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1807CAT000099Paris: Capelle et Renand 1807. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. A mixed set 11 volumes published 1807-1817. Volumes 2-10 in full acid calf worn spines dry and chipped one board detached others loose volume 1 in later half vellum and volume 11 in original wraps worn and chipped. A complete run of this annual of food and drink associated poetry and song. Volume 4 with a portrait of Marc-Antoine-Madeleine Désaugiers who wrote most of the songs laid down and each volume with an engraved frontispiece. Size: 12mo duodecimo. 11-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Music. Inventory No: CAT000099. Capelle et Renand hardcover
18482111902160201131Manuscript by Michishige Ochi 1848. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Manuscript by Michishige Ochi paperback
1881011607Northampton 1881. The Evening Herald And Daily Chronicle and Advertiser for Northampton and Midland District. 1881. Circa 255 issues each issue has 4 pages. Book measures 55x46cm. Bound in fawn cloth backed brown boards cloth corners black lettering. Cloth rubbed dust marked. Binding in good solid condition. Internally occasional staning a few pages missing corners with slight loss of text a few short tears pages slightly brittle but can be handled. Generally pages in good clean condition. January 1st 3rd 4th 5th 6th 8th 10th 11th 12th 13th 15th 17th 18th 19th 20th 22nd 24th 25th 26th 27th 29th 31st February 1st 2nd 3rd 5th 7th 8th 9th 10th 12th 14th 15th 16th 17th 19th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 26th 28th March 1st 2nd 3rd 5th 7th 8th 9th 10th 12th 14th 15th 16th 17th 19th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 26th 28th 29th 30th 31st April 2nd 4th5th 6th 7th 9th 11th 12th 13th 16th19th 20th 21st 23rd 25th 26th 27th28th 30th May 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 7th 9th 10th 11th 12th 14th 16th 17th 18th 19th 21st 23rd 24th 25th26th 28th 30th 31st June 1st 2nd 4th 7th 8th 9th 11th 13th 14th 15th 16th 18th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 25th 27th 28th 29th 30th July 4th 5th 6th 7th 9th 11th 12th 13th 14th 16th 18th 19th 20th 21st 23rd 25th 26th 27th 28th 30th August 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 6th 8th 9th 10th 11th 13th 15th 16th 17th 18th 20th 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 27th 29th 30th 31st September 1st3rd 5th 6th 7th8th 10th 12th 13th 14th 15th 17th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 24th 26th 27th 28th 29th October 1st 3rd 4th 5th 6th 8th 10th 11th 12th 13th 15th 17th 18th 19th 20th 22nd 24th 25th 26th 27th 29th 31st November 1st 2nd 3rd 5th 7th 8th 9th 10th 12th 14th 15th 16th 17th 19th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 26th 28th 29th 30th December 1st 3rd 5th6th 7th 8th 10th 12th 13th 14th 15th 17th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 24th 27th 28th 29th 31st. . Cloth. Near Very Good. Folio. Hardcover
186241734Turnwold Putnam County Ga. 1862. Each issue a folio sheet folded to 8 pp. Each page 9-1/4" x12." Each number printed in three columns per page. No. 12 with a persistent corner chip and occasional small loss. Light foxing. Very Good. EACH ISSUE $250 OR THE ENTIRE RUN FOR $1000<br /> <br /> Crandall does not record Numbers 4 and 5; but AAS which says The Countryman was "suspended intermittently" evidently owns them. Its first printing was March 18 1862. The articles cover an array of subjects including of course much on the War: <br /> This interesting Confederate weekly was printed at Turnwold Turner's Putnam County plantation probably the only wartime newspaper so printed. "Joel Chandler Harris was an apprentice for Joseph Addison Turner. In 1862 Turner decided to produce a newspaper from his home at Turnwold Plantation. In fact in a more-than-semi-autobiographical book Harris wrote called On the Plantation he explains that the printing office for The Countryman was established 'in an outhouse.'. . . As was the typical arrangement for the time Harris worked for Turner in exchange for clothing and boarding at the Turnwold Plantation for the four plus years he apprenticed there. As a printer's devil Harris was responsible for setting and inking the type for the paper on the hand-press individually placing the letters so they were spaced appropriately for printing" "Joel Chandler Harris and The Wren's Nest" December 3 2020 Blog site of American Writers Museum accessed May 01 2026. <br /> Crandall 5152. Not in Parrish & Willingham. unknown
18242476DBMünchen, 1824. Folio. (6) 320, (4) S. (Register). Roter Maroquin der Zeit mit Rückenschild, Rücken-, Deckel-, Innen-, Aussen- und Stehkantenvergoldung sowie einem Wappensupralibros + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, 2476D
18665406CBLeipzig., E.A. Seemann, 1866 - 1884. 4°. Leinenbände der Zt. mit montiertem Titelblattern und goldgeprägten Rückenschildern. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden + 19 Jahrgänge in 19 Bänden (durchgehende Folge). Herausgegeben von Dr. Carl von Lützow. In gutem Zustand. Buchblock teilweise gelockert und gebrochen. Durchgehend stockfleckig.
1830001387London: Effingham Wilson Lufton Relfe Printed by J. Bailey 116 Chancery lane 1830. Hardcover. Good. Robert Cruikshank R. Seymour. 3 Volumes bound as one 1- The Real Devil's Walk pp34 plus engraved frontis 6 full page illustrations by Robert Cruikshank with vignettes throughout text. An interesting work believed to be a revised version of "The Devil's Thoughts" 1799 but later revised with a letter appearing in the February 14th edition of the Morning Post 1830 with the claim by one R. C. Porson that the poem "The Devil's Walk" had been actually written by his deceased uncle "Professor Porson".2_ The Devil's Progress pp67 with engraved b/w frontis plus 4 full page b/w engravings and two vignettes designed by R. Seymour and engraved by Evans and Welch. This being another satire expanded from "The Devil's Thoughts" . 3-The Ancient and Modern History of the Devil this final part is missing it's title pages and preface but appears to be complete in two parts. Part one- Ancient history pp1-118 in 10 chapters . Part 2- Modern History pp119-264 in 11 chapters. It states on final page" Printed by J. Bailey 116 Chancery lane". 12mo although the poetry pieces are a smaller size paper. Contemporary binding of half brown calf over marbled boards with 5 tooled gilt lines and the title of "The Devil" to spine in good condition with some rubbing to boards rubbing to edges and leather. Inside hand written title page to history of the devil at beginning of book and old catalogue entry for "the devil's walk" to front pastedown. There is a little foxing and toning throughout but generally all pages in very good condition for their age in a tight solid binding. A very interesting item. Scarce. More photos on request. <br/> <br/> Effingham Wilson, Lufton Relfe, Printed by J. Bailey, 116 Chancery lane hardcover
1895304588Belfast and London: McCaw Stevenson & Orr. Ld. 1895. First Edition. Softcover. Poor set in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Some issues in three hardcover bindings two bound in full cloth and one bound in half leather over buckram boards. Physical description; 26 issues. Contents; Vol. I September 1894 No. I ; vol. I: January 1895 No. 2 ; vol. I: April 1895 No. 3 ; vol. I: July 1895 No. 4 ; vol. II January 1896 No. 2 ; vol. II part 3 April 1896 ; vol. II July 1896 no. 4 ; vol. II part I October 1895 ; vol. III: October 1896 No. I ; vol. III: January 1897 No. 2 ; vol. III: April 1897 No. 3 ; vol. III: July 1897 No. 4 ; Index to Ulster Journal of Archaeology: vol. III ; vol. IV: October 1897 No. I ; vol. IV: January 1898 No. 2 ; The Ancient Franciscan Friary of Nun-Na-Margie Ballcastle on the North Coast of Antrim by Francis Joseph Bigger ; vol. IV April 1898 No. 3 ; vol. IV July 1898 No. 4 ; vol. V part 3 May 1899 ; vol. VI January 1900 No. I ; vol. VI part 2 April 1900 ; vol. VI part 3 July 1900 ; vol. VII: January 1901 No. I ; vol. VII: January 1901 No. 3 ; vol. IV: October 1901 No. 4 ; vol. VIII Part I January 1902 ; vol. VIII part 2 April 1902 ; vol. VIII part 3 July 1902 ; vol. VIII part 4 October 1902 ; vol. IX part I January 1903 ; vol. IX April 1903 no. 2 ; vol. IX part 3 July 1903 2 copies ; vol. IX Oct. 1903 no. 4 ; vol. X part I January 1904 ; vol. X October 1904 no. 4 2 copies ; vol. XI part I January 1905 ; vol. XI part 2 April 1905 ; vol. XI part 4 October 1905 ; vol. XII part 2 April 1906 ; vol. XII part 3 July 1906 ; vol. XII part 4 October 1906. Subjects; Archeology. Ulster. Ulster Journal of Archeology. Irish Archeology. Northern Irish Archeology. Academic Periodicals. Belfast and London: McCaw, Stevenson & Orr. Ld. paperback
18923832Coffeyville: Coffeyville Journal Print1892. 1892. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Rebound in grey cloth 5 p.1.13 71 1 pp. frontis. portrait illustrations portraits plan on unnumbered page 72. Adams 150 #52 says "Rare." "The author was the editor of the Coffeyville Journal and was an eye-witness to the battle of the citizens and the Dalton Gang. It is said that he was the first man to reach the wounded Emmett Dalton. He wrote this little book to give an account of what he saw and published it in a limited edition immediately after this battle took place. This is about the best account of this battle written thus far." Six Guns 671 says "Rare." "It is now very rare and a collector's item." Lacks the original wrappers a few end-pages reinforced along the edges with cellophane tape that was applied many years ago contents clean and bound into a cloth boards with titles stamped in gold gilt on the front cover. Overall a very good copy of a rare and much sought item. Coffeyville Journal Print,1892. hardcover
189559062BBBerlin und München, Julius Springer Verlag und Verlag R. Oldenbourg, 1895-1915. Groß-4°. 36,5 x 28,0 cm. ca. 15000 Seiten. Braune Halblederbände der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel. Jahrgang 1895 im Pappband der Zeit. [4 Warenabbildungen]
1851218121851. Science Medicine & TechnologyMilitary & WarLabor Environment & Welfare Manuscript industrial journal documenting the British lead shot industry patent culture and metallurgical manufacturing during the height of the Victorian industrial economy. Primarily England and Wales 1851-1853. Approximately 50 pages written in ink in a highly legible hand bound in an octavo-format notebook measuring 8 x 6.5 inches. Quarter red leather over marbled boards. Ownership inscription to front endpaper: "John R. Tracy / Nov 1852."<br /> <br /> An unusually detailed firsthand record of mid-19th-century industrial innovation centered on the manufacture of lead shot at a moment when Britain's expanding military infrastructure mining economy and heavy industry were increasingly dependent on large-scale metallurgical production. Compiled by John R. Tracy the manuscript documents the development and attempted commercialization of what he repeatedly identifies as a "Shot Patent" likely an improvement to the production or grading of lead shot associated with the traditional shot tower process. Rather than functioning merely as a technical notebook the volume captures the broader industrial system surrounding invention in Victorian Britain: factory inspections patent negotiations industrial espionage concerns business networking licensing discussions and the competitive culture of ironmasters and lead manufacturers operating across England and Wales.<br /> <br /> The manuscript opens in October 1852 and proceeds through a sequence of dated entries recording Tracy's travel and meetings with manufacturers engineers and industrial firms. These entries reveal the practical realities of introducing a new industrial process into Britain's established lead trade where manufacturers guarded technical methods closely and approached outside inventors with skepticism. On October 26 Tracy records receiving "letters of introduction to Messrs. A. B. Brown & Green" and to "Platt Bros." illustrating the importance of personal industrial networks and recommendation systems within Victorian manufacturing culture. Another entry dated November 5 describes a meeting arranged through "Mr. Maxwell of Messrs. Norton Theakers" followed by Tracy's note of "Much of 'shot etc.'-a rather funny conversation but on the whole. appointment for tomorrow @ 10 1/2" capturing the uncertain and often informal negotiations surrounding industrial patents.<br /> <br /> Particularly revealing is Tracy's November 6 account of visiting the Flintshire lead smelting firm Newton Keates & Co. where he describes the guarded and competitive atmosphere surrounding lead shot production. Tracy recounts that permission to inspect the works was "at-first-refused in rather a John Bullish manner" before eventually being granted under supervision. He writes perceptively about the mixture of suspicion and curiosity that surrounded industrial patents noting that the proprietor "wished to know the price upon the Patent" but that he deliberately withheld a valuation because "there was no use to let him have the bait to look at before he was hungry enough to bite." The language throughout reveals how industrial innovation in this period depended not simply on invention itself but on strategic secrecy negotiation and control over proprietary manufacturing knowledge.<br /> <br /> One of the manuscript's most important sections is a full-page listing titled "Lead Works in the United Kingdom in 1852" identifying more than two dozen lead works and manufacturers across Britain. Firms including Walker Parker & Co. Newton Keates & Co. and Richmond Anchor Co. are listed alongside annotations describing their production specialties including "sheet" "pipes" "shot" "white lead" and "pig." The page functions as a rare industrial survey of Britain's lead industry during a period of rapid military and industrial expansion documenting the interconnected infrastructure supporting ammunition production construction materials piping paint manufacture and metallurgical processing.<br /> <br /> Later entries contain detailed observations of shot-manufacturing equipment at a Chester lead works including descriptions of shot towers ranging from 76 to 96 feet in height and the use of perforated metal grading systems to regulate molten lead as it fell into spherical form. Tracy records the operation with notable technical specificity: "The shot are dropped through a perforated metal-the holes being smaller at the upper end and increasing in size as you get to the lower cylinder." Accompanying diagrams depict feed bins drop tubes sieves and sorting mechanisms apparently intended to improve efficiency or shot-size consistency beyond earlier tower methods. Tracy critically evaluates the machinery as well remarking that certain sieve boxes "seem inadequate for the work" and comparing the process economically to that employed by "D. De Roy & Co.'s works." The notebook therefore preserves not merely abstract invention but active industrial analysis and comparative manufacturing study.<br /> <br /> The manuscript is documenting metallurgy patent culture and military-industrial production in the decades preceding the major arms expansions of the later nineteenth century. Lead shot remained essential not only for hunting and civilian markets but for military supply systems deeply tied to imperial expansion and industrial warfare. Tracy's notebook reveals the increasingly professionalized yet still highly personal world through which industrial technologies circulated in Victorian Britain where factory visits guarded conversations handwritten technical sketches and negotiated introductions formed the practical infrastructure of innovation. Spine mostly perished with binding delicately held together; boards rubbed and worn. Interior exceptionally clean and highly legible throughout. A substantial and unusually revealing manuscript documenting Victorian industrial manufacturing patent strategy and the lead shot trade during a formative period in British industrial history. unknown
1875ZB1347108Appleton 1875. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item 384 pp. rebound in buckram hardcover minor internal library markings else text clean & binding tight. All plates are present and in very good condition including 4 by J. M. W. Turner and 1 by Albert Bierstadt. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Appleton hardcover
1823974F5London: J. C. Robinson; Knight and Lacey; M. Salmon 1823-1842 . First edition. Cloth. Good Only. 9" by 6.5". Not Stated. Eight informative and illustrated first edition volumes of 'The Mechanics' Magazine' a periodical from the nineteenth century covering important developments in the world of mechanics including the very scarce first volume. Eight volumes of this periodical bound in seven. Multi-volume sets of this work are scarce.Present here are volumes I III XX XXI XXIV XXXII and XXXVI-XXXVII.An interesting snapshot of the scientific and technological developments of this period towards the end of the Industrial Revolution including discussion of Tantalius's Cup a memoir of James Watt account of the London fires of 1833 hydraulic projectors the parallax of mars and further diverse subjects.With full page and vignette illustrations and diagrams throughout.Present here are:Volume I August 30 1823 - March 6 1824. Rebound in cloth with endpapers renewed. Lacking the volume title page to the start of the work.Volume III September 26 1824 - March 19 1825. In a half calf binding with a frontispiece.Vol. XX October 5 1833 - March 29 1834. In a half calf binding with a frontispiece.Vol. XXI April 5 1834 - September 27 1834. In a half calf binding with a frontispiece.Vol. XXIV October 3 1836 - April 2 1836. In the publisher's original half cloth binding with frontispiece.Vol. XXXII October 5 1839 - May 30 1840. In a half calf binding.Vols. XXXVI-XXXVII January 1st 1842 - December 31st 1842. In half calf. Library bookplate to front pastedown of volume III with library stamps to endpapers. Bookplate to front pastedown of vol XX. Five half calf volumes - one repaired with tape to the back strip - one half cloth volume and one full cloth volume. Endpapers of volume I renewed. Volume XX lacking back strip with joints starting and boards tender. Joint heads and tails of volume III starting with boards holding firm. Vol XXIV joints starting with boards a touch tender. Front joint head of vol XXXII starting with board firmly held. Rear joint of vols XXXVI- II starting with board tender. Hinges of vol XXI strained and a touch tender. Library bookplate to front pastedown of volume III with library stamps to endpapers. Bookplate to front pastedown of vol XX. Internally firmly bound. Pages of earliest volumes age toned with spotting throughout with later volumes generally clean and bright. Good Only J. C. Robinson; Knight and Lacey; M. Salmon hardcover
18928415EBLondon, Chatto & Windus, 1892-1895. 8°. 22 x 15 cm. VII, 724, IV, 726, IV, 682, (4) 660, IV, 668, IV, 800, IV, 852 Seiten. Halblederbände auf 5 Bünden mit goldgeprägten Rückentiteln und kammmarmorierten Schnitten. [5 Warenabbildungen]
1862280305Richmond: Richmond Examiner 1862. unbound. very good. 2 pages of text on a single sheet 23 inches x 16 inches. Folded down the center and twice across the sheet. Richmond: Richmond Examiner 1862. Very good<br/> <br/> On the front page is an extensive article on the Confiscation Act of 1862 and its passage by Congress. Included in the article is the text of Abraham Lincoln's Message on the act's constitutionality. The Confiscation Act gave legal authority to courts to implement the legal seizure of land and property from citizens who aided the Confederacy. Also in the act was a clause allowing emancipation of slaves in the Confederacy that lived in areas of Union occupation. Most of the rest of the text on both pages are small articles on Civil War battles and political news in the Confederacy. The publisher of the Richmond Examiner became anti-Jefferson Davis' political and military actions as the Civil War progressed.<br/> <br/> Richmond Examiner unknown
1862MW190London: James S. Virtue 1862. Original printed issues 1st Editions . Hardcover. Fine. 4to. 2 volumes complete for 1862 New Series Volume One. 24 ful pages steel engravings. viii 180 ; 180-244pp; Art Catalogue The Art Journal catalogue for the International Exhibition of 1862 1-208pp. 24 full page steel engravings including 12 Turners. Bound in the original red half calf. Five raised bands with dec. gilt decorated compartments. Trifle rubbed and minor occasional foxing but a sound and very clean set. New Series. A fine pair of volumes in a fine decorated binding. <br/> <br/> James S. Virtue hardcover
186295814Tallahassee: Printed by Dyke & Carlisle 1862. Rare first edition documenting the acts and resolutions passed by the General Assembly of Florida in the first year of the American Civil War. Octavo disbound. In very good condition. Scarce and desirable. Among the 34 United States of America in February 1861 seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the country to form the Confederate States of America causing the outbreak of the most studied and written about episode in United States History: the American Civil War. The Confederacy grew to include eleven states all of them slave-holding. After the secession of South Carolina on December 20 1860 the "cotton states" of Mississippi Florida Alabama Georgia Louisiana and Texas followed suit seceding in January and February 1861 Printed by Dyke & Carlisle unknown
185821030Leipzig und Dresden, Verlag der Englischen Kunstanstalt von A. H. Payne, 1854 - 1858. Mit zahllosen, tls. ganzseitigen Holzstich-Abbildungen. 4° (ca. 2 x 28 cm), Halblederbände der Zeit, etwas Rückenvergoldung, rote, goldgeprägte Rückenschildchen, Deckel mit Marmorpapierbezug, marmorierter Schnitt. Deckel und die Kanten berieben, Ecken bestoßen.
18821428BBZürich, Joh. Caspar Füessly, 1882. Gr.-8°. XIII, 263 S.; S. 265-520; S. 521-712, S. 619-626. Broschur der Zeit (stark berieben und bestossen, fleckig). + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, 1428B 3 Bde.
