Agrostologia Helvetica difinitionem descripionemque graminum et plantarum eis affinum in Helvetia sponte nascentium completens. Two volumes bound in one. by Gaudin, J - 1811

S. Price, D. Chamberlaine, J. Potter, 1770. Third Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Small Octavo. 2-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Previous owner's signature in ink. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 6643. .

England: At the Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 1932 IN GOOD CONDITION. AUTHOR'S SIGNED LETTER, on Oxford University Press stationary, addressed to Mr. Kent, tipped-in. Along with an article on the author, laid-in. Bound in original paper wraps, stitched binding is tight. Front cover detached, in a protective mylar sleeve.

Savannah Georgia: Morning News Print, 1901. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good+/None Issued. VG+/1st ed. Jonathan Bryan was born in 1708 in Prince William's parish (Beaufort South Carolina). He was the youngest child of Joseph Bryan, owner of the plantation known as Providence. This is a record of his life in Georgia, starting with the founding of Savannah with Oglethrope, through to his death at age 80, having lived in Georgia for 50 years. Jonathan Bryan was an important civic and political figure in the Georgia and South Carolina colonies, owned a great deal of property in both and owned Brampton Plantation. Book condition is Very Good+; hand sewn binding is firm; there is no foxing, soiling or markings in book. 97pp. First Edition. Brown cloth covered boards have some rubbing to corners, and to the head and tail of spine. Some small spots on back panel. Gilt letter title is bright on front cover. A well preserved copy.

Volume 1 of this 10-volume set on medieval costume, art and equipment.With 72 fine chromolithographs, many finished in gold, numbered 1-72 and 38 pages of explanation in German.Plates include religious subjects, suits of armour, tapestries, gravestones, portraits of knights and ladies, fine jewelry, etc. from the 5th to 12th centuries in Europe.Condition: Some scuffing to the marble boards and cloth spine, some foxing and discoloration to plates.Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.Heavy book - extra shipping charges apply.

London: London: printed for and sold by Greenland & Norris, Finsbury Square, 1805. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. Two separate works in one volume. First editions, octavo. Sketch of Worcester: [2], 16pp, with full complement of 14 engraved plates, one folding. Memoirs of Charles I: [1], 22, [ii]pp, complete with engraved title-page bearing portrait of Charles I and 17 engraved portrait plates together with closing publisher's adverts. In contemporary full speckled leather (lightly worn with minor loss to extremities), gilt rolls to board margins, spine gilt, gilt lettered black leather spine label, marbled endpapers with internal hinges expertly reinforced in matching blue cloth, twentieth century ownership label to front blank, sporadic light paper browning and unobtrusive soiling, overall an attractive complete copy of these two uncommon illustrated titles. The Sketch of Worcester is listed in ESTC (T155523) since it was previously thought to have been printed around 1760; 4xUK… Read More

John Lane The Bodley Head. London. 1902. Early Edmund New illustrated edition, originally issued in 1900. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.4). Fully illustrated with 50 full page, and 135 smaller engravings by Edmund H. New. Fine bright copy in a beautiful binding of half dark green morocco. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with double gilt ruled borders. Two sections lettered in gilt and the others decorated with gilt design of a bird on a branch. Marbled paper on boards. A lovely copy.

viii + 482 pp. + 12 gravures h.t. 23,5x15,5 cm. Furne et Ce, Éditeurs, Paris, 1860. --- Half-leather. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Some wear on hinges, edges and corners of the covers. Marbled endpapers. Tight binding. Foxing only on pages with engravings - engravings not affected. All other pages are clean.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition.. Hardcover. very good Plus/No Jacket. John W. Thomason. Copyright date 1934, first edition, first printing (with A present on the title page). Black cloth over boards with gilt lettering and design on the front and on the spine a glued on illustrated adaptation of Davy Crockett on the front board. Top page edges tinted, yellow inside covers front and back. No tears, bent pages, No Dust Jacket. Shelf wear to the edges and to the head and toe of the spine with light fading to the spine. Text and illustrations remains bright and clean, binding is secure, a solid collectible book.

Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1917. Hardcover. Condition: very good- First Edition. 227 pages. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated front board. Pages have no marks or tears, Spine worn no dust jacket

Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company. First Edition, 1928, Two Great and Their Pawnee Battalion, The Experiences of Frank J. North and Luther H. North, Pioneers in the Great West, 1856-1882, and their defense of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad. 299 pages, 2 page map, "Map Showing Routes of Expeditions of the North Brothers" frontispiece. Book is near Fine, ultra clean ribbed red cloth with bright gilt title to spine, very light wear to corners as well as to head and heel of spine, Tight and square with No previous owner bookplate. Writing on inside cover may be pertinent to history. No other writings or marks in the book., or writing. Top edge gilt, foredge and bottom edge untrimmed, Interior is Fine in never read condition. Ultra clean and most presentable in custom mylar cover. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1928.