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18802200409T. Nelson and Sons 1880. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Deaccessioned Reynolds Library copy usual marks ink stamps on some of the engravings. Boards rubbed endpapers and margins of a few pages lightly stained. 1880 Large Hardcover. 230 pp. Tall 8vo. Leather spine gilt titles and rules marbled paper over boards marbled endpapers. A "popular description of Remarkable Parks and Gardens public and private ancient and modern interspersed with illustrative anecdotes and notes on the history of Gardening." Engraved illustrations throughout. T. Nelson and Sons hardcover books
1862509581862. ANONYMOUS. THE ORPHEUS C. KERR PAPERS. NY: Blakeman & Mason 1862. 12mo. brown cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. With the signature of well-known book collector Grenville Kane on the title page. Very Good some edgewear two signatures lightly pulled. $50.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1900002421S. l. Buffalo NY: The H-O Company 1900. First Edition. Very good. First edition n. d. ca 1900; oblong 3 3/4 x 4 3/4; pp. 12 including text to wraps verso; white wraps illustrated and ruled in blue orange and green; thin closed cuts to tips of spine and small nicks to tope edge of back wrap; light fading and wear to wraps; illustrated with drawings; overall in very good condition. A delightful poetry booklet it was published as an advertisement for Presto flour. The H-O company was also known for manufacturing oatmeal and farm-animal feed. It began: "O Waffles my cat." and told the story of a little girl Sally who wanted to have a party. The H-O Company paperback books
1741295688London: J. Roberts 1741. unbound. very good. 40 pages. 12mo disbound but still firmly sewn; pages lightly toned. London: J. Roberts 1741. A very good copy.<br/><br/> J. Roberts unknown books
184539551845. ANONYMOUS. VIEWS IN THE SCOTTISH LAKE DISTRICT. Edinburgh: Published by Banks & Co. circa 1845. Oblong 12mo. embossed brown full-morocco leather stamped in gilt all edges gilt. With about 15 steel-engravings of Scottish Lakes. A nice Victorian-era view book! Very Good covers bright; some light dampstaining to lower edge of text very minor foxing. $50.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
181435391Philadelphia PA: Published by Johnson & Warner No. 147 Market Street; Griggs & Dickinsons Printers 1814. 12mo. 35pp woodcut frontispiece illustration 6 full page woodcut illustrations. Bound in stiff plain yellow wrappers lightly toned stitched. First and last leaves pasted down to wrappers. Stitched spine worn. Uniform tanning light scattered foxing. Good to Very Good. <br/>Rosenbach 514. Published by Johnson & Warner, No. 147, Market Street; Griggs & Dickinsons, Printers unknown books
1918002500S. l. Chicago: s. n. 1918. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. 3-12 including text to back cover; off-white wraps printed in black; minor nicks to tips of spine and mild age-toning to margins; very good or better condition. Assembled from a diary an affidavit and two letters the pamphlet told the story of the brutal treatment of seven conscientious objectors detained at Camp Funston in Fort Riley Kansas during the WWI. Although not specifically mentioned some or all of those men might have been Mennonites as they generally refused to wear uniforms and obey military orders and historically many of the faith were indeed sent to Camp Funston. s. n. paperback books
1850001517New York: Kiggins & Kellogg 1850. Softcover. First edition n. d. ca 1850; 6 x 3 3/4; pp. 24; engraved salmon wraps; two spots to margins of front wrap and small nicks to tips of spine; illustrated with steel engravings; very good or better. Part of Redfield's Toy Books this one No. 5 in the Fourth Series the book tells the story of little William Seaton a nature's lover and a history of butterflies including descriptions of several remarkable ones. New York: Kiggins & Kellogg paperback books
197056625Boston MA 1970. Periodical. Vol. 1 No. 3 is one sheet 10-3/4x17 inches folded twice; Vol. 1 No. 4 is 17x18 inches folded twice; the others are one sheet 14x20 inches folded twice. VG. unknown books
187811886New York: Harper & Bros. 1878. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Gray cloth with red lettering and illustration to front board. Good example. Edgeworn. Cloth rubbed and soiled. Front hinge starting. Else sound and clean throughout. <br/><br/>Introduction by W.C. Prime. Early and charming book on China collecting told in a narrative style. 274pp. with 33 plates. Harper & Bros. hardcover books
183511236London: Pr. by W. McDowell for Richard Hatchard & Son 1835. 8vo. 80 pp. <br><br>Rare: no copies traced via WorldCat or NUC. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in NSTC CD version. Removed from a nonce volume. A few light stains and shallow tears. Small inked numeral on title-page. Pr. [by W. McDowell] for Richard Hatchard & Son unknown books
185019628New York: Baker and Scribner 1850. First edition. Some light damp-staining throughout; some foxing; spine somewhat sunned a trifle bumped; a good sound copy. I consider with dissatisfaction sorrow and pain that my books my once dear books have been a chief cause of my unhappiness." A curious bildungsroman of a suicide told as though taken from his journal; the protagonist seems to fallen into poverty after defying his father's wishes to study law and failed in his love of a woman leaving him alone to wander the streets of New York alternating with nights in study over his book collection. His suicide note is found on an open volume of Francis Bacon. To call this personal story of life on the streets of New York a proto-Beat novel the ardent and introspective hero forsakes polite company leaves behind a copy of Byron that has been fished out of the river etc. is of course a bookseller's conceit--but one perhaps closer to the mark than most such claims. Wright I 851. This copy with a number of phrases bracketed in early pencil. Baker and Scribner, unknown books
18204077bdAndover: Printed for the New England Tract Society 1820. No. 34 Part 1. Third Edition one of 6000. Octavo later 19th century plain wrappers 28 pp. Very Good uncut. Printed for the New England Tract Society, 1820. unknown books
6252France: Adrien Maeght ca. 1850. Oblong 8vo 15 color lithographs. Original blue cloth boards with gilt floral design surrounding title all set inside a gray cloth label affixed to upper board. Slight bowing to upper board. A very good copy. § First edition. La Flotte de Jours translates as The Ships of our Days. This lovely book contains 15 full-color fold-out lithographs depicting 15 different French ships. No copies on OCLC or COPAC. Adrien Maeght hardcover books
189119732Chicago: Star Publishing Co. ca. 1891-1900. Cheap paper stock somewhat toned but supple; a very good copy. Original printed self-wrappers 7.5 x 5.25 inches wire stitched 28 3 1 pages. Illus. Per Atwater 2306 the entry for a 1912 Star Publishing Co. edition of Henry M. Lyman's Practical Home Physician these plates "issued in a brown paper envelope not present for this copy. . . . This slender unbound atlas depicting the female pelvis organs of generation and gravid uterus is nearly identical to the Plates illustrating Maternity inserted into the back pocket of Prudence Saur's Maternity . . . and the Plates illustrating Tokology inserted into the back pocket of Alice Stockham's Tokology . . . also published in Chicago. Though intended to accompany Lyman's Practical home physician the Descriptive plates apparently was not issued with the text and had to be acquired for an additional $2.00." The Atwater copy includes a brief discussion of "Prevention of conception" not present in this copy--this elision here and the moderately convoluted sales of the atlas all suggestive of the restrictions of Comstock laws on the distribution of sexual education. Early blue pencil ownership inscription on the title page. Star Publishing Co., unknown books
183131108London: Longman Rees Orme Brown & Green 1831. 12mo. xix 1 blank 324 pp. <br><br>From "The Cabinet Cyclopaedia" compiled and edited by Dionysius Lardner 1793-1859. From the sub-series "History." From circa 500 A.D. to 1830.<br>Â Â Â Â Rev. Dionysius Lardner 17931859 a prolific science writer and extremely popular lecturer on science and technology who toured the U.S. from 1840 through 1845.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Bookplate of the Kensington Park Lending Library . Md-19th-century half green morocco with matching marbled paper sides and endpapers and marbling of all edges. Binding scuffed but attractive. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green unknown books
183411235London: Roake and Varty 1834. 8vo. 43 1 blank pp. <br><br>Scarce: only four U.S. copies traced via WorldCat. Sole edition. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2ENG2081. Removed from a nonce volume. Traces of soiling and small inked numeral on title-page. Roake and Varty unknown books
1912291813Washington.: Government Printing Office. 1912 - 1913. Red cloth gilt spine title. Good plus ex-library with light markings light wear to cover extremities. 23x15 cm. Ex-Library of Congress with its surplus stamp. weight: 0.9 lb. Government Printing Office. hardcover books
183710417Edinburgh: Pr. by Balfour & Jack for Oliver & Boyd 1837. 8vo. 1 f. 41 1 blank pp. <br><br>Defense of John Lee 17791859 a candidate for the moderatorship of the Church of Scotland; his opponent Thomas Chalmers 17801847 was a leading Evangelical of the Church of Scotland and later 1843 founder of the Free Church. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2C13513. Removed from a nonce volume. Some light soiling and a few spots of foxing. [Pr. by Balfour & Jack for] Oliver & Boyd unknown books
192534150Garden City: Garden City Publishing 1925. First printing of this later edition originally published in 1921. 256 pp. Very good plus in like dust jacket with a closed tear to rear panel and light overall edgewear with some chipping. Garden City: Garden City Publishing, unknown books
1274London / New York: Ernest Nister / E. P. Dutton & Co n. d. Ca. 1890s. Quarter bound olive green cloth spine and color pictorial paper wrapped boards. Boards lightly soiled and rubbed. Color plates still bright and present. An About VG copy. Unpaginated. Many intratextual and full page b/w illustrations and color printed illustrations. 4to. 11-1/4" x 9-1/4" <br/><br/> Ernest Nister / E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover books
196626557Havana: Ministeres des Affaires Etrangers 1966. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Stapled illustrated wrappers. 33 pp. Text in French. Not dates but from 1966. Includes some grainy black and white photographs. A close to fine copy. Author not stated but from other sources we know that Carlos Rafael Rodriguez was involved. Ministeres des Affaires Etrangers paperback books
191935535Leipzig: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag 1919. First Edition. Octavo 22.75cm.; publisher's tan printed paper-covered boards blue topstain; 4246pp. Light shelf wear hinges cracked textblock rather toned and brittle due to poor paperstock else About Very Good and sound. Issued as Quellenschriften zur Seelischen Entwicklung Nr. 1. Published anonymously as if written by a young girl whose diary seemed to confirm much of psychoanalytic theory. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag unknown books
196942130New York: Kraus Reprint Co. 1969. Facsimile reprint edition. Cloth with gilt titles. A fine copy. No dust jacket as issued. 93 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w plate. 8vo. Documents and Narratives concerning the Discovery and Conquest of Latin America. Number One. Translation of Relación de algunas cosas de la Nueva España which was a translation of Relatione di alcune cose della Nueva Spagna. The original Spanish text has been lost. An Italian translation by G.B. Ramusio was published in his "Terzo volvme delle navigationi et viaggi . Venetia 1556." It was translated from the Italian into Spanish by Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta and published in his "Coleccion de documentos para la historia de Mexico" v. i Mexico 1858. The present English translation is from this Spanish text. Originally published by the Cortes Society in 1917 in a limited edition of 250 copies. Kraus Reprint Co. hardcover books
186719998New York: McLoughlin Brothers ca. 1867. <br /><br />Original color pictorial self-wrappers 4.38 x 3.63 inches 12 pages added red plaid scrap cloth spine machine-stitched with white thread. Wood engravings printed in black and red. First edition. <br /><br />Entertaining and moderately didactic verses for children handsomely produced in the McLoughlin style. Per the cataloging of the AAS copies this issue with "The Quiet Boy" on page 2 rather than page 4 and the illustrations printed in dull red rather than light red; the rear wrappers advertise paper dolls from McLoughlin including dolls for characters from Uncle Tom's Cabin that were not advertised until 1867. The paper dolls also include the little people performers Tom Thumb and Mrs. Tom Thumb as well as Minnie Warren and Commodore Nutt. <br /><br />A few stray early pencil marks. Some general wear and soiling; a good copy. McLoughlin Brothers books
