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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
1855WRCLIT75255New York: Harper & Bros. 1855. Two volumes. xi1378;xviii511pp. Original brown cloth decorated in blind. Early ink ownership signature in top margin of title repeated in pencil otherwise a very good or better set. First US edition published in the same year as the UK edition. The second volume consists entirely of the letters edited by Sarah Austin. Harper & Bros. hardcover 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
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
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
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
189426160Philadelphia: Porter & Coates 1894. Reprint. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo. Matching two volume set of books describing the land of Holland by De Amicis with translation from the Italian by Helen Zimmern. Illustrated with photographs. 273 and 275 pp respectively. Fold-out map at rear of Volume II. decorative green cloth bindings with gilt tulipdesign are both in superb condition. Prior owner names to the inside front pastedowns of both volumes else exceptionally clean and unmarked. The matching dark green linen dustwrappers with gilt lettering to spine are also both in superb condition. Integral red silk bookmarks present. Porter & Coates unknown 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
187217384London: Longmans Green and CO 1872. Hardcover. Very good. First edition after the privately printed edition of 1868. 8vo. viii 346pp plus 2 page publisher's catalogue. Publsher's green cloth blocked in black and gilt on the spine and upper board; brown coated endpapers. Nearly imperceptibly rebacked; a very good copy. With an autograph letter form the author to Lady Pakington bound in. ".I feel grateful in learing that my little volume of Recollections has given you pleasure. Sir John knew well many of the public characters mentioned in it. ." Longmans, Green, and CO hardcover books
183655074Hartford CT: Belknap & Hamersley 1836. Second edition. 12mo. xvi 2 13-372 2 10 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Van Buren. Errata leaf five leaves of testimonials for the first edition. Inscribed by the author in 1837 to Emily W. Ellsworth Noah Webster's eldest daughter. Contemporary calf gilt wide gilt ornamental border to boards spine gilt with title and ornaments between raised bands gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers and edges. Some light foxing but a very good copy. 1958. <br/><br/> Belknap & Hamersley hardcover books
1814305037York Street 1814. Bifolium with integral address leaf. 12mo. Some closed tears. Bifolium with integral address leaf. 12mo. 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
182434749London: R. Ackermann Repository of Arts 1824. With 18 hand colored plates. 1 vols. 12mo. Bound in full green morocco. Very fine. With 18 hand colored plates. 1 vols. 12mo. Part of this celebrated work consisting of descriptions and plates "to increase the store of knowledge concerning the various branches of the great family of Man not only for adults but.the instruction and amusement of the juvenille student." Abbey Travel I No. 6 R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts unknown 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
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
181737583London: Printed by Thomas Davison Whitefriars for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1817. First thus. xv 261 1; vii i 232 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in full contemporary brown polished calf spines rubbed brown binder's ticket on front pastedowns "Bound by Smith 49 Long Acre" in each volume; front joint of vol. I starting fixing to preliminaries else very good. First thus. xv 261 1; vii i 232 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Inscribed Twice. INSCRIBED on the first blank leaf of volume I "With the author's best regards March 1834 London" and on the title page of both volumes "To my dear Aunt Mrs. Moore E.V. Holland." Lady Holland's Aunt Mrs. Moore of NYC was Clement C. Moore's mother. <br/>The first volume containing the account of Lope de Vega's life and writings was first published in 1806; this is the first two volume edition and the first containing the treatment of Guillen de Castro. Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown 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
