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184838150London: W. Bulmer & Co. and others 1848. Together 10 volumes First Series: vols. I-VII; Second Series: vols. I-III all published 4to. Seven engraved titles 174 engraved plates 92 hand-coloured; 10 folding after Hooker Withers Drake Barbara Cotton C.J. Robertson Lady Broughton and others engraved by W. Say W. Clark and others numerous illustrations. A few plates trimmed close in the first series as usual. First series: Early tree calf covers bordered in gilt spine gilt with morocco lettering piece marbled endpapers and edges. Second Series: Early half calf and marbled paper covered boards.<br/> <br/>Provenance: Howe Peter Browne 2nd Marquess of Sligo armorial stamp on spines of first series; William Willoughby Cole 3rd Earl of Enniskillen armorial bookplate in second series<br/> <br/>A rare complete run of the most important British pomological and botanical journal of its day and a showcase for the talents of some of the greatest botanical artists working in Britain at the time.<br/> <br/>The Horticultural Society of London was founded by Sir Joseph Banks John Wedgwood and others in 1804 and become The Royal Horticultural Society in 1861. The Transactions the leading horticultural journal of its time contains valuable contributions on fruits and vegetables particularly peaches strawberries apricots cherries and gooseberries by T. A. Knight George Lindley James Barnet and Robert Thompson and others. William Hooker no relation to Sir William served as botanical artist to the Horticultural Society now the Royal Horticultural Society from 1812 until he retired in 1820. The present work includes a good selection of plates taken from his fruit paintings which according to Blunt and Stearn reveal him to have been "one of the greatest pomological artists of all time" The Art of Botanical Illustration p. 233. There are also some excellent examples of the work of Sarah Drake including a particularly fine folding plate of the orchid Cattleya guttata and Augusta Withers the luminous quality of the fruit in the Ickworth Imperatrice Plum plate is remarkable who combined their talents to such memorable effect in James Bateman's Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala London: 1837-1843 As usual this set a mixed edition: vols. 1-2 third edition; vol. 3 second edition; vols. 4-7 and second series vols 1-3 first edition.<br/> <br/>Dunthorne 142; Great Flower Books 1990 p. 160; Nissen BBI 2387. W. Bulmer & Co. [and others] unknown books
181821989London: Thomas. M'Lean 1818. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. straight-grained maroon morocco broad gilt cover panels with decorative Greek-key border in blind. Very good. Folio 36.7 x 26.2 cm. Half-title engraved portrait frontispiece hand-colored aquatint additional title Grand Vizier plate and 29 hand colored aquatint plates with several watermarked "JWhatman Turkey Mill/1822." Unobtrusive blind stamp to a few leaves small repair plate on verso of image with no affect to latter. Plates fresh very bright and clean with slight offsetting to text leaves. ABBEY TRAVEL 373 Armorial bookplate of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale. Raised bands spine panels richly gilt in arabesque motifs. Thomas. M'Lean unknown books
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 books
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
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
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
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
184941540London: C. Evans 1849. 12mo 15.3 cm 6". 1 fold. f. <br><br>From the Thames . . . extending new houses of Parliament to Greenwich Hospital" from Western Stone Wharf to the Royal Victualling Office: A => scenic wood-engraved rendering of the city unfolding as one continuous vista depicting buildings as well as numerous ships and small boats along with laborers and passers-by. This remarkable item begins with the north bank of the river; at Greenwich Reach the caption notes that "We now cross the River and the View is taken on the opposite Shore." This is an updated rendition of the 1844 engraving done by Vizetelly that version having been "only" 14 feet long showing changes including the advances in construction of Hungerford Bridge.<br>Â Â Â Â The panorama was printed in four parts joined together; unlike some copies the present example has not been colored remaining in its original state. The "title-page" as is common with such fold-out items is affixed to the inside of the front cover as a pastedown; it is => printed in red and green with no black.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Publisher's textured brown cloth covers framed in blind with embossed corner fleurons; each cover with a large central vignette of St. Paul's Cathedral gilt-stamped on front and blind-stamped on back. A banner flourishing the title flies above the illustration. Bound as above front cover sunned and slightly sprung with extremities rubbed and spots of discoloration to cloth; spine sometime neatly reinforced with brown cloth tape and front hinge inside also reinforced. Outer "page edges" of closed book i.e. a number of the folds and the righthand margin of the panorama when expanded variously affected by water entering from the bottom; many folds with neat repairs from rear using archival tape. Front pastedown i.e. the title-page with early pencilled gift inscription. => Worn but a striking object of both aesthetic and historical interest. C. Evans hardcover books
1821400373London: M.J. Godwin & Co 1821. Some pale offsetting. Hand-colored engraved map by Sidney Hall dissected into 21 sections and mounted on linen overall 30 5/8 x 20 7/8 inches folding to 7 x 4 3/8 inches. In original publisher's board slipcase pink printed title label on front. This large and handsome map spans the entire city of London and its environs drawn as its cover label reports from a new survey "including the actual and intended Improvements." At furthest left are Hyde and Regents Parks and at furthest left is Greenwich Park. The map shows as far north as Islington and Hackney and as far south as Deptford and Greenwich. The Thames is depicted horizontally across the map and the hand-coloring demarcates various areas and features such as central London defined by a red border the major streets done in pink the parks and water in green. Yellow is reserved only for Regent Street. Five bridges are shown from west to east: Vauxhall Westminster Waterloo Blackfriars and London. Clearly shown from top left and wandering southeast to the Thames is Regent's Canal the large project that had reached completion just one year before this map's publication. Printed at bottom is an alphabetical list of streets with a key to their positions on the map. With contemporary provenance signed by "M. Maury London Sept. 1821" on verso of linen and title label. <br/><br/> M.J. Godwin & Co unknown books
181439223Londini: Ex officinâ Johannis Nichols et Sociorum 1814. Small 8vo 18.5cm 7.25". Frontis. port. 1 f. 62 pp. <br><br>John Colet 14671519 Dean of St. Paul's seems in 1508 to have begun to think about "applying his patrimony to education by the reconstitution of St Paul's Cathedral school in new premises reflecting a preoccupation with education as prerequisite for spiritual regeneration" DNB online. He "opened the doors to St Pauls School in 1509 to educate boys 'from all nacions and countres indifferently' St. Paul's School website.<br>Â Â Â Â Elegantly bound and handsomely printed this is the first edition of this collection for use of the boys of the school and is comprised of "Preces quotidianae ut celebrantur in scholâ Paulina" and "Catechismus cum ordine Confirmationis." The prayers were first published in 1642 and are in Latin while the catechism is in Greek on versos of leaves and Latin opposite on rectos. The engraved frontispiece portrait of Colet is by John Taylor Wedgwood 17831856 a cousin of Josiah Wedgwood.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Late 19th-century bookplate of the Rev. George H. Culshaw; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary green straight-grain goat spine gilt extra; both boards with a gilt double-rule outer border and an inner center frame of single gilt rule with large gilt corner devices. Board edges with a gilt roll; narrow turn-ins with a different gilt roll. All edges gilt.<br>Â Â Â Â Searches of WorldCat locate only six U.S. libraries IU NjNbT PPiT IEN NNC NNG reporting ownership. Binding as above; spine sunned to olive front cover with scuff sometime well disguised boards showing signs of having been bent some time ago. Bookplate and label as above. A very few light spots of foxing pages overall clean and crisp. Very good condition. => A very attractive book. Ex officinâ Johannis Nichols et Sociorum hardcover books
182329769London: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees Orme Brown and Green 1823. First book edition. According to the preface many of the letters had been published in the "European Magazine. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards recently rebacked with brown morocco. Some light rubbing light spotting of text mostly at front and back else very good. First book edition. According to the preface many of the letters had been published in the "European Magazine". 1 vols. 8vo. The Marquis de Vermont and Sir Charles Darnley Bart are both pseudonyms. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green unknown books
189048919London: Bemrose & Sons 1890. 1st Edition. Original publisher's red cloth binding with black & gilt stamping. Slight lean. Spine sunned with binding cloth showing wear & soiling with perhaps some moisture exposure. Age-toning to paper. The occasional dog-earred leaf corner. About Very Good. xx 102 xxi - xxxviii pp. Roman numbered pages filled with adverts for medicinal health-related products trusses and foods. Frontispiece albumen photograph of Sister Eva. Facsimile inscription underneath. Head- tailpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 8vo. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/>Autobiographical memoir by Sister Eva wherein the volume's preface she states "This little volume is sent out with the hope that it will afford a means of gaining an insight not only into the work of a nurse but into the character of the nurses themselves. During my career both as Hospital and Private Nurse I have been stuck with the fact that the public know so little of us . thie idea in publishing this little volume . is to give its readers an insight in the Life of a Nurse her time and how it is spent." <br /> <br />OCLC records just 5 holding institutions none in the US. <br /> <br />Rare. Bemrose & Sons hardcover books
18297807London: Balue Printer 38 Gracechurch Street 1829. Tall broadside bill of fare 42 x 12.5 cm. printed recto only. A printed bill of fare for Vauxhall Royal Gardens a dining establishment within the walls of Vauxhall Gardens the London pleasure garden founded in the mid-17th Century and originally named New Spring Garden. For two centuries it was one of the leading venues for public entertainment in London and featured tightrope walkers hot-air balloon ascents concerts and fireworks. The bill of fare features refreshments a chicken plate of collared beef tart cheesecake heart cake Shrewsbury cake plate of olives pot of stout and a pair of wax lights. Salads seem to have been a thing but elements lemon lettuce cucumber cruet of oilwere offered separately. "The Pastry and Confectionery are furnished by Mr. Farrance." The wine list offers Port Sherry Bucellas Lisbon Moselle Teneriffe Madeira Sauterne Barsac Claret Old Hock Champagne Burgundy etc. Handwritten on the bill is the specific date the Box No. or table and waiter's name and the costs and total of the meal. Creases and one professional paper repair toward the bottom of the leaf; light age-toning. Very good. Balue Printer, 38, Gracechurch Street unknown books
186453725London: Day & Son 1864. First Edition. Large octavo 26cm. Publisher's embossed cloth-covered boards decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; xxiv447pp; 431 wood-engraved text-figures; 39 inserted leaves of engraved plates most folding. Neatly rebacked; some spotting and soiling to boards spine cloth slightly dulled. Endpapers soiled with faint marginal tidemark to preliminary leaves but in all a tight complete Very Good copy. Ownership signature on front endpaper of a William John Lafferty Belfast dated 1866. <br/><br/>A significant work infrequent in commerce. Especially valuable for its coverage of early railway technology an area in which the author was himself expert as he had served as a Consulting Engineer for the Great North of Scotland Railway as early as 1853. The book's four divisions - Railways; Textile Machinery; Metal and Wood Manufacturing Machinery; and "Machinery in General" are each profusely illustrated with both text figures and folding plates. The final plate at end of text is a "General Plan of the Western Annex" where mechanical exhibits were housed. Day & Son unknown books
1860008436London; Piccadilly: John Camden Hotten 1860. Second Edition Revised 1860 with two thousand additional words. xvi 300 pp including frontis titled A Canter's Map of a Begging District. Bound in publisher's original pebbled brown cloth gilt lettering at spine blind tooled rules and publisher's blind tooled initials center of front and rear covers dark brown end papers. Very Good contemporary ownership signature of R.N. Payne Sheffield 1860 top of title page later owners inked notations top of title page and verso of front end page pencil note bottom verso front end page 2" closed tear fore edge frontis map 1" fore edge tear p. 169 internally clean and bright. SCARCE in today's market in either the 1859 1st or 1860 2nd Editions. One of the most important works on English slang. . Second Edition Revised. Pebbled Cloth . Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. John Camden Hotten Hardcover books
182722538London: S.W. Fores 1827. Pictorial Boards. Mat and illustration. Near fine. Hand colored engraving 10 x 14 inches in mat 15 x 17 inches. Wellington flourishing a document inscribed "Corn Bill" leads Whig blocks against the Ministry represented by Canning and Goderich who stand on the left. The Duke kicks at his opponents stating the Corn Bill must be carried. The two tilted blocks toward Wellington represent Lansdowne and Grey. Goderich pointing to Wellington says "This Opposition is mot appalling -- your squibs will not even singe their whiskers. You'd better make Field-marshals of them. - I oppose the third reading." Canning with a mocking smile. says: "That's a good and rich idea; they'll make excellent Marshals - their head will need little protection." A few small spots at right margin. S.W. Fores unknown books
180222054London: S.W. Fores 1802. Stiff Wraps. Orig. full color lithograph. Near fine. 26.5 x 33 cm. Color etching with publisher note at bottom right "Folios of Caricatures lent out for the Evening." Dido arms raised rails "Ah me a luckless Maid thus crossed in hope & expectation so quite lost in both attempts the one for ever gone the other too Cold to feel the genial warmth of mine and Mother Love. I'll take to my Weeds & shew the World the ne'er was Love like mine." Slight blemish on papers lying at lower right margin. S.W. Fores unknown books
18946433New London Conn: Woman's Christian Temperance Union of New London Conn.; Morning Telegraph Print 1894. Squarish book stapled in cloth-backed stiff boards 19 x 17 cm. 1-14 61 pages. Advertisements. Separate indices for Advertisers Authors and Recipes. Evident FIRST EDITION. A dual purpose set of "rules" composed of unattributed recipes for breads cakes cookies etc candies and ice cream dessert eggs miscellaneous helps preserving and pickling salads soups and meats and vegetables prefaced by quotations from various public figures - their handwritten messages reproduced photo-lithographically. The quotations and maxims - on the proper conduct of life - are from public figures including: Lyman Abbott Susan B. Anthony Alice Stone Blackwell Will Carleton Noah Davis Ellen Battelle Dietrick Gen. Meal Dow Wm. Lloyd Garrison Edward Everett Hale Thomas Wentworth Higginson Clara C. Hoffman Isabella Beecher Hooker Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Mary A. Livermore Lady Isabel Somerset Elizabeth Cady Stanton Katherine Lente Stevenson Mark Twain Bishop John Vincent Zerelda G. Wallace Charles Dudley Warner Frances E. Willard and Prince Serge Wolkonsky. Some light creasing to a few leaves; stiff white moiré wrappers cloth backed and printed in blue and gold. Some edgewear and adhesive stains to edges of wrappers otherwise very good. Previous owner's name in pencil to front endpapers; bookseller ticket of Household Words of Berkeley Ca to rear endpapers. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies though it does identify two copies of an 1895 publication not referencing an earlier issue; not in Brown Cook or Cagle. [Woman's Christian Temperance Union of New London, Conn.]; Morning Telegraph Print hardcover books
18671412291867. CORPORATION OF LONDON. Proceedings in reference to the preservation of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. Printed by order of the Corporation of London. 4 88 pp. 8vo red publisher's binding with gilt insignia and lettering on front outside cover. London: Benjamin Pardon 1867. This collection of proceedings by the Bunhill Fields Preservation Committee documents the Corporation of London's efforts to ensure the safety of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground as the Corporation's lease was nearing its end Christmas 1867. Bunhill had been a burying ground of Nonconformists and other denominations since the sixteenth century. With the work of the committee the Corporation obtained an Act of Parliament in 1867 preserving the burial ground as an open landscaped space with seating gardens and the restoration of some of it most noteworthy monuments including John Bunyan Daniel Defoe and William Blake. The appendix contains a reprint of a rare tract from 1717 "Inscription on the Tombs in the Dissenters' Burial Place near Bunhill Fields." Some wear to edges of binding else fine. unknown books
1894WRCAM50323Sanford N.C. 1894. 27pp. Original printed wrappers bound into maroon three-quarter morocco and cloth spine gilt. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Contents a bit tanned. Very good. A centennial address on the importance of Chatham County North Carolina during the American Revolutionary period. London recounts "the political history of our county during the Revolutionary War and what part her citizens acted in those days that tried men's souls." A scarce North Carolina imprint with only twenty-one copies listed in OCLC. OCLC 2003683. hardcover books
1882133668London: James Blackwood & Co. 1882. Octavo pp. i-v vi-vii viii 1 2-391 392 note: title leaf is a cancel inserted plates plus illustrations in the text original pictorial cream paper over boards printed in red blue and black top edge stained gray plain endpapers. First edition The authors of about half of the contributions are identified the most prolific being Cuthbert Bede and George Frederick Pardon the latter's short novel MAY FAIR running throughout. The list of six titles on the rear cover includes CRUIKSHANK AT HOME published by Blackwood in 1882 and one of only two of the advertised titles recorded in Topp. The current volume is not in Topp who perhaps considered it a periodical and intentionally omitted it. Not in Topp perhaps considered a periodical and intentionally omitted. Not in Wolff who probably would have bought a copy if he had found one for sale. Some general dust soiling to covers spine rubbed and a bit darkened upper spine end worn with shallow loss small chip from lower spine small stain to lower margin of frontispiece a very good internally nearly fine copy. OCLC reports 2 copies; none reported by COPAC. #133668 James Blackwood & Co. unknown books
183122147London: Thos McLean 1831. Color lithograph. Brown wood frame. Near fine. Hand colored lithograph 10.5 x 14.8 inches within border frame in matted glass fronted frame wired for hanging. Artist is John Doyle DB with his circular embossed seal in lower left corner. Doyle experienced great success with his political cartoons using the new medium of lithography. His caricatures were mostly faithful likenesses of his subjects. His sons included the illustrator James William Edmund Doyle and painter/illustrator Richard Dicky Doyle. Satire on the debate of the Reform Bill in the House of Commons. Edward Stanley thumps the dispatch box glaring at John Croker who leans forward hand to his ear. Stanley says "I felt such indignation that I had the greatest difficulty to restrains myself from calling on the Right Honorable Gentleman to retract his words." Lord J. Russell tugs at his coat-tails while Sir James Graham arms folded and legs stretched smiles sardonically. Stanley and the whigs supported the Reform Bill the Tories were opposed. Slight rubbing to vertical portions of the picture frame. Thos McLean unknown books
187827534London: Royal Society of London 1878. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good. This full volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine natural history physics mathematics and archaeology illustrated with numerous plates. ix 1-579 pp. 4to. Library binding tan leather spine with gold embossed titling scuffing. Interiors clean ex-library stamp on title page and verso also occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound. Royal Society of London unknown books
187227560London: Royal Society of London 1872. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good. This full volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine natural history physics mathematics and archaeology illustrated with numerous plates. iv 4 iv 4 1-501 pp. 4to. Library binding tan leather spine with gold embossed titling scuffing. Interiors clean ex-library stamp on title page and verso also occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound. Royal Society of London unknown books
187127559London: Royal Society of London 1871. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good. This full volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine natural history physics mathematics and archaeology illustrated with numerous plates. iv 4 iv 4 1-726 pp. 4to. Library binding tan leather spine with gold embossed titling scuffing. Interiors clean ex-library stamp on title page and verso also occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound. Royal Society of London unknown books
