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Hardcover. 2nd edition. GOOD book. Original worn green cloth. Soiled top edge. Loose fep. Clean text. 8vo. vi,725,(2ads)pp. GOOD book. Orig green cloth. Worn. Soiled top edge. Clean text.

Hardcover. "Quai des Gds Augustins, 55 Paris" imprinted on upper right. "Imp sur Zinc. Procede monrocg 3 rue Sugar Paris" on lower right Red cloth. Gilt lettering embossed on front. Front & back boards edge ruled in black with black floral motif in corners. With a 36p booklet of place names, street names, etc. Bright & clean, in & out. Map unfolds 6 times horizontally & 3 times vertically with most fold line corners tearing. This will not tolerate much unfolding & folding. Ideally it should be linen backed and probably left opened up. VG hard cover 16X11CM booklet with 62X84CM folding map of Paris.

Hardcover. 17 pages of full page photos (illustrator). 1st ed. "1". NEAR FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Book flawless & immaculate BUT tiny foxing spots on text block fore edge. "1" on last page. Bright & atractive DJ but top & bottom edges worn. Chips & closed tears up to 1/2". Few minor cover flaws. Spine sunned a bit, spine top with tiny closed tears. Bkplt. Pastedowns lightly glue browned. Very tight, seldom read, if at all. Book stays closed when stood on its spine. NEAR FINE book, VG DJ. Clean DJ with $4 price. 8.5"x6", 240pp.

Softcover. Woodcut of person (illustrator). 1st edition. VG pamphlet. Light to moderate aging & foxing. Tips rounded. No chips or tears VG pamphlet. Bound with string, as issued. 170x100mm,(36)pp.

Hardcover. 17 pages of full page photos (illustrator). 1st ed. "1". FINE book, VG+ DJ(in Brodart). Book flawless & immaculate BUT: few tiny foxing spots on text block fore edge. "1" on last page. DJ very nice but upper & lower edges with minor edgewear, chips & tears up to 1/4". Book seldom read, if at all. It stays closed when stood on its spine. FINE book, VG+ DJ. Very clean DJ with $4 price. 8.5"x6", 240pp.

Hardcover. 3rd edition. VG book, GOOD DJ(in Brodart). Half brown leather, blue cloth boards. Gilt spine & upper board. 3rd ed. 10"x8". 178,(4)pp. Gilt lettered and decorated blue cloth boards. Brown leather spine with author/title in gilt. Text block top edge tinted blue/green. Flaws: (1) worn spine ends, other edges & extrems scuffed. (2) Text aged some but no foxing, marginalia. DJ split in two at spine but reattached internally with archival tissue. DJ totally blank but for lightly printed author/title info. Very Good book, GOOD (rare) DJ. DJ separated into 2 pieces @ spi.

Hardcover. Frontis enraving of Torry (illustrator). 1st edition. VG book. Tight. Light edgewear but NEAR FINE inside. Brown pebbled cloth. Gilt spine lettering. Boards embossed in blind. Very Good book. 1st ed. Spine sunned a bit. 8vo, 358pp.

Hardcover. Taylor's map & illustrations (illustrator). 1st edition. GOOD book.Gilt vignette of North African (Arab) on front cover, gilt obelisk on spine. Neatly inked name, Dec 25, 1854 inside. Light foxing throughout. 8vo, 522pp. BAL 19646 with the BAL type "T" cloth. Backstrip attached only at front hinge. Tight binding. Lithographed frontis & (4) full page illus with tissue guards. Many in text woodcuts. Frontis from a Matthew Brady daguerrotype. A dozen or so in text wood cuts. Map at back unfolds once vertically & twice horizontally. Map's central folding point, next to the spine, has a 2" tear. Other than the 2" tear, a flawless map. GOOD book. Spine ends chipped.Tips worn. Orig embossed red cloth.

Hardcover. Darley b/w plates (illustrator). Rebound cover over GOOD text. Rebound in black cloth preserving the orig cloth from the boards. GOOD(moderately soiled & foxed) text with VG rebound cover.

Hardcover. 14 full p illus & f/o map. (illustrator). 2nd edition. GOOD book. Tight. Clean in & out. FINE inside. f/o map w two 1" tears & one shorter, all w old tape repairs. Worn, spine ends torn. Gilt on spine letters totally faded. 1st publ, also by C&H, in 1887 in two vols. Title was "25 years in a Waggon in Gold Regions of Africa". This 1888 edition contains about 20% new material. Author travelled thru Natal, Griqualand, Namaqualand, Damaraland & Ovampoland; commenting on hunting, the animal population & the various Africans encountered. Seems to be an unbiased (for the time) observer. He frequently sees the members of many tribes to be better off than their European counterparts. He almost died of thirst crossing the Kalahari. GOOD book. Czech p 4. Orig green boards, gilt spine lettering.

Hardcover. VG book, Tight. Scuffed & bumped covers. FINE text, few spots in a few margins. In Arabic, including pagination. 9"x6", 154pp. Name also spelled Khowarizmi or Khwarizmi. Written in late 10th century. Khawarizmi's 10th century book is many times called world's first encyclopedia. Certainly very early, but NOT the very first, according to a Wikipedia artical on history of encyclopedias. 5 raised ribs, two gilt Arabic words in 2nd panel. Red & black title page. 4 page index. A summary of Islamic science, subjects include math, alchemy, medicine, meteorology. Khawarizmi, 935-1002, was a statesman and poet who compiled the book in late 900s. This copy published in 1923. It was written to familiarize officials with scientific, and other, terms. Wikipedia says few transltions were made into English. ANOTHER KHAWARIZMI, of about 150 years earlier, was a noted scientist & mathematician. He was one of the first to recognize "0" as a separate & distinct number. He also brought the Hindu numbering system into the Arabic world and thence the Europeon. So, why don't we call our numbering system "Hindu" rather than "Arabic"? Very Good book. FINE text. Later half brown leather.

Hardcover. (31) tissued engravings. (illustrator). 1st edition. VG book. 8vo, xv,(16-17),18-449,blank,(1),2-296pp. TEG. Minor wear. Some neatly inked detailed marginalia commenting on text. HOWES H 760. Marginalia writer was great grandson of a Fessenden listed in geneology section, the book's 2nd section. Spine w (5) raised ribs. Author/title gilt lettered on 2nd panel Other panels all triple edge ruled with elaborate corner & center floral designs. Bright book. Very tight. Text w a spot or two of foxing but no aging, soiling or other staining. The 1913 edition greatly expanded this book. Very Good book. Half pebbled brown cloth.

Hardcover. 1st edition. FINE book, GOOD DJ. 11.5X15.5(cm), 26 unnumbered pp. "AS NEW" inside. 12 one page stories each w facing full p color plate. Book's sole flaw is minor rubbing, but no actual wear, of the cover's tips. DJ is white so the light soiling is apparent. In addition the DJ edges are tattered: (1) DJ spine top w 1/2" chip. (2) Other tips w 1/4" chips. (3) One 3" closed tear & several 1/2" closed tears. An exceptional book in an acceptable DJ. No dates, cp or printing, but other Le Mair books listed on DJ & inside back cover are all pre 1915. More Le Mair titles came in 20s & 30s. FINE book, GOOD(worn) DJ(in Brodart). Bright book, tight binding.

Hardcover. Many illustrations. (illustrator). 1st edition. VG book. Half black morocco. Marbled boards. Gilt lettered and decorated spine with 5 raised ribs. 1st edition. 9"x6", 824pp. (1) There are two separate 20 page articals on the Andes. (2) D.H. Strother's 13 page account of the Battle of Antietam in which he is quite critical of McClelland. Long before the Civil war he was an artist for Harpers under the nom de plume Porte Crayon. Strother had a 2nd 15 page section on the Civil War. (3) First printing, 13 pages, of John MacGregor's third voyage in the canoe "ROB ROY". FLAWS: 2 of 4 tips worn to underlying boards, all other edges & extrems scuffed. 1878 inked name. Pastedowns moderately foxed, less so on immediately adjoining pages, even less so on rest of text block. Hinges starting but stil sound. No loose pages. Text block edges smooth & clean. Very Good book. Articals on Antietam, Civil War, Andes, Rob Roy.

Hardcover. Crawford, Will illustrator (illustrator). 1st edition. FINE book, no DJ. FLAWLESS but for faintly rubbed extrems. Front cover of authortitle, two large pigs & a cornucopia. 2"x2" sticker inside cover: "The Estelle Doheny Collection of American Literature". Estelle Doheny amassed two great collections of American literature. The second of which was sold by Christie's in the 1980s for over $30,000,000. Illustrated with 5 Crawford plates. FINE book, no DJ. 1st ed. Lightly pencilled bookseller's notes.

Hardcover. Tipped in color frontis. (illustrator). Ltd edition. AS NEW book. PP(i-viii),ix-xiv,(half title),1-129. 1st ed, 1 of 100. 4 tipped in color plates, 5 full p & many in text b/w illus About every other page w in text b/w illus. Limitation page states: "This is one of the hundred copies of THE THREE CORNERED HAT Printed especially by Gerald Howe of London [by the Country Press] For Simon and Schuster of New York For some of their friends At CHRISTMAS 1927". A flawless book, in & out. Spotless grey colored text block top edge. Spotless deckled fore & bottom edges. Though without the original DJ some owner has made their own fine protective DJ. This book was extremely well cared for. AS NEW book, no DJ. Black cloth w title gilt lettered on spine.

Hardcover. Friend, Washington sketches (illustrator). Early edition. NEAR FINE book. Purple cloth. Gilt spine lettering. Pristine frontis & 11 plates, all in color & tissue guarded. 6"x4", (i-v)vi(7)8-64pp. Tight. Superb contents. No aging, foxing, marginalia, etc. Plates with captions and tissue guards. Plates bright as new and based on Canadian artist Washington Friend's sketches and photos. There is no separate plate index. In text woodcut on page 11 "The Rapids Above the Falls" & page 21 "View Below Table Rock". Earlier editions had a frontis of a map of the area and a title page woodcut. This edition's frontis is a color plate titled "Terripin Tower .". Minor flaws are confined to the cover: (1) Front upper tip bumped. (2) Extrems lightly scuffed. (3) Sunned spine. NEAR FINE book. FINE inside. Early ed. 4"x6". 64pp.

Hardcover. Numerous in text illus. (illustrator). LATER REPRINT. GOOD-VG books. Tan half calf. Bright TEG. Vol 2 upper hinge repaired. Tight, FINE inside. Tipped in 3 page book related ALS. Gilt lettered red & black leather spine labels. Books worn but spotless. With 2nd engraved title page. FINE inside, no aging, foxing, marginalia, etc. Both stay tightly closd when stood on their spines. The letter is about books, used book sellers, children's books and book illustrations. Interesting content. "My dear sir, The four books reached us yesterday. They are wonderfully cheap and good.By this post, I have sent some lines concerning ????? to ????? - whch I hope Mr Mortimer will insert. I should advise you to try W. Pearson, second hand bookseller. York St.Covent Garden, for an early copy of "Goody Two Shoes". I note your communication in last week's N. & Q. As a curiosity I send for your acceptance, a copy of the style of books prepared for children a half a century ago. It was presented to my wife, when a child - and she remembers being charmed with it. You will ??serve the whole of it ??? letterpress engraved. I made a note of it - "cucklen ???bch" - some time since, in N.&Q. Believe me Very truly yours, Edward Bradley". A PS concerning his son Cuthbert indirectly dates the letter to 1880. Cuthbert became a prolific painter of the British fox hunting scene. In the PS the father writes of his son's sketch appearing in "The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News". Since the letter has Cuthbert as 19 at the time the sketch was an early work. GOOD-VG(worn but nice boards) books. REPRINT, 8"x5", 500pp.

Hardcover. 1st edition. GOOD books. IN FRENCH. VG text, tight binding. Bound in half brown morocco. Worn. Hinges cracked. Spine labels MISSING. Lower 2" vol 2 spine chipped away. First 5 leaves of vol 1 damp stained on lower rear quarter. A military man involved in politics who was also a member of Louis XV's secret service. He went to the Jacobins at the revolution's outbreak. In 1793 he fell out of favor with the revolutionarys. In 1804 he was in England. The 11th EB: "He became a valued advisor to the [English] War Office in connexion with the strugle with Napoleon, though the extent to which this went was only known to the public many years later." GOOD set. 1st ed. VG inside. IN FRENCH. Text lightly aged, foxed.

Hardcover. Woodcuts, color maps & plts. (illustrator). 1st Am ed. FAIR book. FINE inside, tight binding. Detached upper board. 5 raised ribs, gilt lettered author/title panel. 10"x7", 522pp. Pencilled name, dated Jan 1870. Otherwise flawless text & plates. ZERO aging, foxing, soiling, other marginalia or any other sort of flaw. Glossy red text block edges. Plates & maps collated complete. First published in UK the year before. Flaws confined to the cover. Edgewear, spine ends with 1" closed tears. Upper cover bowed a bit. Weak rear hinge. FAIR half morocco. FAE. Identically marbled boards & pastedowns.

Hardcover. 1st ed. FAIR book over VG text block. Tight. Worn, stained. Brownlow frontis. Pryne plate faces page 52. 1st ed. 7"x5". 305pp. Text block tight & clean, including all three text block edges. No loose pages, aging, marginalia. Prelims foxed a bit, none elsewhere.

Softcover. 1st edition. FINE wraps. Rutledge SIGNED title page. Brown covers of a soft suede like material. Very close to AS NEW. PRISTINE interior. Apparently self published. Unusual format. First leaf a blank end paper, 2nd the SIGNED title page, 3rd the dedication page, then text. No half title page, table of contents, index of first lines, or any blank eps at book's end. TP has no publisher info, merely Rutledge's 1938 cp date. Only publisher info is "Williams Printing Co Spartansburg, S.C." in tiny black letters on the outside of the back cover. Apparently very scarce as no auctioned copies listed by either ABPC or Rare Book Hub. FLAWLESS BUT: tips & spine ends faintly scuffed, perhaps 1/10" or so effected. Last, book stays closed when stood on its spine. So, a good chance it was never opened, let alone read. Lastly, with any use the covers of stapled binding tear at the staples. Not so here. FINE softcover. Black lettered front cover. 9"x6", (1-6),7-39pp.

Hardcover. 1st edition. GOOD to VG text, poor cover. Tight binding. Spine with paper title label. Primarily an anti US diatribe. 8vo, xxxii,238pp. Upper corner of first 10 leaves water stained. Deckled edges browned & foxed. Leaf interiors quite nice. Book favors blockades of US ports and cutting off trade between the US & Britains colonies in the West Indies. Author expresses a clear view of Americans in a chapter titled "ON THE GENIUS OF AMERICANS", but still sees the US as a threat. On p216 he states "Britain never had such an enemy so much to be dreaded as the United States", and p235 "the United States of America are the avowed enemies of Great Britain, in peace as well as in war". GOOD to VG text. 1st ed. Badly worn green paper boards.

Hardcover. 1st edition. GOOD booklet. 6" X 4", 59 pages. Howes V-28. Frontis map unfolds to 40". Salmon spine. Paper label on yellow boards. (title continues) "comprising also the Routes to Lebanon, Ballston, and Saratoga Springs". Title has no mention of Niagara Falls as found in later states. This 1830 1st edition scarce. Last ABPC sale of an 1830 in late 1940s. Last Rare Book Hub entries in 1989, 1980, 1942 & 1929. Cover soiled & worn but paper cover label lettering still clear. Map lightly aged and foxed, text more so. BUT ZERO damp staining, names, address, marginalia, etc. Map with few fold line tears. The inner most sections with many extra fold lines. Map titled: "An Improved MAP of the HUDSON RIVER ((with the)) Post Roads Between N.York and Albany Published by the ? Mahon & Co Drawn & Engraved Expressly for the Tourist 1830". GOOD (worn) book, with Hudson River accordian map. 6"x4", 59pp.

Softcover. 1st edition. FINE book. NEVER READ. When stood on spine leaf front edges open 1", 2" if coaxed. Smooth spine, no reader's creases. Colors of both covers & text bright as new. FINE book, 1st edition, 8"x6". Unpaginated, 15 leaves, counting TP. "10C" lightly pencilled on upper corner. No other marginalia. Leaf 8 with dime size spot of light foxing which has spread to leaf 7 verso & 8 recto. No aging of leaves OR covers. Covers with few inconsequential flaws. Spine ends scuffed and rounded less than 0.1". Front cover top & bottom edges with narrow, less than 1/2" scrapes. Faint 2" scratch in front lower spine area. Rear cover with 1/4" scratches in top edge & several 1/8" top & bottom edge scrapes.

Hardcover. 1st ed. FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). 1st ed. PRISTINE book save for one minor flaw. VG DJ complete with $3.95 price. IMMACULATE. Book's sole flaw: spine bottom with a very light crease. Else flawless. Spine top perfectly flat. Tips flat & square. Spotless inside, as are the three text block edges, including top, which is tinted a light red. ALSO, book stays tightly closed when stood on its spine. Cream & white DJ spotless with no hint of sunning or discoloration of any sort. DJ ends with 1/10" max wear chips. Two 1/4" closed tears in upper rear panel next to spine, a 3/8" closed tear in spine rear bottom. LASTLY: ONE ODD DJ FLAW. DJ spine has author name in a light blue/green. Title in red. The lower half of the red title letters have faded, as the scan shows. FINE book, VG DJ(In Brodart). 1st ed. 8"X5.25", 214PP.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Woodcut of person, & Boston (illustrator). 1st Edition. GOOD-VG pamphlet. 14 pages on requirement colonies manufacture their own gunpowder and a woodcut plan of Boston. A half page woodcut of man's anatomy on p4. Contained in the almanac is 14 pages devoted to the "United Colonies" (its wording) need to make their own gunpowder. It starts with the law, with John Hancock's signature, authorizing the manufacture of saltpetre. Saltpetre was the key ingredient in making gunpowder. Benjamin Rush writes on how saltpetre is made. This is followed by a page of instructions on how the actual gunpowder is finally made. It should be noted gunpowder was still made this way in the Civil War. This followed by a full page woodcut plan of Boston showing, among other things, the Liberty Tree, Bunker's Hill and Gen Gates' lines. Lastly a half page key to the plan. This map also gives the dates of the Lexington Concord & Bunker's Hill battles. Front cover, which is also tp, aged & lightly foxed. "Abraham Remsen" neatly inked at tp top. In same hand & ink "Remsen January ??? ???" on the front margin of page headed "December". Remsen was an old Dutch family in the Hudson Valey. Remsen, 1730-1807, was a major in the NY Militia. FLAWS. TP moderately aged & foxed. Other leaves lightly aged. First text leaf torn in half. Next leaf with 2" closed vertical tear at top gutter line. Corners rounded & scuffed but no other tears and no chips at all. This & the 1788 Hutchins almanac with the US constitution are highly sought after. May be based on "New and Correct Plan of the Town of Boston", PA MAG dated July 1775. GOOD-VG pamphlet. Bound with string, as issued. 167x105mm,(42)pp.

Hardcover. Full page & in text photos. (illustrator). 1st edition. FINE book, no DJ, likely as issued. Gorgeous front cover with very colorful Matterhorn pictoral label. 1st ed. 9"x6" zii,212pp A marvelous book. 50+ photos, 11 are full page and one double page panarama between pp 168-9. Truly flawless but for scuffed spine ends and a bumped lower front cover tip. Both boards without the slightest scuff, scrape or stain. This includes the paper label. All three text block clean, all edges tinted light red. AS NEW inside. Book tends to stay closed when stood on its spine. IN GERMAN. Seems to be a book of mountaineering though Google finds no mention of Wolterstorff. FINE book. Two minor cover flaws, else flawless.

Hardcover. 1st edition. VG book. PMUC was built from a $5000 Pullman donation and $5000 from the village of Albion. 10"x7",30pp. PULLMAN signed fep. PMUC was built as a memorial to Pullman's parents. Pullman's first business successes were in Albion when a young man. PMUC is an unusual (it has no steeple) and attractive church still used by the Unitarian Universalist Association(UUA). The stained glass windows are Tiffany. The main window about 15'x8'. It is signed by Tiffani on a small glass plate affixed to lower right. Tiffany would keep his best works in his studio as long as possible and would deliver only at the very last minute. Pullman had to pressure Tiffany to get the window delivered in time for the dedication. An unusual George Pullman item; not a word about railroads, sleeping cars or any business matter. The infamous Pullman strike was only the year before. DISCLOSURE: your bookseller is a half hour from Albion. He is a Unitarian and attended this church for 10-15 years. NEAR FINE book. One minor flaw. Pullman SIGNATURE on fep. TEG.