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18947505Boston: Arena Publishing Co 1894. First edition. 8vo 5 xi 3 150pp plus 4 ads at rear. Blue cloth stamped in silver on front cover and spine. Hinges tender spine dulled and frayed at ends. Ownership signatures to endpapers pages toned moisture staining to inner and lower margins throughout most prominent on the final dozen or so pages. Still a very good copy. <br /> <br /> Nice overview of the polytheist religions and how they relate to the Christian Gospel and salvation and the cause for missionary work. Essentially a work of omnitheism. Includes excerpts from the writings of Swami Vivekananda and others. <br /> <br /> OCLC cites 4 holdings. Arena Publishing Co unknown
182931522London: John Murray 1829. 2nd edition. V.g./No Jacket. Full leather binding gilt title on red leather label Atrractively bound with marbled end papers and matching marbled edges to text block. Presentation inscriptoin on blank page two before title page which also has traces of a pressed leaf now absent. London: John Murray hardcover
1808FGN24-G-1Paris: Chez Maradan 1808-1809. First edition. Leather. Good Only. 8" by 5". None. A scarce first edition of this collection of letters complete in eight volumes. A scarce first edition of this collection of letters. Complete in eight volumes. Volumes are: I-III: Missions de la ChineIV: Missions de L'IndeV-VI: Missions du LevantVII-VIII: Missions de L'Amerique. With the bookplate of Sir Edgar MacCulloch of Guernsey a bailiff and founder of the Guernsey Society of Natural Science now La Societe Guernsiaise. Also with a note showing these volumes to have been a gift. Published anonymously these works were considered to be written by Jean Baptiste Montmignon Archdeacon and secretary to Bishop Bourdeilles of Soissons. He had a part in the writings of works published by the Bishop and was later charged to examine books submitted for the approval of the ecclesiastical authority. In half calf bindings. Externally rubbed with some bumping. Loss to spines and loss of spine labels. The rear hinge strained to volume III. Some starting to joints with joints cracked to volumes II III and IV. Lifting to backstrips. Personal bookplate to front pastedown with library stamp. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages bright with scattered spotting throughout. Good Only Chez Maradan hardcover
1830278113United Kingdom: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley 1830. Book. Near Fine. hardback. hardback measuring 6 1/4" x 4 1/4" tightly bound in later blue cloth and lettered gilt on black morocco to the spine. New endpapers Name stamp of a previous owner at the head of the title page the body of text clean and unmarked. A very good copy four engraved plates and one plate of woodcuts as called for. viii 311pp. Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley Hardcover
182593081Knight & Lacey. London. 1825. Knight & Lacey. 1825. First edition. Two hand-coloured humorous plates attributed to the Cruikshank Brothers. Bound in half brown calf and rebacked in modern matching calf. Original marbled boards. Front hinge visible but sound. Prelims foxed and browned other pages less so. Frontis. partially loose. Generally a sound copy of a scarce item. Ascribed sometimes to John Galt one of the jurors probably erroneously. Satire about the infamous and scandalous trial of the Scottish Presbyterian Rev. Alexander Fletcher for breach of promise to marry Miss Eliza Dick. A prior trial in the court of King's bench in 1824 was dismissed without a verdict. This second trial was held by an ecclesiastical court the United Associate Presbytery of London and by decision of that court Fletcher was suspended from exercise of his office and from church fellowship. The "special jury" consisted of twelve illustrious Scots including Sir Walter Scott who was elected foreman. DNB hardcover
187835549City and Borough of Bath 1878. 1st edition. Good/No Jacket. Publisher's cloth gilt title Spine annotated with title in silver lettering. Owner's signature. City and Borough of Bath hardcover
1863268684United Kingdom: John van Voorst 1863. Book. Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback slim octavo blind stamped green cloth lettered gilt to spine some small loss at the head and the foot of the spine a one inch split at the head of the lower joint the sewing remains tight bookplate and blind embossed stamp of Wigan Free Library double page photographic map frontis smaller format publisher catalogue bound in at the rear xxiv 129pp Uncommon. John van Voorst Hardcover
1884284792United Kingdom: Fife Herald 1884. Book. Good. hardback. hardback brown cloth lettered gilt closed tear at the foot of the front free endpaper foxing to the pre-lims. A good copy of an uncommon work all pages ruled with a red border illustrated viii 149pp. Fife Herald Hardcover
184136907Whittaker & Co. 1841. 2nd edition. Good/No Jacket. Navy cloth gilt title Spines beginning to separate along outside hinges front hinge weak. A somewhat journalistic account with gruesome details of the aftermath of colliery accidents. Whittaker & Co. hardcover
1865355490722270London 1865. First Edition. Hard Cover. London: Richard Bentley 1865. First UK Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 139 pages. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and blind-stamped embossed to the front and back boards. Yellow-coated end-papers. Hinges firm. No fading to the gilt spine lettering. Half-title and rear free end-paper browned. Slightly soft spine tips otherwise a bright clean and attractive VG copy. A scarce book especially in such nice condition. WorldCat / COPAC gives only 12 copies worldwide. Photographs/scans available upon request. hardcover
1865355490722271London 1865. First Edition. Hard Cover. London: Richard Bentley 1865. First UK Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 139 pages. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and blind-stamped embossed to the front and back boards. Yellow-coated end-papers. Small book shop ticket to the front pastedown ownership inscription dated 1902 to the front free endpaper. Slight foxing. In excellent condition. Hinges firm. No fading to the gilt spine lettering. VG indeed. A scarce book especially in such nice condition. WorldCat / COPAC gives only 12 copies worldwide. Photographs/scans available upon request. hardcover
186158788Cheltenham: Henry Davies and Davies & Son N.d. 1861. 12mo. 86 2 pp. Original printed wrappers. Covers darkened and with wear to spine ends & corners. Internally clean. Illustrations. Just four copies located : Leicester Univ. Natl. Library of Wales Natl. Museum of Scotland and Basel. . Good. Wraps. 1861. Henry Davies and Davies & Son N.d. [1861] paperback
186260055London: Richard Bentley 1862 / 1863. 12mo. 2 volumes. xi 160; xi 160 pp. Publisher's original blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Cloth clean. Scattered foxing. Bindings firm. This is essenially two issues of the same book. Bentley issued 'Foreign Desserts' in 1862. It may not have sold well under that title as he issued the same sheets under the title 'Lady's Dessert Book' the following year. Similar publisher's cloth but with blind lettering to the 'Lady's Dessert'. OCLC record 9 copies of 'Foreign Desserts' 6 UK 2 US 1 Germany. OCLC only records 2 copies of 'Lady's Dessert' in the BL and at Melborne. Sold as a pair. . Near Fine. Blind-stamped Cloth. 1862. Richard Bentley 1862 / 1863 hardcover
181767037Guiseppe Molini. Firenze. 1817-1819. First editions. Large 8vo. Five Volumes. Handsomely bound in half green straight-grained morocco gilt. Marbled boards edges and endpapers. Illustrated with an incredible amount of plates many of them folding. Please contact us for more details of contents. Extremities of boards worn but a good looking set. Contents clean and fresh. hardcover
182032994London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1820. 3rd edition enlarged. V.g./No Jacket. alf leather binding marbled boards A well preserved copy in a contemporary binding some wear to corners no inscriptions. 20 hand-coloured plates. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown hardcover
18067302Ripon: W. Farrer 1806. 2nd edition. Fair/No Jacket. Half leather binding Upper part of spine missing most of title retained; corners worn internally good. 314 pp. Ripon: W. Farrer hardcover
1850LTH28-E-5London: A. Hall Virtue & Co 1850. First edition. Leather. Fair. 8" by 5". George Cruikshank. A first edition of this work by Francis E. Smedley 'Frank Fairlegh' profusely illustrated throughout. First Edition. With thirty illustrations by George Cruikshank. George Cruikshank was a British caricaturist and book illustrator best known for his illustrations in the novels of Charles Dickens. Francis Edward Smedley began his literary career by contributing to Sharpe's London Magazine anonymously. His contributions were well received and would lead to Smedley's development of 'Frank Fairlegh'. In a half morocco binding. Externally sound with bumping and rubbing. Front joint and hinge failed with board detached but present. Ink inscription to front free-endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright with foxing to first and last and occasional spotting throughout. Some pages chipped and creased. Fair A. Hall, Virtue & Co hardcover
1866259032United Kingdom: Longmans Green & Co 1866. Book. Fair. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback octavo blue cloth lettered gilt rubbed to extremities with some loss at head and foot of spine upper hinge has at some pint cracked and being re-glued in two places gift inscription to an early owner dated 1867 bookplate of a previous owner to the front pastedown and that of a subsequent owner to the verso of the front free endpaper and that of a third to the verso of the half-title together with a tipped-in lettered gifting the book the body of the text is clean and unmarked b&w illustrations by the authoress 278pp. Longmans, Green & Co Hardcover
18078763Scotland: Published for The Author 1807. First edition Privately Printed in a run of 120 copies only. Folio. 27pp text with 43 etchings as called for with tissue guards. Bound in contemporary full tree calf decorated and ruled in gilt with a large gilt central ellipse by Scott of Edinburgh. Later restoration to the binding has involved strengthening of corners extremities and a full respine with the original spine laid on. The work was done a while ago and was very professionally executed leaving the binding strong solid and still remarkably handsome. Internally clean with some gloriously wide margins a set of ink initials C.L.S. to the front pastedown and a large note pasted to the front flyleaf detailing the origins and provenance of the book:</p><p>"This volume belonged to Frances Lady Douglas sister of the 2nd Duke of Buccleuch and Wife of Archibald 1st Lord Douglas Son of 1st Marquess of Douglas created Peer 1790 of Douglas House Petersham. The C.L.S. opposite is Caroline Lucy Scott Daughter of the above Lord and Lady Douglas and wife of Admiral Sir George Scott of Gala. Lady Douglas was born in 1752. The Douglas Library where this copy entered trade was sold in 1931 at Petersham. M.H.G."</p><p>Elizabeth Countess of Sutherland as is evidenced by this work was an accomplished and skilled artist that much is undeniable. This accomplishment has been rather overshadowed by her role in the incredibly damaging and inhumane uprooting and impoverishment of thousands of her native Scottish tenants through the process of mass family eviction that is now known as The Highland Clearances. The historic occupants of the Sutherland estates traditionally smallholder tenants crofters and the like were evicted en masse men women and children to make way for "agricultural improvements" in the shape of highly profitable sheep farms and other projects not native to the area but guaranteed to swell the coffers of the Countess' estates. In part this highly skilled and evocative collection of engravings perfectly capturing the lonely and awe inspiring remoteness of the Orkneys was only enabled by a lifestyle of leisure and freedom that was directly funded by the misery of the very people whose land she so ably documented artistically. One of the most challenging exercises in separating the art from the artist we have thus far encountered.</p><p>The identity of M.H.G. is unknown but they clearly knew their stuff; a beautifully executed collection of etchings from an aristocratic origin and with an equally aristocratic provenance. Scarce and complicated. Published for The Author unknown
1889011196<p>London: T. Nelson & Sons 1889. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First Printing T. Nelson & Sons London 1889; 117 blank 2 Publisher ads pages; blue cloth block illustration & titling to front gold titling on spine rubbed on edges & bumped occasional marks a very good copy. Accreditation of text reads: "The following pages are founded on Mr Smiles' "Lives of the Engineers" vol. ii; "Smeaton & Lighthouses" edition 1844; "Les Phares;" "Lighthouses & Lightships" by W.H. Davenport Adams; and Smeaton's own account of the "Eddystone Lighthouse." Some minor authorities have also been consulted. <br /><br /></p> T. Nelson & Sons hardcover
184039549Oxford: Thomas Combe 1840. 1st edition. V.g./No Jacket. Half leather binding gilt title and decoration and raised bands on spines. Portion of ffep of vol. 1 excised. Oxford: Thomas Combe hardcover
18333554907222731833. Hard Cover. Boston: Munroe & Francis 1833. This is a very early edition ie the Second Edition of a book that was originally published in first edition a year earlier in 1832. xxxvi; 300 pages 37 The Leslie section. No adverts are present in this edition. Contemporary leather binding with the spine re-backed the title in gilt to a red label in panel 2. This copy does not appear to have a frontispiece but may not have been published with one . A good copy with mostly clean interior. A section title for the complete system of confectionery which appeared on p. 249-250 in other impressions is not present in this impression and was not present in the 1840 edition at Harvard University. There is a long closed tear on page 26 of the Leslie section which has been historically repaired a long time ago it would appear. NB: The first edition was 1832 the Miss Leslie section was added the following - this edition being its first appearance therefore. Photographs/scans available upon request hardcover
1802840A46North-Allerton: Printed by J. Langdale 1802. Hardback. Very Good. 6" by 3.5". None . A scarce copy of this treatise against religious indifference by Bernardus Pictet. Third edition of this work. A treatise concerning the importance of religion with notes for atheists sceptics libertines and more. Originally published in 1694. A scarce volume. Published anonymously but attributed to Benedict Pictet a Genevan Reformed theologian. This edition with an introduction by the reverend Anthony Horneck. No half title as issued. Rebound in full morocco. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only boards lightly marked fading to spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Printed by J. Langdale hardcover
187910537Merthyr Tydfil: H.W. Southey. Merthyr Tydfil H.W. Southey nd 1879. First edition first impression. Hardback. A good copy. Boards a touch rubbed front hinge starting with paper split. Lower board has been bent at some point. A little general dustiness. Front endpaper grubby with pencil erasure marks. 10537 Hyraxia Books. nd 1879 . Good. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1879. H.W. Southey hardcover
1808266792United Kingdom: B McMillan 1808. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback octavo re-backed with a new spine laid in marbled paper covered boards with original leather to corners and backstrip edges edges speckled blue tightly bound some browning & spotting to the paper signature of a previous owner and a small advertisement laid down at the head of the title page the text otherwise unmarked folding Tables xi 302pp. B McMillan Hardcover
