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18905521Paris: A. Capendu Editeur C 1890. Soft covers with eight pages. Colour lithographs to front and rear covers. Black and white to the inside covers. Inside are four full page colour lithographs and four black and white printed pages of alphabets and learning aids. Stapled. Overall in good clean condition. The top and bottom of the spine has been slightly split and now repaired with archival tape. Very slight offsetting of black type in parts. Overall in very good condition. printed by Emrik & Binger Haarlem. Although undated Capendu's activity in this juvenile line generally dated from the early 1880s into the 1890s. 22cm x 19cm. Not found in WorldCat / OCLC or the BnF. No copies online at the time of cataloguing. . Couverture souple de huit pages. Lithographies en couleur sur les couvertures avant et arrière. Noir et blanc à l'intérieur des couvertures. À l'intérieur quatre lithographies en couleur pleine page et quatre pages imprimées en noir et blanc contenant des alphabets et des aides à l'apprentissage. Agrafé. Dans l'ensemble en bon état. Le haut et le bas du dos ont été légèrement déchirés mais ont été réparés avec du ruban adhésif d'archivage. Très léger décalage des caractères noirs à certains endroits. Dans l'ensemble en très bon état. Imprimé par Emrik & Binger Haarlem. Bien que non daté l'activité de Capendu dans ce domaine destiné aux jeunes remonte généralement du début des années 1880 aux années 1890. 22 cm x 19 cm. Introuvable dans WorldCat / OCLC ou la BnF. Aucun exemplaire disponible en ligne au moment du catalogage. A. Capendu Editeur paperback
18905521Paris A. Capendu Editeur C 1890 Couverture souple de huit pages. Lithographies en couleur sur les couvertures avant et arrière. Noir et blanc à l'intérieur des couvertures. À l'intérieur, quatre lithographies en couleur pleine page et quatre pages imprimées en noir et blanc contenant des alphabets et des aides à l'apprentissage. Agrafé. Dans l'ensemble, en bon état. Le haut et le bas du dos ont été légèrement déchirés, mais ont été réparés avec du ruban adhésif d'archivage. Très léger décalage des caractères noirs à certains endroits. Dans l'ensemble, en très bon état. Imprimé par Emrik & Binger, Haarlem. Bien que non daté, l'activité de Capendu dans ce domaine destiné aux jeunes remonte généralement du début des années 1880 aux années 1890. 22 cm x 19 cm. Introuvable dans WorldCat / OCLC ou la BnF. Aucun exemplaire disponible en ligne au moment du catalogage.
8120605756.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2007210343Anchorage.: Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. 2007. First edition. . Gilt decorated hard cover. . Fine copy. As new. Folio. . Illustrated in black white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. hardcover
17872508240014Printed for J. Bew London 1787. 3rd. Hardcover. Acceptable. London During the American Revolution Poor condition. Front board detached. Map loose and taped. Lacking end pages. Binding bad. Sold with all faults. Pages text is generally good. Printed for J. Bew, London hardcover
28371871 CONTENTS. Message of the Governor of Virginia to the Senate and House of Delegates.--Bill introduced by Col. J.M. Crews of Shelby County Tennessee.--Com. Maury on immigration.--What an Englishman thinks of Virginia.--Letter from W.H. Richardson com. of immigration Richmond Virginia.--Through rates of passage from Liverpool to the Southern States via Norfolk.Disbound pamphlet size approx 7x5 inches 28 pages folding map.World Cat lists only 3 copies Cornell Johns Hopkins and University of Virginia and gives place of printing as Richmond and date 1871. It also only says 26 pages but ours has an extra leaf giving Fares and advertising the Allan Line. 1871, unknown
3728502<p>New York 1837. Small octavo. 1 engraved title 2 91 1 1 10pp. Album with manuscript additions and two hand-drawn star charts and 13 pen and ink outline portraits. Quarter green cloth with original pale yellow silk-patterned paper covered boards; dark blue endpapers; all edges gilt. Album with engraved title leaf with vignette illustration. Album re-backed with green cloth; new cloth reinforced hinges; rubbing to edges of boards; scattered foxing; very good.</p> <p>Unusual handwritten American astrological album dated 1837 containing detailed horoscope readings hand-drawn star charts predictive portrait drawings dream interpretations and lottery number advice. </p> <p>The manuscript records two full horoscope readings: an extensive analysis of Robert H. Gould not yet twenty-one and a separate “Lady’s Horoscope†for a woman apparently born in 1810. Each section is accompanied by a hand-drawn astrological chart mapping the celestial signs governing the subject’s birth with the individuals consistently described as “natives.â€</p> <p>Gould’s horoscope is notably elaborate forecasting marriage career prospects travel to the southern United States and Mexico “In 7 years you will be in the South you will be Rich in Mexico and in the Southern States†longevity and specific advice on favorable days of action. It also provides recommended lottery numbers and predictions concerning children prosperity and personal relationships. The album includes pen-and-ink portraits depicting Gould at age twenty-one figures said to influence his future and a child identified as one of his sons.</p> <p>The lady’s horoscope offers comparable predictions including marriage faithfulness personal fortune bodily injury and death and is illustrated with drawings of her future husband or sincere friend.</p> <p>Written with confident authority the compiler explicitly distinguishes his interpretations from contemporary printed dream books suggesting familiarity with popular astrological and oneiric literature of the period. An exceptionally rare survival documenting antebellum astrology and popular belief in the United States.</p> <p>Note. 1. Album New York: Published by Solomon King 1830 unrecorded in OCLC. zxc</p> unknown
1849BOOKS259819New York NY: C. M. Saxton. G/No Dustjacket. 1849. . Wraps. Plates 73-76. . 4to. 4pls. Cover split at spine but still attached soiled and browned; foxing of plates with stains . C. M. Saxton paperback
1473328608.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2016x-1473328608Owen Press 2016. Paperback. New. 462 pages. 8.50x5.51x1.14 inches. Owen Press paperback
1883355490722278London: Fisher 1883. First Edition. London: T Fisher Unwin 1883. 5 2-196 2pp. The first edition of this work. A very scarce work. A collection of classic American recipes from the late nineteenth century. An early American work on the subject providing recipes for soups meats salads breads vegetables cakes and more. Written anonymously by 'an American lady'. With two pages of publisher's adverts to the red/ In the original publisher's cloth binding. A VG copy with slight pushing at the head of the spine and with just a hint of foxing to the page block edges and the text block. A much nicer copy than normally seen of this very scarce book. Photographs/scans available upon request. Fisher hardcover
355490722285First Edition. Hard Cover. London; Robert Jackson nd 1905. First UK Edition. 92 pages including the index. Issued with 40 page price list dated March 1905 titled: American fancy groceries imported by Rt. Jackson & Co. Recent blue cloth binding with gold lettering to the spine and brown coated end-papers. A VG or better copy. The copy held at the University of Leeds Library is dated as 1909 on account of the price list at the front of their copy being dated November 1909. The copy on offer here has an earlier price list dated March 1905 which casts doubt on the Leeds University publication date of 1909. This copy has the one page of adverts to the rear of the title page as called for by Driver. Rare. Photographs/scans available upon request. hardcover
5367New York: American Flag Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. Softcover. Stiff white wraps perfect bound text in blue products offered are illustrated -- some in blue monotone many in color includes a few plates of flags of countries in colors. Not formally dated; 1905 is the latest date mentioned in a list of states and is suggested by OCLC which records but two holdings of this catalogue along with a handful from 1897 and 1915. No mention of this company in Romaine.; 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; 158 pp; One of the more expensive items is the Official New York Mounted Traffic Squad Flag priced at $400. They also offer a Cuban Regimental Flag at $250.; Mild wear and soiling to wraps slightly cocked at spine clean and unmarked within. . American Flag Company paperback
0853403805.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
191530103American Motion Picture Directory Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1915. First Edition :. Hardcover. Quarto in flexible red covers ex-libris tight binding clean unfoxed pages covers have light wear else VG no DJ as issued. Illustrated with films of that era; contains state by state listing of actual movie theaters which are many although this was a relatively new industry. The contents are priceless for the historian movie buff film historia etc. A rare copy. ; 4to . American Motion Picture Directory Co. hardcover
1825mon0004014330By Subscription 1825. 1825T. hardcover. Acceptable. . lacking top board. gilt decoation to spine. pages tanned and foxed includes fold-out illustrations. By Subscription, 1825. hardcover
1899236006Kilmarnock.: John Ritchie. nd. c. 1899. First edition. . Decorated hard cover. . Fine owner name on end paper copy. . Octavo. . Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. John Ritchie. hardcover
1790FGN12-C-10Berlin : Padua with Pietro Tarone c1790. First edition. Hardback. Good. 5.5" by 4.5". n. A scarce and sought after first edition of this German language collection of erotic stories. The title page bears the inscription in Greek "We are all servants of Satan he holds us in his claws" and the stories and witticisms featured reflect attitudes that are particularly different to those held today In paper covered boards with gilt detailing. Externally sound with some wear rubbing and loss to backstrip. Internally the pages are firmly bound but are chipped and irregularly cut. The pages are largely bright and clean aside from some instances of spotting throughout and foxing to enpapers. Good Padua, with Pietro Tarone hardcover
34377Watercolour on laid paper with watermark of a horse and rider and pair of scales 200 x 148 mm sheet; captioned in ink 'Nouvelle Hollande' at bottom left and with a foliation number '184' in the same hand at bottom right; the sheet is unmounted verso blank and the drawing has survived in fine condition - virtually in its original state; removal from a sketchbook at some point is confirmed by the slightly roughened top edge of the sheet which also shows evidence of the original stitch holes. This watercolour sketch was made by an anonymous French artist probably around 1835. It appears to be a conflation of several images by the voyage artist Louis Auguste de Sainson 1800-1887 which depict Indigenous people at King George's Sound Albany Western Australia. Sainson made his sketches in situ in 1826 during the Astrolabe's scientific round-the-world voyage under the command of Dumont d'Urville. His drawings were reproduced as engraved plates in Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe Paris: J. Tastu1830-35 and elsewhere. The male figure wears a short animal-skin cloak characteristic of the type worn by the men in Sainson's King George's Sound drawings. His arms are outstretched with the wrists limp and hands downturned a highly distinctive gesture that appears to have been copied directly from the identical body language of several of the subjects in Sainson's famous drawing titled Port du Roi Georges. Nouvelle-Hollande. Un naturel montre à ses Compagnons les Cadeaux qu'il a reçus à bord de L'Astrolabe which depicts an Indigenous man showing his companions the trinkets given to him by the Astrolabe's crew. Furthermore the way in which the man is shown in full profile with knees slightly bent his straggly beard and hair accentuated is strikingly similar to the manner in which the left-hand figure in Sainson's Nlle. Hollande. Naturels du port du Roi Georges is posed. Finally the native grass tree Xanthorrhoea australis is placed at the bottom right of the image just as it is in Sainson's Vue d'un Étang près la Baie du Roi Georges. unknown
16881440London: : Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown 1688. First Edition. First edition. Pamphet. Disbound. Title preface a dedication to the Queen Regent written by "the Maids of St Joseph" the text of the prerogatives. This is in fact an anti-catholic pamphlet from William Clagett. William Clagett 1646–1688 was an English clergyman and pamphleteer particularly active during the reign of James II. As well as his own pamphlets he would translate particularly colourful Continental Catholic material with the aim of making the Catholics an object of ridicule. This is one of those pieces. A nice copy of this pamphlet. Apart from a a few slight marks the pamphlet is clean and crisp throughout and well bound together.ii i-xv i vi 1-20. pp. WING A108. Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown unknown
16881440London: Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown 1688
1685c2056London: Printed by Charles Bill Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb. G : in Good condition with velvet lined case crafted from a later album with clasps. Case scuffed and edgeworn book covers also. Text block clean and tight with minimal foxing. Occasional pencilled notation. 1685. First thus. Full leather hardback. 170mm x 110mm 7" x 4". 271pp 36pp. English Military Discipline published 1686 Rules and Articles published in 1685. The case has a label on its first 'page' marked 'Bp of Durham'. . Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb hardcover
1813690L8Birmingham: J Belcher 1813. First edition. Paperback. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 4.5". None. A very scarce pamphlet regarding the condensed rules on hallmarking in the context of the Birmingham silversmiths and plate-workers. The first edition of this work. This work looks at the acts of parliament regarding hallmarking so as to protect the public against fraud and to protect the trader against unfair competition. There are explanations to this work of how these acts relate to Birmingham or within twenty miles thereof. This pamphlet is aimed at the silversmiths and plate workers for their better understanding of the rules and regulations. A scarce work with only one on jisc held at the University of Birmingham. In marbled wraps. Externally generally smart with light rubbing and fading to the extremities. Light creasing to the corners. Internally firmly bound. Minor offsetting to the endpapers. Pages are generally bright with just the odd spot. Very Good Indeed J Belcher paperback
177648226Salisbury: Benj. Cha. Collins and J. Johnson 1776. 8vo. iv 202 10 pp. Modern full sprinkled brown calf with red morocco title label. Uncommon. Clean internally with binding in fine condition. 21 cm. tall ESTC T136614. . Near Fine. Full Calf. 1776. Benj. Cha. Collins and J. Johnson 1776 unknown
3731167<p>London: Printed. Boston; New-England Re-printed and sold by Green & Russell at their Printing-Office near the Custom-House and next to the Writing School in Queen-Street. MDCCLVI. 1756. half-title 23 1 pages. 8vo. “The Second Edition.†In fact the First American Edition preceded by printings in London and York both dated 1755. Expertly washed conserved and stitching renewed; scattered staining. A very good copy housed In a custom cloth clamshell box with a gilt-stamped leather spine label.</p> <p>Partly-untrimmed. First American edition of this eyewitness account of this terrible disaster on All Saints Day November 1 1755 that shook perspective views in the Old World and the New. The Lisbon Earthquake alarmed New England clergy and perplexed philosophers in France. For the former some ministers interpreted the event to show God expressing his angry will. For the latter some thinkers saw the disaster as evidence that no such will existed.</p> <p>The Lisbon Earthquake is estimated to have been 8.5–9.0 magnitude on the Richter scale and lt triggered a tsunami. The devastation was enormous:</p> <p>"“Not long after…a general Panic was raised from a Crowd of People’s running from the Waterside all crying out the Sea was pouring in and would certainly overwhelm the City. This new Alarm created such Horrors in the agitated Minds of the Populace that vast Numbers of them ran screaming into the ruinated City again where a fresh Shock of the Earthquake immediately following many of them were buried in the Ruins of falling Houses. This Alarm was however not entirely without Foundation. For the Water of the River rose at once above twenty Feet perpendicular and subsided again to its natural Pitch in less than a Minute’s time.â€"</p> <p>From the Rev. Thomas Prince to John Winthrop in to Voltaire to Rousseau —the intellectual luminaries of the world weighed in. Years later Goethe would write in his autobiography of his memory as a six-year old of the event: “Perhaps the Demon of Fear had never so speedily and powerfully diffused his terror over the earth.â€</p> <p>The earthquake was the “subject of anxious Church sermons across the Atlantic in New England. In fact an earthquake had also occurred in Massachusetts on the 18th of November 1755 centered east of Cape Ann. In Boston most of the damage occurred where buildings had been constructed over landfill near the wharves. John Adams who was at Braintree wrote in his diary: ‘The house seemed to rock and reel and crack as if it would fall in ruins…’†Kenneth Maxwell</p> <p>The Lisbon and Boston earthquakes became in tandem seismic cultural events as ministers philosophers and scientists contextualized one to the other. Some ministers compared the heavy damage of the Lisbon quake to the minimal damage from Boston’s and drew conclusions of moral American exceptionalism. Others used the Lisbon earthquake’s date of All Saint’s Day to suggest that God was punishing the Catholics. At Harvard professor and astronomer-scientist John Winthrop blamed volcanoes. </p> <p>By and large An Account of the Late Dreadful Earthquake and Fire… is written from neither a secular nor philosophical viewpoint. Rather it is a richly-detailed moment by moment account. It is a linear timeline written by an eyewitness who was literally on the shaky ground —when and where the dramatic event transpired.</p> <p>Charles Edwin Clark’s “Science Reason and an Angry God: The Literature of an Earthquake†in The New England Quarterly describes this narrow field of literature of the New England earthquake of 1755 —from the sermons to accounts such as the present example— as documenting a “science struggling to be born; a vigorous aggressive Protestantism on its way to becoming humanized and rationalized; a continuing consciousness of the uniqueness and special mission of America; and a scholarly approach in the best Puritan tradition to the problems of this world and the next.†Clark also provides an excellent and granular timeline of Boston’s printing and publication history concerning these two earthquakes.</p> <p>The verso of the half-title has an advertisement for the Boston edition of the Indian captivity of William and Elizabeth Fleming which is worth quoting at length: “A NARRATIVE of the Sufferings and surprizing Deliverances of William and Elizabeth Fleming Howes F-183 who were taken captive by Capt. Jakob Commander of the Indians who lately made the incursions on the frontiers of Pennsylvania as related by themselves. A NARRATIVE necessary to be read by all who are going in the Expedition The Kittanning Expedition a.k.a. the Armstrong Expedition as well as every British subject. Wherein it fully appears that the Barbarities of the Indians is owing to the French and chiefly their Priests. Price six Coppers.†After Braddock’s Defeat Capt. Jacob had terrorized the Pennsylvania population until a force armed Pennsylvanians killed Jacobs September 8 1756 in an retaliatory raid. The reader of this pamphlet would not have known of Jacob’s death because according to Clark it was published on April 1 1756.</p> <p>Evans 7602. ESTC W10073. Howes L-371 ref. ESTC records only 6 institutions all in America owning this. The “third American edition†i.e. the second is likewise rare. Ref. Maxwell Kenneth V — Lisbon 1755: The First ‘Modern’ Disaster but if modern how is it so accessed online.</p> unknown
