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London: Bickers & Sons. Very Good. 1883. Second Edition. Hardcover. Half supple leather over clean marbled boards. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decorated panels and 2 morocco labels. Only 750 copies of this edition have been printed for sale, 250 of which are reserved for America. Each copy numbered, this copy #445. Texts tight, clean & intact. Top edge gilt. Complete in 19 volumes . Marbled endpapers. A biography of the author (b.1667-d.1745) by Laing Purves. Volume #1 with engraved portrait frontispiece and one additional plate. Chapters decorated with ornamentat headpieces & tailpieces. Armorial book plate, helmet over shield bearing name "Cragwood. " Volume 10, lower spine label missing. Volume 13 has a small leather chip on spine. Over all, except as noted, this set Is very good +. Rare Section; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Paris: Eugene Et Victor Penaud. Very Good. 1849-50. Hardcover. The original edition was published in 12 volumes between 1849 - 1850 by Eugene & Victor Penaud, Paris. This set does not contain advertisements nor list of subscribers. The authenticity warning is present. Clean marbled boards. Elegant green and honey ribbed leather spines have double ruled gilt borders separating the panels and gilt titles. Texts are tight, clean & intact with sporadic foxing. 19th Century French Literature. French text. Rare Section ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 5381 pages .

Edinburgh: R. Morison & Son. Very Good. 1795. First Edition. Hardcover. Rebacked leather binding with gilt title on red spine label. Illustrated with 7 fold out maps. Tables with 1 fold out . Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Containing: Astronomical Geography - Geographical Definitions, discovery and general description of America and the United States of their boundaries; mountains; lakes; bays; rivers; natural history; account of the wars and of the important events. Particular descriptions of Kentucky, Western territory and Vermont. World and Northeastern maps have light damp stains. USiana; Maps & Tables; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 531 pages .

London: Richard Phillips. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1807. First English Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Contemporary 3/4 leather over scuffed marbled boards. Bright gilt lettering on spine. Text tight. Early owner's ink stamp on title page. Condition of individual books as noted after each title. Each book was issued separately throughout the year. Binding Instruction including insertion of plates is at the end of the volume although they were sometimes bound individually. These books were of considerable interest because, at the time, they were one of the only sources of information as to current conditions in foreign countries. Most travel & exploration books were of a more historical nature. There were 10 or more volumes published in this series. Full Titles: (1) "TRAVELS THROUGH THE TWO LOUISIANAS AND AMONG THE SAVAGE NATIONS OF THE MISSOURI; ALSO, IN THE UNITED STATES, ALONG THE OHIO, AND THE ADJACENT PROVINCES IN 1801, 1802 & 1803" by M. Perrin Du Lac,… Read More

New York & London: G. P. Putnam. Very Good. 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in original tan cloth. Folio folder contains 256 loose pages. ( 222pp + 4 color + 52 Monochromatic plates. Gilt titles on spine and front cover. 1st edition. Text is Intact and clean. Small cloth tear at spine heel. First 3 pages have an curled edge. Two torn cloth ties. Floral decorated paper inside covers has rub marks. Old wooden ceilings are more numerous in Spain than other European Countries. Architecture, Spain; Monochrome & Color Plates; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 256 pages .

Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers. Very Good. 1783. First Edition. Hardcover. Title Continued: "At a General Communication, Celebrated, Agreeable to the Constitution on Monday, December 28, 1778, as the Anniversary of St. John the Evangelist". The first book of Masonic law published by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. It was prepared by the Grand Secretary, the Rev. Brother William Smith, D. D. , Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, it was approved by the Grand Lodge November 22, 1781, published in 1783, and dedicated to Brother George Washington Full leather with raised bands on spine. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Pages are slightly age toned. (xvi) ,166pp. Pictorial frontispiece. Prior owners inscription on front endpaper. Rear endpapers contains hand written notes by Mason, S. Mayhew, dated 1871. Preserved in a custom made book box covered in blue cloth with gilt title on spine. Religion, Americana; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 166 pages .

Piccadilly W. London: Messrs, Fores. Very Good+. 1884-1911. First Edition. Hardcover. This magazine was published from 1884-1912. This is the first 28 of 29 volumes. Uniformly bound in publisher's half red morocco over blue cloth covered boards. Spines have raised bands, gilt lettering to two compartments and gilt decorations to remaining four compartments: crossed whips with a fox's brush and riding hat; duck; horse's head and a horse shoe. With marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. 896 plates (32/vol) after Finch Mason, R. M. Alexander, Cuthbert Bradley and others (the majority tinted duotone lithographs). Glossy b/w 'Fores's Illustrated Catalogue' (from 6 to 22 pp) bound into the rear of each volume followed by ads for other Fores's publications. Slight unevenness to color of spines (as usual) , minor scuffing to some edges & corners. Condition of covers ranges from VG to VG+. Four volumes have a few flecks of foxing on the front &/or rear endpapers. Top… Read More

Washington D. C.: S. N. (Unknown). Very Good. 1856. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "EXTRACTED FROM THE NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF AN AMERICAN SQUADRON TO THE CHINA SEAS AND AND JAPAN IN 1852, 53 AND 54, BY COMMODORE M. C. PERRY, U. S. NAVY". Japanese fish taken from Recent Specimens by the Artists of the U. S. Japan Expedition, 10 hand coloured engraved plates numbered III- XII with 36 pages of text. Clean brown publishers cloth with lightly rubbed/chipped spine head and rubbed spine heel. Gilt title on spine. Front lower corners slightly bumped. Light foxing on a few text pages with all plates clean. Bookplate of George Page Ely who was the husband of bookbinder Caro Weir Ely of Connecticut. Fish, Asia, Japan; Color Plates; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 36 pages .

New York: August Valentine Bernier, Printer. Very Good. 1923. First Edition. Soft Covers. Fulton was a popular and respected writer in the Brooklyn African-American Community, he was known as a defender of his people especially women's rights. Mother of Mine; Ode to the Negro Woman was commissioned to be read at the annual Convention of the New York Colored Women's Club in 1923. Illustrated with the author's portrait. Green soft covers with black title. Cover edges slightly faded with minor edge wear. Afro-American ; Portrait; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 12 pages .

Paris: Librairie De Fortic. Good+. 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Title continues "contenant des notions sur les bois indigènes et exotiques, la description des meubles de toute espèce, la teinture des bois, le placage, la composition et l'application des vernis, la marqueterie, etc....Scarce first edition in contemporary brown half calf over marbled boards with bright gilt lettered black label. [xxxii, 414pp]. Text is intact & square. Illustrated with 15 folding engraved plates with diagrams. Plates are intact without tears. Internal & external hinges are tight. Leaves are clean & bright with light scattered foxing. Trace of the print is visible on opposite side of leaves. Spine head & corners rubbed with small loss . Carpentry. Cabinetmakers and cabinetmaking. Furniture. ; Folding b/w plates; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 414 pages .

Amsterdam?: Publisher Not Stated. Very Good. 1758. First French Edition. Hardcover. Handsome later binding of full brown calf with raised bands and gilt decoration & lettering. Encased in a near fine brown slipcase with matching labels to book. Text & hinges tight & intact. Title page has black & red lettering. Illustrated with a few head & tail-pieces. Browning mostly to edges of first 5 leaves. 16 double-page engraved plates, printed on one side of leaves & bound in rear. According to Sabin (Dictionary of Books Relating to America, New York: 1869) ," First published in German in 1757, this brief history of the origins and doctrines of Church of the Unity of the Brethren is of particular interest for its plates depicting their rites and their missionary work to indigenous peoples." “The plates contain elaborate representations of the Moravian ceremonies of ordination, of the different modes of baptizing infants, negroes, Greenlanders, and American… Read More

New York: D. Appleton & Co.. Very Good. 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Rare pedagogic atlas designed and engraved by Joseph Enthoffer, a topographical engineer and engraver for the United States Coast Survey whose tenure at that agency spanned much of the second half of the nineteenth century. Half polished brown calf over brown moiré-grained cloth: competently rebacked and recornered. Illustrated with engraved title and 24 engraved plates (several transfer-printed in colors). The plates, intended for students of topographical drawing, demonstrate the conventional styles, signs, and exacting specifications required to technically produce a serviceable geographic or hydrographic map. CONDITION: A few cover/edge scuffs, shelf labels on lower front cover; ink stamps of the British Patent Office Library to the verso of title and each plate, British Library discard stamp to title verso; plates VG+. Together with: a scarce spiral-bound facsimile of the 108-page Manual of Topography,… Read More

New York: S. N. Gaston. Good+. 1861. First Edition. Soft Covers. Rare pocket-sized atlas focusing on the secessionist or slave-holding states at the outset of the American Civil War. Bound in tan publisher's printed wrappers. Front wrap is identical to the title page & with American eagle emblem. Saddle-stitched binding is tight. 14 hand-colored cerograph maps (1 double-page). Blank on verso of each map. Cover has small areas of chipping but generally good; interior has only minor pencil marginalia & light age toning.. The initial double-page map of the United States and Territories is indicated with "great cantonments and strategic points" marked with a hand-colored red dot. These points include New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Washington DC, Norfolk, Pensacola, Cairo, St. Louis, Santa Fe, Salt Lake City and San Francisco. Individual maps of the Confederate and Border States follow: Delaware/Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,… Read More

New York And London: Merrill & Baker. Very Good. 1900. Edition des Aquarelles. Hardcover. 37 volumes in full contemporary varigated autumn polished calf. Five spine bands with elaborate gilt decoration on spines & covers. Centered on each cover is an emblematic crest relating to the title location, in gold on inlaid green levant. Doublures inside each cover: Ivory levant bordered by variegated brown calf, all richly gilted. Facing the doublures are single endpapers of watered silk followed by double endpapers of marbled green Morris paper. Top edges gilt, Deckle cut page edges. A few leaves uncut. 663 hand-colored photographic illustrations (some mounted) , each with a tissue guard that has the title printed opposite the image. Condition: All bindings are solid. Texts are tight, clean & intact with only a rare spot. Most volumes have a few superficial edge &/or corner scuffs; The majority are Near Fine, the remainder VG+ & VG. England, vol 1, has a single corner rubbed… Read More

London: J. M'CREERY. Very Good. 1822. Second Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes bound in contemporary red morocco over marbled boards. Six spine bands with gilt lettering. Hinges and text blocks are tight & intact. Unpaginated: verso of every plate is blank. Illustrated with 150 exquisite captioned engravings with biographical sections on the following page[s]. They show members of the royal family, nobility, bishops, admirals, politicians, writers, artists and others, and include some Royal Academicians. Interior is bright & clean with only occasional toning/spotting, mostly light. Covers have light to moderate scuffing on edges & marbled boards: corners rubbed. Small private bookplate & bookplate of Hackley Public Library in front of each volume. Handwritten Initials "HPL" on upper corner of each plate's verso. Library marking at foot of spines. PUBLICATION HISTORY *from the Royal Academy*: The work was originally published in 3 volumes dated 1813 (60 plates)… Read More