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18531173555Washington DC: US Congress 1853. 1st. 12mo 55pp Very Good condition with light foxing typical for a document of this age.<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Ephemera Binder 3. 1173555. Shelved Rockville Bookstore. US Congress unknown books
185828061Washington D.C.: Printed by Lemuel Towers 1858. 16pp folded and loosening. Caption title as issued printed in double columns. Light scattered foxing. Good. <br/><br/> "I rise to defend the right of the white man to govern himself." This means the white territorial inhabitants of Kansas have the right to prohibit Negro Slavery. Printed by Lemuel Towers unknown books
185917277Washington 1859. 15 1 blank pp double columns disbound. Light tanning minor foxing. Very Good. unknown books
183012171Washington 1830. 8vo. 1 f. <br><br>Opposes the removal of the Cherokees and other Indian nations from their ancestral lands. Government document: 21st congress 1st Session. Rep. No. 255. Ho. of Reps. Removed from a nonce volume; inner margin a little irregular. Light spotting. First page with inked numeral in upper margin. unknown books
1864229081864. 11 1 blank pp. Caption title as issued but with imprint on the wrapper which is lacking; disbound light tanning. . unknown books
185728498Boston: Phillips Sampson and Company 1857. Original brown publisher's cloth with elaborate gilt stamped spine & boards stamped in blind. Yellow advert eps. Gilt bright. Square & tight. Light wear at extremities with usual bit of foxing present. A VG copy. 471 pp. Frontis. 12mo. <br/><br/> Phillips Sampson and Company hardcover books
184016736Washington: Globe Office 1840. 16pp double columns disbound. Scattered foxing. Good. Globe Office unknown books
1878RO40117076Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig. 1878. In-16. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. défraîchie, Dos frotté, Intérieur acceptable. 271 pages. Titre et tomaison dorés sur le dos.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
18472305231Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co 1847. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Surface tear on rear board rear board lightly soiled pencil note on front free endpaper. 1847 Hard Cover. 463 pp. "Zachary Taylor November 24 1784 Henry T. Coates & Co hardcover books
183326719New York: Harper & Brothers 1833. 12mo. 324 pp. 8 leaves of ads. <br><br>First American edition following the London edition from Longman Rees Orme Browne Green & Longman in the same year. Contents include: The pre-eminence of poetry among the fine arts; What is poetical; The form of poetry; The diction of poetry; Various classes of poetry; On the poetical character; the themes and influences of poetry; A retrospect of literature; and A view of modern English literature.<br>Â Â Â Â In series: Harper's family library vol. LXIV i.e. 64. Publisher's tan cloth printed with publishing information on front cover and ads for various Harper Library series on the back. Strip of cloth tape at top of spine and slightly on the covers. Exsocial club library: 19th-century bookplate call number on endpaper pressure-stamp on title-page no other markings. A very good copy in original and early American publisher's full cloth binding. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1872RO60062630Bernhard Tauchnitz. 1872. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Coiffe en pied abîmée, Intérieur frais. 288 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
183568522Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1835. original brown cloth paper spine labels. 8vo. original brown cloth paper spine labels. 8 256 pages. Volume Two of two. First edition. BAL 1155. State B of the paper spine label with text printed in all capitals. Also has an eight page section at the beginning describing new books issued by Carey Lea & Blanchard which is not noted by BAL. These ads refer to the second edition of both CAVALAR and THE INFIDEL. BAL notes a second edition of CALAVAR in 1847 but does not note a second edition of THE INFIDEL. Robert Montgomery Bird was a well-known Delaware author that resided in New Castle. "Fun fact: my parents bought Robert Montgomery Bird's home in New Castle DE at 212 Delaware Street. My mother actually still lives there today!" -Rob Fleck Director Oak Knoll Books. <br /> <br /> Covers worn and exlibris marking near head of spine. Carey, Lea & Blanchard unknown books
1838185195Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard 1838. Hardcover. G Cover has fading bubbling some edge damage. Spine has heave fading no lettering and some peeling. Bookblock has age toning. Interior pages have age toning foxing. Previous owners library sticker on inside front cover. Interior binding at front cover has damage. Volume 1 only. Brown cloth boards. 247 pgs. Introduction to poems by Charles Kent and others.<br/><br/>Contents: v. 1. Chapter introductory. Merry the miner. Tale of a snag. My friends in the madhouse. The extra lodger. Arkansas emigrants. Fascinating power of reptiles. Lea & Blanchard hardcover books
185335303Washington: Government Printing Office 1853. 8vo. 55 pp. <br><br>Report of Lieutenant Meigs with surveys plans and estimates for supplying the cities of Washington and Georgetown with water. Includes correspondence from John Torrey Emile Geyelin and Lorin Blodget. Senate executive document 32d Congress 2d session no. 48. Removed from a nonce volume. Government Printing Office unknown books
183117910Oxford: Pr. by S. Collingwood for Whittaker & Co. 1831. 8vo. 264 pp. lacking half-title. <br><br>Second edition of this poetic look at Oxford University by the author of the highly successful "Omnipresence of the Deity. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2M34090. 19th-century quarter cloth with plain paper-covered boards; binding worn and stained; covers detached. Ex-library: Covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct institution spine with paper shelving label title-page and several others stamped back free endpaper with pocket. Front pastedown with pencilled notations front free endpaper with early stamped owner's name. Half-title lacking. Sewing going with text block broken. A scholar's copy only. Pages with a few stray pencil marks; some dust-soiled. Pr. by S. Collingwood for Whittaker & Co. hardcover books
188158872Traduit de l'anglais par Lérida Geffroy, ouvrage illustré de 41 vignettes et de 6 gravures en chromotypographie, par Adrien Marie, 1 vol. in-8 cartonnage éditeur pleine percaline rouge, dos et plats richement ornés, coupes biseautées, toutes tranches dorées, Société Générale de Librairie Catholique, Victor Palmé, Paris, 1881, 215 pp. et 18 ff.
188829961Atlanta: Jas. P. Harrison & Co 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. x 343 pages. Frontispiece engraving of the author. Green cloth hardcover with gilt stamped title on front cover and spine. Cloth binding is shelf worn rubbed and chipped. Faded title on the spine. Foredge soiled. Interior contents clean. Name of J. Dewitt Burkhead Jr. written in ink top of the front paste down. Fair. Jas. P. Harrison & Co hardcover
1852337311Cleveland Ohio: Tooker and Gatchell 1852. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good ex-library in dark brown cloth covered boards missing the top third of the spine and the bottom half inch edgewear Yale University library bookplate dated 1889 on the front pastedown minor water stains on the foredge not affecting the internal pages. Tooker and Gatchell hardcover
1811262367Philadelphia: James P. Parke and Edward Parker 1811. Hardcover. Good. Two volumes in one. 12mo. iv 5-132; 126pp. Later 19th Century dark green quarter morocco and cloth boards. Presentation inscription in pencil dated 1891. Lacking the frontispiece plate hinges are cracked a few chips to the spine else a good sound copy. Shaw & Shoemaker 23412. James P. Parke and Edward Parker hardcover
182824435Philadelphia: Carey Lea and Carey; New York G. and C. Carvill etc. etc. 1828. 12mo. 192 pp. <br><br>First American edition. Montgomery 1807-1855 combined Byronic poetic charm with devout Christian belief to produce a book that was wildly popular during his lifetime with more than 40 editions! In addition to the main poem there are miscellaneous poems p. 121-192.<br>Â Â Â Â With the bookseller's ticket of "John P. Haven Theological Bookseller American Tract Society House No. 142 Nassau-street New-York" on the front pastedown.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Manuscript ownership "Ex libris G.R.W." William R. Wittingham fourth Anglican bishop of Baltimore a Latinophile who used "Guillelmus" for "William" dated July 28 1829; later in the diocesan library of Maryland; deaccessioned 2006. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shoemaker 34181. Uncut copy. Publisher's quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. Cloth split at joints front cover loosening. Spine discolored. Some foxing. Carey, Lea and Carey; New York, G. and C. Carvill [etc., etc.] hardcover books
1832913<p>Original 1832 hardcover complete in one volume. Leather cover shows edge wear notably on corners with faded label on spine. Pages clean with some liver-spotting. Previous owners' names inside front cover and on front endpape. Generally good.</p> J. Grigg hardcover
18930009732Chicago : Montgomer Ward & Co. 1893. printed wrappers. Very Good. 16mo printed drab folder pencilled sites on verso of folder <br/><br/>A handsome red-orange detailed and indexed map of the World's Fair.Printed by Rand McNally & Co. Montgomer Ward & Co. unknown
1889C52491London 1889. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Ex-library copy with a label on the front pastedown 'Watford public library' and stamps on the title page and verso title page. Slight rubbing and wear at spine ends otherwise sound used near very good. 4to. pp 190 iii 1 leaf of plates. Original publisher's green cloth lettered gilt at the spine. hardcover
182942759London: Longman Rees Orme Brown and Green 1829. Eighth edition 12mo pp. xviii 3 294; contemporary full green morocco covers ruled in gilt gilt-lettered spine a.e.g. yellow glazed endpapers; extremities a bit scuffed early 20th century bookplate on front pastedown; a very good sound copy. First published in 1812. Emory only copy in North America in OCLC. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green unknown
182942759London: Longman Rees Orme Brown and Green 1829. Eighth edition 12mo pp. xviii 3 294; contemporary full green morocco covers ruled in gilt gilt-lettered spine a.e.g. yellow glazed endpapers; extremities a bit scuffed early 20th century bookplate on front pastedown; a very good sound copy. First published in 1812. Emory only copy in North America in OCLC. <br/><br/> Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green unknown books
