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189685056New York: Knickerbocker Press 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis illustrations xxix 241p. Original orange cloth backed and cornered in off white. 28cm. Some cover spotting and soil. Theodore Roosevelt's speech at the 11th Annual Dinner of the Holland Society of New York on Jan. 15 1896 is printed at pages 22-27. <br/><br/> Knickerbocker Press hardcover 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1880287861New York. : Scribner & Co. 1880. . Half brown leather over stippled cloth boards raised bands gilt spine title speckled edges. Covers worn at extremities front hinge starting leather peeled in some areas otherwise a very good copy. . 8vo. Numerous illustrations. Scribner & Co. hardcover 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
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
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
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
1894004663New York: Gorham Manufacturing Company 1894. Second edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. 18 by 15.5 cm. 182 pp. Recipes and numerous illustrated plates of silver chafing dishes on offer by Gorham. Soiling to the orange cloth on the boards and spine. <br /><br /> Gorham Manufacturing Company 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
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
185519487London: Longman Brown Green & Longmans 1855. 3rd edition. Original brown publishers cloth with gilt spine lettering & boards stamped in blind. Brown coated eps with printed publisher adverts to paste-downs. 'Westley's / London' binder ticket to rear paste-down. Very Good spine lightly sunned/front hinge starting/contemporaneous pos & poi to title page. xv 1 615 1 24 pp. Publisher catalogue inserted at rear. 8vo. 6" x 9 1/8" <br/><br/>A revised edition excluding some material of a psychological nature found in the first 2 editions and adding additional material relating to 'practical medicine'. Longman Brown Green & Longmans 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
186373051New York: Charles Scribner. Very Good. 1863. Hardcover. LETTERS TO THE JONESES By Timothy Titcomb; Charles Scribner. New York NY. 1863. First Edition. This book is hard-bound in brown cloth. The binding is solid and tight Light rubbing to the lower spine end. The contents are bright and clean. Spine sunned. Holland was one of the founders of Scribner's Magazine which became Century Magazine. Overall Very Good condition. . Charles Scribner hardcover books
186347767New York: Charles Scribner 1863. 1st edition BAL 8592. Publisher's original brown cloth binding with gilt title stamping to spine. Pale yellow eps. Square & tight. Modest shelfwear. Spine sunned with some light wear at the spine ends. A VG - VG copy. 347 1 blank pp. 12mo. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner 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
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