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E.R. Pelton, Publisher, New York, 1870. 9 1/2" X 6 5/8" in flimsy paper covers. Some very light damp staining toward the back. Lots of interesting articles. This is the October, 1870 issue Vol. XII - No. 4. 128pp.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket.

New-York: W. H. Bidwell, 1860. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo., illustrated with steel engraved plates. Tissue guards. Bound in quarter leather and marbled paper. Title in gilt on spine. The plates and tissue guards are foxed, with some transferring to the page opposite. Tips and edges rubbed through, leather worn bare in places, front hinge starting. A Fair copy for reading or rebinding.

New-York: W. H. Bidwell, 1873. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo., illustrated with steel engraved plates. Tissue guards. Bound in quarter leather and marbled paper. Title in gilt on spine. The plates and tissue guards are foxed, with some transferring to the page opposite. Tips and edges rubbed through, leather worn bare in places, front hinge starting. A Fair copy for reading or rebinding.

John A. Gray. Good with no dust jacket. 1857. Hardcover/leather. Buckram covered bds. , qtr. Bound inblack ribbed leather with gilt lettering; marbled ep's .

New-York: W. H. Bidwell, 1859. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 284pp., illustrated with steel engraved plates. Tissue guards. Bound in quarter sheep and cloth. Title in gilt on spine. The plates and tissue guards are foxed, with some transferring to the page opposite. Some soiling to the boards. Hinges and joints firm. Light soiling to the paste downs. A blank front end paper has the lower third torn away. Text clean. A Very Good Copy. ***Plates of Mary Queen of Scots, Von Humbolt, Queen Elizabeth, Rufus Choate, Luther, Rev. Alexander.***.

New York: American News Company, 1865. Single issue in original pictorial wrappers. Octavo (24cm); pp [529]-656; illus. A well-preserved, Very Good issue; lightly soiling and creasing to wrappers, with pencil ownership signature to front cover; contents fresh, clean and unmarked. Perine's portrait of Catharine II appears as the frontispiece; it remains clean, bright and unfoxed beneath the original tissue-guard. Other contributions to this issue include Chapter III of the serialization of Juliana Horatia Ewing's "Mystery of the Bloody Hand"; Charles Chesney's "The Last Campaign in America"; a profile of Empress Catharine by W.H. Bidwell, etc. With the exception of Bidwell's article, all the submissions, which were borrowed directly from British and Continental journals of the period, were printed anonymously, presumably to avoid copyright issues.

New York: W.H. Bidwell, 1858. Three vols. Tall 8vo. 572; 568; 574 pp. Engravd frntsps. each vol., numerous engravd plates. Contemporary three-quarter brown calf over blk cloth, gilt lettrng on spine (occasional foxing, edgewear, rubbng to crnrs, spines, hnges startng), still a G- set, from the family library of Major John William De Forest (1826-1906), served with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, and was a noted American author and poet.. First edition, thus, of this entire year of the Eclectic Magazine, incorporating articles on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Napoleon, Egypt, Syria, Henry VIII, Hegel, Washington Irving, Steam Engines, the laying of telegraph cable, and much more.