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YE GARDEYNE BOKE
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YE GARDEYNE BOKE: A Collection of Quotations Instructive and Sentimental Gathered and Arranged By ....

by Haines, Jennie Day (compiler)

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Small quarto (9 1/2 X 6 1/2 inches) San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1906. Original hard cover, thick green cloth binding, 72 unnumbered pages printed in two colors on watermarked deckle-edged paper.

Decorative black and white line drawings by Spencer Wright, in the margins surrounding the text, representing people working in gardens; Art nouveau image of a potted plant on cover - its tendrils reaching for the title in gilt, and repeated on spine.

Printed by the Tomoye Press, under the direction of Harry Nash; decorative end papers (small unobtrusive stamp of previous owner in margin of first fly leaf, and repeated in pencil on back of first fly leaf) good condition (minor age toning to covers and spine, not affecting contents which are clean).

A collection thoughts on gardens and gardening that includes quotations from Joseph Addison, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Milton, Margaret Deland, John Keats, William Blake, and Shakespeare among many others, presented in an attractive format reflecting the period.
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AN HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND ESTABLISHMENT OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE
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AN HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND ESTABLISHMENT OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE: COMPREHENDING ALSO AN ACCOUNT, FROM HIS OWN WRITINGS, OF CAESAR CAESARIANUS, THE FIRST PROFESSED COMMENTATOR ON VITRUVIUS, AND OF HIS TRANSLATION OF THAT AUTHOR; AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PRINCIPLES AND PROPORTIONS OF THAT STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE CALLED THE G

by Hawkins, F. A.S., John Sidney

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Small quarto (9 3/4 X 6 1/4 inches) London: Sold By J. Taylor, At The Architectural Library" Printed by S. Gosnell, 1813. First Edition. viii, 251, [20] pages: 11 plates (some folded, including frontispiece, plans), the detailed index includes additional historical information; good condition, rebacked with later half cloth over original paper covered boards, new red label with title and author in gilt, corners bumped and worn - not affecting text, two leaves at back of book with torn lower corners, not affecting text.

An unsophisticated copy of an interesting book: "... for that the principles and proportions of Gothic architecture, which had been termed, in reality, destitute of existence, will here be found laid down on geometrical rules, with a degree of precision sufficient for ever necessary purpose in the construction and erection of edifices in that style."
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A HANDBOOK OF RENAISSANCE METEOROLOGY
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A HANDBOOK OF RENAISSANCE METEOROLOGY: With Particular Reference to Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature

by Heninger, Jr., S. K.

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Octavo (9 1/2 by 6 1/4 inches) Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1960. First Edition. 269 pages, illustrated with "Figures" and "Headpieces" taken from Renaissance black and white wood cuts, appendices, selected bibliography, general index; in original unclipped dust jacket. Hardcover, cloth, very good condition (mild age toning to end papers, not affecting text).

From the jacket: "This study systematically reconstructs the scientific principle of archaic meteorology. It also assembles the assorted ideas about meteors which derived from the Holy Scriptures, classical mythology, poetic convention, and the interrelated fields of astrology, magic, and folk-belief. This factual information fully documented with instances of literary adaptation, provides a complete reference work for Renaissance weather lore and its literary paraphrase."

"Included also are essays on six major creative writers - Spencer, Marlowe, Jonson, Chapman, Donne, and Shakespeare - essays which seek fresh insight into… Read More
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LAUREL LINE  Interurbans Special 103
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LAUREL LINE Interurbans Special 103: An Anthracite Region Railway

by Henwood, James N. J. and John G. Muncie

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Quarto (11 1/4 by 8 1/2 inches) Glendale, California: Interurban Press, 1986. First Edition. 207 pages printed on coated stock, illustrated with black and white vintage photographs, time tables, tickets, diagrams of cars, roster of equipment, bibliography, index; hardcover in very good condition with original colorful dust jacket.

Interurbans Special 103: History of the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad, most notable (according to the authors) because it was ... "built to higher than normal standards for electric shortline railroads; it operated mostly with a third rail power system; it ran exclusively on private rights-of-way; it served a geographically narrow region whose economy was heavily dependent on one industry - coal."
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TRACTS, HISTORICAL and STATISTICAL, ON INDIA
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TRACTS, HISTORICAL and STATISTICAL, ON INDIA: With Journals of Several Tours Through Various Parts of the Peninsula: also an Account Of SUMATRA, In A Series Of Letters

by Heyne, Benjamin

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Small quarto (10 5/8 by 8 3/4 inches) London: Printed For Robert Baldwin, . . . and Black Parry, And Co. Booksellers To The Hon. East India Company, 1814. First Edition. xi [1] 462 pages, + 1 leaf of publisher's advertisements.

Engraved frontispiece and four engraved plates (the one of diamonds is hand colored), 2 large folding maps hand colored in outline (one of Mysore and the other of The Circars).

Statistical tables: "different soils with their productions," "List of . . . Produce . . . of the different Kinds of Grain, and of its Time of Sowing and Reaping," "Fruits and Seeds of Trees and Plants used in Curries," "Coins, Weights, and Measures."

There is also an "Account of the Diamond Mines in India," and "On the Propagation of the Christian Religion in India, and on the Moral Character of the Hindoos."

Four appendices: Appendix A. "Analysis of a New Species of Copper" by Thomas Tomson, M.D.; Appendix B. "Tables of the Thermometer and Barometer, as Observed in Different Parts of the Peninsula… Read More
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The Irish in Australia
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The Irish in Australia

by Hogan, James Francis

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Octavo (9 by 6 inches) (8) + 249 pp. good condition (small stamp of "Loyola High School Fathers' Library Los Angeles, Calif." on lower right of title page, small library paper label on spine, neither affecting contents), hardcover, olive green cloth, good condition.
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Real Estate Tract Directory and Land Purchasers' Guide of Los Angeles County
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Real Estate Tract Directory and Land Purchasers' Guide of Los Angeles County: Containing the Name, Subdivision, Location, Number of Lots, Boundaries, Book and Page of Entry in Recorder's Office, Distance from Los Angeles City Plaza, and Best Manner of Reaching all Tracts in Los Angeles County

by HOWELL, Wm. E.

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Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches) Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House, 1888. 278 pages listing 1700 tracts alphabetically. Rebacked quarter cloth with title in gilt on spine, contemporary original orange printed paper over boards, with old printed advertisements for local businesses framing the title and author, centered, on the upper cover; other ads on back cover, and among the text.

Very good condition (oval stamp of "Howell and Palm Publishers" on South Spring Street in upper right corner of title page, not affecting contents, penciled name of previous owner and date 1935 at top of title page).

A very rare record of real estate holdings and development in a burgeoning California town.
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