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188874249London: Ward Lock Bowden 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vols. frontises folding map illustrations iv 1.xiv-xx 596 xi 4 600-1176p. Light blue cloth backed in darker blue cloth. 26cm. Some cover scuffing and rubbing. Age-toning. "No date edition" written on title-pages. No Jacket. <br/><br/> Ward, Lock, Bowden hardcover books
188337481Boston: Lee and Shepard 1883. First Edition. Octavo 20cm.; publisher's brick gilt-lettered cloth; xviii2225pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. General shelf wear corners bumped hairline crack between front free endpaper and flyleaf contemporary gift inscription to the latter else About Very Good and sound. Posthumously published collection of poetry the Utica-based author having died the previous year of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-nine. Lee and Shepard unknown books
1878016442Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1878. 305p. original brown cloth Boston Monday lectures. James R. Osgood and Company unknown books
1900111201New York: Doubleday & McClure Co 1900. Signed limited edition of American arctic explorer Frederick Cook's narrative of the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region in which he saved numerous lives as the ship's surgeon. Octavo original illustrated cloth tissue-guarded frontispiece in color illustrated. One of one thousand numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation page opposite a tissue-guarded engraved portrait this is number 92. From the library of James Stephen "Steve" Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days 8 hours and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fossett was also one of sailing's most prolific distance record holders set the Absolute World Speed Record for airships with a Zeppelin NT in 2004. He received numerous awards and honors throughout his career including aviation's highest award the Gold Medal of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale FAI which he was awarded in 2002. Fossett disappeared on September 3 2007 while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert between Nevada and California. In near fine condition. American physician Frederick Albert Cook was the surgeon on Robert Peary's Arctic expedition of 1891-1892 and on the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-1899. He contributed to saving the lives of its crew members when their ship--the Belgica--was ice-bound during the winter as they had not prepared for such an event. It became the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. To prevent scurvy Cook went hunting to keep the crew supplied with fresh meat. "His narrative is certainly one of the finest and most interesting from any Antarctic expedition" Rosove and the first to contain an extensive photographic record of the region. Doubleday & McClure Co hardcover books
190013692New York: Doubleday & McClure Co 1900. First Edition. Very Good. Trade Edition Ex-Library 8vo 9x6.5in; xxiv 478 pp. 82 of 84 plates of 120 images including color frontispiece with tissue guard and three color illustrations without tissue guards 3 maps and 21 illustrations in text six appendices of scientific summaries and index; Rebound in dark blue cloth covers with silver lettering on spine and front all edges trimmed with rounded corners; Negligible shelf wear to covers edges and corners some soiling and spots to text and plates chip on p. 41 several small closed tears along text edges unobtrusive perforation stamp of Library Association of Portland Or. on title page and pp. 3 405 and 467 with handwritten number in ink on dedication page no other library markings or other prior owner markings. Near fine covers with very good interior. Rosove 76.A2 Howgego III C24C. Frederick Albert Cook 1865-1940 was a physician and polar explorer during the Heroic Age of Polar exploration. He also organized one of the first polar tourist excursions to Greenland. He began his polar experience in 1891 as a surgeon on Robert Peary's second Greenland expedition. This book is about his participation in the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897 in the Belgica under the command of Adrien De Gerlache de Gomery. The ship became icebound in the Bellingshausen Sea and was forced to over winter. This book was the first significant English-language account of over wintering in Antarctica until Gerlache's book was translated in 1998. From Rosove this book was "superior to the other two from both literary and informational viewpoints. Cook based his book . on his diary notes and recollections; he included some of the scientific results in the appendices ." Roald Amundsen was the mate on the expedition and gained his only Antarctic experience before his own expedition in 1911 to reach the South Pole. Doubleday & McClure Co unknown books
18256731Concord. Isaac Hill. 1825. Bound in half calf and pictorial paper covered boards. 12mo. Second Edition. A scarce copy of an early American reader. Spine moderately chipped and worn. Several page corners creased Not affecting plates. Corners bumped. Various offset to prelims. A Very Good Copy of this extrmely rare title. Isaac Hill. hardcover books
18901724Milwaukee: J.G. Flint 1890. About good. 4146pp. plus color frontispiece. Original brown faux-alligator wrappers. Front cover detached covers heavily worn; older tape on spine and front cover lightly soiled. Contemporary pencil ownership notations on end leaves. Lightly toned several small edge tears heavier to last few leaves. One of the earliest cook books published in Wisconsin. This promotional cook book was issued by the Star Crystal Baking Powder Company of Milwaukee edited by the principal of the Milwaukee Cooking School and featuring a handsome color frontispiece advertising their product. The work includes an index a table of proportions and equivalents and has blank leaves provided for notes and extra recipes. Opening with bread it includes recipes for cakes puddings sauces soups salads fish a section on roasting and brazing and a pastry section which begins "Don't make it! But if it must be made this is the way to do it." A second edition was published in 1895 and is also quite rare. We locate four copies in OCLC: the New York Public Library Library of Congress Michigan State University and the Milwaukee County Library.<br/> Bitting p.91. Brown Culinary Americana 4356. J.G. Flint unknown books
1862173892Philadelphia: George Childs 1862. First Edition. hardcover. near fine. 358pp. 12mo original blind stamped green cloth; bookplate otherwise very good. Philadelphia: George W. Childs 1862. Near fine.<br/><br/> Author was a lawyer and journalist. During the Civil War he was a correspondent from the Philadelphia Press. Cook was assigned to the Army of the Potomac and Washington D.C. Later in life he was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania. Ex libris from the Military Order of the Loyal Legion United States. Commandery of the State of Illinois.<br/><br/> George Childs unknown books
184671311Louisville: H. J. Peters; NY: Firth Hall & Pond 1846. Paperback. Good. Sheet Music 3p. Disbound removed from a bound volume. 35cm. No separate cover present. Light foxing. Good. <br/><br/> H. J. Peters; NY: Firth, Hall & Pond paperback books
189973232London: J. M. Dent; NY: Dutton 1899. Hardcover. Good. 24 illustrations 22 of which are printed in pairs on one side of facing pages. Oblong 26 x 17cm. Moderate general cover fraying and wear. New endpapers. No Jacket. <br/><br/> J. M. Dent; NY: Dutton hardcover books
186053896Salem MA: William Cook 1860. First Edition. 8vo pp. 9-16 Bound in original pictorial wrappers stitched as issued. With two plates included in the pagination of a view of Broad Street Salem and of the District Schoolhouse in South Danvers Mass. Images finished in pencil as usual. Little chipped and worn a very good copy of a scarce and fragile piece. Jenkins 17. "Between 1852 and 1876 Cook 1807-1876 produced about forty different titles writing the text engraving the numerous woodcut illustrations and after laboriously printing the result proceeded to peddle his pamphlets about the streets in true chapman fashion"Lawrence Jenkins William Cook of Salem Mass.: Preacher Poet Artist and Publisher" in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society New Series Vol. 34 April 9 1924-October 15 1924. Jenkins notes that Cook had just enough type to set one page at a time. The woodblocks were made from birch or maple wood cut with a jack-knife and touched up with lead pencil as are these. Cook had built a small hand lever press that looked like an old fashioned high-back hand organ. Cook was a truly unique eccentric who eked out a living as a tutor lecturer printer and poet. The text in the present work contains Cook's remarks about education to a local Baptist church and two of his poems that illustrated his main points. William Cook unknown books
1884206161884. 400 N. 3RD ST. PHILADELPHIA PA. Philadelphia 1880's. 4.5" x 5.75". 30 pp. Original printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations throughout. Title misprinted on front wrapper "The Philadelphila Bird." Uniformly tanned. Very Good. OCLC lists several printings with similar titles but not this particular title. unknown books
18796456New York: Charles A. Lilley Publisher 7 Murray Street 1879. 115 1 pages. Advertisements. Date based on external evidence. The publisher produced only a very few books all issued in 1879. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A promotional cookbook featuring recipes that are brief if not altogether lacking in detail. The book is in service to Houghton & Dutton a dry goods specialist from Boston and the recipes are interspersed with descriptions of the shop's various departments crockery glassware millinery etc. In addition to the text descriptions there are advertisements throughout with varied typography but all hawking Houghton & Dutton. Susan G. Knight was also the author of a number of other works including one cookbook Tit-Bits How to prepare a nice dish at moderate expense Boston & New York 1865. A comparison of the two text would perhaps be of use. Some age-toning to text-block and wear to corners of some leaves. In printed yellow wrappers worn and soiled but whole. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies. Charles A. Lilley, Publisher, 7 Murray Street unknown books
182088525London: H. Hogg & Co 1820. Hardcover. Fair. Volume 1 ONLY of 2 frontis 423p. Old quarterbinding cloth backed in black leather. 27cm. Binding still sound but not attractive because cover cloth has a few holes and is worn off along cover edges as well as being quite faded and beginning to curl away from the undelying boards. Endpaper split along front hinge. Internally sound and clean. We have only Volume I the text volume; Volume 2 not present here was the plate volume. <br/><br/> H. Hogg & Co hardcover books
190023861New York: Doubleday & McClure 1900. First Pyle Edition. Decorated by Howard Pyle. 1 vols. 4to. Original cloth faded unevenly on front cover. First Pyle Edition. Decorated by Howard Pyle. 1 vols. 4to. Frederick A. Cook's Copy. This copy has the ownership signature of Arctic Explorer "Frederick A. Cook 1900" on the title-page. Doubleday & McClure unknown books
1820WRCAM37391Dublin: Printed by Richard Grace 1820. 179pp. including four plates including frontispiece. Titlepage vignette. 16mo. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards. Covers worn backstrip largely perished else very good. First printing of this Dublin edition of THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK abridged for young readers from the biography by Andrew Kippis. The wood-engraved frontispiece is a portrait of a facially tattooed South Sea warrior. Not in Forbes. BEDDIE 1983. Printed by Richard Grace hardcover books
1820WRCAM20762Montreal i.e. Dublin: Published and Sold by T. Carey i.e. Richard Grace 1820. 179pp. plus three plates. Frontis. Titlepage vignette. 16mo. Contemporary cloth backed boards. Some fraying at head and toe of spine hinges bit shaken but intact. Good. In a cloth case leather label. A bibliographically curious edition of THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK actually printed in Dublin by Richard Grace in 1820 but with T. Carey's Montreal imprint pasted over the legitimate publisher's name and imprint. Not listed in Beddie as a Montreal imprint. A rare piece of Cookiana and an interesting example of a Canadian publisher's expedient response to the public demand for details of Cook's life albeit of questionable legitimacy. Not in Forbes. BEDDIE 1983 Dublin ed. Published and Sold by T. Carey [i.e. Richard Grace] hardcover books
187630401New York: D. Appleton and Co 1876. First edition small 8vo pp. vi 443 1 ii; 2 engraved portraits; original quarter brown morocco over marbled boards spine gilt edges marbled; binding especially the spine scuffed internally very good or better. Tilden 1814-1886 was the democratic candidate for president in the most controversial election of the 19th-century the 1876 election in which he lost by one electoral vote. The votes of Florida Louisiana and South Carolina came under question and a commission was set up and eventually all questioned votes were given to Tilden's opponent Rutherford B. Hayes. The democrats threatened to filibuster in the Senate and eventually the Compromise of 1877 was reached giving Hayes the election with the Republicans agreeing to withdraw from the south bringing an end to the Reconstruction. <br/><br/> D. Appleton and Co hardcover books
1877114872New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1877. Hardbound. Fair ex art library set with old labels on lower spine clean tight and fresh covers are taped on the inside at the hinge due to dried leather labels at base of spine. Publishers decorated brown gilt embossed cloth. Vol. 1: XVI 466 pp. Vol. 2: XI 473 pp. Profuse line engravings within the text. A different translation than that of Bennett 1874 of the seventh German edition. Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover books
1883591Fishkill Landing N.Y.: J. W. Spaight 1883. 12mo. 36 pp. <br><br>With a presentation inscription in the author's hand "T. R. Westbrook" to the New Jersey Historical Society. Original printed wrappers with both "covers" present but detached; a little chipped and a little dust-soiled. Final leaf with a closed tear not approaching text. J. W. Spaight unknown books
187730173New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1877. 1st edition cf. Bitting pp101-102 for the 1879 edition. Not in Cagle though see 193 & 194 for 2 other works by Corson. No copies on OCLC. Grey-green cloth binding stamped in black to front board & spine. Some soiling & darkening to boards. Chip from cloth at spine crown. Smattering of foxing. Withal a better-than-average About VG copy of a somewhat uncommon 19th C. cookery book. 144 pp including Index. 12mo. 6-1/8" x 3-3/4" <br/><br/>The author the Superintendent of the New York Cooking School. Dodd Mead & Company hardcover books
1818109061London: John & Arthur Arch; Hackney: Conrad Loddiges & Sons et al 1818-1833. Rare first edition large paper issue set of Loddiges' renowned Botanical Cabinet with 2000 numbered hand-colored plates by George Cooke. Octavos 20 volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt all edges marbled. Illustrated with 2000 numbered hand-colored botanical plates by George Cooke. In near fine condition. Armorial bookplates. An exceptional collection most rare and desirable in a complete set. Founded by Joachim Conrad Loddiges in Hackey north of London the renowned Loddiges plant nursery rose to great prominence during the early nineteenth century under George Loddiges who published in serial numbers the present Botanical Cabinet produced in connection with George Cooke one of the more highly sought after engravers of the era. The 2000 hand-colored plates catalogued the broad array of exotic plants trees shrubs ferns palms and orchids introduced into the famed nursery's hothouses and gardens from around the world. John & Arthur Arch; Hackney: Conrad Loddiges & Sons, et al hardcover books
1869WRCLIT81995New York: Dick and Fitzgerald 1869. 514421pp. Octavo. Cloth backed pictorial boards. Illustrations in chapter on carving. Binding extremities worn a few signatures starting light spotting to one leaf; withal a good copy. One of many later reprintings of this receipt book based on a text first published ca. 1839. OCLC locates nine copies of this impression. WHEATON & KELLY 125. OCLC: 34903665. Dick and Fitzgerald hardcover books
187518315Chicago Ill.: Charles E. Southard 1875. Original printed wrappers stitched 34pp. Light wear Very Good. Signature 'Edwin H. Abbot' on front wrap. <br/><br/> On the constitutionality of Wisconsin's 'Potter Law' prescribing maximum freight rates within the State and imposing penalties for evasion of the Act. Cook argues that the Potter Law "would take the property of the railroad without just compensation" in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Charles E. Southard unknown books
189732283Buffalo N.Y.: D. Ransom Son & Co 1897. 1st edition thus. 20th edition overall cf. Cagle 876 - 878 for the years 1882 83 & 89. Printed peach-colored wrappers sewn. Hole for string tie to upper left for hanging from a hook. Advert to rear wrapper. Minor wear & soiling. Small inkspot to lower edge of front wraper. Withal a VG copy. 32 pp. P. 32 with a calendar for the year. Illustrated with the occasional woodcut primarily for adverts. 8vo. 6-3/8" x 4" <br/><br/>A recipe book ostensibly issued annually by D. Ransom with recipes the 'Coffee Jelly' sounds interesting interspersed with advertising matter medicinal cures & personal testimonies. The series began in 1874 continuing through our reseach indicates the mid-1920s. We no evidence of an extant complete run. D. Ransom, Son & Co unknown books
