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Elliott, Robert, and Roberts, Emma
Views in India China and on the shores of the Red Sea; Drawn by Prout Stanfield Cattermole Purser Cox Austen &c. from original sketches by Commander Robert Elliott R.N.; with descriptions by Emma Roberts 2 volumes in 1
London: H. Fisher R. Fisher & P. Jackson 1835. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes in 1: 68 64 p. 64 leaves of steel-engraved plates including 2 frontispieces 1 a color frontispiece engraved and printed by G. Baxter and 2 added engraved title pages with imprint: Fisher Son & Co. London 1835; 29 cm. Contemporary full polished maroon calf with five spine compartments between wide raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment; gilt-tooled decoration on wide raised bands and blind-tooled decoration on remaining compartments. Triple gilt-ruled borders with elaborate blind-tooled borders within on both boards. Gilt-rolled edges and turn-ins. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Emma Roberts 1794-1840 was an English travel writer and poet who lived in India for several years. Her text accompanies the beautiful engravings based on drawings by Commander Robert James Elliot who travelled from 1822 to 1824 in India Canton Guangzhou and the Red Sea area. Inscription on front free endpaper verso indicating that the book was given by Samuel Fennell on his engagement to Anabella Groom about 1837; she was the granddaughter of Hannah Lightfoot; later Anabella gave it to her friend Henry Plumptre Ramsden "lest it should in her own words fall into unworthy hands"; she died in 1882 and was buried in Trumpington Churchyard near Cambridge. The Rev. Henry Plumptre Ramsden 1848-1901 was the rector at Cottingham Yorkshire Eng. In Very Good Condition: edges somewhat rubbed; front board partially detached; occasional foxing generally light and in margins of plates; otherwise clean and bright. Because of the weight for international shipping it will have to be sent by international priority. H. Fisher, R. Fisher & P. Jackson hardcover
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Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron; Montagu, Elizabeth
Dialogues of the Dead
London: J. Murray successor to Mr. Sandby 1768. Hardcover. Very Good. The Fifth Edition Corrected." 2 xv 1 406 p.; 21 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title "Lyttelton's Dialogues." Gilt-rolled board edges. All page edges speckled red. Woodcut headpieces and tailpieces. Very small stamp at foot of title page verso reading "Printed in Great Britain." The anonymous author of the majority of these dialogues inspired by Lucian's dialogues is George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton 1709-1773; the last three dialogues are by Elizabeth Montagu 1720-1800. Among the speakers are "a North-American Savage"; Ulysses; William Penn; Louise de Coligni Princess of Orange; Alexander the Great; Cardinal Wolsey; Lucian; Hercules; and a "modern Bookseller" who complains to Plutarch about being nearly ruined by being unable to sell many copies of Plutarch's Lives and saved by selling fiction -- "secret History in which there is no Secret and no History." In Very Good Condition: minor loss at spine ends; joints are just starting but still solid; scraped along both joints near tail; a few pages are somewhat browned; otherwise clean and tight. J. Murray (successor to Mr. Sandby) hardcover
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Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft
Kate of Kate Hall by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler Mrs. A.L. Felkin and Alfred Laurence Felkin
London: Hutchinson and Co 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. Printed by William Brendon and Son Plymouth. viii 352 p.; 19 cm. Contemporary half polished green calf with six spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled title and authors in second and third compartments. Green-and-white cloth over boards. Top page edges gilt. "Works by the same authors" on half title verso. No date of publication but Hutchinson and Co. published the first edition in 1904. Front free endpaper inscribed and signed by the authors: "With best wishes from Ellen Thorneycroft Felkin & Alfred Laurence Felkin." Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler 1860-1929 was a successful poet and novelist. In 1903 she married Alfred Laurence Felkin 1856-1942; together this wrote this love story published the following year. In Very Good Condition: leather is rubbed; spine is sunned but gilt is still bright; fore-edges are slightly soiled; pages are clean and tight. Hutchinson and Co hardcover
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Wiggin, Kate Douglas
New Chronicles of Rebecca
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. vi 4 277 5 p. frontispiece and 7 leaves of illustrations; 19 cm. Brown cloth with white spine and cover titles and decoration. Oval pastedown illustration on front board. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper. With a note on the stationary of Mrs. I. William Collins Pottstown Pa. detailing when and where she acquired the book. In Very Good Condition: cover is clean and bright; pastedown is intact; frontispiece is stained along fore-edge not touching illustration; one page carelessly opened; otherwise clean and bright. Houghton Mifflin Co hardcover
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Ward, Christopher L
The Delaware Continentals 1776-1783
Wilmington Del: Historical Society of Delaware 1941. Hardcover. Near Fine -. This is no. 81 of a limited edition of 395 copies subscribed prior to pubication and signed by the author. xviii 620 4 p. color frontispiece and 13 leaves of maps; 24 cm. Cream linen with gilt-stamped spine title. Maps on endpapers. Stamped on front free endpaper: "1st Lt. 1231st Sta. Comp. Fort DuPont Del." with handwritten underneath: "12-11-41." This copy presumably belonged to Edgar P. Reese as that name has a checkmark next it in the list of subscribers to the limited first edition which follows the text. Edgar P. Reese graduated from the University of Delaware in 1929 and was the captain of the MP detachment at Fort DuPont in 1942. In Near Fine- Condition: 2 upper page corners creased; page edges slightly soiled; otherwise clean and bright. Historical Society of Delaware hardcover
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Episcopal Church Diocese of New York
The Proceedings of the Court convened under the Third Canon of 1844 in the City of New York on Tuesday December 10 1844 for the Trial of the Right Rev. Benjamin T. Onderdonk D.D. Bishop of New York; on a Presentment made by the Bishops of Virginia Tennessee and Georgia
New York: D. Appleton & Co 1845. Hardcover. Very Good -. 333 1 p.; 22 cm. Contemporary half red morocco with five spine compartments between raised bands with gilt-tooled decoration. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment "Bishop Onderdonk's Trial" with blind-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Maroon cloth over boards. All page edges speckled. Marbled endpapers. Imprint includes: Philadelphia: George S. Appleton. Without the 16 pages of publisher's advertisements found in some copies. The official account of the trial of the Rev. Benjamin Tredwell Onderdonk 1791-1861 on charges of immorality and impurity by the court of bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Small oval paper label at head of spine. Small label at lower edge of front fixed endpaper reading: "From the Library of Herbert Boyce Satcher." Tipped in on the second blank leaf following the front endpapers is a portrait of Onderdonk engraved by W.L. Ormsby from a photograph by Brady. Tipped in on 2 blank pages following the text is a report of Bishop Onderdonk's funeral in 1861. Having been convicted of 6 counts of lewdness based on the testimony of various women who had rejected his advances the bishop had been suspended from his post. The author of the account of his funeral viewed him as "an innocent person visited with the severest punishment." Gift inscription at head of title page: "For John McKeon Esq with cmplnts of David Graham." Added to that an inscription indicating that it had been purchased at the sale of A. Oakey Hall's estate. Tipped in on the first blank leaf following the front endpapers is an autograph letter from David Graham to A. Oakey Hall esq. about another case. Inscriptions in pencil on the front free endpaper indicate that David Graham was the counsel for Onderdonk's defense; at foot of the page: "The Episcopal Church Bishop Richter." David Graham 1808-1852 was an English lawyer who spent part of his career in the United States. John McKeon 1808-1883 was an American lawyer who served as New York County district attorney from 1846 to 1850. Abraham Oakey Hall 1826-1898 was an American lawyer who served as mayor of New York City from 1869 to 1872. Herbert Boyce Satcher was the vicar of St. Aidan's Parish in Cheltenham Pa. from 1924 to 1958. In Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; minor loss at head of spine; front hinge weak; the blank leaf with the tipped-in portrait is detached but present; minor foxing; otherwise clean and tight. D. Appleton & Co hardcover
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Lee, Charles; Langworthy, Edward, editor
Memoirs of the Life of the Late Charles Lee Esq.: Lieutenant-Colonel of the Forty-Fourth Regiment; Colonel in the Portuguese Service; Major-General and Aid de Camp to the King of Poland and Second in Command in the Service of the United States of America during the Revolution
New York: T. Allen Bookseller and Stationer 1793. Hardcover. Very Good -. The Second American Edition. Title continued: "To which are added His Political and Military Essays: Also Letters to and from Many Distinguished Characters both in Europe and America." viii 284 p.; 18 cm. Early 19th-century half calf with marbled paper over boards. Paper spine label with handwritten title: Memoirs of Charles Lee. Small printed paper label at tail of spine with "219." Orange bookplate on front fixed endpaper identifying this as Property of the Mechanics' Library Association Lancaster Pa. stamped "withdrawn". This label is over a partially removed pink bookplate. Faint blue oval stamp on title page reading "Mechanics Society Lancaster Pa." The Mechanics' Library Association of Lancaster was founded in 1829 as the Mechanics' Society. Early American Imprints ser. 1 Evans 25701. Howes L-83. Memoirs of Major General Lee signed p. 47: Edward Langworthy Baltimore March 10th 1787. In Very Good- Condition: edges are lightly rubbed; head of spine more heavily rubbed; finger soiling along edges of pages; occasional foxing; otherwise clean and tight. T. Allen, Bookseller and Stationer hardcover
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Chelucci, Paolino
Paulini Chelucci a S. Josepho Lucensis Cler. Reg. Scholarum Piarum & in Archigymnasio Romanæ Sapientiæ Publici Eloquentiæ Professoris: Orationes Habitas in eodem Archigymnasio; Accessit ejusdem Vita et index rerum Jo: Erhardo Kappio auctore Editio Secunda Veneta
Venetiis Venice: Simon Occhi 1773. Hardcover. Near Fine. Editio secunda. 2 volumes in 1: 148 144 p.; 18 cm. Contemporary vellum with ink spine title in an old hand. Woodcut title vignettes printer's device initials and endpiece. Edited by Johann Erhard Kapp. Inscription in an old hand on one page of first part and marginal notation on p. 110 of second part in same hand. Occasional mark in light blue or red pencil. In Near Fine Condition: vellum is slightly rubbed; marginalia as described; otherwise clean and tight. Simon Occhi hardcover
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Osborn, William
An Essay on Laborious Parturition: in which the Division of the Symphysis Pubis is Particularly Considered
London: T. Cadell 1783. Hardcover. Near Fine. 6 x 1 xiv-xvi 255 1 p.; 22 cm. 20th-century binding: half polished calf with gilt-tooled spine title "Osborn on Parturition." Black cloth over boards. Lacking original half title which was supplied probably at the time of the modern binding by a facsimile of a half title bearing an inscription. Title page bears two circular stamps of the Norwich & Norfolk United Medical Book Society and "ANd43" in ink in the upper corner. The Norwich & Norfolk United Medical Book Society was founded prior to 1826 when a catalog of its library was published. The library was dispersed some time after 1955. In the Conclusion p. 241-255 Osborn disagrees vehemently with Alexander Hamilton's remarks on Caesarian operations in his Outlines of the Theory and Practice of Midwifery. Hamilton declared that the mother had only a one in ten chance of dying as the result of a Caesarian operation while Osborn insisted that the odds were precisely the opposite only one in ten of survival. Half title supplied as noted above; otherwise in Near Fine Condition: front endpapers slightly discolored; upper corner of back board slightly rubbed; pages are clean and bright. T. Cadell hardcover
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McCarron, Charles, and Vincent, Nathaniel
When Old Bill Bailey Plays the Ukalele; words and music by Chas. McCarron & Nat. Vincent
New York: Broadway Music Corp 1915. Sheet_music. Very Good -. 5 1 p.: music; 35 cm. Wrapper printed in blue and orange. Sheet music for piano and voice. Wrapper illustration by Andre de Takacs of an older black man playing a ukulele with two Hawaiian women peeking through the bamboo behind him. Publisher's advertisements inside front wrapper and outside back wrapper. Bill Bailey plays his "old guitar" called Ukalele in Honolulu; the lyrics include references to the hula and to the women's suffrage movement. The musical instrument the ukulele was first popularized in the continental United States during the Panama Pacific International Exposition held in 1915 from the spring to the fall in San Francisco. The Hawaiian Pavilion at the exposition included a guitar and ukulele ensemble. This song was one of a number written by Tin Pan Alley songwriters in response to the sudden interest in this instrument. In Very Good- Condition: crease across lower right corner of front wrapper; small creases along edges; 1-cm. tear from spine near head of spine with adjacent creases without loss; small loss of paper at head of spine; lightly soiled. Broadway Music Corp unknown
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Saint-Jure, Jean-Baptiste
An Extract of the Life of Monsieur de Renty: A Late Nobleman of France; Publish'd by John Wesley
Bristol Eng: J. Grabham and W. Pine 1760. Very Good -. Printed by J. Grabham and W. Pine . . . and sold at the New-Room in the Horse-Fair; and at the Foundery near Upper-Moor-Fields London." The third edition. 65 sic 69 3 p.; 16 cm. Signatures: A-F6 12mo is 6s. Disbound from a larger volume. Typographic head-pieces and tail-pieces. Extracted from: The Holy Life of Monr. de Renty a Late Nobleman of France and Sometime Councellor to King Lewis the 13th. Written in French by John Baptist S. Jure and translated into English by E.S. Gent. London 1658. Cf. Green R. John & Charles Wesley. Errors in pagination: 62-69 misnumbered as 58-65. In Very Good- Condition: disbound; first leaf half title detached but present; light soiling throughout; otherwise solid. J. Grabham and W. Pine unknown
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Garvin, John William, ed
Canadian Poets
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine. xi 1 536 p.: many in-text portraits; 24 cm. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and cover title. Inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper: "To my dear friends The Misses Marty one of the 25 first copies received from the bindery on Aug. 30 1926. They are bound in a special buckram." Most available copies are in red or maroon cloth. Includes several poems by his wife Amelia Beers Warnock who published under the pen name Katherine Hale. With: two newspaper clippings about Canadian poets which have left shadows on adjacent pages. In Near Fine Condition: corners lightly rubbed; shadows on several pages as noted above; otherwise clean and bright. McClelland & Stewart hardcover
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Payne, AA A A
A Handbook of British and Foreign Orders War Medals and Decorations Awarded to the Army and Navy Chiefly described from those in the collection of A.A. Payne of which there are some 2500; More than 500 of these have been awarded to officers whose services are therein recorded; Illustrated with nearly Sixty Portraits Orders and Medals
Sheffield England: J.W. Northend printer and lithographer 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. lxix 3 811 p.: tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author and 58 leaves of plates from photographs chiefly reproduced by Furniss of Sheffield; 25 cm. Printer's royal blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and illustrations of crown and drum and gilt-stamped Loyal and True medallion on the front-cover. Lacking dust jacket. Title page in red and black. Includes addenda and corrigenda; indices by medal and officer; lists of military officers colonels of regiments naval officers and and officers connected with the peerage baronetage and knightage and an index of the services of naval officers all whose decorations were in the author's collection. Top page edges gilt. Beige endpapers. Inscribed "With the Author's compliments" on the dedication page doubtless to one of the 80 subscribers listed after the dedication page. First Edition. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; back hinge cracked; pages and illustrations are clean and tight. J.W. Northend, printer and lithographer hardcover
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Wells, Herbert George
The Soul of A Bishop; frontispiece by C. Allan Gilbert Clara Irene Shively Knight provenance
New York: Macmillan Company 1917. Hardcover. Very Good. Published September 1917. 8 341 11 p.; color frontispiece by C. Allan Gilbert; 20 cm. Publisher's red rib-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. No dust jacket. Publisher's advertisements for other books by Wells on verso of half title and on unpaginated pages following text. First American edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Clara I. Knight Akron Ohio October 25th 1917." Clara Irene Shively Knight d. 1965 was the wife of Charles Landon Knight 1867-1933 publisher of the Akron Beacon Journal for more than two decades. Her sons John Shively Knight 1894-1981 and James Landon Knight 1909-1991 founded the Knight-Ridder newspaper empire and established the Knight Memorial Education Fund. During World War I John S. Knight joined the army; his mother Clara was reading this book when she went to see him in January 1918 before he left for Europe and she made several marginal notations primarily in pencil both about her efforts to see her son and about the book. She also underlined a few passages in pencil. While reacting to her son's sudden enlistment in the Army Clara I. Knight is reading Well's novel about an English bishop struggling with his faith during the First World War while suffering from insomnia and nicotine withdrawal. In Very Good Condition: corners and ends of spine lightly rubbed; slightly cocked; a few pages opened carelessly not impacting text; other than Clara I. Knight's notations clean and tight. Macmillan Company hardcover
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Reed, Myrtle
Pickaback Songs; Words by Myrtle Reed; Music by Eva Cruzen Hart; Pictures by IkeMorgan
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1903. Hardcover. Good. Morgan Ike. 72 p.: music color illustrations signed "IAM"; 29 cm. Black cloth spine. Grey paper over boards with red and black titles and color illustrations. The front cover illustration is of a woman carrying a child dressed in a Civil War uniform on her back piggyback; the back cover shows a girl and boy singing the boy playing an accordian. Illustrated endpapers. Contains 32 songs each song with music for voice and piano on the left-hand page and the lyrics repeated with illustrations on the facing page. Lower margin of second page of the table of contents bears stamp of Sanders & Stayman Co. Washington D.C. purveyors of pianos phonographs music and pianolas. Front free endpaper bears gift inscription dated Christmas 1910. The author Myrtle Reed 1874-1911 was an American poet journalist and novelist who also published cookbooks under the name Olive Green. The illustrator Isaac A. Morgan 1871-1913 was a Chicago newspaper artist who also illustrated works by L. Frank Baum and others. The composer Eva Cruzen Hart also wrote The Delta Gamma Waltzes and the Nicosis Waltzes; little else is known about her. In Good Condition: cover is rubbed and lightly soiled; significant loss of paper over lower corner of front board; minor loss at other corners and along edges; very faint dampstain along lower gutter throughout; light soiling throughout; stitching is loose; a few tears of 2 cm. or less from lower edges without loss. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
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Schefer, Leopold
The Artist's Married Life: Being that of Albert Dürer; Translated from the German of Leopold Schefer by Mrs. J.R. Stodart provenance: John Edward Russell
Edinburgh: James Munroe & Company 1849. Hardcover. Near Fine -. Reprinted from the London edition." Andover: J.D. Flagg and W.H. Wardwell Stereotypers and printers. xxiii 2 26-257 p.; 18 cm. Contemporary half polished calf with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments; leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title. Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. All page edges marbled. Marbled endpapers matching boards. Engraved bookplate on front fixed endpaper of John E. Russell. The bookplate "shows the owl of Minerva seated upon the books of the scholar" Allen's American Book Plates p. 357. John Edward Russell 1834-1903 represented Massachusetts in the House of Representatives from 1887 to 1889. The author Leopold Schefer 1784-1862 was a German poet and novelist. This fictional version of Albrecht Dürer's relationship with his wife Agnes was originally published in 1828 under the title Künstlerehe. The translator was Jemima Henrietta Brown Stodart 1807-1865 the wife of John Riddle Stodart a magistrate of the city of Edinburgh. In Near Fine- Condition: edges slightly rubbed; small discoloration of leather on front board; clean and crisp. James Munroe & Company hardcover
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Addison, Joseph
The Addisonian Miscellany: Being a Selection of Valuable Pieces from those justly celebrated and classic works the Spectator Tatler and Guardian; To which is prefixed the Life of Joseph Addison Esq. Designed for the school and the library
Boston: Joseph Bumstead 1801. Hardcover. Very Good -. Printed for Joseph Bumstead. Sold by him at no. 20 Union-Street: by Thomas and Andrews Newbury-Street; by E. and S. Larkin Wm. P. and L. Blake W. Pelham and C. Bingham Cornhill." viii 1 10-321 3 p.; 17 cm. Contemporary full calf; red leather spine label with gilt-tooled title: British Classics. Former owner's name on blank leaf preceding title page: J.C. Hughes. Inscribed at head of title page: Henry Rice March 1814. Early American Imprints ser. 2 Shaw & Shoemaker 16. In Very Good- Condition: archival repair to head of spine and hinges; corners are rubbed; scattered light foxing; paper is browning but solid; clean and tight. Joseph Bumstead hardcover
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Jackson, Helen Hunt
The Procession of Flowers in Colorado by Helen Jackson H.H.; illustrated in water colors by Alice A. Stewart
Boston: Roberts Brothers 1886. Hardcover. Very Good. 30 4 p.: hand-painted water color floral illustrations on 13 pages; 29 cm. Original wide cream calf spine with gilt-stamped cover title; light green paper over remainder of boards with gilt-stamped floral decoration running along leather-paper border. White moire endpapers. Lacking original slipcase. This is no. 47 of a limited edition of 100 copies each numbered and signed by the artist Alice Stewart. There are two or more binding variants. The illustrations vary in each of the 100 copies of this beautiful book. In Very Good Condition: edges are rubbed; binding lightly soiled; front free endpaper detached but present lacking lower gutter corner; first blank leaf following front endpapers also detached but present; a few small spots of light discoloration as is typical of this book; otherwise clean and bright. Roberts Brothers hardcover
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Staver, Mary Wiley
New and True: Rhymes and Rhythms and Histories Droll For Boys and Girls From Pole to Pole
Boston: Lee and Shepard 1892. Hardcover. Good . Smith Jessie Willcox. 136 p.: frontispiece by Jessie Willcox Smith many in-text illustrations; 26 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt- and black-stamped spine and cover titles and illustrations. Brown floral endpapers. Illustrated by Lavinia Ebbinghausen Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie McDermott J. Augustus Beck and Herman Faber. Includes the poem "Santa Claus in Trouble." In Good Condition: edges rubbed with ends of spine and corners starting to fray; front board slightly creased; slightly cocked; 2-cm. tear from upper edge of pp. 95-96 and 101-102 without loss; light finger soiling and occasional staining primarily along fore-edge margins. Lee and Shepard hardcover
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Ricker, Leopold Anton
Lehr- und Handbuch der Geburtshülfe für Hebammen
Weilburg Ger: L.E. Lanz 1832. Very Good . xii 338 p.: ill.; 22 cm. Modern wrappers. Pages are unopened and untrimmed. "270747" and "Withdrawn" stamped in lower corner of p. iii. Early 19th-century textbook and manual of midwifery. Scarce. In Very Good Condition: lacking original binding; in modern archival wrappers; old dampstain along upper edge through about p. 105 not touching text; occasional foxing; otherwise clean and tight pages never opened or trimmed. L.E. Lanz unknown
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Roses and Thorns of Paris and London: A Historic and Descriptive Review of the Virtues and Vices of the Two Greatest Cities of the Earth
New York: s.n. 1900. Hardcover. Very Good . 518 p.: many full-page and in-text illustrations; 27 cm. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt spine and cover titles; black and red spine and cover illustrations. Title page printed in red and black. No publication information other than the place. Copyright 1900 by C.R. Graham. Advice for Americans travelling to Paris and London by someone who thought they should really stay in the United States. "It is an undeniable fact that Europeans do not know how to live; they have no idea of luxuries and very little of comforts." p. 47 The anonymous author emphasizes the scandalous aspects of life in Paris as much as possible the can-can "consists of high kicking and lascivious posturing by depraved women.". Contains amusing descriptions of restaurants cafes and theaters; parks monuments cemeteries and catacombs; cultural and educational institutions; horse races and festivals; and street life with the types of people to be seen: students artists' models vendors socialists anarchists gamblers and criminals. In general the section on Paris presents the fascinating and slightly scandalous world first dramatised for the world in Puccini's La Bohème. The section on London emphasizes the city's history and architecture. A heavy book; for international shipping it will have to be sent by priority international. In Very Good Condition: ends of spine slightly rubbed; cover is lightly soiled; slightly shaken; pages are clean and bright. s.n. hardcover
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Osler, Edward
The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth
London: Smith Elder and Co 1835. Hardcover. Very Good . xvi 448 p.: frontispiece and 5 additional leaves of plates including 1 folded map; 23 cm. Contemporary full polished calf; six spine compartments between raised bands. Black leather label in second spine compartment with gilt-tooled title: Life of Ld. Exmouth. Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments and on raised bands. Double gilt-ruled borders on both boards; gilt-tooled decoration on board edges and turn-ins. All page edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Brown ribbon bookmark separated from binding. The frontispiece portrait of Admiral Viscount Exmouth was engraved by W. Finden from a painting by W. Owen. The life of Admiral Edward Pellew 1st Viscount Exmouth 1757-1833 a British naval officer who fought during the American Revolution when he was taken prisoner at Saratoga the French Revolutionary wars and the Napoleonic wars. He is familiar to fans of C. S. Forester's Captain Horation Hornblower series. In Very Good Condition: edges lightly rubbed; loss of less than 1 cm. of leather at head of spine; foxing on plates and minimally on facing pages of text; otherwise clean and tight. A very attractive copy of this military biography. Smith, Elder and Co hardcover
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Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope
Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield to His Son Philip Stanhope Esq.; Late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden 4 volumes
London: J. Dodsley 1774. Hardcover. Good . The Third Edition. "Together with Several Other Pieces on Various Subjects. Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope from the Originals now in her Possession." 4 volumes xvi 352 p.; 4 355 1 p.; 4 376 p.; 4 364 p.; 22 cm. Half 19th-century blue calf with marbled paper over boards. Five spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled volumed numbers in third compartments. Marbled endpapers matching boards. Without the frontispiece portrait found in some editions of this popular work. In Good Condition: the leather author-title labels are lacking almost entirely from the second and fourth spine compartments; vol. 2 leather splitting from head of back joint; lacking leather from head of vol. 3 spine and from first compartment of vol. 4; the blue calf has darkened and begun to crack on the spines; boards are rubbed; a few leaves are browning and foxing; otherwise clean and solid. J. Dodsley hardcover
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; Thoreau, Henry David; Bremer, Fredrika
Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature Science and Art vol. 1 Jan. to June 1853
New York: G.P. Putnam & Co 1853. Hardcover. Very Good. iv 703 1 p. 1 leaf of a plate showing the residence of J.P. Kennedy Ellicott's Mills Md. 1 double-page wood-engraved view of New York City: in-text illustrations map; 24 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-stamped title in second compartment: "Putnam's Magazine vol. 1." All page edges red. Marbled endpapers. Edited and with contributions by Charles Frederick Briggs George William Curtis and Parke Godwin. George Putnam sought to focus on American writers and American literature in the magazine he established in 1853. This volume includes first appearance of two poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Warden of the Cinque Ports and Galgano the latter a verse translation of a story from Il Pecorone by Giovanni Fiorentino; The Fountain of Youth by James Russell Lowell; Old Ironsides by James Fenimore Cooper; Ornithomanes by Henry William Herbert; The Living Corpse a Poe-inspired story by the suicidal William North; and three parts of Henry David Thoreau's Excursion to Canada published with additonal material in 1866 as A Yankee in Canada. The focus on American writers includes Briggs' reflections on the popularity of Uncle Tom's Cabin in Uncle Tomitudes; Fitz-James O'Brien in Our Young Authors on Herman Melville; and The Student Life of Daniel Webster by Edwin D. Sanborn. This volume also includes both Henry James Sr.'s declaration of the inferiority of women in his Woman and the "Woman's Movement" and contributions by women writers--Virginia in a Novel Form by Mrs. Hicks Rebecca Brodnax Hicks 1823-1870 who published The Kaleidoscope a weekly newspaper in Petersburg Va.; Mary Spears by Elizabeth F. Ellet 1818-1877 author of The Women of the American Revolution; and Midnight Sun by Fredrika Bremer. It features articles about Cuba Japan and Honolulu; the occult Modern "Spiritualism" by Horace Greeley; Ericsson's caloric ship; New York City in Clarence Cook's series New-York Daguerreotyped and in The Benevolent Institutions of New-York by Charles Loring Brace. It also includes the popular Have We a Bourbon Among Us and The Bourbon Question by Charles H. Hanson who argued that the Rev. Eleazar Williams a missionary to the Indians was actually the dauphin Charles Louis son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. In Very Good Condition: rubbed most heavily at corners but solid; occasional light foxing; a few sections of pages have browned but most have not; clean and tight. G.P. Putnam & Co hardcover
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Sigourney, Lydia H
Past Meridian
New York: D. Appleton & Co 1854. Hardcover. Very Good -. iv 3 10-239 p.; 18 cm. Original brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Front free endpaper inscribed: "Madam Noyes with the respects of LH Sigourney Christmas 1854." A delightful look at those like the author in the P.M. of their life this first edition appearing when popular American author Lydia Sigourney 1791-1865 was in her 60s. Inscribed by the author in the year of its publication; it is not known which Madam Noyes was the recipient of this volume. BAL 17903 binding A. In Very Good- Condition: cloth is somewhat faded and lightly stained; gilt spine title faded; ends of spine starting to fray; light foxing on a few pages; otherwise pages are clean and tight. D. Appleton & Co hardcover
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Gilpin, William
The Life of William Baker
Philadelphia Pa: Religious Tract Society of Philadelphia 1816. Paperback. Very Good . Published by 'The Religious Tract Society of Philadelphia' and for sale at their Repository no. 8 South Front Street. William Bradford--agent." Attributed to William Gilpin in the Dictionary of National Biography. 36 p.; 19 cm. Woodcut title vignette. Pages are untrimmed. William Bradford was agent for the Religious Tract Society of Philadelphia from 1816 to 1820. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker. In Very Good Condition: foxing and general darkening of paper. A solid and never trimmed copy of a very scarce early 19th-century pamphlet issued by the Religious Tract Society of Philadelphia and printed by William Bradford. Religious Tract Society of Philadelphia paperback
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More, Hannah
The Pilgrims an Allegory
Philadelphia Pa: Religious Tract Society of Philadelphia 1819. Paperback. Very Good. Published by 'The Religious Tract Society of Philadelphia' and for sale at their Depository no. 8 South Front Street. William Bradford--agent." 12 p.: 1 woodcut illustration; 19 cm. Pamphlet; pages are untrimmed. By Hannah More. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker. In Very Good Condition: stain on untrimmed fore-edge of p. 5; light creasing; foxing and general darkening of paper. A solid and never trimmed copy of a very scarce early 19th-century pamphlet issued by the Religious Tract Society of Philadelphia and printed by William Bradford. Religious Tract Society of Philadelphia paperback
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Woolman, John
The Works of John Woolman: in Two Parts
Philadelphia Pa: Benjamin Johnson 1806. Hardcover. Very Good -. The fourth edition. Imprint: "Philadelphia: Printed for Benjamin Johnson and Samuel Wood New-York." 423 3 p.; 18 cm. Full calf; six spine compartments with gilt-tooled borders and red morocco spine label in second compartment reading "Woolman's Works." Inscriptions on back endpapers and preceding blank leaf indicating that this book was given to Mary Smith in 1888 by her mother E.D. Smith. Variant of Early American Imprints 2nd series Shaw and Shoemaker 11899 in which the imprint is: "Philadelphia: Printed by Benjamin Johnson no. 31 Market Street. 1806." Although the text is otherwise identical the final two pages of publisher's advertisements are for Samuel Wood New York not Bennett & Walton as found in the Early Am. Imprints copy. Contents: A journal of the life and travels of John Woolman -- Some considerations on the keeping of Negroes -- Considerations on pure wisdom and human policy; on labor; on schools; and on the right use of the Lord's outward gifts -- Considerations on the true harmony of mankind -- Remarks on sundry subjects -- An epistle to the quarterly and monthly meeting of Friends -- A word of remembrance and caution to the rich. In Very Good- Condition: rubbed and scraped; small worm hole near head of spine; lacking front free endpaper; scattered soiling. Benjamin Johnson hardcover
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Dorset, Catherine Ann Turner
Think Before You Speak: or The Three Wishes: a Tale
Philadelphia Pa: Johnson & Warner 1810. Hardcover. Very Good -. 32 p.: engraved frontispiece and 5 leaves of engraved plates; 12 cm. Original plain paper on paste board printed in black with front and back within simple decorative borders. Imprint on cover dated 1811. Publisher's advertisement on back cover. Frontispiece attached to inside of front cover. Principally taken from: Le Magazin des Enfans Mme. de Beaumont cf. Preface. Plates probably engraved by William Charles. Rosenbach 438; Early American Imprints 2nd series Shaw & Shoemaker 19992 and 22717. The illustrations are printed on a different stock which has darkened more than the text. Front cover detached; otherwise in Very Good- Condition: cover slightly soiled; lacking some paper along joints; scattered foxing including title page; otherwise pages are clean and tight. Johnson & Warner hardcover
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More, Hannah
The Search After Happiness: a Pastoral Drama; to Which is Added Joseph Made Known to His Brethren: a Sacred Drama
Philadelphia Pa: Johnson and Warner 1811. Hardcover. Near Fine. 72 p.: frontispiece; 15 cm. Original plain salmon paper over paste boards. Frontispiece engraved by B. Tanner after Stothard. One of America's early successful engravers on steel and copper Tanner lived and worked in Philadelphia from 1805 to 1845. The frontispiece was printed on a lighter weight stock than the rest of the volume and as is usual is browned. "Lydia R. Bailey printer no. 10 North Alley"--verso of title page. Dedication signed: Hannah Moore. Also issued in gilt-speckled yellow paper over paste boards. Rosenbach 442; Early American Imprints Shaw & Shoemaker 23434. In Near Fine Condition: cover slightly soiled; pages are clean and bright. Johnson and Warner hardcover
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Holles, Denzil
The Speech of Denzell Holles Esquire: Delivered at the Lords Barr Wednesday the 15th. of Iune
London: Thomas Underhill 1642. Very Good -. Title continued: "Vpon the Impeachment of the Earles of North-hampton Devon-shire Monmouth and Dover and of the Lords Rich Andever Grey of Ruthen Coventry and Capell for their contempt in departing from the Parliament and not returning upon Summons." 2 11 3 p.; 19 cm. Signatures: A-B4. 4to. Disbound. Title within ornamental border; first page of text has engraved head-piece and initial. The number "8" appears in ink at head of title presumably a former owner's numbering from a volume of pamphlets. Inscription in an old hand on the last blank page possibly relating to the binding of that volume. Wing 2nd ed. H2476B. Denzil Holles was one of five members of the House of Commons whom King Charles I of England unsuccessfully attempted to arrest in 1642 and in this speech he presents the House of Commons' impeachment of the nine Lords who had refused to rejoin Parliament having joined the king's forces in what became the First English Civil War. In Very Good- Condition: lower edge of second signature shaved with partial loss of some letters; title page and last blank page lightly soiled; pages are otherwise clean and bright. Thomas Underhill unknown
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Jackson, William
Eulogium on the Character of General Washington Late President of the United States; Pronounced at the Request of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati Before the President of the United States and the Members of Both Houses of Congress
Philadelphia Pa: John Ormrod 1800. Paperback. Good . Title page continued: "on the twenty-second day of February eighteen hundred in the German Reformed Church Philadelphia." "New Edition." 44 p.; 21 cm. Signatures: A2 B-F4 8vo. Woodcut head piece and tailpiece. Disbound from a nonce volume. Early American Imprints 1st series Evans 37695. President George Washington had died on December 14 1799 less than three years after leaving office. His sudden death inspired mourning throughout the new nation. Major William Jackson fought in the American Revolution and became aide to Major General Benjamin Lincoln before being assigned to General Washington's staff. In 1795 he married Elizabeth Willing daughter of Thomas Willing a prominent Philadelphia merchant and banker. In 1796 Washington appointed him Collector of the Port of Philadelphia which post he held until 1801 when President Thomas Jefferson dismissed him. In 1799 Jackson became president of the Society of the Cincinnati remaining in that office until his death in 1828. Very scarce. In Good Condition: disbound; foxed throughout; 2.5-cm. tear from upper edge of 2nd leaf not touching text; slight loss at upper corners of last two leaves not touching text; pages are otherwise clean and solid. John Ormrod paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 001584
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Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Reminiscences of a Literary Life provenance: William Horatio Crawford
London: John Major 1836. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 parts bound in 1 volume xxxii 4 982 44 p.: frontispiece title vignette 8 additional leaves of plates 1 folded in-text illustrations and facsimiles; 22 cm. Contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled spine title: Dibdin's Literary Reminiscences. Gilt- and blind-tooled spine decoration. All page edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Paginated continuously. Includes list of subscribers and index. Frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by J. Posselwhite from a painting by George Richmond. Volume 2 title page omitted in binding. Armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper for William Horatio Crawford Lakelands Cork with motto: Durum Patientia Frango. William Horatio Crawford 1812-1888 was a member of the prominent Crawford family in Cork and a renowned book collector and gardener. In Very Good Condition: binding is rubbed; slight loss of leather at head of spine; leather is separated along back joint from head of for 2 cm. and just starting to tear across spine; front endpapers slightly scraped; something formerly taped on blank page preceding frontispiece and back of frontispiece now removed leaving discoloration; frontispiece separated along gutter for 4 cm. from head; pages and plates are clean and tight. John Major hardcover
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Pages, Monsieur de (Pierre Marie F)
Travels Round the World Performed by Sea and Land in the Years 1767 1768 1769 1770 and 1771 not in Early American Imprints
Philadelphia Pa: Joseph & James Crukshank 1801. Hard Cover. Very Good -. 108 p.; 14 cm. Original brown cloth spine with brown speckled paper over boards. Old paper label on spine with blue printed border and "232" in ink in the center. "118" written on front board. Front fixed endpaper bears oval bookplate of the Aimwell School Library. This was probably the school founded in 1796 in Philadelphia by three Quaker women. Originally called the Society for the Free Instruction of Female Children the name Aimwell School was adopted in 1807. The author's journeys included travelling up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Natchitoches and later riding across Texas. Its translation into English provided one of the earliest descriptions of Texas in that language. See Howes P-13; no American edition is noted. Not in Early American Imprints ser. II Shaw-Shoemaker. Very scarce. In Very Good- Condition: cover is rubbed; small loss of cloth on spine; corners are rubbed and bumped; occasional foxing; otherwise pages are clean and tight. Joseph & James Crukshank unknown
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Barnum, PT P T
Thirty Years of Hustling or How to Get On
Rutland Ill: C.C. Thompson 1890. Hard Cover. Fair . 488 2 p.: illustrations portraits; 21 cm. Maroon publisher's cloth with black-stamped titles and front cover illustration. Brown patterned endpapers. Includes: Successful Men and How They Became So by Henry M. Hunt; and Money: Where It Comes From and Where It Goes To Being a Concise History of Money Banks and Banking by Selden R. Hopkins. Former owner inscriptions on front free endpaper for J.H. Schoecke Celina Ohio and Parkie White Earley Ohio. Parkie White's inscription is also on p. vi otherwise blank. Final page blank bears inscription for former owner Dessie White Early Ohio with verse. A classic example of a late 19th-century success manual written by a famous self-made man. In Fair Condition: edges rubbed; corners bumped; back joint starting to separate; text block almost entirely separated from cover; occasional soiling largely in margins; pp. 17-18 detached but present. C.C. Thompson unknown
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Floyd, Grace C
Three Little Kittens
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons 1895. Paperback. Good. 14 p.: 4 full-page color illustrations many in-text drawings; 28 cm. Stiffened paper covers with chromolithographed front cover illustration. Cover title and imprint. Author's name on last page of text. No date of publication but probably 1895 or slightly later imprint includes "Ltd." and lists New York and Paris as places of publication. Identified as part of Father Tuck's "Little Darling" Series on the front cover. Raphael Tuck also issued this as part of several other series. "No. 1558" on cover. Printed on linen; first and last leaves pasted down on covers. A charming story based on the nursery rhyme about the three little kittens who lost their mittens. In Good Condition: edges are rubbed; cover is creased; back cover is stained; pages are somewhat soiled; color illustrations have left shadows on facing pages; minimal fraying to linen edges. This linen version by Tuck is extremely scarce. Raphael Tuck & Sons paperback
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Getz, George
A General Collection of Forms and Precedents in Conveyancing: in Which the Most Abundant Examples are Introduced in sufficient variety to enable the scrivener conveyancer and man of business accurately to draw instruments of writing legally and correctly
Reading Pa: George Getz 1837. Hard Cover. Very Good. Title continued: "Besides many other forms useful to the farmer mechanic and trader." Second edition enlarged and improved. xi 1 143 1 p.: facsimiles tables; 27 cm. Contemporary half calf with green paper over boards. Six spine compartments between double gilt rules; red morocco spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Getz' Forms. Complete imprint: "Reading Pa. George Getz. Philadelphia--George & Byington Geo. W. Mentz & Son. Printed by John C. Clark 60 Dock Street Philadelphia." Running title: Precedents in Conveyancing. A scarce ante-bellum legal form book. Of particular note is the form for a bond to be made before a marriage to permit the woman to make a will after marriage to dispose of those furniture clothing and other goods she owned prior to the marriage. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed and soiled; slight loss of leather at head of spine; corners are rubbed through; foxing throughout; otherwise clean and tight. George Getz unknown
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Castellani, Luigi Francesco
Vita del Celebre Medico Mantovano Marcello Donati: Conte di Ponzano Segretario e Consiglier e di Vincenzo Primo Duca di Mantova e Commendatore di S. Stefano
Mantova Mantua Italy: Per l'Erede di Alberto Pazzoni 1788. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine -. 140 p.: frontispiece portrait; 21 cm. Contemporary full vellum; gilt-tooled leather spine label reading "Castell." All page edges red. Small slip of paper with "20" written on it tipped in to page 3 next to the gutter. An attractive biography of Italian physician Marcello Donati 1538-1602. In Near Fine- Condition: vellum is slightly soiled; tail of spine rubbed; pages are clean and bright. Per l'Erede di Alberto Pazzoni unknown
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Murray, Thomas Boyles
Pitcairn the Island the People and the Pastor: with a Short Account of the Mutiny of the Bounty
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1853. Hard Cover. Good -. 280 p.: frontispiece and 10 additional leaves of plates; 17 cm. Original publisher's red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and blind-stamped spine and cover decorations. Pale yellow endpapers. Former owner's initials on front free endpaper: J.C. Former owner inscription on front fixed endpaper: "E.E. Lockhart U.S. Antarctic Service Wellington NZ Dec. 29 1939." Ernest Earl Lockhart 1912-2006 was the physiologist on Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's United States Antarctic Service Expedition of 1939-1941 to the South Pole. Mount Lockhart a mountain in the Fosdick Range was named after him. In Good- Condition: cover is faded; edges are rubbed; some loss of cloth over spine; hinges are separating; the two portraits on heavier stock John Adams and George H. Nobbs are foxed; occasional soiling; pages are otherwise clean and tight. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge unknown
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Redi, Francesco
Lettere di Francesco Redi Gentiluomo Aretino ed Accademico della Crusca
Napoli Naples Italy: Michele Stasi 1779. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 2 volumes bound together 2 vi 307 1 p.; 2 264 p.: engraved frontispiece portrait of Redi by A. Zaballi; 21 cm. Contemorary full vellum with gilt-stamped spine title. All page edges marbled. Both fixed endpapers are hand-decorated. Red ribbon book mark. Woodcut title vignette printer's device initial letters and headpieces. Francesco Redi 1626-1698 was a poet and court physician to Ferdinando II de' Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany and his successor Cosimo III. His series of experiments published in 1668 as Esperienze Intorno alla Generazione degl'Insetti Experiments on the Generation of Insects helped to refute the theory of spontaneous generation. In Very Good Condition: ends of spine and corners are rubbed; shadow on title page of vol. 1 from frontispiece; discoloration on pp. 223-230; pp. 262-290 are heavily foxed; otherwise scattered foxing. Michele Stasi unknown
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Audubon, Harriet B
Treasury of Fairy Tales: In Words of One Syllable
Philadelphia Pa: J.B. Lippincott & Co 1870. Hard Cover. Very Good . 93 1 106 120 106 112 110 p.: 12 leaves of chromolithographed illustrations; 20 cm. Red publisher's cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and black-stamped cover title and spine and cover illustrations. Former owners' inscriptions and stamp on the front endpapers indicate that Howard E. Studenroth received this as a present in 1902 and A. Light acquired it in 1973. Contains six titles issued as part of the series Famous Fairy Tales published by Allen Brothers New York 1869 here issued by J.B. Lippincott & Co. in an undated publisher's binding with the title: Treasury of Fairy Tales: In Words of One Syllable. The Allen Brothers copyrights are dated 1869 which is the only year they seemed to have published under that imprint. Presumably Lippincott bought the rights and issued the series as one volume with no year of publication in the 1870s. Each title which contains two stories has a title page with the Lippincott imprint on the front and the Allen Brothers copyright on the back a chromolithographed frontispiece and one chromolithographed plate preceding the second story. Contents: Valentine and Orson and Little Red Riding Hood -- Aladdin and Whittington and His Cat -- Robin Hood and Hop-o'-My-Thumb -- Blue Beard and Jack and the Bean Stalk -- Good Two Shoes and Tom Thumb -- Beauty and the Beast and Children in the Wood. In Very Good Condition: spine is lightly rubbed; head of spine just starting to fray; cover is bright; pages and illustrations are clean and tight. A very scarce collection of fairy tales. J.B. Lippincott & Co unknown
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Moore, HN H N
Life and Services of Gen. Anthony Wayne: Founded on Documentary and Other Evidence Furnished by his son Col. Isaac Wayne bound with The Life and Times of Gen. Francis Marion
Philadelphia Pa: John B. Perry 1845. Hard Cover. Good. The Life and Times of Gen. Francis Marion with an Appendix; Containing: Biographical Notices of Greene Morgan Pickens Sumpter Washington Lee Davie and Other Distinguished Officers of the Southern Campaign durning the American Revolution. 210 p. frontispiece and 5 additional leaves of illustration included in pagination; 210 14 p. 6 leaves of illustration included in pagination; 16 cm. Contemporary red leather with gilt-stamped spine decoration and title: Lives of Wayne and Marion. Blind-stamped decoration on both boards. 14-page publisher's catalog follows text. Former owner Samuel Moore's name on front and back endpapers. Engraved bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Norris Stanley Barratt with Barratt's Chapel 1780 below the motto "Nosce Te ipsum" and two smaller emblems below including the motto "Deus meumque jus" signed: McIntire Phila. Front free endpaper inscribed: For Anthony Wayne Ridgway from Norris S. Barratt May 11th 1924. Norris Stanley Barrat was a Philadelphia judge and author of Outline of the History of Old St. Paul's Church. In Good Condition: edges are rubbed; small loss of leather at head of spine; top 2 cm. of frontispiece portrait of Wayne lacking; soiling and foxing throughout heavy at times. John B. Perry unknown
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Moir, David Macbeth
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith; Written by Himself Hiester H. Muhlenberg
New York: J. & J. Harper 1828. Hard Cover. Good . xii 13-223 p.; 19 cm. Contemporary calf spine with six spine compartments between double gilt rules; red morocco label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Mansie Wauch. Marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled. Remains of old paper label at head of spine and call number in white at tail. In ink on the title page in an old hand following the title "By Mr Moir." At head of title page in another hand: "To the UPS from Hiester H. Muhlenberg of Reading Pa." Hiester H. Muhlenberg 1812-1886 graduated from Dickinson College in 1829 and practiced medicine in Reading; later he became a banker. A bookplate and inscriptions on the front fixed endpaper indicate that Muhlenberg gave the book to the Union Philosophical Society of Dickinson College in 1837. Title page also bears the embossed stamp of the Dickinson College Library. The half title page has been altered in ink to read: The Life of John W. Waugh. A very scarce American edition of this work by the Scottish doctor David Macbeth Moir 1798-1851. In Good Condition: ex-library as described above; corners rubbed; lower corner of last page of text lacking without loss of text; soiling and foxing; otherwise pages are clean and tight. J. & J. Harper unknown
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Baring-Gould, Sabine
Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas
London: Smith Elder and Co 1863. Hardcover. Very Good -. Baring-Gould Sabine. xlviii 447 p.: color frontispiece 15 additional leaves of plates some color and 1 folded map of Iceland with the author's route indicated in red; 26 cm. Half contemporary morocco with six spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled spine title. Marbled paper over boards and marbled endpapers. Many in-text maps music and drawings. Appendices: A. "Notes on the Ornithology of Iceland" by A. Newton -- B. "Advice to Sportsmen" by J.W.R. -- C. "A List of Icelandic Plants" -- D. "A List of Icelandic Published Sagas" -- E. "Expenses of My Tour in Iceland." A scarce account of a mid-19th-century visit to Iceland. In Very Good- Condition: edges lightly rubbed; old repair to last leaf of text without loss of text; dampstain in margin of seven plates not touching images; occasional soiling in margins; old stains to a few pages; otherwise pages and plates are clean and tight. Smith, Elder and Co hardcover
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Hecquet, Philippe
De l'Indecence aux Hommes d'Accoucher les Femmes et de l'Obligation aux Femmes de Nourrir leurs Enfans: Pour montrer par des raisons de Physique de Morale & de Medecine que les meres n'exposeroient ni leurs vies ni celles de leurs enfans en se passant ordinairement d'Accoucheurs & de Nourrices
Trevoux France: L'Imprimerie de S.A.S. 1708. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good . Et se vend à Paris. Chez Jacques Etienne Libraire." 94 145 7 p.; 15 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Red morocco label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: "L'Inec aux Hommes." Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments and on board edges. All page edges speckled red. Woodcut head pieces and initial letters. In an old hand on the title page: "par mr hecquet." First edition of Philippe Hecquet's important condemnation of men displacing women as midwives. The second part of the book advises women on feeding infants including breastfeeding. In Very Good Condition: slight loss of leather at head of spine; edges are rubbed; back joint weak at head of spine; hinges are tight; pages are clean and tight. L'Imprimerie de S.A.S. hardcover
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Hine, Reginald L
A Mirror for the Society of Friends: Being the Story of the Hitchin Quakers With an Introduction by Edward Grubb
London: George Allen & Unwin 1929. Very Good -. Lucas Samuel. First published in The History of Hitchin vol. 2 1929; this separate edition published later the same year. 150 2 p.: 9 in-text drawings 13 leaves of illustrations many by Samuel Lucas; 25 cm. Green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and decoration; gilt-stamped center medallion on both boards. Title page in red and black with decorative border. Publisher's device on page following index. Top page edges gilt. Includes bibliography and index. Faint white library call numbers on spine. Front fixed endpaper bears inscription: Friends House Preparative Meeting Library. The same with Friends House Euston Road London stamped on the front free endpaper. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper: "Helen F. Carpenter Withleigh West Heath Rd Hampstead London NW3." A history of the Society of Friends in Hitchen Herfordshire England. In Very Good- Condition: spine is sunned slightly faded; ends of spine and corners rubbed with fraying at head of spine; remains of white call numbers on spine; cover slightly soiled; foxing primarily on first few leaves including title page; otherwise clean and tight. George Allen & Unwin unknown
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Alexander, William
The History of Women from the Earliest Antiquity to the Present Time; Giving Some Account of almost every interesting Particular concerning that Sex among all Nations ancient and modern
London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1779. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes in 1: 8 368 14 p.; 4 344 16 p.; 29 cm. Signatures: A-3C4 -3C4 pi2 B-2Y4 4to. Dark brown cloth spine and corners 20th-century with printed paper spine label; marbled paper 19th-century over boards. Matching marbled endpapers. Errata on terminal page of each volume following index. Occasional notations in a 19th-century hand in the margins sometimes with corrections in the text; an extensive commentary written in the margin of the section on marriage ceremonies among the Romans. In Very Good Condition: boards are moderately rubbed with loss of marbled paper at edges; old archival repair of tear along gutter of final 3 leaves of vol. 1 and first leaf of vol. 2 not touching text and of tear from fore-edge of v. 2 pp. 51-52 without loss of text; upper margin of v. 2 pp. 119-142 darkened; similar at head of gutter on v. 2 pp. 221-243; old stain on v. 2 p. 317 text remains legible; old dampstain along upper edge and fore-edge of v. 2 pp. 337-344; tear from upper edge of last leaf of v. 2 index and following blank leaf with old tape repair no loss of text; otherwise only very occasional soiling in margins and minimal foxing. W. Strahan and T. Cadell hardcover
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Heberer, Michael
Ongelukkige Voyagie van Michiel Heberer Van Bretten: door verscheyde Gedeeltens van Asia en Africa in het Jarr 1582 en vervolgens Verhalende het gevangen nemen
Leyden Neth: Pieter Vander Aa 1727. Hardcover. Fine. Title continued: "mitsgaders de harde en Slaaffe Dienstbaarheyd des Schrijvers onder het wreede Jok der Turken in Egypten en hoe hy eyndelijk na veele uytgestane ongemakken in sijn vryheyd is hersteld. Als Mede een Beschrijving van verscheyde Eylande Steeden Zee-havens Oudheeden van Eypten Turkyen en het Heylige Land: ook de Gewoontens Zeden en Straf-oeffeningen deser volkeren. Door den Reysiger selfs beschreeven. Met een volkoomen Register en Konst-Printen verrijkt." 72 p. engraved title page vignette 1 leaf of a copper-plate engraved folded map: 4 in-text engravings; 36 cm. Signatures: A-I4 4to. Modern grey and brown decorative paper over boards with a modern printed black-on-grey label on the front cover reproducing part of the title page as a smaller scale within a double-ruled border. Text is in 130 numbered columns. Although there is no date of publication this appears to be from the series of travel accounts printed by Pieter vander Aa in 1727 De Aanmerkenswaardigste en Alomberoemde See- en Land-Reizen. The author Michael Heberer 1560-1623/33 has been called der pfälzishe Robinson or Robinson Crusoe of the Palatinate because of his unlucky sea voyages recounted here. The engraved map shows Heberer's route around the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. The other engravings depict a ship wreck prisoners of the moors the freeing of some prisoners in Alexandria and the execution of others. Back cover of modern binding slightly soiled; otherwise in Fine Condition. Very scarce. Pieter Vander Aa hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 000356 ISBN : 1560162333 9781560162339
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Ferguson, Richard S
Early Cumberland and Westmorland Friends: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Early Members of the Society of Friends in Those Counties
London Eng: F. Bowyer Kitto 1871. First Edition. Very Good -. London: F. Bowyer Kitto; Carlisle: Chas. Thurnam and Sons. vii 3 208 p.; 20 cm. Reddish-brown pebble-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and black-stamped decoration of both boards. Pale yellow endpapers. Binder's label on back fixed endpaper for Westleys & Co. London. Front free endpaper bears the names of two former owners: Thomas Drewry 1871 and Jesse Darbyshire 1901. A third name was erased at the head of that endpaper. The author states that about one third of these biographical sketches of early English Quakers first appeared in the Carlisle Journal. This is the first edition in book form. The appendix contains relevant excerpts from Besse's Sufferings. In Very Good- Condition: spine sunned; somewhat cocked; cover is slightly soiled; edges lightly rubbed; pp. 1-16 partially detached; pp. 154-55 have a shadow in the gutter from former newspaper bookmark; a few pencilled marginialia and occasional soiling in the margins. F. Bowyer Kitto unknown
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Crawford, Patricia
Women and Religion in England: 1500-1720
London Eng: Routledge 1993. First Edition. Fine/fine. x 268 p.: 12 pages of illustrations; 22 cm. Black cloth with white-printed spine title; illustrated dust jacket. Includes notes and index. First edition. Part of the publisher's Christianity and Society in the Modern World series. Patricia Crawford in this groundbreaking study argues that while religion during the 1500s and 1600s "reinforced the assumption that women were inferior to men" there were some women who transcended those beliefs and profoundly influenced history "within a social structure which was not of their making." An important work on "the significance of gender in English society and for students of religious history and of the early modern period" from the dust jacket. In Fine/Fine condition. Routledge unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 000559 ISBN : 0415016967 9780415016964
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