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1817D12811Milano: P. Hugues 1817. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary half black and green morocco gilt-stamped lettering and ornament direct in spine compartments 5 raised bands; folio 455x300mm; leaves printed on the recto only with wide margins; consisting of engraved illustrated title-p. I-VI engraved text and illustrations 3 scimie dell' antico continente prima classe orang I-IX 2 seconda classe babbuino X-XVII 2 terza classe guenone XVIII-L 3 scimie del nuovo continente quarta classe sapaju LI-LX 2 quinta classe sapaju-sagoino LXI-LXX LXXI-LXXXVIII text 2 indice 6 dei lemuriani ossia maki propriamente detti genere maki I-VIII 2 genere indri IX-X 2 genere loris XI-XIII 2 genere galago XIV 2 genere tarsiere XV XVI indice. Collates complete with printed and engraved text and a grand total of 85 very fine -- and very charming -- engraved plates of monkeys most of whom will remind you of someone you know. Spine tips and edges of boards discreetly renewed; some light scuffing along spine and joints. Marginal browning; a few tiny worm holes to last few leaves; otherwise nice and bright. Bookplates of Cecilia Barbosa de Moura. <br/><br/>An important early monograph on primates including orangutans baboons guenons sapajous lemurs indris loris galagos tarsiers. P. Hugues hardcover books
35182Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. NY Harper & Brothers 1860. Original cloth somewhat worn good condition. . Other hardcover books
1930118659Yonkers-on-Hudson New York: World Book Company 1930. Hardcover. VG Ex-lib. writing at spine perforated stamp to title page stamp to last page. Green blue tan and brown cloth over boards 1 color per volume; 186 pp. 186 pp. 194 pp. 178 pp.; 1 color frontispiece per volume; Profusely illustrated with bw figures. This set includes 4 textbooks: Fifth Year - First Half Fifth Year - Second Half Sixth Year - First Half and Sixth Year - Second Half; Covers the history of the United States from its exploration and colonization up through the first world war; Includes readings and exercises for students; Very rare--less than 10 holdings in Worldcat. World Book Company hardcover books
195729449NY: New York Academy of Sciences 1957. Paperback. Good. 155-276pp. Eight diagrams seven folding. Wraps a bit soiled and worn ink names on front crease to lower corner else a good copy. <br/><br/> New York Academy of Sciences paperback books
187833773Columbus Oh: Studer 1878. First Edition. 152 16pp. illus. 190 colored plates most with tissue guards. Contemp. half mo. with gold stamped spine and new endpapers. The colored plates represent upwards of seven hundred different species and varities of North American birds including a popular account of their habits and characteristics"-The title page. Studer was a painter lithographer and popular orinthologist in Columbus. He was sometimes referred to as " The poor man's Audubon". The plates are really very nice. Studer unknown books
19771330070New York: Harrison House 1977. Hardcover. Folio; First published 1881; G; Hardcover; Spine blue with gold print; Boards in blue cloth with gold print tattering to spine caps wear to corners; Text block has slight spotting to top edge else clean and tight; 182 pages "one hundred and nineteen crayon plates" color. 1330070. FP New Rockville Stock. Harrison House hardcover books
188176061New York & Columbus Ohio: Jacob H. Studer & Co. Very Good. 1881. Contemporary Leather. Full leather with gilt and blind-stamping to the covers and spine showing some scuffing and soiling edge-wear and rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. Joints cracked with some of the leather spine chipped with loss. Hinges are cracked causing play in the covers but the text-block remains solid. Contents are bright and clean with 119 very nice full page chromolithograph color illustrations. The volumes measures 14 1/2 x 12 inches in full contemporary leather original. Pages edges gilt and tissue guard present. . Jacob H. Studer & Co. hardcover books
1878127931.1Columbus OH: Jacob H. Studer & Co 1878. Hardbound. Overall VG-. Some wear to cloth including some ripping at top of spine. Ex-library with bookplate perforated and ink stamps on title page and ink stamp on bottom page edges. Some tissue guards folded. Plate 3 is missing a corner only affects margin not image. A set of pages near the end is folded at the corner with the crease most extreme on p 167 Plates are clean and intact. Red library buckram. 182 pp with 119 interleaved tissue-guarded color lithographed plates preceded before the title page by an extensive index of 8pp. Gilt page edges. It seems as if this first printing from 1878 has the superior presentation of color plates compared to the later editions. Jacob H. Studer & Co hardcover books
1878127931Columbus OH: Jacob H. Studer & Co 1878. Hardbound. Overall VG with the notable and large exception of the circular ink ownership stamp on every single color plate. Ink stamp to top and bottom of text block. Sold as a reference copy only not as a collectible book. Sturdy black library buckram. 182 pp with 119 interleaved tissue-guarded color lithographed plates preceded before the title page by an extensive index of 8pp. "Ornithology; Or the Science of Birds" was also published by Studer in 1878. It seems as if these two volumes were intended to form a set based on what I see in other entries and descriptions but this is definitely the better-known half. It also seems as if this first printing from 1878 has the superior presentation of color plates compared to the later editions. Jacob H. Studer & Co hardcover books
1878125400Columbus OH: Jacob H. Studer & Co 1878. Hardbound. Overall VG with the notable and large exception of the blindstamps on every single color plate. Ink stamp to top and bottom of text block. Sold as a reference copy only not as a collectible book. Overall the blindstamps are quite well hidden in the background and not noticable upon the initial viewing of the plates. Most have to be examined in detail before even seeing these blindstamps. Sturdy black library buckram. 182 pp with 119 interleaved tissue-guarded color lithographed plates followed by an extensive index of 8pp. This is followed then by the second book listed above described as follows: Title-page blank verso 2 pp. Contents 2 pp. Index of Illustrations 41 full-page color plates interleaved within 156 pp. of text. The second book was also published by Studer in 1878. It seems as if these two volumes were intended to form a set based on what I see in other entries and descriptions. It also seems as if this first printing from 1878 has the superior presentation of color plates compared to the later editions. Get this one as a superb reference set. Jacob H. Studer & Co hardcover books
197050884NY: Augustus Kelley 1970. Reprint of 1912 Holt edition. 8vo pp. v 380. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Reprints of economic classics. Edges very slightly soiled o/w a nice copy. Augustus Kelley unknown books
197023950New York: Augustus M. Kelley Publishers 1970. Hardcover. 380p. very good condition. Reprint of 1912 edition. Reprints of economic classics. Augustus M. Kelley Publishers hardcover books
19371333637New York: Harper and Brothers 1937. Hardcover. Octavo; G Hardcover; Blue spine with Gold text; Boards shaken some edgewear some shelfwear fraying along spine edges rubbing and bumping to corners wear along joints; Textblock has some age toning foxing on front endpaper and pastedown writing in pen on front endpaper; 650 pp. 1333637. FP New Rockville Stock. Harper and Brothers hardcover books
1991005928Ames: Iowa State University Press 1991. 1st Edition. xiv 122p. b/w illus. original blue cloth. Iowa State University Press unknown books
194335824London: Joseph Williams Limited PN W. 490 1943. Quarto. Wrappers. 64 pp. With publisher's catalog of Jacob's works to verso of lower wrapper dated "7/43."<br/><br/>With a signed autograph inscription by the composer to title to "B. Hnicki" in pencil dated May 1944.<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn and soiled. Occasional minor signs of wear and light foxing. First Edition likely first issue.<br/><br/>Gordon Jacob studied with Vaughan Williams Stanford and Howells at the Royal College of Music. He became one of the leading composers in Britain and provided music for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. His music was firmly rooted in the English style of the early 20th century. Jacob was also a noted educator writing several important textbooks and teaching the next generation of composers including Malcolm Arnold and Imogen Holst. <br/><br/>Jacob's Suite in F was first heard in a broadcast performance by the BBC Empire Orchestra on 29 August 1939 conducted by Eric Fogg. Joseph Williams Limited [PN W. 490] unknown books
197091617Los Angeles: Self-published by the editor 1970. Paperback. 80p. 5.25x8.25 inches text in Spanish illustrations very good booklet in stapled yellow and white. Not a state publication. Self-published by the editor paperback books
198338643Peoria: Spoon River Press 1983. First edition. 20 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Jacob. A long poem. Peoria: Spoon River Press, unknown books
197919470New York: np 1979. First Edition. Wraps. Very good . 8vo. Pictorial wraps. Near fine. Mild toning to wraps. Interior bright clean throughout. Good and sound. 282pp. <br/><br/>Lit mag first published as SUNDIAL beginning in 1966 by Bill Zavatsky also known for his shorter-lived publication ROY ROGERS. Features fiction by Valery Larbaud and poems by Charles North John Yau and Jack Anderson among many others. np paperback books
1959UJACSUP00CZCMonitor Publishing 1959. Good. Jacob Carl H. Superbombs Saints and Scriptures. Rexburg ID: Monitor Publishing 1959. 158pp. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Good with rubbed corners and previous owner's name on front free endsheet. Light discoloring to endsheets. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair with bumped and chipped edges. Spine lightly discolored and smudged panels. Monitor Publishing hardcover books
186213202Corning N.Y.: Printed at the Journal Office 1862. Original printed wrappers spine wear stitched 24pp. Tanned two small binding holes in blank inner margin. Good or so. <br/><br/> Butler argues that the City of Muscatine Iowa is not liable to bondholders because the bonds on which payment was defaulted were issued in violation of the Constitution of Iowa which forbids municipalities from issuing railroad bonds; and that the bonds were in fact issued by the railroad which is solely responsible for paying them. Printed at the Journal Office unknown books
200950201Oak Park: Black Cat Bone Press 2009. First edition. 18 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Poems. One of 75 copies printed letterpress and handbound at the Adastra Press. Oak Park: Black Cat Bone Press unknown books
19301521Glacier National Park: T.J. Hileman 1930. Hand colored view 15 cm x 25.5 cm on a cream colored sheet 27.5 cm x 35.5 cm blind stamped border around image. Better than very good. In original printed mailing envelope that show some wear. Nice hand-colored image from T. J. Hileman 1882 - 1945 who for decades worked and photographed Glacier National Park originally for the Great Northern Railway. In 1926 Hileman opened photo studios in Glacier Park Lodge and for many years he produced and sold countless photographs of the area. [T.J. Hileman] unknown books
1698D2444Lubeck: Christoph Gottfried Jäger for Peter Böckmann and Johann Wiedemeyer 1698. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 190 x 156mm. 16 197pp. 2 including index and errata leaf at end. Dedicated to Joseph I Holy Roman Emperor and first King of Hungary reunited under Hapsburg rule. Over 70 copper-plate engraved illustrations for portraits of kings and emperors of the Roman Empire from Albertus to Sigismundus Franciscus all on coins recto and verso giving heraldry and one engraved chapter vignette heraldic on dedication page. Text in Latin. Later paste-paper boards paper label with manuscript title to spine edges stained red; margins trimmed close lightly toned scattered light foxing; lightly rubbed. German numismatist Jacob von Melle was a renowned poly-historian and a distinguished authority on the town of Lübecks history. Notably Melle was one of the first people to use the term bracteates for thin metal or gold medals. He was also the vicar for his local parish knew ten languages and directed a museum in Lübeck. In his time Melle published countless books; among these a Low German dictionary with 20000 entries and a book about the so-called guldgubber on the Danish island Bornholm guldgubber gold old men are tiny pre-historic gold-plates with a stamped human image. Interesting record with several important imperial portraits and heraldry on coins invaluable to the study of numismatics. <br/><br/> Christoph Gottfried Jäger for Peter Böckmann and Johann Wiedemeyer hardcover books
183030091London: published for the Author by Longman Rees Orme Brown and Green 1830. Imperial octavo. 10 1/4 x 6 7/8 inches. vii 151 1pp. Additional title on india paper mounted with etched vignette 49 etched plates by Strutt all on India paper mounted. Foxing to the plates. 19th century purple morocco covers bordered in gilt spine with semi-raised bands in six compartments lettered in gilt in the second the others decoratively paneled in gilt marbled endpapers gilt edges<br/> <br/>Provenance: Lucius O'Brien armorial bookplates<br/> <br/>An attractive copy of the first octavo edition of this charming work: the deluxe issue with the plates all printed on india paper.<br/> <br/>Rather than concentrating on generic descriptions of species of trees although these are given Strutt here provides a portrait in words and pictures of 50 of the greatest trees or stands of trees in England and Scotland: a snapshot of the trees as they stood in 1830. "Greatest" is here interpreted by Strutt in various ways: tallest largest girth largest spread oldest etc. The preponderence of the examples given are oaks 21 but he also includes examples of elm 6 beech 2 ash 2 chestnut 4 cedar 3 yew 3 and one each of lime poplar willow plane maple sycamore Scotch fir silver fir and larch. This work was first published by Strutt in 1826 in a folio format and was available by subscription at 9 guineas for the normal issue or for the issue with the plates on india paper 15 guineas a list of the subscribers to this folio edition is included in the present octavo edition. For the present work the folio plates were reduced and the folio text was modified to allow for the re-ordering of the trees into more coherant groupings. As with the folio edition this work was offered in two forms: at £1 11s. 6d. for the normal issue or 3 guineas for the deluxe issue with the plates on india paper as here.<br/> <br/>Lowndes III p.2534; Nissen BBI 1907. published for the Author by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green unknown books
183022777London: published for the Author by Longman Rees Orme Brown and Green 1830. Imperial octavo. 11 x 7 1/2 inches. Additional title on india paper mounted with etched vignette 49 etched plates by Strutt all on India paper mounted. Original oatmeal-coloured cloth rebacked.<br/> <br/>Provenance: Edward Kynaston Bridger d.1898 armorial bookplate; William Russell Grace 1832-1904 armorial bookplate<br/> <br/>An attractive copy of the first octavo edition of this charming work: the deluxe issue with the plates all printed on india paper.<br/> <br/>Rather than concentrating on generic descriptions of species of trees although these are given Strutt here provides a portrait in words and pictures of 50 of the greatest trees or stands of trees in England and Scotland: a snapshot of the trees as they stood in 1830. "Greatest" is here interpreted by Strutt in various ways: tallest largest girth largest spread oldest etc. The preponderence of the examples given are oaks 21 but he also includes examples of elm 6 beech 2 ash 2 chestnut 4 cedar 3 yew 3 and one each of lime poplar willow plane maple sycamore Scotch fir silver fir and larch. This work was first published by Strutt in 1826 in a folio format and was available by subscription at 9 guineas for the normal issue or for the issue with the plates on india paper 15 guineas a list of the subscribers to this folio edition is included in the present octavo edition. For the present work the folio plates were reduced and the folio text was modified to allow for the re-ordering of the trees into more coherant groupings. As with the folio edition this work was offered in two forms: at £1 11s. 6d. for the normal issue or 3 guineas for the deluxe issue with the plates on india paper as here. The early owner of this copy William Russell Grace the co-founder of W.R Grace and Co. was an American success story who rose from relative poverty to be one of the richest men in the country. He was also a noted philanthropist and served two terms as Mayor of New York.<br/> <br/>Lowndes III p.2534; Nissen BBI 1907. published for the Author by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green unknown books
