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187216 pages. Contents: Lady's Summer Dress; Imitation Stained Glass; Lovers versus Husbands; Manners Upon the Road - of pot and kettle; New York Fashions - summer foulards, French muslin dresses, polka-dotted grenadines, flannel polonaises, French fancies, household matters, refrigerants; Personal; cashmere and java canvas wall-pocket; netted and bead work-basket; cane wind screen; summer hats and bonnets for young and old ladies; Were They Vagabonds?; Sayings and Doings; Ladies' summer dresses; For the Ugly Girls - No. IX; Paris Fashions; To the Bitter End - continued; Our Flower Garden; The Common-Sense of Dress; Illustration "Between Love and Riches"; Geneva and the Arbitration; humor. Average wear. Book
186916 pages. Contents: Walking and Morning Dresses; Etiquette of Address; New York Fashions - silks and satins, items about dresses, trained casaques; Personal; Embroidery design for cigar-cases, port-folios, etc.; Point Russe Embroidery on Java Canvas for Antimacassars; Wicker-work and Netted Basket; Squares in Netted Guipure; Sofa Pillow with Crocheted Stripes; Point Russe Embroidery for mats, ooilette cushions, etc.; Gobelin Embroidery on Silk for Slipper; Medallions in Point Russe and Application for Cigar-Cases,; Crochet and Tapestry Lambrequin; Sweet Seventeen; Love versus prejudice; Saying and Doings; The complete art of Plain Sewing - Two pages with dozens of illustrations and text; Goose and Gander; Debenham's Vow - continued; Riding Habit; Full page compilation of eight different illustrations of different Belles (women) i.e. The Dumb Belle, Morning Belles, etc.; Humor; and more. Above-average wear. Book
1899Pages 1-66. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: Nice Prescott Pianos ad inside front cover; My Secret (poem); Alaska; The passing of Spain; Officers of Company K (poem); Jack and Pirie; Sleighing (poem); Cupid - Song (poem); Unlukikus Loses His self-poise; The Cocheco (poem); Channing Folsom; The Country Depot (poem); Some Old Tales and Traditions of the White Mountains; Harriet Beecher Stowe (poem); Java and the colonial system of the Dutch; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
18838vo., Eighth Edition, WANTING FRONTISPIECE (original tissue guard present), with engraved title-vignette, 7 plates, very numerous illustrations and 8 maps (a number full-page) in the text, folding coloured map and folding map coloured in outline (maps vey lightly spotted, mainly on blank margins); original green cloth, upper board framed in black and blocked in gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, expertly recased, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, small stamp on title, and neat stamp in a few blank margins of text. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end BUT TRAGICALLY WANTING THE FRONTISPIECE 'ORANG-UTAN ATTACKED BY DYAKS'. The most celebrated work, dedicated appropriately to Darwin, by the co-discoverer of the process of evolution through natural selection. The eighth edition is based on the revised third edition of 1872. His well-known appendix on the crania and the languages of man in the archipelago includes a glossary of one hundred and seventeen words in thirty-three languages of the region. A LOVELY COPY OF A KEY WORK IN THE LITERATURE OF EVOLUTION. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
