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1896312959Dublin : Gill 1896. 5th Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii 312 pages ; 19cm. Subjects: Ireland -- History. Dublin : Gill hardcover
1893001719London: Longmans Green 1893 Book. Illus. by Colour Map Foldout. Good. Decorative Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original green cloth decorated in black on boards. Gilt spine lettering intact. Minor hinge strain demotes it to good but intact and sound. Minor edge stain lower right corner.General edge and corner wear. In four parts: Manners Customs and Institutions of the Ancient Irish; Ireland under Native Rulers; The Period of the Invasion; and The Period of Insurrection Confiscation and Plantation. 565 pp.with index plus catalog. Believed first edition. Longmans, Green hardcover
1868554278Bridgeton N.J.: Joyce Photographer 1868. Unbound. Fair. Carte d'visite. Albumen image with watercolor highlights provided by hand to the stockings belts shirts and caps. 2.5" x 3.75" on slightly larger thick card mount. Image of two seated baseball players; one with the letters "BS" on the bib front of his shirt; the other with an Old English "C" on his. Uncaptioned. Photographer name and address on verso. Only fair condition with the albumen image badly faded and the players' faces visible only with effort. Of most interest are the very early uniforms likely the carte is post-Civil War because of lack of a Civil War-era tax stamp; but almost certainly pre-1870. Joyce, Photographer unknown
1893324022London ; New York : Longmans Green and Co 1893. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: vii 565 pages 1 leaf of plates: map. Contents:pt. I. The manners customs and institutions of the ancient Irish. pt. II. Ireland under native rulers. pt. III. The period of the invasion. pt. IV. The period of insurrection confiscation and plantation. Subjects: Ireland History. Ireland History To 1603. Ireland.Genre: History. Illustrated. London ; New York : Longmans, Green and Co hardcover
1870309496Dublin : Gill 1870. New Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth edges very slightly toned. Some wear and tear as with age; boards starting. Corners sharp with an overall; bright and clean impression. Includes previous owner's signature. Physical description; 107 p. ; 17 cm. Subjects; Names Geographical. Names Geographical Ireland. Ireland. Dublin : Gill hardcover
1898352760Dublin : Gill 1898. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Spine starting. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 107 pages 17cm. Subjects: Irish place names. Genre: History. Language: English. Dublin : Gill hardcover
1870439110Dublin Boston : McGlashan & Gill ; P. Donahoe 1870. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Previous owners' signature and paste-down. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xviii 571 pages. Subjects: Names Geographical Ireland. Irish literature. Dublin Boston : McGlashan & Gill ; P. Donahoe hardcover
1870017246Dublin: McGlashan & Gill 1870 Fair copy in olive cloth on boards with gilt decoration on cover and gilt titles on spine. Spine is sunned with some carry over to upper and lower boards. Split along lower spine edge. Some fleck marks on upper cover. Outers have become detached from contents. Previous owner's inscription on front paste down. Front and rear end papers have become detached and laid in. Some internal cracks. Clean and flat text. Reading copy only McGlashan & Gill hardcover
1891189414Lucknow: Printed at the N. N. Sivapuri Press 1891. Siege of Lucknow from the most exposed post - an Indian Rebellion eyewitness account of extraordinary rarity First and only edition - signed by the author on the last page - of this detailed firsthand account of the defence of Lucknow written by Matthew Rutland Joyce 1828-1911 in Uncovenanted Service the lower echelons of the ICS in the Judicial Garrison. Only the second recorded copy the Oxford University copy apparently lacking the initial leaf with excerpted passages from Tennyson's "The Defence of Lucknow". Joyce prefaces his narrative by explaining that it was written "for the information of those of my relatives and friends who were battling for their lives in other parts of the country or who were too young to remember". With no pretensions to being a "faithful history" of the period it is "simply a chronicle of such occurrences within the Residency defences. as memory retained and can be interesting to none but those few active participants in the great struggle who yet survive" p. i. The story which follows is all the more fascinating for its personlalized focus naming many of the most familiar names but introducing a cast of lesser-known characters to the famous story further broadening and humanizing the standard narrative. Presented in diary form the text follows Joyce through the preparation of the defences his training with an antiquated Brown Bess for the volunteer infantry brushes with death from both fever and enemy fire to the final relief and evacuation of the Residency "There was some confusion and heartaches in the matter packing up our belongings for the orders were peremptory that nothing but things necessary were to be taken out; and it certainly went against the grain to leave behind cherished articles". Joyce is a lively and personable storyteller his recollections of "the eternal din of musketry" of the rebels'' profligate firing the privations of the diminishing rations and the imminent threat of death are recounted in vivd vernacular style and his tales are often self-deprecating. In recounting what was despite his many "narrow escapes" "first and only" wound he explains how he would not have alluded to it "had there not been so much of the ludicrous about it". During the assault on Phillips's Garden which was being menaced by a rebel battery Joyce crafts himself "a capital loop-hole embrasure fashion" out of "substantial bricks" on top of the mud-brick wall overlooking the position. The result being much admired. While on watch he spots movement at the gun and foolishly fires off a round in the hope of "staying their purpose for a moment of two" which of course registers the rebels' aim and the gun was "presently laid and discharged". Joyce dives behind the wall for cover the shot clips the masonry of the house behind the shock dislodging the topmost bricks of his loop-hole which fell on his "bowed head and laid it open causing all over and inside it a sensation such as I had never felt before" pp. 71-3. Joyce was on the staff of the Judicial Garrison the Judicial Commissioner's Kutchery or Court House post a very exposed position during the siege. He and his brother Richard Christopher who served with the volunteer cavalry "Radcliffe's Horse" covering the withdrawal from the debacle at Chinhut were in the Uncovenanted Service a perhaps under-represented group in the history of British India. Originally introduced to offer opportunities for Indians or Anglo-Indians to join the Indian Civil Service covering key but less specialized administrative roles at commensurately lower salaries and with thinner employment rights the service had already began to attract a wider constituency before the expansion of the post-Rebellion government. By the 1880s voices were being raised on their behalf in the parliament to secure a levelling up of the benefits for their vital contributions to the increasingly complex bureaucracy of the Raj. Joyce was born in Agra post-Rebellion he was for a time curator of the Lucknow Museum and the donor of a number of specimens to the natural history section he was buried in the Residency Cemetery Lucknow. Beyond this we have been unable to trace earlier family connections with India and unfortunately within the text he tells us little of his background. Small octavo pp. ii iv 119 1. Original printed covers pebble-grain cloth backstrip. Externally overall a little browned rubbed and soiled but no loss of text to the covers endpapers browned; text toned but cleaned and sound; overall a surprisingly well preserved copy very good. hardcover
18838961Chicago IL: S. P. Rounds Jr. 1883. fair. 318 frontis illus. weakness to bds bds & spine quite worn & scuffed: edges threadbare small tears at spine. Colonel Joyce participated in the Knoxville expedition and the siege of Knoxville. Some of his poetry is appended to these memoirs. S. P. Rounds, Jr. unknown
1883688481883. JOYCE John A. A Checkered Life. Chicago: S.P. Rounds Jr. 1883. 1st ed. 318pp. Portrait frontis. illus. Orig. decorated cloth. Near fine. Dornbusch II 368. "The first sections of this weak memoir recount the author's experiences in the 24th Kentucky" Nevins Ip.115. unknown
1900381380Washington: The Neale Company 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Gilt decoration on front board gilt-stamped title on spine and front board. Owner's contemporary signature on front pastedown light dampstain on bottom page corners not affecting text gilt a bit tarnished else very good. Inscribed by the author: "Inscribed to Col. Wm. E. McLean with the soldier friendship of the author John A. Joyce Washington D.C. June 22 1900." Col. William E. McLean was with the Forty-Third Regiment of Indiana Volunteers during the American Civil War. The Neale Company hardcover
1900014212Washington: Neale Publishing 1900. Book. NVG. Decorative Cloth. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Book has modest cover wear and endpapers beginning to split. Inscribed and inscription to Rep. Amos Jay Commings who received the Medal of Honor for service during the Civil War. Neale Publishing Hardcover
1900008960Washington: The Neal Company 1900. 192pp/illus. decorated green cloth. Title embossed in gold gilt on cover and spine faded. Inscribed "with a soldier 's friendship" by author. Title page and frontis loose. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Neal Company hardcover
1896702341896. JOYCE John A. Jewels of Memory. Washington DC: Gibson Bros. 1896. 2nd ed. illustrated. Portrait frontis. portraits plates. Orig. cloth. Near fine. Presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper "Presented to Hon. David G. Colson with the Radical Respects of a Radical Kentucky soldier. John A. Joyce Washington D.C. Feby. 3d. 1897." Dornbusch IV 6821. . unknown
190059714Washington: The Neale Company. Very Good. 1900. Hardcover. Author inscribed scarce. 72 pages covers are just slightly scuffed otherwise very good. . The Neale Company hardcover
184568028London: Joseph Smith 193 High Holborn 1845. 16mo pp. xii 533 1 ads; inserted engraved frontispiece and title page illustrated with woodcuts throughout; original olive cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine a.e.g.; light wear; very good clean and sound. Includes lengthy sections on mechanics astronomy hydrostatics pneumatics optics magnetism electricity and galvanism. Joseph Smith, 193, High Holborn unknown
1842270946London : Tegg 1842. New edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; vi 362 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Subject; Science — Juvenile literature. London : Tegg hardcover
1855C61969London 1855. First Edition. Hardback. Clean sound copy with some neat rebacking at spine archival repairs to the edges of a few pages at middle of book; very decent very good copy. 8vo. Original publisher's mauve brown blind patterned cloth lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. pp 751. hardcover
1819H35096Philadelphia: M. Carey & Son et al. 1819. Hardcover. Good. A New Edition Corrected and Improved." Vol. I only early American edition and uncommon thus. 12mo 6 x 4 inches full old leather red spine label good with some wear foxing and old waterstains to text but solidly bound and very readable. 248 pp 7 engraved mainly astronomical plates at rear. M. Carey & Son, et al. hardcover
1829c1952London: Longman Rees Orme Brown & Green. G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. Some foxing. 1829. 5th Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 170mm x 110mm 7" x 4". 341pp plates. 4 b/w plates vignettes. . Longman, Rees, Orme Brown, & Green hardcover
185074701Trieste: Favarger 1850. Hardcover. Good. viii 241p. Contemporary boards. 16cm. Backstrip chipped at ends and heavily rubbed as are cover extremities. Former owner's name. Relatively light stain in upper right corner throughout along with some foxing. Page 178 refers to an illustration which according to the Introduction had to be omitted. Favarger hardcover
182145395London 1821. hardcover. very good. 24 engraved plates. 7 volumes. 18mo. Contemporary 1/2 black morocco over marbled boards rubbed. London: Baldwin Cradock & Joy 1821. Very good.<br/> <br/> Ambitious guide for Regency youngsters the volumes covering Mechanics Astronomy Hydrostatics Pneumatics Optics & Magnetism Electricity and Vol. VII dated 1824 the "Companion" of examination questions etc. New Edition with Additions & Improvements.<br/> <br/> unknown
1893522283London: Richard Bentley and Son 1893. Hardcover without dust jacket. Former library copy with stamps and stickers to front pastedown and FEP and penned notation to reverse of title page and to spine. Red cloth board edges are worn and bumped at corners red leather spine is rubbed and worn at ends and down the main section. Faint marks to front and rear boards bumps to rear leading edge. Endpages are lightly foxed annotations in pencil and marks on a few pages internally. Pages remain sound and text is clear throughout. AD. Hardcover. Good. Used. Richard Bentley and Son Hardcover
18939780306Richard Bentley and Son 1893. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. 8vo red cloth binding. Heavy shelf wear with tearing chipping and fraying to spine. Discolouration to boards bumped corners. Both hinges split some pages coming loose. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1050grams ISBN: Richard Bentley and Son hardcover
