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1880051560Baker & Godwin. Good with no dust jacket. 1880. Hardcover. Hardcover. Maroon cloth boards with gold titling and illustration on front board and title and illusrations in black on rear board. Light soil. Board edges frayed. Professionally repaired spine. Paper over front hinge starting to tear. Binding is nice and tight. Water mark to lower margin edge of first few pages. One inch closed tear to tile page edge. Text pages are otherwise clean lightly tanned. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Baker & Godwin hardcover
188024582New York: Baker & Godwin 1880. First edition 8vo pp. 200; pictorial half-title engraved portrait frontispiece of McLean approx. 75 wood-engraved illustrations in the text many full-page; original pictorial pebble-grain purple cloth gilt-stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine with the printed presentation slip affixed to the front pastedown as common; spine ends a bit chipped front hinge starting else very good. Riling 1070: "A fantasy of arms.Literally a book in the style of a patent medicine brochure but applied to the consideration of arms rather than ailments. Baker & Godwin unknown
186410841DB1864. Paris Asselin 1864. VII 592 S. mit mehreren Textabbildungen. Unbeschnittene Original-Broschur Rücken mit Leinen verstärkt. Durchgehend mäßig braunfleckig Lagen vereinzelt etwas gelockert. Sonst in guter Erhaltung. Erste französische Ausgabe. - SGC II: II 229; vgl. Hirsch/H. I 461 diese Ausg. nicht. - Behandelt Entzündung Schwärung und Verhärtung des Gebärmutterhalses nebst Bemerkungen über die Leukorrhöe und des Gebärmuttervorfalls als Symptome von Uterinleiden. - Bennet wirkte ab 1844 in London an gynäkologischen und geburtshilflichen Kliniken. unknown
18507964AB1850. Paris Labé 1850. 2 Bl. XV 429 S. mit 12 Figuren im Text. Späterer Pappband. Vortitel und Titel mit hinterlegten Einrissen. Zu Beginn mit schwächer werdendem Wasserrand und gelegentlich stockfleckig. Erste französische Ausgabe. - SGC II: II 229; vgl. Hirsch/H. I 461 diese Ausg. nicht. - Behandelt Entzündung Schwärung und Verhärtung des Gebärmutterhalses nebst Bemerkungen über die Leukorrhöe und des Gebärmuttervorfalls als Symptome von Uterinleiden. - Bennet wirkte ab 1844 in London an gynäkologischen und geburtshilflichen Kliniken. unknown
1876RCOFWIN00tpmSmithsonian Institution 1876. Good. Coffin James Henry. The Winds of the Globe. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Volume XX. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution 1876. 756pp. Illustrated. Small folio. Teal cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Book condition: Good with lightly soiled extremities bumped edges and chipped spine ends. Ex-library with a small label on the spine and inserts on the front pastedown as well as a stamp on the title page. The hinges are weak and the rear hinge is slip. Pages slightly yellowed. Several charts and fold-out maps at the rear of the book. Smithsonian Institution hardcover
1875135190Washington DC: The Smithsonian Institution 1875. Hardcover. G Ex-library with usual library markings bookplate on front inside cover pages are tanning in margins plates are good and many are pull-out line drawing maps hinges are good rebound cover shows minimal edge wear book weighs 7 lbs. Green cloth library binding 756 pp. 26 plates. Number 268 in the series Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. James Henry Coffin 1806-1873 was a mathematician meteorologist and college professor. Series Title is on spine. Additional credits on title page: The tables completed on the author's decease and maps drawn by Selden Jennings Coffin with a discussion and analysis of the tables and charts by Dr. Alexander Woeikof. The Smithsonian Institution hardcover
1893355490718286London: Macmillan 1893. First Edition. Hard Cover. First UK Edition FIRST ISSUE Macmillan. 47 page publishers catalogue dated January 1893 at end last leaf with marginal tear and loss one or two marginal spots original blue cloth gilt to the spine and front board dark green end-papers spine lightly faded with small nicks and splits at ends and lower joint joints and edges a little rubbed. Overall a VG copy. No D/W. Edel & Laurence A37. Very rare first issue copy with Copyright 1892 by Macmillan & Co. to the verso of the title page. Note THIS COPY SHOULD BE DIFFERENTIATED FROM THE READILY-AVAILABLE SECOND ISSUE: On the cancel title-leaf in the second state the copyright date is altered to 1893. With a single exception all copies examined contain a cancel title-leaf. An apparently unique copy discovered by I.R. Brussel and recently added to the Collamore Collection at Colby contains a first-state title-leaf. Edel & Laurence. Photographs/scans available upon request. Macmillan hardcover
185455740London: Richard Bentley. Very Good. 1854. Third Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Contemporary blindstamped cloth spine gilt red eps. Boards toned/stained points bumped edgewear. Half titles folding frontis map frontis view. Viii 423; viii 421. Scattered foxing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Richard Bentley hardcover
1848244622New York: Harper and Brothers 1848. First edition. 2 folding maps. 229 2 8 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original red cloth. Very good some wear and small loss at top of spine. Bookplate of James Torr Harmer. First edition. 2 folding maps. 229 2 8 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Sabin 10905 Harper and Brothers unknown
184818626New York: Harper and Brothers 1848. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. The first edition of The Battle of Buena Vista With The Operations Of The "Army of Occupation" For One Month by James Henry Carleton from the library of Colonel T.L. Alexander who fought in the Mexican Wars. Octavo vii 238 2 8pp ads. Brown cloth title stamped in gilt. Fraying of cloth at heel of the spine 2cm loss at head of the spine. Solid text block. Even toning throughout faint foxing limited impact to text. Complete with two folding maps including the "Plan of the Battle of Buena Vista" and "Map of the Country of Buena Vista." Bookplate of "T.L. Alexander / U.S. Army" on the front pastedown. Sabin 10905. Col. Thomas L. Alexander 1807-1881 a veteran of both the Black Hawk and Mexican wars graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1830 and entered the United States Army as a second lieutenant in the 6th Infantry. His long career included frontier service combat against the Sac Indians in the Black Hawk War Battle of Bad Ax service in the Florida Indian campaigns and distinguished action in the Mexican War at Vera Cruz Cerro Gordo Contreras and Churubusco for which he received a brevet promotion to major for gallantry. Rising to lieutenant colonel Alexander later served in senior administrative roles as Deputy Governor of the Military Asylum at Harrodsburg Kentucky and for six years as lieutenant governor of the Soldiers' Home near Washington D.C. He retired from active service in 1863. He was a founding member of the Aztec Club of 1847 along with future presidents Franklin Pierce and Ulysses S. Grant. His wife was a longtime friend of Mary Todd Lincoln often sharing correspondence and visiting the Lincoln's at the White House in 1864. Harper and Brothers unknown
190024138Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company ca. 1900. First edition later issue. 8vo publisher’s original brown cloth with gilt decorations and lettering to the upper cover and spine panel. 473 pp. A bright and handsome copy rear inner hinge with some wear some old unobtrusive evidence of damp. EARLY PRINTING OF THIS ICONIC WORK BY THE MASTER STORY-TELLER. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
186920549Boston, Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869. In-8°, xv-243 pp., intérieur frais (qqs. traits marginaux aux crayon, déch. marginale restaurée en p. 203, mors intérieurs fendu mais néanmoins solidaires). Reliure d'éditeur pleine percaline brune, décors estampé à froid sur les plats, dos lisse titré doré (reliure lég. frottée, coins inf. écrasés, coiffes arasées, mors fendus sur +/-6 cm).
186920549Boston, Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869. In-8°, xv-243 pp., intérieur frais (qqs. traits marginaux aux crayon, déch. marginale restaurée en p. 203, mors intérieurs fendu mais néanmoins solidaires). Reliure d'éditeur pleine percaline brune, décors estampé à froid sur les plats, dos lisse titré doré (reliure lég. frottée, coins inf. écrasés, coiffes arasées, mors fendus sur +/-6 cm).
1895021892New York: Harper and Brothers 1895. First American Edition. Octavo. The author's fascination with the supernatural in the 1880s this collection explores the sadness of loss both physical and spiritual and finds James at his best while providing a glimpse of how the author dealt with death in his own life. Harper and Brothers unknown books
189810822James H Stark. Very Good- with no dust jacket; Original Brn cloth with blk lettering and . grn image on front gilt spine lettering ; spine edges and corners rubbed; . No marks or writing clean tight binding;. 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Wonderful b/w photos with two fold out maps indexed and several pages of ads; ; Illustrated; 207 pages . James H Stark hardcover
181211469Cambridge: Sumptibus Collegii SS. Trinitatis.joannes Smith. Good with no dust jacket. 1812. First Edition. Hardcover. Xvii iii 334 pages. Index Auctorum Rerum Verborum. Corrigenda Octavo. In what appears to be original grey-green cloth with blind stamped borders and design gilt to spine. Spine is darkened spine tips bit worn edge wear old black tape at bottom front cover interior yellow end papers with tide marks at bottom front and back rear inside cover has library stamp some foxing throughout most pages never separated otherwise clean and unmarked. In Latin with extensive Greek in a very nice crisp and dark typeface. Aged but still respectable and sturdy. The scarce first edition of Porson's Adversaria edited from his notes after his death by fellow scholars Blomfield and Monk. It includes Porson's notes on Athenaeus and the Greek poets and his prelection on Euripides. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 334 pages . Sumptibus Collegii SS. Trinitatis,..joannes Smith hardcover
1874030825Paris: P. Asselin 1874 Book. Very Good -. Half-Leather. Cover has light edgewear and rub marks. RARE copy of this late 19th century French work on pulmonary tuberculosis "par l'hygiene les climats et la Medecine dans ses rapports avec les doctrines modernes" with the author being "Docteur en Medecine de la Faculte de Paris ex-interne des Hopitaux de Paris membre du College Royal des Medecins de Londres" etc. Inscription on half-title page could be from the author. P. Asselin hardcover
184610840DB1846. Winterthur Steiner 1846. XIV 176 S. 2 Bl. Unaufgeschnittene Original-Broschur mit 2 kleinen Fehlstellen. Durchgehend mäßig stockfleckig und Papier leicht knitterfaltig. SGC II: II 229; Engelmann 51; Hirsch/H. Erg.-Bd. 87; Garrison/Morton 6036 zur engl. EA. 1845: 'Bennet was the first to differentiate between benign and malignant uterine tumours.' - James Henry Bennet 1816-91 studierte und promovierte in Paris und wurde in London ein hervorragender Gynäkologe und Geburtshelfer. unknown
184611409AB1846. Winterthur Steiner 1846. XIV 176 S. 2 Bl. Halblederband der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und filigraner goldgeprägter Ornamentik sowie umlaufendem Marmorschnitt Bezugspapier und Vorsätze erneuert. Innen sehr sauber. Einwandfrei erhaltenes Exemplar. SGC II: II 229; Engelmann 51; Hirsch/H. Erg.-Bd. 87; Garrison/Morton 6036 zur engl. EA. 1845: 'Bennet was the first to differentiate between benign and malignant uterine tumours.' - James Henry Bennet 1816-91 studierte und promovierte in Paris und wurde in London ein hervorragender Gynäkologe und Geburtshelfer. unknown
1871e2082London: J & A Churchill. G : in Good condition. Some foxing. Unopened. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. 1871. Second Edition. Green/gilt embossed hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 140mm 9" x 6". x 190pp 40pp catalogue. . J & A Churchill hardcover
1872012529New York: Appleton. Original green cloth. x 190 pp. Darkening of spine slight fraying at head and foot of spine slight corner and spine edge wear foxing Good. . Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 1872. Appleton hardcover
18777963AB1877. 3rd edition. London J. & A. Churchill 1877. 1 lith. Taf. XVI 260 S. 1 Bl. 23 1 Anzeigen-Seiten. OLwd. leicht fleckig. SGC I: I 869 EA London 1858. - Bennet 1816-91 der als erster zwischen gut- und bösartigem Gebärmutterkrebs unterschied s. Garrison/Morton 6036 war Member of the Royal College of Physicians. unknown
1877184051London.: Published by J & A Churchill. 1877. 3rd edition. Dark green cloth gilt spine title blindstamped borders. Pages lightly yellowed otherwise a fine copy. 8vo. 1`22.5x14.5 cm. Gift inscription by author in French on half title. Published by J & A Churchill. hardcover
1876e5912London: J & A Churchill. G : in Good condition. Cover lightly rubbed. Chip to spine head. Browning to prelims. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Library in Ireland. 1876. Second Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 140mm 9" x 6". xvi 248pp catalogue. . J & A Churchill hardcover
1858e5912aLondon: John Churchill. G : in Good condition. Cover lightly rubbed. Browning to prelims. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Library in Ireland. 1858. First Edition. Brown/gilt hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 140mm 9" x 6". 210pp catalogue. . John Churchill hardcover