1849rif. BOOKS259819New York NY: C. M. Saxton. G/No Dustjacket. 1849. . Wraps. Plates 73-76. . 4to. 4pls. Cover split at spine but still attached soiled and browned; foxing of plates with stains . C. M. Saxton paperback
2016rif. x-1473328608Owen Press 2016. Paperback. New. 462 pages. 8.50x5.51x1.14 inches. Owen Press paperback
rif. 1473328608.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1883rif. 355490722278London: Fisher 1883. First Edition. London: T Fisher Unwin 1883. 5 2-196 2pp. The first edition of this work. A very scarce work. A collection of classic American recipes from the late nineteenth century. An early American work on the subject providing recipes for soups meats salads breads vegetables cakes and more. Written anonymously by 'an American lady'. With two pages of publisher's adverts to the red/ In the original publisher's cloth binding. A VG copy with slight pushing at the head of the spine and with just a hint of foxing to the page block edges and the text block. A much nicer copy than normally seen of this very scarce book. Photographs/scans available upon request. Fisher hardcover
rif. 355490722285First Edition. Hard Cover. London; Robert Jackson nd 1905. First UK Edition. 92 pages including the index. Issued with 40 page price list dated March 1905 titled: American fancy groceries imported by Rt. Jackson & Co. Recent blue cloth binding with gold lettering to the spine and brown coated end-papers. A VG or better copy. The copy held at the University of Leeds Library is dated as 1909 on account of the price list at the front of their copy being dated November 1909. The copy on offer here has an earlier price list dated March 1905 which casts doubt on the Leeds University publication date of 1909. This copy has the one page of adverts to the rear of the title page as called for by Driver. Rare. Photographs/scans available upon request. hardcover
rif. 5367New York: American Flag Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. Softcover. Stiff white wraps perfect bound text in blue products offered are illustrated -- some in blue monotone many in color includes a few plates of flags of countries in colors. Not formally dated; 1905 is the latest date mentioned in a list of states and is suggested by OCLC which records but two holdings of this catalogue along with a handful from 1897 and 1915. No mention of this company in Romaine.; 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; 158 pp; One of the more expensive items is the Official New York Mounted Traffic Squad Flag priced at $400. They also offer a Cuban Regimental Flag at $250.; Mild wear and soiling to wraps slightly cocked at spine clean and unmarked within. . American Flag Company paperback
rif. 0853403805.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1915rif. 30103American Motion Picture Directory Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1915. First Edition :. Hardcover. Quarto in flexible red covers ex-libris tight binding clean unfoxed pages covers have light wear else VG no DJ as issued. Illustrated with films of that era; contains state by state listing of actual movie theaters which are many although this was a relatively new industry. The contents are priceless for the historian movie buff film historia etc. A rare copy. ; 4to . American Motion Picture Directory Co. hardcover
1825rif. mon0004014330By Subscription 1825. 1825T. hardcover. Acceptable. . lacking top board. gilt decoation to spine. pages tanned and foxed includes fold-out illustrations. By Subscription, 1825. hardcover
1825rif. 46-34By Subscription 1825. 1825. 424p. Plates. Political to page 132 includes Presidents up to Jackson. Remainder military. 1 plate at page 152 defective. Leather. Good copy. Hard Cover. Good. By Subscription, 1825. Hardcover
1837rif. 21083Osnaburg Stark County Ohio: Heinrich Kurtz 1837. First Edition. Original muslin backed marbled paper over boards. Very good; some spotting. 8vo 57 3 - index pp. The book is signed with numbers and bound in fours with an inserted bifolium in each signature signed with the number and an asterisk. Thus there are 6 leaves in each of the five signatures. The paper is not watermarked. A most unusual manual of folk remedies and herbal compounds that contains 470 numbered paragraphs of succinct medical formulae cures and advice for man and animals. The copy offered here is without the title page that bears the Kurtz imprint. The listed title is taken from the copy at the NLM http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8308472. At some point close to the publication date the title page was omitted or cancelled. After inspection of the title page in another copy it is worth noting that it was printed from an engraved plate and inserted. Kurtz may have run out of copies to insert. So what appears in the text is the truncated drop-title at the head of the text on page 1 thus omitting the imprint and title reference to the manuscripts of the famous Virginia physician that are as Kurtz claimed the basis for the text. The copy offered here is bound in a contemporary cloth backed boards. A coarse type of muslin was used as the backing and is the same on the three copies that have come into our possession. The bindings are identical on all the copies the pattern and color of the marbled paper are the same on two copies with the third having a color variant in the marbling. The books derive from one source and appear to have been bound in this manner so that they could be offered while masking the printer and the origin. The book is unlike anything Kurtz printed during his career see Durnbaugh "Henry Kurtz Man of the Book" in Ohio History v. 76 #3 1967 - i.e. religious periodicals hymnals ABCs. [Heinrich Kurtz] hardcover books
1899rif. 236006Kilmarnock.: John Ritchie. nd. c. 1899. First edition. . Decorated hard cover. . Fine owner name on end paper copy. . Octavo. . Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. John Ritchie. hardcover
1790rif. FGN12-C-10Berlin : Padua with Pietro Tarone c1790. First edition. Hardback. Good. 5.5" by 4.5". n. A scarce and sought after first edition of this German language collection of erotic stories. The title page bears the inscription in Greek "We are all servants of Satan he holds us in his claws" and the stories and witticisms featured reflect attitudes that are particularly different to those held today In paper covered boards with gilt detailing. Externally sound with some wear rubbing and loss to backstrip. Internally the pages are firmly bound but are chipped and irregularly cut. The pages are largely bright and clean aside from some instances of spotting throughout and foxing to enpapers. Good Padua, with Pietro Tarone hardcover
rif. 34377Watercolour on laid paper with watermark of a horse and rider and pair of scales 200 x 148 mm sheet; captioned in ink 'Nouvelle Hollande' at bottom left and with a foliation number '184' in the same hand at bottom right; the sheet is unmounted verso blank and the drawing has survived in fine condition - virtually in its original state; removal from a sketchbook at some point is confirmed by the slightly roughened top edge of the sheet which also shows evidence of the original stitch holes. This watercolour sketch was made by an anonymous French artist probably around 1835. It appears to be a conflation of several images by the voyage artist Louis Auguste de Sainson 1800-1887 which depict Indigenous people at King George's Sound Albany Western Australia. Sainson made his sketches in situ in 1826 during the Astrolabe's scientific round-the-world voyage under the command of Dumont d'Urville. His drawings were reproduced as engraved plates in Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe Paris: J. Tastu1830-35 and elsewhere. The male figure wears a short animal-skin cloak characteristic of the type worn by the men in Sainson's King George's Sound drawings. His arms are outstretched with the wrists limp and hands downturned a highly distinctive gesture that appears to have been copied directly from the identical body language of several of the subjects in Sainson's famous drawing titled Port du Roi Georges. Nouvelle-Hollande. Un naturel montre à ses Compagnons les Cadeaux qu'il a reçus à bord de L'Astrolabe which depicts an Indigenous man showing his companions the trinkets given to him by the Astrolabe's crew. Furthermore the way in which the man is shown in full profile with knees slightly bent his straggly beard and hair accentuated is strikingly similar to the manner in which the left-hand figure in Sainson's Nlle. Hollande. Naturels du port du Roi Georges is posed. Finally the native grass tree Xanthorrhoea australis is placed at the bottom right of the image just as it is in Sainson's Vue d'un Étang près la Baie du Roi Georges. unknown
1685rif. c2056London: Printed by Charles Bill Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb. G : in Good condition with velvet lined case crafted from a later album with clasps. Case scuffed and edgeworn book covers also. Text block clean and tight with minimal foxing. Occasional pencilled notation. 1685. First thus. Full leather hardback. 170mm x 110mm 7" x 4". 271pp 36pp. English Military Discipline published 1686 Rules and Articles published in 1685. The case has a label on its first 'page' marked 'Bp of Durham'. . Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb hardcover
1813rif. 690L8Birmingham: J Belcher 1813. First edition. Paperback. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 4.5". None. A very scarce pamphlet regarding the condensed rules on hallmarking in the context of the Birmingham silversmiths and plate-workers. The first edition of this work. This work looks at the acts of parliament regarding hallmarking so as to protect the public against fraud and to protect the trader against unfair competition. There are explanations to this work of how these acts relate to Birmingham or within twenty miles thereof. This pamphlet is aimed at the silversmiths and plate workers for their better understanding of the rules and regulations. A scarce work with only one on jisc held at the University of Birmingham. In marbled wraps. Externally generally smart with light rubbing and fading to the extremities. Light creasing to the corners. Internally firmly bound. Minor offsetting to the endpapers. Pages are generally bright with just the odd spot. Very Good Indeed J Belcher paperback
1776rif. 48226Salisbury: Benj. Cha. Collins and J. Johnson 1776. 8vo. iv 202 10 pp. Modern full sprinkled brown calf with red morocco title label. Uncommon. Clean internally with binding in fine condition. 21 cm. tall ESTC T136614. . Near Fine. Full Calf. 1776. Benj. Cha. Collins and J. Johnson 1776 unknown
rif. 3731167London: Printed. Boston; New-England Re-printed and sold by Green & Russell at their Printing-Office near the Custom-House and next to the Writing School in Queen-Street. MDCCLVI. 1756. half-title 23 1 pages. 8vo. “The Second Edition.” In fact the First American Edition preceded by printings in London and York both dated 1755. Expertly washed conserved and stitching renewed; scattered staining. A very good copy housed In a custom cloth clamshell box with a gilt-stamped leather spine label. Partly-untrimmed. First American edition of this eyewitness account of this terrible disaster on All Saints Day November 1 1755 that shook perspective views in the Old World and the New. The Lisbon Earthquake alarmed New England clergy and perplexed philosophers in France. For the former some ministers interpreted the event to show God expressing his angry will. For the latter some thinkers saw the disaster as evidence that no such will existed. The Lisbon Earthquake is estimated to have been 8.5–9.0 magnitude on the Richter scale and lt triggered a tsunami. The devastation was enormous: "“Not long after…a general Panic was raised from a Crowd of People’s running from the Waterside all crying out the Sea was pouring in and would certainly overwhelm the City. This new Alarm created such Horrors in the agitated Minds of the Populace that vast Numbers of them ran screaming into the ruinated City again where a fresh Shock of the Earthquake immediately following many of them were buried in the Ruins of falling Houses. This Alarm was however not entirely without Foundation. For the Water of the River rose at once above twenty Feet perpendicular and subsided again to its natural Pitch in less than a Minute’s time.”" From the Rev. Thomas Prince to John Winthrop in to Voltaire to Rousseau —the intellectual luminaries of the world weighed in. Years later Goethe would write in his autobiography of his memory as a six-year old of the event: “Perhaps the Demon of Fear had never so speedily and powerfully diffused his terror over the earth.” The earthquake was the “subject of anxious Church sermons across the Atlantic in New England. In fact an earthquake had also occurred in Massachusetts on the 18th of November 1755 centered east of Cape Ann. In Boston most of the damage occurred where buildings had been constructed over landfill near the wharves. John Adams who was at Braintree wrote in his diary: ‘The house seemed to rock and reel and crack as if it would fall in ruins…’” Kenneth Maxwell The Lisbon and Boston earthquakes became in tandem seismic cultural events as ministers philosophers and scientists contextualized one to the other. Some ministers compared the heavy damage of the Lisbon quake to the minimal damage from Boston’s and drew conclusions of moral American exceptionalism. Others used the Lisbon earthquake’s date of All Saint’s Day to suggest that God was punishing the Catholics. At Harvard professor and astronomer-scientist John Winthrop blamed volcanoes. By and large An Account of the Late Dreadful Earthquake and Fire… is written from neither a secular nor philosophical viewpoint. Rather it is a richly-detailed moment by moment account. It is a linear timeline written by an eyewitness who was literally on the shaky ground —when and where the dramatic event transpired. Charles Edwin Clark’s “Science Reason and an Angry God: The Literature of an Earthquake” in The New England Quarterly describes this narrow field of literature of the New England earthquake of 1755 —from the sermons to accounts such as the present example— as documenting a “science struggling to be born; a vigorous aggressive Protestantism on its way to becoming humanized and rationalized; a continuing consciousness of the uniqueness and special mission of America; and a scholarly approach in the best Puritan tradition to the problems of this world and the next.” Clark also provides an excellent and granular timeline of Boston’s printing and publication history concerning these two earthquakes. The verso of the half-title has an advertisement for the Boston edition of the Indian captivity of William and Elizabeth Fleming which is worth quoting at length: “A NARRATIVE of the Sufferings and surprizing Deliverances of William and Elizabeth Fleming Howes F-183 who were taken captive by Capt. Jakob Commander of the Indians who lately made the incursions on the frontiers of Pennsylvania as related by themselves. A NARRATIVE necessary to be read by all who are going in the Expedition The Kittanning Expedition a.k.a. the Armstrong Expedition as well as every British subject. Wherein it fully appears that the Barbarities of the Indians is owing to the French and chiefly their Priests. Price six Coppers.” After Braddock’s Defeat Capt. Jacob had terrorized the Pennsylvania population until a force armed Pennsylvanians killed Jacobs September 8 1756 in an retaliatory raid. The reader of this pamphlet would not have known of Jacob’s death because according to Clark it was published on April 1 1756. Evans 7602. ESTC W10073. Howes L-371 ref. ESTC records only 6 institutions all in America owning this. The “third American edition” i.e. the second is likewise rare. Ref. Maxwell Kenneth V — Lisbon 1755: The First ‘Modern’ Disaster but if modern how is it so accessed online. unknown
rif. 1474542522.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
rif. 1474542565.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1836rif. 14388Gateshead Stephenson 1836. 1836. Broadside approximately 26 x 20 cm mounted to plain sheet. Titled in bold. Broadside giving a prose account of a colliery explosion which claimed the lives of 4 pitmen accompanied by a verse lament. Gateshead, Stephenson, [1836].
1759rif. 016917Edinburgh: Printed by Sands Donaldson Murray and Cochran 1759. Book measures 31x21.cm. viii 528pp. Bound in half calf calf corners cloth boards flat bands leather title label gilt lettering. Binding rubbed worn on edges. Binding in good firm condition. Internally spotting finger marking throughout. Pages in good condition. A good copy. . First Edition. Half Calf. Near Very Good. Quarto. Printed by Sands, Donaldson, Murray, and Cochran Hardcover
1799rif. 011443London: 'Printed for the Benefit of the Charity' 1799. 14th edition 1st-1773 or 1774 . Hardcover. VG. 11 Cms x 18 Cms. orig. frontfly leaft.p. with central engr. image of child with key being pointed by sitting lady to a chained lock and caption 'Instituted Feb.y 22 1772' 2 Contentsvii Introduction dated 179986 'An Account of the Society dated Dec.20 1773t.p. of 'A List of the General and Annual Benefactions of the Society for the Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts from the Institution in February 1772 to the 31st of March 1799' unpaginated but 38 ff. 76 pplarge c. 32 cms wide x 23 cms vertically unfolding chart 'A summary View of the Money annually Expended by the SOCIETY for Relief of Debtors from the Institution in 1772 to the 31st of March 1799' this heading very slightly cropped but no significant loss block of new bound-in blank pp. Internally tight and unworn and generally clean but intermittent tanning patches and trivial bottom corner rubbing over half of top edge is very darkened not dust and no internal indication of cause Innocuous small 15 mm round stamp of Birmingham Assay Office Library bottom new front endpaper.Redlibrary cloth covers pristine with gilt spine title and date. A rare document f social history providing insight into the infamous phenomenon of 'Debtors' Prisons' at this period. 'Printed for the Benefit of the Charity' hardcover
1816rif. 270651United Kingdom: Robert Triphook 1816. Book. Good. paperback. paperback an 1816 printing of a work first published in the early seventeenth century. The seventh tract of 'Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana: or A Select Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts Illustrative of the History Literature Manners and Biography of the English Nation'. Covers creased and chipped and with some loss at the head and foot of the spine the sewing remains intact some top edges remain unopened b&w illustrations xv 76pp. Robert Triphook Paperback
