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A Selection from the Harleian Miscellany of Tracts, Which Principally Regard the English History; of Which Many Are Referred to by Hume.

By: Johnson, Samuel, (Original compiler)

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London, C. & G. Kearsley: 1793

Seller ID: 32197

Binding: 3/4 leather

Condition: Very Good+

4to 11" - 13" tall; 571 pages; 1st edition thus, an abridged edition of the Johnson compiled edition published in 1744. Soundly bound in later 3/4 calf over pebbled brown cloth. Calf lightly rubbed and slightly scuffed at extremities. Front corners lightly bumped with mild abrasion. Very small chip to leather at crown of spine. Prior ownership/s penned top edge of title page. Light oily crescent of soiling to the front edge of the first 12 or 13 leaves. Page stock bright with no significant foxing. Solid clean copy. VG+ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or...
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Hosee cum Thargum, Id Est Chaldaica Paraphrasi Ionathan, & Commentariis R. Selomo Iarhi, R. Abraham Aben Ezra, & R. D. Kimhi: variis lectionibus ex multorum exemplarium diligenti collatione in margine ascriptis.

By: Jonathan Ben Uzziel; Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra; David Kimhi; Rashi

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: [geneva], [Robertus Stephanus] : R. Estienne: 1556

Seller ID: 41044

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good

Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 243 pages; R. Estienne, Geneva. Small 4to. Period calf, rebacked with old morocco; titles stamped direct in gilt. Woodcut pictorial printer's mark on title page; titles in Hebrew and Latin. Text in Hebrew and Aramaic. Mild chipping to leather at spine ends; light rub through, bruising and rounding to boards at corner tips. Occasional marginal annotation from varying periods. Mild damping to margins of some leaves. Prior ownership penned at front and rear; tipped in on rear endpage is a slim slip with bookseller catalog information for this copy. A-M4; N6; O-U...
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An Essay on the Law of Bailments with Introductory Remarks and Notes...by John Balmanno

By: Jones, William, Sir

Price: $165.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Byrne: 1804

Seller ID: Alibris.0003699

Binding: Full leather

Condition: Very Good

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 123 pages; Contemporary full calf with red spine label, gilt. Prior ownership signature of highly respected jurist Daniel Agnew, who from 1873-1879 held position as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Agnew's ownership inscriptions to front endpage and title page dated 1831. Black leather title with "M. Agnew" stamped in gilt, with the far left of the label chipped and presumably missing an initial. An undated ownership inscription "R. Moore" on the front endpage is neatly crossed out with a single line but an identical signature on...
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An Introduction to Natural Philosophy Or, Philosophical Lectures Read in the University of Oxford, Anno Dom. 1700; To Which Are Added, the Demonstrations of Monsieur Huygens Theorems, Concerning the Centrifugal Force and Circular Motion

By: Keill, John

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, Andrew Millar; John Rivington; et. al.: 1758

Seller ID: 26141

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 306 pages; 5th edition, translated from the last edition of the Latin. Bound in modern plain paper wraps over a complete and snug text block. [Blank], xii, 306, [2(ads)], blank pp. Several cursory period ownership names in manuscript to the front blank; manuscript errata notes in two lines to the top edge of the rear blank. Illustrated throughout with woodcut figures and diagrams. Pages supple. clean and bright. Plain paper wraps are tasteful and professionally applied. Very well preserved, though in want of a proper casing. G++ thus
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A Register and Chronicle Ecclesiastical and Civil, Containing Matters of Fact ... ; With ... Notes and References Towards Discovering and Connecting the True History of England from the Restauration of King Charles II.

By: Kennett, White

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London, R. Williamson: 1728

Seller ID: 37426

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good

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...
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Austin Elliot

By: Kingsley, Henry

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields: 1863

Seller ID: 24290

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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; ...
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Round the World: : a Tale for Boys.

By: Kingston, William Henry Giles

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, Crosby and Nichols: 1863

Seller ID: 13489

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

16mo 6" - 7" tall; 444 pages; Publisher issued pebbled brown cloth with decorative borders deeply impressed to cloth at board edges. Gilt titling and decoration at spine dulled (as usual with these pebbled cloth bindings) but readily legible. Binding sound though two signatures start slightly at front edge. This scarce early example, after the original 1859 Nelson issued 1st edition, retains the original endpages. Prior ownership bookplate to front pastedown, along with several successive penned ownership inscriptions. Illustrated with several engraved plates. Light rubbing and mild f...
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A Brief History of the Times, & C. Parts II & III [Only]; II. Shewing the Pretended Popish Plot to Have Been Quite Another Thing Then it Has Been Taken For. & III Part III. Treating of the Death of Sir E. B. Godfrey

By: L'Estrange, Sir Roger

Price: $475.00

Publisher: London, R. Sare, At Grays-Inn Gate in Holborn: 1688

Seller ID: 37146

Binding: Leather

Condition: Fair

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...
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Ducatiana ou Remarques de Feu M. Le Duchat, Sur Divers Sujets D'Histoire Et De Litterature. [Ex-Libris Emmanuel Viollet Le Duc]

By: Le Duchat (Jacob) & [Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey]

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert: 1738

Seller ID: 40771

Condition: Good+

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...
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Kriss Kingle (Sic) and Other Stories [Kriss Kringle]

By: Leavitt & Allen

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Leavitt & Allen: 1865

Seller ID: 38037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

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...
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An Introduction to Botany. Containing an Explanation of the Theory of That Science; Extracted from the Work of Dr. Linnaeus; with Twelve Copper-Plates, Two Explanatory Tables, an Appendix, and Glossary

By: Lee, James

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, J. F. and C. Rivington; et. al.: 1788

Seller ID: 40747

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good+

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...
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Historia e Memorie Recondite Sopra Alla Vita di Oliviero Cromvele, Detto IL Tiranno Senza Vizi, IL Prencipe Senza Virtu - Parte Seconda [Vol II, Only]

By: Leti, Gregorio

Price: $245.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Pietro E Giovanni Blaeu: 1692

Seller ID: 39381

Binding: vellum

Condition: Very Good

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
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The American Sportsman. Containing Hints to Sportsmen. Notes on Shooting, and the Habits of the Game Birds and Wild Fowl of America

By: Lewis, Elisha J.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott and Co: 1857

Seller ID: 27522

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

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...
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There Was a Little Girl [And She Had a Little Curl...]

By: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth and Bertha M. Schaeffer (Ills)

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, R. Worthington: 1883

Seller ID: 18766

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 1883 R. Worthington. HC. 1st and only 19th century edition attributed to Longfellow. Oblong format HC backed in green cloth with chromolithograph illustrated paper covered boards. An iconic childhood verse in a very scarce edition. The boards and their chromo illustrated surfaces are in generally good condition with some rubbing at edges. General light toning to surfaces and some silverfish predation along the spine-side edges of the paper overlay. Contents are complete, with each set of facing pages featuring a chromolitho pictorial lettered headpiece to a s...
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Therapia Specialis Interna : Oder Grundliche Anweisung Zur Erkenntnis Und Cur Der Innerlichen Krankheiten Des Menschlichen Korpers Dritter & Vierter Theil [Only]

By: Loseke, [Losekens] Johann Ludwig Leberecht

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Dresden & Leipzig, Grollischen Handlung: 1768

Seller ID: 32242

Binding: 1/2 leather

Condition: Very Good

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
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Biblia, Das Ist: Die Ganze Gottliche Heilige Schrifft, Alten and Neuen Testaments, Nach Der Deutschen Uebersetzung Dr. Martin Luthers, Mit Jedes Capitels Kurzen Summarien, Auch Beygefugten Vielen Und Richtigen Paralellen

By: Luther, Martin

Price: $1,295.00

Publisher: Somerset [pa. ], Friedrich Goeb: 1813

Seller ID: 13485

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good

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 Testa...
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Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in all the Useful and Domestic Arts, Constituting a Complete and Universal Practical Library and Operative Cyclopaedia

By: Mackenzie, Colin

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, John Grigg, Uriah Hunt; et. al: 1827

Seller ID: 43119

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good+

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 661 pages; 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 light to moderate throughout. Text in two columsn; several woodcut figures. Thousands of recipes for every manner of use including for making color in paint and for cloth, varnishes and finishes, ...
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Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books [Bound Together With] Temora, an Ancient Epic Poem, in Eight Books; Together with Several Other Poems Composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal

By: MacPherson, James [Ossian]

Price: $900.00

Publisher: London, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt: 1762

Seller ID: 26278

Binding: 1/2 leather

Condition: Very Good

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...
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Locupletissima Bibliotheca Moralis Praedicabilis, Hoc Est, Discusus Varii Exquisiti In Quibus Per Tractatus Ordine Alphabetico Digestos . Tomus Secundus

By: Mansi, Josephus

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Venetiis, Ex Typographia Balleoniana: 1722

Seller ID: 28560

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good-

4to 11" - 13" tall; Volume 2 only of 4. 1722 Ex Typographia Balleoniana. Large 4to sized volume in full heavy leather. Paged in 8. Soundly bound and clean. Title page tipped onto a bound in stub; the stub made from the front edge of the rear flyleaf. Paper mends to shallow crescent shaped chips from the bottom edge of the first two leaves also using paper salvaged from the rear endpage. [5], 976, 124 pp. Spine in seven with some fafed tooled gilt devices. Leather labels in blind with gilt lost. Solid and neat thus. ... Oversize book willrequire additional charges for expedited or inte...
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The Citizen and Countryman's Experienced Farrier; Containing the Most and Best Approved Method of Ordering, Dieting, Exercising, Purging, Scowering, ... Surest and Best Receipts in the Know World

By: Markham, G[Ervase] and G. Jefferies and Experienced Indians

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Chambersburg PA, Printed by Thomas J. Wright: 1839

Seller ID: 20111

Binding: Full leather

Condition: Good

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...
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