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189115302Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Good. 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Rubbed at the corners interior hinges cracking but the book is still tight. ; Ex-Library; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 523 pages . The Historical Society of Pennsylvania hardcover
188615303Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Good. 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. The contents are partially unopened but the covers are very worn. Happily the binding is still very tight. ; Ex-Library; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 508 pages . The Historical Society of Pennsylvania hardcover
1842035555Windsor Berks U.K.: Printed by J. B. Brown Castle Street 1842. Ex-Library. Fair. Original Wraps. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original brown wraps lettered/decorated in black. 74 pp. Ex-library typically marked/stamped heavily worn. Front cover front flyleaf and main title all detached but present all chipped with edge loss and fragile main title with perforation stamp. Main contents complete and intact several chips of loss to margins and corners. Quite compromised but textually complete also excessively scarce and perhaps still useful to special collections concerning British royalty and Windsor Castle. Printed by J. B. Brown, Castle Street Paperback
188425492New York: The Washington Life Insurance Company 1884. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff green pictorial wrappers. Ca. 50pp. Illustrations. Very good. Minor edgewear; triangular chip from upper corner of first four leaves. Tight attractive copy of this annual with an insect theme illustrations and essays strewn amongst the usual almanac calendars. The Washington Life Insurance Company paperback
189224819Portland OR: Oregon Pioneer Association/A. Anderson & Co. Printers and Lithographers 1892. First edition . Soft cover. Very good plus. 80 pages including rememberences of pioneer members plus additional material. Frontis photograph of Joseph Watt. Small chip at head of spine. Mild toning to cover edges. Small bookstore sticker inside front cover. A very good plus copy. <br/> <br/> Oregon Pioneer Association/A. Anderson & Co., Printers and Lithographers paperback
1868100357Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1868 Paper. Fair. Soft cover. First Edition. "Transmitting in compliance with House resolution of the 8th instant relative to the trial of the United States steamer Wampanoag and vessels of that class with reports thereon". To the US House of Representatives 40th Congress 2d Session Ex. Doc. No. 339; July 20 1868. 47 pages. A bit tattered and soiled back page is nearly detached. Government Printing Office paperback
189817949Blairstown NJ: The Blairstown Press Print 1898. Hardcover. Small 4to. Cream and blue cloth with gilt. 78pp. Frontispiece numerous illustrations. Very good. Very mild edgewear with cream cloth slightly age toned and lightly soiled as usual. Sole edition of this institutional history. Tight and attractive. The Blairstown Press Print hardcover
18511294Harpers Monthly 1851. soft. 6.5"" X 10"". Publisher-Printing Location:Harper Brothers New York Date and Numbering:November 1851 Volume III Number XVIII Size and Page Count:6.5"" X 10"" Tall 155 pages including the Contents of this issue and the contents of the past Volume 3. Also the back cover with book advertizements including Moby-Dick and closing statement of Harper's New Monthly Magazine plans. <br />Condition: Good binding tight spine backstrip cover flaking off pages have usual yellowing and edges uncut and browning foxing a few pencil marks all edges darkened covers have a few tears <br /> Illustrations Information: 22 Woodcut Illustrations Articles and Information: Napoleon Bonaparte. IV. The siege of Mantua By John S.C. John Stevens CabotAbbott <b>With Woodcut Illustrations</b><br />Napoleon Bonaparte<br /> The Story of Reynard the Fox by J.W.vonGoethe and designs by Kaulbach<br />The story of an Organ Fratricide; Ghost stories Benson John Lossing<br /><br /> The Household of Sir Thomas More By Anne Manning Manning Anne; Death and burial; Diaries; Henry VIII 1509-1547; Humanists; More Thomas Sir Saint<br /> The flying artist Flying-machines; Herwitz Karl; Knowledge Flying-machines <br /> Seals and whales North Atlantic Ocean; Sealing; Seals Animals; <br /> Whales; Whaling Fiction <br />Maurice Tiernay the soldier of fortune chaps. XLIII-XLV By Charles James Lever Fiction <br /><br /> The floating island. A legend of Loch Dochart<br /> Siberia a land of political exile Application of electro-magnetic power to railway transit Electric equipment<br /><br /> The Stolen Rose Thomas Moore Biography; Poets Irish; Moore Thomas Fiction The fairy's choice Fiction A gallop for life Sketches of Oriental life. Life of a Turkish gentleman By Fred Arthur Neale Cyprus; Priests The shadow of Ben Jonson's mother Light tand air: Light absorption; Meteorological optics The widow of Cologne: Exile; Marie de Médicis Queen consort of Henry IV King of France Fiction My novel; or varieties in English life book VII chaps. XVI-XXII By Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton Fiction A scene from Irish life Fiction Scottish revenge Postal reform cheap postage: Postal service Syrian superstitions: Silkworms; Superstition; Syria Monthly record of current events/Department Monthly record of current events Editor's table/Article Editor's table: Emigration and immigration; Migration Internal Editor's table/Article Editor's table : Greece; Marriage customs and rites; To 146 B.C.; Women's rights Editor's table/Article Editor's table: Liberalism Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By Donald Grant Mitchell: Arctic regions; De Haven Edwin Jesse; Journeys; Franklin John Sir: Career in singing; Hays Catharine; Performing arts: Career in painting; Webster Daniel; Leutze Emanuel; Healy G.P.A. George Peter Alexander; Washington George; Portraits: Clipper ships: Paris France: Travelers: Smith Albert; Career in public speaking : Inventors: Traditional medicine: Johnson Samuel; Views on Scotland: Spelling ability : Psychology; Dexter Timothy : Birds; East Indies : Fires : Compulsive shopping : Composers: Foreign public opinion British; Yacht designers Literary tnotices/Review Literary notices: A biographical and critical dictionary of painters engravers sculptors and architects from ancient to modern times Book; A hymn for all nations: 1851 Book; Strickland Agnes; Alban. A tale of the new world Book; Taylor Bayard; Lossing Benson John; Cayley C.B. Charles Bagot; Dante Alighieri; Divina commedia Book; Episodes of insect life Book; Fish Franklin W.; Boardman Henry A. Henry Augustus; Mayhew Henry; Redfield J.S.; Huntington J.V. Jedediah tVincent; Abbott Jacob; Anderson James; Wilkinson James John Garth; London labour and the London poor Book; Malmiztic the Toltec; and the cavaliers of the Cross Book; Margaret: a tale of the real and ideal blight and bloom Book; Tupper MartinFarquhar; Reid Mayne; Queens of Scotland Book; Warren Samuel; Spooner Shearjashub; Creasy Edward Shepherd Sir; Judd Sylvester; The Bible in the family Book; The fifteen decisive battles of the world Book; The human body and its connection with man illustrated by the principal organs Book; The ladies of the covenant. Memoirs of distinguished Scottish female characters embracing the period of the Covenant and the persecution Book; The lily and the bee Book; The memoirs of Dr. Chalmers Book; The mind and the heart Book; The scalp hunters Book; The young Christian Book; Chalmers Thomas; Fosdick W.W. William Whiteman A leaf from Punch/Cartoon ---- Cartoon: Playmates Not a difficult thing to foretell: Fortune-tellersA leaf from Punch/CartoonCuriosities of medical experience : Drug use A leaf from Punch/Cartoon Retirement : Retirement Fashions for November/Department Fashions for November An excellent opportunity for the collector researcher or historian Harpers Monthly
185617299Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp viii 356 12 ads complete with 14 plates one more than called for in Wagner Camp 282:1. Publisher's blue cloth gilt spine. Rubbing to extremities spine slightly toned; very good. Upham was an ardent Fremont supporter and wrote this biography to bolster Fremont's bid for the Presidency in 1856. Ticknor and Fields hardcover
1898103651Chicago and Philadelphia: J. H. Moore & Co. 1898 Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. First Edition. "Containing full accounts of the lives and heroic deeds of about half a hundred illustrious men and women who have made our country great and our flag respected throughout the world. From the time of George and Mary Washington to Admiral Dewey and Frances Willard. Illustrated with magnificent full-page photogravure portraits and a wealth of other fine engravings." 406 pages. Moderate corner wear minor foxing. J. H. Moore & Co. hardcover
18675010048New York: G. W. Carleton & Co. Publishers 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary marks. Rebound. Sound binding and hinges. Tanned sometimes foxed pages. Paper over boards is scuffed soiled worn with label at lower spine. Civil War memoir. Ex-Library; 7.25" tall; 389 pages; Signed by Author. G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers hardcover
18842051London: Ward Lock & Co 1884. 360pp including front preface plates catalog. Dark red cover with embossed pictorials. Gold lettering on cover and spine. Corners are slightly worn. Hard Cover. Good. 7 1/4 X 5. Ward, Lock & Co Hardcover
185614491NY: Harper & Brothers. Very Good. 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Slightest rubbing at the spine ends & corners spine perhaps just a bit darkened. Tempting to call it fine especially for its age. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 335 pages . Harper & Brothers hardcover
18880005513Toronto: William Bryce 1888 . Revised & Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Good. 60 views on 57 litho plates. Folding map: "Map of the Dominion of Canada Showing Railway Connections from Atlantic To Pacific". Oblong 32mo 57pp. grey-blue pictorial scenic cloth needs to be recased. two short closed tears in margin of the folding map. <br/><br/>Issued as Bryce's Tourists' Illustrated Handbook to the Canadian Dominion. This work dated December 1888 reproduces Queen Victoria's commendatory note for Mr. Bryce done May 2 1889. Excellent views across Canada including the Falls of Niagara. William Bryce hardcover
189562320<p>Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Musty boards worn front boards spotted. 1895. Reprint. Hardcover. Navy cloth binding titled in gilt on spine. Top edges gilt xix 540pp engravings. Reprint of this 1867 title describing the natural history and collecting trip undertaken by the renowned naturalist and his wife to Brazil. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .</p> Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
1886326097New york: D. Appleton and Company 1886. first edition. hardcover. good/no dustjacket. 8vo. pp.585 ex library with all the usual markings D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1888035461Stockholm Sweden: Fahlcrantz & Co. 1888. Book. Illus. by O. Arborelius D. v. Essen A. T. Gellerstedt Rob. Haglund C. F. Hernlund P. D. Holm C. W. Jaensson et al. VG. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Original tan cloth illus./decorated in blue red and gilt with sepia and black pastedown illus. on front cover. Mild shelf wear a bit rubbed at corners and spine extremities with front cover decoration bright and intact lightly soiled cloth on rear cover. Original brown cloth hinges intact. Front flyleaf shows several creases and slight fore-edge chipping text block edges toned by age. Interior generally clean and intact with some leaves midway through text block showing light staining in upper binding margin not affecting text. Text in Swedish. Fahlcrantz & Co. Hardcover
1855033867Baltimore: T. Newton Kurtz 1855. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo. 131 pages. Hardcover bound in original embossed brown cloth with lettering and designs in gilt to the spine. Binding is worn and rubbed with bumps and fraying to the corners and edges. Contents are toned with dampstaining to the first 20 pages or so; binding is separating at the gutter following the front endpaper. Ownership signature of H. Alleman on front endpaper dated 1855. Ms. Alleman was connected with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Pennsylvania. <br/> <br/> T. Newton Kurtz hardcover
19001125558271Toronto: Copp Clark 1900. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. red buckram gilt decorated pictorial cover gilt decorated spine title page vignette top edges gilt new ed. rev. with a new pref. and 100 illustrations by Hugh Thomson. light wear at corenrs and spine ends. Copp, Clark, Hardcover
1885177809Torotno/Montreal: The Toronto News Co. & The Montreal News Co. 1885. First Edition . Hardcover. New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 16p covers. This original has been mounted in hard card covers to preserve it. An excellent example of the scarce first edition. <br/> <br/> The Toronto News Co. & The Montreal News Co. hardcover
1889053353Cambridge MA: University Press: John Wilson and Son 1889. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 167 pages. Soft cover bound in original brown printed wrappers now in a protective mylar jacket. There is moderate wear to the binding from handling. Covers are toned and have some smudging/dirt marks. The top of the text block shows some damping. There are a few minor tears to the back top edge. The text is clean and sound. No author stated but the front cover states "Printed For Sale At Mount Vernon. <br/> <br/> University Press: John Wilson and Son paperback
1860179450Montreal: Eusebe Senecal 1860. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 113pp Appendix i-xxvi Contents 1p. B/w frontis of the Price of Wales 16 full-page b/w plates 4 illus. in the text. Bookplate of a former owner on the front and rear endpapers names in ink of two contemporary owners on the front endpaper covers sunned. Overall a good to good copy of a scarce work. <br/> <br/> Eusebe Senecal hardcover
1893989531893. Softcover. Good/Paperback. 8vo. pp.52. faded covers. covers chipped and worn. both covers off. age toning on pages. paperback
187540990London: Hurst & Blackett. Good with no dust jacket. 1875. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. University library withdrawals in clean green cloth with bright gilt spine titles; light wear to spine ends; 3 of 4 hinges are cracked but otherwise tight with bright unmarked contents. Evidently a reference set as there are no rear card pockets. 374 pp 346 pp ; 720 pages . Hurst & Blackett hardcover
1884040832London: Chatto and Windus 1884. Book. Good. Decorative Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Complete in two 2 volumes uniformly bound in black pebbled cloth lettered on spine panel and with front cover illus. in gilt front cover lettered in blind. xii290 viii28332 pp. 115 illus. by the author Vol. II w/ 32- pp. publisher's catalog at rear dated Dec. 1882. Both volumes show approx. 1/4" strip of loss at heads of spines Vol. I also showing chipping at heel. Vol. I spine panel torn/mended with minor loss and a bit of raggedness along fore-edge of the first several leaves. Both volumes rubbed with exposure at corners. Institutional book plate mounted on front pastdown inside front cover of both volumes. Exteriors a bit shabby with firm bindings clean interiors. Chatto and Windus Hardcover