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18996390Boston: DeWolfe and Fiske Company 1899. Hard Cover. Fair binding. Quarto. 32 pp. illus plates. As issued backed in cloth with boards; front cover with a chromolithographic title vignette. Front cover is heavily soiled and abraded at the bottom near the spine with damage to the cover chromolithograph; binding is generally rubbed; early 20th century gift inscription on the front free endpaper; finger soiling and toning throughout but primarily to the first third of the book; three full page chromolithographs are very nice only one has minimal finger soiling to the margin. Uncommon with beautiful chromolithographs and numerous in-text illustrations throughout by Wetherbee Ford and Speed. DeWolfe and Fiske Company unknown
1843144191Manchester: Gadsby 1843. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. original full leather hardcover frontispiece xxiv 1-144pp small chip to top of spine with small loss light browning to frontis and title page otherwise a very good clean and complete copy. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 231. <br/> <br/> Gadsby hardcover
1900mon00000059951900-01-01. Unknown Binding. Good. in x in x in. Ex library book usual markings. Hardback generally in good condition for its age with some wear or markings to book covers and discolouring to page edges due to age. Clean copy. unknown
1894BOOKS235336New York NY: Macmillan Company. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1894. . 1/2 Leather. 8vo. multipaginated foxing cover frayed and worn some. . Macmillan Company hardcover
18911563<p>319pp 16pp publisher's catalogue to rear correctly dated 75000/12/90. 17 plates collated and present and 34 text illustrations by Lancelot Speed. Inscribed by the illustrator to the title page "H Fiennes Speed from Lancelot Speed May 1891". Good condition. Rear board has patchy staining. Pencil name "Jane Lindsay" to final advertising page. Occasional internal marks. Minor stain to lower margin of final pages.</p><p><em>Harry Fiennes Speed was the brother of the illustrator Lancelot Speed 1860 - 1931. </em></p> Longmans, Green, and Co hardcover
1801mon0003514767Reilly & Britton 1918-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.3000 7.3000 5.3000. dj shows moderate wear tear chipping and creasing. gift inscription on the ffep. shows minor wear. Reilly & Britton hardcover
188210944Paris, Hachette, 1882 ; in-4, broché ; (4), 668 pp., (1) f. d'errata, 27 planches hors-texte dont 13 belles planches lithographiées en couleurs.
1894TK230595Longmans Green and Co. London 1894. 1st Illustrated Edition 1st Printing. HARDCOVER. 8vo in blue white and gilt decorated dark blue cloth dark blue end-papers 145pp frontispiece with tissue guard full page plates and illustrations in text __CONDITION : An uncommonly well preserved near FINE very clean and tight copy very thin sliver of nicking to head of spine few spots of slight shelf rub to cover edges contemporary ink name on blank side of frontispiece - no other marks or inscriptions. A very nice copy. . __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Longmans Green and Co., London hardcover
189146078London: Longmans Green and Co 1891. Very Good. London: Longmans Green and Co. 1891. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; publisher's greenish blue gilt-lettered cloth bevelled edges black glazed endpapers; xiv319116adspp.; seventeen 17 leaves of plates collated complete text illus. throughout. Moderate shelf wear spine cloth toned with shallow loss at crown corners bumped with brief exposure hinges very slightly starting contemporary ownership signature to front flyleaf and 20th-century ex libris to front pastedown; overall a Very Good bright and sound copy. Bound with publisher's catalog dated December 1890 in rear. <br /> <br /> Scott 17 noting that the publisher's catalog is usually dated October 1890; Whatmore F14. Longmans, Green, and Co unknown
189436096London: Longmans Green and Co 1894. Near fine. Third edition of this collection of adventure stories translated and adapted for children by a variety of primarily women authors selected by Andrew Lang. These true tales of adventure include Casanova's escape from the Doge's palace Leif Erikson's voyage to North America and Cervantes's escape from corsairs. Typical for Lang's edited collections the work to adapt and translate these stories has primarily been accomplished by women with whom he worked duly credited in the preface though not the title page. This is a gorgeous copy of a title highly sought for its pictorial cloth binding. 7.25'' x 4.75''. Original blue pictorial cloth elaborately stamped in gilt. All edges gilt black coated endpapers. Illustrated in black and white throughout by various artists including tissue-guarded frontispiece by H.J. Ford. One page of ads at rear. xvi 337 3 pages. Faint evidence of erasure mark on front fly leaf; ink gift inscription dated "Christmas 1897" to recto of frontispiece. Only a bit of edgewear. Longmans, Green, and Co unknown
189025611Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington Ltd 1890. 1st trade edition. Hardback. Half calf over green cloth G. xviii318pp b/w engraved frontis 22 b/w plates folding facsimile letter folding coloured map 106 text illustrations index leather rather rubbed at the spine & on the edges internally occasionally spotted one plate detached a very good copy. A tour of Scotland following Samuel Johnson & visiting the places which he did in 1773 in the company of James Boswell. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington Ltd hardcover
188835946Cambridge: MacMillan & Bowes. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Mono-color engravings; 63 pages; The Oedipus Tyrannus: A Record by L. Speed and F. R. Pryor of the Performance in November 1887Author: Francis R. Pryor Lancelot Speed Sophocles - Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides. According to the Suda a 10th-century encyclopedia Sophocles wrote 123 plays during the course of his life but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax Antigone The Women of Trachis Oedipus the King Electra Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years Sophocles was the most-feted playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens that took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He competed in around 30 competitions won perhaps 24 and was never judged lower than second place. Aeschylus won 14 competitions and was sometimes defeated by Sophocles while Euripides won only 4 competitions. The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature Oedipus and also Antigone: they are generally known as the Theban plays although each play was actually a part of a different tetralogy the other members of which are now lost. Sophocles influenced the development of the drama most importantly by adding a third actor thereby reducing the importance of the chorus in the presentation of the plot. He also developed his characters to a greater extent than earlier playwrights such as Aeschylus. Width: 11.5" Height: 15". Book Details: "It had long been my wish to produce some permanent record of a Cambridge Greek Play but I could not decide in what form it should appear until my friend Mr. Speed offered to come to my aid and prepare drawings. After much thought we agreed that the book should take its present shape and give to the world what we may claim to be the first illustrated edition of any Greek play." First lines of Francis R. Pryor's preface Condition / Notes: bound in black cloth with stamped gilt lettering to the spine. The book shows external wear with tears and loss of material at the top/bottom of spine. The covers display soiling particularly noticeable at the top edge of the front cover. Loss of material is also visible at the outside corners of the boards. The binding is sound. The top edge of the frontispiece displays staining with annotations to the verso. The name J. Conrad Hutchinson appears in red ink at the top of the first page of the preface. The pages are otherwise clean with occasional mild rippling. This work is illustrated with a frontispiece engraving and vignettes to the title page and the text. The text is in Greek; the description of the performance is in English. Title page dated 1883 and 1885 but introduction dated 1888. Many somewhat bizarre engravings. . MacMillan & Bowes hardcover
18256954Paris, Bachelier, 1825 ; in-8, broché ; XIV, 524 pp., (4) pp. de catalogue d'éditeur ; 9 planches dépliantes gravées hors-texte ; couverture muette de papier orangé, étiquette de titre imprimée au dos.
1893la-099London: Longmans Green & Co. G: in good condition without dust jacket as issued. Light edge-wear. Previous owner inscription to half-title. Sporadic foxing. Inner hinge cracking. Aeg. 1893. First Edition. Blue/gilt decorated hardback board cover. 190mm x 130mm 7" x 5". xv 337pp. 9 b/w full page plates in-text illustrations by L Bogle Lucien Davis H J Ford C H M Kerr & Lancelot Speed. . Longmans Green & Co hardcover
185143324Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1851. Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"", Bd. 83, Viertes Stück.(= Heft No. 8 of 1851). (The entire issue offered (Heft 2 of vol. 83 with titlepage to vol. 83). Pp.469-600 a. 2 engraved plates. Helmholtz's paper: pp. 505-540. Clean and fine.
185143324Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1851. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff" Bd. 83 Viertes Stück.= Heft No. 8 of 1851. The entire issue offered Heft 2 of vol. 83 with titlepage to vol. 83. Pp.469-600 a. 2 engraved plates. Helmholtz's paper: pp. 505-540. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of this paper in which Helmholtz for the first time measures and gives the mathematical formula for the duration of induced electrical currents and thus distinguished with mathematical accuracy from those due to nerve-action."In the offered paper he begins by stating a mathematical law which he had verified by a long and difficult series of experiments. By means of this law F. neumann was enabled to solve the problem he had previously laid aside as to the distribution of current in a copper disk rotating below the two poles of a magnet.After Helmholtz had extended this exponiential law mathematically to divided circuits he tested it experimentally by means of a new type of galvanic contact-key which madeit possible to vary the interval between the opening and closing of any current as required."Koenigsberger "Hermann von helmholtz" pp. 79-80. </em> unknown
186532612Washington 1865. 16pp disbound. Front wrapper only light waterstain running through outer edges of text. Good.<br /> <br /> Speed was a Kentuckian appointed as Lincoln's Attorney General in 1864. Though a Border State moderate he quickly became an all-out Union man with the outbreak of war. Here he opines that trial of the alleged presidential assassins should occur by military commission rather than civil courts: the law of war as part of the law of nations has implicitly been adopted in the Constitution. <br /> "When lawless wretches become so impudent and powerful as not to be controlled and governed by the ordinary tribunals of a country armies are called out and the laws of war invoked." The laws of war do not require different treatment of "secret active enemies" and "open active enemies" who would be tried by military tribunal. Under these circumstances the alleged assassins may be tried by military court without a jury. <br /> FIRST EDITION. Monaghan 739. II Harv. Law Cat. 634. 165 Eberstadt 471. Not in LCP. unknown
189714047Louisville Kentucky: Courier-Journal Job Printing Company 1897. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Louisville Kentucky: Courier-Journal Job Printing Company 1897. <br /> <br /> FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING. <br /> <br /> 741 pages. <br /> Original cloth. <br /> <br /> Good. Hinges very cracked; textblock tight overall; front endpaper loose; pages clean; covers worn; a little splitting along spine. <br /> <br /> A very scarce history of Kentucky's regiments in the Civil War. <br /> <br /> SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. Louisville, Kentucky: Courier-Journal Job Printing Company hardcover
184156464Baltimore: Sherwood & Co 1841. First edition 8vo pamphlet 2 12 2; later paper wrappers; lightly foxed and folded very good. A pro-slavery tract arguing that slavery "is one of the primitive domestic relations ordained and established by the Creator. as one of the best means of promoting the happiness of the human family." Sabin 80086. Afro-Americana 9365 both incorrectly attributing the work to J. J. Sheed. See Sabin 89236 for correction. Sherwood & Co unknown
184156464Baltimore: Sherwood & Co 1841. First edition 8vo pamphlet 2 12 2; later paper wrappers; lightly foxed and folded very good. A pro-slavery tract arguing that slavery "is one of the primitive domestic relations ordained and established by the Creator. as one of the best means of promoting the happiness of the human family." Sabin 80086. Afro-Americana 9365 both incorrectly attributing the work to J. J. Sheed. See Sabin 89236 for correction. <br/><br/> Sherwood & Co unknown books
188328255New-York: Dodd Mead & Company 1883. Very Good. New-York: Dodd Mead & Company 1883. First Thus Limited to 279 sets printed on Holland paper of which this is no. 160. Three volumes; octavos; publisher's buff paper-covered boards black spine titling; frontispieces at head of each volume that of Vol. I printed in color. Ex-Darrow Gibbs School Library with their early 20th-century ex libris to front free endpapers and usual internal markings to Vols. II & III faint evidence of previously-removed spine labels boards a bit scuffed and spines toned Vol. III upper cover unevenly discolored and faintly damp-stained with brief ink numeral to front free endpaper else a Very Good still quite attractive set. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown
186532612Washington 1865. 16pp disbound light rubberstamp Good.<br/><br/> Speed was a Kentuckian appointed as Lincoln's Attorney General in 1864. Though a Border State moderate he quickly became an all-out Union man with the outbreak of war. Here he opines that trial of the alleged presidential assassins should occur by military commission rather than civil courts: the law of war as part of the law of nations has implicitly been adopted in the Constitution. "When lawless wretches become so impudent and powerful as not to be controlled and governed by the ordinary tribunals of a country armies are called out and the laws of war invoked." The laws of war do not require different treatment of "secret active enemies" and "open active enemies" who would be tried by military tribunal. Under these circumstances the alleged assassins may be tried by military court without a jury. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Monaghan 739. II Harv. Law Cat. 634. Not in LCP. unknown books
18971143250Louisville: Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association 1897. Gilt titles completely faded on spine on black cloth. Original owner's name details fep. Hinges just starting at front end papers and between pages 740/741. A solid copy of this scarce book. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Large Octavo. Book. Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association Hardcover
1891009292London and New York: Longmans Green & Co. 1891. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Limited and Numbered First Edition. Tall 8vo. # 15 of 150 copies printed. Original quarter white parchment over grey paper covered boards five raised bands and title at spine printed in blue Very Good spine browned and with two small stains joints starting to open yet still holding well corners rubbed end pages toned prior owner gift inscription in pencil front end page. The poem "In Helena's Garden" by Richard Watson Gilder pasted onto recto of 2nd front end page laid in at rear the poem "O Music" by Harriet Prescott Spofford from a contemporary magazine. Longmans, Green & Co. Hardcover
180949236London, William Nicholson, 1809. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, but spine lacks, boards loose. In: ""A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts. By William Nicholson."" Vol. XXII. - VIII,384,(8) pp. a. 10 engraved plates. Youngs paper: pp. 104-124. Small stamps to verso of titlepage. Internally fine and clean.
