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1847437334London : The Proprietors 1847. 1st edition. Hardcover. 7 volumes in different bindings: 6 good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine worn and cracked; panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age-- 1 volume has the front board detaching. 1 poor copy in marbled boards backed in aniline-calf spine taped and detaching. Foxing and worming to the pages across de 7 volumes. Physical description; 7 volumes 24 x 35 cm. Subjects; Horticulture England ; Periodicals. Agriculture England ; Periodicals. Gardening ; Periodicals. Gardening Great Britain ; Periodicals. Ornamental horticulture ; Periodicals. Ornamental horticulture Great Britain ; Periodicals. Plants Ornamental Great Britain ; Periodicals. Gardening Great Britain ; Periodicals. London : The Proprietors hardcover
1869015071Dublin: Hodge's Smith and Foster 1869. Book measures 22.5x15.cm. lxix16552pp. Bound in full calf raised bands gilt lines and lettering. Calf rubbed wear loss on edges top hinge joint split loose but still attached. Internally occasional institution library stamp. Pages in good clean condition. A good clean copy in a worn binding. . Calf. Near Very Good. 8vo. Hodge's Smith, and Foster Paperback
1900102634<p>No place no date but French c. 1900. Each mark pasted on a single sheet of thin paper 17 x 22 cm. Most with an identification in ink at the bottom of the sheet. paper browned uniformly and eight sheets with rodent damage not affecting the image.</p><p>A curious collection. The marks and vignettes are mostly French Paris even but there are marks from all over France and also a few European: Milan Genève Bruxelles Madrid most identify 19th century printers and publishers but there are a few earlier ones. Some printers and publishers are represented with more than one mark some identical but mostly with slight differences.</p>
1868FGN10-H-2New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1868. Leather. Good. 10" by 6.5". None. A bright scarce early New York edition of Andrew's Latin-English Lexicon. Scarce. Ethan Allen Andrews 1787 1858 was an American educator. He was born in Connecticut and graduated at Yale in 1810. He practiced law for several years then was professor in the University of North Carolina of ancient languages after which he taught at New Haven and Boston. He published a number of Latin grammar textbooks and in 1850 a Latin-English lexicon based on Freund which went through many revisions and came to be known as Harper's Latin Dictionary in 1907. in a calf binding. Externally sound with wear to the extremities and rubbing. Loss to the leather. Hinges are strained. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright with occasional spotting and an ink signature to the front free-endpaper. Good Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
1825434577Edinburgh : Daniel Lizars 1825. 1st edition. Hardcover. Good copy in marbled boards backed in gilt-blocked spine with raised bands. Covers and spine dust-toned bumped and rubbed as with age. Some foxing to the first and last pages. Previous owner's bookplate inside. Physical description; 302 p. ; 19 cm. Subjects; Macculloch John 1773-1835. Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland. Macculloch John. Highlands Scotland Description and travel. Western Isles Scotland Description and travel. Highland Region Scotland Description and travel. Edinburgh : Daniel Lizars hardcover
1850List1315Britton and Rey 1850. Single sheet measuring 8 ¼ x 10 ¾ inches on blue wove paper. Small chip to corner not affecting image some older tape repairs verso at margins else fine very good plus overall and quite attractive. Very Good. A series of four illustrations telling the story of a mining party that heads out with a pack mule only to fail to find gold and lose their mule before returning to a new prospect with their clothes in shambles. This is entry 209 in Baird’s California’s Pictorial Letter Sheets in which he sets the publication date as being prior to 1855. The series possibly illustrates scenes from a song. A particularly fine example on the classic blue wove paper of the period. unknown
185524811Fairfield Iowa and Philadelphia: Henn Williams & Co. and R. Barnes 1855. Folding pocket map lithographed by Friend & Aub of Philadelphia full original period hand colouring. Folds into original blue cloth covers blocked in blind the upper cover with publisher and title in gilt. A fine copy of this attractive map of Iowa from the early years of its settlement this second edition shows the rapid development within the state and is the first edition to include Sioux City and many proposed railroad routes.<br/> <br/> This large and colourful map of Iowa shows the state divided into numerous counties all within nine land districts with the sites of the land offices identified in each. Issued to promote settlement in the state the map includes an advertisement in the upper left corner for Henn Williams and Co.: "dealers in land land warrants & exchange . special attention given to Location of Land the sale and loan of Warrants and to the collecting & remitting of sight and time bills. Investments made in any part of Iowa." Besides locating numerous towns and river systems the state's burgeoning railroad system is shown with many proposed routes depicted across the state by means of dotted lines. This is the second edition of the map after the first of 1854 but apparently printed from a new plate to incorporate the rapid growth. A third edition followed in 1856.<br/> <br/> Phillips A List of Maps of America p. 337; Rumsey 1739; Graff 1857; Streeter sale 3898. Henn, Williams & Co. and R. Barnes unknown
189132609Albany: Joel Munsell's Sons 1891. First Edition. Soft cover. Good/fair. Quarto. 8 211 pages 8. Red flexible boards with black illustrated title on the front cover and black title on the spine. Includes tan illustrated dust jacket. Edges shaded red are partially faded. Light edge wear to the red covers and spine. Dust jacket has light toning soil edge chips and splits at the flap folds. Small "nick" to the text foredge. Joel Munsell's Sons unknown
1876elala1328Chicago: c1876. 1876. 24mo. accordion foldout of 12 views. original gilt-stamped cloth corners bit frayed. Hardcover. Chicago: [c1876]. Hardcover
18576284New York: Currier & Ives 1857. Lithograph coloured by hand by Charles Parsons. A dramatic scene after Arthur Tait full of movement: a pair of retrievers quest for their master's quarry one successful holds aloft a bird the second has spotted the second injured bird. In the background their master urges them on.<br/> <br/> Tait spent the first three decades of his life in England and arrived in New York in 1850. A follower of Edwin Landseer and the style of the Pre-Raphaelites he established himself as a realistic painter of animals and sporting scenes. He kept a summer studio at a camp in the Adirondack Mountains where he painted sporting scenes. He and Nathaniel Currier sometimes hunted together. 'These wilderness scenes often composed around an anecdote appealed to a wide popular audience and from 1852 Currier & Ives as well as Louis Prang published a number of lithographs and chromolithographs of his work.' Grove / Artnet<br/> <br/> Conningham 151; Gale 164. Currier & Ives unknown
190030800Paris: Liraires De L'academie De Medecine 1900. These are bindery copies. Front and back covers are gone. Insides are good. Histoire des Machines de Guerre. Lots of line drawings. A total of 5 volumes. 1899: September-December and January-April 1900: All 3 volumes covering entire year. $50 per volume. Hard Cover. Good Inside. Disbound Ex-Library. Liraires De L'academie De Medecine Hardcover
188535995Ipswich Massachusetts: Augustine Caldwell and Arthur Dow 1885. First Edition. Periodical. Fair. Periodicals. 4 pages each. Illustrations. 41 misc. issues dated 1879-1885. Condition is fair with a few of the 4 page issues split in half. Some edge tears and small chips to the fragile paper. 7 issues have either a previous owner name or a short note written top of the issues. 1 issue has an old blind embossed institutional seal. Names written top of a few of the issues are from Mary and Charles Goodhue. Issues are as follows:. Augustine Caldwell and Arthur Dow unknown
18711712070024F. W. Beers and Co 1871-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Folio. 34 x 41 cm. Original leather backed brown boards. Fading and staining to boards. Wear/tear to spine leather with loss. Front board detached. Only 32 of 36 maps lacks the Greenfield Mass maps nos. 26-29. Hand colored maps folding map of Shelburne Falls. Title page has a crease. Foxing and hand soiling to maps. Sold with all faults. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. F. W. Beers and Co hardcover
18711801050004NY 1871-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Folio. 34 x 41 cm. Original leather backed brown boards. Fading and staining to boards. Wear/tear to spine leather with loss. Boards detached. 36 maps Hand colored maps folding map of Shelburne Falls. Title page has a crease. Foxing and soiling to maps. A few maps have tears pencil marks to verso of maps. Sold with all faults. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. NY hardcover
1894HALL513365Hardback. 1894. Godina I. Kniga I II III i IV. 245 254 & 236 & 217pp Sofia 1893 See D.P. Ivanchev B'lgarski periodechen pechet 1844-1944. Item 737. 4 parts bound in 1 vol. Binding worn but contents very good. . hardcover
1889049824Chicago: W.S. Dunbar & Co. Front hinge cracked inside some wear to the leather. Some signatures lightly sprung. Still tight and overall antiquarian look and good condition to it. Rare - only 3 copies located in Worldcat at this time 2020. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall . Good Condition. Original Sculpted Leather Hbk. 1st. 1889. W.S. Dunbar & Co. hardcover
1879016965Edinburgh/Chester: Adam and Charles Black/Catherall and Prichard 1879. SEVENTH EDITION A&C Black. Full green limp cloth hardcover with gilt stamed designs on the spine and gilt lettering gilt design centered on the front cover the binding is shot with a split through the cloth at the front board. Front cover almost detached map endpapers and fold out map torn but complete. Numerous plates showing Wales. Overall in POOR condition. A reading/scanning copy. . Full Cloth. Poor. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. Adam and Charles Black/Catherall and Prichard Hardcover
185527567Concord New Hampshire: Rufus Merrill and Co 1855. Reissue. Pamphlet. Very good condition. Eleven birds are illustrated including an Australian lyrebird. Descriptions of eight birds appear including the swallow the Lyre bird Boat-Bill of Brazil the Roseate Spoonbill blue jay hoopoe robin belted kingfisher & the dove. 12mo pamphlet stitched binding 16pp & orig. tan printed wrappers entitled "Book about Birds". With ads for a general assortment of Merrill publications on the back wrapper. Rufus Merrill and Co unknown
185024414Concord New Hampshire: Rufus Merrill and Co 1850. Wraps. Very good condition. Eleven birds of the world are illustrated including a full page woodblock illustration of an Australian lyrebird. Descriptions of eight birds appear including the swallow the Boat-Bill of Brazil the Roseate Spoonbill blue jay hoopoe robin belted kingfisher & the dove. <br /> <br /> 12mo 16pp. Original pale green printed wrappers entitled "Book about Birds" with the original hand stitching. Publisher's advertisement on the back wrapper. Good impression the woodblock illustrations dark and crisp. Wrappers slightly marked short diagonal split at rear wrapper. Rufus Merrill and Co paperback
184513990Concord New Hampshire: Rufus Merrill and Co 1845. Pamphlet. Children's chapbook entitled "Book about Birds". With advertisements for a general assortment of Merrill publications on the back wrapper. Eleven birds are illustrated including an Australian lyrebird. Descriptions of eight birds appear including the swallow the Boat-Bill of Brazil the Roseate Spoonbill bluejay hoopoe robin belted kingfisher & the dove. 12mo pamphlet with stitching 16pp & original tan printed wrappers. Slight watermark on all pages except for the front wrapper. Housed in a handsome small brown cloth slipcase with gilt title on the front board. Rufus Merrill and Co unknown
188242730New York: G.W. Carleton & Co 1882. Very good. Oddly rare 19th-century household reference book in a beautiful publisher's binding. Stated eighteenth edition but OCLC locates no other editions of this title so this was likely a marketing tactic to increase the impression of the book's popularity. OCLC finds only four worldwide holdings of the physical book: one in Canada and three in the U.S. An extensively illustrated general encyclopedia for popular consumption which includes "whole chapters upon" subjects including Fine Arts Jurisprudence Vegetable Creation Animal Creation Mineralogy Chronology and more; edited by "The Ablest Talent the World Affords." 9'' x 6.5''. Publisher's original stemped and gilt decorative red cloth. 514 pages/ Very good. Modest scuffs edgewear to boards. Pages moderately to foxed throughout but complete and unmarked. Binding cracked at several points; mostly good and sound throughout. G.W. Carleton & Co unknown
189346024<p>London : Macmillan & Co. 1893. A voluminous late Victorian publisher's catalogue dated 1st November 1893 - over 200 pages of alphabetical entries from Abbey to Ziwet giving authors titles editions sizes and prices with a table of sizes. Demy 8vo 22cm. 206iipp. Original wrappers; a little rolled marked and a touch dusty but a good copy. No copy located in any major UK library.</p> London : Macmillan & Co., 1893. paperback
1825V71152Zurich: Orell F ssli et Comp. 1825 approx. Hardcover. Very Good. Copperplate engravings 100 of Swiss views and domestic scenes by Hess Hegui K nig Lory Meyer Wetzel and others. Oblong octavo green morocco elaborately gilt on 4 raised bands lacks lowest spine compartment tips & hinges worn but sound All Edges Gilt. Titlepage 3pp publisher's list 4pp contents 100 plate leaves printed one side only. Clean and crisp - lovely views with a few genre scenes - wedding peasants defending land against invaders in 1798 making cheese etc. Minor foxing almost entirely to the margins or blank back of plates small wormhole at foot of 3 leaves. A charming work containing views by various artists here collected together for the first time Lonchamp 3199. Orell, F ssli et Comp. hardcover
18342351165Rochester New York: Marshall & Dean Printers 1834. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. Map complete with closed tear along bottom edge and smaller closed tear to middle crease board edges rubbed with corners a bit exposed front hinge weakening with first gathering loose foxed throughout pencil name and mathematical calculations on front endpapers. Housed in custom leather and cloth box with red cloth chemise. 1834 Hard Cover. 87 1 1-98 14 pp. Folding map precedes text local advertisements follow text. The first printed directory of citizens and businesses of Rochester New York which was incorporated as a city the same year this guide was published. Marshall & Dean Printers hardcover
1849V66565Bristol: Chilcott 1849. Hardcover. Good. Copperplates 2 incl. fine harbour scene with shipping road menders carriages & shops by S. Jackson folding woodengraved view of factories 3 maps & plans text engravings. Small octavo green ribbed cloth with darkened paper label to spine label damaged but still legible with loss of ry & l Spine worn and with vents but covers secure/tips worn xxvi2-429pp a-m decorative & pictorial adverts for local shops and services. One plan with clean tear and no loss taped on back. A guide book including history & statistics of export & import manufacture railways etc. Also a section on the Bristol riots of 1831. Chilcott hardcover