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1876183531Philadelphia: S.W. Burley 1876. Hardcover. G Cover has fading edge wear and some edge tearing. Interior binding is loose. Bookblock has age toning. Writing from previous owner on ffep. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and black decorative outline. Gilt and black lettering on spine. 892 pages : illustrations plans. S.W. Burley hardcover books
1807309846London: J. Hatchard 1807. First edition. xv i 346 2 ads pp. 8vo. Later blue cloth uncut. Spine browned. First edition. xv i 346 2 ads pp. 8vo. First edition of this English translation of 17th-century Spanish drama comprising The Fairy Lady La Dama Duende and Keep Your Own Secret Nadie Fie Su Secreto by Pedro Calderón de la Barca and One Fool Makes Many Un Bobo Hace Ciento by Antonio de Solis. J. Hatchard unknown books
1851276231New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1851. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A presentable and sturdy copy of the First American Edition in the publisher's green embossed cloth binding. Very Good binding. Harper & Brothers, Publishers unknown books
1814413691814. Holland in the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars Holland. Staats Almanak Voor den Jare 1820. The Hague: Gebroeders van Cleef 1820. 502 pp. Octavo 8" x 5". Contemporary morocco gilt fillets to boards and spine inside dentelles all edges gilt. Light rubbing negligible wear to spine ends and corners small location label to foot of spine. Faint dampstaining to the top edges of a few leaves interior otherwise fresh. An appealing copy of an uncommon work. $150. This political almanac contains a collection of interesting statistical information about Holland in the immediate aftermath of the Napoleonic wars. Not in the British Museum Catalogue. unknown books
18692793New York: Charles Scribner & Co. 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ as Issued. Light shelf wear light fraying at head gift inscription on ffep 1882 else tight bright and unmarred. Burgundy cloth boards gilt lettering red ink labels and decorative elements black ink lettering and decorative elements decorative endpages. 12mo. 202pp. <br/><br/>Josiah Gilbert Holland 1819-1881 American editor poet novelist and writer was editor of The Springfield Republican and of Scribner's Magazine from 1870 until his death. Contains some of the best work of the artist engraver Elias James Whitney. Charles Scribner & Co. hardcover books
1852479291852. HOLLAND E.G. ESSAYS: AND A DRAMA IN FIVE ACTS. Boston: Phillips Sampson & Co. 1852. 12mo. dark-brown cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. Signed presentation by Holland on front endpaper: "Rev. Alvin Coburn from his friend the Author. June 1853." With the bookplate of well-known financier & banker Frank A. Vanderlip on the front pastedown. Good wear & some chipping spine ends dampstaining throughout text. $125.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
189912568New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good. 1899. Hardcover. ex-lib; scuffed covers; Good . G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1862UHOLESS00RJBLongman Green Longman Roberts & Green 1862. Good. Holland Henry. Essays on Scientific and Other Subjects Contributed to The Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews. London: Longman Green Longman Roberts & Green 1862. 504pp. 8vo. Book condition: Good. Front cover detached with endmatter. Backstrip freed along front hinge exposing spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Early bookseller's sticker mounted to front pastedown. Marbled sides and endsheets. Beautifully clean text. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green unknown books
1815310751London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1815. First edition. Frontispiece map and 12 engraved plates. x ii 551 1 pp. 4to. Period-style half calf and marbled boards brown morocco spine label. Light foxing. First edition. Frontispiece map and 12 engraved plates. x ii 551 1 pp. 4to. Holland spent a year and a half traveling through Portugal Gibraltar Sardinia Sicily the Ionian Isles and Greece. This book provides an account of the eastern part of tour. Blackmer 825 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown unknown books
189123054London & NY: Murray & Scribner's 1891. Two vols. 8vo pp. 438 468 24. Illustrated with portraits and illustrations. Vol. I hinges tender covers little worn o/w VG. Biography of the Swedish singer ending at the time she left her career. She retired 37 years before her death. Murray & Scribner's unknown books
183498561London: Longman Rees Orme Brown Green Longman and J. Taylor 1834. original brown cloth modern paper spine label. small 8vo. original brown cloth modern paper spine label. x 414 pages. Part of a series entitled The cabinet cyclopaedia. Useful arts volume 54. Chapter VIII: Type foundry incl. Stereotyping. With 96 illustrations. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Cloth on front hinge split; wear at bottom of spine. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, Longman, and J. Taylor unknown books
1873265253New York. : Scribner and Armstrong. 1873. . Contemporary full brown morocco raised bands blindstamped decorations gilt spine title all edges gilt marbled endpapers. . Corners lightly bumped ink name to second endpaper spine darkened otherwise a very good copy in an attractive binding. . 12mo. Numerous engraved plates. Scribner and Armstrong. hardcover books
186964430New York: Charles Scribner. Very Good-. 1869. Hardcover. Red fine binding with bright gilt- rubbed along the extremities but sound and complete in 281 pages with illustrations and marbled endpapers. Internally overall bright but few pages at the rear have a faded damp stain to the upper corner. A Previous owner inscription on the front free endpaper. Near Very Good. . Charles Scribner hardcover books
186956038New York: Charles Scribner & Co. Very Good. 1869. Hardcover. Previous owner signed a slight rippling to contents do to dampstaining brown cloth boards are slightly soiled with rubbed spine ends and edges otherwise about very good. . Charles Scribner & Co. hardcover books
187490604NY:: Scribner Armstrong & Co. Very Good. 1874. Hardcover. B00086KEOI . First edition. Octavo bound in green cloth with black and gilt lettering and design yellow endpapers. Moderate shelf wear and aging small impression from a removed sticker on front free endpaper else very good. ; 245 pages . Scribner, Armstrong & Co., hardcover books
1863164147New York: Charles Scribner 1863. Hardcover. Poor. Spine is disintegratingand is severely rubbed. Rubbing and other shelf wear on covers. Front cover and all pages up to 16 are loose from binding; rest of pages are held together but binding is shaken. Minor spots of foxing or soiling throughout but for the most part the text is clean. Whitney E.J. Brown leather covers with textured design black title block with gilt lettering. Color decorated endpapers. Gilt page edging all around. 208 pp. 40 BW illustrations. Poem by J.G. Holland divided into three movements to tell a story. An interesting read with many great illustrations by E.J. Whitney. Charles Scribner hardcover books
18731320285New York: Scribner & Co 1873. Hardcover. Octavo; G-/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine black with gold print; Boards half bound with black leather to spine and corners and marbled paper to boards wear to corners hinges edges and spine caps light scuffing to leather shelfwear; Text block has cracked hinges tanning to edges of endpapers slight amount of foxing within stain at bottom edge of final pages leaf for pages 551-554 separated from binding; iv 784 pages illustrated b&w. 1320285. FP New Rockville Stock. Scribner & Co hardcover books
1869133292New York NY: Charles Scribner & Company 1869. gilt-stamped cloth all edges gilt marbled endpapers. 8vo. gilt-stamped cloth all edges gilt marbled endpapers. xii 2811 pages. Index table of contents. Illustrations by W.J. Hennessy and C.C. Griswold. Engraved by W.J. Linton. A work of poetry. Covers rubbed and scuffed especially along and spink. Charles Scribner & Company unknown books
1879181524New York: Scribner & Co 1879. Hardcover. G covers show rubbing and wear spine is worn. Front cover has slight staining at corners back more so. Ex-library stamp inside front cover. Pages are mostly clean and bind is tight. Leather binding gilt lettering on spine. 952 pp engravings and illustrations. Illustrated articles include: "Piercing the American Isthmus" about the planning of what would eventually become the Panama Canal; "The American on the Stage" covering the American theater scene; "Ups and Downs in Leadville" a description of a mining town in Colorado; and "Rio de Janeiro Scribner & Co hardcover books
182410103London: Printed by Henry Fisher at the Caxton Press 1824. First Edition. 280 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original printed boards upper joint split spine slightly chipped uncut. Fine. First Edition. 280 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Inscribed in Original Boards. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "With the Author's affectionate regards April 6 1824." Desirable copy of this curious 'tale' in the form of essays by John Holland 1794-1872 of Sheffield miscellaneous writer and journalist. Block calls for a frontispiece though none is present in either this nor Wolff's copy also in boards. Wolff 3241 Printed by Henry Fisher at the Caxton Press unknown books
189352242New York: The Century Company 1893. Large 8vo 41 issues in all original printed wrappers some slightly defective spines occasionally cracked and/or perished lacking a single rear wrapper and contained in six maroon cloth clamshell boxes. Among the articles are an 8-page prospectus for the Century Dictionary and much other material on the Century Dictionary which was published 1889-91; contributors include Mark Twain Walt Whitman Frank R. Stockton Henry James George W. Cable James Whitcomb Riley John Burroughs John Muir Ina Coolbrith Joachim Miller T. W. Higginson Thomas Bailey Aldrich Edward Everett Hale Margaret Deland John Hay Edward Bellamy Thomas Nelson Page S. Weir Mitchell Celia Thaxter Joel Chandler Harris Theodore Roosevelt Henry Cabot Lodge Abner Doubleday Sarah Orne Jewitt Theodore L. De Vinne John Kendrick Bangs W. Woodhill Rockhill Richard Harding Davis Frederick Schwatka William Tecumseh Sherman Horace Greeley Julian Hawthorne Rudyard Kipling and even poems by Herman Melville as intruduced by Arthur Stedman. Among the illustrators are Frederic Remington Joseph Pennell F. Hopkinson Smith A. B. Frost Frederick Church Charles Dana Gibson E. W. Kemble and George Wharton Edwards. Lacking 6 issues: vol. 38/6 42/6 43/1 43/6 44/3-4. The Century successor to the Scribner's Monthly Magazine ran from 1881 to 1930. <br/><br/> The Century Company hardcover books
18782431601878. unbound. 1 page 4 x 6.75 inches no place removed from an autograph album dated 1878 signed "J.G. Holland." This quote contains the opening lines of the poem "Kathrina" in full: "Thou lovely vale of sweetest stream that flows; Winding and willow-fringed Connecticut!" Slight browning around the edges; near fine condition.<br/><br/> American novelist and poet who also wrote under the pseudonym Timothy Titcomb.<br/><br/> unknown books
1855255722London: Longman Brown 1855. First. hardcover. near fine. 2 volumes 8vo 3/4 burgundy morocco marbled boards t.e.g. London: Longman Brown 1855. First Edition. Near Fine.<br/><br/> Longman, Brown unknown books
189559142Boston: B Wilkins 1895. First Edition. Large 8vo pp. 548. Hinges loose in the front Stamped cloth Illustrated throughout with portraits of nurses and Civil War sites a very good copy. Interesting first person biographical narratives. Holland was an army nurse. Includes the narratives of Dorothea Dix Mary A Livermore Clara Barton and many more. B Wilkins unknown books
189756541Boston: Lounsbery Nichols & Worth 1897. Reprint. Large 8vo pp. 600. Hinges loose in the front tender in the rear Stamped cloth Illustrated throughout a good copy. Interesting first person biographical narratives. Lounsbery, Nichols & Worth unknown books
