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18991765803708ADALongmans Green and Co. 1899. Hardcover. Good. 1899. First Edition. 379 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to front and spine. Includes B&W illustrations and plates by H J Ford including a frontispiece. All text block edges gilt. Book has a slightly sweet odour. Pages have slight foxing and tanning. Binding is firm. Slight marks to reverse of several plates. Mild creasing to the frontis' tissue guard. Text block edges slightly foxed and dust marked. Overall clean and bright. Boards have some moderate edge wear with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. Spine is intensely sunned. Gilt is bright to front slightly muted on spine. A few slight liquid droplet marks. Longmans, Green, and Co. hardcover
189425674Swan Sonnenschein 1894. 8vo. First Edition Large Paper on laid paper with portrait frontispiece and 4 plates original tissue guards present; brown buckram gilt back gilt top bevelled edges uncut black endpapers covers very lightly chafed else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 280 NUMBERED COPIES THIS COPY NO. 183. The plates by Newcombe are present only in this edition. Miller & Matthews E8.1 Swan Sonnenschein, hardcover
19001095240Paris, Bernard, 1900. 4to. 12, 1092 S. m. 207 Textabb., 5 mehrf. gefalt. Taf. Hldrbde (beschabt u. bestoßen).
181337513Washington D.C.: Printed by Roger C. Weightman 1813. First edition. Removed. A very good edge worn copy. 2 leaves. 8vo. The Illinois legislature wish to exchange a tax relief from the U.S. government that exempted any lands sold by the government from taxes for five years in favor of one that gave the right of owning Saline Creek and its salt deposits in the South of Illinois to the State. The motion was declined as the U.S. Government felt it would adversely affect salt purchases from other states. Scarce. OCLC locates five paper copies: S. Illinois Navy Dept. Yale Lib. Co. Philadelphia and AAS. Last sales record found was Maggs: Cat. 847 in 1957. American Imprints 30346. Rink 3452. Printed by Roger C. Weightman unknown
1894531First American edition of this landmark book. Scuffed section on front cover darkening on spine. Some trace of makings to rear cover. Solid copy.<br />Also an Essay on Vivisection In American by Albert Leffingwell M.D. Macmillian hardcover
190053447Stratford-upon-Avon: Edward Fox at the Shakespeare Quiney Press 1900. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. Limited Edition. 144 pages 8vo. Scarce. No DJ. SIGNED by Richard Savage W. Salt-Brassington and Edward Fox. Inscribed by Richard Savage on obverse of front endpaper thus: "Seventy five copies only printed on Japanese Vellum of which this is no.56". Also inscribed by Salt-Bassington thus: "To Major Barrage With sincere regard from William Walt-Bassington. 13th July 1914. Stratford-upon-Avon". Printed by Edward Fox at the Shakespeare Quiney Press at Stratford-upon-Avon. Cream vellum with red lettering along spine red and black lettering on front cover. Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and covers heavy foxing on cover boards and spine light tanning and some light foxing along page edges. Tightly bound no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition. Edward Fox at the Shakespeare Quiney Press Hardcover
1875008884Hartford Conn.: A. D. Worthington & Co. 1875 IN GOOD CONDITION. With a Preface by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe two steel-plate portraits one of the author the other of Brigham Young with tissue guards intact. xxx 31-623pp bound in gilt stamped green cloth with beveled edges gilt decorated spine binding tight all illustrations present. A. D. Worthington & Co. hardcover
18651012N25Manchester: Beresford and Havill 1865. Brochure/Pamphlet. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Unknown Wheelock Iron and Salt Company Limited. A very scarce memorandum for the Wheelock Iron and Salt Company based in Cheshire with numerous clauses showing how the business is structured. Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Wheelock Iron and Salt Company Limited a very scarce pamphlet confirming legalities of the Salt and Mining company based at Wheelock near Sandbach Cheshire. In the publisher's original paper wraps. On the rear wrap are the previous owner's notes dated from 1891 concerning a court case. Little is known about the company execpt that due to the dangerous nature of mining a number of accidents were recorded but the company was likely to employ many local Cestrians. The company terminated in 1926 due to competition with American tarrifs. Despite being specific to Wheelock this is a valuable source for those wishing to learn more about the structures and legalities surrounding individual companies during the Victorian era. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally slight dulling with the odd faint mark and a crease through the center of the front wrap. Previous owner's ink inscription to rear wrap and to top edge of front wrap. Pastedowns are bright and clean with minor age toning and a couple of small marks. Internally firmly bound with slight crease through central leaves. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Beresford and Havill unknown
1895908169London England: Walter Scott Limited 1895 A Fairly Solid Copy Of This Title Previously Published By Richard Bentley & Son In 1890 . This Edition Published By Scott Has The First Two Pages Different To The 1890 Copy. All Other Text Is The Same. A Solid Copy With Only Very Slight Aging To Pages. Minor Cracking Of The F Ront Gutter But Hinges Solid. Maroon Cloth Covered Boards With Gilt Title On Spine. Spine Bleached And Rubbing To Folds. Tips Are Gently Bruised As Are The Spine Ends. Top Block Edge Dulled Gilt. A Rarer Copy Of This Title. Walter Scott Limited hardcover
18331101392Paris, Roret, 1833. Kl.-8vo. 12, 442 S., 6 mehrf. gefalt. gest. Taf. Hldr d. Zeit m. schlichter Rverg. (St. a. T., anfangs m. Nässespur am oberen Rand, stellenw. leicht braunfl.).
1874621114Braunschweig, Vieweg, 1874. S. III-XXII (recte XIX), 888, 8 S. Mit 366 Abbildungen im Text u. auf 4 mehrfach gefalteten Tafeln, einigen Tabellen, 2 ganzseitigen Schemata u. 14 auf 13 gefalteten Tafeln. Halbleder d. Zeit (etwas berieben, Rücken u. Ecken erneuert). [2 Warenabbildungen]
189407496New York. USA & London UK: Swan Sonneenschein & Co.& Macmillan & Co 1894. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This book is number 91 in a limited edition run of 280. The boards are covered in brown buckram which are lightly worn at the spine ends and corners. which are also bumped the spine hinge has sprung on the back paste-down.The text block is rough - cut and lightly tanned. Book price includes 2nd class parcel post in UK only. Swan Sonneenschein & Co.& Macmillan & Co hardcover
18792090602128800651Not Available 1879. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Not Available paperback
1848004086<p>London: Olliver 1848. 5 6-32pp. Modern cloth title and date in gilt to spine. Lightly browned throughout otherwise clean. Goldsmiths suggests the author is T. Clutton Salt but Library Hub calls this attribution 'dubious'. Library Hub also suggests that 'John Bull' is John Stanley. It was reprinted a year later with the second and third examinations and an appendix. Goldsmiths 35610. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.</p> Olliver hardcover
18909856143Richard Bentley & Son 1890. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. 8vo medium sized cloth binding. Spine is torn and corners are bumped. Light scuffing to front and back cover. Gilted lettering to backstrip. Front cover is loose but still attached to backstrip. Rip on first page. Text is in good condition Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1000grams ISBN: Richard Bentley & Son hardcover
1833293280Verlag der Karl Kollmann`schen Buchhandlung Augsburg Verlag von J.P. Sollinger Wien 1833. Hardcover Pappe Rundumfarbschnitt ohne Schutzumschlag 2 Bände in einem Buch 18331834. Zustand: Keine Beschädigungen keine Eintragungen. Mit Gekritzel auf der Innendecke. Rücken Ecken Kanten bestoßen und berieben. Mit Abschabungen am Einband. Schnitt etwas staubig verblasst. In allem original. Verlag der Karl Kollmann`schen Buchhandlung, Augsburg + Verlag von J.P. Sollinger, Wien, hardcover
187374327Salt Lake City: N.p. 1873. ALS on Salt Lake House letterhead dated to March 24th 1873. Letter was written to Olive from her affectionate husband Andrew M. Letter has light toning at mailing folds and a " hole affecting content. This letter contains around 10 lines about the Salt Lake Tabernacle which the writer visited and states "I was much surprised with the great magnitude of the building it is capable of holding 14 thousand people and is I think the largest building in America. It is kept in fine order and has the largest organ on this ." The Tabernacle was completed in 1867 and is still considered an architectural wonder. N.p. unknown
185237656Washington D.C. 1852. First edition. Removed. A very good copy. 1 pp. 8vo. Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed. 31st Congress. 1st Session. Senate. Miscellaneous No. 65.<br /> <br /> "Be it resolved by the Legislative Assembly of New Mexico That the Congress of the United States is hereby respectfully memorialized and requested to pass laws reserving the wood and timber on the mountains and all other untillable lands for the common use of the people and to reserve such mountains and lands from sale or individual appropriation; also to reserve all salt lakes salt mines or salt springs in like manner and that the laws of Mexico on the subject of mines and mining be declared and perpetuated. THEODORE D. WHEATON Speaker of the House of Representatives. JUAN F. ORTIZ President of the Council. Approved July 7 1851."<br /> <br /> OCLC locates one copy at The Hagley Mus & Lib. Poore 602. Congressional serial set no. 629. unknown
190061986Denver CO: Frank S. Thayer Publisher The Colorado News Co. 1900. Oblong Folio. 13.25 x 10.24 in. 40 pp unpaginated. With photo illustrations photo plates 1 large centerfold panoramic birds-eye view many w/ decorative borders. Purple-coloured printed softcovers gold lettering front cover punch-sewn w/ red silk braid at spine minor sunning to back cover lifting to lower fore-edge blank margins on a few leaves still a VG- copy. Early edition this well-illustrated souvenir view book for Salt Lake City at the beginning of the 20th century featuring photographs executed by Savage for the Missouri Pacific & The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad systems. Images include the Native American tribes residing in Utah at the beginning of the 20th-Century BYU Mercur Utah mines Saltair Resort The Temple and more. Of special interest is the large panoramic birds-eye view of Salt Lake City. Savage 1832-1909 was a noted Mormon photographer who originally began shooting Mormon leaders in Council Bluffs IA before 1860 established his own studio named the Pioneer Art Gallery in 1866 and after it burned to the ground in 1883 established the Art Bazar Studio on the same site. Frank S. Thayer, Publisher, The Colorado News Co., paperback
1895W7-VC89-A6XNMacMillan & Co 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & Unmarked . 0x0x0. Red cloth with gilt title editor and publisher on spine. Spine sunned and lightly bumped at foot lightly rubbed at head. Corners have some light bumping. Previous ownership plates on front paste-down. Deckle fore-edge has some creasing. 330 pp. MacMillan & Co hardcover
1809163London: Wm Miller 1809. 14 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches. Good condition with several small marginal tears expertly repaired with mending tape. Very nice engraving of the area of Axum in Ethiopia. According to Wikipedia "Axum was the hub of the marine trading power known as the Aksumite Empire which predated the earliest mentions in Romas era writings. It was located on the edge of the Red Sea above the Horn of Africa. Wm Miller unknown
18941209New York: Macmillan & Co 1894. Blue cloth hardcover. 176pp in good condition. Macmillan & Co unknown