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18889004201London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. 1888. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in the publisher's original green cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. The rear inner hinge is starting and the extremities have minor wear otherwise a very good copy. <br/><br/> Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. hardcover books
18344065New York and Boston. Jonathan Leavitt and Crocker & Brewster. 1834. Cloth and paper covered boards with paper spine label. 12mo. Usual wear to extremities light bumping to spine-caps lacking ffep and half-title general foxing throughout else Very Good. An interesting treatise on Religious Fanaticism. Jonathan Leavitt and Crocker & Brewster. hardcover books
183512030Paris: Baudry's European Library 1835. 3 volumes 8vo later half brown cloth over marbled boards black morocco label and gilt ornament on spines; original front and back printed wrappers for each volume preserved; text foxed flyleaves browned else very good. Issued in Baudry's Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors vol. lxxiii-lxxv. <br/><br/> Baudry's European Library hardcover books
181443996Nottingham: Sutton and Son 1814. 16mo pp. 8; woodcut printer's device tail-piece; self wrappers unsewn only partially unopened; about fine. <br/><br/> Sutton and Son unknown books
180884146London: J. Murray 1808. 1st ed. . Paperback. Good. xv 1 68p. plus 8p. publisher's advertisements. Disbound removed from a bound volume. Half-title present but no separate wrapper. 23cm. Preface mostly devoted to attacking critics of this "opera." <br/><br/> J. Murray paperback books
18227500Exeter N.H.: George Lamson J. J. Williams printer 1822. 8vo. x 1 blank 188 pp. <br><br>Concerning English criminal law and procedure. "First American from the last London edition" stated. Includes indexes. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shoemaker 8633. Half leather over paper boards. Binding worn: Front cover missing spine leather mostly chipped away edges and corners worn back cover stained. Signed by the previous owner in sepia ink at the top of the title-page. Moderate spotting front page soiled. Outer edges of pp. 4952 cut away resulting in the loss of two individual letters of the printed marginalia and the "9" from p. 49. George Lamson (J. J. Williams, printer) hardcover books
184028866Providence: Knowles and Vose 1840. 32pp light to moderate foxing. Stitched in original printed wrappers rear wrapper detached. Good. <br/><br/> This pamphlet was printed in several places during 1836 and reprinted for Harrison's successful 1840 campaign. It emphasizes Harrison's distinguished military career and his service as Senator and as Governor of Indiana. The rear wrap has "Col. Richard M. Johnson's opinion of General Harrison." <br/>Miles 124. Howes J20. Knowles and Vose unknown books
184061194Philadelphia PA: W. Marshall & Co 1840. Second edition. 24mo. 218 pp. Typical laudatory campaign biography. Sabin 30586 for the first edition; cf. Sabin 35422 for the fourth and fifth editions. American Imprints 40-3526. Thoroughly foxed gift inscription a good copy. Original gilt-stamped decorated black cloth rubbed spine ends frayed. #8154. <br/><br/> W. Marshall & Co hardcover books
183824620New York 1838. xxiv xxxiii-280 2 pp as issued 2 folding charts one with large pieces missing. Original blindstamped brown cloth boards detached textblock loosening. Rubberstamps on front pastedown and endpaper. Scattered foxing. A candidate for rebinding else Good. <br/><br/> This is Volume I of the first edition. The advertisement after the Introduction states that the second volume will appear "about the close of the year."<br/>Singerman 0655. unknown books
190017236Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19cm; gray pictorial cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and decorative panel in black and orange on front panel; 244pp. Hint of a lean with some soiling and staining to spine right edge of rear panel and upper edge of textblock; light general edgewear and lacking the rear endpaper; Very Good. The second of Friedman's three works of long fiction a sentimental tale of local-color about a Chicago tenement's inhabitants. Discussed by Rideout though not cited among his list of radical novels and quite uncommon. RIDEOUT p.14. Houghton, Mifflin and Company unknown books
1853205739Hartford: F. A. Brown 1853. Hardcover. Minor wear to the crown of the spine and a few spots of foxing throughout. 8vo. Original blue cloth. <br/><br/> F. A. Brown hardcover books
180889674Paris: L'Imprimerie de J. B. Sajou 1808. Paperback. Good. 44p. Old plain wrapper. 22cm. Wrapper split and worn along fold. Some foxing and browning French text. Printed on verso of title-leaf: Extrait duMagasin Encyclopedique Journal pour lequel on s'abonne chez Tourneisen fils libraire rue de Seine n.o 12 <br/><br/> L'Imprimerie de J. B. Sajou paperback books
1861011564Washington D. C.: A. O. P. Nicholson. Very Good. 1861. Map. Map No. 1 St. Paul to Riviere Des Lacs disbound from the map volume XI of the Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean from 1853-1854 surveys. Light browning small fold corner tears and two small archival repairs. Showing the survey routes from the Mississippi to north of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers. Wagner-Camp 266c. ; 25" x 37 1/2" . A. O. P. Nicholson unknown books
1842751London: Henry G. Bohn 1842. Full leather. Very good. 16mo 6.4 in 16.3 cm. 2 blanks i-viii 1-280 2 blanks pp. Eighth edition. Notes at end. <br/><br/>Best known work of Isaac Taylor 1787-1865. Originally published anonymously in 1829 Natural History of Enthusiasm detailed the dangers of false piety with chapter titles such as Enthusiastic Perversions of the Doctrine of Divine Influence Enthusiasm the Source of Heresy and Enthusiasm of Philanthropy. <br/><br/>NCBEL 1604. Finely bound in sheep with elaborately gilt-decorated compartments raised bands and gilt-lettered black leather label to spine; gilt borders and turn-ins to panels. All edges and endpapers marbled. Armorial bookplates of Henry Tongood and Lucien d' Ursin gracefully inscribed; front fly-leaf with small graceful name and penciled summary in Italian. Front joint with small chip and starting panels lightly scuffed corners rubbed preliminary and terminal blanks faintly foxed pages lightly age toned. Henry G. Bohn unknown books
1821278075London. : Harris and Son. 1821. 1st Edition. Quarter red leather over printed boards no spine title. . Very good covers soiled corners and edges worncomplete with the map and all illustrations. 12mo. 16.7x10.2 cm. . weight: 0.4 lb. Folding map frontis engraved title 84 illustrations on 28 engraved plates. Harris and Son. hardcover books
186924614Albany N.Y.: John D. Parsons Jr. Law Publisher 1869. viii 292 pages; with useful index at back. Chapter contents include the election of supervisors the board of town auditors board of county canvassers powers & duties of supervisors examination of witnesses taxes & assessments support of the poor and insane relation to roads and bridges duties in relation to common schools taxes on dogs the state militia fees of town & county officers actions and proceedings by and against duties of the clerk of the board rules of order and an appendix of forms. Front endpaper with the presentation notice "Henry D. Remsen Esq. with the compliments James B. Pearsall Member Assembly 1870" - Pearsall was assembly member for the Queens District at the time. The volume approx. 6" x 9 1/4" size bound in the original full leather binding with contrasting spine labels with gilt titles. Some rubbing & scarring to leather spine ends chipped a little; endpapers spotty; contents clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Leather. Good. John D. Parsons, Jr. Law Publisher books
1806WRCLIT84403Exeter NH: Printed by Ranlet & Norris . sold also by Thomas & Andrews David West & John West Boston 1806. x112-2871pp. 12mo. Contemporary sheep spine ruled in gilt gilt spine label.1810 ownership signatures of Benjamin Lincoln Lear and his original purchase price in ink a few creased corners otherwise an unusually nice copy. Denoted the "Third American Edition" of the work first published in the UK in 1725. More properly it just might be termed the third Exeter edition following those of 1793 and 1801. On the verso of the title appears a typographic frame made up of ornaments and the legend "The Property Of." In this copy the original owner has inserted a small label with his name in ink manuscript. His larger printed bookplate appears on the pastedown. There is another variant imprint encountered on this printing that includes Newburyport distributors. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 11817. OCLC: 950914916. Printed by Ranlet & Norris ... sold also by Thomas & Andrews, David West, & John West, Boston unknown books
18034828Keene NH: John Prentiss 1803. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. No DJ as Issued. Light shelf/edge wear light rubbing corners gently bumped moisture stain involving endpages not textblock thumb-sized chip at fore-edge of ffep and title page does involve three lines of text near bottom a few closed tears at fore edge even toning to leaves sporadic foxing throughout owner mark at rfep else tight and clean. Full brown leather boards gilt decorative elements. 12mo. 214pp. Index. <br/><br/>Published by the founder of The New Hampshire Sentinel 1799. Printed in two columns with boarders. Shaw & Shoemaker 3808 Unclear if this predated the 1803 Thomas & Andrews Boston imprint. Noted flaws notwithstanding a very presentable copy of this scarce imprint. John Prentiss hardcover books
184254598Libanon PA: Jos. Hartman 1842. 12mo pp. xii 184; woodcut frontispiece; half calf over blue paper boards boards scuffed and bumped text foxed good and sound. With the ownership stamps of John B. Schmeyer on flyleaf. A manual of horse care. OCLC finds none in the US 2 in Germany. <br/><br/> Jos. Hartman hardcover books
182456812Providence: printed and sold by Brown & Danforth 1824. 12mo pp. 24; edges curled good or better. With 14 pages of manuscript notes bound in listing labor accounts and hours of work for employees: "Cato Brightman threshed 2½ days"; "Joseph Manchester worked five days Elery Gray half a day"; "killed the buff hound ox weighed 900"; "Nicholas Durfee 2 days"; "Joseph Borden with his man part of a day"; "Coggeshall began work at nine job for mulch"; other names mentioned include Philip Bennet William Lake John Albert Gideon Greenhill Joseph Currie Abner Coggeshall Henry Graves "an Indian worked one day at roofing" and "finished mowing English hay had an uncommon great crop." American Imprints 17815; Drake 13021. <br/><br/> printed and sold by Brown & Danforth unknown books
185554954Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson 1855. First separate edition "from the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences May 1855." 8vo pp. 4; color lithograph plate; removed from binding; very good. The lithograph is by T. Sinclair after J. Magee. "Read before the Academy of Natural Sciences May 22d 1855." <br/><br/> Merrihew and Thompson unknown books
182438748Exeter NH: printed and published by Gerrish & Tyler 1824. 48mo 3¾" pp. 322 282 Hymns and Spiritual Songs; contemporary full black morocco gilt lettered direct on gilt decorated spine; very good. "A separate group of editions . may be referred to as a Boston revision . The text is made from the original with the aid principally of the Barlow and Worcester editions" Benson L. The American Revisions of Watts's Psalms Philadelphia 1903 p. 30. American Imprints 15389. <br/><br/> printed and published by Gerrish & Tyler unknown books
182838223Sandbornton N.H.: D. V. Moulton 1828. 48mo 3¾" pp. 310 273 Hymns and Spiritual Songs; contemporary full black roan gilt lettered direct on gilt decorated spine; very good "A separate group of editions . may be referred to as a Boston revision . The text is made from the original with the aid principally of the Barlow and Worcester editions" Benson L. The American Revisions of Watts's Psalms Philadelphia 1903 p. 30. American Imprints 37103. <br/><br/> D. V. Moulton unknown books
188443312London 1884. 1st Printing. Modern plum colored cloth spine over marbled paper-wrapped boards. Printed paper title label to front board. Binding - Fine. Textblock - VG age-toning. 2 adverts 685 - 716 2 adverts pp. Text double column. Probert's article pp. 703 - 711. Adverts illustrated with cuts. 8vo. 10" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/> hardcover books
184036557Philadelphia: Marshall Williams & Butler 1840. 12mo 15.5 cm; 6". 14 5 vix `5222 pp. complete despite odd pagination. <br><br>Fifth edition of this campaign biography a => greatly expanded version of Jackson's The life of Major-General William Henry Harrison: comprising a brief account of his important civil and military services and an accurate description of the council at Vincennes with Tecumseh as well as the victories of Tippecanoe Fort Meigs and the Thames that had appeared earlier in 1840 prior to Harrison's candidacy.<br>Â Â Â Â => Needless to say the emphasis is on his military career with much about native Americans.<br>Â Â Â Â The text is unillustrated but the front cover has a => central medallion bust of Harrison in gold.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Author's presentation copy "Joseph Barclay Esq. from the author" in ink on the first blank page after the front free endpaper. In an appropriately contemporary style hand.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Publisher's brown textured cloth front and rear boards stamped with blind corner devices and front board with a large bust of Harrison in gold in a circle and with his rank and name in gilt below. Cloth not in Krupp but closely related to her Wav1. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Sabin 35422. On binding cloth see: Krupp Bookcloth in England and America 182350. Publisher's textured purplish-brown cloth covers embossed with border rules and foliate corner pieces to frame the gilt image of "General Harrison" as above. A very good copy light sun-fading to spine; the usual foxing. Marshall, Williams & Butler hardcover books
