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By: N/A
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Lancaster, PA, Johann Albrecht: 1804
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 13424
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 1st edition of this important and enduring Lancaster Mennonite songbook. Bound in full period polished calf which is chipped at spine ends and rubbed at edges; both clasps are lacking. Text block is intact and the paper is supple, though with expected light uniform toning. Rear board is detatched, front board holding. Paged [6], 79, [1], 415, [1], 17, [1]pp ; 18 cm. Some pages with bars of music. Printed in two columns. Bound, as always, with... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Lancaster, PA, Johann Bar: 1820
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 13425
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 3rd revised edition of this important and enduring Lancaster Mennonite song book. 1820 Johann Bar. Full polished calf. Paged [6], 79, [1], 472, 18p. Printed in 2 columns, additional title page for the second part. Some bars of shape-music notation in text. Bender p12, Shoemaker 4070, Arndt 2438. Both clasps missing. Oil stain to lower quarter of binding and spine. Front hinge beginning. Contents with light foxing, but otherwise a tight copy. VG... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $275.00
Publisher: Passau, Mangoldischen Hofbuchdruckerei: 1791
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 13565
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 746 pages; Passau, Mangoldischen Hofbuchdruckerei; 1791. 2 volumes bound as 1. Paged continuously [4] 1 - 746; with seperate title pages for the volumes. Squat, stout volume in period patterned paper over boards. Binding sound and snug with boards sound in joints. Paper over boards rubbed over spine edges with flaking and light chipping; boards visible at spine edges but remaining well bound. Scattered toning and foxing to text is generally mil... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Nurnberg, Johann Andrea Endterischen Handlung: 1782
Seller ID: 22579
Folio 13" - 23" tall; 1298 pages; Folio. The "Elector Bible" featuring full page woodcut engravings of the Prince-Electors of the Holy Roman Empire. [94] 1181, [23] pp. Augsburg Confession at rear. Bound in a mid 19th century 1/2 calf over pebbled brown cloth boards. Spine covering detached and laid in at front. Title page in red and black is bound in on a stub. Frontis of Luther missing along with two of the Elector portraits. Text printed in double col... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $275.00
Publisher: Lancaster, PA, Johann Albrecht: 1804
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 34962
16mo 6" - 7" tall; Johann Albrecht, Lancaster; 1804. 1st edition of this important and enduring Lancaster Mennonite songbook. Bound in full period calf; both clasps and straps are lacking, but brass bosses and closures are intact. Light shelf rubbing to leather at spine ends and over the raised bands. Text block is intact and the paper is supple, though with expected light uniform toning. Prior owner inscription to 2nd blank endpage appears to be dated 1804 and ... View more info
Price: $135.00
Publisher: London, R. Dodsley: 1744
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 26324
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 142 pages; Presumed 4th edition, with Akenside's name recorded on the red and black printed title page as "Akinside" - but lacking the half-title page. One page publisher ad following the text of the poem. Rebound in a handsome modern 1/2 polished calf with five raised bands and gilt tooled morocco title label over marbled paper boards. Title page trimmed hard in the right margin with engraved vignette off center and only a sliver of ma... View more info
By: American Sunday School Union
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, American Sunday School Union: 1831
Seller ID: 19554
Map, folding; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 154 pages; Small format volume bound in 1/4 sheep over marbled paper boards. Folding map of palestine at front. Copyrighted in 1831, this is presumably the 1st edition. Leather spine unlettered but supple and with only light rub to ends and surface. Boards lightly rubbed edges. Contetns complete and clean with just the expected mild toning. Bookplate of a Liberal Arts College Philosophical Society. Solid neat copy. VG View more info
By: Andersen, Hans Christian and Charles Boner (Afterword and Trans. )
Price: $250.00
Publisher: New York, C. S. Francis & Co.: 1848
Edition: 2nd American edition
Seller ID: 27846
frontis engraving; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 165 pages; hardcover in original brown cloth with elaborate decorative blind stamped designs to boards; title letteringand pictorial elements brightly in gilt to spine. Issued as one of the volumes in the Francis & Co. "Little Library". Apparently the 2nd American edition after an 1847 James Miller printing. Illustrated with tissue guarded frontis engraving of "The Little Match Girl". Snugly bound and clean.... View more info
By: Aurelio Bertola De' Giorgi
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Bassano, Giuseppe Remondini: 1789
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 33930
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 144 pages; Soundly bound in flexible paper boards with period hand painted paper covering. Prior ownership in manuscript inside front cover dated 1793. Pages generally supple and clean. Some mild predation to decorative paper over the covers; several small chips to paper over the spine. Attractive neat copy. VG View more info
By: Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez de
Price: $110.00
Publisher: Coulogne, Etienne De La Place: 1704
Seller ID: 20104
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 280 pages; Reprinting from the 1658 original edition. Small format in period vellum. In 12's. Soundly bound and generallu clean. Prior ownership in Italian (Mario Franco Placocos[? ]) to front endpage and base of title. Period manuscrip to vellum at spine, simply "Francese". Mild worming to the pastedowns and front free endpage. Two or three pin head sized worm holes to the vellum at the rear joint. Flake of vellum missing top edge re... View more info
By: Barbauld; Edgeworth Et. Al.
Price: $43.95
Publisher: New York, R Lockwood: 1829
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 13554
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 251 pages; 1829 R Lockwood, NY. HC in printed paper covered boards and gilt ruled cloth backstrip. 2nd edition after and 1820 printing. An early American school book with intermediate level narrative pieces relating to American history, Scripture as well as charachter formation. Paper covered boards have bordered title printing at front and printer's advertisements on rear surface. Simple gitl ruling acros spine; unlettered, as issued. Sound c... View more info
By: Bartlett, W. H. & B. B. Woodward
Price: $450.00
Publisher: New York & London, George Virtue & Co: 1856
Seller ID: 35765
Steel Plate engravings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 3 volumes, complete. Soundly bound in matching publisher's deluxe trade binding of full red pebbled calfleather with highly decorative borders and vignettes tooled in gilt to boards and decorative title desing sna flourishes gilt tooled to spines. [7], 698; 720; 726 pp. Some light to moderate scuffing and rubbing to leather at board edges; Vol I has a small piece of leather chipped from the crown and Vol III has shallo... View more info
By: Beecher, Lyman
Price: $185.00
Publisher: Boston, T. R. Marvin: 1828
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21935
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 367 pages; In original full calf over boards with black morocco title label to spine. Soundly bound example with light ru to leather at corners and a moderate bump to the crown of the spine. Severla surface abarasion scars to the leather boards. Prior owner's painted "B" catalog aid at the base of the spine. Pages supple but with expected light to moderate foxing and toning. Sporadic pencil underling in several of the sermons. Solid cop... View more info
By: Behn, Aphra
Price: $325.00
Publisher: London, Printed for Mary Poulson, and Sold By A. Bettesworth: 1724
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 37022
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 418 pages; 1724 Printed for Mary Poulson, and Sold by A. Bettesworth, London. 3rd edition. Vol IV only (of 4). Scarce 18th century printing of Behn's plays. In 19th century speckled calf. Boards detached but present; light crazing to leather at spine with title labels missing. Front marbled endpage and 1st blank are loose and laid in; marbled sheet at rear missing. Text block sound, clean and complete. Prior ownership to verso of tp - in tin... View more info
By: Bergk, Theodor
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Halle, Richard Muhlmann: 1870
Seller ID: 22809
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 168 pages; Hardcover in quarter cloth and marbled paper over boards. Snug and solid although ex-library indications include a catalog label at spine and light attachments to endpages. Prior ownership signature of noted classicist, Gonzalez Lodge. Lodge presumably donated his library to Franklin & Marshall College's library. Remnants of paper title label to spine. Corners and edges of book slightly worn and rubbed. Partial splits in the endpage ... View more info
Price: $485.00
Publisher: Covent Garden, London, Ric. Everingham, for R. Bently: 1694
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 37144
[Kemble Copy]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 248 pages; 1694 Ric. Everingham, for R. Bently at the Post-House in Russell Street, Covent Garden. 1st edition. 8vo in period leather. This copy with provenance noted of early 19th C, Shakespearean actor and book collector, John Philip Kemble, and later of British book collector Philip Bliss. 20th century ownership of Shakespearean scholar Henry Buckley Charlton, with his pictorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Text block sou... View more info
By: Boccaccio, John
Price: $375.00
Publisher: London, Awnsham Churchill: 1684
Edition: Fifth Edition
Seller ID: 32289
4to 11" - 13" tall; 483 pages; 1684 Awnsham Churchill, London. "5th edition" [London]. 4to. In near contemporary leather spine with later probably 19th century repairs. 1/2 leather over drab paper covered boards. Leather splitting over joints but cords holding. First 4 leaves, including engraved frontis and title page are only tenuously attached. Title and dedication page damaged with a uniform swath of the top 3 inches of the two leaves torn away - pres... View more info
By: Boethius; Anicius Manlius Severinus Boetius; Richard Preston (Trans. & Ed. )
Price: $800.00
Publisher: London, Printed By J. D. for Awnsham and John Churchill, At the Black Swan: 1695
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 26053
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 246 pages; Soundly bound in contemporary or near contemporary leather. 1st edition of the Preston translation. Recently rebacked in an entirely sympathetic leather treatment. Leather boards with shallow pitting uniformly across the boards, likely a result of the flecking chemical used. Original blank endpages retained; rear pastedown has had an ownership inscription rubbed and watered away with rub through to the board in a dime sized spot; ... View more info
By: Brown, Thomas (Pseud. ) ; [Thomas Moore]
Price: $250.00
Publisher: London, J. Carr: 1813
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38095
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 111 pages; Printed by C Whittingham. 1st edition. 12mo. Soundly bound in contemporary 1/2 green grained morocco leather and marbled paper boards. [i-v] - xvi; 111 pp. No ads at rear. Half -title present with two blanks at front and rear. Engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Benjamin Archer to front pastedown. Offset toning and foxing from the bookplate o the first several leaves. An old manuscript note to the half-title page - "First ed... View more info
By: Browne, Thomas & [Thomas Keck] & Kenelm Digby
Price: $475.00
Publisher: London, Printed By Tho. Milbourn for Andrew Crook, At the Green Dragon in Pauls-Church-Yard: 1659
Edition: Fifth Edition
Seller ID: 35806
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 397 pages; 1659 Printed By Tho. Milbourn for Andrew Crook, At the Green Dragon in Pauls-Church-Yard, London. 5th edition. Lacks extra, engraved title frontis. Otherwise apparently complete. Xvi; 174, [175-184], 185-297; [5], 75, [2] pp. Pages 185-190 misnumbered as 285-290. In period boards with recent rebacking, utitlitarian in quality and design. Paper reinforcement in hinges. Front blan and title browned at edges with shallow chips from edge... View more info
