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Imprint: 1916 AIKEN, Conrad. TURNS AND MOVIES and other Tales in Verse. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. First edition, second book. 8vo., olive wrapper over limp boards. As is, with front wrap, first three leaves detached; rear wrap detached, chipping to all at edges. Lacking some of the spine, remaining portion darkened by the sun. Mildly over-opened; clean text. Stock number: 62622.
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Imprint: 1796 AIKIN, J. LETTERS FROM A FATHER TO HIS SON, on Various Topics, Relative to Literature and the Conduct of Life. Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey by James Carey, 1796. 12mo., marbled calf, gilt title to red leather spine label. Owner's label to front pastedown. Mild worming to upper rear joint. Crown is chipped and the front joint is weakening. A few ink drips on the lower fore-edge of bookblock. 1.5" horizontal closed tear to p. 119-120, else clean and bright within. Very good. Scarce thus. [This imprint is not in Evans. See note in S & M for entry 29958 (misspelling of "Mathew" on the title page corrected)], Very Good Stock number: 77018.
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Imprint: 1841 AINSWORTH, William Harrison. GUY FAWKES; OR, THE GUNPOWDER TREASON, AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Illustrated by Cruikshank. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1841. First American edition. 205 pp. 4to., quarter caramel- colored cloth with paper spine label and green paper covered boards. Boards edgeworn, slightly chipped at corners. Spine staring at top of joints, chipped 1 inch at crown, 1/8 inch at heel. Endpapers foxed. Front pastedown bears a small contemporary printed bookplate. Two Cruikshank engravings preced the title page, each with light minimal foxing at edges. Occasional foxing to the text. Good overall. Recusant melodrama, based on the Gunpowder plot. Quite scarce., Good Stock number: 80284.
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Imprint: 1932 [AINU] TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN. Second Series, Volume IX, December 1932. Boards. 8vo., 163 pp. Conatins Batchelor's article on the Ainu Bear Festival, among other intersting articles. Weak hinges, good., Good Stock number: 75135.
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Imprint: 1964 [AINU] HATTORI Shiro, editor. AINUGO HO^GEN JITEN. Tokyo, Iwanami Shoten, 1964. Large 8vo., dark green cloth, 556+ pp. Important dialect dictionary of the Ainu language. Written in Japanese. About in publisher's slipcase. Stock number: 87025.
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Imprint: 1985 AINU MINZOKU HAKUBUTSUKAN. HOPPO^ MINZOKU-TEN 1985.7.5 ~8.31. Hokkaido^, 1985, Obl 8vo., ppbk, 40pp. Japanese text, illustrated. Catalog of an exhibition on the peoples of the north. Very good., Good Stock number: 75150.
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Imprint: 1985 AINU MINZOKU HAKUBUTSUKAN. SOBIETORENGA KYOKUTO^ SHO^SU^ MINZOKU-TEN 1987.7.15 ~8.31. Hokkaido^, 1987, Obl 8vo., ppbk, 70pp. Russian & Japanese text, illustrated. Catalog of an exhibition on the peoples of the Soviet Arctic. Very good., Good Stock number: 75151.
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Imprint: 1986 AINU MINZOKU HAKUBUTSUKAN. TO^HOKU CHIHO^ TO AINU BUNKA 1986.7.15 ~ 8.31. Shiraoi Institute for the Preservation of Ainu Culture, Hokkaido^, 1986 obl. 8vo. 43pp. ppbk. Japanese text, illustrated. Exhibition catalog dedicated to the influence of Ainu culture on Northern Honshu^. Very good., Good Stock number: 75149.
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Imprint: 1888 AITCHISON, J. E. T. THE BOTANY OF THE AFGHAN DELIMITATION COMMISSION. London: Printed for the Linnean Society by Taylor and Francis, April 1888. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Second Series, Botany. Volume III, Part I. 139pp. 48 plates and two folding maps. 4to., blue paper wrappers, sewn signatures. Very good, a clean copy, with some light foxing to the final plates; the wrappers are chipped, with some loss, and edgeworn, showing light to moderate soiling., Very Good Stock number: 51919.
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Imprint: 1806 [AITKEN, Jane, publ.]. [General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States]. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; The Larger Catechism Ratified and Adopted by the Synod of New-York & Philadelphia; The Shorter Catechism, Ratified and Adopted...; The Form of the Government and Discipline of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Philadelphia: Jane Aitken, 1806. First edition, four imprints bound as one. Small 8vo., full leather stamped in gilt to spine. Ink ownership to pastedowns. Offsetting to endpapers, some light foxing to text. Considerable wear to boards, with joints cracked, and skimming to spine partially obscuring label that appears to have read "Confessions of Faith". A scarce copy by early American female printer Jane Aitken. About very good., Very Good Stock number: 73013.
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Imprint: 1834 AKERMAN, J. Y. A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF RARE AND UNEDITED ROMAN COINS. From the earliest period of the Roman coinage, to the extinction of the Empire under Constantinus Paleologos. With numerous plates from the originals. London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1834. 2 volumes. Illustrated with (all) 22 plates drawn and engraved by Henry A. Ogg. 8vo., clumsily rebound in modern red cloth, handwritten label to spine. Ex-library; bookplate to front pastedown and no other marks. Ink ownership: "Charles Francis Adams. August. 1839." on first balnk of volume 1. Volume 1 shows some puckering to spine. Clean and neat within. But for the indifferent re-casing, a scarce, very good set., Very Good Stock number: 74340.
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Imprint: 1840 AKERMAN, John Yonge. A NUMISMATIC MANUAL. London: Taylor & Walton, 1840. 17 engraved plates at the end, plus wood-engraved text illustrations. xiv,[2],420 pp. 8vo., original brown cloth sides rebacked (though a bit awkwardly) with black cloth, and a hand-written label to spine. Ex- library; bookplate at front pastedown and pencil ownership to half-title. Some scuffing to boards and perimeters, and minor shelfwear at bottom- edges of boards. Front hinge cracked. Two leaves (p. 213-216) are trimmed close to the text block, but without loss of text. Internally clean and complete, and solid overall, it is an acceptable copy., Acceptable Stock number: 74294.
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Imprint: 1969 Akiyama, Terukazu; Soper, Alexander (translator) Arts of China: Buddhist Cave Temples. Kodansha America, NY, 1969. Fine folio buckram, very good dustwrapper., Fine Stock number: 78340.
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Imprint: 1916 AKIYAMA, Aisaburo. BRIEF HISTORY OF PICTORIAL JAPAN. Tokyo: A. Akiyama, 1916. 81 + 2 pp. 8vo., brown patterened cloth covered boards, bound with two leather thongs. Ink gift inscription to front flyleaf dated 1918. Light wear/fraying to spine, cloth chipped at spine 1/2 inch at crown. Bound Japanese (accordion) style). Light foxing to endpapers, interior clean. B/w halftone illustrations. Very good., Very Good Stock number: 84941.
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Imprint: 1964 AKIYAMA, Aisaburo. A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF JAPAN AND CHINA. New York: Paragon Book Reprint Company, 1964. Second edition. 12mo, stiff brown wrappers; 42pp. Fine., Fine Stock number: 34024.
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Imprint: 1974 ALAIN (pseud. of Emile Chartier). NOEL. [N.P.]: Printed at Christmas for the friends of Elizabeth & Richard Pevear, Ann & J. Laughlin, and New Directions, 1974. The text is of the final chapter of The Gods, translated by Richard Pevear. 8pp. 8vo., blue paper wrappers, wire saddle stitched. Near fine, save for very light sunning to extremities, Fine Stock number: 51176.
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Imprint: 1960 ALAMUDDIN, Sulayman. ORIENTAL CARPETS, A BRIEF OUTLINE. Ras Beirut: Galerie Graham, [ND, c. 1960's]. Privately printed. 8vo., white wrappers. Illustrated. Light sun to spine. Near fine., Fine Stock number: 72644.
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Imprint: 1960 ALAMUDDIN, Sulayman. ORIENTAL CARPETS, A BRIEF OUTLINE. Ras Beirut: Galerie Graham, [ND, c. 1960's]. Privately printed. 8vo., white wrappers. Illustrated. Text block loose in wrappers with light sun to extremes. Still, very clean. Very good., Very Good Stock number: 72645.
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Imprint: 1724 [ALBERMARLE, George Monck, Duke of]. THE LIFE OF GENERAL MONK: DUKE OF ALBERMARLE, containing, I. A faithful account of his unparalledl'd conduct, surprizing actions, and providential success in accomplishing the restoration of monarchy. II. A particular relation of that most memorable march from Coldstream to London; the preparations for it in Scotland, and the happy consequences of it in England. III. Many mistakes committed by our historians, (particularly the Earl of Clarendon) concerning the General's administration, rectified. Publish'ed from an original manuscript of Thomas Skinner. M.D. With a preface in vindication of General Monk's conduct and giving some account of the manuscript. By William Webster... London: Printed for J. Graves ... J. Isted and J. Hooke, 1724. The second edition, corrected. Frontispiece portrait. Octavo. [10],lxvii [i.e. xlvii],385,[7] pp. Some pagination errors, but complete. (ESTC t113801). Bound with: GRANVILLE, John. TWO ORIGINAL JOURNALS OF SIR RICHARD GRANVILLE. Viz. I. A journal of the expedition to Cadiz in Spain, Anno 1625. With the charged delivered by the Earl of Essex, and nine other colonels, against the Viscount Wimbledon, general of that voyage. With his answer, containing a full relation of the defeat thereof. II. A journal of the expedition to the Isle of Rhee in France, Anno 1627. Containing an account of the most material passages, happening at, and after our landing there. London: Printed for John Clarke, 1724. First edition ("Now first published from their respective manuscripts"). Octavo. xiv,[2]56,[2],25 pp. (CBEL I, 771). Two titles bound as one. 19.7 cm. Worn contemporary calf boards skillfully rebacked (probably 19th c.) with a red lettering piece. Ink ownership on ffep. only partially readable due to a 1.5 cm hole. Clean texts. Sound and very good overall., Very Good Stock number: 79194.
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Imprint: 1978 ALBERY, Nobuko. BALLOON TOP. A novel of growing up in Japan. New York: Pantheon, (1978). First American edition. 8vo, tan cloth; 255pp. Ink inscription. Fine, in a lightly soiled jacket., Fine Stock number: 30466.
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Imprint: 1844 ALBO, Rab. Joseph. BUCH IKKARIM, GRUND-UND GLAUBENSLEHREN DER MOSAISCHEN RELIGION. Frankfurt: n.p. 1844 (On facing half-title: tipped-in slip under Frankfurt "Verlag von Otto Spamer in Leipzig"). xxxxiv + 688 pp. 8vo., rebound in workmanlike black cloth spine with marbled paper covered boards. Ex-library, only evidence is hand lettered spine label. In German with some notes in Hebrew. Boards and spine slightly shelfworn. Ink inscription in Hebrew, looks 19th century, on recto of verso half-title. Moderate to light foxing to interior. Stock number: 81130.
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[ALBUM, PAINTING] NAKAJIMA Yusho. SHOKEI GAFU Orihon folding painting album in gafu style, full of lovely views of Japan. 28 x 16.8 CM. Preliminary and final decorated pages, plus a 2 page table of contents and 42 double page color paintings ( each 28.2 X 33.4 CM) in a late Shijo Kyoto-school style by Nakajima Yusho (1837-1905), the son of Nakajima Raisho and a talented artist in his own right. In brocade covers with a brushed title label and enclosed in a clasped chitsu case. Lovely throughout, delicate colors, skilled brushwork. Stock number: 83271.
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Imprint: 1911 FROM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO WITH THE WORLD IN BETWEEN [ALBUM]. WORLD TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, 1910-1911. 561 Photos. Hand lettered captions. Oblong folio, flexible thin brown textured leather, binding deteriorating, block sound. Pages with captions hand lettered in white; circular black picture corners. 561 gelatin silver print photographs, skillfully executed, 13 x 8 cm. for the most part. The first blank recto bears the title "Around The World: ... A trip leaving New York July 23rd 1910 and arriving at San Francisco July 6th 1911." A huge amount of images with travelers chronicling both the people and places they encounter. Images/places include Stavanger, Norway (lovely scenes of fjords and countryside); Moscow and St. Petersburg (portraits of Russian sailors, St. Basil's, the Kremlin); Warsaw (the Jewish quarter, street scenes); Budapest (churches, the Danube); Salzburg (Mozart's house, Oberammergau); the Bavarian mountains; the Tyrolean Alps; Verona (the ancient Roman theatre); Rome (the Palatine, the Coliseum); Port Said and Luxor, Egypt (the Pyramids, the Sphinx, shipbuilding and boats on the Nile, Luxor's streets, the temples at Harhor and Karnak), the island of Phylae and the Assouan Dam; Ceylon (Tamil people, working elephants, shrines and temples); Madura, Hyderabad, Tanjore, The Langar, Golconda, Ahmedelad, Jodhpur, Delhi, Lahore, Peshawar, Fatehpur Sikri, Benares, and Darjeeling, India (Jain temples, street scenes, snake charmers, Jama Musjid, Afghani travelers, beggars, Akbar's Tomb, funeral pyres by the Ganges); Burma (a monastery, pagodas); Penang, Malaysia (temple gardens); Canton, China (harbor views); Macao (fishing and street scenes); Manila, Mt. Mayou, The Phillipines (town and country views); and finally, Kyoto, Japan (temples, a tea house, Nara). On the last page of photographs a few pictures are missing from their corners, and captions remain. The captions themselves recall the colonialism of the times, especially when referring to indigenous people in Asia. Throughout the album the captions have occasionally faded, but most are legible. Pages are in good condition, as are most of the photographs, with some occasional creasing where the photo has escaped its corners at some point. Contents near fine, album itself only fair to good., Good Stock number: 84350.
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Imprint: 1872 ALCOTT, Louisa M. AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG; Shawl-straps. Boston: Robert Brothers, 1872. First edition. 8vo., blue cloth, spine in gilt. A lovely bright copy with a touch of wear at the extremes. (BAL 171). Stock number: 77088.
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Imprint: 1872 ALCOTT, Louisa M. AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG; Shawl-straps. Boston: Robert Brothers, 1872. First edition. 8vo., blue cloth, spine in gilt. A slightly cocked copy, that otherwise is very pleasing with a touch of wear at the extremes. (BAL 171). Stock number: 77089.
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Imprint: 1871 ALCOTT, Louisa M. LITTLE MEN: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First American edition, with Sig. mark 1 ; it follows the first British edition by one month. Frontispiece and three plates inserted. [4] pp. adv., [2], 376 pp. 16mo., green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, brown coated endpapers. Contemporary ink name on pastedown and first blank. Wear to the extremes, especially the corner; spine a littled skewed overall very good. (BAL 167)., Very Good Stock number: 71738.
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Imprint: 1877 ALCOTT, A. Bronson. TABLE-TALK. Boston: Robert Brothers, 1877. First edition. xii,178, + [2] pp. publisher's adv. 12mo. Publisher's binding; terra-cotta cloth, bevelled boards, gilt-stamped title to spine and upper boards, decorative wrap-around frieze gilt-stamped at top-edge, brown coated endpapers, t.e.g. A fine copy, with just a touch of edgewear at heel and crown, and some light soiling to cloth. (BAL 117). In addition, this volume has the ink ownership of Mrs. Daniel Lothrop (1844-1924) on the first blank; she is best-known by her pseudonym Margaret Sidney, the author of the children's classic The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew. She was the wife of Daniel Lothrop (1831-1892), the Boston publisher, and a resident of Concord, MA, beginning in 1883. The verso of the ffep. has a full-page note by F. B. Sanborn (1831-1917), who was a school teacher in Concord, where his students included the children of Emerson, Hawthorne and Henry James, Sr.; his relationship with the Transcendentalists resulted in the publication of many books about members of that circle, including A. Bronson Alcott: His Life and Philosophy (1893), written with W. T. Harris. Sanborn has written: "This was never real Table-Talk but was made up from Mr. A's Diaries and loose Mss. ...and indicates the immensity of br A's reading, in which he went beyond Emerson...;" he continues by mentioning when and where the book was written, below which he signed his initials "F.B.S.", Fine Stock number: 66684.
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Imprint: 1909 ALDIN, Cecil. PICKLES. London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton [n.d. ca. 1909]. 48 text pages (versos numbered to XXIV); title page and 24 litho plates. The 24 lithographs are printed on an olive green ground in black white and several colors; the title page is printed in green and black on a white ground. 4to., reddish brown cloth spine stamped in gilt, green cloth boards stamped in gilt and red. Moderate shelfwear, spine sunned, a few small dark spots to front board. Overopened at lightly foxed half-title. Front flyleaf has a few small closed tears; edges of most plates with tiny nick to fore-edge, light foxing to edges of text pages. Delightful Aldin illustrations, all clean and bright, without foxing or any blemishes. Pickles, a boundlessly energetic white puppy, gets into a lot of mischief. Quite scarce. Stock number: 85479. ISBN: LITHOGRAPHS
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Imprint: 1859 ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. THE BALLAD OF BABIE BELL and other poems. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1859. First edition, first issue (with Broadway address). 12mo., maroon pebbled cloth; 117pp. Just slight external soiling and wear, else a tight, very good copy. (BAL 253), Very Good Stock number: 40326.
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ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. [PROSE WORKS]. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, v.d. (1901-1913). Complete in seven octavo volumes. Frontispiece portrait in vols. 1 & 7. Publisher's binding of green ribbed cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, t.e.g.; uncut and unopened. A fine and fresh set in age-browned, spine-sunned, and edge- chipped dust jackets, some of which are splitting at creases and have some loss. The set is identified on the spine of the dust-jackets as Aldrich's Prose Works., Fine Stock number: 78692.
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Imprint: 1891 ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. THE SISTERS' TRAGEDY: With Other Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic. London: Macmillan and Company, 1891. First edition, inscribed by the author, December, 1906. 8vo., 205 pp., green cloth. Many signatures unopened. Slight foxing at endpapers, slight over- opening. A bright, very good copy. (BAL 356)., Very Good Stock number: 40682.
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Imprint: 1926 ALEXANDER, Charles. BOBBIE: A GREAT COLLIE. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1926. 114 pp. 12mo., orange cloth stamped in blue and blind. Fine except for a touch of wear to bottom of spine; cloth and lettering clean and bright. Light thumbing to endpapers. Interior clean, with four halftone photo reproductions. In good dust jacket, lightly soiled, with several 4 inch closed tears to front panel (only slightly affecting front panel photo reproduction). Othewr smaller closed tears and small chips to edges; no loss of text. Hard to find a nice copy such as this one., Good Stock number: 83645.
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Imprint: 1805 ALEXANDER, William. THE COSTUME OF CHINA, ILLUSTRATED IN FORTY-EIGHT COLOURED ENGRAVINGS. London: William Miller, 1805. Aquatint dedication leaf, followed by the title leaf, a 'List of Subsrcibers' [2] ff., 48 hand- colored aquatint plates interleaved with [48] leaves of descriptive letterpress printed on rectos only, and an 'Index' leaf with directions to the binder. This copy lacks the half-title and the dedication has been bound in its place. Besides costumes, the plates show cities, habitations, temples, boats, etc. Quarto, 33 x 25.5 cm, contemporary light brown, straight grain morocco with gilt borders on sides, gilt decoration and title on spine, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. Ex library, but with minimal markings: a small 'withdrawn from collection' stamp on recto and verso of ffep., a perforated stamp and small ink stamp to t.p., and a small ink stamp on first text page. Binding is worn at edges, rubbed along joints, and shows small loss at either end of spine. The first text leaf is moderately spotted; otherwise there is only occasional light spotting and offsetting to some text leaves, and very light spotting to a very few plates. William Alexander (1767-1816) is best remembered for his work on China in a period in which the Chinese style greatly influenced the decorative arts in Britain. He travelled to China as draughtsman with Lord Macartney's Embassy to the Emperor in 1792-4. Besides the present work, his drawings illustrative of the expedition were engraved for the official record: G. Staunton's An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, 1797, and another of his own publications, Views of the Headlands, Islands, etc. (1798). His designs were also used for the aquatints in John Barrow's A Voyage to Cochin China, in the Years 1792, and 1793 (1806). (Oxford DNB; Abbey Travel, 534; Tooley English Books, 18; Cordier Sinica III, 1858-9). Stock number: 88692.
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Imprint: 1803 ALEXANDER, Caleb. A GRAMMATICAL SYSTEM OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: COMPREHENDING A PLAIN AND FAMILIAR SCHEME, OF TEACHING YOUNG GENTLEMEN AND LADIES THE ART OF SPEAKING AND WRITING CORRECTLY THEIR NATIVE TONGUE, 7TH EDITION, CORRECTED BY THE AUTHOR. Boston: I. Thomas & E. T. Andrews, Jan. 1803. 96 pp. 12mo., quarter brown calf spine over grey paper covered wooden boards. Paper chipped, corners chipped, leather in good condition. Lacks front flyleaf. Dampstaining to front pastedown through about p. 18. Ink notes to rear flyleaf; ink blot to Preface through p. 6, partially obscuring text. Pp. 23-24 chipped 1 inch at bottom corner, slight loss of text. As is., Good Stock number: 85395. ISBN: ENGLISH
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Imprint: 1930 ALEXANDRE, Arsene. PAUL GAUGUIN: SA VIE ET LE SENS DE SON OEUVRE. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1930. Number 57 of 150 copies, on Arches paper. 276 pp. 4to., stiff printed wrappers. Minor shelfwear to bottom edge and heel of spine. Some edges unopened. Monochrome illustrations. Stock number: 79583.
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Imprint: 1953 ALFRED, William. AGAMEMNON. Rome: Botteghe Oscure XI, 1953. 109 pp. 8vo., beige wrappers printed in black. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on inside front cover. Dramatic verse. Stock number: 82786.
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Imprint: 1870 ALGER, Horatio, Jr. SINK OR SWIM; or, Harry Raymond's Resolve. Boston: Loring, Publisher, 319 Washington Street, 35 School Street, (1870). Luck and Pluck Series, Volume 2. First book edition. (It was serialized in Ballou's Monthly Magazine throughout the whole of 1870.) Wood-engraved frontispiece, illustrated series title-page, and four other plates within. 388 pp., preceded by one leaf with publisher's ads on verso. Octavo, 6 3/4" x 4 3/8", green cloth with border and central diamond stamped in blind on boards, title, series title, and vignette illustration within a rustic frame in gilt on spine. Contemporary ink ownership (Frank Gary Montpelier, Vermont) laid down on front pastedown. Laid in is a small publisher's handbill, 5 3/16" x 3 1/4", advertising "Sink or Swim." Binding is askew; and there is some offset at the inner margin on pp. 138- 9. Otherwise the book is clea and crisp, sound, and just about in near- fine condition. Scarce. (Gardner, p. 114)., Fine Stock number: 88875.
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Binding: Paperback ALICKE, Walter. PRINTING AND THE PROGRESS OF MAN: A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF 680 FINE & RARE BOOKS ILLUSTRATING THE IMPACT OF PRINT ON THE EVOLUTION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION DURING FIVE CENTURIES. CATALOGUE 269. Vaduz: Interlibrum [n.d.] [unpag] 8vo., stiff wraps with paper dust jacket. Near fine, slight bowing to front cover, minor edgewear to jacket. Legendary catalogue of 669 important books. B/w illustrations., Fine Stock number: 79195.
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Imprint: 1848 ALISON, Archibald. THE MILITARY LIFE OF JOHN, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848. First American edition. 410 pp. 8vo., half calf with gilt rules, raised bands, gilt black leather spine label, marbled paper covered boards and edges, endpapers marbled to match. Boards and leather worn, rubbed, scraped. Label slightly chipped (not affecting text). Front hinge cracked. 3 color map frontispiece fine. Maps and text clean and tight. Good., Fine Stock number: 84792.
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Imprint: 1944 ALLEN, Hervey. BEDFORD VILLAGE. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1944). The second of three books, issued spearately, to constitute Sylvania, Vol. I. of THE DISINHERITED. First edition, inscribed to Robert Frost on the ffep. Color frontisp. [viii],305 pp. Octavo, tan cloth, title printed in blue to spine and upper board. Cloth is lightly sunned at spine and lightly spotted all over. An about very good copy, but with an excellent association., Good Stock number: 78072.
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Imprint: 1937 ALLEN, Frederick Lewis, et al... EARLY AMERICAN ROOMS. A consideration of the changes in style between the arrival of the Mayflower and the Civil War in the regions originally settled by the English and the Dutch. With articles by Allen, Elliot Bisbee, Joseph E. Chandler, Kenneth Conant, et al...Portland, ME: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, (1937). Second printing. 4to., black cloth, lettered in gilt; color and black & white illustrations; untrimmed. Touch of soil, hint of sun to boards; just an occasional spot of thumbing internally, but overall, contents are fine and fresh; very good plus binding., Very Good Stock number: 74725.
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Imprint: 1943 ALLEN, Hervey. THE FOREST AND THE FORT. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1943). The first of three books, issued separately, to constitute Sylvania, Vol. I. of THE DISINHERITED. First edition, inscribed to Robert Frost on the ffep. Color frontisp. viii,344 pp. Octavo, tan cloth, title printed in blue to spine and upper board. Binding is slightly skewed. Cloth is sunned at spine, and moderately spotted and soiled all over. A good plus copy, but with an excellent association., Good Stock number: 78071.
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ALLEN, Fred H. THE GREAT CATHEDRALS OF THE WORLD. 2 vols. One Hundred and Thirty full page plates executed in photogravure; with explanatory and descriptive text. Folio, 3/4 morocco, black cloth, decorated cloth endpapers, spine in gilt, a.e.g. Ex-lib. A very good copy with some soiling and scuffing to the boards and extremities, perforated library stamp at title page and plates, bookplate at title page verso and pastedown. Internally clean and sound., Very Good Stock number: 43467.
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Imprint: 1913 ALLEN, J. A. ONTOGENETIC AND OTHER VARIATIONS IN MUSKOXEN, WITH A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE MUSKOX GROUP, RECENT AND EXTINCT. New York: Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, March 1913. New Series, Vol. I, Part IV. Folio, grey wrappers lettered in black. Illustrated with 8 black and white plates and 46 text figures. Lacks most of front cover. Internally clean and partially uncut. A very good copy., Good Stock number: 52689.
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Imprint: 1679 [ALLESTREE, Richard] By the Author of The Whole Duty of Man, &c. THE LIVELY ORACLES GIVEN TO US. OR THE CHRISTIANS BIRTH-RIGHT AND DUTY, in the custody and use of the Holy Scripture. The Theater at Oxford, 1679. 3rd edition. [8] + 226 pp + [1] pp. With engraved title page facing title recto. 12mo., dark brown calf stamped in blind, raised bands. Joints tender, splitting at crown, faint cup ring to front cover, dampstaining to rear cover through last six pages, small nick to rear cover. Dampstaining through first eight pages. Wing A1152. Stock number: 83368.
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Imprint: 1662 [ALLESTREE, Richard?]. THE GENTLEMAN'S CALLING. London, Printed by R. Norton for Timothy Garthwait, 1662. 12mo. [xxiv]176pp. +[4]ff. Second edition. Fine engraved frontispiece and title, with allegorical figures and scenes in architectural frames, dated 1660, the date of the first edition. With two additional plates of prophets. Allestree, a Royalist clergyman whose loyalty was rewarded at the Restoration with the post of Chaplain to the King, was also credited with authorship of the influential "The Whole Duty of Man" (London, Garthwait, 1658). Here the "Gentleman's calling" demands greater virtue because of his advantages. Internally fine in early panelled calf, uniformly darkened and abraded. (BL 1473.b.45)., Fine Stock number: 77434.
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Imprint: 1859 ALLIBONE, S. Austin. A CRITICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, And British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, From the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1859. 3 volumes. Containing 30,000 biographies and literary notices, with forty indexes of subjects. Consecutive pagination to 3140. 4to., half black morocco, marbled paper sides, spine in 6 gilt-adorned compartments, all edges stained red, marbled endpapers. Some rubbing to boards and the expected amount of leather edgewear; gilt and bookblock staining remain bright. Marginal foxing to volume 1 only, else volumes are clean and crisp within. A nice set. Very good., Very Good Stock number: 76634.
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Imprint: 1897 ALLINGHAM, Hugh. CAPTAIN CUELLAR'S ADVENTURES IN CONNACHT & ULSTER A.D. 1588. To which is added An Introduction and Complete Translation of Captain Cuellar's Narrative of the Spanish Armada and His Adventures in Ireland, by Robert Crawford, M.A., M.R.I.A. &c. With Map and Illustrations. London: Elliot Stock, 1897. Inscribed presentation copy from Allingham, Ballyshannon, 28 Nov. 1904. First Edition. 72 pp. Octavo. Bound by Charles de Samblanxin in green morocco with multiple gilt rules, corner pieces and 5 raised bands, with original wrappers bound in; signed by de Samblanx. An attractive copy with just the slightest bit of wear, housed in a marbled covered slipcase. Stock number: 89167.
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Imprint: 1941 ALLISON, John M.S., ed. CONCERNING THE EDUCATION OF A PRINCE, Correspondence of the Princess of Nassau-Saarbruck 13 June-15 November 1758. New Haven: Yale, 1941. 8vo., brown paper boards. Some pages unopened. A touch of foxing to pastedowns, negligible rubbing to boards, one page carelessly opened. Near fine in dust jacket that shows light soil and sun with a nick at crown., Fine Stock number: 71717.
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Imprint: 1733 ALLYNE, JAMES. NEW ENGLISH DISPENSATORY, IN FOUR PARTS. London: Printed for Tho. Astley at the Rose, and S. Austen at the Angel and Bible, both in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1733. First edition. 8vo., xiv + [2] + 646 + [56] + [2] pp. Title continued: "Containing, I. a more Accurate Account of the Simple Medicines, than any hitherto extant. II. The Official Compositions, according to the last Alterations of the College at London: To which are added, the Emendations of the Edinburgh Dispensatorys and many other Compositions, taken from the Practice of our Hospitals, and the most celebrated Authors. III. Extemporaneous Prescriptions, taken from the best Authors, and the most eminent Physicians now in Practice. IV. A Rational Account of the Operations of Medicines. To which are added, the Quantities of the middle Syllables of the Latin names, expres'd by long and short Marks: So that this Dispensatory answers at the same time the Purpose of a Prosodia Pharmaceutica." Boards and spine label missing; rfep detached. Full calf, worn spine with raised bands. Ex-library with usual markings. Text complete, clean. As is. Stock number: 89922.
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