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Hardcover. 5 fold outs of facsimilies. (illustrator). Second edition. FAIR book. Shabby, worn, stained brown cloth. Paper spine label only partially legible. Broken lower hinge holding by its cords. Bulk of text block decent. No marginalia but light scattered soiling and foxing. Prelims lightly foxed. The last signature, withe five facsimile fold outs, holding by only one cord, as is the lower board. All fold outs intact, no fold line tears but minor aging & foxing. Paper spine label: "Junios identified with Sir Philip Francis". FAIR book. Second ed., revised & enlarged. 9"x6", 404,(5 f/o)pp.

Hardcover. 16 plates. (illustrator). 1st edition. FINE book. REBOUND, closely matching the original BUT: title stamped in gilt directly on spine, rather than on a paper label. 9"x6", ix,177,2pp. A fine rebind but no binder's ticket. Two types of very minor flaws. (1) the first & last 2 original leaves are faintly aged, (2) the fore & bottom margins of the last 3 original leaves faintly damp stained. (3) Ink of laid in inked note has transferred to p 32. Note bo longer there. (4) Few foxed spots on scatttered leaves. FLAWLESS BOOK otherwise. It stays closed when stood on its spine. All three deckle edges white as new. COMES WITH a 68p exhibition catalog "William Morris and the Kelmscott Press". A 1994 U of Scranton exhibit of 122 items of the Walsdorf Morris collection. The photo of this catalog is taken against the backdrop of the tipped in, extra, title paper label. FINE book. 1st ed. Paper title label tipped in @ book's end.

Hardcover. 1st edition. VG book, FINE inside. Beveled green BAL "C" cloth. BAL 12157. Gilt lettered spine, upper board gilt device, in blind on back. Brown pastedowns. fep with a 1/2" closed tear. Otherwise flawless inside. 1/8" of cover tips worn thru to underlying boards. Spine ends frayed down to the text block level. BAL calls this the small paper edition. BAL states the small & large papers were likely printed simultaneously but BAL also say Longfellow did receive the small paper edition first. VERY GOOD book. Bright book. Tight. Minor edgewear.

Hardcover. Few in text drawings. (illustrator). 1st edition. VG+ flexible green cloth. FINE inside BUT: bkplt, cracked inner hinges. Seldom read, book tends to stay closed when on spine. Flawless text block, including all three edges. ZERO aging, foxing, soiling, marginalia, etc. Pseudonym sometimes found without the ending "e". Each text leaf interleaved with a blank leaf, likely provided so fisherman could add notes on their catches. These blank leaves water marked "Annandale Polton". The company was in business from mid 1800s to after WWII. FLAWS: (1) Some bubbling on lower half of front boar. (2) 1/8" of spine ends frayed. VERY GOOD+ book. 1st ed. 7"x5", 81 numbered pages.

Hardcover. 3 plates, one a fold out. (illustrator). 1st edition. FAIR book with VG text block. Half green leather, pebbled cloth boards. Water stained cover bled to adjoining text leaves. Spine with 5 gilted raised ribs and gilt 'SALMONIA' on a red leather spine label. Both hinges splitting but still sound. Water staining of both boards has bled into top corner margins of adjoining leaves and also the very outside of the front text block edge. Text & plates otherwise FINE. Binding still tight. There are also 8 in text fish wood cuts of. 'An Angler' is sir Humphrey Davy, a prominent scientist. He did say his most famous discovery was his student, Michael Faraday. Davy dedicated this book to William Babington, a physician scientist contemporary. FAIR covers. 1st ed. 3 FINE plates of 11 flies, one a fold out.

Hardcover. VG book. Identically marbled boards & eps. (4) raised spine ribs. Title in gilt on 2nd spine panel. Bright & clean & tight. The book is subdivided into three different books. "THE ENGINEER or How To Travel in the Woods", "RAMBLES AMONG THE ALPS" with an 1854 cp date & "THE THREE GOLD DOLLARS". Each with an engraved tp, table of contents and from 15-20 engraving, some full page. Very nice inside, clean & bright, mild aging but no other type of stain. "RAMBLES" contains sections on Mt Blanc, Chamouny, glaciers. Very Good book. Early rebind in half dark brown morocco.

Hardcover. Price col front & 5 b/w plts (illustrator). 1st edition. FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). "MINT" inside. Black lettered & decorated green cloth. Color frontis & 5 b/w plates. 8vo, 259pp. One trivial book flaw: spine ends rounded. Very nice DJ complete with $2.00 price. DJ color front panel of young couple & cottage, duplicated on the frontis. Lightly aged & foxed white DJ. DJ with minor edgewear, few 1/2" closed tears. 1" chip in DJ spine heel affecting few letters of publisher name. Parmenter's fourth book. FINE book, VG DJ. Seldom read, stays closed when stood on spine.

Hardcover. 1st ltd ed. FINE book. Limited edition, 28/100. Half black, gray boards. Paper spine label. Extrems with minor scuffing, else flawless. "Douglas Wallace Bryant", 1913-94. His bkplt inside cover, and "Douglas W. Bryant Ann Arbor, 1936" neatly inked on fep. WIKIPEDIA: Wallace was a U of MI grad with a library centered career, but with major variations. After WWII he recovered V1 plans the Nazis had sunk in an Austrian lake. Shortly after he was an attachee with the American embassy in London. Later he was with Harvard's library during a period of great growth and served the international library community with advice & aid. Before all this he was with the William L Clements library from 1936-8, likely when he acquired this book. He helped set up the National Union Catalog, the paper predecessor to WorldCat. FINE book, no DJ, as issued. #28 of 100, 9.5"x6.5". vii,328pp.

Hardcover. 1st edition. GOOD books. 8vo. Vol 1 pp(52p preface),982. Vol 2 pp588,(48p Historical Index),(102p Index Latinitatis),(2p Addenda et Corrigend Ernesti was a theologian & philolgist. This edition of Tacitus was one of his important works. Joest Lips(1547-1606) greatest work was on Tacitus, according to the 11th EB. Johann Gronov (1611-71) was a German classical scholar who wrote on Tacitus, among others. Both vols with bkplt of the politician Lord John Townshend(1757-1833); the son of George, the first Marquess Townshend, and Lady Charlotte Compton. The bkplts are his engraved signature, Lord John Townshend. Contemp full calf. MISSING spine labels. Text with scattered light foxing and age browning. GOOD (heavily worn) books. Clean books. VG, tight, text block.

Hardcover. FAE. FINE book, no DJ. Flawless text block save for few darkish areas on top edge. Book stays tightly closed when stood on spine Cover lettering in silver; the decorative devices in silver and gold. Three minor cover flaws: (1) the already mentioned top edge darkish spots. (2) scuffed (not worn) extrmes. (3) barest hint of spine sunning. FINE book, no DJ. FAE. 7.5"x5". 307,(4ads)pp.

Hardcover. Kensington Gardens map @p150 (illustrator). FAE. VG book, no DJ. Gilt lettered & decorated blue/green cloth. TEG Bkplt inside, NYT Saturday Review blurb inside back cover. NEAR FINE text block. Inner hinge paper of upper hinge cracked. Few foxed spots inside covers, on the fore edge of the text block, and front margin of just a few leaves. But for these flaws a FINE text block. Also, it tends to stay closed when stood on its spine. With the interesting bkplt of the Tabard Inn Library. This book is not EX LIBRARY of any kind. Wikipedia explains how that is so in their artical on the Tabard Inn Library. This book's bkplt is shown in the Wikipedia artical. Please call for the details. Few cover flaws. Scuffed (not worn) extrems. Two dime size dark spots on the upper board. Very Good book, no DJ. Map @ p150. FAE. 7.5"x5". 349pp.

Hardcover. 3p woodcuts/etchings index. (illustrator). 1st edition. NEAR FINE books. Elaborate gilt decoration. MAJOR FLAW: both upper hinges repaired. Ideal candidate for quality repair. Loose (opposed to tight) back binding so hinges repairable. Bound by a master though no binder ticket or turn in binder name. Gilt turn ins. AEG. Both FINE inside. Some plates (NOT text) with spot or two of foxing but no aging, marginalia, etc. Both tend to remain closed when stood on spines. Flaws (other than the hinges) very minor and mostly one type: scuffing. (1) All tips flat & square but scuffed. (2) Lower hinges scuffed. (3) Of the two book's 10 raised bands the very highest points of ONLY TWO are scuffed. Spine gilt quite elaborate and any scuffing at all would be very apparent. (4) "14.99" pencilled in both. (5) Vol 1 with full page pencilled gift inscription, 2nd ep with closed tear the width of the leaf. Kind of a puzzle. This set has obviously been opened a lot but, once opened, handled with great care. Happy to send more pix. NEAR FINE set, with a MAJOR FLAW. 1st ed, 8"x5.5", 387,439pp.

Hardcover. Dozen or so full page plates (illustrator). 1st edition. NEAR FINE book. FINE text. 1st edition. 10"x6". About 450pp. Raised ribs. Gilt title. Subject index at book's end. FINE text. Same marbling on boards, pastedowns and text block edges. No aging, foxing, marginalia, etc. Interesting membership. There were 60, including J. Pierpont Morgan, William Rockefeller (John's brother), Cornelius Vanderbilt and William K. Vanderbilt. Cornelius died in 1899 so there is much on him. The first text page's third paragraph opens with: "We are a much abused organization. We are said to be Fifth Avenue farmers: and it is said that all of our efforts are made in brown stone fronts and upon asphalt pavements." Over the eight year period there were 23 meetings. The summary of the proceedings of each range from 30 to 80 pages and are individually paginated. There are a dozen or so full page plates. Scans of two of these plates show the network of wires strung over the fields where the effects of electricity on plant growth was being investigated. This sectiion on electricity and plant growth is in the Jan 1900 proceedings. These were not frivolous experiments. This section recounts how in 1898 Sir William Crookes, head of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, wrote that the tremendous quantity of nitrogen in the atmosphere might be able to be extracted using the power of Niagare Falls, and thence made into fertiizer. NEAR FINE book. Original half brown morocco. Marbled boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Grace Seton illustrations. (illustrator). 1st Edition. FINE book. Bright upper board gilt. FLAWLESS BUT: sunned spine, book otherwise AS NEW. Spotless cover, no scuffing or bumping. Unbelieveable book condition. All four tips and spine ends flat and square, no hint of scuffing, let alone actual wear. Spotless text block top edge tinted a light brown. Spotless deckled fore & bottom edges. (these rough cut edges VERY prone to dust collecting) Front & rear pastedowns spotless. Perfect hinges. Each leaf inspected, ZERO aging, foxing, marginalia, etc. Lastly, book tends to stay closed when stood on its spine. Read with care, if at all. Comes with two copies of Seton's 12 page promotional pamphlet "The Log of the Master Woodsman". FINE book. Tight. Bright. 1st ed. 8"x6", [363]pp.

Hardcover. 11 plates by Clark. (illustrator). 1st edition. VG book, no DJ. FINE inside. Tight bindng. Gilt lettered green cloth. Front with vine decoration in black. Tips & spine ends rubbed. One upper tip bumped. Interior all FINE. No glue browning. No foxed or dusty text block edges. Green stained top edge, deckled fore & bottom edges. Zero aging, foxing, soiling, marginalia, etc. All cover gilt bright. VERY GOOD book, no DJ. 1st ed. Scuffed extrems 8.5"x5.5", Pp.184.

Hardcover. 1st edition. FAIR book. VG text. Cohen 7385. 8vo, 528pp. Lists of specific duties charged. Britain, France & Spain take up 3/4 of book. Gilt lettered red leather spine label "COMMERCIAL DIGEST". Book the result of a US Senate resolution, authored by Charles Cutts, of Mar 3, 1817 requesting James Monroe to ".collect, digest & print.the treaties, laws and regulations of the countries (who US traded with) as relates to import, export, tonnage, light-money, pilotage, port duties, bounties & drawbacks.the nationality of mariners, ships, papers, & navigation of foreign countries.". If you're curious about what France's duty was on a beaver pelt this book will tell you. Light aging, foxing & soiling through out but no marginalia or damp staining. Upper board holding by cords alone. Binding cracked at pages 162 & 278. Despite this no loose leaves. Regarding the book's author: Morris Cohen's "Bibliography of Early American Law" # 7385 states "Although N.U.C. and Sabin both indicate that Biddle's name appears on the title page, it appears nowhere in the volume examined. The D.A.B. article on Biddle confirms him as compiler of the work." Nor is Biddle's name on this book's title page, or anywhere else. FAIR book. VG text. Worn full leather. Cracked binding.

Softcover. 1st edition. FINE catalog. Very early printing. "50 Cents" inside front cover. Those after, from Apr 1972 to 1974, were $1. Karabiner Climbing Museum website: the first catalog was Jan-Mar 1972 and priced at 50 cents. $1 was price after Mar 1972. In this first Jan-Mar period there were no changes but for a few hand done changes on the price list page. The price list page for the very first printing had no hand entered additions or changes. Soon (likely in late Jan or Feb 1972) was added a hand stamped price change, as in this copy. Price still 50 cents. FLAWLESS but: top front tip bumped, bottom tip rounded. Tight, including the stapled binding. Like new, in & out, including the order form and price list page. PROVENANCE: Catalog is this bookseller's personal copy bought in 1972. Address label is my (then) Takoma Park address. BACKGROUND: In mid '60s I started caving (I'm a 50+ year NSS member) and soon found I liked vertical caving. I yoyo'd most of West Virginia's pit caves; Schoolhouse, Hellhole, Cass, Sites, Elk Horn Mountain; but never graduated to the TAG country. Takoma Park borders DC. Much rope work practice was at the Potomac River cliffs at Carder Rock. All this got me interested in rock climbing, hence the Chouinard catalog. I never bought anything (hence the still bound in order form) as I found I much preferred caving. I left Takoma Park in late 1980s. Many websites list my connections back to Takoma Park. I understood and agreed with Chouinard's points. I've been a conservationist my whole life. As a kid I wanted to be a forest ranger and did spend two years in the College of Forestry at Syracuse U. FINE catalog. 1st edition. 11"x6 3/8". 66,(2),(4)pp.

Hardcover. About 250 b/w 4"x3" photos. (illustrator). FINE photos. 4to 44 leaves.(3) 4"X3" photos glued on each side. First 27 photos of a bull fight in Mexico City's El Torco ring. Bullfight photos from prelims, to the sword thrust, to the dead bull being dragged away. The Greater University of Tours photo (the first page in the album) was likely a commercial tour group. The group numbered about 20, aged from 30 to 50, with just a few men. There is a photo of the bus and a few pictures of the group but there are no names or personal information of any kind. Photos of Rio Frio, volcanos, Puebla, tree where Cortez wept, Topoztlan, Tasco, Tepozteco, cathedrals, convents, San Juan Teotihuacan, Chapultepec Castle, Pyramid of Tenayuca, Guadalupe shrine, Quetzalcoati temple, Teotihuacan and many other locales. 3 leaves with b/w post cards, 3 others of photos taken in the US. Pix glued to black paper leaves, all(save bullfight sequence) with neat annotation in white ink. Album bound in either crocodile or alligator. FINE b/w photos. About 250 4"x3" of Mexico, in worn photo album.