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1861ZB579558Torino: Eredi Botta 1861. Quinta edizione italiana emendata ed accresciuta nel testo e nelle tavole; three parts in 2 volumes as issued; xvi 512 pp vi 461 pp light general age toning needs rebinding. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Torino: Eredi Botta, unknown
187976196London Rivington 1879. Small 4to. lvi335pp. unknown
18562793lUSA: Harper & Brothers. Good. Hardcover. 1856. original brown patterned cloth gilt titles on spines<br><p></p> . Harper & Brothers hardcover
18732152London: Frederick Warne c. 1873. Hardcover. Very Good. no date xxiv 712 p. Black leather morocco gilt decorated cover all edges gilt decorated endpapers index to first lines. Small tear at top of spine. <br/><br/> Frederick Warne hardcover
1804407003Hereford : printed by D. Walke 1804. 3rd edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in the original paper-covered boards. Spine lacking; spine bands and panel edges rubbed and bumped as with age. Hinges starting. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 369 pp. Subjects; Church of England ; Sermons. Hereford : printed by D. Walke hardcover
189520382Paris: Lemaire & Dupont 1895. Second revised. Hardcover. Very good condition. An important work in French on gold and gold mining in South Africa written shortly following the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in 1886 a profound transition for South Africa from farming to becoming the largest gold producer in the world. Part Three of the volume pertains to the various gold fields including: Lydenburg de Kaap Komati Witwatersrand Klerksforp Malmani Zoutpansberg the Murchison Range and more. 8vo xxiii 357pp 6 color folding maps. Ex library with bookplate inside front board cancellation stamps verso of title page. Quarter brown cloth with printed boards; title printed in red and black at front board no title at spine. The cover has date of 1895 printed while title page has date of 1890. Cloth at spine marked at lower half; boards a bit rubbed & marked. Internally very good condition. OCLC: 422300168. Lemaire & Dupont hardcover
1871010933BOSTON MA: D LOTHROP. BROWN DECORATIVE CLOTH. SOME BOTTOM FORE-EDGE WEAR. . VG. Hardcover. 1871. D LOTHROP hardcover
1858026740D. Appleton and Company 1858. Hardcover. Fair. Two volume set in fair condition. Large or heavy book and may require extra postage. No AMAZON international order on this title. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall D. Appleton and Company hardcover
18480008767circa 1848-9. Fine. 8.5 x 14.5 cm / 11 x 17.5 cm; <br/><br/>Having already accepted Texas as its 29th state in 1845 the U.S.A. in The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 2 February 1848 acquired 6 additional territories including Californa which eventually acquired statehood. This map was the recto of leaf 378/379 in probably a then-new history textbook. It is the same map with the identifier DLMW148 on the ImageBase of Virginia Tech University. This hand-colored in outline map shows the old boundaries and the new boundaries of Texas Upper California and Mexico and eastward to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. unknown
1841579065Carcassonne 1841. Binding has been taped but is still very loose. Cover slightly scuffed and marked in places mostly the edges and corners.Brown spotting on some pages mostly the end papers. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library. With usual stamps and markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item450grams ISBN: Carcassonne hardcover
18905058146Berolini: Speyer et Peters. Hardcover. Marbled paper boards no jacket. Binding fragile but sound text clean. 52 pages. Latin text and hieroglyphics. Not a reprint. Hard-to-find title. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1890. Speyer et Peters hardcover
188523852San Francisco: George Spaulding & Co. General Book and Job Printers 1885. First edition. Paperback. Lacking front wrapper and front blank leaves toning to top of title page text clean and complete. Original wrappers lacking front wrapper 349 pp. 18 pp adverts and inserted litho advert on cardstock at rear engraved illustrations in the text. In protective paper chemise and card slipcase. <br/><br/>Scarce OCLC/Worldcat finds 9 library holdings. Cowan 1933 edition page 240. George Spaulding & Co., General Book and Job Printers paperback
186932728Virginia City California 1869. Paper. Very good. Approx. 8" x 3" check with printed green borders information and 2 stamps. Check is drawn on the account and signed by Isaac L. Requa. The information printed on the check is "Gould & Curry Silver Mining Company W. C. Ralston Treasurer. Agency of the Bank of California Virginia City. The written date is Aug 3 1869. <br /> <br /> Requa was a mining engineer early Oakland pioneer and later President of Oakland Bank and Savings. unknown
189711762Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co 1897. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Pp. 296. Frontis. b&w photos. Illustrated with numerous b&w photos on coated paper line drawings in the text and a three-color foldout map of North America tipped in at the front. Red publisher's cloth with titles and illustration in gilt and black. Spine darkened light soiling to covers leaves toned and head edge foxed foldout map lower edge crimped. In addition to presenting "Vivid Descriptions and Thrilling Experiences" the title page claims this is "the most complete and thoroughly exhaustive collection of every known information necessary to a full realization of the immense resources of the gold fields of Alaska and replete with authentic instructions regarding how to get there when to go and what to do when the new Eldorado of the Great Northwest is reached." <p>Verso of the North America map has smaller black-line maps of North American Transportation Co. 1897 Alaska and steamer routes Juneau to Lewes river Yukon River and Tributaries Klondyke River 1896 Alaska gold fields and Northwest gold fields. SMITH: 7533. W. B. Conkey Co hardcover
18704845Boston: Fields Osgood & Co. 1870. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 16mo green cloth cracking hinges <br/><br/>Coffin was a war correspondent in the Civil War and was called "the Ernie Pyle of his era". Most of his post-war books were historical fiction but this details his travel by train - especiallly the Northern Pacific R.R. - from Chicago up the Mississippi to Duluth then across to Portland. Large folding map in rear pocket. Woodcuts. Fields, Osgood, & Co. hardcover
1871CAT000929Mexico 1871. Disbound. Very Good Condition. Billhead from Dulceria del Aquila de Oro for pastry a number of boxes of sweets sweet tacos pastelitos roasted chestnuts. Includes an entry for a "fusil bayoneta" presumably a dessert but one that I have not been able to find a reference for. The Dulceria was run by the widow Raynaud and her sons. Slight wear at creases two small old tape marks. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Business Finance & Marketing. Inventory No: CAT000929. unknown
1840SZEPEBKS007564IBarcelona: Guardia Nacional 1840. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 8vo. - 4262 pp. plus plates. - Contemporary black 1/2-leather embossed blind and gilt decoration on spine marbled paper boards back cover and one edge of spine somewhat worn; interior fine. - With 97 engraved plates some double-page including 2 doubly folded maps. Plates are very fine. - Printed in double columns. - Detailed description of the geography and history of Turkey in Spanish. - <br/> <br/> Guardia Nacional hardcover
184676915Berolini: Typis et Impensis G. Reimeri 1846. Wraps. Very good. The earliest work on astrology that is extensive comprehensible and mostly intact Marcus Manilius' Astronomica circa AD 30-40 describes celestial phenomena and in particular the zodiac and astrology. Octavo: xxiv 225 p. with 4 folding tables. Original printed paper wrappers. Uncut. Just a hint of foxing to the top edge with some light toning along the extremities of the wrappers; else very good or better. Typis et Impensis G. Reimeri unknown
1816H41561New York: James Eastburn and Co. and William Gilley 1816. First Printing. Hardcover. Fair. 8.75 x 5.75 inches old dark brown calf fair copy with quite a bit of rubbing and wear to binding lacking lower 1.5 inches of spine leather and lighter loss to spine head missing spine label lacks both flyleaves old inscriptions on pastedown contents tanning and foxed reinforcement to front inner hinge crude repair to a tear on the last page. 425 pp. Very uncommon in the trade. McLeod 1774-1833 was a minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church was born in the Island of Mull June 12 1774. His father and grandfather were ministers of the Church of Scotland. In 1792 he came to America and entered Union College where he graduated in 1798. In 1799 he was licensed by the Reformed Presbytery at Coldenham and in 1801 was installed pastor of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church. His first publication was Negro Slavery Unjustifiable N. Y. 1802. He published several books. He was the chief organizer of the American Colonization Society in 1816 and wrote its constitution. During his pastoral career he received various calls to other churches to colleges and to editorships; but he declined them all and remained in his charge until his death. James Eastburn and Co. and William Gilley hardcover
1858H3843Madrid: Imprenta y Estereotipia de M. Rivadeneyra 1858. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition 1858 original blue wraps bound into quarter marbled morocco and cloth boards very good or better 329 pp. Beautifully bound. Imprenta y Estereotipia de M. Rivadeneyra hardcover
1836Iran Laila<p><strong>Iran Laila</strong> NizÌ£aÌ„miÌ„ GanjaviÌ„ 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203; James Atkinson 1780-1852. <strong>LailiÌ and MajnuÌn: a poem from the original Persian of NazaÌmi by James Atkinson. </strong>Published under the superintendence of the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. Series: <em>Oriental Translation Fund London. Publication; v. 44</em>. London: A.J. Valpy 1836 viii 127 pages. notes. Original edition. Original green cloth cover is poor to fair. Has signs of water staining front and back. Spine edges are worn been re-glued in part back inner hinge has also been reglued in part. Signature of collector on front free endpaper from 1961. More importantly this volume has the armorial bookplate of Scawen Blunt Crabbet Park Library. A lovely bookplate.<strong> $100. Box 70 I 2</strong></p> A.J. Valpy, hardcover
1898H9828Athens: Anesti Konstantinidou 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall 8vo morocco backed cloth boards very good light rubbing to leather original cover wraps bound in but somewhat worn contents otherwise very good. 85 pp. We could locate no other copies of this book in commerce in citations or in institutions. Anesti Konstantinidou hardcover
18466267Black and white illustrations by Grandville throughout both as sur blanc plates and within text. German Gothic text throughout. Has been professionally recased with new endpapers although original endpapers are also present. Dark brown cloth with both debossed and gilt decoration to boards as well as gilt decoration to spine. Marbled page edges. Foxing see image. No previous owners' names or other markings. vi 370 pp. 6 1/2 x 9 inches. Carl B. Lorck hardcover
189872382London: Luzac & Co 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. The first edition in English. Unlike its predecessors which were based on archaic Persian spoken in India Rosen's Grammar drew on the colloquial language of what was then modern Persia. 400 p. with the publisher's 1893 ads at the rear. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding with black stamping. Though the hinges are cracked the binding is still quite sound. The top edge is dust stained. Some general shelfwear to the boards which are darkened along the spine. Luzac & Co hardcover
1854u1709London: T. Simpson 1854. Combined edition of three pamphlets on metallurgy: Dud Dudley's Mettallum Martis: or IRON made with Pit-coale Sea-coale &c. And with the same Fuell to Melt and Fine Imperfect Mettals and Refine perfect Mettals 1665; John Rovinson A Treatise of Metallica: But not that which was published by Mr. Simon Stvrtevant. 1613; Sturteuant Simon Metallica or The Treatise of Metallica: Briefly comprehending the Doctrine of diuerse new Metallical Inuentions but especially how to neale melt and worke all kinde of mettle oares Irons and Steeles with Sea-coale Pit-coale Earth-coale and Brush Fewell 1612. Evidently Sturtevant was outlawed and lost his Patent which was taken by Rovinson. Hardcover full beige cloth red cover titling. Worn yellowed and stained foxing and spots in text waterstain on lower corner affecting several pages. Pagination: xx 40 iii 30 ii 119 including a four page listing of subscibers and publisher's note explaining the reprinting and giving a few biographical details on Dudley by one John Bagnall. There is also a folding genealogical chart for the Dudleys and a sort of a map. Not a lot of practical information but interesting historically. Third Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 6¾" by 8½". T. Simpson Hardcover
