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1852mon0000023400New York: George P. Putnam 1852. FIRST EDITION SECOND ISSUE. 2 volumes hardbound bound in the publishers olive cloth gilt lettered spine light occasional foxing head and foot of spine fine inner and outer hinges fine overall a VERY GOOD copy. Housed in a 1/2 brown morocco slipcase raised bands gilt lettered spine slipcase slightly rubbed. New York: George P. Putnam hardcover
1852900430New York: George P. Putnam & Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1852. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1st Printing with Putnam logo embossed on cover and gilt titles on spines. Covers show light minor rubbing. Top edges soiled leading edges show browm spotting. Endpapers have speckled foxing but main text is bright clean and tight. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 410/396 pages . George P. Putnam & Company hardcover
184220362Boston: J. H. Wilkins & R. B. Carter 1842. A later printing of this first American translation of the Godfrey the first appearing in 1841 and the expanded dictionary. Cloth generally sunned; small chip to the spine and a bit frayed at the head and foot; label somewhat rubbed; some occasional light foxing; a good copy. Large 8vo 9.63 x 6 inches original ribbed brown or perhaps purple cloth printed paper label on spine 135 1; xc pages. Printed music in the text. A work known perhaps for its superfluity of necessary detail. The appended Universal Dictionary of Musical Terms: Taken in Part from Dr. Weber's Vocabulary of Italian Words and Phrases but Chiefly Furnished from Other Sources and Adapted to the Condition and Wants of this Country by James F. Warner has a separate title page and includes a new preface dated April 1 1842 noting that the dictionary "has been enlarged however in the proportion of about three to one. . . . The additions made by the American editor are indicated by a star ." The dictionary also includes two additional appended pages not present in the 1841 edition. Early small neat ink ownership signature on the front free endpaper. J. H. Wilkins & R. B. Carter, unknown
185248886New York: Cornish Lamport & Co. Publishers 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. Pp. 240. Original brown cloth boards and spine decorated in blind with gilt title to spine. Frontis and illustrated title-page with tissue guard present. Bookplate of H. Scofield to paste-down. Hinges strong binding tight and square very little foxing throughout overall an excellent copy inside and out. First edition. Hubin 415. Scarce. Cornish, Lamport & Co., Publishers hardcover
1852012757NY: Cornish Lamport 1852. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Elaborate blind stamped brown cloth front and back gilt spine titles. Double 2-tone chromo forntispieces with tissue guard. 240 pages. Edges and covers moderately worn. Intermittent foxing. Solid binding. Cornish Lamport hardcover
184555313Philadelphia: V. F & M. F. Harrison no. 27 South Eighth Street 1845. Bust-length mezzotint portrait approx. 22½" x 16½" overall; image size: 12" x 9¾" taken from a daguerreotype; lightly foxed several short creases and breaks in the margins; all else very good. Includes a facsimile of his signature. "Copies were sold in Providence by Abraham Stillwell a local bookseller. Stillwell began advertising the sale of the likeness of Dorr beginning with the June 20 1842 issue of the Providence Daily Express. Stillwell's ad read 'GOV. DORR Just published and for sale at No. 1 Market square a Portrait of Thomas W. Dorr elected Governor of the State of Rhode Island under the People's Constitution'." Phillips Memorial Library Providence College. AAS only in OCLC. V. F & M. F. Harrison, no. 27 South Eighth Street unknown
187053681Gloucester: John Bellows 1870. Broadside 12 3/16 x 10 inches 31 x 25.4 mm printed in red and black inks on card stock with a mounted albumen photograph 3 1/8 x 2 7/8 inches 8 x 7.3 mm. There is a closed one-inch tear at the center fold. Age toned. Very good. W. Harding Warner 1816 - 1894 was a British photographer specializing in architecture and landscapes. He issued stereo cards as well as two illustrated guides A SKETCH OF TYNTERN ABBEY and A SKETCH OF ROSS AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD; both are broadsides with a single albumen photograph historical text and a scaled drawing. Each was folded and issued with an envelope which is not present here. <br /> <br /> WorldCat locates only two copies; The British Library and Cambridge University. John Bellows unknown
186818051312NY: Robert Carter 1868. Green cloth. Spine top chipped/chewed binding cracked in various places but still tight 1 signature sprung owner inscription in pencil on endpaper text foxed/stained: Good. 12mo. Illustrated in black and white. of Ellen Montgomery's Book Shelf. Robert Carter hardcover
1896503655London: James Nisbet & Co. 1896. Book. Very Good Book Condition. Hardcover. A very nice copy. Gilt along edges. Red cover with black and gilt markings. A beautiful book. Our rating system: 1.Fine; 2. Near fine; 3. Very good; 4. Good; 5. Fair. James Nisbet & Co. Hardcover
1894007917London: Richard Edward King 1894. 1st Thus . Hardcover. Good Plus. To view other titles by this author enter the keywords; Warner. The book is in good condition with minor wear o/w tight clean and square. Inscription from 1894 inside cover. Burgundy boards with gilt lettering. <br/> <br/> Richard Edward King hardcover
1882mon0000117221James Nisbet 1882-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. worn copy on decorative green cloth some looseness and one end paper loose James Nisbet hardcover
1891035911NY: HURST AND CO. Rare to find this book in a DJ. Previous owner's inscription in the book. . VG. Hardcover. REPRINT. 1891. HURST AND CO. hardcover
1852041592London: James Nisbet & Company 1852. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 9 " Tall. Vii 372; V 367 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt Yellow Endpapers Publisher's Topstain. First English Edition First Printing With 1852 Date On Title Pages. Volume I Without Publisher's Name At Base Of Spine Name Present On Volume Ii Some Copies Do Not Have The Name. Very Good Gilt Brilliant Spine Cloth Slightly Browned Just Beginning To Fray Along Top Edges Of Spines Endpapers Immaculate Pages Clean No Marks. <br/> <br/> James Nisbet & Company hardcover
18529124110901NY.: George P. Putnam. 1852. Rebound in 19th Century brown cloth. Occasional foxing 1 signature slihtly sprung cover joints worn: about VG. 8vo. First Edition. Bal 21255. LW #2649. Any ads included were removed when this set was rebound in one volume. George P. Putnam. hardcover
1891024854Hurst and Company. Very Good. 1891. Cloth. Paper browning at edges blue cloth & gilt decorative stamping covers in nice condition with modest wear a nice copy.; 8vo . Hurst and Company hardcover
1856217656JNew York: D. Appleton and Company 1856. Hardcover. Good. 516 pages in good condition. Pages are foxed and stained. Blue endpapers. Bound in brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Corners bumped head and tail of spine worn and torn. Stained on the boards. GOOD. <br/> <br/> D. Appleton and Company hardcover
186216330New York: Hunt and Eaton 1862. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Hunt and Eaton 1862. First Edition. 114 pgs. Author and illustrator not stated. This fairy tale was re-published by George Routledge & Sons1866 in a compilation titled 'Two School Girls and Other Tales'. Two lovely engravings. Hard Cover red cloth with black decoration gilt title on spine. Cover has moderate shelfwear faded spine light areas on back. Pages are clean and unmarked slightly toned occasional light foxing. Binding is tight. Very nice copy. Very scarce. Other bibliographic entries list Elizabeth Wetherell and Amy Lothrop as authors. Hunt and Eaton hardcover
1851139641New York: George P. Putnam 1851. Only "surpassed by Uncle Tom's Cabin in sales and popularity" First edition of Susan Bogert Warner's first novel written under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Wetherell in bright condition. Warner 1819-1885 began writing The Wide Wide World in 1848. It was to become one of the most popular American novels of its time however initially had difficulty finding a publisher. "Even when George P. Putnam accepted the novel for publication in 1850 largely because his mother was enthusiastic about the manuscript he initially printed only 750 copies; two years later the novel was reprinted for the fourteenth time and for decades to come only Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin surpassed Warner's first novel in sales and popularity" ANB. Henry James wrote admiringly of the work in the Nation in 1860 praising Warner's realistic depiction of rural life. This copy is in the third state listed in BAL without the printer's imprint on the copyright page and the final signature of vol. II being 154; the order of priority given as "probable". Blanck notes in his juvenilia bibliography Peter Parley to Penrod that as in the present copy "in first printed copies the folio at p. 157 vol. I and the folio at p. 34 vol. II are misplaced and appear at the inner portion of the page rather than at the fore-edge" Blanck p. 4. 2 vols octavo. Original green morocco-grain cloth titles and decorative motifs to spine in bronze covers stamped in blind within double-rule frames yellow coated endpapers BAL binding b no priority. Spines gently cocked and a little sunned faint spotting to joints touch of wear to tips occasional foxing; a very good copy indeed. BAL 21253; Jacob Blanck Peter Parley to Penrod: a bibliographical description of the best-loved American juvenile books 1938. hardcover
1876265783London : Nisbet 1876. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth over marble boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; viii 422 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Subject; Guardian and ward -- Fiction. London : Nisbet hardcover
1899BIBLIO-30956Trustees of the British Museum London first edition 1899. 5 parts bound in 1 volume half-leather and boards gilt spine-titles portfolio style flaps at front folio 45 cm. 150 facsimile plates with accompanying text. Originally published in five yearly issues of thirty facsimiles 1895-1899. Each of the 150 full page reproductions of autograph manuscripts is briefly described and identified with the collection and callnumber for it and a full transcription provided. The facsimile plates are attractively printed on sepia backgrounds. The plates are divided into two classes: 1 those of historical interest comprising "eighty-five letters and documents written or in a few cases merely signed by English kings and queens statesmen soldiers and sailors ecclesiastics and celebrities in general from Henry V. down to about 1900. For a supplement similar autographs are given of six of the greatest of continental monarchs namely the Emperor Charles V. Philip II of Spain Henry IV and Louis XIV of France Frederic the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte" ; and 2 autographs of "English poets and prose writers philosophers and others" comprising 53 examples from Spenser to Tennyson supplemented by six foreign specimens: Michael Angelo; Albert Durer Erasmus; Luther; Voltaire and Rousseau. Each plate is preceded by a textual commentary and often transcription. Library number on spine and label on front pastedown endpaper covers worn with leather scuffed and rubbed and powdering lacking the lower portfolio flap contents Good. Trustees of the British Museum, London, first edition, 1899 hardcover
1882182650London: B. S. Williams at the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries 1882-97. Orchidelirium First edition of this magnificent work one of the great orchid books of the 19th century. The Orchid Album was published at the height of the "orchidelirium" that had been building in Britain for some decades until it seized the imaginations of late Victorian horticulturists in the same way that the tulip craze inflamed the minds of collectors in Golden Age Holland. The British horticultural writer Anna Pavord notes: "some of the grander Victorian growers such as the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth in Derbyshire and the Duke of Northumberland at Syon House in Middlesex employed their own collectors but orchid fanciers like John Day acquired their best treasures at auction. Nurserymen such as James Veitch Conrad Loddiges and Benjamin Samuel Williams of the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries in Upper Holloway regularly sent consignments of orchids to be auctioned by Messrs Stevens of King St Covent Garden. It was in their sale room that after an epic battle with a fellow enthusiast Sir Trevor Lawrence a contemporary of Day's acquired the one single plant of Aerides lawrenciae imported by Frederick Sander from the Philippines". The stunning plates are the work of John Nugent Fitch 1840-1927 the nephew of Walter Hood Fitch. His "work was more flamboyant than that of such predecessors as Ehret Redouté or the Bauer brothers combining botanical accuracy with a flair for page design. In Britain and Europe he had little competition being rivalled only by the Frenchman Alfred Riocreux" ODNB. Bibliographies call for 528 plates but overlook the fact that the only folding plate which appears in Volume I is double-numbered as 9-10. This is a complete set and includes the four-page obituary for Benjamin Samuel Williams in Volume IX. 11 vols 315 x 240 mm. With 527 fine hand-coloured lithograph or chromolithograph plates by John Nugent Fitch one double-numbered folding plate in Vol. I some with tinted backgrounds. Contemporary half dark green morocco spines with raised bands gilt-lettered direct in two compartments gilt floral device in others boards ruled in gilt marbled boards and endpapers marbled endpaper vols. I-IV grey; V-VI dark green VII-IX light blue top edges gilt. Bookplates and shelf marks of Reeves Library Westminster College Missouri gifted by Carl F. Setz. Bindings refurbished small nick to fore edge of vol. V endpapers of vol. VII with minor abrasions with free endpaper detaching but holding and a few minor text repairs starting before title of vol. XI occasional foxing or faint marginal damp staining: a very good copy. Nissen 2107; not in Plesch or Pritzel. Anna Pavord review of "A Very Victorian Passion: The Orchid Paintings of John Day" in The Independent 29 May 2004. hardcover
1882005151London: B. S. Williams 1882. First Edition . Leather. Very Good. Folio. John Nugent Fitch. Volume one. Original full green morocco leather raised bands gilt titles and decorative compartments and boards inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt 12.5 x 10 inches. First Edition. Unpaginated; illustrated with 47 chromolithographed plates including 1 folding by John Nugent Fitch 1836-1895. One of the great orchid books of the nineteenth century published at the height of the 'Orchidelirium' mania. Exterior showing some light wear and rubbing heaviest at extremities light typical foxing to text pages all plates clean and bright. Provenance: Bookplate from the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library deaccessioned with "Cancelled" stamp on bookplate no other library markings in book. The Lindley Library in London is the largest horticultural library in the world. <br/> <br/> B. S. Williams hardcover
1886005152London: B. S. Williams 1886. First Edition . Leather. Very Good. Folio. John Nugent Fitch. Volumes 5 and 6 bound as one. Original half dark blue morocco leather over blue pebbled cloth boards four double raised bands gilt titles marbled endpapers and edges 12.5 x 10.75 inches. First Editions: vol. 5- 1886 vol.6- 1887. Unpaginated; each volume illustrated with 48 96 total plates tissue-protected chromolithographs by John Nugent Fitch 1836-1895. One of the great orchid books of the nineteenth century published at the height of the 'Orchidelirium' mania. Exterior showing some wear and rubbing heaviest at extremities spine sunned to brown as expected light typical foxing and toning to text pages all plates clean and bright. Provenance: Bookplate from the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library deaccessioned with "Cancelled" stamp on bookplate no other library markings in book. The Lindley Library in London is the largest horticultural library in the world. <br/> <br/> B. S. Williams hardcover
1802e7256London: G & J Robinson. Volume I: Cover rubbed and marked. Lacks outer spine. Closed tear to one page no loss. Volume II: Rebound with new spine and eps. Cover rubbed with some corner wear. Occasional light foxing and pencil annotation. 1802. First Edition. Blue and brown board covers. 230mm x 140mm 9" x 6". iv 316pp; iv 300pp. Colour frontis Vol. I 10 b/w maps. Both volumes untrimmed. . G & J Robinson unknown
180160374Johnson. 1801. 4th Ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 4th edition 238pp 9" x 6" illustrated bound in leather covers bit chipped hinges tender and with sl remains of cloth reinforcing; Octavo . Johnson hardcover