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1859183159Boston: Samuel G. Drake 1859. Hardcover. G covers show heavier wear. Spine has tears and frayed and is missing sections at top and in middle. Corners bumped and worn. Ex-library label inside front cover. Text block shows some stains but pages are clean. Some pages have toning and warping. Title page is torn at bottom right corner - does not affect text. Some back pages have chipping and tears on edge. Brown cloth boards embossed art on front gilt lettering and six seals on spine. 388 pp illustrations original wrappers bound in back of title. Published under the direction of: New England Historic Genealogical Society. The price decrease reflects the condition of the covers and spine - but is a candidate for re-bind. Samuel G. Drake hardcover books
1860183157Boston: Samuel G. Drake 1860. Hardcover. G covers show normal wear spine is faded. Spine has small tears and frayed at top. Corners bumped and worn - front corners heavily. Ex-library label inside front cover. Text block shows some stains but pages are clean. Some pages have toning and previous owners marks. Some pages have warping at top edge but not significant. Brown cloth boards embossed art on front gilt lettering and six seals on spine. 388 pp illustrations original wrappers bound in back of title. Published under the direction of: New England Historic Genealogical Society. A little more worn than some of the other titles we have but still has shelf appeal. Samuel G. Drake hardcover books
1848183077Boston: Samuel G. Drake 1848. Hardcover. G covers show normal wear. Corners bumped and worn. Both hinges loose. Text block shows some stains but pages are clean. Brown cloth boards embossed art on front gilt lettering and six seals on spine. 417 pp illustrations salmon wrappers bound in back of title. Published under the direction of: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Wonderfully bound - has great shelf appeal. Samuel G. Drake hardcover books
1850184121Boston: Samuel G. Drake 1850. Hardcover. Good scuffs smudges & scratches to boards; edges & corners rubbed. spine rubbed w/ upper edge torn & flapped. front board nearly detached held w/ tight binding cord; back hinge split tight w/ slight rattle. pastedowns tanned & foxed w/ ex-libris plate. Brown cloth boards w/ leatherette spine & corners w/ gilt trim. 806 pgs w/ frontispieces & tissue-guard plates. Majority pages still bright with a section tanned. Minimal instances of foxing. A custom bound edition of both Volume III published in 1849 and Volume IV published in 1850. Many wonderful portraits with tissue-guards intact. Published under the direction of: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Samuel G. Drake hardcover books
1850WRCAM26487Boston 1850. 20pp. plus advertisements. Small quarto. Cloth. Fine. Reprint of the very rare original published in London in 1676. hardcover books
186337487Boston 1863. Folio broadside 9-1/4" x 13-1/2". Printed beneath the caption in three columns each column separated by a rule. Blank upper left corner with a slight smudge. Very Good plus.<br/><br/> The Society founded in 1863 published numerous articles to promote support for the Union emancipation and victory. Its folio broadsides are far scarcer than the octavo imprints of the Loyal Publication Society in Philadelphia.<br/> The first of several articles reports on the stunning election results in Pennsylvania and Ohio: "The people of this country-- the great democratic masses-- without regard to parties or prejudices are determined to maintain their government in all its integrity and strength. Both the peace men of the North and the war men of the South received a stunning blow yesterday." In Ohio the traitor Vallandigham "has been beaten by an unprecedented majority." And in Pennsylvania the Copperhead Woodward has been repudiated. Another article expresses hope that the small farmers of the South and "are thoroughly tired of the war."<br/> The final article reports on Kentucky's Joseph Holt's advocacy of the use of Negro soldiers. <br/>Sabin 52696 reference. unknown books
186334187Boston 1863. Folio broadside printed in three columns 9-1/2" x 16-1/2". Printed in three columns beneath the caption Very Good.<br/><br/> The Society founded in 1863 published numerous articles to promote support for the Union emancipation and victory. The first essay "a letter of an eminent Englishman" expresses dismay at the London Times's support for the Confederacy "a thing which I should have thought impossible." Englishmen support "the federal cause by a great majority." The second essay delights in the victory of the Union party in Maryland and "the sudden development of a radical emancipation sentiment in Maryland in Missouri and in West Virginia. The same phenomenon is manifesting itself slowly in Kentucky rapidly in Tennessee Louisiana and North Carolina." A third piece recites the "Rebel Terms of Peace" as stated by the Richmond Enquirer: "the North must yield all-- we nothing." Finally an article from the Boston Transcript entitled 'The Contraband Question in the South-West' urges "the most sure and vigorous means to get every able-bodied black under arms."<br/>Sabin 52696 reference. The Society's broadsides are scarce. The Library Company owns several but not this one. We note a location at Gettysburg College. The Rubinstein Collection at Duke owns some Society broadsides but evidently not this one. unknown books
1976228331N.P.: Bohemian Club 1976. hardcover. near fine. Frontispiece illustration. 57pp. Slim 8vo brown cloth. N.P.: Bohemian Club 1976. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> The Seventy-First Grove Play of the Bohemian Club Presented July 30 1976.<br/><br/> Bohemian Club unknown books
197667381Other: Bohemian Club. Very Good. 1976. Hardcover. The Seventy-First Grove Play of the Bohemian Club Presented July 30 1976. 42 pages plus director's comments music notes and a list of Grove Plays of the past. 9.25x6.5 inches. Brown flexible cloth covers. This is a clean nice copy. Very Good. . Bohemian Club hardcover books
197615735.1San Francisco: The Bohemian Club 1976. 1st edition. Brown faux-leather boards. Nr Fine. 42 pp. Printed by Lawton & Alfred Kennedy. Frontis. 8vo. <br/><br/> The Bohemian Club hardcover books
197610609ESan Francisco: Bohemian Club 1976. First Edition. Illustrated. Fine without dust jacket as issued. A finely printed work of the play Noah the seventy-first Grove play of the Bohemian Club. Bohemian Club unknown books
200125065Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club Books. Fine. 2001. Paperback. 1929173067 . Black and white photographs. Second paperback printing. SIGNED by the author. Fine in pictorial wraps. . Appalachian Mountain Club Books paperback books
195281518London 1952. Paperback. Good. photos 27 1p. Original wrapper. 31cm. Moderate wear corner curl and creasing light edge-wear etc. Maureen Connolly played on Centre Court on July 1st in the Ladies Singles semi-final and in the Mixed Doubles semi-final. She won the Wimbledon Singles Championship three straight years 1952-1954 before her brilliant and very short career was ended at the age of 19 when her right leg was accidentally crushed by a cement truck. She died of ovarian cancer at the age of 34. <br/><br/> paperback books
198730315Boston: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Near Fine. 1987. Paperback. First edition paperback. About fine in pictorial wraps. . Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities paperback books
15683182London: William Seres 1568. 4to 216 x 147 mm. 8 118 leaves. Roman italic and greek types; printed shoulder notes. 8-line historiated woodcut initial opening the dedication 4-line initial opening the text. Title a bit soiled and ink-speckled some old crease marks to corners dampstaining in lower portion of last 30 or so leaves a few small stains including early inkstains in some lower margins.Contemporary London binding of ca. 1570 by the "Macdurnan Gospels Binder" of brown calf over pasteboard both covers gold-blocked and -tooled to a center- and corner-piece design with large cornucopia corner tools Foot K1 and K2 at center the gold-blocked arms of Elizabeth I within the Garter and surmounted by a coronet Oldfield British Armorial Bindings stamp 1 a semis of small gilt trefoils smooth spine gilt with small tools and intersecting fillets evidence of two fore-edge ties edges gilt the gilding largely faded; a few small gouges old restorations to corners obscuring the corner edges of five of the eight cornerpieces and to upper board edges joints and extremities of spine; modern folding case.Provenance: Elizabeth I of England supra-libros the binding probably commissioned and presented to her by the dedicatee Peter Osborne; Richard Latewar 1560-1601 preacher and Neolatin poet neat inscription on title consisting of two lines of Latin verse praising this posthumous work Bernardus niveos moriens imitates olores / Edidit hos dulces in sua busta sonos signed with his Latin name Richardus a Sero Bello a correction f. 98r and five marginal notes apparently in the same hand ff. 4v of the dedication 27v 31r 48r 65r 83v; Latin motto or quotationat end in a different early hand; John Wright purchase inscription on title stating that he paid 12 pence for the book in 1613 Johannes Wryght p. 12 d / 1613 a few marginalia probably in the same hand some marginal notation symbols and light underlines; with Bernard Quaritch catalogue 166 January 1897 Examples of the Art of Bookbinding no. 21 the text of the catalogue on a typed sheet mounted inside front cover. First Edition of a devotional treatise by a reformist Yorkshire preacher bound for presentation to the Queen.This was John Bernard's only published work. The manuscript was found in Bernard's study after his death by his brother Thomas who had it published dedicating the volume to Peter Osborne the lord treasurer's remembrancer of the exchequer. "According to Thomas Bernard his brother wrote the Oratio pia early in Mary's reign when the persecution of protestants was beginning. Supported by much classical and patristic learning John Bernard pursues the question of 'where the true tranquillitie of the minde may be founde' English translation of 1570 The Tranquillitie of the Minde 35. His standpoint is firmly evangelical. Proclaiming a scripture-based religion he rejects clerical celibacy and the doctrine of purgatory and asserts that if no morally worthy priest is available to comfort those troubled in conscience the latter should go instead to 'the lay man which is indued with the same giftes that are in a godly Minister'" Oxford DNB. The work was printed by the noted Protestant printer William Sere who had received letters patent for the printing of psalters primers and prayer-books in 1554; he lost this privilege under Queen Mary and regained it upon the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558.The "MacDurnan Gospels Binder" a shop or binder active from the 1560s to the early 17th century after about 1580 the shop's material is associated with the binder John Bateman derives its name from the 9th-century Gospels of Maelbright MacDurnan Abbot of Armagh d. 927 now in the Library of Lambeth Palace which was bound in this London shop for Archbishop Matthew Parker the bindery's main patron. "Besides binding manuscripts for Parker and presentation copies of books in whose production he was concerned this bindery bound presentation copies of books produced by most of the leading members of the London book trade between 1567 and 1577" Nixon Five Centuries. Nixon and Miriam Foot recorded nine bindings from the shop originally owned by Queen Elizabeth not including this one which appears neither in Nixon's 1970 census of 34 books bound in the shop nor in Foot's 70-item addendum to his census. Others were owned by King James I Henry Prince of Wales Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester William Cecil Lord Burghley and other luminaries.This binding is decorated with a pair of the distinctive cornerpiece blocks that characterize the shop's work; they are reproduced by Miriam Foot in The Henry Davis Gift volume I plate facing p. 40 as nos. K1 and K2. She reproduces two bindings decorated with these blocks dated by her to ca. 1567 and 1570 cf. vol. 1 no. 3 = vol. 2 no. 48 and vol. 2 49. Another binding with the same cornerpiece blocks though with modern overpainting is held by the Folger Shakespeare Library and reproduced in their Bindings Image Collection STC 17518. The present binding may have been commissioned for presentation to the Queen by Peter Osborne Officer of the Exchequer to whom the work is dedicated. The inscription by the poet and divine Richard Latewar who died in 1601 appears to indicate that the volume passed out of Queen Elizabeth's hands before that date.STC 1924. Cf. Howard M. Nixon Five Centuries of English Bookbinding 21; Nixon "Elizabethan Gold-tooled Bindings" Essays in honour of Victor Scholderer Mainz 1970 census pp. 254-262; Miriam Foot Henry Davis Gift I:35-49; Paul Needham Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings no. 87. William Seres unknown books
19102218c. 1910. Two individual 20 x 12.5 cm. hand drawn mock-ups illustrations presumably for pamphlet cover art; done in pencil. One 20 x 12.5 cm. color printers proof of pamphlet cover art and Nine identical pamphlets - Reliable Measuring Cup - an offshoot of the Reliable Flour Company a Boston based business. <br/><br/> unknown books
162516043JLondon: Whitehall May 28 1625. CHARLES I King of England. Original Document Signed "Charles R". Bifolium with affixed wafer seal on the second sheet address verso text written in brown ink in a legible courthand signed at the head of the first leaf recto approximately 28 lines dated Whitehall 28th of May 1625. Some minor foxing minor wear to folds. Framed with an engraved portrait of the King. The document is addressed to a group of Scots peers including Sir William Oliphant. "Having understoode that a submission was sent to our late dear father from diverse gentlemen and others neighboring within the . of Glenalmond the right and title that they pretended thereto." Whitehall unknown books
1967140885New York: Avalon Books 1967. Octavo cloth. First separate edition. Fourth book of the five-volume Avalon reprint of DARKNESS AND DAWN an important early American science fiction novel utilizing the catastrophe motif. The trilogy was first published as serials in CAVALIER in 1912 and 1913 and first published in book form in 1914 by Small Maynard and Company. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-73; 1981 1-67; 1987 1-33; 1995 1-33 and 2004 II-383. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 673. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 283. Lewis Utopian Literature pp. 58-9. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 79. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 484-87. In 333. Bleiler 1978 p. 79. Reginald 04904D. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #140885 Avalon Books unknown books
1960155931960. Softcover. VG pencil on cover. Red wraps. 45 pp. 5 bw plates. Five-page introduction by Oliver Millar catalogue of 62 annotated works some pleasant plates. unknown books
179542915Louth 1795. White rag paper bottom and fore-edge deckled. Black printed text. Two fold lines; occasional loss to fold lines minimally affecting text; light general wear and toning. VG. Bifolium. 2 unnumbered pages of printed text; title printed to verso of second leaf else second leaf blank. 9-3/4" x 7-5/8" <br/><br/>Auction catalogue from the 1795 sale of 38 lots of the freehold estate owned by the late Charles Chaplin Esq. with manuscript prices and related notes in pencil and ink in a contemporary hand throughout. Occasional pencil notations and markings correct the printed acreage estimates of some lots. The Chaplins were members of the upper gentry and influential landowners in Lincolnshire. When the Louth Navigation -- a canal running from Louth in Lincolnshire to Tetney Haven at the mouth of the Humber -- was completed in 1770 Charles Chaplin managed to secure a 99 year lease of the tolls despite the terms of the canal's Act of Parliament limiting such leases to just seven years. The Louth Navigation Trust per the Louth Canal website notes that control and management of the tolls became "virtually hereditary" and led to considerable commercial opposition to the Chaplins and their political influence by the 1820s. The catalog includes columns for "Names of Plots &c."; "Acres by Estimation"; "State of Land"; and "Occupiers." Anyone wishing to view the premises is encouraged to apply to one Mr. J. Curtis of Saltfleetry. unknown books
1812TB29956Boston: Printed by Chester Stebbins 1812. First Edition. Very good- in stab sewn wrapper with Bowdoin College and the name of an early prior owner Ezra Abbot Jr. written across the upper edge of the front page. An octavo of 9 by 5 7/8 inches with the fore edge and lower edge rough cut and shallow chipping to the fore edge of the front page. Written in pencil is the author's name surrounded in brackets just above the word "Boston". The contents are spotted with foxing throughout but primarily in the margins. 117 pages of text. The author John Lowell 1769-1840 was a Massachusetts lawyer agriculturist philanthropist and a well known Federalist who wrote many pamphlets in support of his point of view. He was often at odds with the Democratic Party and published many unsigned pieces critical of President James Madison's efforts to build a standing army and navy and the War of 1812. DAB Printed by Chester Stebbins unknown books
191623254New York: Robert M. McBride & Company 1916. First Edition. Octavo 19.75cm.; original tan gilt-lettered cloth; 10382pp. Some light shelf wear corners bumped spine gilt rather dulled else Very Good and sound albeit lacking jacket. Socialist author's collection of short stories following the antics of crooks Pod and Bender. HUBIN p. 136. Robert M. McBride & Company unknown books
1800225275England 1800. Watercolor drawing. 31.8 x 45.7 cm. 12-1/2 x 18 inches. Framed and matted. Watercolor drawing. 31.8 x 45.7 cm. 12-1/2 x 18 inches. Superb hilltop view of the old port in this village in North Devon showing several large frigates anchored in the bay sloops moored in the harbor cattle grazing on the slopes sea and sky in the distance. unknown books
19683067qsKingston Rhode Island: University of Rhode Island July 1968. Octavo paperbound stiff illus. green wrappers 118 pp. Good with title inked to spine and sticker to upper cover. University of Rhode Island, July, 1968. unknown books
197589685London: Published for the British Academy by the Egypt Exploration Society 1975. Paperback. Near Fine. illustrations xix 373p. plus 39 plates printed on one side on plain paper. Softcover in original wrapper. 26cm. Fading on backstrip and adjacent ares of front cover. Consists almost entirely of communications/papers each restricted to 6 pages of typescript in English French German and Spanish. Graeco-Roman Memoirs No. 61. <br/><br/> Published for the British Academy by the Egypt Exploration Society paperback books
