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1829007880London: Robert Jennings & John Major 1829. Printed by William Nicol at the Shakespeare Press. Finely bound in late 19th century full polished calf backs ornately tooled in gilt with red morocco title labels and black morocco volume labels with gilt lettering matching marbled end pages and page edges top edges gilt. Near Fine light soiling to boards light toning primarily associated with the plates. A quite handsome set. Second Edition. Full Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Robert Jennings & John Major Hardcover books
182131659London: printed for the author by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol Shakespeare Press 1821. First edition 1000 copies printed this one of 900 of the regular issue; 3 volumes large thick 8vo vignette title pages in each volume 83 plates 5 double-page 3 printed in sepia and 1 colored 64 other illustrations on India paper mounted in the text plus a multitude of textual illustrations throughout 4 printed in red; bound without half-titles in slightly later full tan calf double gilt rules on covers black morocco labels on gilt decorated spines a.e.g.; edges worn upper joint on vol. III restored a number of the plates foxed largely confined to the margins; a good sound set. This copy enhanced with a presentation in each volume to "B. C. Brodie Esq. from the author." With the bookplates of B. C. Brodie and B. H. Goldschmidt in each volume. Benjamin Collins Brodie was author of the classic Pathological and Surgical Observations on the Diseases of the Joints G-M 4311. "The collation is very irregular by reason of the fact that all illustrations in the text being printed on India paper pasted-in are on separately inserted leaves . This Voyage Pittoresque is lavishly illustrated mainly with copperplates after drawings by G.R. Lewis and others. Dibdin says he spent over 7000 pounds on the book being the first patron to pay 100 guineas for a plate . It has been unkindly said of this book that it would have been better without any text. However it does contain a modicum of bibliographical information that is still useful if used with due caution" Jackson. Lowndes notes that it "contains much useful and curious information" on the libraries and private collections of Europe. The second edition of 1829 is abridged and omits all but 5 of the original plates. Windle & Pippin note but a single presentation copy that from Dibdin to his son. Jackson 48; Lowndes I 641; Windle & Pippin A38a. <br/><br/> printed for the author, by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press unknown books
190054405New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1900. Edition limited to 127 copies this one of 102 on Van Gelder copy no. 95 4to 5 p.l. pp. 204 4; engraved frontispiece portrait from a painting by Jacob Huyman signed in pencil by the engraver T. Johnson engraved title page "illustrated by 86 photo-engraved reproductions of title pages; original quarter parchment over boards gilt-stamped spine and upper cover; boards soiled spine darkened light overall wear; a good sound copy. Printed at the De Vinne Press This copy inscribed "With the sincere regards of Nathl. C. Nash / May 1908" and an ownership label of Dwight Blaney tipped over the inscription and further provenance provided on a slip laid in stating that the book was purchased from the estate of Frank C. Brown in 1932. Also laid in is an envelope addressed to Blaney containing a number of clippings regarding The Compleat Angler and an order form from E. P. Dutton for the John Major edition of the bibliography published in 1927. Blaney is almost certainly the Boston and Ironbound Island Maine painter Dwight Blaney. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
190029772Washington: GPO 1900. Offprint 8vo pp. 633-828; contemporary green cloth lettered in gilt on spine the original printed drab wrappers bound in; moderate wear to extremities and some scattered white spotting; light browning to text; overall good and sound. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper "Compliments of the compiler Thomas M. Owen Montgomery Ala. January 1 1904." Originally published in Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1899 vol. I. <br/><br/> GPO hardcover books
185441426Alton Ill.: Printed at the Courier Office 1854. 8vo pp. vi 672; contemporary three quarter black morocco over marbled boards gilt-tooled spine in 6 compartments t.e.g. marbled endpapers; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings edges a big rubbed first few leaves foxed else a very good copy. <br/><br/> Printed at the Courier Office hardcover books
189926900Boston New York and Chicago 1899. First edition 8vo pp. xvii 1 205 1; engraved frontispiece title-p. printed in black and red and 4 printer's devices in text; original quarter linen over brown paper-covered boards spine lettered in red and paper label printed in red and black on front cover; a disheveled copy with some wear and soiling overall and a diagonal ding on lower edge affecting both boards and text block. <br/><br/> hardcover books
186453433New York: J. E. Cooley 1864. 8vo pp. 5 10-315 1; later black buckram gilt original brown paper wrappers bound in; fine. From the notice: "The books described in this catalogue comprise it is believed the largest collection relating to the United States that has ever been offered for sale at auction on this continent." <br/><br/> J. E. Cooley hardcover books
188827103London: Richard Amer not published 1888. First edition limited to 250 copies 8vo pp. xxxiv 170; folding frontispiece printed in yellow; original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; light rubbing at extremities else a very good partially unopened copy. <br/><br/> Richard Amer [not published] hardcover books
183156461Cambridge: E.W. Metcalf and Company printers to the University 1831. First edition 8vo pp. viii misnumbered 224; untrimmed original paper-covered boards cloth shelfback original spine labels ex-Providence Athenaeum with their stamps and marks. Signed by Josiah Quincy the president of Harvard on flyleaf and with a half page addendum by him to the text on p. 169; lightly sunned and rubbed a few library marks to spine text clean and sound. This is the third volume of the general catalog of Harvard Library begun the previous year <br/><br/> E.W. Metcalf and Company, printers to the University hardcover books
187653982Philadelphia: Collins printer 1876. First edition 8vo pp. 22 2; removed from stabbed binding; very good. Based on the imperfect and incomplete list issued in the Royal Society of London's Catalogue of Scientific Papers. Lea 1792-1886 was an American conchologist geologist and publisher Carey & Lea Lea & Blanchard. <br/><br/> Collins, printer unknown books
180745278London: John Scott 1807. First Park edition 5 volumes 8vo; 150 stipple-engraved portraits; full contemporary straight-grained gilt- and blind-tooled plum morocco with grape-vine motif gilt spines in 6 compartments a.e.g.; edges and joints rather rubbed front hinges of Vol. II and V broken else an attractive set. Contemporary heraldic bookplate on front pastedowns. Best edition with several appendices included here which could not legally be included in the earlier. Hazen 10; Lowndes p. 2818-9; NCBEL III 1589. <br/><br/> John Scott unknown books
182451077London: printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker 1824. 24mo pp. 72; enrgaved frontispiece and title page; printed paper wrappers with manuscript paper label on spine; wrappers lightly soiled with some wear to spine plates foxed very good. Early ownership signature of Evelyn Pitcher. Issued in Pinnock's Catechisms series ads for which on pastedowns and back cover. The book appeared under three separate imprints in 1824 of which this appears to the the rarest - only Columbia in OCLC. In this edition the title varies considerably: the printed title reads as above; the engraved title reads "lives of illustrious characters of antiquity; and the wrapper title reads "lives of eminent men of all ages and countries." <br/><br/> printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker unknown books
188236701Edinburgh: William Paterson 1882. Royal 8vo 4 volumes; original red cloth spines soiled and discolored t.p. of Vol. 1 detached otherwise a fine attractive copy. <br/><br/> William Paterson hardcover books
182825487London: Thomas Kelly 1828. 4to pp. 2 xi 1 3-4 v-vi 3-746; engraved title-p. dated 1823 and frontispiece 13 engraved plates; full contemporary diced calf by Pittman of Salisbury with his stamp in gilt on front free endpaper decorative gilt border enclosing an elaborate central panel decorated in blind spine in 4 compartments gilt-decorated with a cathedral design in 3 gilt-lettered in 1 a.e.g. black endpapers with moire pattern neatly rebacked with old spine laid down. This edition not in OCLC and of the 1823 edition only the Trinity Institure copy in Illinois is located. <br/><br/> Thomas Kelly unknown books
1819117109London: Printed for John Thomson & Co. for Baldwin Cradock & Joy London & John Cumming Dublin 1819. Rare first edition of celebrated cartographer James Wyld the Elder's authoritative world atlas. Quarto bound in three quarters contemporary calf over marbled boards with original printed paper titular label to the front panel gilt titles to the spine engraved frontispiece table of comparative heights of of the principle mountains of the world engraved calligraphic title page featuring an engraved vignette of Wyld displaying a globe containing 41 hand-colored numbered maps including one double-page engraved by N.R.Hewitt after Wyld additional table of comparative lengths of principle rivers of the world. The maps include four of the ancient world three world maps including a double-page Mercator's projection map nineteen maps of European countries eight maps of Asia two of Africa and five related to the Americas each featuring a miniature vignette of the country or area's most famed palace city or attraction. The map of the young United States includes several important historical regions. One of the most unique and scarce features on early maps of the United States is the appearance of Franklinia. Franklinia was formed by settlers in 1784 but it was never recognized by Congress. Eventually it was annexed by North Carolina and later reverted back to Tennessee. This ephemeral state appeared on only a small number of maps into the early part of the 19th century this being a later example. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable. One of the foremost geographers of his time James Wyld the Elder. made several important contributions to cartography including the introduction of lithography as a method of map printing to England in 1812 He was named royal geographer to His Majesty George IV and William IV as well as HRH the Duke of York. Upon his death in 1836 Wyld's eldest son James Wyld Jr. became the sole owner of the thriving family mapmaking business based in Charing Cross. His maps which covered regions as diverse as London and the gold fields of California were regarded highly and Wyld himself had an excellent reputation as a mapmaker; he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1839 and he was appointed Geographer to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as had been his father before him. Printed for John Thomson & Co. for Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, London & John Cumming, Dublin hardcover books
187349602London: Chatto and Windus 1873. First edition small thick 8vo pp. iii-viii 9-483 48 Chatto & Windus ads dated April 1874; 20 plates; original decorative brown cloth gilt small stickr at base of spine old library rubberstampof the Plaistow Young Men's Society on the flyleaf; all else very good. <br/><br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1850117088London: William S. Orr & Co c. 1850. First edition of Ward's extensive survey of gold and gold mining published at the height of the California Gold Rush. Octavo original wrappers bound in full goatskin retaining a section of the hand-colored folding map of the Gold Regions of Victoria and New South Wales. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription to the front panel of the original wrapper. Rare. The California Gold Rush began on January 24 1848 when James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma California. The news of gold brought approximately 300000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. The sudden influx of gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy and the sudden population increase allowed California to go rapidly to statehood in the Compromise of 1850. Ward's A History of Gold contains an in-depth survey of the character and condition of gold in its natural state methods for mining it and reports on his trips to the gold fields of California and Australia. Cowan II p.668; Howes W95; Kurutz California Gold Rush 660. William S. Orr & Co unknown books
183420198London: William Pickering 1834. 4to pp. xvi 358 2 118 10; 10 engraved plates woodcut on title; original purple cloth printed paper spine label; shelf-worn a bit shaken some offset from frontispiece to title lightly foxed still a good sound copy. Keynes 93. <br/><br/> William Pickering hardcover books
18603040New York: Dixon & Edwards 1856-1860 1860. First edition of each book in Olmsted's trilogy on the slave states. Octavo three volumes original cloth. A Journey In The Seaboard Slave States is inscribed by the author to his cousin Charles Olmsted. Each volume is in very good condition A Journey In The Seaboard Slave States has been rebacked. Books inscribed by Frederick Law Olmsted the father of American Landscape Architecture are rare. Interested in the slave economy he was commissioned by the New York Daily Times now The New York Times to embark on an extensive research journey through the American South and Texas from 1852 to 1857. His dispatches to the Times were collected into three volumes A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States 1856A Journey Through Texas 1857 A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853-4 1860 which remain vivid first-person social documents of the pre-war South. Dixon & Edwards, 1856-1860 hardcover books
182120983London: for W. Davis bookseller 1821. First edition 8vo pp. viii 96; late 19th century brown morocco-backed black pebble-grain cloth gilt-lettered spine; front joint starting else good or better. Approx. 125 bibliographical excursions by the famed bookseller: the best edition of Bacon's works Bruno's Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast; the Ibarra edition of Cervantes Coryat's Crudities Hakluyt Purchase Shakespeare's portrait by Droeshout and Virgil's Opera largest paper Elzevir 1676. <br/><br/> for W. Davis, bookseller hardcover books
185576010Cincinnati: Moore Wilstach Keys 1855. Rare wrapper-bound issue of the second book on Kansas. Octavo original wrappers with a folding map of Nebraska and Kansas by Boynton. The pictorial advertisement for the publisher on the rear wrapper features a picture of the establishment. With "Sixth Thousand!" printed at the top of the front wrapper. In good condition with some wear to the spine and extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. Rare and desirable. This was an early report on conditions in Kansas after a journey in 1854 commissioned by the American Reform Tract and Book Society and the Kansas League in Cincinnati. "The Rev. Boynton was an eager promoter of New England immigration to Kansas and the South speaking in terms of a 'peaceful Army of Occupation of northern freemen settling in colonies.'" Eberstadt 137 41: "The work includes a voyage up the Missouri Indian fighting hunting on the plains and Rockies and winter adventures on the prairies." Phillips p. 54: "Chap. 24 on hunting. Graff 376; Howes B677. Moore, Wilstach, Keys unknown books
188628099New York: Grolier Club 1886. One of 200 copies 4to pp. 6 36; 63 plates; original half cream cloth over boards; upper joint starting a bit soiled endpapers discolored and slightly foxed; overall a good sound copy. <br/><br/> Grolier Club hardcover books
189128040London: H. Grevel & Co 1891. First edition 8vo viii & 172pp. plus ads chromo frontis of a Zaehnsdorf binding 37 figures in the text; original blue cloth gilt; cloth and gilt rubbed hinges starting somewhat shaken; a good copy. <br/><br/> H. Grevel & Co hardcover books
1801104073Washington City: Samuel Harrison Smith 1801. First edition of the first American book on parliamentary procedure. Small octavo bound in full contemporary sheep with red morocco spine label lettered in gilt gilt tooling to the spine. In very good condition. Early ownership signature. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example. As Vice President of the United States Jefferson served as the Senate's presiding officer from 1797 to 1801. Throughout these four years Jefferson worked on various texts and in early 1800 started to assemble them into a single manuscript for the Senate's use. In December 1800 he delivered his manuscript to printer Samuel Harrison Smith who delivered the final product to Jefferson on 27 February 1801. The Manual is arranged in fifty-three categories from 1 The Importance of Adhering to Rules to 53 Impeachment. Each section includes the appropriate rules and practices of the British Parliament along with the applicable texts from the U.S. Constitution and the thirty-two Senate rules that existed in 1801. In recent years Jefferson's Manual has been cited to support the idea that state legislatures can initiate congressional impeachment proceedings. While precedent for an impeachment so initiated does exist it still requires a direct proposition to impeach be made by a Member of the House who may incorporate the communication of the legislature in his or her remarks or any impeachment resolution submitted to the House. Samuel Harrison Smith unknown books
188251181Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co 1882. Stereotyped edition first published in 1856 8vo pp. 318 2 24 ads; frontispiece 7 samples of marbled paper inserted as issued 11 plates of binding designs and a few wood-engravings in the text; later green cloth gilt title direct on spine waterstain on fore-edge causing tidemarks to edges of plates all else very good. With typed notes on marbling tipped in to lower endpaper. James Bartram Nicholson 1820-1901 spent most of his life in Philadelphia in partnership with the English binder James Pawson. His is "the first practical manual on the subject of bookbinding by an American. Although it was founded upon John Hannett's Bibliopegia 1835 it went farther than that popular work and came to be regarded as the most nearly complete treatise yet published in America" DNB. <br/><br/> Henry Carey Baird & Co hardcover books
