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1831035455Boston: Stimpson & Clapp 1831. Title page dated 1831. Includes the Boston Annual Advertiser 24 pages of ads on blue paper and folding map. Very worn. Light blue hardcover with brown binding tape spine 6.125" tall 24 5 7-346 pages. Covers worn and spotted original spine replaced with tape front hinge tape-repaired some pages of the advertising section detached rest of binding sound map has two closed tears one stitched with thread but no paper loss pages age-toned but clean name written on front free endpaper no other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Stimpson & Clapp Hardcover
187261762New York: James Sutton and Company. Very Good. 1872. Hardcover. This is a bound Volume V from 1872 of this heavily illustrated monthly. It lacks the first issue and so is Volume V No. 2- Volume V No. 12. Original boards but the binding has been crudely rebacked and repaired with a cloth tape by a Library. The Contents are clean and fresh and unmarked with the single exception of a library stamp at the top of one page of text in No. 4 and include many full page woodcut illustrations. . James Sutton and Company hardcover
1893ZB573388NY: EDWIN S. GORHAM PUBLISHERS 1893-1906. 8 volumes thick octavos original paper wrappers mostly chipped and detached some spines split vertically overall a good working assortment. - 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. NY: EDWIN S. GORHAM, PUBLISHERS unknown
1840049670Philadelphia: Hogan & Thompson 1840. Title page dated 1840. Historic documents of the United States plus 27 state constitutions. Full brown leather with black spine label and gilt ruled spine 7" tall 419 pages. Fair to good condition with dramatic ink spotting to front cover surface cracks to joints covers well attached other expected wear sound text block lightly smudged endpapers pages clean name in pencil inside front cover no other markings. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hogan & Thompson Hardcover
1821197285London : printed for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown Paternoster Row 1821. First Edition. Hardback. Fair to good copy in original leather-backed marbled boards. Gilt titles and tooling to spine. Spine bands worn with surface rubbing and wear. Wear and rubbing also to panel edges as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 464 pages; Description: 1v. : xiv 464p. ; 23cm. Subjects: Biography - Obituaries - Periodicals - 19th century - Great Britain. Notes: Volume 5 of a 21-vol. series. Each volume comprises memoirs of people who have died in the year prior to publication critical reviews of published biographies and an alphabetical list of deaths during the year. - The subjects include notable British people from the professions the church the arts the aristocracy government and academia. - Each volume contains between 50 and 100 obituaries. Referenced by: NSTC 2A13305. London : printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row hardcover
1804247484Hudson N.Y. 1804. 8 pp. printed in three columns. 4to. Old fold lines. Minor soiling and toning. Very good. In a tan half morocco and cloth folder spine gilt. 8 pp. printed in three columns. 4to. A single issue of this Upstate New York weekly newspaper which began publication in 1801. This issue contains the text of President Jefferson's Message to Congress of Nov. 8th. In his speech Jefferson discusses relations with foreign powers including the Delaware and other Indian tribes the Louisiana Purchase; the United States Navy; and the federal budget. Critical of Jefferson Croswell would later be tried for libel and defended before the Supreme Court by Alexander Hamilton. The publication of this weekly newspaper would continue through 1807. unknown
1874034094Boston: Briggs & Co. 1874. Published 1874. Comprehensive directory to Connecticut's business and industry with considerable illustrated advertising printed on bright yellow or blue paper additional illustrated advertising on plain white paper a few on green paper plus full color ad for Mudge Printers of Boston. Worn copy with printed orange covers black replacement spine all covered over with reinforcing clear tape spine label made by a mechanical label maker old gauze adhesive tape beneath the clear tape in a couple of areas 9.25" tall 1.75" thick. Other than the external issues internally surprisingly good with good hinges sound text block clean pages some with a few old pencil notes. Covers business throughout state. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Briggs & Co. Hardcover
1883034089Boston: Briggs & Co. 1883. Published 1883. Comprehensive directory to Connecticut's business and industry with considerable illustrated advertising printed on bright yellow paper additional illustrated advertising on plain white paper a few on light purple paper plus full color ad for American Encaustic Tile. Externally heavily worn light orange printed paper covered hardcover wtih brown cloth spine spine lettering faded but legible 9.5" tall 2.75" thick. Covers considerably rubbed and scuffed with an indentation to the front cover hinges cracked but secure endpapers a little bubbled with some soil very narrow dampstains to the outer margins of the first four pages advertisements on yellow paper between pages 222/223 and 344/345 removed otherwise appears complete. Covers businesses throughout the state. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Briggs & Co. Hardcover
1866004424Boston: Fox & Company 1866. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 120pp. Printed wraps. Chipping and soiling to covers contents are age-toned but mainly clean relatively unblemished and complete. A compact book of recipes "prepared under the supervision of Charles Copeland Boston Mass. <br/> <br/> Fox & Company paperback
1846TK0031London:: R. Groombridge & sons 1846-48. 1846. 4 volumes. Small 4to. 2 296; 2 288; 2 277 1; Dictionary: unpaginated in 3 parts pp. vol. I: Title-page with hand-coloring 12 hand-colored plates 1 engraved plate no coloring 23 figures. ; vol. II: 13 hand-colored plates 1 fig.; vol. III: 12 hand-colored plates – a total of 37 hand-colored plates. Contemporary quarter green morocco gilt-stamping to spine marbled boards; joints weakened corners worn. Bookplates of Alfred Piper 1862 1910 Sofdeborg. Generally very good. WITH ADDED VOLUME: The Dictionary of Flowers. Bartholomew Close: Adlard ca.1848-62 n.d. With 37 beautifully hand-colored plates of flowers. This is the first three volumes of "The Florist's Journal". That title was published in monthly parts from May 1840 until December 1845. These issues were again reissued as a 6-volume set by Henry G. Bohn in 1846 under the title "The British Florist". PROVENANCE: Alfred Piper 1891-1939. R. Groombridge & sons, 1846-48. hardcover
18896294New York: Currier & Ives 1889. Lithograph printed in colour. A vigorous scene of the trotting stallion Axtell at full stretch.<br/> <br/> 'A harness-race scene. A horse draws its sulky and driver from left to right. The moustached driver wears a silver-gray jacket and cap and yellow gloves. Beyond a rail fence is an extensive landscape featuring prominent trees at left' Gale<br/> <br/> Conningham 2532; Gale 2761. Currier & Ives unknown
181048207London: Printed for S. and J. Fuller 1810. First edition 16mo 20 pp. Loosely inserted are 7 cut out hand coloured aquatint costumes as well as a moveable head the latter with old strengthening to the reverse otherwise all in good condition. Printed wrappers small puncture throughout to the inner margin otherwise a remarkably well preserved copy still with the original printed slipcase this with restoration and a modern patterned paper slipcase as well. Originally also published with six hats for the costumes not present in this copy. Osborne II p. 1052. London: Printed for S. and J. Fuller unknown
1884ZB709435London etc.: Cassell and Company 1884. small folio xii 528 xlviii The Chronicle of Art pp. plates; original cloth rubbed and badly stained at lower outside corners but no damage to interior hinges weak general age toning else good. - 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. London (etc.): Cassell and Company, hardcover
187824532Boston Massachusetts: Sampson Davenport and Company 1878. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. 6 ads 860 2 pages. Advertisements on endpapers as well. Colored folded map of Massachusetts in front. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth with coppergilt lettering on spine panel. Cover is worn with silverfish damage to surface of cloth and front hinge paper. Sound textblock front hinge loose and could use reinforcement. Cloth. A scarce survival most were discarded as they became dated or when the nice colored map was removed and sold separately. Now a great reference for who was active in Boston a major city at the time. Sampson, Davenport, and Company unknown
185635940Philadelphia: D. Rice & A. N. Hart 1856. Later printing. Leather bound. Fair. Tall quartos. 4 volumes. Unpaginated. Illustrated with steel engraved portraits. Brown leather bindings with embossed covers raised bands on spines and gilt titles on spines. All edges gilt. Leather is rubbed along the joints corners and board edges. Leather is torn bottom of volume 3. Light to moderate toning and scattered foxing to all volumes. Volume 1 has two frontispieces including a portrait of George Washington as a young officer. Volume 4 front board reattached and front hinge repaired. All volumes have the previous owner printed name labels of C. P. Crawford on the front paste downs. C. P. Crawford was a Confederate Captain during the Civil War. He practiced law in Milledgeville Georgia after the war. D. Rice & A. N. Hart unknown
1900040243Pittsburgh Buffalo Chicago: Axtell Bush & Co 1900. First Editions. Softcover. Very Good. 32pp per issue folio; occasional illustrations in the text. Present are: Vol. XXIII Nos. 41 43 46 47 49 51; Vol. XXIV Nos. 6 11 12 15 19 20 23 25 31 32 35 37 38. Condition is very good to fine except number 38 with edges of covers chipped. Bound in pictorial tan wrappers. 15" x 11" Motto: "Only the best is good enough for the Good Farmer and his family." These issues contain a variety of agricultural news and advice on specific topics along with regular departments: Swine Department; Horse and Horseman; Dairy Department; Poultry Department; Horticulture; The Household; letters and literary contributions from readers; many illustrated advertisements. Axtell, Bush & Co unknown
1818428754London : George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1818. Miniature edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in vellum wrappers with a brooch; edges and spine bumped nicked and roughly rubbed as with age. Lengthy inscriptions in ink to the prelims. A few pages loosening. Physical description; 9 cm unnumbered pages. Subjects; Bible New Testament. Bible. New Testament. 19th century Bibles. London : George Eyre and Andrew Strahan hardcover
1884098991London: Hutchings & Crowsley 1884. Book measures 18.5.x12.5.cm. Collation viii 307pp The Visitors' Guide 44pp Directory of Insurance Offices in London 12pp 16pp blue pages with printed adverts folding map. Bound in original publishers blind stamped blue cloth with gilt lettering. Cloth lightly rubbed on head and tail of spine with slight wear loss cloth slightly darkened. Binding in good clean condition. Internally large folding map detached. Pages in very good clean condition. A very nice clean copy of a rare guide. Publishers Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. Hutchings & Crowsley Hardcover
18650006723Philadelphia: John E. Potter & Company 1865 circa. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo; 531 8 Publisher's adverts pages blue cloth extra gilt spine tips of spine fraying. This undated edition is dated according to the books advertised at the rear. Scarce in this edition. Note: front pastedown has a rare printed label from Goodspeed's Empire Book And Map House in Ante-Fire Chicago. <br/><br/>To which is added A Life of Bunyan By Himself. This is one of the many famous books that were written in prison. It has been translated into hundreds of tongues. And after the Bible probably no book has been so much read by the English peoples. Says Stopford Brooke 'Its form is almost epic; its dramatic dialogue its clear types of character its vivid descriptions have given an equal but a different pleasure to children and men to the villager and the scholar -ONE THOUSAND BEST BOOKS." Woodcuts. Note: the original side-notes which often throw much light on the text have been preserved in this edition. John E. Potter & Company hardcover
186340961<p>London : Kelly & Co. 1863. Second edition : the county-only variant omitting the Bristol section and hence with irregular pagination. An alphabetical gazetteer of the county from Abbenhall to Yate listing all the principal inhabitants both private and commercial with a welter of further material on schools post-offices carriers etc. A second alphabetical section gives a court directory of the gentry while a third offers a trades directory - from accountants in Cheltenham to the zinc warehouse in Gloucester. The final section comprises a riot of type-faces in an unbridled display of advertising - not just from the county but from London and the manufacturers of Birmingham and Sheffield. Super royal 8vo 27cm. xii187-487i76pp. Folding map of the county by Francis Paul Becker & Son. Original red cloth blocked in gilt and blind by Leighton Son & Hodge with their stamp; an indifferent copy - the case worn torn and somewhat marked and faded; internally some tanning and mild spotting with some chips and creases; rear endpaper cracking but a serviceable working copy of an uncommon survival. Contemporary 1863 ownership inscription of John Wilson Wilson and later one of John Morris.</p> London : Kelly & Co., 1863. hardcover
1870052846Denver Co: S. S. Wallihan & Company 1870. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated Ads. Xvi 17-441; 7 Pp Ads At Front Ads Interspersed Throughout A Great Any Ads At Rear. Red-Brown Cloth Gilt. Wear Fading Small Losses To Cloth At Ends Of Spine Tiny Losses At Tips Gilt Complete. Front Hinge Reinforced With White Tape At Endpapers Front Hinge Broken Within Ads Pages At Front With Last Ad Page Loose; Rear Endpapers And Hinge Intact And Undamaged. Copyright 1870 No Later Date Except Title Itself. <br/> <br/> S. S. Wallihan & Company hardcover
184933846Portland: Printed by C. W. Pennell & Co 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor. Octavo. 4 380 pages. Illustrated. Bound in back are pages 11-108 of an incomplete periodical titled "Information for the People." Brownish marbled paper covered boards. Leather covered corners and joints. Spine is missing. Front board near detached. Back cover and page 107 108 of the extra periodical are detached. Front end sheets missing. Shelf worn covers. Light to moderate scattered foxing and toning to contents. Contents include 26 numbers for the year 1849. Poor condition. Printed by C. W. Pennell & Co hardcover
1804ZB1325708Norwich: Stevenson & Matchett 1804. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item 120 pp. frontis.; contemporary quarter leather & marbled boards head of spine chipped front joint split but not severed masonic book plate to the front paste down small hand stamp and old inked signature to the title page else internally clean and tight. - 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. Norwich: Stevenson & Matchett hardcover
1871415061London : F. Warne and Co. ; New York : Scribner Welford & Co. 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Finely bound in the original elaborately gilt-blocked decorated cloth over bevelled boards. All edges gilt. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; internally tight bright and clean. Physical description; 8 unnumbered pages 251 pages 1 unnumbered page 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Date is suggested. Illustrated title page in color with lettering in red blue and gilt. Printed text in black with initials and decoration in red blue and black. On verso of t.p.: Dalziel Brothers engravers & printers Camden Press. Includes index. Subjects; English poetry. Christian poetry English.Hymns English 19th century ; Texts. London : F. Warne and Co. ; New York : Scribner, Welford & Co. hardcover
1828031720Boston: Peirce and Williams 1828. First edition. Volume I containining all 12 issues for 1828. Scholarly orthodox Christian periodical with a decidedly anti-Unitarian purpose. Tan hardcover wtih dark brown cloth spine all edges tinted yellow 672 pages. Covers rubbed especially at the edges chip to spine head binding sound but not tight endpapers heavily foxed pages clean with occasional light foxing dampstains to the far outer margins of a few pages no names or other markings. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Peirce and Williams Hardcover