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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
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98: "This has so long held the field as the one edition for scholarly use that it is most unlikely it will ever be superseded."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
1899049409New York: Harper & Brothers 1899. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. 6 vols. complete b/w front. tissue guards b/w text illus. folded front. chart in the final volume original blue cloth t.e.g. deckle edges. Contents: v. 1 Life 1709-1765. v. 2 Life 1765-1776. v. 3 Life 1776-1780. v. 4 Life 1780-1784. v. 5 Tour to the Hebredes 1883_ and Journey into North Wales 1774. v. 6 Addenda index dicta philosophi c. Harper & Brothers unknown 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1857258470London: Richard Bentley New Burlington Street 1857. First edition. Inserted Frontispiece by Reynolds and another of Boaswell in Corsican garb at p. 136. xlviii 407 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary diapered calf gilt spine a.e.g. Bookplate of Solomon R. Guggenheim 1869-1949. Nice copy. First edition. Inserted Frontispiece by Reynolds and another of Boaswell in Corsican garb at p. 136. xlviii 407 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street unknown books
185739916London: Richard Bentley. Very Good. 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Hinges cracked foxing on end pages edges rubbed otherwise Good. . Richard Bentley 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
1887155819Oxford: Clarendon Press 1887. hardcover. fine. Edited by George Birbeck Hill. 11 volumes including the index extended from 6. Extra-illustrated edition with hundreds of portraits and views including numerous scarce 18th-century copperplates all inlaid to size. 8vo beautifully bound in full brown crushed morocco; ornate gilt-tooled decorative floral devices on covers and spines; raised bands thick gilt dentelles marbled end papers top edge gilt. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1887. Fine. A superb set and a magnificent example of the art of extra-illustrated books.<br/><br/> Clarendon Press unknown books
1835273939London: John Murray 1835. hardcover. very good. 10 volumes 12mo 3/4 tab morocco ornately gilt spines rubbed frontispieces in each volume pictorially engraved title pages. London: John Murray 1835. Very good.<br/><br/> John Murray unknown books
183565838Extra-Illustrated with Over 100 Engraved Plates BOSWELL James. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides.To which are added anecdotes by Hawkins Piozzi Murphy Tyers Reynolds Steevens &c. And notes by various hands. London: John Murray 1835. CrokerÃs second edition revised by John Wright. Ten small octavo volumes including two volumes of Johnsoniana. Each volume with engraved frontispiece and vignette title. Extra-illustrated with over 100 engraved plates. Bound by Morrell of London in full tan polished calf. Gilt double-rule border on covers spines decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with maroon and green morocco gilt lettering labels gilt board edges and turn-ins top edge gilt others uncut marbled endpapers. An about fine set. Pottle 92. HBS 65838. $2500 John Murray unknown books
1807861521807. BOSWELL James. THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON LL. D. COMPREHENDING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS STUDIES AND NUMEROUS WORKS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER; A SERIES OF HIS EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE AND CONVERSATIONS WITH MANY EMINENT PERSONS; AND VARIOUS ORIGINAL PIECES OF HIS COMPOSITION NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED . IN THREE VOLUMES. Boston: W. Andrews and L. Blake 1807. First American from the Fifth London Edition. 500/512/543 pp. with index in Vol. III. 8vo. original calf spine labels missing boards detached spines and corners chipped. Leather powdery. Text complete with frontispiece engraving portrait in Vol. I. Moderate to heavy foxing in the text. Contemporary ink ownership to title page or first page of text; front flyleaf of Vol. III is chipped at top corner. Bindings sound. Sold as is. unknown 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
1810311221New York & Boston: Inskeep and Bradford . and William M'Ilhenny printed by R. & W. Carr 1810. First American edition "from the London Edition Revised and Corrected by the Author" issue with New York & Boston imprint. xvi 2 414 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf flat spine divided by gilt rolls and fillets into six compartments lettered in one the rest stamped in gilt with shield and bow and arrow tool. Light rubbing to covers small stain to lower corner of title some toning and spotting to text. First American edition "from the London Edition Revised and Corrected by the Author" issue with New York & Boston imprint. xvi 2 414 pp. 8vo. The first American edition appeared in two issues in 1810 one with a Philadelphia imprint and as here with a cancel New York and Boston imprint. Both issues were printed in Philadelphia by R. & W. Carr and are otherwise identical. The Philadelphia publisher John F. Watson has inserted an "Advertisement" at the front making excuses for Boswell: "In republishing a work which . has so long subjected its author to the sarcasms of foes or to the plaudits of friends it seems but the bounden duty of the American editor to suffer the author in this place to offer those vindications which he afterwards saw fit to annex to his 'Life of Johnson.'"<br/>An attractive copy in a contemporary American binding. Pottle 63; Shaw and Shoemaker 19607 Inskeep and Bradford ... and William M'Ilhenny [printed by R. & W. Carr] unknown books
1807243288London: Cadell & Davies 1807. Fourth. hardcover. near fine. Engraved frontispiece portrait. iv xvi 460 pages. 8vo attractively bound in 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards. London: T. Cadell & W. Davies 1807. Fourth edition revised and corrected. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> Cadell & Davies unknown books
180726291London: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1807. 8vo pp. 2 xv 1 460; engraved frontispiece after Joshua Reynolds; recent half tan calf antique over marbled boards red morocco label; occasional spotting especially in the margins of the frontispiece otherwise near fine. This is the first edition to include an index. Boswell's Advertisement to the third edition occupies pp. iv-v. Pottle 62. <br/><br/> printed for T. Cadell, and W. Davies hardcover books
181024722Philadelphia: John F. Watson 1810. First American edition 8vo pp. xvi 2 412; contemporary marbled boards rebacked and retipped new red morocco label on spine; title a bit browned else a very good sound copy. Another edition was published in Boston later the same year. "Though the Life is a vaster and richer piece of work no one will maintain that it displays Boswell's unique gift for biography better than the Tour. Indeed most lovers of Boswell will agree that the Tour as a whole is more consistently good than the Life; that is that nowhere in the Life could one find so many consecutive first-class pages as those that compose this book" Pottle. The book published is almost the same as the actual journal that was kept in 1773. When Johnson's death made it possible for Boswell to publish the manuscript he only added an introduction and a conclusion before giving it to the printer. Pottle 63. <br/><br/> John F. Watson 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
