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188638317London: Dulau and Co. 1886. Illustrated Third Edition. Three titles bound together as one. PRESENTATION COPY inscribed and signed by this rather eccentric author. Thick octavo in original gilt decorated green cloth over bevelled edge boards. Front cover ruled in black with elaborate gilt emblem spine lettered in gilt gilt top edge. Illustrated with numerous engravings photographs and folding plates. Fraying at spine ends two inch tear in spine cloth. Front hinge starting. In need of some minor restoration. Internally very good. "Charles Ottley Groom Napier also known as C. O. G Napier FGS FLS 1839 - 1894 was a natural historian geologist mineral collector as well a writer on vegetarianism ornithology and an early proponent of British Israelism. He was most well known for his eccentric claims of ancestry."--Wikipedia . Signed. Hard Cover. Good. Dulau and Co. Hardcover
1890017396London United Kingdom: William Heinemann. Heinemann's International Library 1890. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition First Printing. Octavo Pp. 218.16pp catalogue dated October 1890. Original pink cloth as issued spine darkened bubbling to cover which seems to be a common issue. Clean pages off setting to end pages small name to verso of front cover mark to bottom of text block. Edited by Edmund Gosse. William Heinemann. (Heinemann's International Library) Hardcover
182634041Edinburgh and London: Archibald Constable and Co. and Longman Rees et al. 1826. 3 volumes. First Edition. With fine Scottish provenance being Ex-libris of the Bellfield Library Kilmarnock and James Buchanan merchant of Glencoe. With half-titles in each volume. 8vo handsomely bound in vellum over blue paper-covered boards with the publisher's original printed paper labels on the spines top edge gilt others untrimmed xvi 315; 332; 370 pp. A set in beautiful condition the text fresh and as pristine but for a bit of the typical mellowing or occasional age evidence. The bindings are sturdy and strong and show little wear or use a little bit of spotting from age to the bindings publisher's printed labels are fresh and very legible. Ownership signature of James Buchanan unobtrusively at top of the titlepage and stamp of the Bellfield Library on each title-page and occasionally at chapter openings no other markings within hard-to-see evidence of small circular shelf labels once being on the spine tops. FIRST EDITION OF A SCARCE AND EXCELLENT WORK THIS SET IN UNCOMMONLY FINE AND WELL-PRESERVED CONDITION and with all half-titles as is often not the case. Sir Walter Scott was considered to be the inventor of the historical novel and the success of his Waverley series was immediate and long lasting throughout the English speaking world.<br> Set shortly after the English Civil War WOODSTOCK was inspired by the legend of the Good Devil of Woodstock which in 1649 supposedly tormented parliamentary commissioners who had taken possession of a royal residence at Woodstock Oxfordshire. The story deals with the escape of Charles II in 1652 during the Commonwealth and his final triumphant entry into London on 29 May 1660. David Hume's HISTORY OF ENGLAND gave Scott most of the historical background.<br> As with all the Waverley novels prior to 1827 WOODSTOCK was published anonymously. Archibald Constable and Co. and Longman, Rees, et al. hardcover
1838617199Robert Tyas 1838. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo. Corners bumped and boards exposed - base of spine a little chipped/split - top of spine chipped and joints split to approx top third - spine a little faded/toned - endpapers rubbed and marked and with previous owners name and details in ink to front free endpaper - hinges breached but not open - some scattered foxing - book ow/ solid clean and content unmarked - plates clean and with guards - edges of text block gilt - blind stamped borders to boards and gilt oak illustration to front decorative gilt titles to spine - dark green fine ribbed cloth boards - 188 pages No Jacket Robert Tyas hardcover
1838017337London: Robert Tyas 1838. Book. Good. Leather. Presumed First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Concise descriptions of woodland trees. 188pp plus inde illustrated throughout with colour drawings. Gilt design of tree in gilt to top board gilt lettering to 2nd field on spine with five raised bands. All edges gilt. Some ubb9ing to spine corners and edges tape repair to left hinge marking to endapers and former owners' names to title page otherwise good copy of this scarce title. Robert Tyas Hardcover
1900010658Galt Ontario: The Goldie & McCulloch Co. 1900. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. Canadian Wood Working Machinery Trade Catalogue. No date. Circa 1900. 142 pgs. with index b/w illustrs with product details. Outer covers a little rubbed and soiled with about 1 inch of cloth loss at the bottom of spine. Writing on front cover and one other brief underline and note to page 42. Goldie & McCulloch was one of the first Canadian makers of woodworking machinery. They made industrial-sized machines including molders planer-matchers ripsaws shingle machines barrel machines and sawmills at their foundry 1859 to 1923 primarily suppling the Canadian market. <br/> <br/> The Goldie & McCulloch Co. paperback
1899021832Quebec Canada: St. Anne De Beaupre The Church. First Edition. Original brown boards. Nice covers gift inscription and date in ink edge tear on title page from manufacturing imperfection short wormholes in top margin of many pages but no text affected some tanning of pages Good. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1899. St. Anne De Beaupre [The Church] hardcover
184629065N Y N Y: Wiley & Putnam. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1846. First American Edition. Hardcover. 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 142 pages; AE finds 4 copies of the British first published at the same time as this American first but no copies of the American. First publication in English of Ole Lukoie Tommelise Thumbelina Little Ida's Flowers The Constant Tin Soldier and six other tales. The author's name is misspelt "Anderson" on the title-page and upper cover. Publisher's dark brown decorated cloth with wear to spine lacking 1/4" at bottom and 1" at top above title. Contents clean and fresh. Unlike the UK edition this was not illustrated. . Wiley & Putnam hardcover
1900231291900. Women's History Women's labor photo archive documenting women at work across millinery laundry commercial kitchen precision bench and wartime relief settings preserving a concentrated visual record of how female labor was publicly pictured in the years immediately preceding and overlapping World War I. Several photographs bear Brown Bros. New York stamps placing part of the group within the sphere of press photography while the verso inscription "Russian Women Filling Bandages for the front" situates one image within the culture of wartime female service and aid production. The photographs show women's work as a visible and varied part of early twentieth-century public life where skill repetition discipline and service shaped how female labor was pictured.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 8 photographs 7 silver gelatin and one mounted sepia photograph ranging from 6 x 4 to 9.5 x 7 inches including New York and other unidentified locations circa 1900-1915. One Brown Bros. photograph shows a seated woman trimming or assembling hats at a worktable crowded with millinery forms and materials framing decorative labor as skilled commercial production rather than private handiwork. Another image shows four women and one man gathered around tables stacked with folded cloth corresponding to the handwritten verso note "Russian Women Filling Bandages for the front." A larger photograph inscribed on the verso "women workers / compass making" shows a woman seated at a bench adjusting a circular instrument with tools and components arranged before her. Another workplace view pictures a woman handling a metal object beside machinery and a crate with partial printed text ending in ".products. Cleveland." The photograph inscribed "women in Laundry" shows several women bent over long tables in a bright workroom lined with tall windows while the mounted sepia image depicts six apron-clad women at long counters beneath a large hooded vent in a commercial kitchen. Across the group aprons work dresses caps tables tools and stacked materials recur giving the photographs a shared emphasis on feminine labor as organized visible and socially legible.<br /> <br /> The archive belongs to a period when women's wage labor was expanding in both scale and visibility and when photography increasingly circulated images of female work as part of modern urban and wartime culture. Its strength lies in the range of roles pictured: decorative trade work industrial handling laundry labor food preparation and aid work directed toward the front all of which show how women's labor was understood through service dexterity endurance and collective effort. The bandage-making image is especially important because it connects ordinary workplace culture to the wartime recasting of women's labor as patriotic and humanitarian duty. Light surface wear scattered creasing minor silvering and fading and general handling wear; mounted sepia photograph with heavier toning. Overall good condition. A compact and pointed visual record of the cultural meaning of women's work at the point where everyday labor and wartime service converged. unknown
18782111902160201404Hori Seitaro 1878. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 3 Hori Seitaro paperback
1871288138Boston: Congregational Publishing Society 1871 Green Embossed Cloth Spine Bumped Gilt Faded Part Of Library Label Present. Boards Tight. Pencil Notes Inside With Orthodox Congregational Sabbath School Label. 141 Pgs. Rare. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Owner's Name. 1st Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good. Congregational Publishing Society hardcover
18971212922Leipzig, 1897. 67, (1) S. OBr. (Umschl. gestemp. u. m. kl. Läs., einige Lagen lose).
187026014209Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Geddes printer 1870. Very good. Minor dust soiling toning. Printed trade card advertising "Wm. M'Kinley Jr's Grocery Wine and Tea Store" on the North Side of Philadelphia. Lists Spermaceti Oil for oil lamps and lighting pickles dried beef and tongue among the goods for sale. Bright green coated card measuring approx. 1.5" by 3.5" verso blank. Geddes, printer unknown
186169070New York:: N. Tibbals & Company 1861. First edition. publisher's illustrated wrappers. Light foxing; small chips to the edges of the wrappers. 12mo. N. Tibbals & Company, unknown
1892014481William Blackwood And Sons 1892. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Good With Previous Owners Names On The Ep's Pp 314 24 Page Publishers Catalogue <br/> <br/> William Blackwood And Sons hardcover
188643241886. Wood-engraving. 400mm by 290mm sheet. Unrelated text on the reverse. CONDITION : Three foxing spots in the margins.Faint handling crease top right corner. Small break in paper on left edge of the sheet. unknown
185876163Edinburgh and London W. & R. Chambers 1858. 4to. x584pp. Colour frontispiece and 10 colour lithograph plates and maps some double-page. Many wood-engraved text illustrations. Preliminary pages foxed. An account of the Crimean War fought from October 1853 until February 1856. In this war an alliance of France the Ottoman Empire the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia defeated Russia. unknown
189752533New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1897. 12mo. 8 374 pp. plus 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue. Frontisp. 11 plates. Red pictorial publisher’s cloth cover art of King Frederick the Great of Prussia on front in black & white gilt black & white lettering minor rubbing shelfwear minor wear to corners still a VG- copy. First American edition of this Henty adventure of a young Scottish nobleman serving as aide-de-camp to Marshal Keith under Frederick the Great during the Seven Years War featuring the Battles of Lobositz Prague Rossback Leuthen Hochkich Minden Liegnitz and finally the triumph of Prussia at Torgau. Charles Scribner’s Sons, hardcover
189419599Windsor: Thomas E. Luff Printer Trinity House. Very Good. 1894. Softcover. This is an illustrated guide to Windsor Castle that includes details on the history architecture etc. Contains an index in the rear. Contains 8 pages of ads in the front and 10 in the rear. Original white printed stiff paper covers with gold printig and decorations. The covers are somewhat smuged but completely legible and the book is tight with no interior or exterior markings. Ther are a couple of small marginal to the bottom edge of the front wrapper and one small short tear to the top. An early interesting guide to one of England's most famous castles. The date is taken from the introduction; no other contemporary date is present. ; B&W Photographs Plans; 8vo 8"- 9" tall; 87 pages . Thomas E. Luff, Printer, Trinity House paperback
1862415227Devizes: printed and soled for the Society by Henry Bull ; London : Longman & Co. 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth over bevelled boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age; preliminary pages tanned and lightly foxed. Remains quite well-preserved overall; internally tight and clean. Physical description; xiii 491 pages 44 unnumbered leaves of plates 2 folded ; 32 cm. Notes; Includes index and glossary. Subjects; Manors Great Britain. Wiltshire England Description and travel. Wiltshire England History. Wiltshire England Antiquities. Wiltshire England Genealogy. Wiltshire England Historical geography. Devizes: printed and soled for the Society by Henry Bull ; London : Longman & Co. hardcover
1887LTH12-B-23London: The Religious Tract Society c1887. Leather. Near Fine. 6.5" by 4.5". None. An attractively bound work on William the Silent. A fictionalised sketch of the last days of William the Silent. Attributed to Harriette E Burch. In an attractive Relfe binding. William Prince of Orange was heir apparent to his father King William III of the Netherlands from 17 March 1849 until his death. In a full calf school binding by Relfe. Externally smart with some minor shelfwear only. Internally firmly bound. Pages are clean and bright throughout. Near Fine The Religious Tract Society hardcover
18099431809. Soft ground etching. 270mm by 200mm platemark. William Shield 1748 - 1829 was an English composer violinist and violist.<br /> He composed the music for 'A short account of the new pantomime called Omai or A trip round the world : performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden : with the recitatives airs duetts trios and chorusses and a description of the procession / the pantomime and the whole of the scenery designed and invented by Mr. Loutherbourg ; the words written by Mr. O'Keeffe ; and the musick composed by Mr. Shields' i.e. Shield which was published in 1785.Dance was an architect draughtsman and founder member of the Royal Academy. This portrait comes from a series of chalk portraits that he did of his friends 72 of which were engraved and published 1808-1814 by Daniell who was an engraver as well as a reknown landscape painter.Accompanied by original descriptive text. unknown
180919671809. Soft ground etching. 270mm by 200mm platemark. Sir William Scott 1st Baron Stowell 1745 - 1836 was an English judge and jurist. He was an early member of the Literary Club founded by Dr Johnson. <br /> Dance was an architect draughtsman and founder member of the Royal Academy. This portrait comes from a series of chalk portraits that he did of his friends 72 of which were engraved and published 1808-1814 by Daniell who was an engraver as well as a reknown landscape painter.Accompanied by original text description.Some very faint foxing. unknown
183712235Washington: Thomas Allen printers 1837. 8vo. 150 pp. <br><br>Concerning the claim of the petitioners William B. Stokes Richard C. Stockton Lucius W. Stockton and Daniel Moore for compensation for services performed as contractors hired to carry the mail. Government document: 25th Congress 1st Session. Doc. No. 52. Ho. of Reps. Removed from a nonce volume; six holes in inner margin touching only a few letters or numbers without affecting sense. First and last several pages lightly foxed. First page with ink numeral in upper right corner. Thomas Allen, printers unknown books
1851L574Boston: Ticknor Reed and Fields 1851. Hardcover. New Edition Revised. 4.5 x 7in. xiv. 495pp. 482pp. 8pp. ads. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth with gilt titling. GOOD. Both volumes show the edges and corners rubbed and showing boards with some spots of discoloration otherwise the bindings are strong and tight and the text is clean and unmarked. As pictured. Ticknor, Reed and Fields hardcover
