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1892h1529London: Crosby Lockwood & Son. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. Slight foxing. 1892. Reprint. Maroon hardback cloth cover. 190mm x 130mm 7" x 5". xi 367pp 40pp 16pp. 125 b/w diagrams. . Crosby Lockwood & Son hardcover
18935850917Scott & Ferguson and Burness & Co 1893. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Folio. Dark blue cloth covers. Emblem of gilt shield with red lion in centre of front cover. Other decorative gilt patterns in each corner of the front board. Covers scuffed. Gilt lettering on backstrip small tears on backstrip. Pages fairly loose others entirely detached. Foxing. Emblem illustration protected by tissue sheet opposite title page. Clear text and clean inside. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item4050grams ISBN: Scott & Ferguson and Burness & Co hardcover
18858890New York: Robert Macoy Publisher 1885. First edition. 8vo 3 219pp plus 10 illustrated ads at rear. Ownership signature and stamp of Edwin A. Quick to front pastedown. Publisher's purple cloth stamped in black blind and gilt. Spine and top edge heavily sunned clean internally and very good. <br /> <br /> Uncommon 19th century Masonic directory with an interesting provenance. This copy owned by prominent architect from Yonkers Edwin A. Quick 1841-1913 who designed the Colgate Library Yonkers Public Library and City Hall Messiah Baptist Church among many others. He is listed in the directory on pg 211. Robert Macoy, Publisher unknown
1894058000New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1894. Third Edition Stated . Green Cloth. Very Good. 9 " Tall. Portraits one in color and Other Illustrations. Two Volumes Complete. Green Cloth Gilt Top Edges Gilt. A Bright Clean Solid Set With Almost No Wear Except Some Minor Bumping Rubbing And Small Frays At Top And Bottom Of Spines And Touches Of Light Wear Along Bottom Edges With Tiny Frays At Tips. Title Page Of Vol. I Is Present But Neatly Detached Along Spine Edge. <br/> <br/> Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
1880037828Glasgow: L&R / James Reid Bookseller 1880. First Edition. Decorated Boards. Very Good. 12 lithographed views from photographs printed on 12 panels accordion-fold leporello format. Brief captions. Views include: Lochlomond from Mount Misery; Ascent of Benlomond; Eilen's Isle Lake Katrina; Loch Achray and Ben Venue with the Trosachs Hotel; Brig o' Turk; Doune Castle; &c. Folds into cloth-backed blue boards decorated in gilt. 3.25" x 5" Not recorded by WorldCat. L&R / James Reid, Bookseller unknown
1840018902London & Edinburgh: Printed for the Editor and sold by Longman & Co and A. & C. Black 1840. With an engraved portrait frontispiece many line illustrations throughout the text octavo pp xxxii619 slightly age-toned and with the very occasional mark the frontispiece is foxed and its verso rather marked the endpapers foxed the title page slightly browned otherwise firm and tight internally black half calf and marbled boards rubbed and a little worn but no weakness. . New Edition. Half-Leather. Good. Printed for the Editor, and sold by Longman & Co, and A. & C. Black Hardcover
189457373Los Angeles CA: Rural Californian 218 N. Main St. Room 42 Lanfranco Building Nov. 1894. 4to. pp. 561 - 612. Numerous text illustrations photo illustrations plates. Golden coloured softcovers woodcut engraved illust. banner ads on rear cover minor bumping to corners couple very minor closed tears still VG copy. First edition of this scarce periodical including the well-illustrated article by Elizabeth Baker Bohan laying claim to the “true†home of Ramona which was located very close by to the historic San Luis Rey Mission which served as the backdrop for Helen Hunt Jackson’s wildly popular 1884 historical novel decrying the fate of the southern California American Indians and the Californios. Bohan 1849-1930 was a British-American author teacher & artist who was an ardent social reformer wrote for West Coast Magazine The Club Woman was an active supporter of women’s suffrage. Of additional interest are the several photographs by Charles Betts Waite 1861-1927 noted photographer in California until moving to Mexico City in 1896. See: Glenda Riley Women and Nature: Saving the Wild West 1999 pp. 157-59 250; Montgomery The Spanish Redemption pp. 97-99. Rural Californian, 218 N. Main St., Room 42, Lanfranco Building, paperback
1884518H4494New York: Hurst & Co. Publishers 1884. Book. Good. Hardcover. Tenth Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xi 1 13-145 1 10 ads pages. Index. Frequent line drawings in text. "Showing clearly how to plan and construct dwellings in the bush on the prairie or elsewhere cheaply and well with wood earth or gravel. Copiously illustrated." - Half-title page. 7.5" x 5". First published in 1872. Dedicated to all adventurous men whose ambition is to make a home and found a fortune under difficulties in any location and with whatever means nature may supply. Intended to "solve the want of desirable information among immigrants enabling them to use their own labor to advantage and to turn their small means to the best account." - Preface. Author was Editor of Sloan's Architectural Review and also wrote The Economic Cottage Builder. Publisher's embossed chocolate cloth elaborately decorated in black with "Arlington Edition" indicated on front. Prior owner's details upon front free endpaper. Fly specks to edges. Faint personal ink stamps to verso of index. Narrow opening in binding at page 79. Contents toned with age. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Hurst & Co., Publishers Hardcover
185925019073067John Murray London 1859. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Rebound with dark blue covers and black spine with gilt lettering sound binding replacement end-papers previous owner's name on title-page clean pages. Contains many black and white illustrations. No dust jacket as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 25019073067. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. This book is heavier than 1kg and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations. John Murray hardcover
185219022071139John Cassell London 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. The Illustrated Exhibitor and Magazine of Art: Collected from the Various Departments of Painting Sculpture Architecture History Biography Art-Industry Manufacturers Inventions and Discoveries Local and Domestic Scenes Ornamental Works etc. etc. In two Volumes. Two matching volumes in half-leather with green spines with black and red labels and gilt decoration green corners marbled covers marbled end-papers and red block edges. Corners and spine-ends are worn and external joints are well-rubbed spines are rubbed covers are lightly rubbed. Binding is sound pages are clean. Both volumes have a plain title-page and a decorated title with dates of January 3 1852 and July 1852 on the latter Vol. I - The Landing of the Saxons in Britain Vol. II - Pope Urban II Preaching in the Market-Place of Clermont. Volume II has two fold out illustrations mounted on linen backings Funeral Procession of the Late Duke of Wellington Nov 18 1852 opposite page 345 and Interior of St. Paul's Cathedral During Interment of the Duke of Wellington November 18 1852. Very many full page and vignette engraved illustrations. Includes loose pristine advertising flyers for The Science of Botany/The First Volume of the Illustrated Exhibitor and Magazine of Art and also The Illustrated Exhibitor Almanack for 1853/The Popular Educator Vol. I 4 412 4 408. 2-volume set complete. Contains many black and white illustrations. No dust jacket as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 19022071139. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. This book is heavier than 1kg and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations. John Cassell hardcover
188220737NY: Fords Howard & Hulbert. Near Fine. 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Rubbing to the spine ends. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 249 pages . Fords, Howard, & Hulbert hardcover
1854010969Rochester NY: James Vick Jr. 1854. Hardcover. Very Good -. 576 p. 16 leaves of plates: many in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Half calf with six spine compartments; gilt-tooled spine title and volume number: New Series vol. IV. Pink-and-black marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled. Marbled endpapers. Imprint includes: Joseph Breck & Co. Boston; Chas. M. Saxton New York; and W. B. Zieber Philadelphia. Bookplates on front fixed endpaper for former owners Abington Library Society and John Lambert. Articles include: Designs for Cheap Cottages by Merwin Austin; two articles about landscaping at Hamilton College N.Y.; Kirri Cottage by Alexander Jackson Davis; The Seed Business in Philadelphia by J. J. S. the history of the seed business from John Bartram to David Landreth; The Pomological Department at County and State Fairs by Thomas M. Cooley; Green-House Plants for Winter Boquets by Thomas Meehan; and Artist's Villa by Alexander Jackson Davis. Scarce. In Very Good- Condition: rubbed; minor loss at head of spine; marbled paper over back board is scraped; occasional foxing; otherwise clean and solid. James Vick, Jr. hardcover
1853010968Rochester NY: James Vick Jr. 1853. Hardcover. Good . 576 p. 19 leaves of plates: many in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Half calf with six spine compartments; gilt-tooled spine title and volume number: New Series vol. III. Pink-and-black marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled. Marbled endpapers. Imprint includes: Joseph Breck & Co. Boston; Newman and Ivison New York; and W. B. Zieber Philadelphia. Bookplates on front fixed endpaper for former owners Abington Library Society and John Lambert. Articles include: The Home of the Late A. J. Downing accompanying the frontispiece view of his home; American Architecture by Calvert Vaux; Application of Wind as a Power for Raising Water by J. P. Kirtland; and Design for an Italian Villa by Gervase Wheeler. Scarce. In Good Condition: leather is rubbed and separated along front joint; marbled paper over boards is scraped; occasional foxing; otherwise clean and solid. James Vick, Jr. hardcover
1855010970Philadelphia: Robert Pearsall Smith 1855. Hardcover. Fair . 582 2 p. 18 leaves of plates 1 hand-colored: many in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Half calf. Pink-and-black marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled. Marbled endpapers. Imprint includes: Joseph Breck & Son Boston; C. M. Saxton & Co. New York; J. S. Waters Baltimore; and S. C. Griggs & Co. Chicago. Bookplates on front fixed endpaper for former owners Abington Library Society and John Lambert. Articles include: biographical sketches of American horticulturists Marshall Pinckney Wilder 1798-1886 and Thomas Hogg 1778-1855; Construction of Roads and Walks by William Saunders; and Plants for Hanging Vases by Thomas Meehan. Scarce. In Fair Condition: boards are detached but present; lacking leather over spine; foxing; otherwise clean and solid. Robert Pearsall Smith hardcover
1847010982Albany NY: Luther Tucker 1847. Hardcover. Good. 576 p. 12 leaves of plates: many in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Half calf with six spine compartments; gilt-tooled spine title and volume number. Pink-and-black marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled. Marbled endpapers. Imprint includes: Joseph Breck and Co. Boston; M. H. Mewman and Co. New York and Geo. B. Zieber Philadelphia. Bookplates on front fixed endpaper for former owners Abington Library Society and John Lambert. The founder of American landscape architecture Andrew Jackson Downing 1815-1852 was the editor of The Horticulturist from its founding in 1846 until his death in 1852. Articles include: Notes on the State of the Rural Arts in the Valley of the Mississippi by Thomas Allen; Horticulture of the Olden Time by Joseph Breck; and numerous articles on architecture and landscape architecture by A. J. Downing. Scarce. In Good Condition: lacking lower third of spine leather which is separated along front joint; cover is rubbed; front hinge is weak; old dampstain on one corner of one plate; foxing in first number through p. 56; otherwise almost no foxing; clean and solid. Luther Tucker hardcover
1848010983Albany NY: Luther Tucker 1848. Hardcover. Good. 576 4 p. 11 leaves of plates: many in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Half calf with six spine compartments; gilt-tooled spine title and volume number. Pink-and-black marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled. Marbled endpapers. Imprint includes: Joseph Breck and Co. Boston; M. H. Mewman and Co. New York and Geo. B. Zieber Philadelphia. Between the Sept. and Oct. issues are bound in 4 pages of advertisements; final pages contain a list of agents for The Horticulturist. Bookplates on front fixed endpaper for former owners Abington Library Society and John Lambert. The founder of American landscape architecture Andrew Jackson Downing 1815-1852 was the editor of The Horticulturist from its founding in 1846 until his death in 1852. Articles include: Remarks on Some of the New Pears by Samuel Walker; Ward's Cases -- The Best Mode of Growing Plants in Rooms by Wm. W. Valk; The Vineyards of the Ohio by A. H. Ernst; and numerous articles on architecture and landscape architecture by A. J. Downing. Scarce. In Good Condition: leather over spine is detached along back joint and separated along front joint; cover is rubbed; front hinge is weak; old dampstains on edges of two plates; foxing on title page first page of index and final few pages; otherwise almost no foxing; clean and solid. Luther Tucker hardcover
1849010984Albany NY: Luther Tucker 1849. Hardcover. Good. 584 p. 13 leaves of plates: many in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Half calf with six spine compartments; gilt-tooled spine title and volume number. Pink-and-black marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled. Marbled endpapers. Imprint includes: Joseph Breck and Co. Boston; M. H. Mewman and Co. New York and Geo. B. Zieber Philadelphia. Bookplates on front fixed endpaper for former owners Abington Library Society and John Lambert. The founder of American landscape architecture Andrew Jackson Downing 1815-1852 was the editor of The Horticulturist from its founding in 1846 until his death in 1852. Articles include: Prof. Shepard on Agricultural Schools by C. U. Shepard of Amherst College; Description of the Polmaise Mode of Heating Green-Houses; Culture of Foreign Grapes in Pots by Geo. Kidd; The Morale of Rural Life by Geo. Jaques; and numerous articles on architecture and landscape architecture by A. J. Downing. Scarce. In Good Condition: leather over spine is detached along front joint and separated along back joint; cover is rubbed; foxing on title page 2 plates and final page; otherwise almost no foxing; clean and solid. Luther Tucker hardcover
1856010971Philadelphia: Robert Pearsall Smith 1856. Hardcover. Fair . 582 2 p. 18 leaves of plates 1 folded: many in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Half calf with six spine compartments; gilt-tooled spine title and volume number: New Series vol. VI. Pink-and-black marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled. Marbled endpapers. Imprint includes: Joseph Breck & Son Boston; C. M. Saxton & Co. New York; J. S. Waters Baltimore; and S. C. Griggs & Co. Chicago. Bookplates on front fixed endpaper for former owners Abington Library Society and John Lambert. Articles include: Downing's Familiar Notes and Letters letters of Andrew Jackson Downing 1815-1852; biographical sketch of American horticulturist William Coxe 1762-1831; Designs for Improving Country Residences by William Saunders; Restalrig House Residence of G. G. Logan Esq. at Germantown Pa. by Richard Morris Smith; The Pear Slug-Worm by Margaretta Morris; and Planting--A Theory for America by Thomas Meehan. Scarce. In Fair Condition: boards are detached but present; occasional foxing; p. 9 soiled; otherwise clean and solid. Robert Pearsall Smith hardcover
1858010973New York: C. M. Saxton 1858. Hardcover. Good -. 576 p. 13 leaves of plates: many in-text illustrations including 1 hand-colored full-page illustration; 24 cm. Half calf. Pink-and-black marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled. Marbled endpapers. Imprint includes: Joseph Breck & Co. Boston; S. C. Griggs & Co. Chicago; J. S. Waters Baltimore; and W. B. Zeiber Philadelphia. Bookplates on front fixed endpaper for former owners Abington Library Society and John Lambert. Articles include: Design for a Country House by Myron B. Benton; Hybridizing the Grape by Augustus D. Rogers; Construction of Glass Houses by William Saunders; The Plant Hunters or Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Mayne Reid; A Few Hints on Church Building by F. C. Withers; Mount Vernon and the Ladies; and Plan of Hunting Park by William Saunders. Scarce. In Good- Condition: front board and front free endpaper are detached but present; lacking leather over spine; paper over boards is scraped; occasional foxing; otherwise clean and solid. C. M. Saxton hardcover
1857010972Philadelphia: Robert Pearsall Smith 1857. Hardcover. Good . 580 2 p. 18 leaves of plates 1 hand-colored: many in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Half calf with six spine compartments; gilt-tooled spine title and volume number: New Series vol. VII. Pink-and-black marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled. Marbled endpapers. Imprint includes: Joseph Breck & Son Boston; C. M. Saxton & Co. New York; J. S. Waters Baltimore; and S. C. Griggs & Co. Chicago. Bookplates on front fixed endpaper for former owners Abington Library Society and John Lambert. Articles include: a biographical sketch of Scottish botanist and garden designer John Claudius Loudon 1783-1843; Some Account of an Orchideous House Constructed at Penllergare South Wales by J. Dillwyn Llewelyn; Shrubs with Ornamental Berries by Thomas Meehan; and Boydell's Traction Engine and Endless Railway. Scarce. In Good Condition: joints are cracked but boards are attached; binding is rubbed with minor loss at ends of spine; occasional foxing; otherwise clean and solid. Robert Pearsall Smith hardcover
1880BOOKS034752IBoston: A. Williams and Company 1880. HC. good original green cloth hardcover. 32 chromolith plates. BEING A SELECTION OF THE OLDEST AND MOST INTERESTING BUILDINGS HISTORICAL HOUSES AND NOTE PLACES IN MASSACHUSETTS from original drawings made on the spot by Edwin Whitefield. This edition contains 32 very good chromolith plates each with 2 buildings and brief descriptive text. unpaginated. A. Williams and Company unknown
1812q0549aLondon: Printed by L Harrison & J C Leigh for R Ackerman. G: in good condition. 20th century rebind with new eps. Covers rubbed. Some browning and set-off. 1812. First Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 370mm x 300mm 15" x 12". xiii 330pp vi; 275pp vi plates. 83 plates 81 hand-coloured. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . Printed by L Harrison & J C Leigh for R Ackerman hardcover
185212299London: Hatchard & Son; Sudbury J. Wright. 1852. 1st edition. Good/No Jacket. Publisher's cloth. Owner's bookplate and signature; cover sl. rubbed. London: Hatchard & Son; Sudbury, J. Wright. hardcover
1814018851London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1814. First Edition. . Calf Bound. Very Good. Three copies of John Britton's architectural works on the Cathedral churches of Salisbury Winchester and York. bound into one volume. 1. Salisbury 1814 viii. 113 1 pages engraved title page and 31 engraved plates. 2. Winchester 1817 138 4 pages engarved title and 30 engraved plates. 3. York 1819. 96 pages engraved title and 34 engraved plates. Calf bound with gilt lining and titling marbled edges. Front board detatched losses to spine general wear and tear internally very good with some foxing age toning and offsetting from plates. 810 Size: 290mm. x 230mm. <br/> <br/> Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown unknown
182150318071015Printed for the author by Thomas Bowman Richmond 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Re-backed with replacement leather spine with raised bands now worn and contemporary to text cross-hatched leather covers with gilt decoration around edge covers are lightly worn and are marked on rear face worn corners. End-papers have been replaced and possibly pasted over an earlier bookplate; a twentieth century bookplate is pasted on the inside of the front cover. Pages are clean plates fold-out pedigrees and fold-out map are present. Plates have foxing on some this is heavy and pages adjacent to plates also show foxing. Pasted slips of paper with a hand-written note are present on pages 17 and Appendix xlviii. Inked note to index and additions to pedigrees. Size: Quarto. iv 446 cxxxii. No dust jacket as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50318071015. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. This book is heavier than 1kg and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations. Printed for the author by Thomas Bowman hardcover
