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Boston: Printed by B. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1726. Hardcover. Good. Boston: Printed by B. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1726. FIRST EDITION. Original Leather. 12" x 8". 14 [charter], 17 [table], 436 [acts up to 1730] pages Good. Tight binding; lacking most of title page (just enough to verify this as the 1726) and first blank; lacking session law after 1730 but more session law pages than often seen; several tears to first few pages; one burn mark (affecting a word on one page); some foxing; writing in margins of table; several inscriptions on front pastedown - Captain Moses Lyman, Timothy Dwight, Nathaniel Clark are some of names mentioned; covers worn. Only second edition of Massachusetts Laws. preceded on by a 1699 compilation of Acts and Laws. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1914. Hardcover. Good+/Good. Prittie, Edwin J. (Illustrated by). Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, (1914). Illustrated. Good+ in Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages; several notes on endpapers; some wear; dust jacket is worn with several chips and tears; writing in pencil on edges of flaps. An account for boys of the Alamo attack, in which Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie perished. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1838. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1838. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 11 1/4" x 8 3/4". 178 pages + appendix. 24 plates, 6 of them hand-colored by Edward Lear (as called for) as well as a number of text illustrations. Very Good. Tight binding; clean pages; foxing to endpapers; H. Bradley Martin's copy with his bookplate on front endpaper; moderate wear. Thomas Campbell Eyton (10 September 1809 25 October 1880) was an English naturalist whose fields were cattle, fishes and birds. He was a friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin though he opposed his theories. Eyton was born at Eyton Hall, near Wellington, Shropshire. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a contemporary and friend of Charles Darwin. After succeeding to the estate in 1855 Eyton built a large natural history museum at Eyton Hall. References: Nissen IVB 307; Mullens & Swan p.203. A very scarce… Read More