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190039951Saint-Cloud France: Belin Frères 1900. Soft cover. Fair. Approximate translation of the French title into English; "Retrospective Museum Class 34 Ballooning at the International Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris. Installation Committe Report." A French history and catalogue of the exhibition. 69 pages with illustrations and several plates. Bound in original gray paper covers printed in black. Spine heavily chipped and worn. Binding loose. A fair but intact copy in tissue dust protector. <br/> <br/> Belin Frères paperback
189924576<p>NY A. L. Burt 1899. Inner Hinges starting ever so Slightly HBDJ 1899. Early Printing VG/GOOD- AS-IS Small chips in DJ corners & Extremities YET Titles & Illustration Basically Intact ; Green cloth covered boards with colorful decorations & Illustration of brown & black duplicates DJ Illustration cvr has small corner Dings. ; 12mo .Binding is Hardcover. Spine Ends DJ small Chips take out small portion Title & Publ Back DJ Fox Wear & small Edge chips lists thru Young Minuteman Cloth Hardback Olivine Edges Interior Nice tight clean light FOX Wear 264 pgs ADS End with final reckoning tale of Bush life. Hard Cover.</p> NY A. L. Burt hardcover
1806220457London: for the Author No. 13 Charlton Street Fitzroy Square. Sold by Messrs. Colnaghi 1806. Engraving above Poem designed by G. Fox Drawn by W.W. Craig. Engraved by A. Cardon. Miles. Printer Great Portland Street. 1 vols. Folio 18 x 12-/2 inches. Original plain blue back wrapper front wrappr not present. Minor marginal foxing. Engraving above Poem designed by G. Fox Drawn by W.W. Craig. Engraved by A. Cardon. Miles. Printer Great Portland Street. 1 vols. Folio 18 x 12-/2 inches. Not in OCLC for the Author No. 13 Charlton Street Fitzroy Square. Sold by Messrs. Colnaghi unknown
1845955Y12London: James Burns 1845. First edition. Cloth. Good. 7" by 4.5". Not Stated . The first edition of this scarce history of the English monastic system. First edition. A scarce volume from the publisher's 'Englishman's Library' being Volume XXVIII. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With twenty-eight pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. With one engraved plate and a few vignettes to the text. Collated complete. This work discusses the origins of monachism and its gradual development with accounts of its progress in England and its key events and figures including the establishment of the Benedictine rule and sketches of the later monasteries including Peterborough Abingdon and Glastonbury. Written by Samuel Fox Rector of Morley Derbyshire. In the original cloth binding. Externally with loss of cloth to the spine head and splits to the joints' cloth. With damp stains to the rear board and shelf wear. Bookplate from Crawley Library St. Michael's Highgate to the front pastedown. Internally engraved plate is detached but present otherwise work is firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spot and a contemporary ink inscription to the half title page. Good James Burns hardcover
189824274New York: A.L. Burt Company 1898. HBDJ Beautiful Green blue & Pink Decorative Cloth COVER Lettered in White VG-/ DJ GOOD. Octavo. 1898. Early Edition Green cloth with white lettering and violet and blue floral decoration; full-color Dustjacket FOXED. Lower corners of boards lightly bumped; foxing on top and fore edges of text; foxing on end sheets; Foxing on jacket especially spine; tears and small chips at ends of jacket hinges the longest tear being 1/2" on upper rear spine; 1/4" tear on upper front jacket 318 pages ADS end with Purple Parasol. Interior Nice Tight Clean light Wear FOX Back DJ light Wear Tiny Chips Tears FOX Extremities NOVEL Quaint Old Chelsea with its Cobwebs of Antiquity Flagged Courtyards Small Balconies is just such a place as one would expect to find the family of a poor Artist the place for a Prince Unexpectedly to appear & weave a Romance about the heart of one of the Artists Daughters. . Hard Cover. New York: A.L. Burt Company hardcover
18976pgcvChurch Missionary Society 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A small publication of 168 pages. Gift inscription was written by the previous owner. Complete with all plates. There is gilt on the spine and the front of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. There are small tears on the spine of the book. Internally there are no markings or inscriptions and the pages are clean and complete. The binding is strong. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Church Missionary Society hardcover
1860425071Boston: Henry Hoyt 1860. Hardcover. Very Good. First eidtion. 12mo. 167pp. Frontispiece illustration. Publisher's brown diced in blind spine titled and decorated in gilt. Contemporary ownership signature of Sidney Breese and later gift inscription from Breese slight erosion to the cloth on the spine else a sharp very good or better copy. A story for a juvenile audience. OCLC locates four copies. Henry Hoyt hardcover
1860206592Boston: H. Hoyt 1860. Hardcover. G: Wear to the edges and covers. Rubbing to the spine especially at the top and bottom; the bottom of the spine is worn away. Pencil on the front and back end pages. Tanning and foxing to the pages. A small purple casebound book with gilt text on the spine and debossed designs on the covers. 167 pages; contains several black-and-white illustrations. H. Hoyt hardcover
1899014173Boston: George B. Reed 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. First Edition. Wright III 5592. Inscribed by the author to previous owner dated Dec 19 1898 on the second free endpaper. Light wear to the extremities. There are bleached spots on the boards and some mild foxing to the endpapers. In a sound binding with hinges intact. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. George B. Reed Hardcover
189949301George B. Reed 1899. TUCKER George Fox. MILDRED MARVILLE. Boston: George B. Reed 1899. Small 8vo. navy-blue cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. Signed presentation by Tucker on front blank page: "Mrs. Dutton with the compliments of Geo. F. Tucker. Dec. 27 1898." Very Good bright. $125.00. George B. Reed unknown
189924524Saalfield Publishing Company New York 1899. HBDJ 1899. Grey & Black embossed IllustratedHard Cover of Messenger boy in uniform running light rub wear. Book Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: FAIR AS-IS . Book is Very Good-. Clean tight & straight. Very very little wear Interior FOX Thruout . DJ is Fair with wear tears and soiling & small chips Edges. . 241 pgs ADS end with Motion Picture comrades Producing Back DJ Small chip takes out some Publ Name about 2 in. approx lists thru Billy Whiskers in Mischief spine ends DJ lite chipping soil. Hard Cover. Saalfield Publishing Company, New York hardcover
183058014London: sold by William Pickering; and by the printer T. Combe Junior Leicester 1830. 8vo pp. viii 3 12-63 1; original brown paper-covered boards printed paper label on upper cover; neatly rebacked in brown paper hinges strengthened; very good. Old English text and English translation on opposite pages. An Anglo-Saxon Old English poem about the months of the year taken from George Hickes' Antiquae literaturae septentrionalis libri duo Oxon 1705-03. sold by William Pickering; and by the printer, T. Combe, Junior, Leicester unknown
1882253ABC1605London: Smith Elder & Co 1882. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Portrait etching: Hubert Herkomer. Single volume edition 1882. Pages clean and unmarked except for toning inside covers and a few age-spots to front end-papers. The binding is sturdy but the very scruffy to edges and corners worn and marked - see illustrations. Gilt lettering to the spine is mostly still visible. Good for Age. Useful comprehensive index. <br/> <br/>A fascinating and intimate window into Victorian intellectual and social life through the journals and correspondence of Caroline Fox 1819-1871 a Quaker diarist from Cornwall. Smith, Elder & Co hardcover
1882290102Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co 1882. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1882; stated Second Edition "to which are added fourteen letters from J.S. Mill never before published"; xxviii 404pp. Bound in brown half-leather and marbled boards raised bands; gilt titling and filigree decoration on spine; marbled end papers gilt top edge. Marbled fly-leafs torn over hinges front fly-leaf nearly detached and could easily fully detach due to brittleness; binding of page block otherwise remains tight and solid; first and second front end pages torn roughly 3" from top; text illustrations very good throughout; moderate amount of wear to board edges; previous owner book plate on front end page; light discoloration in gilt top edge. The memoirs of a mid-nineteenth century Quaker woman from Cornwall. Some interior issues aside still a very presentable edition. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis Minnesota. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping. J.B. Lippincott & Co hardcover
188230747London: Smith Elder & Co 1882. Unique Extra-Illustrated Edition with 92 plates extended to Two Volumes. A cornucopia of women and men of science literature and philosophy from the 19th century first hand accounts letters and other subjective observations of the era. Each volume has the former owner's engraved armorial bookplate Rodman Wanamaker son of American businessmann John Wanamaker. His son worked in his father;s establishments and supported an expedition to photograph Native Americans. Full leather fine bindings by W.Root and Son. Green Moroccon leather with spines turned brown from sunning. Double gilt ruling boards to all covers with corner gilt floral motif repeated on spine and panels between five raised bands. Top edges gilt. Double ruled gilt bordering to turn-ins with offset visible to facing fre end pages. Very light rubbing and some wear to extremities and joints. Both volumes are well bound. Some slight soiling affecting several pages but limited in each case. Off and on light pencil marks or notations some notes to rear of volume in pencil also. A few plates show offset to facing pages otherwise very clean interiors. Contains 92 plates mostly engravings variously inserted into binding pasted or inlaid into the leaves some fold-outs all associated with the text. One plate has a short tear affecting the margin area only. One plate has an inserted signature below Turner and appears to be a facsimile. Green silken bookmark ribbon in each volume. . Association Copy. Leather. Very Good or Better/None. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Smith, Elder & Co Hardcover
1882BOOKS8480Philadelphia PA: J. B. Lippincott Company. Good plus condition/No Dustjacket. 1882. 2nd. Edition. 8vo. 404 pp. . J. B. Lippincott Company unknown
1882006205Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co 1882. Hardcover. Very Good . xxviii 378 p.; 20 cm. Publisher's dark red-brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; boards have bevelled edges. Black endpapers. Includes index. First American edition. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper: "S. S. Stafford Feb. 1882." Former owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Jack Fox with illustration of a fox with a book. Caroline Fox 1819-1871 a member of an English Quaker family recorded her observations of prominent scientists and intellectuals of her time including John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle. Her father Robert Were Fox 1789-1877 was a geologist and inventor. In Very Good Condition: edges lightly rubbed; slightly cocked; minor loss at head of spine; clean and tight. J. B. Lippincott & Co hardcover
18534727London: Richard Bentley 1853. First Edition. First edition. These volumes measure 9" x 6" with 480 387 numbered pages respectively. <br /> <br /> These volumes are in good minus condition. Moderate chipping and bumping to both ends of spine. Moderate sunning to both spines. Moderate staining to spine. Moderate scuffing to boards. All hinges are cracked and exposing mesh on pastedowns. <br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory #N7-85. Richard Bentley unknown
185330872Philadelphia; Blanchard & Lea 1853. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copies both in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and elaborately blind-tooled cloth. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned with some minor wear to the spine bands. Corners sharp with an overall tight bright and clean impression. ; 0 pages; Subjects: Fox Charles James 1749-1806. Philadelphia; Blanchard & Lea hardcover
18664837542Charles Fox Trubner & Co 1866. Volume 4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Medium green cloth 8vo with decorative blind borders and blind motif mirrored on boards. Gilt lettering borders and motif on sun faded backstrip. Bumped corners and a little fraying particularly to top of backstrip. Interior is secure clean and clear save for some foxing. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item600grams ISBN: Charles Fox, Trubner & Co hardcover