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1802pp. v, (4), 226, (2) + Plus engraved Frontis, Plates of scenes and large folding maps and charts. One map includes the sketch of soils, canals, etc of Lancashire. LACKS full page plate of Furness Abbey. View of Keswick Lake repeated on page 107 and 125. View of Bassenthwaite omitted. Two pages have old tape repairs with no loss. Map of the districts has small tape repair on one fold. Offsetting from Frontis on title page. Age stained and foxed. Engraved amoral bookplate of William Scott Elliot of Arkleton. 8vo. 215 mm. Original full leather binding. Boards detached. Small loss on spine. Binding worn. Hardbound. A rather poor copy of a great book. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! TRAVEL/7
1823Two Volumes. pp. 535; 602, (8) + Engraved title + 35 plates. With engraved illustrations in the text. Illustrated with numerous full page engravings and lithographs of views, buildings, maps, drawings, etc. One plate in hand color. Marbled endpapers. Text and plates have some foxing. Some offsetting from plates. Top edges gold. Deckle edges. 4to. 290 mm. Half leather over marbled boards. Raised bands. Spines decorated and lettered in gold. Inked ownership of Miss Ann Willcox on top of preface pages and elsewhere. Bookplate of Redmond Conyngham in both volumes. Redmond Conygham (1781-1846) was born in Philadelphia. He inherited from his paternal grandfather an estate in the county Donegal, Ireland, yielding L2,000 a year, and subsequently spent some time in Ireland. During his stay abroad he became intimate with Curran, Grattan, and other prominent Irishmen, including his cousin, William Conyngham Plunket, afterward lord-chancellor of Ireland. On his return to the U.S. he settled in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and was active in state and local politics. He then removed to Lancaster County, where he devoted much of his leisure to antiquarian research. Issued as a limited edition, less than 500 copies were printed. A very good copy of this handsome and informative book. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! LivRm
1795pp. x, 500. LACKS pages 497/8. Several other leaves have slight loss. A few signatures defective without loss. Age stained. XLib bookplate of the Library Company of Philadelphia printed by Zachariah Poulson. 4to. Original full leather binding, very worn and shedding. Should be rebound and restored. First edition. A valuable description of the Rhine valley during the spreading disorder caused by the French Revolution. Allibone 1721. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! TRAVEL/5
194450 leaves + Full page photographs. Title page decorated and printed in red and black. Photographs by David E. Scherman. Descriptive text by Richard Wilcox. Format planned by Richard Ellis. Endpapers damp stained. Text clean. 4to. Original full blue cloth binding, soiled. Hardbound. This book is the development of a picture essay on Literary England that appeared in Life Magazine of June 14, 1943. TRAVEL/7
1926144p. 8vo. Original gold decorated red cloth binding. Spine worn. Front fly leaves scribled. "The history of the art of bookbinding is always parallel to the history of artistic taste in every country . It has flourished with every movement for the advancement of art and has fallen with every materialistic revolution. Its decadence has been evidence of a decadence in the manners and morals of the t imes; its rise has been a barometer of the increasing affluence and well-being of a country and a people." **PRICE JUST REDUCED! REF3
196750 p. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Occasional Publication No. 2, Bodleian Library. XLib stamp on front cover. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! REF1
1891337p. 8vo. Original gold decorated blue cloth binding. Top Edge Gilt. Stamped ownership. Top and bottom of spine slightly chipped. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! REF1
1909Two volumes. pp. (xx) 598; (16) 676 + Illustrations, including color frontis pieces and sixty-four monochrome plates. Foxed. Original blue cloth binding, worn and torn at hinges. Methodism in the Christian tradition, chronicling its growth (especially in the U.S.) from modest beginnings. PA 51.
1697pp. (2), xlv, (6), 381, (3) [Publisher's Advertisements]. Foxed. Small 8vo. 19mm. Leather boards tooled in blind; later library cloth spine. Released duplicate from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Gilpin Library. Greatly expanded from the first edition. Some copies of the 3rd edition contain a frontis, but it apparently was not issued with the second. Charles Leslie was a celebrated non-juring divine. He distinguished himself in public religious controversy. When Ireland became disturbed in 1689, Leslie removed with his family to England, where he employed himself in writing political pamphlets (opposed to the existing government but zealous in support of the Church of England). About this time he entered into a controversy with the Quakers, said to have arisen from the circumstance of his lodging with a family of that persuasion. This family he converted. This is the first of the several treatises which he wrote against the Quakers. It was answered by George Whithead in a pamphlet entitled, "An Antidote to the Snake in the Grass." In this important Second Edition Mr. Leslie noticed this answer; but he was again assailed in a production called, 'Satan Dissolved from his Disguises of Light' which also appeared in 1696. To this, and several other attacks, Mr Leslie replied at great length in "A Defence of a book entitled the Snake in the Grass." This again provoked a host of answers, amongst which was one by the Quakers, entitled "A Switch for the Snake." To this Mr Leslie again replied in "A Second Defence, or the third and last part of the Snake in the Grass." Wing L1157; Smith, Anti-Quakeriana p. 267. Very Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 59.
1971pp. ix, 310. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth binding, spine lettered in gold. Near fine copy. PA 58.
188294p. + Full page wood engraved plates with original tissue guards. Top edge gilt. Uncut. Square 8vo. Original gilt decorated purple cloth binding, spine faded. Calling card of the author. A prominent Pennsylvanian's plea to England to allow the remains of Penn to be removed to Philadelphia. PA 59.
1809pp. xx, 279 + Large folding chart. Foxed. Some passages have 75 year old typed(!) corrections(?) mounted in place of Blackstone's text. Contemporary full roan leather binding. Spine broken, with slight loss. Early manuscript ownership of Thomas Harris. SCARCE. AMER IMP 5 **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
1931pp. li, 206. 12mo. 20 cm. Illustrated with small engravings by Helen Kapp. Original publisher's cloth binding, slightly soiled. This is one of the most entertaining early books we've ever read. Anyone with an antiquarian bent will enjoy it. It would make a very nice gift. W144R
1972Twenty volumes. 2524 p. Highly illustrated in color and monochrome. 4to. Color illustrated boards binding. Excellent reference guide to all sorts of antiques, arts, crafts, and collectables from America, Europe, England, France, Turkey, Persia, Russia, Etc. - arranged alphabetically, by country. Written by some of the most distinguished experts and scholars in the antiques field. Devotees of the Antiques Road shows will find here a wealth of information and enjoyment. The set would make a great gift. Please EMail to arrange shipping. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SE3-6.
1952pp. 98; 33 plates, Numerous drawings by Reginald Woolley. Small 4to. Original publisher's white cloth binding. Bright colored dust jacket. First edition. Fine copy of a wonderful study of British Vaud eville, Burlesque, and Theater. This would make a great gift for any fan of the English stage or music hall. W141
1925190 p. + Tipped color Frontis and full page illustrations. Text drawings. Sm. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth binding. Spine torn. Very XLib. Reading copy only. PA 31
1911110 p. + Full page illustrations. Top Edge Gilt. Tall 8vo. Brilliant gold decorated blue cloth binding. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 59.
1935166p. Batik designed paper boards. Tall 8vo. Slipcased. Faithful copy of the Bruce Rogers designed Limited Editions Club version.
194450 full page monochrome photographs. 4to. Original publisher's cloth binding. Designed by Richard Ellis. An anthology of excerpts from English authors with photos of appropriate scenes. Based on Scher man's pictorial essay in Life Magazine (June 14, 1943), this version is all the more desireable for the Preface: "The Sense of Place" by Christopher Morley. This book would make a fine gift. W152
1970424 p. Illustrations. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Slipcased. Limited 1650 copies. First Edition. A festschrift in honor of Donald F. Hyde, with articles by: Wilmarth Lewis; Charles Ryskamp; A.N.L. Munby; and others. Fine. **PRICE JUST REDUCED REF8
1863411p. 8vo. Disbound. XLib. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! REF1
1968pp. xiii, 62. Plus full page illustrations. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Limited to 1650 copies total. Introduction by Willis Van Devanter. Joan Crane Cataloguer. Printed by the Anthoensen P ress. A wonderful catalog that features remarkable works from the presses of: William Caxton; Wynkyn De Worde; Richard Pynson; and others. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! REF4
1978pp. xv, 326. Color frontis. Illustrations. 8vo. Original buckram. 2nd edition. As new condition. A classic book constituting the first major history of English bookbinding in all its technical aspects. Now considered the standard reference work. **PRICE JUST REDUCED REF6
1979pp. xv, 292. Frontis plus illustrations. 8vo. Original gold stamped red cloth binding. Limited to 450 copies. **PRICE JUST REDUCED REF6
1860pp. xvi, 423 + Frontis. Slight foxing. 12mo. 19 cm. Original full cloth binding. Engraved ExLibris of George Dawson Coleman. Very good. This first American edition of the first of what eventually became four series. It includes Buckland's popular essays on: 'A Hunt in a Horse-pond; 'Rats'; 'The Cobra di Capello'; 'Fish and Fishing'; and 'My Monkey Jacko.' Known as the People's Naturalist, Buckland was trained as a medical doctor but spent a great part of his time as a fisherman, antiquary, and naturalist. In 1867 he was appointed to the congenial post of Inspector of the Salmon Fisheries. "Genial, sagacious, enthusiastic, always prone to look at the humorous side of his subject, Buckland aimed rather at enlisting the sympathies of others in his favourite studies than at acquiring the name of a profound writer on science. He held the ordinary usages of society in supreme contempt when they appeared to interfere with his zeal for experiment and research in natural history. His friends love to recall him - now wading into some icy cold river to capture salmon for the purposes of artificial breeding - now smoking and in his shirt sleeves as he arranged curiosities at South Kensington - and now again humorously dilating in his house in Albany street about the habits of the pet animals which generally ran loose through his rooms" - From the 'Dictionary of National Biography' Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W147