Search Results: Titles starting with G from Bartlebys Books

London and Tonbridge: Ernest Benn Ltd, 1977. First edition, 1/150 copies (this # 89) of the De Luxe edition, signed by the author and Jim Nice, the flydresser (limitation leaf included for both volumes). 8vo. Two volumes: 288 pp; volume two with one page of text and four recessed leaves on which are mounted 20 nymphs tied by Nice "to the stringent specifications of Skues," folded accordion-style into the binding. Illustrated from photographs, plates; card, with corrigenda, laid in, signed by the author. "[Skues'] angling was based on superb observation and good sound common snese, and it is he that we have to thank for the great breakthrough into nymph fishing as we now know it ... Donald Overfield arranges carefully his portrait of Skues, linking letters and articles with short, crisp paragraphs to give not only a fine biography of Skues the man, combined with a sparkling picture of Skues the angler" (foreword). Fine. Green Nigerian goatskin, boards framed by a thin gilt rule, gilt title, rules, and… Read More

Boston: Stereotyped by J. Reed, 1830. Third edition (first published in 1826). Two volumes, bound in one. 16 cm. 108; 108 pp. Two engravings signed in the plate by Johnston. Nine wood engravings by Hartwell, probably after designs by Johnston. Full contemporary calf, spine gilt stamped. Front joint starting at the head, top of spine worn down to page edges. Hamilton 798, under Hartwell, and p. 162, under Johnston. Johnson 184.

(Galesville, WI): The university, 1866. Printed broadside, 11 x 7 1/8 inches, the title in bold capitals, the text enclosed within a bold rule. The text describes the school's location in Trempealean County, its general principles, its library of more than 4000 volumes, and boarding possibilities; with a nod toward the recently concluded national conflict a note announces, "Disabled Soldiers admitted at half Tuition." The school operated under several names, 1854-1939. Apparently not recorded on OCLC (which seems to locate only an 1863-1864 catalogue for the school prior to 1875). Folded, but very good.

NP, 1830. Single sheet of lined paper, 20.5 x 16.5 cm. Caption and 24 lines of verse on recto and verso, plus several trial lines. Sheet folded and wrinkled, some small separations without loss, some old staining and toning, a tender copy. Manuscript copy of the first four (of six) verses of this English folk tune, popular from the period of the Napoleonic wars throughout the 19th century. The story of Jane and Edward, who decide to marry knowing full well the vicissitudes of a soldier's life. Song sheet versions were printed by Deming in Boston in the 1820s and 1830s, and later by De Marsan in New York.

Washington, [DC]: Published by Pishey Thompson. A. Rothwell, Printer, 1830. 12mo. 123pp. Vignettes of statesmen Madison, Monroe, J.Q. Adams, William H. Crawford, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, William Wirt, William Pinckney, William Lowndes, Rufus King, Richard Rush, John Holmes, Peleg Sprague, Daniel Webster, Theodore Frelinghuysen, John M. Clayton, John Randolph, Littleton W. Tazewell, Robert Y. Hayne, John Forsyth, Edward Livingston, Josiah S. Johnston, David Barton, Edward Everett, John Davis, Tristam Burges, Henry R. Storrs, George McDuffie. Black half sheep with marbled boards, gilt rules on spine. This copy bears the inscription of John Holmes, a Senator from Maine who is profiled here, to his daughter Mrs. Sarah Goodenow.

New York: The company, 1830. Engraved broadside form, 12 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches, printed on thin paper, wood engraved vignette as part of head, map lower left corner, 2 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches, picturing the Galveston Bay area of Texas along the Gulf Coast and inland, with shading indicating the locations of land under the control of the company. The document gives the holder (in this case "William G. Buckner," in manuscript) "the right to locate a certain area of land on the grants of the Galveston Bay Company and does not purport to give the holder any further interest" (Streeter Texas 1117). The grantee was given "One Labor" of land ("117 136/1000 English acres") within the described grants. Streeter sale 304: "An early Texas land promotion." Very good. Folded (several short tears along folds, remains of mounting tape upper edge verso). (10791).

New York: Putnam's, 1945. First edition, 1/1250 copies (this #695) signed by the author. 8vo. 185, (1) pp. Illustrated from photographs and line drawings, plates. Sporting author Keith Russell's copy, with his bookplate. Several small ownership stamps on pastedowns, but a very good copy. Original gilt-stamped two-tone cloth. (10689).

Dedham, MA, 1926. Manuscript game book, describing hunts and fishing trips and recording game birds and others killed and fish caught, primarily in eastern Massachusetts, especially around Marshfield, the fishing in New Brunswick, Canada. Folio. Eleven pages of text, for the hunting trips, each with a facing page holding a total of 12 captioned photographs (4 ¼ x 2 ¾ inches) picturing Crane in hunting garb with his dog or kills, mounted feathers from Crane's kills, a hunting license for 1924, and other ephemera, approximately 2000 words; at the rear, a separate section for Fishing Record for 1924, four pages for text, recording a August-September, 1924 trip to New Brunswick, fishing the headwaters of the Tobique-Mirramachee [sic: Miramichi] Rivers and nearby lakes [Trousers], each page with facing illustrations as with the hunting section, five captioned photographs, a 1924 New Brunswick fishing license, and a pencil tracing for a large Brook Trout on a folding brown paper bag, approximately… Read More

Montgomery, AL: Daybreak Fertilizers, 1907. 24mo (4 3/4 x 3 inches). 32 pp. Advance promotional issue (with place for printed dealer's name on rear cover, unused). Ads. Apparently not recorded on OCLC (which does identify annual editions issued by the state, 1909-1913). Very good. Original decorated gray wrappers printed in red and black, stapled. (32790).

NY: R.H. Plass, 1874. First edition. 8vo. 16 pp. Illustrated. Original printed wrapppers (soiled with minor edge wear). Very good copy. Not recorded OCLC.

Philadelphia, [PA]: Printed by Mathew Carey, No.122, Market-Street, 1808. 15 cm. 122pp. plus six plates, including frontispiece. Contemporary leather and rubbed marbled boards, spine gilt. Scattered foxing. Contemporary ink inscription on title page. First American edition of the poems composed by John Gay. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 15090. ROSENBACH 365.

NY & Baltimore, Colton & Waters, 1852. Gilt stamped brown cloth. The 1852 edition published by Colton & Waters. 8vo. iv, 122pp. Text with old tidelines and foxing. Folding map of Maryland (fresh) tipped in to rear pastedown published by J.H. Colton, 86 Cedar St., NY, in 1852. (#4303).

Concord, [NH]: Jacob B. Moore, 1823. First edition. 12mo. 276 pp. Folding map frontis. (crisp), and nine engravings. Contemporary calf, spine and corners rubbed and worn, hinges cracked. Foxed. Howes F-41. Hamilton 438.

Boston, [MA]: Published by Carter & Hendee, Corner of Washington and School streets, 1829. First edition. 20 cm. viii, [13]-158pp., plus leaf of publisher's advertisements. Yellow paper spine with rose-colored printed paper label and drab boards. Some chipping of spine especially around joints, loss of paper cover on lower part of front board. Bookplate of George O. Barker on front pastedown. William Tudor was the cofounder and first editor of North American Review. This political allegory is a satire on international relations.

London: Rowland Ward, 1905. First edition. Folio. 197 pp. Illustrated, 24 full-page chromolithographs. Original gilt-stamped cloth. Very good.

Manitou Springs, Colo: Journal Print, 1890. Original printed yellow wrappers. 15 cm. 23pp. Numerous in text illustrations. Some wear to spine. Issued "Compliments of the Barker Hotel," with an illustration of the Hotel on the rear cover. OCLC: Pikes Peak Lib., Yale, Kansas St., Princeton, SMU, Wisc. Hist. Soc.,

Romae: np, 1627. Green vellum, rebacked in green leather with gilt stamped title, and the last coat of arms of J.A. de Thou (7 quarterings), bearing the motto "Mane Nobiscum Domine," on the front and rear boards. 22 cm. Engraved title page and 45 engraved plates, printed on rectos only. Old catalogue description tipped in to front endpaper, all page edges marbled. According to the German bibliographer J.G.T. Graesse the plates were engraved by Valeriano Regnart. Family crest of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617), a French historian, author of a multi-volume history of his times, and a major book collector. De Thou left instructions in his will that his library of some 6600 volumes was not to be sold, but put in trust for his young sons. His administrator Pierre Dupuy continued to add to the collection until de Thou's eldest François-Auguste inherited it. Francois-Auguste was also a collector, primarily of manuscripts. He ran afoul of Count Richelieu and was executed in 1642. Thereafter the… Read More

New York: Published by Trent, Filmer & Co., 37 Park Row, and Derby & Miller, 5 Spruce St, 1865. 22cm. 32 unnumbered pages, frontispiece portrait. Original tan paperwraps, with "In Memoriam A" in silver and black shaded letters in a black oval on front and rear covers; text printed within black borders. Extracts of important speeches by Lincoln, including his Gettysburg address, his Emancipation Proclamation, his 1865 Inaugural Address, etc. done as a memorial volume. OCLC lists. NY Hist Soc, Huntington, Univ. of CA, Santa Barbara, Yale Univ. Lib., Univ. of MI Lib, William Clements Lib., Am Philosophical Soc Lib. Library Co. of Phila.

Calais, ME: Calais Advertiser, 1895. First edition. 8vo. 61pp. With a few manuscript additions. Original printed green wrappers (chipped, some soiling. Very good.

Auburn, AL: (Privately printed for the authors), 1897. First edition (another edition was issued by J. Munsell's Sons, Albany, New York). Narrow 8vo. 61, xxviii pp. Illustrated, plates. Introduction: "The ancestor of the Mell family, John Mell, came to South Carolina ... and settled near Charleston in Berkeley County in 1677." Quite scarce; not recorded on OCLC. Not in Turnbull. Original gilt-stamped cloth-backed stiff red wrapped. Very good.