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The Morning-Exercise Against Popery, Or, the Principal Errors of the Church of Rome Detected and Confuted in a Morning-Lecture Preached Lately in Southwark: by Several Ministers of the Gospel in or Near London.

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

Seller ID: 27876

Binding: Leather

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...
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Antoni-Büchlein, Oder, Andächtiges Geist- Und Trostreiches Gebett-Büchlein : Darin Neben Der Neun-Dinstägigen Andacht Zu S. Antonio Von Padua ... / / Durch Den Ehrwürdigen P. Martinus Von Cochem, Capuciner Ordens

By: Von Cochem, Martin

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Colln, Herman Demen: 1678

Seller ID: 14556

Binding: Leather

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...
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Idiomatologia Anglo-Latina, Sive Dictionarium Idiomaticum Anglo-Latinum In Quo Phrases Tam Latinæ Quam Anglicanæ Linguæ.

By: Walker, William

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, E. Horton & T. Sawbridge: 1680

Seller ID: 40370

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 650 pages; 3rd edition. In later speckled calf. Text block sound; leather distressed and worn with spine perishing and boards tenuously attached at joints. Text block trimmed with margins a bit tight. An instance of horizontal worming to the first 25 or so leaves with here and there some loss of letters but with no meaning lost. Small burnhole pg 485. With extra engraved title page. Title page a little soiled with prior ownership in dim manuscript to several early leaves. Would benefit from a rebacking restoration. Good only thus
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American State Papers, Class X: Miscellaneous: Documents Legislative & Executive of the Congress of the United States. 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

By: Walter Lowrie & Walter S. Franklin, (Eds. )

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Gales and Seaton: 1834

Seller ID: 33130

Binding: 1/4 leather

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...
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The Adventures of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster [2 Volumes, Complete]

By: White, James

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Dublin, Printed for J. Jones, W. Jones, Grueber and M'Allister, and R. White: 1790

Seller ID: 32107

Binding: Leather

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
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A Narrative of the Events Which Have Taken Place in France, From the Landing of Napoleon Bonaparte, on the First of March, 1815, Till the Restoration of Louis XVIII. with an Account of the Present State of Society and Public Opinion

By: Williams, Helen Maria

Price: $245.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Moses Thomas: 1816

Seller ID: 18352

Binding: 3/4 leather

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...
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American Carbon Manual, Or the Production of Photographic Prints in Permanent Pigments

By: Wilson, Edward L.

Price: $285.00

Publisher: New York, Scovill Manufacturing Company: 1868

Seller ID: 35795

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Wolerfahrner Pferd-Arzt : Welcher Grundlich Lehret, Wie Man Der Pferde Complexion, Natur Und Alter Erkennen, Alle Inner- Und Ausserliche Kranckheiten Curiren, Und Die Gesunden Pferde Vor Allen Mangeln ...

By: Winters, Georg Simon

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Nurnberg, Johann Andrea Endterischen Buchhandlung: 1804

Seller ID: 13889

Binding: Leather Bound

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 ...
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A Selection of Greek Tragedies with Notes, for the Use of Colleges, and for Private Reading; Two Volumes: Vol I; the Alcestis of Euripides and the Antigone of Sophocles. Vol II; the Prometheus of Aeschylus and the Electra of Sophocles

By: Woolsey, T. D. ; (Ed and Notes)

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Boston, James Munroe and Co: 1841

Seller ID: 25698

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 4 vols in 2. Hardcover in original trade cloth bindings of embossed blind stamped brown cloth with title letering decoratively in gilt to spine. Both bound volumes have title pages for the volume as well as separate title pages for each work. 2nd and 3rd editions of the separate works. Vol I; viii, [1-3] 4 - 120; vii, [2]. Vol II; (1-3) , 4 - 138; Viii, (1-3) - 104; 152. Cloth nicked and rubbed with light fray at spine ends; cloth at corners rubbed through and corners lightly bumped. Light evidence of bookplate removal to endpages. Prior ownership in manuscript. O...
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Yarrow Revisited and Other Poems

By: Wordsworth, William

Price: $235.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman: 1835

Seller ID: 40314

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 349 pages; 1st edition. Binding of original drab paper covered boards; this copy professionally rebacked with original paper spine laid down over the rebacking. New paper title label to spine; remnamts of original label mounted to the rear pastedown. Original endpapers preserved with 1835 ownership in mnauscrip to front pastedown and flyleaf; half-title page retained. Xv, [1], errata slip, (1-3) - 349, [1], [4] (ads) pp. No ad at front; [4] pages ads at rear and thin rratum slip tipped in facing the errata and emendations page. Mild bruising to boards at tips and ...
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L'Art de Vivre Heureux, Forme´ Sur Les Idees Les Plus Claires de la Raison... Et Sur De Tres-Belles Maximes De Monsieur Descartes

By: [Ameline, Claude]

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez La Veuve De J. B. Coignard, & J. B. Coignard Fils: 1692

Seller ID: 21404

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Very Good-

[Prince Liechtenstein Copy]; Wood cut frontis; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 305 pages; Small format 16mo in period vellum. Frontis, [14], [8], 305 pp. *7, []4, A-M12, N7. Cream vellum covered boards lightly soiled. A vertical stress to the spine has begun to crack. Small closed split in the vellum along the lower edge of the cover board. Contents clean and neat. Bound with frontis, title and prelims, followed by an unsigned 8 page catlog of works published by Coignard between 1660-1692. Mild yawn in the interior front hinge. Prior ownership of Prince Franz Joseph [?] of Liechtenstein with the P...
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Lara, a Tale & Jacqueline, a Tale

By: [Byron, George Gordon Lord] & [Samuel Rogers]

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, J. Murray: 1814

Seller ID: 38128

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 128 pages; 1st edition. [viii], [1] -128, [4] pp. Half-title present. Soundly bound in contemporary drab brown paper covered boards, with a professionally rebacked spine in a very sympathetic matching brown paper and new paper title label. Variant with pages not watermarked, "II" in running title on p 82 is askew and period dropped on p 20. [4] pp publisher ads at rear. Edges untrimmed. No prior ownership or marks. G++ to VG- thus
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Passing Clouds; Or, Love Conquering Evil

By: [Clacy, Helen] Cycla (Pseud)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Co: 1858

Seller ID: 14818

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

16mo 6" - 7" tall; 238 pages; [1858] Dodd Mead. HC in publisher's decoratively stamped green cloth. Horizontal decorative rules to cover in black. Embossed gilt and black title design to spine. Binding sound and contents clean. Front endpages removed up to the title page, which is the first leaf of the book. Rear endpages present and neat. Just mild toning to page stock. Cloth a little rubbed at edges and corners; boards peeking through lower front corners. 12 page catalog of Dodd Mead juvenile titles appended at rear. G+ only. Scarce in collections and specialty libraries.
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Adventures of a French Serjeant : During His Campaigns in Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia, &c. , from 1805 to 1823

By: [Guillemard, Robert] by Himself

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, H. C. Carey and I. Lea: 1826

Seller ID: 20112

Binding: 1/2 leather

Condition: Very Good-

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 300 pages; Bound in period 1/2 calf and marbled paper boards. Rebacked with original spine leather and morocco title label laid down. Contents complete and snugly bound with expected light toning. To the front pastedown is a presentation bookplate identifying the book's original owner and the date of the gift to an eastern American college's literary society. Small period paper label at the crown of the spine; no other marks or attachments. Pastedowns and endpages moderately foxed. Solid neat copy in considerably better condition than usually found. VG
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Poems on Several Occasions [Bound With] The Union; Or, Select Scots and English Poems

By: [Hamilton, William] & [Adam Smith] (Preface) ; [Wharton, Thomas] (Ed)

Price: $2,850.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Robert and Andrew Foulis & Archibald Monro & David Murray: 1748

Seller ID: 40324

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good+

12mo 7" - 7" tall; 148 pages; Two volumes bound together. 1748 & 1753, respectively. Both 1st edition. Hamilton's Poems on Several Occasions bound in at rear following the collection of poetry, The Union; Or, Select Scots and English Poems. Hamilton's collection is distinguished by the 1st appearance in print of Adam Smith, who penned the unsigned Preface. The Union collection features an early printing of Grey's Elegy in a Country Church-Yard along with work by Shipley, Lowth, Thomas Wharton, Smallet. Both works gathered in 4's. 144; 148 pp. Title pages present for both volumes; Hami...
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The State Letters of Henry Earl of Clarendon [in Two Volumes], Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ...[Under] James the Second, with His Diary for 1687, 1688, 1689 and 1690. from the Originals [Held] of Richard Powney

By: [Hyde], Henry 2nd Earl Of Clarendon & John Douglas, Bishop Of Salisbury (Ed. )

Price: $495.00

Publisher: Oxford, At the Clarendon Press: Sold by J. Stephens at the Temple-Gate, Fleetstreet; A. Millar in the Strand (et. al.): 1763

Seller ID: 32309

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good-

4to 11" - 13" tall; 869 pages; Oxford, At the Clarendon Press; 1763. 1st edition. Two volumes, complete. Quarto volumes uniformly bound in contemporary speckled calf with spines in six compartments; red and black leather title labels to spines. Xxxvi, 476; 337, [1], (20) pp. Joints repaired, with archival linen tape reinfocring internal hinges and traces of PVA in the external joints. Leather had split over joints but repairs are sound and holding. Some light chipping to leather at spine ends and edges; drying and mild darkening to leather at board edges. Both volumes include an origi...
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Exposition De La Doctrine Chretienne : Ou Instructions sur les Principales Verites de la Religion. Tome Second

By: [Mesenguy, Francois-Philippe ]

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Cologne, Aux Depens De La Compagnie: 1754

Seller ID: 21508

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good-

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 608 pages; Tome Second. Vol two of six. In period patterned, polished calf with norocco title labels to spine and gilt tooled decorative designs in the spine panels. Soundly bound and neat copy. Marbled endpages and edges. Leather a little stressed and rubbed at spine with shallow chipping at spine ends. Underlying boards exposed at corner tips. Solid still neat copy. Vol II only. VG-
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Carl Werner, an Imaginative Story With Other Tales of Imagination [Vol 2 Only]

By: [Simms, William Gilmore]

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, George Adlard: 1838

Seller ID: 13869

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages; New York, George Adlard; 1838. Volume II, only. Paged [3] - 208 with [4] pages of Adlard publisher ads at rear. Bound in original patterned green cloth with lettered paper title label to spine. 1st edition of this very uncommon volume of short pieces by the highly regarded early 19th century Southern writer, historian and novelist, William G. Simms. This 2nd volume contains three of Simms' Cherokee related tales and though sadly lacking the 1st volume of stories, stands independently and thus complete in itself. A well preserved example in the full texture...
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The Familiar Astrologer; An Easy Guide to Fate, Destiny, and Foreknowledge As Well As to the Secret and Wonderful Properties of Nature

By: [Smith, Robert Cross]; Raphael (Pseud)

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London, John Bennett: 1830

Seller ID: 41885

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good+

Steel, copper and wood plate engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 716 pages; [1831] John Bennett, London. Early printing. In contemporary full marbled calf with red morocco title label to spine. Illustrated with 6 plates in steel and copper, including the frontispiece; one is hand colored. The plates depict scenes of supernatural creatures, ritual magic (summoning spirits) , etc. One plate presents an alchemical allegorical scene. Numerous charts and woodcut illustrations are also included with the text. Leather splitting over the front joint with some light evidence of 20th C PVA reinforce...
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