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188716192Lafayette IN: The Echo Music Company 1887. Inside front cover is one column on railroads their ads 1/8th page giving the time table for the Lake Erie & Western the other 1/8th a map of the Monon route Louisville New Albany & Chicago Ry. Fraying at edges of front cover chipping and small tears. 1 inch chip at top right corner of front cover. Address label sticker at top of front cover. 1 1/2 inch fold down and tear at top right of back cover. Bits of paper sticking to back cover and light soil. Folding at corners inside. P. 1-2 is a portion of a paper read before the M.T.N.A. at Indianapolis by H.S. Perkins The Musical Convention Its Utility and Its Abuse. P. 2 there is a sketch of Henry Southwick Perkins. Songs include "Hail to Our Banner""Soldiers Stand Guard!" and "As the Hart Panteth" 16pp. 10000 copies printed. Music Choir Choral Conventions Railroads RR Patriotic Songs Religous Music Folk Music. There may be extra post because of size. Soft Cover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine. The Echo Music Company Paperback
18151365294Burlington: David Allinson 1815. Hardcover. Octavo 100 2 pages; G-; Bound in full brown leather with red spine label and gilt lettering; Severe chipping to head/tail of spine with binding exposed at head leather on spine moderately worn label on spine partially rubbed away front/back joints beginning to split moderate rubbing and bumping to corners edges show moderate shelf wear moderate soiling to leather on front/back boards leather beginning to peel on back board; Slight age toning to exterior of text block light age toning and foxing to pages throughout damp staining at top of pages from front pastedown to page 25 does not effect readability of text previous inscription in ink of front pastedown. RWO. 1365294. Special Collections. David Allinson hardcover
18977738La Fayette IN: The Echo Music Company 1897. 146pp. Songbook with words and music. Contains military songs old war songs campfire selections plantation melodies with a section for funeral and memorial songs and services. A classic collection. Pages are intact although cover is loosening from staples holding spine. Shows wear. corners chipped off. Some soil on covers. Inside of book in Very Good Condition. Readable covers. Soft Cover. Good Plus/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Echo Music Company Paperback
1829190167London: Treuttel and Wurtz Treuttel Jun. and Richter 1829. Softcover. Good missing covers title page and first 16 pp. Map and all plates are present light age toning and foxing spots. Missing covers XVII-XXXVIII pages 564 pp 30 unnumbered leaves of plates 2 folded 9 leaves of plates illustrations some color folded map portraits. llustrated with plates and wood engravinged vignettes throughout. Folding map before page 1; 5 pages of engraved musical scores of Portuguese modinhas between p.68 and p.69; 9 hand-coloured plates of Portuguese costumes at rear. Treuttel and Wurtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter paperback
1828005180London: Treuttel Wurtz and Richter 1828. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Gorgeous First Edition.4to. xvii 4 500 4 pp. 9 hand coloured plates of period costume. Half-title title and dedication page to Baron Auckland all present. Folding frontis Map and all plates present. Signed Binding by Brentanos New York in late 19th or early 20th century full dark green buckram with scrollwork decoration blindstamped in both boards with gilt borders. 5 raised bands and 6 compartments all with gilt borders. Titles stamped in gold in C2 date in C6. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Square tight and very clean pages with little or no foxing throughout. A spot here or there and a bit on the boarders of only some of the plates but not affecting the plates themselves. Truly a remarkably well-preserved interior for almost 200 years old. Fairly mild edge-wear particularly on the bottom edge and tips. A hint of rubbing to hinges but quite minor. Spine toned to almost black but supple and fresh. A beautiful copy of a fairly uncommon First Edition and at a terrific price. Treuttel, Wurtz, and Richter hardcover books
182826945London: Treuttel Würtz and Richter 1828. First edition. Hardcover. Kinsey 1788 1851 was a scholar and fellow of Trinity College Oxford serving the college in various important posts. 'In 1827 Kinsey made a tour in Portugal with the intention of making the country better known to the English people. From his journals and a series of letters written to his friend Thomas Haynes Bayly as well as from historical and other sources Kinsey published Portugal Illustrated 1828 an interesting account of the country and well illustrated with engravings by G. Cooke and Skelton from drawings chiefly made by a companion during his tour. It was dedicated to Lord Auckland to whom Kinsey was chaplain' Oxford DNB. <br /> 4to pp. ii engraved title xvii ii 500 6; with frontis colored costume plate; a double-page map and a double page of the "The University of Coimbra"; four engraved leaves of music and 26 plates including nine colored aquatints of costume; several illustrations in the text; some light foxing on the "University" plate a small crescent of paper replace in the margin of page three otherwise an especially clean copy. Handsomely rebound in half red morocco gilt title on spine. The costume plates are by Pugin and colored by Pyal and in this copy distributed throughout the volume. Spine pleasantly toned a very good copy overall. Abbey Travel 142; Colas 1612. Treuttel, Würtz, and Richter hardcover
18861011881886. First Edition. Signed. RICHARDS Alfred Bates WILSON Andrew and BADDELEY St. Clair. A Sketch of the Career of Richard F. Burton. London: Waterlow & Sons 1886. 12mo original half brown cloth stiff glazed decorated card boards; pp. 4 96. $1500.Second edition of this contemporary biography of the celebrated Eastern traveler author and linguist with photographic frontispiece portrait. This copy from the library of Alfred Kinseys Institute for Sex Research with its bookplate and Kinseys ownership inscription Alfred C. Kinsey 6-18-45.Three different authors trace the life travels and adventures of a ""very extraordinary man who has toiled every hour and minute distinguishing himself in every possible way. He has done more than any other six men in Her Majesty's dominions and is one of the best noblest and truest that breathes"" page 37. ""This is a curious little book often overlooked in studies of Burton but it deserves closer attention. Of special note is the frontispiece pp. 84-96 which prints a scrap of Burton's autobiography and pages 79-82 which contain a 'List of Captain Burton's Works'"" Casada 369. With Woodburyprint photographic frontispiece bearing Burton's printed facsimile signatures in English and Arabic. This edition reprints and updates A Short Sketch of the Career of Captain Richard F. Burton by ""An Old Oxonian"" 1880. Penzer 305-06. Decorative monogrammatical bookplate of C.J. Peacock. Owner signature of Alfred C. Kinsey with bookplate of the Institute for Sex Research. Kinsey founded the Institute in 1947 in part ""to create the most complete and most scientific data bank on human sexuality ever compiled Kinsey hired and carefully trained a team of interviewers to gather more case histories and he also collected a staggering cache of books 'how to' manuals primitive artifacts and implements of an erotic or sexual nature; these were housed at the Institute's library"" ANB. Considering the translated erotica he published through the Kama Shastra Society Burton likely would have appreciated Kinsey's work. Kinsey had an interest in Burton's: in 1948 in fact he enlisted Gershon Legman best known for his scholarly studies of erotic humor as a bibliographer to ""help locate such obscure rarities as the 16 original volumes of Richard Burton's Arabian Nights with their complex and lengthy footnotes on Levantine sexuality"" Mikita Brottman Funny Peculiar. Title and library marking written on spine in white ink.Interior generally clean with foxing mostly confined to free endpapers; Kinsey's inscription still easily legible. Front joint tender small old repair to foot of rear joint; boards with light edge-wear mild toning to decorations. An excellent copy of a scarce work in near-fine condition with a notable and intriguing provenance. hardcover
1828145696London: Treuttel Wurtz and Richter 1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xvii 3 500 4 p. plates. 28 cm. Folding frontispiece of University of Coimbra fold-out map of Portugal 9 colour costume plates at rear 17 plates as called for 6 p. of Modinhas and Constitutional Hymn 8 extra plates scattered throughout. Half leather with marbled paper boards. Moderate wear to extremities rubbing to boards. Small clipping attatched to front pastedown. First tissue guard creased. Foxing and soiling. Pencil notes. <br/><br/>In 1827 Kinsey made a tour of Portugal with the intention of making the country better known to English people. From his journals and a series of letters written to his friend Thomas Haynes Bayly as well as from historical and other sources Kinsey published this book. His interesting account is well-illustrated with engravings by G. Cooke and Skelton from drawings mainly made by a companion during the tour. The book was dedicated to Lord Auckland to whom Kinsey was chaplain. A second edition with more plates appeared in 1829. <br /> <br />Abbey Travel 142. Colas 1612. Lipperheide 1218. Hiler p. 499. Treuttel, Wurtz and Richter hardcover