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185212381852. Ink wash in brown ink on cream wove paper 9 7/8 x 13 inches 250 x 330 mm titled and dated in brown ink lower right. In fair condition with minor scattered soiling uniform age tone and edge 'nics;' all consistent with age. Laid down to archival mat board. unknown
18981701A<p>George Bell PublLondon 1898. HB NO DJ FINE-/VG AS-IS Blue Grey Cloth decorated Gold Gilt1898 1st edition Cover light rub Wear Tiny chips extremities Interior Nice tight Clean Light FoX wear 365 pages Index Ads NODJ. First Edition. Hard Cover.</p> George Bell Publ,London hardcover
18752090202122801533Not Available 1875. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 3 Not Available paperback
18772091502135418620Aichi Prefecture Kansuke Kajita 1877. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Aichi Prefecture Kansuke Kajita paperback
18762092902143902162Chubei Ishida Kyoto Prefecture Kamigyo 2nd 5th district and others 1876. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Chubei Ishida (Kyoto Prefecture Kamigyo 2nd 5th district) and others paperback
18762092902143802198Chubei Ishida Kyoto Prefecture Kamigyo 2nd 5th district and others 1876. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Chubei Ishida (Kyoto Prefecture Kamigyo 2nd 5th district) and others paperback
18842090502130301721Transcription Shinshichi Okajima 1884. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Transcription Shinshichi Okajima paperback
18762082402113500722Not Available 1876. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1860313321Albany 1860. 62 vintage albumen prints comprising 60 oval gem portraits 1-1/2 x 1 inches 1 larger oval portrait 2-1/8 x 1-5/8 inches and 1 full-length 3-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary brown morocco autograph album stamped in gilt and blindW.B. Sprague blindstamp on ffep. A few portrait photos damaged or loose 2 inscriptions are without photos. 62 vintage albumen prints comprising 60 oval gem portraits 1-1/2 x 1 inches 1 larger oval portrait 2-1/8 x 1-5/8 inches and 1 full-length 3-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches. 2 vols. 8vo. A photographic yearbook from the Albany Law School class of 1860 assembled by student Horatio Colony 1835-1917.<br /> Opened in 1851 Albany Law School is the oldest independent law school in the United States. Many of its students in the 1850s and '60s became prominent lawyers and judges.<br /> As is the custom with the professionally produced college photograph yearbooks produced by George Kendall Warren starting in the late 1850s each photograph is inscribed beneath by the sitter with his name and hometown. The album opens with professors Ira Harris Amasa Parker Amos Dean Nathaniel Harris and Levi Chamberlain. Some notable students include Alexander P. Ketchum who became a Colonel and Chief Appraiser of the Port of New York; Clayton H. Delano 1836-1920 who served eight terms as the Town of Ticonderoga's Supervisor and was elected twice to the New York State Assembly; and William S. Opdyke general counsel of the Delaware and Hudson Company. <br /> Horatio Colony 1835-1917 whose picture appears last and is unfortunately obscured by damage assembled this album. The photograph of Levi Chamberlain is inscribed to "Horatio friend and pupil." He was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire and New York in 1860; in 1869 he along with his brother George took over the management of the family business the Faulkner and Colony Woolen Mill. He held several other civic and local government positions before his death in an automobile accident in 1917. His son Horatio Jr. 1900-1977 a poet and novelist established the Colony family home as a museum upon his death.<br /> <br /> With: Autograph album containing autographs of acquaintances and some notable figures including Amos Bronson Alcott "A. Bronson Alcott" and Octavius Frothingham "O.B. Frothingham". In near matching black morocco autograph album stamped in blind and gilt extremities rubbed. With later inscription of C.W. Lawbert on front free endpaper. unknown
1888253042Farmington Ct. 1888. 3pp. Folded 4to sheet. Old fold lines. Near fine. 3pp. Folded 4to sheet. Letter written by Sarah Porter founder of Miss Porter's School for Girls to a friend and possibly former student regretfully declining an invitation to her wedding. Miss Porter studied privately with Yale Professors. and her brother Noah later became President of Yale. She was an opponent of women's suffrage. <br /> She notes in this letter that affairs at the school will keep her far too busy to make the journey. Sarah Porter 1813-1900 founded her school in Farmington in 1843 setting it up as an institution at which girls could receive a well-rounded academic education. She writes in part:<br /> <br /> "My dear Mary I thank you heartily that you have desired me as one of your wedding guests and I should be very happy in being with you at this so happy moment of your life. I could not easily under any circumstances easily leave school for so long a time as a journey to Newton would require - but now Mr. Brandt's wretched health renders him unable to teach and his classes fall daily into my care so that my place is daily here. Your own and your brother's wedding at once will not only doubly crown the day but give promise to multiplied successive anniversaries. unknown
1900372178Philadelphia 1900. 1 page On Slater letterhead. Blank verso has paper residue where once mounted paper is quite tanned along left margin with creasing few short tears and small chips in blank margins else a good copy. 1 page On Slater letterhead. Dr. Simon Green Atkins the son of former slaves founded the Slater Industrial and State Normal School in 1892 in Winston-Salem North Carolina. The school became Winston-Salem Teacher's College in 1925 and it was the first African-American institute in America to offer degrees in elementary education.<br /> <br /> Reading in part: "Dear Friend- I hope we may see you and some of your friends at the meeting to which you will find and sic invitation enclosed not present.<br /> Our students will also appear in Association Hall Germantown the following evening.Your kindly interest in our cause will be greatlyt appreciated. unknown
1893443818Paris : Imprimerie Nationale 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Some light foxing to prelims. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical Description; 1 vol.XX planches : plans cartes. ; 33 cm. Notes; Ministère des travaux publics. Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées. Service des cartes et plans. Subjects; Canaux génie hydraulique Écluses. Génie hydraulique. Oise à l'Aisne Canal de France. Paris : Imprimerie Nationale hardcover
18912092902141502923Common trading company bookstore all 2 1891. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 46 size Common trading company bookstore all 2 paperback
185014001850. Pencil and brush and brownish-gray ink on cream laid paper adhered to an archival paper mount at each corner 3 3/4 x 5 1/8 inches 95 x 130 mm. Significant condition issues include staining repaired tears surface soiling and a detatached but intact lower right corner. unknown
187810633ANMPhiladelphia PA: American Sunday-School Union 1878. 251 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ decoration on front cover and gilt title on spine. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY JOHN V. SEARS. Corners bumped. Normal shelf wear. Light foxing to pg. text block and endpapers. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Contents nice. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. American Sunday-School Union Hardcover
185125424111052George Bekk; R Currie; R Sunter; C Thurnam. Bound by Hodges Smith & Co. Dublin London; Newcastle; York: Carlisle 1851. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Walter B Scott. Full leather binding with banded spine with tooled gilt and black decoration. Leather is lightly worn and with loss of surface. Block edges are bright gilt. Sound binding. Binder's name on lower edge of inside of front cover and a small Ampleforth label in the centre of the front inside cover. There are smudges to end-papers an light foxing throughout which is heavier on pages near to the front and back of the volume. Volume consists of: Blank free front end-paper; Title page with decorated lettering and vignette which includes the artist's name within and on the border of the vignette; Preliminary one page; Description of Plates with decorated header and Capital and Gothic lettering to plate titles in text pages 5 to 18. There are a total of thirty-eight plate titles. XXXV contains a vignette of perpendicular tracery. Thirty-eight coloured plates all with tissue guard sheets. Contains many colour plates full page illustrations. No dust jacket as published. Undated by publisher. Book plates and/or stamps from Ampleforth Library. Dated by reference to British Library catalogue. Illustrator: Walter B Scott. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 25424111052. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. George Bekk; R Currie; R Sunter; C Thurnam. Bound by Hodges, Smith, & Co. Dublin hardcover
185981017London: Royal School of Westminister 1859. Clothbound in near very good condition. 81 Pages. Royal School of Westminister unknown
1879ZB542055Philadelphia: 1879-1909. Third Annual Report 1878 issued 1879 through the Thirty Third Annual Report 1909; 31 items each 20-65 pages and most illustrated; ex library and here in three later cloth bindings text age toned but not fragile overall a good group. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Philadelphia: hardcover
1839271075American Sunday School 1839. Boards. Good-. front map creased and torn hinge started boards worn leather spine tornmany images intrnally 139 pp. American Sunday School hardcover
18942091502135202387Shibata Genzaburo 1894. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 20cm Number of books: 1 Shibata Genzaburo paperback
1896091713Providence RI: Press of E.L. Freeman & Son 1896 Book. Good . Hardcover. Book has some exterior rub marks and speckling as well as edge and corner scuffs. . Press of E.L. Freeman & Son hardcover
1815952London: Robert Wilkinson 1815. Etching and engraving on wove paper with an "1809" watermark 13 1/2 x 10 inches 342 x 252 mm full margins. In very good condition with some age related toning and light spots of discoloration in the lower sheet quadrant. Damaged in the Blitz and largely demolished in the 1960s what remains of St Mary Elsing includes these doorways which still stand looking back towards London Wall. The ruins include tall arches which once formed the base of the tower. There is also a low wall with an arched recess which may have been used to house a tomb. Robert Wilkinson unknown
1870279111870. Finely executed portraits of women and their musical instruments larger and more detailed than many other albums. From the school of Youqua. The portraits have no background painting. 8 images mounted with dark turquoise border silk some with cracks; 3 images are mounted on card at a later date. All images loose in papered boards which open Western style and are disbound and very rubbed. Most images are in lovely and larger than most. Besides some small cracks they are in very good condition. 4to 11 1/2 x 8 unknown
1835334873Boston: Russell Odiorne and Company 1835. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 52pp. Removed from a nonce volume a little trimmed slightly affecting the inscription some offsetting on the title page else very good. Inscribed: "Josiah Quincy Jr. Esq. with the respects of the author." Name of Charles F. Adams written on the title page in a non-authorial hand possibly Quincy's. Quincy a member of the Whig Party was the second of three Josiah Quincys to serve as Mayor of Boston; Charles Francis Adams Sr. the son of John Quincy Adams was a lawyer and a Whig and then later a member of the Free Soil Party and finally a Republican who studied law with Daniel Webster served in the House of Representatives but resigned to become Lincoln's Ambassador to Great Britain from 1861 to 1868 where he along with his son Henry Adams who acted as his secretary was instrumental in maintaining British neutrality and preventing British diplomatic recognition of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Russell, Odiorne, and Company unknown
182849341New-York: J. Seymour 1828. First Edition. Octavo 22cm.; stitched brown wrappers printed within decorative border; 18pp. Lacking rear wrapper upper wrapper separated and heavily chipped along extremities with some loss of border though not affecting text textblock a bit foxed and toned along extremities. Good only though internally sound. List of Officers on p. 19 name DeWitt Clinton as President of the Society though he died early that year on February 11. SABIN 54615; SHOEMAKER 34939. J. Seymour unknown
