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18514618London 1851. 24mo 5.8 x 3.3 cm. Company of Stationers Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled black morocco both boards show a beautiful geometrical design of gold-tooled black white and green morocco gilt edges in a matching slipcase. With a steel-engraved armorial title page a four-page steel-engraved view of the mansions of the Earl of Spencer and of the Earl of Ellesmere in green park and a steel-engraved half-page armorial vignette. 24 pp. Ornately bound "pocket" London almanack; an entirely steel-engraved miniature publication for the year 1851. The almanack contains an explanation of its use including an overview of the dominical letter golden number epact and cycle of the sun for the year 1851 a 4 page view of the "mansions of the Earl Spencer and the Earl of Ellesmere in the green park" engraved by H. Adlard an overview of sun and moon eclipses in that year the calendar a "regal table" overview of British monarchs since 1066 an overview of the Royal family of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and their children lists of great officers of state of Great Britain and Ireland an overview of stamps bills and promissory notes and finally a list of "transfer days at the bank &c." including the South Sea House and India House.The London Almanack was published by the Company of Stationers from the end of the 17th century until the end of the 19th century. They are of special interest for their fine publisher's bindings but also for their striking views of London.With a manucript owner's inscription on the front blank endpaper recto of the engraved title page in pencil "A. S. Wossley" and pencil annotations between the printed lines of the calendar. The slipcase shows minor signs of wear the binding is slightly damaged at the head and foot of the spine not affecting the integrity of the binding. Otherwise in very good condition.l Bondy p. 39 ff. and p. 164; Welsh p. 32 and passim; WorldCat 913420648 5 copies. hardcover
18610100035London: Illustrated London News 1861. Leather Bound. Both maps laid onto linen; in a gilt-lettered black leather binding with smaller fold-out "Key" on the left and the map on the right 139 cm wide x 53 tall. Some foxing edges age-toned; very good. Binding shows scuffing to edges and pull to the head of the spine. Engraved panoramic map of London. Illustrated London News unknown
1900234451900. LONDON Jack. The Son of the Wolf. Tales of the Far North. Orig. gray cloth stamped in silver. Frontis. Boston & N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin & Co. 1900. First edition of the author's first book. BAL 11869. A fine copy. unknown
1899288055The Shortstory Publishing Co. 1899 Complete Year Rebound In Black Cloth With Red/Gilt Leather Title Plate On Spine Headband End Pages. Fore Edge Wear Later Issues. All Illustrated Color Covers First Appearance Of Jack London's Only Science Fiction Story "A Thousand Deaths." Which He Sold To The Magazine For $40 - Enough For Jack To Pay His Debts And Redeem His Bicycle From Pawn. The Story Seemed To Him A Penny's Worth Of Rot But The Plot Reveals His Despair At His Denial By His Probable Father.The Story Was Written When Jack Was At Berkekey At The Time That Chaney Repudiated Him. A Rare Year's Issue Of Obscure But Important Literary Magazine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The Shortstory Publishing Co. hardcover
189336047London: Lawrie & Company. As New. 1893. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE CLEAN & UNMARKED TIGHT TO THE SPINE - Measures approx 15"inches x 11"inches. "Catalogue of a loan collection of pictures principally of the French Barbizon school of 1830 exhibited at Lawrie & Company Galleries 15 Old Bond Street London 30 individual engraved plates and letterpress descriptions slight foxing throughout artists include Corot Rousseau JF Millet NV Diaz CF Daubigny LV Dupre C Troyon E Meissonier Gainsborough JMW Turner Velasquez George Fuller. Wear to spine otherwise fine clean and tight. " Scarce. -- with a bonus offer-- . Lawrie & Company hardcover
18991345719San Francisco CA: Overland Monthly Publishing Compny 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 2 vols.; G-; contemporary three-quarter brown leather binding boards in green marbled paper; spines scuffed with black lettering; significant shelf wear and mild soiling; vol. xxxiii front board detached leather scratched; tail of vol. xxxiii starting; back joint of vol. xxxiii starting; front board of vol. xxxiv attached by cords only leather scratched; scratching and wear to vol. xxxiv spine; back joint of vol. xxxiv previously repaired; all edges of textblocks with decorative green speckling; textblocks clean and sound; CX consignment; shelved Case 2. These volumes are the first appearances of eight Jack London stories in print: "To the Man on the Trail A Klondike Christmas" "The White Silences Another Story of Malemute Kid" "The Son of the Wolk Third of the 'Malemute Kid' Stories "The Men of Forty-Mile 'Malemute Kid' Deals with a Duel" "In a Far Country" "The Priestly Prerogative Sixth of the 'Malemute Kid' Stories" "The Wife of a King" and "The Wisdom of the Trail." 1345719. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Overland Monthly Publishing Compny hardcover
1831177610London: J. Catnach printer 1831. Pomp and ceremony at the new London Bridge First edition of this rare broadside celebrating the opening of the new London Bridge and the Royal flotilla that passed underneath. The illustration captures the scene: there are waving crowds and flags flying a hot-air balloon is in the air and there are many barges including at the centre the barge with the royal couple. The text gives an account of the arrangements followed by two songs: "the landing of royal William and Adelaide at London Bridge" and "New London Bridge and King William for ever". The bridge constructed from 1824 to 1831 replaced the medieval structure. It was famously sold in 1968 and rebuilt in Lake Havasu Arizona. We trace three copies in institutions: National Library of Scotland the V&A Museum and the Science Museum in London. Illustrated broadside 495 x 372 mm text in 4 columns within woodcut fern border. Mounted on Japanese tissue slight wear at extremities and a few creases and tiny chips with minor loss a little toned and spotted. In good condition. unknown
1859141030London: The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited. c.1859-61. Doorstepping the Indian Rebellion A fascinating and notable piece of 19th-century publishing history: a pair of publisher's blads in this case used by a salesman in the garnering of subscriptions for two very popular and topical part-works Robert Montgomery Martin's The Indian Empire 1858-59 and Charles Ball's The Indian Mutiny 1858-61; each gilt stamped on the front cover "Specimen. Not for Sale" and carrying at the end a number of pages for recording subscribers' details. The blad for The Indian Mutiny shows that our salesman was on the East Midlands circuit with the names of two individuals recorded in Radford and Nottingham: a Thomas Brown and a Joseph Houlton baker of Derby Road Nottingham the latter recorded in directories of the period. A blad is a sample book section used by publishers and their representatives for promotional purposes. These are particularly handsome examples presented in their now slightly faded but nonetheless impressive cloth bindings that alone would have been a temptation to the potential book buyer offering a choice selection of plates and the opening six or eight pages of text. Needless to say their highly ephemeral nature makes them decidedly uncommon. Two works large octavo. Each with steel-engraved frontispiece and vignette title page first work with 11 plates second with 8 both with hand-coloured engraved map of India and specimen of letterpress. Martin: original saffron morocco-grain cloth blind ornamental foliate paneling to covers title within a pictorial cartouche gilt to front cover pale primrose yellow-coated endpapers; Ball: original red bead-grain cloth blind ornamental paneling to covers title within pictorial cartouche gilt incorporating a portrait of Sir Henry Havelock to front cover pale primrose yellow-coated endpapers Bindings a little rubbed and stained inner hinges cracked back cover of The Indian Mutiny loose and holding on front cords yet considering the nature of these pieces remarkably well preserved. hardcover
18701007W21London: Taylor and Francis 1870-1875. Cloth. Very Good. 12" by 10". Not Stated. A heavily illustrated and highly informative set of natural history periodicals with colour plates. A scarce collection of four volumes of this informative and richly illustrated periodical featuring volumes twenty-six through to twenty-nine.Each volume is bound in ivy cloth with tinted text block edges.'Natural History Society' library bookplate and 'Booth Museum of Natural History' stamp to front paste downs. Volume one features sixty monochrome plates two further colour plates and several further vignette illustrations throughout.Volume two features fifty-five monochrome plates and eleven colour plates and further vignette illustrations.Volume three features thirty-eight monochrome plates and eight colour platesFirst three volumes collated from plates mentioned in text complete.Volume four features a colour folding map frontispiece and one-hundred-and-thirty-six monochrome plates.No other collation record available.The Linnean Society of London was established in 1788 and concerns itself with the study of natural history. The society is currently under the patronage of Anne Princess Royal. Bound in green cloth. Externally very smart. Moderate shelf wear. Moderate rubbing to vol1 spine. Occasional small closed tears to head and tail. 'Natural History Society' library bookplate and 'Booth Museum of Natural History' stamp to front paste downs. Shelf number labels to spines. Small losses to vol4 front joint. Vol4 front hinge broken. Internally generally firmly bound with occasional strain. Pages generally bright and clean with occasional areas of significant spotting particularly to vol1. Occasional spotting to plates. Scattered spotting to text block edges. Small binder's stamps to front blanks. Small closed tear to vol3 title page. Very Good Taylor and Francis hardcover
18632307230011The Alpine Club London 1863 - 1891 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Golden Age of Alpine Mountaineering 15 volumes 1-15. Fine bindings. Bound in 3/4 leather over green linen boards. Gilt lettered spines gilt ruled. Engraved and photographic plates maps and illustrations many folding. Book plates of the Milton Academy on front paste down gifted by Cyril H. Jones. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. The Alpine Club, London, 1863 - 1891 hardcover
1850c2206270149xbvkLondon, William Pickering (Chiswick, C. Wittingham), 1850. 1 blank sheet; xii pages (incl. foretitle-sheet, title-sheet, printed dedication-sheet, 'Contents' and 'Introduction to Eidolon'), 240 pages; 1 blank sheet. - Richly gilt handbound green chagrin-leather binding over 5 raised bands with gilt title at spine (stamp-signed ''Bound by Hayday'' at inner frontpanel), all edges gilt, silken marker-ribbon; 8vo.(ca. 18 x 11,5 cm).
18358044London: Londinensis Societatis Antiquarium. Good. 1835. Hardcover. Elephant folio 15" x 21". Volumes 4 5 and 6 only. Three quarter leather bound covers with brown stain covers are frayed at corners and spine caps with two missing spine strips and 3 of the 6 boards are detached but all present. Boards and spines are straight. Bindings are tight. Marbled end sheets and paste down clean and vibrant. Text pages are barely toned largely free of foxing with only very sparse modest soiling and overall in very good condition. Plates range from being untoned to light toning and from being completely free of foxing to moderate foxing although those with moderate foxing tends to be more in the margin areas. The plates are overall in very good condition. Volume 4: complete with 53 plates one being an extra also labeled plate VII but not identical several of which are folding plates and 2 of which are handcolored. Volume 5: complete with 69 plates 2 of which are double page. Volume 6: unknown how many plates are called for but present are a total of 14 plates as follows 2 b&w partial page plates within a text page 4 full page b&w one has very heavy foxing and 8 handcolored plates. These volumes are excellent candidates for rebinding with new covers as the page bindings are solid and condition of the contents overall in very good condition. . . Londinensis Societatis Antiquarium hardcover
1900018035Houghton Mifflin 1900. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In Grey Cloth With Silver Buckle. First Edition First Issue 1900.Rare In This Condition.Beautiful Copy Of The Author's First Book. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover
189569083Oakland Cal.:: Oakland High School November 4 1895. First edition. publisher's illustrated wrappers. Some slight soiling to wrappers; small stains in the area of the staples; wrappers unchipped and unworn. Folio. Woodbridge 621. Walker & Sisson 5. Jack London's story appears on pp. 2-4. It was later reprinted in The Oakland Herald April 17 1907. Oakland High School, unknown
1900016562Houghton Mifflin 1900. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy in Decorative Gray Cloth With Silver Band. First Edition With All First Issue Points Rare In This Condition. Gorgeous Fresh Copy. The Author's First Book. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover
1865443721865. <p>City of London Truss Society. Archive of 65 documents including autograph letters signed mostly to John Colley Taunton d. 1858 printed reports and other ephemera. 1822-65. Some documents soiled or dampstained a few with tears but overall good to very good. Calendar of the archive included.</p> <p> The City of London Truss Society a highly successful British charitable organization began operating in 1807 and continued well into the twentieth century Sir Geoffrey Keynes the well-known surgeon and bibliographer served on the Society's medical staff in the 1930s. A notice published in the Philosophical Magazine in 1813 describes the genesis of the Society:</p> <p> "From the great number of persons among the laboring poor who were afflicted with hernia and for whose relief no adequate provision existed on the 14th of October 1807 Dr. Squire Dr. Herdman John Taunton the Rev. H. G. Watkins James Horton Michael Bartlett Joseph Atkinson John Middleton John Gardner and John Whitford met at the City Dispensary and formed themselves into a Society 'for the relief of the ruptured poor throughout the Kingdom the City of London Truss Society'" Philosophical Magazine 43 1813: 316. </p> <p> John Taunton 1769-1821 surgeon to London's city dispensary was appointed the Truss Society's first surgeon; after his death his son John Colley Taunton took over the post remaining there until his own death in 1858. By 1813 the Society was treating nearly 2000 patients annually; by Taunton's death in 1821 this number had increased to over 3500; and by the end of the nineteenth century the Society was employing three surgeons and seeing over 10000 patients per year. </p> <p>The archive we are offering contains 65 documents of which all but seven are handwritten. Of the 58 handwritten documents the majority are letters to and a few from John Colley Taunton. The most notable correspondent represented here is physiologist and surgeon Benjamin Collins Brodie 1783-1862 whose letter to Taunton advises him on a urinary tract infection in a patient. Four of the letters are from surgeon William Kingdon 1789-1863; two of these recommend poor patients to the Society's care. 31 letters are from Samuel Cartwright 1789-1864 a dentist and one of the vice-presidents of the Truss Society; nearly all of his letters have to do with donations to the Society and several include the exact amounts given. Another group of letters is from Mary Tanner presumably a patient; two of these letters include prescription notes in what is presumably J. C. Taunton's hand. Also included in this archive are three of the Society's annual reports for the years 1862-1864; a printed subscription card; and two printed invitations from the Society addressed to Walter K. Taunton. A complete calendar of the archive is included. Royal College of Surgeons Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online. </p> <p>. unknown
180585307h<p>Glasgow: R. Chapman 1805. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Four volumes complete set lately bound in handsome brown half-morocco over marbled paper boards. New endpapers. Speckled edges; new endpapers. Collates complete. viii304;iv286;iv2844appendix;iv280pp. Portrait frontispiece in Volume I. Some varied staining and toning to text. Otherwise clean tight and unmarked and internally bright. Very neat -- a sound and handsome set. .</p> R. Chapman hardcover
1823423251London: Printed by Ellerton and Henderson Gough Square 1823. Near Fine. Folio 21.5 x 33 cm / 8½" x 13â€. pp. 1 2-3 4 blank. Light vertical and horizontal center folds three short tears at the horizontal fold near fine with a contemporary drawing of a few survey lines and diagrams very lightly sketched in ink and pencil on the final blank page. The Society states its case against slavery in the Colonies of Great Britain where "there are at this moment upwards of 800000 human beings in a state of degrading personal slavery." It provides a brief but detailed description of "the immoral inhuman and unjust" nature of the slave trade and of the absolute power of slave owners. Printed by Ellerton and Henderson, Gough Square unknown
1853186203London: Waterlow & Sons 1853. An essential guide for the Victorian Londoner First edition scarce. Fares for horse-drawn cabs in 19th-century London could be highly unpredictable and inexperienced visitors were often exploited. In 1853 the London Hackney Carriage Act increased regulations over the industry and tasked the Commissioner of the Police with enforcing them. This handbook was published to educate potential customers on the new regulations. Cab fares were stipulated at sixpence per mile within a four-mile radius from Charing Cross Road. Beyond this fares were a shilling per mile. This is illustrated with a large folding map at the front of the handbook. Other regulations covered speed and quality of vehicle. We have traced copies at just five institutions in the UK and two in North America. Small octavo. Folding map of "A Circle of Four Miles from Charing Cross" opening to 375 x 400 mm some hand-colour. Original brown wavy-grain cloth blind frames to covers title and arms of the City of London in blind to the upper edges sprinkled brown "Index to Map" printed on front pastedown. Contemporary ownership inscription to front flyleaf "S. V. Walter 1854". Wear to spine ends a few spots of soiling to sides a little foxing to outer leaves short splits to folding map at stub. A very good copy. hardcover
1818ABC_49458London 1818. 8vo. printed for the society; and sold by Williams and Co. . and J. Nisbet Modern half red morocco blue paper sides with a red morocco title label on the front lettered and decorated in gold. With a folding engraved map of the islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean dated June 26 1818. 3 1 blank 8 86 pp. Rare work on the history of Otaheite present day Tahiti and the work of the London Missionary Society LMS in the region in the late 18th and early 19th century. The present edition is the second which was published only a few months after the first but has been significantly enlarged with nearly twice as many pages and a map of the islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It was written by and printed for members of the LMS which is possibly why it is quite rare. We have only been able to find three other copies in sales records of the past hundred years.The London Missionary Society was established in 1795 with the intent to do missionary work in Polynesia. Their first voyage to the South Pacific took place in 1796. Thirty missionaries and their families travelled aboard the ship Duff captained by James Wilson 1760-1814 to the various islands on which they were posted namely Tongatapu the Marquesas Islands and Tahiti. The present work gives a short account of this voyage based on primary sources and tells of the experiences of the missionaries on Tahiti in the years after including conflicts with the locals and the operations of the first printing press in the Pacific Islands which was brought to Tahiti by missionary William Ellis 1794-1872 in 1817. The work also includes a translation of four letters from the converted king Pomare II 1782-1821 dated 1807 1815 1816 and 1817 which were sent to the missionaries.The work is lightly browned throughout. Otherwise in very good condition.l Ferguson 718; Forbes 485; Jisc 5 copies; O'Reilly 7620; WorldCat 54238062 806774363 311107978 220179731 83569659; not in Hill; Kroepelien. unknown
1900053141Boston and New York / Riverside Press Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. First Edition First Issue First State . Slate-grey Cloth. Near Fine/No DJ. 7 7/8" Tall. Embossed Cloth With Silver. First Trade Printing First Issue First State On All Known Points. I-Viii Including Preliminary Blank Leaf 1 2-251; Printer's Imprint P. 252; Final Blank Leaf First Printing Of 2028 Copies Per Sisson-Martens 1010 Copies Of Second Printing 1004 Copies Of Third Printing But What Identifies 2Nd And Third Printings Is Not Absolutely Clear. Collation: 14 3-22 6 As Required For First Printing. Publisher's Imprint At Bottom Of Spine : Houghton Mifflin & Co. Without Periods Around Ampersand The State #1 Per Woodbridge No Known Priority. Bal Does Not Provide Definitive Points For The First State. However James Henry As Cited In Sisson-Martens In "A Proposed Chronology Of Editions Of "The Son Of The Wolf" Requires The Following Additional Points For The First Binding : 1. Perfect & On Spine; 2. Perfect "E" In "Spruce" And Perfect "T" In "Might" In The Bottom Two Lines Page 147 Henry's Second And Third States And Later Issues Have Imperfect Letters; 3. No Stub Between Pp 6-7; 4. Sets Of Binding Threads Between Pp 6-7 18-19 30-31 And Every Six Leaves To 246-247. All Of These Points Are Present In This Copy. Consistent With More Recent Bibliographic Information There Is A Comma After Copyright Date A Simple Distinguishing Point Of The First State. Lastly The Type On Pp. 65 And 67 Is Unbroken. An Attractive Near Fine Book With Very Slight Rubbing At Corners No Previous Owner's Names Or Other Markings And Quite Scarce Thus.This Copy With The Original Bookseller's Label From W.F. Purnell Sacramento Circa 1900. <br/> <br/> Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
1900030766Boston and New York / Riverside Press Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. First Edition First Issue First State 1st Printing. Slate-grey Cloth. Near Fine/No DJ. 7 7/8" Tall. I-Viii Including Preliminary Blank Leaf After Front Free Endpaper 1 2-251; Printer's Imprint P. 252; Final Blank Leaf Before Rear Free Endpaper. First Printing Of 2028 Copies Per Sisson-Martens 1010 Of Second Printing 1004 Of Third Printing But What Identifies 2Nd And Third Printings Is Not Absolutely Clear. Embossed Slate Grey Cloth With Silver. Near Fine. First Trade Printing First Issue First State On All Known Points. Collation: 14 3-22 6 As Required For First Printing. Binding With Publisher's Imprint At Bottom Of Spine : Houghton Mifflin & Co. Without Periods Around Ampersand The State #1 Per Woodbridge No Known Priority. Bal Does Not Provide Definitive Points For The First State. However James Henry As Cited In Sisson-Martens In "A Proposed Chronology Of Editions Of "The Son Of The Wolf" Requires The Following Additional Points For The First Binding : 1. Perfect & On Spine; 2. Perfect "E" In "Spruce" And Perfect "T" In "Might" In The Bottom Two Lines Page 147 Henry's Second And Third States And Later Issues Have Imperfect Letters But Some Copies With Second State Binding And Period After Date On Copyright Page Also Exist; 3. No Stub Between Pp 6-7 Also Seen On Some Copies In Second State Binding And With Period After Date On Copyright Page; 4. Sets Of Binding Threads Between Pp 6-7 18-19 30-31 And Every Six Leaves To 246-247. . Consistent With Recent Bibliographic Information There Is A Comma After Copyright Date Apparently A Simple Distinguishing Point Of The First State Of The Title Page Of This First Edition. Perfect "E" In "Spruce" And "T" In "Might" Bottom Two Lines Page 147. Lastly The Type On Pp. 65 And 67 Is Unbroken But Ink Is Missing In A Straight Thin Line Extending Through Three Words Near Bottom Of P. 65 "Flight" "Perfect" And "Exist" As If A Wire Had Lain Across The Type; Copies Also Exist With Perfect Type But Second Binding And With Period After Date On Copyright Page. An Attractive Near Fine Book In All Earliest States Aside From Some Rare Preliminary Bindings With Some Rubbing At Corners No Previous Owner's Names Or Other Markings And Scarce Thus. <br/> <br/> Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
