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Ferguson, John
Bibliotecha chemica. A bibliography of books on alchemy chemistry and pharmaceutics
London: Derek Verschoyle 1954. 2 vols reprint of the 1906 first edition 8vo pp. 3 xxi 3 487 1; 7 598 1; fine in original gray cloth spines stamped in red and gilt flap of Vol. I jacket laid in. The work a catalogue of the collection of collector James Young was originally issued in 250 copies and was privately distributed Young's friends after his death. Derek Verschoyle unknown
Ссылка продавца : 23089
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NISSEN, CLAUS
Die illustrierten Vogelbücher: ihre Geschichte und Bibliographie
Stuttgart: Hiersemann Verlag 1976. Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1953 also by Hiersemann 4to pp. 222 1; frontispiece and 7 illustrations in the text after Franz Murr 16 plates at the end of the text; a fine copy in the original robin's-egg blue linen stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Historical essay and bibliography of more than 1000 works followed by indexes to the artists bird species countries and authors listed. Hiersemann Verlag unknown
Ссылка продавца : 28971
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MACDONALD, HUGH, and Mary Hargreaves
Thomas Hobbes: a bibliography
London: Bibliographical Society 1952. First edition small 4to pp. xvii 1 83 1; frontispiece portrait 6 plates and numerous full-page facsimiles; original linen-backed gray paper-covered boards smudged and soiled with the front cover bowing; text pages fine and partially unopened. Bibliographical Society unknown
Ссылка продавца : 26788
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Sankey, Ira D
Sacred songs and solos: with standard rhymes combined
London: Morgan and Scott n.d. 1900. Large 8vo 2 p.l. unpaginated songster in perhaps 800pp. bound with: The Christian Choir by Sankey and James McGranahan. L. n.d. pp. 4 5-111 1; together 2 vols. in 1 8vo slightly later full vellum gilt by Birdsall of Northhampton signed in gilt on the turn-in spine in 6 compartments gilt-decorated in 5 titled in 1 covers with quadruple gilt border fleurons in the corners enclosing red and blue hand-painted initials "M.F." in the central panel a.e.g.; endpapers renewed a little rubbing on the covers; near fine. Morgan and Scott, n.d. unknown
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Walpole, Horace
Journal of the printing-office at Strawberry Hill now first printed from the MS. With notes by Paget Toynbee
London: printed at the Chiswick Press for Constable and Co. and Houghton Mifflin 1923. First edition limited to 650 copies 8vo pp. xii 150; frontis portrait engraved vignette title-p. and 11 heliotypes and photogravures throughout; very fine copy in orig. calf-backed boards; the publisher's slipcase is broken. The day by day journal of the press with extensive appendixes index and notes. printed at the Chiswick Press for Constable and Co. and Houghton Mifflin unknown
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COLE, F J
A history of comparative anatomy from Aristotle to the eighteenth century
London: Macmillan 1949. Reprint edition originally published 1944 8vo pp. viii 524; illustrations throughout text many full-page; fine in slightly rubbed dustjacket with a few small nicks to spine panel ends. See G-M 358 first edition of 1944. Macmillan unknown
Ссылка продавца : 27780
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BOWDLER, [JANE], Miss
Poems and essays . The fourteenth edition. Published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath
Bath: Printed by Richard Cruttwell. 1815. 8vo pp. xi 1 273; slightly later full straight-grain black morocco with elaborate filigree border in gilt on both covers enclosing a central gilt- and blind-stamped panel with 2 gilt-ruled interlocking lozenges gilt-lettered direct on an elaborate gilt-decorated spine a.e.g.; minor wear at the corners joints lightly rubbed endpapers stained at edges from agressive oiling; all else near fine. Printed by Richard Cruttwell.. unknown
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RENOUARD, ANT AUG
Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne ou histoire de la famille des Estienne et de ses éditions. deuxième édition
New York: Burt Franklin 1972. Reprint of second edition Paris 1843 8vo pp. xix 1 584 2 16; folding plate showing the Estienne family tree; a very good copy in orig. green cloth-covered boards lettered in silver on spine. The standard bibliography for works printed by the Estiennes reprinted as recently as 2005. Burt Franklin unknown
Ссылка продавца : 29757
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Twyman, Michael
Lithography 1800-1850. The techniques of drawing on stone in England and France and their application in works of topography
London: Oxford University Press 1970. First edition 4to pp. xxi 3 302 2; plates with 158 illustrations; fine in original blue cloth gilt very good clipped jacket with small price sticker on front flap. Oxford University Press unknown
Ссылка продавца : 24301
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Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Catalogue of works of art exhibited. Part 1: sculpture and antiquities. Part II: paintings drawings engravings and decorative art
Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son 1882. 2 vols. 12mo orig. printed wrappers extremities chipped; ex-MHS. Accompanied by 2 other odd vols. of the same: Third Catalogue of the Collection Ancient and Modern 1876; and Sixteenth Catalogue of Works of Art Exhibited Part 2 1880. Alfred Mudge & Son unknown
Ссылка продавца : 11575
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[CELMER, E V]
Book collecting world . circulated privately to discriminating collectors
Chicago: Celmer & Twente Associates 1961. Volume I no. 1 to Vol. 3 no. 48 each number 4pp.; an unbropken run in 109 issues; 4to; fine. The publication ceased with Vol. V. no. 48 in 1965. Celmer & Twente Associates unknown
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[ORR, DR H WINNETT]
A list of books and pamphlets on the history of surgery and orthopedic surgery with supplement additions and corrections.
Lincoln: Jacob North & Co. 1945. Second edition 8vo pp. 207; illus. from photographs facsimiles; original cream wrappers; a bit soiled but very good. [Jacob North & Co.] unknown
Ссылка продавца : 28097
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NEWTON, A EDWARD
This book-collecting game
Boston: Little Brown 1928. Edition limited to 990 signed copies on large paper large 8vo pp. 16 410-411; color frontis numerous plates and illus. in text some in color; a few minor imperfections else a fine copy in orig. yellow buckram-backed paper-covered boards paper label on spine publisher's slipcase peeling along one joint. Little, Brown unknown
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WILLIAMS, ROBERT
The history and antiquities of the town of Aberconwy and its neighbourhood. With notices of the natural history of the district
Denbigh: printed for the author by Thomas Gee 1835. First edition 8vo pp. xii 200; plates; contemporary green half morocco over marbled boards by Blackwell spine gilt in 6 compartments t.e.g. marbled endpapers; spine only slightly faded title-page a bit discolored; overall an attractive very good copy with previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. printed for the author by Thomas Gee unknown
Ссылка продавца : 28263
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Fishenden R. B. ed. Penrose annual: a review of the graphic arts 1951. Vol. 45
New York: Pitman Publishing 1951. First edition 8vo pp. xiv 140 50 1-52 2; frontis.; heavily illus.; fine in jacket. Includes articles by Beatrice Ward Harry Cater and others. Pitman Publishing unknown
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POLLARD, M
A dictionary of members of the Dublin book trade 1550-1800 based on the records of the Guild of St. Luke the Evangelist
London: Bibliographical Society 2000. First edition 8vo pp. xlviii 675; map of Dublin paper mills; fine in original blue cloth spine gilt. Bibliographical Society unknown
Ссылка продавца : 22199
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Campbell, Thomas
Essay on English poetry
London: John Murray 1819. First separate edition and according to Lowndes one of only three copies printed; imperial octavo 28cm. pp. 4 271 1; contemporary and probably original burgundy full straight-grain morocco by Charles Murton floriated blind-tooled borders on both covers enclosing a single gilt rule with fleurons in the corners elaborate gilt decorated spine in six compartments gilt-lettered direct in one a.e.g.; slightest rubbing; near fine. This essay was prefixed to the first volume of Campbell's 7-volume edition of Specimens of the English Poets London 1819 which Lowndes calls "a much esteemed collection." There was no other edition in England of this essay save these three printed on large paper but it was reprinted in a meager octavo in Boston later the same year. Not found in NCBEL or the British Library; OCLC locates the other two copies at Rochester and the Huntington. NUC records a London octavo 1819 at Boston Public but this is likely an error as a search of the Boston Public on-line database turns up no such record. In a cloth clamshell box with a morocco label. John Murray unknown
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Second catalogue of the Holton Library of Brighton comprising rules and regulations names of officers dictionary of pseudonyms donations with names of donors; and Bulletin no. 1
Boston: Alfred Mudge 1872. 8vo pp. xviii 336; spine ends chipped rear joint cracked else good and sound in orig. brown cloth; ex-MHS. Alfred Mudge unknown
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WARTER, JOHN WOOD
Southey's common-place book
New York: Harper & Brothers 1849. First edition 2 vols. 8vo 416; 471; contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards t.e.g. marbled endpapers; bindings rubbed moderate dampstain to both volumes still a good sound set. Volume II is the Second series special collections; both volumes are complete on their own. Harper & Brothers unknown
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TREVERN, JFM, Rev J F M
An answer to the Rev. G.S. Faber's Difficulties of Romanism
London: Hurst Chance & Co.; Norwich Bacon & Kennebrook 1826. First edition 8vo pp. viii 461 2; full contemporary maroon straight-grain morocco covers with repeated gilt panels and elaborate gilt floral corner and side devices spine fully gilt with 4 paired bands and gilt lettering direct; probably a Norwich binding; edges a little rubbed but generally very good sound and attractive. Hurst, Chance & Co.; Norwich, Bacon & Kennebrook unknown
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Williams, Stanley T, & Mary Allen Edge
A bibliography of the writings of Washington Irving: a check list
New York: Oxford University Press 1936. First edition 8vo pp. xix 3 200; a fine copy in a slightly chipped dust jacket. Oxford University Press unknown
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CORDIER, HENRI
Bibliotheca indosinica. Dictionnaire bibliographique des ouvrages relatifs a la peninsule Indochinoise
New York: Burt Franklin 1967. Large 8vo 5 volumes in 3 reprint of the 1912 first edition 8vo; fine in original maroon cloth spines gilt. Burt Franklin unknown
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Blank book
n.p. n.d. 1875. 4to consisting of approx. 100 leaves bound in full red morocco heavily gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments the covers with elaborate gilt border enclosing a second border with gilt motif in the corners and a central panel within repeating the motif and with the initials "A.C." in an inner circle of gilt; brass hasps and lock silk moiré endpapers with gilt border rolls a.e.g.; very good and sound or better. unknown
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[Cleland, Thomas Maitland]
The decorative work of T.M. Cleland. A record and review with a biographical and critical introduction by Alfred E. Hamill and a portrait lithograph by Rockwell Kent
New York: Pynson Printers 1929. Edition limited to 1200 copies this one of 1145 without the signed proof by Rockwell Kent 4to pp. xxiv 3 99; decorative designs by Cleland throughout including one large folding sample tipped in many printed in color; extremities lightly rubbed else a very good sound copy in orig. black buckram lettered in gilt t.e.g. retaining a stained chipped split and torn dust jacket. Cleland was a major figure in graphic arts in the early part of this century. His work covered a broad spectrum in design from automobile advertisements to book design. Pynson Printers unknown
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[Lindsay-Crawford, James]
Catalogue of English broadsides 1505-1897
New York: Burt Franklin 1968. Reprint of the 1898 first edition 4to pp. xl 526; very good in original maroon cloth spine gilt. 1814 entries with commentary. Burt Franklin unknown
Ссылка продавца : 23543
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SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE
The poetical works. Edited by Harry Buxton Foreman
London: Reeves & Turner 1882. 4 volumes 8vo 10 plates and facsimiles; half blue morocco by Stikeman gilt-paneled spines t.e.g.; front joint on vol. I rubbed and with a short crack starting at the bottom vol. II with top of spine scuffed; all else about fine. Reeves & Turner unknown
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[Cobbold, Richard, Rev]
Valentine verses; or lines of truth love and virtue
Ipswich: printed and sold by E. Shalders 1827. First edition 8vo pp. xv 1 262; lithograph frontispiece and 101 lithograph plates drawn and engraved by Cobbold plus 2 copper-engraved portraits; errata slip tipped in at the rear; 3pp. of index apparently separately published is laid in; nice copy in original green cloth-backed boards paper label on spine. An unusual provincial illustrated book with charming lithographs after pen-and-ink sketches. Cobbold was a minor novelist and his wife who apparently had a hand in the work a minor dramatist. See DNB for entries on both. printed and sold by E. Shalders unknown
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EAMES, WILBERFORCE, comp
Americana collection of Herschel V. Jones. A check-list 1473-1926
New York: Cooper Square Publishers 1964. First edition 4to pp. xii 220; near fine in original brown cloth spine stamped in red and gilt. About 1750 short-title entries intended to be a complete record of the Americana library of Herschel V. Jones of Minneapolis Minnesota. The volume also serves as a complement to Mr. Jones' Adventures in Americana 1492-1897. Cooper Square Publishers unknown
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe
The poetical works. Edited by Harry Buxton Foreman
London: Reeves & Turner 1876. 4 volumes 8vo later full green pebble-grain morocco gilt rules on covers fleurons in the corners inner dentelles gilt decorated spines a.e.g. by Little Brown & Co.; Franklin Dexter bookplates; 10 plates and facsimiles; slight rubbing but near fine throughout. Reeves & Turner unknown
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HALL, S C, Mrs and [ie Anna Marie Hall, nee Fielding] i e
Sketches of Irish character. Illustrated edition
London: How & Parsons 1842. 8vo pp. viii 384; engraved frontispiece wood-engraved title-p. 4 engraved plates wood-engraved illustrations throughout; full contemporary green morocco double gilt ruled borders on covers enclosing a blindstamped cross-hatched central panel with double gilt border and foliated border smooth gilt-decorated spine a.e.g.; library accession stamp on verso of title else very good and sound. How & Parsons unknown
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NEWTON, A EDWARD
Ascot. Printed not published for the friends of A. Edward Newton
Oak Knoll Daylesford Pa: Christmas 1933. Limited edition of an unspecified number printed for friends of the author at Christmas 12mo pp. 18; photographic frontispiece; generally fine in orig. blue printed wrappers. This copy inscribed "Mrs. Louis B. Grabosky from A.E.N." With the original mailing envelope addressed by Newton. Christmas unknown
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[MURRAY, C FAIRFAX]
Catalogue of a collection of early German books in the library of C. Fairfax-Murray. Compiled by Hugh Wm. Davies
London: the Holland Press 1962. 2 vols. 1 of 250 copies 4to pp. 462 817 1 lxii indexes; illustrated throughout; about fine in original white cloth-backed red cloth spines gilt. "Owing to the extremely detailed bibliographical description and critical notes by Davies. the catalogues of the Fairfax-Murray Collection of French and German fifteenth- and sixteenth-century illustrated books including a few of later date may be considered selective bibliographies of their subject and belong indeed to the best reference on it" Folter & Breslauer 147. the Holland Press unknown
Ссылка продавца : 23212
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Bennett, Whitman
A practical guide to American nineteenth-century color plate books
New York: Bennett Book Studios 1949. First edition 8vo pp. xi 11 132 1 portrait of Lillian Bennett; fine in original red cloth. Still a useful reference with extensive annotations and plate counts but no collations. Bennett Book Studios unknown
Ссылка продавца : 10348
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GOFF, FREDERICK R, comp & ed
Incunabula in American libraries. A third census of fifteenth-century books recorded in North American collections
New York: the Bibliographical Society of America 1964. 8vo pp. lxiii 1 798; original red buckram; spine slightly faded else fine. the Bibliographical Society of America unknown
Ссылка продавца : 29732
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LEWIS, JOHN
John Nash the painter as illustrator. With a foreword by Wilfrid Blunt
Godalming: the Pendomer Press 1978. First edition 4to pp. 136; illus. throughout; fine in original brown cloth and near fine jacket with a short closed tear on the rear panel. Review copy with slip and prospectus laid in. The first book devoted to Nash. the Pendomer Press unknown
Ссылка продавца : 31381
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LEPPER, GARY M
A bibliographical introduction to seventy-five modern American authors
Berkeley: Serendipity Books 1976. First edition 8vo pp. xv 1 428; fine in original blue cloth pictorial dust-jacket with a narrow chip at the bottom of the back panel. Serendipity Books unknown
Ссылка продавца : 28803
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DE LA MARCHE, OLIVER
Le Chevalier Delibere . the illustrations of the edition of Schiedam reproduced with a preface by F. Lippmann and a reprint of the text
London: printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press 1898. 4to pp. xx 65 2; 17 facsimiles in the text and a duplicate set of 17 plates at the back; Bound with: The First Paris Press: An Account of the Books printed for G. Fichet and J. Heynlin in the Sorbonne 1470-1472. By A. Claudin. London: Bibliographical Society Chiswick Press 1898. pp. vi 100 1; gravure frontispiece and 10 full-p. facsimiles errata slip; together 2 vols. in 1 orig. brown printed wrappers preserved for each title; together in contemporary quarter brown morocco gilt lettered on spine; minor scuffing and fading of spine else very good. Issued as nos. 5 and 6 in the Bibliographical Society's Illustrated Monographs series. printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press unknown
Ссылка продавца : 15223
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LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD
The philosophy of limited editions. Taken from prose fancies
Chicago: The Black Cat Press 1935. Edition limited to 100 copies designed and printed by Norman W. Forgue; 12mo pp. 18 2; title-page and chapter vignettes designed and hand-colored by Calvin Brazelton; light wear to extremities former owner's stamp on front pastedown else very good in original green and taupe textured paper covered boards. "Over-production in both men and shirts is the evil of the day. The Black Cat Press unknown
Ссылка продавца : 21288
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ROSTENBERG, LEONA
Literary political scientific religious & legal publishing printing and bookselling in England 1551-1700: twelve studies
New York: Burt Franklin 1965. First edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xv 1 236; 4 237-463 continuous pagination; 84 facsimiles; generally a fine copy in original red cloth gilt-lettered spines. This copy with a presentation in the first volume "For Alida Roochvarg 'Fair' friend & bibliophile Leona Rostenberg April 8 1965. Burt Franklin unknown
Ссылка продавца : 31308
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HARRSEN, META and GEORGE K BOYCE, COMP
Italian manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Descriptive survey of the principle illuminated manuscripts of the sixth to sixteenth centuries
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library 1953. 4to pp. xxii 79 78 plates some mounted and in color 1; fine in orig. green cloth red label stamped on spine orig. glassine split at folds and with short tears and publisher's slipcase. Introduction by Bernard Berenson. Pierpont Morgan Library unknown
Ссылка продавца : 15303
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Fine printing and bookbinding from San Francisco and its environs. A representative exhibition for the Grolier Club selected and catalogued by David Magee
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1961. Edition limited to 200 copies "printed at the Grabhorn Press for Carroll T. Harris presented to members of the Grolier Club on the occasion of their visit to San Francisco" 4to pp. 35 1; title-page printed in red and black printers' devices printed in red throughout; fine in original linen-backed decorative paper-covered boards plain paper dust jacket. Examples from 25 San Francisco presses the Allen Press to Adrian Wilson plus work by 5 binders. [Grabhorn Press] unknown
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R Brookes and Johannes (John) Prince
1776 General Gazetteer with 1779–1827 Manuscript Notes of a Massachusetts Revolutionary War Privateer Ship Master and Selectman Including Service Aboard the Pilgrim Under Famed Captain Hugh Hill
<p>On offer is an extraordinary Revolutionary War and early American maritime artifact: the personal copy of The General Gazetteer: or Compendious Geographical Dictionary fourth edition 1776 owned and annotated with phenomenal Revolutionary War content by John Prince 1762-1848 of Marblehead Massachusetts. Prince was a Revolutionary War privateer ship master selectman and Justice of the Peace.</p><p>Across the blank front and rear endpapers and pastedowns Prince filled eight manuscript pages with notes spanning roughly 48 years from 1779 to at least 1827. The book itself is significant to the manuscript content. The General Gazetteer was a practical eighteenth-century reference work identifying countries ports cities rivers harbors distances political divisions and historical facts. This content would have been useful to a young mariner and Prince used the blank leaves to record his work memory education and thought.</p><p>These notes are not casual marginalia but personal working record that fills in a large gap in the existing knowledge of Prince and the famed Revolutionary ship the Pilgrim captained by Hugh Hill 1740-1828. </p><p>The most important entry is Prince's firsthand retrospective account of his first voyage to sea during the American Revolution. On one page he writes <em>"1779 Pilgrim Sail'd April the 13 1779"</em> and signs the book in Latinized form <em>"Johannes Prince Ejus Liber July the 9 1779" </em><em>"John Prince his book."</em>. In the surrounding manuscript he gives a narrative of this voyage beginning<em> "The first of my going to Sea was in the Pilgrim" identifying the famous Beverly privateer as "a ship of 16 9 pounders 140 Men"</em> under <em>"Hugh Hill Commd'r."</em></p><p>This is an exceptional Revolutionary War naval passage. Prince records that during this cruise they took eleven British prizes including a bark from Liverpool England armed with fourteen guns. He describes the vessel as a Letter of Marque loaded with goods taken by boarding after a tense encounter in fog. The opposing vessel flew American colors claimed to be from Charlestown and then hauled down the American colors and raised British. Prince records that the British captain and sailing master were killed and that several men were wounded. He further notes that prisoners were landed on the coast of Ireland.</p><p>The language is unusually vivid and unusually reflective. Prince does not simply glorify the action. Writing from the perspective of one who had been only seventeen years old he adds: <em>"War is a Calamity — privateering & Pirateering are about the Same." </em>He then explains the practical necessity of his choice: <em>"At this period Æ 17 I so thought but with me it was of necessity there was no other Employ" </em>adding that he did not have his father's approval.</p><p>This passage gives the manuscript unusual emotional and historical force: a Revolutionary War privateer looking back on the violence and moral ambiguity of privateering while also explaining the economic pressure that drove a Marblehead teenager to sea.</p><p>The entry is important in relation to Prince's later documented Revolutionary War statement. In June 1839 Prince swore that he had taken an active part in the Revolution had served in Rhode Island in 1778 under Col. William R. Lee and had gone on nine cruises during the war aboard privateers and Letters of Marque. He also stated that he had been one of the prisoners aboard the British sloop of war Lively and the <em>"leader and adviser" </em>of the prisoners who rose up in November 1782 captured the vessel carried her safely into Havana and sold her for $22000 Lindsey 1915.</p><p>That affidavit gives the broad outline of Prince's Revolutionary service but this manuscript appears to preserve something different and rarer: <em>Prince's earliest known firsthand account of his first voyage as a seventeen-year-old privateer.</em></p><p> According to the Peabody Essex Museum finding aid the institutional holdings of the John Prince Papers begin with Prince's writing in 1784 while earlier papers in that archive relate to Joseph Hooper and family. If so the 1779 material contained within this book fills a significant gap in the surviving documentary record of Prince's early wartime life while also providing rich firsthand content about the Revolutionary wartime activities of the famed privateer ship Pilgrim.</p><p>The manuscript also documents Prince's development from teenage privateer to experienced ship master. A later entry refers to the schooner Philanthropist and reads in part: <em>"Philanthropist. John Prince Commander in Bilboa. Wrote & copied by Mr John Cross - Mate - 1795." </em>This corroborates published Marblehead maritime records identifying Prince with the schooner Philanthropist in 1795 and the brigantine Philanthropist in 1800 strengthening the chain of identity between the manuscript writer the Revolutionary War privateer and the later Marblehead ship master. The note is also valuable because it names his mate and situates Prince within the postwar Atlantic maritime world.</p><p>Another manuscript page preserves navigational mathematics including longitude and latitude calculations conversions into minutes logarithmic values and what appears to be a calculation involving meridional miles. These calculations help show that this gazetteer was a working maritime object not simply a household book. Prince was using its blank leaves for the kinds of geographical and mathematical work directly connected to navigation and transatlantic travel.</p><p>The remaining manuscript notes reveal Prince's intellectual world over many decades. He copied or composed historical notes on Sigismund the Council of Constance John Wycliffe Jan Hus Jerome of Prague Martin Luther the Council of Nicaea the Council of Trent the Synod of Dort Sir Walter Raleigh Masaniello and the Insurrection at Naples the Cinque Ports Oxford and Cambridge and the lack of parliamentary representation for Manchester in 1827. These notes show a sustained interest in geography institutions religious reform rebellion representation and the relationship between authority and resistance.</p><p>That pattern matters. In the same book that preserves his account of privateering during the American Revolution Prince was also curating a personal history of reform conscience insurrection and civic rights. The manuscript therefore has a much broader significance than a naval memorandum alone. It preserves the lifelong working mind of a New England ship master whose experiences moved from Revolutionary privateering to Atlantic trade civic office and historical reflection.</p><p>There is also a visible large cursive name<em> "Nancy Prince"</em> written vertically through one of the manuscript pages and later smudged or obscured but still visible. This is likely Anna Nancy Prince 1766–1841 John Prince's younger sister adding to the evidence of family provenance.</p><p><strong>Biographical Notes:</strong></p><p><strong>John Prince</strong> was born in Marblehead Massachusetts on January 4 1762. Published Marblehead records identify him as a seaman and ship master associated with the ship St. Helena the schooners Hope Catherine Betsy and Philanthropist and the brigantine Philanthropist. He later served Marblehead as selectman during multiple terms between 1803 and 1825 and was also a Justice of the Peace. He married Elizabeth Wendall in 1787 and they had at least one child. He died on January 29 1848.</p><p><strong>Hugh Hill </strong>August 1 1740 – February 17 1829 was an Irish-born Massachusetts sea captain and Revolutionary War privateer commander. After coming to Massachusetts he first settled in Marblehead before making his home in Beverly. During the Revolution he became one of Beverly's best-known privateering figures commanding the ship Pilgrim and later the privateering vessel Cicero. His appearance in Prince's manuscript gives the account a direct connection to one of the major maritime figures of Revolutionary Beverly.</p><p>This is a highly desirable manuscript-bearing volume for an institution collecting in early American maritime history Revolutionary War privateering Marblehead and Essex County history Atlantic world studies the history of navigation or the intellectual life of early American seamen. It is both a Revolutionary War naval document and a rare material witness to the lifelong working mind of a documented Massachusetts captain.</p><p><strong>Condition:</strong></p><p>1776 printed volume with manuscript notes to the front and rear endpapers and pastedowns. The manuscript pages show age toning wear smudging scattered staining edge wear and some losses or tears affecting portions of text. Some writing is faint crossed out or partially obscured. The printed book should be considered a working eighteenth-century volume rather than a fine copy. The binding is structurally fragile with a pronounced split along the spine. The text block remains tenuously attached by only a small amount of surviving sewing and further separation may occur with handling or transit despite careful packing. Careful shipping will be ensured but the binding should be treated as vulnerable and at risk of further detachment. The manuscript content remains substantial legible in important passages and historically significant.</p><p><strong>References:</strong></p><p>Ancestry.com. n.d. Ancestry. Ancestry.com Operations Inc. Retrieved June 15 2026</p><p>Colonial Society of Massachusetts. 1922. January meeting 1922.</p><p>Lindsey B. J. 1915. Old Marblehead sea captains and the ships in which they sailed. Published for the Benefit of the Marblehead Historical Society.</p><p>Phillips Library Peabody Essex Museum. n.d. John Prince papers Archival collection. Peabody Essex Museum ArchivesSpace. Repository 2 resource 415.</p><p>Scully T. F. n.d. Interesting burials in Beverly cemeteries. City of Beverly.</p><p>Three Decks. n.d. American privateer ship "Pilgrim" 1778. Retrieved June 15 2026</p> hardcover
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[Woodworth, Francis C]
Storm and sunshine or the right and the wrong way to wear a hat. By Theodore Thinker
New York: Clark Austin & Smith 1854. Square 24mo approx. 4½" tall pp. 96; wood-engraved frontispiece and 5 full-p. wood-engraved illustrations within borders several tail-pieces; original pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; some foxing but generally very good. Short stories providing Christian doctrinal and moral lessons. The imprint on the front wrapper reads Clark Austin & Co. 1851. Issued in the publisher's New Stories for Little Folks series. First published in 1851 other editions followed in 1856 and 1861. Of this only Michigan State and North Carolina- Greensboro in OCLC. Clark, Austin & Smith unknown
Ссылка продавца : 31978
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ORCUTT, WILLIAM DANA
In quest of the perfect book. Reminiscences & reflections of a bookman
Boston: Little Brown 1926. First trade edition 8vo pp. 16 316 1; eighty- three plates in black and white one in color; fine copy in orig. brown cloth gilt lettering and decoration on upper cover and spine t.e.g. in jacket with a few creases a bit of staining to rear panel and small chips to top of spine. Sections on illuminated manuscripts Gutenberg Cobden-Sanderson William Morris Baskerville Mark Twain etc. Little, Brown unknown
Ссылка продавца : 32108
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Middleton, Bernard C
A history of English craft bookbinding technique. Foreword by Howard Nixon
London: The Holland Press 1978. Second supplemented edition first published in 1963; 8vo pp. xv 1 326 14; 97 illustrations and diagrams in the text plus 11 full-page photographic illustrations at the back on rectos and versos of 6 plates; top edge stained brown fine copy in original white and brown cloth binding brown and gilt spine and cover labels. The Holland Press unknown
Ссылка продавца : 31990
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BLANCK, JACOB, comp
Harry Castlemon boys' own author: appreciation and bibliography
New York: R. R. Bowker 1941. First edition limited to 750 copies 8vo pp. xvii 1 142; frontispiece portrait and 16 plates; near fine in original green cloth with the remains of the printed dust jacket laid in. This copy inscribed "For Colton Storm - who knows why and how this book was done. Without thanks but with appreciation none-the-less -- Jake Blanck 12/27/41." A popular writer of boys' fiction in the late 19th century Castlemon pseudonym for Charles Austin Fosdick 1842-1915 should be ranked along side Horatio Alger and G. A. Henty though his popularity was short-lived. He produced about 58 titles many of them featuring "Frank Nelson" a character Castlemon modeled after himself. R. R. Bowker unknown
Ссылка продавца : 32127
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HULSE, ELIZABETH
A dictionary of Toronto printers publishers booksellers and the allied trades 1798-1900
Toronto: Anson-Cartwright Editions 1982. First edition review copy with publisher's slip laid in; 4to pp. xxii 2 311; illustrated throughout; fine in original red cloth lettered in silver on spine. Anson-Cartwright Editions unknown
Ссылка продавца : 31782
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Farquhar, Francis P
The books of the Colorado River & the Grand Canyon. A selective bibliography
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson 1953. First edition "designed and printed by Ward Ritchie" 12mo pp. xi 1 75 1; frontispiece illustration title-page printed in red and black; a near fine copy in original red cloth and wrap-around printed paper label a small smudge each to covers and slight darkening to front cover. Details on 125 works from Coronado to Zane Grey. Number XII in the publisher's "Early California Travels Series. Glen Dawson unknown
Ссылка продавца : 31793
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Catalogue of an important collection embracing many Americana and other rare curious and valuable books . the whole sold by auction . March 5th 6th and 7th
New York: George Leavitt & Co 1883. 8vo pp. 4 120; original front wrapper bound in; priced in pencil throughout; ownership names of "Chas. S. Woodward" trimmed at the top of the front wrapper; also "Dr. Geo. H. Moore" at the top of the title-page; bound in mid-20th century cream cloth over green paper-covered boards spine neatly lettered in black; some toning of the text else very good and sound. From the Seven Gables Bookshop reference library with its sale plate laid in. McKay 2921. George Leavitt & Co unknown
Ссылка продавца : 32078
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HUNNIESETT, BASIL
Steel-engraved book illustration in England
Boston: David Godine 1980. First edition 8vo pp. xvi 263; illus.; fine in original blue cloth pictorial dust jacket. Review copy with slip laid in. David Godine unknown
Ссылка продавца : 31946
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