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1835371174Ordered by The House of Commons to be printed 1835. First Edition. Softcover. Good copy in original stiff card wrappers with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 895-1439 pp. Subjects; British Parliamentary Reports. Charities. British House of Commons. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be printed paperback
1839243243Ordered by The House of Commons to be printed 21 April 1834 1839. First Edition. Softcover. Good copy in original stiff card wrappers with some wear and tear as with age. Remain preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 733 pages. Subjects; Report of the Commissioners. Inquiries concerning charities. 1837-1839. Ordered by The House of Commons, to be printed 21 April 1834 paperback
1834243242Ordered by The House of Commons to be printed 21 April 1834 1834. First Edition. Softcover. Good copy in original stiff card wrappers with some wear and tear as with age. Remain preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 501 pages. Subjects; Report of the Commissioners. Inquiries concerning charities. 1837-1838. Ordered by The House of Commons, to be printed 21 April 1834 paperback
1840243244Ordered by The House of Commons to be printed 21 April 1834 1840. First Edition. Softcover. Good copy in original stiff card wrappers with some wear and tear as with age. Remain preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 876 pages. Subjects; Report of the Commissioners. Inquiries concerning charities. 1837-1840. Ordered by The House of Commons, to be printed 21 April 1834 paperback
18731000H17London: George Routledge and Sons 1873-1875. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None Stated. A four-volume collection of Bulwer-Lytton"s fiction including the two-volume political novel The Parisians in a smart half morocco binding by Mudie. Uniformly bound in a half morocco binding with marbled paper boards by Mudie.A four-volume Routledge edition collection of novels by Edward Bulwer-Lytton comprising:1873 Night & Morning. Illustrated with a frontispiece. Collated complete. 1874 Godolphin. This copy is sadly lacking the frontispiece. 1875 The Parisians. Complete in two volumes. Illustrated with frontispieces. Collated complete.The works explore themes of ambition inheritance society and political upheaval including the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune.Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1803-1873 later 1st Baron Lytton was a prolific Victorian novelist and Whig politician serving as Secretary of State for the Colonies. Hugely popular in his lifetime he coined the famous opening "It was a dark and stormy night" and the phrase " "the pen is mightier than the sword" writing across genres from historical romance to occult fiction. In a half morocco binding with marbled paper boards by Mudie. Externally smart. Slight fading to extremities and spine. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in minor loss to morocco more so to "Parisians" and "Night & Day." Hinges slightly cracked particularly to rear hinges of "Godolphin" and "Night & Morning." Slight rubbing to boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Godolphin lacking the frontispiece. Very Good George Routledge and Sons hardcover
18272092902141800770Eidasuke Mando 1827. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 5 Eidasuke Mando paperback
1897526<p>A collection of 50 albumen prints from the British Museum Series numerous manuscript captions slight age-related toning photographs mounted to album occasional light marginal foxing not affecting image original maroon cloth with quarter morocco spine retaining studs title gilt to spine slightly rubbed folio London: W.A. Mansell c.1897 </p><p><br /></p><p>The 50 photographs of antiquities in the British Museum covering Greek Roman and Etruscan Statues and Vases including 24 of the Parthenon Frieze. Many of the images are accompanied by manuscript captions. Other photographs include:</p><p>Horse of Selene Ilissos "Colossal Lion" The Piranesi Vase "Marble Vase found in the Villa of Hadrian at Tivoli" "Mercury" "Venus de Medici" "The "Townley" Venus" "Venus Entering Bath" "Apollo as a Player of the Lyre from Cyrene" "Hercules" Hercules found in Hadrian's villa at Tivoli Drum of Sculptured Column from Temple of Diana Artemision Ephesus "Casts from Balustrade of Temple of Wingless Victory - Athens -" Etruscan Sepulchral Monument in terracotta "Thalia"</p><p>T. Aurelius Fulvius Antonius Pius Aurelius Antoni Satyr Apollo Demeter Ceres and Sepulchral Rites at the Tomb of a Hero. </p><br /><p>The Elgin Marbles are a collection of statues and architectural decoration acquired by the Earl of Elgin during his time as Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. He successfully petitioned the authorities to be able to measure draw and remove figures in various ruins. The most extensive work was on the Parthenon or Temple of Athena but he also received permission to remove sculptural and architectural elements from a number of other ruins including the Acropolis and the Temple of Nike Athena. </p><br /><p>The most famous of the Elgin Marbles are the Parthenon Sculptures a collection of different types of marble architectural decoration on the Parthenon. The Parthenon Frieze 75 metres in length depicts various scenes including the battle between the Lapitas and the Centaurs at the marriage feast of Peirithoos. Elgin originally intended on using the Frieze as decoration in his private home but due to the collapse of his marriage he sold them to the British Museum. There have been debates over the legitimacy of Elgin's excavation. After an investigation from a Parliamentary Select Committee in 1816 Elgin's actions were found to be entirely legal. Since 1983 Greece has formally requested the British Museum to return all the Parthenon Sculptures in the Museum's collection the British Museum states there are no current discussions with the Greek Government on this issue. </p><br /><p>Roger Fenton is one of the most celebrated figures in the history of photography. He was a creative and highly influential photographer in the mediums "golden age" of the 1850s. In his role as the British Museum's first official photographer Fenton demonstrated his sure sense as a 'photo artist'. He was initially engaged to photograph cuneiform tablets but that soon developed into taking pictures of other antiquities. As early as 1852 Fenton received permission from the Trustees to photograph antiquities within the museum establishing a small studio inside the museum the following year. He left in 1854 to serve as a photographer in the Crimean War for which he is most widely known but he was re-appointed on his return in 1856 until the termination of his contract in July 1859. The Trustees decided that photography was not cost effective and after they failed to negotiate the South Kensington Museum now the V&A as an alternative Fenton terminated his association with the British Museum. </p><br />References: The British Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Luminous-Lint. W.A. Mansell
1896064903Washington DC 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. Published in 1896. Hardback. Miscellaneous Documents and Letters to the 54th Congress 1st Session of the House of Representatives from The Secretary Of War The Acting Secretary of the Treasury the Secretary of the Interior and more; this book contains documents No. 280 through 409 and 423 with some documents having accompanying fold out plates. Documents with fold out plates are described below. Indexed. Most of the pages are clean with no apparent marginalia markings or creasing. Two inlaid paper bookmarks. The pages adjacent to the fold out plates have discoloration/foxing and marginal tearing along the edges. Red yellow brown and blue marbled top bottom and fore edge of pages. Red blue white yellow green and purple color-themed marbled end-pages and cover boards. The cover board corners and spine are bound in brown leather with gilt lettering. The cover edges corners and spine show rubbing and some tearing. Document No. 296: "Potomac River Flats. Letter from Justices of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia" 1886. Four fold out plates between pages 60/61 and one between pages 64/65. Fold out map 1: street plan near the mouth of the Tiber "A true copy from the Original drawing with the Peter Yorce Collection archives of the US. Congressional Library Washington D.C. December 20 1886. Fold out map 2: "Sketch of Washington In Embryo." Fold out map 3: "Plat of River Front from 27th Street West to 17th Street West" with colored details. Fold out map 4: "Chart of the Head of Navigation of the Potomac River: Surveyed by order of the Sec. of War for the Corporation of Georgetown D.C. with a view of the improvement of the Georgetown Channel.". There is some discoloration along the crease lines. Fold out map 5:"Plat XXX" depicting Lower Water street with colored water lines from the river; notes from the Surveyor D.C.Document No. 300: "Manitowoc Harbor Wisconsin. Letter From The Secretary Of War" 1896. One fold out plate map between pages 2/3 over a foot long. "Map of Manitowoo Harbor Wis" in black white and red. Document No. 317: "Survey Of Waterways Between Norfold VA. And The sounds Of North Carolina. Letter from the Secretary Of War." Four fold out plates at the end of the document. Fold out map 1: over 2 ft. long "Map showing the location of the Dismal Swamp Canal Virginia & N. Carolina.". Fold out plate 2: over 2 ft. long "Profile of the Dismal Swamp Canal from the Survey of 1895-96." Fold out plate 3: over 1 ft. long "Typical Cross Section of the Dismal Swamp Canal Survey of 1895-6." Fold out map 4: square map that extends upwards "Lake Drummond Va." Document No. 325: "Conneaut Harbor Ohio. Letter from the Secretary Of War." One fold out plate at the end of the document "Conneaut Harbor Ohio. From a Survey made in November 1894." that extends upwards over 1 ft.Document No. 330: Lake Superior And Mississippi Canal. Letter from the Secretary OF War." Four fold out plates at the end of the document. Fold out map 1: "Lake Superior-Mississippi Canal Survey. Exhibit A. Map showing Lines of exploration from Oct. 1894 to Feb. 1895." Fold out map 2: "Exhibit B" to the previous map extends upwards over 2 ft. Fold out 3: "Exhibit F" extends upwards. Fold out 4: "Exhibit O" extends horizontally over 3 ft. with red detail; part of the map is pasted together and uneven at the top. Document No. 347: "Resurvey of Fairport Harbor Ohio. Letter from the Secretary Of War." One fold out map at the end of the document "Fairport Harbor Ohio. Showing Lake Contouring. From Survey Made May 30 to June 2 1893." Extends over 2 ft. upwards there is a tear on the left side near the binding and there is discoloration along crease lines. Document No. 423 "Laws Relating to Street-Railway Franchises in the District of Columbia is 201 pp.Overall very good condition. Full refund if not satisfied. hardcover
1822243208London: Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 13 February 1822 1822. First Edition. Softcover. Good copy in original stiff card wrappers with some wear and tear as with age. Remain preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 745 pages. Subjects; Commissioner's reports. 19th century reports. 1821.Charities. Education of the poor. London: Ordered by the House of Commons, to be printed, 13 February 1822 paperback
182658573Winterthur : Heinrich Steiner & Co. 1826. 4 Bl., 60 Bl.; 2 Bl., 60 Bl. : 8°, Schrift: Fraktur / Altdeutsche Schrift. nachgebundene Ausgabe, Halbleder ohne Rückenbeschriftung, sonst Exemplar in gutem Erhaltungszustand
181641346Paris Crochard 1816 181718171820 1824 1824 1825. Without wrappers as issued in: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.". Vol. 3 pp. 350-375. - Vol. 4 pp. 128-145. - Vol. 6 pp. 259-303. - Vol. 13 pp. 418-38. - Vol. 27 pp. 136-167. - Vol. 27 pp. 236-281. - Vol. 28 pp. 337-365. <br/><br/><em>All first edition and first appearances of papers forecasting the more elaborated theories which he published in his famous work "La Therorie analytique de la chaleur. 1822". His analytical mathematical method that any continous function can be represented as a sum of sine and cosine curves is here applied to physical problems f.i. his treatment of the warming and cooling of the earth and terrestrial temperatures f.i. the papers offred here no.1 2 4 5 a. 6. The theory of terrestrial temperatures played a central role in Fourier's mathematical physics.An. 1. Description of the 4to volume which was afterwards published in 1822 without the chapters on radiant heat the solar heat as it effects the earth the comparison of analysis with the experiment and the history of rise and progress of the theory of heat. As such the paper contains importent applications and results not described in "Theorie analytique.1822."An. 2. This is a mathematiccal sketch on the sine law of emission of heat from a surface. The authors paradox on the hypothesis of equal intensity of emission in all directions is here proved.An. 3. An elegant physical treatise on the discoveries of Newton Pictet Wells Wollaston Leslie and Prevost.An. 4. A Sketch of a memoir mathematical and descriptive on the waste of the earth's initial heat.An. 5. A descriptive memoir read before the Academy 20. a. 29. Sept 1824 and later published in "Memoires de l'Academy." Tome VII 1827.An. 6. An elementary analytical account of surface-emissions and absorption based on the principle of equilibrium of temperature. This paper comes with Poisson's "Observations relatives à un Mémoire sur l'Equilibre d'une masse fluide inséré dans la Transactions philosophique de cette année." Pp. 225-236.An. 7. An elementary analysis of emissionn absorption and reflexion by walls of enclosure uniformly heated. At p. 364 Fopurier promises a "Theorie physique de la chaleur" to contain the applications of the "Theorie analytique" omitted in teis work published 1822. </em> unknown
18767851Des Moines: Mills & Company Printers and Publishers 1876. 8vo dark green boards lettered in lighter green 278 pp. Early Iowa community cookbook published by a Church auxiliary group as their Bicentennial Project. From the preface: "This little book is an outgrowth from the experience of many who wait upon the domestic altars of our city. It gives the results of countless experiments in the direction of prudent wholesome healthful enjoyable cooking. Among the numerous and wide-ranging list of dishes are a recipe for "Ochra Or Gumbo Soup" and several prairie chicken recipes including "To Fry Prairie Chicken" and "Stewed Prairie Chicken"; a brief section at the end "Recipes for the Sick" contains a recipe for Tamarind Syrup. Covers faded and heavily stained wear to corners small hole through one leaf pages lightly toned with occasional spattering/staining lacking front endpaper. Mills & Company, Printers and Publishers hardcover
18128415London: B. R. Goakman ca. 1812. Third Edition. Pamphlet. Good. Removed no wrapper last couple of leaves detached starting to loosen. 30 pp. 2 pp. publisher's catalogue. The fourth edition was published in 1813 and an 1811 title is mentioned in the publisher's catalogue placing the date of this pamphlet we believe as 1812.The author stresses two main points: the obligation of Christians to work for the conversion of the Jews and how best to do that work. B. R. Goakman unknown
18301045852Ohne Ort und Verlag [London, Bossange, Barthés and Lowell / Paris: Audot] [1830]. 52 blattgroße Umrißkupfer von Achille Réveil mit jeweils ein- bis vierseitigen Beschreibungen und Kommentaren in französischer und englischer Sprache. Unbeschnittener Block. 8° (19 x 12 cm). Interimspappband der Zeit.
183027903Canton: SunQua Studio 1830. Silk covered boards. The 12 bird images are full page finely done with grass rocks and flowers with shrubs or trees. Unusually the half page images are mounted on the verso of the sheets of bird images. The half page images include collections of shells 4; women playing musical instruments 8; men sitting a scribe man smoking butcher melon fish and vegetable sellers and a few of the punishment images. <br /> <br /> Oblong 4to 8 1/4 x 13 1/4". Leaves mounted with to paper leaves with an unusual paper border with a purple circle pattern on pale background paper. Chinese style binding opening from the back of the album. Bound in a green gold blue and red silk woven in a daisy pattern which sometimes appears with a Sunqua stamp. Without background painting. The first image with some cracking but not affecting the characters some slight browning. Most in very good condition. SunQua Studio unknown
183331357New York: B. Waugh and T. Mason / J. Collard Printer 1833. Revised. Leather. Good. Revised edition 1833. A Good to Very Good copy. 8vo. 1000 pp with five fold out maps. Bound in full period brown leather with title on red morocco label on spine in gilt. Tips rubbed thru with rubbing along extremities and joints. Lacking the front end papers with the first page being the title page. Previous owners simple book plate and signature inside front cover. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Including five maps. Maps in particularly good condition with crisp detail and no tearing or mis-folding. Hinges secure. A Good binding with Very Good contents. B. Waugh and T. Mason / J. Collard, Printer unknown
182175334London:: Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol Shakespeare Press 1821. First edition. 20th c. full gilt-ruled calf by Giulio Giannini - Firenze; a.e.g. Bookplate on two of the three front pastedowns; a clean tight and sound set handsomely bound. Large 8vo. Complete with all plates present. Bound without half-titles. Printed for the Author, by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press, unknown
189552396Westminster, Roxburghe Press, (1895). Gr.-8°. VII, 216 S., 1 Bl., OLwd.
186900068London: The New Sydenham Society 1869. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 518pp. The New Sydenham Society was active from 1858 until 1907 and followed the Sydenham Society from the early 1840s until the late 1850s. Nice clean copy with no library labels. Some foxing to the title-page and end-papers. Original blind stamped brown cloth binding with gilt silhouette bust and gilt titles to the spine. Blind stamped patterns to the front and rear boards. A sound and clean text block. Some joint wear but sound and a nice copy. 23cms <br/> <br/> The New Sydenham Society hardcover
18615555Columbus Ohio: Richard Nevins 1861. First edition. Bifolium slip bill printing measuring 330 x195mm and complete in 3 pages. Lower blank portion of conjugate leaf trimmed; some splitting along fold lines. Early pencil annotations throughout. Slip bills such as this with widely spaced numbered lines were designed for in-session discussion debate and annotation; and they were printed exclusively for the use of delegates. Therefore few survive. Unrecorded in OCLC with no other known copies noted the present is perhaps the only extant recording of the proposals that would be refined into the final version of the law later that year. <br /> <br /> Ten years earlier during the height of her work for abolition Jane Elizabeth Jones spoke before the Ohio Women's Convention in Salem to connect that movement with the fight for women's rights: "We should demand our recognition as equal members of the human family.as human beings; and when this point is established the term 'woman's rights' will become obsolete" Ohio History. Highlighting Black Americans' and women's humanity was crucial to her work. And in 1861 alongside reformers Frances Gage and Hannah Cutler she would continue to push this message even further. Speaking to the Ohio legislature regarding women's property rights she called upon Senators "to imagine themselves with the legal rights of women" -- to confront the terrible realities of being a human "whose property and wages became their husbands' at marriage" as did even their own bodies Broad Movements. An electrifying orator Jones managed to get a sufficient number of men to support the cause during that session. The result was the present bill.<br /> <br /> While differences exist between the text of this slip bill and the final legislation the impact was massive for the women of Ohio. And it was a bellwether for women across the US who were clamouring for equality. In its final state the "1861 law declared that any real estate that a woman had acquired before or during the marriage was her separate property and under her sole control. She could collect the rents and profits. She could contract to manage her real estate.The 1861 law also declared that a woman's personal property including wages acquired before and during marriage was now her separate property and under her sole control regardless of divorce" Little. While it would take another 26 years for women to achieve full property rights with the passage of the Married Women's Property Act in 1887 the present efforts constituted a victory -- at least for white women. For Black and Indigenous women the laws did not significantly budge and they found fewer white allies than would be hoped given the movement's basis in "common humanity."<br /> <br /> An important piece of U.S. Midwestern and Ohio legal and gender history further comparative research could be done between the terms of the bill as drafted and its final iteration as well as to the extent it offered a model for continued efforts within the women's rights movement's varied organizations. [Richard Nevins] unknown
1824SET41-F-2London : William Baynes and Son 1824. Leather. Good Only. 9" by 5.5". None. A biographical history of influential Englishmen from Saxon times to the eighteenth century. Fifth edition with upwards of four hundred additional lives. 'Intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system and a help to the knowledge of portraits: interspersed with a variety of anecdotes and memoirs of a great number of persons not to be found in any other biographical work.' Including biographies of Henry Booth Richard Talbot Samuel Clarke and many others. Bookplate of Colchester Public Library to front pastedowns. Complete in six volumes. In half-morocco bindings. Externally smart though with some slight rubbing. Insitutional lettering and labels to the spines. Joints are cracked and very tender. One board is held by the cords only. Loss to one backstrip. Internally firmly bound. Institutional ink stamps throughout. Pages are bright and quite clean with just a few instances of foxing. Good Only William Baynes and Son hardcover
188175395London: Smith Elder & Co. 1881. 4to. Unpaginated. Publisher's gilt decorated cloth with lettering and decoration to upper board and spine; all edges gilt. Cloth in much better condition than usual with only a couple of marks to upper board and minor wear and bumping to extremities. A few names written in in ink at certain dates and scattered foxing. Gilt-detailed colour plates introduce each month with poems by various poets including Longfellow Wordsworth and Morris. Blank alphabeticised index at rear for adding contact details. Princess Beatrice spent 30 years editing the journals of her mother Queen Victoria and she designed this book. . Very Good. Gilt-decorated Cloth. 1881. Smith, Elder & Co. 1881 hardcover
18952091202133201035Methuen & Company 1895. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Methuen & Company paperback
