Jacob William.ABAA
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1826199927London. : James Ridgway. 1826. Contemporary quarter bound tan over blue boards paper spine label. . Good front hinge split but board still attached spine worn very little foxing contents very good. 8vo. 23.5x14.5 cm. . weight: 0.9 lb. James Ridgway. hardcover books
183127979London: John Murray 1831. First edition 2 vols. 8vo pp. xvi 380; xi 1 415 1; later full speckled calf by Riviere red and green morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines marbled edges and endpapers; 19th century bookplate; slightest rubbing else near fine. William Jacob 1762-1851 was appointed to the comptrollership of corn returns in 1822. "On the suggestion of Huskisson Jacob undertook an inquiry into the production and consumption of the precious metals. This work shows great research but is defective which may be attributed partly for the more recent periods to the insufficient historical information available then" Palgrave II 471. Goldsmiths' 26788; Kress C.2842. <br/><br/> John Murray unknown books
18111303022London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co 1811. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto xiii 1 blank 2 407 1 36 7 1; VG; bound in 3/4 contemporary brown leather marbled boards; paneled spine with black label and gilt lettering; with 13 folding plates; EM consignment; shelved case 9. 1303022. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Printed for J. Johnson and Co hardcover books
187421937Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles 1874. Edition limited to 750 copies 10 volumes in 4 small 8vo bound by Ritter in 3/4 citron morocco over marbled boards and endpapers black morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines t.e.g.; 10 engraved plates by Garnier; very minor wear but generally a fine and sound set. <br/><br/> Librairie des Bibliophiles hardcover books
1878182793Paris: Firmin Didot et cie 1878. Hardcover. VG- overall bumping and wear to boards front end page is loose with previous owner's name on rear. Pages are otherwise clean and clear. Red leather boards with gilt lettering and elaborate gilt tooling; all edge gilt; burgundy and gilt decorative end pages; color illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard; xiii pp 560 pages 36 plates 16 in color including frontispiece. Text French. " Book illustrated with 16 chromolithographs and 250 wood engravings including 20 printed out of text after Watteau Vanloo Largillière Doucher Lancret Greuze Chardin Desportes Oudry Vernet La Tour Les Saint-Aubin Gravelot Cochin Eisen Moreau Marillier Debucourt Etc."- Translated from title page. Includes alphabetical list of painters sculptors architects draftsmen engravers ornamentalists etc. whose works are reproduced in the volume with references to pages or they appear and chronological note on each artist. Firmin Didot et cie hardcover books
1878182794Paris: Firmin Didot et cie 1878. Hardcover. VG- overall bumping and wear to boards soiling to rear of title page and following page. Tissue guard is torn and stuck to color illustration between pages 300-301. Pages are otherwise clean and clear. Bound in half red leather and marble illustrated boards; five raised bands on spine with extensive gilt tooling and gilt lettering; burgundy decorative end pages; color illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard; xiii pp 560 pages 36 plates 16 in color including frontispiece. Text French. " Book illustrated with 16 chromolithographs and 250 wood engravings including 20 printed out of text after Watteau Vanloo Largillière Doucher Lancret Greuze Chardin Desportes Oudry Vernet La Tour Les Saint-Aubin Gravelot Cochin Eisen Moreau Marillier Debucourt Etc."- Translated from title page. Includes alphabetical list of painters sculptors architects draftsmen engravers ornamentalists etc. whose works are reproduced in the volume with references to pages or they appear and chronological note on each artist. Firmin Didot et cie hardcover books
186715458Paris: Veuve Jules Renouard 1867. Folio 35 cm 13.75". Add. engr. t.-p. 2 81 1 pp.; 22 plts. <br><br>Only the Bibliotheque Nationale copy is traced via any major database. Edited and contributed to by the prolific French author Paul Lacroix best known as "Bibliophile Jacob" this lovely collection of short stories poems and meditations by Lacroix Balzac Émile Délerot Charles Nodier et al. is illustrated with 22 large steel engravings done by J.C. Armytage W. Greatbach J.B. Allen J.T. Willmore F. Joubert and others after designs by artists including Turner Webster etc. Contemporary quarter morocco over paper-covered sides spine with gilt-stamped title; binding lightly rubbed over sides and extremities. Front pastedown with small armorial bookplate. Front free endpaper and first few leaves separated. Occasional faint pencilled vocabulary annotations in English. Scattered light spots of foxing with most plates clean and untouched a few showing some spotting in margins. Veuve Jules Renouard unknown books
1858303557Paris Aldolphe Delahys 1858. 1858. First edition thus. 8vo. Small 8vo. French text. P.L. Jacob editor. 15 page introduction by Jacob. Foreword by Augustin Asselin. Contemporary 1/2 gilt stamped maroon morocco over marbled boards t.e.g. minor rubbing; marbled endpapers. Very good. 288 pages. Hardcover. Very Good. Paris, Aldolphe Delahys, 1858. hardcover books
18792558331879. With watercolours photos etc. 4to. Quarter contemporary morocco gilt spine and marbled boards a.e.g. Minor rubbing some pages have been excised. With watercolours photos etc. 4to. Front free endpaper has charming small watercolour of house tipped in with legend in pencil "I believe this is the first dwelling after marriage Rainham Kent. G.T.N. ordained 1806 preached at Romsey.<br/><br/>2. Lumley Lodge Richmond pen and ink drawing. Laid in.<br/><br/>3. Watercolour : "House & chapel built by him of Dr César Malam Prè du Champs- Geneva<br/><br/>4. Pencil drawing "Birthplace of Phillip George de Grand Jacob: Roath Court was left for Somerton in 1808." Signed in picture "Roath Court Frant. July9-39."<br/><br/>5. 2. Lumley Lodge Richmond pencil drawing<br/><br/>6. Crawley Rectory 1832 by A.S.J. Pencil drawing<br/><br/>7. Crawley Rectory and grounds by ASJ<br/><br/>8. Wash drawing of "Abbey Close Winchester" identified lower left<br/><br/>From hence mostly photographs. unknown books
18724383Tiré à 300 exemplaires numérotés. Avec une gravure en frontispice.Reliure de l'époque, un mors fragile. 1/2 maroquin rouge à coins, dos à nerfs, tête dorée. Reliure signée Lanscelin. Très bon Nice Gay et fils 1872 1 volume in-12.
1826316088Cumberland MD: Printed for the Author by J.M. Buchanan 1826. First edition. 8vo. Contemporary half roan and marbled boards spine lettered in gilt. Covers scuffed and worn small semicircular portion of rear cover fire damaged with loss wear extending into final 25 pages at top margin touching a few letters text foxed and faintly dampstained some contemporary pen annotations 1839 ownership inscription on front free endpaper. First edition. 8vo. First edition of this defense of colonial frontiersman Captain Cresap 1742-1775 whom Jefferson echoing others blamed for the murder of the family of the Mingo war chief James Logan during Lord Dunmore's War. Cresap has since been exonerated and the Virginian Daniel Greathouse is now blamed for the massacre of Logan's family.<br/>"This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson's account in NOTES ON VIRGINIA.The immediate occasion for this now rare book written by the revolutionary officer later clergyman who had married Cresap's widow was the reopening of old sores by Joseph Doddridge in his then recently published NOTES ON THE SETTLEMENT AND INDIAN WARS OF THE WESTERN PARTS OF VIRGINIA & PENNSYLVANIA FROM THE YEAR 1763 UNTIL THE YEAR 1783 INCLUSIVE of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" Streeter. Streeter Sale 1335; Howes J32; Graff 2185; Sabin 35488; Siebert Sale 379 Printed for the Author, by J.M. Buchanan unknown books
188153922Cumberland Maryland: Book and Job Printing Establishment of J. J. Miller 1881. Third edition 8vo pp. 120; original brown cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover; spine a bit sunned else near fine. The Frank C. Deering copy with his leather bookplate on the front free endpaper. Bookplate removed from front pastedown but with a sheet bearing John J. Jacob's signature tipped in over it; laid in is an autograph manuscript poem by Jacob with 6 quatrains titled "The Lover to his Mistress on Her Birthday" signed "J.J.J."; also laid in is a one-page A.L.s. from Jacob's grand-daughter regarding her books and a photograph of him. "This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson's account in Notes on Virginia of Cresap's tendency to murder Indians especially in the famous case of the Indian Logan and his defenseless family. The immediate occasion for this . book written by the revolutionary officer late clergyman who had married Cresap's widow was the reopening of old sores by Doddridge in his then recently published Notes of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" Streeter III 1335 for the first edition of 1826. <br/><br/> Book and Job Printing Establishment of J. J. Miller hardcover books
1866156817Cincinnati OH: J.F. Uhlhorn steam job printer 1866. VG- wear to extremities of covers very small leather tear at base of spine. Ancient library stamps from the Long Island Historical Society on title-page at left-center. No other markings. 3.4 leather with marbled boards 5 raised band. 158 pp. followed by Boyer's pp. 1-23. This copy also contains the "Lieutenant Boyer's A JOURNAL OF WAYNE'S CAMPAIGN.AGAINST THE NORTHWESTERN INDIANS" which has a separate titlepage but continuous signatures. This copy lacks a frontispiece called for in other copies with no signs of removal. Written in 1826 by a contemporary of Cresap as a defense of Capt. Cresap contradicting the statements made by T. Jefferson in his "Notes" on the state of Virginia" regarding events in Dunmore's War. ADVERTISEMENT at the beginning feigns a printer's error fot he original edition no being printed or distributed prior to Jefferson's death in 1826. Very clean inside. Re-printed from the Cumberland ed. of 1826 with notes and appendix for W. Dodge by J.F. Uhlhorn steam job printer J.F. Uhlhorn, steam job printer hardcover books
1826WRCAM36095Cumberland Md.: Printed for the Author by J.M. Buchanan 1826. 1231pp. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter roan and marbled boards spine gilt. Boards lightly rubbed and shelfworn. Early ownership signature on front free endpaper. Light tanning scattered foxing old light dampstain in lower third of final five leaves of text. About very good. In a burgundy half morocco and cloth slipcase spine gilt and folding cloth chemise. First edition of this biography of Captain Cresap defending him against charges that he slaughtered Indians before the beginning of the Revolutionary War. In particular Cresap became infamous in the case of the Indian Logan and the murder of his defenseless family in 1774. "This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson's account in NOTES ON VIRGINIA.The immediate occasion for this now rare book written by the revolutionary officer later clergyman who had married Cresap's widow was the reopening of old sores by Joseph Doddridge in his then recently published NOTES ON THE SETTLEMENT AND INDIAN WARS OF THE WESTERN PARTS OF VIRGINIA & PENNSYLVANIA FROM THE YEAR 1763 UNTIL THE YEAR 1783 INCLUSIVE of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" - Streeter. <br> <br> The Streeter copy was bought by Sessler for $650 in 1968. HOWES J32 "b." SABIN 35488. STREETER SALE 1335. FIELD 769. THOMSON 640. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 24967. DAB IV p.538 Cresap. Printed for the Author, by J.M. Buchanan hardcover books
1866WRCAM19054ACincinnati 1866. 15823pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Quarto. Later three-quarter morocco and cloth raised bands. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Very good plus. In a custom gray cloth slipcase. This is one of the copies containing the Lieutenant Boyer's A JOURNAL OF WAYNE'S CAMPAIGN.AGAINST THE NORTHWESTERN INDIANS which has a separate titlepage but continuous signatures. Written in 1826 by a contemporary of Cresap against aspersions published in Jefferson's NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA regarding Dunmore's War. HOWES J32. hardcover books
182625234Cumberland Maryland: for the author by J.M. Buchanan 1826. First edition small 8vo pp. 123 1; contemporary roan-backed marbled boards rebacked old spine with gilt lettering direct neatly laid down; all edges yellow; light wear and rubbing to the binding but generally a good sound copy or better. With the bookplates of Frank Deering and Herbert R. Strauss. "This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson's account in Notes on Virginia of Cresap's tendency to murder Indians especially in the famous case of the Indian Logan and his defenseless family. The immediate occasion for this now rare book written by the revolutionary officer late clergyman who had married Cresap's widow was the reopening of old sores by Doddridge in his then recently published Notes of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" Streeter III 1335. American Imprints 24967; Howes J32; Field 769; Sabin 35488; Thomson 640. The Streeter copy brought $650; the Siebert copy $4500. <br/><br/> for the author, by J.M. Buchanan hardcover books
1866WN386103Cincinnati Ohio: Jno. F. Uhlhorn 1866. Library bookplate on front pastedown call number on title page and other indicia on postliminaries. Joints rubbed and some scalping of spine and tips. Reprinted from the Cumberland edition of 1826. Cloth reattached at edge on lower board. A refutation of Thomas Jefferson's accusation that Cresap was a murderer of Indians. Reprint. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. Jno. F. Uhlhorn Hardcover books
185962094Wellsburg VA: Jacob & Smith Publishers and Printers 1859. First edition. 12mo. 280 pp. Frontispiece portrait and three plates. The story of the Corps of Discovery and its exploration of Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase seen through the lens of this biography of the last surviving member of the expedition. "The biography of its citizens is the history of a nation and we trust that the reputations of history will not suffer from one departure in permitting the humble biography of a hero of the ranks to stand by those of the great and title" from the preface. Howes J-31. Graff 2183. Wagner-Camp 6:10: "Gass became one of the best-known members of the expedition for several reasons: his key role as sergeant brought his name up frequently in the journals of Lewis and Clark his account was the first to be published he was the first to have a biography written about him and finally he outlived the other members of the Corps of Discovery by decades dying at the age of ninety-nine in 1870." Plates with foxing text toned but a very good copy. 20th-century green three-quarter leather and cloth gilt rules and title on spine. 9761. <br/><br/> Jacob & Smith, Publishers and Printers hardcover books
1859017587Wellsburg VA: Jacob & Smith 1859. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 280 pages of text. Original brown stamped cloth binding with moderate rubbing to the extremities and fraying along the hinges with some edges re-attached and with original backstrip remaining intact; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Illustrated with a frontisportait of Gass and three plates pg.59 pg.108 pg.248 as well as other vignettes; complete. Minor spotting to the closed page edges scattered light soiling to numerous page edges and a few pages with small spots of staining and a few that have the corners creased. Overall an attractive unrestored example of this memoir of the last survivor of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Title continues ".Together with Gass' Journal of the Expedition Condensed; and Sketches of Some Events Occurring During the Last Century in the Upper Ohio Country Biographies Reminiscences etc." Previous owner's ink name mostly erased from original colored front endpapers. Retains both front and rear sets of the original colored endpapers as well as two additional white endpapers at the front and three additional white endpapers at the rear. Howes J-31aa. Wagner Camp 6:10. Streeter 3067. Graff 2183. Sergeant Gass lived to age 99 outliving all other members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Jacob & Smith Hardcover books
1840202411840. Rudiments of Law" Jacob Giles 1686-1744. Hargrave John Editor. A Law Grammar Or Rudiments of Law. London: William Crofts 1840. xii 266 2 pp. Folding table of descents. Includes two-page publisher catalogue at rear. Octavo 7-1/2" 4-1/2". Contemporary quarter-cloth over paper-covered boards printed paper title label to spine. Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities. Moderate toning to text underlining to a few passages interior otherwise clean. $250. Eighth and final edition. A terse but wide-ranging compendium of legal definitions grounds and principles maxims moot points and cases and terms of art which Jacob intended for the instruction of "all youth at our Universities or Inns of court and young gentlemen in their private education.": Preface. The first edition was published in 1744. The final edition was reprinted in Boston in 1850. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:3445. unknown books
1885BLR - HAY383091885 - 1886. Paris Librairie Hachette et Cie. reliés demi basane fauve plats ornés de papier moiré couleurs chaudes. Très faible mouillure peu visible en pied et jusqu'en page 50 du premier volume ; rousseurs faibles et disséminées aux deux volumes ; basane victime de quelques faibles frottements surtout sur les coiffes ; ensemble en bon état. 2 volumes in-8. dos à 5 nerfs avec titres dorés ; couvertures des exemplaires brochés conservées. unknown
1880LA - HAY367881880. Paris Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie. relié plein chagrin bordeaux éditeur. Quelques très faibles et petites taches sur le premier plat sinon très bonne reliure tranches très lisses et intérieur particulièrement frais. fort pt in-8. avec 11 grandes gravures d'après les dessins de H. Philippoteaux et une chromolithographie d'après Émile Wattier ; dos à 4 nerfs avec caissons décorés de filets motifs floraux et titre dorés : toutes tranches dorées. unknown
1856030996Berlin: Georg Reimer 1856. xii 524p. half-cloth with marbled boards ex libris. Georg Reimer unknown books
1882RO30144234CH DELAGRAVE. 1882. In-8. Cartonnage d'éditeurs. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos fané, Mouillures. 444 pages augmentees de quelquesaquarelles en couleurs hors textes et de dessins en noir et blanc dans le texte - tranches dorees -. . . . Classification Dewey : 843.0692-Livres d'enfants
188036189Reliure demi-chagrin rouge. Dos à nerfs joliment orné de caissons dorés. Coiffe supérieure légèrement frottée. Tête dorée. Intérieur propre. Illustré d'une eau-forte en frontispice de Ad. Lalauze.
