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1891mon0002841867D. Van Nostrand 1891-01-01. Unknown Binding. Good. . Cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Loose/torn hinges. Name of former owner in the prelims. Pages are tanned and clean. D. Van Nostrand unknown
18202269London: John Warren 1820. FIRST EDITION 8vo pp. vi ii 190. Contemporary purple textured cloth spine lettered in gilt. A little minor spotting some offsetting from a former bookmark to title-page and flyleaf. Spine ends a little worn the cloth somewhat faded towards brown. Ownership inscription of R.O. Lees Corpus Christi College Cambridge to front flyleaf. Bryan Waller Proctor 1787-1874 published primarily under the pseudonym Barry Cornwall and his verse strongly reflected his circle of close literary friends especially Hazlitt Hunt Lamb with this volume particularly indebted to Leigh Hunt. The signatures would suggest a half-title is missing though the binding does seem likely to be the sort of cloth the publisher might have used. John Warren hardcover
1900461269London: The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited 1900. Hardcover in acceptable condition. Half-leather boards. No jacket. Volume one 'Comedies' only. Illustrated with engravings on wood and steel. This book does not have a publication date. It was not published in 1900. Abrasions and scores on worn boards and spine. Leather spine is faded. Leading corners are split. Five centimetre split on spine foot. Page block and pages are tanned and foxed. Contents remain clear throughout. Binding is sound. HCW. Hardcover. Acceptable/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Meadows Kenny. Used. The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited Hardcover
1823154742London: Henry Colburn and Co. 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 248 p. 22 cm. Burgundy leather. Extremities worn scuffs and soiling to boards. Front free endpaper has chipped bottom corner. Foxing. <br/><br/> Henry Colburn and Co. hardcover
1823AQ18947London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co. 1823. 6 248pp. Contemporary red half-calf marbled boards contrasting black morocco lettering-piece gilt marbled edges. Extremities rubbed. Marbled endpapers book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP foxed. Barry Cornwall pseudonym of Bryan Waller Proctor 1787-1884 English poet and dedicatee of Thackeray's Vanity Fair. This his fifth work includes the Romantic epics 'The Flood of Thessaly' and 'The Girl of Provence' as well as several shorter poetic works. . First edition. 8vo. Printed for Henry Colburn and Co. hardcover
1835042316London: Edward Moxon 1835. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Good Condition. 2 volumes bound in one foxed age toned early one generally clean otherwise. Binding worn but sound half calf over watered silk label chipped with the bookplate of Archer Ryland on the front endpaper. Size: Octavo 8vo. 2-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Theatre & Plays. Inventory No: 042316. <br/><br/> Edward Moxon hardcover
184659193London: William S. Orr and Co. 1846. Green leather which has been tanned and rubbed to panelled spines. Gilt armorial shields to boards and spines AEG inner dentelles. Tiny 'Bound by Wiseman' stamps to front pastedowns. Some scuffing or tearing to leather mainly to vol 2. Vol 1 - memoir essay comedies vol 2 - tragedies vol 3 - historical plays poems. Occasional foxing otherwise contents are clean and tight. Full Leather. Very Good Minus. Illus. by Meadows Kenny. 4to. William S. Orr and Co. Hardcover
1846263119London: William S. Orr and Co 1846. Books have heavy exterior wear. Worn at edges and corners of boards. Wear at head and tail of spine. Two tears at top of volume two's spine. Shelfworn. Small marks and rubbing on spine and boards. Split binding between front paste down and FEP of volume 1. All volumes have tanned pages with small marks throughtout book especially on first and last dozen or so pages. Pages foxed and grubby. Volume 1 is soiled on half title page leaving a faint mirror-like copy of the picture on the previous page. Large liquid stain on back of contents page on volume 2. Wear and creasing to some pages. Gilt page block slightly grubby. J. Hardcover. Acceptable/No Dust Jacket. Used. William S. Orr and Co Hardcover
1843003351Robert Tyas 1843. Hardcover. Fair. Meadows Kenny. Robert Tyas 1843. Volume 2 out of 3 vol set. Entitled: TRAGEDIES. Illustrated with engravings by Kenny Meadows. Book in overall Fair condition. Has been rebound at some point in time half-publisher's full black morocco with raised bands gilt titles and extra gilt to spines; marbled boards. Works included: Macbeth Troiles & Cressida Timon of Athens Hamlet Cymbeline Romeo & Juliet King Lear Othello Coriolanus Julius Caesar Antony & Cleopatra. VERY RARE Robert Tyas hardcover
18636364London 1863. Wood engraving 23.5 x 34.5 cms modern hand-colour English text on verso. Print unknown
18607153London: Longman Rees Orme Brown & Co. c. 1860. Lithograph 32.5 x 39 cms original hand-colour blank verso; prepared for William Colling Hobsons Fox-Hunting Atlas overprinted with the names of the hunts and the places of the meeting of foxhounds. Map Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Co. unknown
18505061London: Robert Baldwin 1850. New edition corrected" 8vo xvi & 530pp. spine faded and chipped at extremities otherwise a very good copy. Robert Baldwin unknown
1851j7410Philadelphia: John B Perry. G : in good condition. Ex-lib. Cover rubbed with loss to spine. Some foxing. 1851. First Edition. Brown hardback cloth cover. 160mm x 110mm 6" x 4". 283pp. . John B Perry hardcover
184355336London: T. G. March 1843. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. W. & E. Finden. A beautiful book containing 61 extremely fine engravings The text was written to accompany the images "expressly for the work" by a number of eminent hands. Full green leather with elaborate gilt decoration. The green has softened and toned with age and there are one or two bumps and rubs but this book presents as a very impressive and lovely thing. Size: Folio. Illustrator: W. & E. Finden. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: 55336. . T. G. March hardcover
1847650378London: Robert Baldwin 1847. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 530 pages in good condition. From the "Library of Useful Knowledge" series. Extreme pages are foxed and spotted. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. Previous owner's signature on the ffep and fpdep. Page edges are speckled with red publisher's stain. Darkened on the head edges. Half-bound in brown leather and marbled paper. Boards are darkened and scuffed. Spine is heavily worn and scuffed with a large chip on the tail end and a torn head. Labels are faded. Joints are worn but intact. Worn around the edges especially on the corners. 1ST EDITION. G <br/> <br/> Robert Baldwin hardcover
18300001760CHATHAM CONNECTICUT EAST HAMPTON CT BRAZIL. Good. 1830. On offer is an interesting archive of five 5 manuscript journals dated 1830 through 1867 handwritten by Dr. Nathaniel Oliver Cornwall 1816-1903 who was from Chatham Connecticut today known as East Hampton. Cornwall was a fascinating character would become a medical doctor and then later a dentist who spent a great deal of time in South America a more detailed bio follows. The archive will be of interest to historians and researchers of the era as the combined writings details on one hand the personal thoughts as the young man entered adulthood but also a reflection on the education he received. The archive details as follows: 1 1833 Marbled covered Copy Book which is also a Day Book. The beginning pages are ledger style entries showing his expenses inventory of his belongings etc. Then there are several pages of copy book type entries showing heights and distances some drawings. Finally in the back 8 pages of diary entries. This journal is the largest in the bunch measuring about 8" x 13" which gives you a lot of information on each page. Total number of handwritten pages is 55. In this journal he also talks about a ship named the "Ocean." 2 1830 Ledger style journal with 21 handwritten pages. Also in the front are two pages of poetry one titled "On the Independence of South America; Sung in New York" and the other titled "The Nashville Tragedy." There are a lot of names in this journal. 3 1863-1867 Receipt type ledger with expenses. This one is in Spanish or Portuguese kept while he was in Brazil. 12 handwritten pages. 4 1833 Writing work book where he practiced his alphabet letters etc. There is also a handwritten essay in the back. This journal has 17 handwritten pages. 5 Lastly and 1830 Day Book with 43 handwritten pages; expense type entries also listing many names. Some of the many names mentioned are: James Young Denton and Smith James Kane John Jacob Astor Thomas Milner Temple and Camp Minerva Howland Nathan Swain Joseph Hastings Anthony Billings Edward Jones Thomas Grosvenor Samuel Green Jonathan Curtis Theodore Barrell Charles Long James Pitney Thomas Jenkins Elijah Pollack Henry Bell James Vance and so many more. Here are some snippets: "Washington College March 20th 1830 Half past 11 o'clock Have for several days been thinking to write a diary a practice which I have not followed since the first winter of beginning Greek at the goodly town of Cheshire. I wish I had continued it just for the pleasure of accounting to the many many pleasing and as a matter of course often unpleasing incidents of my stay there and to see again my daily progress in Virgil Cicero Sallust and the first elements of Greek which I used to set down with minimal regularity. I shall though never forget those scenes. They are engraved firmly on my mind and the place where I first learned to taste the beauties of Virgil and to enjoy the elegant productions of Cicero .But why am I that moralizing upon the classes and so pedant like talking of my own acquisitions in them I don't know but tis to make a beginning to my journal which would make but poor appearance over to self for whom alone it shall be written without and for a want of which it has been so long neglected I suppose." "March 30th 1830 Been very insolent all day as respects to study One week now and we shall be at liberty again. Next Wednesday afternoon will probably terminate my second term of college life. This term has passed rapidly with me and been very busy yet I find my mind frequently stretching to the end of it and welcoming its approach with an eagerness not a little unlike that of those who are less pleased with college than myself How swift are the transitions of thought! How constantly on the wing is our universal cheerer and consoler. Hope! Thus I am continually led into a train of moralizing and thus my consoling pen will run on ____ in publishing the wandering incipiencies of my brain ." The smallest journal measures about 6" x 7 ½" and the largest one 8" x 13". All of them have paper covers and most are in good shape with some foxing on many of the pages. The cover on one of them is very torn but all in all the pages and bindings look good. BIO NOTES: to Dr. Nathaniel Oliver Cornwall 1816-1903 was born in 1816. As a child he attended local schools and then at about 14 years of age Nathaniel was sent to the school of Reverend Asa Cornwall in Cheshire and after that he went off to school in Granby. In 1833 he went to Episcopal Academy in Cheshire. In 1835 began attending Washington College and graduated 1839. After college Nathaniel Cornwall attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York State from which he graduated in 1846. After medical school he accepted a teaching job in South America and within a year decided to go into the medical field in Brazil. After an accidental meeting with a dentist also from Connecticut he decided to become a dentist instead of having a medical practice and for the rest of his career kept that as his profession while living in South America for the next 20 or so years. In 1860 on a visit home to the States he got married to Mary and the couple then returned to South America where his 3 children were born. He had two daughters one of whom died in infancy and a son Edward who became a NY physician. Dr. Cornwall retired relatively early in 1869 at age 53 and lived the rest of his life in Gildersleeve which is now Portland CT on an estate near the trolley line. The family originally had settled in Middletown and nearby areas in the 1700s. An online search reveals the "Trinity College Bulletin" wherein there is an article titled "Reminiscences of Nathaniel Oliver Cornwall MD" and one will find an extensive history behind the man who owned these journals. ; Manuscript; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF NATHANIEL OLIVER CORNWALL CHESHIRE ACADEMY WASHINGTON COLLEGE 19TH CENTURY NATHANIEL OLIVER CORNWALL CHATHAM CONNECTICUT EAST HAMPTON EDUCATION BRAZIL SOUTH AMERICA MEDICINE 19TH CENTURY MEDICAL PRACTICE DENTIST DENTISTRY NEW ENGLAND WASHINGTON COLLEGE TRINITY COLLEGE HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY AMERICANA ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL AMERICANA . unknown
18320001757CHESHIRE CONNECTICUT CT. Good. 1832. On offer is an original 1832 manuscript copy book handwritten by Nathaniel Oliver Cornwall specifically related to his study of sailing navigation and astronomy relative to a life at sea. The 44 pages include a number of drawings adding depth to this early 19th century study of nautical education. Mr. Cornwall 16 years old at the time of writing goes on to an interesting career as a medical doctor turned dentist. Further details follow. Overall G. BIO NOTES: Dr. Nathaniel Oliver Cornwall was born in 1816 d.1903. As a child he attended local schools and then at about 14 years of age Nathaniel was sent to the school of Reverend Asa Cornwall in Cheshire and after that he went off to school in Granby. In 1833 he went to Episcopal Academy in Cheshire. In 1835 began attending Washington College and graduated 1839. After college Nathaniel Cornwall attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York State from which he graduated in 1846. After medical school he accepted a teaching job in South America and within a year decided to go into the medical field in Brazil. After an accidental meeting with a dentist also from Connecticut he decided to become a dentist instead of having a medical practice and for the rest of his career kept that as his profession while living in South America for the next 20 or so years. In 1860 on a visit home to the States he got married to Mary and the couple then returned to South America where his 3 children were born. He had two daughters one of whom died in infancy and a son Edward who became a NY physician. Dr. Cornwall retired relatively early in 1869 at age 53 and lived the rest of his life in Gildersleeve which is now Portland CT on an estate near the trolley line. The family originally had settled in Middletown and nearby areas in the 1700s. An online search reveals the "Trinity College Bulletin" wherein there is an article titled "Reminiscences of Nathaniel Oliver Cornwall MD" and one will find an extensive history behind the man who owned these journals.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF NATHANIEL OLIVER CORNWALL CHESHIRE ACADEMY WASHINGTON COLLEGE GEOMETRY ALGEBRA CALCULUS STATISTICS SCIENTIFIC NOTATIONS MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS CYPHERING TRIGONOMETRY CALLIGRAPHY MATHEMATICS NAUTICAL SEAMANSHIP MARITIME NAVIGATION SEAMAN MARINERS NAVAL HANDWRITING PENMANSHIP ARITHMETIC CIPHERING CYPHERING EDUCATION TEACHING MATHEMATICAL COMPLEX MATHEMATICS FEDERAL MONEY STATISTICS COMPLEX EQUATIONS SCIENTIFIC NOTATIONS 19TH CENTURY HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY AMERICANA ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL AMERICANA . unknown
1877006148Boston: Roberts Brothers 1877 First American Edition. Brown cloth with blindstamped decoration in black gilt titles. Chocolate endpapers. Antique library bookplate hand-numbered and hand-dated. Frontispiece engraving protective tissue. Foxing to preliminaries rubbing to endpapers small tear to top of spine. Solid copy in good condition. Roberts Brothers hardcover
1860249210London: 32 Weymouth Street Portland Place 1860. 1 page. 16mo. About fine. 1 page. 16mo. 32 Weymouth Street Portland Place unknown
1839013434Cornhill: Smith Elder & Co 1839. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. New marbled boards rebacked with original leather spine laid over cloth. A.E.G. xii 384 pp. Illustrated with 10 engravings. Light foxing owner inscribed on half title otherwise near fine. Includes 3 poems by English poet Bryan Procter under his pseud. of Barry Cornwall 1787-1874 Sunset A Song for the Queen and a London Lyric. Smith, Elder & Co hardcover
186453790London: London Printing and Publishing Company 1864. Hardcover. Very good. Three volumes royal octavo 26.5 by 18 cm. 4 lxviii 640; 4 586; 8 xvi 641 1 blankpp. Each volume with steel-engraved frontispiece tissue guards present in vols. 2 and 3 and title followed by letterpress title; each play with full-page steel engraving and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary polished calf double-ruled in gilt; spine with raised bands and gilt morocco lettering pieces. Marbled edges and endleaves; gilt dentelles. Housed in fine later forest green slipcase. Covers mildly stained and rubbed. Contents clean and fresh apart from moderate foxing at the steel plates and surrounding leaves. A very good set. Vol. 1: Comedies. Vol. 2: Tragedies. Vol. 3: Historical Plays. Full title and imprint: The Complete Works of Shakespeare Revised from the Original Editions: with a Memoir and Essay on his Genius by Barry Cornwall. Also Historical and Critical Studies of Shakespere's Text Characters and Commentators and Annotations and Introductory Remarks on the Plays by Richard Grant White R.H. Horne and Various Other Distinguished Writers. Illustrated with Engravings on Wood and Steel from Designs by Kenny Meadows. The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited 26 Paternoster Row London; and 55 Dey Street New York. London Printing and Publishing Company hardcover
18438247951Robert Tyas 1843. Volume 3. 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. Large brown cloth 8vo with decorative blind design mirrored on boards. Gilt lettering and large motif on sun faded backstrip. Backstrip is semi detached with some fraying and chipping. Bumped corners and some grubbiness to boards. Backstrip and front board has pulled away from backstrip. Grey end papers. Binding tight. A few pages have pencil markings. Foxing. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1450grams ISBN: Robert Tyas hardcover