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1846LONDON000199Richard Bentley London. 1846. First edition. Edited by Charles Mackay. Octavo. Two volumes: pp iv 414; iv 465. Original dark green cloth decorated in blind and lettered on the spine in gilt. The author who was a painter engraver and antiquarian had died in 1833 and this is one of three works issued by his executors.Tails of spine slightly scuffed. A near-fine set. Very bright. Richard Bentley, London. hardcover
1825008961London 1825 Hurst, Robinson & Co., & R. Jennings Hardcover
186014714AB1860. London J.T. Wood at Strand ca. 1860. 12 : 15 cm. 25 steel engraved cards. Housed in slipcase. 25 views of the most important monuments of London - British Museum Thames Tunnel International exhibition of 1862 Hampton Court Palacem Royal exchange London Trafalgar Square Houses of Parlament etc. unknown
1831000015Paris Louis Janet 1831
183332323AB1833. First Edition. London B.fellowes 1833. Octavo. XXI Errata 432 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher's cloth with lettering to spine. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. A rare book with A comprehensive view of territorial differences in Poor Law and Parochial Relief within the England and Scotland of the early 19th century. Chapters include details of Accounts Allotments and Land and Gardens ".for occupation after hours as a mere amusement" Chapters include Costs of keeping in Workhouses / Allowances given to able-bodied without work being required / Allowances given at Liverpool to the aged and infirm / Bastardy - Chiefly caused in workhouses by the absence of the menas for necessary division of the sexes / Beer-Shops / Chapters on Emigration to Canada to the United States Emigrants from Lenham etc. Pauperism / Rents of Labourers Dwellings / Riots in Sussex / Causes of Riots at Brede and at Northiam / History of Poor-Laws at the City of Oxford The Rev. H. Bishop's Report / etc. hardcover
185821673Londres, W. Jeffs, John Smith et Co, printers, 1858 ; grand in-8 (272 mm), bradel large demi-chagrin vert foncé, auteur, titre et fleur de lys dorés dans un double encadrement de filet doré, non rogné (Marcel Albinhac) ; [4], 100 pp.
1900653H5190Irvington New York: Cosmopolitan Magazine 1900. Book. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This very special issue contains two items of major significance. Jack London's prize-winning "What Communities Lose by the Competitive System" appears here for the first time on pages 58-64. This is immediately followed by Part I of "The First Men in the Moon" by H.G. Wells on pages 65-80. pp. 16 ads 104 8 plates 36 ads 6 cartoons 10 ads. The dozens and dozens of illustrated ads some of which are in color are nothing short of spectacular our favorite being the four-page two-color glossy illustrated ad for The "Mobile" Company of America an early and short-lived automaker located on Kingsland Point at Tarrytown-On-The-Hudson New York. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A well-preserved copy of this spectacular issue. Woodbridge London & Tweney Enlarged Edition #909. Cosmopolitan Magazine Paperback
1865638011Macmillan and Co. London 1865. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. - Second Edition - Designed and illustrated by the Poet's brother Dante Gabriel Rosseti - Boards rubbed - Corners chipped w/ boards exposed - Spine tanned w/ gilt lettering faded - Spine ends crushed and chipped - Contemporary previous owner name and a date in ink to preliminary page - Edges of text block tanned - Content toned w/ some light foxing - Book ow/ solid clean and bright - A lovely copy - vii/192 pages No Jacket Macmillan and Co., London hardcover
183022520London: Townsend 1830. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary green calf backed boards leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Very good. 2 vols. Unpaginated. 15. x 12.5 cm. Lacks title. 184 hand colored plates numbered 493-676 with numerous examples of fashion styles per plate. There is also one dress pattern plate; plates interleaved with descriptive text. The style had a fitted bodice just below the bust presenting a high-waist appearance. The gathered long skirt is long loosely fitted. Costume plates very clean fresh and bright with occasional faint spotting. One volume with armorial bookplate of Richard Pemberton Esq. front cover pastedown and signature dated April 1977 verso of endpaper. Second volume with a host of tissue guards. Binding tight covers rubbed and worn with sections of marbled board designs lacking backstrip extremity wear. Townsend hardcover
18652210240<i>Wood-engraved panorama 287 x 880 mm folding down to 150 x 115 crudely hand-coloured in sweeps and dabs; original printed yellow wrappers incorporating a front cover a design of the title with City arms and City insignia.</i><br /><br />Rare survival of this charming chapbook panorama for children representing The Lord Mayor's procession in two strips one above the other the lower strip being the first part of the procession the upper strip the continuation of it.<br /><br />On the reverse of the front cover appear lists of 'Boy's Own Panoramas' 'Clarke's Model Theatres' and 'Little Toymakers.' The sixteen 'Boy's Own Moving Panoramas' and descriptions listed include the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race and the Epsom Races and 'The Little Toymaker' with Magic Donkeys' 'Magic Sailor and Bonny Fishwife' and the dubiously title 'Magic Nigger and how to make it.'. On the inside of the back cover is an advertisement for 'Holloway's Ointment' guaranteed remedy for 'Bad Legs Bad Breasts Ulcers Abscesses Wounds and Sores of all Kinds.' and on the back cover a list of 'Clarke's Galanty Shows Ready for Acting.' <br /><br />Not in OCLC.<br /> H.G. Clarke and Co., 2 Garrick Street, Covent Garden.
1833Pa179London: Richard Taylor 1833. Eleveth Edition . Soft cover. Vg. large 8vo. 64pp. Original copy including the plan and index and dated June 1833. Large folding plan complete depicted the Zoological Gardens Regents Park London. Some foxing but no tears or markings. 52 references for the plan at the foot of the last page. The original brown plain paper wrappers are present but scuffy. A rare item and complete. <br/> <br/> Richard Taylor paperback
18378031ALondon Chapman & Hall 1837 HBNO DJ Issued Marblelized boards with tooled red LEATHER corners & Spine NF/NF- AS-ISNODJ Gold gilt decorations & lettering spine 1837 on half title & title page 1st edition Early printing with S. Veller on page 342 line 5 page 260 line 29 reads holding has his friends page 400 line 21 has notation on bottom pg.9 Cover some rub wear Scuff primarily Extremities edges Interior nice tight clean with light FoX chips to edges of some pages609 pages Top edges pages Gold Gilt SIGNED by EUGENE FIELD. Hard Cover. London Chapman & Hall hardcover
1900151012003Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first printing first issue text first state binding. Near Fine with slight spine lean tape ghosts to endpapers small spot to cloth at rear gutter. Jack London’s first book; one of 2028 originally printed as per Sisson & Martens. Houghton Mifflin and Company hardcover books
1860W326ALondon: George C. Leighton 1860. Hardback. Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Index1-638pp. Volume 37. Issues Nos 1039 to 1067. Jul 7th -Dec. 29th 1860. Includes the double folding engraving of Royal Agricultural Show at Canterbury. double folding plate of the Funeral of the Late Prince Jerome crossing La Place de la Concorde Paris July 1860; Large folding plate of Canadian Map of Brunswick and Nova Scotia; Large folding plate of British Volunteers reception for Garibaldi; large plate of Reception at Academy of Music for Royal Highness Prince of Wales. New York. A complete copy with numerous full page and vignettes throughout. An exceptionally clean and fresh copy in the original half calf with marbled boards. Some rubbing to the edges of the binding but a fine and clean copy in exceptional condition. A COMPLETE COPY OF THE SECOND HALF OF 1860. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. COMPLETE RUN OF 28 ISSUES nos 1039-1067. All fine. Original quarter calf marbled boards binding. <br/> <br/> George C. Leighton hardcover
1804V73221<p>London: Richard Phillips 1804. Hardcover. Very Good. hand colored plates in grey wash surrounds 31 . Quarto 19th century half calf on 5 raised bands gilt with black gilt titled spine label marbled sides tips rubbed 62 leaves finely coloured plates & descriptions of traders and workers in London printed one side only. John Hayes paper watermarked 1804 Abbey Life 271 Abbey cites a copy which lacks the text to plate number 23 'Poor Sweep'; it is however present in this copy.</p> Richard Phillips hardcover
18629027602London: Clay & Lea 1862. Hardcover. Very good. Expertly rebacked with original spine pieces. Gilt titling on spine is still bright. New endpapers. <br/><br/> Clay & Lea hardcover
1804WRCAM37730London 1804. Bifolium consisting of one unaccomplished broadside form and one broadside advertisement 19 1/2 x 12 inches. Copper- engraved scene 5 3/4 x 7 inches at head of form. Woodcut emblem 3 x 4 1/2 inches at head of advertisement. Two vertical and three horizontal folds. Contemporary manuscript inscription "June 1804" in left margin beside engraving in first leaf; contemporary manuscript inscriptions dated November 8 1804 on blank verso of first leaf referring to policy rates in Charleston. Half-inch tear at gutter of first leaf repaired with tape on verso. Portion of upper corner at fore-edge and portion of margin at gutter lacking from second leaf supplied in later paper. Second leaf somewhat faded. Else near fine. Bifolium of two broadsides for the Phoenix fire insurance company of London at the time of the opening of its first agency in New York. The Phoenix Assurance Company still operating today as Phoenix Life Ltd. was founded in 1782 by a consortium of sugar refiners in London seeking more reasonable rates for the insurance of their risky holdings against fire. By the mid-1780s Phoenix had established itself as a successful fire insurer across the whole of Great Britain for a wide array of businesses and homes. In 1785 the Phoenix Company sold its first North American policy at Charleston and the first policy in New York was accepted two years later. It was not until 1804 however that Phoenix began establishing actual agencies in the New World breaking ground in New York with the appointment of Theophylact and Andrew Bache as agents there. <br> <br> The first leaf is a printed policy form for the Phoenix Company in New York never filled in. The second leaf is an advertising broadside for the company containing a table of rates for New York subscribers and a detailed list of conditions for new policies. The handsome copper engraving at the top of the form leaf depicts a helmeted goddess presumably Athena on a pedestal bearing a shield stamped with the word "PROTECTION" and the image of a phoenix rising from ashes. Behind the figure is a nighttime scene of the burning remains of a building and a family of victims spilling onto the street. A team of firefighters is extinguishing the flames with a pump-operated hose and behind them is a scaffolded building under repair. The engraved caption reads: "PHOENIX FIRE OFFICE LOMBARD STREET and CHARING CROSS." A similar illustration in woodcut is included at the head of the "Proposals" broadside. Here the goddess is the only figure depicted. On her left are both the burning building and the new construction; on her right is a ship at sea engulfed in flames. The hooks and axes of the firefighter adorn the sides of the cut. <br> <br> The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature at Harvard lists a copy of the Boston variant of the advertising broadside. The only located institutional holding of this New York issue however is at the Connecticut Historical Society. No records of the printed form in any issue have been located. A rare and interesting pair of documents from the early history of international insurance. KRESS B4839 variant. Clive Trebilcock PHOENIX ASSURANCE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH INSURANCE VOLUME I 1782-1870 Cambridge University Press 1985 pp.184-201. unknown books
1833LONDON015941Brown and Syrett; J. and A. Arch; Paul and Dominic Colnaghi; George and E.W. Cooke. London. 1833. First edition. Large folio. pp iv vi 24. Twelve copper-engraved plates drawn and etched by Edward William Cooke. George Rennie provides scientific and historical notices of the two bridges practical observations of the tides of the River Thames and a concise essay on bridges from the earliest period &c. &c. The plates depict the old London Bridge before and during the demolition process and the new London Bridge during and after its erection which happened alongside. They are highly finished and full of interest.Period binding of quarter brown polished calf with gilt decoration to spine cloth sides red morocco title label on front stamped in gilt. Foxing to first blank leaf and a bit of light foxing to the plates. Some scratching to rear cover. Covers rubbed at spine and corners. Very good the plates being very good indeed. Brown and Syrett; J. and A. Arch; Paul and Dominic Colnaghi; George and E.W. Cooke. London. hardcover
1818879851818. Hooker William. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. TRANSACTIONS OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. VOLUME 2. London: Printed by W. Bulmer & Co. Cleveland Row; Sold by J. Hatchard Picadilly 1815. Second edition. Engraved title-page and 32 plates of which three are folding. 31 plates are engraved and one is a b&w lithograph. Of the engraved plates 16 are color plates a combination of stipple engraving with hand coloring mostly of fruit but for "Monopsis Conspicua" "The Large Vegetable Marrow" and a beautiful folding plate of "The Double-Sweet-scented Chinese Peony." Uncolored plates are mostly of plans and structures but for a couple of plants. Many of the b&w plates have the engravers' and artists' names while only one of the color plates does "Monopsis Conspicua" printed and engraved by W. Hooker after R. A. Salisbury. However according to Gordon Dunthorne William Hooker no relation to Sir William did the majority of the plates in the first five volumes "including many fine fruit plates which outnumber those of flowers . the fruit prints in particular comparing with the best of Hooker's work." Quarto. 28 x 21.5 cm. 2 XXIV VIII 186 185-186 187-369 372-410 10 28 pp. Disbound: Bookblock is sound with old marbled boards detached yet present but lacking the ffep. and backstrip. Some light foxing to engraved title-page and a few of the other b&w plates with offsetting to facing text pages; otherwise the plates and text are quite clean. Ex library with minimal markings only a cancelled bookplate on front pastedown and a blind embossed seal on p. 1 of text and none to plates. A complete copy in very good condition that needs to be rebound. Published between 1807 and 1848 the Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London are esteemed for the very high standard of their production especially in their plates and for their interesting and useful content. References: Dunthorne FLOWER AND FRUIT PRINTS #142; Sitwell GREAT FLOWER BOOKS pp. 58 & 160. unknown books
189922866San Francisco: Overland Monthly Publishing Co. 1899. First edition. Covers and content quite clean and relatively unworn. Trimmed by the binder about 3/8" in height with some loss to wrapper upper or lower margins. 2 volumes rebound in half morocco and brown cloth Vol. 33 and half morocco and marbled boards Vol. 34. Vol. 33 bound with original front wrappers from each issue but not rear wrapper or advertisements; Vol. 34 bound with front and rear wrappers and advertisements. <br/><br/>These 2 volumes contain 8 of the 9 short stories collected in 1900 in London's first book: "The Son of the Wolf": To the Man on the Trail; The White Silence; The Son of the Wolf; The Men of Forty-Mile; In a Far Country; The Priestly Prerogative; The Wife of a King; The Wisdom of theTrail. The ninth story "An Odyssey of the North" was published first in the January 1900 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. It is increasingly difficult to collect Jack London in these first magazine appearances of his stories and the Overland Monthly "Son of the Wolf" series is particularly scarce and desirable. Walker & Sisson 8 9 10 11 14 15 17 22; Woodbridge 783 803 763 718 684 739 807 809. Overland Monthly Publishing Co. hardcover
1887438294Various publishers 1887. Various editions. Hardcover. Very good copies 7 in library bindings backed in gilt-blocked leather over cloth boards. Spines and boards slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Very little shadow-staining to some copies only in a few pages. Bookplates and/or library marks in prelims/title page but the rest of text remains clear. Physical description; 7 volumes 22.5 cm. Contents:- Vol. I 1887- Vol. II 1889- Vol. III 1892- Vol. IV 1894- Vol. V 1898- Vol. VI 1902- Vol. VII 1905. Subjects; Early Huguenot Friendly Societies. Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London. Huguenots England London. London England Buildings structures etc. London England Huguenots. Various publishers hardcover
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
1900190813Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1900. Hardcover. frontis by Maynard Dixon inserted i-viii 1 251p. printer's imprint 252 blank leaf very good blackish green cloth with silver buckled belt and corners silver on spine somewhat worn first edition printing of 2028 copies according to Sisson/Martens pages 2 &116 and BAL 11869 and Woodbridge. Publisher's imprint at bottom of spine first state with no periods around ampersand : Houghton Mifflin & Co.; no broken type on page 147 perfect "e" in spruce and perfect "t" in might no broken type on 64-67 commas before and after 1900 on copyright page sets of binding threads between 6/7 18/19 and every six leaves thereafter. Two neat previous owners' book plates on front endpapers. This copy matches all first printing first state points with the following two discrepancies from Sisson: 1. the frontispiece has the caption "Malemute Kid Halted Him" page 64 as opposed to "The Men of the Forty Mile" as stated in Sisson; 2. The frontispiece appears to be inserted rather than sewn-in although Swann's auctioned described first printing with frontis tipped-in stating later printings were sewn-in a disagreement with Sisson. Also to this bibliographer the color of the binding is in question as well. Appears to be a blackish-green but could be interpreted as a deep gray-green. All-in-all a very nice copy of the author's rare first book. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
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
