ROUX DE ROCHELLE Jean-Baptiste-GaspardLivre Rare Book
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1837138666Couverture souple. Broché. 400 pages. Défraîchi. Dos factice. Taché en marge.
183750042Firmin-Didot 1837 In-8, reliure demi-basane brune, dos lisse orné de motifs romantiques dorés, titre doré, 96 planches, 1 carte dépliante des états-Unis. Coiffe de pied légèrement usée, mouillures coins internes de pied, sinon intérieur frais. Ex-Libris Perrin de Monthéron.
1887013869Cambridge Massachusetts: John Wilson and Son University Press 1887. Large-Paper Copy. 8.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Very Good condition overall. Fine condition internally. A square tight copy with perfectly sound inner hinges. The book is bound in the original pebble-grain reddish-brown cloth. Gilt stamping on the spine is still bright. The front cover has a shallow groove or indentation not too obtrusive -- 1/8th inch wide 4.5 inches long cloth is not punctured. There is some light scattered foxing on the endpapers and on the edges of the text block. However all text pages are clean crisp and unmarked with NO foxing. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. NO owner's name or bookplate. This is the first appearance in print of David Zeisberger's dictionary of the Onondaga Iroquois and Delaware Algonquin languages. Previously it existed only as a manuscript in the Harvard College Library. The editor discovered it there and arranged publication. This is one of the copies as described by James Constantine Pilling which is "printed on larger and better paper." Pilling notes that the title page of these Large Paper copies omits two lines beginning "This edition has been published." just before the imprint. Pilling BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ALGONQUIN LANGUAGES pp. 546-47. Hand Z5. Sabin 106301. For more on the life and works of David Zeisberger 1721-1808 see DAB Vol. 20 pp. 645-647; APPLETON'S CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY Vol. VI p. 658; and Earl Olmstead's DAVID ZEISBERGER A LIFE AMONG THE INDIANS. "The Rev. David Zeisberger was born at Zeuchtenthal in Moravia April 11 1721 and died in 1808 at Goshen in Ohio November 17 1808 aged 87 years. He first came to America about 1739; began the study of the Indian languages in 1745 He traversed Massachusetts and Connecticut New York Pennsylvania and Ohio entered Michigan and Canada preaching to many nations in many tongues Speaking the Delaware language fluently as well as the Mohawk and Onondaga dialects of the Iroquois; familiar with the Cayugas and other tongues; an adopted sachem of the Six Nations; naturalized among the Monseys by a formal act of the tribe; swaying for a number of years the Grand Council of the Delawares; at one time the keeper of the archives of the Iroquois Confederacy; versed in the customs of the aborigines; adapting himself to their mode of thought and by long habit a native in many of his own ways; no Protestant missionary and but few men of any other calling ever exercised more real influence and was more sincerely honored among the Indians." -- De Schweinitz's THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DAVID ZEISBERGER. First Edition Large-Paper Copy. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition. vi 236pp. John Wilson and Son, University Press Hardcover
1872A37856New York: Hurd and Houghton. Good. 1872. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Good only condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends corners and edges of the book covers have rubbing bumping fraying and chips missing. The covers have noticeable spots of ground-in dirt and generalized rubbing. The lettering on the spine has started to rub. The front inner hinge has cracked. The text pages are generally clean but the book could use a good restitching as sections are loose. The rear endpaper is missing. The first twenty pages or so have spots of foxing. "Afterwards she Yelverton led an itinerant life and supported herself by writing about her travels. Francis Farquhar wrote that she "spent the summer of 1870 in Yosemite where she attached herself to the Hutchings family and made eyes at John Muir. He escaped to the woods but not before she had noted enough of his conversation and his ways of life to make him over into Kenmuir the hero of her novel." Wikipedia . Hurd and Houghton hardcover
1830009907Np: Published for Methodist Episcopal Church printer not identified 1830. First Editions. Half Leather. Good. Six monthly issues October 1830 to March 1831 Volume 2 Numbers 7 - 12 pages 217 - 432 issued by the Methodist Episcopal Church bound in one volume 12mo half-leather over marbelized paper-covered boards. Worn but firmlly bound with scattered foxing. Contemporary bookplate of the Sunday School Library of the Methodist Episcopal Church with very specfic instructions to borrowers about how to read and care for books in their loaned possession. Published for Methodist Episcopal Church (printer not identified) unknown books
1886160261886 un volume, broché grand in-octavo éditeur (paperback in-octavo) (25 x 16,5 cm), dos et couverture gris-jaune imprimés en noir (cover printed), dos cassé, petit manque de papier aux angles de la couverture, envoi autographe manuscrit de l'auteur sur la première de couverture : "à mon vieil ami G. MARESCHAL de MONTÉCLAIN souvenir de l'auteur, signé Marquis de Rochambeau...", toutes tranches non rognées, rousseurs sur la tranches, orné d'une gravure en frontispice, rousseurs passim, 340 pages, 1886 Paris Honoré Champion Editeur,
18925562Paris, Paul Ollendorf, 1892. Un vol. in-12 (188 x 118 mm) de viii - 333 pp., broché.
1895119505P., Victor Lecoffre, 1895, in-12, iv-322 pp, reliure demi-percaline brique, dos lisse avec titres dorés, fleurons et filets à froid (rel. de l'époque), bon état
1898034118New Haven CT: O. A. Dorman Co. 1898. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Royal blue cloth lettered "Yale" in gilt script on front cover oblong format. Modest shelf wear cloth a bit soiled and showing a few light surface marks rubbed with slight exposure at several corners also lightly rubbed at spine extremities and along joints. Signed by Edard F. McIntosh 192 York Street at upper main title page corner otherwise unmarked. Single-page preface followed by 66 b&w plates several two images per page most single page showing significant buildings and sites on the Yale campus. Undated with date provided b/o graduation dates of the co-editors. Exceptionally scarce. O. A. Dorman Co. Hardcover
1858027327New York: Harper and Brothers 1858. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown cloth decorated in blind lettered in gilt on spine. Professionally rebound with original cloth laid over new brown cloth lacking only approx. 1/2" at base of spine where the new cloth almost identical in color to the old shows new endsheets new head- and tail-bands. viii9-432 pp. Firm binding clean interior a bit toned by age. Well preserved copy with sympathetic restoration will prove durable for years to come. Presents as solid Near Fine with note to rebinding. Concerned with the Wyoming Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania proximate to Scranton Wilkes-Barre Hazleton etc. NOT the state of Wyoming. Scarce. Harper and Brothers Hardcover
18465120060Charleston S.C.: Burges & James 1846. Hardcover. Poor in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Exlibrary marks. Binding sound but hinges broken. Quarter leather over boards is heavily worn with front board detached but present leather over spine missing. Writing on endpapers. Pages have some dampstaining tanning. Edited by Legaré's sister. Includes his contributions to the New York and Southern Reviews as well as a memoir of his life. Ex-Library; 9.0" tall. Burges & James hardcover
189610024No Indication of Place Published or Publiser 1896. Edition Unstated. Original wraps. Good . 5-1/8"x7-1/2" 40 pp. eight illustration including one on the rear cover. Tan wrappers. Introduction on verso of the front wrapper with date Copyrighted June 1896 -- OCLC: 4 editions published between 1896 and 1905 in English and held by 27 libraries worldwide. -- Wear to outer extremities of the wraps a few closed tears some corners dogeared and some with diagonal chips bottom front paper tanned. Rear covers show light evidence of water stains. See Photos. -- Condition. unknown
1837009821New York: Merrill and Baker 1837. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Illustrated Cabinet Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1837-1886. v. 1-2. The Conquest of Peru.--v. 3-5. The Conquest of Mexico.--v. 6-8. Ferdinand and Isabella.--v. 9-11. The Reign of Charles V.--v. 12-14. The Reign of Philip II.--v. 15. Miscellanies.--v. 16 Life of William H. Prescott by George Ticknor. SCARCE Complete 16 volume set bound in half morocco over marbled boards marbled end papers top edges gilt. Near Fine small rubs at corners. OCLC locates only two copies at Texas A.&M. and University of Nevada Reno. A lovely and quite uncommon set. Merrill and Baker Hardcover
18870009381Boston: Little Brown 1887 - 1890. New Revised. Hardcover. Good. maps portraits. 8vos polished calf marbled boards extra-gilt spines scuffed worn all covers attached; ex libris Robert Watts Derby. <br/><br/>Illutrated including the Note and previously unpublished portrait of Montcalm which first appeared in the previous 1887 printing the 10th of Montcalm see BAL 15474 ; see Howes P97-100 . This set includes: Pioneers of France Jesuits in North America La Salle And The Discovery Of The Great West The Old Regime in Canada Frontenac And New France Montcalm And Wolfe. Also The Conspiracy of Pontiac; and The Oregon Trail. Little, Brown hardcover
1891000010111Hartford Conn.: Travelers Insurance Company 1891 Five volumes complete the hinges are starting in most of the volumes although the bindings are sound. The pages are toning a bit. Light wear to cloth mostly on the edges such as the backstrip. Still an attractive substantial set. Travelers Insurance Company hardcover
1889120470Washington: GPO 1889. 631p. tables original black cloth binding spotted and worn with repaired tear on the spine front end papers removed spine lettering nearly eroded. GPO unknown books
18898500Washington: GPO 1889. 631p. tables original black cloth binding spine lettering dulled. GPO unknown books
188956297Washington: GPO 1889. 631p. tables original black cloth binding rubbed and worn and frayed on edges. GPO unknown books
1893ROD0019032The Winters Art Litho.. 1893. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Tâchée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur bon état. Ouvrage d'une quarantaine de pages avec de nombreuses gravures hors-texte en couleurs.. . . A l'italienne. Classification Dewey : 973-Etats-Unis
186313646N.p.: N.p. 1863. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 7pp. Very good. Minor binding traces else tight and nice. Presumably a Republican attack on the then-gubernatorial candidate a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice. ".the creed which Judge Woodward's party has adopted is servile unpatriotic and disorganizing. the Judge's position in regard to the great issues now before the country is faithless inconsistent and wholly delusive." The writer then critiques Woodward's famed 1860 speech criticizing "The Falseness of its Statements in regard to the Abolition of Slavery by the North" "Judge Woodward's Bible Views of Slavery" and "The Right of Secession as Claimed by Judge Woodward." Woodward critic of course does not let him forget his infamous statement that "We must reassert the rights of the slave-holder." Not in Sabin. Interesting and unusual. N.p. paperback
1860009577New York: Harper's Weekly 1860. Fine. The first leaf of the May 26 1860 vol. 4 no. 178 issue featuring a woodcut portrait of a beardless Abraham Lincoln who had become the Republican candidate for President on May 18. Tipped onto a large piece of card with a light grey mat frame hinged on one side. The leaf includes the text about Lincoln with excerpts from speeches. The mat frame was irregularly trimmed on one side. Image is in Fine Condition: clean and crisp. Harper's Weekly unknown
18664550089Hartford Ct: S. S. Cranton & Co 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding stressed front hinge. Pages clean tanned foxed. Cloth over boards is shelf worn. Gilt lettering on front and spine. Biographical information on many women who aided the Union cause in the American Civil War. Steel engravings; 9.0" tall; 596 pages. S. S. Cranton & Co hardcover
1867055344Philadelphia Chicago Cincinnati St. Louis and Boston: Zeigler McCurdy & Co. and R. H. Curran 1867. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 799 pages indexed. Hardcover bound in plum cloth with spine titles in faded gilt. The binding shows some rubbing and wear. The rear outer hinge has some insect holes. Brown endpapers. The flyleaves are foxed and the text is a bit toned but is generally clean. Collates complete with 16 steel plate engravings mostly portraits. <br/> <br/> Zeigler, McCurdy & Co. and R. H. Curran hardcover
1897104442Frederick A. Stokes. Very Good. 1897. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First Edition. 1897. Some wear and soiling else Very Good condition. 337 pages. Frederick A. Stokes. Owners bookplate on endpaper. Illustrated by Frederic Remington. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 337 pages . Frederick A. Stokes hardcover
1842003606Libanon Lebanon Pa.: Jos. Hartman 1842. Hardcover. Very Good . xii 184 p. 1 leaf with a woodcut illustration; 18 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Partially illegible former owner's inscription on front free endpaper verso and facing blank page dated 1852. A few ink marginal notations in the same hand. A veterinary manual for horses entirely German by a Lancaster County horse doctor. In Very Good Condition: ends of spine and corners rubbed; some page corners creased; a few marginal notations; some browning; otherwise clean and tight. Jos. Hartman hardcover
