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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
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
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
189164210London: Quaritch 1891. First edition. 8vo. 4 222 pp. Illustrated from bindings plates chapter head and tail-pieces historiated initial letters. Inscribed on the front endpaper "Elizabeth Gordon / from the compilers. / M. A. E. / C. I. E. / 13th Ap. 99." Charles Elton 1839-1900 a lawyer Queen's Counsel and antiquary and his wife Mary Augusta Elton whom he married in 1863 published the popular title "The Great Book-Collectors" in 1893; Elton a member of the Selden Society possessed a large library which "contained many rare books as well as fine specimens of sixteenth to eighteenth century binding . he was an enthusiastic collector and a good judge of all articles of vertu" DNB 1901 supplement. The recipient may be Elizabeth Anna Gordon 1851-1925 who visited Japan in the early 1890s published an account of her visit part of a world tour with her husband joined the newly formed British Japan Society in England upon her return and amassed a large collection of books which she donated to various Japanese institutions. Old tideline on several plates and pages at the rear one intruding into the image; otherwise very good. Original black pebbled cloth some wear to spine joints with one rather crude repair gilt spine title. 10621. <br/><br/> Quaritch hardcover books
187653982Philadelphia: Collins printer 1876. First edition 8vo pp. 22 2; removed from stabbed binding; very good. Based on the imperfect and incomplete list issued in the Royal Society of London's Catalogue of Scientific Papers. Lea 1792-1886 was an American conchologist geologist and publisher Carey & Lea Lea & Blanchard. <br/><br/> Collins, printer unknown books
182229763Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea 1822. Folio. Mounted on guards throughout. Letterpress title copyright notice on verso 1p. 'Advertisement' dated 'June 21 1822' verso blank 1p. 'Contents' and 'Index' verso blank. 46 double-page hand-coloured engraved maps of America all but one with borders of letterpress descriptive text 1 uncoloured double-page engraved view showing the comparative heights of mountains throughout the world 1 hand-coloured double-page engraved table showing the comparative lengths of the principal rivers worldwide 5 letterpress tables 4 double-page 3 of these hand-coloured 18pp. of uncoloured letterpress text. Contemporary half black morocco over plain paper boards rebacked with original spine laid down and corners renewed. Housed in a cloth clamshell case leather label.<br/> <br/>First edition of one of the most important early atlases printed in the United States: a handsome atlas of the Americas with individual hand-coloured maps of each state in the Union including a seminal map of the West by Stephen H. Long.<br/> <br/>At the time of publication this was the best and most detailed atlas to be produced in the United States. Fielding Lucas the major Baltimore printer was the principal engraver and substantial historical background text accompanies each map. Among the most noted maps in the atlas is Major Stephen H. Long's "Map of Arkansa and other Territories of the United States." That map which depicts the Missouri basin between Nashville in the east the Mandan villages in the north and the Rocky Mountains in the west was based on the surveys conducted by Long on his expeditions of 1819 and 1820. The map published in Carey & Lea's atlas preceded the official account of that expedition by expedition botanist Edwin James which included a smaller map with similar detail titled "Country drained by the Mississippi Western Section". Carey and Lea's 1822 publication of James Account perhaps explains the prior inclusion of this map with Long expedition information in their atlas. On this famous map is the printed legend which would perpetuate a myth for many years to come identifying the high plains as the "Great American Desert." Carey and Lea's atlas was first issued as here in 1822; an 1823 second issue followed substantially the same as the first but with a new title and revised states of several maps and text leaves generally minor revisions including additional shading to maps and improved resetting of several text leaves.<br/> <br/>Phillips 1373a; Howes C133 "aa"; Sabin 15055; Wheat Transmississippi West 348 and 352. H.C. Carey & I. Lea unknown books
1823WRCAM43415APhiladelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea 1823. Letterpress title copyright notice on verso 1p. advertisement verso blank 1p. table of contents verso blank. Forty-six double-page handcolored engraved maps of the United States all but one with borders of letterpress descriptive text; uncolored double-page engraved view showing the comparative heights of mountains throughout the world; handcolored double-page engraved table showing the comparative lengths of the principal rivers worldwide; five letterpress tables four double-page three of these handcolored; 18pp. of letterpress text. Mounted on guards throughout. Modern half calf and marbled boards spine gilt leather label. Dampstaining along lower edge causing chipping to initial leaves. Closed tear in bottom margin of first map repaired with tissue. Very light offsetting from maps. Some dust soiling light tanning and foxing. Good plus. A handsome atlas of the Americas with individual color maps of each state in the Union including a seminal map of the West by Stephen H. Long. At the time of publication this was the best and most detailed atlas to be produced in the United States with substantial historical background text accompanying each map. Fielding Lucas the major Baltimore printer was the principal engraver. <br> <br> Among the most noted maps in the atlas is Major Stephen H. Long's "Map of Arkansa and other Territories of the United States." That map which depicts the Missouri basin between Nashville in the east the Mandan villages in the north and the Rocky Mountains in the west was based on the surveys conducted by Long on his expeditions of 1819 and 1820. The map published in Carey & Lea's atlas preceded the official account of that expedition by expedition botanist Edwin James which includes a smaller map with similar detail titled "Country drained by the Mississippi Western Section." Carey & Lea's 1823 publication of James' ACCOUNT perhaps explains the prior inclusion of this map with Long expedition information in their atlas. <br> <br> On this famous map is the printed legend which would perpetuate a myth for many years to come identifying the high plains as the "Great American Desert." Carey & Lea's atlas was first issued in 1822; this is the second issue with revised states of three maps Maine North Carolina and Louisiana with the same printing of the remaining maps and a cancel title. HOWES C133 "aa." PHILLIPS ATLASES 1373a. SABIN 15055. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 348 352. H.C. Carey & I. Lea hardcover books
182729764Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea 1827. Folio. Mounted on guards throughout. Letterpress title copyright notice on verso 1p. "Advertisement" to Third Edition dated "January 1827" verso blank 1p. "Contents" and "Index" verso blank plus forty-six double-page handcolored copper engraved maps most with descriptive letterpress in margins and many with supplementary text pages following; one double-page engraved plate of mountains uncolored; and one double-page colored plate of river lengths. Titlepage remargined minor foxing some faint staining along bottom edge. Later 19th-century three-quarter calf and original plain paper boards later gilt morocco label. Boards slightly rubbed.<br/> <br/>One of the most important early atlases printed in the United States: a handsome atlas of the Americas with individual colour maps of each state in the Union including a seminal map of the West by Stephen H. Long.<br/> <br/>At the time of publication this was the best and most detailed atlas to be produced in the United States. Fielding Lucas the major Baltimore printer was the principal engraver and substantial historical background text accompanies each map. Among the most noted maps in the atlas is Major Stephen H. Long's "Map of Arkansa and other Territories of the United States." That map which depicts the Missouri basin between Nashville in the east the Mandan villages in the north and the Rocky Mountains in the west was based on the surveys conducted by Long on his expeditions of 1819 and 1820. On this famous map is the printed legend which would perpetuate a myth for many years to come identifying the high plains as the "Great American Desert." The 1827 edition "Third edition Corrected and Improved" of Carey & Lea's historic atlas first published in 1822 includes much new material with all the maps and text updated except for the Washington D.C. and Michigan maps. This was the first American atlas that was modeled on Le Sage's plan of having explanatory text surrounding the maps. The maps for the most part by Fielding Lucas are beautifully drawn and colored.<br/> <br/>Howes C133 "aa"; Phillips 1373a; Sabin 15055; Wheat Transmississippi West 348 and 352. H.C. Carey & I. Lea unknown books
182325085Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea 1823. Folio. 17 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches. Mounted on guards throughout letterpress title copyright notice on verso 1p. Advertisement verso blank 1p. Contents verso blank 46 double-page hand-coloured engraved maps of the United States all but one with borders of letterpress descriptive text 1 uncoloured double-page engraved view showing the comparative heights of mountains throughout the world 1 hand-coloured double-page engraved table showing the comparative lengths of the principal rivers worldwide 5 letterpress tables 4 double-page 3 of these hand-coloured 18pp. of letterpress text. Expertly bound to style in half calf over contemporary marbled paper covered boards flat spine in six compartments divided by gilt roll tools red morocco label in the second compartment the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.<br/> <br/>One of the most important early atlases printed in the United States: a handsome atlas of the Americas with individual colour maps of each state in the Union including a seminal map of the West by Stephen H. Long.<br/> <br/>At the time of publication this was the best and most detailed atlas to be produced in the United States. Fielding Lucas the major Baltimore printer was the principal engraver and substantial historical background text accompanies each map. Among the most noted maps in the atlas is Major Stephen H. Long's "Map of Arkansa and other Territories of the United States." That map which depicts the Missouri basin between Nashville in the east the Mandan villages in the north and the Rocky Mountains in the west was based on the surveys conducted by Long on his expeditions of 1819 and 1820. The map published in Carey & Lea's atlas preceded the official account of that expedition by expedition botanist Edwin James which included a smaller map with similar detail titled "Country drained by the Mississippi Western Section". Carey and Lea's 1823 publication of James Account perhaps explains the prior inclusion of this map with Long expedition information in their atlas. On this famous map is the printed legend which would perpetuate a myth for many years to come identifying the high plains as the "Great American Desert." Carey and Lea's atlas was first issued in 1822; this is the 1823 second issue substantially the same as the first but with a new title and revised states of several maps and text leaves generally minor revisions including additional shading to maps and improved resetting of several text leaves though this copy with first state settings of the Maryland and Virginia text leaves.<br/> <br/>Howes C133 "aa"; Phillips 1373a; Sabin 15055; Wheat Transmississippi West 348 and 352. H.C. Carey & I. Lea unknown 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
18082944Walpole NH: Thomas & Thomas 1808. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Light shelf wear several small nicks and pulls chipping at the head of Vol. 1 head of Volume 2 shows damage two small closed tears glue toning at endpages light even toning to leaves owner signature/stamp in each volume else tight bright and unmarred. Full leather boards red leather label gilt lettering and decorative elements in blind decorative elements. 8vo. 871pp. <br/><br/>Overall a handsome set of this early and rather scarce edition. Thomas & Thomas hardcover books
1827305824Charleston: James S. Burges 1827. First and only edition. 18 2 blank pp. 12mo. Modern pale yellow wrappers. Custom chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. Some pale foxing to title otherwise clean. First and only edition. 18 2 blank pp. 12mo. Rarity of American Judaica. A rare pamphlet issued by the first Jewish Reform movement in the United States the Sephardic Reformed Society of Israelites in Charleston South Carolina recording an address by one of the movement's leaders. The Reformed Society of Israelites formed in 1824 when it split off from the Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim KKBE synagogue in Charleston seeking to implement a number of reforms it deemed crucial to engaging the rising generation. In the process the Society posited a distinctly American form of practice. <br/>Led by Isaac Harby Abraham Moise and David Nunes Carvalho the Reformed Society of Israelites reflected the fact that as Jonathan Sarna has phrased it: "Jews who did not feel at home in synagogue no longer had to compromise their principles for the sake of consensus; they felt free to withdraw and start their own congregations. In free and democratic America congregational autonomy became the rule resulting in a new American Judaism - a Judaism of diversity and pluralism."<br/><br/><br/>The present address was delivered on the third anniversary of the Society by Isaac Cardozo 1786-1855 who served as the group's Vice-President from 1828-1832. Cardozo invokes a "spirit of reform in all existing institutions which is abroad" and reminds the group of its origin as "a society that was instituted mainly for effecting the observance of order and decorum in Hebrew worship: for adapting it to the feelings and propensities of the enlightened Israelite of the present day; and for endeavoring to bring about by argument and petition what neither necessity nor persuasion could before accomplish" before he goes on to defend the mission against various critiques. <br/> <br/>Apart from being a leader within Charleston's Sephardic Jewish community Cardozo was also the patriarch of an important southern African-American family. He had six children with his common-law wife Lydia Weston a free black woman from a prominent Charleston family--one of a number of openly mixed-race households in antebellum Charleston. One of their sons was Francis Cardozo 1836-1903 who became the first African-American to hold statewide office in the United States serving as Secretary of State in South Carolina from 1868 to 1872. Another son Thomas served as State Superintendent of Education from 1873 to 1876. <br/><br/>RARE: OCLC reports only two institutional copies and A.S.W. Rosenbach in his American Jewish Bibliography located only one copy in a private collection. Rosenbach 289 locating one copy in a private collection; OCLC USC Presbyterian College; American Imprints 28385; Singerman 0442 James S. Burges unknown books
1861SS3608London:: Macmillan 1861. 1861. 8vo. xii 532 ads. 28 pp. Folding plate containing 12 geometric diagrams index. Original green blind-stamped cloth gilt spine; beautifully rebacked preserving original spine. Choice copy. Scarce First edition of Todhunter's important historical work including his own research. Todhunter 1820-1884 English mathematician was one of the most influential figures in mathematical education of the 19th century. - DNB. Zeitlinger Sotheran I p. 249: "Very scarce". Cajori History of mathematics p. 370. Macmillan, 1861. hardcover books
1893SS8776Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press 1893. 1893. Three volumes. 8vo. xvi 924; xiii 762; 546 12 pp. Frontis. plates 2 folding diagrams index; uncut. Original black-stamped green cloth gilt-stamped spines; spine ends slightly rubbed minor white stain spots inner hinges cracking Vol. III a bit rubbed Vol. III. Very good. FIRST EDITION. A thorough and authoritative study of elasticity published posthumously. Cambridge University Press, 1893. hardcover books
1834113097Philadelphia 1834. Hardcover. Good Minor wear to extremities; Foxing to pages; Binding tight. Brown leather; Gilt lettering on spine; 160 pp.; No illustrations. Printed by William F. Gibbons Sixth and Cherry Streets. hardcover books
185157769London: Fred Pitman; Phonetic Depot 1851. Thirty-third thousand of the eighth edition 18mo pp. 72 4 ads for Pitman's phonetic publications; tables and full-page shorthand reading exercises in text; original green printed paper wrappers; owner's signature on upper cover light wear to spine very good and clean. Pitman manuals were published in prodigious numbers during the system's dominance although OCLC only identifies 2 copies of this specific printing. Westby-Gibson p. 172. <br/><br/> Fred Pitman; Phonetic Depot unknown books
184453985New York: John Donlevy 1844. Third American edition 16mo pp. 32 3 double-sided folding charts; contemporary cloth-backed marbled paper boards edges dyed green light foxing corner of one chart mis-folded owner's stamp on first page of introduction very good. A relatively early American Pitman imprint. Benn Pitman would not establish himself in the US for another decade. <br/><br/> John Donlevy hardcover books
180165512Boston MA: Printed by Russell and Cutler 1801. First edition. 12mo. viii 9-155 pp. Original drab paper boards and tan paper spine. Soiling and cracking to paper spine paper chipping from boards text clean. A good somewhat tender copy. STODDARD and WHITESELL 702. WEGELIN 1157. <br/><br/> Printed by Russell and Cutler hardcover books
181930932London: Printed for the author 1819. 8vo. 7 x 4 1/4 inches. Hand coloured engraved frontispiece engraved by Hebner and Madox. Uncut. Contemporary paper-backed boards.<br/> <br/>A scarce work on the auricula.<br/> <br/>The author a Barnet Hertsfordshire now London nurseryman and florist originally published this work devoted to the auricula in 1815. Besides detailed descriptions on the flower's cultivation the work includes a list of varieties as well as much information on and recipes for composting. Bound in the rear are lists of subscribers of both the first and the present second edition which reads like a who's who of London nurseryman. Both editions are rare. Printed for the author unknown books
1878WRCLIT18307London & Bath: Pitman 1878. Brown cloth stamped in gilt and black. Bookplate removed lower edge of rear cover rubbed else fine. An interesting nonce volume of variously paginated tracts and pamphlets relating to spelling reform and phonetics. Muller Evans and Pitman are the chief contributors but papers from abroad are included. The NUC locates four copies. Pitman hardcover books
184179006Hartford: Printed by E. Gleason 1841. Hardcover. Very Good. 32p. Later 1/2 leather. 23cm. Clean ex lib. copy. <br/><br/> Printed by E. Gleason hardcover books
184147760Hartford: E. Gleason 1841. Paperback. Very good. 32pp. Darkened overall with some minor loss at the extremities else a very good example. <br/><br/> E. Gleason paperback books
1830185363Wilkesbarre PA: Shap D. Lewis 1830. Hardcover. VG ex-lib copy Associated library markings on cover and inside book Cover and spine have general wear fading staining. Bookblock has age toning. Interior pages have age toning and foxing. Brown cloth boards black title lettering on spine. 209 1 pages. Shap D. Lewis hardcover books
1830218650Wilkesbarre Pa: Printed and Published by Sharp D. Lewis 1830. First edition. pp. 1 - 209 210 errata slip. 1 vols. 12mo. Original blue-green cloth faded and slightly stained printed yellow paper spine label; some light scattered foxing otherwise a very good sound copy. First edition. pp. 1 - 209 210 errata slip. 1 vols. 12mo. Howes: "The first history of this valley." Howes C 292 Printed and Published by Sharp D. Lewis unknown books
1836WRCAM5959New York 1836. 32pp. Modern cloth original printed wrappers bound in. Foxed. Very good. Howes attributes authorship to Jackson. HOWES J20. hardcover books
