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1871147269Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo 1871. Hardcover. Internally clean. Front end paper and first three signatures detached and binding almost completely separated at front hinge. Most pages still in uncut signatures. Complete. Brick cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. lxiv; 352 pp. with 67 bw woodcuts. Begins with a lengthy lxiv introduction about the author by his wife. The main subject is about the asterolepsis specifically at Stromness a parish and one of the largest towns in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. Asterolepses are a fish "an extinct genus of placoderms from the Devonian of North America and Europe. They were heavily armored benthic detritivores with distinctive jointed limb-like pectoral fins." Wikipedia. William P. Nimmo hardcover
185123825Boston:: Gould and Lincoln 1851. From the third London edition. publisher's cloth. Spine faded; old ink ownership inscription; otherwise very nice. 8vo. With a Memoir of the Author by Louis Agassiz. Engraved text illustrations. Gould and Lincoln, hardcover
18996598T. Y. Crowell. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1899. Hardcover. B006598; 32 pages; 32 pp Bumped corners small hardcover very good contents decorated covers slight . T. Y. Crowell hardcover
1865015674James Miller New York 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 6 1/4" x 4 1/8". Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Gilt-stamped brown cloth over boards 141 pages plus 15 pages of ads ads on end papers illustrated with plates of buildings/views around NYC. Lacks the map though unclear where the map was supposed to be if there was one. Title continues: "Comprising Notices of Every Object of Interest to Strangers; Including Public Buildings Churches Hotels Places of Amusement Literary Institutions Etc." Corners and spine ends rubbed plates toned otherwise in snappy condition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 9 oz. Category: Travel & Places; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015674. . James Miller hardcover
185926603New York: James Miller 522 Broadway 1859. 12mo. Contemporary cloth over stiff paper wrappers hinges going spine chipped title stamped in gilt on front cover. Pages 18 frontis plate of Cooper Union 129 3 advts plus folding plates. In-text illustrations. Front and rear pastedowns consist of advertisements. A few leaves loose a Good copy. <br /> <br /> This is Miller's first guide book a compendious and profusely illustrated guide to the City covering virtually everything about New York and Brooklyn with many advertisements. <br /> Despite the title's promise of a map none appears here and the index of Illustrations does not list one. However the copies at Yale and the New York Public Library do include a map. The promised illustration of the Merchants' Exchange is not included.<br /> Sabin 54407. James Miller, 522 Broadway unknown
1900812141900. MILLER James N. The Story of Andersonville and Florence. Des Moines: Welch the Printer 1900. 1st ed. 47pp. Portrait frontis. Orig. pictorial wrappers. Fine. "Temperate reminiscences based on a brief diary from which excerpts are included; regards Florence as the worst of the two prisons"-Nevins I p.198. unknown
1884621705New York: Funk & Wagnalls 1884. Softcover. Very Good. First edition wrappered issue preceding the hardcover by a couple of weeks. 12mo. 148pp. Printed beige wrappers. 19th Century bookplate of Alden Chase of Woodstock Maine some erosion to the bottom third of the thin paper spine else very good or better. BAL 13799 variant without final page of ads. Funk & Wagnalls unknown
18847971884. MILLER John Franklin. And Ralph Ellis. Autograph Letters Signed. Written by California U.S. Senator John Franklin Miller and the Lodi California Sentinel newspaper owner Ralph Ellis. On one side of the sheet Ellis writes to Miller in Washington DC- on Sentinel stationary and dated January 28 1884. Ellis states that since the Alaska Goverment Bill has passed the Senate he is inquiring about being appointed a U.S. Marshall in California. On the verso of the same sheet is an autograph letter to the California Attorney General stating that the Alaska territory now has a form of goverment and requests Ellis be considered as a U.S. marshall. What Alaska has to do with the appointment is beyond me. Miller was a Civil War veteran and was elected in 1880 as one of the two first California Senators to the U.S. Congress. An interesting and probably uncommon letter with two scarce signatures!!! Very Good condition tiny nicks to corner $125.00. unknown
1884619954New York: Funk & Wagnalls 1884. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 236pp. Pictorial wrappers. Small chips on front cover tear on the front spine fold loss at spine ends very good with pages that are still supple and white. Chapters include: "Notes from an Old Journal" "In California" "In Oregon" "In Colorado" "Rhymes for the Right" and "In Memoriam. Funk & Wagnalls unknown
1871A44887Boston MA: Roberts Brothers. 1871. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd issue pages with Thoughts About Art on the 4th page of preliminary ads in Blanck's Binding B with the gilt wheel around the publisher's name on the spine of the book. Terracotta colored boards with gilt lettering and decorations on the front cover and spine of the book. This copy is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. There is some light bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is some beginning wear / fraying to the corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers are a coated brown color. "In 1877 Miller adapted his First Fam'lies of the Sierras into a play The Danites or the Heart of the Sierras. It opened on August 22 in New York with McKee Rankin as the main character. The anti-Mormon play which featured Danites hunting the daughter of one of the murderers of Joseph Smith became one of the most commercially successful in a series of anti-Mormon dramas at the time. The Spirit of the Times however attributed its success to curious audience members expecting a disastrous failure and instead discovering a good show: "The play proved to possess more than ordinary merit and if it is not a great work it is decidedly not a very bad one." The Danites was extended from a run of only a few days to one of seven straight weeks before moving to another theatre and ultimately was performed to such a degree that it rivaled the popularity of Uncle Tom's Cabin. It was published in book form later in 1877. Miller later admitted that he regretted the anti-Mormon tone. " from Wikipedia; 299p. pages; Pictured 1/21/23 . Roberts Brothers hardcover
18815772Jansen McClurg and Company Chicago 1881; First American Edition; 8vo 258 pages plus 4-page publisher’s catalogue at the back; green cloth; beveled boards; gilt spine titles. Legendary literary frontiersman Joaquin Miller’s raw yet moving tale of life in an early California Sierra gold town where terror from the Mormon secret society of Danites bent on the extermination of the families of those they believed responsible for the killing of Joseph Smith looms over all. First issued during his sojourn in London in 1875 under the title "The First Fam’lies Of The Sierras" Miller later made the book into a play which opened in New York in 1877 to considerable success. Born Cincinnatus Heine Miller he wrote only two books under his given name before adopting the pseudonym Joaquin Miller ultimately authoring nearly thirty literary works. An inveterate adventurer he had been at one time or another an explorer miner pony express rider county judge and journalist. Respected for his poetry as well as his prose he was able to count among his friends Bret Harte and Ambrose Bierce. Miller eventually settled in Oakland California where his home today is preserved as part of the city’s Joaquin Miller Park. Very Good binding tight sound square corners sharp. Moderate cloth wear at the spine panel extremities occasional light foxing previous owner neat signature on f.f.e.p. dated 1882. Jansen, McClurg and Company hardcover
1896134190Piney Creek MD; New Oxford PA 1896-8. Vol. 1 Nos. 1-6 Vol. II Nos. 1-6 Vol. III Nos. I-3. Hardcover. Good. 146 p. 29 cm. B&w portrait photos and drawings. Black cloth spine and corners withmarbled paper boards. Spine label mainly worn off. Genertal wear to extremitie. Paper browning. Damp stains to margins. Stain on rear endpapers. Tear at top of Vol. I No. 2. <br/><br/>Articles on visiting Gettysburg duplicate stamp albums philatelic conventions why collect stamps the growth of philatelic literature collecting text mistakes on postage stamps women and philatelia Lillie H. Murray stamps as one of the world's great revolutions Confederate stamps Canadian Happenings by "Canuck" etc. Advertising. hardcover
18538050New York: Appleton & Co. 1853. First US edition. Hardcover. Good condition. Leighton Brothers at the Great Exhibition exhibited on Cundall's stand certain coloured prints they had produced and these in 1852 were published in book form and called the Village Queen." Courtney Lewis p.52. <br /> <br /> The Illustrated London News thought them superior to George Baxter's entries in the Great Exhibition. "How Leighton and Crewe and Harrison Weir would chuckle over the idea of Baxter's inartistic entries. of his bad drawing and that Leighton's imitations of water -colour drawings ranked much higher as works of art than Baxter's oil colour printing." ibid. pp 780-79. <br /> <br /> INCLUDES the original issue of the Art Journal review of this book for 1851 is loosely inserted at the back finding these far superior to Mr. Baxter's process of printing in oil colors. With the bookseller's stamp on inside front cover: 'R. Van Nostrand'.<br /> <br /> 4to 108pp half title 5 mounted color printed plates by Leighton Brothers. Original blue gilt all edges gilt. Corners and spine ends rubbed; inner hinge starting but holding. OCLC: 54233902. Appleton & Co. hardcover
189715355NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good-. 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth spine paper covered boards. Boards are soiled and slightly scuffed. Corners are rubbed. A scarce book. One primary flaw a page is missing. Pagae 5/6 in the first section which was illustrated by T. V. Chominski on page 5 & Gibson on page 6. All the other Gibson drawings 24 of them are there. The book consists of b/w illustrations in 4 catagories. The pages are numbered by catagory and don't begin with number 1. Prices as-is without the missing page. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 122 pages . Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1890103065E.P. Dutton 1890. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. Later printing. Heavily illustrated. Covers worn. Front flyleaf detached but present. Names written on forst blank page and gift inscription on contents page. E.P. Dutton hardcover
1843DM16121Cincinnati: J. P. Wright & L. Swormstedt 1843. Including An Account of the Christian Experience of some of the converts from Popery and infidelity as furnished by themselves; Full brown sheep gilt title on red spine label & all edges finely speckled; A just good copy with front hinge tender top 1/2" spine missing a couple ownership labels; 249 pages. . 3.5"x5.5". J. P. Wright [&] L. Swormstedt unknown
1873848A6London: Frederick Bentley 1873. First edition. Cloth. Good. 10.5" by 7" . J. M. W. Turner; Thomas Girtin . Ode to the beautiful scenery of the United Kingdom from the picturesque views of J. W. M. Turner and Thomas Girtin. The first edition of this work 'One Hundred Years Ago' following the 1854 publication of 'Sixty Years Since.' Containing a series of thirty engravings from the picturesque sceneries of England Scotland and Wales as painted by either J. M. W. Turner or Thomas Girtin. Collated complete. With a memoir of both Turner and Girtin rivals and friends in the eighteenth century both influential watercolourists and etchers who established watercolouring as a reputable art form. In the original publisher's orange variant decorative cloth binding. Externally with shelf wear bumped to head and tail of spine cracked to head of front joint boards holding firm back strip faded. Frontispiece weakly attached. Internally firmly bound. Spotting to first and last few leaves affecting odd leaf throughout particularly leaves of plates; pages otherwise generally bright and clean. Good Frederick Bentley hardcover
1873643501873. New York: William Wood 1873 8° 72 pp. 2 Figs. orig. cloth; minor spotting. First Edition! Alphonso David Rockwell 1840-1925 & George Miller Beard 1839-1883 - "At the time this monograph was published Rockwell was an electro-therapeutist at the New York State Woman's Hospital. Beard received his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1862 and his medical education at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1866. Most of his professional career was centered around the study of nervous diseases and he was one of America's earliest neurologists. In 1869 Beard first described neurasthenia as a form of nervous exhaustion G-M 4843. Rockwell and Beard's text consists of reprints of journal articles previously published in the Medical record New York in 1872and 1873. There is neither a table of contents nor an index. This was the only edition." Rutkow Rutkow GS78.1 hardcover
1896274264San Francisco.: Whitaker and Ray. 1896. 1st Edition. hardcover full brown morocco over padded boards gilt titles top edge gilt. Spine ends chipped light wear to corners rear outer hinge starting still a good plus copy with very good contents in the deluxe binding. 8vo. Inscribed signed and dated 1896 by the author on the second endpaper. Tipped in photo of author at end of text. Whitaker and Ray. hardcover
1895931F63London: Smith Elder and Co 1895 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". Not Stated. A bright example of the first edition of John Adye's memoir of his military life between the years 1854 and 1882. The first edition.British soldier and amateur artist General Sir John Miller Adye served in the Crimean War the Indian Mutiny the Aghan Wars and the Anglo-Egyptian War.In this work he describes his military experiences from 1854 to 1882.Illustrated with a frontispiece three maps and eleven plates. Collated complete.With six pages of advertisements to the rear.With a tipped in publisher's notice to the front free endpaper.Adye further described his personal experiences in such works as 'A Review of the Crimean War' and 'Sitana: A Mountain Campaign on the Borders of Afghanistan in 1863'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail otherwise externally excellent. Front hinge strained but firmly held. Internally firmly bound. Pages exceptionally bright. Pencil notations throughout most frequently to margins and to rectos of maps. Very Good Smith, Elder and Co hardcover
1864983K14Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black 1864. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 8" by 5". Not Stated. A superior first edition of this historical and geographical guide to Edinburgh. The first edition of the work. Scarce.In the publisher's original cloth. With a frontispiece and two further monochrome plates. Collated complete.A vivid exploration of Edinburgh"s landscape geology and history. Blending scientific observation with cultural commentary Miller paints a rich portrait of the city"s natural features and historical significance. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally in excellent condition with slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot heavier to the first and last few pages. Near Fine Adam & Charles Black hardcover
1893919F44Cambridge and Chicago: Stone & Kimball 1893 . First edition. Cloth. Fine. 7" by 5". None. The first edition of Joaquin Miller's utopian prose romance set in Jerusalem at the time of Christ. The first edition of this work. Only 500 copies of this first edition were produced.The work of Joaquin Miller the pen-name of Cincinnatus Heine Miller who was nicknamed the "Poet of the Sierras" after the Sierra Nevada about which he wrote frequently.Set in Jerusalem and the Holy Lands at the time of Christ this is one of the earliest Stone & Kimball titles. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally fine. Internally firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Fine Stone & Kimball hardcover
189958287George Allen 156 Charing Cross Road 1899. 1st edition. Hardback. Buckram P. xx487pp b/w frontis 63 b/w plates 3 large folding pedigrees 2 folding maps 11 genealogies to the text index page margins slightly tanned upper board detached & spine laid in gift inscription to the pastedown stating that the book was a gift from one of the original subscribers named in the subscribers list text in good order so a copy in need to some TLC & a new spine. Monumental history of Chislehurst in South Eastern London once part of Kent. George Allen, 156 Charing Cross Road hardcover