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London: Burroughs Wellcome, 1912. Sextodecimo (6.75" x 4"), 262 & [2] pages followed by several unused leaves for memoranda & 12 unnumbered pages, illustrated throughout (some in color), & two maps of Atlantic City. Original red cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover & decorated with the Burroughs Wellcome Unicorn trade mark. All edges gilt, decorated endpapers.
Covers spotted, soiled & rubbed, spine a bit sunned, sporadic modest foxing, otherwise good or better.
Contents include: Anglo-Saxon leechcraft; The Wellcome Materia Medica Farm; Historical Medical Equipment; Equipment List and Formulary of Burroughs Wellcome Products.

[London]: "In the Savoy, Printed by E and R Nutt for Thomas Harris, at the Looking-Glass and Bible on London Bridge," 1741. "Third Edition, carefully corrected," this copy with the ownership signature of John G.C. Brainard at the first blank page. 16mo (65" x 425"), [2], 348, & [16] pp, two parts bound in one volume. Contemporary full sheep, the spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, with a gilt-lettered maroon spine label in one compartment ESTC N44455. OCLC finds 9 copies under 4 accession numbers.
Binding rubbed & scuffed, joints & hinges cracked, gilt dull at spine label, ownership signatures of John G.C. Brainard & Rich. Hayes, Jr in old ink at front blanks, couple of leaves with short tears in the margins (text unaffected), several page corners turned, text tanned & foxed, a good or better copy.
Originally published in 1733 with additional printings in 1734, 1739, 1741, & 1766. This copy, the "third edition carefully corrected," with the ownership signature of John Gardiner… Read More

London: Methuen & Company, (1913) "Second and Cheaper Edition." 8vo, ix, 365, 30 (publisher's catalog) pp. plus 30 color plates (including frontispiece) Publisher's maroon cloth elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt on the spine.Spine a bit faded, boards lightly spotted, brief wear at corners, sporadic foxing throughout, a good or better copy.

London, Edinburgh, & New York: T. Nelson & Sons, no date (1860 per British Library). Oblong 16mo (4.25" x 6.5"), Publisher's pictorial printed wraps with "Description of Plates" (16 pages, sewn) & 12 lithographs in color laid in (as issued).
Wraps mostly split at the fold & now repaired with archival tissue on the verso, soiled, edge wear, previous owner's name in ink on the upper wrap (Buchinger ?), text browned, light foxing/ toning mostly evident on the versos of the plates, otherwise good or better.
"Oxford (says the author of "The Land we Live In") is indisputably the most beautiful city in England. It contains a far larger and richer display of medieval and academic architecture than any other; and it yields to none in picturesque variety ..." ~Excerpted from the text.

New York: Edinburgh Fraternity, no date (ca. 1909). Limited edition, one of 1000 sets, complete in six octavo volumes (8.25" x 5.75"), variously paginated, profusely illustrated including frontis in color in each volume. Publisher's maroon cloth with printed paper labels on the spines.
Bindings very slightly soiled, shallow loss & fraying at the top of the spine on volume six, spine labels a bit toned & foxed, couple of hinges starting to crack (still secure), a good or better set.
A nice set of Burns who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, enhanced by numerous illustrations & printed music.

London: Cope Brothers & Company, no date, circa 1900. Bifolium, single sheet measuring 8.75 inches by 11 inches folded once vertically forming 4 pages. The front cover features an amazing lithographed illustration signed in print "G.P." depicting a court jester, tobacco pipe in hand, exhaling smoke, with a dog at his feet, & a quote from Shakespeare's As You Like It below.
Brief wear along the fold, trace edge wear, otherwise Very Good.
"Cope's Cigarettes are made by English Girls. Are not made in Continental Prisons. Cope's Cigarettes are made in a model English Factory. Are not made in the Slums of Cairo or Constantinople."
 ~Excerpted from the text.

London: John Russell Smith, 1851. First edition. Sextodecimo (6.5" x 4.5"), xvi & [1] - 200 pages. Errata slip tipped to p. xvi. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & decorated in blind.
Binding moderately soiled, small stain on the lower cover, brief wear at spine extremities & corners, short annotation in old ink at the ffep, otherwise very good.
"The following little work is intended to embrace a collection of the lingual localisms; popular superstitions, fairy-lore, and other traces of Teotonic heathenism, to this day preserved among the rural population of Northamptonshire ..." ~Excepted from the Preface.

Brighouse, [Yorkshire]: John Hartley, 1891. First Edition. Duodecimo (7.5" x 5"), vi, [3], 10 - 142 & [2] pages. Publisher's brown cloth lettered & decorated in gilt on the upper cover.
Brief wear at spine extremities & corners, edges & joints with minor rubbing, otherwise very good.
"In this little book is an ethnological survey of the various races of men who have successfully made incursions to this country, and the words they have left behind, which have gone to build up the English we now speak ..." ~Excerpted from the author's notice.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1895 First edition, limited to 500 copies, this number 244. Large folio (1525" x 12"), xvii pages followed by 66 color plates with descriptive text & tissue guards interleaved, the plates printed by William Griggs "chromo-lithographer to Her Majesty the Queen." Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth Top edge gilt, the others uncut, decorated endpapers. Binding rubbed, soiled, & faded at the spine & margins, fraying at spine extremities & corners, upper joint partially split, corners bruised, text block cracked in a couple of places, modest internal toning, Good or so & still quite serviceable. This copy from the library of noted collector Otto Orren Fisher with his bookplate at the front pastedown. In 1949, Fisher donated the most significant books of his 80,000 volume collection, including four Shakespeare Folios, to his alma mater, Miami University. Please note, international shipping for this volume is by quote only

London: J.R. Smith, 1849. First edition, this copy with presentation in ink at the ffep: "R. Higginson, Esq / With the author's / kind regards." Octavo (8.25" x 5"), xiv, [1, "Addenda et Corrigenda"] & 151 pages plus 12 pages of publisher's advertisements. With frontis map depicting "Part of Teesdale in Durham. Showing the District to which the Teesdale Glossary refers." Publisher's light brown cloth lettered in gilt & decorated in blind.
Binding soiled, spine cocked, small splits at the joints, corners bruised, minor foxing, otherwise about good & still quite useful.
The author notes in his preface that he has "introduced into this work some descriptions of local custums, sports, and pastimes, which may tend to rescue from oblivion these fast-perishing relics of a bygone period."

London, Edinburgh, & New York: T. Nelson & Sons, no date (1860 per OCLC). Oblong 16mo (4.25" x 6.5"), Publisher's pictorial printed wraps with "Views of the Isle of Wight as described by the Rev. Legh Richmond (16 pages, sewn) & 10 lithographs in color plus a folding panorama laid in (as issued).
Wraps soiled, edge wear including a loss at the lower corner of the front wrap & another at the top of the rear wrap, previous owner's name in ink on the upper cover (C.R. Buchinger ?), text browned & foxed, plates with foxing & browning mostly evident on the versos, otherwise good or better
One of the plates is annotated in ink on the verso providing the epitaph on the tombstone at Jane's grave which the writer "Visited on August 31, 1860."
Quite uncommon, OCLC locates two copies, both at the British Library (accession number 503981186).

London: Printed for private circulation (by Unwin Brothers), 1867. First edition, this copy signed ("with the thanks of the author"), & dated in the year of publication on the title page. 16mo, [1-2], 2 (ie 3), & 4-56 pages. Modern green cloth backed in black morocco lettered in gilt on the spine.
Internally lightly foxed & toned, with several light pencilled check marks throughout the text, otherwise Very Good in Fine modern binding.
William Frederick Rock was the founder of Rock & Co, who published steel-engraved vignette views in the form of cards, fancy stationery, books & booklets He also founded the Barnstaple Literary and Scientific Institution & the North Devon Athenaeum. As stated in the introduction to the glossary (pp 39-56), "the chief object of the foregoing story is to interweave every provincial word known to the author."William Frederick Rock was the founder of Rock & Co., who published steel-engraved vignette views in the form of cards, fancy stationery, books & booklets He also… Read More

New York: J.H. Sears & Company, (1928). Tall octavo (9.75" x 8"), iv & 243 pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered black cloth with a large color illustration applied to the front cover, in pictorial dust jacket.
Spine gilt slightly dull, binding lightly soiled, otherwise near fine in good only soiled & rubbed dust jacket, with edge wear including short tears & small losses & brief archival tissue reinforcement on the verso.
A lovely copy in the uncommon dust jacket.

London: William Pickering, 1848. First edition, this copy with signed presentation by Evans in ink at the front pastedown to the Library of the [Royal] Archaeological Institute. 16mo, xvii & 116 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt & decorated in blind. All edges gilt.
Ex-library with the small rubber-stamped mark of the Royal Archaeological Institute in the margins of several pages, brief edge wear, moderately soiled, spine & margins browned, occasional minor foxing, bookplate of V.S.M. de Guinzbourg at the ffep with attendant glue stain on the verso, a good or better copy.
Post-Archaelogical Institute, this title ended up in the collection of Lt. Colonel Victor de Guinzbourg who served in the Counter-Intelligence Corps during World War II as a liaison officer with the French Foreign Legion & as political adviser to General Alexander M. Patch, commander of the Seventh Army. Later, he worked at the United Nations as staff interpreter & executive officer of the Military Staff Committee.… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1944). First edition. Tall octavo (9.5" x 6.75"), xiv, 591, & xvi pp. plus 15 plates, & 4 unnumbered pages of illustrations. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, in printed & decorated dust jacket. Red top stain.
Modest toning mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise near fine in good only dust jacket, browned at the spine, moderately soiled, with edge wear including tears, small losses, & old tape repairs on the verso.
"Miss Ratchford, Librarian of the Rare Books Collections of the University of Texas, after years of research, has now edited the the letters of Wise to his American friend Wrenn, proving further forgeries and involving in the guilt H. Bruxton Forman and Sir Edmund Gosse, distinguished menof letters." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. 24mo (5.5" x 3.5"), xii & 382 pages. Publisher's bright blue cloth elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt on the spine & in blind on the covers All edges gilt
Binding lightly rubbed, slight fraying at spine extremities, hinge started at title page, otherwise Very Good. Originally published in London in 1862, this copy is one of seven titles in Ticknor & Field's "Books in Blue and Gold" series. The publisher utilized imported sheets from the original printer & provided decorative bindings which "were an instant success and made it clear that buyers do judge books by their covers" (American Antiquarian Society). As described in the preface, "The present volume is rather a condensation than an abridgment of the later volumes of Captain Hall's 'Fragments of voyages and travels,' inasmuch as it comprises all the chapters of the second and third series, only slightly abbreviated, in which the author describes the various duties of the naval lieutenant and commander."

Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1902 First edition thus, limited to 230 copies, this number 132. Small 4to, x, 587 pp, with frontis & 6 plates. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, with Glasgow's coat of arms on the upper cover. Top edge gilt.Spine lightly faded, small gouge along the upper joint, half-title page browned, foxing mostly at endpapers, pastedowns, & at or adjacent to plates, a good or better copy. "This volume is founded upon a similar book published by Mr John Tweed in 1883, and comprehending the years 1833 - 1883 The principal value of this reissue consists of the new material bringing this record up to date." ~Excerpted from the Introduction

Detroit: Johnson Smith & Co., no date [ca 1925]. Small 8vo, unpaginated [36 pp.], including illustrated front wrapper. Publisher's pictorial, stapled stiff paper wraps.
Trace edge wear, moderately toned, otherwise very good.
The story of John "Babbacombe" Lee relayed in the first person who survived execution by hanging on three different occasions in February of 1885. After the final attempt the attending medical officer declined to proceed. Released from prison in 1907, Lee emigrated to the United States where he died in 1945. The story inspired the 1971 album "Babbacombe Lee" by the English folk rock group Fairport Convention, making it the first "folk rock opera" in music history.

London: J & DA Darling, 1848-1849. First edition, in the original 12 monthly parts preceding publication in book form. Octavos, continuously paginated, 407 & vii pp. plus large folding engraved plate in part I, 23 other engraved plates throughout (all on thick paper), plus an engraved title page in part XII, & four pages of illustrated ads printed in red & blue in part VIII. Publisher's pictorial tan wraps housed in a later maroon slipcase & chemise lettered by hand in black ink on the spine Although relatively common in book form, OCLC finds two copies only in parts (British Library; British Library Reference Collection) as of 5/22/2020.
Moderately soiled, edge wear (particularly the first & last parts) including small cracks, chips, tears, etc, partial loss at a few spines, rear wrap detached & spine perished on part XII (with old repair using perforated small labels), still Good or so, given particularly the fragile nature of the format
Roswell (1800 - 1852), musical composer, author of works on… Read More

New York: Duffield & Company; London: Chatto & Windus, 1908 - 1909 Nine variously paginated octavo volumes only (of thirteen), one of 1000 sets of which 500 "are reserved for America" Publisher's gray cloth backed in vellum, lettered in red & black on the spines Top edges gilt, the others uncut. Bindings soiled & lightly spotted, vellum browned, text tanned & occasionally foxed, previous owner's name at ffep in one volume, good or so & still quite serviceable. Inexplicably, one volume does not include the limitation statement.
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