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188911081Washington D. C.: Gpo. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1889. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Worn & the top of the spine & corners. Fragile black cloth has worn through at small spots on the front of the spine and split at the top rear of the spine ~3". ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 111plates pages . Gpo hardcover
1894006030Boston: Leach Shewell And Sanborn 1894. "The matter and the methods of presentation are designed to enable the student to become thoroughly acquainted with the principles and applications of Trigonometry." 114 pp. Also included: Six Place Logarithmic Tables Together with a Table of Natural Sines Cosines Tangents and Cotangents prepared by Webster Wells 11 pp.; A Table Containing the Logarithms of Numbers From 1 to 10000 79 pp. Separate answer key to Miller's Trigonometry included at the conclusion of text 11 pp. Black cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine. Cover corners are rubbed to boards edges rubbed spine ends are torn and fraying. Cover faces are scuffed with small marks. Front free endpaper missing. Previous owner's name written on top of title page and on top of answer key. Loose hinges. Some ink marks along interior page edges but text not affected. Book in Good condition. Third Edition. Cloth. Good. Size: Approx. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Mathematics. Leach, Shewell And Sanborn Hardcover
1884623005New York: Funk & Wagnalls 1884. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition second state of the publisher's name on the spine. Octavo. 237 2 ads pp. Publisher's brown three-quarter cloth and marbled paper covered boards. Slight rubbing and wear mostly along the upper extremities else near fine. Chapters include: "Notes from an Old Journal" "In California" "In Oregon" "In Colorado" "Rhymes for the Right" and "In Memoriam." BAL 13795. Funk & Wagnalls hardcover
1871016755Boston: Roberts Brothers 1871 Boston: Roberts Brothers 1871. First American edition with al first issue points. 8vo. Decorative brown cloth binding with bear in gilt decorative titles and publisher name in gilt surrounding a wheel to spine top edge gilt. Dark brown coated endpapers. Contains "Thoughts About Art" in preliminary advertising. Earlier in 1871 Miller issued a preliminary volume of verse Pacific Poems 100 copies printed in London only; Songs of the Sierras printed in May 1971 is a revised and enlarged edition of Pacific Poems; it too appeared first in London but was altered substantially for the American edition. This is a first issue BAL 13751 - Issue A Binding B. Short tear bottom of spine shallow chipping on top. Pages lightly tanned but not brittle. Light scraping/soiling to boards. Hinges sound no writing inside. Good. Roberts Brothers hardcover
1874001297N.Y.: The Graphic Co. Photo-Lith 1874. Hardcover. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Walter F. Brown. 4to oblong some foxing of pages no writing on pages in prose bound in blue cloth gilded stamped design on front cover beveled edges upper right corner tip worn to board some light staining on front board. Old owners name on top right edge of fist colored end paper. A good copy. <br/> <br/> The Graphic Co. Photo-Lith hardcover
185854571New York: Baker Godwin & Co 1858. 32mo 4 x 2.75" pp. 32; original brown printed paper wrappers; upper corner of last 3 leaves and lower cover clipped barely touching text but with no loss of understanding; otherwise very good. A little advertisement for J. B. Miller & Co 134 Canal St. Includes a history of footwear to ancient Egypt onwards with complaints about high heels narrow toes and small shoes generally modern fashion with an argument for American manufacturing and an excuse for high New York prices and advertisements for buskins boots garters children's shoes and India rubber shoes. None in OCLC. Baker, Godwin & Co unknown
187556544Bristol County: April 18 1875. Folio 3 pages on integral leaves signed with seals on p. 3 by W. R. Lawton president and treasurer respectively of the Gas Company William J. Miller and D. V. Gardner witness. Previous folds else fine. Terms of the lease stipulate a term of five years and include the company's gas house coal and lime sheds holder house "and all permanent fixtures required for the manufacture storage and distribution of gas." And the company furthermore agree that they will keep in proper repair the building the holders and tanks the hydraulic mains washers etc.; and that Miller agrees to make all the necessary repairs on the street mains and agrees to pay $2500 "for a consumption of two and one half million feet" and $3000 "for a consumption of three million feet per annum and a pro-rated rate for any amount between the amounts named. April 18 unknown
1887mon0000077431Edmund Durrant 1887T. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Edmund Durrant hardcover
1893mon0003220452W.B. Conkey Company 1893-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Ex-library copy with usual markings. W.B. Conkey Company hardcover
1873295760Boston: Roberts Brothers 1873. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good with fading to the cocked spine. Roberts Brothers hardcover
1861ZB360545NY: W.C. Bryant & Co. 1861. 18 pp library markings paper wrappers detached and chipped soft vertical fold mark extraction roughness at spine and later side stapling reading copy only. - 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. NY: W.C. Bryant & Co., unknown
1804L024.donGB: W Sheardown Doncaster 1804. Not dated but perhaps about 1804 date on folding map of Doncaster at start which has a small celotape repair. Fairly clean tight text has been fitted with new endpapers and recently rebound in plain grey cloth with gold on burgundy titel labels. Some plates bit damp marked. A very good working copy. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES MAY APPLY Packed weight 1600g. . 1st Edition. Hardback. Good/No DW. W Sheardown (Doncaster) Hardcover
1882228628E. M. Waite Steam Printer and Bookbinder 1882. First Edition. Pamphlet. 14 2 2 advertisements. Printed wrappers. Minutes from the annual meeting of Baptist churches centered around Corvallis Oregon. According to the minutes 600 copies were ordered printed but few have survived. OCLC reports holdings of many other annual meetings but no apparently this one. First edition first printing. Very good in wrappers paperback. Wrappers chipped at spine and corners.<br> E. M. Waite Steam Printer and Bookbinder unknown
185882605New York: Robert Carter and Brothers 1858. "A New Improved and Enlarged Edition". Very Good Plus. Octavo. Brick red/Light Brown cloth covered boards both front and rear bordered with stamped heraldic motif in black. Title in red-on-bright gilt to spine with chessboard-like design within black and gilt lines at top and bottom. 403 pp Five-color frontis chart on thick card-stock The Burn of Eathie and numerous black-and-white engravings. Just very light rubbing to extremities. Tight and bright. Part of this work nearly one-third appeared earlier in 1858 "in the form of a series of sketches in the Witness newspaper. Robert Carter and Brothers unknown
1857954T33Edinburgh: Thomas Constable and Co. 1857. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5". None. A smart seventeenth thousand of this illustrated collection of studies on natural history and geology. Seventeenth thousand. Illustrated with a frontispiece and one hundred and fifty-two in-text figures. A collection of natural history essays with a focus on geology including titles such as: the paleontological history of plants the paleontological history of animals the mosaic vision of creation the discoverable and the revealed and the geology of the anti-geologists. Written by Hugh Miller a Scottish geologist writer and folklorist. Bound by John Gray Edinburgh. In the original full red cloth binding. Externally smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the cloth. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Bound by John Gray Edinburgh. Very Good Thomas Constable and Co. hardcover
1892000021710<p>London: William Heinemann 1892. hardcover. Very good. With portraits and facsimiles. Frontis. portrait of the author. Octavo 3/4 green leather over green boards. Gilt rules. Gilt titles on spine also with gilt designs of shamrocks and harps. Raised bands on spine. Top edge gilt marbled endpapers. vi 2 311 pages. Spine leather has sunned to brown. With the bookplates of two former owners on front endpapers. The earliest is from The Second Earl of Dudley William Humble Ward who was the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1902-1905. Black and white photo illustrations. Light wear at cover edges. 020207A British Spies People of the Fenian Raids American Civil War Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood Espionage. <br /><br /></p> William Heinemann hardcover
18685482London: Sampson Low Son and Marston. Good with no dust jacket. 1868. First Edition. Hard Cover. Book is tight but decorated cover is worn although the gilt is present and the alligator getting his teeth cleaned on the cover is in fine form. The front inner hinge has been repaired with white tape. It really looks pretty good for 130 years.; 5x7 . Sampson Low, Son, and Marston hardcover
1854blb00901Boston: Gould & Lincoln 1854. 3rd . Hardcover. Very Good. Brown cloth boards with gilt stamped titling to spine and blindstamped rulings and decorations to both covers and spine. Two small repaired tears to paneled spine - mild foxing to frontispiece otherwise a Very Good copy of this ""from the Third London Edition"" - Memoir of the author by Louis Agassiz. Multiple black and white illustrations including a tissue protected frontis piece of the author with fasc. signature underneath. 337 several advertising pages for other scientific books of the day. Gould & Lincoln hardcover
189927432Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Front endpaper blind stamp. Light spotting . bottom front cover. 1899. Hardcover. 8 color plates and several black and white ones. ; 8vo; 149 pages . Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
1896240766New York: Knickerbocker Publishing 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto 347 pages two-tone cloth bevelled edges. Ex libris Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr. <br/><br/>This is a list of organizations and a "mug book" for mostly New York notable men. This is McCormick's copy and he does rate a biographical entry but not a photograph. The organizers of this estimated that they would find 5000 national organizations but quickly learned that there were many more more than could reasonably be included. The section on the Sons of the American Revolution was written by John Quincy Adams not that one!. Also a piece on Kennel Clubs in the United States. Knickerbocker Publishing hardcover