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1833247284London: Richard Bentley New Burlington Street 1833. First Edition. xii 331 1; iv 341 1 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary quarter tan calf and marbled boards. Ticket of R.E. Narby Bookseller & Printer Warminster. Bookplate. Fine. First Edition. xii 331 1; iv 341 1 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Founder of the "New Colonization System". Following imprisonment Wakefield began to study colonial affairs of Australia with an eye towards immigration. Recognizing that the depressed condition of Australian affairs was due to a lack of efficiency and sensible handling he gathered his theories for correcting the problems and first published them in "A Letter from Sydney" London 1829 under the name Robert Gouger. It was so well done that the author was supposed to be an immigrant. He revised and refined these views for his "New Colonization System" in "England and America" as the chapter the "Art of Colonisation." The theories for his "System" were to abolish free grants of agricultural land requiring a fixed price which would be kept low enough so that a laborer would be able to purchase land after a few years this to reduce the number of ex-convicts laborers from receiving land for which they had no use to regulate immigration and to use tax monies from the rental of grants to bring laborers to the colonies. One of the main results of his publications and efforts was the founding of the National Colonization Society and then the South Australian Association the latter intended to be based upon Wakefield's theories. He was also a close advisor to the Molesworth Committee. On the appointment of Lord Durham to Canada in 1838 Wakefield became interested in that territory and is credited with having greatly assisted Durham with his famous "Report on the Affairs of British North America." He also acted as an adviser to Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe in Canada in the 1840's. In 1837 Wakefield had formed the New Zealand Association and spent most of years following directing the affairs of the association from England while his brother William Hayward Wakefield directed and managed it from New Zealand. Kress C3643; McCulloch's "Literature of Political Economy" 1845. p 94; Sabin 100976; Palgrave III p. 648; Goldsmiths' 27890 Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street unknown books
183321655London: Richard Bentley 1833. First edition. 331; 341pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. Binding wornboards detached but present browning of text some excisions in margins of a few pages including the title bookplates removed with an inscription on both volumes reading "1835/ To be returned in a Fortnight/ Mr. Adam President" else a very good copy. First edition. 331; 341pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Founder of the "New Colonization System". Following imprisonment Wakefield began to study colonial affairs of Australia with an eye towards immigration. Recognizing that the depressed condition of Australian affairs was due to a lack of efficiency and sensible handling he gathered his theories for correcting the problems and first published them in "A Letter from Sydney" London 1829 under the name Robert Gouger. It was so well done that the author was supposed to be an immigrant. He revised and refined these views for his "New Colonization System" in "England and America" as the chapter the "Art of Colonisation." The theories for his "System" were to abolish free grants of agricultural land requiring a fixed price which would be kept low enough so that a laborer would be able to purchase land after a few years this to reduce the number of ex-convicts laborers from receiving land for which they had no use to regulate immigration and to use tax monies from the rental of grants to bring laborers to the colonies. One of the main results of his publications and efforts was the founding of the National Colonization Society and then the South Australian Association the latter intended to be based upon Wakefield's theories. He was also a close advisor to the Molesworth Committee. On the appointment of Lord Durham to Canada in 1838 Wakefield became interested in that territory and is credited with having greatly assisted Durham with his famous "Report on the Affairs of British North America." He also acted as an adviser to Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe in Canada in the 1840's. In 1837 Wakefield had formed the New Zealand Association and spent most of years following directing the affairs of the association from England while his brother William Hayward Wakefield directed and managed it from New Zealand. Kress C3643; McCulloch's"Literature of Political Economy" 1845. p 94; Sabin 100976 Richard Bentley unknown books
19632300657The Garden Club of America 1963. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. No jacket. A nice copy. 1963 Large Hardcover. 98 pp. A history of the Garden Club of American spanning over fifty years. The Garden Club of America hardcover books
197560996New York: Bonanza Books 1975. Reprint of the 1926 original. 4to. xiii 67 pp. Architectural plates from photographs with captions for each. Bookplate some foxing a good solid copy. Tan cloth spotted. #8073. <br/><br/> Bonanza Books hardcover books
25951Holden A. CURTIS Elizabeth Gibbon. GATEWAYS AND DOORWAYS OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLIN New York: Architectural Book Publishing 1926. 4to. Cloth. Frontispiece xiii i pages 68 plates. First edition. Photographs of ironwork doorways and gateways with contributions by Maxwel Kimball and Arthur Holden. Cover worn; internally fine. unknown books
1896292718London: John Murray 1896. Three Quarters Leather. Good binding. The set in two volumes in three quarter burgundy morocco over cloth; marbled endpapers. The joints are a bit tender especially the front joint of Volume I. It has just begun to separate but is still holding pretty well. Good binding. John Murray unknown books
1963WRCLIT83522New York: Norton 1963. Cloth boards. Later impression of the U.S. edition. Fine in very good dust jacket with short tear. Norton hardcover books
196330212London: Cassell. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. First British edition. Publication date blacked out on copyright page else very good in a good small ring stain on rear panel dust jacket. . Cassell hardcover books
194851422New York: Rinehart 1948. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 249pp. Minor sunning to spine of jacket and boards. Trivial shelf wear to boards else a tight clean unmarked copy. A few nicks and closed tears to top and bottom edges of mildly age-toned jacket. Very Good. Rinehart unknown books
1997Embry 157247Lawrence King 1997. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket with some light rubbing to rear panel in mylar cover. Hundreds of full and partial page color photographs. Lawrence King, 1997. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1959112359London: Cassell 1959. Octavo boards. First edition. Brief inscription by Fitz Gibbon to "John D" signed "Constantine" on front free endpaper. Miscellany of short fiction essays and "Paradise Lost" a three-act play. Mild bruises to lower corner tips some foxing to edges of text block a near fine copy in near fine dust jacket with some foxing to flap folds and several small internal tape mends. #112359 Cassell unknown books
19752195New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1975. Octavo boards. First U.S. edition. "In the third age of human history after the Monster had divided the world into two separate histories another Orpheus lives through the ancient myths." - Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 238. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #2195 W. W. Norton & Company unknown books
1975103335New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1975. Octavo boards. First U.S. edition. "In the third age of human history after the Monster had divided the world into two separate histories another Orpheus lives through the ancient myths." - Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 238. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #103335 W. W. Norton & Company unknown books
195022640London Toronto Melbourne Sydney Wellington: Cassell and Company Ltd. 1950. Octavo cloth. First British edition. The author's second novel. "Life in an occupied city during the 'Third World War.'" - Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 83. Reginald 05450. A near fine copy in about good dust jacket with shelf wear at edges and several long tears in rear panel with internal tape reinforcement. #22640 Cassell and Company Ltd. unknown books
19791318525New York: Crescent 1979. Hardcover. Quarto; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine black with white print; DJ has edgewear small tears at spine ends shelfwear; Boards in purple cloth with gold print peripheral toning else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; 93 pages illustrated color. 1318525. FP New Rockville Stock. Crescent hardcover books
1989126318Sacramento California: Crocker Art Museum 1989. Softbound. VG. Pictorial wraps 84 pp 49 color and BW plates plus additional images. Published for the exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum Sacramento CA September 16-October 29 1989 and the Laguna Art Museum Laguna Beach CA November 24 1989- January 28 1990. Crocker Art Museum paperback books
1878135043London: Macmillan 1878. Hardcover. Fair Ex-lib. labels at spines bookplate inside front covers pocket inside backs usual markings; Some wear to cloth particularly at extremities; Back board and last hundred pages of volume one show water damage only at the very top of the pages; Hinges cracking; Some pencil markings throughout but still very readable. Brown embossed cloth; Gilt titling at spine; 335 404 pp.; No illustrations other than title page of volume one. Scottish lawyer and writer; Founded the Edinburgh Phrenological Society in 1820; Combe's major work was The Constitution of Man. Macmillan hardcover books
187140718New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1871. 1st US edition. Not in Sadleir nor in Wolff though OCLC records 6 holding instituions. Original publisher's printed salmon paper wrappers sewn. Wear & soiling to wrappers with spine roll to volume. Spine paper worn with some paper loss & front wrapper nearly detached. A Good copy. 2 141 1 blank 2 pp. Text double column. Adverts first & last two pages. 8vo. 9-3/4" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/>A scarce novel by this British author who Sadleir tells us "was the sentimental counterpart of the sensational Farjeon and in his way as popular. Gibbon was of working class origin and by dogged self-education raised himself first to clerkship then to journalism and finally to the writing of successful fiction." Sadleir XIX C Fiction Vol I p. 139. Harper & Brothers, Publishers unknown books
97481hardcover. More than 145 color photos with captions. 68pp. Large 8vo cloth d.w. New York: 1979.<br/><br/> unknown books
1764WRCLIT35233London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt 1764. 6163pp. wanting the final blank and terminal ads. Octavo. Speckled calf rebacked in matching calf gilt extra gilt label. Restoration to blank portion of fore-margin of title otherwise a very good crisp copy. First edition in English of Edward Gibbon's first published work following its publication in French in London by three years. This edition omits the text of the "Avis au lectuer" as well as Dr. Maty's letter to the author which had appeared in the French edition. NORTON 6. ROTHSCHILD 939. ESTC T79690. Printed for T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt unknown books
176420791London: printed for T. Beckett and P.A. De Hondt 1764. First edition in English of Gibbon's first published work 12mo pp. 8 168 including ads; contemporary full speckled calf ruled in gilt leather spine label lettered in gilt previous owner's name written neatly in ink on title else a very good copy. In 1753 Gibbon a young man of twenty-five was sent by his father to Lausanne to study with the Calvinist minister Pavillard and did not return until 1758. By this time he had already begun his Essai sur l'Etude de la Litterature which he finished in England in 1759 where it was published on the urging of his father in 1761. Published in French the work found little audience in England but succeeded apparently abroad and it was reprinted in both Paris and Geneva in 1762. After its publication in English in 1764 it became highly sought after but Gibbon refused to republish it himself. Only one other contemporary edition appeared in 1788 in Dublin which was pirated. Contains a touching 5-page dedication to his father. Norton 6; Rothschild 939: The translation was not made by Gibbon though it was announced as being prepared "under the inspection of the author" Norton p. 4. <br/><br/> printed for T. Beckett and P.A. De Hondt hardcover books
2003WELLER9780375758119Modern Library 2003. New. New book. Modern Library unknown books
17883391London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand 1788. First edition. Near Fine. Mixed state combining aspects of Norton's variants a and b in Volume I. 6 volumes quarto 270 x 220 mm. Contemporary calf rebacked to style red morocco spine labels raised bands compartments elaborately stamped in gilt. Volume I with marginal stains affecting the running title to pages 87-88 and stains to the lower corners of 189-193 affecting no text; foxing to pages 42-61 and 392-402 of Volume II; Volume III with dampstains to headers of Contents not affecting text foxing to pages 16-25 and 1.5 inch tear to inner margin of folding map. Collating complete with engraved portrait frontispiece by Hall after Joshua Reynolds dated 1 February 1780 issued with the first edition of Volume II but bound in Volume I as usual; two engraved folding maps to Volume II and folding map to Volume III. All half titles and errata leaves present. Volume I in mixed state uncorrected up to page 183 with X4 signed and cancelled but a4 and b2 not cancels but signed; no cancels to Volume II; Volume III with page 177 correctly numbered and the misspelling to "Honorious" on page 179; Volume IV with no cancels.<br/><br/>"This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works which.maintain their hold on the layman and continue to stimulate the scholar.Gibbon brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equalled to this day" PMM. Scholars continue to discuss how Gibbon participates in eighteenth century trends of genre blurring and bending using paradigms of the romance novel alongside emerging modern scholarship to create a fascinating and readable history. Others note how "Gibbon's work occupies a peculiar position in the political and economic climate of the late eighteenth century because of its subject matter. The majority of the political structures considered in the Decline and Fall are absolutist monarchies dominated by the figure of the sacred king" -- a major contrast to the rise of democracies and the calls for economic mobility being made across Europe and the U.S. Cosgrove. An epic history in an incredibly addictive form the present is a beautiful clean and complete example.<br/><br/>PMM 222. Near Fine. W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand unknown books
19802309104Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1980. Limited Edition. Limited Edition. Near Fine/No Jacket. Piranesi Gian Battista. A couple minor blemishes on boards. 1980 Full-Leather. The first of six volumes and part of The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World originally published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. 471 pp. 8vo. Original full leather gilt titles and decorations all edges gilt silk moire endpapers ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with the complete Vedute di Roma of Giovanni Battista Piranesi with the Piranesi etchings of memorials and public works. The Franklin Library unknown books
59988NY:: Modern Library. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. N.D. Hardcover. Modern Library Giant number 7. Volume II only. A later printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Modern Library, hardcover books
