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London & NY: Macmillan, 1877. Second Edition.
Seller ID: 56901
Original brown pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Black coated end papers. 786pp. One leaf of ads at the rear. Frontispiece of "The Logical Machine". Some white paint spots and light wear at the lower spine, in general a clean and attractive very good copy. First published in two volumes in 1874, this is the one-volume Second Edition of 1877. This edition contains a substantial new Preface (pgs. [vii] - xxvi) dated 1877. The Logical Machine depicted in the frontispiece [also known as the "Logical Piano", first introduced in 1870] is discussed at some length (pgs. 107 - 114) including some ... View More...
A hand-coloured lithograph of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon III, proclaiming him President of the French Republic. Lithographed by the E.C. Kellogg Co. of NY & Hartford, Conn. It measures 24cm x 34.5cm. Small number "299" at bottom center. Old stains mostly toward the bottom, not very noticeable from the front. At the top of this lithograph is the legend "Universal Suffrage" and on a decorative ribbon "Elected 10th December 1848". "Peace" and "War" are on decorative ribbons at the sides. A product of the Kellogg Brothers lithographic company, rivals of New York's Currier & Ives, which op... View More...
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London: Printed by T. Bensley ... For C.J. Kennion, 1815. First edition.
Seller ID: 56878
Folio, half-calf & marbled boards. Marbled endpapers & edges. Illustrated title page and 50 plates. Old dampstain to lower edge and part of upper margin, the plates showing some foxing and spotting due to moisture. Wear to the tips and spine extremities, the front hinge split partway along but still holding. In general a very good copy. Very scarce; an issue exists with four coloured plates (not present here); the book was reprinted by Bohn in 1844 with additional plates. View More...
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Southampton: Fletcher and Son/London: Black, Young, & Young, 1834. First edition.
Seller ID: 56573
Rebound in brown cloth, the original cloth laid down, printed paper label on spine. Ownership inscription on inner front cover, small catalogue entry pasted in, a very good copy. Some foxing, mostly to later leaves. A curious attempt to read significance into nursery rhymes, this book is described in the Introduction to Opie's OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NURSERY RHYMES (1952 ed.), who say of it: "This volume is probably the most extraordinary example of misdirected labour in the history of English letters. .... Ker has given delight to students of mania ever since." The book saw further editions, an... View More...
Self-wrapper, 58pp. Woodcut heapiece, and small woodcut running headlines. Disbound from a volume, very good condition, the last two leaves are detached. Text in Latin. This relates to the law around gifts. View More...
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Norrköping: Carl Friedrich Broocman, 1730
Seller ID: 56094
4to. Half-calf & boards, spine lettered in gilt. Leather lifted at front hinge, boards rubbed, a very good copy. A few woodcut head & tailpieces, printed in black-letter. In Swedish. On the writings of Lutheran minister Christian Scriver (1629-93). View More...
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Portland [Maine]: Printed by Shirley & Edwards, 1825. First edition.
Seller ID: 57114
12mo. 160pp. Patterned boards, calf spine. Modest edge wear, a very good copy in the original boards. Ownership inscription on the first leaves, showing the book was purchased by one Archibald F. Martin in 1835, for the price of 18 & 3/4 cents. His small ink ownership stamp from 1843 is on the Preface leaf. William Ladd was an early American anti-war activist, and the first president of the American Peace Society. A revised second edition was issued in Exeter, NH, in 1827. This 1825 first edition is scarce. View More...
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Vinariae: Hoffmann, 1751. Editio Nova Auctior et Emendatior.
Seller ID: 56456
Self-wrappers, 44pp. Disbound from a volume. Clean, very good condition. Woodcut headpiece and tailpiece. Text in Latin. This seems to relate to transactions between territories, perhaps comparing the German to the Roman system. WorldCat cites an earlier edition published in 1748. View More...
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London: Printed for G. Robinson, 1783. First edition.
Seller ID: 56586
4to. Rebound in full calf, spine gilt. End papers renewed. Uncut. Scattered foxing, mainly to margins; one leaf near the end torn across; partly unopened; a clean and very good copy in a handsome binding. Printed in double columns, it includes a 6-page subscriber list and a page of specimen alphabets, also a chronology and index at the end. View More...
NY: ca. 1840. 16 pages. Self-wrappers, sewn. Some foxing, a few creases, very good condition. "The subjoined report, by the Honorable Edward Livingstone, late Secretary of State, is reprinted from the Documents of the United States Senate, for the purpose of more extensively diffusing information on the subject of the indemnity due American citizens for spoliations committed on our commerce by the French Government, prior to the year 1800." This quotes Livingstone's text headed: "In Senate Of The United States, February 22, 1830." Accompanied by a contemporary 4-page leaflet entitled: Brief R... View More...
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Vienna : Kustverlag Anton Schroll & Cº, 1891.
Seller ID: 56536
Folio, half-calf, marbled end papers. Spine is lacking, both covers detached, some soiling to margins, generally very good otherwise. This is a copy of the First Series, with plates numbered from 1 - 30. It is bound without any title page or preliminaries, but has a number of additional photographs bound with it. There are six large photographs bound at the beginning, of examples of cemetery art and gravestones; one of the photographs has a large original ink rendering of the same tomb laid in opposite it, signed "CWB" or possibly "CMB" (this is possibly the original artist's rendering, perhap... View More...
A broadside poem on a single leaf, measuring 17cm x 24.5cm. Wear and some slight perforation along old folds, a few small chips, very good condition. The first line is: "IN India liv'd a noble Lord,". This is one of numerous varieties of this broadside poem, one of at least two which were available from Deming in Boston. This copy bears the Hanover Street address, and is from ca.1835; another version exists which bears Deming's Market-Square address, and is from ca. 1829-31. View More...
[Amsterdam?]: Gedrukt op Trianon, by Lodewyk Bastiaansz, 1702. [2] + 10 pages. Small 4to. Woodcut decoration on title. Later wrappers, sewn, small library label on lower front wrapper. Some wear to first leaf, remains of an old stain to the lower corner, very good. A Dutch translation of this pamphlet about Louis XIV and The Prince of Wales, first published in English in 1689 as: The Great Bastard, Protector of the Little One....". Despite its claim to be "Done out of French" this was an original English work. Another English edition appeared in 1702. All the editions are uncommon. View More...
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Glasgow: Foulis, 1749. (Glasguae, In Aedibus Academicis, Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, M.DCC.XLIX).
Seller ID: 57082
Small 8vo. Full mottled calf, spine gilt, marbled end papers. Wear to corners and joints, still sound, very good and internally very clean. Pictorial bookplate of J. Coolidge on the front paper, and he has also signed the title page. In pen on a blank preliminary leaf is written: "once Samuel Cary's!"; another small ownership signature is beneath it. The first Foulis edition, 1749. The ad leaf is present at the rear. Gaskell 135. View More...
Two volumes. 334 + 430 pp. Red half-calf & marbled boards. All edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Bound by Bickers. Fresh and clean, in fine condition. Munro had published an edition of Lucretius in 1860; this 1864 edition is the first edition of his translation. A handsome set. View More...
This plate is engraved by Weigel, drawn by Caspar Luyken. This is a page from the [1708 - 1712] Historiae Celebriores Veteris Testamenti / Novi Testamenti, published in Nuremberg by Christoph Weigel. Engravings are from designs by Jan & Caspar Luyken, and other artists. The Old Testament contained 151 plates, and the New Testament contained 108 engraved plates. The engravings have text beneath in Latin and German. Sheet size is 35.5cm x 24,5cm. Condition is clean and very good, nice dark impressions. View More...
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London: T. & J. Allmann, 1820. Third Edition.
Seller ID: 57031
12mo. Full burgundy morocco, gilt. Marbled end papers. 248pp. Two leaves of publisher's advertisements at the rear. Some light occasional spotting, light wear to tips, an attractive copy. Poems include POMPEII by T.B. Macaulay, and JERUSALEM by Chauncey Hare Townshend, friend of Charles Dickens and the dedicatee of Great Expectations. This Third Edition adds two poems: WALLACE by H. Waddington, and JERUSALEM by T.F. Ellis. View More...
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London: For The Author by N. Trubner and Co., 1877.
Seller ID: 51186
First edition. xxxii + 604pp. Original purple cloth, printed paper spine label. Spine a bit sunned, light overall wear, rear hinge a bit loose, small hole at rear hinge, slight bubbling of cloth on back cover; in general, a clean and very good copy otherwise. List of Subscribers at front. View More...
Dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Embossed symbol on front cover. Grey coated end papers. Photographic illustrations of the Roll of Honour. Some discoloration from dampness to the covers, mostly at the fore-edges, small ownership stickers from Lerwick, a very good copy. The uncommon original edition of this account of Shetland in WWI. View More...
Publisher:
Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1884. First edition.
Seller ID: 57039
Blue cloth, front cover designed and lettered in black, spine lettered in gilt. Dark brown coated end papers. 217pp. 24-page publisher's catalogue at the rear. Old stain to lower page edges, a clean very good copy generally. View More...
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