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Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company, 1913. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Pictorial green cloth with black titling, frontispiece, 252 pages plus 6 pages of publisher's advertising. Boards show light shelf wear and a few tiny spots of loss to back cover, age toning to text block. Rare dust jacket shows some shelf… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, UK: Harvey and Darton, 1839. Leather. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Compiled for the use of Ackworth School. 18th Edition, corrected and improved. Dark red leather with gilt titling to spine, black endpapers. Some rubbing to edges and corners, minor loss to spine ends, split to front endpapers - binding is sound, age… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: T.C. Newby, 1847. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. de Freitas, Lima. Written by the author of "The Chronicles of the Bastile." Original blue cloth with blindstamped decoration to front and back, gilt titling with decoration to front and spine, gilted textblock edge, light yellow endpapers, illustrations by George Cruikshank: frontispiece, three plates and one in text,… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, UK: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1809. Leather. Good. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Gilbert" is followed by "The Story of Ancient Pluto. The Gods' Revenge; or, The Trial of Cupid. To Which is Added, The Winter Hermit, a Tale." Printed by C. Whittingham for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones of London in 1809. Brown leatherbound volume… Saber más sobre este artículo

Ulm: Stettinische Buchhandlung, 1806. Hardcover. Written in German. A fascinating book published in 1806 of 255 recipes for home and farm from beekeeping to taking care of orchard trees, from how to get rid of tapeworms to eliminating rodents, from how to polish your silver to making yeast or ink and so much more. Brown boards, red textblock edge,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co., 1891. First Indian Edition. . Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. No. XIV of the "Indian Railway Library". Grey pictorial wrappers, errata slip bound in, 96 pages. Wrappers chipped and missing several small pieces, back cover present but detached, some age darkening especially to front cover. Pictures available upon… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, UK: Charles Tilt. Half-Leather. Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Seymour. Two volumes of humorous engravings suggested by select passages from Shakespeare. No date, probably 1840s/1850s. Volume I: Romeo & Juliet - lacks title page, Hamlet, Macbeth, Richard the Third, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, King John. Volume II: King Lear,… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: William Miller, 1806. Fifth Edition. . Half-Leather. Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 'The Miseries of Human Life, or the Groans of Samuel Sensitive, and Timothy Testy. With a few supplementary sighs from Mrs. Testy. In twelve dialogues.' This book was written as a series of discussions between Mr. Samuel Sensitive and Mr. Timothy Testy,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York, NY: Dick & Fitzgerald. Hardcover. A complete and carfully prepared treatise on the art of trapping, snaring, and netting. Ca. 1917 ( no date ). Boards covered with grey paper and cloth spine, black titling to front, blindstamped titling to spine, pastedown and free endpapers show publisher's advertisements, illustrated with many line drawings, 134 pages plus what… Saber más sobre este artículo

Arbroath, UK: T. Buncle, 1886. Hardcover. Aberbrothock Illustrated Being the Round O Etchings in Miniature by John Adam (Edingburgh) with Historical and Topographical Notes by George Hay. Light brown cloth with gilted blindstamped picture to front, gilt titling to spine, top of textblock edge is gilted, endpapers illustrated with a representation of the botany of the district, 86 pages… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, GB: David Stott, 1890. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt illustration to front, gilt titling to spine, green endpapers, 190 pages. Worn at edges and corners, previous owner's bookplate and a small cut-out pasted to first endpaper, inscription inked to half title. For some international orders we will ask you to approve additional shipping charges to cover the cost of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Vancouver, BC: The Selkirk Press, Limited, 1916. Leather. Light brown leather with illustration and black titling to front, illustrated title page, ribbon marker, 47 pages. shelf wear, many spots of discoloration, inside card backing of covers show a break, several pages show smudging, pencil scribling opposite first page, several pages show small crease to bottom free corner, ribbon marker… Saber más sobre este artículo

Leather. ca. 1900 (no date). Professor Williams' Complete Hypnotism. Comprisin Twenty Lessons. Red leather binding with gilt titling and decoration embossed to front, blindstamped simple border to cover, gitl to textblock edge, decorated endpapers, 72 pages. Some edge wear with rubbing to corners and spine, spine sunned, inside clean and tight. For some international orders we will ask you… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: John D. Wattles & Co., 1894. Hardcover. The essays in this volume are an outcome of their writer's observings and experiencings in his varied life-course." Red cloth with gilt titling on spine and front, decorative border surrounds titling on front, 192 pages. Corners lightly bumped, light edge wear, spine slightly sunned, a few pale spots of discolouration to… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Churchill, 1834. Second Edition. . Hardcover. A two volume set which has been rebound in plain, dark blue buckram with no titling on cover; new, plain end papers and rather unattractive plain white hinge tape. From the Preface: "The object of the following Essays is to describe the various morbid alterations in the structure of the Human… Saber más sobre este artículo

Los Angeles, CA: Artemisia Bindery,, 1904. Limited/Numbered/Signed First Edition. . Card Cover. Book is #706/1000, signed by author, as well as inscribed to a friend. A collection of sketches, many of which appeared in the Los Angeles "Times" and the San Francisco "Chronicle." Brown card cover with dark green titling and illustration on front, green ribbon marker, inscribed by… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston, MA: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1855. Fifth Edition. . Hardcover. A book by the grandfather of T.S. Eliot. Brown cloth with gilt titling and decoration on spine, blind-stamped border and insignia front and back, 190 pages. There is a nice gift inscription on the end paper - it is interesting to note that the date of the gift… Saber más sobre este artículo

Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Oriole Press, 1962. Limited/Numbered. . Card Cover in Wraps. Number 86/100 copies, none of which were printed for sale. Books were originally published between the years of 1917 and 1948; this compilation was published in 1962. A boxed set containing the collected works of Rose Freeman-Ishill, containing eight volumes: Vol. I- Petals Blown Adrift; Vol. II-… Saber más sobre este artículo

Firenze: G. Barbera, 1891. Half Leather. Very Good. A book of poetry, written in Italian. Off-white leather corners and spine, marbled boards, gilt titling on red spine label, gilt bands and decoration on spine, tiny bookseller's plate inside front cover, owner's name in ink on end paper (dated 1893), black and white frontispiece with tissue-guard, preface by C.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. Hardcover. Good/-. This book is the outgrowth of the study of three questions - the development of line traffic, the combinations among carriers to control rates, and the combination of steamship lines and railways." Red cloth with gilt titling on spine and front, black and white frontispiece with tissue-guard, illustrated with black… Saber más sobre este artículo