1 372 résultats
184326898Philadelphia: August Mitchell 1843. First edition. A rare wall map published by Mitchell with only one copy cited at the Clements Library OCLC: 9123797110. The map was published in 1843 in a different folded format with three sheets and bound in a gilt leather folder. In this presentation the large scale map of the eastern United States is surrounded with insets of major harbors and towns. The large Iowa Territory and Minnesota are not yet named. The map shows the country west to the Indian Territory west of Missouri including the eastern part of Texas north including most of Maine with a touch of Canada and south through most of Florida. In the lower right are tables "Population of Each County & c. in the Different States and Territories of the United States in 1840". The whole is bordered with an elaborate design. The inset of Maine is captioned "Map of the North-eastern Boundary of the United States according to the Treaty of 1842." From the "National Map Series that Mitchell produced by subscription over many years. <br /> <br /> Drawn by James H. Young and engraved by J. H. Brightly published by S. Augustus Mitchell Philadelphia 8 1/2 South - 1843 - 7th St. <br /> <br /> With the original rollers. Original color but varnished as usual. Archivally repaired backed on linen supporting many cracks with no loss. Printed area 45 x 39" 114 x 96.5 cm on paper 48 x 40" 122 x 101 cm.<br /> <br /> Map of the southern part of Florida; Inset title:; Map of the north-eastern boundary of the United States according to the treaty of 1842; Inset title:; Vicinity of Burlington Vermont; Inset title:; Vicinity of Portland Maine; Inset title:; Vicinity of Portsmouth New Hampshire; Inset title:; Vicinity of Boston Massachusetts; Inset title:; Vicinity of Lowell Massachusetts; Inset title:; Vicinity of Providence Rhode Island; Inset title:; Vicinity of Hartford Connecticut; Inset title:; Vicinity of New Haven Connecticut; Inset title:; Vicinity of Albany New York; Inset title:; Vicinity of Savannah Georgia; Inset title:; Vicinity of Natchez Mississippi; Inset title:; Vicinity of New York New York; Inset title:; Vicinity of Pittsburg Pennsylvania; Inset title:; Vicinity of Nashville Tennessee; Inset title:; Vicinity of Mobile Alabama; Inset title:; Vicinity of Trenton New Jersey; Inset title:; Vicinity of Rochester New York; Inset title:; Vicinity of Raleigh North Carolina; Inset title:; Vicinity of New Orleans Louisiana; Inset title:; Vicinity of Philadelphia Pennsylvania; Inset title:; Vicinity of Buffalo New York; Inset title:; Vicinity of Charleston South Carolina; Inset title:; Vicinity of Richmond Virginia; Inset title:; Vicinity of Baltimore Maryland; Inset title:; Vicinity of Detroit Michigan; Inset title:; Vicinity of Cincinnati Ohio; Inset title:; Vicinity of Indianapolis Indiana; Inset title:; Vicinity of Springfield Illinois; Inset title:; Vicinity of St. Louis Missouri; Inset title:; Vicinity of Frankfort Kentucky; Inset title:; Vicinity of Louisville Kentucky; Inset title:; Vicinity of Washington District of Columbia. August Mitchell hardcover
1834401821Philadelphia: Samuel Augustus Mitchell 1834. Early issue the first was 1831. Light rubbing to binding a few short separations along folds light wear at sheet edges. Hand-colored engraved folding map 15 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches. Folding to 5 x 3 inches into original green gilt-decorated roan binding. Provenance: William Fitch contemporary ownership signatures on verso of map. Mounted on the inside front cover of the binding is the 1830 Census data for the state recording the total population of the state at 937903. At bottom of the map are Profiles of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami Canal. 73 counties are delineated the most populated then being Hamilton Columbiana and Muskingum. Samuel Augustus Mitchell unknown
1834401821Philadelphia: Samuel Augustus Mitchell 1834. Early issue the first was 1831. Light rubbing to binding a few short separations along folds light wear at sheet edges. Hand-colored engraved folding map 15 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches. Folding to 5 x 3 inches into original green gilt-decorated roan binding. Provenance: William Fitch contemporary ownership signatures on verso of map. Mounted on the inside front cover of the binding is the 1830 Census data for the state recording the total population of the state at 937903. At bottom of the map are Profiles of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami Canal. 73 counties are delineated the most populated then being Hamilton Columbiana and Muskingum. <br/><br/> Samuel Augustus Mitchell unknown books
1888008035New York: Dodd Mead & Co. 1888. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Later American Editions. Tall 8vo. The two titles each in two volumes each with numerous illustrations. Four volumes uniformly bound in contemporary red pebbled morocco over marbled boards backs intricately gilt marbled boards top edges gilt. Near Fine light rubbing at corners a quite handsome set in contemporary fine bindings and uncommon thus. A heavy set please be advised added shipping charges will be requested for international orders. Dodd Mead & Co. Hardcover
1888008035New York: Dodd Mead & Co. 1888. The two titles each in two volumes each with numerous illustrations. Four volumes uniformly bound in contemporary red pebbled morocco over marbled boards backs intricately gilt marbled boards top edges gilt. Near Fine light rubbing at corners a quite handsome set in contemporary fine bindings and uncommon thus. A heavy set please be advised added shipping charges will be requested for international orders. . Later American Editions. Half Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Tall 8vo. Dodd Mead & Co. Hardcover books
1892772R48London: Hutchinson & Co. 1892. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated. A fantastic decoratively bound piece of military fiction scarcely found. A tale of military strength and courage.Written by William Mitchell author of 'Working for Others' 'Harry Brunton' 'Wenning Moordyke' and 'Tendal Hyndburn'.Undated; dated from copies on Jisc.A particularly scarce work.In a delightful decorative binding with a shield embellishing the spine and a cannon and flags on the front cover. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally a trifle rubbed with the cloth somewhat discoloured to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Internally generally firmly bound with the front hinge strained but remaining firm. Pages are bright and clean with just the odd spot. Very Good Hutchinson & Co. hardcover
1820E18746London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall 1820. First edition. Leather_bound. Very Good. Firts ediiton. N.d. ca. 1820. Octavo in what appears to be contemporary three quarter dark brown leather over patterned paper covered boards. 2 537 errata leaf 2. Scattered foxing to the blanks and a bit to the title page otherwise text is clean; tight in its binding although there is wear at the outer hinges tips and edges. An unusual book consisting of two seemingly unrelated subjects. The first which is dedicated to John Locke argues that there is no innate mental superiority between illiterate and educated men and that genius is a result not of natural but rather of environmental and developmental circumstances. The second essay is an examination on the nature of ghosts with an appendix section Of ".two or three authentications of apparitions on which my readers may exercise their own judgements.". Attributed to William Newnham the esaays espouses a natural rather than supernatural explanation for such apparitions. <br/><br/> W. Simpkin and R. Marshall hardcover
1894027960London 1894 MacMillan and Co Hardcover
1897RO60060839The Century Co. 1897. In-12. Relié. Etat d'usage, 2ème plat abîmé, Dos fané, Mouillures. 306 pages. Dessin en noir et blanc en frontispice. Frontispice et page de titre se détachant. Tampon de librairie en page de titre. Couverture défraîchie.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
183544071London 1835. Good. Separated at folds edge worn and torn a few chips one affecting a few words at the end of about a dozen lines of text light soiling. 6 pp. with integral address. Folio. 10.5 x 16.5 inches. Manuscript with numerous corrections and additions concerning the failure of the British military in the War of 1812. In late 1835 then Colonel William Francis Patrick Napier 1785-1860 member of the British Army and a military historian gave speech at Bath which the Sunday Times reported claiming he had criticized the British soldiers in the War of 1812 as failing because they "stood as patriots and freemen on less firm and less elevated ground than the Americans themselves" which John Mitchell notes at the very beginning of this article published in the January 1836 issue of "United Service Journal and Naval and Military Service Magazine" pp. 84-92. Defending the soldiers Mitchell goes on to launch an attack on Napier's speech and the British command and their tactics. "The failure of the British troops at New Orleans was as complete as possible; but patriotism or want of patriotism had nothing to do with the business. The military policy of England guided by men ignorant alike of the strength and the weakness of armies swayed besides by the influence of philanthropic and economical patriots whose evil counsel fell like a death-bearing pestilence on the ranks of the army-shone out in all its poor and paltry littleness: in the constant striving to save farthings millions of treasure were wasted and thousands of gallant lives were remorselessly sacrificed. The valour everywhere exhibited by the troops the zeal ability high spirit and devotedness displayed by so many matchless officers the number of gallant blows struck and noble feats of arms performed- were not it must be allowed sufficient to counterbalance the folly ignorance and presumption that marked the official management of that most miserable war. But I repeat the fault was not with the troops" The failure is not just at New Orleans. "The British failed at Sacket's Harbour Platsburgh and New Orleans; to which for argument sake we will add Baltimore. At Sacket's Harbour and Platsburgh the British forces retired from phantom hosts and imaginary foes. At Baltimore something of the same kind happened." After a detailed analysis of the military's failures he ends his unrelenting attack: "But the soldiers of a great nation must know that they are equal to any contest. An American war like every war in which brave men are to be encountered has its difficulties; and it is only by looking those difficulties fairly in the face that they can be overcome. Had we listened to the liberal and patriotic despondency which so long represented us incapable of contending against the French we should at this moment have been crouching beneath the lash of Napoleon or his successor on the throne of the Grand Empire." Needless to say many jumped to the defense of Napier who wrote in his letter to the editor that the Sunday Times report of his speech was pure fiction and that he never criticized the troops; in fact he states he never mentioned the war at all. John Mitchell 1785-1859 was an army officer and writer who served in the West Indies in the Peninsular War and on diplomatic missions for Wellington. He wrote much on the defects of the British army tactics and a number of volumes including "The Fall of Napoleon" and "Biographies of Eminent Soldiers." Postmarked London December 22 1835. Addressed to Major Thomas Henry Shadwell Clerke who was editor of "The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Service Magazine." unknown books
1894biblio37419<p>Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company; First Edition 1894. 278 pages. Fine Hardcover no dj. Very Well preserved book. 7.2"x5.0"x0.9". be26.</p> Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
1889937T29London: Longmans Green and Co. 1889. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5.5". Various. A smart first edition of this illustrated guide to fencing boxing and wrestling from the Badminton Library series. First edition. Badminton Library. Illustrated with a frontispiece seventeen plates and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive guide to the sports of fencing boxing and wrestling. With the fencing section containing chapters on the practical instructions of the sport and singlestick. Written by Walter Herries Pollock an English writer poet lecturer and journalist. With contributions from F. C. Grove and Camille Prevost. Boxing with chapters on the history of the sport old school and the art of boxing. Written by Edward Blair Michell an English barrister rower boxer linguist authority on falconry and the author of books on a variety of subjects. Wrestling with chapters on Cumberland and Westmoreland ring reminiscences styles and systems. Written by Walter Armstrong a British wrestler Sporting Life writer and esteemed match referee. In the original full cloth binding. Externally smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and minor age toning to the extremities. Very Good Longmans, Green, and Co. hardcover
1897009271London: Longmans Green & Co. 1897. The book is finely bound in half leather brown morocco spine and corners with five raised gilt ruled bands on the spine gilt title lettering top edge gilt.Marbled papered boards and marbled endpapers. xiii 304 pages.Illustrated with reproduced engravings intaglio plates and woodcuts and photographs. " Illustrations from instantaneous photographs". 5.5 X 7.5 inches. The leather shoulder on the front board is stamped "Vancroft Farm" in gilt. and the original owner's name stamp is across the top of the fly leaf also again on the back of one of the plates within the book.There are some very few scuffs and rubbing to the leather corners.Very good and very clean throughout with a very sound and solid binding. Fourth Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Longmans, Green & Co. Hardcover
18561906030036Philadelphia : S. Augustus Mitchell 1856. First Edition. Map. Acceptable. Large Wall-Map 170 x 175 cm. 63 x 64 inches. Canvas mounted on round wooden dowels. Hand colored lithographic map showing antebellum United States Mexico Central America Southern Canada and the Caribbean. Borders of American States Canadian Provinces Mexican States and national borders colored. Inset maps of: the World in Mercator and Globular views; a map of the Sandwich Islands Hawaii. Additional vignettes of Columbus's ship discovering America Landing of the Pilgrims in 1622 and the Flying Cloud clipper ship the American steam ship crossing the Atlantic. Foliate border. Varnish slight;y toned yellowed. Some fray to top left outer margin. Creases at center. Scale ca. 1:2500000.; W 125 - W 62/N 55 - N 06. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington D.C. Includes distant census and statistical tables and explanation of road symbols. "This edition has new topographical detail in New Mexico from the Pacific Railway Surveys as well as a redrawn California border. "Dakotah" is shown for the first time. With black top and bottom sticks. Full color by state or territory. " Refs: Wheat TMW 896; Phillips America p 906; Rumsey 2292. <br> This is an oversized map requiring additional costs for shipping. Philadelphia : S. Augustus Mitchell unknown
189511682Malden Ma: C.E. Spofford and Co. Malden Ma C.E. Spofford and Co. 1895. First Edition. First Impression. Paperback. A very good copy. An early Mars book. "Some detail of the socially and scientifically advanced civilization which includes electrically powered vehicles weather control and prenatal sex selection." Locke Voyages in Space p147. Some scuffing and rubbing to the corners a number of creases that present pretty obviously given the paper on cloth choice.Some minor loss to the lower spine. Internally the block's toned and there's some rusting to the staples but largely in very good condition. 11682 Hyraxia Books. . Very Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 1895. C.E. Spofford and Co. paperback
1899095468Aberdeen: Moran & Co. 1899. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. The paper spine strip has parted and the front cover and flyleaf are loose <br/> <br/> Moran & Co. paperback
183325823Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell 1833. Engraved folding map period hand-colouring in outline. Nine inset maps. Large folding Index sheet. Folds into publisher's dark green morocco covers covers bordered in gilt title stamped in gilt on the upper cover. Mitchell's Travellers Guide with the large map of the U.S.<br/> <br/>The map with the borders of the states brightly colored shows the Northeast west to Missouri Territory and part of Mexico including the Great Lakes region and south through part of Florida. Insets show the vicinities of Niagara New Orleans Cincinnati Albany New York Baltimore and Washington Philadelphia Charleston and Boston. The large folding Index sheet includes much information on steamboat and canal routes and various statistics. This copy very good condition for a guide generally found quite worn. This is the second edition preceded only by that of 1832.<br/> <br/>Rumsey 4374; Howes M690; Clark III:74; Graff 4790. S. Augustus Mitchell unknown books
18542222704<p>Eleventh edition. Octavo. 8 page preface by IK: Marvel. Frontispiece and full page illustrations and small vignettes by Darley and others. Original ribbed gilt stamped blue cloth with gilt stamped blue thistle on the front and back covers and four thistles on the spine yellow endpapers t.e.g. No dust jacket. Very good. 294 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p><strong>Volume I only.</strong></p><p><strong>Printed by R. Craighead.</strong></p><p><strong>See BAL 13926 and 13991.</strong></p> Charles Scribner hardcover
18892602260016The Religious Tract Society 1889. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. Bound in green cloth. Gilt vignettes on front board and spine. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Owner's name on front end page. 223 1 pages frontispiece illustrations plates maps 28 cm. The Religious Tract Society hardcover
18941453<p>Harper's New Monthly Magazine 1894 ORIGINAL EDITION Publisher-Printing Location: Harper & Brothers New York Date and Numbering: September 1894 Volume LXXXIX Number DXXXII Size and Page Count: 6.5 X 10 Tall approx. 210 pages</p><p>Condition: Good binding good cover has small tears at spine cover front cover has a small address label Illustrations Information:approx. <strong>50 illustrations </strong>and many pages of vintage advertisements!! ----An excellent opportunity for the collector researcher or historian---- Articles and Information:</p><ul><li>The Royal Marine: An idyl of Narragansett Pier part I By Brander Matthews</li><li>Riding to Hounds in England -By Caspar Whitney</li><li>The general's bluff -By Owen Wister</li><li>Early summer in Japan -By Alfred Parsons</li><li>Poem: Within -By Anna C. Anna Callender Brackett</li><li>The golden house chaps. VIII-XIII -By Charles Dudley Warner</li><li>The tug of war -By W.E. William Edward Norris</li><li>Some records of the Ice Age about New York -By Theophil Mitchell Prudden</li><li>A New England prophet -By Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman</li><li>Where time has slumbered -By Julian Ralph</li><li>The orgin of a great poem -By John White Chadwick</li><li>Editor's study/Review -By Charles Dudley Warner</li><li>Monthly record of current events</li><li>Illustration: Le monde ou lion S'ennuie -By George Du Maurier</li><li>Fog -By Hayden Carruth</li><li>Editor's drawer/Poem: Owed to summer "a grudge By Albert Payson Terhune</li><li>Mr. Multy's story -By Charles Newton Hood</li><li>Editor's drawer/Cartoon: The Britisher in Rome. To what base uses may we come at last! A vivid He kept his promise -By William H. Siviter Editor's drawer/Poem: Bookworm ballads. A painful discovery By John Kendrick Bangs The microscopically minute. Extracts from a forth-coming American novel By Hayden Carruth With the Naval Reserve -By R.B.C. H.</li><li>Editor's drawer/Cartoon: Disagreeable acquiescence Disagreeable acquiescence Editor's drawer/Poem: On a volume of essays -By Carlyle Smith Editor's drawer/Cartoon: A defence</li><li>Literary notes -By Laurence Hutton</li></ul> Harpers Monthly
186441942Boston: F. A. Searle Printer 118 Washington Street 1864. Some age toning light crease here & there with the occasional spot or two. Horizontal fold-line. Still a VG example of this fragile item. One broadside sheet printed recto only. 18-1/8" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/>Margaret Julia Mitchell popularly known as Maggie Mitchell was an American actress born in New York. She made her first regular appearance as Julia in The Soldier's Daughter at the Chambers Street Theatre in 1851. The parts in which she was best liked were Jane Eyre Mignon Little Barefoot and Fanchon the Cricket. Wiki In January 1861 At at De Bar’s St. Charles Theatre in New Orleans Mitchell first appeared in Fanchon the Cricket a new secondhand adaptation by August Waldauer from George Sand’s story “La Petite Fadette.” Her characterization of the sprite of a heroine which included a graceful and entrancing shadow dance was an immediate sensation. Her Southern tour was cut short by the Civil War and Mitchell took Fanchon to Boston and New York where it was equally successful. Fanchon remained her mainstay for 30 years. Audiences never tired of it—her admirers included the likes of Abraham Lincoln and Ralph Waldo Emerson—and even in her 50s Mitchell retained the winsome elfin appeal that made her so successful. She also early obtained the rights to Fanchon which enabled her to amass a considerable estate. EB. We find one institutional holding of this playbill at the MHS. A rare survivor of this play's northern run. F. A. Searle, Printer, 118 Washington Street unknown books
1856009730London: Houlston and Stoneman - Wm. S. Orr and Co 1856 Book. Good. Soft cover. iv 289-556 pages. In the original blindstamped limp cloth - Titled in blind - Orr's circle of the sciences. Gilt title to front and spine. Binding with some wear. Splitting along the paper over the inner hinges. Bookplate of John Waterhouse Halifax to the front pastedown. The entry for this title on COPAC states - A re-issue of W. S. Orr's "Circle of Sciences" vol.4: Geology pp.289-556 571-87 with title page introductory note and list of contents. Here without the list of contents but this copy matches the pagination for that held at the University of Oxford Museum of Natural History. Houlston and Stoneman - Wm. S. Orr and Co paperback
1899821Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co 1899. First edition. First edition. Folio. Scarce Stone imprint this curiosity has the complete text of a rather obscure play by Langdon Mitchell illustrated with photographs of the actors both posed and in action by Byron and Sarony along with drawings accompanying the text. Not listed in Publisher's Weekly until April 1900. Corners only very slightly worn very unobtrusive water marks to preliminary leaves else a near fine copy of an exceedingly scarce and interesting Stone imprint. Our Kramer bibliography owned by Bob Monroe one of the foremost collectors of Stone and Kimball has it as one of the rarest Stone titles. Lacks cover wrappers. Small clipping from 1927 NY Times on cover. Kramer 210. <br/><br/> Herbert S. Stone & Co unknown books
1888189398London: Longmans Green & Co 1888. Hardcover. F- Cover has general wear discoloration corner/edge damage. Spine has top/bottom damage. Leather peeling. Bookblock has age toning and page edge damage Interior pages have minor age toning some edge damage minor tearing. Orange/brown boards with black leather corners and spine. Gilt decorative elements on cover. Spine has gilt lettering and gilt highlights. Top edge gilt. Rough cut bookblock. xv 465 pages : illustrations plates. Volume is from the large paper edition limited to 250 copies. Number 94 of 250 copies. Longmans Green & Co hardcover
181044570Westminster: printed for Mitchell Stace. by George Smeeton 1810. First edition folio pp. 196; 4 engraved plates including folding facsimile title page printed in terracotta and black; full contemporary gilt-tooled calf recently rebacked new endpapers; corners a bit dinged offsetting from plates else a very good copy. "The intention of the publisher was to submit for his patrons and subscribers such anecdotes of Oliver Cromwell as could be collected." Lowndes notes that "the volume was printed almost expressly for illustrations; accordingly it often occurs filled with engravings." Here the book is in its unadorned state with only the 5 engravings as issued. Lacking the advertisement leaf describing 23 related portraits and views available for purchase individually. <br/><br/> printed for Mitchell Stace... by George Smeeton unknown books