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183221347London: Baldwin & Cradock 1832. Other. In excellent condition. 325 by 435mm 12 by 17 inches. Steel Engraving hand-colored in outline by SDUK Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge published 1832 by Baldwin & Cradock London. Image size: 325 by 435mm 12 by 17 inches. From the celebrated SDUK series widely regarded as among the finest steel-engraved maps of the 19th century. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge SDUK was a Whig organization founded in London in 1826 with the admirable goal of making information accessible to the working and middle classes. Its map committee began publishing in 1829 producing a celebrated series of finely engraved steel maps initially under the Baldwin & Cradock imprint later reissued by Chapman & Hall from 1844 and Charles Knight. The SDUK maps are renowned for their exceptional precision elegant typography and fine steel engraving widely considered among the finest examples of British cartography from the first half of the 19th century. Their North American sheets were produced at a transformative moment in the continent's history making them invaluable historical documents as well as beautiful collector objects.This North America map shows the upper part of Canada and parts of America New York Pennsylvania and Michigan. The title is on the left side in the area of the Lake Huron. The mileage scale is outside the engraving in the lower left corner. In excellent condition. Baldwin & Cradock unknown
183421353London: Baldwin & Cradock 1834. Other. In excellent condition. 362 by 318mm 14 by 12 inches. 362 by 318mm 14 by 12 inches. Steel Engraving hand-colored in outline by SDUK Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge published 1834 by Baldwin & Cradock London. Image size: 362 by 318mm 14 by 12 inches. From the celebrated SDUK series widely regarded as among the finest steel-engraved maps of the 19th century. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge SDUK was a Whig organization founded in London in 1826 with the admirable goal of making information accessible to the working and middle classes. Its map committee began publishing in 1829 producing a celebrated series of finely engraved steel maps initially under the Baldwin & Cradock imprint later reissued by Chapman & Hall from 1844 and Charles Knight. The SDUK maps are renowned for their exceptional precision elegant typography and fine steel engraving widely considered among the finest examples of British cartography from the first half of the 19th century. Their North American sheets were produced at a transformative moment in the continent's history making them invaluable historical documents as well as beautiful collector objects.This North America map shows the East coast from Labrador to Florida and the Bahamas. The individual states are painted beautifully in outline color. The title is engraved in the middle of the right side of the map above a table of the British colonies and the sea levels of the Welland Canal the Rideau Canal the Erie Canal the Pennsylvania Canal Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. In the lower left corner is a table of the free Population and the Slaves around 1830 in America. In excellent condition. 362 by 318mm 14 by 12 inches. Baldwin & Cradock unknown
1885009187Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company 1885 Boston: Wright & Potter 1885. Early reprint. Tall 8vo. Decorative brown cloth gilt titles to spine. Antique ex-library with hand-numbered and hand-dated bookplate. 426 pp. Printings of acts to change names listings by county index of original names index of adoptive names. Useful for genealogical research in Massachusetts. Ex-reference library no pocket. Library stamps on page edges sticker remant inside front board with reference notice withdrawal stamps. Good condition. Wright & Potter Printing Company hardcover
18179357Boston: Oliver Spear. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1817. First Edition. Hardcover. Boston: Oliver Spear 1817. First Edition. 12mo. 3111 erratapp. Frontispiece and 6 plates. Contemporary tree sheep. Lacking spine label small portion of leather at foot of spine chipped and small portion of adjacent rear cover front joint cracked but cords holding; text block very good fore-edge margin of frontispiece chipped short tear in another margin. Howes S337 calls for 8 plates as does Sabin 79898. Sales history of this book show that copies sold all have 7 plates not 8. ; 7 plates . Oliver Spear hardcover
1835L001168Charles Knight 1835. First Edition. Leather Binding. Good/No Jacket. Complete run for the year 1835 including monthly supplements. Bound in 3/4 brown calf over matching marbled boards plain endpapers edges flecked red-brown. Spine perished; covers detached; wear to extremities chiefly corners; some internal browning and/or foxing chiefly to preliminaries. Sold 'as is'. 2 508 pages. Numerous Engraved Illustrations. Charles Knight unknown
18729094Denver Colorado: Synod of Colorado ca. 1872. Reprint. Pamphlet. Good. Reprinted from the Rocky Mountain Presbyterian." Printed wrappers 9 x 6 inches 12 pp. printed in double columns. Illustration of the First Presbyterian Church Denver on recto of wrapper back. No imprint only the notice of the reprint. Scarce with 6 holdings at WorldCat. The earliest history of the Presbyterian Synod in the Territory of Colorado. It was constituted in 1871 and was formed by the Presbyteries of Colorado Santa Fe and Wyoming. Colorado achieved statehood in 1876. [Synod of Colorado] unknown
190044979U.S. Department of Commerce 1900. paperback. VERY GOOD. Large white paperback with cover illustration of pie-shaped design with blue orange purple and gray pie pieces and a small black-colored family of four standing at the center; 258pp 1973. Exterior a little worn slightly soiled. Interior clean and unmarked. Sound binding. OVERSIZE. We provide professional service and individual attention to your order daily shipments and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA. U.S. Department of Commerce, paperback
1860010832London: The London Printing and Publishing Company 1860. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. T.D. Scott and G. Greatbach of The London Printing and Publishing Company engraving from the Somerset Portrait. London: The London Printing and Publishing Company 1860. Steel engraving by T.D. Scott and G. Greatbach from the Somerset Portrait. Small quarto size in this case 10 3/4" 6 7/8" overall; image area at largest decorative extremities is 9" x 6". Depicted is a bust of Shakespeare with scenes from sonnets surrounding it see scan. Modest dampstain; several small points of foxing. See scan. Very Good or a bit better. L-eph <br/> <br/> The London Printing and Publishing Company paperback
183317115London: John Murray 1833. Eighteenth edition. Hardcover. Good. George Cruikshank. Duodecimo; pp; xxxi 170; Illustrated by Cruikshank. Six wood engravings in the text and frontispiece portrait after Harlowe. Three quarter red morocco and marbled boards and endpapers top edge gilt. Front board and frontispiece detached. Internally very good. Cohn 759. ".carefully revised with an original preface and Notes by the Authors." Parodies of Byron Wordsworth Scott Southey Crabbe and others. Scarce edition. John Murray hardcover
189810618Rand-McNally-Co 1898. String tied wraps. Very good. 3.5" x 4.5" pp.8 map showing stops between Chicago & Minneapolis. 7 photographs. Light dust soil to covers top corner lightly bumped. -- Condition. "The Pioneer Limited name first appeared in 1898 chosen in a public contest. It was among the nation's first named trains and the first named train on the Milwaukee Road. The 1898 train was newly equipped with Barney & Smith sleeping cars the carriages described in a period brochure as ".a veritable edition de luxe bound in covers of yellow and gold." The train was re-equipped multiple times in subsequent years the last wooden cars being replaced by steel ones in 1914. During the train's early years the Pioneer Limited had a number of "firsts": it had the first government railway mail contract in the region the first sleeping cars on the route and was the region's first electrically lighted and steam-heated train. the Pioneer Limited was also noted for its dining car service"-wikipedia. Rand-McNally-Co unknown
18524444391178pp first thus 15cm by 10cm originally published in Ireland authorized by the Council of Public Instruction for Upper Canada and re-published by special sanction at Montreal wear to plain cloth covers name on title page and small marks on flyleaf otherwise unmarked small piece missing off rear flyleaf scarce. R. & A. Miller hardcover
1880140595Swansea 1880. Booklet. Good. 18 p. 21 cm. Cloth over paper with label on front. Vertical crease. Some soiling to exterior. Some light stains and foxing within. <br/><br/>Title continues: ""Chair of the South" and Gorsedd of Bards of the Isle of Britain to be held in a commodious Pavilion in Burrow Square Cambrian Place Swansea Wednesday Thursday & Friday Aug. 4th 5th & 6th 1880." Lists presidents and patrons conductors artists etc. Lists the order of events for each meeting. Tucked inside this programme is a folded 26 x 41 cm page for the same event Swansea National Esteddfod listing orchestra and order of Chairing the Bard. unknown
1860biblio154<p>This is a very good/near fine copy of the much-reprinted history issued in two volumes in 1860. This is volume ll only. NOT ex-library unless you count "Private Library of M.P. Davis" ancient bookplate inside cover---the ONLY defect besides the fading of 153 years.</p><p>Photo on request.</p> Marlier, Callanan, & Co. hardcover
1885B74999Boston MA: Little Brown and Co 1885. Hardcover. Very good. Black brown and gilt stamped brown cloth boards octavo 373pp. frontispiece in color otherwise illustrated in b&w. Book has mild edgewear and rubbing to boards and spine slight front lean to spine binding tight rear inner hinge cracked but holding tight foxing to front and rear pages text clean but toned otherwise. Little, Brown and Co hardcover
1897A48508New York NY: Boomer. 1897. Leather_Bound. Very Good. This book has half-leather covers spine and corners are leather . The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The edges of the leather have noticeable rubbing and wear. There is a small tear to the top front spine joint of the book cover. The text pages are generally clean and bright. There is one smallish chip to one the page removing the top corner of page 249/250. The contents include: Benjamin Franklin by George C. Lay The Oberling-Wellington Rescue: An Antislavery Crisis Which Almost Precipitated the Civil War by Lida Rose McCabe The Marston Moor Mystery by Kenneth Lee The Street Arabs of Michael Woolf by V. Robard Ameliorating Poverty by Kathryn Staley Electricity on the Stage by Claxton Wilstach American Women Harpists by Frederic Reddall The Drawings of Charles Howard Johnson by V. Robard Bret Harte's "Sue" on the Stage by Beaumont Fletcher Winter in the American Snow-Lands by Edgar Maurice Smith The Many Inventions of HY Mayer by V. Robard Elsbeth The Story of a LIttle Grey Dove by Carrie Hunt Latta The Turkish Bath a Social Centre of the Orient by Emma Paddock Telford Three Sultans by Emma Paddock Telford aA New Profession for Women: Photography and the Success Which Follows Earnest Endeavor and Diligent Work by Marion Foster Washburne Putting Himself in Her Place : The Awful Experience of a Man Who Became a Woman by Jane Cary Pastime Photography: With Interesting Examples from the Works of a Mondest Amateur by C. A. Mera Modern Art in Piano-Building by Rupert Hughes The Separatist Preacher by May Kelsey Champion The Decadence of a Black Art minstrel shows with a picture of the Christie Minstrel Band. How the Sun Was Made for the Tlascalans by J. Lovering and more.; Pictured 5/2/24 . Boomer hardcover
1894508579London: The Fabian Society 1894. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Slim octavo. 33pp. Stapled self-wrappers. Ex-library with a couple of unobtrusive stamps two lightly crossed out in ink else very near fine. The Fabian Society unknown
1854220720-MB10The Strand London: George Biggs 1854. Bound volumes of early periodical 1853-1854 Binding is worn. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Cover. George Biggs hardcover
18951751Inverness: The Northern Chronicle Office 1895. First Edition . Hardcover. Vg/No Jacket. 324 pgs. Original green cloth with title label on the front cover. Small split to cloth near the top of the spine see photo No names or marks in text. Excellent copy. <br/> <br/> The Northern Chronicle Office hardcover
1890349371Dublin Ireland: Printed by Ponsonby and Weldrick for the University Press Dublin 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An uber-sturdy attractive tightly bound internally clean hardcover copy with unbruised tips neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bound handsomely in dark blue buckram cloth with tips and spine bound in leather extensive peeling thereto of rear spine panel complete with six compartments scribed by five raised bands and with gilt lettering and fleurs-de-lis to spine rubbed a bit but attractive. Toning of and soiling to front endpapers four printed stickers likely denoting former ex-libris status inside front flap else clean and unmarked. Notes regarding the Society formerly dubbed the Kilkenny Archaeological Society its members subscribers and then followed by learned papers about reliquaries and antiquaries ossuaries monuments remnants of past human societies and cultures. Black-and-white illustrations galore. Articles about cinerary urns preservation of the memorials of the dead the priory and castle of Rathmuln Co. Donegal History of Ennis Abbey Co. Clare folklore and biography. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of e.g. notes index and bibliography. x 2 4-331 pp. another ~30 pp. of Association news and notes.Member I.O.B.A. C.B.A. and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes and for sets. Printed by Ponsonby and Weldrick, for the University Press, Dublin hardcover
1854E17546New York: Stringer & Townsend 1854. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Firts ediiton. Small 8vo in blindstamped brown cloth with front board gilt illustration of the Mission House spine ornately titled in gilt. One page publisher's ads at front 304 pp. Frontis engraving "The New Mission House At The Five Points" and five additional full page engravings in the text. A tight example front gilt bright but spine strip well sunned jagged nick to the head of the spine; scattered light foxing; the rear free endpaper and last three leaves have a small margin chip not affecting the text. New York City's "Five Points" district approximately where the western boundary of Chinatown in lower Manhattan is today was the most notoriously unlawful and dangerous neighborhood in the city and The Old Brewery which was built in 1792 but became a rookery after the Panic of 1837 the most vile and dangerous "residence" within it. At the time this book was written New York had only a fledgling police force and they would only rarely enter Five Points which at the time was the domain of gangs such as the Plug Uglies Dead Rabbits and Bowery B'hoys; it was a hotbed of anti-Irish immigrant sentiment and riots were a common occurance. The Methodist Ladies of The Mission bought The Old Brewery in 1852 evicted the estimated thousand plus denizens had it demolished in 1853 and replaced it as this book tells with the New Mission House. <br/><br/> Stringer & Townsend hardcover
1835039749Boston: J. H. Eastburn and Sold by James Munroe and Co. 1835. Second Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xxxvii i ii blanks 66pp. Ex-library bound in modern sand-colored tan buckram with black lettering to spine. Ink-stamps to top and bottom edges of pages. Light to medium foxing to paper. Small corner of one leaf torn off. Text clean. Binding sound. Overall a well preserved copy of this early 19th century work <br/> <br/> J. H. Eastburn, and Sold by James Munroe and Co. hardcover
1814023531N.Y: T.Y. Crowell. 1814. 452 pages. Blue decorative cloth hardcover. Gilded lettering and stamped design on cover and spine. A.E.G. All 4 corners of binding are lightly bent. Top and bottom edges of spine are lightly creased and frayed. Very attractive book. Small stain on back of binding. All around a great book good looking and in good condition. Pictures upon request. Decorative Cloth. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover. T.Y. Crowell. Hardcover
1890349372Dublin Ireland: Printed by Ponsonby and Weldrick for the University Press Dublin 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An uber-sturdy attractive tightly bound internally clean hardcover copy with unbruised tips neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bound handsomely in dark blue buckram cloth with tips and spine bound in leather complete with six compartments scribed by five raised bands and with gilt lettering and fleurs-de-lis to spine rubbed a bit but attractive. Toning to and foxing and soiling of front endpapers four printed stickers likely denoting former ex-libris status inside front flap some scattered foxing throughout else clean and unmarked. Notes regarding the Society formerly dubbed the Kilkenny Archaeological Society its members subscribers and then followed by learned papers about reliquaries and antiquaries ossuaries monuments remnants of past human societies and cultures. Black-and-white illustrations galore. Nice tri-panel double-folding architectural rendering of Christ Church Cathedral Dublin the plan of the crypt plus fine black-and-white renderings of door openings seals watermarks and archaeological findings. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of e.g. notes index and bibliography. 3 2-334 pp.Member I.O.B.A. C.B.A. and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes and for sets. Printed by Ponsonby and Weldrick, for the University Press, Dublin hardcover
1897349377Dublin Ireland: Printed by Ponsonby and Weldrick for the University Press Dublin 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An uber-sturdy attractive tightly bound internally clean hardcover copy with unbruised tips neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bound handsomely in lightly waffled dark blue buckram cloth with tips and spine bound in brown leather complete with six compartments scribed by five raised bands and with gilt lettering and fleurs-de-lis to spine rubbed a bit but attractive. Half-toning to first free endpaper four white lettered stickers likely denoting former ex-libris status inside front flap some scattered foxing throughout else clean and unmarked. Notes regarding the Society formerly dubbed the Kilkenny Archaeological Society formerly also the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association its members subscribers and then followed by learned papers about reliquaries and antiquaries ossuaries monuments remnants of past human societies and cultures. Lots of lovely black-and-white illustrations of Mousterian-era stone implements grave-yards inscribed stones. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of e.g. notes index and bibliography. xvi errata 2 2-467 pp. an additional 44pp. and including an index.Member I.O.B.A. C.B.A. and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes and for sets. Printed by Ponsonby and Weldrick, for the University Press, Dublin hardcover
1898349378Dublin Ireland: Printed by Ponsonby and Weldrick for the University Press Dublin 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An uber-sturdy attractive tightly bound internally clean hardcover copy with unbruised tips neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bound handsomely in blue buckram cloth with tips and spine bound in brown leather complete with six compartments scribed by five raised bands and with gilt lettering and fleurs-de-lis to spine rubbed a bit but attractive. Half-toning to front endpaper four printed stickers likely denoting former ex-libris status inside front flap some scattered foxing throughout else clean and unmarked. Notes regarding the Society formerly dubbed the Kilkenny Archaeological Society its members subscribers and then followed by learned papers about reliquaries and antiquaries ossuaries monuments remnants of past human societies and cultures. Black-and-white illustrations galore including at frontis an engraved portrait of George Thomas Stokes. Essays about Ogam Stones the antiquity of Iron weapons. Otter- and beaver-traps a stone configuration chair. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of e.g. notes index and bibliography. xv 1 2-429 pp. an additional 44 pp. and including an index a list of the Fellows of the Society and so forth.Member I.O.B.A. C.B.A. and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes and for sets. Printed by Ponsonby and Weldrick, for the University Press, Dublin hardcover
