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1835271800London: Edward Churton 1835. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The fictitious biography of the most notorious executioner in English history and there have been a number of them!. A nicely bound copy in 3/4 crimson morocco. The bookplate of W. R Grace is on the pastedown. With fourteen illustrations from designs by Meadows. Very Good binding. Edward Churton unknown books
1876009017London: Golding and Lawrence 1876. First Edition . Cloth. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. very good for its age. cloth cracked at the top 3cm front spine . PP 324 illustrations fold out plates frontis owners bookplate to front pastedown . Volume 2 only <br/> <br/> Golding and Lawrence hardcover
18926236London UK: Edward Arold 1892. 1st Edition. Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The 1891 Chilean Civil War was fought principally over the division of power between President and Congress with the congress victorious. Hervey was sent to cover the revolution by the Times which then recalled him when his reporting showed a strong bias towards the administration of its president Balmaceda. Included in the Biblioteca Nacional's Memoria Chilena bibliography of La Guerra Civil de 1891. Includes 15b/w illustrations. xii336pp. Three-quarter bound in red leather with gilt lettering to spine and black cloth to remainder. Endpapers have been renewed. Light shelf-wear to extremities a little heavier to lower corners. Lightly turned corners. . Edward Arold hardcover
18841508270002London : Bickers 1884-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. 3 Volume set. Bound in publishers speckled brown cloth. Gilt spine and emblem to front boards. Good bindings and covers. Wear to extremities. Chipping to spines. Bookplate of William and Agnes Dawson; William was a career United States diplomat. His inscription to Agnes on 2nd prelim page. Foxing to page ends and prelims. Ships daily. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US. London : Bickers hardcover
1888302877Troy N.Y.: Nims and Knight 1888. First edition. 10 Chromolithographic plates by Isaac Sprague. 1 vols. 4to. Original yellow cloth a.e.g. head of spine chipped else VG plates fine. Sprague Isaac. First edition. 10 Chromolithographic plates by Isaac Sprague. 1 vols. 4to. Nims and Knight unknown books
1826015807London: Lupton Relfe 1826. 12mo. 398pp. frontispiece engraved title page and regular title page 12 other full page engravings bound in 3/4 red morocco over marbled paper covered boards two raised black morocco spine labels gilt two other compartments gilt decorated all edges gilt coated yellow endpapers. Contains several stanzas by other known writers; A stanza by Lord Byron given to the author by Washington Irving a few unpublished poems by Thomson author of The Seasons and others. A very nice clean copy. Lupton Relfe unknown books
1888D18964Troy NY: Nims and Knight 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Large quarto. Chromolithographs. An exceptionally nice copy in original pictorial cloth. <br/><br/> Nims and Knight hardcover
1888302877Troy N.Y.: Nims and Knight 1888. First edition. 10 Chromolithographic plates by Isaac Sprague. 1 vols. 4to. Original yellow cloth a.e.g. head of spine chipped else VG plates fine. Sprague Isaac. First edition. 10 Chromolithographic plates by Isaac Sprague. 1 vols. 4to. Nims and Knight unknown
187669507Washington: Engineer Department U. S. Army; Government Printing Office 1876. Hardcover. 518pp. Quarto 30.5 cm Lacking the large folding map "Profile of wagon-routes in the Territory of Utah". Rebound in plain brown cloth with the title lettered in gilt on the backstrip. New endpapers and flyleaves. Errata slip bound in at front. Thin 4" mark on front board. Handful of small stains on the fore-edge of the text block. Pages moderately age-toned. Contains 4 diagrams 2 maps plates I-V plates I-IX and plates I-III. Subjects include: "Report on the Palæontological Collections of the Expedition" with descriptions of new species; "Ornithology: A List of Birds"; "Report on Ichthyology"; "Report on the Botany of the Expedition"; "Population and Resources of the Territory of Utah"; "Indians of Utah"; "Report on the Languages of the Different Tribes of Indians Inhabiting the Territory of Utah"; "Journal of Mr. Edward M. Kern"; "Journeyings of Father Escalante from Santa Fe to Utah Lake and the Moqui Villages in 1776."<br /> <br /> According to Howes "This route explored in 1859 shortened the distance to California by 250 miles; it was adopted by the overland mail pony express and telegraph. The report was submitted in 1861 but publication had to be deferred because of the Civil War. Portions however appeared in the author's The Shortest Route to California." Howes S508. Moffat 57 & 59. Wagner/Camp 345 note. Engineer Department, U. S. Army; Government Printing Office hardcover
1858AR25GLTBK17CLowestoft: Samuel Tymms 1858. Hardback gilt title to spine. 130pp. Complete with 12 plates. Signed by the author to top of title page. Binding a little worn. Previous owners' private labels to front pastdown. Crease down front free end-paper. Some foxing to contents. Scarce. ar25. Signed by Author. Hardcover. Good . Samuel Tymms Hardcover
186641855Lowestoft: Samuel Tymms 1866. 1st edition in 2 volumes 8vo 310pp appendix 324pp copious line drawings of family arms; both volumes are uniformly bound in brown cloth that of volume 1 with a fine grain finish Volume 2 in a kind of crushed faux-leather; the boards of volume 1 are minimally taller than volume 2; both volumes are dusty there is some noticeable spotting sporadically particularly to volume 1 which has a previous owner's name and inscription to fr pastedown along with an ancient bookseller's catalogue entry listing the title as scarce at 28/-; the illustrations are often spotted and the frontis in volume 1 has some shallow staining affecting the edges; volume 2 is well-preserved except that the contents page is missing either lost or not bound in and a previous owner has bound in a typewritten replacement with the basic family listings but no details of plates although the binding is sound and there is no reason to presume any are missing; volume 1 has wear to bottom edges and corners and although sound generally shows some of its 150 odd years; overall though G Copy or better. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Samuel Tymms Hardcover
1813945F13London: Thomas Kelly 1813-1817 . Leather. Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. The two volume Thomas Kelly edition of Rev. James Hervey's theological work structured in a series of dialogues. First published in 1755 this is the two volume Thomas Kelly edition of the early nineteenth century.Illustrated with eight plates to volume I and five plates to volume II.Collated complete.Hervey's work offers a series of theological dialogues exploring Christian doctrine and spirituality. Framed as a conversation between two friendsTheron a moralist and Aspasio an evangelicalHervey uses their discussions to contrast legalistic approaches to faith with the doctrine of justification by faith alone. The text was influential in spreading evangelical thought during Hervey"s lifetime.With a bookplate to the front pastedown of volume I. Rebacked in half calf bindings with back strips laid down retaining the original boards. Retaining the original endpapers. Rubbing to volume I back strip. Bookplate to volume I front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages significantly age toned with spotting and instances of foxing throughout. Significant foxing to plates. Good Thomas Kelly hardcover
18266164713 Cornhill: Lupton Relfe. 1826. Hardcover. Very Good. xv 1 398pp 6pp illustrated title page and 12 engraved plates minor worming in corner 1 plate sl foxing on few pp edges sm crease on 1 corner last few pps smartly bound in recent red cloth leather spine label.; 16mo . Lupton Relfe hardcover
1810411278London : printed by J. M'Gowan 1810. Stereotype Edition. Hardcover. Good copy finely bound in the original aniline calf over marbled boards. Spine compartments uniformly blind-tooled with a gilt-blocked leather label. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and worn. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight bright clean and strong. Further scans images and additional bibliographical material available on request. Physical description; 34 478 pages 5 leaves of plates ; 22 cm. Notes; Date is suggested. Plates by various engravers after W.M. Craig. Subjects; Devotional literature. Christian literature 19th century. Christianism. London : printed by J. M'Gowan hardcover
1808216618Stourbridge : J. Heming 1808. 1st Edition in this form. Hardback. Finely bound in modern gilt-blocked leather over marble boards. Raised bands. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Pages lightly tanned as with age. Scattered foxing mainly around prelims. New endpapers. Particularly well-preserved; tight bright clean and strong. Further scans images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 527 pages; Physical description: 527p. fontis. ; 21cm. Subjects: Devotional literature -- 19th century. Stourbridge : J. Heming hardcover
185632043Amyot 1856 in-8° Exemplaire Au Chiffre du Comte de Blou 316 + 328 pp, Envoi du Traducteur le Baron d'Hervey Saint-Denis au Comte de Blou, bonne reliure pour les deux volumes
185661359P., Amyot, 1856 in-8°, viii-411 pp, reliure demi-chagrin carmin à coins, dos à 3 nerfs pointillés soulignés de larges filets noirs, auteur et titre dorés, filets à froid sur les plats (rel. de l'époque), bon état. Peu courant
1884008372New York: Scribner & Welford 1884. Three volumes in original brown paper covered boards resembling leather blind tooled and with gilt lettering and gilt Hervey family crest front covers black end papers. Very Good the bookplates of Robert Wheaton Tivers founder of The Rivers School and Mary Rivers front paste down and end page. "Ex Libri R.G. Russell" in ink on Mary Rivers' bookplate. Title page detached Vol. II bookplate removal shadows Vols. II and III moderate foxing at end pages. small tears at spine ends. A handsome set in original publisher's binding. A heavy set will require additional cost for priority and international mail. Please inquire before ordering. . First American Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Scribner & Welford Hardcover books
187610861Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1876. First Edition. 518pp. Quarto 30.5 cm In the original 3/4 leather over matching dark brown boards with gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Marbled pastedowns and endsheets. Complete with all plates and the large map. Good only. Front hinge split. Bookplates on the front pastedown. Shelving number faded on the backstrip. In 1859 U.S. Army topographical engineer Captain James H. Simpson explored the Great Basin of Utah mapping a direct300-mile wagon route from Camp Floyd to Genoa Nevada. This faster route which avoided the older southern paths was crucial for the Pony Express the Overland Mail the telegraph line and later the Lincoln Highway. The report was submitted in 1861 but publication had to be deferred because of the Civil War. Portions however appeared in the author's 'The Shortest Route to California.' Flake/Draper 7724. Fales & Flake 170. Graff 3791. Howes S501. Moffat 57-59. Paher 1802. Sabin 8135. Wheat 999-1000. Government Printing Office unknown
1878059639New Haven Conn.: Charles Hervey Townsend 1878. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Together With Some Account Of Their Landing And Burning The Towns Of Fairfield And Norwalk July. 1779. Engravings Of The "Green" And Town Of New Haven 1779. This Copy Is Bound As A Hardcover. There Are A Half-Dozen Engravings Primarily Of The Town And Surroundings Of New Haven Including A Small Map. 112 Pages Including 2 Pages Of Lists Of Names Of Those Defended The Town On Ships. There Is Also A Tipped In Errata Sheet At Rear Board. The Hinges Are Split And Tender Although They Have Been Strengthen With Primitive Hinges. None The Less A Very Scarce Item In The First Edition With All The Plates. . Charles Hervey Townsend Hardcover
1884SET61-B-2London: Bickers and Son 1884. Cloth. Good. 11" by 8". None. Lord Hervey's frank memoir of George II. Hervey was a courtier and political writer. It was said he had affairs with many notable figures including Anne Vane Lady Montagu Princess Caroline Francesco Algarotti and possibly Prince Frederick. The memoirs were published posthumously due to their unflattering view of the King Prince Frederick and their family arguments. The manuscript was preserved by Hervey's family and his son left clear instructions that the work was not to be published until George III's death. The work was first published in 1848 having been edited by J W Croker. These memoirs have been regarded as resembling those of Horace Walpole and the two books mutually support the veracity of several of the outlandish claims. An ex-library copy with several blind stamps for Bath public library throughout. This is a limited edition of this work being number 47 of only 50 copies printed on large paper. Limited edition statements found to the first two volumes. With a frontispiece to all volumes. In original cloth bindings with paper spine labels. Externally rubbed to the spines and extremities. Spine labels have faded and have a small amount of loss. Bumping to the head and tail of spines. Library shelf numbers written to the spines. Internally library bookplate and notes to the front pastedown Bath Public Reference Library. Internally binding to all volumes is strained in places. Pages are age toned. Library blind stamp to several pages throughout. Occasional light spots to pages. Good Bickers and Son hardcover
1848364London: John Murray 1848. First edition first printing. Near contemporary 1/2 morocco fine binding. Very Good. Biography on the King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1727 to 1760. George II 1683 - 1760 was King of Great Britain and Ireland Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Hanover and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from June 1727 until his death in 1760.<br /> <br /> Condition: VG for 175-year-old plus volumes. Complete.<br /> <br /> BOOK INFO<br /> <br /> Published in 1848 by John Murray in London. First edition first printing. Complete in two volumes. Bound in near contemporary to later half fine morocco. Lustrous board paper ruled in gilt. Spine with five raised gilt decorated bands separating compartments ruled and tooled in gilt; gilt lettering in compartments two and three. Top edge gilt. Strikingly beautiful blue floral-patterned endpapers with branching streaks of gilt match the board paper. Octavo 9" x 6". Collated and complete: lxvi 520 pp.; viii 593 1 pp; frontispiece in each volume two plates of facsimile writings of the author Lord John Hervey. <br /> <br /> ABOUT THE AUTHOR & WORK<br /> <br /> Hervey wrote detailed and brutally frank memoirs of the court of George II of Great Britain from 1727 to 1737. He gave a most unflattering account of the King and of Frederick Prince of Wales and their family squabbles. For the Queen Caroline of Ansbach and her daughter Princess Caroline of Great Britain he had genuine respect and attachment. The Princess's affection for him was commonly said to be the reason for the close retirement in which she lived after his death. The manuscript of Hervey's memoirs was preserved by the family but his son Augustus John 3rd Earl of Bristol left strict injunctions that they should not be published until after the death of George III. In 1848 they were published under the editorship of J. W. Croker over 100 years after first composed but the manuscript had been subjected to a certain amount of mutilation before it came into his hands. Croker also softened in some cases the plainspokenness of the original.<br /> <br /> CONDITION REPORT<br /> <br /> The volumes are in VG antiquarian condition for 175-year-old books. <br /> <br /> Exterior and binding: Firm hinges and joints tight text block. Colorful supple morocco. Spines sunned from dark brown to a lovely chocolate brown. Light rubbing to boards and edges. A few small spots of soiling to boards and edges. Some scuffing to paper. Present beautifully on the shelf. <br /> <br /> Interior: The pages are generally bright and white. Light sporadic foxing moderate to heavier foxing at text block extremities and frontispieces. Signs of handling - marginal finger soiling and some smudges. No writing other than the final page in volume I with a marginal pencil number from the binder along the gutter. No ex libris marks or bookplates. A few bent corners creases and other signs of light handling.<br /> <br /> George II 1683 - 1760 was King of Great Britain and Ireland Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Hanover and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from June 1727 until his death in 1760.<br /> <br /> All in all a handsome two-volume set biography on King George II in collectible condition. John Murray unknown
189836271Methuen 1898. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece 8 plates and large folding map at end; navy diced cloth boards framed in blind upper board blocked in gilt with 'Types of the Force' repeated from frontispiece gilt back uncut expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down new hand-made endpapers a very good bright crisp clean copy. Sold from an institution with neat circular stamp on title only. With 40pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Methuen, hardcover
1839013837London: A. H. Baily 1839. Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio. "Contributed by distinguished writers and edited by T. K. Hervey." A rare work with various poems prose and engraved plates. pp. xiv 2 96 half-title page' engraved vignette title page additional letterpress title page 11 engraved plates the frontispiece plate is missing The poems include "A Sabbath on the Sea" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning the first time it appeared in print. Bound in the original textured cloth with blind stamped decoration to the boards and gilt lettering to the spine gilt vignette to the title page binding good with some general wear and rubbing cloth somewhat marked and a little frayed at the head/tail of the spine. Contents clean and tight some light staining to the odd plate. A good to very good copy. Scarce. A. H. Baily Hardcover
186934035Boston: Printed at the Office of "Weekly American Workman 1869. 22 2 pp. Original printed blue wrappers some light edge chipping and toning stitched. Very Good. <br/><br/> This printing designated "20th thousand" is the earliest edition located at the Library of Congress or on OCLC as of August 2017. It is Heywood's only Boston-published work. There are undated editions of the "Fortieth Thousand." <br/> "YOURS OR MINE attempted to solve the problem of property ownership. It was an investigation of the basis upon which property was held and the reasons why it was inequitably distributed. The labor reform movement should seek 'fundamental equity' he said and not become another 'assault on vested interests' a 'raid of the have-nothings upon the have-somethings.' .Heywood believed that occupancy and use were the real valid titles to ownership despite the fact that society acquiesced in other claims to ownership in the belief that such deference performed some benefit to the 'general welfare.'" Martin James: MEN AGAINST THE STATE 1953 page 111. <br/> A graduate of Brown University Heywood was a public speaker author abolitionist suffragist and individual anarchist. He believed that small communities should govern themselves without a central authority. Interested in labor reform he was a founder of the Worcester Labor Reform League and a delegate to the National Labor Union. In addition to his other causes he believed in "free love" opposed marriage for subjecting women to sexual slavery and supported free choice for women in sexual relations birth control and abortion. Arrested three times and jailed twice under the Comstock laws he was not dissuaded from following his own path. See DAB; Martin at pages 105-125. Printed at the Office of "Weekly American Workman unknown books
