Nineveh And Its Remains by Austin H. Layard - 1853

Philadelphia: Gebbie & Company [through 1884], 1883. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine. Complete set, in five volumes, in exceptionally fine matching publisher's bindings. Royal 8vo (243 x 165mm): vi,[4],342; [8],342; [8],344; [8],344; [8],344pp, with 50 tissue-guarded steel-engraved plates and numerous woodcuts, "forming a full portrait gallery of the Roman emperors." Original royal blue fine woven cloth, spine and covers blocked in blind with floral friezes and rules, upper cover stamped in gilt with central laurel wreath enclosing gilt lettered title, spine lettered in gilt with fasces and laurel wreath; beveled edges; robin's egg blue end papers, all edges gilt. Virtually pristine (excepting nick to cloth on back board edge of v. II), down to gilt edges, which still sparkle. Gebbie and Co. was justly regarded for publishing handsome illustrated works, with fine bindings and high production values, and proof of that reputation is this set. From the Preface: "In comprehensiveness of scope the… Read More

Two volumes. First editions. John Murray. London. 1874. Octavo. xvi, 360, 6pp publisher's ads. 7 engraved plates, 18 text engravings, folding coloured map in rear pocket; vii, (1), 346, 20pp publisher's ads. 14 engraved plates, (including 3 litho reproductions of Livingstone's journal, one in colour), 6 text engravings, folding coloured map. Original decorative cloth, gilt to spines and upper boards, blind tooled border to boards. Uniformly sunned to spines. Pages untrimmed. Original endpapers. Occasional light spotting, toning to outer exposed verso panels of pocket map. Map would seem to have been rarely taken from its pocket, with no tears, wear or misfolds. Lightly rubbed to extremities. A handsome set, with no inscriptions or annotation.David Livingstone (1813 - 1873) African missionary and explorer. Livingstone was buried in Westminster Abbey on 18 April 1874. A black slab in the centre of the nave in the Abbey marks his resting-place. ODNB.Horace Waller FRGS (1833 - 1896) Anti slavery… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrations by J.B. Gibbs. The book is in six parts: In the Cocos-Keeling Islands; In Java; In Sumatra; In the Moluccas and in Timor-Laut; and In Timor. Each part has an appendix. Publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; xix, 536, 4 pp.; 3 folding maps, 2 full-page maps, 1 in-text map, color frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, publisher's advertisements. Color tissue guarded frontispiece by J.B. Gibbs. 6 maps in total all present. First American edition. Bindings are tight and square. Minor shelf lean. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Light wear to extremities, lightly and evenly toned throughout. Collectible condition.. The British zoologist H.O. Forbes (1851-1932) travelled from the Keeling Islands through Indonesia between 1878-1883. He visited Java, South-Sumatra, the Moluccas and New Guinea. Giving in… Read More

Leipzig: J. F. Junius, 1775. First German Edition . Half Leather. Very Good. 8vo. 2 parts text + 16 folding plates. Foxing and browning. FIRST GERMAN EDITION. RARE.

HBDJ, Minor rub & chips DJ, 1974 ,Stated 1st edition, VG+/VG, AS-IS, 1st Published in U.S.A.

[Andoversford, Gloucestershire]: Whittington Press, 1984. Edition limited to 350 copies signed by Craig (this, no. 274), 8vo, pp. [12], x, [54]; title page printed in red and black, 50 wood engravings, one folding plate; pictorial endpapers; original full linen boards, spine and front cover paper labels, fine. Contact card for the press laid in.

New York, NY: St. Martin's, 1977. First Edition / first printing. From the library of Del Close, signed "To Del - Best Wishes - Frederick Pohl" the title page. Book is in very good + (pages aged, light wear along bottom edges of boards) condition with a very good + (light wear at corners, 1/4" tear at lower rear) unclipped ($8.95) dustjacket protected in a Brodart wrapper. An Attractive Copy! Please feel free to ask me for pictures or more information, Thanks.. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Louisville, KY: Chas. A. Rogers. Very Good-. 1884. Hardcover. Blue embossed and pebbled cloth boards show scuffs and some soiling, with corners and spine edges showing minor fraying. Slight cracking of binding beginning at dedication page, but is still very secure. 1888 bookplate on front pastedown records this as an award for penmanship, interior otherwise clean and unmarked. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 218 pages .

Paris. : Firmin Didot Freres., 1830-1844. 2nd edition.. Contemporary quarter dark brown leather over marbled boards, gilt spine bands and titles.. Very good, light wear to corners, one map split at fold but all present, scattered light foxing.. 8vo., 20.5x12.5 cm. . French text. Complete 7 volume set of Heeren’s important treatise on economics and trade in the ancient world. Volume 7 was published 10 years after volume 6 and is often missing from sets. Heavy set, weight: 7.0 lb. will require extra shipping. Translated from the German by W. Suckau. 8 folding maps, 2 folding plates.

12 mo. (7 x 4 1/2 inches) Glasgow, 1700. First Edition. (viii) 112 pages. Good condition: early nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards, considerable wear to hinges (front hinge split, but holding), title in gilt on spine.

Walter Herries (or Harris) was a pamphleteer who participated in the first Darien "adventure." Upon his return to England, he was offered inducements by English politicians to write a book that would ruin the reputation of the members of the Darien Company. His book was "Declared by a royal proclamation to be a 'false, scandalous, and traitorous libel'."

This book, attributed to Ridpath, is an answer to Herries's book, and an attack on English politicians. Ridpath was a Scottish journalist who wrote and supported Whig interests against the Tories.