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180243743Philadelphia: Joseph Charless 1802. 12mo pp. 80; disbound with remnants of sheep spine; edges frayed tear to F5 affecting text without loss of meaning else very good and sound. Skeel 682. Joseph Charless unknown
180631181New Haven: from Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke 1806. Second edition 12mo pp. 224 2 table of contents; contemporary 1/4 sheep and drab paper-covered boards rubbed and worn at extremes but tight and firm text browning throughout with some spotting overall a good sound copy. The volume is divided into eight sections numbered 14 to 21 and continues the historical geographical agricultural and political discussions begun in volume I first published in 1802. The second edition of vol. II adds the text of Washington's Farewell Address. Josiah Meigs president of the University of Georgia praised both volumes in 1804 in a letter to his friend Webster: "I am much pleased with your manner of describing our North America. You have risen from the briars and brambles of detail and given us a luminous and comprehensive view of a WHOLE. I shall use my influence to introduce it into our schools. ." Skeel 545 see also Skeel 544. from Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke unknown
183639574Sandbornton N.H.: Charles Lane 1836. Small 8vo pp. 144; wood-engraved illustrations throughout; contemporary brown paper-backed blue boards some water stains shelf wear wooden boards exposed in various places 1/4-inch loss at spine head hinges weak; foxing pages uniformly toned; interior in over all good condition. 1817 copyright application printed on t.p. verso. Skeel 256a. Charles Lane unknown
183150002397New York: White Gallaher & White 1831. Hardcover. Good-. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Original leather bound hardcover. Copyright 1831 this edition with design for schools and is considered to be the first edition that was designed for schools though Webster's first dictionary was originally published in 1828. Original leather boards and spine. The front board is loose but still attached at the bottom - mostly by the binding thread. A section of label is missing on the spine. Front end page has original owner's name with an 1831 date and "Hagerstown Academy" Maryland written. Moderate to heavy foxing noted throughout. Rear page and pastedown both have pencil scribbling. Rear end page missing. Original owner's name also penned on rear board W. Chew. The 1831 publication was listed to contain 532 pages plus two end pages so it appears that alll that is missing is just the rear blank end page. See photos. <br/> <br/> White, Gallaher, & White hardcover
18781905070016G. & C. Merriam 1878. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Original boards. Black leather spine labels. Wear to extremities with small tears to head and tail of spine. Toning to first few pages. Clean unmarked pages. Ships daily.<br> Thoroughly revised and greatly enlarged and improved by Chauncey A. Goodrich & Noah Porter. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. G. & C. Merriam hardcover
1802TB29021Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Charless 1802. Later Printing. Good in 1/4 leather and marbled paper covered boards. A 16mo measuring 6 1/4 by 4 inches with the text block close to loose within its original boards held on only by the sewing cords which are woven into the boards. The pages are all uniformly tanned and there are two early prior owner's names on the front paste down. Page 23/24 has two small chips from its upper and lower margins which does not impact on any printing. 80 pages of text. Skeel 682 Printed by Joseph Charless hardcover
1831008024Printed by Luther Roby 1831 9-128 pages. In original printed boards. General wear and light damp stains to covers. Early owner's signature inside front cover and small spots to title page. Size: 32mo 4.25 x 2.75 inches. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Printed by Luther Roby hardcover
1865238689New Haven 1865. 1 vols. Disbound. 1 vols. Noah Porter December 14 1811 - March 14 1892 American educationalist and philosophical writer was born in Farmington Connecticut.<br /> He graduated from Yale College in 1831 and was employed as a Congregational minister in Connecticut and Massachusetts 1836 to 1846. He was elected professor of moral philosophy and metaphysics at Yale in 1846 and from 1871 to 1886 he was president of the college. He edited several editions of Webster's Dictionary and wrote on education. Influenced by the German refugee writer and philosopher Francis Leiber Porter opposed slavery and integrated an antislavery position with religious liberalism.<br /> He was a frequent visitor to the Adirondack Mountains of New York and in 1875 was among the first recorded to make an ascent of the peak later named Porter Mountain in his honor. Noah Porter was the older brother of Sarah Porter founder of Miss Porter's School a prestigious college preparatory school for girls.<br /> His best-known work is The Human Intellect with an Introduction upon Psychology and the Human Soul 1868 comprehending a general history of philosophy and following in part the "common-sense" philosophy of the Scottish school while accepting the Kantian doctrine of intuition and declaring the notion of design to be a priori. He died in New Haven. unknown
1811107068New York: Isaac Riley 1811. Leather bound. Good . iv 87 p. 14 cm. Tan leather spine with marbled boards. Moderately worn and paper faded on front cover. There are a few ink marks inside the front cover from an inscription on the front free endpaper now missing. There is an ink date on the title page. A quite mild waterstain of up to 1/4-page in size shows on all leaves and the rear cover. Skeel 448 Sabin 102375 Allibone p. 2628. <br/><br/> Isaac Riley hardcover
1876339724Brooklyn NY: Privately Printed 1876. 16 leaves printed recto only final leaf blank. 4to. Wrappers. 16 leaves printed recto only final leaf blank. 4to. Privately Printed unknown
187646697Brooklyn: The Author 1876. Paperback. Fair. Paperback. Wraps half title and last prelims loose but present. Dampstain to left edge of signatures text not affected. Fifteen leaves printed on rectos only five vignette illustrations of fable but lacking the one showing Webster at work. <br/><br/> The Author paperback
1859z015501Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews 1859. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. 1859 reprint by the Academy of the 1793 edition. This volume ONLY. 4to. rebound in gray cloth with gilt and leather spine titles with new endpapers. 150pp. featuring articles by James Winthrop Samuel Weber Joseph Willard Samuel Hale Edward Holyoke Severyn BruynWilliam Heath Noah Webster Aaron Dexter and others with a Eulogy on James Bowdoin by John Lowell. Very good. Boards slightly bowed. Margins of endpapers and several pages clipped stains and soil to front endpapers and titles. Light foxing to contents several leaves uncut. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked in a sound binding. Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews hardcover
180343744New Haven: Joel Walter 1803. A new edition "improved and enlarged" 12mo pp. iv 2 137; disbound remnants of calf spine still present; last leaf detached but present; pages quite browned and frayed along edges else mostly very good and sound. Skeel 683: "Of the original contents No. VI 'The Grace of God in Dollars' and the Conclusion have been omitted.The essays from p. 75 to the end are new under the heading 'Additional Numbers Written and First Published in 1803.' Joel Walter unknown
18501278863Paris: Au Bureau du Journal le Charivari 1850's. 8vo.; VG; 3/4 bound in brown leather spine paneled with burgundy label and gilt lettering; repaired with original spine rebacked new label new endpapers; marbled boards; wear to corners rubbing to boards spine; some age-toning to pages; three of the images have been cut out of the Revue Du Salon De 1853.<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area ND-HV Column. 1278863. FP New Rockville Stock. Au Bureau du Journal le Charivari unknown
188015669Paris: Calmann Levy 1880. Hardcover. fair. This copy has an ex-libris stamp inside of front board by Robert Florey: Robert Florey 1900-1979 was a French screenwriter director of short films and actor who moved to Hollywood in 1921. Florey worked as assistant director to Josef von Sternberg Frank Borzage and Victor Fleming before making his feature directing debut in 1926. He turned out more than 50 movies over the next 23 years from the first Marx Brothers movie "The Cocoanuts" 1929 to horror movies such as "Murders in the Rue Morgue" 1932 starring Bela Lugosi to skillful low-budget crime programmers like "The Crooked Way" 1949. Scarce. 4to. 349pp. Original contemporary illustrated paper covered boards with gold lettering and illustration to cover and spine. Blue endpapers. Ex libris Robert Florey see above. Great collection of 3b/w caricatures by the acclaimed French artist Cham a.k.a. Amedée Charles Henry de Noé. With a short biography. Head and tail of spine rubbed and worn with tear to top spine. Corners worn. Scuffing rubbing staining to boards. Minor browning to pages. In French. In overall good- condition. Calmann Levy hardcover
1839mon0003679004White & Sheffield 1839T. leather_bound. Acceptable. . 1841 printing revised edition. top board is detached spine is partially detached leather shows heavy erosion. pages tanned and foxed some minor writing and marks. White & Sheffield hardcover
1839mon0003773306White & Sheffield 1839T. leather_bound. Acceptable. . 1842 printing revised edition. full leather cover shows moderate wear and rubbing erosion at the corners. title page detached and chipped. pages are lightly tanned and foxed. White & Sheffield hardcover
1836070387New York: N. and J. White 1836. Fifteenth Edition . Hardcover. Very Good -. 9.5" x 6.25" x 2.75. FIFTEENTH EDITION 1836. Full Title: An American Dictionary of the English Language; Exhibiting the Origin Orthography Pronunciation and Definitions of Words by Noah Webster LL.D Abridged from the Quarto Edition of the Author to Which are Added A Synopsis of Words Differently Pronounced by Different Orthoepists; and Walker's Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek Latin and Scripture Proper Names. Hardcover. Bound in full brown leather. Covers are plain. Spine bears a dark red label stamped in gilt lettering. Dual columned. Small print. xxiii 1011 pp. <br><br>CONDITION: Overall VG-. Cover shows significant wear. Spine shows erosion. Both hinges are cracked yet boards are still present and affixed. Leaves have evenly toned with moderate foxing throughout. Some markings in pencil and pen presumed from the period predominantly within the endpapers. Pagination appears complete but several pages at the back have sections torn away. Text is still quite readable with care. <br><br>At over 3 lbs. due to the size and weight of this copy an additional shipping charge may apply. Full refund if not satisfied. N. and J. White hardcover
1838004368New York: F. J. Huntington and Co. 1838 New York: Huntington 1838. Early edition copyright 1833. Full leather binding gold titles four compartments defined. 341 pp. followed by 2 pages of reviews. Children's writing in pencil on endpapers and title. Spine faded boards chipped top and bottom of spine with 1/8" loss of material. Boards quite rubbed corner of front board stained light stain to corner of title no other pages affected. Lacking front endpaper. Light to moderate foxing. Good condition. F. J. Huntington and Co. hardcover
1884014089New York: E. P. Dutton 1884. Book. very good-. Hardcover. First Edition. First edition Dutton 1884. Very good minus blue cloth hardcover decorated in black and gilt. Spine ends frayed some sunning to spine wear to corners. Binding square and firm. General soiling to rear cover. This was the first novel written entirely about baseball. . E. P. Dutton Hardcover
18981006B22Washington; Chicago: Government Printing Office; Field Museum of Natural History 1898-1937. First edition. Paperback. Good Only. 10" by 6.5". Not Stated. A scarce seven-volume collection of highly illustrated botanical and natural history first editions from the Field Museum of Natural History and the United States National Museum. Collection comprised of:1898 The Fishes of North and Middle America: Part II by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann;1927 Citrus Products: Part II by James B. McNair;1931 Flora of the Lancetilla Valley Honduras by Paul C. Standley;1936 The Forests and Flora of British Honduras by Paul C. Standley and Samuel J. Record;1936 Index of American Palms by B. E. Dahlgren and Fossil Palms by A. C. Noe;1937 The Genus Bidens: Part I by Earl Edward Sherff;1937 The Genus Bidens: Part II by Earl Edward Sherff.All volumes are scarce first editions bound in the publisher's original soft covers. Excluding The Fishes of North and Middle America: Part II which is a bulletin of the United States National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution all remaining works are the publications of the Field Museum of Natural History Chicago.Citrus Products: Part II contains a frontispiece and sixteen further plates. Flora of the Lancetilla Valley Honduras contains sixty-seven plates to the rear. The Forests and Flora of British Honduras contains sixteen pages of plates to the rear including the back cover. Both parts of The Genus Bidens are profusely illustrated with 189 plates across the two texts. Collated complete. In the publisher's original soft covers. Ex-libris copies with archival annotations to the spines and front covers and again to the rear of the front free endpapers. Additional library stamps to title pages and at points throughout texts for example to the rear of plates. Externally moderate shelf wear as can be expected from examples of this age with several tears and chips to edges more signficant to the front cover of The Forests and Flora of British Honduras which also features a chip to the spine tail. Light discolouration spotting and marking to all works sunning more prominent to Flora of the Lancetilla Valley Honduras and Index of American Palms. Internally generally firmly bound fragile front hinges leading to the occasional delicate page. Bright and clean collection with any spotting mainly contained to the first and last few pages. Good Only Government Printing Office; Field Museum of Natural History paperback
1843129893New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1843. Revised Edition. Full Leather. Good/No Dj. Larger 8vo. pp. xxiii 2 1079 1 "".by Different Orthoepists; and Walker's Key to the Classical Pronounciation of Greek Latin and Scripture Proper Names. Revised edition with an appendix containing all the additional words in the last edition of the larger work. binding sound spine extremities worn corner bumped and worn red leather spine label gilt rules… Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
187545368J. B. Lippincott. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1875. Hardcover. Oversized full leather two spine labels marbled endpages. Leather rubbed edges exposed. Front and rear endpages have cutout portions. PO name. Mild scattered foxing. Portrait frontis and title page 2nd title page with color frontis. "Thoroughly Revised and Greatly Enlarged and Improved by Chauncey A. Goodrich and Noah Porter." Sound binding. Illustrated. ; quarto; 1764 pages . J. B. Lippincott hardcover
1838054932New York: N. & J. White 1838. Fifteenth Edition . Hardcover. Very Good -/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1011pp.2½"thick; HB rebound! rebound in 1889&1938 lt.brwn.w/blk.&gilt; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; some scuff PON in giltbttm.spine; PONsendpapers; foxing throughout but easily readable; one of ft.endpapers torn away. Title continues: "Abridged from the Quarto editon of the author: to which are added a synopsis of words differently pronounced by different Orthoëpists; and Walker's Key to the classical pronunciation of Greek Latin and Scripture proper names. <br/> <br/> N. & J. White hardcover
1845001538New York: Harper 1845 Early edition abridged from the Quarto edition with the addition of a synopsis of words and Walker's key to the classical pronunciation of Greek Latin and Scripture proper names. This dictionary from the family of Claude R Wickard Franklin D Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture with the signatures of a John E Wickard of Battleground IN Dec 4 1876 and Andrew J Wickard 1853. Book is bound in period calf treated with leather cleaner/preservative. It has four raised bands bordered with gilt and a red leather spine label with gilt titles. Lower spine with two large chips damp stain first and last several pages and some foxing. Harper hardcover