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Ein Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch, Enthaltend Geistreiche Lieder Und Psalmen, Zum Allgemeinen Gebrauch Des Wahren Gottesdienstes : Auf Begehren Der Bruderschaft Der Menonisten Gemeinen, Aus Vielen Liederbuhern Gesammelt : Mit Einem Dreyfachen Register

By: N/A

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Lancaster, PA, Johann Albrecht: 1804

Seller ID: 13424

Binding: Leather Bound

Condition: Good+

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...
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Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch Enthaltend Geisteiche Lieder Und Psalmen, Zum Allgemeinen Gebrauch Des Wahren Gottesdienstes

By: N/A

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Lancaster, PA, Johann Bar: 1820

Seller ID: 13425

Binding: Leather Bound

Condition: Very Good-

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 3rd revised edition of this important and enduring Lancaster Mennonite song book. 1820 Johann Bar. Full polished calf. Paged [6], 79, [1], 472, 18p. Printed in 2 columns, additional title page for the second part. Some bars of shape-music notation in text. Bender p12, Shoemaker 4070, Arndt 2438. Both clasps missing. Oil stain to lower quarter of binding and spine. Front hinge beginning. Contents with light foxing, but otherwise a tight copy. VG-
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Harriet and Her Scholars; A Sabbath School Story.

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Sunday School Union, 146 Chestbut St: 1827

Seller ID: 14512

Binding: 1/4 leather

Condition: Good

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 90 pages; By the American Sunday School Union, 146 Chestbut St. , Philadelphia. 1/4 leather over paper boards. This copy printed prior to the Sunday School Union's move to 148 Chestnut in 1853. Leather spine title lettered "Harriet & Scholars." Paper boards have their marbled paper covering largely missing. Frontis engraving missing, either not bound in or possible removed. Ront endpage neatly removed as well as a corner area of the front pastedown - very likely the product of an owner's wish to remove ownership marks. Binding remains sound but with some w...
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The Rural Magazine and Literary Evening Fire-Side Volume I, Nos. 1 - 12.

By: N/A

Price: $265.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Richards & Caleb Johnson: 1820

Seller ID: 20583

Binding: 1/2 leather

Condition: Very Good-

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 472 pages; Issues 1 -12; all that were published. Bound together in a mid/late 19th century 1/2 leather over marbled paper. Includes numbers 1 - 12 of this short lived monthly devoted to the concerns of the early American frontiersman. Much on brewing, cider making, horse and mule keeping, clearing and planting etc. Extensive and regular content devoted to education. Leather rubbed lightly over spine edges and at corner tips. Binding snug. Expected general toning to page stock. Damp line visible to front and bottom edges but with only a mild tide line visible among ...
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Ein Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch, Enthaltend Geistreiche Lieder Und Psalmen, Zum Allgemeinen Gebrauch Des Wahren Gottesdienstes : Auf Begehren Der Bruderschaft Der Menonisten Gemeinen, Aus Vielen Liederbuhern Gesammelt : Mit Einem Dreyfachen Register

By: N/A

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Lancaster, PA, Johann Albrecht: 1804

Seller ID: 34962

Binding: Leather Bound

Condition: Very Good-

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...
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Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch, Enthaltend Geisteiche Lieder Und Psalmen, Zum Allgemeinen Gebrauch Des Wahren Gottesdienstes

By: N/A

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Lancaster, PA, Johann Bar: 1853

Seller ID: 40641

Binding: Leather Bound

Condition: Very Good

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
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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, [With] Psalms in Metre ... with Hymns Suited to the Feasts and Fasts of the Church

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Buffalo & Boston, Wm B. and Chas. E. Peck & James B. Dow: 1846

Seller ID: 40666

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good-

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 410 pages; Two volumes in 1. Soundly bound in full calf with red morocco title label to spine. 286; 124 pp. "Psalms" with separate title page dated 1845 by Peck alone. Soundly bound and generally neat. A short split in the leather along the front joint at the bottom. Prior ownership of the Hope Church of Mt. Hope penned to front pastedown. Moderate foxing throughout. VG-
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The Sportsman's Vade Mecum: Containing Full Instructions in all That Relates to the Breeding, Rearing, Breaking, Kennelling, and Conditioning of Dogs, ... Expressly for the Use of Young Sportsmen

By: "dinks," and Edward Mayhew; Forester, Frank

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Stringer & Townsend: 1856

Seller ID: 34447

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 458 pages; HC In original green cloth boards with decoratively gilt stamped spine cloth laid down on a recent rebacking. Original pale yellow endpages intact. Binding snug; contents complete and very neat. Cloth corners lightly bumped; a short, very shallow divot (about 1/2 in length) out of the front edge of the rear board. Rebacked spine has been done professionally but using a rather heavy buckram underneath the original cloth spine panel. Two lengths of cloth tape carefully applied in the gutters of the front and rear endpages. Contents VG+ in ...
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The Spirit of Judaism

By: Aguilar, Grace

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, NP: 1864

Seller ID: 35093

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages; 5624 [1864] No publisher indicated. Philadelphia. 3rd edition. Rough copy with sound, intact text block. Front board detached amd missing. Spine missing the top 1/3 and perishing. Rebinding copy. Fair only with faults.
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The Green Velvet Dress : And Other Stories. False Friends. --The Great Plague.

By: American Baptist Publication Society,

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Baptist Publication Society,: 1875

Seller ID: 31819

Binding: 1/2 leather

Condition: Very Good

Woodcut frontis; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 48 pages; No author given. Slim HC in original black calf leather backed binding with marbled paper covered boards. Soundly bound and generally neat with gilt title lettering and a series # 30 stamped in vertical design to spine. Mild soiling top front corner of the first few leaves Just light shelf rubbing to boards at corner tips and spine ends. Scarce juvenile pedagogical tract. VG
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The Book of One Hundred Pictures

By: American Sunday School Union

Price: $49.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Sunday School Union: 1861

Seller ID: 29567

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Woodcuts; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 104 pages; An exceptionally well preserved copy in original dark brown cloth with deeply impressed patterns, lettering and decorative borders in blind to boards and with gilt struck title lettering a bit dulled at sine. Snugly bound and fresh with just a whisper of rub to cloth at corners. 1864 Christmas gift inscription to front endpage. Themed groupings of single page narrative vignettes, each headed by a pictorial woodcut. 4 page publisher catalog appended at rear. VG++ to NF
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A Bundle of Stories; Little Tot Series

By: American Tract Society

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, American Tract Society: 1892

Seller ID: 25308

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

B&W Illustrations; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 48 pages; Slim HC is snug and sound in olive green cloth with title-lettering and pictorial design in black and silver; spine unlettered. Light shelf wear to tips and spine ends; corners slightly bumped. Mild shelf soiling to externals. Page at front of text ripped in half but with both halves still bound in. Trace crayon marks to front endpaper and to three scattered pages. Illustrated with B/W artwork. G+ to VG-
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Death in the Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture

By: Ames, Kenneth L.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Temple University Press: 1992

Seller ID: 41642

ISBN: 0877228914

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Photographs & Reproductions; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 280 pages; Oversize paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Bright, tight and fresh; feels and appears generally unread. Trace sunning to spine edge but otherwise about as new. VG++ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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Life In Italy ; The Improvisatore: Harper's Library of Select Novels, No. 49

By: Andersen, Hans Christian & Mary Howitt (Trans. )

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1867

Seller ID: 30394

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 124 pages; As originally published by Harper as # 49 in their Library of Select Novels. In original title lettered wrappers; no date to title page nor copyright. The rear coiver advertises the May 1867 issue of Harper's Magazine. Spine edge rubbed with some mild furring and shallow loss at spine ends. Text printed in two columns. No catalog of Harper Select titles at front, though there are ads for regular harper titles inside front and for the magazines to the rear cover. Wrappers shelf soiled and tattty at the edges with small nicks and rubs. Moderate damp s...
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Riches Have Wings; or, a Tale for the Rich and Poor.

By: Arthur, T. S. & Virginia F. Townsend, (editors)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Baker & Scribner: 1849

Seller ID: 32253

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

16mo 6" - 7" tall; 192 pages; 6th edition, after the 1847 initial printing. Snugly bound and neat in original brown cloth with decorative vignette and border designs in blind and title panel elaborately done in gilt, very bright to spine. Front flyleaf missing, probably removed to obscure ownership or gift inscription. Just trace toning and occasional superficial spotting to page stock. Several small spots of insect predation to the cloth of the lower board. Overall handsome bright and clean. VG
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Observations At the Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory, At the Girard College, Philadelphia; 1840 - 1845: 3 Volumes

By: Bache, A. D.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Gales and Seaton: 1847

Seller ID: 40951

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Tables; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 3212 pages; 3 volumes, complete. 1st edition. Uniformly bound in blind stamped brown cloth with titles brightly in gilt to spines. Rubbing and shallow chipping to cloth at spine ends. Cloth at spine of Vol III feels and appears more brittle with more significant chipping than the other volumes. Small ink ownership stamps of a liberal arts college library but no attachments or checkout materials; never accessioned to the stacks. Occasional foxing and toning to page stock, generally light. Includes some textual notes, but by and large tables of data. G++...
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The Mystic and Other Poems

By: Bailey, Philip James

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor & Fields: 1856

Seller ID: 39374

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 159 pages; HC 1st American edition. Snugly bound and clean in original blind stamped brown cloth with title lettering still bright in gilt at spine. Pencil gift inscription to front endpage dated Jan 1856. 12 page Ticknor catalog at rear dated November 1855. Solid and neat VG++
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The Painter, Gilder, and Varnisher's Companion; Containing Rules and Regulations in Everything Relating to the Arts of Painting, Gilding, Varnishing, and Glass-Staining, Graining, Marbling...[ Etc]

By: Baird, Henry Carey

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry Carey Baird: 1876

Seller ID: 33447

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

16mo 6" - 7" tall; 356 pages; Soundly bound and generally neat in original brown cloth with decorative border detailing in blind to boards and titles in gilt (just a little dulled) at spine. Boards shelf tapped at corners with superficial abrasion and fray to top front corners. A short closed tear in the binding fabric at the tail of the spine has been inconspicuously mended with archival pva. Front lining papers partially split in the inner front hinge. Otherwise solid and neat. Uncommon in one of the early original examples. VG-
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Out of the Triangle; A Story of the Far East, and Other Stories New Sabbath Library Vol 1, No. 4

By: Bamford, Mary E,

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Elgin IL, David C. Cook Publishing: 1897

Seller ID: 30365

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 95 pages; Published as New Sabbath Library Vol. 1, No. 4. Paperback in pictorial wraps over side staped text block. Printed on glossy stock. Sound and neat with just light toning and mild soiling to cover stock. Illustrated with about 8 or so full page b&w renderings. Includes stories: Out of the triangle.--The squash of the Esvidos.--By the way.--At Cousin Harriet's.--The nephew of tia Marta.--Comale's revenge.--At the panaderia.--Miss Stratton's paper.--An honest day's work.--Timoteo.--The victory of Quang Po.--The new igloo. Uncommon in the orig...
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American Popular Lessons : Chiefly Selected from the Writings of Mrs. Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, and Other Approved Writers

By: Barbauld; Edgeworth Et. Al.

Price: $43.95

Publisher: New York, R Lockwood: 1829

Seller ID: 13554

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: Very Good-

16mo 6" - 7" tall; 251 pages; 1829 R Lockwood, NY. HC in printed paper covered boards and gilt ruled cloth backstrip. 2nd edition after and 1820 printing. An early American school book with intermediate level narrative pieces relating to American history, Scripture as well as charachter formation. Paper covered boards have bordered title printing at front and printer's advertisements on rear surface. Simple gitl ruling acros spine; unlettered, as issued. Sound clean copy has a prior ownership inscription to the front endpage. Cloth rubbed and just a little tender at spine edges. Moder...
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Category: 19th Century Subjects and Studies