Peter Parley Pseud (54 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. New York: Sheldon & Company, 1859. Published 1859. Illustrated with engravings. Worn copy in red cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, cover decoration in blind, 171 pages. Covers heavily rubbed and soiled, with fraying to the corners and spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, front free…

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Solid binding. A few markings found on several maps but mostly unmarked. Age-toned. Names scribbled out on flyleaf. Foxing on endpapers. Covers have wear, Spine cover has a bit missing at top edge but title clear. As pictured. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Cen…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright referenc…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. New York: J. M. Fairchild & Co., 1858. Title page dated 1858. Illustrated with two hundred wood engravings throughout the text, such as "Kanguroos of New Holland" and the Siamang. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and in blind, 320 pages. Short closed tear to spine head (ends above the letterin…

Front., vignette title, illus. Orig. green cloth, sl. worn printed spine label, otherwise v.g. Pencil inscription of Archibald Nisbet, 1856 on recto of front.; later inscription of John Thomas Ellis on leading f.e.p. With the preface to the first edition. A handsome production providing 'amusing details and astonishing facts' on…

small 8vo., xvi, 544pp., frontispiece, engraved vignette title and numerous wood engravings to text, full-page map of Great Britain and Ireland, bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt decorated spine in compartments, lightly rubbed on extremities. A VG+ clean copy. Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793 1860) was an A…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Sextodecimo. Half binding with green paper and green leather, gilt bands to spine. Black stamped lettering and designs to front and back covers. 60 engravings. 16 fold-out maps. "Olive Weston" written to front endpages. American history book for children. Near Fine. Some marking to inside f…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. New York: Huntington and Savage, 1847. Title page dated 1847. With 18 maps and 150 engravings throughout the text. Printed peach colored hardcover with leather spine, about 6" tall, 160 pages. Expected age-related wear to covers, mainly edges with some shelf soil, sound binding, slightly age-toned but…

8vo, xvi, 242pp + 9pp index + 20pp ads, half-title present, engraved frontispiece of the voyagers looking down upon the Giant's Causeway from their air balloon, 5 other engraved plates, orig. red blindstamped cloth, gilt decorated spine together with an air balloon blocked in gilt to centre of upper cover, minor wear to extreme…

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo ( 6 1/2 x 5 in.). viii, 376 pp., chromolithograph frontispiece and extra titlepage w/tissue guards, 4 steel engraved b&w plates w/tissue guards, b&w wood engraved head- tailpieces and text illustrations. Publisher's elaborately blindstamped red cloth with central gilt-st…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1838 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt band…