Folio 13" - 23" tall; 938 pages; Folio. 1st edition. Published as Vol I, though this was the only volume published. Title page in red & black. Soundly bound with original paneled calf boards, rebacked in a plain but supple matching color leather with basic title lettering struck in gilt to spine. Boards with same type leather over corners as a restoration. Inner joints reinforced with brown cloth tape. Contents complete and clean with light toning to margins of endpages and occasional superficial instances of soiling or spotting to pages of the text. Leather rebacked spine has some li... View More...
1863, Boston; Ticknor & Fields. HC 1st US edition. Author of Ravenshoe and Geoffrey hamlyn; brother of Charles Kingsley. Original green cloth with mid-Victorian age decorative blind stamped borders and garlands to covers. Titles readil legible in gilt to spine. Cloth rubbed with shallow chips at spine ends and slightly rounded, rubbed through corners. Binding sound; several signatures starting and modestly cocked in the spine. Retains original end sheets which are sound. G++ Victorian Novels; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 352 pages; HC 1st US edition. Author of Ravenshoe and Geoffrey Hamlyn; ... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 527 pages; Parts II & III only (of 3) , bound together in one volume. [4] bl, [16], 131; [32], 345, [3], [2] bl pp. In period full leather, aged and crazed to surfaces. Front board detached; binding broken cleanly mid-book between F8 and G1 in Part II. Part II with seaparate title page, contents and register and with separate pagination. Manuscript to front pastedown - "Borrowed of Mr. Whitt of Eastling." Ocaasional spotting to pages; sustained short ticks in margins but no notation or interlinear marks. Mild damp line top front corner of the first 30 or so l... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 545 pages; 2 volumes, in 1. Paged continuously, with separate title pages and copperplate frontis facing both title pages. Prior ownership plate of Viollet Le Duc (Emmanuel) to front marbled paper pastedown; later ownership bookplate of Shakespearean scholar H. B. Charlton. Speckled calf binding with extra gilt to spine. Leather splitting in the joints with boards tenuous but holding. Leather at spine browning and a little crazed with dulling to gilt and some shallow chipping at ends. Text block snug and clean. At rear is appended an extensive 41 page alphabetized ca... View More...
32mo 4" - 5" tall; 32 pages; No date given; circa 1865. Small format 32mo. HC in publsiher's original purple cloth with decorative patterns and ruling impressed in blind. Title lettering "Kriss Kringle" in relief to gilt panel at spine. Notably the title page and first story reference Kriss Kingle. Collects 14 short vignettes each with a hand colored woodcut ilustration. Paged as two volumes 16; 2-16 pp, but with only the single title page at front. Trace fading to cloth and gilt at spine; mild shelf rubbing at corners and spine ends. Period Christmas gift inscription to front... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 434 pages; 4th edition, corrected. Xxiv, 434 pp. 12 copperplates with facing page of notes placed after page 355 between Table II and Appendix. The plate section is not page numbered but comprises pgs [356-378] in the continuously paged text. Soundly bound in period calf with red morocco label at spine. A well preserved copy with bright clean contents and only mild wear to leather binding. Mild nicks to leather at spine ends and corners; a small spot of worming to the leather at the front joint. Light foxing to edges of first and last few leaves. Armorial bookplate o... View More...
Woodcut plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 592 pages; Vol II (Parte Seconda) only, of 2. Stout small 8vo in period 1/4 vellum backed spine and marbled paper covered boards with burgundy morocco title label and gilt ruling to spine. Snugly bound and clean with just some light shelf soiling to sides and spine. [2] - 592, [12] pp. Unpaged index at rear. Illustrated with a good number of copper plate engravins, some bound in on smaller size paper plates. Uncommon, though here only in the 2nd volume of 2 published. VG View More...
Woodcuts and frontis lithograph; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; HC apparent 3rd edition. Soundly bound in original green cloth with ornate pictorial title panel at spine and gilt vignette to cover. Decorative borders in blind to board edges. Though soundly bound and generally clean the bottom edges of the boards are well shelf rubbed with rub through to the cloth along much of the bottom edges. Lower front corners with cloth rubbed through and boards showing; light fray to cloth at spine ends. Gilt pictorial title design a bit dulled but still striking and attractive. Gift inscription in pencil an... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 736 pages; Dritter & Vierter Theil. 2. Auflage. [1-5], 6 - 384; [1-3], 4 - 352, [13] pp. Soundly bound in period 1/2 leather and marbled paper covered boards with leather label to spine and vol #'s stamped in gilt to leather. One blank at front and two at rear. Prior owner's thin, printed, cut paper bookplate mounted across the spine. Mild silverfish patching to surface of paper boards. Shallow chipping to leather at crown of spine. Contents clean and neat with just expected mild toning. VG View More...
Folio 13" - 23" tall; Folio, 33cm. 2 p. L. [1]-527[1] [1]-66 p. , 1l. , 1-169[1]p. A handsome and well preserved copy of this rarity of early American Bible printing. Goeb’s Bible was printed in 1813 in “frontier” America, on a press carried in pieces by mule over the Allegheny Mountains. It is bound in original full calf over wooden boards; spine in six panels with five raised bands. Remnants only of original clasps and straps present. All endpages are present and intact. Text in two columns. Includes Old and New Testaments with separate title pages. Apocraphya is between Testaments ... View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 661 pages; 1827 John Grigg, Uriah Hunt; et. Al, Philadelphia. Full calf leather binding with red morocco title label to spine. One of the earliest American imprints of Mackenzie's widely used book of receipts for commerce, arts, health and cooking. Illustrated with in text woodcuts. Text block soundly bound and complete. Front board cleanly detached at the front joint; rear board sound. Endpages complete. Spotting and foxing moderate throughout. Text in two columsn; several woodcut figures. Thousands of recipes for every manner of use including for making color in pai... View More...
4to 11" - 13" tall; 517 pages; 1762 & 1763 T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, London. 1st editions of both works, bound together in one volume. Title pages printed in red and black and with engraved vignettes. 270 & 247 pp. Period treed calf boards with a recent rebacking in sympathetic and tasteful leather with morocco labels and gilt tooled rules and designs in compartments. Period marbled paper endpages with recent linen reinforcement in the joints, hand painted in a matching marbled design. Engraved armorial bookplate of Duckworth to the front pastedown; earlier 1794 manuscript ownersh... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 332 pages; A later issue of one of the most highly regarded Farrier guides used in early America. Original American imprint was by Adams of Wilmington in 1764, later republished by Sower of Baltimore in 1797 and brought back into print by Wright of Chambersburg with two or three printings between 1830 and 1841. In original calf boards, with professional calf rebacking retaining the morocco title label at spine. Boards surface and edge rubbed with a small triangular area of loss to the leather at the upper front corner. Corners bumped and a little rounded, Contents ... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 450 pages; 1st edition. Green cloth backstrip with marbled paper covered boards. Gilt embossed leather title label to spine. A very attractive rebinding, probably done in the early to mid 20th century. Several tiny and trivial worm holes visible on half-title page and less so on title page; a single pin sized hole extends into the page block about 30 pages. Contents bright and neat. Binding strong. Cloth spine edge just lightly toned. Solid neat copy VG to VG+ ... Meniere's study on medical references in Latin poetry and literature. Garrison-Morton 6614 View More...
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 2 volumes; Tomo I & II. Full grained leather with tooled gilt borders and designs to compartments. Morocco title labels to spines. Leather surface worn at spines but with gilt designs still generally bright. Small linear chip to the label of Vol I. Contents bright and neat. Front endpage of Vol I split. Otherwise snug and neat. Engraved frontis portrait in Vol I. Overall near VG View More...
Fold-out maps, pne hand colored; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Complete in 6 volumes. Uniformly bound - 1/2 heavy gilt leather backed, marbled paper covered boards. Prior ownership of William Lewis Hughes, Lord Dinorben - with his armorial bookplate mounted to the front pastedown of each volume. Vol II fronted with a large folding map of Persia and Vol III fronted with a larger still folding, hand colored map of "Hindoostan" by Arrowsmith. A few short mended splits to folds of this large map. Ex-library copy with painted catalog #'s to base of spine, small abrasion scars to base of spines and marbled pap... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Volumes 1, 3 and 4 of the four volume edition. A revision of Charles Cotton's translation. Though sadly lacking the third volume, this set is in remarkably well preserved condition. Contemporary polished calf bindings remain very soundly bound with pliant and supple joints and complete contents. Partial morocco labels to Vols I and II, lacking a label on IV. A few very small areas of loss to leather at edges and ends. Two or three small, pin head sized scars or worming damage to the boards. Contents exceptionally bright and clean; no foxing nor toning of any signif... View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1048 pages; Large 8vo HC in original pebbled brown cloth. Revised edition with appendix of 45 pages of entries related to years 1852 - 1876. Cloth moderately sunned at spine but with gilt title lettering still bright. Cloth thin and lightly frayed at base of spine. Partial splits in the endpages at internal joints but with a generally solid binding. An important reference. G++ to VG- ... Oversize book will require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 213 pages; 1st edition. Snugly bound in a very sympathetic recasing of drab paper covered boards with original paper title label to spine. Contents fresh and neat; untrimmed. Title label at spine rubbed and toned but complete. A really very well preserved copy of Moore's uncommon sequel to the 1818 Fudge Family in Paris. VG View More...
Copperplate maps, folding; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Printed By J. T. Buckingham, for Thomas & Andrews. Complete in 2 volumes. 5th edition of Part I and 4th edition of Part II. Pp. 6, [2], [17]-864; [4], [9]-664. Six copperplate folding maps complete and intact. Frontis folding maps of the World and of Europe respectively in Vol I and II are moderately toned and foxed. Maps of Asia, Africa, North America and South America are generally quite bright and clean with only superficial toning. Uniformly bound in full calf, but bindings are rough. Prior owner chose to stabilize condition using an ap... View More...