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1876616244Boston: Roberts Brothers 1876. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition Issued anonymously in the No Name Series of novels. 12mo. Black cloth titled and decorated in red. Contemporary gift inscription spine cocked a little nicking at the crown about very good. Roberts Brothers hardcover
1896314069Wakefield Mass: Privately Printed 1896. First edition. With photographic plates and illustrations in text. 33 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth gilt t.e.g. Spine a bit dull and soiled at foot. Very Good. First edition. With photographic plates and illustrations in text. 33 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "An account of a fishing party in verse" Bruns also known as Dreams and Chronicles. The fishing trip on Great East Lake took place in "the seventh year of the reign of Grover when the voice of the frog was known throughout the land."<br /> <br /> Dedicated to the members of the Hopewell Club who are identified in the preface; with an additional poem "To Frank Hopewell" laid in dated May 17 1895 Goodall Camp. Wetzel p. 168; Bruns J83; Heller 2:1030 Privately Printed unknown
18836729Gibraltar: Unpublished 1883. Hardcover. Good. From the governor's residence in Gibraltar a manuscript record of British colonial officials staff naval and army officers in the Crown Colony which was used by the Governor's household as a social register for entertaining Gibraltar's elite and prestigious visitors including the second in line to the British throne Prince Albert Victor. An additional pleasure of the manuscript is that it includes a page-long listing of the officers of the 'Royal Dublin Fusiliers' who were stationed in the colony in 1884-5 with whom served the fictional Major Brian Tweedy father of James Joyce's Molly Bloom who remembers her time with her father in Gibraltar in 1885 the moment covered by this manuscript in the famous soliloquy which ends Ulysses: 'Yes I said yes I will Yes.' The manuscript is written in Army Book 129 issued '7 Dec 1883 Army Forces Stores' bound in worn half reversed calf over blue paper covered boards 31 × 19cm. The inner hinges are cracked although the binding is sound if delicate. An Index precedes a 'Precedence List made out for H.s Excellency's Levée of 6.1.83' - an event that would have been presided over by Governor Sir John Adye the ultimate presumed owner of this volume. This is followed by the Colonial Office's 'Precedency List' starting with The Governor 'Staff' in a mixture of red and black ink with a series of symbols possibly relating to their dinner invitation status alongside positions occupied and often their addresses in Gibraltar annotated regarding redeployment and transfers. There are 62 pages of comprehensive entries with particular interest attending mention of the legendary father and son American consuls with their addresses p.13 'Horatio Jones Sprague Esq; John Louis Sprague Esq Mrs and the Misses Prince Edwards Road'. The manuscript makes a second start at page 20 when Sir Arthur Hardinge took over from Adye as Governor whose departure is annotated in red ink 'Retired 2 Nov. 86. Sir G Hardynge'. The social element of the manuscript is signalled in two labels to the covers on the upper cover 'People to ask' and on the lower cover the tantalising phrase 'People Dinners and Dates'. This relates to the second section of the manuscript at the back of the book which details dates and invitees to a series of 'Dinners' beginning in December 1884 and concluding in December 1887 by which time Governor Hardynge had taken over. These are written in a very tricky hand many of the names annotated with a miniscule '2' presumably a couple or a cross - meaning unknown. The most prestigious event in the four years covered by this record 1883-1887 involved the visit to Gibraltar of the eldest son of the future Edward VII Prince Albert Victor who died before his father became king. On 30th March 1887 early in Governor Hardynge's tenure he hosted dinner for: 'Prince Albert Victor Major Miles. Capt. Hon A Grenville Equerry Sir H and Lady Temple Colonel and Mrs Montmorency.' On May 21st the Governor seems to have entertained the young Prince once again along with a large party at a 'Picnic Waterfalls.' A line is drawn across the dinner dates two days before the retirement of Sir John Adye as Governor with an intimate gathering held the night before he left Gibraltar comprising just '3 Adye girls Col Layard Major Dulton Cap.t Church Ward and Hickson.' Good Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1883 Unpublished 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
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
189530403Washington DC: Gibson Brothers 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 2 245 pages 2. Frontispiece portrait. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine. Cloth binding is rubbed in spots. Light edge wear to cloth. 1895 pencil inscription by the author written on right front flyleaf. Contents include author's Civil War observations politicians writers etc. Gibson Brothers hardcover
1895582Washington D. C.: Gibson Brothers. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Some rubbing and light spotting to cloth rear endpapers have a couple of small spots textually clean and crisp binding solid. ; Original green cloth photographic frontispiece portrait of John A. Joyce FULL PAGE INSCRIPTION ON FRONT ENDPAPER SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 245 pages; Signed by Author . Gibson Brothers hardcover
189625338Washington D. C.: Gibson Bros. 1896. Book. Good. Red Cloth. Inscribed by Authors. Second Edition. 245 pages 12mo inscribed by the author to L. M. Taylor on the flyleaf includes Taylor's bookplate showing he was 33 degree Mason is on the inside cover includes illustrations some looseness to the pages and binding some soiling and water marking to the cover some light wear to the cover edges otherwise a clean tight copy. Gibson Bros. Hardcover
1896003853Washington D.C.: Gibson Bros. 1896. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. Signed by Authors. Second Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Historical sketches of military and other heroes most relating to Civil War including Lyon Jackson Fletcher Bair Farragut Porter Sheridan Sherman Grant Roscoe Conkling Samuel Sullivan Cox George D. Prentice Parson Brownlow Father Ryan and Henry Stanton Breckinridge Gen. Nathaniel Bedford Forrest "Corp." Tanner Battle of Shiloh and Louisville Burnside in East Tennessee Jim Nelson in Georgia Iowa etc. Red cloth ornate gilt lettering. 245 pp. illus. w/ b&w plates. Light surface wear cloth a bit flecked along edges and on back strip. "Inscribed to Mr. Jos. M. Frank with the friendship of the author John A. Joyce Washington D.C. July 13 1906" on front flyleaf. Gibson Bros. 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
1810279501United Kingdom: J Johnson & Co 1810. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback small octavo full calf binding gilt to spine A good copy bookplate of a previous owner to the front pastedown light water staining to the top leading corner of the first three leaves. Folding copper engraved frontis has been poorly folded and creased as a result. Other plates clean and unmarked. The body of text is largely free of marking but with one or two small marginal pencil marks and the rear blanks containing an interesting handwritten account of the first Lightning Rod experiment in England. xvi 431pp. J Johnson & Co Hardcover
189687732London:: Methuen & Co. Very Good. 1896. Hardcover. With two chapters by G. R. Sinclair. First edition. INSCRIBED by the author in 1898. Octavo bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering and design. Light edge wear to boards foxing to edges endpapers and title page else very good. ; 278 pages . Methuen & Co., hardcover
1879017050London United Kingdom: C. Kegan Paul & Company 1879. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition First Print. Pp. xx 420. Original red cloth decorated in black and gilt to front panel and spine. Boards have some light fade and darkening. Internally complete spotting to some pages tightly bound. C. Kegan Paul & Company Hardcover
1879017564London United Kingdom: C. Kegan Paul & Company 1879. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition First Print. Pp. xx 420. Rebound in red cloth titling in gilt to the spine. Library inserts to front end page verso of front and rear board Internally complete touch of spotting else clean pages with no library marks tightly bound. C. Kegan Paul & Company Hardcover
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
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
1894314068Wakefield Mass: Privately Printed 1894. First edition. Illustrated with plates vignettes in text. 36 2pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth. Very good plus. First edition. Illustrated with plates vignettes in text. 36 2pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Angling verseabout fishing at Camp Goodall Maine dedicated to Frank Hopewell who is the leading figure in the Hopewell Club and Joyce's later volume Dreams ca. 1896. Wetzel p. 168; Bruns J84; Heller 2:1029. Wetzel p. 168; Bruns J84; Heller 2:1029 <br/><br/> Privately Printed 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
1802vs011.023GB: J Johnson 1802. V1&2 2nd edn 1803; V3&4 1st 1802; V5&6 1st 1805; 143 x 90 mm. Six matching volumes all with armorial bookplate of Joseph Laycock.Full leather with twin title labels. Front cover of v1 is DETACHED. Else set is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES MAY APPLY Packed weight 1300g. . Hardback. VG-/No DW. J Johnson Hardcover
1845s336.004GB: S Johnson Manchester 1845. 136 x 84 mm. 536 pages. Brown publisher's cloth gilt. with highly ornate spine. HEAVY SPOTTING/BROWNING AT START. Else Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. . Hardback. VG-/No DW. S Johnson (Manchester) Hardcover
1828849F14London: Baldwin and Cradock 1828 . Leather. Very Good. 6" by 4". None. A smart set of early nineteenth century educational scientific works aimed at the 'Entertainment of Young People'. Five volumes only of the seven volume 1828 'New Edition' of the scientific dialogues of educator and Unitarian minister Jeremiah Joyce.Consisting of volumes II to VI: Vol. II Astronomy; Vol. III Hydrostatics; Vol. IV Pneumatics; Vol. V Optics and Magnetism and Vol. VI Electricity.A wonderfully informative introduction to various scientific subjects published with the intention of igniting an interest in such subjects in the young.With numerous vignette illustrations.Former owner's illustrations to head of front boards. In quarter morocco bindings with marbled paper covered boards. Fading to back strips with minor losses to back strip heads. Rubbing to boards. Former owner's inscriptions to head of each front board. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright with only the odd spot. Very Good Baldwin and Cradock 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
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
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
