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SKU1028271American Book Company. Hardcover. Good. B000P84PJE 1898 Ex-Library. No dust jacket. A fine copy- green cloth boards are clean but show moderate wear with some rubbing has a good binding pages are clean and crisp has usual library markings- no markings/notations on the text. lz American Book Company hardcover books
1905286327Pennsylvania: Wm. Stanley Ray 1905. Half Leather. Very Good binding. The Extracts from Part One of the Annual Report on the Department of Internal Affairs for 1904 Early History and Growth of Carlisle and Early Footprints of Developments and Improvements in Northwestern Pennsylvania. Color cartographical frontispiece; nine folding maps; one additional color map; two plans; sixteen single page maps or surveys. Facsimile signature stamp reading: "Compliments of Theo. B Klein Deputy Secretary of Internal Affairs" one of the authors on the front flyleaf. Else no marks of any kind. Half leather over red marbled boards with a leather title label on the front board. All edges gilt. Very Good binding. Wm. Stanley Ray unknown books
1905285605Pennsylvania: Wm. Stanley Ray State Printer of Pennsylvania 1905. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. First Edition of Theodore Klein and Isaac Brown's EARLY HISTORY AND GROWTH OF CARLISLE. and EARLY FOOTPRINTS OF DEVELOPMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS IN NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. Signed by Klein on the front endpaper. With twenty eight maps and surveys some colored or folding. Brown textured cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good. Very Good binding. Wm. Stanley Ray, State Printer of Pennsylvania unknown books
196862041New Orleans Louisiana: The Isaac Delgado Museum of Art. Very Good. 1968. Paperback. 9.75x8.25 inches paperback ex-museum library with library stamp on half title and rear end page Light scuffing and wear to covers otherwise contents are bright and complete near very good. . The Isaac Delgado Museum of Art paperback books
197216939New York: Doubleday & Company 1972. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good . Milton Glaser. The 1972 stated 1st edition of Isaac Asimov's annotated version of Lord Byron's "Don Juan" wonderfully illustrated thruout by Milton Glaser. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp price-intact VG dustjacket with very light creasing along the front panel's top-edge and very mild darkening along the spine. Thick quarto "an original interpretation of Lord Byron's epic poem". Also includes a handsome Near Fine example of the publisher's pictorial slipcase. <br/><br/> Doubleday & Company hardcover books
19701315158Verona: McClure Press 1970. Ist Edition. Hardcover. 8vo; VG/VG; hardcover; plum colored spine with white text; dust jacket has minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and a slight tear to the bottom edge; boards have slight smudges but clean and sturdy; front free end-paper is inscribed; text block clean; 142p. 1315158. FP New Rockville Stock. McClure Press hardcover books
182434892Hartford: Published by Silas Andrus 1824. 1st US edition Sabin 94469 for the 1825 edition. Not in American Imprints. Period dark green sheep spine over drab paper boards. Gilt stamped title lettering to spine. General wear. Some proud gatherings. Usual browning & foxing to paper. A VG copy of a rare edition of this children's classic. 2 blank vi 7 - 117 1 blank pp. Introduction in verse. Folding map of the Americas as frontis. Text with 78 engraved images on 26 inserted leaves corresponding to numbered portions of text. 12mo. 5-7/8" x 3-5/8" <br/><br/>OCLC only records 2 holdings of this 1st US edition Free Library of Philadelphia & Yale. Published by Silas Andrus hardcover books
1825903861825. CHILDREN'S BOOK OF TRAVEL IN NORTH CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA TAYLOR Rev. Isaac. Scenes in America for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-At-Home Travellers. viii 120 pp. With a folding map and 28 plates. 8vo. 169 x 105 mm bound in original publisher's printed boards. London: John Harris n.d. ca.1825. Fine copy in original boards. First published in 1821 the work proved popular and was reprinted again in 1822 and 1824. With chapters on and illustrations of Columbus Cortez Balboa Pizarro Patagonia Brazil West Indies North American Indians Hearne's journey Hudson's Bay Canada and the United States. Binding extremities worn but a very good tight copy. Sabin 94469. Osborne I 190 & II 813. Gumuchian 5535. hardcover books
1821014033Hartford.: S. Andrus and Son 1821. Covers quite worn. Previous owner's name on front pastedown dated 1820. Half-title page is present BUT title-page and folding map are missing. All 84 illustrations are present. Title-page and introduction from the 1851 edition are included in facsimile. 122pp. 2 pages of adverts. Quite compromised but the illustrations make the book salvageable. See photos Sabin 94469. First Edition. 1/4 Brown Leather. General Wear/No Jacket. 6 1/2" x 4". S. Andrus and Son Hardcover books
1840183635Rochester: William Alling 1840. Hardcover. G Cover has fading and edge damage. Front and rear cover largely seperated from spine. Outer spine missing. Bookblock has age toning. Interior pages have foxing and age toning. Interior fold out map is torn. 3/4 brown boards with red spine. 117 pages 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations. In prose and verse. William Alling hardcover books
182141180London: J. Harris & Son pr. by H. Bryer 1821. 12mo 17 cm 6.69". viii 122 2 adv. pp.; fold. map 28 plts. <br><br>First edition: a view of the Americas intended to engage juvenile readers. These scenes were written and illustrated by the Rev. Isaac Taylor 17591829 a nonconformist minister who like his father was an accomplished engraver. The stories and accounts of creatures such as beavers and rattlesnakes come from South Central and North America including items from Mexico Canada and Patagonia; strong abolitionist themes are notable and sympathy for indigenous peoples abused by conquering invaders although also present are underlying assumptions that English ways are sanest and most logical. The text is => illustrated with 28 copper-engraved plates laid out in double-page spreads each side of the opening with three images as issued uncolored in this copy.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Half-title with inked inscription of M.A. Nelson dated 1821; most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Osborne Collection p. 190; Opie H 140; Gumuchian 5535; Sabin 94469. Publisher's printed tan papercovered sides with red roan shelfback hinges inside tender; sides dust-darkened spine and extremities rubbed with leather chipped and cracking. Interior with expectable age-toning and foxing/spotting and title-page with some offsetting from map; map in good sturdy condition. => Overall a very reasonable indeed attractive copy of this first edition. J. Harris & Son (pr. by H. Bryer) hardcover 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
5153Engraved title-page & 24 engraved plates several plates slightly dampstained. Large 4to orig. blue wrappers frayed & scribbled upon by an early owner stitched as issued uncut. London: I. & J. Taylor 1792. First edition and very rare; ESTC locates only two copies: at the Bodleian and Avery Architecture Library. This is very attractive work of designs for storefronts and specialized doors issued by the leading publishers of architectural works of Britain the Taylor's Architectural Library. The Taylors father and son were shrewd businessmen and gave priority to the practical manuals required to support the building boom of the late eighteenth century. Bound-in at end is a two leaf folio catalogue of the Taylor's publications this seems to be ESTC T80563 dated after 1795. Good copy of a very rare book preserved in a box. ❧ ODNB. unknown books
1825311981Hartford: Silas Andrus 1825. First American edition. Engraved folding map at front wood-engraved title vignette and 78 wood-engraved illustrations on 26 plates. vi 7-117 1 pp. 12mo. Contemporary quarter blue roan and boards spine gilt. Spine rubbed faint embossed ex-libris stamp to lower corner of title. First American edition. Engraved folding map at front wood-engraved title vignette and 78 wood-engraved illustrations on 26 plates. vi 7-117 1 pp. 12mo. First American edition of this work from the juvenile "Scenes" series by author illustrator and nonconformist minister Isaac Taylor 1759-1829. Scenes in America was first published in London 1821. Osborne p. 190 English ed.; Sabin 94469 Silas Andrus unknown books
18182861London: Rest Fenner 1818. First edition. First edition. Contemporary three-quarter polished black calf marbled boards and endpapers. 194pp. Engraved frontispiece "Well Do I Remember." Anne C. Morrel well-known collector's copy with her bookplate. With nice contemporary presentation inscription last page "Louisa H. A. Jones from her dear papa Christmas." Calf rubbed occasional wear. <br/><br/> Rest Fenner hardcover books
183413945NY: Leavitt and Boston: Crocker & Brewster 1834. First US. 8vo pp. 368. Little foxed but a very good tight copy in publisher's boards and linen spine and paper label. Ex-library copy with bookplate on the front paste-down and removed from the rear. Taylor 1787-1865 was an artist author and inventor the oldest surviving son of the artist of the same name. He joined the research staff of The Eclectic Review in 1818 and he published a new translation of Characters of Theophrastus with his own woodcuts. His Fanaticism was issued in London in 1833. See DNB: p. 418. Leavitt and Boston: Crocker & Brewster unknown books
1833161282London: Holdsworth 1833. hardcover. very good. By the author of Natural History of Enthusiasm. viii 515pp. 8vo bound in older 3/4 brown calf over marbled boards well-rubbed at edges with spine slightly damaged and repaired; inked signature and inscription on flyleaf; marbled endpapers and page edges. London: Holdsworth and Ball 1833. First edition. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Holdsworth unknown 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
1833188London: John Harris 1833. Third edition. Third edition. 12mo. Roan red calf spine green cloth. 16 charming engraved illustrations. Corners bumped spine worn. Internally very good. <br/><br/> John Harris hardcover books
188980790Liverpool: Edward Howell 1889. original cloth. 8vo. original cloth. xii 401 pages. New edition revised and enlarged. Sabin cxxxvii. The author tells of the methods to be used in determining the accuracy of ancient texts. Still useful. Worn at top of spine. Edward Howell unknown books
1827451291827. TAYLOR Isaac. HISTORY OF THE TRANSMISSION OF ANCIENT BOOKS TO MODERN TIMES; OR A CONCISE ACCOUNT OF THE MEANS BY WHICH THE GENUINENESS AND AUTHENTICITY OF ANCIENT HISTORICAL WORKS ARE ASCERTAINED: WITH AN ESTIMATE OF THE COMPARATIVE VALUE OF THE EVIDENCE USUALLY ADDUCED IN SUPPORT OF THE CLAIMS OF THE JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES. London: B.J. Holdsworth 1827. 8vo. recent brown quarter-calf leather & marbled boards. First Edition. Near fine small stain leather spine. $175.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
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
189641790New York: Macmillan and Co 1896. Small 8vo pp. v 3 392; text printed in double columns; original blue cloth gilt-lettered spine black glazed endpapers; spine ends chipped light edge wear; contemporary owner's bookplate on front pastedown signature on ffep; interior mostly fine. <br/><br/> Macmillan and Co hardcover 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
183614500London: William Pickering 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original blue cloth spine label slightly chipped. Pickering catalogue bound in at front. Contemporary ownership signature of William Dawson. Small 19th century booksellers' label of Henry Greer Belfast. <br/><br/> William Pickering hardcover books