Category: Antiquarian

An Electrical Process for the Dehydration of Crude Petroleum. Copied from Oil Age of April 21, 1911.

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 53914

San Francisco: Foster & ten Bosch, [1911-12]. A stapled booklet in tan wrappers, front cover printed in dark brown. Two illustrations and three folding plates at the rear. Staples rusting, some figures in pencil on back cover, otherwise a nice copy. An early work on the electrical method of dehydrating petroleum, this booklet is basically an ad for the Petroleum Rectifying Co. of California, whose ads and fact sheets appear at the rear. A very scarce book. Not in WorldCat, and we cannot find another copy listed.
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The Truth About The Foreign Sugar Bounties. The Case For Abolition.

By: Beeton (Mayson M.)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1898. First edition.

Seller ID: 56989

Original tan printed wrappers, bound into red morocco, the front cover lettered in gilt. Some rubbing to edges, wear to spine extremities, a bright very good copy. Several charts and diagrams, some in colour. Rear wrapper is illustrated with a satirical depiction from 'Punch'. Laid in are two ephemeral items, an illustrated leaflet and a broadside (twice folded), issued by The Anti-Bounty League in 1898. Mayson Beeton was the son of Mrs. Beeton, famous author of cookbooks. This book is scarce.
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Image for Saturdays to Mondays. Being Jottings from the Note-Books of Kenneth Ffarington Bellairs on Some Phases of Country Life, Yachting, Deep Sea Fishing, With Dog and Gun, Etc. Etc. With Illustrations by W.C. Keene, J. Temple, and H.C. Seppings Wright.

Saturdays to Mondays. Being Jottings from the Note-Books of Kenneth Ffarington Bellairs on Some Phases of Country Life, Yachting, Deep Sea Fishing, With Dog and Gun, Etc. Etc. With Illustrations by W.C. Keene, J. Temple, and H.C. Seppings Wright.

By: Bellairs (Kenneth Ffarington)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London: T.P. Chapman, 1888. First edition.

Seller ID: 50084

[Bound With]: Saturdays to Mondays. (Second Series). (1888). The two volumes bound together in one volume: 2-tone cloth, black with a red spine, small hand- lettered paper label on spine. Frontispieces, and several inserted plates of sporting, angling, gold mining, pheasant rearing, etc. An uncommon collection of sketches originally published in the Weekly Bulletin.
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Histoire de Pierre Terrail, dit le Chevalier Bayard, Sans Peur et Sans Reproche.

By: Berville (M. Guyard de)

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: 54833

Lyon: Freres Perisse, 1807. Nouvelle Edition. 12mo. Full calf, spine designed and lettered in gilt. Some chipping to spine ends, leather very dry, rubbed at edges, very good. Small sword & helmet decoration on title page; the half-title leaf is present. First published in 1760, the history of the chivalrous French knight who was killed on the battlefield in 1524.
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Image for Ordinis JCtorum In Alma Wittenbergensi h. t. Decanus Georg. Beyer J.U.D. Pandectarum Profess. Publ. Cur. Provinc. Et Scabin. Elect. Sax. Assessor Atque Academiae Jam Pro-Rector Lectori Benevolo S.P.D.

Ordinis JCtorum In Alma Wittenbergensi h. t. Decanus Georg. Beyer J.U.D. Pandectarum Profess. Publ. Cur. Provinc. Et Scabin. Elect. Sax. Assessor Atque Academiae Jam Pro-Rector Lectori Benevolo S.P.D.

By: Beyer (Georg)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Vitembergae: Prelo Gerdesiano, 1709. First edition.

Seller ID: 56451

Original self-wrappers. Small 4to, 16pp. Front cover dusty, a very good copy. Woodcut initial on second leaf. The WorldCat entry suggests that there are two varieties; this is of the variety with the colophon reading: Vitembergae: Prelo Gerdesiano. Beyer was made a Professor of Law at the University of Wittenberg in 1706, and an important contributor to the German legal system.
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Wild Sports in Ireland. With Illustrations.

By: Bickerdyke (John)

Price: $225.00

Publisher: London: Gill, 1897. First edition.

Seller ID: 57032

234pp. plus two leaves of publisher's ads at rear, also a 16-page publisher's catalogue at rear dated 12/96. Original brown cloth designed and lettered in gilt. The end papers bear sporting ads. Frontispiece and 18 photographic plates, as well as many illustrations within the text. Some light chipping at edges, but a very good copy with the fragile original binding intact. A difficult book to find in decent condition.
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Disputatio Juridica, ad Tit. IV, Lib VIII. Digest. Communia Praediorum Tam Urbanorum Quam Rusticorum.

By: Blair (D. Robert, Lord Avontoun)

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: 54888

Edinburgh: Balfour & Smellie, 1804. 4to. 16pp. Disbound. A clean copy. In Latin, regarding servitude and slavery. Robert Blair, Lord Avontoun [1741 - 1811] was a Scottish judge, third son of the Poet Robert Blair.
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Mythologie de La Jeunesse; Ouvrage Elementaire, par Demandes et par Reponses... Neuvieme Edition, Ornee de 127 Fig.

By: Blanchard (Pierre)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Paris: Chez Le Prieur, 1816. Neuvieme Edition.

Seller ID: 50089

12mo. Contemporary speckled boards, unlettered red leather spine & corners. Frontispiece and 31 inserted plates, containing 127 engraved figures of mythological beings. Modest shelf wear and bumping to corners, some foxing and discoloration to the margins of some plates, but in general a very agreeable copy, quite clean. Lessons in mythologie, presented in a question & answer format, with somewhat crude, but charming illustrations.
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Image for The Code of Terpsichore. The Art of Dancing: Comprising its Theory and Practice and A History of its Rise and Progress, from the Earliest Times ... Translated ... By R. Barton.

The Code of Terpsichore. The Art of Dancing: Comprising its Theory and Practice and A History of its Rise and Progress, from the Earliest Times ... Translated ... By R. Barton.

By: Blasis (Carlo) (Translated by R. Barton)

Price: $625.00

Publisher: London: Edward Bull, 1830.

Seller ID: 56671

Contemporary quarter-calf & marbled boards. Frontispiece & 17 plates at the rear, followed by 22 pages of music. Clipped article about dance pasted to front end papers, moderate foxing to some plates, small old ink stain to outer margin of the last few leaves; in general a sound very good copy, complete with all plates. An earlier edition was published in London by James Bulcock in 1828. An important book in the literature of dance. [Gabriele Brandstettter, 2005: "In The Code of Terpsichore, published in 1828, Blasis cataloged a clearly defined ?alphabet? of dance poses. This may be the first ...
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Image for The Book Of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, And Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches: And The Form or Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.

The Book Of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, And Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches: And The Form or Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.

By: Book of Common Prayer 1709

Price: $400.00

Publisher: London: Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd; Printers to the Queens most Excellent Majesty. 1709.

Seller ID: 56919

Folio. 26cm x 40cm. Black full calf, panelled, the spine designed in six panels. Marbled end papers. Ruled throughout in red. Frontispiece by Gaspars, ("R. White Sculp."), with the imprint of 1709. The Psalms has its own title page: (London: Printed by Tho. Hodgkin, for the Company of Stationers, 1703). Text in two columns, decorative initials throughout; the Psalms in three columns. A disbound, heavily used copy with both covers detached, the first 10 leaves loose, old stains to lower edge and fore edge, considerable wear to the edges of some leaves (slight loss to the lower corner of a few e...
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Les Forces de la France soubz le Regne du Tres-crestien & tres victorieux Monarque Louis le Juste.

By: Bosse (Abraham) [Published by Mariette]

Price: $425.00

Publisher: [Paris]: Mariette, [c.1627].

Seller ID: 56935

An etching on laid paper, measuring 40cm x 17.5cm. Captioned at the top, with descriptive text at the bottom, all text in French. One central vertical crease where folded, wrinkling to lower edge, one short tear to upper edge, very good condition. Imprint at the bottom: "Mariette excu cum Privilege". Trimmed close to the plate mark, but with no loss. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns a copy of this etching, which they have titled: "The French Forces: Louis XIII and Gaston d'Orléans" [They date it ca. 1630]. The Bibliotheque Nationale in France has a copy catalogued, assigning a date of 1627....
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Le Tabac et les Microbes. Extrait du Journal de la Societe contre l'abus du tabac (numeros de septembre et d'octobre 1884).

By: Bourdin (Charles Etienne)

Price: $90.00

Seller ID: 53378

Paris: Se Vend au Profit de la Societe, 1884. 16 pages. Original printed wrappers. Old pen mark on front wrapper, some modest chipping at edges, a clean very good copy. One of a number of anti-tobacco tracts produced by Bourdin.
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Le Tabac. Ses Inconvenients, Ses Dangers. Extrait de L'Encyclopedie des Sciences, Des Lettres et des Arts (1880).

By: Bourdin (Charles Etienne)

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: 53377

Paris: Charles de Lamotte, 1882. 32 pages. Original printed wrappers. Some dust soiling of wrappers, light chipping to edges, a few creases, a very good copy. One of a number of anti-tobacco tracts produced by Bourdin.
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History of Massachusetts, From 1764, to July, 1775: When General Washington Took Command of The American Army.

By: Bradford (Alden)

Price: $90.00

Seller ID: 52976

Boston: Richardson and Lord, 1822. First edition. 414 pp. Full tree calf, leather spine labels lettered in gilt, the covers both detached and the spine partly chipped away. Lacking the front fly leaf and possibly a half-title leaf. The first of three volumes by Bradford, followed by volumes published in 1825 and 1829. This copy is distinguished by having been in the Library of the Department of State, so indicated by a pen inscription on the title page, dated Dec. 15, 1822, also by a library label on the inner front cover, and an ink stamp. At the foot of the spine, the binding is stamped 'Sta...
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Image for Anno Regni Georgii Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Quinto. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster, the Seventeenth Day of March, Anno Dom. 1714. In the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George .... And from thence Continued by several Prorogations to the Eleventh Day of November, 1718. Being the Fourth Session of this present Parliament.

Anno Regni Georgii Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Quinto. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster, the Seventeenth Day of March, Anno Dom. 1714. In the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George .... And from thence Continued by several Prorogations to the Eleventh Day of November, 1718. Being the Fourth Session of this present Parliament.

By: British Act of Parliament 1719 - East Indies Trade.

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 54649

London: Printed by John Baskett, etc., 1719. Disbound & loose; three leaves, the title and two leaves paginated 399 - 402. Some chipping and short tears to edges, spine worn where removed from a binding, very good otherwise. This contains "An Act for the better Securing the Lawful Trade of His Majesties Subjects to and from the East-Indies; and for the more effectual Preventing all His Majesties Subjects Trading thither under Foreign Commissions."
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Image for The Humble Address Of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal In Parliament Assembled, Presented to His Majesty, On Wednesday the Twenty third Day of March, 1714. With His Majesties Most Gracious Answer.

The Humble Address Of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal In Parliament Assembled, Presented to His Majesty, On Wednesday the Twenty third Day of March, 1714. With His Majesties Most Gracious Answer.

By: British Monarchy.

Price: $125.00

Seller ID: 54989

London: Printed by John Baskett, etc., 1714. First edition. 4to. 4pp. Disbound. Large decorative initial on page 3. Splitting at lower spine, very good condition. Written to George I, King of England; The Lords have some harsh words for The Pretender (James, Prince of Wales), and make reference to the end of the War of Spanish Succession (1701 - 1714).
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The Lords Protests. Die Mercurii, 13° Februarii 1733. The Duke of Marlborough presented to the House .....

By: British Parliament - Army & Military.

Price: $125.00

Seller ID: 54999

[London, 1733/34]. 4to. 8 pages. Disbound. Fraying to the lower edge, resulting in slight loss of text from the final lines on pages [1] and 7; some marginal tears, chips from upper corner, very good otherwise. Paper is very brittle. 4 leaves; the signature mark not present on the first leaf, but page 5 is signed C; thus, possibly part of a larger work. This prints the Lords Protests to the Duke of Marlborough's bill regarding the commissions of military officers, and then prints the bill itself. Following are section relating to the election of Peers in Scotland, some wording in an act relati...
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Image for A Compleat List of the Members who Voted For and Against The Bill for Repealing the Septennial Act, and for the more frequent Meeting and Calling of Parliaments: With the Speeches of the Two Gentlemen who Moved and Seconded the Question, Mar. 13, 1733/34.

A Compleat List of the Members who Voted For and Against The Bill for Repealing the Septennial Act, and for the more frequent Meeting and Calling of Parliaments: With the Speeches of the Two Gentlemen who Moved and Seconded the Question, Mar. 13, 1733/34.

By: British Parliamentary Act 1734.

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: 54692

London: Printed for J. Wilford, 1734. First edition. 8vo. 32 pages (20 + 12). Taped with library tape into modern blue wrappers, the title typed on the spine. Save for the tape adhering to the first and final leaves, a clean very good copy. The act in question deals with the maximum allowable length of a parliament, and its repeal was a contentious issue during the 18th century.
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Zoological Recreations. Second Edition, with Additions.

By: Broderip (W.J.)

Price: $90.00

Seller ID: 54249

London: Henry Colburn, 1848. Second Edition. Original green blindstamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pale yellow coated end papers. 8 pages of publisher's ads at rear, and an additional 24-page catalogue following them. Some light foxing, minor shelf wear to tips, spine a bit sunned, ownership inscription on front end paper dated 1848; overall, quite a pleasant copy. The first edition appeared in 1847. Ruminations on birds, cats, dogs, elephants, and a sizable section on dragons.
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The Works of Michael Bruce. Edited, With Memoir and Notes, by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, Kinross.

By: Bruce (Michael)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Edinburgh: Oliphant / London: Hamilton, Adams, 1865.

Seller ID: 57029

263pp. Original brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt, image in gilt on front cover. Brown coated end papers. Frontispiece and nine plates, all mounted albumen photographs. One tipped-in plate, bearing facsimiles of Bruce's hand writing. Some discoloration of end papers, inner hinges cracking, short tears in cloth along rear hinge, a very good copy. There is foxing and spotting of some leaves, mainly to margins; the photographic images all have their tissue protectors and are good clear images. No limitation stated, but evidence from the preface of the earlier non-illustrated issue suggests th...
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Category: Antiquarian