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184114387Brussels: N.-J. Gregoir V. Wouters et Cie. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1841. First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. "The Hundred Days." Quarter bound in recent tan leather over original marbled boards gilt lettering on green labels on spines. Illustrated with tissue-protected engraved frontispieces. IN FRENCH. Professionally rebacked boards rubbed corners bumped moderate foxing on tissue-protected plates only former owners' bookplates on feps ex-library Griton College with fewer than the usual markings otherwise unmarked tight square and clean. VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 328; 336 pp . N.-J. Gregoir, V. Wouters, et Cie hardcover
188520900London: Edward Stanford. 1885. Hardcover. Very Good-. Top spine with light chipping. Dark endpapers with light spots pastedowns due to removed labels. Small tear and light marginal wear to fron fold-out map. Rear hinge started. ; Scarce. Fifteen colored maps highlight this detailed study; 62 b&w illustrations. Green boards with ornate gilt design to front and spine; Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel; Ex-Library; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xviii 617 pages . Edward Stanford hardcover
186620280London: John Murray 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo 226 pp bound in 3/4 green leather and green marbled boards top edge gilt green silk ribbon bookmark bound in. Binding signed William Taylor Morrell. Small bump to top edge of rear board light scuffing to leather foxing to first and last few leaves otherwise clean and sound. Armorial bookplate of William Ruddell Clarke of Trabolgan County Cork Ireland on front pastedown. "Clarke 1870-1937 inherited Trabolgan a large Georgian house and the surrounding estate of 1500 acres from his father in 1911. After his death the estate was purchased by the Irish Land Commission" National Library of Australia. Dufferin an Irish peer and landowner became concerned with the sufferings of Irish tenants in the wake of the great famine leading him to take initiatives designed to relieve their distress on his own estates. This is one of several works he published on Irish land tenure issues. John Murray hardcover
1895051903Philadelphia PA: The Gebbie Publishing Co. Ltd. 1895. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. First Thus. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Dark brown morocco elaborately decorated in blind spine panel with 5 raised bands lettered/decorated in gilt gilt dentilled edges text block edged in gilt silk moire endpapers. No. 11 of the Grand Edition De Luxe limited to 50 numbered copies. Leather rubbed along joints with a few minor scuffs. xii408 pp. illus. w/ 28 engraved plates w/ tissue guards additional in-text illus. Interior shows mild foxing to early and late leaves scattered minor foxing through the remainder; foxing on engraved plates ranges light to moderate. Several leaves project a bit along fore-edge but all are firmly bound in. The Gebbie Publishing Co., Ltd. Hardcover
18990001242Paris: Calmann Levy 1899. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good . 4 volumes 8vo approx. 500 pages each. Trade paperback rebound in library-quality buckram; paper labels. Moderately toned but unused and uncut Calmann Levy hardcover
1885006994New York: Murphy & McCarthy 1885. Book. Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. "Embracing Moore's Irish Melodies the Poems of Clarence Mangan the Songs of Samuel Lover the Patriotic Poems of Davis Lever's Military Songs the Poems of Banim Ferguson Allingham D. F. M'Carthy Father Prout Callanan Goldsmith Griffin Anster Wolf and Nunan. With the Most Brilliant and Stirring Speeches of Edmund Burke Henry Grattan John Philpot Curran Richard Brinsley Sheridan Robert Emmet Charles Phillips Richard Lalor Shell Daniel O'Connell Rev. Dr. Cahill Thomas Francis Meagher Thomas Darcy M'Gee Archbishop M'Hale Father Burke Rev. M. B. Buckley Michael Davitt A. M. Sullivan etc." Brown pebbled cloth embossed in black and gilt gilt top edge. Moderate overall shelf/handling wear with rubbed surfaces some exposure at corners and some chipping/fraying at spine extremities. Double frontis. engravings of Ancient Cross at Clonmacnoise and Thomas Moore numerous internal portrait engravings. vi 910 pp thick quarto. Text block somewhat toned but clean; one contents leaf has several closed edge tears. Firm binding. Lacks front flyleaf and tissue guard between double frontis.; front hinge a bit ragged. Worn but intact with no major defects beyond age and use. Very scarce; few copies located -- appears to be virtually unknown. Murphy & McCarthy Hardcover
18941779New York: D. Appleton & Company. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1894. First American Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. xx i 421 4; vi 484 8; vi 541 8 pp. Royal blue cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and cover and elaborate Napoleonic heraldic device printed on front covers t.e.g. Illustrations and folding facsimile autographs and manuscripts. Title in gilt on covers and spine. . Some slight wear and soiling and handling contents slightly age-toned else Very Good condition hinges strong & intact. VERY GOOD. 8vo 8" - 9" tall . D. Appleton & Company hardcover
1895010783Saumur: Librairie Militaire S. Milon. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Saumur: Librairie Militaire S. Milon 1895 and 1896. Two volumes in one. Small 4to. 7" x 9 3/4" 419; 406pp. Bound in blind embossed red cloth with black titles. Text in French. Ex-library with library treatments. Age toning to the paper at the margins mild fade/wear to the cloth else very good binding strong and tight. . Very Good. Hard. 1st. 1895. Librairie Militaire S. Milon unknown
1851008408London: Willoughby & Co 1851. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 363 1 52 p. engraved title page and 24 leaves of plates; 26 cm. Contemporary half calf with five spine compartments between double gilt rules; gilt-tooled title in second compartment. Paper label with handwritten number in first compartment. Marbled paper over boards. Caption title p. 1: The People's Journal; with which is incorporated Howitt's Journal. Final 52 pages are headed Appendix. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper indicating that this was acquired by the Belles Lettres Society of Dickinson College Carlisle Pa. in 1864. No date of publication or volume number. From 1849 to 1851 the magazine was published by Willoughby & Co. The Appendix on p. 48 references a work published in 1851. Contents include fiction by George Sand Georgina C. Munro Elizabeth O'Hara Paul Creyton John Townsend Trowbridge and others; poetry by Charles Mackay Henry Frank Lott and others; Indian legends by Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bouh George Copway; a description of the establishment of John and Richard Morley "Warehousemen Hosiers and Glovers" in London including the dormitories of their employees; The Balance of Employment: Its Political and Moral Necessity by Clara Walbey; The Adventures of Peter Viaud; and articles about "life assurance" life insurance the slave trade and the life of a draper's assistant. Two leaves of portraits have been traced in pencil on the reverse side. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed; title page and facing plate are lightly soiled; closed 2-cm. tear from fore-edge of title page; closed 3-cm. tear from fore-edge of p. 5; closed 2-cm. tear from upper edge of p. 339; scattered soiling; otherwise clean and solid. Willoughby & Co hardcover
186352720071010Mark Dorman; Longman Gree Longman Roberts and Green; Letts Son and Co.; Vacher and Sons Northampton; London 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Dark brown blind-decorated covers with rubbed edges and with gilt lettering very neatly re-backed with black faux-leather spine and black taped inner hinges. Lightly marked dark red end-papers. Sound binding. Pencilled note on reverse of front end-paper. Light foxing to prelims. Clean pages. First printing of this translation. Size: Folio. 98 pages. No dust jacket as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 52720071010. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. This book is heavier than 1kg and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations. Mark Dorman; Longman Gree Longman Roberts and Green; Letts Son and Co.; Vacher and Sons hardcover
1883614457London: Bickers & Son 1883. Leather hardcover no dust jacket with gilt 'Inverness College' emblem on front board and bookplate on front pastedown in very good condition. Complementary marbled page block pastedowns and endpapers. With plates black and white illustrations and wood engravings. Boards are slightly scuffed. Corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Light foxing on the page block and endpapers. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. Bickers & Son Hardcover
1804561Alex Lawrie Edinburgh 1804. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Fair. Alex Lawrie Edinburgh 1804. 2nd Edition . Fair. Second Edition complete in two volumes approx. 13'' by 8'' rebound in quarter leather with terracotta cloth boards. Vol. I viii 440pp with xxii pp of index illustrated with 24 plates of crests. Vol. II ii 300pp with Prynne's history the Ragman-Roll 47pp & xvi pp index illustrated with 12 plates. Whilst a lovely set these books show signs of use namely some grubbiness neat repairs to some pages & occasional pencil marks see pictures. Ex reference library with single stamp on first page & rear endpaper name on front cover. No other obvious library markings. Heavy & will require extra postage <br/><br/> Alex Lawrie, Edinburgh hardcover
18736659's-Hage carpentier 1873. 1st Edition . Soft cover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Octavo. Pp. 32. Original stiff wrappers bit worn frayed lower wrap gone; some foxing. In good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Extremely rare. Published for the benefit of the wounded and mutilated gunner G. van den Akker with a note to this effect pasted at bottom of front wrapper. Rosier Pieter Jacobus Faassen 1833-1907 was a prolific writer actor and playwright Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau. His dramatic oeuvre numbers more than twenty plays including box-office successes like "Anne-Mie" "De Ledige Wieg" The Vacant Crib and the one-act play "Manus de Snorder" Manus the Coachman. He published his autobiography "Mijn leven" in 1897 and it was reprinted several times. "De Militaire Willemsorde" is a one-act play whose main character is Van Balen elderly veteran decorated with the Military William Order the oldest and highest honour of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. 005-9 <br/> <br/> 's-Hage, carpentier paperback
18886660's-Gravenhage Van Doorn 1888. 1st Edition . Soft cover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Two parts in one volume. Paginated consecutively. Crown quarto. Pp. ii 22; ii 25-108. Plus 2 sketch maps one of which is folding. Several tables. Original wrappers bit worn and shabby shelf tickets and old institutional stamp. In a very good internal condition entirely still unopened. ~ FIRST EDITION. Roldanus submitted this work to a competition called in 1886 by the Vereeniging ter beoefening van de Krijgswetenschap titled "De approviandeering der ontworpen stelling van Amsterdam hare voorbereiding in tijd van vrede en hare uitvoering bij het uitbreken van een oorlog." The three contributors shared the price of fl. 500 but only Roldanus' work was found suitable for publication. In his work he goes into great detail as to the necessary provisions required both in time of peace and at war. In the supplementary tables he even provides a census of neighbouring municipalities villages and hamlets that form the Defence Line of Amsterdam and specifies how many kilograms of meat potatoes peas beans rice sugar coffee salt paper etc. etc. would be necessary to support these populations. 005-9 <br/> <br/> 's-Gravenhage, Van Doorn paperback
18461223E191London: Edward Moxon 1846-1847. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. xxv 643; xx 667; xxi 635; xii 438; xxiii 600. Very Good. 5.25 x 7.5 inches 12 x 19 cm. Five volumes of the six volume set lacking Volume IV. Publishers blind stamped green cloth bindings. Page edges untrimmed and unopened in Volumes III V and VI. Fading to spines. Good solid bindings very clean text throughout. Formerly the possession of Stow Book Society with regulations slip tipped-in to front pastedown endpaper in Volumes II-VI slip removed from Volume I with slight residue remaining. A comprehensive work from the brother of Sir William Napier. A very nice example sadly lacking one volume. Scarce. . Overall condition is Very Good. Please Note: This is a very heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate - a postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Please contact us for an accurate postage cost for your location. Size: 5.25 x 7.5 inches 12 x 19 cm. Edward Moxon hardcover
1839002153London: George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode 1839. Hardcover. Very Good -. Six Acts of Parliament enacted in 1811 1845 and 1847 bound together with the cover title "Colchester Navigation and Improvement Acts." approx. 260 xvi p.; 31 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Five spine compartments between gilt- and blind-tooled bands. Gilt-tooled title on red morocco label on front cover. The six acts have been continuously paginated by hand apparently to correspond to a printed edition of these acts. These versions of the acts were however printed at different times with their own printed pagination. These have been edited by hand to indicate when sections were superceded or repealed. The final 16 pages contain a printed index that corresponds to the handwritten page numbers which implies that a printed edition of these six acts was contemplated but such a work has not been located. Contents: An Act for Improving the Navigation from the Hythe at Colchester to Wivenhoe in the County of Essex and for better paving lighting watching cleansing and improving the said Town of Colchester 6th May 1811 London: George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode 1839 -- An Act To Amend An Act for Improving the Navigation from the Hythe at Colchester to Wivenhoe in the County of Essex and for better Paving Lighting and Improving the Town of Colchester; and for making a New Channel and Deepening the River Colne from Wivenhoe to Ram's Hard leading towards the Sea Royal Assent 22 July 1847 lacking printing information -- An Act for Consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts authorizing the taking of Lands for Undertakings of a public Nature 8th May 1845 London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1854 -- An Act for Consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts authorizing the making of Railways 8th May 1845 the same 1853 -- An Act for Consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually contained in Acts with respect to the Constitution and Regulation of Bodies of Commissioners appointed for carrying on Undertakings of a public Nature 23d April 1847 the same 1854 -- An Act for Consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually contained in Acts for regulating the Police of Towns 22d July 1847 the same 1854 -- Index Colchester: J.B. Harvey Printer n.d. In Very Good- Condition: rubbed; some loss of leather on spine and on corners of boards; a few pages stained; ink annotations as described above. A unique item relating to transportation and other improvements in the town of Colchester England in the first half of the 19th century. George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode hardcover
1861010265Paris: Furne et Cie. Signed Quinet binding. Half-bound leather. Published Paris: Furne et Cie 1861. 8vo. 7 1/4" x 10 1/2" iv648pp. illustrated frontis and numerous tissue-guarded plates hand colored folding map at rear. Half-bound in red leather with raised bands and panels gilt titles and designs and red pebbled cloth over boards marbled endpapers all edge gilting. Wear at the spine ends covers rubbed/faded. Text and plates clean and bright. Very good internally. Binding good. . Very Good Minus. Full-Leather. 1861. Furne et Cie, hardcover
1871DEMO016155ILondon: Religious Tract Society 1871. New Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Very Good . Edward Whymper and others. Quarto 214 pages very good full brown morocco raised bands extra gilt covers spot of waterstain to brown-coated endpapers and flyleaf. <br/><br/>A splendid tour of Switzerland including a full-page woodcut of the Falls of the Reichenbach before Holmes and Moriarty. Illustrated by Edward Whymper and others. This edition has 214 pages - not th e208 210 etc. - and has the 1870 Population Chart on p. 2313 not 207. Two Chromolithographs by Hodson's Chromolithographic Process: one of "Mont Blanc from above Morges" and one of "The Syummit of the Aiguille Verte". Religious Tract Society hardcover
1856010898New York: Leavitt & Allen 1856. 858pp/engraved frontis. Single volume edition of Scott's huge biography of Napoleon. Original red cloth blind stamped cover with gilt lettering and image of Napoleon on spine. Corners slightly frayed. Foxing inside covers. Text tight and clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Leavitt & Allen Hardcover
18222880London: T. Cadell 1822. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 223 168 index p. 4 full illustrations. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. Tan full calf binding- quilted calf on covers edges of covers embossed gilt lettering on spine edges of text block lightly flecked with brown. Condition of book is VERY GOOD: light wear to covers and spine leather labels were reattached at some point upside down old worm damage to top edge of front hinge- one small worm hole does not affect text block only binding top end of text block darkened pages clean with spotty light foxing binding tight. T. Cadell hardcover
18749999_01706Rotterdam Nijgh & Van Ditmar 1874. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Quarto. Pp. 256. Complete with all 12 lithograph plates of portraits and views some tinted; and 4 maps and plans of which 2 are folding one very large bound at end. Set in double columns. HARDCOVER bound in contemporary red half cloth and matching pebbled boards spine gilt lower joint slightly cracked spine-ends and corners bit chafed free endpapers browned neat discreet repairs to verso of folding maps remnants of shelf ticket inside cover foxed in places else very clean. In a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. With the contemporary nicely illustrated bookplate of J. Johannes Sibinga Mulder. Born in Groningen in 1866 he became prominent figure in the sugar industry in the Dutch East Indies. He died in Amsterdam in 1944. F-3 <br/> <br/> Rotterdam, Nijgh & Van Ditmar hardcover
18403546Paris Delanchy 1840. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Octavo. Pp. 19. HARDCOVER bound in contemporary quarter cloth and handsome marbled boards spine gilt. In fine condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Of utmost rarity. A second edition was published already the same year by F. Poisson Caen. The work is attributed to Emmanuel Marquis de Grouchy Marshal of France 1766-1847. As commander-in-chief of the armies of France he successfully led his soldiers after Waterloo back to the capital. He later resigned and retired to the USA but in 1819 he returned to France and was reinstated as marshal in 1831. General Baron Pierre Berthezène 1775-1847. Noteworthy "Réponse au nom de la mémoire du général baron Le Sénécal a la calomnie publiée par M. le baron Berthezène dans un libelle en date du 27 Mai 1840" also offered by Librarium was published in Paris in 1840. Provenance: From the private library of the late H. J. Wijsman with his handsome bookplate. TIMO-2 <br/> <br/> Paris, Delanchy hardcover
184732583Paris: Furne Et C. Ie. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1847. Nouvelle. Hardcover. French Language; Italy Venice; royal 8 vo; Plates and textural illustrations. Foldout frontis. Very occasional minor foxing. Contents generally VG. With plates. 1/2 calf leather over marbled boards. . Furne Et C. Ie, hardcover
1880221707London Paris New York & Melbourne : Cassell & Company 1880 1880. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original decorated cloth over bevelled boards. Professionally recased with a new matching cloth spine; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Scans etc. on request.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 288 pages; Physical description; ix1 28832p. plates : ill. ; 4to. Notes; Title page printed in red and black. With additonal engraved title page. With an index with separate pagination. With frontispiece and engraved plates and illustrations on text pages throughout. Subjects; Engraving English. Europe - Pictorial works. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne : Cassell & Company [1880] hardcover
1854001688London: John Murray 1854. Very Good . With notes corrective and explanatory" by Peter Cunningham. 3 volumes; 22 cm. Contemporary half polished calf with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands. Morocco spine labels in second and fourth compartments bearing title "Lives of the English Poets" author and volume number. All page edges red. Marbled endpapers. First volume has bookplate on front fixed endpaper showing a woman with a large book in her lap above initials signed W.F. Hopson N.H. 1898. In The Book-Plates of William Fowler Hopson 1910 Charles Dexter Allen identifies the initials as "JJH" without identifying the owner. In Very Good Condition: leather is rubbed with several small scrapes; very slight loss of leather at head of vol. 3; pages are clean and tight. A solid and attractive copy. John Murray unknown