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By: N/A
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Lancaster, PA, Johann Albrecht: 1804
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 13424
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... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Lancaster, PA, Johann Bar: 1820
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 13425
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- View more info
By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, American Sunday School Union, 146 Chestbut St: 1827
Seller ID: 14512
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... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $265.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Richards & Caleb Johnson: 1820
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20583
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 ... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $275.00
Publisher: Lancaster, PA, Johann Albrecht: 1804
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 34962
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... View more info
By: "dinks," and Edward Mayhew; Forester, Frank
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Stringer & Townsend: 1856
Seller ID: 34447
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 ... View more info
By: Aguilar, Grace
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, NP: 1864
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 35093
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. View more info
By: American Baptist Publication Society,
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, American Baptist Publication Society,: 1875
Seller ID: 31819
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 View more info
By: American Sunday School Union
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, American Sunday School Union: 1861
Seller ID: 29567
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 View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, American Tract Society: 1892
Seller ID: 25308
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- View more info
By: Andersen, Hans Christian & Mary Howitt (Trans. )
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1867
Seller ID: 30394
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... View more info
By: Arthur, T. S. & Virginia F. Townsend, (editors)
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, Baker & Scribner: 1849
Edition: Sixth Edition
Seller ID: 32253
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 View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Boston, Ticknor & Fields: 1856
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 39374
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++ View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry Carey Baird: 1876
Edition: Sixteenth Edition
Seller ID: 33447
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- View more info
By: Bamford, Mary E,
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Elgin IL, David C. Cook Publishing: 1897
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 30365
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... View more info
By: Barbauld; Edgeworth Et. Al.
Price: $43.95
Publisher: New York, R Lockwood: 1829
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 13554
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... View more info
By: Beal, Rebecca J.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: 1969
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 13038
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
4to 11" - 13" tall; 407 pages; 1969 Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Oversize HC/DJ. 1st edition. Solid clean copy; no marks. Crisp clean dust jacket just mildly sunned at spine and with a touch of rub at spine ends. A personal letter laid in at front relates to the book's prior owner owning Eichholtz's portrait of Lydia Smith. Attractive copy. NF/VG ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View more info
By: Brown-Sequard, Charles Edward
Price: $325.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Collins, Printer: 1861
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: Alibris.0001127
Condition: Good
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 118 pages; 1st US edition of this uncommon pioneering work on paralysis and spinal cord damage. "Heirs of Hippocrates 1842" Original blind stamped brown cloth; binding sound. The top inch and a half of cloth spine edge is chipped and missing; the larger part of the gilt blocked title to spine chipped off. Some much more mild chipping to cloth at board edge and corners. Original endpages clean and intact with no splitting. Collated and complete. Would benefit from professional rebacking/recasing; still a clean and solidly bound copy of an exceptionally uncommo... View more info
Price: $95.00
Publisher: London, Scientific Press (Limited): 1896
Seller ID: 35847
Condition: Good+
Woodcuts; floor plans, ads; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 676 pages; Vol XIX, Nos 471 - 496, being issues from Oct 5, 1895 through March 28, 1896 bound together. Issues of The Hospital paged continuously 1-440. Appearing as a supplement to each issue is the supplemental issue of the "Nusring Mirror" and paged i-ccxxxvi. With separate title page and contents tables for the whole Volume at front. Illustrated with woodcut figures, 1 or 2 pages of ads for each issue along with floor plans and portraits etc. 4to in publisher's trade cloth binding with titles in gilt to spine. Cloth rubbed an... View more info
By: Byron, Lord [George Gordon].
Price: $275.00
Publisher: London, John Murray: 1819
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 28505
Condition: Very Good-
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 72 pages; 1st edition, 2nd issue - with imprint moved from [70] to verso of p. 71. Retains half-title page. Bound in later cloth backed, paper covered boards with paper title label to the thin spine. Without the original wraps and the 8 page inserted Murray catalog. Small horizontal abrasion to the upper board; presumably a paper title label had been mounted to the center. Board edges lightly rubbed at edges, maroon quarter cloth rubbed and a little thin at spine ends. Small chip missing from the top edge of the half-title. Contents bright and clean; complete save fo... View more info
