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1856ref. 001585London: Groombridge and Sons 1856. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo containing cultivation of Arable Land pp25 Rearing of Poultry pp24 with 2 pages of plans Flower Garden pp24 The Horse pp26 with one b/w plate Fruit Trees pp16 Cattle pp24 The Garden Frame pp38 and The Greenhouse pp32. Hardcover no dust jacket. Original green cloth binding with gilt titles to spine and blind stamped decorative borders to both boards in good condition with some shelf wear to tail of spine tear to top of spine some bumping to tips and a little discolouration. Inside previous owners name to ffe paper dated 1859 pages have a little toning otherwise all pages with full edge marbling in very good condition. Scarce Groombridge and Sons hardcover
1952ref. 9961London: Francis Edwards 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Collection of 12 editions from 1952 bound in brown cloth with title plate to spine. Includes no. 719-729 plus the Christmas edition. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to corners edges and spine ends. Light soiling to spine. Tightly bound. Lightly toned pages. Toned and spotted text block edges. Embossed circular ex libris mark of 'Derek Gibson Cairo'. DJ Condition: No DJ Size: 21cm by 13cm. PROVENANCE: Ex libris: Derek Gibson Cairo. BOOK RESUME: 1 719 - Bibliography Books On Binding Illuminated Manuscripts Printing etc 2 720 - Voyages and Travels relating to the Balkans Africa Australia and the Pacific and Asia with special sections devoted to the Bounty Cooks voyages Siberia and the North Pacific 3 721 - Maps of the North 4 722 - English Books Printed Before 1640 5 723 - Ships and the Sea 6 724 - South America Central America Mexico The West Indies and Bermuda 7 725 - English Books 1641-1700 8 736 - Ancient and Modern Books relating to Balkans Asia Africa etc 9 Maps of America 10 728 - Military History 11 729 - General Literature Botany Mountaineering etc 13 Books and Decorative Maps. Francis Edwards hardcover
1966ref. 238823Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Government 1966. First Edition. Yellow Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Large. N/a. I am selling a book and a booklet. The book is predominantly in Malaysian and pertains to the installation of His Majesty Tuanku Ismail Nasiruddin Shah in Kuala Lumpur in 1966. 36pp. Bound in original publisher's yellow hardboards - stamped in gilt and blue to the front board. The text supported by a number of photographic reproductions in colour of the Shah and his wife the crown jewels ceremonial swords/daggers etc. Also some other photographic reproductions in b/w of three other dignatories. No inscriptions. Light or slight spotting to the front endpaper and very slight insect damage to the extreme tail of this page. Some spotting to the upper fore-edge too. Notable spotting to the spine and mostly to the board edges - inside and out with some age toning to the spine too. Slight bowing of the boards too. The accompanying booklet is predominantly in English and is in lovely fresh clean bright condition bound in yellow card covers with both a ribbon and staple as binders. It gives a precise chronology of events and was presumably handed out to those perhaps English speakers only who attended the ceremony. Both items very scarce. Malaysian Government hardcover
ref. 94201st Edition. Hardcover. Poor/No DJ. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Two bound volumes containing editions of 'The Servant' between 1 July 14th 9121 and January 5th 1922 2 Feb 6th 1919 to Nov 20th 1919. Language: English. Book Condition: Poor: Heavy wear to corners edges and spine. Bookwork damage to spineand son=me board margins. Worm damage repeated to endpaper gutter of one volume and some page margins. Cracked gutter to one volume between second and third pages. Toned pages with occasional tears to page edges. DJ Condition: No DJ hardcover
1716ref. DR6BRWN3003Oxford: John Baskett 1716. Hardback full-calf spine relaid gilt borders to boards. 19.5cm x 12.5cm. Marbled end-papers inner hinges crudely re-inforced. Bound with 1762 edition of Book of Psalm. Unpaginated. Complete with 53 plates. Ruled in red. Binding somewhat worn. Fore-edges trimmed very tightly with slight marginal losses to last few pages of Psalm. Some occasional repairs chipping with small losses a couple of stitched repairs. Scarce. dr6. Hard Cover. Fair. John Baskett Hardcover
1900ref. 10818London: Robert Boyle & Sons c1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Trade catalogue bound in original brown cloth with art nouveau style gilt blocked title plate to front board. Art nouveau style illustrations and fonts throught with double page illustrations of of architectural design for the installation of the ventilation systems in hospitals schools theatres churches and offices. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners edges and spine ends. Lightly rubbed cloth with minor marks. Tightly bound with clean intact endpapers and strong hinges. Clean unmarked pages. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages 160 8. Size: 30cm by 23cm. POSTAGE: PLEASE NOTE - This is a heavy item and may require additional postage for overseas deliveries. We will contact you if additional charges are required. Please see our postage policy on our shop front for more information. BOOK RESUME: Trade catalogue providing full details and drawings of The Boyle system. Supplement at rear has colour printed illustrations of the 'Plenum' system for hospitals and schools. Robert Boyle & Sons hardcover
1858ref. 056858Tenby: The Cambrian Institute. Very Good with no dust jacket. Paperback. 80pp bound in original blue card covers sl chipped around edges; Book; Octavo . 1858. The Cambrian Institute paperback
1826ref. 61423Glasgow: Printed By W Lang. 1826. Hardcover. Very Good. 22nd edition The text is incomplete there are six leaves missing from the appendix at rear our collation reading: 232 44pp with 6 pages of engraved advertisments with one folding plate. 2 pps of index repired bound in new red cloth spine paper title/orginal marbled boards. Scarce; Small Octavo . Printed By W Lang hardcover
1789ref. 61836Halifax: J Milner. 1789. Hardcover. Very Good. 648pp 70pp old sellotape mark on title page 1 corner of title page missing not affecting text sm chip in margin of 2pps bound in full leather nicely re-spined new front endpaper; Small Octavo . J Milner hardcover
ref. 35872RIPON FARRER 1806. SECOND EDITION WITH ENGRAVING BY BEWICK. BOUND IN HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS MARBLED ENDPAPERS AND EDGES. DECORATIVE GILT SPINE. SOME WEAR TO THE BOARDS AND SPINE. SOME AGE-TONING TO THE EARLY PAGES BUT VERY GOOD. 314 PAGES. RIPON, FARRER, 1806 hardcover
ref. 3495Boston: The Gorham Press 1901. . 4to tan printed paper-covered boards Two holdings only in OCLC Yale and Harvard -- Harvard copy has been filmed by Google Books. A most extraordinary and amusing compilation of puns double entendres homophones and absolute idiocy. We have not been able to find anything on the author or the two illustrators--one with the initials "GR" and the other who signed as "Billy". There is a colophon at the end: "Malum nunc et olim. Done at the Cider Press" Boston: The Gorham Press, 1901. hardcover
ref. 3495Boston: The Gorham Press 1901. . 4to tan printed paper-covered boards Two holdings only in OCLC Yale and Harvard -- Harvard copy has been filmed by Google Books. A most extraordinary and amusing compilation of puns double entendres homophones and absolute idiocy. We have not been able to find anything on the author or the two illustrators--one with the initials "GR" and the other who signed as "Billy". There is a colophon at the end: "Malum nunc et olim. Done at the Cider Press" Boston: The Gorham Press, 1901. hardcover books
1859ref. 1262761859. New York: Harper and Brothers 1859. Sm. 8vo 8 9-381 2 adspp. With a frontispiece and 7 plates by Frank Bellew. Original pebbled brown cloth covers blind-stamped with oval design within a rectangle. A little faded and worn generally a very good copy of a fragile book printed on cheap paper in a cheap cloth binding. § First and only edition excluding modern reprints of a rare and moving plea on behalf of unhoused children in New York echoing Dickens and others of the period. 1859 is often referred to as the golden year of the 19th century book -- Darwin's Origin Dickens's Tale of Two Cities Eliot's Adam Bede Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyam Tennyson's Idylls of the King Mill's On Liberty Smiles's Self Help Goncharov's Oblamov etc. This book almost unknown and held in only 6 libraries per OCLC deserves to be better known. Not in Blanck or anywhere else we can cite except for Hamilton Early American Book Illustrators # 1491. unknown
1859ref. 1262761859. New York: Harper and Brothers 1859. Sm. 8vo 8 9-381 2 adspp. With a frontispiece and 7 plates by Frank Bellew. Original pebbled brown cloth covers blind-stamped with oval design within a rectangle. A little faded and worn generally a very good copy of a fragile book printed on cheap paper in a cheap cloth binding. § First and only edition excluding modern reprints of a rare and moving plea on behalf of unhoused children in New York echoing Dickens and others of the period. 1859 is often referred to as the golden year of the 19th century book -- Darwin's Origin Dickens's Tale of Two Cities Eliot's Adam Bede Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyam Tennyson's Idylls of the King Mill's On Liberty Smiles's Self Help Goncharov's Oblamov etc. This book almost unknown and held in only 6 libraries per OCLC deserves to be better known. Not in Blanck or anywhere else we can cite except for Hamilton Early American Book Illustrators # 1491. unknown books
1832ref. 84913London: Effingham Wilson 1832. A New Edition Greatly Enlarged and Corrected. Octavo. 23cm. Bound in later rather institutional black buckram with paper title label. 16pp. ads to front matter; xxxii; 683pp. 1pp ads to rear. Minor wear and bumping to extremities with a little rippling of the cloth to the front board strong and tight; internally clean later endpapers ink ownerships to front flyleaf frontispiece portrait "Friends of Reform - Foes of Revolution" quite heavily spotted with some offsetting to the title page edges untrimmed some occasional light spotting within. A very good copy in a later binding of a rather unwieldy work. A later printing of Wade's incendiary 1820 catalog of abuses performed by the Church The King the Government and various business interests against the people security and progress of Great Britain. A continued bestseller demonstrating a fervent appetite on the part of the British public to read Wade's excoriating denunciation of the upper classes and their merely wealthy counterparts. On a number of fronts this public airing of secretly dirty laundry met with some political and social success and led to some very public gestures at reform. Effingham Wilson unknown
1832ref. 84913London: Effingham Wilson 1832. A New Edition Greatly Enlarged and Corrected. Octavo. 23cm. Bound in later rather institutional black buckram with paper title label. 16pp. ads to front matter; xxxii; 683pp. 1pp ads to rear. Minor wear and bumping to extremities with a little rippling of the cloth to the front board strong and tight; internally clean later endpapers ink ownerships to front flyleaf frontispiece portrait "Friends of Reform - Foes of Revolution" quite heavily spotted with some offsetting to the title page edges untrimmed some occasional light spotting within. A very good copy in a later binding of a rather unwieldy work. A later printing of Wade's incendiary 1820 catalog of abuses performed by the Church The King the Government and various business interests against the people security and progress of Great Britain. A continued bestseller demonstrating a fervent appetite on the part of the British public to read Wade's excoriating denunciation of the upper classes and their merely wealthy counterparts. On a number of fronts this public airing of secretly dirty laundry met with some political and social success and led to some very public gestures at reform. Effingham Wilson unknown books
1970ref. 283771970. Photography. Very good overall. Photographs of metal sculptures mounted on accordion style card some separated one image detached. Images 7 1/2 x 9 1/2" on card 9 x 12". Some photographs toned at edges. Artist unidentified. unknown
1860ref. 12978Philadelphia: Weik & Weik 1860. A beautiful and rare print of two birds sitting on a tree branch with a twining vine. From the album consisting of 25 hand-coloured lithographed plates. The bird species are arranged by continent. There are five plates of Australian birds. The National Library of Australia holds a copy but there are no other recorded holdings in Australia. 10 x 14" vg condition. Weik & Weik unknown
ref. BOOKS243610--/No Dustjacket. PlacePub: Philadelphia PA Publisher: Whilt & Yost YearPublish: N.d. Edition: Illus: Steel Engravings Condition: Fair: water-damaged rippled worn stained & cracked AS IS Leather Comments: Notes: 4to. v. p. Family of Richard and Mary Wright Burrow Births: Marriages: Deaths: Richard Burrow 8/10/1847 Mary Wright Samuel Warren Larchar 9/12/1810 F.R.Vandenburgh2/28/1835 Francis R. Vandenburgh 2/19/1814 George B. Burrow 2/8/1838 FannieLarchar9/17/1862 Fannie L. Larchar 4/22/1839 3/10/1867 Children of George B. and Fannie L. Burrow: Richard Wright Burrow 10/16/1863 William Warren Burrow 10/14/1865 10/30/1868 Richard Burrow was married to Mary Wright in Liverpool England but no date. He died in New Birmingham Staffordshire England. George was probably their son and was also born in Liverpool. Sam Larchar was from Troy New York married to Francis Vandenburgh from Bethlehem New York in Albany. The others were born and died in Albany New York. Main Topic: Bibles-Burrow Key Words: Bibles-Religion-Illustrated-England-Burrow Richard-Wright Mary-Genealogy-Albany-New York State Copies Available: 1 Action Code: 1 . hardcover
1911ref. 370New York: Leslie-Judd COmpany 1911. Very Good. Very Good condition hardcover some soiling to cover and wear to edges. A collection of Illustrations cartoons poems and stories by various people of the day. Some bleeding of red from the ocver on the edges of the first two pages and the last 6 pages have a double punch hole. Leslie-Judd COmpany hardcover
1853ref. BOOKS243616Philadelphia PA: John B. Perry. As Is/No Dustjacket. 1853. Leather. Family bible of Thomas Carroll and Eliza Ann Williams from the Tioga County New York area. Notes: 4to. v. p. Births: Marriages: Deaths: Thomas Carroll 3/8/1842 Eliza Ann Williams 12/2/1847 Possibe children of Thomas and Eliza Ann Carroll: William Henry 2/8/1873 Ida Margaret 10/8/1875 Helena May 6/5/1878 Josephine Bell 1/12/1880 Anna Bertha 1/7/1882 Myrta Lousia 6/20/1887 Other Family Members: Eugene Carroll 8/22/1867 George D. Andrews 1/3/1870 Frank L. Goodrich 9/17/1876 Possible husband of Ida Margaret Carroll Possible children of Frank L. and Ida Margaret Goodrich: Donald Carroll 12/23/1904 Other Family Members: Harold Francis 10/17/1905 Betty Lucile Goodrich b.5/30/1927 Homer Leslie 7/23/1909 Arlene May Goodrich b.2/17/1928 Arthur Clinton 4/5/1912 Joanne Carroll Goodrich b.9/20/193 Kathryn M. Goodrich b.1/9/1936 William P. Goodrich b.8/25/1939 Main Topic: Bibles-Carroll/Goodrich Key Words: Bibles-Religion-Illustrated-Goodrich-Williams-Carroll-Genealogy-New York State-Tioga County Copies Available: 1 Action Code: 1 . Reading copy: worn front cover and 1st 36 pages loose; stained Leather . John B. Perry hardcover
1810ref. 21165Reutlingen: JJ Macken Buchhandlung 1810. Reprint. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards. Very good; some spotting. 8vo vi 7 - 164 last page incorrectly numbered 2 - contents pp. An anonymous guide for those who would marry in choosing an appropriate spouse. The author provides instruction on how to observe people in order to get to truly know them. What to expect Why does one wish to marry There was a previous printing in Berlin in 1809. No American holdings for either printing. JJ Macken, Buchhandlung hardcover books
1928ref. 1777Munich: Wolf 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good hardcover with some slight wear to edges of spine and slight creases to paper cover. Woodcuts of Frans Masereel in a textless book. Wolf hardcover
1855ref. BOOKS243665Boston MA: Patrick Donahoe. --/No Dustjacket. 1855. . Leather. PlacePub: Publisher: YearPublish: Edition: None Stated Illus: . Condition: Reading copy; broken; foxing; loose pages Comments: Notes: 8vo. v.p. Marriages: James Flannagan and Mary Frances Sullivan 1902; Joseph Les Flannagan and Elizabeth O'Laughlin 1908; Mary L. Flannagan and William H. Harrison 1911 Births: Mary Flannagan 1867; Johanna Ellen Flannagan 1868;; John Edward Flannagan 1870; Catherine Flannagan 1872; Delphine Flannagan 1875; James Flannagan 1876; Joseph Leo Flannagan 1878 Six deaths recorded John Flannagan born October 13 1840 Rosegreen Tipperary County Ireland Several different spellings of family name Flannigan / Flanagan / Flannagan -- Binghamton area Main Topic: Bibles-Flanagan Key Words: Flanagan-------- Copies Available: 1 Action Code: . Patrick Donahoe hardcover
1856ref. 224previous owners name on recto flyleaf and name of steamship on verso inside cover.title in gilt on spine front and rear covers embossedfrontispiece illustrationbrowning on inside covers brown spots on pagesbook is clean. No writing or underling. No tears No Mars to pages carlton & porter hardcover