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1894004699London: Longman Green and Co 1894. First Edition . Cloth. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good. Binding tight pages have minor tanning. Green Cloth has rubbed edges with clear sharp gilt title on the spine. PP 342 16 page publishers catalogue at the rear. <br/> <br/> Longman, Green and Co hardcover
1812027329UK 1812. First Edition . Paper. Good. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. An Original Handwritten Letter and Signed by Henry Richard Vassall-Fox 3rd Baron Holland of Holland. Dated 1812. The letter discusses his recent travels Ovid in relation to women properties around Southampton in relation to hunting and shooting. It also discusses his game keeper. Henry Richard Vassall-Fox 3rd Baron Holland of Holland 1773-1840 was an English politician and a major figure in Whig politics in the early 19th century. He served as Lord Privy Seal between 1806 and 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents headed by Lord Grenville and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1830 and 1834 and again between 1835 and his death in 1840 in the Whig administrations of Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne. Size is 232mm x 185mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Light age toning. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17707 <br/> <br/> unknown
18772939204SPCK 1877. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Large 8vo with blue binding. Black and gilt borders on front board. Gilt and red lettering and gilt and black motifs on front board. Backstrip is ripped in multiple places. Bumped corners. Multiple pages are loose and the page block is broken in multiple places. Interior is clean. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item850grams ISBN: SPCK hardcover
18870014127Dodd Mead & Company 1887. Hardcover. Good Plus. This copy is from the library of David Herbert Donald winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of Charles Sumner and Thomas Wolfe and celebrated biographer of Abraham Lincoln . Donald has made a few marks in pencil in the text . Both hinges are just beginning to loosen . Light wear to the cloth on the edges of the boards . Dodd , Mead & Company hardcover
1858H24750London: Longman Brown Green Longmans & Roberts 1858. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Revised and enlarged. 8vo publisher's pebbled green cloth gilt spine very good light wear and abrasions to edges of boards minor wear to rear outer joint owner's name and date W. Webster 1873 hinges sound contents very good light tanning. 347 pp. The author is known also for his travel writing Iceland. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts hardcover
1851048040New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. First American Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 8vo. Cloth edges worn front hinge partly split edges frayed. Moderate foxing throughout. Size: 8vo. 230 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 pounds or less. Category: History; Travel & Places. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1895031261Boston: B. Wilkins: 1895. 546 pages of 548 pages as issued last two pages of book missingthough complete expect for the Index illustrated. "During the Civil War more than five thousand women served the Union cause as nurses. In 1895 the author collected the stories of one hundred veterans reprinted here for the first time." GOOD HARDCOVER hinges have loosed in upbinding is tight some wear to the brown cloth covers text block and photos are fine. Scarce book. I am also including a 2002 softcover of this book to cross reference. The softcover looks new but has some magic marker margin notes and underlining. Hard Cover. Good/Not Issued with a Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. B. Wilkins: Hardcover
1847569197New York: J.A. & W. Geib 1847. Unbound. Good. Sheet music. Translated from the French by Walter Scott. Folio. Two unbound leaves printed on the rectos only. Owner name on the blank verso of the first leaf light pencil notation on the recto of the second leaf a large tear to the bottom right corner of the second leaf not affecting the text or music edgewear to both leaves good only. For voice and piano. Pasted on the blank verso of the second leaf is at least a partial score of "Take Him and Try" composed by J. Monro and written by Mr. I. Cole "A favourite song sung by Miss Holdaway at the London Concerts. Composed with an accompaniment for the harp or piano forte." Text is visible on the other side leading us to believe this was taken out of a magazine. OCLC locates five copies of this version and we know of at least four versions by other publishers made around the same time. J.A. & W. Geib unknown
1821618151Philadelphia: W.Dubois 1821. Softcover. Good. Sheet music. Translated from the French by Walter Scott. Folio. Single sheet printed on the recto only folded in half making for two pages of content. Notched and worn along the fold and pages numbered from once being bound within an album chips and tears along the bottom edge and a small ink note at the bottom of page one a complete and just about very good copy. For voice and piano. OCLC locates four physical holdings of this version and we know of at least four versions by other publishers made around the same time. W.Dubois unknown
1873321675New York: Scribner Armstrong & Co 1873. Leather. Very Good. 397p. A hardcover book bound in full brown leather with gilt edges and marbled endpapers. Very good condition for its age! Edges lightly rubbed blank endpapers foxed and scattered foxing in the margins of main pages. Early owners' inscriptions on the front endpapers but otherwise text clean and binding tight. Contains occasional black and white illustrations. Holland was a popular writer in the mid-19th century; he wrote a bestselling biography of Abraham Lincoln was friends with Emily Dickinson and published the earliest known African-American literary work the poem "Bars Fight" by Lucy Terry. Scribner, Armstrong & Co unknown
1899138788Homewood Publ.Co. January 1899. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Covers are lightly rubbed and soiled light foxing to end papges pages are clean and unmarked. Homewood Publ.Co. hardcover
18355245Hartford Connecticut: Belknap & Hamersley 1835. First Edition. First edition. Measuring approximately 7.5" x 4.75" with 364 numbered pages. <br /> <br /> This book is in poor condition. Heavy chipping and scuffing to entire spine. Front and rear hinges are cracked. Front board is loose from binding and barely hanging on. Heavy chipping to all edges of boards. Heavy staining and scuffing to both boards. Heavy foxing to all edges of textblock. Front endpaper is cut in half and missing. Interior pages are heavily foxed. <br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory #N10-101. Belknap & Hamersley unknown
1844e4866London: John Churchill. Worn condition. Cover rubbed and heavily marked. Some foxing but content in overall good condition. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. 1844. First Edition. Brown hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 140mm 9" x 6". 308pp catalogue. . John Churchill hardcover
1858h1991London: Longman Brown Green Longmans & Roberts. G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. 1858. Second Edition. Maroon hardback cloth cover. 200mm x 130mm 8" x 5". xvi 347pp ads. . Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts hardcover
188430661ABTours, Mame et fils 1884. 4.ième édition. 8°. 213 S. 1 Bl. mit zahlreichen, ganzseitigen Holzstichillustrationen, OLeinen mit Rü. Vergoldung u. Goldauzfschrift a. Rü., Einbd leicht berieben, einige SS. ganz leicht fleckig, im Ganzen gut erhalten. 4
18800327RfRotterdam, George W. van de Biene & Co. (ca. 1880). 11 chomolithographische Tafeln, Leporello mit 11 Tafeln (15x10 cm), roter Original-Halbleinenband mit Deckeltitel und -illustration in Goldprägung. Guter Zustand, Bezugspapier innen am Rückenfalz etwas angeplatzt.
1895284368London : Jarrold & Sons 1895 1895. 1st edition. Hardcover. Provenance; bookplate of St. John's Jesuit seminary. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges; uniform sun-toning. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 194 pages : frontispiece portrait ; 27 cm. Notes; 1 process illus. Subjects; Churchwardens' accounts England. England Cratfield Suffolk. Cratfield History ; Sources. London : Jarrold & Sons [1895?] hardcover
1884007522London: Published By Trubner & Co. For the English Dialect Society 1884. Three Orginal English Dialect Society publications 1884-1886 from Series C. Original Glossaries. County of Chester Words complete in three partsvii 136 137-402 403-513 18 pages . Modern case bound in one volume. Pale grey papered boards with gilttitle lettering on a black leather label on the spine with endpapers. Bound in with the original stiff blue paper covers with title pages on the front and Society adverts on inner and rear covers. 310-486 and 487-13 14 pages. 5.5 X 8.75 inches. Externally very good indeed some damp staining damaging the edge of the front cover of part 1 and the following few pages and also to the final few pages and rear cover of part three otherwise internally all in good order and very clean throughout. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Published By Trubner & Co. For the English Dialect Society Hardcover
1839LTH1-E-1London: Longman Orme Brown et al. 1839. First edition. Leather. Good Only. 9" by 6". None. A collection of medical notes and reflections. Sir Henry Holland 1st Baronet 27 October 1788 27 October 1873 was a British physician and travel writer. Born in Knutsford Cheshire Holland was the son of the physician Peter Holland 1766-1853 and his wife Mary Willets through whom he was a cousin of the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell and nephew of the potter Josiah Wedgwood. In 1822 he married Margaret Emma Caldwell 1795-1830 known as Emma with whom he had two sons and two daughters. Emma died in 2 February 1830. He later became son-in-law to the wit Sydney Smith whose daughter Saba he married as his second wife with whom he had two daughters. Holland gained fame through his travel writings having travelled to Iceland and through the Balkans and the Iberian peninsula while the British were at war with France. He was also a talented society physician and between his good looks his charm and his experiences and conversation he was much in demand. Holland died on his 85th birthday the 27th October 1873 at his house in Brook Street London. Leather bound with cloth covered boards. Both front and rear covers are detached. The binding of the text block is tight despite the absence of extremities. The spine is detached and missing. There is some wear to the detached boards including chips to the leather and marks to the cloth boards. Internally it is generally clean and bright apart from some brown spotting to the front and rear blank-end papers and title page. There is an ownership sticker on the front pastedown. Good Only Longman, Orme, Brown, et al. hardcover
1895052674Boston: B. Wilkins & Co 1895. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. A Good copy in decorated brown cloth lettered in gold of this Civil War history. Clean/unmarked within with little cover wear but lacking the blank front endpaper and with a glue-mend to a paper tear at the rear gutter. Not ex-library. <br/> <br/> B. Wilkins & Co hardcover
18555318London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1855. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Two Volumes. Near Fine. Half leather with marbled paper on the boards rubbed at the edges and corners Square and firmly bound with gilt top edges sewn-in bookmarks clean internally. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans hardcover
1855864N39London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1855. Leather. Good. 9" by 6". None. A leather bound copy of the witty Reverend's memoir. A complete two-volume memoir of the popular writer and Anglican cleric Sydney Smith written by his daughter. With a selection from his letters to volume 2. Alongside his parochial work Smith also founded the cultural and intellectual periodical Edinburgh Review. Among his contemporaries Smith had a reputation as a humourist but also published several sermons and religious works throughout his career. Prior owner's bookplate to the front pastedown of both volumes. From the Library of Sir Robert Shafto Adair. Adair was a British Liberal party politician who served as MP for Cambridge for eight years in the mid-nineteenth century. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper of volume 1. The inscription reads 'To Pater From Eric. April 1951'. Prior owner's ink inscription to the title page of volume 2 'S. A. London. Oct. 27. 1857'. In a quarter leather binding over patterned paper boards. The spine to the first volume is lighter than the second. Rubbed to the boards with some light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Rubbed to the spine with some light bumping to the head of volume 2. The hinge are starting but firm to volume 1 and the front hinge is starting to volume 2. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are bright with some light foxing. Good Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans hardcover
181417292Deutschland (d. i. Leipzig, Rein), ohne Verlag, 1814. 8°. 39 S., Heftstreifen.