O'callaghan E B Edited By (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. 819 pages, 4to (about 11 7/8" tall), ex-library, worn embossed covers; spine ends, spine edges, and corners chipped; back cover mold soiled; cracks across and along spine - detaching spine cover pieces reattached. Light foxing and browning to some pages, binding tight, internally good. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. 1st Edition. First edition. Hard cover in original blind embossed cloth. Published Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1857. Thick 4to., 10" x 12", 819pp., xix+817pp., illustrated with folding maps. Brown cloth with gilt titles. Ex-library with old tape repair along outer front hinge, partial split to outer rear hinge cloth, cover tight and secure, wear at the corners, a few pencil markings at margins otherwise very good, text very good, clean and bright, no foxing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good with wear at the spine ends, corners bumped and worn through, edgewear. 985 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. . . . . 4to, hardcovers. maroon cloth. Vg- condition. Ex-library copy, rebound in buckram, gilt spine titles. Spine cloth of two volumes tattered. Minor interior stamping, rear card pockets. No marking or writing to the text. All 15 bindings sturdy and tight, despite the spine cloth issues of the two volumes. Covering the period 1600 to 1783: quite uncommon in this large a grouping. (The cost of shipping this appx. 100 lb. set within the United States has been built into its unit cost: hence no extra shipping fees will be requested.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Mixed-state set? (The publication years are not chronological.) Complete in 15 volumes, with the Index volume issued as Vol. XI and covering only the first 10 volumes (Vol. XV is stamped on the spine "Archives of the State of New-York: The Revolution. Vol. I). Each volume measuring approximately 10" x 12". Over 13,000 pages. With several fold-out maps and illustrations. Elaborately blindstamped black cloth with spines gilt. Nearly all volumes with restoration (to varying degrees) at the spine ends, joints, corner tips, and areas of the covers; two volumes appear to have been varnished. Ex-library from several sources with several institutional bookplates, one private bookplate and one private library stamp, a couple of library stamps, and several volumes with slight evidence of label removal on the rear endleaves; the preliminary and terminal leaves of many of the volumes have been treated with some sort of white masking fluid (not unlike thin white-out), presumably an early library practice. Bindings with wear and soil, three small instances of insect damage in the gutters, three volumes with some dampstaining mostly confined to the margins, one volume with a vertical split on the front pastedown, most volumes with the preliminary and terminal leaves foxed, a very few of instances of tape reinforcement (most notably a couple of tape reinforcements on the two maps in Vol. I), some of the paper stock tanned and occasional foxing in the text, a sound, about very good set; the text on the whole has been very preserved.…