Engraved map on wove paper, uncoloured. Sheet size is 34.5cm x 26.5. Original folds, very good condition. Plate number in upper right: "P. LXXVIII". From an unknown work. A map notable for the extent of its mistakes and misinformation, including an apocryphal South Branch of the Columbia River extending almost to Salt Lake, and another river connecting Salt Lake to San Francisco. View More...
Publisher:
Finsbury: Eastern Post Steam Printing Works, 1873.
Seller ID: 55800
Disbound. 8pp. Self-wrappers. Very good condiiton. A slender pamphlet, on the subject of supernaturalism, and the question of a divine origin of religion. Reprinted from the Eastern Post, a newspaper from the East end of London: "The Eastern Post was a weekly local workers paper in circulation between 1868 and 1938. It was a working men?s alternative to other local papers such as the Hackney Gazette (focused on social reform through parliament) and the Hackney Mercury (a Conservative paper). Its readership incorporated local residents from the Hackney, Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Poplar and Ste... View More...
Original pictorial wrappers. 119pp. Covers detached and chipped at edges, piece from lower back cover, spine chipped away, very good otherwise. The front cover adds the legend "New Society Sensation" and "Price Ten Cents". WorldCat describes a copy as in the series: Richmond Novels (nowhere indicated on this copy), and a date of 1872. A melodramatic novel of American high society with some criminous content: the murder of Flashington Prince by Alfred Sparkle. View More...
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, (1924). First edition, Colonial Issue (so stamped on the copyright page). Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in blind. Some pen marks and small marks to end papers; a bright and attractive copy. An anonymous epistolary work of fiction, consisting of letters from a woman to her love, Ronald, written in the 1920s. Touches on politics, love, social issues. View More...
NY: American Tract Society, [c.1850]. Original decorative wrappers printed in black & brown. Illustrated title page and two other engravings. Some foxing and discoloration, basically very good. Issued as No. 26 in a series, so indicated by a numbered box on the front wrapper. The WorldCat entry associates this book with Emma Sharpington, and with Elias James Whitney, who may have done the engraving. One engraving is also signed: "Childs". View More...
An 8-page pamphlet, disbound, self-wrappers. Moderate foxing, a very good copy. WorldCat locates two copies, and assigns the authorship to "A Sussex Farmer". This relates to the wool and textile trade, commerce with Spain. It appears to be a follow-up to this pamphlet: "The Advantages and Disadvantages which will attend the prohibition of the merchandizes of Spain, impartially examined. ... By a Sussex Farmer. (London, 1740)" View More...
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