16mo 6" - 7" tall; 1st edition of this important and enduring Lancaster Mennonite songbook. Bound in full period polished calf which is chipped at spine ends and rubbed at edges; both clasps are lacking. Text block is intact and the paper is supple, though with expected light uniform toning. Rear board is detatched, front board holding. Paged [6], 79, [1], 415, [1], 17, [1]pp ; 18 cm. Some pages with bars of music. Printed in two columns. Bound, as always, with Ein Neues Unpartheyisches Gesangbuch, with separate title page and pagination. Also imprinted Johann Albrecht, 1804 (Shaw an... View More...
16mo 6" - 7" tall; Johann Albrecht, Lancaster; 1804. 1st edition of this important and enduring Lancaster Mennonite songbook. Bound in full period calf; both clasps and straps are lacking, but brass bosses and closures are intact. Light shelf rubbing to leather at spine ends and over the raised bands. Text block is intact and the paper is supple, though with expected light uniform toning. Prior owner inscription to 2nd blank endpage appears to be dated 1804 and 1807. Prior owner names appear to be Schenck and Denlingen, but the page is crazed with apparent insect predation or deterior... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 483 pages; 6th revised edition of this important and enduring Lancaster Mennonite song book. Full marbled calf binding with horizontal gilt ruling across spine compartment bands and with black leather title label to spine. Paged [6], 79, [1], 483, 18p. Printed in 2 columns, additional title page for the second part. Some bars of shape-music notation in text. Both starps and clasps missing. Mild vertical stress wrinkling to spine. VG View More...
Facsimile documents, engravings photos; Folio 13" - 23" tall; In a handsome casing of burgundy brown chromed leather with hubbed spine and faux morocco title label. Paged 61 pp of text with 55 full page plates, 129 total number of illustrations - including maps, documents, portraits and engravings in facsimile. This copy was rebound by a Thai bookbinder, presumably in Bangkok. His Thai language pencil notations to the title page summarize the instructions of the client regarding the color and quality of the materials to be used in casing the book. Contents bright and very neat with on... View More...
Woodcuts; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 534 pages; 1st US edition, from the 2nd British edition. Illustrated with fifty wood cut engravings. Original speckled calf leather binding. Page block is solid and clean with light scattered toning and foxing. Front board detached and rear board tender in the joint. Leather at spine stressed and darkened with cracking to hardened surface. Morocco leather title label is darkened and cracked but legible. An age darkened prior owner paper label at spine is missing portions. A period manuscript ownership signature to front pastedown is largely erased wi... View More...
B&W Photographs and Drawings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 533 pages; Full red leather with titles and pictorial designs in gilt to spine. All edges gilt. Pink silk moire endpages. Bright, tight and fresh. No marks. Illustrated with B&W photographs and drawings. Lovely copy. Fine. View More...
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 394 pages; Lancaster, Johann Bar [I. E. Baer]; 1827. Full calf leather over wooden boards with original single brass clasp on strap. Soundly bound copy with gnerally moderate external wear; light surface scarring and some light flaking and cracking over spine edges. Damp/spill evidence in tide lines to front and rear endpages. Damp line visible in the last 30 or so pages of text. Ripple to endpage pastedowns and a cosnistent but mild stiffening to the page stock as a consequence of spill, dampness. Though exposed to a spill or dampness the book remains solidly bound... View More...
Woodcuts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 447 pages; 1838 Buchhandlung Von Kiderlen Und Stollmeyer. 1st edition. Uncommon early American history for speakers of the Germam language. Original marbled calf over boards with four raised bands at spine. Gilt tooled morocco title label to spine. Boards detached but present; text block sound and generally neat with some light to moderate foxing. Illustrated with small woodcut illustrations depicting important scenes in American history. Contnets VG but binding wanting restoration/rebacking. View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 518 pages; Johann Bar, Lancaster; 1821. [4], 518, [6] p. ; 18 cm. Bound in full period calf over wooden boards with 5 raised bands at spine; brass clasps on straps intact and solid. Text printed in two columns. This was Bar's (Baer) first printing of The New Testament, a short time after he successfully printed the first folio German Language Bible in America. Prior ownership of what appears to be a Susana Metzler on the front flyleaf, dated 1823. Leather chipped at base of spine and just lightly rubbed at edges. Expected moderate toning throughout to page stock. A... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 276 pages; Full calf covered boards. Complete and soundly bound. Prior ownership of Henry Fleury of Wrightsville, PA dated 1828. Subsequent ownership of a J W Flora, 1857. Leather rubbed through at corners, chipped at spine ends amd skinned in areas of the boards and joints. Page 179/80 has a small chip missing from the front edge affecting a small area of text. Uncommon early American reader and school book. G+ View More...
1820 Evert Duckinck (New York) Period speckled calf. 2 volumes, complete. 16 mo; 357 & 360 pp. Titling stamped in gilt to spines. Both volumes soundly bound and complete, including end sheets. Leather a bit rubbed at edges and spine ends. Gilt titling a bit dulled to spine of vol 1. Scattered moderate foxing. VG Gothic.; 717 pages View More...
BW Etchings; 1008 pages; 1854 Cowperthwait, Desilver & Butler (Philadelphia) Full embossed leather. A Comprehensive popular US History illustrated with over 1000 engraved scenes, portraits and events from designs by Croome, Devereaux et. Al. Complete in contents but showing evidence of storage near the hearth or fireplace. Page block edges smoked; surface of leather over spine dry and cracked with gilt titling either sooted or faded. Leather over boards in generally decent condition. Page stock unaffected showing white with no foxing or toning. Illustrations in text often two to a page inc... View More...
Woodcut plates; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 838 pages; Period full speckled calf, six raised bands at spine. Morocco title label at spine well worn, shrunken, cracked and indistinct. Leather at spine with vertical stress creasing and a small chip missing mid-spine. Chipped and frayed at spine ends. Rear board hanging on by a thread or two. Illustrated with 44 plates attached to binding stubs; plates are the full width of two pages. 41 numbered plates all present with an additional 3 plates lettered A & B and with one plate, out of sequence, designated with a triangle. Frontis plate of i... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 328 pages; 3rd edition, revised. Original treed calf leather binding with morocco title label to spine. Leather over spine skinned and missing the front half inch from the middle 2/3 of the spine surface. Contents soundly bound and complete. Leather rubbed at board edges; hinges tender. Rear spine edge scuffed and chipped. Leather at spine browned and with some hairline cracks to surface. Illustrated with a tissue guarded frontis portrait of the subject. G View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 538 pages; 1813 Conrad Zentler, Philadelphia. Full treed calf leather binding. Schwenfelder denominational hymnal. Soundly bound copy with spine in five compartments and four raised bands. Lacking front free endsheet/s, First page in the book is the title page. Color added by a careful hand to the frot title page woodcut. This example bound without clasps. Double rules in gilt on either side of the spine bands and at spine ends. No lettering added. Contents moderately to lightly roned but withsupple paper not affected by any damp or staining. A triangular snag to t... View More...
