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184254598Libanon PA: Jos. Hartman 1842. 12mo pp. xii 184; woodcut frontispiece; half calf over blue paper boards boards scuffed and bumped text foxed good and sound. With the ownership stamps of John B. Schmeyer on flyleaf. A manual of horse care. OCLC finds none in the US 2 in Germany. <br/><br/> Jos. Hartman hardcover books
184241928Libanon i.e. Lebanon PA: Gedruckt bey Jos. Hartman 1842. 1st edition American Imprints 42-2898. Period brown half sheep binding with blue paper wrapped boards. General wear to binding with leather tips mostly worn away. Lacks ffep. Period poi dated 1854 to preliminary blank. Usual browning & foxing to paper. A Good copy of this uncommon veterinary handbook to horse care and horseshoeing by a farrier in Lancaster County. xii 184 pp. Text in German fraktur. Full-page wood engraving of man leading a horse on recto of leaf preceding the title page i.e. image doesn't face title page. 12mo signed in 6s. 7" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/> Gedruckt bey Jos. Hartman hardcover books
1898115515Williamstown Mass.: Herbert H. Lehman 1898. Octavo original green cloth. First edition. Collects twelve unsigned stories. The book was printed by James B. Lyon in Albany N. Y. Wright III 3269. Contemporary gift inscription dated 5 June 1898 on front free endpaper. A very good copy. #115515 [Herbert H. Lehman] unknown books
199055683London: Printing Historical Society 1990. First printing of this edition. Small 4to. 39 136 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine dust jacket. London: Printing Historical Society unknown books
199064241London: Printing Historical Society 1990. First edition. 4to. 39 136 pp. Reprints Davison's specimen book of available illustrations vignettes cuts etc.; one folding leaf Isaac makes a case for the book's issuance in parts over some time probably after 1837; at least one of the pictured ornaments must have come from the 1850s. Very good. Decorated glossy wrappers. 10601. <br/><br/> Printing Historical Society unknown books
199043915London: Printing Historical Society 1990. Small 4to pp. 39 plus illustrations of over 1000 items. Paper wraps. Near fine. Printing Historical Society unknown books
25540Boston: S. E. Cassino 1882. Illustrated with fifty plates of flowers in full color drawn by Isaac Sprague. Bound in original full brick-red cloth. 36 x 28 cm. Plate IX is missing and plate VII appears twice apparently as issued otherwise complete with tissue guards. Binding is weak pages are brittle at edges with tiny chips and minor browning confined to margines otherwise book is good with bright clean plates. <br/><br/> Boston: S. E. Cassino, 1882 hardcover books
1882002948Boston: S. E. Cassino. Armstrong & Co. lithographer 1882. Full Morocco. Very Good Plus. iv 210 pp including index. 50 colored plates measuring 32 by 24 cm 12.5 by 9.5 inches. Boston artist Isaac Sprague 1811-1895 was America's best known botanical painter of his day. Beginning as a carriage painter he found himself drawn to birds and flora. After working as an assistant to Audobon he collaborated with botanist Asa Gray for whom he furnished many illustrations. Full thick leather decorated with gilt borders and dentelles or turn ins. Five raised bands. Fabric endpapers. Front joint repaired in upper front. Some rubbing of the joints; otherwise leather is fresh and attractive. Plates are clean. A few tissue guards are missing. <br/><br/> S. E. Cassino. Armstrong & Co., lithographer unknown books
19743496New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1974. First edition of this work by the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Tall quarto original cloth illustrated throughout. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Signed by Eric Carle on the title page. "This great storyteller has put a new and mildly moral twist on the story of Noahs Ark . . . and Eric Carle does not disappoint. His cut-out portraits of the animals are colorful and vigorous and combined with his paintings varied and provocative. This is good stuff for hungry little eyes" The Boston Globe. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
197472333NY:: Farrar Straus and Giroux. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0374384207 . Translated by Elizabeth Shub. Stated first printing. SIGNED by the illustrator. Very good in a very good minor edge wear at the spine ends and corners dust jacket. . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover books
197967173NY:: Farrar Straus and Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0374384207 . Translated by Elizabeth Shub. Third printing. Near fine in a near fine short closed edge tear at the crown of the spine dust jacket. . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover books
1971163953Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1971. Octavo cloth. First edition. Signed on the front free endpaper by Asimov. Collects seventeen stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum John W. Campbell Robert A. Heinlein James Blish Arthur C. Clarke Hal Clement H. Beam Piper Larry Niven and others. Anatomy of Wonder 1987 13-22. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #163953 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1938110808Girard KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications 1938. 96p. wraps rear wrap slightly stained paper browned. Haldeman-Julius Publications unknown books
189241669Boston: Roberts Brothers 1892. Small 8vo pp. x 310; original maroon cloth gilt-lettered spine; light edge wear 1-inch tear to pp. 309-310 not affecting text; 2 contemporary bookplates one partly obscuring the other on front pastedown; a very good sound copy. <br/><br/> Roberts Brothers hardcover books
1887390Troy N.Y.: Nims and Knight 1887. Folio. 320 x 230 mm. 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches. 48 leaves of text and 10 full-page colored lithographic plates. Original publisher's decorated binding some minor scrapes to the boards; paper lightly toned by age and one plate with outer margin and corner with small tears; otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Beautifully rendered colored lithograph plates of the botanical work of Isaac Sprague the "most accurate of living botanical artist . . ." working in the late 19th century. The plates based on water color drawings were printed by Nims and Knight the noted Troy New York publisher who specialized among other subjects in illustrated books and botanical art. Sprague was the younger brother of Hosea Sprague the meteorologist and local historian of Hingham Massachusetts who at an early age was apprenticed to a carriage painter where his skills were quickly recognized. His ability to translate observed object into drawings caught the attention of James Audubon and in 1840 he accompanied him on his trip up the Missouri River to sketch quadrupeds. Upon is return he was introduced to Asa Gray and began a long collaboration of rendering botanical specimens into drawings for Gray's works. Gray was quoted as saying that Sprague "raised the level of botanical illustration in this country to that of the great European centers." John Galluzzo. Looking Back at South Shore History from Plymouth Rock to Quincy Granite. Charleston S. C. 2013. G. Edmund Gifford "The Massachusetts Audubon Letter"' 1975. Nims and Knight unknown books
17313925London: Printed for Emanuel Matthews; Richard Ford and Richard Hett 1731. 18th Century full vellm-wrapped boards with contemporary holograph title on upper spine. 365pp. with Contents in back. Covers soiled and slightly worn internally very good and tight with usual thumbing and wear. Scarce and early title of one of Watts' important books. Printed for Emanuel Matthews; Richard Ford, and Richard Hett unknown books
001555New York: McLoughlin Brothers. Wraps. Good. N.d. mid-19th Century. 12 pp. With three hand-colored illustrations. With series of four line stanzas containing moral aphorisms intended to be instructive guides for children. Some of the couplets may now strike readers as callous and others as pitiable but this can also be a result of an antiquated wording. An example: "Since I love to help the weak Though they're neither fair nor witty." This was issued as part of a series of pietistic or religious-tinged publications which became a profitable sideline niche for McLoughlin now better known for lighter children's fare and its puzzles and games. The brochure is about 5.5 x 4 inches. There is soiling on the yellow wraps and some within. <br/><br/> McLoughlin Brothers paperback books
45220New York: McLoughlin Bros. Publishers N.d. Edition not stated. 12mo; chromolithographed wrappers; 12pp; illus. Ownership inscription Jacob H. Kerr dated 1890. Spine held together with clear tape; generally soiled and worn; text complete with the four color-printed vignettes clean and in excellent condition; still just Good. A McLoughlin Brothers juvenile chapbook issued in the publisher's series of "Illuminated Texts for Sunday School Rewards. McLoughlin Bros., Publishers unknown books
18165960Frankfort Kentucky: 8 June 1816. The survey refers to acreage bound by "a post" "a black oak" "a Spanish oak" "two hickory bushes" and the creek. The lot is near modern Little River in Christian County in the Southwestern part of the state. Isaac Shelby was Kentucky's founding governor inaugurated the same day that the Commonwealth joined the United States. His term ended in 1796 but with the outbreak of the War of 1812 Shelby was brought out of retirement to serve a second term. By all accounts he was a brilliant governor. 1 leaf 327 x 400 mm. Seal of the Land Office of Kentucky. Lot warranted to Josiah Matthews described in manuscript with paraphs. Signed by the governor and by M.L. Hardin secretary. Partially divided along horizontal fold; chip on left edge; toned. 8 June unknown books
1974193904Harper & Row 1974. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1974 Harper and Row edition no dust jacket. Blue boards are clean binding is good no marks or notations found. Damp staining to bottom edge near spine and a few light stains on pages. HB HS Harper & Row hardcover books
1904729361904. PLATT Isaac Hull. WALT WHITMAN. From the series Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans edited M.A. DeWolfe Howe. Boston: Small Maynard & Co. 1904. 12mo. blue cloth over limp boards spine in gilt t.e.g. frontisportrait untrimmed. Two ink names to ffep one "M. De W. Howe" in Howe's hand. Slightly skewed sunned touch of soil and minimal surface wear to cloth. About very good. unknown books
1914103095Boston: Small Maynard & Company 1914. Hardcover. 147p. frontis-portrait with tissue-guard preface chronology bibliography first edition mcmiv on title page copyright 1904 and published November 1904 of copyright page blue cloth gilt top edge gilt small ownership name on f.e.p. minor wear and split at the front coverhinge. The Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans series edited by M. A. DeWolfe Howe. Small, Maynard & Company hardcover books
1800WRCAM50821Paris 1800. Three volumes. 4viii5-321pp. plus six plates; 344pp. plus four plates; 4294pp. plus one plate and a large folding map. Half title in each volume. Contemporary marbled paper-covered boards gilt leather spine labels. Minor shelf wear some sunning to spines. Contemporary French bookplate on pastedown of first volume. Internally clean. Very good. The scarce first French translation of Weld's TRAVELS THROUGH THE STATES OF NORTH AMERICA AND THE PROVINCES OF UPPER AND LOWER CANADA DURING THE YEARS 1795 1796 AND 1797. The date on the titlepages is given as "8" referring to the eighth year of the new French Republic after the Revolution. Weld an Irishman arrived in Philadelphia in late 1795 at the age of nineteen. His observations during two years of travels through eastern North America and Canada told through a series of letters comprise one of the most popular narratives of the day. Story wrote that "his account of Canada letters 21-25 is a clear and sustained description of an area and a way of life that pleased him more than had the United States." The engraved plates are after sketches by the author. The map shows the east coast of America south through North Carolina and west through the Great Lakes region with an inset map of the Great Lakes area as well. TPL 710. HOWES W235. LANDE 890 ref. CLARK II:132 ref. GAGNON I:3701 ref. JCB II:4062 ref. SABIN 192541 ref. hardcover books
1852D14942Rochester: Charles H. McDonell 1852. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 256 pp. Original yellow wraps lettered in black. Very light wear only; an excellent copy. Communication with many famous spirits contained within these pages including George Washington Thomas Jefferson Voltaire Swedenborg. <br/><br/> Charles H. McDonell paperback books
1852WRCAM10989Rochester N.Y.: Charles H. McDonell Printer 1852. 256pp. Original printed wrappers. Some wear to wrappers. Occasional trace of foxing late minor dampstain. Still about fine. A superior copy of a scarce work. Converted to spiritualism in 1848 by teenaged Kate and Margaret Fox the author and his wife were early believers and did a good deal to further the movement. Spirits contacted here include Swedenborg Calhoun Washington Penn Voltaire and Jefferson with an introduction by Franklin. Post was a noted abolitionist and his wife was a supporter of women's rights; their circle of friends included William Lloyd Garrison Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. "Post had a mind quick and vigorous in the perception and acceptance of new ideas and ready to acknowledge them regardless of consequences" - DAB. Charles H. McDonell, Printer unknown books
