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pp. 188, (4) [Publisher's catalog]. Lacks end papers. Mildly XLib. Bookplate of the Bainbridge Friends' Library. Uncut. Slightly age stained. 12mo. 195 mm. Original linen cloth binding over blue boards. Extremities worn with slight loss. Quite scarce. PA SHELF 61
Two volumes in one. pp. xxxi, 558; 255. Misbound with some signatures repeated. Maybe missing one or two leaves of text in title 10. Mixed signatures and pagination. Signed twice with the manuscript autograph of the original owner, Garret Dorset Wall (1783-1850). Wall was an attorney who commanded a New Jersey regiment in the War of 1812. In 1829 he was elected Governor of New Jersey, but declined to serve. He was U.S. Senator for New Jersey form 1835-1841. Foxed. Damp stain. 240 mm. Original worn full polished roan binding with scroll on edges of boards. Original leather spine label. Spine very worn with loss. Extremely important text on the law of Real-Estate issued for an American audience. This edition (two volumes in one) seems to be quite scarce and much rarer than the (five volume?) edition issued in the same year by Alsop, Brannan and Alsop. S&S/AI 14804; Cohen 9459. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 7
pp. viii, 439. 8vo. 20 cm. Age stained. Disbound. Extremely useful still as a biographical reference to early American Quakers. Evans 20377; Sabin 14377; ESTC W37427. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
8vo (215 x 135 mm), [2], 37, [1]pp., with half-title, recent quarter calf, marbled paper boards, morocco title label on upper cover. Three extracts from larger works but with pagination continues: 1. Extract from the Foreign Communications to the Board of Agriculture of London. Vol. I. Of Sea Weed or Wreck in Jersey. 2. Extract from an Essay on Kelp, By the Rev. Dr. Walker, Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh. History of the Plants from which the Kelp in Made. 3. Extract from a Memoir on the Art of Making Kelp, &c. By Mr. Angus Beaton, Canongate, Edinburgh. How to prepare the Shore, so as to increase the materials of which Kelp is made.
No inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped, marked or torn with very faint creasing to upper edge. 310pp. The story of Armstrong's sixth Tour de France win. Illustrated in colour.
