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182018041717London: Printed for Thomas Boys of Ludgate Hill printed by Thomas Davison Whitefriars 1820. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Cruikshank Isaac Robert. Quarto size 212 pp. not matching pagination see below with 12 aquatints by Isaac Robert Cruikshank. A humorous collection of sketches exalting through parody the merits of the thrifty. The writing although very much a parody contains many nuggets of truths which illuminate how little the world has changed in the about 200 years since the book's publication: "Money money alone though it has been unaccountably neglected by authors strangers perhaps to its very name and still more to its practical use and management. . .is the mainspring of all human action want wish and desire." The author goes on to state that it is the desire of "the Save-all Club" to keep "the Kind and Benevolent Reader" out of the grip of poverty through thrift. The "Rules of the Club" provide amusing proof of such virtue: Rule VI "The smallest superfluous expense is not only a reproach to a member but he may be fined by the Committee for the use of the poor"; and Rule IV "As a new coat never fails to attract animadversion in the Club the members are requested to avoid that singularity as much as possible. If it prove that the coat is only turned the owner shall dine that day GRATIS".<br/><br/>Isaac Robert Cruikshank 1759-1856 was a popular English caricature artist and cartoonist and like his brother George is known for his pioneer work in the history of comics and comic strip cartoons. He collaborated often with George who is better known for his work with Charles Dickens. <br/><br/>This edition was originally issued in boards and had pp. 39-42 87-110 and 163-178 omitted as is the case in this edition and all known editions and which is explained in a footnote appearing on p. xvi: "The reader will perceive an hiatus after p. 38 another after p. 86 and a third after p. 162. Some digressions occurred in those places on subjects too abstruse to be generally interesting; they have therefore been withdrawn; but in consequence of a temporary absence of the author the suppression took place after the work was printed. As the connexion of its parts is not disturbed it is hoped that the liberty thus taken will be tolerated with indulgence." Additionally this copy has plate no. 11 bound as the frontis instead of being bound at p. 186. Each plate is marked "Designed and Etched by I. which appears as a "J" at this date in keeping with the Latin tradition R. Cruikshank" and bears the imprint "Published by Thomas Boys Ludgate Hill London Dec. 1 1819."<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Custom bound by Bennett Book Studio NY with their binder's stamp on the verso of the front free endpaper in quarter blue morocco and marbled paper covered boards backstrip stamped in gilt top-edge gilt fore- and tail-edges uncut engraved title page with the coloured vignette of a three-pronged candlestick which is thrifty as one can burn a candle down to the base twelve aquatint plates including frontis; quarto size 10 1/8" by 6 5/8" pagination: i ii-xvi 1 2-38 43-86 111-162 179-240 pp. first edition. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: A near fine copy the marbled paper boards clean and unrubbed with only a few light stray marks the leather shelfback smooth with a few light spots of rubbing and the gilt bright straight corners a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and the volume is entirely free of prior owner markings; some sunning to the spine light rubbing to the corners some of the plates have toned with corresponding offsetting to the opposite text pages one leaf pp. 221-222 with the fore-edge bottom corner torn loss of about an inch only in the ample margins with no loss of text; still overall a near fine copy.<br/><br/>___CITATION: Tooley no 165 this copy without the final advertisement leaf which "is however usually wanting".<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Printed for Thomas Boys of Ludgate Hill [printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars] hardcover books
1829100354Pamphlet removed 8vo disbound 23 pp. Browning to first leaf add some foxing and aging throughout but generally pretty clean. Ink signature to first leaf. Overall very good. Isaac McCoy 1784-1846 was born near Uniontown Pennsylvania. In 1804 he moved with his family to Clark County Indiana and became a minister. He spent much of his life doing missionary work among the Indians and was dedicated to improving the civil and religious condition of these people. The present pamphlet is extremely important since it represents the first step in a shift in U.S. policy from respecting the rights of Native Americans to forcing them to live where the government wanted them to. This pamphlet was published just before the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and includes information about the Arkansas Territory. McCoy provides details of his tour of this country with a delegation of Indians who were to be moved across the Mississippi. unknown books
1950158275Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1950. Octavo cloth. First edition. The author's first book and first SF novel. In the far future "Earth is largely a radioactive wasteland populated by a few million inhabitants who are discriminated against by the rest of the galactic empire which has forgotten that Earth was humanity's original home." - Brians Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction 1895-1984 p. 122. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-51. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 237. In 333. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with wear at spine ends and corner tips short closed tears with associated wrinkles at top and bottom edges of front panel and clipped price. #158275 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1950150093Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1950. Octavo cloth. First edition. The author's first book and first SF novel. In the far future "Earth is largely a radioactive wasteland populated by a few million inhabitants who are discriminated against by the rest of the galactic empire which has forgotten that Earth was humanity's original home." - Brians Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction 1895-1984 p. 122. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-51. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 237. In 333. A fine copy in good dust jacket with wear at edges some rubbing to along folds and to front panel some tanning mostly internal but with some show through on rear panel and dust soiling to rear panel. #150093 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1950126805Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1950. Octavo cloth. First edition. The author's first book and first sf novel. In the far future "Earth is largely a radioactive wasteland populated by a few million inhabitants who are discriminated against by the rest of the galactic empire which has forgotten that Earth was humanity's original home." Brians Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction 1895-1984 p. 122. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-51. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 237. In 333. Corners very gently bumped some mild age-darkening to text pages a near fine copy in very good dust jacket with some wear and rubbing at edges surface scuff to lettering of "PEBBLE" on front panel and clipped price. #126805 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1952142670Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1952. Octavo boards. First edition. ". an effective standalone blend of mystery and adventure on a world where unspecified disaster has been foretold by a highly specialist expert now lost to amnesia." - John Clute / Malcolm J. Edwards SFE online. "Minor early Asimov set against the interstellar background of the Trantorian Empire about to become the galactic empire of the 'Foundation' series. A complex adventure with an anti-racist theme." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition 1995 p. 83. Boards a bit faded at edges edges rubbed a very good copy in nearly fine dust jacket with mild rubbing to spine ends and corners and hint of dust soiling to rear panel. A nice copy overall. #142670 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1955170816006Garden City New York: Doubleday and Company Inc 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition First Printing. Publisher's black cloth binding with red title stamping to spine. Near Fine with light stains to cloth offsetting to end sheets. In a Near Fine dust jacket with foxing along flap folds light wear along the top edge and light rubbing and toning to spine panel. First edition stated. Doubleday and Company, Inc hardcover books
1954125462Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1954. Octavo cloth. First edition. Third of the six David Starr novels. Review slip laid in. Indents and rust marks to front free endpaper and half title leaf from paperclip which once secured the review slip a near fine copy in very good plus dust jacket with shelf wear and mild chipping at upper spine end small closed tear at upper edge of front panel light rubbing at upper right corner longish closed tear and creasing to rear panel and some rubbing to upper rear panel. A respectable copy of an uncommon title. #125462 Doubleday & Company unknown books
179535433London: Printed and Sold by Citizen Daniel Isaac Eaton Printer and Bookseller to the Supreme Majority of the People 1795. 44pp. Stitched untrimmed and partly uncut. Several blank margin tears from careless opening. Last two leaves dirty with a couple of small holes affecting about three letters. Good.<br/><br/> This is the third of at least four editions published in 1795 by the English radical who challenged the ruling class was several times prosecuted for seditious libel and was an outspoken advocate of universal Natural Rights. <br/> "O PAINE! next to God how infinitely are millions beholden to you for the small remnant of their liberties which they are yet permitted to enjoy." Citizen Randol has issued this pamphlet "as a mite towards furthering the regeneration of liberty throughout those countries now awakening from the torpor of slavery to a proper sense of their divine origin and inherent rights." <br/>ESTC N40408 5 locations. Printed and Sold by Citizen Daniel Isaac Eaton, Printer and Bookseller to the Supreme Majority of the People unknown books
1806594771806. Early Nineteenth-Century Manuscript Account Book of Pennsylvania Lawyers Manuscript. Barnard James 1755-1806. Barnard Isaac D. 1791-1834. Barnard Thomas D. 1793-1873. Acct. of Money Recd. for the Estate of James Barnard Esq. Decd. in the Office Etc.AndAcct. of Money Recd. by Isaac D. Barnard Belonging to His Late Father's Estate. Chester PA February 26 1806-August 22 1845. Content in fine hand filling 23 pp. followed by several blank leaves final six excised. Oblong octavo 8" x 5-1/2". Stiff marbled sewn wrappers. Moderate rubbing to exterior some wear to spine and corners light toning to interior. $650. James Barnard of Chester Pennsylvania was married to Susannah Dutton. James served as sheriff registrar recorder prothonotary and clerk of the courts in Delaware County Pennsylvania. The Barnards had eight children. The eldest son James Day Barnard a lawyer died at 25 a few months after his father's death. Upon his father and brother's death the eldest surviving male Barnard Isaac received or perhaps he personally recorded his brother's outstanding legal fees and his father's estate assets and accounts recorded in this manuscript notebook. Like his deceased elder brother Isaac studied law and was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1816 after notable service as a major in the War of 1812. He served terms in the Pennsylvania State Senate and U.S. Senate. The accounts are notable as the first segment records all of the monies collected for various legal work performed by Isaac's older brother James from recording judgments estate administration vendue matters for certificates for naturalization of citizenship or for fees earned for specific cases Gibbons v. Riley Miles v. Adams McElroy v. Hibbard etc. These accounts span 1806-1807 and suggest that the fees within must have been collected posthumously by Isaac for services performed before his brother's death. The notebook's second segment records moneys earned by the father in office primarily for recording deeds. Again the chronology suggests a similar scenario as the notebook's first segment. There are also several leaves of entries with much later dates recording monies received by Thomas Barnard. All accounts are clearly legible and amounts of fe. unknown books
1760000087London: Printed for T. Longman J. Buckland and W. Fenner . 1760. Full Calf. Very Good. 8vo19.7 x 12.5 cm. 6th Edition Corrected. Contemporary calf. Collation: xiii 1 13 222 pp. 6 folding engraved plates and several tables. Spine has raised bands and gilt title on red leather label. Hinges tender. Covers with gilt line tooling along the margins. Foxing browning and some specking on plates esp. last one. Ink inscriptions and signatures of previous owners on front free end paper with some of the writing has been crossed off. Oklahoma Hist. Sci. Cat. P. 560 1st & 2nd ed. <br/><br/> Printed for T. Longman, J. Buckland, and W. Fenner ... unknown books
S1760Williams & Wilkins Co. Collectible - Acceptable. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company. 1898. 8.5x11.25". Gray Hardcover with red lettering and black drawing. No dust jacket. 94 pp. Pale green pages. B&W frontis and Illustrations by Katharine Gassaway. Cover rubbed corners and spine ends worn/torn. Williams & Wilkins Co hardcover books
18811331695á¹¾ilna Vilnius: Defus Sh. Y. Fin A. Ts. Rosenḳrants M.M. Shrifá¹zeá¹tser 1881. Hardcover. Quarto 292 pages; VG-; newly rebound in quarter blue leather blue cloth covered boards paneled spine with burgundy label and gilt titling; page edges brittle pages age-toned; upper fore corner of first 96 pages clipped; text in Yiddish; scarce; shelved case 4. Isaac Aboab was an early 14th century Spanish Talmudic scholar and Kabbalist. "The Menorah of Light" is a collection of midrashic sermons. Per the Jewish Encyclopedia: "It has won considerable fame for the author though in his humility he assures his readers that he composed it chiefly for his own use as a public speaker. But besides this it has contributed probably more than any other medieval book to the popularization of rabbinical lore and to the religious edification and elevation of the masses. It belongs to that class of ethical works which sprang up in the thirteenth century in a time of reaction against the one-sided manner in which the Talmudic studies had been previously pursued.'. It was published with a Spanish translation Leghorn 1657 with a Hebrew commentary and a Judæo-German translation by Moses Frankfurter Amsterdam 1701 with a modern German translation by Fürstenthal and Behrend Krotoschin 1844-46. It was translated also into Yiddish Wilna 1880.";. 1331695. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Defus Sh. Y. Fin, A. Ts. Rosenḳrants, M.M. Shrifá¹zeá¹tser hardcover books
198844605New York: Doubleday & Co 1988 . SECOND PRINTING. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Doubleday & Co hardcover books
183631978London: Fentum 1836. Folio. Newly bound in quarter dark green leather with marbled boards dark red leather title label to spine gilt. 1f. recto half-title verso with "J. Teuten Printer 188 Drury-Lane" 1f. recto title verso blank vii contents i errata i-xi preface i blank 1- 353 i blank pp. With numerous musical examples throughout and occasional illustrations and diagrams. <br/><br/>Quite a good crisp wide-margined copy although somewhat browned foxed and stained throughout; pp. 237-238 with minor paper loss to blank outer margin. Considered "the father of Australian music" Nathan was an English-born Australian composer and writer of Polish Jewish descent. He is perhaps best known for his highly popular Hebrew Melodies "the first attempt to set out the traditional music of the synagogue" set to text by Lord Byron. Wikipedia.<br/><br/>Of great importance to the history of music in Australia "Nathan set up his own musical type and publishing business gave the first concerts of madrigals and contributed to many early performances of opera in Sydney arranging orchestrating and copying parts as well as directing performances from the keyboard. As a teacher and conductor he assisted early colonial musicians in their concert careers and lectured on music at Sydney College 1844-6. He was responsible for the first operas written in Australia." Elizabeth Wood in Grove Music Online.<br/><br/>Nathan apprenticed to Domenico Corri in London in 1809 who had learned the classical tradition of Italian vocal culture from his teacher Nichola Porpora; his Musurgia Vocalis is one of the few early documentations of this method. Fentum unknown books
188341386Chicago: the society 1883. 8vo. 10 pp. printed double-column. Illustrated with seven full-page photographs mounted on heavier stock. Bound with seven other pamphlets by Arnold. Somewhat later red three-quarter morocco gilt marbled boards and endpapers spine gilt titled and tooled t.e.g. Fine copy. First edition or first separate edition of all seven pamphlets. Inscribed on a blank endpaper by the author in 1883. The essay on Cooper is quite scarce; OCLC locates but three copies Chicago Historical Society Harvard Maryland-Baltimore County. The photographs include a portrait of Cooper images of his homes and grave and two scenes of Lake Otsego. The other Arnold pamphlets bound herein: 1 ADDRESS on the early history of Chicago before the Chicago Historical Society November 19 1868 Chicago 1877 mounted photograph frontispiece portrait of the author 2 RECOLLECTIONS OF THE EARLY CHICAGO AND ILLINOIS BAR Chicago 1880; 3 REMINISCENCES OF THE ILLINOIS BAR FORTY YEARS AGO: LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS AS ORATORS AND LAWYERS Chicago 1881; 4 WILLIAM B. OGDEN AND EARLY DAYS IN CHICAGO Chicago 1881; 5 REMINISCENCES OF LINCOLN AND OF CONGRESS DURING THE REBELLION in "New York Genealogical and Biographical Record New York 1882; 6 THE LAYMAN'S FAITH Chicago 1882; and 7 BENEDICT ARNOLD AT SARATOGA NP 1880. Arnold 1815-1884 was a native of Otsego County New York studied law and removed to Chicago in 1836 the year before its incorporation. He became one of the city's most important lawyers served in Congress during the Civil War helped found the Chicago Historical Society and published a number of works on American history see DAB. <br/><br/> the society?] hardcover books
197969713Garden City:: Doubleday. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. First editions thus. Both volumes are INSCRIBED by the author. Both volumes are near fine in near fine upper corner of the second volume is clipped - by the publisher - with the printed price present next to the clip dust jackets. . Doubleday, hardcover books
1977120621Garden City: Doubleday & Co. 1977. First edition first prnt. Introduction by Asomov. Signed by Asimov on the title page. Cloth spine ends just touched; dustjacket front flap fold lightly rubbed one corner touched and spine topedge with few tiny creases and light wear. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. An Asimov title not commonavailable signed. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Doubleday & Co. Hardcover books
1982140938551Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company 1982. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Signed by Isaac Asimov and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Near Fine with light wear to corners and spine ends in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a slight spine-fade and light foxing. A beautiful copy signed by the author. Doubleday & Company unknown books
1741112054London: Millar and Tonson 1741. hardcover. very good. 3 volumes bound in 2. Thick folio old calf scuffed; expertly rebacked in modern leather. London: A. Millar and J. and R. Tonson 1741. Fifth Edition. Very good .<br/><br/> An internally bright clean copy of the author's religious works. Barrow was one of the most important Anglican divines and chaplain to Charles II. As a mathematician he was ranked by his contemporaries as second only to Isaac Newton. "The best folio edition" Lowndes I p. 122. STC B927.<br/><br/> Millar and Tonson unknown books
184437021Washington 1844. Seventeen lines of text plus salutation and closing written entirely in ink manuscript to "My dear Sir." Signed "Most faithfully yours I.C. Bates." Printed on recto of a single leaf. Matted on the verso of the inner front margin. Uniformly toned Very Good.<br/><br/> Bates 1779-1841 was a Massachusetts Whig elected to the U.S. Senate in 1841. He served as such until his death. John Tyler had been William Henry Harrison's running mate on the Whigs' winning 1840 presidential ticket. Upon Harrison's death Tyler became President-- the first to become so in this manner. <br/> Though nominally a Whig Tyler-- a Virginia Strict Constructionist who would end his career in the Confederate Congress-- broke with Whig positions on Tariffs Internal Improvements and a National Bank. These rebuffs naturally generated much dismay among Whigs who had hoped to celebrate their first presidential victory. Tyler's estrangement from the political party that made him President is reflected in this Letter:<br/> "When I recd your favor I was so much engaged in other matters I neglected an answer for which please pardon. Nothing would delight me more than to see Mr. Otis Jun on the bench of the Supreme Court & I certainly wish Mr. T. all good things; but I do not suppose there is any chance for either of them. I have no influence with the Prest. & ask of him no favors. He has put it out of the power of us Whigs to give him any support. The names of those gentlemen will be brought to his notice. What he intends to do we wait and see. He has got some state right notions in his head which he wishes to install upon the Bench. unknown books
1898274820New York: Dunlp 1898. hardcover. fine. 12 black & white illustrations one folding. 117 pages slim 8vo. Handsomely rebound in 3/4 crimson morocco marbled boards. New York: The Dunlap Society 1898. Limited to 260 copies with signature of Theodore L. De Vinne<br/><br/> Dunlp unknown books
1842WRCAM45847Louisville: J. Eliot & Co.'s Power Press 1842. 32pp. Dbd. Titlepage lightly foxed. Three pages printed at poor angles affecting a letter or two on each line on two of the pages more severe on the third page. Good. A scarce report by this Baptist organization dedicated to ameliorating the condition of American Indians by setting up missions for them and through education. The progressive- minded missionary Isaac McCoy was a leader of the group and one of the appendices contains a seven-page report by McCoy "on the propriety of forming in the Valley of the Mississippi an American Indian Mission Association." This Association was indeed founded later in the year. OCLC locates a dozen copies. OCLC 4499095. J. Eliot & Co.'s Power Press unknown books
17025654Oxford: E Theatro Shedoniano 1702. Second edition. Buckram. Very Good/The Greek poets of the Hellenistic period following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE and lasting three hundred years until the establishment of the Roman Empire have a reputation for indulging in an ornate and sometimes opaque style that we would later associate with Mannerist poets like Gongora or Marino. Lycophron's Alexandra or Cassandra may be the epitome of that style. Even Alexandrian scholars of the time referred to it as "the obscure poem." Wikipedia quotes a modern critic who says the Alexandra "may be the most illegible piece of classical literature one which nobody can read without a proper commentary and which even then makes very difficult reading." That must be why in the opening line the poet says "I will spell out everything clearly whatever you ask from the very beginning." The Wiki article continues "The poem is evidently intended to display the writer's knowledge of obscure names and uncommon myths; it is full of unusual words of doubtful meaning gathered from the older poets and long-winded compounds coined by the author. . It was very popular and was read and commented on very frequently. Two explanatory paraphrases of the poem survive and the collection of scholia by Isaac and John Tzetzes is very valuable." The Oxford edition by John Potter later Archbishop of Canterbury offered here includes the Tzetzes scholia as well as an exuberant Latin version of the poem by Joseph Scaliger first published in 1566 when Scaliger was 25 years old and notes by Scaliger's friend Willem Canter. Potter first published the text in 1697 but only this second edition bears his dedicatory epistle to the German classical scholar who taught at Utrecht Johann Georg Graevius. Folio 32 cm; 16 183 1 28 6 174 18 pages and full-page engraved frontispiece by Michael Burghers of a laurel-crowned Cassandra standing before the walls of Troy in flames. Greek and Latin in parallel columns. Collation includes title page in Greek with engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre and a second title page in Latin with vignette of Oxford University's crest. Advertisement leaf at end. Bound in modern library buckram. Pages somewhat toned at edges but text block is sturdy and without significant blemish. References: ESTC T107442; E Theatro Shedoniano hardcover books
1827WRCAM12379Boston: Lincoln & Edmands 1827. 47pp. Modern leatherette. Titlepage quite tanned text moderately tanned and soiled. Good overall. The first publication of this western Indian missionary. "One of the earliest suggestions for a reservation on which to colonize and educate western Indians" - Howes. McCoy suggests that all the area west of Missouri southwest of the Missouri River and north of the then boundary with Mexico at the Arkansas become an Indian territory. HOWES M70 "aa." GRAFF 2591. FIELD 985. SABIN 43113. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 29566. Lincoln & Edmands hardcover books
