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1865020318N.Y.: Bankers' Magazine and Statistical Register 1865. Book. Cloth. xxviii 172p. about forty pages of advertising. A good copy there is a 3 inch stain that goes across the back cover and some of it has leeched into the back advertising pages and the a little on the last page of text but all is readable and the front hinge is cracked and the hinge is slightly weak. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bankers' Magazine and Statistical Register Hardcover
1896380238New York: Auspices of the the Medico-Legal Society of New York. 1896. 351-468 Seiten. 23,5cm. Zustand: Gut gering gebräunt, min. bis gering wellig (Innen); Vorsatzblatt fehlt, ggfs. war dort ein Besitzerstempel; Einband (Außen) hat leichte bis stärkere Gebrauchsspuren; Ist leicht bestoßen-berieben-befleckt (Feuchtigkeitsspuren); Archivex.? mit Klebestreifenrest (Außen); Ppbd.
1823974F5London: J. C. Robinson; Knight and Lacey; M. Salmon 1823-1842 . First edition. Cloth. Good Only. 9" by 6.5". Not Stated. Eight informative and illustrated first edition volumes of 'The Mechanics' Magazine' a periodical from the nineteenth century covering important developments in the world of mechanics including the very scarce first volume. Eight volumes of this periodical bound in seven. Multi-volume sets of this work are scarce.Present here are volumes I III XX XXI XXIV XXXII and XXXVI-XXXVII.An interesting snapshot of the scientific and technological developments of this period towards the end of the Industrial Revolution including discussion of Tantalius's Cup a memoir of James Watt account of the London fires of 1833 hydraulic projectors the parallax of mars and further diverse subjects.With full page and vignette illustrations and diagrams throughout.Present here are:Volume I August 30 1823 - March 6 1824. Rebound in cloth with endpapers renewed. Lacking the volume title page to the start of the work.Volume III September 26 1824 - March 19 1825. In a half calf binding with a frontispiece.Vol. XX October 5 1833 - March 29 1834. In a half calf binding with a frontispiece.Vol. XXI April 5 1834 - September 27 1834. In a half calf binding with a frontispiece.Vol. XXIV October 3 1836 - April 2 1836. In the publisher's original half cloth binding with frontispiece.Vol. XXXII October 5 1839 - May 30 1840. In a half calf binding.Vols. XXXVI-XXXVII January 1st 1842 - December 31st 1842. In half calf. Library bookplate to front pastedown of volume III with library stamps to endpapers. Bookplate to front pastedown of vol XX. Five half calf volumes - one repaired with tape to the back strip - one half cloth volume and one full cloth volume. Endpapers of volume I renewed. Volume XX lacking back strip with joints starting and boards tender. Joint heads and tails of volume III starting with boards holding firm. Vol XXIV joints starting with boards a touch tender. Front joint head of vol XXXII starting with board firmly held. Rear joint of vols XXXVI- II starting with board tender. Hinges of vol XXI strained and a touch tender. Library bookplate to front pastedown of volume III with library stamps to endpapers. Bookplate to front pastedown of vol XX. Internally firmly bound. Pages of earliest volumes age toned with spotting throughout with later volumes generally clean and bright. Good Only J. C. Robinson; Knight and Lacey; M. Salmon hardcover
189112699London Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. The brown half leather boards have leather corners and cloth center panel the page edges and end papers are marbled. The leather spines and hinges are in very good condition and the leather corners have the tips bumped and frayed. The twelve illustration plates are all present with 430 pages plus index of 102 pages. <br/><br/> Cassell & Company hardcover
189312701London Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. The brown half leather boards have leather corners and cloth center panel the page edges and end papers are marbled. The leather spines and hinges are in very good condition and the leather corners have the tips bumped and frayed. The twelve illustration plates are all present with 430 pages plus index of 104 pages. <br/><br/> Cassell & Company hardcover
189212700London Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. The brown half leather boards have leather corners and cloth center panel the page edges and end papers are marbled. The leather spines and hinges are in very good condition and the leather corners have the tips bumped and frayed. The twelve illustration plates are all present with 430 pages plus index of 98 pages. <br/><br/> Cassell & Company hardcover
1891265168London Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company Limited 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy bound in half aniline calf over buckram boards with gilt-blocked label to the spine. Remains well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the library of the University College of North Wales with its bookplate. Physical description; 430 pages. Subjects; The Magazine of Art. 1891. London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited hardcover
1840AQ34857London: Richard and John E. Taylor 1840. viii 607pp 1. With seven engraved plates and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary marbled paper boards recently rebacked and recornered preserving contemporary red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Armorial bookplate of John Sundius Stamp to FEP blind-stamps of the Cardinal Hayes Library New York to title page and leaf C6. The fourteenth volume of the London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine; notable for containing within its June issue the first printed notice of Anglo- American chemist and educator John William Draper's 1811-1882 successful attempt at producing daguerreotype portraits. 'Professor Draper of the University of New York informs us in a note dated March 31st that he has succeeded during the winter in procuring portraits by the Daguerrotype and that they have all the beauty and softness of the most finished mezzotint engraving and only require from 20 to 45 second for execution'. A pioneer of early photography Draper having learnt of Daguerre's revolutionary photochemical process in December 1839 successfully produced one of the first intentional portraits of an individual. An image of his sister Dorothy taken at this time remains the earliest extant photographic portrait. Draper took the first known photographs of the moon and is credited as the producer of the earliest photomicrographs. . 8vo. Richard and John E. Taylor hardcover
1870004489New York: The Howard Mission 1870. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 59 xiii pp. Printed wraps. Liight dampstaining and light soil to cover contents are clean. The work of the Home for LIttle Wanderers orphanage and appeals for charitable contributions to the Home. The Home which still exists is the oldest U.S child welfare ageny in exist4ence. This is the original 1870 printing not a recent printing. <br/> <br/> The Howard Mission paperback
1883000010764Springfield Ill: Edwin A. Wilson Publisher 1882-1883 1883. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. Bound monthly parts of a magazine. 1 2-191 2 18-95 1 pp. Half contemporary brown sheep over dark grey cloth spine with gold lettering and gold rules; all edges decoratively speckled red. Each part's first page illustrated by a wood engraving with multiple full-page and in-text engravings throughout. The beginning of the volume is illustrated with a color lithograph of a girl playing on the beach issued with Volume XIII. Contains Volume XII parts 1 2 4 6 thorugh 10 and 12 and Volume XIII parts 2 through 6 of The Labor of Love a monthly children's magazine intended to promote Christianity and to encourage children to pray. The magazine parts contain songs parables and short stories and poems. Light wear to the extremities and a contemporary gift inscription on the free front endpaper. Edwin A. Wilson, Publisher [1882-1883] hardcover
18557189New York: Samuel Hueston 1855. First Edition. Full leather. Near Fine. Thick 8vo. Pp. xiv 2 16-505 3.Engraved and regular title pages. Portrait frontis. with tissue guard. Illustrated with 48 steel engraved portraits with tissue guards. Bound in publisher's elaborate gilt- and blind-stamped morocco gilt dentelles spine with gilt-decorated compartments between five raised bands. A handsome bright copy with just a few leaves showing minor toning. First edition first state. Contains works by various contributors who constituted a brilliant flowering of American literature among them Washington Irving Nathaniel Willis Oliver Wendell Holmes William Cullen Bryant Henry Schoolcraft Samuel Osgood and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.<p>From 1834 to its demise in 1859 the Knickerbocker Magazine was the foremost literary periodical of its day overseen by editor Lewis Gaylord Clark. A literary milieu unto itself the magazine was a projection of the editor's taste. Clark kept writers fed; in return the American litterarati first offered Clark their latest work. Dickens too had his first American exposure in the Knickerbocker; on his visit to the US his first lodging was at Clark's house. Lewis died in 1873. A very nice copy with handsome shelf appeal. See BAL 1033. Samuel Hueston unknown
1855TB33113New York: Samuel Hueston 1855. First Edition. Near fine in full dark brown leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text on black leather in one of the compartments and blind embossed binder's devices in the other compartment. The boards are fully embossed in blind. The end sheets are marbled and the edges of the text block are gilt with a placement ribbon sewn in at the head of the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with foxing to the verso of the marbled end sheets. There is an early prior owner's book plate Emily P. Robeson on the front paste down and the signature in ink of a second prior owner Mr. W. Avery at the top of the second free end page. The frontispiece engraved title page and printed title page all have mild foxing as do the majority of the plates. Overall a very handsome and clean copy with the binding tight the joints and hinges very sound and strong. 505 pages of text. Illustrated "with forty-eight portraits on steel from original pictures engraved expressly for this work". The portraits of authors and poets separate the 55 contributions of letters essays poems and short stories. Samuel Hueston hardcover
185113296H80914NY: S. Hueston. Good. Half-Leather. 1851. S. Hueston hardcover
185177147New York: S. Hueston 1851. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in boards. Foxing throughout. Spine is cocked. Decorated end papers and page edges.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. S. Hueston hardcover
185277148New York: S. Hueston 1852. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in boards. Foxing throughout. Spine is cocked. Minor soiling. Decorated end papers and page edges.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. S. Hueston hardcover
1837025750New York: Clark and Edson 1837. Volume X of this monthly literary and news magazine a bound volume containing six issues from July to December 1837. Includes Floral Astrology by Longfellow. Three quarter calf over marbled boards gilt spine lettering and ruling 560 pages. Extremities rubbed spine a little dried light light surface chipping but stabilized secure joints/hinges sound text block pages clean with a very light scattering of occasional foxing no names or other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Clark and Edson Hardcover
1855117992New York: SAmuel Hueston 1855. hardcover. near fine. Frontispiece portrait and illustrated throughout with 48 other steel engraved portrait plates protected by tissue. 505pp. Short thick 4to original charming gilt-stamped pictorial red cloth covers a.e.g. N.Y.: Samuel Hueston 1855. First edition. A near fine copy.<br/> <br/> SAmuel Hueston unknown
1865017469George C. Leighton, London 1865. Original Edition Hartkarton/Leder Solide, Ordentlich
1859ILN034London: George C Leighton. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. 1859. First Edition. Grey/gilt hardback cloth cover. 420mm x 300mm 17" x 12". 624pp. Numerous b/w plates and illustrations. Full page illustrations of Deepdale Viaduct Alexandra Palace Battle of Montebello etc. Includes N.B.: Heavy book-shipping supplement applies for overseas shipping - please ask for shipping quote stating country of destination. . George C Leighton hardcover
1900ILN120London: ILN Office. Worn condition. Cover rubbed and scuffed. Frontis and cover detached. Front pastedown torn. 1900. Reprint. Illustrated card cover. 410mm x 290mm 16" x 11". 81pp. Numerous b/w and sepia plates and illustrations. Published: 1899-1900. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . ILN Office unknown
1891002555St. Paul Minn.: E.V. Smalley 1891. Soft cover. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 56pp. Salmon printed wraps. Covers very lightly soiled contents mildly age-toned owner's pencilled name on front cover. Featured articles on Washington State and Minnesota plus many fascinating ads for real estate and other related businesses. <br/> <br/> E.V. Smalley paperback