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1857WRCAM35838Hartford: F.C. Brownell 1857. 1629-6411pp. with rear wrapper printed on both sides. Original printed wrappers. Early dampstain in upper margin not affecting text. Number ink- stamped in upper outer corner of front wrapper. Overall very good. First edition thus a separate offprint; originally published in BARNARD'S AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION for December 1856. Reid was a noted Scottish-born chemist educator and ventilation engineer. This very early proposal for a graduate institution in architecture in the United States seems little known; it is not mentioned by Mary Woods in her recent book FROM CRAFT TO PROFESSION THE PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE IN NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA. A scarce work with OCLC locating only one copy; Hitchcock notes two. HITCHCOCK 987. DAB XV pp.475-76. F.C. Brownell unknown books
1831264126Edinburgh: Maclachan and Stewart 1831. Second edition. Text plates. xliii 555 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary purple cloth and blue boards uncut. VG. Second edition. Text plates. xliii 555 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Maclachan and Stewart unknown books
188435812Paris: Hinrichsen et cie 1884. First edition in French 12mo pp. vi 318 1; very good in contemporary quarter black morocco over marbled boards gilt lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine. With accounts of French colonial politics the geography of Tonkin economics relations of France with China military matters etc. The first edition in English was published earlier the same year.This copy with a few pencil annotations by an informed reader. <br/><br/> Hinrichsen et cie hardcover books
1836D7792London: John Murray 1836. Hardcover. Very Good. Full red morocco boards and spine compartments ornately ruled in gilt gilt-stamped lettering in second compartment inside gilt dentelles a.e.g.; 4to; pp. xxii 2 530 plus 45 plates including frontispiece and additional title-page. Collates complete. Spine a bit darkened and lightly scuffed along raised bands and joints; rear board lightly scuffed; corners lightly bumped. A few small brown spots or dusty finger-smudges scattered throughout text block; some plates faintly off-set onto facing pages. Armorial bookplate on front paste-down. Overall a bright clean copy handsomely bound. <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
1820305112London G. Walker J. Akerman et al. 1820. 1820. 8vo. 2 folding engraved plates of facsimiles of Johnson's handwriting facing p.1 Volume I and facing p. 1 Volume IV Contemporary tan calf tooled in blind with a basket weave design two red morocco labels on the spine; marbled edges. A fine set. No foxing 4 volumes. With an Armorial swan design bookplate on the front pastedown of all volumes with motto: "Pandite" with a label signed: John Gibson Surgeon. Hardcover. Fine. London, G. Walker, J. Akerman, et al., 1820. hardcover books
181148789London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies in the Strand 1811. The Sixth Edition Revised and Augmented. Period full tan polished calf bindings with marbled edges. Maroon spine labels in 2nd & 4th compartments. General wear & chipping to leather primarily spines. Joint leather weak with rear board to Vol I coming loose. A Good - Abt Very Good set. 4 volumes. Volume I with engraved frontis of Johnson by T. Baker after the 1756 painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Two facsimile letters Vol I & Vol III. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/> Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand hardcover books
18269364.1Oxford: Published by William Pickering London; and Talboys & Wheeler Oxford 1826. 1st edition thus Kelly 1826.2; Keynes p. 54; NCBEL II 1214. 19th C. tan half-calf with deep maroon spine labels; marbled boards & edges. Overall VG some modest binding wear. 4 volumes. Engraved portrait of Boswell V1 & two facsimile letters. 8vo. <br/><br/>One of the Pickering imprints that Keynes notes as having "special merit". Published by William Pickering, London; and Talboys & Wheeler, Oxford hardcover books
180737149Boston: Published by W. Andrews and L. Blake. Greenough and Stebbins Printers 1807. First American from the fifth London Edition 1807 edited by Edmund Malone. The first edition was published in 1791. Frontispiece 2 folding facsimiles. 500; 512; 543 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep red morocco spine labels. Binding worn internally clean with occasional foxing. First American from the fifth London Edition 1807 edited by Edmund Malone. The first edition was published in 1791. Frontispiece 2 folding facsimiles. 500; 512; 543 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. First American Edition of Boswell. This is the first edition of this work to contain an index. Lilly "Grolier 100 Books Famous in English Literature" 63; Pottle 85; Shaw & Shoemaker 12184. For the 1791 first edition: Courtney-Nichol Smith p. 172; Grolier "English" 63; Pottle 79; Tinker 388 Published by W. Andrews and L. Blake. Greenough and Stebbins, Printers unknown books
1824246342Bellows Falls Vt. Volume I and Boston: Charles Ewer: Printed for the Proprietors and sold by R. Edwards and J. Offor 1824. A New Edition. Frontispiece Vol. 1. 5 vols. 8vo. Original boards uncut one joint off spines rubbed with loss else Good. A New Edition. Frontispiece Vol. 1. 5 vols. 8vo. Printed for the Proprietors, and sold by R. Edwards and J. Offor unknown books
1836Embry 183615John Murray London: 1836. First edition first printing. Bookplate faint wear still fine and bright in custom mylar cover. One-half tan crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe over patterned boards spine panels simply gilt with double surrounds John Murray, London: 1836. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
1835WN62522London: John Murray 1835. Three quarter dark green morocco 5 raised bands gilt spine lettering decoration and rules. Green cloth covered boards. Top edges gilt. Signed bindings by Bayntun of Bath. First volume has some dampstain on preliminaries. Some foxing throughout especially near plates but overall impressive text blocks. A beautiful set for Boswellians and others. First Thus. Three Quarter Leather. Good/No Dust Jackets. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Trade. John Murray Hardcover books
1896033236New York Etc.: Longmans Green and Co 1896. xxiv 532p. t.e.g. deckle edges original brown cloth quarto format ex libris. Longmans, Green, and Co unknown books
1802WRCLIT41445Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell & Son 1802. 24pp. Small octavo. Sewn into somewhat later plain wrappers. A few minor corner nicks wrappers split at spine trivial foxing otherwise a near fine copy. First edition first printing of the first separate publication by the son of the biographer. In addition to Alexander's original verse and adaptations which the DNB describes as "very graphic full of Scotch humour but coarse at times" the collection prints for the first time James Boswell's poem "Song to an Irish Air." This edition is quite rare and the collection is most commonly known through the 1803 second edition published under the imprint of Manners & Miller paginated at 34pp. Pottle treats James Boswell's appearance based on the 1803 edition noting that edition "seems to be very scarce. I have met with only one copy that in the New York Public Library." An OCLC search as of 2013 records eight copies of the 1803 second edition and four copies of this edition Yale Harvard McMaster and Nat'l Library of Scotland. We note one copy at auction in recent years: Sotheby's Sept 28 1979 lot 374 £1400 $3066.00 to Quaritch. POTTLE POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATIONS 3 1803 edition. NCBEL III:368. TINKER 296 1803 edition bound with other later publications. Printed by Mundell & Son unknown books
188338917New York: Phillips & Hunt 1883. Paperback. Good. maps inside front cover 16p. Pamphlet in original wrapper. 19cm. Tear on cover & in margin of several text-leaves. Light ownership-inscription on front cover. Home College Series No. 11. A sketch of the history and geography of Ancient Greece. Intended for home study. <br/><br/> Phillips & Hunt paperback books
1877011369London: George Bell & Sons 1877. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Sowerby John Edward et al. The third edition. 12 volumes plus index volume. Publisher's green cloth front and back covers gilt to front. Brown moroccan spine gilt titles and devices. Hundreds of floral illustrations. Internals fine except for index where the leaves in 2 signatures have been cut. A handsome set. George Bell & Sons hardcover books
1857007803London: Richard Bentley 1857. A very handsome lavishly extra illustrated copy bound by Riviere and Son in full polished calf gilt spine and inner dentelles t.e.g. other edges uncut marbled end pages original boards and spine bound in Near Fine calf lightly rubbed at joints and tips. With 53 illustrations tipped in each with pencil notation verso denoting at which page to be added. Frontispiece portrait illustration of Boswell by Joshua Reynolds numerous other portraits including Samuel Johnson also by Joshua Reynolds Shakespeare from the Droeshout portrait engraved by J. Swaine for the First Folio Edition George I James II Voltaire Adam Smith Hugh Walpole Hume William Cowper William Penn George III and Joshua Reynolds among many others. Also with several engravings of different places including The New Bridge at Edinburgh Including Part of the Castle The Hague and Crescent Bath. A quite fascinating and unique copy. . First Edition. Full Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Richard Bentley Hardcover books
18315972London: John Murray 1831. Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is a book that names names. Johnson during his long life came into contact with virtually everyone in British society who left a footprint and Boswell names them all. John Wilson Croker's edition of Boswell's great biography-offered here in its initial printing-inspired something of a fashion for collectors to gather up printed portraits of the figures named in the biography and have them bound into their copies of Croker's Boswell opposite the pages where the figure is named or discussed. The majority of the portraits scenes facsimiles and maps in this copy date from the first quarter of the 19th century while a few were printed in the late 1700s and the most recent ones date from the 1840s. Celebrity portraits include those of Johnson Boswell Hester Lynch Piozzi Richardson Rousseau Sterne Catherine the Great Leibnitz Byron Swift Joseph Banks Voltaire Madame de Sévigné Captain Cook Thomas Gray John Donne Adam Smith Walter Scott Joseph Addison Thomas Brown Montaigne Drake Milton and many many many others. Octavo 23 cm; 5 volumes. Extra-illustrated with 197 give or take black-and-white engravings some folding and 16 color stipple engravings including portraits facsimiles scenes and a map. Handsomely re-cased in 20th-century tan buckram with leather labels on spines titled in gilt. Some offsetting onto text pages from opposing plates but otherwise the text is in excellent condition. John Murray hardcover books
1855D6427New York: Harper and Brothers 1855. Hardcover. Very Good. Half calf and blue cloth gilt-stamped lettering in brown and black spine labels details stamped direct in spine compartments 5 raised bands all edges marbled; two volumes large 8vo; pp. xiii 3 blank original title-p. epigraph 563 plus engraved portrait of Johnson pencil portrait of Boswell title-page for this 2-volume edition; 566 plus portrait of Ms. Piozzi and folding plate. Both volumes: Spines a bit scuffed; boards rubbed; some light foxing mostly confined to prelims and terminals. Handsome. <br/><br/> Harper and Brothers hardcover books
189186610NY:: Harper & Brothers. Very Good. 1891. Hardcover. B001JAZEC4 . Complete in six volumes. Volume I: Life 1709-1765. Volume II: Life 1765-1776. Volume III: Life 1776-1780. Volume IV: Life 1780-1784. Volume V: Tour to the Hebrides 1773 and Journey into North Wales 1774. Volume VI: Addenda Index Dicta Philosophi &c. Illustrations fold-out letter facsimiles and chart. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. First edition thus. Octavos bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering on the spines top edges gilt. Moderate shelf wear and aging two of the volumes are starting to show separation at the hinges two of the volumes have small gouges to the cloth covered boards else all volumes are very good. . Harper & Brothers, hardcover books
1891225467London. : Routledge. 1891. Quarter red cloth over pink cloth boards. . Very good spines lightly sunned some volumes slightly cocked. 8vo. Heavy set requires extra postage. Edited by Henry Morley. Portrait frontispieces by sir Joshua Reynolds. Routledge. hardcover books
18741298280London: Bickers and Son 1874. First Edition Second Printing. Hardcover. Three volume set; octavo; VG/no-DJs; brown spines with gold text; covers have rubbing sunning edgewear bindings are strong; textblocks have significant chipping and peeling around edges foxing around edges and sporadically throughout name stamped on verso of frontispiece page in Vol. I and on half title pages in Vols. II and III otherwise clean. <br /> <br /> <p> Oversized order. Additional shipping and handling may be necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy international shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. Contact seller if you have any questions.<br /> <br /> <p> This book is part of the overstocked 15's kept in Room X atop one of the bookcases. 1298280. FP New Rockville Stock. Bickers and Son hardcover books
18221249034London 1822. ninth edition; revised. octavos in light brown genuine leather with six-band spine; gold letters and gilt on spine; VG; moderate soiling and shelf wear on boards; moire end pages; frontispiece engraving of S. Johnson; folded facsimile of Johnson's handwriting; paper clean with light foxing; please contact us for shipping costs; shelved above US bios. 1249034. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. unknown books
1824WN34116London: Printed for Thomas Tegg et al. 1824. Full purplish calf with gilt rules and grape leaf and vine decoration. 4 raised bands. New red and blue morocco spine titling and numbering labels. Marbled edges and endpapers. Bookplates on each front pastedown. Silk markers still present in 4 of the volumes. Some foxing throughout. Facsimile fold-out of letter in Dr. Johnson's handwriting in beginning of Vol. 1. Gift inscription dated 1830 on ffep in Vol. 1. A beautiful and rare set. First Thus. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Trade. Printed for Thomas Tegg, et al. Hardcover books
185912786London: Routledge Warnes and Routledge 1859. Hardcover. Good. 8vos. Original publisher's stamped decorative cloth with gilt spines. Good overall;. Some starting here and there. Cloth worn rubbed. Couple of chips at spine. But clean and sound overall. <br/><br/>A handsome edition of one of the greatest biographies ever written. Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge hardcover books
188753372Oxford: Clarendon Press 1887. First Hill edition and one of the finest of all editions of this classic work; 6 volumes large 8vo 14 plates including frontispieces facsimiles some folding and a map; generally a fine set in original green cloth gilt-lettered spines. Pottle 98: "This has so long held the field as the one edition for scholarly use that it is most unlikely it will ever be superseded." <br/><br/> Clarendon Press hardcover books