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1885000457James Pott & Co 1885. Hardcover. Very Good . 210 pp. or The Right Preparation of Candidates for the Laying on of Hands. Some minor edge wear to dark gren cover. Gilded lettering is intact. Pages are edged in red and unmarked. James Pott & Co hardcover
1853010269NY: Church Book Society 1853. Half-Leather. Very Good. 400 pages. The cover is half leather over boards. A collection of Episcopal tracts bound together. Tracts include: Letters to a Man Bewildered Among Many Counsellors by Rev. Henry C. Lay; The Good Way Or Why Christians of Whatever Name May Become Churchmen by Daniel Dana Jr.; Candid Hints Concerning the Protestant Episcopal Church by Daniel Dana Jr.; Unity and Its Restoration by Daniel Dana Jr.; Why Can't Our Ministers Preach in Your Pulpits by Daniel Dana Jr.; Letter to a Roman Catholic Disturbed by the New Dogma by Daniel Dana Jr. The cover shows light wear. The binding is sound. The text is clean with no markings there is a name stamped on the endpages. There is lught scattered foxing in the text. <br/> <br/> Church Book Society hardcover
190024751New York:The Abbey Press ca:1900. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:The Abbey Press. Reprint of the 1828 edition ca:1900. 163pp32pp ads. Hardcover. Boards lightly soiled with light mottling to front board and a light ink mark to front cover with darkening to spine strip Spine ends worn. Internally end-pages age toned but otherwise free of previous owners marks or signatures. A very good copy. New York:The Abbey Press hardcover
1884019919London: R Washbourne 1884 Copy in illustrated cloth on boards with bright gilt titles on cover and spine. Attractive private library bookplate fixed to front paste down. Interesting newspaper account pasted to rear of contents page recounting a great fire in the Paternoster Row area of the City of London. This fire in 1884 destroyed thirty-five printing and publishing buildings including the printers Pitmans where stocks of this title were held and destroyed by the fire. Consequently this is one of the few copies that survived and surprisingly it is in excellent condition. R Washbourne hardcover
184156989London: William Bell. Good with no dust jacket. 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition hardcover. Original cloth stamped in gilt and blind yellow eps. Wood-engraved frontis and illustrations in the text. Cloth sunned/stained outer front hinge splitting down 2" from spine head points bumped. Bookplate of John Bell Sedgwick. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xii342 pages . William Bell hardcover
184119498London: William Ball & Co 1841. First Edition. 8vo. xii 342 pp. Woodcut frontispiece & in-text illustrations. Publisher's blindstampedbrown cloth with gilt illustration of a Chinese person on front cover; gilt illustration on spine. A good copy 2 1/2" loss of cloth at spine head; splitting of cloth along front joint; some loss of cloth to spine end; soiling and general wear; corner boards showing; foxing; small paper loss to lower frontispiece but not affecting the image. William Ball & Co unknown
185981708Philadelphia: Charles Desilver 1859. Hardcover. Fair in boards. Spine badly worn. As is.; Large 8vo. Charles Desilver hardcover
1841355490714409London 1841. First Edition. Hard Cover. London: William Ball & Co 1841. First UK Edition. Professionally and sympathetically re-bound in half tan morocco leather with raised bands gilt and blind tooling to the spine. Gilt blocked impressions of Chinese figures laid down to front and rear boards. Titling to spine in gold leaf to red label. A lovely copy which shows really well. Rare hardcover
1828045839Wm. Lay And C. M. Hussey. Fair with no dust jacket. 1828. Hardcover. Hardcover; Hardcover. Full title: A Narrative of The Mutiny on Board the Ship Globe of Nantucket in the Pacific Ocean Jan. 1824 and The Journal of a REsidence Of Two Years on The Mulgrave Islands; with Observations on the Manners and Customs of The Inhabitants. Brown leather boards are frayed and rubbed bumped and creased. Spine has been recovered with a black leather strip and a small window has been cut away to show allow the title to show through. Foxing throughout. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.; 12MO . Wm. Lay, And C. M. Hussey hardcover
1880J6SGPBJ1IXLV1880. With 12 albumen prints ranging in size from ca. 16.5 x 23 cm to 21 x 28 cm. Collection of 12 vintage photographs from the late 19th century showing China Indonesia the Hawaiian Islands California and Egypt. Of the 4 photographs of China 2 show Hong Kong including one possibly by the famous Chinese photographer Lai Fong ca. 1839-1890 showing Queen's Road Central. The two rarest photographs show several of the 7500 imperial examination cubicles in Canton Guangzhou while a photograph by A Chan Ya Zhen shows the famous five-story pagoda on Kun Yam Hill in 1870. The Indonesian island Java can be seen on 3 photographs including one of lake Telaga Warna by the British firm Woodbury & Page based in Batavia Jakarta. Taken further to the west were 3 photographs of Hawaii probably all taken in or near Honolulu. A rare undated photograph of the statue of King Kamehameha was taken probably right after the unveiling ceremony in 1883 as it shows a small wooden fence around the statue which can be seen in an illustration in The Graphic 28 April 1883 but is absent from all later images. Of the 2 final images one by Isaiah West Taber 1830-1912 shows Midway Point in Monterey California and the other by Hippolyte Arnoux fl. 1860-1890 a group of Arabs and camels waiting for the ferry near El Qantara in Egypt. Most of the photographs are worn at the edges with small tears and folds and a few have small holes; one of the images of Hawaii with a waterstain at the lower margin. unknown