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17655350London: J. Newbery R. Baldwin T. Caslon et al. 1765. 8vo. 2 iv ii 2 75 1 adv. pp. <br><br>Light-hearted piece based loosely on "Pamela". <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T16478. Removed from a nonce volume. Light age-toning; a few scattered spots. Lacking half-title. J. Newbery, R. Baldwin, T. Caslon, et al. unknown books
1770397London: Pr. for R. Butters ca. 1770. 12mo. 54 pp. <br><br>Removed from a nonce volume sewing loosening. Without the frontispiece. Foxing to first four pages and occasional spots elsewhere. Mercantile Library stamp on p. 54. Top outer corners of first two leaves chipped. A few small dog-ears. Pr. for R. Butters unknown books
1767D2300London: Printed for W. Griffin 1767. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. Plain paper-covered boards. Text block split at pp. 2-3 and 70-71 ads but complete and clean. <br/><br/> Printed for W. Griffin hardcover books
176973464London: Griffin 1769. hardcover. very good. The Hypocrite. 1769 2nd edition; The Miser by Henry Fielding. 1769 Fifth Edition. and The West Indian. Richard Cumberland. 1771. New Edition. Engraved title to the last piece; half-title present in the first. Three plays bound together. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Sir Henry Lawson small ticket from the Ashley-Page Collection. 8vo contemporary full calf; spine with raised bands gilt floral tools; red morocco label. London: 1769; 1769; 1771. Very good .<br/><br/> Griffin unknown books
176749485London: Printed by W. Griffen in Catherine-Street in the Strand 1767. First Edition NCBEL II 825. Disbound with binding remnants along spine. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning & dusting to outer leaves. Title leaf detached. A servicable About VG copy. 69 3 pp. Last 3 pages advert for W. Griffen. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/> Printed by W. Griffen, in Catherine-Street in the Strand unknown books
1988153481New York New York: ACA Books American Council for the Arts 1988. Hardcover. VG- DJ has moderate wear to edges; this copy is WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to American artist Will Barnet and his wife Elena on the front flyleaf. Blue cloth gilt letters on spine blue dust jacket 539 pp. BW illus. Presents the history and initiatives leading up to the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts written by the man who drafted the legislation. This copy is WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to American artist Will Barnet and his wife Elena on the front flyleaf. ACA Books (American Council for the Arts) hardcover books
2000166133Porto Alegre: Museo de Arte Hispanoamericano 2000. Paperback. VG-. Light shelf wear especially along edges. Tight and clean contents. Red wraps with color illustrations black lettering; French flaps. 93 pp. Apprx 60 color illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition held November 22-December 31 2000. Text in Spanish. Museo de Arte Hispanoamericano paperback books
188330656New York: American Bible Society 1883. First separate edition 8vo pp. 24; original printed wrappers; slight flaking along the spine old vertical crease else very good. Reprinted from the 67th Report of the American Bible Society May 10 1883. Not in Smith American Travellers Abroad; 5 in OCLC 4 in New England and 1 in Turkey. <br/><br/> American Bible Society unknown books
192332219New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1923. First American Edition. Octavo 19cm.; publisher's blue decorative buckram stamped in orange; 43945adspp. Spine a bit sunned bottom edge of rear leaves publisher's advertisements a bit ragged from having been clumsily opened else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the series The European Library. Italian journalist poet's first novel. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
199166032New York: ROC 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An anthology of 22 original short stories including one by Bradbury himself as well as a tribute by Isaac Asimov. The other contributors include Richard Matheson Norman Corwin Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Gregory Benford Orson Scott Card and William F. Nolan. Signed and dated by Ray Bradbury on the front flyleaf. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. ROC hardcover books
1911107855Madison: Wisconsin History Commission 1911. paper-covered boards title author and publisher stamped on front board. 8vo. paper-covered boards title author and publisher stamped on front board. ix 42 pages. Based upon material contained in the Wisconsin Historical Library. Besterman 6551. Wisconsin History Commission: Original Papers No. 5. 1500 copies printed. Bradley was Librarian and Assistant Superintendant of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Table of contents and list of officers of the WHC. Includes state publications military organizations general and regimental histories and miscellaneous materials. Index. Ex library with library bookplate on front pastedown name of library perforated on title pages and markings. Edges of spine worn. Spine and boards soiled. Hinges cracked. Wisconsin History Commission unknown books
1911107856Madison: Wisconsin History Commission 1911. paper-covered boards title author and publisher stamped on front board. 8vo. paper-covered boards title author and publisher stamped on front board. ix 42 pages. Based upon material contained in the Wisconsin Historical Library. Besterman 6551. Wisconsin History Commission: Original Papers No. 5. 1500 copies printed. Bradley was Librarian and Assistant Superintendant of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Table of contents and list of officers of the WHC. Includes state publications military organizations general and regimental histories and miscellaneous materials. Index. Ex library with library bookplate on front pastedown name of library perforated on title pages and markings. Edges of spine slightly worn. Spine and boards lightly soiled. Back hinge partly cracked. Wisconsin History Commission unknown books
171624725London: / Printed for J. Roberts 1716. First Edition. Hardcover. Four volumes bound in one. 131pp with three pagination errors; xvi 4 156pp; 6 83pp publisher's advertisement; 60pp. Recent mottled half calf over marbled boards spine decorated and lettered in gold. Marbled edges. Head-pieces tail-pieces and initials in the second volume. All the titles except the first are first editions. Old dedication on the verso of the title page of volume one reads: "B. Judd to Rev. Francis Vinton." Toning to text blocks some scattered foxing and staining minor annotations on the last page of the first two volumes old repairs to two of the leaves of the first volume. In all a very good copy. Uncommon. ; Octavo. <br/><br/> / Printed for J. Roberts hardcover 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
1810WRCAM21261Washington 1810. 8pp. Modern cloth leather label. Very good. Briggs herein petitions the U.S. government for compensation for the hardships and expenses he undertook while fulfilling an appointment to survey a route from Washington to New Orleans through Tennessee. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 21655. hardcover books
189162174New York: New York Printing Co. Very Good. 1891. Hardcover. Illustrated by C. D. Gibson and Dan Beard. "Delivered At The Annual Dinner of The New York Alumni Association January 23 1891. Revised and Freshened with Notes by The Author." 45 pages. 8" x 9 1/2" white spine with tan cloth over boards. Covers are soiled and scuffed previous owner sticker and signed. Hinges are cracked and the contents are toned at edges. Otherwise bright and complete. . New York Printing Co. hardcover books
189144175New York: New York Printing Co. The Republic Press Publishers 1891. 1st edition thus Revised and Freshened with Notes by the Author. Original publisher's blue cloth spine over silver patterned paper covered boards with gilt stamped lettering. Green patterned paper paste-downs. Shelf & edgewear. Bookplate & booklabel to front paste-down. Age-toning to free eps. Removed library pocket from rear paste-down. About Very Good. 45 1 pp. Index at rear. Partially unopened. Frontis of Depew. Oblong format: 8" x 9-3/8" <br/><br/> New York Printing Co. (The Republic Press) Publishers hardcover books
122638First Edition. paperback. 32pp. 8vo orig. pr. wrs.; uncut dampstained on wrs. and center margins. Princeton Press: Printed By D.A. Borrentstein 1825.<br/><br/> Author was a pupil of John Woodhull.<br/><br/> unknown books
175458056Londini: impensis J. & R. Tonson & S. Draper 1754. 4to pp. 4 40; modern boards gilt lettering on spine; some toning of the text and the textblock trimmed to 23.5 x 18.5 cm; all else very good. This is the variant with the price 1 s. 6 d. on the title page. Painfully common but Browne's best known work a poem on the immortality of the soul. <br/><br/> impensis J. & R. Tonson & S. Draper hardcover books
175453447Londini London: J. & R. Tonson & S. Draper 1754. 4to. pp. 40; late twentieth-century quarter-bound leather over decorative-paper boards with a binder's ticket in the rear stating "Restored by B R Lhotka 1992". This variant has the price on the title page. A near fine book with the rear hinge starting and an archival tape repair to the front hinge. Hawkins Brown is cited as a friend of Samuel L. Johnson and was a poet MP and Barrister during his lifetime 1706-1760 Trinity College Chapel Memorials. His poem reads as a pseudo-philosophical exploration of the immortality of the human soul drawing on humanist beliefs about the universe as well as theology. <br/><br/> J. & R. Tonson & S. Draper hardcover books
176810692London: J. Nourse 1768. 8vo 24 cm 9.4". 10 160 pp. frontis. lacking. <br><br>First edition of these poems published posthumously by the author's son; of two similar issues printed in the same year this was the one meant for the general public with the other intended for private circulation only. Browne was a notably witty and amiable conversationalist whose company though not his public speechmaking was prized by Dr. Johnson; he is best remembered today for his poems "A Pipe of Tobacco" "Blest leaf! Whose aromatic gales dispense / To templars modesty to parsons sense" and "De Animi Immortalitate" a meditation on the immortality of the soul both of which are included here the latter with Soame Jenyns's English translation. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T116967; Arents Tobacco III 708d. Recent marbled papercovered boards spine with printed paper label. Frontispiece lacking; title-page and a few others stamped by a now-defunct institution. Inner margins of the first two leaves and outer margin of the final leaf repaired. J. Nourse hardcover books
1900295221London: Longmans 1900. hardcover. very good. Many black & white illustrations. 382 pages 8vo rebound in burgundy cloth. Lodnon: Longmans Green 1900. Very good .<br/><br/> Longmans unknown books
983804<b>Brun Franz Isaac. printmaker; goldsmith/metalworker; German; Male; c.1535 - c.1610/20. Euterpe Engraving on laid paper last half of 16th century. Strasbourg.</b><br /><br /> Brun Franz Isaac. printmaker; goldsmith/metalworker; German; Male; c.1535 - c.1610/20.<b> Euterpe</b> Engraving on laid paper last half of 16th century. Strasbourg. W<i>hole-length winged female figure in profile to left wearing antique costume and playing a harp.</i> Trimmed to platemark uneven along right margin. Height: 72 millimetres; Width: 50 millimetres. Fine impression. Signed in the plate with monogram 'FB' and inscribed 'EUTERPE' along the upper edge. Image of the muse of music and lyric poetry. From a series of 9 engravings of the muses. Franz Brun b. Pressburg Possibly trained in Nuremburg. active 1559 - 1596 He was a draughtsman goldsmith and engraver from Strasbourg. He engraved several series in the manner of the Nuremberg "Kleinmeister". <br /><br />Bibliography See Bartsch IX 443-472 as Maître FB; Hollstein 26. Provenance: Friedrich August of Saxony lugt 971;two other: Hugo Ahne and a Dr K. O. neither in Lugt.<br /> books
47928Oblong 4to. 1 page seal intact; docketed on verso. Burke and Huger each had prominent associations with the South Carolina branch of the Society of Cincinnati Huger serving as first vice-president and Burke publishing a widely circulated pamphlet warning that the organization would widen the division between "the patricians and the rabble." Folded; some browning but very good. <br/><br/> unknown books
1993013966rosRockford IL: Super-Large Photography Inc. Very Good. 1993. Hardcover. Dark green boards with title blind embossed on front and spine. Boards have light wear and light sunning to upper third of front board. Text block is clean and leaves are unpaginated. Includes many b&w reproductions of photographs. Please call for images. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall . Super-Large Photography Inc. hardcover books
