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189817027Very Good. 1898. Hardcover. This is an authentic 19th century illustrated plate. It is lightly toned but clean bright and in excellent condition. The reverse side is blank. Size: 7.5" x 11". . . hardcover
189617005Very Good. 1896. Non-Book. This original antique magazine print ad is toned but in very good condition. Page size 9" x 5.5". Reverse side has ad for michell & Kimbel Foreign Forwarders by A Allmann. . . unknown
189617004Very Good. 1896. Non-Book. This original antique magazine print ad is toned but in very good condition. Page size 9" x 5.5". Reverse side has ad for P. M. Grunwaldt Russian Furs by Edward Cucuel. . . unknown
189617003Very Good. 1896. Non-Book. This original antique magazine print ad is toned but in very good condition. Page size 9" x 5.5" . . unknown
18601191204.29Bradbury Agnew London ca. 1860. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo hardcover. No dj red decorative cloth. Vg condition. Later edition. with 13 hand colored engraved plates by John Leech and numerous woodcuts in text. Covers and contents clean unworn no marking or writing. Binding sturdy square and tight with no cracking at endpaper seams. 450 pp. A solid and attractive copy. Bradbury, Agnew, London hardcover
1875037692London: The Religious Tract Society 1875. First edition undated 1875. Winter themed poetry illustrated with engravings. Emerald green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and black 180 pages. Covers lightly scuffed with modest fraying to corners and spine ends good hinges sound text block clean pages with some light age-related speckling tiny name stamp at upper corner of title page no other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Religious Tract Society Hardcover
1835006330Philadelphia: John Sartrain 1835. Very Good -. 1 mezzotint engraving of Benjamin Carr 1768-1831 American composer singer music teacher and music publisher. Sheet is 30 x 24 cm.; image is 14 x 11 cm. John Sartain 1808-1897 pioneered mezzotint engraving in the United States. He engraved this portrait of Benjamin Carr from a painting by John Clarendon Darley 1808-1863. Undated but probably produced in the 1830s. Number in pencil in lower right-hand corner: 7/882. In Very Good- Condition: light soiling and foxing; a crisp mezzotint image. John Sartrain unknown
1868021398Glasgow / Edinburgh / London: William Collins Sons and Company 1868. Nineteenth Century Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 11 1/8" x 9 1/4" x 2 3/4. 775 Pp. Black Morocco Spine And Tips 5 Bands Gilt Lettering All Edges Gilt. .11 18" X 9 " X 2 1/4". Shipping Weight About 8 Pounds. Frontispiece With Tissue Guards; 19 Lithograph Plates Printed In Black Peach Coloring In Various Shades A Little White Infill. Binding With Some Edge Wear But Strong Hinges Solid. Contents Clean Faint Pencil Name/Place/1890 Date On Front Endpaper No Other Names Or Marks; A Few Small Scattered Light Foxing Spots. <br/> <br/> William Collins, Sons, and Company hardcover
1812004512London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 514 pages contemporary full calf inked name on half-title page no spine labels <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vols. 19 of 20 : being vol. 9 of The History of Birds with coverage of avocets curlews Ibis grebes plovers merganser frigate pelican sea gulls etc . 40 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812004504London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 378 pages contemporary full calf joints cracked inked name on half-title page no spine labels. <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol. 5 of 20 : covering a Dissertation on Wild Animals especially wolves. 64 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1893411805London : Longmans & Co. etc. 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy rebound in gilt-blocked blind-bordered cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; viii 138 pages ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes indexes. On spine: British Museum Department of Prints and Drawings. Subjects; Schreiber Charlotte Lady 1812-1895 Private collections ; Catalogs. Guest Charlotte Lady 1812-1895 Private collections Catalogs. Schreiber Charlotte Art collections Catalogs. British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings ; Catalogs. Fans England London ; Catalogs. Fan painting Europe ; Catalogs. Fans Collectors and collecting Europe ; Catalogs. Flabella ; Catalogs. London : Longmans & Co., etc. hardcover
18601911220030Cincinnati : Henry Howe 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. 1860 printing. Bound in publisher's full stamped calf. Spine stamped with shipwrecked sailor adrift beckoning a frigate. 624 pages 7 leaves of color plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. Front color plate page torn with loss another fold out color plate also torn with loss. Preliminaries and 439-442 p. sprung. Signed by Adam Ramble 1862. Later signature of Maria Jane Ramble. Hinges cracked. Cincinnati : Henry Howe hardcover
18771409090049E. A. Seemann 1877-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. 2 volume set. 2 Bande. Publisher's red cloth with gold lettering and black decoration. Hardcover. Spine chipped and worn with loss. Covers worn/chipped. Bindings shaken. Hinges cracked. Clean unmarked pages. Numerous illustrations. I. Halfte. Bogen 1-120. Baukunst und Bildnerei der Griechen und Romer der Aegypter und vorderasiatischen Volker des Mittelalters und der Renaissance. 2. Abdruck. 1878. II. Halfte. Bogen 121-246. Bildnerei der Renaissance Schluss. Bildnerei des 17. u.18.Jh. Kunstgewerbe u. Decoration vom 3. bis 18.Jh. Malerei des Alterthums des Decoration alters und der Neuzeit bis Ende des 18.Jh. 1879 This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US. E. A. Seemann hardcover
188917539Very Good. 1889. Etching. This antique etching is lightly toned with the metal border plate mark as expected with this intaglio printmaking technique. Overall size: 12" x 9". Etching size: 6" x 3.85". . unknown
185023334D. Appleton & Company New York 1850. HarDBACK nODuStJacket 1850 1st EditioN Small Brown embossed LEATHER COVER with TITled PapeR Label oN Spine Lettered IN Black Light Rub Wear Scuff Cover VG/VG- NOJacket 184 PGS ADS Interior Nice Tight with Some FOX & SMALL Stains & light Rub Wear slight wrinkiling some pgs Aging some tiny dogeared pages SpIne labEl slight FoX 6 1/4 X 4 in. Approx Light wear to tHE corners and spine ends and some light rubbing to the covers. The binding is solid and tight with no cracking and no loose or missing Pages There is mild foxing throughout the book but otherwise the pages are clean with no marks names creases TeARs or fingerprint smudges. Contains three separately paginated books with two facing tissue-guarded full page enGraved illustrations As frontispieces for each one last pair is missing the tissue-guard: My Autobiography 176 pagES Who Shall Be gReAteST 178 pageS and Which is the Wiser or People Abroad 184 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. D. Appleton & Company, New York hardcover
188928035<p>Longman's Green London Printed by Stottiswoode & Co. 1889. Inlaid Slip Announcing Illustrated by Caton Woodville Reproduced by Permission of Proprietors of Illustrated London News Pictorial Endpapers Decorated Swans & Ships Introduction HB NODustJacket 1889 on Title pg. First edition. VG/VG AS-IS NOJACKET Bound Dark Black cloth with Beveled Edges & Gold Gilt on Front Bright & spine cvr has Gilt Egyptian decorations with tiny end Tears With 336 pages and 16 pages of ads dated January 1889 and 29 full page plates. Cover light rub wear tiny Chips Tears Extremities Slight Lean Interior nice Tight FOXing Some rubbing and bumping to the corners and spine ends binding is tight solid copy. Slight Roll to spine. Wear to extremities. . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Edward Whymper J. D. Cooper & B. Lloyd .</p> Longman's Green , London , Printed by Stottiswoode & Co. hardcover
1872195548New York.: Harper's Weekly. 23 November1872. Five engravings in three columns 23.5 x 10 cms; on a single newspaper leaf 28.7 x 40.8 cm unrelated text on the verso lower margin creased with a small central tear affecting the caption no loss the image sin very good condition. Engravings from Harper's Weekly in November 1872 all centred on the quinine production in Darjeeling. Production began in the 1860s from seeds sent by the famed botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. Quinine proved indispensable to British rule in India and they invested heavily in plantations to sure up supply.The anti-malarial was vital for colonial expansion "quinine coursed through the bloodstream of empire" Townsend Middleton "Becoming after: The Lives and Politics of Quinine’s Remains" in Cultural Anthropology Vol. 36 Issue 2 pp. 282-311 2014 although probably known more to the readers of Harper's Weekly as an essential for gin and tonic. <br> <br>The five engravings: <br>Foot-Bridge over the River Rungbee <br>Buttress of Suspension Bridge over the River Teestah <br>Cinchona Succirubra Thirty Feet High signed but indecipherable <br>Native of Sikkim <br>Cane Suspension Bridge over the Great Runjeet. . Harper's Weekly. unknown
1857179688London.: Illustrated London News. January 101857. Two half-page engravings 14.5 x 23 cms incomplete descriptive text on a single newspaper leaf marginal spotting and edge-wear but in very good condition. Tranquil views of Canton Guangzhou months prior to the attack on and four year occupation of the city by allied British and French troops during the time of the Second Opium War. <br> <br>From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker with his pencilled catalogue note lower right. . Illustrated London News unknown
1802219553London.: W. Miller. 1802. Hand-coloured engraving 34.7 x 25.9 cms sheet including plate-mark edge toning but in very good condition. Attractive large image of a Dervise or Dervish prepared as Plate XXX for Dalvimart's work "The Costume of Turkey". <br>"Dalvimart's is one of the basic works on Turkish costume which has provided the prototypes for numerous other illustrative material. It is known that Dalvimart travelled in Turkey and Greece in 1797-8" Atabey. . W. Miller. unknown
1802219551London.: W. Miller. 1802. Hand-coloured engraving 34.7 x 25.8 cms sheet including plate-mark edge toning but in very good condition. Attractive large image prepared as plate 17 for Dalvimart's work "The Costume of Turkey". <br>"Dalvimart's is one of the basic works on Turkish costume which has provided the prototypes for numerous other illustrative material. It is known that Dalvimart travelled in Turkey and Greece in 1797-8" Atabey. . W. Miller. unknown
1802219552London.: W. Miller. 1802. Hand-coloured engraving 34.7 x 26 cms sheet including plate-mark edge toning but in very good condition. Attractive large image prepared as Plate IV for Dalvimart's work "The Costume of Turkey". <br>"Dalvimart's is one of the basic works on Turkish costume which has provided the prototypes for numerous other illustrative material. It is known that Dalvimart travelled in Turkey and Greece in 1797-8" Atabey. . W. Miller. unknown
1870313561The National Publishing Co. 1870. Hard Cover Half Leather -- Fair -- Other than replaced front cover and wear to spine and back cover book is clean and tight -- Printing date 187 -- 851 pages with illustrations throughout -- The Light in the East: A Comprehensive Religious Work embracing the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; and the Lives of His Holy Apostles and Evangelists. Together with the Lives of the Patriarchs and Prophets and of the Most Eminent Martyrs Fathers and Reformers. To which is added the History of the Jews from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. And a History of the Religious Denominations of the World. Half-Leather. Fair. The National Publishing Co. Hardcover
18890054051889. Very Good. 2 albumen prints. The first Rouen -- Fontaine de la Grosse Horloge is 255 x 199 mm. on a cardboard mount 297 x 239 mm. Caption printed in photograph in lower right: "54. Rouen_Fontaine de la Grosse horloge." Written in ink at lower edge of image: "Rouen August 25/89." Written in pencil next to photograph on mount: "Printed by the house of T. Herlyison." The fountain was designed by Jean-Pierre Defrance and built next to the famous Gros Horloge in 1743; the bas relief depicts the mythological scene of the river Alpheus and the nymph Arethusa and Cupid flying above them. This photograph includes a man waiting for a bucket to fill at the fountain and a woman carrying a bucket and moving off to the right. The window to the right of the fountain says "Debit de la Fontaine." The second photograph 209 x 270 mm on the other side of the card mount is an albumen print identified along the lower mount edge as only "Rouen." It shows the Fontaine Sainte-Marie built in 1879 with the original lights on either side. In Very Good Condition: lower right-hand corner of Fontaine de la Grosse Horloge slightly creased; both photographs are clean and bright. unknown
188621521Mrs. Frank Leslies NY Leslie 1886. HB NODustJacket Issued1886 1st edition Pictorial color Cover of Pyramids & East cover with small chips tears pieces to Extremities & Up & Down spine strip almost all Missing & Wear Interior Rub wear FoXing some smudges O/W relatively tight FRAGILE VG-/G- AS-IS NODJ 311 pages Last few pages Probably Missing 4to - over 934" - 12" tall Back & Front Hinges slightly Separating Travel adventures with added history and legends relating to the places being visited. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Mrs. Frank Leslies NY Leslie hardcover
1870mon0000090526The National Publishing Co. 1870-01-01. Leather Bound. Very Good. in x in x in. Black Leather Cover - Gold Lettering.rn1870 - The National Publishing Co.rnGilded pagesrnClean unmarked textrnTight binding. The National Publishing Co. hardcover
