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18792222086<p>Presumed first edition. Thick octavo. Frontispiece and four full page chromolithographs. Original green cloth stamped in black. No dust jacket. Good light soiling; minor rubbing. 584 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Guide to the management of a happy home children servants finances etc.</p><p>Useful to new bride and wife.</p> J. C. McCurdy & Co. hardcover books
18812222083<p>Early edition. Thick octavo. Illustrated. Lithographed frontispiece of 11 people seven adults and four children in a boat by Thos. Sinclair & Son.; color plate at page 460. Original gilt and black stamped decorative cloth a.e.g. brown coated endpapers inner joints cracked. No dust jacket. Good edges rubbed. 584 pages.</p><p>Engraved full page presentation leaf for L. D. Grid from N. E. Grid Bates Co. Mo Oct. 1887.</p> J. C. McCurdy & Co. hardcover books
1868List1022Oberlin 1868. Albumen photographs 2 ½ x 3 ½ inches on larger mounts. Some fading to one of the photographs other image with excellent contrast near fine condition overall. Near Fine. An uncommon early pair of views of the Second Ladies' Boarding House at Oberlin College in the 1860s taken at a time when Oberlin was one of few coeducational colleges having first admitted women in 1837. Oberlin's Second Ladies Hall was built in 1861-1863 and featured Itlianate architecture and a rooftop balcony. The building was opened for student accommodations in 1865. The first floor held an assembly room a reading room a dining room parlors and stewards' quarters. The second and third floors housed 100 women. The building was destroyed by a fire in 1889. unknown books
18022433S W Fores 1802. Loose_leaf. Hand colored etching. Very good. Williams Charles. A waggish sense of humor is presented here in this etching. A massive butcher presides in front of his stall pointing out the benefits of a gargantuan joint of beef. His clientele dressed in ostentatious costume look on as he points of the merits of his wares: "There is not such dignified Beef in the Market - believe me Right Honorable every Inch of it; Coronets marked in the fat and Genealogy in the lean - had it pon Honor - from my Lord cram Bullock - delicious! - you may smell the Oil Cake a mile - no vulgar ingredients - only half a Crown per pound - a mere trifle - I have indeed some low bred beef at Sixpence but I am sue Sir it would not suit your refined Taste." The gentleman answers: "Why look ye - Master Suet as I am not over ambitious if you please - I'll have a slice of the Citizen." His wife adds: "Husband dont be so Wulgar I say send home a Sir Loin of true Nobility." Light foxing small close tear to top edge. Past crease marks visible. <br /> <br /> <br/><br/> S W Fores unknown books
182526869Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1825. 12mo. Early dark green cloth-backed green paper boards titling within decorative devices gilt to spine. 1f. frontispiece engraved by J. Mitchell after Clennel depicting three gentlemen raising their glasses in a toast 1f. half-title with decorative device 1f. title 5-300 303-310 index pp. <br/><br/>Text only but with indication of tunes to which the text is to be sung in many instances. <br/><br/>Binding slightly worn bumped soiled and dampstained. Blank margins of some leaves moderately browned or slightly lacking affecting several letters; some foxing; offsetting from frontispiece to half-title. Rare. Worldcat 3 copies only of this edition at the Smithsonian Edinburgh University Library and Norfolk UK County Council Library; copies of all editions are quite scarce. Catalogue of English Song Books Forming a Portion of the Library of Sir John Stainer p. 65. Humphries & Smith p. 248. OCLC no. 28012823. Oliver & Boyd unknown books
184424937London: Sherwood & Co 1844. 5 volumes bound in 1. Small octavo. Newly bound in full marbled paper boards with printed title label to spines. <br/><br/>Vol. 1: Nos. 1 August 1842 - 6 January 1843. 48 pp.<br/>Vol. 2: Nos. 7 February 1843 - 12 July 1843. 48 pp. <br/>Vol. 3: Nos. 13 August 1843 - 18 Jan 1844. 48 pp. <br/>Vol. 4: Nos. 19 February 1844 - 23 June 1844. 40 pp. Lacking No. 24 July 1844.<br/>Vol. 5: Nos. 25 August 1844 - 26 September 1844. 16 pp. Lacking title table of contents and several issues.<br/><br/>With 2 preliminary leaves title and table of contents to each volume except Vol. 5. <br/><br/>Occasional light soiling and browning minor annotations in pencil and black ink; slight loss to lower corners of first volume not affecting music. Quite rare. OCLC incomplete runs only. <br/><br/>These volumes comprise several hundred melodies without text from operas popular songs dances and orchestral and chamber music. References are made to fuller versions e.g. with accompaniments in contemporaneous periodical publications in particular the Flutonicon and the Pianista. <br/><br/>A significant resource for tunes popular at the time. Sherwood & Co unknown books
187227077London England: Chapman and Hall 1872. xxi 365 pages; with the half-title. Folding frontispiece map "Itinerary Sketch of the Exploration of Indo-China between Saigon and Sou-Tcheou-Foo by the French Commission 1866 - 1868 Drawn out by Francis Garnier Lieutenant of the Vessel" with color route-lines; also with several black and white illustrations in the text. The explorations of these areas as recorded by Louis de Carne 1843-1871 son of the politician and academician Louis-Marie de Carne count of Carne-Marcein 1804-1876 was a French explorer. Appointed by his uncle the Governor General of Cochinchina Pierre-Paul de La Grandiere Louis de Carne participated as an attaché at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the French Mekong expedition from 1866 to 1868 under the command of Ernest Doudart de Lagree an expedition of which he was the youngest member. The only civilian in the mission and directly responsible to the governor he was often in conflict with the other members of the expedition because of his special position. He was tasked with the descriptive part of the trip and more particularly for commercial information. Seriously ill on his return he could not finish writing his travel notes. After his death it was his father who took charge of the preface and the publication of the book in 1872. This work was immediately translated and published in English." Writing of travels through Cambodia Angcor Bassac the Mekong Vien-Chan Kingdom of Luang-Praban; Bangkok; into the Burma territory; western China Yunan; concerns about the Mussulman insurrection in China and the Kingdom of Tali; the Blue River; the arrival at Shanghai and return to Saigon. Robson & Sons Printers London. Title page with the small and faint previous owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush; M.D. in the U.S. Navy; a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Volume approx. 6" x 8 3/4" size; bound in marbled-paper covered boards brown leather corners and spine; contrasting black leather label titles gilt; gilt floral decorations in compartments; all edges marbled to match; marbled endpapers. Some edge tips wear and rubbing to the binding; front endpaper scraped at edge; plate pages paper very darkened and with old dampstains; map clean as is the text in very good condition. First English Edition. Leather. Good. Chapman and Hall books
190024289Bruges Belgium: Grand Hotel 1900. 15 pages; black and white illustrated giving exterior and interior views; one of the hotel claims to fame is as being one of the residences of the poet Longfellow; no date circa 1900 their telephone number is "21"; approx. 5" x 8" oblong format; text in French and English side-by-side with the history of the hotel through the ages; printed at the presses of M. Herreboudt Bruges; light wear little soiling to illustrated stapled paper wrap covers; very good condition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Grand Hotel Paperback books
188627038Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1886. 4 ad pages xxxii 337 16 blank memoranda pages 8 pages of additional advertisements at back; with a useful index and an appendix with additional travel hints per country. Includes all folding maps per the list provided at the contents: Great Britain - Ireland in front pocket; London in back pocket; Continental Europe Switzerland and Paris all found within the text at their respective chapters. Title page with the small owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; in service as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Approx. 4" x 6"size; bound in the original gilt-stamped red full thin leather; spine chipped at edge of title; some edge tips wear and rubbing; loose maps with some browning darkening at folds; contents generally clean and in good condition. Edition for 1886. Leather. Good. Houghton, Mifflin and Company books
1893114556New York: The Century Company 1893. Hardbound. Internally VG but front cover present separated from binding; general wear to folio case. Printed boards in portfolio format. 64 full-page sheets of prints and images. Includes a listing of the contents of the 64 plates and where they first appeared. Also includes a list of the engravers sometime with biographical information. The Century Company hardcover books
189025635Syria: Not Published 1890. A calling card printed in letterpress Arabic and French: "R.P. Felix de Jesus Superieur du Mount Carmel Syrie." Not dated circa 1890. Approx. 2 1/4" x 3 3/4" size; printed black on off-white cardstock. A bit darkened a little tips edge-wear; in very good condition. Ephemera. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
1845401903New York: Harper & Brothers 1845. Third edition revised. Binding rubbed; foxed/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner M.D. 8vo. 644 pp. Contemporary sheep red morocco lettering-piece. "In 1839 Stewart translated Billard's The Diseases of Children from the French with an appendix of one hundred pages of Stewart's pediatric comments. His own Diseases of Children was first published in 1841. In it pathological anatomy and Laennec's innovation of auscultation were mentioned for the first time in an American pediatric text. About the year 1850 Stewart . originated a plan for the establishment of a hospital for children in New York City. When the institution was opened on March 1 1854 under the name of the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital it was the only hospital on this continent devoted to children. The New York Nursery and Child's Hospital was established for the children of wet nurses who had to neglect their own children in order to nurse the children of their employers" Cone History of American Pediatrics p. 81. Not in Cordasco. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers unknown books
18854839Manchester NH 1885. Quarto-sized sewn scrapbook 29 x 18.5 cm. 36 pages. A neatly assembled scrapbook of clippings mostly related to rural life and dairying in particular. Based on the typography of the clippings they are sourced from just a few newspapers. Subjects include: "The Flavor of Eggs" "Fish Ponds" "Canned Food" "German Hot Beds" "Sheep as Renovators" and more. A fair number of articles are on apples and cider including: "How to Gather Cider Apples" "Bottling Cider" "The Northern Spy as a 'Keeping' Apple" "Apples and Cider" and "The Market Apples of New England". The whole is neatly assembled and a rather nice book object. General wear and soiling otherwise very good. unknown books
184525725No Place Listed: Not Published 1845. Approx. 3 1/8" x 4" size bound in plain paper. Cover paper darkened; spine paper covering chipped away at bottom revealing cloth reinforcement as headband; cover chipped at edges; some spotting and foxing to leaves; generally clean very legible and in good condition. Manuscript. Soft Cover. Good. Not Published paperback books
18462556West Point NY 1846. Cream paper creased. Good. 25.5 x 19 cm. Margaret Stebbins Scammon writes her brother from West Point where her husband E. Parker Scammon is an officer with the United Army Corps of Topographic Engineers. Parker would later command the 23rd Ohio Regiment during the Civil War. <br /> <br />Good Friday Morn. 1846 <br /> <br />My Dearest brother <br /> <br />Parker fully intended to cover this envelope to you but as he was about doing it the Quartermaster must needs send for him to come to the Library for some important briefings: and so he begs me to write for him and apologize to the best of my ability for the non-appearance of your beer. You must have thought him very neglectful and tho' it is rather an awkward task I will tell you the whole truth. If you will have patience to wait till the end of this month it shall then be forthcoming. He expected to order it on the 1st but our cook took it into his head to go back to the city to live and as we had at his own request kept back the quarter part of his wages for 18 months you must know our last month's pay went with a rush and as we are so involved on every side we wont borrow and therefore all parties ourselves included must wait till after another visit from the Paymaster for our good beer. I have thus most frankly stated to you the case and I hope you will excuse it. We remember that we are still considerably in your debt so that it is with great pleasure that P. will attend to your order just so soon as circumstances will permit. I think the value of the empty half barrels returned is $1.50 each and they quite well have them as money. They are returned at any time and credited to sender. <br /> <br />We are looking forward to your visit in June or July with impatience. Do not disappoint us. <br /> <br />Your very aft sister <br /> <br />Margaret <br /> <br /> <br />The letter is addressed to Margaret's brother - Mr. John B. Stebbins Care of Homer Foote & Co. Springfield Mass. We know the merchant her brother worked for Homer Foote had become a very wealthy retailer in Springfield and assume that John B. was successful as well. <br />Letter has some foxing and tears in areas where there is creasing. Red West Point stamp is faint along with the number 5. <br/><br/> unknown books
1894305505<p>Oblong octavo 9 5/8" x 6 1/4". 16 pages of plates from photographs accordion style panorama with captions in English German French and Spanish. Original elaborately gilt stamped red cloth later red cloth spine; corners and edges worn. Good. No signatures or bookplates. Numerous views of San Francisco Sausalito etc.</p> [San Francisco? Hergert & Frey?] hardcover books
188225318Sergiyev Posad Russia: I. Efimova 1882. 186 4 pages. Including a double-page color tinted lithograph view of the monastery grounds and architecture; at back is a double-page map-plan giving the geographical position of the monastery and the layout of the grounds within the wider community; a number key with description is on the following pages. Text entirely in Cyrillic describing in a chronology the history of the monastery established by one of the most important Russian Orthodox patron saints of Russia the monk Sergius of Radonezh Saint Vartholomei Kirilovich. With the occasional marginal pencil comment and mark. Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2" size; bound in the original finely pebble-textured dark teal cloth. Edge-wear tips wear-through; spine cloth fraying and loosening at bottom. Remains of old label old sticker with number on front board; no blank free endpapers; a couple of pencil numbers and a pen number and with the stamp of a church library with a central illustration of the same & another rectangular stamp that is partially incomplete throughout. Text generally clean and very good; lithographed plate & the map also in very good condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. I. Efimova hardcover books
186283231Paris: Didier 1862. Hardcover. Good. xvii 452p. Old but probably later quartercloth binding. 19cm. Cover scuffed and moderately worn. A few corners creased. French text. <br/><br/> Didier hardcover books
18932222201<p>First edition. Octavo. B/W illustrations and maps. Original stiff pictorial wrappers. No dust jacket. Good. 224 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Various advertisements includes Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.</p> Rand, McNally & Company paperback books
189489582London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society 1894. Paperback. Very Good. index v 52p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm.Modest chipping and browning around cover edges. Unopened. Edited by Titus Tobler and translated from Tobler's text by Aubrey Stewart. <br/><br/> Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society paperback books
1880WRCLIT82868New York London and Paris: Cassell & Company 1880. 312pp. Small quarto 26.5 x 19 cm. Chocolate brown pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black. Frontis and 100 illustrations. Inner hinges cracked due to heavy textblock closed tear in fore-edge of front free endsheet some rubbing at extremities text block tanned; still the binding bright with inset pictorial vignettes devoted to "Air" "Art" and "Architecture." Unspecified undated printing of this popular homage to the virtues of work published at the dawn of the Machine Age. Cassell & Company hardcover books
184729827Paris: Aubert & Cie 1847. 267 x 225 mm. good margins sheet size 324 x 250 mm. Printed on wove paper. Signed by the artist in the stone. A very good impression. <br/><br/>This humourous print depicts a young lady playing a piano duet with a somewhat Liszt-like gentleman. <br/><br/>Remants of mounting tape to right edge and upper corners of verso. Bibliothèque Nationale Inventaire du Fonds Français après 1800 no. 70. No. 4 in the series Les Bonnes Têtes Musicales. Aubert & Cie unknown books
189524890No Place Listed: Not Published 1895. A collotype of this statue of Sir Francis Drake in Great Britain attached at top back edge only to a cardstock window-matte. Collotype approx. 6 1/2" x 8 1/2" overall size with some rubbing of the paper in the right margin. Matte measures 10" x 12"; some edge-wear; in very good condition. . Photograph. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
187523707France': No Photographer Noted 1875. Carte-de-Visite Photograph Portrait of a Painting of Our Lady of Sorrows the Mater Dolorosa; approx. 2 1/2" x 4" size; identified on front of mount; no studio identified; no date circa 1875; some light wear to mount; in very good condition. Photograph. Not Bound. Very Good. No Photographer Noted Paperback books
189022854No Place Listed: No Photographer Noted 1890. Two negatives on glass plates; depicts rocky shoreline sailing vessels close-in to coast populated small island - perhaps Deer Island area or other resort; approx. 4" x 5"; no photographer or studio noted; not mounted; one plate with a little loss of image in the outer border chipped emulsion; in good condition interesting 19th century photographic work from the age of sail. NOTE: Lamp shadow is not in the image plate; our images show these negatives converted to positive via software. Photograph. Not Bound. Very Good. No Photographer Noted Paperback books
