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Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, Containing Communications on Various Subjects in Husbandry & Rural Affairs, Volume IV [4]

By: Philadelphia Society For Promoting Agriculture; Richard Peters; James Mease; H Anderson

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Benjamin Warner: 1818

Seller ID: 19626

Binding: Full leather

Condition: Good+

Copperplate and woodcut engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 518 pages; [viii], xx, (vi) -xxxv, (iii) - XL, 41-45, (i) -Lii, [iii], 332 pp. 4 full page copperplate engravings and a good number of woodcut figures in text. Bound in full period tree calf with brown morocco leather spine label. Rear interior hinge cracked, rear endpage separating. Otherwise cotnets snug, though with foxing and dampstaining to fore edge throughout. Exterior hinges cracked but holding; some flaking to leather and wear at spine ends. Corners rubbed through. A series of papers detailing significant advances in agric...
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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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The Works of Francis Rabelais, M. D. , [In Five Volumes, Complete] Now Carefully Revised, and Compared Throughout with the Late New Edition of M. Le Du Chat.

By: Rabelais, Francois &

Price: $650.00

Publisher: London, J. Brindley and C. Corbett: 1737

Seller ID: 40736

Condition: Good

15 copperplate engravings. most folding; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 1772 pages; 1737 J. Brindley and C. Corbett, London. 1st edition, thus, the first English translation of Jacob du Lechat's 1711 critical edition of Rabelais' works. Lechat's extensive critical text translated for this edition by John Ozell. Illustrated with 15 copperplate engraved plates, most folding, and with handsome woodcut head and tail pieces. Uniformly bound in period calf with double filet gilt ruling to boards and volume numbers stamped in gilt to spines. No title labels to spines, presumably lost. Most boards only...
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The Tea-Table Miscellany: a Collection of Choice Songs, Scots and English, in Four Volumes 12th Edition

By: Ramsay, Allan

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, A. Donaldson: 1760

Seller ID: 40769

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good+

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 448 pages; 12th edition. Full calf with morocco label to spine. 4 volumes in 1; 448 pp with several pages of a Scots Words glossary at rear. Armorial bookplate of Davies Gilbert to front pastedown; smaller bookplate of the Estate library of Trelissick. The Davies bookplate isan especially handsome engraved armorial design. Leather lightly rubbed at board edges and over bands; partial splitting over joints but binding holding. G+
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The Ever Green, Being a Collection of Scots Poems, [In 2 Volumes]; Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600 . . . Published by Allan Ramsay

By: Ramsay, Allan (Ed. )

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Alexander Donaldson: 1761

Seller ID: 37982

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good-

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 574 pages; Two volumes, complete. Bound in full polished calf, spines in six compartments with extra gilt decorative designs to compartments. Title labels lacking except for fragment on Vol I; Vol Lables intact. Upper boards both columes with cracking to leather but quite sound with cords holding. Armorial bookplates of James Rimington to front pastedown of both volumes. VG- thus
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The Boy Cruisers, Or Paddling In Florida

By: Rathbone, St. George

Price: $16.50

Publisher: New York, A. L. Burt Company: 1893

Seller ID: 22371

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Woodcuts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages; HC in pictorial stamped blue cloth. Presumed 1st edition, copyrighted by Burt 1893. Soundly bound and clean with just light shelf rub to cloth at corners and spine ends. Expected general but light to moderate toning to page stock. Floral pattern endsheets intact and sound. Woodcut figures and embellished initial letters illustrate the story. Partial internal split between flyleaf and frontis. A few signatures starting slightly. Light silverfish predation to page block edges. 11 pages of Burt catalog ads at rear. G++
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The Converse of the Pen: Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter

By: Redford, Bruce

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press: 1986

Seller ID: 15226

ISBN: 0226706796

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 252 pages; Trade paperback in glossy illustrated covers. Superb unread copy. Tight, bright and fresh. Hint of shelf rub front edge of covers; otherwise about as new. NF
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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 rest...
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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: $1,250.00

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 oth...
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Pharmacopoeia Bateana, Or, Bate's Dispensatory. Translated from the Last Edition of the Latin Copy, Published by Mr. James Shipton. Containing His Choice and Select Recipe's ...

By: Salmon, William & James Shipton & George Bate

Price: $450.00

Publisher: London, Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford, St. Paul's Churchyard: 1694

Seller ID: 39540

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good

Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 965 pages; [16], 965, [19] pp Full period leather, paneled calf covered boards. Circa mid-20th century rebacking of supple lighter colored calf; titles unimpressively in gilt to spine. Endpages refreshed. First original leaf is the title page; one original blank at rear. Two groups of signatures up to pp 176, are loose from the binding with evidence of prior attempt to reseat the gatherings. Prior manuscript ownership to top edge of leaves A2 and B1 clipped away; A2 mended with blank antique paper and B1 unmended. Collated with no sheets found lacking. Includ...
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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 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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Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border; Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland : with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition; 3 Volumes

By: Scott, Walter

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, James Ballantyne for Longman and Rees: 1803

Seller ID: 26339

Binding: 1/2 leather

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.
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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 ...
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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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