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18231000801823. Amsterdam Gebroeders Diederichs gedrukt voor den schrijver 1823. 13pp. 8vo. Orwrs. exlibris on inside front cover. A poem on Coster. Bigmore & Wyman: "An account of the 1823 celebration of the alleged invention of printing by Laurens Janszoon Koster. The Dutch bibliographers have since abandoned the date and do not usually refer to the proceedings at this festival". unknown
183869551London: Simpkin Marshall and Co 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 264pp. Small octavo 19.5 cm Green decoratively embossed cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Yellow endpapers. Frontispiece illustration. Spine sunned. Cloth at spine ends chipped. Underlying boards barely just beginning to peek through at corners. Free endpapers and recto of frontispiece mildly discolored. Short tape repairs to long closed tear on p. 140 no text is obscured. Loss to fore-edge margin of p. 163/64 again text not affected. Stitching visible in inside margins however binding very sturdy.<br /> <br /> Ex-libris James Cowan Smith with his bookplate depicting his beloved dog Callum on the front pastedown. James Cowan Smith 1843-1919 was a British civil engineer director of a railway company British Wagon and philanthropist. In his will he bequeathed what would now amount to roughly $4284000 to the National Gallery of Scotland to be used to expand its collection. The one stipulation was that the portrait of his dog Callum by John Emms was to be on permanent display in the museum. The condition of the donation helped draw attention to Callum's rare terrier breed the Dandie Dinmont. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co hardcover
1885105761Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1885 Ex-Library. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. RARE copy of these valuable papers! These were compiled under the direction of Brig. & Bvt. Maj Gen'l W. B. Hazen Chief Signal Officer of the Army. The papers are No. XI: Meteorological and Physical Observations on the East Coast of British America 1883; No. XII: Popular Essays on the Movements of the Atmosphere 1882; No. XIII: Temperature of the Atmosphere of the Earth's Surface 1884; No. XIV: Charts of Relative Storm Frequency 1884; No. XV: Researches on Solar Heat and Its Absorption by the Earth's Atmosphere - A Report of the Mount Whitney Expedition 1884; No. XVI: Tornado Studies for 1884 1885; and No. XVIII Thermometer Exposure 1885. Several maps and charts included. No. XVII is NOT included. Binding has light marks minor wear; a few page edges are lightly worn; one paper's title page is faded. Government Printing Office hardcover
1825056256Philadelphia Pa: H. C. Carey And I. Lea 1825. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 31 Plates Of Which 3 Are Folding. 425 Pages 51 Unnumbered Pages Xxi Leaves Of Plates 3 Folded : Illustrations Complete; 22 Cm. Bound In Original Speckled Calf Morocco Spine Label. First American Printing Copyright December 11 1824 Publication Date 1825 On Title Page. Lightly Used Binding Sound Pages Square Light Browning/Foxing Throughout. Antique Ownership Signatures Of Benjamin Jones B----Y Undated And J. John D. Nesbit Dated Jan. 2 1837 At Cincinnati And From A Library Of Many Nineteenth Century Books Signed By Him And Other Nesbits. Also With A Letter To Him In Cincinnati From His Sister In Peru Indiana Also Dated In 1837 With Handwritten Postage. Scarce; No Recent Auction Record Located. <br/> <br/> H. C. Carey And I. Lea, hardcover
1839371806Pittsburgh: Printed and Published by Johnston & Stockton 1839. 203 1pp. 12mo. Quarter contemporary calf and boards some wear but Very Good. 203 1pp. 12mo. Signed on the ffep "Miss S.J. Negley's Book June 3d 1839." In 1843 after a long courtship she became Mrs. Thomas Mellon. She was born in 1817 and died in 1909. Below in a different hand " Miss R.R. Negley's."<br /> <br /> Mellon wrote in his autobiography that at the age of ten he had been struck by "wealth and magnificence I had before no conception of" upon viewing the mansion of prominent landowners Jacob Negley and Barbara Ann Negley. Stockton 230 for First Edition Printed and Published by Johnston & Stockton unknown
