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185426508London: Geo. Routledge & Co 1854. 1st Edition in English Howes G-142; Sabin 27191. Brown half calf with yellow marbled paper boards. Speckled edges. Overall VG some minor rubs to extremities/usual light foxing. xi 1 396 pp. Frontis 7 tinted inserted plates. 8vo. 7-1/8" x 4-3/8" <br/><br/>A chronicling of the author's experiences while visiting the "wilds of America" which was primarily a 'leisurely' journey from New York to New Orleans Louisiana including adventures in Ohio Indiana Illinois Missouri & Arkansas. Somewhat uncommon- last at auction in 1989. Geo. Routledge & Co hardcover books
1894482251894. MITCHELL S. Weir. WHEN ALL THE WOODS ARE GREEN. New York: The Century Co. 1894. First edition. 8vo. green cloth spine in gilt t.e.g. A very good copy that shows only light rubbing at the spine ends and extremities binding slightly skewed. unknown books
1871D17731Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1871. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. 59 pp. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt. Dampstaining to boards chips to spine internally very good. <br/><br/> J.B. Lippincott & Co. hardcover books
1867D17724Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. Plate illustrations. 79 pp. Title page in red and black. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Spine and extremities rubbed some bubbling to cloth scattered staining and toning else very good. BAL 14065. <br/><br/>First edition of Mitchell's anonymous collection written and published for the benefit of the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia. Blanck's "Intermediate sheets" binding B with a gift inscription to the front free endpaper "Emily Yarnall/from Aunt Sally/December 25/66." The book was advertised as "just published" on December 15 1866. Blanck cites this very copy which was once in the collection of Harvard. J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
18772208421World Publishing House 1877. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Weir Harrison. Early reprint original published in 1860. No jacket edges rubbed ink name on second blank rear endpapers lightly foxed. 1877 Hard Cover. 337 pp. With illustrations by Harrison Weir. A juvenile adventure novel set in Burma. World Publishing House hardcover books
1900100724New York.: Century Co. 1900 . First edition. Hardcover black cloth . Very good with no dust jacket light soiling to covers. . 8vo. Signed & inscribed by the author on the front free end paper. Century Co. hardcover books
1900184738New York: The Century Co 1900. Hardcover. G ex-library. Spine is faded has labels. Bookplate blind stamp pocket inside. Pages are clean and tight. Black boards gilt lettering cover/spine. v pages 1 leaf 47 pages. Nice reference or reading title. The Century Co hardcover books
1900D17723New York: The Century Co 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small 8vo. 8 47 pp. Publisher's dark green cloth stamped in gold. A near fine copy. BAL 14191. First edition inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Dear Mrs Hamill I venture to contribute this volume as my personal gift. S. Weir Mitchell." <br/><br/> The Century Co hardcover books
1900442111900. MITCHELL S. Weir. THE WAGER AND OTHER POEMS. NY: The Century Company 1900. 16mo. tan quarter-calf leather & marbled boards. First Edition. Signed. Initialed by Mitchell on the half-title page: "by S. W. M." Very Good some rubbing quarter-inch loss at head of spine front cover reattached. $85.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
18938799Boston/new York: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good. 1893. Hardcover. Gilt-pictorial smooth green cloth; ex-library small chip to head of spine; endpapers show foxing; attractively designed book; 1st . Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
18832901Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co. 1883. 16mo. iv 98 pp. <br><br>First edition: Romantic poems including one Arthurian piece written by a neurologist born in Philadelphia and known for his work on nerve injuries and erythromelalgia "Weir Mitchells disease". => An early hand inked neat responses to a few lines in "The Quaker Graveyard. Publisher's cloth front cover black- and gilt-stamped spine simply gilt-stamped binding gently worn with minor spotting to spine and lower edge of front cover. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. A nice copy. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. hardcover books
1889140053Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1889. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A collectino of poems. An about good copy with tanning to the endpapers some foxing both external and internal some other wear and a gift inscription on the front free endpaper. No dust jacket. Despite the flaws a solid copy. Houghton Mifflin and Company unknown books
1889134898Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1889. Hardcover. good ex-library with expected marks plus ink stamp on title page pgs 1 and 23. minor soiling to margins from fingers. wear toning and soiling to boards with wear at edges corners and spine ends. Bluish paper boards with white cloth over spine. 76 pp. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover books
1895134984Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution 1895. Hardcover. VG- Ex-lib. stamp inside front cover usual markings; Light wear to cloth particularly at extremities; Corners bumped; Interior clean and tight. Green cloth over boards; Gilt titling at front cover; 81 pp.; Numerous tables and bw figures. Smithsonian Institution hardcover books
1898511571898. Weir Robert Stanley. The Civil Code of Lower Canada and the Bills of Exchange Act 1890: With All Statutory Amendments Verified Collated and Indexed. Montreal: C. Theoret 1898. ix 462 pp. Octavo 4-3/4' x 6". Original cloth gilt titles to front board and spine. moderate shelfwear hinges cracked but secure front free endpaper lacking. Toning internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine small inkstamp to title page. $450. OCLC locates 11 copies. "The publisher claims that this is the most accurate English edition of the Code yet published. The concordance of the Code of Civil Procedure and the Code of Napoleon is to be found at the foot of each article. This compilation will no doubt be of great use to our professional brethren in the Province of Quebec as well as to those in other provinces who are interested in codified law. This again brings to one's mind the wish that there might be one law for every province of this Dominion.": Canada Law Journal New Series 34 1898 364. Not in Sweet & Maxwell. unknown books
190050543fdNew York: Century 1900. First Edition. Octavo gilt-stamped green cloth hardcover top edge gilt uncut i - x ii 149 pp. Very Good; frontis. loose. Century, 1900. First Edition. hardcover books
1900156133New York: The Century Co. 1900. Octavo pp. i-viii ix-x xi-xx 1-149 150-152: blank note: last leaf is a blank eight inserted plates with illustrations by A. J. Keller original decorated blue-green cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold t.e.g. fore-edge untrimmed bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition first binding. Collects two stories. The first printing of the novelette version of "The Autobiography of a Quack" first published anonymously in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY in October and November 1867. "It was a realistic account of the devices by which a dishonest and ignorant physician proceeds and it gave a veracious picture of the seamy side of life in Philadelphia and other large cities. Homeopathy spiritualism and other pet aversions of the orthodox physician were treated in a humorous way and the cold-blooded manner in which the quack tells his story made it a successful piece of irony." - Quinn American Fiction p. 311. "The Case of George Dedlow" Mitchell's first published story was published anonymously and without his knowledge in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY in July 1866. It is largely a realistic story of the feelings both physical and mental of an army surgeon who lost both arms and legs in a battle which occurred during the American Civil War. The satire becomes clear at the end when Dedlow is briefly united with his legs during a spiritualistic seance. Some readers missed the point and according to Mitchell "the spiritual incident at the end of the story was received with joy by the spiritualists as a valuable proof of the truth of their beliefs." Wright III 3777. BAL 14192. A fine copy. #156133 The Century Co. unknown books
18982307428New York: The Century Co 1898. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Spine lightly toned front hinge starting ink gift note on front free endpaper. 1898 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi 321 pp. EXCERPT: "In the summer of the year 1777 a lad of about ten years clad in a suit of gray was playing in the high-walled garden of the Benedictine Asylum for Orphans in Paris. The sun was pleasant the birds sang overhead the roses were many for the month was June. A hundred lads were noisily running about. They had the look of being well fed decently clothed and kindly cared for. An old priest walked to and fro at times looking up from his breviary to say a pleasant word or to check some threatening quarrel. Presently he paused beside the boy who was at the moment intently watching a bird on a branch overhead. As the priest turned the boy had thrown himself on the grass and was laughing heartily. "What amuses thee my son" said the father. "I am laughing at the birds." "And why do they make thee laugh Fran The Century Co unknown books
1898WRCLIT56446New York: Century Co. 1898. Decorated cloth. Frontis and plates. First edition one of three printings dated 1898 which BAL was unable to differentiate. Spine a bit sunned cloth a bit hand-soiled; a good sound copy. BAL 14184. WRIGHT III:3776. Century Co. hardcover books
1891183469London: Longmans Green and Co 1891. Hardcover. VG shelfwear to boards soiling to text block text and illustrations are otherwise clear. Illustrated brown cloth boards; black and silver lettering along with gilt lettering and gilt design on spine; xiv 448 pp; bw illustrated frontispiece with protective guard sheet; bw illustrated title page bw illustrations throughout. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes Series. Illustrations by G.D. Giles Frank Dadd and J. Stuart Allan. Longmans, Green, and Co hardcover books
1891183560London: Longmans Green & Co 1891. Hardcover. VG- shelfwear to boards and text block foxing spots to several pages in front and rear previous owner's name and inscription on ffep text and illustrations are otherwise clean and clear. Illustrated brown cloth boards silver and black lettering along with gilt lettering and gilt design on spine; illustrated end papers bw frontispiece with protective guard bw illustrated title page; xiii 423 pp 18 unnumbered leaves of plates bw illustrations throughout. From The Badminton library of sports and pastimes series.Illustrated by G.D. Giles Frank Dadd and J. Stuart Allan. Contents: Introduction / by His Grace the Duke of Beaufort K.G. &c. -- I. Riding to hounds / by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire -- II. The saddle-horse / by Alfred E.T. Watson -- III. Training the young horse / by Robert Weir -- IV. Hints on horsemanship / by Robert Weir -- V. Hands and seat / by Robert Weir -- VI. Race riding / by Alfred E.T. Watson -- VII. The colonial horse / by the Earl of Onslow G.C.M.G. Governor of New Zealand -- VIII. Early history of horsemanship / by E.L. Anderson -- Polo / by J. Moray Brown. Introductory -- I. The antiquity of polo -- II. Polo in England -- III. Polo in India -- IV. Rules and by-laws of polo -- V. Ground balls sticks goal-posts &c. -- VI. Breeds of ponies suitable for polo -- VII. The training of ponies -- VIII. Some famous players and ponies -- IX. How a polo match should be played -- Appendix. Lessons in riding / by Robert Weir -- Bibliography of riding -- Index. Longmans, Green & Co hardcover books
1895226146London: Longmans Green 1895. Third. hardcover. near fine. With contributions from the Duke of Beaufort the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire Alfred E.T. Watson the Earl of Onslow and E.L. Anderson as well as a chapter on Polo by J. Moray Brown. Illustrated by G.D. Giles Frank Dadd and J. Stuart Allan. 448 pages title page foxed. Thick 8vo rebound in 3/4 green morocco decoratively gilt spine with red leather label London: Longmans Green and Co. 1895. Third edition. Near fine.<br/><br/> From 'The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes' edited by The Duke of Beaufort K.G.<br/><br/> Longmans, Green unknown books
1891118774London: Longmans 1891. hardcover. very good. With other authors' contributions as well as a chapter on Polo by J. Moray Brown. Illustrated by G.D. Giles Frank Dadd and J. Stuart Allan thick 8vo brown pictorial cloth; some foxing. London: Longmans Green 1891. Very Good.<br/><br/> Previous owners' inscription from 1893 on half title. The Badminton Library.<br/><br/> Longmans unknown books
1860D17715Washington:: Smithsonian Institute 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. With 12 woodcuts in text. x 145 pp. Modern black library buckram. Very good. Provenance: Findlay Russell 1919-2011 American toxicologist bound for him with his last name stamped to foot of spine. One of the first definitive studies on rattlesnake venom. This copy from the library of noted American toxicologist Findlay Russell whose ancestor of the same last name wrote a treatise on snakebites in the 19th century which Mitchell cites several times in the work. Garrison-Morton 2104. <br/><br/> Smithsonian Institute hardcover books
186078884Washington: Smithsonian 1860. hardcover. very good. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Bound with: Mitchell and Reichert Edward T. Researches upon the Venoms of Poisonous Serpents. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. With 5 chromolithographic plates. Two works in 1 vol. large 4to contemporary 1/2 cloth marbled boards. Washington 1860 and 1886. Very good.<br/><br/> First Editions. GM 2104; 2106. Mitchell 1829-1914 and Reichert showed snake venom to be protein in nature and demonstrated the presence of toxic albumins. Mitchell was one of the first to investigate the snake venoms; he was the first to point out that snake venom is a double not a single poison. Hideo Noguchi's great work done many years later had its origin in Michell's early researches.<br/><br/> Smithsonian unknown books
