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187829492New York: American Bible Society 1878. 8vo. 32 pp. <br><br>First edition: "A sermon preached by appointment before the American Bible Society in the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church New York City May 5th 1878" wherein the Rev. Chamberlain discusses his experiences as a missionary in India.<br>Â Â Â Â This is the original first edition not a modern printing. Publisher's printed gray-green paper wrappers edges sunned and chipped back joint starting from head. Pages clean. American Bible Society unknown books
188826485New York: Natural Science Assn. of America 1888. Large 4to pp. 10 182; title-p. printed in red and black; engraved portrait frontispiece 119 chromolithograph plates "representing upwards of seven hundred different species and varieties of North American birds including a popular account of their habits and characteristics." Original maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on upper cover t.e.g. the whole recased and rebacked in black pebble-grain cloth gilt-lettered direct on spine; tissue guards browning but otherwise a nice copy. Another edition of Nissen I 473; Sitwell Fine Bird Books 1700-1900 p.145. <br/><br/> Natural Science Assn. of America hardcover books
1888102057Folio 12" x 15" publisher's leather somewhat crudely rebacked gilt title on front cover illustrated with engraved frontispiece and 119 chromolithographed plates with tissue guards 182 8 pp. Binding shaken top cover and spine and front endpapers partially separated from text block back joint cracked but still attached significant wear to covers around extremities bookplate on front pastedown; contents clean and bright. Published in several editions the plates are extremely attractive. Studer 1840-1904 was born in New York City and would become a printer and lithographer. He was also an ornithologist and seems to have been active in this field in the Columbus Ohio area after the Civil War. However it is believed that the plates were based on drawings by Theodore Jasper. The plates while very attractive are believed to be designed to help with identification. Size of book will require extra postage. online Cornell library website. The Natural Science Association of America, books
1848282248Boston Cincinnati: T. H. Carter U. P. James 1848. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Collection of children's stories by noted authors of the genre. With hand-colored frontispiece of a flower and five inserted plates. Numerous in-text wood engravings and head- and tail-pieces. With initials surrounded by borders composed of printer's flowers. 128 pp. Marbled boards backed in red cloth with titling in gold. Wear to the board extremities. With the childish signature of Willie Meldrum of Washington. We find less than a dozen copies on OCLC. Very Good binding. T. H. Carter | U. P. James unknown books
186046735New York: Sheldon & Company. Very Good. 1860. Hardcover. NY: Sheldon & Co. 1860. 252 pages hardbound. First edition. A good copy in a sound edgeworn maroon cloth binding. . Sheldon & Company hardcover books
186346736New York: Sheldon & Company. Very Good. 1863. Hardcover. NY: Sheldon & Co. 1863. 252 pages hardbound. A good copy in a sound lightly edgeworn cloth binding. . Sheldon & Company hardcover books
186422710New York: Sheldon & Co 1864. 1st edition Sternick 10. Brown cloth with boards stamped in blind & spine in gilt. NF sq & tight/usual light foxing to text paper/po pencil annotations to first page of text noting date/context for the tale. 252 10 pp. Adverts last 10 pp. Engraved title frontis & 5 inserted full-page plates. 12mo in 6s. 6-3/4" x 4-3/8" <br/><br/> Sheldon & Co hardcover books
18632311937New York: Sheldon & Company 1863. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Small stain on front board light general wear. 1863 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 252 pp. 10 pages of publisher ads follow text. Engraved frontispiece title page and plates. "The Florence Stories is a six volume series written by Jacob Abbott. As with many of Abbott's series this is a travelogue series and the title character with companions travels to various sites. The destinations are not as important however as the simplistic lessons of morality and character that are learned by the traveling youngsters. Florence her brother John her cousin Grimkie and her mother Mrs. Morelle Mr. Morelle was away on business had adventures stretching from their home in the Hudson River area of New York to Scotland the English Channel Rome Paris etc."--Jacob Abbot .com Sheldon & Company hardcover books
186028933NY: Sheldon 1860. First Edition. 12mo pp. 252. Illustrated. Red cloth. Cover somewhat worn owner's name on flyeaf. VG. Abbott was an American clergyman and author of the 'Rollo' books histories and biographies for the young etc. Sheldon unknown books
1872S6291Cambridge:: John Wilson and Son 1872. 1872. 8vo. 21 pp. Original printed wrappers. Ex library notations on title. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on top cover. Very good. Houzeau & Lancaster II col. 38. John Wilson and Son, 1872. unknown books
1866RLARHIS00CCWPicadilly 1866. Very Good. Larwood Jacob. The History of Sign Boards From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Hotten John Camden. London: Picadilly 1866. 536pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 12mo. Book condition: Very good with rubbed and bumped edges sporadic light foxing and former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Contains a history of business signs with accompanying illustrations. Frontispiece handcolored. Picadilly hardcover books
187234272London: Chatto and Windus 1872. 8vo pp. x 3 536 16 ads dated 1873; 19 plates a few pencil notations some very light foxing label scuffed else a very good copy in contemporary half black calf over marbled boards and red morocco label with gilt lettering on decorative spine raised bands. <br/><br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover books
186716913London: John Camden Hotten 1867. 8vo 18.8 cm 7.4". Col. frontis. x 536 pp.; 19 plts. <br><br>Sixth edition following its initial appearance in the previous year of this engaging account full of anecdotes historical digressions and literary quotations as well as attempted analysis of => emblems and their meanings. "One hundred illustrations in fac-simile" are attributed to Larwood on the title-page; the work features 19 plates each depicting an assortment of house- and pub-signs as well as a hand-colored frontispiece "Drawn by Experience . . . Engraved by Sorrow" in which a cheerful gin-drinking lady rides her woebegone care-laden husband.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Title-page stamped by a private collector: "Thomas Witherell Palmer Log Cabin Park. Contemporary half calf with marbled papercovered sides spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and ornate gilt-stamped decorations within compartments; binding with light to moderate rubbing overall with spine leather starting to show some cracking. All edges stained red.<br>Â Â Â Â => Delightful reading and looking and a delightful copy. John Camden Hotten hardcover books
188439910London: Chatam and Windus Piccadilly. Very Good. 1884. Ninth Edition. Hardcover. Hinges cracked front end pages detached but present edges rubbed otherwise good . Chatam and Windus, Piccadilly hardcover books
1900117392London: Chatto & Windus 1900. hardcover. very good. Frontispiece 100 illustrations by J. Larwood 536pp. short 8vo 3/4 morocco gilt-stamped raised bands t.e.g.; hinges lightly rubbed some pages darkened. London: Chatto & Windus 1900. Very good.<br/><br/> Eleventh Edition.<br/><br/> Chatto & Windus unknown books
1900001028London: Chatto & Windus 1900. 11th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Larwood Jacob. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. x 536 pp. With 100 illustrations in facsmile. 19 plates. Definitive study of curious and fascinating topic. Spine sunned somewhat. Some wear to cloth. Frontis plate starting at hinge but still attached. Generally clean and tight. A very good copy. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
185121515London: James Watson 1851. Hardcover. Good. Second thousand. 100 pp in publisher's purple cloth with blind-stamped decoration. Significant chipping to the spine cloth small water stain on front board paper cracked over front hinge but hinge secure. Foxing to title page only otherwise interally clean binding tight. "George Jacob Holyoake was mainly self-educated and a vigorous campaigner for secularism and freethought during the 19th century. He wrote 160 books and pamphlets and edited several magazines including The Movement and The Reasoner. Holyoake was the last person in England to be imprisoned on a charge of atheism for saying at a public lecture in Cheltenham in 1842 at a time of economic hardship: "If I could have my way I would place the deity on half pay as the Government of this country did its subaltern officers" Humanists UK. James Watson hardcover books
18235325London: Printed for Thomas Kelly 17 Paternoster-Row 1823. Octavo 21.5 x 14 cm. 464 pages. Index. Lacking the frontispiece portrait of Schnebbelie. Engraved title featuring a cornucopic table. Illustrated with eleven plates mostly carving instructions and menus. Stated seventeenth edition. While Andre Simon claimed this was "probably the most popular cookery book in England during the last decade of the eighteenth century" BG page 81 Maclean pushes back on this concept ". this is a bold assertion and the present compiler has no evidence to justify it." Maclean page 69. Jacob Schnebbelie first revised and expanded The Houekeeper's Instructor in 1804. A number of institutions date this printing as 1923 and we've found no supporting evidence of this nor reason to think this dating is far off the mark. The estimate of the date was not shared by experienced culinary bookseller Marian L. Gore whose bookseller ticket and pricing code are present in this volume along with a copy of her invoice for this and other works to cookery collector Walter Fillin. Her description estimates 1811. Some light soiling throughout; but generally clean and sound. Original tree calf-covered boards with corners bumped suffing and abrasions rebacked with modern calf spine with gilt-titled black spine label. Lacking frontispiece portrait as noted above; bookseller ticket of Gore to preliminary blank; bookplate of collectors Walter & Lucille Fillin; invoice of sale ladi-in. Good or better. Cagle 742; Maclean page 69; Oxford page 133 all earlier printings; Simon BG 832 833 earlier printings; Vicaire col. 441. Printed for Thomas Kelly, 17, Paternoster-Row hardcover books
1898WRCAM7787ANew York 1898. xxiv183pp. plus leaf of advertisements and folding facsimile frontis. Original blue cloth spine gilt. Hinges a bit loose spine ends and corners bumped some shelf wear. Later ownership inscription and remnants of bookplate on front free endpaper. About very good. From an edition limited to 950 copies edited by Elliott Coues. Fowler was the first American to travel through much of the territory traversed. This copy belonged to renowned American historiographer and biographer Dale L. Morgan with his ownership inscription on the front free endpaper. HOWES F298. RITTENHOUSE 224. hardcover books
1898WRCAM7787New York 1898. xxiv183pp. plus leaf of advertisements. Folding facsimile frontis. Original cloth. Some shelf wear. Very good. From an edition limited to 950 copies. Fowler was the first American to travel through much of the territory traversed. Edited by Elliott Coues. HOWES F298. RITTENHOUSE 224. hardcover books
189734202Leeds: Central Co-operative Offices 1897. First Edition. 8vo pp. 260. Bound in some worn publisher's cloth spine lacking cloth at extremities corporate library bookplate inscribed on the end paper to "My dear & life long friend Dr. F. Hollrik sp. A good copy. Large fold-out map of the city of Leeds with the stores run by the Industrai Society noted. Illustrated with photos. Holyoake 1817-1906 was an English social reformer and Owenite minister. He wrote a number of books on similar topics. Central Co-operative Offices unknown books
18112473New York / Philadelphia: I. Riley and P. Byrne 1811. First American Edition. Full leather. Very good. From the personal library of President James Buchanan The Law Dictionary signed by Buchanan on the title page. Octavo ii 553pp. Full period calf title in gilt on spine over red morocco label. Statement on title page that this is the First American Edition from the Second London Edition. Spine repaired at ends reinforced hinges. Some age toning with foxing on endpapers. This is Volume V from a complete set of 6 volumes. Signed by President James Buchanan on the title page. This law book is from the personal library of President James Buchanan. His library was primarily held at his home in Lancaster PA called Wheatland. The majority of his presidential papers correspondence and books went to Dickinson college his alma mater. After graduating with honors in 1809 James Buchanan moved to Lancaster and became a legal apprentice to James Hopkins. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1812. Buchanan would go on to serve in the House of Representatives from 1821-1831 United States Senator 1834-1845 then as the 17th Secretary of State under President James K. Polk. He was elected President of the United States in 1856 serving one term. He predicted in retirement that "history would vindicate my memory" but his inability to stop the succession of the southern states has sealed his legacy as one of the least successful presidents in history. I. Riley and P. Byrne unknown 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
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
18546319New York: Clark Austin & Smith 1854. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. Jacob Abbott's "Lucy" books in 6 volumes. The 1854 revised edition following the 1841-42 1st editions. All volumes solid and VG in their patterned red cloth with bright decorative gilt-lettering and design at the spines. Very light foxing intermittently thru the text several hinges fragile but still sturdy. 16 mos 1080 pgs. all told. The set consists of: "Cousin Lucy's Conversations" "Stories Told to Rollo's Cousin Lucy" "Cousin Lucy at Study" "Cousin Lucy Among the Mountains" "Cousin Lucy at Play" and "Cousin Lucy on the Sea-Shore" <br/><br/> Clark, Austin & Smith hardcover books
