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189261686Philadelphia: Rufus C. Hartranft. Good with no dust jacket; Usual library stamps and markings. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Rebound in maroon reinforced cloth binding vii 524pp photos illustrations maps. Account of the 1891 Peary expedition to explore the shores of Greenland. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Rufus C. Hartranft hardcover
189775633hNew York: Illustrated London News 1897. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Half-year run bound in original marbled boards rebacked in leather. Handling and some staining to fore-edge of text. Otherwise clean tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome volume. Spectacular illustrations including numerous fold-outs on the Diamond Jubilee; a good deal including illustrations of the Klondike. Illustrated London News Hardcover
18920008437Chicago: Rand McNally 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo 226 pages original brown cloth bright gilt rehinged <br/><br/>"Spears favors his readers with an intimate word-picture of Death Valley as it appeared in 1891. . It is noted for its early photographs in almost the same degree as for its textual content. It is conceivable that these may be the first pictures ever published - perhaps ever taken - of the Death Valley region. Maximum importance attaches to them - Edwards ENDURING DESERT p.227." Howes S821; Cowan p.604; Graff 3926; not in Soliday; Paher 1844. With a map of the Borax Fields and 56 photographic illustrations per Contents pages. Rand McNally hardcover
188810005Kansas City Mo: Spiritual Scientific Publishing Co 1888. Good. 8vo. 103pp. frontis engraved portrait 3/4 leather and boards front cover detached rear cover held in place with tape spine perished. -- Needs rebinding. Text block sound. -- Condition. Spiritual Scientific Publishing Co unknown
1849B5668Marseille: Carnaud c.1849. A fine example of this rare book. Binding: Contemporary vellum boards rebacked expertly with five raised bands compartments blind and gilt horizontal fillets with elaborate central arabesque gilt motif and gilt lettered morocco title on two. Notes: Text in Arabic. Preface in French Text in Arabic. Germanos Farhat was appointed Maronite Archbishop of Aleppo by Pope Pius IX. He served in this capacity from 1725 until his passing in 1732 as well as a skilled grammarian writer and religious poet. He was an important figure of the so-called Arab Renaissance. A statue in his honour remains erected in Aleppo. His work was revised edited and expanded considerably by the well known historian and commentator Rochaid de Dahdah elevated to knighthood receiving the title of “Count†or Comte by Pope Pius IX. Size: thick quarto 260x185mm Illustration: Illustrated portrait of the author Archbishop Farhat of Aleppo and illustrated gilt lettered title both in Arabic with captions in French. Provenance: Two ex libris stamps on French title: ‘Beirut library’ in blue ink and other unrecognizable. Pages: Frontispiece illustrated title blind Arabic text 723 preface summary French 3 printer’s note title in French. Category: Book Asia Middle East General; Book Literature Carnaud hardcover
1895456306London : Published by George Allen Ruskin House Charing Cross Road 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original decorated gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Light foxing. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; xii 303 pages 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. Subjects; Huon de Bordeaux Legendary character Romances. Charlemagne Emperor 742-814 Romances. French literature To 1500 Translations into English. Chansons de geste. London : Published by George Allen, Ruskin House, Charing Cross Road hardcover
1895155135Indiana: F & M Frink 1895. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in boards. Owner personalization on FEP. Bumping at spine heel. Both hinges cracked. F & M Frink hardcover
1878ZB532942Posen: W. Decker & Comp. 1878. 2 volumes 322 pp. 342 2 pp. a few plates but including a folding view and a folding plan; here in on later cloth binding general age toning but not fragile overall good. - 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. Photos available upon request. Posen: W. Decker & Comp., hardcover
1877269049Case Lockwood & Brainard Co. 1877. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo in rust-colored cloth spine title in gilt title and decorations in black on the front board bevelled edges. Binding tight and square very light rubbing at the corners and spine ends. All of the albumen prints present; they're a bit wavy but there is no evidence of water damage. The front pastedown bears the ownership signature of Walter B. Douglas prominent St. Louis jurist and historian. Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. hardcover
1888BOOKS301882Chicago IL: A. C. McClurg and Company. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1888. . Cloth. 12mo. 298 pp. cover rubbed bumped soiled frayed inside binding cracked page toning . A. C. McClurg and Company hardcover
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
1854003319Boston: Charles Waite. 1854. hardcover. 224 pp Good/- boards worn two corners split some pages stained. Containing a Brief Description of the Country Religion Manners andCustoms of the Hindus and an Account of the Operations of the AmericanFreewill Baptist Mission in Northern Orissa Charles Waite hardcover
1848073091Buffalo: Derby & Hewson 1848. Hardcover. Fair-Good. Library rebound in tan cloth. Good clean tight condition with usual ex-library features. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking. <br/> <br/> Derby & Hewson hardcover
189436530New Spalding Club Aberdeen 1894. 4to. First and Sole Edition thus on laid paper with a frontispiece original tissue guard present title in red and black and a fine double-page facsimile parallel text in Latin and English free endpapers browned as usual frontispiece and facsimile lightly spotted; original series binding of olive green cloth blocked in blind club badge blocked in gilt on front board gilt back uncut a remarkably bright clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 525 NUMBERED COPIES. New Spalding Club publication no. 12. With the club's Seventh Report by Council 1893 and list of members to 30 June 1894 bound in at end. Hector Boethius or Boece 1465-1536 first principal of the University of Aberdeen is known for two important works of medieval Scottish history: the 'Historia Gentis Scotorum' Paris 1527 and his earlier Lives of the Bishops of Murthlack and Aberdeen Paris 1522. Of the latter work a facsimile text in the original Latin was issued by the Bannatyne Club publication no. 11 in 1825. The present edition remains the sole published transliteration. Moir was Co-Rector of Aberdeen Grammar School. Read 3742. New Spalding Club, Aberdeen, hardcover
1886047695London Gb: T. Nelson And Sons 1886. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Engravings. Viii 9-336 Pp. Brown Cloth Elaborately Stamped In Gilt Black And In Blind; Beveled Edges; All Page Edges Gilt; Floral Endpapers. Deluxe Publisher's Binding. 1886 Date On Title Page. Gilt Bright But Wear To Cloth With Fraying At Corners. No Marks. <br/> <br/> T. Nelson And Sons hardcover
1820245432Londini : Impensis editoris. Prostant apud S. Bladon 1820. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy bound in full aniline calf with gilt-blocked label to the spine and decoration to the boards. Some minor wear and tear to the spine and extremities as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; volume II only: 580 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects; The New Testament. Greek Translation. Latin Translation. The Bible. Christian Theology. Samuel Hardy 1719 or 1720-1793. Londini : [Impensis editoris. Prostant apud S. Bladon] hardcover
1898253076London: Ward Lock & Co. Limited 1898. Twenty-Second Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy with wear tear and dust-dulling as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Edition; 22nd edition containing the history of the world to the autumn of 1898 / by Benjamin Vincent. Physical description; vi 6 1290 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects; History — Dictionaries. Chronology Historical. London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited hardcover
1851320912San Francisco: Joseph W. Gregory 1851. 20 blank leaves. 24mo. Original dark purple wrappers printed in gilt. Minor ink stains on inner wrappers otherwise a near fine copy with the original unused plain paper envelope. 20 blank leaves. 24mo. A lovely example of an unused Gold Rush letter book intended to advertise Joseph Gregory's California and New York Express Line by means of a convenient way for gold seekers in California to communicate with friends and family back home. According to the wrapper "this book is made of the finest letter paper and of the size of a folded letter which with an envelope will not exceed the weight of a single letter and is more convenient than paper in sheets Joseph W. Gregory unknown
1850List1929California 1850. With thirteen letters most multi-page written from Monterey in 1850 a 7 pp facsimile transcription of a 1834 Mexican land grant on cloth measuring 11 x 14 inches and and eleven page document on paper in Spanish relating to a Monterey land grant transcribing an 1841 document. Letters heavily worn with some loss at margins but mostly legible land grant in good to very good condition transcribed document in Spanish in fair condition with water damage to margins. Fair. An interesting archive of 1850s-era material relating to the life and career of the surveyor Edward Williams which recently surfaced in the central mother lode region. The group includes his personal letters from the California Gold Rush as well as well two interesting documents form his work for the Surveyor General J.W. Mandeville in 1858 where he transcribed two Mexican land grants. <br /> <br /> Lt. Edward Williams was a member of Company E New York Volunteers under Capt. Nelson Taylor. He came to California around 1847 and found employment as a deputy surveyor later working for the Office of the Surveyor General of the Unites States for California. In 1858 Surveyor General J.W. Mandeville commissioned a report on Mexican-era California Land Grants. Mandeville had Williams copy the original documents exactly - inclusive of an ink copy on linen that is an "exact tracing" of the original documents starting with 1834 up through about 1840. These "copies" were submitted to the Surveyor General in 1858 for use in the report. Williams continued the title work by copying other documents from about 1841 though this time not as a tracing but hand copied on the usual blue paper of the 1850s.<br /> <br /> The documents illustrate the length officials went to while they investigated Mexican Land Grant titles to California properties in the 1850s. The process was difficult and involved two distinctly separate cultures and legal systems that clearly conflicted. The Mexican Government granted rights for these large land parcels in California to various people but clearly stated they could not sell parts of the property. The wording was used many times in litigation of the period in both defense of the land grants and in opposition to how the land grants were handled. The issues were actually quite simple in that the Mexican legal standards for land grants was far different from those in the United States and the two differing forms of written land ownership and use clashed. <br /> <br /> These documents reflect a parcel of land granted to Francisco Mesa at "Corral de Tierra" a large parcel in Monterrey County California. Mesa had requested land for "his personal use and that of his family." In the Grant the title papers reflect "while the land is under Francisco's possession it cannot be divided mortgaged or a levy placed on it nor handed down." These original documents help illustrate the complex story of Mexican Land Grants in California. <br /> <br /> Also included are thirteen letters from Ed aka "Ned" to various family members primarily his mother and sister Alice and vice versa. About half are from Ed the other half are written to him. The dates of the letters are; 1850: February 10th April 15th April 16th April 28th June 10th July 30th October 11th and November 17th and 1851: September 9th. One undated letter with heavy loss is written from Panama. The letters are generally readable but the condition far from perfect with water stains throughout and chips abundant along edges and significant textual loss. The letters are generally at least two pages sometimes four or more inclusive of writing in the crossed line custom to save paper. Most are datelined at Monterrey where he discusses the people the customs setting and more. <br /> <br /> Despite the condition flaws there is much to be gleaned from his correspondence. In his April 15 1850 letter . he describes his trip to San Juan Bautista from Monterrey in detail while he was on his way to San Francisco. Williams writes of his great pleasure on tasting cooked beef by the Indians that he found was the best he ever tasted as they camped on the way to San Jose with the ultimate goal Mission Dolores in San Francisco: “this the beef they put on the embers of the fire and broiled it - I never tasted anything like it before so tender so juicy…†One of his first notes on San Francisco: "There are regular streets filled with all kinds of sorts of stores… The shipping covers the water as far as you can see. And those nearest the shore are converted into store houses the rigging being taken down and the and holes cut in the sides for doors.The best houses in town are occupied by gamblers . a large saloon filled with tables on which are played all kinds of games of chance - at some of the tables are displayed immense amounts of coin and gold in lumps worth from 1 to 5000 dollars which some poor infatuated fool of a miner has at some time lost to them."<br /> In his letter of April 16th he discusses both his difficulties with women in California and his lack of fitting in back east: “The Spanish Girls are very nice and all that sort of thing but the trouble is to find one that is educated. I can’t bear an uneducated wom an and I think I shall have to come to N.Y. and bring one out here… I know one or two in N.Y. but I don’t believe they would have such an uncouth specimen of an ‘hombre’ as me…†In his next letter he describes Carmel in detail. He states: “I haven’t been to the mines nor have I any inclination to go†though he intends to settle in California permanently. In his next letter he discusses the people he’s met and how he detests the anglophone community there: “How do I like the People Those of Spanish whom I call my friends I love with all my soul - there is not much society except among them… the Eng. and Am. population I detest from the bottom of my heart. This may sound strange but you will know the por que when you arrive.†He then praises the climate and scenery of Monterey. One letter written from Panama which has unfortunately sustained heavy losses at margins offers some details of the trip on the Chagres River. The replies to Williams from his family offer details on life in New York and are similarly compromised in condition but overall there is enough to glean from the group to provide a detailed example of family correspondence from the period. <br /> <br /> Overall a very interesting and unusual archive of a young professional who moved to California during the Gold Rush period and rejected the Anglophone mining community with particular interest to historians of Monterey and of the systems of land grants that shaped Mexican and American land policy in the nineteenth century. unknown
185268368Placer County California 1852. GOLD RUSH. Gold Rush Map Manuscript. Being a Survey for the adjoining plots of land belonging to H.H. Watson and A.J. Polhill. Placer County California: 1852.<br> <br> Two pages on a single sheet 17 1/8 x 10 7/8 in.; 438 x 275 mm. Manuscript document with map dated variously between 4-24 September 1852 and signed by H.H. Watson A.J. Polhill and others. Sheet with some mild staining and ink blots. Some minor chipping at edges and some separations at the creases. Creases reinforced with nearly invisible tape. Overall a very interesting piece of gold rush history. We could not find any other California mine surveys at auction in the past 50 years.<br> <br> "Survey for H.H. Watson and A.J. Polhill. A Tract of land laying near ville bounded as described in the annex plot commencing point as the S.W. corner of J.H. Hancock survey." "Survey made by N.O. Hinman County Surveyor."<br> <br> "In the present survey the tracts of land being issued to Watson and Polhill are bounded on the right by the Volcano Mining Company Ditch and Volcano Canion sic with the Todds sic Valley Company Ditch running through each plot. The Volcano Gold Gravel Mining Company was one of the most extensive gravel mines during the Gold Rush and hundreds of acres of valuable mining lands were drained by its enterprises. Placer County falls in both the Sacramento Valley and Sierra Nevada regions in what is known as the Gold Country. The discovery of gold in this region in 1848 brought tens of thousands of miners from around the world and thousands more settled in the area to provide goods and services to them. The name "Placer" is taken from the Spanish word for gravel or sand deposits containing gold." From Sotheby's.<br> <br> HBS 68368.<br> <br> $3500. Placer County, California unknown
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
185113408Edinburgh: The Edinburgh Evening Courant 1851. With an article on the back page column 3 entitled "Gold In Australia" measuring 13 column inches which states "The discovery of the fact by Mr. Hargraves that the country from the Mountain Ranges to an indefinite extent in the interior is an immense gold field" which has ignited "a universal rush to the diggings". The article goes on to describe the rapid rise in the cost of provisions; a description of miners returning to town with gold nuggets; the government geologist's visit to the site; and the need to appoint a "Commissioner over the gold regions. in which Mr. Hargraves being the discoverer. points him out as the most suitable and worthy person for the appointment." An article picked up by the Edinburgh Courant from the Sydney Morning Herald of May 20 which took it from The Bathurst Free Press of May 17th. Small chips at top edges a little browned. Single issue of four page newspaper disbound measuring 19" X 25" Saturday September 6 1851 Number 22168with red newspaper tax stamp at upper right hand corner and black Edinburgh Evening Courant stamp. The Edinburgh Evening Courant unknown
189833202-888St. Petersburg n.pr. 1898. Gold-enhanced chomolithographic Art Nouveau title in red with ms. presentation 2 chromolithogr. plates 3 wood-engraved plates and 1 engraved plate by W. W. Matthé. 272 pp. 1 leaf VI ff. plates. Large 4to 310 x 220 mm. Orig. white cloth richtly decorated and lettered richly in gold and black colored printed endpapers all edges decorated in gold and red with dark red book jacket. In orig. dark red box. St. Petersburg n.pr. 1898. First German edition limited to 100 copies. This is copy no. 51 with a handwritten presentation to "Herrn Medicinalrath Dr. Grödel". Isidor Maximilian Mayer Grödel 1850-1921 was a student of the Munich radiologist G. Rieder and pioneer in balneaolgy and cardiology. This is Vladimir Vasil'evich Stasov's 1824-1906 rare report on the most elaborate book production of Russia in the 19th century N. P. Kondakov's monumental publication on Byzantine Enamels Collection A.V. Zvenigorodskoi. His book appeared in 1892 and is an important document of technological capacity of Russian printing industries. Kondakov's book than cost 120'000 gold roubles by the exchange rate for 1892.- Splendid copy. GREECE; ART; GENERAL & APPLIED ; St. Petersburg, n.pr. hardcover
1845288207Boston: Waite Peirce And Company. 1845 Brown/Gilt Embossed Covers/Spine Clean Tight. Book Store Small Paste Down Colesworth's Book Store .60 Cornhill Boston Mass. A Small Oval Imprint Top Fep. Engraved Shipwreck Frontispiece Engraved Title Page Some Foxing. 8 Nautical Vocabulary. 2 11 395 Pgs. Full Page Envravings. A Fine Copy Of Scarce Maritime Literature. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 3rd Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Waite, Peirce, And Company. hardcover
189471028Washington: United States Geological Survey 1894-1900. First edition of all seven folios. 21 2/4 x 18 1/2 inches each. Folio 3 Placerville. 3 maps. 1894. Folio 5 Sacramento. 2 maps. 1894. Folio 29 Nevada City Special. 9 maps. 1896. Folio 41 Sonora. 4 maps. 14x4" portion of rear wrapper torn off affecting lettering on inside rear wrapper; plates and text fine. 1897. Folio 51 Big Trees. 3 maps & 1 plate reproducing 5 photographs. 1898. Folio 63 Mother Lode District. 8 maps. 1900. Folio 66 Colfax. 3 maps. 1900. All in original printed wrappers and cloth spines. Cursive stamp of Chas. S. Sawyer to each volume. Bit of soiling ad corner wear but altogether a very good collection of this attractive group of atlases. United States Geological Survey hardcover
