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1840023456London: John Snow 1840. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. Second Edition Corrected. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 288p.Illus. John Snow Hardcover
183447788New York: Harper & Brothers 82 Cliff-Street 1834. 1st Edition in English American Imprints 25805. Original publisher's brown pebbled cloth binding with printed paper title label to spine. General binding wear. Slight cock. Period poi to ffep. Foxing & staining throughout. Withal a VG copy. 192 3 - 28 pp. Publisher adverts double column last 26 pages. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-Street hardcover books
185420857New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1854. 12mo. lvi 390 pp. 5 ff. <br><br>Sole edition of these hymns without the music. James Montgomery 17771854 wrote these hymns possibly while in residence at Sheffield England "where he had come to be accounted a local hero and grew more and more in the respect of his fellow-townsmen by his exemplary life and activity in furthering every good work whether philanthropic or religious." DNB asserts that Montgomery was as a poet "only eminent in descriptive passages for which he is usually indebted to books rather than his own observation of nature. . . . On the whole he may be characterised as something less than a genius and something more than a mediocrity. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2M33990. Publisher's red cloth. Small areas of spine rubbed slight loss of cloth at head and foot. Covers with just a bit of soiling. Light foxing on initial and final leaves. Ex-library with paper shelf label on spine bookplate on front pastedown and call number in pencil on verso of title-page. D. Appleton & Co. hardcover books
183468523Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1834. original brown cloth paper spine label. 8vo. original brown cloth paper spine label. xxviii 29-278 2 12 pages. Volume 1 of two volumes. First edition of author's first book. BAL 1152. With a 12 page publisher's catalogue at the end of each volume - being state B in the first volume "Just Published . Private Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte". No priority assigned by BAL. 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 /> <BR> <br /> Label chipped. Spine faded. Boards rubbed. Carey, Lea & Blanchard unknown
1829C000023011London: Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis and Wightman & Cramp 1829. Hardcover. Very Good. 1829. 12mo contemporary full dark green calf with gilt lettering on spine 394 pp. a number of engraved plates including frontispieces very good lightest rubbing to binding old ownership stamp to endpaper nice embossed green tinted Wedgewood style plate not filled in with owner name. Includes at least three John Clare poems and a Coleridge contribution 'Fragments of lines on the Brocken.' RARE. Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis and Wightman & Cramp hardcover
187239630Wilmington: Johnston & Bogia 1872. original cloth. 8vo. original cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Israel Acrelius; xvi 17-310 pages. B1-488. B1-488. Second edition actually a second printing with a two page preface by the new publishers. History of the settlement of Wilmington De. followed by the author's recollections of the town. With a lengthy section on the Gilpins and their papermill and some notes on printers and booksellers. With the bookplate of the Bradford family. Also contains the following inscription "Given in 1904 to Alice E. du Pont by her mother Elizabeth Cauly Bradford du Pont. Give to my daughter Marguerite du Pont Boden May 12th 1938." With a further ownership inscription by A.E. du Pont. With a reference to pages 48 to 52 which discusses the du Ponts. Front cover detached and spine covering detached along front hinge. Johnston & Bogia unknown
18516307original outline colour steel engraving map from Tallis' 'Illustrated Atlas & Modern History of the World'; with decorative borders and vignettes of Benevento Naples and Vesuvius and others. J & F Tallis, London. paperback
1847310995J. C. Derby & Co. N. Y. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1847. Hardcover. Second printing of 1847. A biography of Zachary Taylor written before he became the 12th president of the United States. 360 pages. Heavy foxing to the interior page edges. Text is clear and crisp. Binding is tight. Original cloth binding. All pages present. No tears. Book is in Very Good condition considering it is over 150 years old. ; Standard Book Size . J. C. Derby & Co. , N. Y. hardcover
18514623London England: Paterson-Row 1851. Full-Leather. Very Good . Beautiful book very good condition leather is lightly warn at the edges of the binding. <br/> <br/> Paterson-Row hardcover
186322907New York: Hall Clayton & Medole Printers 1863. 20pp disbound with a bit of loosening. Foxed hole in lower blank forecorner of title page. Good to Good. <br/><br/> Blair rejects the 'State Suicide' notion-- advocated by the Rebels as well as Radical Republicans-- that the seceded States have lost their character as such; and though opposed to slavery he supports the removal of Negroes from the United States. "To free the slaves of the South without removing them would result in the massacre of them." As a military necessity Blair supports the Emancipation Proclamation and lauds Lincoln's "patriotism and comprehensive wisdom." <br/>Bartlett 476. Sabin 5749. Hall, Clayton & Medole, Printers unknown books
1851294822Philadelphia: T. K. Collins Jr. 1851. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in brown half-calf over marbled boards with matching endpapers; raised bands with burgundy and black labels with decorations stamped in blind; 367 pages; with a few pencilled notes; with frontispiece and three engraved plates protected with tissue guards; there is foxing pretty much throughout; some quite minor separation at the bottom of the front gutter.~~~Elizabeth Montgomery’s narrative history of Wilmington Delaware an important sourcebook for Wilmington history in the 1800. Previous owner’s notes and full-page inscription on the flyleaves. Very Good binding. T. K. Collins, Jr. unknown
185420386Phillips Sampson and Company. Good. 1854. Hardcover. Half leather bound cover is scuffed caps are frayed and partially chipped corners are frayed but cover is in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are lightly toned and in very good condition. . Phillips, Sampson and Company hardcover
18577834Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard 1857. 1st ed. 1857. Thick 8vo. xxiii 568 pp. 32 pp. ads. Illustrated including two colored plates. Original embossed brown cloth. Top edge brown. Wear at the spinal extremities and some cloth discoloration on spine onto front cover else a tight very good book. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1857. 1st ed. hardcover
186976366New York: G.P. Putnam & Son 1869. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Vintage photographic frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature. Front pastedown with bookplate some pages foxed and the front flyleaf excised; very good in cloth-covered boards with the cloth starting to split over the front joint. A number of engravings illustrate this combination naval account and travelogue. G.P. Putnam & Son hardcover
1872434340Wilmington Del: Johnston & Bogia 1872. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition. Octavo. 310 1pp. Red cloth with leather spine label gilt. Bookplate front pastedown some foxing mostly on the engraved plates and the tissue guards small nicks on the spine label a sound and very good copy. Johnston & Bogia hardcover
189071272Boston and Chicago: Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society in collaboration with Samuel Usher 1890. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 354pp. Octavo 19.5 cm Brown cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Brown floral endpapers. Covers cocked. Small dark stain to fore-edge of text block. Endpapers cracked along the hinges. Previous owner's private library bookplate on the front pastedown. "Jan 1890" in pen with a tiny crossed out notation at head of front free endpaper. Flake 5454. From the Preface- "Hitherto there has not been any one book published that gives all the essential facts about Mormonism and the situation in Utah."<br /> <br /> Marcus Whitman Montgomery 1839-1894 was a congregational clergyman and an instructor at the Chicago Theological Seminary. "The Mormon Delusion" was written in order to "expose" Mormonism. Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society in collaboration with Samuel Usher hardcover
1881291454Buffalo NY: H.H. Otis 1881. Paperback. 234p paperback several tiny chips and minor stains to edges of covers otherwise very good. Novel with Christian themes by the female evangelist and leading figure of the Divine Healing Movement. Montgomery was based in California from ca. 1890 to her death in 1946. H.H. Otis paperback
189830089Chicago: Montgomery Ward & Co 1898. 8vo. 96 pp. illustrated from engravings. Decorative paper wrappers. The wrappers are worn spine cover lacking; old tape has been applied to the spine to secure the detached wrappers. This comprehensive well-illustrated priced catalog has detailed descriptions. At the time this catalogue was issued Montgomery Ward was marketing an Aristotype paper. <br/><br/> Montgomery Ward & Co unknown books
189890098Reading PA: Times Book Print 1898. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Gilt spine lettering and Fleur-de-Lis decoration on silk covered boards. "With Compliments of Board of Trade of Reading Penna." in gilt on the front cover. 8vo 298 pages with a large folded map tipped onto the inside of the back cover. Book & map both fine. <br/> <br/> Times Book Print hardcover
18646015baONew York: James G. Gregory 1864. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. Civil War; slavery; U. S. constitutional history; 315p.; 19.4cm; embossed brown cloth water damaged; owner marks; not in Broadfoot Seagrave. James G. Gregory Hardcover books
186651175lx 775 pages with black and white portrait frontispiece additional decorative title page plus 15 colour lithographed plates numerous woodcuts in the text Published by William Collins, Sons, and Company hardcover
1867127123LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY 1867 Victorian Blue cloth blind blocked decorative frame to front with gilt blocked title and chamfered boards 220 x 170 pp. All edges gilt 60 pp. b/w steel engraved frontis 2 others. First Trade edition 1867 being the author's first book a touching story of a young child who's mother dies of scarlet fever. It was first aired in printed form to raise money for a charity bazaar and so impressed the novelist G. J. Whyte-Melville that he advised that it should be published. VG Book - mild general shelf wear to cloth - mainly colour rubbing no cracks to original pale yellow end papers light foxing to reverse of free end papers and last printed page no previous owner name or insc. occasional finger and general soiling to some margins binding generally sound but a little floppy due to glue to back strip failing. However in remarkable condition for a children's book over150 years old. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale. RICHARD BENTLEY hardcover
1864847B16London : Routledge Warne and Routledge 1864. Leather. Very Good. 6.5" by 4". Not Stated. A leather bound copy of the poetical works of James Montgomery with illustrations. James Montgomery was a Scottish born hymn writer poet and editor. This volume contains his poetical works including The Wanderer of Switzerland The West Indies The World Before the Flood and others. With eight plates. Collated complete. In full calf binding. Externally smart with some rubbing to the spine and light marks to the boards. Previous owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Previous owner inscription to the half title page. Light tide mark to the bottom of pages 205-210. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages. Very Good Routledge, Warne, and Routledge hardcover
1860859N12London: Routledge Warne & Routledge 1860. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 7". John Gilbert; J. Wolf; Birket Foster; Brothers Dalziel. An illustrated collection of poetry by James Montgomery. Edited by the nineteenth century cleric and author Robert Aris Willmott this collection of poetry by James Montgomery is accompanied by illustrations by Birket Foster and other popular Victorian illustrators. James Montgomery was a Scottish born hymn writer and poet whose concern for humanitarian causes is reflected in his poetry. Considered politically inflammatory at the time Montgomery was twice imprisoned for sedition first in 1795 for printing a poem celebrating the fall of the Bastille and secondly in 1796 for condemning a magistrate for using force to disperse a political protest in Sheffield. This volume contains thirty six poems including The Wanderer of Switzerland which addressed the French annexation of the titular nation and The West Indies a poem on the abolition of the slave trade. With a binder's sticker from Leighton Son and Hodge to the rear pastedown. Recased in the publisher's original red cloth binding. Externally smart. Lightly rubbed to the boards and the spine. A little bumped to the head and tail of the spine with a small closed tear in the cloth to each. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with sporadic patches of light foxing. Very Good Routledge, Warne, & Routledge hardcover
1837952M4London: Saunders and Otley 1837. Leather. Very Good. 6.5" by 4.5". Not Stated. An early edition of one of the best known poems of Bath-born minister and poet Robert Montgomery. The fourth edition of this scarce work in a half calf binding with marbled boards.Previous ink inscription to the front paste down and to the front free end paper.Robert Montgomery 1807-1855 was an English poet and minister born in Bath Somerset. He was best known The Omni-presence of the Deity which was so popular that it reached its 28th edition within thirty years of publication.This poem concerning Satan is Montgomery's third published work and is now scarce to find published as an individual work. In a half calf binding. Externally generally smart. Somewhat rubbed to the spine and extremities. A little shelf wear to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for the odd spot to the first and last few pages. Very Good Saunders and Otley hardcover