Comstock J L M D (19 results)

HARDBACK BROWN. Condition: GOOD. Full Title Page: Conversations on Chemistry; In Which the Elements of That Science are Familiarly Explained, and Illustrated by Experiments, And 38 Engravings on Wood. The Eleventh American, From the Eighth London Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged, To Which are Now Added, Explanations of the Text-Directions for Simplifying the Apparatus, and a Vocabulary of Terms-Together with A List of Interesting Experiments. General wear, soiling on pages, chipped covers and spine, heavily faded gilt on spine, scuffed cover edges, water staining and rippling throughout book _PAB_ 348.

Leather. Condition: G. No Jacket. 12th American from Last London. with additions & corrections, together with a series of questions by Rev. J.L. Blake, full calf with paper label on spine, rear cover detached, front cover getting there, some foxing, overall G condition, no dust jacket Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Leather_bound. Condition: Very Good -. 408pgs, ill, full leather, slight edgewear, nice copy.

Are Familiarly Explained, & Illustrated by More than 250 Engravings; to Which Are Added, Questions for the Examination of Pupils Designed for the Use of Schools & Academies. 62nd Edition. N-Y: Pratt, Woodford & Co, 1845. 360 pages. 7.75x4.75", leather. Tips chipped, hinges cracked, foxed, fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 360pp; 19 cm x 12 cm. Full-leather; gilt lettering and lining on spine. Faint penciled names on front blank endpaper. Rear blank endpapers removed. No library stamps. Textually unmarked; tight. Foxing/age spotting to contents. Rubs to tips; chipped upper spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. With some moisture stains and modest foxing, a VG 1844 printing in contemporary calf with gold spine stamping. Photos on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, Original calf, spine label worn, internally slight spotting G-VG Ownership, Alexander C. Brabson, Clearspring Academy (9/12/1859)- Brabson said to be descendent of Davy Crockett (from estate of Rose Brabson Scarborough, Columbia, SC).

An excellent clean copy with only slight wear on the edge of the spine. The author has rewritten a large portion of the earlier work and has also included many new engraved plates of various pieces of equipment. The engraving give good clear examples of the types of equipment that were in use at that time. The book contains excellent detailed descriptions of the physical and inorganic aspects of chemistry. The text also has a detailed summation of the knowledge to that time of the different areas of organic chemistry. This is particularly interesting since organic chemistry was in its infancy in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. The book concludes with a large section on the analysis of metallic substances. Overall an excellent text detailing the chemical knowledge of the time. John Lee Comstock (1789-1858).

A very good presentation of chemistry as it existed in the mid-nineteenth century. Contains details of many chemical types and chemicals such as morphia. Good clean copy with brown spotting that does not affect the readability of the text. Leather bound. Upper spine edge worn. John Lee Comstock (1789-1858).

Leather Spine & Cloth Covers. Condition: G to G+. No Jacket. 432 pp, b/w illustrations, the book and contents are solid and tight, there is occasional foxing on some pages, the second front free endpaper has owner's name from 1848, the covers are tight and have scuffing and wear, this is a solid and usable book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Revised Edition. 1. Publisher's full leather, gilt lettering on brown panel. . Engravings. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 340 pp.

24Mo Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 242pp (p243 is missing). Marbled boards, title pastedown on front board. Text is clean on pages unmarked save for one page with pen outlining. Hinges are intact, textblock is square with rounded corners. Considerable overall shelf/timewear, boardwear, heavy board edge and cornerwear, peeling, outer spine is heavily chipped, foxing and blush throughout, pen writing on inside front, pencil writing on endpaper.

Nice clean copy in original leather binding. Title page is taped to the front board and the spine is reinforced with transparent library tape. Tables and figures interspersed throughout the text. A report (12 pages, relating to teaching English grammar) is bound in at the end of the book. John Lee Comstock (1789-1858).

Clean copy with some brown spotting. Old worn leather binding. Front board almost detached. John Lee Comstock (1789-1858).

Hardcover. Condition: G. No Jacket. 408 pp, many b/w illustrations, the pages are tight, they are clean with some scattered foxing throughout. there is an 1856 date and a name written on the front free endpaper, the covers are tight with some scuffing along the spine.

1st edition. [2], 216 pp. Frontispiece. Other illustrations issued in separate volume. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-1/2" VG+ (some extremity wear to binding/a bit of foxing to preliminary & terminal leaves). Overall, a quite respectable copy. Original publisher's yellow printed paper-wrapped boards with gilt-lettered brown leather spine. Speckled edges.

Illustrated by 82 b/w engraved text figures. Stated 24th from the 54th edition. c.1831, 1846. Rebound in brown J. Hewit acid free cawburn goat, new head bands, Dodin French shell endpapers and topboard cut out. Entire text block dis-assembled, washed, dried and restitiched removing all foxing and stains. Gilt stamped spine. 16mo. pp. viii, 9-422, [12] index. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Beautiful restored to new copy.

8vo, original brown cloth, gilt title at spine. 222 pp., 4 pp. of advertisements. CONDITION: Good, front and back covers with some spotting and staining, head of spine chipped; contents good, small ink stamp consisting of two letters reading "pr" below date on title page, moderate foxing; a nice, tight copy. First edition. A history of mining throughout the world, fortuitously published at the beginning of the California gold rush. "The discovery of California gold made Comstock's world survey appeal to a much wider audience. He hurriedly included information on California and added a final chapter entitled 'Estimated Expenses of Outfits from the United States to California.' He opened by saying his printer allowed him no time to fully develop the subject. Comstock also calculated the cost of going to California, the loss of labor in the eastern United States, and estimated that it would take $22,260,000 in California gold before the United States would realize a profit"Kurutz. Contains various charts and tables. REFERENCES: Kurutz 154; Cowan, p. 139; Sabin 15074.

First edition. Cowan. p. 139, Kurutz. 154. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Book plates from (prominent book collector) Thomas Wayne Norris & W.M. Maxfield libraries. Near fine copy (chip at spine head, light wear at spine bottom). 222 pps. + ads. Hardcover. Gilt lettering on the spine.