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1838M4741Washington U.S.A. 1838. Excellent. Notes: Map of Oregon Territory before being officially incorporated as a US Territory on August 14 1848.<br><br>Washington Hood February 2 1808 – July 17 1840 was an American born in Philadelphia army officer in the Corps of Topographical Engineers. He drafted maps of the American West while exploring the areas the Ohio Michigan border; northeastern Oklahoma Indian tribes west of Arkansas and Missouri.etc. Size : 443x525 mm 17.375x20.625 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored in Outline Reference: Wheat: 433 and 434. Category: Maps Canada West British Columbia; unknown
1869733P8London: E. Moxon Son & Co 1869. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. A complete collection of the works of Thomas Hood containing his entertaining and humorous poems. Complete in ten volumes.A collection of the poetry and works of Thomas Hood.Hood was a popular English poet of the first half of the nineteenth century best known for his poems 'The Bridge of Sighs' and 'The Song of the Shirt'. He was also a regular contributor to 'The London Magazine' 'Athenaeum' and 'Punch'.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece.Illustrated many in-text illustrations throughout the volumes.Edited with notes by his son Tom Hood and his daughter Frances Freeling Broderip. In a half crushed morocco binding with cloth to the boards. Externally generally smart. Rubbing to the boards and spines resulting in a little loss of leather heavier to the head of the front board of Volume X. A little fading to the spines. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities. A small amount of lifting to the head of the front board of Volume IX. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with just a couple of light spots. Very Good E. Moxon, Son, & Co hardcover
185913899London: Griffith and Farran 1859. Very good. Rare first edition of the humorous and somewhat surreal tale of a posh humanized pig his adventures in the city and his eventual demise. Thomas Hood is known for his humorous poems that appeared in "Punch" although he also wrote more sentimental pieces. PRECOCIOUS PIGGY was originally a story he told to his young son Tom and daughter Frances. After Hood's death Tom recorded the story and illustrated it; the original manuscript is now in the Huntington Library. Hood's daughter Frances Freeling Broderip a children's author rising in popularity at the time of PRECOCIOUS PIGGY'S publication tenderly prefaces the story. 9.25'' x 7''. Original pink pictorial boards carefully rebacked. Yellow coated endpapers. Hand-colored pictorial title page with numerous hand-colored illustrations throughout. 19 leaves printed one side only with 1 leaf of ads to rear. Some rubbing to edges corners somewhat bumped. Occasional light soiling to page edges. Illustrations vivid. Griffith and Farran unknown
1860FF2484London:: Edward Moxon 1860. 1860. Small 8vo. viii 310 pp. Original full reddish-brown blind-stamped morocco with gilt spine title all edges gilt; slightly rubbed. The added thumb-holed brown cloth slip-case is made by Frost at the time of his painting. Very good. DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING WITH EROTIC SCENES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST: With a double fore-edge painting showing bawdy "and athletic" erotic scenes painted by Martin Frost signed with both his initials and containing his handwritten colophon at rear dated 1999. Frost has painted two side-by-side fore-edges giving four vignettes in all: "Four scenes of athletic and ingenious lust" The first side shows a copulating man and woman on either a horse or on a carriage drawn by a horse after Thomas Rowlandson's works. Frost's initials are found on the lower right of this side. The reverse side shows two vertical vignettes depicting coitus on a bike rather an imaginary wheeled chair with parasol note the erect penis statue in the background and a stage scene with a partially nude woman lifting her skirt high to give a view of her genitals and a happy pot-bellied man with a huge erect penis that balances a bowl and 3 goblets he is talented! his costume of the British stage his genitals showing as if being the star of the show. An audience whoops it up in the gallies. Both characters sportingly wear a feather in their hair or cap. Edward Moxon, 1860. hardcover books
1880687901880. HOOD John B. Advance and Retreat. Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies. New Orleans: Published for the Hood Orphan Memorial Fund. G.T. Beauregard 1880. 1st ed. 358pp. Portrait frontis. portraits maps. Orig. full blind-decorated brown morocco raised spine bands compartments gilt marbled endpapers A.e.g. Very good or better. HOWES H-622. Dornbusch II 2797. In Tall Cotton 93. Coulter 238. "The controversial sometimes bitter memoirs of a maimed Confederate general" Nevins II p.65. Much of the book is devoted to accounts of the siege of Atlanta and the Tennessee campaign. unknown
18692091202133213112E. Moxon son & co. 1869. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 10 books in total E. Moxon, son, & co. paperback
187285871872 London: E. Moxon Son & Co, 1872. Un volume en ANGLAIS : 22 x 27,5 cm. 1 f. bl., VII pp. [Title, CONTENTS.], 1 f. bl., 180 pp., 1 f. n.ch., 1 f.bl., 22 illustrations magnifiques de Birket Foster. Magnifique reliure de Rivière en maroquin vert, plats encadrés de larges bordures dorés, dos à petits fers, cinq nerfs décorés d'un filet doré, capitales en lettres dorées, tranches dorées, coiffe décorée, double-filet et étoiles sur les coupes, dentelle sur les chasses, gardes marbrées. mors et coins supérieurs légèrement émoussés. Quelques rousseurs à l'intérieur sinon très propre. En bon état. / Finely bound by Riviere in green morocco, large and beautiful frame to boards, title in gilt direct to spine, gilded edges, bookplate "Witley Court". Beautifully illustrated by Birket Foster.
18932469London: Macmillan and Co 1893. First edition thus. First edition thus. 4to. Lavish Zaehnsdorf Exhibition Binding. . Bound in full red rich crushed morocco with gilt scrollwork devices around edges of both covers and extending toward center gilt rules and stippling including outside edges ornate gilt dentelles and superb silk moirÈ endpapers. With Zaehnsdorf's gilt exhibition binding circular gilt stamped device on rear silk moirÈ endsheet. One of 250 unnumbered copies of the Large Paper edition. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. Minor rubbing to spine tips and joints bookplate with remnant of additional bookplate and adhesive residue on first blank; top edges gilt morocco edged slipcase extremities rubbed. <br/><br/> Macmillan and Co unknown books
18932469London: Macmillan and Co 1893. First edition thus. First edition thus. 4to. Lavish Zaehnsdorf Exhibition Binding. Bound in full red rich crushed morocco with gilt scrollwork devices around edges of both covers and extending toward center gilt rules and stippling including outside edges ornate gilt dentelles and superb silk moiré endpapers. With Zaehnsdorf’s gilt exhibition binding circular gilt-stamped device on rear silk moiré endsheet. One of 250 unnumbered copies of the Large Paper edition. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. Minor rubbing to spine tips and joints bookplate with remnant of additional bookplate and adhesive residue on first blank; top edges gilt morocco edged slipcase extremities rubbed. Macmillan and Co unknown
188042330London: Taylor and Francis 1880. Folio. 21 5/8 x 14 7/8 inches. Seven parts bound in one. 4 xv 2 pp. Illustrated title. 48 hand coloured lithographed plates by Fitch two hand coloured lithographed maps on one sheet mounted albumen photograph by Bourne. Half green morocco and cloth spine lettered in gilt with raised bands marbled endpapers original wrappers bound in at rear<br/> <br/> A magisterial work on one of the most beautiful of all plant families.<br/> <br/> The monograph was instigated by Henry Elwes a gentleman plant-collector traveler and gardener whose interest in botany had been sparked by a visit to the Himalayan region the journey itself was inspired by reading Hooker's Himalayan Journals. In the garden at his home in Colesbourne Gloucestershire he was able to grow many of the members of the Lilium genus and was a recognized expert in the field. However to ensure that the text was as accurate as possible and that the range of lilies was as complete as possible he consulted the greatest botanical experts in the field for help in writing the text. This level of excellence was continued with the illustrations and Elwes was able to carry through his plan to illustrate the monograph with hand-coloured plates by the best available botanical artist with each member of the genus shown full-size. Between March 1877 and May 1880 subscribers received seven parts at a total cost of seven guineas illustrated with 48 plates by W. H. Fitch. Walter Hood Fitch 1817-1892 had his first illustration published in 1834 and throughout most of the remaining part of the nineteenth century produced over 9600 plates for the greatest British botanical publications. Sir Joseph Hooker called him an "incomparable botanical artist" with his "unrivalled skill in seizing the natural character of a plant." The plates to the present work proved to be what Blunt calls the "most important achievement of Fitch's later career" Art of Botanical Illustration 264.<br/> <br/> Nissen BBI 594; Great Flower Books 1990 94; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1664. Taylor and Francis unknown
1855140948287London: Lowell Reeve 1855. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. Color lithographic title page plus 24 handcolored lithographic plates highlighted in gum arabic protected by tissue guards and accompanied by text descriptions. Folio bound in full green morocco with ornate gold tooling to spine borders and turn-ins all edges gilt teal endpapers. Near Fine with moderate scuffing and staining to leather. Hinges repaired 20th century bookplate to front pastedown. Light foxing to prelims and occasionally throughout light thumbing throughout pencil inscriptions to upper right corner of title page and lower left of plate XV. Minimal bleedthrough from plate watercolors. Binding sound colors bright and beautiful. Sitwell p. 101.<br /> <br /> <p>A landmark botanical work published by subscription with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert heading the list of subscribers. The Rajah of Burdwan reserved one copy as did Cambridge University and the Royal Library of Berlin. The East India Company ordered thirty. The lithographs were executed by the legendary botanical illustrator Walter Hood Fitch who for decades was the sole draftsman and lithographer used by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Fitch adapted drawings by the botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker and by Indian artists working under the direction of J.F. Cathcart. Hooker had traveled through central and eastern Himalaya from 1847 to 1849 collecting around 7000 species of plants on the journey. His Rhododendrons of the Sikkim-Himalaya 1849–51 began a rhododendron craze among British gardeners and was also illustrated by the skilled hand of Fitch. Hooker was appointed director of Kew Gardens in 1865 and held the post for twenty years. As a close friend of Charles Darwin he had the distinction of being the first audience for Darwin's theory of natural selection. <br /> <br /> <p>The bookplate in this copy is that of Dr. Paul Jay Bowman 1893 - 1985 a charter member of the American Rhododendron Society. Bowman was drawn to northern California by its rhododendrons and ran the Redwood Coast Hospital in Fort Bragg for over forty years. A lovely book with a nice provenance. Lowell Reeve unknown
