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1689réf. 313961Gloucestershire England 1689. Pen and ink on one parchment membrane 305 x 540 mm. Cut vertically down the center with significant loss of text. Verso worn but text on recto clear and bright. Pen and ink on one parchment membrane 305 x 540 mm. The parties involved in this document hailed from Bourton-on-the-Hill and Nether Swell Gloucestershire both in the Cotswolds district of England. The document which has been cut in half vertically a contemporary practice for such documents appears to concern the rights of widows. An attractive item related to Gloucestershire history written in English in a clear and unfaded hand. unknown books
1840réf. 238057London: George Virtue 1840. First edition state A of volume II with Contents list numbered. With 120 steel engraved plates by William H. Bartlett including a full-page map of the Northeastern United States portrait and two engraved title pages tissue guards. 2 vols. 4to. In HARPER'S binding of half purple-morocco gilt spine a.e.g. Harper was likely the American distributor; extremities slightly rubbed vol. II covers soiled plates with scattered light foxing mostly marginal overall a very attractive copy. First edition state A of volume II with Contents list numbered. With 120 steel engraved plates by William H. Bartlett including a full-page map of the Northeastern United States portrait and two engraved title pages tissue guards. 2 vols. 4to. Originally published in 30 parts without text and appearing here for the first time in expanded book form this is a beautiful series of views showing principal cities and scenic views engraved from drawings Bartlett made during a visit to America and Canada 1837-1838. He stayed with his collaborator the poet N.P. Willis and accompanied him on a trip West. A handsome survey of the New World. Sabin 3784; Howes B209; BAL 22755; Abbey Travel 651 George Virtue unknown books
1853réf. 61768London: Arthur Hall Virtue & Co 1853. First edition. 28 steel engravings and numerous woddcuts. xii 13-240 16 ads pp. 1 vols. 4to. Brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt t.e.g. Upper hinge tender head of spine chipped else Near Fine. First edition. 28 steel engravings and numerous woddcuts. xii 13-240 16 ads pp. 1 vols. 4to. Howes B-631; Sabin 3789 Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co unknown books
1853réf. 239074London: Arthur Hall Virtue & Co. R. Clay Printer. Bread Street Hill 1853. First edition. 28 steel engraved plates by Bartlett and numerous woodcuts. xii 13-240 16 ads pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original publisher's pebbled purple morocco gilt extra a.e.g. minor rubbing and wear else very good. Bookplate of John Lane Merriam. First edition. 28 steel engraved plates by Bartlett and numerous woodcuts. xii 13-240 16 ads pp. 1 vols. 4to. Engravings by Bartlett 1809-1854 as superb as those for his famous AMERICAN SCENERY 1840. Sabin 3789 "The principal merit of this work is in the fine plates" Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. [R. Clay, Printer. Bread Street Hill] unknown books
2023réf. 90921Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press 2023. First edition. xviii 177 pp w/index. Laminate to lower front cover starting else very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press unknown books
1853réf. 1306751853. First Edition. BARTLETT W.H. The Pilgrim Fathers; or the Founders of New England in the Reign of James the First. London: Arthur Hall Virtue 1853. Royal octavo contemporary full red morocco gilt raised bands all edges gilt. $550.First edition with 28 steel-engraved plates depicting scenes and views of places associated with New Englands' Founding Fathers.William Henry Bartlett was one of the most accomplished British landscape artists of the 19th century and his volumes of views in Europe America and the Near East were exceptionally popular with audiences both in the United States and England. In The Pilgrim Fathers Bartlett's express intent is to present the story of the Pilgrim flight to the New World in search of religious freedom ""familiar to every childÑat least in the New England States"" to an English readership ""and to give it additional clearness by illustrations of the different localities connected with it. These he has accordingly sought out in England Holland and America; and it is from these pen-and-pencil memorials and these alone that his work can lay claim to any distinctive originality."" ""The principal merit of this work is in the fine plates"" Sabin 3789. Thin faint margin of dampstaining to fore-edge of last two plates. Very handsomely bound. hardcover books
1974réf. 14592Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Edited by Robert Bartlett Haas. Limited to 750 copies. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket unclipped $10.00 bumped at the eges. Quarter green cloth with blue paper on the boards faded at the bottom edge. Square and firmly bound foxed at the top edge clean internally. A collection of Stein's previously uncollected works many of which were originally published in magazines literary journals and periodicals. Black Sparrow Press hardcover books
1842réf. 54385London: Fisher Son & Co 1842. Hardcover. Good- to near fine condition. Large Quarto. 6 II 3-80 2 76 2 100 4pp. 120 plates incl. two maps and three vignette titles. Original green pebbled morocco with gilt tooling and ruling along edges of covers gilt lettering ruling and tooling on spines; raised bands and protected by modern mylar. Gilt edges. Endpapers yellow. Engraved vignette titles. The author John Carne left England in 1821 and spent much time traveling in Israel/Palestine and in Constantinople Greece the Levant and Egypt. It is one of the few works of that time to include what is present-day Lebanon. The book with plates by Bartlett Purser and Allom was published some time after Carne returned to England initially in thirty parts of four plates each. Many of the plates in volume 3 are after drawings by Thomas Allom commissioned by the publishers to complete the illustrations. This work contains 2 full page maps and 118 steel-engraved plates depicting views throughout Syria and Asia Minor all protected by tissue-guards. All volumes with list of engravings at front volume three with general index at rear. Binding with light rubbing and scuffing along edges slightly more pronounced at top foredge of front cover of volume three. All three volumes lightly starting at inside covers but firm. Volume one with engraved bookplate on inside front cover signed Alfred Bilbrough May 1908. All three volumes with medium seize O printed to front free endpapers. Volume three with bump at lower spine lightly at foredge and some pages and plates with water stains at top margins not affecting images. Eighty of the engravings are fine with none or very light foxing in margins. Thirty-six engravings with light or minor damp-staining in plates four engravings with heavy damp-staining in images. Blocks lightly age-toned. Fisher, Son, & Co hardcover books
1851réf. 46359New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. Bartlett William Henry 1809-54. The Nile boat; or glimpses of the land of Egypt. vi 2 218 2 adverts.pp. 34 engraved plates including frontispiece; wood-engraved text illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. 254 x 171 mm. Original publisher's cloth binding of dark blue morocco-grain cloth top edges gilt the covers featuring an Egyptian felucca within an elaborately decorated Egyptian architectural frame. Very fine apart from some very slight wear at the spine. First American Edition first published in London in 1849. The binding for the American edition differs from that used for the British editions. . Harper & Brothers unknown books
1987réf. 77435Albuquerque: Dept. of English University of New Mexico 1987. Winter. 96 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Gunn weighs in on the question “Is there an American poetry” He replies in part “This is a curious question to be asked by a magazine called American Poetry. what will you do if we all say no; shut up shop” Albuquerque: Dept. of English, University of New Mexico unknown books
1979réf. 74539Metuchen & London: Scarecrow Press 1979. First edition. . xvii 274 pp w/index. Fine in full green cloth with gold stamping to spine and front panel. No dust jacket as issued. Metuchen & London: Scarecrow Press, hardcover books
1988réf. 74540NY: New Directions 1988. First edition. 272 pp w/index. Slight lean to spine else near fine in near fine dust jacket with sunned spine. SIGNED by Everson on the half-title page. NY: New Directions unknown books
1902réf. vas5259Cambridge: Printed for the Museum 1902. Quarto new cloth hardcover 127 pp. plus 25 full-page plates of various crab species each with opposing descriptive sheet. Fine. Printed for the Museum, 1902. hardcover books
1929réf. 1043631929. New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. Small 4to xiii 2 519pp. Original red cloth stamped in gilt to top board and backstrip; illustrated throughout by means of facsimiles within the text. Some light staining to boards backstrip faded as usual outer edge of p. 519 missing not affecting the text. Very good. § First edition second printing. Divided into sections on practical bibliography subject bibliography library science general reference books special bibliographies national bibliographies universal bibliography history of writing history of printing book-decoration bookselling and publishing and library history and resources. unknown books
1971réf. 1043621971. New York: Burt Franklin 1971. 8vo xiii 2 519pp. Original mint Cambridge light blue cloth stamped in gilt to backstrip; illustrated throughout by means of facsimiles within the text. Fine. § Reprint of the 1928 first edition. Divided into sections on practical bibliography subject bibliography library science general reference books special bibliographies national bibliographies universal bibliography history of writing history of printing book-decoration bookselling and publishing and library history and resources. unknown books
1968réf. 8070Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press/Unicorn Bookshop 1968. First edition. 24 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 470 of 500 copies. A volume in the Santa Barbara Poetry Series edited by Jack Shoemaker. [Santa Barbara]: Unicorn Press/Unicorn Bookshop unknown books
1988réf. 15910NY: New Directions 1988. First edition. 272 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with sunned spine. NY: New Directions unknown books
1985réf. 19593Boise: Boise State University 1985. First edition. 50 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. No. 67 in the BSU "Western Writers Series. Boise: Boise State University unknown books
2007réf. UBARKOI00hcWiley 2007. Very Good. Bartlett R. D. Koi for Dummies. Bartlett Patricia. Hoboken New Jersey: Wiley 2007. 272pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Wiley paperback books
1965réf. UHAYDRA00acmfShorewood 1965. Fine. Hays Bartlett H. Drawings of the Masters: American Drawings. NY: Shorewood 1965. 141pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. 4to. Cloth in slipcase. Book condition: Near fine. Slipcase very good with some bumped and rubbed edges. Shorewood hardcover books
1963réf. UANDROB00Holt Reinhart and Winston 1963. Very Good. Anderson Margaret Bartlett. Robert Frost and John Bartlett: The Record of a Friendship. NY: Holt Reinhart and Winston 1963. 1st edition. 224pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Brown cloth. Book condition: Very good with bumped corners. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with light bumping and a few short tears. Holt, Reinhart, and Winston hardcover books
2002réf. UBARBAR03fpLittle Brown and Company 2002. Very Good. Bartlett John. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Boston: Little Brown and Company 2002. lv 1429pp. Indexed. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Edges bumped. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Spine lightly faded and edges bumped. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1974réf. UBARNEW01fpOxford University Press 1974. Very Good. Bartlett Richard A. The New Country: A Social History of the American Frontier 1776-1890. New York: Oxford University Press 1974. 1st edition. 487pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Light moisture staining on covers and small stain on fore edge. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Spine lightly faded and edges lightly rubbed and chipped. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1927réf. RPEYMOT00crDodge 1927. Good. Peyton Mabel Bartlett. Mothers: Makers of Men. Kinley Lucia. New York: Dodge 1927. 144pp. 8vo. Book condition: Good with slightly bowed boards and gently rubbed edges. Biographical sketches of the mothers of famous men such as George Washington Goethe and Louisa May Alcott !. Dodge hardcover books
1971réf. UCHIYEL00lvUniversity of Oklahoma 1971. Good. Chittenden Hiram Martin. The Yellowstone National Park. Bartlett Richard A. Norman Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma 1971. 208pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with creased and faded spine and bumped and rubbed edges. Price is blacked out. University of Oklahoma paperback books
