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1924264069Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company 1924. Pamphlet. 64p. light blue stapled wraps 3.5x5 inches frontispiece portrait of Volney wraps lightly toned along edges large chip at top edge of rear wraps pages evenly toned pp9-16 trimmed too tight in outer margin with some loss of text else good condition. Little Blue Book No. 564. Haldeman-Julius Company unknown books
113197hardcover. illus. 854pp. 8vo cloth. N.Y.: Holt 1950. vg<br/><br/> unknown books
232747London Paris and New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. Publishers to Her Majesty The Queen Undated. Hardcover. Unpaginated six of the Tuck plates plus perhaps double that number of pages of pithy observations by literary celebs on comradely excellence. Hardbound in a small decorative format popular in the late 19thC: 6x4 inch boards with wide backstrip of ornate filligree gilt on white cloth each cover finished off with narrow papered fore-edges; rather worn with an obvious repair at the head most of the plates are loose with one slightly damaged. The versos of three plates are pencil-scribbled by a child recto images unaffected. FYI very difficult to bind cardstock leaves successfully not surprising these worked free. Plates are on alkaline coated stock text on slightly acidic matte card. We cannot guarantee that all plates are present but the binding shows no telltale gaps. As is. The illustrations themselves are cliche'd flowerbeds and rural vistas the usual super-pleasant imagery destined for throwaway presentations. The author's phoney-sounding moniker is actual and googles. So should "Tuck" whose firm was one of the finest color-litho presses in England rivalling their obsessively detailed German counterparts. If you like violets and pansies you will like the item. Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., Publishers to Her Majesty The Queen hardcover books
1958288359Quincy. : N.E. School of Hypnotis. 1958. . Reprint. Softcover blue printed stapled wraps. . Covers lightly soiled and worn at edges with some loss owner’s ink name to front cover a good copy with very good contents. 4to. N.E. School of Hypnotis. paperback books
2010UGAYPRO00afColumbia University Press 2010. Very Good. Gay Volney. Progress and Values in the Humanities: Comparing Culture and Science. NY: Columbia University Press 2010. 231pp. Indexed. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Columbia University Press hardcover books
191764125New Haven: Yale University Press 1917. 8vo. 23 cm. x 2 269pp. Burgundy cloth with gilt stamped spine. Very good. <br/><br/> Yale University Press hardcover books
1911511751911. STREAMER Volney. BOOK TITLES FROM SHAKSPERE. NY: Privately Printed 1911. 12mo. greyish-blue boards with printed title labels. Limited Edition of 800 copies. Signed presentation by Streamer on front endpaper: "To Mrs. Bradshaw with all good wishes. Volney Streamer 22/Apr./1913." Good bit of darkening & some wear along edge of spine. $25.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1950182172Toulouse: Universo 1950. 47p. 5.25x8 inches text in Spanish very good booklet in stapled wraps. El Mundo al Dia #26 15 Avril 1950. Second part of Constantin François de Chassebœuf comte de Volney's "Ruins of Palmira. Universo unknown books
193127079New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company 1931. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. vii 458 pages. 8vo. Blue cloth gilt. Spine faded. Pasted image of plane on front pastedown. Endpapers foxed otherwise clean internally. Cloth. Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company unknown books
19051314829n.p.: The Lakeside Press 1905. Hardcover. 12mo; unpaginated; G/no-DJ; brown spine with gilt decoration; double gilt border to boards; dark green boards; full leather binding; noticeable wear to joints; rubbed corners; light wear to exterior; text block shows slight age toning to exterior edges; gilt scroll to pastedown edges; marbled endpapers; previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown; slight writing to second endpaper; top edge gilt; some illustrations with tissue guards; interior lightly toned. Shelved Ephemera Box 8. 1314829. FP New Rockville Stock. The Lakeside Press hardcover books
1903239531New York: Brentano 1903. hardcover. very good. Unpaginated. Tall & slim 12mo. New York: Brentano 1903. Slight foxing throughout and lightly edge-worn near the spine and corners still a very good copy.<br/><br/> Signed by compiler Volney Streamer in pencil across the entire half-title. Includes many charming and heartfelt quotes about the values of friendship.<br/><br/> Brentano unknown books
187920963San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 106 pp in publisher's dark red pebbled cloth. Corners bumped and rubbed otherwise a very nice copy unmarked and sound. Contains "brief descriptions of over five hundred species of plants known to grow in the region bounded on the west by the coast line from Monterey Bay to Mendocino County and on the east by the foothills of the Sierra Nevada." It is indexed but alas not illustrated. Uncommon in the first edition. A.L. Bancroft hardcover books
182271235Paris: Bossange Freres 1822. Hardcover. Good. Tome Premier ONLY of 2. 5th ed. 2 folding maps 2 folding plates viii 456p. Contemporary quarterbinding marbled boards backed in red leather. 20cm. Covers scuffed. Moderate foxing on plates and a little elsewhere. Half moon shaped stain in margin on both maps. French text. <br/><br/> Bossange Freres hardcover books
1798045137Paris: A.J. Dugour et Durand 1798. Third Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Bound in marbled paper covered boards old spine labels modest wear; old stamp to title occasional staining and foxing but mostly clean. A good copy of this popular enlightenment narrative. Published in Year VII of the Republican calendar corresponding to 1798-99. 3 plates 2 folding. 412pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 045137. <br/><br/> A.J. Dugour et Durand hardcover books
1852WRCAM48878Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office 1852. 13pp. Folded signature. Fine. Untrimmed and unopened. Congressman Howard commits about half of the present work to the question of the border between Texas and New Mexico and also discusses how such boundaries will effect a railroad to the Pacific Ocean and subsequent westerly steamship routes from California to China and beyond. OCLC locates only ten institutional copies. <br> <br> THE HANDBOOK OF TEXAS outlines Howard's experience in Texas as follows: <br> <br> "In 1840 he was defeated for election to the House of the Twenty-seventh Congress in Mississippi. Shortly afterwards he moved to New Orleans where he practiced law until December 1844 when he moved to San Antonio Texas. He was a delegate to the Convention of 1845 and represented Bexar County in the House of the First Legislature. On February 27 1846 Governor James Pinckney Henderson appointed Howard attorney general of Texas but he declined the appointment. Howard was a representative from Texas in the House of the Thirty-first and Thirty-second congresses but was defeated for reelection in 1852 by Peter Hansborough Bell." SABIN 33281. OCLC 5081497. Printed at the Congressional Globe Office unknown books
18112222177<p>Fifth edition. 16mo. Frontispiece pictorial title page with secondary title "The Ruins or A Surrey of the Revolutions of Empires." Later full gilt stamped green leather. Folding map; folding astrological chart at end. Very good. 232 pages.</p><p>Printed by Plummer and Brewis Love-Lane Little Eastcheap.</p><p>Bookplate of poet and critic Vivian De Sola Pinto 1895-1969.</p> Printed for Thomas Tegg hardcover books
180436206Philadelphia: Published by J. Conrad & Co. 1804. xxviii 446 pp with the half title plus Map of North America and two plates. Lacking the second map scattered spotting. Bound in original sheep hinges starting but still firm. Good. <br/><br/> Constantin François de Chassebœuf comte de Volney 1757-1820 French Philosophe and historian "spent three years in the United States ardently engaged in collecting facts for his work principally relating to the state and manners of the Indians and the climate" Field. <br/>FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Howes V141. BAL 1508. Field 1610. Published by J. Conrad & Co.... unknown books
012481London: Published for James Watson by Frederick Farrah. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Mid-to later 19thC edition likely 1850-1870s. 8vo blind-stamped green ribbed cloth gilt spine titles yellow matte endpapers vi 202 32 8 frontispiece two foldouts. Modest loss spine foot corners gently worn solid binding. Of the many editions of this important work first published in France in 1791 and partly translated by Thomas Jefferson OCLC lists only 1 copy with Frederick Farrah as printer and dates it 1900. This copy is undated but the binding suggests a binding typical of much earlier plus there is an owner name dated Shanghai February 22 '76 which by period script and century could only refer to 1876. HISTORY OF IDEAS DEMOCRACY FRENCH REVOLUTION LAW GOVERNMENT SOCIAL CONTRACT. Published for James Watson by Frederick Farrah hardcover books
180157475Philadelphia: printed for John Conrad & Co. No. 30 Chestnut-street M. & J. Conrad & Co. no. 140 Market-street Baltimore; and Rapine Conrad & Co. Washington City. J. Bioren printer 1801. Ostensibly the first American edition see below; 16mo pp. xvi 186 2 ads; contemporary full sheep red morocco label on spine; upper joint cracked extremities rubbed; a good sound copy. Volney 1757-1820 the French savant undertook a journey to the United States in 1795 where he was accused in 1797 of being a French spy "sent to prepare for the reoccupation of Louisiana by France. He was obliged to return to France in 1798. The results of his travels took form in his Tableau du Climat et du Sol des Etats-Unis 1803" EB-11. Page 186 contains a note from the translator. Both Jefferson and Barlow had translated Volney's Les Ruines ou méditations sur les révolutions des empires published in 1802 in Paris but there's no evidence they had any part in this translation. The translator remains unknown. Evans 29822 records a 1795 edition under a slightly different title no copies located in Evans and of which no copy in OCLC either; this may be a ghost. American Imprints 1592. <br/><br/> printed for John Conrad & Co. No. 30, Chestnut-street, M. & J. Conrad & Co., no. 140, Market-street, Baltimore; and Rapine, Conr unknown books
18147173Paris: Madame veuve Courcier 1814. First edition. Full Calf. Very Good. 3 vols. 4x2902;63133;vi350pp. With a hand colored copper engraved folding map of ancient Chaldea a copper engraved plate and 12 folding letterpress tables. Cont. diced calf a bit soiled gilt decorated spines rubbed hinges rubbed & with hairline cracks but holding nicely. A few neat marginal and interlinear notes in the early part of Vol. I. Madame veuve Courcier unknown books
179915890Philadelphia / Dublin: - / Printed for James Moore 1799. Volney: 2nd US Evans 33141. Foster: 1st edition cf. Goldsmith 17557. 19th C. brown sand-grain cloth with spine lettered in gilt: "Volney's Law of Nature - 1797". VG expected browning to text/Volney leaves G3 & G4 have brown spot inner upper rt quadrant/'Paul Elder & Co' bookseller label on rear paste-down. Foster probably lacking F4 presumed a blank. NB. A duplicate gathering 'C' bound in Volney. v 6 - 24 17 - 56; 46 pp. Volney: 8vo bound in 4s. A - C4 C4 D-G4. Foster: 8vo bound in 4s. A - E4 F3. <br/><br/>Volney a respected French philosopher & historian was in the United States from 1795 - 1798 and though he was well received by Washington he alienated Adams & was ultimately forced to leave the US under accusations of espionage. The Volney a scarce 18th C US imprint- OCLC records no copies in the US and Evans notes solely the AAS copy. - / Printed for James Moore hardcover books
178784167Paris 1787. 1st ed. in octavo. Hardcover. Fair. 2 vols. 2 folding maps plan and 2 folding plates ix 10-14 2 383 6 2 458 4p. Mismatched bindings Vol. 1 in a modern Greek quarterbinding; Vol. 2 in worn old leather. 20cm. Circular "Hoyt Public Library" stamp at base of both title-pages. Vol. 1 Tome Premier is sound and attractive with both maps still crisp and unworn. Vol. 2 Tome Seconde is quite worn binding heavily worn; joints splitting; the folding plate of the Temple at Baalbek is split at one of the folds and has remnants of yellowed tape along that fold to repair the split; Binding is almost completely split between pages 222 and 223. French text. The half-titles were not preserved in these volumes but this set is otherwise complete. This first edition was also published in a seldom seen larger format about 26cm. quarto edition. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1804009073London: C. Mercier J. Johnson. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1804. First Edition. 3/4 Leather. First edition in English also first English edition. Three-quarter black leather with gilt imprint over marbled paper boards. Rubbed and bumped corners and edges with gilt on spine bands worn. Soiling on speckled edges. Endpapers have light soil. Two plates and two folding maps as called for with some wear spots at map corners. Errata page at rear. Maps are of the North American continent and the United States at the time. The French author's account of his three years of travel in the US with an emphasis on environmental conditions of interest to prospective emigrants. He includes observations on many phenomena such as lake effects and the effects of deforestation in areas. Also included are a basic Miami vocabulary and views of Niagara Falls. Volney's time in the US was cut short by being accused of spying for the French. Howes V141. ; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; 503 pp . C. Mercier, J. Johnson hardcover books
1804WN475154Philadelphia: J. Conrad & Co. 1804. Contemporary full calf with gilt rules and lettering on spine. Gilt stamp at bottom of spine says: "Mississippi State Univ. Jackson." This is only library indicia found in or on the book. Ghost of label at top of spine. Calf is somewhat scuffed and rubbed. Wear on edges spine ends and joints and upper joint starting at top. Text is foxed and browned throughout. 2 fold out maps and 2 fold out charts present as called for. Niagara chart facing p. 81 has been reinforced on one fold. A little damp staining on lower edges not affecting text and a couple of page edge tears but overall a very decent copy complete with Supplements Vocabulary of the Miami language and Additional Notes at rear. . First American Edition. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. J. Conrad & Co. Hardcover books
1803WRCAM51639Paris: Courcier 1803. Two volumes. 3xvi300; 4301- 5342pp. plus two foldings maps and two folding plates. Half titles. Three-quarter calf and marbled boards spines gilt leather labels all edges stained red. Hinges rubbed edges and corners slightly worn. Bookplates on front pastedowns. A few scattered fox marks and small dampstains but generally clean. About very good. Volney came to America to avoid imprisonment by the French government and brought with him a large measure of education and sophistication as well as a small bundle of prejudices: he was a vehement anticlericalist and opponent of things Rousseauian. Jefferson felt he might have been a catalyst for the Federalist Alien Acts. There is a small map of North America and a much larger map of the United States all east of the Mississippi. The map of the continent small as it is still represents fairly advanced cartographical knowledge. This copy is of the variant no priority with the Miami vocabulary separately paginated. The work is valuable for its notes on French colonies in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. HOWES V141. CLARK II:69. PILLING 4061. FIELD 2449. MONAGHAN 1472. BUCK 49. Courcier hardcover books
