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1814V74766London printed L. Harrison & J.C. Leigh.: R. Ackermann 1814. Hardcover. Very Good-. Hand-coloured plates 81 uncoloured portrait of the dedicatee by Westall Pugin Nash Mackenzie Turner & Sir J. Reynolds costume plates by Unwins. Large quarto 36x28.5cm page size/binding height 38cm contemporary sugar paper covered boards rebacked with printed labels tips worn & lower edge somewhat shelf worn/corners a bit bumped. Half title coloured frontisplate title uncoloured Grenville portrait dedication leaf vi-xiv subscribers & plate list 1-xxv the city 275pp 6p index; Vol.II half title colour frontisplate title 262pp 6pp index. Without the Founders' portraits which are not called for in the plate list and which Tooley notes were 'not issued till a later date' so the book is complete without these. Some off-setting of plates to adjacent text leaves but not affecting legibility. More than a dozen plates carry the watermark of WHATMAN 1812 and most plates are uncut ie not trimmed thus with slight narrow edge tanning. Ex Library with circular blind stamps 1.6cm throughout. The verso of both titlepages have 3x4mm stamp with accession & shelf number and "enf.trans.4/70" filled in neatly. It does not show through to recto of leaf and there is now a gift book plate tipped over this. The pastedown has bookplate of F.W. Searle initials & 1" red ink circle. Newer free endpaper watermarked 1833 and is not part of the pastedown or next free sheet. Beautiful and very clean copy with large margins clean unsmudged coloring on thick crisp paper Abbey Scenery 278. R. Ackermann hardcover
1857205676United Kingdom: E P Williams 1857. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. hardback 8vo bound in iron railings green calf boards ruled gilt rebacked with original backstrip laid over gilt a little faded and dulled to spine all edges gilt dentelles in gilt marbled endpapers a little rubbed to leather with repairs tightly bound and internally a clean and unmarked copy neat signature of a previous owner vignette title page nineteen fine b&w plates by E Radclyffe xvi 272pp. E P Williams Hardcover
18571712110001E P Williams 1857-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Bound in contemporary 3/4 green leather over marbled boards. Gilt stamped spine compartments. Top edge gilt. Marbled end pages. xvi 312 pages 19 pages of plates frontis : illustrations by E. Radclyffe; 23 cm. Mounted plates. Book plate of William J. Curtis with view of the Portlaw Spenceley 1910. Include calling card of Miss Lena Riley Curtis 986 5th Ave. Smith grad. Lena Riley Curtis married Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Poillon U. S. Army in Paris in 1920. E P Williams hardcover
1822V74421London: R. Ackermann at the Repository of Arts 1822. Disbound. Fair. Hand-coloured plates 24 by Thomas Rowlandson 1756-1827. Tall octavo disbound with remains of calf spine gilt. Hand-coloured frontis illegible name on back titlepage 254 of 267pp lacking last 7 leaves. Pages 249-256 repeated in pagination but text and register are continuous. Corner losses not touching print to 6 leaves at front and back last leaf present stained and browned on back some corner creases. Here sold for the very fine 24 hand-coloured Plates. The rarest of the Syntax books as it only seems to have had one printing 1822 plus a 1903 copy of the 1822 edition with the plates colour printed. R. Ackermann at the Repository of Arts unknown
185458241London: Simpkin Marshall & Co. 1854. Small 8vo. xii 343 pp. Contemporary dark green calf with raised bands to spine & maroon leather title label. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Boards slightly marked & rubbed. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally clean. Includes a chapter on the discovery of gold in Australia in 1846. 'An anecdotal picture of social and economic conditions on various diggings'. Ferguson. The author later went to California during the Gold Rush. . Very Good. Full Calf. First Edition. 1854. Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 1854 unknown
185062042Wien: Carl Gerold 1850. 8vo. 226 pp. Contemporary quarter sheep over marbled boards. Ex-institutional library of Bibliothek der Musse Riga with usual markings. Rubbing to spine and board edges. Internally clean. Bookplate to the front pastedown of Manoug Parikian British concert violinist and professor at the Royal Academy of Music London. Loosely inserted are three TLS by Isaiah Berlin dated 1972-73 on 'Headington House Oxford' letterhead in which he thanks Parikian for the loan of the book and then apologises for not returning it in a timely manner as the book had become buried somewhere in his library. The author Wilhelm von Lenz was born in Riga and studied with Liszt and Chopin in Paris. He is best known for his research on Beethoven. The final chapter in this book deals with Beethoven's violin concerto as performed in St. Petersburg by Vieuxtemps. Text in German. . Good. 1/4 Sheep. 1850. Carl Gerold 1850 unknown
173389311London: W. Dickenson in Witch Street 1733. First Edition. Folio. 32.5cm. Disbound with slight residual crust of old calf to spine region. 18pp. Some old ink spots to title page which effectively comprises the front wrap strong and durable toning to the extremities of both outer wraps and a little internal thumbing otherwise clean and fresh woodcut head and tailpieces luxuriously wide margins. A very good long disbound example of a well-aimed piece of 18th century satire.<br /> <br /> A vastly Popean excoriating satire of the Whig government of the 1830's under Robert Walpole James Ralph William Stanhope as Secretary of State George Byng as First Lord of The Admiralty and a host of other aristocratic pillars of the British aristocratic system. Written in full flow as faux-Pope Whitehead with full reference to The Dunciad and wielding the righteous wrath of a breakfast table diplomat under full sail tears into the sitting government and bemoans with Pope how nothing has changed since the last crop of dunces. A successful part II was published in the same year and the two are often found bound together this copy comprises only part I. Whitehead's uncanny ability to ape Popean epic actually made him something of a living during the 1830's-40's allowing him to pen political and social satire like a Temu Alexander Pope but available at Witch Street prices. Foxon gives priority to this one which also contains 24 lines eliminated in the others.This was the poem that Whitehead sold for an advance of ten guineas provoking Johnson to demand the same for London in 1738. Foxon W426; ESTC T48572. W. Dickenson in Witch Street unknown
1891201049United Kingdom: Cassell & Co 1891. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. hardback folio half deep brown calf with raised bands to spine ruled gilt lettered gilt on green morocco purple cloth coloured sides all edges and endpapers marbled some mild spotting but o/w a very good tightly bound copy frontis engraving b&w illustrations throughout 367pp a nice copy. Cassell & Co Hardcover
182223833London: Henry Colburn and Co. 1822. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. . Externally a very good copy in a half leather binding with marbled boards. Spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled end-papers. Some spotting especially towards the foot of some pages and with a circular stain approx. two inches in diameter affecting the title page and frontispiece. Browning to some pages. Pp.xvi428. Photographs available on request. <br/> <br/> Henry Colburn and Co. hardcover
18521696529Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons 1852. Used-Good. Orig. cloth dec. in gilt and blind. vi 167 pp. Edgewear to cloth; binding shaken but holding. First edition. William Blackwood & Sons unknown
19353554907228231935. London H. M. Eastern African Trade and Information Office or "Publicity" Entebbe Uganda 1935. A softback production. Publisher's thin card illustrated covers. 106 pages adverts photographs bibliography. A guide to the country including living conditions big game hunting angling hotels roads and ferries etc. A VG copy slight surface loss at the head of the spine. Map at the rear of the book in excellent condition. Quite scarce. unknown
1962355490718894London 1962. First Edition. London: Channel Tunnel Study Group 1962. First Edition. Publisher's original black card covers and spiral bound with white titles to the front cover. 44pp plus various colour diagram and illustration plates showing the benefits of building a tunnel. The text is filled with numerous facts and figures and an illustration of a drive-on drive-off train that bears an uncanny resemblance to the current Eurotunnel trains. A VG copy with a few very minor marks to the covers but with the interior clean and tight. Sir Alexander Alec Balmain Bruce Valentine 1899-1977 Chairman of the London Transport Board was a member of the Channel Tunnel Study Group. Rare. Photographs/scans available upon request. unknown
1841V74754Wien Vienna: Mayer & Compagnie 3rd revised edition. 1841. Hardcover. Good. Frontisplate 59 other steel-engraved plates lacking pl.50 Sisyphus originally engraved on copper in 1815 by Franz St ber 1795-1858. Large octavo 24cm x 15.5cm newer linen-spined boards with old paper relaid on covers and spine has title but lacks original paper at spine head and foot. Unpaginated but each numbered plate has tissue guard and facing leaf of text in German to explain each myth. Lacks plate 50 maybe cut out by censor. Some foxing and light marginal damp marks at gutter not touching engraved part of plates. The steel-engraved images of gods nymphs and heroes are quite small 9.5cm x 6.5cm printed on strong paper at centre of each plate but of very fine quality and detail. They are closely based on similarly numbered copperplate engravings by Franz Xaver St ber first published Vienna 1815 in similar large octavo format but with completely different anonymous German text. The detail of these later steel engravings only differs from St ber's original 1815 copperplates by covering up some female breasts better to comply with 1840s more prudish moral code. They still retain the strongly erotic impression given by many of the originals thus helping to maintain their popularity over more than 25 years. Mayer & Compagnie 3rd revised edition. hardcover
26469Second Edition" Simpkin Marshall London 1839. 134pp. 8vo in modern blue leather gt raised bands marbled endpapers staining throughout affecting c.25% of each page pages trimmed but text clear and complete with no loss of text except the very top of the letters written in the author's inscription. INSCRIPTION titlepage: W.J. Mercer from Lt General T. Charlton Smith the Author Nov.: 1874". Mercer presumably has added: "T.C.S. wrote this when a Captain in 27th. Regt. He sent copy to T. Moore who approved the squib. The General was a Peninsular & Waterloo man: at Waterloo he was wounded. He had previously been in the Navy & wounded there!". Scarce: Worldcat lists CUL and Chicago copies; COPAC adds the BL copy. None appear to be inscribed by the author. Second Edition", Simpkin, Marshall, London, 1839. hardcover
1881007977Ottawa Canada: Printed at the Office of the Daily Citizen 1881 50 pages. Inscribed on the dedication page: "With the Authoress / Compliments." Susan Anna Gunhilda Wiggins was born on 6th April 1846 at Waterborough Queens County New Brunswick. She was educated by private tutors and married E. Stone Wiggins at age sixteen. While living with her husband in Ottawa Susie Wiggins became embroiled in a dispute with the Anglican Lord Bishop of Ontario over his stated objection to the passage of a measure in Parliament legalizing marriage to a deceased wife's sister. Using the pseudonym Gunhilda she published letters in the press attacking Archbishop Lewis' position which attracted widespread attention. She also spoke before a senate committee to urge passage of the bill which eventually became law. She died in 1923. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Printed at the Office of the Daily Citizen paperback
1846261474United Kingdom: Rudolph Ackermann 1846. Book. Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback octavo handsomely bound in twentieth century full red morocco by Bayntun of Bath raised bands to spine boards ruled gilt with sporting motifs to compartments of spine and to the corners of the boards all edges gilt marbled endpapers. A faint water stain to the head of the printed title page some marginal browning and dust spotting a tightly bound copy. Hand coloured additional title with six further hand-coloured plates b&w illustrations to the text 326pp. Rudolph Ackermann Hardcover
180661459London: Printed for John Murray 1806. 8vo. In 3 volumes complete. xx 362; xiv 311 1; Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Gilt lines & volume numbers to spines. Lacks title-labels. Spines creased & mottled. Boards partially darkened. All internally clean. Bindings firm. Series of letters on Napoleon I and the French Court. . Good. Half Calf. First Edition. 1806. Printed for John Murray 1806 unknown
19079072New York: Ullman Manufacturing Company 1907. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. Original Wraps. An example of early 20th century Black Americana ephemera or as some refer to as 'Negrobilia' referring to a wide array of materials including mass advertisements postcards tourist souvenirs etc. with the image of an African American universally portrayed in a derogatory and racist manner. These items were produced and manufactured by and for white audiences that enhanced the perception of white racial superiority and class status. These type of items are particularly challenging to many communities however many scholars and private collectors alike agree these materials are historical records and reminders of the racist history of the United States and should not be invisible. The puzzle postcard is an example of mass produced racial stereotyping manufactured for an actual mailing enclosure. The instructions on the outside of the mailer state: "Arrange the flaps by placing one over another in such a manner as to show ONLY the eleven pickaninnies."<br /> <br /> Reference: Goings Kenneth. "Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping." Bloomington Indiana University Press 1994. Full color off-set printed multi-flap post card mailer with die-cut holes for puzzle and tab for closing. 3.5x5.5"; bright and unmarred with fully intact flaps. Ullman Manufacturing Company unknown
18100456681810. Broadside. Good Condition. Single sheet chipped and torn at the edges mild staining and soiling no loss of text. ca. 10 1/2" x 9". A few very similar copies exist at the AAS but each with a small woodcut of a leprechaun. Undated they suggest Boston 1810-1814 Bunch of Rushes was sung to the tune of the Irish song Cailín ag buaint luachra The Sprig of Shillelah is thought to have been adapted from "The Original Black Joke Sent from Dublin". The last verse with the curious profession of Irish allegiance to England against the French points to the Napoleonic period in which it was adapted. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Americana. Inventory No: 045668. <br/><br/> unknown
182617874Paris: A and W Galignani 1826. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. A three volume set in at least good condition. Plain boards with leather spine lettered in gilt. Small bookplate in each volume headed by Crown. A little end-paper foxing but otherwise a nice clean set with no inscriptions or markings. 234244 257 pages. A novel set in 17th century England. <br/> <br/> A and W Galignani hardcover
169653345Oxford: Printed by L. Lichfield for John Howell Bookseller 1696. 12mo. iv 127 12 pp. Original sewn leaves. Advertisement leaf title page errata on verso of tp followed by 127 text pages and 11 index pages. Leaves quite stained but not affecting legibility. Good condition. Copac records only: BL; Lambeth Palace. ESTC R221530 Wing S4357. . Good. Wraps. 1696. Printed by L. Lichfield, for John Howell Bookseller 1696 paperback
199133108Hellenic Industrial Development Bank Athens 1991. 1st edition. Fine/Fine. Hard covers dust jacket Scarcely used. Hellenic Industrial Development Bank, Athens hardcover
1908011066New York: Hurst & Company 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. Pictorial boards green background with a little dog and a sitting young person on the cover. Light edge and surface wear. Title page has a small white remainder of a corner of a stamp; else pages are generally clean with bright colorful illustrations. 12 unnumbered pages. 6.25 x 9 inches. Rhymes for numbers 1-10 and the full alphabet. Hardcover edition published by Hurst & Company. The 1908 copyright belongs to Anderson & Stoner. Selden W. Anderson & Burton Stoner were publishers in Akron Ohio and produced Anderson's Limp Cloth Books. There also appears to have been a Hurst's Limp Cloth edition only one limp-cloth copy noted on OCLC and no hardcover copies noted. Hurst & Company hardcover
1729M161217-3/4" x 22-3/4"- 45 x 57.7 cm. Copperplate engraved map with hand colouring. Minor crease and chip to upper margin at centrefold else fine.A highly detailed map of the region of Lombardy Italy and Piemonte showing towns cities topographical features and battle sites during the War of Succession. Milan Mantua Trento Genoa and Torino are shown. As a concession for Philip V of Spain assuming the throne Spain cedes the Spanish Netherlands Naples Milan and Sardinia to Austria Sicily to Savoy Gibraltar and Menorca to Great Britain.Motta p. 11 I. van der Kloot Published in Dumont's "Histoire Militaire du Prince Eugène de Savoye, du Prince et Duc de Marlborough
1869C284London: Seeley Jackson and Halliday 34 Fleet Street 1869. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Vg. 4to. 96pp 15 etching by Rudolf Geissler quarto orig. brown cloth gilt dec. blackdec. borders blind stamped rear boards binding and contents a little loose and soiled otherwise a v.g. copy. No fading to boards. Very attractive spine. A scarce Victorian childrens book in an attractive binding. <br/> <br/> Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 34 Fleet Street hardcover
