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1835ABE-164337682788 PAGES FORMAT 20,5 CM X 31 CM-FRAGMENT D'UN VOYAGE EN ECOSSE, GRAVURE DEMI-PAGE "LE JEU DE SHINTY"-DE L'ORFEVRERIE, 2P, 3 GRAVURES, BALLIN-ENQUETE SUR LES CHEMINS DE FER, 2P, LYON, SAINT-ETIENNE, ROANNE, ANDREZIEUX, LONDRES-BIRMINHAM-LE CHATEAU DE BLANDY, 2P, GRAVURE
186742760London: James Nisbet & Co. 1867. Twenty-Sixth Thousand cf. BAL 21266. Original publisher's purple cloth binding with gilt spine lettering & boards stamped in blind. Shaken with a few loose gatherings & rear hinge cracked. Poi to ffep with abrasion mark underneath. Occasional spot & smudge. A Good copy of an uncommon title. vii 1 blank 479 1 8 pp. 8 page publisher catalogue concludes volume. Frontis & 7 inserted chromolithographed plates by Evans. 12mo. <br/><br/> James Nisbet & Co. hardcover books
188105065WASHINGTON IRVING Houghton-Mifflin 1881 first edition spine lightened else just about fine in the publishers original cloth with t.p.e.'s in gold-gilt gold-gilt lettering to the spine and front cover as well as an engraved frontispiece of Irving by H. B. Hall. The first in a long series of publications entitled AMERICAN MEN OF LETTERS edited by Charles Dudley Warner. Houghton -Mifflin hardcover
187433937Hartford: American Publishing Co. 1874. First edition mixed state as is the case with almost all copies this copy in the RARE PUBLISHER'S DELUXE BINDING. Fully Illustrated throughout with designs by various artists and with a long folding plate being the “map†of the “Salt Lick Branch of the Pacific Rail Roadâ€. 8vo publisher's deluxe binding of three quarter morocco over cloth covered boards the joins ruled in gilt marbled end-leaves all edges marbled the spine with raised bands ruled in blind two compartments lettered in gilt. xvi 574 1 4 pp. ads. A very fine copy especially well preserved internally very fresh and clean the binding is in unusually fine and attractive condition near as pristine. Rarely seen in the deluxe binding in such pleasing condition. FIRST EDITION. The book that gave the era it’s name and Mark Twain’s first novel written in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner. Twain and Warner started this book on a dare after being teased by their wives that Twain could not repeat the success of INNOCENTS ABROAD. Twain proposed that he and Warner write a book together and “we will so interweave our work that these wives of ours will not be able to say which part has been written by Mark Twain and which by Charles D. Warner.†Not only did they fool their wives but realized halfway through that they had something well worth publishing. THE GILDED AGE was born. <br> The tale of Colonel Sellers and the Hawkins family and their determined pursuit of Wealth--a novel for which an entire era was named. American Publishing Co. hardcover
187434529Hartford: American Publishing Co. 1874. First edition First State with Eschol Sellers p. vii; and all other first issue points but for 352 and 353 pp. Fully Illustrated throughout with designs by various artists and with a long folding plate being the “map†of the “Salt Lick Branch of the Pacific Rail Roadâ€. 8vo publisher's original brown cloth the upper cove and spine lettered and decorated in gilt. xvi 574 2 pp. A very good copy especially well preserved internally clean the binding is in pleasing condition with minor age or wear and remains tight and in good order. FIRST EDITION. The book that gave the era it’s name and Mark Twain’s first novel written in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner. Twain and Warner started this book on a dare after being teased by their wives that Twain could not repeat the success of INNOCENTS ABROAD. Twain proposed that he and Warner write a book together and “we will so interweave our work that these wives of ours will not be able to say which part has been written by Mark Twain and which by Charles D. Warner.†Not only did they fool their wives but realized halfway through that they had something well worth publishing. THE GILDED AGE was born. <br> The tale of Colonel Sellers and the Hawkins family and their determined pursuit of Wealth--a novel for which an entire era was named. American Publishing Co. hardcover
1868H2092London: James Nisbet 1868. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First UK edition 1868. 8vo beveled lavender cloth gilt 240 pp ads. 6 color plates including frontispiece of an old black man giving a little girl a watering can. Very good some fading to spine light rubbing contents very good old inscription from 1867. The American edition did not have color plates. A book on children learning to garden authored by a Long Island resident best known for her hymns and her collaborations with sister Susan Warner. James Nisbet hardcover
1844547683Waterloo New York: Privately printed 1844. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 24mo. 8pp. Printed yellow wrappers. Very near fine. Brief biography of a pious young girl of 13 written and published by a bereaved mother. Unlocated by OCLC. Privately printed) unknown
18898066Rochester N.Y.: H.H. Warner & Co. Stecher Lith Co 1889. Octavo-sized booklet stapled in wrappers 22 x cm. 51 1 pages. Illustrated. Index. Title and publication information from wrapper. FIRST EDITION of the eleventh annual almanac advertising Warner’s patent medicines with the standard elements – ephemeris glowing testimonials illustrated advertisements for the various cures including Warner’s Kidney & Liver Safe Cure Log Cabin Sarsaparilla Benton’s Hair Grower. The cooking recipes themselves an advertisement for Warner’s Safe Cook Book run along the pages as footers. Some advertisements printed on colored paper; small wire loop for hanging in the kitchen. The "Compliments of." box on the rear panel indicates "A.L. Treworgy Surry Me." In a handsome chromolithograph paper wrapper. Small 1/2 cm. stain on front wrapper panel otherwise near fine. OCLC locates six copies; Hoolihan Atwater Collection S-1419. H.H. Warner & Co. Stecher Lith Co unknown
1874369661Hartford: The American Pubishing Company 1874. First edition mixed state. Fully Illustrated from New Designs by Hoppin Stephens Williams White Etc. Etc. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Publisher's deluxe 3/4 morocco binding; gilt edging along leather; blind stamped decoratively and in gilt on spine; edge and shelf wear to corners and spine; small stains and rubbing to front; marbled fore edges; marbled endpapers; one fold-out bound in at page 246. First edition mixed state. Fully Illustrated from New Designs by Hoppin Stephens Williams White Etc. Etc. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Although this handsome 3/4 morocco copy bears a title page with the later publication date of 1874 it contains many of the first edition first issue A points including: the presence of ads at the rear; Everybody's Friend described in its advertisment as a "true inde"; the artist "White" is present on the title page; the name "Eschol" appears under Chapter V in the table of contents; page 246 has "Hallelujah" with no comma; and on page 280 line 18 this is a period after "Dr. Jackson." In other issue points however it differs: the final illustration is numbered 212 on page xvi; the lines on pages 351 and 353 are absent; and there is an illustration on page 403. BAL 3357 The American Pubishing Company unknown
186729169New York: F. W. Beers 1867. Very good overall. A lithograph map of this Westchester NY town which extends from Peekskill down to Croton Point. From the Beers atlas that includes Westchester Putnam & Dutchess County. 14.5 by 17.5 F. W. Beers unknown
187354200Chicago IL: Warner & Beers 62 & 64 Lake Street 1873. Atlas folio. 16 x 18.7 in. 3 3 5-91 1 pp. Woodcut-engraved title page 42 hand-coloured steel-engraved maps all w/ nicely executed engraved borders couple double-page additional steel-engraved “Family Records†page filled-out in manuscript inserted. Original front panel stamped in decorative gilt lettering mounted on recent black cloth binding occasional edgewear minor soiling to fore-edges of textblock couple very minor closed tears still VG copy from the library of John Inkster 1828-1908 Scottish-American farmer who immigrated in 1860 to Pilot Township Kankakee IL to farm with his brother James and then continued West to farm in Coast Fork Lane Co. Oregon and finally the Washington Territory in 1881 where he homesteaded near Davenport WT assisted in building Fort Spokane and served as County Commissioner from 1886-1892. First edition of this exceedingly scarce Illinois Atlas published just after the great Chicago Fire of 1871 featuring an unrecorded platt map of Pilot Township in Kankakee County Illinois showing all the properties and property owners in 1872. This atlas also features the Railway map of Illinois City Map of Chicago maps of all the Illinois Counties and large map of the United States. Of special interest are the excellent early western maps of Texas; Minnesota Nebraska and the Dakota Territory; Wyoming Montana and Idaho Territories; Nevada and California along with map of Oregon and Washington and Alaska Territories. The Beers and Warners were successful map publishers in Chicago IL from about 1850 to 1886 and often publishing as Warner & Beers the cartographers produced a series of early state and county atlases and regional maps which were considered the most detailed maps produced at the time of the respective regions. As their Township and County maps often detailed individual homes and landowners they provide invaluable reference tools to researchers historians and genealogists. No copies located of this specific Warner & Beers Atlas in Worldcat; No individual copies located of the Pilot Township Map; See: Portrait & Biographical Record of Kankakee County Illinois 1893 pp. 390-391; An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country embracing Lincoln Douglas Adams & Franklin Counties 1904 pp. 421-425. Warner & Beers, 62 & 64 Lake Street, hardcover
1852885M2London: T. Nelson and Sons 1852. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7" by 5". Not Stated. A first edition copy of this very scarce novel by the American author Susan Warner. The first edition of this very scarce work in the publisher's original blind-stamped cloth binding with renewed end papers. Susan Warner 1819-1885 was an American Presbyterian writer of religious fiction children's fiction and theological works. She often wrote under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Wetherell. Many of her novels went into multiple editions but her first The Wide Wide World 1850 was the most popular. This volume is one of her novels concerning the Glen Luna family; it is a very scarce work to see. A fourteen-page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding with renewed end papers. Externally smart with fading to the spine and shelf wear to the extremities. Spine is a little cocked. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for a little offsetting to the illustrated title page. Very Good T. Nelson and Sons hardcover
185828735Burlington VT: C. Goodrich & Company 1858. Very Good. Burlington VT: C. Goodrich & Company 1858. Reissue of the 1848 L.W. Clark Edition. 16mo. Printed wraps. General wear and spotting; a few chips to edges; curling to corners; else unmarked and Very Good. Issued in 1848 under the title Memoir of Colonel Seth Warner with Jared Sparks' The Life of Col. Ethan Allen. Either edition scarce. <br /> <br /> Sabin 12819. C. Goodrich & Company unknown
18849042005NY.: Robert Carter & Brothers 1884. Decorated brown cloth. Covers lightly rubbed stains on top edge gift inscription dated 1884 on front endpaper: VG/no dj. 8vo. 1st Edition. BAL 21307 Robert Carter & Brothers hardcover
1854331651New York: George P. Putnam & Co 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. Early reprint first published in 1853. Small octavo. Blue cloth heavily stamped in blind and in gilt on the spine and front board. "Vol. 1" written on title page the volumes were published separately with Volume 2 not published until 1855. Slight glue remnant on pastedown possibly from an affixed paper cover smudging in foxing in text but a very good copy with the gilt exceptionally bright. BAL 21043. George P. Putnam & Co hardcover
188345741New York: Robert Carter & Brothers 1883. First edition 8vo pp. 695; original mustard decorative cloth stamped in black some soil spots spine lettered in black and gilt; general shelf wear textblock fine. BAL 21305. Robert Carter & Brothers unknown
18538087London: James Nisbet and Co. 1853 Second English edition published the year after the first. Original red blindstamped cloth with gilt spine. . Two volumes small octavo. Six engraved plates. Binding extremities lightly worn spines a bit cocked 1 1/2 inch tear along front joint of Volume I. A good tight set. Susan Warner 1819-1885 grew up in New York City. When her family was in difficult financial straits she took up writing. Her first novel The Wide Wide World appeared in 1849 followed by Queechy which appeared at the end of 1850. Both were extremely popular in both England and America. "The source of her popularity…seems to have been her sensibility which equaled that of any of the more extravagant English novelists of the later eighteenth century. It was her descriptions of the emotions of her characters—emotions that found expression in tears on almost every page—that compensated in the minds of her readers for the absence of action" Granville Hicks writing in the D.A.B. James Nisbet and Co., hardcover
186437770New York Robert Carter & Brothers 1864. Hardcover. BAL 21275 but with some points of Printing 1 and some points of Printing 2. Library accession numbers in each volume but no other library markings. Original embossed purple cloth faded. Top 1/4-inch of backstrips lacking and small spot worn in cloth at rear edge of each volume; extremities slightly worn; small stain on a few pages in vol. 1; signatures slightly pulled; bookplate inside each front cover; previous owner's name on front endpaper and title page of each volume; otherwise very good condition. . Two volumes separately paged. New York, Robert Carter & Brothers hardcover
190046526Herbert Jenkins Limited c. 1900. Good. in x in x in. Palmistry for All 'CHEIRO' WARNER William John Herbert Jenkins Limited London c 1900 hardback with printed boards GD- illustrated from one b/w frontispiece and over 60 pen and ink drawings 187 Boards edge worn abrasions to both boards and spine strip see scans boards slightly bowed damp stained ink stain to back board inscription on front free end paper defaced see scans no annotations cracked spine in two places otherwise binding sound pages heavily tanned damp stains to front and rear end papers edges dust stained The author read palms for Kitchener Edward VIII Gladstone Oscar Wilde etc This is a VERY RARE early edition of this palmistry classic Containing new information on the study of the hand never before published MIND BODY SPIRIT DIVINATION PALMISTRY HISTORY THE LINE OF LIFE AND INNER LIFE DESTINY FATE SUCCESS RELATIONSHIPS CHEROGNOMY SHAPES OF FINGERS AND HANDS 46526 MBS/DIVINATION/PALMISTRY �9500 187 Herbert Jenkins Limited hardcover
1811H22984London: J. Dodsley / G. Wilkie & J. Robinson / James Cawthorn 1811. Hardcover. Very Good. In mid-19th century half light brown calf and marbled boards gilt titled on spine very good light rubbing and wear to binding. Bookplate of Thomas Fuller and his signature on the Anstey title page -- he was an architect native of Bath. With frontispiece. The Anstey is the 13th edition; the Bath Characters by Warner is a second edition from 1808 light foxing small clipped porttion from title page probably a previous owner's name; The Wonders of a Week at Bath appears to be a first edition from 1811 and has occasional pencil marginalia by a helpful old reader. Nice compilation of three works on Bath all of which are satirical. J. Dodsley / G. Wilkie & J. Robinson / James Cawthorn hardcover
1837TB31667New Haven: Durrie & Peck and J. W. Barber 1837. Second Edition. Very good in its original binding of full leather covered boards with a black leather label with gilt text and extensive gilt decorations on the spine. The front and rear boards are decorated with gilt borders. An octavo measuring 8 7/8 by 5 1/2 inches with heavy rubbing to the leather over the joints and to the edges of the boards. The front free end page is torn at its lower two inches and there is an early prior owner's name Lynda Brownell Sherman Conn. written in pencil on the third free end page. The hand-colored fold-out map of Connecticut is completely intact and has suffered no damage. The preliminaries show moderate foxing and the last 50 pages of the text also show moderate foxing. The joints and hinges remain tight and strong. 560 pages of text. Illustrated throughout with 190 wood block engravings. Contrary to the information contained in Wright Howes bibliography U.S. Iana the first edition of this title was published in 1836. Barber an illustrator and historian 1798-1885 was Connecticut's first popular historian creating one of the first travel guides of the state. Following the index in the front of the book is a hand colored fold-out map of the State of Connecticut noting all of its towns at the time see note above regarding condition. Considered to be "mildly scarce" by Howes. Howes B-120 Originally published in 1836. Durrie & Peck and J. W. Barber hardcover books
1837TB27239New Haven: Durrie & Peck and J. W. Barber 1837. Second Edition. Very good in a recent dark blue cloth binding with gilt text on the spine. An octavo measuring 9 by 5 1/2 inches with new end sheets. The pages are uniformly lightly foxed throughout and the preliminaries and through page 36 the upper fore corners are nibbled in the margins. The hand-colored fold-out map of Connecticut is lacking by 2/3rds. With some minor foxing throughout. 560 pages of text. Illustrated throughout with 190 wood block engravings. Barber an illustrator and historian 1798-1885 was Connecticut's first popular historian creating one of the first travel guides of the state. Following the index in the front of the book is a hand colored fold-out map of the State of Connecticut noting all of its towns at the time see note above regarding condition. Considered to be "mildly scarce" by Howes. Howes B-120 Originally published in 1836. Durrie & Peck and J. W. Barber hardcover books
1836010043New Haven: Durrie & Peck and J. W. Barber 1836. Second Edition. Old Calf. Good -. Covers detached but all plates extant. Hand colored fold out map of old Massachussets. Great breaker for the map and the woodcuts. Durrie & Peck and J. W. Barber unknown books
1829184027New Haven: J.W. Barber 1829. Second edition. Leather bound. Fair heavy wear to leather boards expected age toning foxing spots throughout water staining hinges internally have heavy wear. Brown leather boards; bw portrait frontispiece of Washington bw folded map bw illustrated title page; 312 pp; bw illustrationsw. Page vii wrongly numbered. Title page also reads "carefully selected from the most approved authorities by J.W. Barber. J.W. Barber unknown books
1844TB31669Worcester Mass.: Warren Lazell 1844. Reprint of 1844. Good in its original binding of full leather covered boards with gilt decorations and gilt text on the spine. The edges of the text block are marbled. A small quarto of 9 by 5 1/2 inches with the leather worn through over the front and rear joints the lower edges of the boards and the tips of the boards. There is an early prior owner's name written in ink at the upper edge of the title page. The contents are generally foxed on the margins and the fold-out hand-colored map is partially tanned it is in undamaged condition. 624 pages of text illustrated from 200 woodcut engravings and the hand-colored fold-out map. The first edition of this title was published by Dorr Howland of Worcester in 1839. Armstrong Bibliographies of New England History 103; Howes B-123 Warren Lazell hardcover books
