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18422274986James S. Virtue 1842. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Bartlett W.H. Restoration to front joint boards lightly discolored tide mark to bottom margin light foxing throughout ink gift note on front flyleaf. 1842 Hard Cover. Both books bound together in one volume. 128; 116 pp. 4to. Half-leather gilt titles marbled endpapers includes about 120 engraved plates and a map of the eastern portion of Canada. A companion to American Scenery published two years earlier. James S. Virtue hardcover books
1840158271London: George Virtue 1840. hardcover. very good. 2 volumes. Engraved frontispiece portrait and extra illustrated title page. Illustrated with 122 tissue protected plates including the map and the title pages from drawings by W.H. Bartlett engraved in the first style of the art by R. Wallis J. Cousen Willmore et al. 4to. Handsomely bound in contemporary brown polished calf; blind-stamped panels and gilt-stamped spines with black leather labels; marbled endpapers and page edges leather is rubbed but sound and attractive; one plate loose; minimal scattered foxing. London: George Virtue 1840. Very good.<br/><br/> George Virtue unknown books
1840025470London: Virtue 1840. Quarto. Volume I: Portrait frontispiece hand-colored vignette title page and regular title page ix 140 pages 66 leaves of plates one map. Volume II: hand-colored vignette title page and regular title page iv. 106 pages 52 leaves of plates. The map plate in volume I was done by W. Hughes. All 119 plates are present. In 1836 William Henry Bartlett was sent to America to begin making engravings of the major sites in the United States. Virtue had also commissioned Nathaniel Willis to make letterpress descriptions of each image. Thomas Dougherty drew two of the originals while the rest were done with remarkable precision by Bartlett. While Willis is first on the title page it is Bartlett's fine work that has made this the finest 19th century work on America from the artists' perspective. the plates view the Eastern U.S. before the full force of the Industrial Revolution changed the face of the eastern landscape forever. Bound in a very fine rich red 3/4 red morocco spines with bands and decorative panels with a matching slipcase. Abbey Travel in aquatint and lithography 651; Blanck BAL 22755; Sabin 3784. Virtue unknown books
184022476London: George Virtue 1840. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth decorated in blind and gilt front and back covers with gilt arabesques and lettering at spine. Aeg. Very good. Bartlett William H. 48 106 96 140 4 52 28 x 22 cm. 117 steel engrave plates with tissue guards. Originally published in Thirty parts at one shilling or in Divisions 6s. 6d. cloth gilt. Drawings by William Henry Bartlett one of the most prolific of illustrators for topographical works. "It is almost certain that there are more steel engravings after Bartlett than after any other painter of views" -- see RUSSELLp.196. Bartlett made four voyages to America between the years 1836 and 1852. HOWES B209. From the publisher's original announcement: "Like Columbus at first we only dream of America. It is yet both a new and an unknown world to us in regard to its scenes of natural beauty and sublimity. The Proprietors.have sought to produce a series of Select Views which will form a characteristic Panorama of the Western World; especially in its Lake and River Scenery which has no parallel in Europe perhaps not on earth." Four pages of adverts Vol. 1 Vol. III booklabel rear pastedown of publisher rare first issue in five volumes. Slight rubbing to backstrip extremities and a few corners cover gilt illustrations very bright and fresh. George Virtue hardcover books
1883010023Boston: Estes and Lauriat 1883. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. Early edition. Folio. 92 pages of text. Original hardcover cloth binding is heavily worn soiled and rubbed. Complete with 25 black & white engravings. A few spots of foxing near the image area of a few plates. The first several pages and plates are loose with minor chipping tearing and browning to edges not affecting images. The bottom edge of all pages and plates with minor staining. This stain though light comes close to the image area on the final five plates. Estes and Lauriat Hardcover books
1841D12958London: George Virtue 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Ornately gilt-stamped contemporary morocco a.e.g.; complete set of 2 volumes 4to; pp. iv 2 170 plus frontis. additional title-p. with steel-engraved vignette map of Ireland 60 plates; 4 186 additional title-p. with engraved vignette 58 plates; collates complete. Bookplate tasteful on front paste-down of both volumes. Bindings heavily scuffed along joints and edges of boards; some light chipping at spine tips and corners; boards rubbed and a bit scratched. Nonetheless a handsome set gilt remains nice and bright. Internally clean and unmarked -- plates are lovely suitable for display. <br/><br/> George Virtue hardcover books
1840005359London: George Virtue 1840. First edition. Full Calf. Very Good. All plates including frontis portrait two half title and map of the Northeastern United States hand-colored by a meticulous contemporary hand or a total of 120 plates hand-colored. 4to. 27.5 by 22 cm. iv 140 iv 106 pp with first volume also including the hand-colored frontis portrait of Bartlett the map and 66 plates the second volume 53 plates. Bartlett 1809-1854 was a renowned English painter or architectural and topographical views and panoramas who did similar books on such countries as Switzerland and Canada all of which are epitomize the steel engraved view books of the period and are easy to find standard works. In this copy of "American Scenery" there is no question that the hand-coloring greatly enhances the otherwise appealing but unexciting steel engravings and one can not but think that the plates were intended to be colored so. Some finger soiling to the leaves including those with the plates but overall a clean copy. The binding does have wear with abrasions to the diced calf repaired joints and moderate wear besides. Chipping to the black spine labels. <br/><br/> George Virtue unknown books
184252681London: published for the proprietors by George Virtue 1842. 4to 4 volumes in 13; 2 maps and over 200 fine steel engravings list of subscribers and advertisement leaves with the author's notice in the final volume. Bound with: Canadian Scenery Illustrated. Original quarter roan gilt-lettered in decorated publisher's boards; occassional spotting to edges of plates. A rare set of the two works issued together and assembled from the original parts. A most appealing set of an illustrated classic here in extended form with both the separate American and Canadian publications issued in this form as one continuous work numbered as a coherent series on the bindings. The series in this form includes over 200 steel-engraved images. The publisher's charming binding is in particularly good condition. "The New World of Columbus.its sudden rise to independence wealth and power" Author's preface is captured in this Victorian publication on the United States and "British America" Canada with fine engravings after the noted British landscape painter William Henry Bartlett. This is a wonderful illustrated romp published at a time to illustrate the last days of relative freedom of the North American native peoples Willis cites Blumenbach in analysing the "real character of the aboriginal inhabitant" and the development of the cities on the West coast of America and unusually Lower Canada. William Bartlett "made four voyages to the United States and Canada.the fruits of which appeared in American Scenery and Canadian Scenery" DNB. The famous plates depict North American cities New York Philadelphia Boston Washington; important buildings such as the U.S. Bank the Capitol and Yale College; bridges parks falls ferries rivers; as well as fine views of Canada through Quebec Montreal Toronto and including Niagara Falls and Thousand Isles. Also included is an engraved portrait of Bartlett a map of the north-eastern United States and Lower Canada. Sabin calls Canadian Scenery "the finest of Mr. Bartlett's works." Willis's "The Literary Department" accompanying letterpress lyrically opines on the picturesque quoting Byron's Childe Harold on sighting Niagara Falls and noting that in America the traveller may imagine "an Eden newly-sprung from the ocean". Abbey 651 American Scenery; Sabin 3784 3786. <br/><br/> published for the proprietors by George Virtue hardcover books
1840185602London: George Virtue 1840. Hardcover. VG Cover has general edge/corner wear. Bookblock has age toning. Interior pages have age toning and foxing. 2 volumes bound together Marbled book boards with leather corners and spines. illustrations map portrait. From drawings by W.H. Bartlett engraved in the first style of the art by R. Wallis J. Cousen Wilmore Brandard Adlard Richardson &c. ; The literary department by N.P. Willis Esq. author of "Pencillings by the way" "Inklings of adventure" etc. George Virtue hardcover books
1824012234Boston MA: Printed at the Office of the Howard Gazette 1824. Book. Very good condition. Disbound. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 48 pages of text. Disbound from a larger volume or removed from wrappers which are not present. Minimal soiling to first and last page with two small spots of staining to the final page. Caption title./ At head of title: "Eighteenth Congress Jan. 1824."/ A discussion of Daniel Webster's resolution "That provision ought to be made by law for defraying the expense incident to the appointment of an agent or Commissioner to Greece whenever the President shall deem it expedient to make such appointment." Includes Webster's speech on the Greek Revolution followed by comments of Representatives Joel R. Poinsett John Randolph George Cary Silas Wood Ichabod Bartlett Henry Clay and Timothy Fuller. Greek War of Independence 1821-1829. Printed at the Office of the Howard Gazette Paperback books
185923701859. WARNER Anna Bartlett. HARD MAPLE. With Vignettes. Boston: Shepard Clark & Brown 1859. 16mo. blue cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. BAL 21052. Good covers right hinges tight foxing text. $50.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
189457846Boston: B. B. Russell Co 1894. 8vo pp. 3 6-319 1; printed self-wrappers rear wrapper wanting; spine largely perished; stitching sound. Title page inscribed "with love and best wishes of the author." Originally published by J. Howard Brown Co. circa 1882 with the subtitle A story of the blighting curse of polygamy. "The practice of plural marriage commonly known as polygamy stirred intense controversy in postbellum America until 1890 when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints first officially abolished the practice. Elder Northfield's Home published by A. Jennie Bartlett in 1882 is both a staunchly antipolygamy novel and a call for the sentimental repatriation of polygamy's victims. Her book traces the fate of a virtuous and educated English immigrant woman Marion Wescott who marries a Mormon elder Henry Northfield. Shocked when her husband violates his promise not to take a second wife Marion attempts to flee during the night toddler son in her arms and pulling her worldly possessions in his toy wagon. She returns to her husband however and the balance of the novel traces the effects of polygamy on Marion Henry and their children; their eventual rejection of plural marriage; and their return to a normal and healthy family structure." University of Nebraska Press Wright III 5347. <br/><br/> B. B. Russell Co unknown books
1872246457Cambridge MA: Printed at the Riverside Press 1872. Soft Cover. Good binding. 27pp. No pencil or ink markings in text; paper binding with light to moderate edge wear to covers and spine. Good binding. Printed at the Riverside Press unknown books
182320045Boston: Printed by Jonathan Howe 1823. Original grained sheep spine and tips blue boards 7.25 x 4.5 inches 148 16 16 pages. Errata slip tipped in after the final page of text. Second edition. <br /><br />The attorney Bartlett first published this collection of aphorisms in 1810 in Portsmouth N.H.; this edition has a new dedication to John Quincy Adams the 1810 edition had been dedicated to his enemies has a new preface and an added poem on Lavatar and the science of physiognomy as well as an essay on the blessings of poverty. <i>American Imprints</i> 11752. <br /><br />Spine and corners somewhat rubbed some soiling to the boards; a bit foxed and a trifle shaken; a very good copy. Printed by Jonathan Howe books
182956027Plymouth Mass: published by Ezra Collier Allen Danforth printer 1829. First edition 12mo pp. xii 13-312; contemporary mottled calf; red morocco label; textblock slightly toned; otherwise very good. Ink ownership inscription of Josiah Ames 1834. Parris 1806-1827 began his medical practice in Attleborough MA in 1825 and died only two years later. He composed most of these writings between the ages of 12 and 18 and they were posthumously discovered by his friends and family who desired printed copies. The text is mostly comprised of poems and discourses on various subjects. American Imprints 39969. <br/><br/> published by Ezra Collier, Allen Danforth, printer unknown books
183831686London: Published for the proprietors by George Virtue 1838. First edition. Three quarter dark green morocco over marbled boards boards ruled in gilt five raised bands ruled in gilt four compartments with floral gilt decorations two with gilt titles marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Very good boards and extremities rubbed owner's bookplate to free front end paper small faint semicircular stain to fore edge of first two preliminary leaves tissue guard and engraved title foxed and offset faint dampstain to lower inner corner marginal only scattered foxing to plates nearly all marginal or on blank backs otherwise plates are crisp text clean binding sold. A very handsome copy. 164 pp. 81 lvs. Illus. with 81 steel engravings: port. frontis title page vignette 78 view plates and 1 map. Sm. 4to. "This work had much influence in terms of increasing popular appreciation of its subject" Blackmer Lib. p. 405. Atabey 922; CBEL 3rd IV: 1378; Blackmer Coll. 1254; Blackmer Lib. 888. Published for the proprietors by George Virtue hardcover books
186355284Providence: printed for the author 1863. First edition 8vo pp. 40; original printed salmon wrappers chipped and with moderate losses on both front and back and the top margins of the last 2 leaves also with loss; fragile but good. Details the atrocities of the Confederate Army. Sabin 33275. <br/><br/> printed for the author unknown books
18657665New York: printed by A. Penfield 1865. Unfolded booklet 13 x 22.5 cm. 6 pages if folded. John B. Barlett's business was located at 69 Murray Street New York where he distributed the Squire's Patent Fruit Jar. "The GREAT SECRET in preserving fruit lies in thoroughly expelling the oxygen and safely sealing therefrom". The Squire's Jars used a combination rubber band and cork to achieve this. The cover illustration depicts a young woman in the process of canning with a steaming pot on the stove in the background and shelves of finished product in the background implying the efficiency of this method which she is employing. Discoloration of one edge of the leaf effecting the illustration; otherwise very good. OCLC locates one copy in an unnamed collection of culinary ephemera; otherwise not located. [printed by] A. Penfield unknown books
18656273New York: printed by A. Penfield 1865. Unfolded booklet 13 x 22.5 cm. 6 pages when folded. John B. Barlett's business was located at 69 Murray Street New York where he distributed the Squire's Patent Fruit Jar. "The GREAT SECRET in preserving fruit lies in thoroughly expelling the oxygen and safely sealing therefrom". The Squire's Jars used a combination rubber band and cork to achieve this. The cover illustration depicts a young woman in the process of canning with a steaming pot on the stove in the background and shelves of finished product in the background implying the efficiency of this method which she is employing. Discoloration of one edge of the leaf effecting the illustration; otherwise very good. OCLC locates one copy in an unnamed collection of culinary ephemera; otherwise not located. [printed by] A. Penfield unknown books
1850287457London: Peter Jackson Late Fisher Son & Co. The Caxton Press 1850. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Wright and Buckingham's historical descriptions of various places in Belgium the Rhine Italy Greece and the Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean with engraved illustrations by various artists. Complete with two volumes bound in one. Vol. I is complete with all 73 plates called for in the 'Contents' though "Great Canal and Antique Gothic House" or "Ghent" is bound in at Vol. II p. 58 and "The City of Catania and Mount Etna" is bound in near Vol. II p. 152. Vol. II is lacking pp. 25-32 and pp. 49-56 and also lacks the eight plates that would have been in those two signatures. This is quite possibly a binder's error as there does not appear to be any explicit damage to the textblock at those locations; the binder also misplaces a number of plates though most of these errors are simply a few pages off. Vol. I with all 73 plates. Vol. II with 73 of the 81 plates. Altogether with 146 of the 154 plates which includes the frontispieces and additional title pages engraved. Some foxing to the plates; previous owners' names on the front pastedown and recto of the initial frontispiece lacking front endpaper. Surface wear to the joints spine and corners of the boards. Some soiling to the cloth covered boards. Half brown leather with designs in blind decorative gilt rules and gilt lettering and gray cloth covered boards. Very Good. Very Good binding. Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son, & Co. | The Caxton Press unknown books
189034757Boston: James H. Earle publ. 1890. 12mo. 277 pp. <br><br>Inscribed copy of the sole edition of these religio-inspirational writings published by the author's husband a noted publisher of religious books.<br>Â Â Â Â "Miss Edith L. Hubbard / From her friend & cousin L. B. E."<br>Â Â Â Â Not traced via WorldCat NUC COPAC or any of the OPACs in the Boston area. Publisher's brown cloth front cover stamped in gilt with a rising sun and the title. A very good copy. James H. Earle, publ. hardcover books
1893276625Boston: Joseph Knight Co 1893. First Edition. An attractive Mother Goose illustrated with photographs of costumed children acting out the rhymes. A bit of darkening to the front endsheets from old tape. Minor soiling but overall a bright copy. Joseph Knight Co unknown books
183885316London: Fisher Son & Co 1838. Hardcover. Near Fine. 3 vols. 120 plates including 3 vignette titles 2 maps ii 3-80 76 100p. Fancy gilt-stamped contemporary leather. All edges gilt. 27cm. Minor scuffing on backstrip. Carne traveled in the Middle East in the 1820s. This work with its steel-engraved views by Bartlett enjoyed great popularity in the mid-19th century. <br/><br/> Fisher, Son & Co hardcover books
18362147London: George Virtue 1836. 1st . Hardcover. Fine. Bartlett W.H. Illustrated by W.H. Bartlett. London George Virtue 1836. 1st edition. Folio. Beautifully rebound in quarter moroccan oasis goat with marbled boa rds and the spines lettered in gilt a.e.g. Matching cloth slipcase. 2 engraved title viii 188 pp. 57 full-page engraved plates; engraved title iv 152 pp. 49 full-page engraved plates and a folding map of Switzerland. Light foxing throughout small tear at a fold in the map just touching the impression otherwise very good condition. BMC. <br/><br/> George Virtue hardcover books
185847226Providence: Knowles Anthony and Company 1858. Hardcover. Good. vii 577pp. Contemporary full calf with black spine labels. Offseting to prelims rear joint separated but board still holding fast spot of loss at foot of spine else a good example. <br/><br/> Knowles, Anthony, and Company hardcover books
