><strong>Complete in one volume. </strong></p><p><strong>Printed in 1885. </strong></p><p><strong>First Edition. </strong></p><p><br /><br /><br /></p><p><strong>Bound in leather. </strong></p><p><strong>The original binding. </strong></p><p><strong>Printed on quality paper. </strong></p><p><br /><br /><br /></p><p>This is not Grant's Personal Memoirs.</p><p>This is not the more common 'shoulder strap series' two volume autobiography 'Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant'.</p><p>That is a different work.</p><p>This is the work authored by A. Richardson.</p><p>This is complete in one volume.</p><p>This is a first edition on U. S. Grant.</p><p>If you are looking for Grant's self published Personal Memoirs this is not that set.</p><p><br /><br /><br /></p><p>Condition:</p><p><strong>Book has generalized usage wear. External wear as shown. Hinges strong but abraded as shown. External abrasions. Front pages are detached including the title page. As shown in the pictures. Rear marbled end paper is split in two as shown. This may be bothersome. Printed on quality paper. Book is good only and consistent with that book grade. External abrasion. Title page and front few pages are detached. Rear marbled end paper is torn in two pieces. Good only. </strong></p><p>Front pages are detached including the title page. As shown in the pictures.</p><p>Rear marbled end paper is split in two as shown in the pictures.</p><p><br /><br /></p><p><strong>This book will be well protected for shipping.</strong></p><p>26.1.i</p>
183121197721831. London: Longmans Reese Orme et. 1831. Small 8vo. Original publisher's cloth with printed lettering-piece to spine; pp. 4 publisher's catalogue xv 339 2 alternative version of series title steel-engraved title-page this a little toned illustrated with wood-engravings in the text; light wear to hinges otherwise a very good copy with 19th-ventury blind stamps of Worcester Public Library to a few leaves.First edition published in the series Cabinet Encyclopedia this a thorough treatise on silk production manufacture and the economic side of the luxury fabric written by the statistician and son-in-law of the economist Ricardo. hardcover
186722672Edinburgh & London 1867. Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 21 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches. A very fine plate from Ravenscroft's 'The Pinetum Britannicum. A Descriptive Account of Hardy Coniferous Trees'<br/> <br/> Ravenscroft's work is the third in order of publication of the three great coniferous iconographies of the nineteenth century following Bedford and Lambert. The very fine plates fall into two categories: botanical studies of details of the needles and fruit of the individual trees and landscape studies of examples of individual trees in their natural habitat. This plate is an outstanding example of the latter group here drawn from a drawing by William Richardson and lithographed by F. Schenck.<br/> <br/> Cf. Nissen BBI 1588; cf. Great Flower Books 1990 p.127; cf. Stafleu & Cowan 8685. unknown
189755493New York:: Bureau of National Literature 1897-1917. First edition. publisher's pebbled cloth; gilt spines; t.e.g. Very slight rubbing to a few of the corners; otherwise very nice. 8vo. Illustrated. With Additions and Encyclopedic Index by Private Enterprise. Bureau of National Literature, hardcover
183228565Charlestown MA: Published by Wm. H. Wheldon 1832. Original plain wrappers stitched 38pp. A pleasing untrimmed copy in its unsophisticated state. Toned with scattered foxing else Very Good.<br /> <br /> The pamphlet is a tale of religious persecution in Massachusetts against a lady of sterling character who failed to accept the divinity of Christ but who regarded him as the Messiah and human Son of God. It exposes the ill treatment of those with Unitarian sympathies and the dangers of insistence upon religious orthodoxy. Two editions were evidently published in 1832. <br /> Mrs. Richardson sought admission to the Second Congregational Church in Charlestown where she had recently moved. Its minister sought information about her from her previous church in Reading. The First Congregational Church in Reading had expelled her for turning toward Unitarianism. Its minister explained that his Church had "withdrawn all Christian watch and fellowship" from her for "violation of her own covenant vows" and her "departure" from orthodoxy. This pamphlet describes the First Church's disgraceful treatment of Mrs. Richardson: its minister and elders had frequently quizzed her closely about her theological beliefs accused her of denying Christ's divinity scolded her for poor church attendance and for propagating "pernicious statements" to Church members and called her to account at Church meetings. <br /> OCLC records seven locations under several accession numbers as of July 2015. Published by Wm. H. Wheldon unknown
182955432N.p.: no publisher given 1829. 12mo pp. 23 1; uncut and partially unopened; removed from binding; very good. OCLC notes: "American Antiquarian Society copy has note in manuscript on verso of p. 23: "These Letters are supposed to have been written by the Hon. Mr. Richardson member of Congress from Norfolk County Mass. Worcester Dec. 22 1829. Chris: C: Baldwin." Attributed to Richardson by Library of Congress in the National Union Catalog. Letters I-V signed "S.P."; letter VI signed "Spirit of the People" and dated October 31 1829. American Imprints 40274; Sabin 71058. no publisher given unknown
1822E4804<p><b>First edition very rare. </b> The <i>Address</i> is a revised version of the valedictory lecture given on 31 December 1818 to mark the centenary of the death of William Penn. It gives an explanation of the origins of the Society and then is entirely directed to the career and particularly the principles of William Penn based on 'traditional information' and 'publicly and privately attested facts'. The private information was doubtless supplied by John Penn 1760-1834 founder of the Society who as a surviving grandson of William Penn succeeded his father to the moiety of the last proprietorship of Pennsylvania.<br /></p><p>The Outinian Society was originally founded in 1817 as the Matrimonial Society in response to an anonymous poem called 'Marriage' in the <i>Monthly Magazine</i>. It had the object of promoting marriage and improving the domestic life of married couples. Extending its aims to other schemes of human happiness – to 'the more perfect knowledge of certain less obvious truths and principles of human action' – it soon changed its name to the Outinian Society apparently inspired by a line in Homer. John Penn was its president and editor Jonathan Richardson its secretary and lecturer. The lectures were very popular: <i>Records of the Origin and Proceedings of the Outinian Society</i> 1822 lists well over 1000 names of Auditors who had attended.</p><p>COPAC and OCLC list copies at the British Library Society of Friends and Harvard only. J. Smith<i>Friends' Books</i> 2.326 attributing it to John Penn.</p><p>8vo pp. 2 56 with a lithographed title-page illustrating the medal of the Outinian Society an engraved portrait frontispiece of William Penn the founder of Pennsylvania and six other plates Lady Juliana Penn Vice-Admiral Sir William Penn Thomas Penn a memorial urn to Lady Juliana the remains of the tree at Stoke Park under which the treaty between Penn and the Indians was signed and a second portrait of Penn tissue guards foxed; contemporary hard grain morocco rubbed; note on endleaf identifying the founder of the Outinian Society as John Penn; signature of the educationist and author Madame de Genlis dated 1829 'a friend of the family' bookplate of Major Claud Alexander.</p> W. Nicol, late Bulmer & Co hardcover
182456315Concord: Isaac Hill 1824. First edition 12mo pp. 320; contemporary full sheep red morocco label on spine; the sheep with the usual peeling flyleaves excised a couple leaves with closed tears large ink stain across pages 272 and 273 and permeating into adjacent pages but remarkably the text can still mostly be read; bookplate of Julius Arthur Brown and Helen Connor. American imprints 17823. Isaac Hill unknown
18964969New York: Bartlett & Company The Orr Press 1896. Octavo 20.5 x 14 cm. 97 pages. Date derived from Water Street address on title page. An extensively illustrated trade catalogue of heating furnaces and cooking ranges. Before the 1830s gravity hot-air furnaces were produced according to the specifications of individual buildings. The first mass-market manufacturer in the United States was Richardson & Boynton established in 1837 and in business for more than a century thereafter. The company survived the competitive surge in home heating manufacturers in the decades after the Civil War Fuller & Warren of Troy for instance also advertised as "the oldest house in the trade" introducing innovations in fuel source efficiency flue design cleaning access and model size – to say nothing of aesthetic appeal – at a surprising rate. The foundries and shop buildings occupied a double block in Red Hook Brooklyn; corporate offices 232-234-236 Water Street were across the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan. By the 1890s Richardson & Boynton were advertising themselves as manufacturers of multiple designs of furnaces fireplace heaters laundry water heaters cooking ranges stoves and kitchen appurtenances such as kettles urns pastry ovens and steam tables. Owing ostensibly to climbing tunnage and wharfage costs the entire operation decamped to Dover New Jersey in February 1896. Elaborate illustrations with equally elaborate cutaways; specification charts. A bit of chipping to head and foot of wrapper at spine otherwise very good in two-toned brown wrappers with gilt decoration. Pages clean and bright. Scarce. OCLC locates three copies of all other Richardson & Boynton cataloguesbut none of this issue; Romaine page 363 for other issues. Bartlett & Company, The Orr Press unknown
18548817New York: D. Appleton & Company 1854. Disbound. Good binding. Octavo. 4 7-176 pp. Removed from binding original wrappers lacking as well the initial leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary owner name on the title page; light and even toning throughout else clean. <br /> <br /> This is the transcript of the infamous murder trial of Matthew Flournoy Ward in Elizabethtown Kentucky. Matt Ward was tried in the Hardin Circuit Court at Elizabethtown KY April 1854 for the murder of W. H. G. Butler. McDade explains: "Butler the principal of Louisville High School had whipped Matt Ward's younger brother. Matt demanded an apology of Butler not for the whipping but for calling the boy a liar. The apology not forthcoming words followed; and Ward having come prepared for blood shot Butler. Kentucky justice was that Ward was promptly acquitted" McDade 1042. Sabin 70981. D. Appleton & Company unknown
18548816New York: D. Appleton & Company 1854. Original Wrappers. Good binding. Octavo. 176 pp. Stitched in original wrappers. Early damp-staining to front wrapper and tidelines to the top margin of many of the leaves more prominent to the first several leaves diminishing to an unobtrusive toning to the top corner; dog-earing to the bottom corner of about 2 dozen leaves; generally a solid copy in very good condition but for the minor to moderate tidelines. <br /> <br /> This is the transcript of the infamous murder trial of Matthew Flournoy Ward in Elizabethtown Kentucky. Matt Ward was tried in the Hardin Circuit Court at Elizabethtown KY April 1854 for the murder of W. H. G. Butler. McDade explains: "Butler the principal of Louisville High School had whipped Matt Ward's younger brother. Matt demanded an apology of Butler not for the whipping but for calling the boy a liar. The apology not forthcoming words followed; and Ward having come prepared for blood shot Butler. Kentucky justice was that Ward was promptly acquitted" McDade 1042. Sabin 70981. D. Appleton & Company unknown
1887015798MA: Riverside Press 1887. Book. NVG. Original Cloth. Signed by Editor. First Edition. Book has owners bookplate modest cover wear. Inscribed and dated by the first editor Abbott. Riverside Press Paperback
18837000-41Chicago: Jansen McClurg & Co. 1883. Quarter Leather. Good. In clean unmarked condition with tight square binding. Shelfwear includes rubbed/chipped edges corners and head/heel of spine. Marbled endpapers and outer edge of textblock. "A manual embracing the great epochs of English Literature from the English conquest of Britain 449 to the death of Walter Scott 1832." Essays covering Britain's history and culture the history of the English language and the literature that reflected it including Chaucer Spenser Bacon Shakespeare Marlowe Donne Milton Pope Fielding Burns Coleridge Wordsworth Scott Byron Shelley and Keats. A rare volume a comprehensive and engaging work. Size: 6 x 8 1/2 <br/> <br/> Jansen, McClurg & Co. hardcover
