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1830SKU-050990Hurst Chance and Co 1830. leather bound. Good - Used/None as Issued. Small quarter leather bound hardcover with illustrated boards tips worn prior owner's name front pastedown binding tight text illustrated 1830 Hurst Chance and Co. Please email for photos. Hurst, Chance, and Co hardcover
184325501843. Engraving with original hand-colouring. 235mm by 145mm sheet. Native of the Blue Mountains.<br /> Australian native botanical engraving from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. William Curtis 1746-1799 was a trained pharmacist in London who maintained a large garden and devoted himself to the study of its flora. He began publishing the Curtis Botanical Magazine in 1787.Accompanied by original text describing features of the plant when it was introduced and by whom and whose collection it comes from. unknown
184425511844. Engraving with original hand-colouring. 235mm by 145mm sheet. Native of Tasmania.<br /> Australian native botanical engraving from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. William Curtis 1746-1799 was a trained pharmacist in London who maintained a large garden and devoted himself to the study of its flora. He began publishing the Curtis Botanical Magazine in 1787.Accompanied by original text describing features of the plant when it was introduced and by whom and whose collection it comes from. unknown
185241061852. Lithograph with original hand-colouring. 245mm by 145mm sheet. Native of Tasmania. Australian native botanical lithograph from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. William Curtis 1746-1799 was a trained pharmacist in London who maintained a large garden and devoted himself to the study of its flora. He began publishing the Curtis Botanical Magazine in 1787. Accompanied by original text describing features of the plant when it was introduced and by whom and whose collection it comes from. Small ink inscription on descriptive text. unknown
185725421857. Lithograph with original hand-colouring. 235mm by 145mm sheet. Native of South Australia.<br /> Australian native botanical lithograph from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. William Curtis 1746-1799 was a trained pharmacist in London who maintained a large garden and devoted himself to the study of its flora. He began publishing the Curtis Botanical Magazine in 1787.Accompanied by original text describing features of the plant when it was introduced and by whom and whose collection it comes from. Small ink inscription to the descriptive text.Faint toning. unknown
185225471852. Lithograph with original hand-colouring. 235mm by 145mm sheet. Native of Swan River.<br /> Australian native botanical lithograph from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. William Curtis 1746-1799 was a trained pharmacist in London who maintained a large garden and devoted himself to the study of its flora. He began publishing the Curtis Botanical Magazine in 1787.Accompanied by original text describing features of the plant when it was introduced and by whom and whose collection it comes from. A few small foxing spots. Small ink inscription on descriptive text. unknown
1855LTH26-E-1London: Edward Moxon 1855. Leather. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Unamed. A selection of pieces from Hood's Comic Annual in a leather binding. With frontispiece portrait. The series of the Comic Annual dating from 1830 was a kind of publication at that time popular which Hood undertook and continued almost unassisted for several years. Under that somewhat frivolous title he treated all the leading events of the day in caricature without personal malice and with an under-current of sympathy. In a half-calf binding. Externally sound though with some rubbing and the occasional mark. One hinge slightly strained. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and mainly clean though with some tidemarks to the first few pages including frontispiece. Good Edward Moxon hardcover
1880LTH16-B-7London: Ward Lock and Co. c1880. Leather. Good Only. 7" by 4.5". None. A volume of the poetry of Thomas Hood. Edited with a Critical Memoir by William Michael Rossetti. First Series. With Illustrations. In a black half calf leather binding with marbled paper covered boards. Externally worn. There is some loss to the paper. Internally binding is loosening in places. The recto of front end paper is detached. Hinges are tender. Pages are generally bright and clean with some scattered light foxing. There is an ink inscription to the recto of front free end paper. dated 1884. Good Only Ward, Lock, and Co. hardcover
1874025376UK 1874. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. An Original Handwritten Letter Signed by Edwin Paxton Hood to Levi Leone. Dated 1874. A letter arranging to meet. Edwin Paxton Hood 1820-1885 was an English nonconformist and author. Levi Leone 1821-1888. English jurist and statistician. His chief work History of British Commerce and of the Economic Progress of the British Nation 1763-1870 is considered to be a partisan account of British economic development. Size is 180mm x 115mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17153 <br/> <br/> unknown
1848ABE-1355835979Edward Moxon Londom 1848 Hood was associated with a number of magazines throughout his life: the London Magazine and New Monthly Magazine as an editor and the Athenaeum as a contributor. He also published a magazine called Hood s Own or Laughter from Year to Year and released the Comic Annual series. As a member of the London literary scene he was familiar with Hartley Coleridge Thomas De Quincy William Hazlitt Charles Lamb and William Wordsworth. First printing of the third revised issue volume one of two published in MDCCCXLVIII. Full leather and very beautiful indeed with ornate spine and an elegant restrained cover. Beautifully hand marbled text block edges and end papers. A solid copy of an often abused book with one flaw - the cover board is loose. It is not detached but it is friable. This copy is otherwise clean and tight and the majority of pages appear unopened. Very nice firm example of high quality leather binding. End papers are not cracked and the three text block edges are all exquisitely hand marbled. Title is indented upon one section of the hubbed spine. Very attractive and still with its frontispiece portrait which ifor some reason is often absent! An attractive example of book production. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Edward Moxon Londom hardcover
1842917P16London: Henry Colburn 1842. Cloth. Very Good. 6.5" by 4". John Leech. Thomas Hood and John Leech's comical volume of poems and stories an annual for the year 1842. The 1842 edition for 'The Comic Annual'.Much of this volume is dedicated to 'Miss Kilmansegg And Her Precious Leg' a satire poem about Miss Kilmansegg a spoilt daughter of a banker who insists on having an artificial limb made out of gold after losing one of her legs in a riding accident.Thomas Hood was a poet and humorist who regularly contributed to 'The London Magazine' and 'Punch'. Though Hood occasionally published serious works his successes were from his humorous poems. 'Comic Annual' was a publication that Hood ran from 1830 publishing caricatures of modern day with a serious malice and incessant puns.Illustrated with eleven plates and twenty-four in-text illustrations by John Leech.Collated bound without one plate to face page 96.Fourteen pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. in the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally generally smart. Fading to the spine and to the extremities of the boards. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards and spine. Bookseller's label to the rear paste down. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some scattered spots. Plate facing page 252 is working loose. Very Good Henry Colburn hardcover
1870FIN2-C-4London: E. Moxon Son and Co. c1870. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". None Stated. A collection of the serious poetical works of Thomas Hood. Thomas Hood 23 May 1799 3 May 1845 was a British humorist and poet. Hood wrote humorously on many contemporary issues. One of the most important issues in his time was grave robbing and selling of corpses to anatomists see West Port murders. Illustrated throughout with many engraved plates. Rebacked in a half-morocco binding with marbled boards. Externally smart with just some light rubbing to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. Title page is missing. Pages are slightly age-toned with just the odd patch of foxing. Very Good Indeed E. Moxon, Son and Co. hardcover
189036568Lowell MA: C.I. Hood & Co. ca. 1890. 16mo 10.5 cm 4.2". 16 pp.; illus. <br><br>Shape book in the form of pansies gold and purple: A promotion of Hood's Sarsaparilla following one page dedicated to tips on growing pansies. The sales spiel is illustrated with => steel-engraved views and vignettes printed in dark blue and dark green. A tipped-in slip advertises B.F. Taylor's general merchandise store in Wheelock VT. Publisher's half-tone color-printed paper wrappers as above with a river scene glowing in the "eye" of one of the pansies; spine rubbed one tiny spot of staining or fading near front upper edge. Pages gently age-toned. => A patent medicine give-away not originally meant to be much less ephemeral than the little flower it celebrates. C.I. Hood & Co. unknown books
1857005107London: : Richard D. Irwin 1857. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 200p. A good copy the original covers of which are quite worn along the top and fore-edges the spine has been plainly rebacked the inner joints have been reinforced. The London surgeon Hood 1808-1890 here advocates the treatment of scarlet fever by "the systematic administration of quinine from an early stage preceded however by an emetic and a purgative and with sundry minor precautions; and the author then strongly affirms not only that his method saves life but that it prevents the occurrence of secondary infections of the viscera particularly renal dropsy." The Practitioner ap. Waring. He next devotes some forty pages to laryngismus stridulus. A second edition of this book appeared in 1869. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. : Richard D. Irwin Hardcover
18626730London: Edward Moxon & Co. Very Good-. 1862-69. Hardcover. 3/4-light brown leather over marbled boards; title labels gilt decoration and 5 raised bands on spines; marbled endpapers and page edges. Volume VIII is "The Memorials"- edited by his son and daughter. Bookplate and nameplate inside each volume at front pastedown. Leather has some rubbing and wear; leather has small tears at head of spine on volume I. . Edward Moxon & Co. hardcover
1862mon0000512712Edward Moxon & Co 1862T. hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. 1873 edition. NOT an ex-library book. Clean copy in good condition. Back and front cover fully detatched from spine. Cover spine fabric torn at top. Some spotting due to age at page margins. Body of text remains in good condition. Edward Moxon & Co hardcover
1848elala895London: Edward Moxon 1848. 1848. 2 Volumes. 12mo. pp. 8ads vi 2 270 1ad; viii 281 2. engraved frontis. portrait. orginal cloth spines frayed & chipped at edges corners bumped internally very good. Third Edition. Hardcover. London: Edward Moxon, 1848. Hardcover
186424837Washington DC: War Department 1864. 12mo. Handbill. Near fine. Four-punched at left edge not affecting text. Titled "Exchange of Prisoners of War" this General Order consists of Townsend's report of a prisoner exchange arranged between Generals William T. Sherman and John Bell Hood that took place in Rough and Ready Georgia on September 19 22 28 and 30 1864. "United States prisoners received -- 146 commissioned officers. 212 non-commissioned officers. 770 privates. In all equivalent to 2047 privates. Confederate prisoners received -- 128 commissioned officers. 225 non-commissioned officers. 979 privates. In all equivalent to 2045 privates." How these numbers add up to 2047 and 2045 privates is beyond us -- must be the Old Math. Accompanied by a fine modern circa 1960 glossy 8" X 10" photograph a superbly done reprint of the well-known head-and-shoulders portrait of John Bell Hood in Confederate uniform. Verso bears red inkstamped "From the / Abraham Lincoln Book Shop / Collection." A superb pair. War Department unknown
1873D2349London: E. Moxon Son & Company 1873. Hardcover. Very Good. Two Volumes the first and second series. Lovely gilt-ruled bright blue calf gilt-stamped ornament on compartmented spine 5 raised bands gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label all edges marbled. Illustrated throughout. Both volumes: Spine a bit sunned; light edgewear scuffing along joints at spine tips corners and along edges of boards. Rear board detached from the second volume. A nice set internally bright and clean. Richly illustrated. <br/><br/> E. Moxon, Son, & Company hardcover
1873D2349London: E. Moxon Son & Company 1873. Hardcover. Very Good. Two Volumes the first and second series. Lovely gilt-ruled bright blue calf gilt-stamped ornament on compartmented spine 5 raised bands gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label all edges marbled. Illustrated throughout. Both volumes: Spine a bit sunned; light edgewear scuffing along joints at spine tips corners and along edges of boards. Rear board detached from the second volume. A nice set internally bright and clean. Richly illustrated. <br/><br/> E. Moxon, Son, & Company hardcover books
1872132488London: Moxon 1872. hardcover. very good. Foster Birket. 22 single-sided plates protected with tissue. 180pp printed with very wide margins. 4to elaborate gilt-stamped cloth purple cloth is faded; rubbed at edges; some light foxing; inner hinge starting. London: E. Moxon 1872. Very good.<br/><br/> Moxon unknown books
186029130Boston: Ticknor & Fields 1860. 12mo. 2 vols. I: Frontis. xviii 310 pp. II: vii 327 pp. fold. facsimile. <br><br>First American edition the same year as the true first edition. Autobiographical account of Hood 1799-1845 the marvelous British humorist and poet drawn from various writing "collected arranged and edited by his daughter and with a preface and notes by his son." The text has several in-text copies "from his own sketches. Publisher's dark brown textured cloth stamped in blind on cover and in gilt on spine. Small paper labels at top of each spine. A few stray stains in some margins. Exsocial club library: call number on endpapers rubber-stamp on title-page no other markings. Ticknor & Fields hardcover books
1872132488London: Moxon 1872. hardcover. very good. Foster Birket. 22 single-sided plates protected with tissue. 180pp printed with very wide margins. 4to elaborate gilt-stamped cloth purple cloth is faded; rubbed at edges; some light foxing; inner hinge starting. London: E. Moxon 1872. Very good.<br/> <br/> Moxon unknown
188213576Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell Co 1882. Hardcover. Octavo brown decorative cloth binding gilt title design to front cover and spine gilt page edges. A nice victorian decorative binding of Hood's works. Pages toned inscription to front endpaper wear to cloth to spine edges and corners spine gently rolled else a very nice copy. Thomas Y. Crowell Co hardcover
1857221081Boston: Phillips 1857. Hardcover. Good. Good hardcover. Clean text. Brown spots on pages. Spine lean. Corners slightly bent on cover. Red cover with gold gilt design on spine. Spine ends bumped. Phillips hardcover