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186718003New York: Published By The Authors A.J. Bicknell General Agent 1867. Third edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's cloth decorated in blind front cover lettering in gilt bright. Very good. 2 pages text. Folio 33 x 26 cm. Fifty-two plates comprising 382 designs and 714 illustrations presenting details of street front architecture; country houses villas and domestic architecture generally. The authors offer a variety of elevations for commercial and dwelling houses with the admonition the designs could well serve those who cannot secure the services of an architect -- window caps porches gables. ornamental work etc are presented. Good examples of city row houses. HITCHCOCK 299. Plates and text clean chipping to front cover joint backstrip extremities worn corners bumped. Published By The Authors (A.J. Bicknell, General Agent) hardcover books
1874016301Hartford Conn: American Publishing Company 1874. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus. First American edition 445 pages ads frontis illustrations original publisher's 1/2 leather binding beveled edges raised bands on spine marbled page edges and end-papers minor edge wear a very attractive copy! The author lived with the Indians for 5 years. Howes 608 Zamorano 80 55. American Publishing Company Hardcover
186824132New York: Published By The Authors A.J. Bicknell General Agent 1868. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth decorated in blind front cover gilt lettered. Very good. 19 text pages. Folio 36 x 27.5 cm. Fifty-four lithograph plates. Presents a wide variety of dwellings as well as designs for row houses tenements fire and school houses and commercial buildings churches et al. HITCHCOCK 306. Lithographed and printed by Julius Bien New York. Interior plates and text fresh and clean. Slight rubbing to joints. Published By The Authors (A.J. Bicknell, General Agent) hardcover
18471715Edinburgh & London: John Johnstone 1847. Second Edition Enlarged. Hardcover. pp. xvi 288 24 pages of publishers' advertisements. 12mo. measuring 7" x 4.5". Lovely blind-stamped cloth over boards with gilt lettering and blind-stamped rules to the spine. Light bumping to spine ends corners. Internally the contents remain remarkably bright clean and entirely unmarked with tight sound binding; very good to near fine. Corresponds to OCLC 633559852 with a publication date of 1948; we note however that our offering indicates an earlier publication date of 1947. No extant copies available in commerce at time of cataloguing. Scarce. <br/><br/>Born in Dover Delaware in 1769 Samuel Miller was an American Presbyterian minister theologian and teacher. Having earned his D.D. Doctorate of Divinity from Princeton in 1804 he would later help to found the Princeton Theological Seminary where he would serve as Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Government from 1813-1849. The Miller Chapel located in New Jersey on the grounds of the Princeton Theological Seminary bears his name to this day in honour of his contributions. A prodigious writer he penned many works spanning theology the biographical and polemical including: A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century 1803 1805 Memoir of the Reverend John Rogers 1813 Letters on Unitarianism 1821 An Essay on the Office of the Ruling Elder 1831 The Primitive and Apostolical Order of the Church of Christ Vindicated 1840 Letters from a Father to a Son in College 1843 and Thoughts on Public Prayer 1849. Miller died at at the age of 80 in Princeton New Jersey on January 7 1850. John Johnstone hardcover
1867168617Troy: Privately Printed 1867. hardcover. very good. Comprising 52 plates 382 designs and 714 illustrations. Folio original blind stamped brown cloth recased with black cloth spine. Troy: Published by the Authors 1867. Third Edition. Very good.<br/><br/> Including details for both exterior and interior of the above classes of buildings. Also a great variety of details not included in the designs illustrated by elevations. Fine lithographed plates each accompanied by a page of text. Early ownership signature 1867 on the title page.<br/><br/> Privately Printed unknown books
1867168617Troy: Privately Printed 1867. hardcover. very good. Comprising 52 plates 382 designs and 714 illustrations. Folio original blind stamped brown cloth recased with black cloth spine. Troy: Published by the Authors 1867. Third Edition. Very good.<br/> <br/> Including details for both exterior and interior of the above classes of buildings. Also a great variety of details not included in the designs illustrated by elevations. Fine lithographed plates each accompanied by a page of text. Early ownership signature 1867 on the title page.<br/> <br/> Privately Printed unknown
184535949Charleston S.C.: Published and Sold Wholesale & Retail by A.E. Miller 1845. 48 pp as issued. Stitched. Minor wear Very Good.<br/><br/> The Almanac includes a "Calendar of Fasts Festivals and other days Observed by the Israelites. For the Year 5606". Information is printed on the items promised by the title as well as Tide Tables Notaries Police of the City of Charleston Rates of Gold South Carolina College Free Schools Banks Insurance Companies the Post Office railroads and other subjects. <br/>Drake 13351. AI 45-4392 1- MWA. Not in Singerman or Rosenbach. III Turnbull 10 third edition. Published and Sold, Wholesale & Retail, by A.E. Miller unknown books
1849716381849. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers 1849. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers 1849. A Volume of Poems by a Distinguished 19th-Century Pennsylvania Lawyer Miller Elihu Spencer 1817-1879. Caprices. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers 1849. 154 pp. Octavo 8" x 5". Later three-quarter morocco over paper boards top edge gilt deckle fore and bottom edges. Negligible light rubbing to spine ends and corners moderate toning and occasional light foxing to text. A handsome copy. $500. Miller was a Princeton graduate who read law in Princeton and Baltimore. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1843 and practiced law in Philadelphia for the remainder of his life. A distinguished member of the Pennsylvania Bar he taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and was its dean for four years. He served as a militia officer during the Civil War. His poems reflect the influence by Bryant Longfellow and other mid 19th-century American poets. unknown books
1898147633Los Angeles: Geo. Rice & Sons 1898. Small octavo pp. 1-8 1-7 8-130 131-136: blank note: first four and last three leaves are banks with first two and last two leaves used as free endpapers and paste-downs inserted frontispiece photographic portrait of the author original black cloth front panel stamped in gold. First edition. A short utopian lost race novel of a journey by submarine to a subterranean world where a pallid race has attained social and technological perfection. Eden is located here in the hollow earth a bit neglected although the Tree of Knowledge still flourishes. Basically a religious fantasy a curious blend of allegory and science fiction with many imaginative touches. The author was blind and deaf according to the autobiographical preface. Note: Binder's title reads "MY SOVEREIGN GUIDE / A TALE OF EDEN. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1495. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 157. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 116. Bleiler 1978 p. 140. Reginald 10147. Wright III 3750. Not in Negley or Lewis. A clean bright very good copy. #147633 Geo. Rice & Sons unknown books
184535949Charleston S.C.: Published and Sold Wholesale & Retail by A.E. Miller 1845. 48 pp as issued. Stitched. Minor wear Very Good.<br /> <br /> The Almanac includes a "Calendar of Fasts Festivals and other days Observed by the Israelites. For the Year 5606". Information is printed on the items promised by the title as well as Tide Tables Notaries Police of the City of Charleston Rates of Gold South Carolina College Free Schools Banks Insurance Companies the Post Office railroads and other subjects. <br /> Drake 13351. AI 45-4392 1- MWA. Not in Singerman or Rosenbach. III Turnbull 10 third edition. Published and Sold, Wholesale & Retail, by A.E. Miller unknown
1859003979James Miller. Light wear; original binding. All illustrations present. Illustrated with wood engraved plates many folding. The first edition of a popular New York guide-book OCLC listing almost annual printings up to 1878. Lacking folding map to rear flyleaf. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1859. James Miller hardcover
1871140947001Boston: Roberts Brothers 1871. First American edition. First American edition likely first issue text and binding as per the BAL. "Thoughts About Art" on page i and R B with a star in between at foot of spine. xii 299 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt stamping brown endpapers gilt topstain. Very Good with light rubbing and a little insecting to cloth penciled marks on a few pages. Poetry of the American West rare in the first issue binding. Contains poems not in the earlier London edition. BAL 13751. Roberts Brothers unknown
184731388London: David Bogue 1847. 1847. Fair. - Octavo 7-1/2 inches high by 5 inches wide. Softcovers. Six parts each bound in pictorial tan wraps titled with an illustration of knights gathered around their seated king framed by trees as crowds line the street leading to the castle pictured in the background. Text consisting of "Advertisement" for the series is printed on the back cover of each volume. The front cover of the first volume is detached with dark tape stains along the left edge and to the remnants of the spine. The covers are darkened with some creases and chips to the edges and the spines are chipped. The top corner of the last book's rear cover has been repaired with tape. 363 i & xx consecutively numbered pages. Each part is illustrated with 2 full-page engraved plates for a total of 12 plates. A bookplate is mounted inside the front cover of the first book. There is dampstaining to the plates which illustrate each volume and some occasional pencil marks and highlights. The parts are laid together in a plain green cloth chemise and housed in a later green cloth slipcase titled in gilt on the spine and identified as "Original Parts". <p>RARE. Apart from a copy in the Duke University Library bound without the titled front covers we have been unable to locate any other existing copy either bound or in the original parts.<p>The sixth part ends with the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle of Hastings.<p>Printed by T.C. Savill at 4 Chandos Street for David Bogue.<p>"There has long been an outcty amongst the graver class of critics that historical novels are a great evil inasmuch as they misrepresent admitted facts: yet in spite of this denouncement they are still written and read while history itself is comparatively neglected. Nor is the reason at all difficult to comprehend; the dry hard matter-of-fact style which the generality of historical writers consider it necessary to adopt has to young and imaginative minds somewhat of a forbidding appearance. This evil can only be remedied by bringing the light and popular style in which these works are composed to bear upon history-- to describe its important truths in a more picturesque and familiar manner-- to bring out the actors and the scenery more boldly before the eye of the reader-- to throw more of a poetical spirit into the narrative-- and to give it all the fascination of fiction without altering a single recorded truth." Quoted from the "Advertisement" printed on the rear cover of each part.<p>Critics appear to have differed in their opinion of Thomas Miller's stated aim. The Church of England Quarterly Review Vol. 21 for the year 1847 states that "We may add that the author appears to have selected the safest authorities for his facts and has thrown over the dryness of history the grace without the exaggeration of poetry. This work is liberally embellished--two engravings to the number-- and the whole affair as regards typography and arrangement worthy of the originality of the undertaking."<p>Commenting on the author's "Advertisement" the June 5th 1847 edition of "The Spectator" proclaims "If this were done sparingly and with original knowledge under the guidance of a severe taste life and variety might be given to a work without losing sight of its nature; which is recorded history not imaginary description of fluent rethoric. Indeed when they thought the case required it Sanest Livy Arnold and other historians have fulfilled Mr. Miller's theory as a matter of course. In his own development of it he seems to us more likely to substitute fanciful additions and a dreamy sort of reverie consisting half of imagined facts and half of mere opinions than to rise to the height he rums at."<p>An advertisement in the January 1 1847 "Publishers' circular and booksellers' record" states that the finished work will "form three handsome volumes". Nonetheless it may well be that these first six parts were all that were published. London: David Bogue, 1847. paperback
186925012663New York New York: Sheldon & Company 1869. Good to very good. Some light surface wear/rubbing to bindings. Internally fine. First edition of a complete set of "Little Bessie's Country Stories" by Thomas Miller published by Sheldon & Company. They were issued in September 1868 despite the 1869 imprint alongside six other titles similarly bound in highly attractive violet colored publisher's cloth "Little Rosy's Travels". The six volumes in this complete set of "Little Bessie's Country Stories" include: "Sheep and the Lamb"; "Young Donkey and the Little Gooseherd"; "Little Rabbit-Keepers"; "Cock of the Walk"; "Cows in the Water"; and "Young Angler". Interestingly this set has contemporary ink inscriptions that read "Lizzie Xmas 1865"-- which calls the date of publication into question. Each of the six volume is: single vol. 4.5" by 3.25" approx. 62 pp. in-text illus. in original violet publisher's cloth stamped in blind on boards and gold on spines. A couple Victorian scraps on flyleaves contemporary ink inscription from early owner. Sheldon & Company unknown
1829AQ26457Inverness: Printed by R. Carruthers 1829. 4 268pp. With a half-title. Finely bound in later gilt-tooled black half-calf marbled paper boards contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Marbled endpapers armorial bookplate H. D. Colvill-Scott to FEP later photographic illustration depicting the author pasted to verso of half-title. The rare first book of verse by eminent mason and geologist Hugh Miller 1802-1856 which secured the notice of amongst others Leigh Hunt. The book was printed and published anonymously in Inverness by the owner of the Inverness Courant and includes the six stanza 'Greece - an Ode Written short after the surrender of the Acropolis'. By repute Miller was later to regret this publication and actively attempted to buy up copies in order to destroy them. Jackson p.547. Johnson 610. First edition. 12mo. Printed by R. Carruthers hardcover
1900219926no publisher undated ca. 1900 1900. First Edition. Paperback. The letters are in a very good condition with some dulling and dust-toning as with age. One of the letters is slightly stained on the first page. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 2 pages; Two typed letters SIGNED by Florence Fenwick Miller. Undated presumed late 19th / early 20th century. Florence Fenwick Miller was a British woman who became a prominent leader in the trans-century struggle for womens suffrage and the general emancipation of women through her roles as a medical pioneer lecturer journalist editor and activist in both England and the United States. Subjects: Letters and correspondence -- Suffragettes -- Signatures -- Signed letters. no publisher, undated, ca. 1900? paperback
1807mon0000054101Rivington 1807-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. 1759 seventh edition on very worn leather outer bound boards which are beginning to disintegrate. The front cover is detached but this volume is screaming out for a rebinding job given that inner content is in good condition given it's age. The first few pages and back pages are very frayed at the edges but the bulk of the book is in remarkably good condition. This seventh edition was revised and altered according to the system of botany and embellised with several copper plates which were not in the orgional editions. Some browning evident to edges otherwise a remarkable and collectable folio well preserved for it's age in spite of the serious deterioration of the outer boards. Price has been significantly marked down because of these detailed faults but it is still strongly advised to ask for a comprehensive set of images before ordering. Rivington hardcover
189022737S.l., s.n., s.d. (vers 1890) ; chemise in-8°, cartonnée, demi-percaline bleu-pétrole illustrée sur les 2 plats en couleur, rubans de fermeture, 16 feuillets libres imprimés recto seul, de dessins humoristiques en noir aquarellés, texte en italique rouge, papier Japon.
18838583New York: Chautauqua Press 1883. First Edition. Original wraps. Very Good. 3 1/4 X 5 Inches. "The most American thing in America." - President Theodore Roosevelt on Chautauquas<br /> <br /> Four early course offering and yearly updates from the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle of Chautauqua Lake New York. The original Chautauqua meetings were the brainchild of John Heyl Vincent a Methodist minister and Lewis Miller a businessman who imagined a place where women and men could come to exchange ideas and learn of cultural advancements around the world. Founded in 1878 these four early course offerings date from 1883 to 1889. The 1885 issue is accompanied by an original illustrated postcard from the organization. <br /> <br /> The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle was an important step in the advancement of women in American society. Although only a baby step the courses offered and the idea behind the movement was in part to open up education to women especially rural women in America. With a correspondence learning platform Chautauqua's brought education into the home which we know is the domain of the woman. I believe the University of Phoenix and the TED Talks owe a royalty to the CLSC! NOTE: 2 of these have are unrepresented on OCLC and a population of only SIX of the other two - see notes on reverse. VERY SCARCE IN COMMERCE.<br /> <br /> Some light wear to spines and edges. Chautauqua Press unknown
18733344London: Richard Bentley and Son. Very Good. 1873. Half red morocco. First Edition precedes the American. "This book represents the best of Miller's forceful vigorous style. An advocate of the cause of the Modocs Miller lived with them in a quixotic attempt to form an Indian republic among the Pit River Indians the Klamaths Shastas and Modocs. Includes Miller's romance with Paquita the Modoc squaw who helped him escape from jail and was killed by soldiers for her efforts." Zamorano LXXX 40 Howes M-608. Nicely bound in half grained red morocco with particulars to spine. Archival gutter reinforcements to initial pages see image. Handsomely bound copy of a frail book.; 8vo ; Additional images and further information provided upon request. ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . Richard Bentley and Son unknown
188329183Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1883. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. xv 2 18-204 pp 20 heliotype plates including frontis extra to the pagination with tissue guards. 8vo. Publisher's brown pebbled cloth with beveled edges. Stamp of "Chas. F. Prentice 201 Singer Building 149 Broadway N.Y." on front flyleaf. Discoloration to the foreedges of the binding sun smoke or damp. Corners head/tail of spine and edges worn. Hinges cracked but still sound some old glue repairs. Internally clean and bright with clean plates - albeit a well read copy. Cloth. Author Sternberg is well known to medical and microscopy collectors both for his work as a bacteriologist and microscopist.<br /> <br /> "Brigadier General George Miller Sternberg June 8 1838 – November 3 1915 was a U.S. Army physician who is considered the first American bacteriologist having written Manual of Bacteriology 1892. After he survived typhoid and yellow fever Sternberg documented the cause of malaria 1881 discovered the cause of lobar pneumonia 1881 and confirmed the roles of the bacilli of tuberculosis and typhoid fever 1886. As the 18th U.S. Army Surgeon General from 1893 to 1902 Sternberg led commissions to control typhoid and yellow fever along with his subordinate Major Walter Reed. Sternberg also oversaw the establishment of the Army Medical School 1893; now the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps 1901. The pioneering German bacteriologist Robert Koch honored Sternberg with the sobriquet 'Father of American Bacteriology'." Wikipedia<br /> <br /> Sternberg is also well known for his work with photo-micrography: "Doctor Sternberg since 1880 has been in the habit of illustrating his published works and scientific papers by photomicrographs made by himself. He has shown himself a master in this difficult art and in 1884 published a volume on photomicrographs and how to make them. as here" and "In 1881 while stationed at Fort Mason Cali- fornia he demonstrated and photographed probably for the first time in America the tubercle bacillus which had been discovered by Koch in 1881" Kober<br /> <br /> Charles F. Prentice a previous owner has been called the "Father of American Optometry" and worked with his father James Prentice who manufactured ophthalmic devices. We've included a summary of his major book "Legalized optometry and the memoirs of its founder" with condensed biography by John F. Amos for reference.<br /> <br /> LITERATURE:<br /> Davis and Dreyfus Greatest Instruments Ever Made p263 Noting Prentice James and Son were active in New York NY and at least one catalog known from 1884-85 of 192 pages<br /> Kober George M. "George Miller Sternberg and Appreciation" Am J Public Health N Y. 1915 Dec; 512: 1233–1237. James R. Osgood and Company unknown
18936567Cambridge and Chicago: Stone & Kimball 1893. First Edition. First Edition. Original publisher’s drab boards with paper label on spine. The scarce limited large paper edition 50 copies only signed by publisher’s Stone & Kimball. Rubricated title-page 196pp printed on thick paper side and bottom edges uncut top edges trimmed. Some wear to spine a very good copy of a scarce and important Stone & Kimball imprint. Stone & Kimball unknown
1873013515Richard Bentley And Son 1873. First Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Good With Light Handling Wear Occasional Spotting And A Penciled Notation On The Title Page Pp 400 <br/> <br/> Richard Bentley And Son hardcover
184272847Paris, Bachelier, 1842, in-8, XV-[1]-208 pages, 12 planches sur 6 feuilles dépliantes, broché, couverture imprimée de l'éditeur, Planches représentant des structures de cristaux. Première édition française, traduite par le minéralogiste Henri Hureau de Senarmont (1808-1862), de A Treatise on Crystallography de William Hallowes Miller (1801-1880). Rare. Cet excellent traité fut imprimé pour la première fois à Cambridge en 1839. L'ouvrage n'a pas connu d'autre édition. L'auteur en publia un abrégé, A Tract on Crystallography, en 1863. William Hallowes Miller (1801-1880) avait établi un "système" de cristallographie très simple, basé sur la symétrie et mieux adapté aux calculs mathématiques. Ce système qui fut finalement adopté en France, remplaçait celui des minéralogistes français qui préféraient l'élégance des représentations à la précision des notations algébriques (cf. Histoire de la minéralogie, in Daumas : Histoire des sciences, p. 1090). Couverture fanée, rousseurs. Couverture rigide
1889830111889. Pennsylvania cloister founded by Conrad Beissel" - Howes G-76. Howes does not note the existence of this extremely limited large paper edition. One copy auctioned by Parke Bernet in 1938. Extremely rare in commerce. No institutions note holding a large paper copy according to OCLC. unknown
