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Hartford, CT: Peter B. Gleason & Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1816. Second Edition. Leather. Early edition of this scarce work of American fiction, first published in 1797, based on much that was true. Contains many details on Algeria and North Africa, and on slavery and the slave market. The book is a 16mo measuring 5.5” x 3.5” in original leather, in fair antiquarian condition. What appear to be original sheep, leather boards which are worn and rubbed and were also apparently used for some penmanship practice – no ink, but incision marks. Spine is quite worn although still holding. Interior endpapers have numerous owner marks, no blanks, owner name “Samuel Sturgis” on title page (whether this is the famous Civil War officer we could not say!). Title page worn but intact. Paper is browned throughout with some minor staining and age, pencil marginalia and childish scribbles in some of the margins, shaken, some pages have breaks in the paper mostly in the… Read More

Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart. Fair with no dust jacket. 1833. First American Edition. Hardcover. 205 pp + ads. by the "author of Sydenham" . Vol. II only, original edition NOT A REPRINT of this novel of manners. Brown cloth spine with original paper label is age darkened, bit worn at the tips. Buff paper over cardboard boards are bit worn and grubby. Interior hinges cracked, old library label, paper is foxed and generally worn, the publisher used paper that was very irregularly cut and the edges are bit crispy, some pages not separated, title page is missing top 1/4, everything above "Sydenham" . Aged but still readable and quite scarce in the original edition.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. Good with no dust jacket. [1919]. First Edition. Hardcover. Large format book 4to with 16 color plates. The book is in fair+ to good-minus condition (for a 100-year-old children's book!). The covers are rubbed along the edges and corners, brown cloth spine cover is cracked in a few spots and a bit worn. Interior pictorial end papers have some gluing ripples and general age, with some pencil erasures. Some of the pages are starting to loosen especially at the bottom gutter. Some of the plates have some chipping along the fore - or bottom edges with loss to the black borders. Text pages are a bit toned and one page has incipient cracks near the gutter. Binding is shaken but holding. This is a very scarce Aldin title about a family of rabbits and their friends and adventures. It is a large format book measuring 10" x 11.5", with hard paper covers and a cloth spine. The brilliantly graphic plates are on heavy stock with… Read More

Bangalore: Current Science. Good with no dust jacket. 1937. Hardcover. 31 pp. Frontis photo of Eugen Goldstein. Illus with figures. Very scarce, printed by Current Science magazine in 1937 with essays on the state of the art science of canal rays (the discovery of which led to the discovery of isotopes). Contributors include Venkatesachar, Heinrich Freiherr Rausch von Traubenberg; Dr. R. Dopel; Dr. B. Dasannacharya; Dr. Rudolf Ritschl; Dr. E. Ruchardt; Dr. F.W. Aston; Dr. J.D. Cockcroft, with a short essay on Eugen Goldstein (1850-1930). Library buckram blue cloth binding is shelf worn and a bit faded, spine gilt is bright. Library stamps and pocket (for some reason, the library classified it under Zoology!), frontis tissue guard is ripped, paper generally bit browned but otherwise clean and unmarked. ; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Paris: L. Potier. Good with no dust jacket. 1847-1852. First Edition. Hardcover. viii + 494 pages. In French. From the Louisi-Philippe, Dont la vente aura lieu le lundi 6 decembre 1852 et les vingt jours suivants, a sept heures precises due soir, Rue des Bons-Enfants, 28, Salle Silvestre, Par le ministere de Me Bonnefons de Lavialle, Commissaire-priseur, rue de Choiseul, 11. And from Palais-Royal et de Neuilly, Deuxieme Partie, contenant, outre les livres imprimes, plusieurs manuscrits orientaux, une suite de dessins et de gravures d'anciens maitres, une collection de planches gravees donnant les vues et plans des chateaux royaux, et quelques medailles. Bound with the Catalogue de la Bibliotheque de M.L****, dont la vente se fera le lundi 28 juin 1847, et les vingt-neuf jours suivants a six heures de relevee, rue des Bons Enfants. Se Distribue a Paris Chez L.C. Silvestre et P. Jannet, 1847. The first catalogue offers theology,jurisprudence, sciences et arts, belles-lettres,… Read More

Paris: Louis Janet. Good with no dust jacket. (1830). First Edition. Hardcover. No date but 1830. [ii], clvii, 11, 44, [2], [4]. Illustrated with 4 illuminated plates in colors and gold, 4 initials in colors and gold, and 4 initials in colors and gold with designs of flowers, leaves, dragons, knights, etc. around the page. Gilt edges. Bound in original red silk velour embossed with angels, flora, fruit, demons with a special cold press, beautiful renewed red leather spine with 5 raised bands with gilt in the compartments. Interior green moire percaline endpapers have been reinforced at the hinges. The Chroniques is followed by the first edition of Le Style by Nodier, followed by 4 pages of music. One of the most charming examples of the "neo-troubadour" fashion, created in the Romantic era by the rediscovery of the Middle Age. The text is printed in Gothic, illustration and illumination are in the style of the fifteenth century. Janet had made a specialty of these fine… Read More

Shanghai: General Evangelical Protestant Missionary Society of Germany. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Xvi, 250, xlv pp. Frontis plate of E. Faber with tissue guard. Tall octavo. In what appears to be original 3/4 black leather with black shagreen cloth boards, gilt to spine. Spine has been repaired with original cover laid down. Interior has book plate of Sir Edmund Walker (1848-1924) a Canadian banker and cultural philanthropist who was a force behind the founding of the Univ. Of Toronto, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario and much more. Paper is lightly toned, a small dark smudge at the gutter at the last blank, edges are marbled, clean and unmarked inside, with solid binding. A very nice copy of this scarce title with nice provenance. 1st Edition. , printed at the American Presbyterian Mission Press. With four appendixes, including The Illegitimate States; The Illegitimate Dynasties; The six great chancellors of Ts'in; and Studies… Read More

London: Hales-Owen. Good with no dust jacket. 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. (iv) + 106 pages. Frontis plate with tissue guard. Including catalogue of Crompton family portraits at Hagley Hall, the seat of Viscount Cobham. A very pretty little book with smooth calf spine and corners outlined with gold ruling, gold title to fc. Spine has 5 raised bands outlined in gilt with two red labels. Both boards are detached as is typical with this era binding. Corners of the boards are a little scuffed, but otherwise very nice. Interior has just a bit of foxing, otherwise crisp and clean. A very attractive copy of this hard to find little book. ; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; 106 pages .

London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday. Good with no dust jacket. 1862. Hardcover. xxviii, 638pp + 2 unnumbered pages. 17 plates. Volume 1 only. Book has blue cloth hardcover with gold text on spine. Wear on head and tail, wear on covers. Ownership signature on front flyleaf. Text is clear and unmarked. ; Vol. 1; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 678 pages .

Philadelphia: Pickwick and Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1883. First Edition. Cloth. 82 pp + Monitum. With two facsimile illustrations before the title page. Extremely scarce. Based upon a paper on The Greek New Testament as Published in America, presented to the American Philological Association in 1882, then expanded with information communicated to the author afterwards. The author was the noted Orientalist and linguist, curator of the Metropolitan Museum in New York and famous for his work in Cypriote epigraphy. The author's gift inscription to the Hamilton Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi, with his "class of 1859" on the second fly leaf. Brown cloth binding with embosed ruling has normal wear, spine gilt bit dulled but quite legible, spine tips starting to fray. Interior yellow end papers with Alpha Delta Phi Hamilton stamp, hinges just starting. Paper is a bit toned, little foxing on title page, then some light foxing or small light stains at the bottom of the… Read More

Paris: E. Leroux. Good with no dust jacket. 1900. First Edition. Cloth. 119 pp + Index Capitum (1 page). In Latin. Hanc thesim facultati litterarum Universitatis Parisiensis in Sorbona proponebat J. Paquier. A life of Philippo Beroaldo the Younger. Appears to be a library binding, but no other library marks. Black cloth cover with bright gilt is clean and nice. Interior end papers have oxidizing from the glue at the gutters, title page and first few pages have creases, but otherwise clean and unmarked. Interestingly, there is a book plate of Revilo Pendleton Oliver, the noted Sanskrit scholar who became one of the most notorious American fascists, a founder of the John Birch Society who left the Birchers because they weren't radical enough. Nice copy of an extremely scarce book, with an interesting past. ; Large 8vo; 119 pages .

Uppsala: Zeipel et Palmblad. Good with no dust jacket. [1818]. Hardcover. [10] 39 pp. In Finnish and Latin, the Finnish in a Fraktur type. Dissertation praeside Johanne Trane´r ... proponit Carolus Axelius Gottlund ... die xii Dec. 1818. In full calf, boards worn and scuffed, top board barely hanging on, back board detached, spine partly perished. Front board has the emboss of noted collector William Stirling, interior has book plates of follow up collectors deGuinzbourg and Keir. Text is clean and unmarked. Very scarce work on Finnish proverbs by the Swedish philologist, translator and poet. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 39 pages .

Florence: Molini, Landi E. Comp.. Good with no dust jacket. 1813. Hardcover. [xvi], xx, 283 pp. 3/4 vellum with brown hard paper boards. Some scuffing and general light wear to the boards, hand letter spine title. Interior has an owner insig dated 1849, some signs of light wear, bit of foxing, sewing showing but book holding very well. In Italian. Rough cut pages with a bit of crisping at edges but all in all a nice copy. The author's most famous work. Vol. I only. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 283 pages .

Paris: P.D. Duboy-Laverne. Fair with no dust jacket. 1802. First Edition. Hardcover. xv + 227 pp. In French and Arabic. Printed by Duboy-Laverne for L'Imprimerie de La Republique in the Year X (1802). Extremely rare French-Arab dictionary, slanted toward those doing business in the Levant. Brown paper-covered hard boards are worn at all edges. Both boards detached, spine perished. Front end paper has some small marks and scars, first blank detached, has old ink ownership inscript which has been scratched out. Foxing throughout, very occasional small ink blots in both black and brown ink, sometimes affecting text although generally minimally. Last blank detached, has some old notes and mathematical sums in ink, last end papers has a few small scars and marks. Usable as is but would benefit from some restoration.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .

Wien (Vienna): Alfred Holder. Fair with no dust jacket. 1913. Second Edition. Hardcover. iv + 548 pp. Mit 1 Abbildung im Text und 2 Tafeln. (5 color figs at rear and 4 b/w figs.) Second edition of one of the classics of medical literature on epilepsy by Otto Binswanger (1852-1929), who studied in Heidelberg, Zürich, Straßburg und Vienna and was graduated in 1877 in Göttingen. He became a professor in 1882 and accepted a job as director of the mental asylum in Jena, where this book was written. Book has a handsome library binding, leather and gilt spine, leather corners, black pebbled boards. The book has an ownership signature of William T. Shanahan, M.D., Director of the Craig Colony for Epileptics in Sonyea, N.Y., as well as a number of stamps of his name, It also 2 library college stamps. The leather is soft and scuffed, front cover has library white ink at bottom edge, top of spine chipped, interior has some underlining in pencil throughout (light). Very… Read More

Wien Und Leipzig: Urban & Schwarzenberg. Good with no dust jacket. 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. 400 pp. In German. A classic of cardiology, from a proponent of "hygienic prophylaxis againt heart disease." This is the first half of the Krankheiten only. Chapters include: Die Ziele der Diagnostik bei Herzkrankheiten; Allgemeine Prognose der Herzkrankheiten; Pseudokardiale; Musikalische Herzgeransche; Das Herz in Fieber und in der Reconvalescenz; Krankheiten des Herzbeutels; Acute Endokarditis und Thrombose; Actiologie und Pathogenese der Klappenfehler des Herzens; Vorkommen und Localisation der Klappenfehler; Die Functionsstorungen des Ventilapparates am Ostium venosum sinistrum; Die functionsstorungen am Aortenostium; Die Functionsstorungen der Ventilapparate am rechten Herzen; Dextrokardie, Missbildungen und Entwicklungsfehler; Die Entstehung und diagnostische Bedentung des Galopprhythmus; Die diagnostische Bedentung des diastolishen und systolischen Doppeltones;… Read More

London: Thomas Davison. Good with no dust jacket. 1820. Second Edition. Leather. [viii], 227 pp. Includes blanks and has what look to be original card covers bound in. Each Canto has a separate TP but pagination is continuous. A small octavo. Modern and very handsome full leather binding with 5 raised bands, red and gilt spine labels, marbled end papers. The top edge of the front card cover is worn and chipped with some foxing, the first few pages around the card covers have some foxing, otherwise the text is clean and nice. Lord Byron wrote his satyrical epic Romantic poem, Don Juan, over the period 1819-1824. This is the second edition of the first two cantos, published shortly after the first. "Lord Byron derived the character of Don Juan from traditional Spanish folk legends, however the story was very much his own. Upon publication in 1819, cantos I and II were widely criticized as immoral because Byron had so freely ridiculed the social subjects and public figures of his time.… Read More

New York: McGraw Hill. Good with no dust jacket. 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. 292 unnumbered pages and 55 unnumbered pages of ads at the rear. The first 63 pages (which ARE numbered) are dictionary definitions, the balance are illustrations of everything from body frames to basket racks to storage batteries to trolley harps. Original dark brown leather binding with gilt is quite worn, edges rubbed with loss of leather, spine covering is gone but book is still holding together. Interior end papers are browned, some foxing near the end papers and edges of first and last pages are crispy, first blank separating at the bottom gutter, general toning throughout and some small page turning marks here and there, but otherwise clean and unmarked. The first and only edition and a remarkable documentary work on the electric railway in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century. Aged and priced to reflect condition, but still usable and respectable. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 292 pages .

Viennae (Vienna): Antonii Schmid. Good with no dust jacket. 1820. Hardcover. Xvi + 196 + xxvi + corrigenda. 3 folding charts. In Latin. Oberleitner's updated Latin version of Jahn's seminal work on Aramaic in Chaldean-Syriac. Jahn was a prominent Orientalist and Biblical Scholar at the University of Vienna. Small octavo. 3/4 leather with contemporary marbled boards, rubbed at all edges, front board detached, spine tips dry and fraying, old spine label, spine gilt fairly bright and still legible. Old library stamp on title page and contemporary inscription, bright yellow endpapers. Paper is sturdy but somewhat foxed. Page 11 has a 2" tear at the gutter top, not affecting text. Page 39/40 has a 4" x 1" lack at the fore-edge, not affecting text but the lack does go right up to the text border. Otherwise some dog-earing and small stains, but no writing or other marks. A chance to own a remarkable piece of Biblical scholarship at a low price. ; 8vo - over 7¾"… Read More

Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes. Good. 1823. Third Edition. Hardcover. 155 pp. In what appears to be original full calf leather with gilt ruling, 5 raised bands to spine with dark red morocco label. Some rubbing and wear to binding, a 1" cut across the top of the board, some rubbing at the joints and a bit of loss at top and bottom spine. Interior has inscript of "E.W. Thurston" and the ghost of an heraldic label, half title has Rev. W. Wilson 1824 (there was a W. Wilson, preacher in Edinburgh at that time but we don't know if they are the same), some very mild occasional foxing but otherwise clear and attractive. Erskine was a Scottish theologian, an Episcopalian who took some ideas from the Calvinists but was mostly convinced that God was a fountain of love and redemption. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 155 pages .