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18474980Troy: Published and Sold by L. Willard 1847. First Edition. 1 - 44 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers uncut and unopened; some chipping at margins sporadic foxing. First Edition. 1 - 44 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contains: The Condemned: A Chapter from Our City Prison: A Tale of Truth and Horror. Wright I 2444 Published and Sold by L. Willard unknown books
188555657NY: Beers 1885. First Edition. Two volumes. Quarto pp. 701 708. Bound in original leather backed cloth spine well worn with pieces of the leather missing hinges cracked covers lose or separate fold-out map in excellent condition Illustrated. Most of the volume is in clean condition good set in worn bindings. Very heavy. A massive tome with histories of the different towns and prominent citizens of the county. Illustrated with engraved portraits. Beers unknown books
187310250Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co 1873. First edition. Frontispiece and 12 plates. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Original tan pictorial boards black calf spine. Bottom half of spine perished some cover wear internally fine. 1873 Christmas gift inscription on title. First edition. Frontispiece and 12 plates. 1 vols. Oblong folio. A Resort Summer of 1873 in Drawings and Rhyme. An account of the adventures of a group of friends vacationing at Mt. Desert Maine recounted in humorous verse and equally humorous drawings evidently by two members of the party. Summer romances the hazards of the communal dining table days of genteel ennui and other activities with the first names of the participants indicated as a partial aid to social historians a few of them are named in pencil on the title page are described in double columns of rollicking verse narrative and accompanying plates. A charming period piece and a not insignificant bit of amusing Americana. J.R. Osgood & Co unknown books
184734875Arundel Sussex: Printed by Mitchell & Son 1847. Small octavo. Original green blindtooled flexible cloth boards with "Lindiana" to upper yellow endpapers all edges gilt. 1f. bust-length frontispiece portrait of Lind with tissue guard 1f. recto title verso blank 5-52 pp.<br/><br/>Binding very slightly worn and rubbed edges faded; light offsetting to recto of rear free endpaper with minor staining to edges of verso and rear pastedown. Occasional minor signs of wear and foxing; title and frontispiece moderately browned and stained. First Edition. OCLC no. 1804258.<br/><br/>Dubbed "The Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind 1820-1887 debuted in 1838 as Agathe in Der Freischütz. "She made her Viennese début at the Theater an der Wien in April 1846 as Norma. She then toured extensively in Germany taking part with Mendelssohn in the Lower Rhine Festival at Aachen during May and June when she sang in Haydn's Creation and Handel's Alexander's Feast. She also appeared at Munich Stuttgart Karlsruhe Mannheim and Nuremberg. Returning in January 1847 to Vienna she scored an immense success as Marie. Her triumphant London début was at Her Majesty's in May of the same year when she sang in Italian Alice in Robert le diable before Queen Victoria and Prince Albert followed by La sonnambula. and La fille du régiment with even greater success." Elizabeth Forbes in Grove Music Online. Printed by Mitchell & Son unknown books
184726778Arundel Sussex: Printed by Mitchell & Son 1847. Small octavo. Original green blindtooled flexible cloth boards with printed label "Life of Jenny Lind. With Portrait. Price Two Shillings" to upper all edges gilt yellow endpapers. 1f. bust-length woodcut frontispiece portrait of Lind with tissue guard 1f. title 5-52 pp.<br/><br/>Binding slightly worn rubbed and faded. Occasional minor signs of wear and foxing; preliminary leaves slightly browned. First Edition. OCLC no. 1804258.<br/><br/>Dubbed "The Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind 1820-1887 debuted in 1838 as Agathe in Der Freischütz. "She made her Viennese début at the Theater an der Wien in April 1846 as Norma. She then toured extensively in Germany taking part with Mendelssohn in the Lower Rhine Festival at Aachen during May and June when she sang in Haydn's Creation and Handel's Alexander's Feast. She also appeared at Munich Stuttgart Karlsruhe Mannheim and Nuremberg. Returning in January 1847 to Vienna she scored an immense success as Marie. Her triumphant London début was at Her Majesty's in May of the same year when she sang in Italian Alice in Robert le diable before Queen Victoria and Prince Albert followed by La sonnambula. and La fille du régiment with even greater success." Elizabeth Forbes in Grove Music Online. Printed by Mitchell & Son unknown books
185010484NY: Published for the trade 1850. 12mo pp.119. Colored lithograph frontispiece and title page a good copy of this collection of sentimental poetry. Published for the trade unknown books
186110267New York James Miller 1861. 1861. Small 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of an Indian maiden; pictorial title page with vignette of an Indian loading a musket and 10 wood engravings. 252 pages. Original gilt and blindstamped purple pictorial cloth with gilt vignette of two armed Indians attacking four settlers defending their cabin spine faded; yellow endpapers. Ink signature of Oliver R. Clark Jr. Dec. 25 1860 on the front free endpaper. Includes information on Indian etiquette torture famous Chiefs and Florida Indian tribes. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. New York, James Miller, 1861. hardcover books
1897156237Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company 1897. 407p. first edition original green cloth binding slightly edge worn paper slightly browned previous owner's name on front blank endpaper. "An English aristocrat narrates the history of a colonization movement begun by a mineralogist who discovers a gold mine and two miracle metals. He uses his riches to form a secret brotherhood and to establish the Nationality Confederation in the Midwest and Southwest. After his death the Confederation peacefully spreads over America. The hero's disciples honor him with elaborate oaths and rituals." Roemer p. 202. Charles H. Kerr & Company unknown books
1897157155Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company 1897. Octavo pp. 1-4 5-407 408: blank original green cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. "An English aristocrat narrates the history of a colonization movement begun by a mineralogist who discovers a gold mine and two miracle metals. He uses his riches to form a secret brotherhood and to establish the Nationality Confederation in the Midwest and Southwest. After his death the Confederation peacefully spreads over America. The hero's disciples honor him with elaborate oaths and rituals." - Roemer The Obsolete Necessity p. 202. "One of the more pleasant novels of social protest of the period; entertaining reading although the message is not as clear as it might have been." - Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1541. Kopp 807. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 160. Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 402. Rooney Dreams and Visions: A Study of American Utopias 1865-1917 p. 188. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 112. Taylor The Economic Novel in America p. 349. Bleiler 1978 p. 142. Reginald 05727. Wright III 2092. Early owner's name stamped on front free endpaper. Cloth rubbed at edges cloth frayed at upper spine end a very good copy. #157155 Charles H. Kerr & Company unknown books
183011099Bloomsbury: W.S. Fortey 1830. Printed in two columns with a hand-colored woodcut portrait of a 'lad' at the top on one column. Amusing poetry. Excellent condition. W.S. Fortey unknown books
183559161Boston: Russell Odiorne & Metcalf 1835. First Edition. 12mo pp. 192. Little foxed some contemporary writing on the end paper a very good tight copy. A much reprinted and refuted anti-catholic tale. Russell Odiorne & Metcalf unknown books
183517228Boston: Russell Odiorne & Metcalf 1835. First edn. 12mo pp. 192. Little foxed some contemporary writing on the end paper a very good tight copy. ``A much reprinted and refuted anti-catholic tale. Russell Odiorne & Metcalf unknown books
189058264np 1890. Broadside around 8-1/2 x 11 in. recipes written in three columns. Above the title is noted: Copyright Secured. Dates gotten from OCLC which notes just the one copy at Indiana University none listed on line. Page little toned but a very good copy. Not in Bitting. Contains recipes for everything from sun burn and mildew to tea cakes. unknown books
1826045390Madrid: Camara de S.M. 1826. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Near Fine Condition. 2 titles bound up in morocco backed cloth both scarce the first with an attractive title vignette. 58pp; 73pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; Inventory No: 045390. <br/><br/> Camara de S.M. hardcover books
18111793London: John Murray 1811. Second Edition. Hardcover. Brown leather Very good. 440 pages. 16.5 x 10 cm. A comprehensive household manual filled with what seems to be very helpful receipts and some of a dubious nature. Chapters filled with constructive advise on rearing livestock making butter brewing and the management of malt liquors the management of plants seeds and the greenhouse while other advice such as using a bush held by a rope to clean a chimney as opposed to employing a child children will damage the interior bricks seem a bit outdated. Accredited to Mrs. Rundell of New Systems of Domestic Cookery fame but there are many who think this is a false theory due to her well published falling out with the John Murray. All edges gilt dentelle edging and blindstamped Missing 1 cm. of leather at the head of spine. Interior crisp and clean. Owners signature present on front boards 1819. <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
18300046431830. Full Straight-Grained Morocco. Very Good. An exquisite manuscript copy of plates from the 1644 work by Wencelaus Hollar. While a copy the pen-and-ink work here is absolutely exceptional requiring a loupe or magnifying glass to fully appreciate the niceties of detailing achieved by the artist copier. It is also clear that this copier did not merely trace the original work. Heightening the pen-and-ink work are touches of watercolor. 8vo. 173 by 117 mm. Unpaginated half-title page with a handwritten copy of the verse from "The Merchant of Venice entitled "The Folly of Fashion the Deceit of Ornament or Appearance" second title copied from the 1644 work followed by 36 mounted pen and ink copies of fashion etchings from the 1644 work and a final page with a drawing of a trophy and two musings written out. The drawings besides being meticulous with near-microscopic detail are austere with the pen and ink work heightened with only touches of flesh color for the women's faces and tiny dabs of gold for jewelry buttons and the like. The austerity we would stress is befitting the fashions represented as the early and mid-17th century was a time that garments tended to be more monochromatic and sober meant to suggest piety as any student of portraits from this era coincident with the Puritan Revolution and religious wars on the continent would have absorbed. And we would add the austerity is not just of the dress but also the expression on the women depicted here. The flesh color applied to the faces and also hands is just as nuanced as everything else about these portraits. There is a gradient of coloration capturing very realistically the actual pigment of human flesh. The one exception to the limited color usage is a depiction of a woman from Virginia a Native American whose bare garment is painted red and who is wearing jewelry that is captured with bolder applications of gold. This exotic specimen also shows a woman with a tattoo on her arms something that was completely alien from European cultures at the time. The Virginian is not the only non-European depicted however as there is a woman from Algiers a Moresco woman an Argentinian. Also shown is a Turkish woman and the dress shown is from different strata of the societies represented. Short cursive handwritten captions identify for us where the model is from. All the handwriting including on the title the poem etc. is rendered in a tight minute script. Unfortunately there is no indication who the artist copyist was other than the initials PC by several of the drawings. In the front there is an ownership inscription of an Elizabeth Cobbett. There is a watercolored bookplate with the Hillman family crest. <br/><br/> unknown books
18609102London: James Ridgway 1860. 8vo. 56 pp. <br><br>On Turkey and problems in the Balkans. WorldCat locates only one copy in the U.S. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2E1105. Removed from a nonce volume with stitching holes. Creased lengthwise from folding. Library rubber-stamp on title-page. Very mild soiling on front and back pages and in a couple of page corners. Two page corners folded. Signatures loose. James Ridgway unknown books
184043100New York: W.E. Dean 1840. History and bye-laws of this august society founded in the late 18th century with a 30-page list of members. Foxed good condition in publisher's blue wrappers. 12mo 18.5 cm. 57 pp. W.E. Dean books
185038418New York: Leavitt & Allen n.d. ca 1850. 6/25/16. 260 pp. with an extra color lithographed title and b/w engraved plates by Sartain. <br/><br/>An extra-fancy edition of a familiar 19th century genre the gift book - a compendium of saccharine stories and verse. This one contains a color title and is bound in embossed leather with circular hand painted lozenges inset on the front and back covers. All edges gilt. The book has been rebacked but the backstrip is also embossed leather and nicely matches the rest of the binding. True to form the book is inscribed by a well wisher to Elizabeth B. Mann "sometime before their wedding Dec. 12 1859." The only discordant note is that the painting inset into the front board surrounded by a rim of gold and mother of pearl represents a sinking ship. Leavitt & Allen hardcover books
186653898Chicago: Tomlinson Brothers 1866. Small 8vo; pp. 2 x 11-377 3; frontispiece and four additional wood-engraved plates; original green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine; front hinge cracked small tear to the cloth on the bottom of the spine binding a bit skewed; good or better. An uncommon Chicago Ante-Fire imprint. Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints 1226 refers to an 1867 edition only. <br/><br/> Tomlinson Brothers hardcover books
1810290008562c1810s. come all ye little ones and quick draw near. A gift I offer for the approaching year. A little doll who boasts a pretty face And wondrous strange! her clothes a moral trace". Wraps. 8 pages. Each page is a different scene from the original book of the History of Little Fanny Exemplified in A Series of Figures. This manuscript adaptation paraphrases the original toy book with different original watercolor costume for each scene. it focuses on the morality lessons. A single head and neck is moved from scene to scene. Includes five 5 of the seven 7. Measures 9 1/4" x 7 1/4". <br/><br/> hardcover books
184039633Boston: James B. Dow 1840. 12mo. 144 pp. b/w plates. <br /><br />Story of a shipwreck in the Pacific first published in 1837. With wood engraved plates. Wright I 34. Some cover wear. Good copy of an uncommon book. James B. Dow books
182917614Boston: Bowles and Dearborn 1829. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 192pp. 26 leaves of plates. Contemporary red leather spine gilt; printed paper boards. Boards darkened rubbed and stained some roughness to the edges and corners ffep perished else a good copy. On front printed board: By the author of Anecdotes of Animals. Illustration of Bowles and Dearborn's store on rear cover. Scarce. Not in Shoemaker. Bowles and Dearborn hardcover books
184040116NY: Murphy publisher n.d ca. 1840. jun2018. 12mo. 72 pp. b/w ills. <br /><br />A toy book recounting five shipwrecks. Illustrated paper cover. Huntress 309C - who dates this work ca. 1840. A fairly common little book but not often found in such good condition with illustrated covers intact Murphy, publisher books
189841026Salem: A.N. Webb & Co. 1898. 1839 - 1898. With a frontispiece plate of the club's interior. Very good condition. 29 3 pp. b/w frontispiece. A.N. Webb & Co. books
