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By: Scott, Walter
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Edinburgh, John Ballantyne and Co: 1813
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 26279
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 ... View more info
By: Scott, Walter
Price: $300.00
Publisher: London, James Ballantyne for Longman and Rees: 1803
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 26339
Condition: Very Good+
8vo 8" - 9" tall; Mixed edition with Volumes I and II the 2nd edition of 1803 and Vol III the fith edition of 1812. Uniformly bound in a recent, handsome 1/2 morocco over marbled paper covered boards. Gilt tooled title labels to spines. Contents bright and neat; half-titles lacking from each. [4] clxvi [4], 291; [4] 426; [5], 488 pp. Handsome and solid. VG+ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View more info
By: Scott, Walter and Thomas Stothard (Illustrator)
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Edinburgh, James Ballantyne: 1813
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 26276
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... View more info
Price: $425.00
Publisher: New York, William Wood & Co.: 1866
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 30897
Condition: Good+
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 401 pages; 1st edition. 401 p. Sims' classic and revolutionary work on gynecology and uterine surgery including his pioneering description of the conditions necessary for insemination, his treatments for infertility as well as his description of the duck-billed speculum, more commonly known as Sims Speculum. Numerous in text ills by woodcut engraving. Original pebbled brown cloth; blind ruled covers and gilt titled spine. Numerous wood cut ills in text. Soundly bound with gilt title lettering at spine a bit dulled but readily legible. A few small spots of soiling to ... View more info
By: Smith, James & Horace Smith
Price: $50.00
Publisher: London, Printed for Gale & Fenner: 1815
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 32125
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+ View more info
By: stated, none
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Paris, Gumuchian & Cie.: 1930
Edition: First Edition; Limited edtion
Seller ID: 33199
Condition: Good+
Plates reproductions some color; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 798 pages; 2 volumes, complete. Issued in a limited edition of 900 copies. Xxiv, 446, [4]; 15, [1] pp & 336pl. Specialist's extensive catalog of antiquarian children's books with 6251 books described, many with details reproduced pictorially in the plate volume - some with hand colored plates reproduced. Introduction in English and French. Catalog text in French. This copy ex-library with heavy library cloth bindings and title lettering blocked in gilt to spine. Color frontispieces present; contents complete and generally neat. Trac... View more info
By: Stillingfleet, Edward and Gilbert Burnet
Price: $175.00
Publisher: London, Printed and Are To Be Sold By Moses Pitt: 1676
Seller ID: 28070
Condition: Good
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 193 pages; [5], 193; [blank] ,[2] pp. Wing B5861. ... 1st edition. In period worn calf boards, front board detached. lacking front and rear pastedowns and front endpage. Rear free endpage missing a large portion and the final of three printed pages of ads for Pitt published titles appears to have been removed. Contents bright and clean. Insect predation to leather along front edge of cover board; scuffs, darkening and rubbing to boards and spine. Prior owner’s application of PVA to front external hinge without benefit.Clean fresh contents deserve a recasing or r... View more info
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Washington, D. C., Smithsonian: 1853
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 13916
Condition: Very Good-
Lithograph plates [3]; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 66 pages; Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution; 1853. Original monograph disbound from the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge Vol VI. Complete and very fresh - being the contents only of Stimpson's well regarded monograph - with full text, title page, and 3 large lithograph plates. Pages creamy and bright with no marks. The condition of this disbound monograph is Fine, such as it is. A qualified binder could place the whole in boards for $25-50. Original green cloth spine panel of the larger volume is laid in, as are the front matter... View more info
By: Stuckio, Johann Wilhelm [Stucki]
Price: $950.00
Publisher: Tiguri [Zurich], Apud Iohannem Wolphium: 1598
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22592
Condition: Good
4to 11" - 13" tall; Large 4to in circa 17th century leather. ) (8, a - b6, A - Z6, Aa - Cc6, Dd4, Ee6. [20], 166 leaves. Bound with six cords. Leather covering is dried, rotting and chipping away at edges of the front board. Leather at spine largely intact but cracked and aged with gilt tooling dimmed and with surviving label dull. Boards tenuously attached by cords. Marbled paper pastedowns but missing marbled flyleaves at front and rear. Two blanks at both front and rear. Prior ownership of Loyola College Baltimore with a 19th century bookplate to the front pastedown and a pair of s... View more info
By: Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Price: $395.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1899
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 22274
Condition: Very Good
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 88 pages; 1st edition, later state, with Sept 1899 ads at rear. Authorial inscription on cut paper mounted to the front flyleaf: " with best wishes for the New Year // and kindest regards from // [signed] AC Swinburne"... Bound in full heavy cream linen with title lettering brightly in gilt to spine. Cloth darkened at spine and less so to board edges. Many pages uncut. 32 page Chatto catalog at rear dated Sept. 1899. Signed; VG; Signed by Author View more info
By: The Second Division Association; United States Army
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Cologne, The Second Division Association: 1919
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 13395
Condition: Good
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 61 pages; 1919 The Second Division Association. Paperback in pictorial, title lettered card stock covers. Saddle stapled binding. Contents clean and neat. Front cover had detached but is archivally mended with japanese tissue repair over the separation at the spine fold. Several small areas of chipping and loss to the front cover edges. Uncommon contemporary divisional publication recording the successes of the 2nd during WWI. Contents VG but with wear and chipping to the covers. View more info
Price: $950.00
Publisher: Frankfurt, Ioannem Theobaldum Schon Wetterum: 1611
Seller ID: 26047
Condition: Very Good
Copper plate engravings; maps; woodcuts in text; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Two volumes in one. Folio oversize in contemporary vellum binding with decorative corner and center devices impressed to boards. Double fillet ruling to borders and decorative tooling over the spine compartments. 19 copper plate engravings present of the 24 called for. Includes ten double page copperplates, one folding; two are laid in. One of the double page plates is an outline of Ortelius 1570 World map. Some smaller woodcuts in text. Some minor worming in the gutters of the pastedown and first several leaves. M... View more info
By: Victor Hugo
Price: $220.00
Publisher: Londres, Jeffs: 1852
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 13060
Condition: Very Good
32mo 4" - 5" tall; 448 pages; Londres, Jeffs; 1852. 32mo; 10 cm tall. 448 pp. Paged in 8's with 28 signatures. An unusual example; I have not found any other copies noted with this makeup of pagination and signature delineation. Period 3/4 vellum with marbled paper covered boards. Oval inkstamp of a Firenze bookseller placed on the free front endpage and the half-title page. No mention of edition, nor of any other publisher or printer than Jeffs. Title is hand painted in black to otherwise unlettered vellum spine. This presumably was an early copy smuggled back to France. Binding soun... View more info
By: Vincent, Nathanael (ed.) and Thomas Manton, Matthew Poole, et. al.
Price: $450.00
Publisher: London, A. Maxwell for Tho: Parkhurst, At the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside Near Mercers-Chappel: 1675
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 27876
Condition: Very Good
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 883 pages; Larger 8vo in contemporary paneled calf boards with tulip corner pieces and double fillet borders in blind. Artfully rebacked with red morocco title label in the 2nd of 6 compartments. Front flyleaf refreshed; otherendpages original. Manuscript ownership of a Scott James on the rear endpage; later manuscrip inscriptions to title page and endpages reflecting ownership of New College, Edinburgh, with bookplate/loan notice to front pastedown stamped "sale duplicate". Boards a bit bumped at corners; mild surface scarring. Title page a bit soiled... View more info
Price: $750.00
Publisher: Colln, Herman Demen: 1678
Seller ID: 14556
Condition: Very Good
3 copperplate engravings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Colln, Herman Demen; 1678. 13 cm. Gathered in 12s. Presumably the 2nd edition, with changes made in pagination from the edition of 1675. This 1678 example paged thus, [20], 564, 93. *11, A12 - Z12, Aa6; a12 - d12. Page 564 misnumbered by the printer as 464. A slight yawn between the front endpage and the title page, combined with an apparently missing leaf in the collation of the preliminaries suggests that a frontis or added engraved title page may be missing. Otherwise complete and clean. 3 copperplate engravings are included in the pag... View more info
By: Walter Lowrie & Walter S. Franklin, (Eds. )
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Washington DC, Gales and Seaton: 1834
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 33130
Condition: Good+
4to 11" - 13" tall; 947 pages; Volume I Only - from the First Session of the First to the Second Session of the Tenth Congress, Commencing Mar. 3, 1789, & Ending Mar. 3, 1809. Oversize large 4to bound in 1/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards. This copy deacessioned from a University special collections library with some light ex-library indications, including thin white painted catalog numbers to base of spine and two small ownership ink stamps to front endpages. Remanants of a card pocket to the rear pastedown. Lower board detached; upper board tenuous in the joint. Contents snu... View more info
By: White, James
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Dublin, Printed for J. Jones, W. Jones, Grueber and M'Allister, and R. White: 1790
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 32107
Condition: Very Good-
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 256 pages; 2 volumes complete, uniformly bound in period tree calf with morocco labels at spines. Vi, 279 & 264 pp. Half-title lacking in vol I, present in Vol II and with all blank endsheets present. Leather cracking at joints but still sound. Light chipping to boards at lower front corners. Last several pages of vol 2 have damp staining along the front margin. Prior owner name penned in ballpoint with a 1935 date on the top edge of the title page of each volume. Overall about VG View more info
Price: $245.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Moses Thomas: 1816
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 18352
Condition: Very Good-
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 247 pages; 1st American edition. In an mid 19th century 3/4 calf over marbled paper binding. Black morocco title label to spine with double gilt rules bracketing five compartments. [1] 2 -247 pp. No half-title page present. "Brinton Library" rubber stamp to front pastedown with an 1839 numeral penciled below the stamp and a matching number, slim paper label attached to spine. Snugly bound copy; pages supple and clean with expected light toning and ocaasional light foxing. First and last few leaves with some light damp lines. Leather rubbed and nicked at sp... View more info
Price: $285.00
Publisher: New York, Scovill Manufacturing Company: 1868
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 35795
Condition: Good+
Carbon Print photo frontis; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 100 pages; 1st edition. Publisher's original dark green cloth with titles brightly in gilt to spine and with boards beveled at edges and with ruled borders in blind. Tissue guarded carbon photographic print at front. This copy has several older ownership blind stamps of a small college library, one at front and two mid-book. There are none of the expected attachments, though, to the book's externals or to endpages or content. Prior owner and 1893 date penciled to 2nd, blank endpage; a bookplate at front notes his bequest to the College, hi... View more info
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Nurnberg, Johann Andrea Endterischen Buchhandlung: 1804
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 13889
Condition: Good
Woodcut plates; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 838 pages; Period full speckled calf, six raised bands at spine. Morocco title label at spine well worn, shrunken, cracked and indistinct. Leather at spine with vertical stress creasing and a small chip missing mid-spine. Chipped and frayed at spine ends. Rear board hanging on by a thread or two. Illustrated with 44 plates attached to binding stubs; plates are the full width of two pages. 41 numbered plates all present with an additional 3 plates lettered A & B and with one plate, out of sequence, designated with a triangle. Frontis plate of ... View more info
