Category: Antiquarian Books

Annual Report Of The Transactions Of The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, For The Years 1854. Volume I

By: Pennsylvania, State Agricultural Society Of

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Harrisburg, A. Boyd Hamilton : 1854

Seller ID: 28809

Condition: Very Good-

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 481 pages; Soundly bound in original textured brown cloth with decorative ruling and designs to boards in blind; gilt title design to spine faded but legible. Shallow chipping and loss to cloth at crown of spine and cloth lightly tattered at lower spine edge; light rubbing to corners with boards peeking through. Contents generally bright and clean, suffering only from the light general toning of the page stock typical of these reports. Numerous tables. Overall near VG
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Annual Report Of The Transactions Of The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, For The Years 1857-58. Volume V

By: Pennsylvania, State Agricultural Society Of

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Harrisburg, A. Boyd Hamilton : 1859

Seller ID: 28807

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Lithographs, tables etc; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 648 pages; Soundly bound in original textured brown cloth with decorative ruling and designs to boards in blind; gilt title design to spine faded but legible. Shallow chipping and loss to cloth at crown of spine; light rubbing to corners with boards peeking through. Horizontal score to cloth across spine in line with one of the gilt rules. Contents bright and clean with only superficial damp stain to the lower tip/corner of the first handful of leaves. Illustrated with a number of lithograph printed plates of prize winning and stand-ou...
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Report Of The Transactions of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, for the Year 1888. Volume XII

By: Pennsylvania, State Agricultural Society Of

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Harrisburg, A. Boyd Hamilton : 1888

Seller ID: 28810

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Lithographs, chromolithos, woodcuts, tables etc; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Soundly bound in original textured brown cloth with decorative ruling to boards in blind; gilt title design and cloth at spine much faded but legible in blind. Mild crimping and superficial rub to cloth at spine ends; light rubbing to corners with boards peeking through. Contents bright and clean with only expected light general toning to page stock. Illustrated with a number of lithograph plates including a pair of tissue guarded chromolithos of fruit varieties, plates of dairy barn designs and other agricultur...
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Report Of The Transactions Of The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, For The Years 1875-75. Volume X

By: Pennsylvania, State Agricultural Society Of

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Harrisburg, A. Boyd Hamilton : 1875

Seller ID: 28808

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Lithographs, tables etc; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Vol X of the PA Agricultural Reports. 556, 56 p. Soundly bound in original textured brown cloth with decorative ruling to boards in blind; gilt title design to spine faded but legible. Shallow chipping and superficial fray to cloth at spine ends; light rubbing to corners with boards peeking through. Contents bright and clean with only expected light general toning to page stock. Illustrated with a number of lithograph printed plates of prize winning and stand-out animals, crop pests, dairy barn designs and fruit varieties, including a ...
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Curly Locks and Other Nursery Rhymes

By: Petherick, Rose C. and "unknown"

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton : 1907

Seller ID: 13634

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

16mo 6" - 7" tall; London, Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton; [1907]. 16mo., small format HC in color pictorial, blue paper boards over a red cloth backstrip. A well preserved example of this very scarce late Victorian children's Nursery Rhyme title. Some illustrations signed with the monogram of Rose C. Petherick; others unsigned or signed with a nonogram/mark which combines the letters T H and C. All illustrations in color and have the appearance of lino cuts. Printed in color lithography. Just mild rub to cloth at corners; red cloth backstrip unlettered, as issued. Prior owner gi...
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The Basiliade: or the Book of Truth and Nature; [Vol II Only (Of 2) ] An Epic Poem, in Fourteen Cantos in Prose. Translated from an Original Manuscript, of the Celebrated Indian Bramin and Philosopher Pilpay.

By: Pilplay; Morelly

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, S. Hooper : 1761

Seller ID: 35096

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 263 pages; Vol II of 2, only. Text block sound and complete. Front board lacking; spine perishing. A bit of mild damp wave to pages of text block. Scattered light spotting and toning to page stock. Suitable for restoration or matching to Vol I. With faults thus. Text block Good. Scarce
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C. Plinii Secundi Historiae Naturalis Libri XXXVII Tomus Primero

By: Pliny; (Caius Plinius Secundus) & Joannes De Laet (Ed. )

Price: $265.00

Publisher: Leiden, Elzevir : 1635

Seller ID: 40731

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Very Good+

Woodcut pictorial title; portrait; head and tail ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 654 pages; 1635 Officina Elzeviriana, Lugduni Batavorum. Tomus Primero (Vol I) only, of 3. Snug and neat in period full cream vellum with title inked in an old hand to spine. Elaborate woodcut title page and a roundel woodcut portrait of Pliny on the verso facing the first page od the Praefatio. [xxiv], 654, [18] pp with tw free blanks at front and rear. Minor short worming track across the last several leaves. Contents very neat and bright. Uncommonly well preserved example in a handsome period vellum VG+
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Artistic Horse-Shoeing

By: Rich, Geo. E.

Price: $89.00

Publisher: M. T. Richardson, Publisher : 1887

Seller ID: 13480

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Lithographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 150 pages; HC 1st edition. Publisher's original green cloth with decorative design and title lettering to cover in black. Spine unlettered, as issued. No marks. Profusely illustrated with lithographed figures showing horse foot anatomy and scores of shoe designs created and collected by the author to correct for specific injuries and infirmities of horse hooves. Light to moderate foxing to blank endpages. A light to moderate instance of damp evidence to rear board does not affect the book's internals, pages or structural integrity. Sound snug binding. ...
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Maxims, and Moral Reflections With a Biographical Preface and an Appendix by the Editor

By: Rochefoucault, Duke De La

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, G and C Carvill : 1835

Seller ID: 28278

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 139 pages; Bound in full black leather. Contents soundly bound and complete. Leather over spine with chips at spine ends and one missing mid-spine. Leather over spine split over frotn hinge and helkd in place by prior owner’s use of several short strips of cello tape. Older linen tape reinforcement to the inside front hings. Endpages with somehat heavy foxing, fading to modrate to the pages of the text. Revised copyright information on a letterpress slip of paper tipped on to verso of title page. Expected light toning to page stock. Would benefit from light restora...
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The Grand Imposter Discovered: Or An Historical Dispute Of The Papacy And Popish Religion; : Divided in Four Parts : 1. of Bishops, 2. of Arch-Bishops, 3. of an Oecumenick Bishop, 4. of Antichrist ...

By: S. C. [Colvil, Samuel]

Price: $1,350.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, His Majesties Printers for the Author : 1673

Seller ID: 27875

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; Full speckled calf boards with paneled frame in blind. Artfully rebacked with black leather title label in the 2nd of five compartments. Mild smoke to text block edges. Contents clean and complete save for refreshed endpages. Unusual pagination a result of printer error, as specified in the erratum on the terminal printed page. Pagination [64]; [1] , 2- 171, [blank], 187 -226; 1 -92, [2]. Collation: []2, A - G4, H2; A - X4, Y2, Aa - Ee4; A - L4, M3. Snug and neat. Prior ownership of New College Edinburgh with bookpate at front stamped "sale duplicate". No other marks or atta...
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ABC and 123 Book. Wash-Fabric Books. No. 425.

By: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company : 1900

Seller ID: 49217

Binding: Cloth Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 10 pages; Circa [1900] Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company. Fabric children's book with color pictorial pages for the alphabet and numbers. A very well preserved copy without fray or damage. Just mild soling to cloth leaves. One of the nices and most well preserved "clotjh" books we have handled. NF
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Unterweisung Der Proportion Und Stellung Der Possen, Nurnberg 1542. In Getreuer Nachbildung

By: Schon, Erhard and Leo Baer (Intro. )

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Frankfurt am Main, Joseph Baer & Co : 1920

Seller ID: 32498

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Woodcuts and tipped in plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages; 1920 Joseph Baer & Co. . Frankfurt. Limited edition of 300 copies. Facsimile of Schon's 1542 instructional book on proportion and geometry, illustrated with his woodblock prints. [64] unnumbered pages. Some several Illustrations on glossy stock tipped in, but by and large pages are reproduced as originally printed with woodcut diagrams and scenes faitfully reproduced. Soundly bound in original light brown paper covered boards with red and black printed title label to upper board. Mild nicking to paper boards at spine ends. Con...
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The Bridal of Triermain, or the Vale of St. John. in Three Cantos

By: Scott, Sir Walter

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, John Ballantyne and Co. : 1813

Seller ID: 42291

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

12mo 7" - 7" tall; 233 pages; Early issue. Xvii, [1], errata, 233 pp. 12mo rebound in 1/4 modern polished leather and brown cloth boards with titles blocked in gilt to spine. Errata slip tipped in between the preface and the text. Resewn with cords visible at front end rear; very shallow trimming apparent with still generous margins. Perior gift inscription along the top edge of the title page. VG thus
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The Lady of the Lake

By: Scott, Sir Walter

Price: $435.00

Publisher: Edinburgh & London, John Ballantyne and Co. and Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller : 1810

Seller ID: 26304

Binding: 1/2 leather

Condition: Very Good-

4to 11" - 13" tall; First edition, first impression. 290, cxxix pp. 4to. Snug and sound in a tasteful, recently rebacked binding retaining period marbled paper covered boards. This copy lacks the half-title page but retains the large engraved frontis of Scott and his dog, Camp executed by Heath after Saxon. Mild soiling and foxing to front and rear endpages; a shallow damp line across the top corner of the frontis and the last several leaves. A very shallow tea toned damp line visible along the very front edge of some pages of the text. Engraved armorial bookplate of Diana Russell mou...
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Rokeby; a Poem

By: Scott, Walter

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, John Ballantyne and Co : 1813

Seller ID: 26279

Binding: 1/4 leather

Condition: Good+

4to 11" - 13" tall; 330 pages; 1st edition (1st impression thereof). [10], [1]-330; [i]-cxvi, 3 ads, with imprint at the bottom of p. Cxvi. In period 1/2 leather and marbled paper boards. Leather chipped at tail and stressed and rubbed to spine surface. Board edges rubbed with furring to the marbled paper; corners bumped with loss of leather through abrasion. Boards attached but leather splitting at joints. Contents complete including half-title. Prior owner (Joseph Fry) bookplate to front pastedown. Some light to moderate foxing and toning to the supple pages. An excellent candidate ...
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Rokeby; a Poem [Engraved Title Page and Illustrations by Stothard]

By: Scott, Walter and Thomas Stothard (Illustrator)

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, James Ballantyne : 1813

Seller ID: 26276

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 413 pages; 2nd edition (1st impression thereof). Bound with the extra-illustrated title page at front and six engraved illustrations by Stothard. Handsome in 19th C. Full grained red morocco with wide gilt garland and double filet gilt rules to boards; spine in six with decorative tooling over bands and in compartments. All edges gilt. Spine a little darkened with some light rubbing and superficial flaking over the joints. Includes half-title. 4 of 6 plates and engraved title page retain tissue guards. A few scattered pages with foxing and toning but by and large fre...
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The World Displayed; Or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, Selected from the Writers of all Nations. 20 Volumes

By: Smart, Christopher & Oliver Goldsmith & Samuel Johnson (compilers)

Price: $750.00

Publisher: London, J. Newbery : J. Newbery & J. Hoey : 1760

Seller ID: 40735

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good

Copperplate engravings and maps, some folding; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 4200 pages; 1760/1761 J. Newbery, London. 16mo Mixed 2nd & 1st editions. Uniformly bound in period speckled calf with volume numbers and double gilt rules bracketing raised bands to spine. A Complete set. Profusely illustrated with copperplate views and scenes, some folding and including 2 large folding maps and some plans. Vol I front board detached and lacking title page. Vol II lacks front board and front endpage. Most vols have cracking and splitting to the leather at the front joint with some tenuously attached by cords. V...
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The World Displayed ; Or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels [7 Volumes]

By: Smart, Christopher & Oliver Goldsmith & Samuel Johnson;

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Dobelbower, Key, and Simpson : 1795

Seller ID: 32193

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good+

Copperplate engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1795 * 1796 Dobelbower, Key, and Simpson; Philadelphia. 7 volumes (of 8) ; Lacking Vol 2. 1st American edition. Selected and compiled by Smart, Johnson & Goldsmith. Plates engraved by Harrison, Thackars, Scot, Allardice, Reiche, Seymour, Shallus, Trenchard and Barker. Printed by Thompson; colophon in V. 1, 3, 6, y. Vols 3-5 published in 1795; Vols 1, 6 & 8 published in 1796. Title pages engraved; title page for Vol 6 is missing. Vols 5 & 7 have the table of contents and plate listings at rear. In the complete 8 volume set 57 engraved plates ar...
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Rejected Addresses: or the New Theatrum Poetarum

By: Smith, Horace and James. ]

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London, Printed By Pople for John Miller 25 Bow-Street Covent Garden : 1812

Seller ID: 40770

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 126 pages; 1812 printed by Pople for John Miller 25 Bow-Street Covent Garden, London. 1st edition. [i-v], vi-xiii, [xiv-xvi], [1]-126, [2] pp. Soundly bound in original drab paper covered boards, artfully rebacked with original paper laid down over the spine edge. Board edges with rubbing at corners and with a few shallow nicks to edges. Half-title page presnt and 1 sheet of ads at rear. An old catalog entry for this edition mounted to the front pastedown. An extremely popular collection of parodies which was issued in numerous editions within months of first publica...
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Horace in London, Consisting of Imitations of the First Two Books of the Odes of Horace [and], Rejected Addresses, or the New Theatrum Poetarum.

By: Smith, James & Horace Smith

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Printed for Gale & Fenner : 1815

Seller ID: 32125

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good+

16mo 6" - 7" tall; 2 volumes bound as 1. pp xi, 173; xiii, 127. 16th edition of the second work (Rejected Addresses). Bound in early straight grained red morocco leather with gilt paneled boards and heavy gilt stamped spine w/ 5 raised bands. AEG, gilt innner dentelles. Early armorial bookplate of James Lorimer Graham. Front board detached at hinge; rear hinge tender. Spine a bit darkened; corners lightly rubbed and slightly bumped. G+
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Category: Antiquarian Books