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175020179Cont. full calf, raised bands, gilt back, gilt titlelabel. Binding with minor scratches. Top of spine worn. Engraved ornamental titlepage. 89,(3) pp. engraved, having 89 ""chansons"" all with engraved music and engr. text. At end 3 pp. listing the 89 songs. Occasionally a little brownspotted, on good paper.
203936London: A. K. Newman and Co. 1843. 24mo Very good plus. Two parts in one volume: Part I - 170 p; Part II - 257 p. Engraved frontispiece. Gilt-printed spine remaining very bright despite some sunning to green cloth. Front hinge tender. Former owner's contemporary name to endpaper. A little age spotting and off-setting within but very good indeed overall. A. K. Newman and Co. Hardcover
a16701NY 1866 1864 Carleton. Hardcover. 234p. Appendix has interesting 34 page alphabetized list of vulgar words and their meanings. Manners especially as pertains to speech.Owner signed. Original cloth. Cover faded but not much wear; some ink spots on basckstrip; small ink stain in margin only of 4 initial pages. Scattered light foxing in text. Hinges unbroken.No owner marks. Good . Pictures available on request. . hardcover
31108<p>octavo 4 pages unsigned possible incomplete in very good condition.</p><p>The writer describes his travels in Pittsburg and other western Pennsylvania towns he provides an epistolary tour of Pittsburg's industries of the day an oil refinery comments on the pollution "earth and air are impregnated with the aroma of petroleum" lumber raftsmen and iron mills before continuing on to New Brighton New Castle and Franklin in Venango County:</p><p>"My dear Theora</p><p>… My letter from Pittsburg was written on Thursday morning and mailed then and there so I suppose you have read it before this time and I shall start from the point where I left off …. After taking my breakfast at the St. Nicholas which by the way was an excellent one and at the moderate charge of 25 cents I turned out to view the city went to P. Office with your letter and thence across the Allegheny river and through the city of Allegheny to the heights beyond from which a fine view of the rivers and surrounding country could be obtained – rambled over a German Catholic cemetery on one of the highest hills and then descended towards the river and found myself on plunging down into a deep ravine in what I supposed by the stables and shanties around to be the Irish town or suburb but the steep hill sides were terraced and laid out in rude gardens or graperies indicating a German population in part if not in whole. I threaded my way out towards the shore where a number of oil refineries are located. I entered one of them and discoursed the proprietor upon the subject of coal oil and he very politely showed me through his refinery and described the various processes and operations to which the crude material is subjected reserving only to himself the final chemical mystery which of course no "outsider" has a right to enquire into. He made me a present of a vial filled with the purified oil – transparent warranted to be <u>non-explosive</u> and to burn without smoke or odor in any properly constructed lamp; of which oil he offered to sell me one hundred barrels more or less at 20 cents per gallon! Cheap and brilliant light indeed. After parting from him I wandered among the oil boats rafts and bins lying along shore all so saturated with oil and the barrels which cover the landings and surrounding commons leak so profusely that earth and air are impregnated with aroma of petroleum and even the beautifully transparent waters of the Allegheny are glazed with a coating of the same material borne on the current towards the gulf of Mexico. I crossed by a different bridge to the Pittsburg side and got among the lumber raftsmen who tried to sell me shingles at $ 1.25 per bunch of 500 and boards proportionately low but I was not ready to purchase and left them for a peep at some of the large iron mills close at hand.</p><p>These mills abound along the margin of both the Allegheny and Monongahela but more particularly in Manchester which is across the latter river from Pittsburg. You may wonder how I had so much leisure time and I may state that a gentleman with whom I had conversation upon the subject of reaching the oil region informed me that he had <u>wells</u> and property here and that he preferred to travel by the New Castle rout when the Allegheny was not full enough for Steamboats to run. By this rout passengers take the cars as I did by the accommodation train of the Pittsburg and Chicago R. R. at 4.45 in the afternoon. As that hour approached I recrossed to Allegheny City where the depot is paid 55 cents for a ticket to New Brighton on the Beaver river a distance of 28 miles where we arrived about 6 ½ o'clock after a very pleasant run along the margin of the Ohio among gardens and truck patches villas and towns so numerous that I cannot name near all of them but there was Industry Economy and Freedom - very good and suggestive titles; besides Rochester at the mouth of Beaver and but a short distance below New Brighton.</p><p>This latter is a very pretty manufacturing town there being a grand water power here equal to Manayunk which propels machinery for a variety of purposes among which are the making of tub buckets woolen shawls and numberless other articles. After taking supper at a well conducted hotel in the town we prepared for a night travel by that now antiquated and almost obsolete conveyance a canal packet which carries passengers from that point to New Castle distant 26 miles by the Beaver Canal they being expected to pay one dollar for the privilege of taking a berth and waking up in the morning in the latter town which your geography will tell you is the seat of justice of Lawrence County.</p><p>The evening being cool on deck the captain thought to consult the comfort of the sleepers about 20 in number by making a fire in the cabin stove after they had retired to rest and as my berth was immediately along side of it came pretty near to being roasted. The consequence was very indifferent rest but fortunately I did not take cold and after partaking of a ramble around the little town and a very palatable breakfast at the Cochran house some 10 or 11 of our boat passengers too coach for this town of Franklin and intermediate points via Meadville which is made the dining station.</p><p>Our teams were not first rate and the road but a <u>clay</u> one over a hilly country made the travel very slow and it was sunset by the time we had overcome the 43 miles of distance and after climbing nearly two miles uphill and descending the same distance again we entered this metropolis of Venango County dusty tired and ready for supper and rest …"</p>
1663mon0000161583London: for G. Bedell & T. Colli 1663. 1 vol. folio 11-1/4" x 7-1/2" viii416 i.e. 428 x pp. with the license leaf complete title-page printed in red and black clean and bright throughout. Bound in fine early 18th C. tree calf over cords spine gilt with Greek key design gilt lettered red morocco spine label covers ruled in gilt hinges fine head and foot of spine fine A FINE COPY ex-Easton Neston Library with the shelf label on the front pastedown. Wing; C185 London: for G. Bedell & T. Colli unknown
U14I-00267Government Printing Office. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Book Good. No dust jacket. Bookplate inside. Gifter's inscription on endpage. Government Printing Office unknown
31209<p>Quarto 4 pages formerly folded in very good clean and legible condition.</p><p>"My dear friend</p><p>I thank you for your prompt and friendly information of the result of the election of which Br. Baker was also good enough to inform me by the same mail. At present however I find myself more engaged about the report of the Committee of Foreign relations than anything else and therefore you must pardon me for speaking once more of it. The letters which you have already received unfold pretty fully my views which I am sorry to find differ essentially from those of yourself & my friend W. Smith. I assent unequivocally to all you say as to the falsehood partiality and unmanly language of the Committee as to the pother made by them about defence as to the inefficiency of the means proposed and most of the other remarks made by you upon that blustering feeble production. But I cannot agree with you in your conclusions because it appears to me they involved what Chase used to be so fond of talking of a non sequitur. "You have used indecorous language – there fore we will not aid you in defending the country."</p><p>"The country is now wholly without the means of defence therefore we call upon you to declare war."</p><p>"You have a just cause of war against France; therefore make an immediate declaration against England."</p><p>"Your means of defence as you propose them are not ample enough – we admit most of them may be useful but they should have gone further; therefore we will vote for none of them."</p><p>My dear friend I cannot do wrong because the democrats are sinners and in my endeavours to fulfill the wishes of a party I cannot forget the interests of my Country. What is the situation that we are in About the unhappy causes of it you and I can never differ but what <u>is</u> the situation of the country The Government unhappily stand pledged to France. They will not break faith as they would term it with her. England perseveres in her orders in council and as you see from the late negotiations will not revoke them even upon an undeniable repeal of the French decrees with out obtaining certain other prerequisites which it is generally certain never can be obtained from France. In this state of things what are <u>we the Federalists to do</u> Shall we invite the government to yield on these points to England and embroil themselves with France Would they be willing to do this or would the public sentiment at all accompany us in such a request Is it our policy to continue the felo de se practice of holding ourselves up by intemperate language as British partisans and increasing against a popular prepossession thereby diminishing our numbers and our little remaining influence Will we act with the temperate wisdom of discreet politicians to urge in direct terms war preferable as we may alternately believe it to be to a long continuation of the present system at this time Could we if disposed to do so conceal the real object of such a proposition from our political opponents Could we certainly we could not carry with us the opinions of our own party Can we object to a gradual augmentation of the means of preparation consistently with our professions in a state of things having even a tendency to war What shall we say after having voted against army navy militia volunteers arming of merchantmen & in favor of a renewal of the nonimportation restrictions</p><p>But my friend inefficient as you and I consider the proposed increases our federalists from the eastward are many of them of a different opinion – Some of them think they go to far and will not vote for them or their full extent as for instance the 10000 addl troops increase of navy &c on that ground.</p><p>As at present advised I cannot but concur in the opinion of my friend Quincy & others that political consistency sound party policy genuine patriotism and a fair calculation of consequences all require my vote in favour of the resolutions of this course the democrats are very apprehensive – they anxiously wish us to oppose them knowing they can carry them or anything else in despite of our speeches or votes. Some of them are disposed to carry them further than the Comee so as to drive us by that means into opposition. They dread our doing anything that will have a tendency to remove from us the imputation of being tories & British partisans you will see no speech from me on this subject our friends inclining to think a silent vote altogether on our side of the house preferable. I am not of that opinion but unless something occurs to change our views will acquiesce.</p><p>And now having sufficiently fatigued you with this subject I have only to say that our friends Hopkinson's ideas coincide on this subject much was nearly with my own than yours do and I … here the letter ends</p>
203225London: Knight and Son circa 1857. 24mo 174pp. Very good. Frontispiece illus. Minor rubs bumps and soiling - better than it must sound. Gilt printed cover bright - spine ditto enough. Slightly cocked. Former owner's contemporary gift inscription on endpaper. Internally very clean and bright indeed. Knight and Son Hardcover
1950150420185University of Santiago Press 1950-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. University of Santiago Press paperback
a37841Oxford 1755 first edition. Printed and sold by Daniel Prince. Sworn testimonies of a milliner fruitseller housewife walking on street laundress etc. 8vo. 45pp. The original article in later plain wraps. Small ownership stamp on title page and verso and on lower margin of both sides of final leaf. VG a few water stains on corners of text. Original printing not modern copy. . paperback
1841406895Boston: Usher & Strickland 1841. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover 216 pages embossed brown cloth covers gilt on spine. An autobiographical narrative with temperance leanings. Much on nautical life from the seaman's perspective: whaling slave trade and daily life aboard a ship. Three page preface signed L.C. Scarce. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise very good. Record # 406895 Usher & Strickland hardcover
202983London and Reading: No Pub. 1804 4th Edition. 16mo 53pp. Very good. Leather covers aged joints just starting - former owner's copper-plate handwritten name "Wm Figgess Andover Hants" faintly discernible on covers. Repeated on endpaper. Last couple of signatures started. Otherwise internally very clean indeed. [No Pub.] Hardcover
a61021Livorno 1752 first edition. Gio. Paolo Fantechi. In Italian. Unusual collection of poetry several poems of which are on gastronomic topics such as chocolate tobacco and fish. La Cioccolata a Fille by Pietro Metastasio pp. i-v is listed in Lord Westbury's Handlist of Italian Cookery Books as appearing in 1783 so this 1752 considerably earlier. Nestis Il Tabacco a Clori Cantata and other poems by Medesimo including La Pesca' xli-xliv; Occhi di Bella Donna' del Marcantonio PIndemonte; other poems by Antonio Conti Innocenzo Frugoni La Rosa Gio Battista Ricchieri Tirsi Lecasio Pompeo Figari Geneovese Riso e Pianto Lorenzo Magalotti Fiorentino Vivanda Inglese Nominata Contento lxxi-lxxvii; Jacopo Antonio Bunofanti. Small Octavo 82pp. plain wraps contemporary pigskin. VG. Very scarce. . paperback
1976200-07108Chris van Rensburg Publications 1976. hardcover. Good. Good with wear and markings. Looks like an interesting title! Chris van Rensburg Publications hardcover
1858TR 9454London: T.Nelson and Sons 1858. Book. Poor. Hardcover. pict. clothbound in purple pictorial blind-stamped cloth pp. 22. illustrated hand-colored paste-down frontispiece of "Fords of the Jordan" 5 hand-colored circular illustrations set in decorative mortices in POOR cond. covers are faded and stained pages are loose corners worn end-papers discolored. The illustrations would be suitable for framing.l Size: 12mo. T.Nelson and Sons, Hardcover
S18O-00745Edinburgh University Press. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. instruments music history A readable intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Edinburgh University Press unknown
1997Q-0965111423Crown Ministries 1997-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Crown Ministries hardcover
46101522like new. unknown
1910893188.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1991Q-0760723141Dorset Press 1991-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Dorset Press paperback
203214London: J. March circa 1890. Disbound Fair. 16MO. Unpaginated illus. Lacking front cover; the last page pasted down to the rear cover; the whole sewn into later wraps. Considerably tattered and soiled but how precious!. The Juvenile Picture Library. Admonitions and verses of praise for children: "THE SLUGGARD - He told me his dreams talk'd of eating and drinking; / But he scarce reads his Bible and never loves thinking.". J. March Hardcover
