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...
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 we... View More...
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- View More...
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 the firs... 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...
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...
Woodcuts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages; 1863 Galen James & Co. Boston. Vol XII, Nos 1-6 of the digest sized magazine edited by "Oilver Optic" pseudonym of William T. Adams. These six issues include the complete serialized first novel in the Paul Clifford series, all of which were published in the magazine and never issued in contemporary book form. Six single issue magazines in original woodcut pictorial wraps. Each is bound with 3 hole string tie with pictorial covers laid over. Several issues with rear cover detached. Spine edges rubbed and furred. Some soiling and toning to covers generally... View More...
Woodcuts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages; 1863 Galen James & Co. / Joseph H. Allen, Boston. Vol XII, Nos 7-12 of the digest sized magazine edited by "Oilver Optic" pseudonym of William T. Adams. These six issues include the complete serialized second novel in the Paul Clifford series, "Onward & Upward, Or, Paul Clifford in Search of a Situation." All of the Clifford series were published in the magazine and never issued in contemporary book form. Six single issue magazines in original woodcut pictorial wraps. Each is bound with 3 hole string tie with pictorial covers laid over. The magazine swit... View More...
Smithsonian contributions to knowledge; B&W Litho Plate; Small Folio 12"; 28 pages; Washington DC. , Smithsonian; 1850. 1st edition. Small folio; 12' tall. I, 28 pp & 1 lithographic plate. Original publication bound in modern cloth. Contents bright and clean with no marks or wear. Recent attractive two tone cloth binding with printed title label to cover board. Contents and new casing all in Fine condition. Disbound from Smithsonian contributions to knowledge, vol. II. 1850 View More...
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...
Color Plates and b&w reproductions; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 350 pages; 1991 The University of North Carolina Press. HC/DJ. 1st edition. Snugly bound and neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright color pictorial dust jacket. Prior owner name and date penned top corner of the title page; light dust soiling top edge. Text fresh and unmarked. Illustrated with color reproductions and b&w photos and figures. VG++/NF View More...
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...
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...
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...
B&W Photographs & Reproductions; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 280 pages; 1992 Temple University Press. Oversize HC/DJ. 1st edition. Snugly bound and neat in crisp edged pictorial dust jacket. Jacket slightly sunned at spine; mild shelf bump top front corner. VG++/VG ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
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...
Woodcuts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 371 pages; 1885 Lane S. Hart, Harrisburg. 1st edition. In original green cloth. Binding generally sound but with significant silverfish predation and crazing to the cloth covered boards. Titles at spine, which are usually found much dimmed, are here almost entirely effaced. A few signatures starting slightly but endpages and contents sound. Illustrated with several finely composed and executed woodcut plates signed Longacre. A treatment of the coal worker and laborer, soldier and common man pitted against the power of the baron and the government. Published without... View More...
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...
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++... View More...
