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186247895Paris: Hachette 1862. Deuxieme edition. 12mo. Morocco over marbled boards; 273pp. Spine leather dry and slightly flaking else a tight Good or better reading copy. Hachette unknown books
1876181174Paris. : Calmann Levy. 1876. 10th edition. 1/4 leather. Very good plus light wear to covers contents fine. 18x11.5 cm. . French text. An attractively bound copy of the popular French novel. weight: 0.8 lb. Calmann Levy. hardcover books
1875WRCLIT72133Durham CT: Printed for Walter Chauncey Fowler 1875. 4pp. Folded leaflet 24 x 15 cm. Faint tanning at edges minor smudges but very good or better. A contemporary account in verse of an altercation during the Fall term of 1815 involving Yale students at a tavern in Dragon now Fair Haven Heights. Hill read the poem at a meeting of the Scientific Club and sixty years later after his death his classmate W.C. Fowler caused it to be printed with the final page turned over to a densely set explanatory "Note." Hill published at least two volumes of verse during his lifetime was anthologized by E.C. Stedman and edited an anthology of British poets. The publisher William Chauncey Fowler 1793 -1881 was Noah Webster's son-in-law and led a full life as educator pastor author and lexicographer. OCLC/Worldcat which reports an erroneous death date for Fowler locates four copies: Yale AAS Princeton and Brown. OCLC: 28243710. Printed for Walter Chauncey Fowler unknown books
186535156Paris: Hachette 1865. First Edition. Octavo. Contemporary gilt-decorated morocco over marbled boards spine in six compartments; 424 2pp. Bookplate private shelf label and ownership signature of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge Thomas Jefferson's great-grandson and minister plenipotentiary to France from 1892-1893. Slight rubbing to board edges; sun-darkening to spine with a bit of dryness and minor flaking to leather; still a nicely preserved copy Very Good or better. First title in About's trilogy "La Vieille Roche" which attacked the conventional morals of Parisian society and of the Roman Catholic church. VICAIRE Manuel de L'Amateur 1:p.9. Hachette unknown books
185756217New York: Dix Edwards 1857. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. Good. Translated. 360p. Original cloth. 18cm. Spine lettering indistinct. Ends of backstrip frayed. <br/><br/> Dix, Edwards hardcover books
1874118264New York: Henry Holt and Company 1874. Octavo pp. 1-8 1 2-240 fly leaves at front and rear original decorated tan cloth front spine and rear panels stamped in black publisher's ads printed in red on endpapers. First U.S. edition of this translation. "The Notary's Nose" was published earlier in the U.S. as THE NOSE OF A NOTARY Boston: Loring 1863. This Holt edition includes a short story "Uncle and Nephew." Part of Holt's "Leisure Hour Series." A short and somewhat humorous science-fiction novel about the consequences of a medical operation in which a man who has lost his nose in a duel has a new one fashioned out of the flesh of another man's arm. The nose retains an occult connection with its former owner and complications ensue. A variation on the idea that transplants of tissue and organs would also in effect transplant personality a trope that goes back to FRANKENSTEIN. Leypoldt and Holt had earlier published About's THE MAN WITH THE BROKEN EAR the second of three short science-fiction novels written by About. Reginald 00014A. Versins Encyclopédie de l'Utopie des Voyages Extraordinaires et de Science Fiction p. 12. Slight spine lean some age-darkening and light soiling to cloth a good sound copy. #118264 Henry Holt and Company unknown books
1889000863Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie 1889. Bound by Pagnant in 3/4 teal morocco over marbled boards. Limited to 900 copies this is #675. Issued with a double suite of illustrations by Felicien de Myrbach. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spine has five raised bands with elaborate gilt panels. Wide margined text in French. Light overall wear with an occasional nick else a thoroughly handsome clean tight volume. 224pp. . Limited Edition. Quarto. Librairie Hachette et Cie hardcover books
188221938Wien Pest Leipzig: A. Hartlebens Verlag 1882. First Edition. Illustrated throughout with 14 wonderful chromolithogrphs and full page black and white plates some folding. 806 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco with contrasting leather labels t.e.g. Fine. First Edition. Illustrated throughout with 14 wonderful chromolithogrphs and full page black and white plates some folding. 806 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. A wonderful book. A. Hartlebens Verlag unknown books
185822679Madrid: Imprenta de las Novedades 1858. Period tan qtr-leather binding with marbled paper boards. Speckled edges. Overall VG pos/one map folded irregularly. 184; 78 2; 16; 24; 39 1; 24; 23 1; 6 fold-out maps. 7-1/2" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/>8 works bound together; all scarce- no copies of any title located on OCLC. Imprenta de las Novedades hardcover books
1887888451887. ABOUT Edmond 1826-1885. LES MARIAGES DE PARIS. STIKEMAN binding. Paris: A. Lahure pour Les Amis des Livres 1887. 8vo. vi565. With frontispiece and 52 plates in two states and numerous vignettes in the text all drawn by Piguet and engraved on wood by Huyot. Number 6 of 100 copies for subscribers on china paper out of an edition of 115. This one was for Monsieur Henri Beraldi well-known bibliophile publisher president of the Societe des Amis des Livres. and author of books on French printmakers of the 19th century with his name printed under the number. Six stories by a witty commentator on the mores of his time. Carteret 1946: IV p.41. Dark blue crushed morocco with gilt lettering and five raised bands to spine. Dentelles intricately gilt with the label "Stikeman & Co." Marbled end papers; original printed wrappers bound-in. T.e.g. Lovely condition but for slight wear to the surface of the lower board and barely visible split to paper of inner front hinge. unknown books
