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1848026108Boston: Little Brown 1848. First . Hardcover. VG. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Complete with alll 16 plates 2 of which are attributed to Godfrey N. Frankenstein 1820-1873. Original dark brown cloth binding with original decorative gilt titles on the front cover. This particular example also boasts the ownership signature Fully investigated & referenced of Hiester Henry Muhlenberg 1812-1886 He was a member of the distinguished Muhlenberg family of Pennsylvania. And the bookplate where he/his family apparently donated the volume many decades ago 'The Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery' both on the inside of the front cover. Inside the rear cover is a small trapazoidal piece of manilla card where assumed an inventory card was kept. Book was clearly NOT for public viewing. Plates are in lovely near fine to fine condition with none of the usual foxing as seen in most examples. All are perfect for framing or to keep whole for propserity. The corners & spine ends a bit worn. A very nice example of this cornerstone to any White Mountains Book Collection. Oakes was drowned in the same year of this publication 1848 somewhere between East Boston & Boston. One wonders what he would have done to top this masterpiece had he lived. Bents page 1 Second listing of 'The Classics'. The plates are as follows: 1 "The White Mountains" 2 "Mount Crawford" 3 "The Notch of the White Mountains" 4 "The Lower Cascade of the Notch" 5 "The Gate of the Notch" 6 "The Falls of the Amonoosuck" 7 "The Granite Cliffs of the Falls" two views 8 "The Franconia Notch" 9 "Profile Mountain at Franconia" 10 "The Profile Rock" 11 "The Basin in Lincoln N.H." 12 "The Flume in Lincoln N.H." 13 "Nancy`s Bridge" 14 "Mt. Crawford from the Notch" two views 15 "Mount Washington" two views and 16 "Mt. Washington over Tuckerman`s Ravine." Come by for a look! <br/> <br/> Little Brown, hardcover
1808mon0000072296Samuel Bagster 1808. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. The Complete Angler or Contemplative Man's Recreation being a Discourse on Rivers Fish-Ponds Fish and Fishing. 7th edition 1st Bagster Samuel Bagster 1808 Samuel Bagster hardcover
1731361626London : printed for Emanuel Matthews at the Bible in Pater-Noster-Row; Richard Ford at the Angel and Richard Hett at the Bible and Crown both in the Poultry 1731. Fourth Edition Corrected. Hardcover. Worn copy bound in full aniline calf with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some wear and tear to the spine and panel edges as with age.Title page damaged with part of top edge cut our rest of text is not affected. Physical description; 6 365 5 pages. Subjects; Logic ; Early works to 1800. Conduct of life ; Early works to 1900. Conduct of life ; Early works to 1800. London : printed for Emanuel Matthews, at the Bible in Pater-Noster-Row; Richard Ford, at the Angel, and Richard Hett, at the Bi hardcover
18542212220029New York Tribune; Buell and Blanchard; Union Office; Congressional Globe; Greeley & McElrath; L. Towers; 1854-1860 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Bloody Kansas: The Expansion of Slavery to the Territories Prelude to the Civil War Rebound in fine modern cloth. Fine binding and cover. Leather spine and cover labels with gilt. Generally clean unmarked pages. Old Dartmouth College Stamps. Contents: 1. Speech of the Hon. M. Norris of New Hampshire in the United States Senate March 3 1854 on Nebraska and Kansas; 2. The wrongs of Kansas : speech of Hon. John P. Hale of New Hampshire in the United States Senate February 1856; 3. The admission of Kansas : speech of William H. Seward of New York; 4. Speech of Hon. J.P. Benjamin of Louisiana on the Kansas question : delivered in the Senate May 2 1856; 5. Nebraska and Kansas. Speech of Hon. James Knox of Illinois in the House of representatives May 19 1854; 6. The border ruffian code in Kansas with map; 7. Speech of the Hon. Robert Toombs of Georgia on the President's Kansas message : Delivered in the Senate February 28 1856; 8. Speeches of Senator Toucey upon Kansas affairs : delivered in the Senate February 18 and March 5 1856; 9. Front cover image for The compromise bill : speech of Hon. John Bell of Tennessee in the Senate of the United States July 3 and 5 1850 on the bill for admission of California into the Union the establishment of territorial governments for Utah and New Mexico and making proposals to Texas for the settlement of her northern and western boundaries The compromise bill : speech of Hon. John Bell of Tennessee in the Senate of the United States July 3 and 5 1850 on the bill for admission of California into the Union the establishment of territorial governments for Utah and New Mexico and making proposals to Texas for the settlement of her northern and western boundaries; 10. The crime against Kansas : Speech of Hon. Chas. Sumner of Massachusetts in the Senate of the United States May 19 1856; 11. The crime against Kansas : speech of Hon. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts ; in the Senate of the United States ; May 19 1856; 12. Speech of Hon. John J. Crittenden of Kentucky on the admission of the state of Kansas. New York Tribune; Buell and Blanchard; Union Office; Congressional Globe; Greeley & McElrath; L. Towers; 1854-1860 hardcover
H354Berlin Oehmigke 1805. Archiv f¸r die neuesten und merkw¸rdigsten Reisebeschreibungen aus fremden Sprachen ¸bersetzt. Band 1-2. 8∞. 4 Bll. 1 Titelkupfer XII 395 Seiten mit 3 gefaltete Kupfertafeln 1 Bl. 1 Titelkupfer 352 Seiten mit 1 gefaltete Kupfertafel. Pappb‰nde der Zeit mit R¸ckenschild etwas berieben Die Tafel mit der Felsenbr¸cke mit grˆflerem Einriss ein gutes Set. Sabin 102538; Cox II 176 - Fr¸he deutsche Ausgabe der Reisebriefe des Isaac Weld welcher von 1795-97 durch Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia New Jersey und New York sowie Ober - und Unter-Kanada reiste. Ziel seiner Reise war die Beurteilung der L‰nder im Blick auf irische Auswanderer. Weld gibt in seinem Werk eindeutig Kanada den Vorzug vor den Vereinigten Staaten. - Die Tafeln zeigen eine Ansicht der Felsenbr¸cke Rockbridge im Shenandoah Tal den Hudson irrt¸mlich Patowmac benannt das Diamanten-Vorgebirge bei Quebec und die Niagaraf‰lle. unknown
1990DADAX0385416067Doubleday 1990-10-01. hardcover. New. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Doubleday hardcover
1962507750Doubleday 1962. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Good. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Robert Bloch on table of contents to 'Stathis.' Stathis Orphanos was a noted photographer and half of the publishing duo Sylvester and Orphanos. First Edition thus the first collected volume of Hugo Award-winning stories and novellas dating from 1955-1961. xvi 318pp. Black finished cloth silver-gilt spine letter deckled fore edge. Some minor wear to covers a bit of rubbing to tail edges otherwise clean and sound. Dust Jacket is clipped to front flap Spine is a bit sunned with some small chips to head and tail. Bloch's story 'The Hell-Bound Train' is a Faustian tale told with his 'cosmic horror' inflection. A brilliant tale reminiscent of Camus's Sisyphus the main character finds a macabre freedom by embracing his dark fate. Notably this volume also includes Daniel Keyes's 'Flowers for Algernon' and the first hardcover appearance of Walter Miller's 'The Darfsteller.'. Doubleday hardcover
198210213HEYNE WILHELM 1982. 1. softcover. Roboter-Foundation Sonderausgabe! HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
197319106The Best of Isaac Asimov Sidgwick & Jackson 1973 first edition fine in like full color pictorial dust-wrapper. Sidgwick & Jackson unknown
197615973THE BICENTENNIAL MAN Doubleday 1976 first edition bottom corner tips gently bumped else fine in near fine pictorial dust-wrapper with a closed tear to the upper front dust-wrapper panel. Inscribed by the author shortly after publication. The title story was both a HUGO & NEBULA winner. The source book for the film of the same name. Doubleday unknown
198117715THE CREATOR Locus Press 1981 first hard-cover edition. Simak's first book. Signed by the author on a special printed slip noting that this is #8 of 20 copies so bound with appreciations by Isaac Asimov Robert Heinlein Jack Williamson & Frederic Pohl Locus Press unknown
26046Drophead title with printed date at foot of page '1/89' i.e. January 1890. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Inscription by Elton dated 14 January 1890. Rare: The BL has a copy not annotated and there's a copy on JISC at Reading with the entry stating that consists of 104pp rather than the 231pp of the present copy. See Elton’s entry in the Oxford DNB. He first served as a Conservative MP for Somerset in 1884-5 and the present item was composed during his second term 1886-92. No title-leaf: drop-head title. At foot of first page: ‘A 55729. 30.1/89. Wt. 6590’. Introductory section credited on p.30 to 'Charles Elton. / B. F. C. Costelloe / Assistant Commissioner.' Folio 231pp. In vellum half-binding with marbled boards and tooled spine with red leather label and title in gilt. Inscribed at head of first page: ‘from Mr. C. Elton. Jan. 14. 1890 / to W. Bliss’. Armorial bookplate of William Bliss on front pastedown above another inscription from Elton: ‘from Mr. Elton / 1890’. In good condition lightly aged in lightly-worn binding. A dense and learned document filled with facts and citations. With a couple of pencil annotations. Loosely inserted is an 8vo leaf of manuscript by Bliss headed ‘English equivalents from / Elton’s Report on Markets and Fairs.’ With list of twenty examples in a column. Drophead title with printed date at foot of page '1/89', i.e. January 1890. [London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.] Inscripti hardcover
1812154510London: Printed by Joyce Gold; and sold by T. Egerton 1812. Fourth edition including three plates conceptualizing the trace italienne in a 19th-century context. The author "was highly thought of and was a technical scholar who had great influence over the many young men he taught for a period of nearly thirty-eight years" ODNB. All editions are uncommon in commerce: in the last two decades one copy of the fourth and one copy of the second have appeared at auction. Landmann 1741-1826 lectured for many years at the École Royale Militaire in Paris before his appointment in 1777 as Professor of Fortification and Artillery at the Royal Military Academy: "A letter from the Board of Ordnance to the lieutenant-governor of the academy introduced him as a gentleman who 'has seen a great deal of service and acted as ADC to Marshal Broglie in the last war'" ODNB. First published in 1796 Principles went through seven editions the last 1853 revised by Landmann's son George. This edition like its predecessors is advertised on the title page as containing "many additions" although this is a marketing ploy. Octavo 205 x 123 mm pp. iv 72 12 index and explanation of plates. With 3 folding engraved diagrammatic plates. Contemporary calf recently rebacked with brown leatherette. Contemporary annotation "B71 Morris" on front pastedown. Boards rubbed contents generally clean occasional faint staining to plates: a very good copy. hardcover
192214314Lnodon: Heinemann 1922. A first edition first printing published by Heinemann in 1922. A near fine book without inscriptions in a very good unclipped wrapper with some wear to the foot of the spine and a small mark to the foot of the rear panel. Some rubbing to the edges and browning to the spine. A rare book indeed. Heinemann unknown
1824166494London: Josiah Taylor 1824. First Taylor edition of Theophrastus' timeless gallery of personality traits translated into English and beautifully illustrated with caricatures. The English translation is followed by the Greek text and notes. Taylor 1787-1865 was a philosophical and historical writer artist and inventor. Born into a family of engravers he initially followed this trade before turning to literature. This edition was welcomed with enthusiastic reviews the Literary Chronicle highlighting that "The sketches are bold and spirited full of character; there is scarcely an extraneous or unnecessary line in their whole engraving". This copy was bound for Sotheran's in London for Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale 1849-1912 with his gilt monogram stamp on the front cover. Dimsdale was a British banker and Conservative politician who served as Lord Mayor of London from 1901 to 1902. Quarto 270 x 193 mm. With 50 mounted wood-engraved illustrations. Late 19th-century green morocco over bevelled boards spine with raised bands gilt lettering in compartments monogram stamp "D" surmounted by a griffin's head and motto "quod Deus vult fiet" of Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale 1849-1912 on front cover marbled endpapers edges gilt. Spine and extremities faded to brown a few spots of wear at extremities front joint partly cracked short splits at rear joint ends and inner hinges but firm a little peripheral skinning to endpapers from adhesion margins of rear blanks toned occasional spot of foxing to contents otherwise clean. A very good wide-margined copy. hardcover
175967615in two parts xxiv 340 pages 8 10 engraved plates including frontispiece engravings in text throughout initials friezes head and tail pieces music The Angler's Catch inscriptions to upper endpapers blanks and title page including notes with page references inscription to lower pastedown "Algernon Percy" printed note and armorial bookplate to upper pastedown 'Edmund Ferrers' Printed by Henry Kent hardcover
1838059423London: John Murray Albemarle Street. 1838. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. Frontispieces . FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1838. lovely set; scarce complete in original publisher's cloth-binding 5-Volume complete-set. The first biography of Wilberforce; issued first the previous year. Based on William Wilberforce's manuscript books or "diary" religious reflections or "journal" private correspondence manuscript memoranda and other personal writings. In five volumes complete. Hardbacks. Frontispieces portraits folded table to each volume. Contemporary purple cloth; gilt lettered spines; a matching set. Untrimmed edges as issued. Original yellow end-papers. Armorial bookplate of Edward Davenport. No other owner markings. Matching set in very good state. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD INDEED. Includes bibliographical references. Index v. 5. CONTENTS: v. 1. 1759-1752. -- v. 2. 1792-1800. -- v. 3. 1801-1811. v. 4. 1812-1818. 8vo. Heavy books; extra postage needed. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Makes an ideal gift. John Murray Albemarle Street. SCARCE First Printing. <br/> <br/> John Murray, Albemarle Street. hardcover
#[52489]Gebonden in 4 half perkamenten banden 479381346379 pag. Geillustreerd met uitslaande plattegrond van de beurs en tabellen. unknown
197840156HEYNE WILHELM 1978. 4.ND. softcover. Roboter-Foundation Malglata Kovrajo! HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
17101395682Amstelodami Amsterdam: Sumptibus Thomæ Fritsch Thomas Fritsch 1710. Hardcover. Quarto 12 xxviii 580 324 60 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in full vellum has gilt ornamentation to boards and spine. Binding with armorial stamp on both boards. Boards have slight yellowing small brown dots to front board and minor cracking to head of front joint. Extremities have slight discoloration from wear and mild bumping to corners in some cases exposing the board. Contains 1 of 4 ties intact. Textblock has slight separation and closed tears along the pastedowns splitting along the gutter between the second front free end page and titlepage age toning and foxing ranges from mild to moderate plus and speckling to edges. Text in Latin and Greek. Shelved in Room A. 1395682. Special Collections. Sumptibus Thomæ, Fritsch [Thomas Fritsch] hardcover
19622212310Nelson Doubleday 1962. 1st bookclub. hardcover. very good/near fine. First bookclub edition. INSCRIBED by Isaac Asimov who is the editor and also wrote the introduction. Book very good minor rubbing some spots on paste-downs spot at top of foredge. Dust jacket near fine some spots on flaps and inside of flaps. Nelson Doubleday unknown
188034237A. C. Armstrong and Son 1880. VG to VG-/na. Softcover. Leather spine & corners with marbled boards & page edges make this a very attractive set. Some wear on the leather - some edgwear & some chips; couple spots of discoloration. Books have some rubbing & edgewear; some yellowing; overall clean & tight. A. C. Armstrong and Son paperback
1822614182Northampton NJ 1822. Softcover. Good. Original holograph cyphering book of Isaac Haines of Northampton Mount Holly Burlington County New Jersey. Folio. Approximately 80 pages. Sewn marbled paper wrappers with paper owner label on front wrapper. One leaf torn lacking the bottom third scattered foxing and soiling throughout signatures partially loose wrappers worn and stained with a stain on the front wrapper affecting the first two pages and a tear along a portion of the rear wrapper still a pleasing good or better example with the contents remaining clear and bright with little to no fading of the ink. Laid in are three hexagonal pieces of paper that appear to have been cutout of the missing bottom third of the previously mentioned leaf as they contain fragments of writing and sums that appear to be in the same hand.<br /> <br /> The owner label on the front wrapper is dated 1801 and about halfway through the book a page is dated March 12 1802. The book contains instructions on mathematical concepts accompanied by examples of their applications. Many of the concepts introduced are expanded upon later in the book. Concepts such as "Addition of Money" "Federal Money" "Cloth Measure" "Land Measure" "Avoirdupois Weight" "The Single Rule of Three" and more are explored and worked through. The headings and subheadings are written in an elegant calligraphic script and the pages are broken up into sections by use of a straightedge some in a rather unconventional manner with bits of work occupying triangular spaces.<br /> <br /> The most curious page in the book and the only mention of a location contains no school work. Instead it contains the following passage “Article of agreement entered into this twenty-fifth day of January eighteen hundred and twenty-two between John Stokes of the first part and Isaac T. Haines of the second part both of the Township of Northampton County of Burlington and State of New Jersey†Northampton is now known as Mount Holly. But there are no signatures underneath and no other information about this agreement.<br /> <br /> The Haines were a very prosperous and influential family in Burlington County. Their endeavors and pursuits helped develop much of the region and their influence can still be seen in the area today. 51 Union Street a house originally built by Jonathan Haines in 1760 and later known as the Haines/Thompson house is still standing. Another Isaac Haines perhaps the father of this book's owner is responsible for the construction of what came to be known as Kirby's Mill which was completed in 1778 and was still in operation during 1969 making it the last working commercial mill in New Jersey. In 1971 it was designated a State Historical Site and though no longer in operation as a commercial mill it can still be visited today.<br /> <br /> An interesting look into mathematical and economic studies in the early 19th century with a nice connection to New Jersey history. unknown
1952002820WN.Y.: Doubleday Science Ficition 1952. First Edition. Fine/Very Good. A very nice copy showing only minimal wear. Stated First Edition. No bumped corners to book. Spine tips are smooth and round. Jacket is not priced clipped. Very small clean closed tear to bottom edge of front panel near spine. Jacket has very light edge wear to top and bottom of jackets spine and corner folds. Rubbing and small scratches to rear panel. Otherwise a nice copy. See Pict's. Doubleday Science Ficition unknown
1840A2250ab<p>vii611 pages. Octavo 9" x 5 3/4" bound in original publisher pebbled cloth with spine label lettered in gilt. Howes: M-68 First edition.</p><p>Isaac McCoy was a Baptist missionary among the Native Americans in present-day Indiana Michigan Missouri and Kansas. He was an advocate of Indian removal from the eastern United States proposing an Indian state in what is now Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma. He also played an instrumental role in the founding of Grand Rapids Michigan and Kansas City Missouri. McCoy founded his first "religious station" and school in October 1818 in what became Parke County Indiana on Big Raccoon Creek upstream from the later Wea Indian reservation at Armiesburg. The mission was said to be situated between Rosedale and Bridgeton. The Wea showed little interest in the school however and it failed. McCoy at that time was likely the only white settler in Parke County. In February 1819 he performed the first marriage in the county between two matis Christmas Dazney Noel Dagenet and Mary Ann Isaacs a Brotherton or Mohegan from upstate New York. In 1821 in compensation for his work with McCoy and for the federal government as an interpreter Dazney filed a land claim between the mouths of Sugar Creek and Big Raccoon Creek north and east of present-day Montezuma and established a Wea-Miami reservation there. This was the first reservation that came about as a result of a connection with Isaac McCoy though McCoy had left the area by then. Dazney was eventually instrumental in leading bands of Indiana Indians west to Kansas after the Indian Removal Act of 1830. In May 1820 the McCoy family moved to Fort Wayne Indiana to set up a mission to the Miami tribe. His school at Fort Wayne attracted 40 Miami Potawatomi and mixed-blood children several whites and one African American. The Miami and Potawatomi tribes at this time consisted of mixed-race people and there were no clear lines of distinction between races within the tribes. In 1821 McCoy made the first of many visits to Washington DC seeking approval by the federal government unsuccessfully on this occasion for him to appoint teachers blacksmiths and other "agents of civilization" to be provided the Indians under newly ratified treaties. In December 1822 McCoy left Fort Wayne and moved his family and 18 Indian students to a site on the St. Joseph River near the present-day city of Niles in southwestern Michigan; he opened a mission to the Pottawatomi. The Carey Mission as it came to be known was 100 miles from the nearest White settlement. The Pottawatomi gave McCoy a relatively warm welcome and helped feed his large family and Indian students through their early seasons in the territory. McCoy enjoyed more success here than in his earlier endeavors. His school expanded to have 76 Indian children four Indian employees five missionaries six white children and a millwright. In 1826 McCoy led his family in another move deeper into the frontier where he established the Thomas Mission to the Odawa people at what was later to become Grand Rapids Michigan. McCoy and his missionaries were the first European-American settlers in Niles and Grand Rapids.</p><p>Condition: Signed on front end paper. Corners bumped and rubbed through some minor foxing edges bumped spine rubbed else about a very good copy.</p> William M Morrison, H &; S Raynor and Bennett, Backus &; Hawley hardcover
