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1857234466London: Lovell Reeve 1857. First. hardcover. very good. 20 hand colored plates. 12mo 358 pages 3/4 dark green morocco over red marbled boards ornately gilt spine t.e.g. London: Lovell Reeve 1857. First Edition. Very good .<br/><br/> Ownership bookplate.<br/><br/> Lovell Reeve unknown books
18931517061893. hardcover. Illustrated title page. Many beautiful full-page color lithographs mostly depicting various mechanical components of the piano-forte. Printed primarily in yellow red brown & metalic silver and gold. Oblong 4to original blue-grey cloth stamped in gilt with decorative endpapers cloth is well-rubbed and edgeworn; interior is flawless. N.Y.: Wessell Nickel & Gross 1893.<br/><br/> Very scarce and interesting book with gorgeous printing by Lindner Eddy & Clauss lithographers.<br/><br/> unknown books
1880S9851Halle a.S.:: R. Nietschmann 1880. 1880. 8vo. 30 1 pp. Self-wraps; paper browned disbound. Good. R. Nietschmann, 1880. paperback books
183631787.1Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Adam Waldie 1836. 1st edition thus Howes F-202; cf. Graff 1357 Rader 1419 for the separate printing. Not in Sabin. Period brown half-calf over brown marbled paper boards. Joints starting boards held solidly by cords with a largish chip to leather at spine crown. Usual bit of foxing. Period pos to top margin of t.p. An About VG copy. 4 416 pp. Text triple column. Flint piece pp. 284 - 288. 'Belles Lettres' - 4pp / issue usually. Steel engraved plate of Frederick Marryat drawn by Behnes engraved by Lawson precedes text. 4to. 11-3/8" x 9-1/8" <br/><br/>Flint's long letter 11 columns in small type is dated Alexandria La. April 21 1835 and apparently not known to Kirkpatrick who made no reference to it in his biography of Flint per Graff. The cited references make mention of a separate 12mo edition of this work and of which we find an occasional record the last being in 1973. Rare. <br /> <br />Marryat is represented with The NAVAL ANNUAL in addition to the engraving. In 'Belles Lettres' is found JAPHET In SEARCH Of A FATHER. <br /> <br />Miss Baillie no doubt unknowingly contributes a number of dramatic pieces all but two asserted to be original publications and which by appearing herein constitute their first US appearance. <br /> <br />"Belles Lettres" also publishes for the first time journal entries from an officer of the U. S. S. PEACOCK which was serving at the time in the Far East. The editor introduces his correspondent by saying he begins by "giving the details of the awful disaster which befell the Peacock from which she escaped almost by a miracle." Printed and Published by Adam Waldie hardcover books
183339115Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Adam Waldie No. 6 North Eighth Street 1833. Period maroon half-sheep over grey cloth covered boards. Wear to boards rubbing to edges. Front board starting to detach rear board loose. Soiling to boards chipping to spine. Light foxing and age-toning to paper. A Good copy. 4 424 2 blank pp. Text triple column. 4to. 11-1/4" x 9-1/4" <br/><br/>Only 2 institutional holdings located on OCLC. Printed and Published by Adam Waldie, No. 6 North Eighth Street hardcover books
183631787Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Adam Waldie 1836. 1st edition thus Howes F-202; cf. Graff 1357 Rader 1419 for the separate printing. Not in Sabin. Period maroon half-sheep over green marbled paper boards. General shelfwear with rubs to leather extremities. Usual bit of foxing. A VG copy. 4 416 pp. Text triple column. Flint piece pp. 284 - 288. Steel engraved plate of Frederick Marryat drawn by Behnes engraved by Lawson precedes text. 4to. 11-3/8" x 9-1/8" <br/><br/>Flint's long letter 11 columns in small type is dated Alexandria La. April 21 1835 and apparently not known to Kirkpatrick who made no reference to it in his biography of Flint per Graff. The cited references make mention of a separate 12mo edition of this work and of which we find an occasional record the last being in 1973. Rare. Marryat is represented with The NAVAL ANNUAL in addition to the engraving. Miss Baillie no doubt unknowingly contributes a number of dramatic pieces all but two asserted to be original publications and which by appearing herein constitute their first US appearance. Printed and Published by Adam Waldie hardcover books
1890WRCLIT46311Paris: Comptoir D'Edition 1890. Half cloth and marbled boards gilt leather spine label original wrappers bound in untrimmed. Frontispiece by Félicien Rops. First edition ordinary issue there were only fifteen numbered copies on Japon constituting the deluxe issue. A few smudges to cloth edges of text-block and frontis tanned but otherwise a very good copy. VICAIRE VII:1093. Comptoir D'Edition hardcover books
1814236681London: Printed for the Author 1814. Fourth edition with "many additions and improvements. 44 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Bound in marbled later wrappers. Very good. Fourth edition with "many additions and improvements" 44 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. The Textbook of the Opposition. First published in 1797 this was a popular anti-tobacco tract which was also reprinted in editions of 1798 1805 as well as this last lifetime London edition a New York edition appeared in 1829. "Fairholt notices that DISSERTATION 'was one of the bitterest attacks on the habit and becme the textbook of the oppositionists'" Brooks Arents Catalogue. Arents Vol. IV 1126-c Printed for the Author unknown books
184442551844. London: Smith Elder & Co. 1844. Sewn pamphlet. 44pp. Stitching broken else very good. HOWES T161. <br/><br/> unknown books
1844WRCAM18327London 1844. 44pp. Stitched. Faint occasional foxing and light tanning. Very good. Refutes American claims to Oregon Territory. HOWES T161. SABIN 95370. unknown books
184414945London: Smith Elder and Co 1844. iv 44 pp. Stitched. Fine but for the absence of wrappers. "Refutation of American claims" Howes particularly those advocated by Greenhow. "Thom was personally familiar with the country and here ably sets forth the British claims to it. An important work when studying the Pacific Northwest." Jenkins. FIRST EDITION. Howes T161. Jenkins Full Howes 2505. 111 Eberstadt 497. 34 Decker 516. Smith, Elder and Co unknown books
186332240Pesten: Rózsavölgyi és társá PN 893 sz 1863. Folio. Disbound. 1f. recto decorative lithographic title with woodland scene incorporating a dancing couple printed by Schneckenberger 3-5 i blank pp. Engraved.<br/><br/>Publisher's handstamp to foot. <br/><br/>Slightly trimmed; light soiling foxing and offsetting; small tear and paper tape repair to blank margins of last leaf. First Edition. Mona 1778. <br/><br/>Count Széchenyi was an amateur composer who published several dances for piano in the 1860s. His primary focus however was as the chief proponent and organizer of fire protection. He helped to found the National Hungarian Fire Brigade in 1870. He later advanced a similar measure in Turkey for which we was given the title of Pasha one of the few Christians to receive such an honor in the Ottoman Empire. Rózsavölgyi és társá [PN 893 sz] unknown books
18805117bdChicago: The Interstate Publishing Company n.d. ca. 1880s. Former-owner inscription dated 1888. Octavo cloth-backed illustrated boards hardcover upper cover illustration of two yellow birds on a branch 96 pp. Illustrated. Good with edewear. From first chapter Do Stones Grow: They do grown don’t they Uncle Adam†“Little girls grow I’m sure. Now jump! You’re getting so big I can hardly lift you.†“I don’t mean little girls; I mean stones. Johnny says they dont grow.†“What makes you think stones do not grow Johnny†“Why! How can they They’re so hard!†“So your teeth are hard but they grew. This ivory paper-cutter is hard too; you know where ivory comes from†“Well I know ivory grows and teeth and bones and shells; but they’re different from stones.†“How different†Johnny thought awhile then said: “They’re alive; at least they have been alive or they belonged to something -- elephants or oysters or something -- that was alive†“Might not the stones have sometime been alive in the same way.â€. The Interstate Publishing Company, n.d. [ca. 1880s]. hardcover books
1866190082Berlin.: Julius Springer. 1866. Contemporary quarter green cloth over marbled boards gilt pictorial spine decorations marbled edges. . A very good tight bright copy. 8vo. 19x13.5 cm. . German text. weight: 0.9 lb. 5 lithograph plates by S. Bartsch. Julius Springer. hardcover books
186542656Philadelphia: Published by John Dainty 1865. Age-toning to engraving with some discoloration sections to margins especially to left. Minor wear to frame. Very Good. Oval image sepia toned 8" x 6-1/8". Period black oval wood frame 13-7/8" x 11-5/8" <br/><br/>Full-length group portrait of Abraham Lincoln and his family. Mary Todd Lincoln and the president are seated left to right with Robert Todd standing behind them and Thomas to Lincoln's right. A portrait of William Wallace Lincoln hangs on the wall. Published by John Dainty unknown books
1891WRCLIT70830Chicago: Slason Thompson & Co. 1891. 393pp. Typographically decorated wrappers. Hint of trivial dust soiling to wrappers otherwise near fine. First edition of this libretto by the popular lyricist book collector and briefly bookseller. The opera was notable as Leila Marie Koerber's a.k.a. Marie Dressler first role on Broadway. Uncommon - OCLC locates but two copies at Brown and at the HRC. OCLC: 10239329. Slason, Thompson & Co. unknown books
1811AS006London: Printed for J. Maynard and F. Zinke 1811 Early edition. Three volumes. Finely bound in full contemporary brown tree calf boards and spines decoratively ruled in gilt black morocco spine labels lettered in gilt blue marbled text block edges. A near fine set with some light wear to extremities superficial cracking to the backstrips bookplates to front pastedowns Vol. II with a three-inch scratch to the rear board Vol. III with front hinge lightly starting but still sturdy. Overall a beautiful set. First published in 1776 The Wealth of Nations has been hailed as "The first and greatest classic of modern economic thought." The book is Smith's meditation on the influence of labor on economic development the relationship of a nation's economy to its national development and the intellectual underpinnings of a self-regulating free-market economic system. A groundbreaking text The Wealth of Nations had immediate widespread impact and continues to be a pillar of economic theory today. Indeed the authors of Printing and the Mind of Man aver that "Where the political aspects of human rights had taken two centuries to explore Smith's achievement was to bring the study of economic aspects to the same point in a single work." PMM 221. Hard Cover. Very Good. London: Printed for J. Maynard and F. Zinke hardcover books
1896140940980Oxford: Oxford at the Claredon Press 1896. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original burgundy cloth ruled in blind with spine stamped in gilt; lacking a dust jacket. Very Good. Cloth rubbed and lightly spotted. Offsetting to free endpapers. Owner name effaced with some abrasion from front paste down and small vintage bookseller label partially removed from rear paste down. The first publication of major lectures of Adam Smith from notes taken by his student at the University of Glasgow circa 1863-4. These lectures contain the formative ideas he later worked into The Wealth of Nations. Oxford at the Claredon Press unknown books
18171335432Boston: Wells and Lilly 1817. Early American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xii 262 2 250 2; VG-; bound in publisher's blue-gray boards paper spine; some wear and rubbing to boards some chipping and cracking to spine most of the titling has worn off; text block uncut; mild foxing primarily to extremities; ownership name in ink to the title page; with half-title two title pages; two volumes in one; scarce; shelved case 10. Mizuta: TMS25;<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> The first American edition was published in 1817 by Anthony Finley in Philadelphia. This edition came out later that year.;. 1335432. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Wells and Lilly hardcover books
1808109787Edinburgh: Printed for Bell and Bradfute W. Laing and Mundell Doig & Stevenson 1808. Rare example Adam Smith's first book bound in the original boards. Octavo 2 volumes bound in original boards edges uncut. In near fine condition contemporary name to the title pages. Scarce in the original boards. Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments his first book is "one of the truly outstanding books in the intellectual history of the world" Amartya Sen. First published in 1759 it laid the foundation for Wealth of Nations and proposed the theory repeated in the later work: that self-seeking men are often "led by an invisible hand. without knowing it without intending it to advance the interest of the society." "The fruit of his Glasgow years. Moral Sentiments would be enough to assure the author a respected place among Scottish moral philosophers and Smith himself ranked it above the Wealth of Nations. Its central idea is the concept closely related to conscience of the impartial spectator who helps man to distinguish right from wrong. For the same purpose Immanuel Kant invented the categorical imperative and Sigmund Freud the superego" Niehans 62. Basing moral sentiment on "the power one man has of putting himself in the place of another" in contrast to Hume's idea of self-interest "Smith was henceforth recognized as one of the first authors of the day" DNB. With Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations Smith created "not merely a treatise on moral philosophy and a treatise on economics but a complete moral and political philosophy in which the two elements of history and theory were to be closely conjoined" Palgrave III:412-13. To Smith when man pursues "his own private interests the original and selfish sentiments of Moral Sentiments he will in the economic realm choose those endeavors which will best serve society. Herein lies the connection between the two great works which make them the work of a single and largely consistent theorist" Paul "Adam Smith" 293. In his Theory of Moral Sentiments Smith develops an ethics based on a "unifying principle--in this case of sympathy--which would shed light on the harmonious and beneficial order of the moral world. As such it was of considerable interest to Smith's contemporaries who were groping for an ethics that would flow from man's impulses or sentiments rather than from his reason from 'innate ideas' or from theological precepts. If Smith had written only The Theory of Moral Sentiments he would enjoy in the philosophers hall of fame a niche not unlike that reserved for Shaftesbury or Hutcheson." Both Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations reflect Smith's "attempt to anchor the new science of political economy in a Newtonian universe mechanical albeit harmonious and beneficial in which society is shown to benefit from the unintended consequences of the pursuit of individual self-interest. There is thus a considerable affinity between the structure of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and that of The Wealth of Nations. Each work is integrated by a great unifying principle. What sympathy accomplishes in the moral world self-interest does in the economic one. Either principle in its respective realm is shown to produce a harmony such as the one that characterizes Newton's order of nature. Smith's ethics is one of self-command or self-reliance just as is his laissez faire economics. Smith's ethics and his economics are integrated by the same principle of self-command or self-reliance which manifests itself in economics in laissez faire" Spiegel Growth of Economic Thought 229-231. Printed for Bell and Bradfute, W. Laing, and Mundell, Doig & Stevenson hardcover books
1809205Philadelphia: Pr. by order of the committee 1809. 8vo. 16 pp. <br><br>1st edition. Seybert a medical doctor issues a rallying call for progress in developing national industry to rival that of Europe: All of the raw products are present for clothing glassmaking smelting and much more. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 18591. Removed from a nonce volume; six-digit number stamped on title-page. Stapled and respined with archival tissue. Pr. by order of the committee hardcover books
181830927Philadelphia: Published by Thomas Dobson & Son 1818. 1st edition American Imprints 45692; Howes S-309; Sabin 79631. Period style brown quarter calf with marbled paper board. Gilt lettered maroon leather title label to spine. Binding - Fine. Textblock - Overall VG ex-lib with small stamp to t.p. lower margin & call letters to top margin of p. 1/expected bit of paper browning. 2 blank xxvii 1 Errata 803 1 blank pp including Index. Partially unopened & entirely uncut. 4to. 12-1/4" x 9-7/8" <br/><br/>A veritable gold mine of divers data on the early days of the United States and as Howes notes "Especially useful on early financial history." Published by Thomas Dobson & Son hardcover books
1818320164Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson & Son 1818. First edition. xxvii 1 803pp. Uncut. 4to. Original paper-backed boards letterpress label on the spine. Some losses to spine front joint starting. Minor toning and light dampstaining in the rear. Inscription on the front pastedown: "Presented to the German Society by Dr. Henry Seybert July 13/39. First edition. xxvii 1 803pp. Uncut. 4to. "Prior to the adoption of the present governement of the United States of America it was not practicable to collect the facts and data for a statistical account of our country; the more important civil institutions were then exclusively under the control of the states respectively and each state was soverign and independent of the confederated government . Our character and interests demanded the proofs to correct the numerous errors and misrepresentations industriously circulated concerning the nature of our government the condition of our institutions and the general progress of the United States . The views presented in the following pages embrace all the permanent subjects of national importance from the commencement of the government in 1789 to the 20th of April 1818 ." Advertisement.<br/><br/>The thick quarto work which begins with a printing of the Constitution comprises a profusion of tables of statistical data divided into the following sections: Population Commerce Navigation Fisheries Public Lands the Post Office Revenues the Mint the Military the Navy Expenditures and Public Debt. "Especially useful on early financial history" Howes. Howes S309; Sabin 79631; Goldsmiths 22031; Kress C.169; Shaw & Shoemaker 45692; Rink 337 Thomas Dobson & Son unknown books
1818D12979Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson & Son 1818. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth gilt-stamped lettering in red and black leather spine labels library sticker with handwritten call number at tail of spine; 4to; pp. 803. Binding scuffed and soiled; one spine label chipped. Library inkstamp and faint waterstain on title-p. otherwise internally clean. <br/><br/> Thomas Dobson & Son hardcover books
1818WRCAM27845Philadelphia 1818. xxvii1803pp. Thick quarto. Contemporary boards rebacked in modern buckram. Binding detached. Ex-lib. bookplate on front pastedown. Old dampstain in upper or lower margin of some leaves. A good copy untrimmed. The masses of information included were gleaned from official documents dating from 1789 to 1818. Included is material on the establishment of the Mint the military public debt fisheries navigation public lands commerce and much more. "Especially useful on early financial history" - Howes. HOWES S309. SABIN 79631. GOLDSMITHS 22031. KRESS C.169. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 45692. RINK 337. hardcover books
