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A. Bouillon: Aux Depens De La Societe Typographique, 1776. Leather-bound. Fair. IN FRENCH. Francais. Octavos. Tree calf with gilt-roll border to both boards. NOTE: Considerable scuffing, wear, rubbing to extremities, bent corners, flaking and cracking to surface leather on spines. Front board of Volume I detaching, (but still attached). For all this, the set is still solidly bound. Marbling to all edges. Red stone marbled endpapers with deep blue veining. Elaborate ex-libris affixed to each pastedown endpaper: "Ex-Libris de M.elle Charlotte Warren." 250 separate fables, in verse and 248 lovely, intricate engravings throughout the four volumes. The set belonged to Charlotte Augusta Greenough (Tooker?) Warren (1885 - 1957) "...Charlotte was a director of the Redwood Library. She devoted herself to finding and returning books that had been brought from England in 1747 for the library's first collection. Her own interest was in French books and manuscripts, and she built one of the most extensive…
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FABLES CHOISIES, MISES EN VERS (4 Volumes, Complete); (4 tomes, Complet)
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THE FACE
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San Francisco, CA: Underwood-Miller, 1980. First Hardcver Edition. Leather-bound. Very Good. Octavo, 9.5 in. x 6.25 in., pp. 225. Limited edition of 700 copies. Blue leather boards with gilt frames and fleurons, and red title, to front and spines. Marbled endpapers. Rear corners bumped. "Jack (John Holbrook) Vance (San Francisco, August 28, 1916 - Oakland, May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen. Other pen names (each used only once) included Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse. Among his awards are: Hugo Awards, in 1963 for The Dragon Masters, in 1967 for The Last Castle, and in 2010 for his memoir This is Me, Jack Vance!; a Nebula Award in 1966, also for The Last Castle; the Jupiter Award in 1975; the World Fantasy Award in 1984 for life achievement and in 1990 for Lyonesse: Madouc; an Edgar (the mystery…
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FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTH OF IRELAND; New and Complete Edition: Edited by T. Wright, with a Memoir of the Author by his Son, T.F. Dillon Croker
by Croker, T. Crofton and T.Wright (Editor)
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London, England: William Tegg, 1870. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 12mo. 7.75 in. x 5.25 in. pp. xxxiv, [2], 486, [2]. Illustrated throughout with black and white line drawings. Contemporary half calf with double rule in blind over blue-green pebbled cloth boards. Gilt title on red panel to spine. Gilt decorative frames to other spine compartments. Five-raised bands to spine. Marbled edges. Light rubbing to extremities. Booksellers ticket (Kitizawa, from Tokyo) to top of front pastedown. Previous owner's ink stamp to front flyleaf. Protected in mylar. Latter-day reprint with a memoir of the author by his son. "Thomas Crofton Croker, (born Jan. 15, 1798, Cork, Ireland.âdied Aug. 8, 1854, London, Eng.), Irish antiquary whose collections of songs and legends formed a storehouse for writers of the Irish literary revival. The son of an army major, Croker had little school education but did read widely while working in merchant trade. During rambles in southern Ireland from 1812 to 1816,…
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FALLING IN LOVE, WITH OTHER ESSAYS ON MORE EXACT BRANCHES OF SCIENCE
by Allen, Grant
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1890. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 7.4 in. x 5 in., pp. 356, [6] (advertising). Dark red boards with black title on beige paper label to spine. Edgewear to top/bottom of spine. Spine label significantly chipped. Corners bumped. Rubbing to edges. Previous owner's name to dog-eared front free endpaper. Spine and hinges are tight. "Authorized Edition". Two pages (ONLY) of an apparently longer 19th century letter, bearing no logical connection to the book at hand, laid in at rear! Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 - October 25, 1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England. He was a public promoter of evolution in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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THE FAMILY HERBAL OR AN ACCOUNT OF ALL THOSE ENGLISH PLANTS, WHICH ARE REMARKABLE FOR THEIR VIRTUES, AND OF THE DRUGS WHICH ARE PRODUCED BY VEGETABLES OF OTHER COUNTRIES; WITH THEIR DESCRIPTIONS AND THEIR USES, AS PROVED BY EXPERIENCE; Also Directions for the gathering and preserving roots, herbs, flowers, and seeds; the various methods of preserving these simples for present use; receipts for making distilled waters, conserves, syrups, electuaries, juleps, draughts, &c. &c. with necessary cautions in giving them: INTENDED FOR THE USE OF FAMILIES
by Hill, John (Sir, M.D.)
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Bungay, Suffolk, England: C. Brightly and Co. and T. Kinnersly, 1812. Leather-bound. Very Good. 8vo. 8 3/8 in. x 5 in. Contemporary tree calf, double-ruled in gilt chain pattern. Contrasting spine label - six compartments. Owner name Samuel S. Parkinson to front free endpaper. Note to front pastedown: "Collated May 30, 1902), and double initialed. FIFTY-FOUR ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL COLORED PLATES. 376 pp. Tight, clean copy of a 110+ year-old book, ready for daily use! "...It is his [the author's] opinion that the true end of science is use; and in this view, the present work has been undertaken.
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A FAMOUS CRONICLE OF OURE TIME, CALLED SLEIDANES COMMENTARIES, CONCERNING THE STATE OF RELIGION AND COMMONWEALTH, DURING THE RAIGNE OF THE EMPEROUR CHARLES THE FIFT, WITH THE ARGUMENTES SET BEFORE EVERY BOOKE CONTEYNINGE THE SUMME OR EFFECT OF THE BOOKE FOLLOWING; Translated out of Latin into Englishe, by Ihon Daus. Here unto is added also an Apology of the Authoure
by Sleidanes, Joannes (Johan Philippson von Schleiden) Sleidanus
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London: Imprinted by Iohn Daie (John Day) for Nicolas Englande, MDLX, The 26 Daie of September, 1560. Second state in English. Leather-bound. Very Good. Folio. (9 5/8" x 6 3/4"). Rebound at some point in sympathetic calf, with earlier spine affixed. This spine, which has five raised bands, has what appear to be a repeating pattern of strawberries (?) blindstamped into each compartment except that of the title, which itself is blindstamped into its compartment. Scuffing to boards, evidence of reconstituted corners, rubbing and wear to entire length of spine, but. but book is very tightly bound. with blue Ex Libris bookplate affixed to front pastedown which reads "Anderson" and "Stand Sure", below a shield with two wolves and two black stars surrounding a black cross, ribboned border, and a tree at the top. Marbled endpapers. Woodcut arms of Francis, Earl of Bedford on title, Che Sara Sara* motto below. Stain to part of title page, perhaps to obscure manuscript words Printed in Black Letter with…
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FAMOUS PEOPLE OF JAPAN (ANCIENT AND MODERN)
by Stephenson, Edward S. and W. Asano
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Yokohama: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1911. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Previous owner's script signature and "Korea - 1912" to FFEP. 8vo, 6" x 8.875" Reddish-brown cloth-covered boards lightly worn a lighter shade to edges and corners. A tiny bit of fraying to folded under spinecaps, corners a bit nudged. Spine lightly cracked, a bit brittle and you can see where the signatures are sewn in. Back hinge is torn a little and a bit loose but binding still intact. Black lettering to a faintly sunned spine. Top and bottom of boards, each, have three worn gilt debossed horizontal lines with a .75" space between one line and the two edge lines. This design continues from front to back with the spines' lines in black. Worn gilt debossed star-burst-like design with crossed sabre's and bird, with wings spanned, sitting on top of third sword and circle illustration above its head. Text edges are aged, very light markings to top edge. 47 black and white collotype plates; beautiful illustrations and photographs. 230 pp.…
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FARDOROUGHA THE MISER; OR, THE CONVICT OF LISNAMONA
by Carleton, WIlliam
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Dublin, Ireland: James Duffy, 1846. Fourth Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected. Leather-bound. Very Good. 12mo, 6.75 in. x 4.25 in., pp. xii, 359. Illustrated with frontispiece plate printed in color by C. Graf. Rich dark blue full calf with fine gilt double frame to front and back. Gilt title on red and black panels, and four raised bands, to spine. All edges bright gilt. Very light shelfwear to edges. Gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers. Previous owner's name to verso of front free endpaper. Spine and hinges tight. Handsome copy from an unusual publisher. Previous owner was George Bentham. Could it have belonged to George Bentham, the famous botanist (1800-1884)? William Carleton, (born Feb. 20, 1794, Prillisk, County Tyrone, Ire.-died Jan. 30, 1869, Dublin), was a prolific writer who realistically portrayed the life of the rural Irish. Born the youngest of 14 children on a small farm, Carleton learned to appreciate the Irish heritage from his father, a man swell-versed in the rich folklore…
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FARM BOY : A HUNT FOR INDIAN TREASURE; Illustrated by Kurt Wiese
by Stong, Phil
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Good Plus. Kurt Wiese. Quarto, 10.3 in. x 8.3 in., pp. 80. Original "$2.00" price to front dustjacket flap. Pictorial paper boards over black cloth spine. Landscape endpapers. Rubbing to board edges. Light age-toning to pages. Unmarked interior. Rubbing to dustjacket edges, with sunning and small chips to top/bottom of dustjacket spine. Protected in mylar. The 1935 Newberry Award Winner, ith fabulous color drawings by Kurt Wiese.
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FARMERS' HANDBOOK: DUPONT EXPLOSIVES HANDBOOK: INSTRUCTIONS IN THE USE OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES FOR CLEARING LAND, PLANTING AND CULTIVATING TREES, DRAINAGE, DITCHING, SUBSOILING AND GENERAL WORK
by DUPONT
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Wilmington, Delaware: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, 1916. Softcover. Good. Staplebound Softcover. (9 in. x 6 in.) Beige card covers with a lovely apple tree in red, brown and green, and elaborate below-ground root system. Some light staining and peeling to card covers. Illustrated by photographs, diagrams. Book includes state-by-state testimonials of how much the instructions helped on various farms. Booklet was set up to be mailed, as there is a "Place one-cent stamp here" box along with the Du Pont address to rear of booklet. note: A more-than-century-old, antique artifact for historical or amusement purposes only. Laid in: Farmer's Bulletin No. 4 published by DuPont from January 1917 entitled "Agricultural Promotion Work : Cheaper Land Clearing." "This book is intended to point out the advantages of the use of explosives for various purposes on the farm, and to give instructions for their use...The first part is to emphasize the different purposes for which explosives may be used, ahnd the…
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THE FARMER'S LETTERS TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, CONTAINING THE SENTIMENTS OF A PRACTICAL HUSBANDMAN, ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE... TO WHICH ARE ADDED SYLVAE: OR OCCASIONAL TRACTS ON HUSBANDRY AND RURAL OECONOMICS
by Anonymous (Young, Arthur)
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London, England: W. Nicoll, at the Paper-Mill,No. 51, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1768. Second Edition (Corrected and Enlarged). Leather-bound. Good Plus. 8vo. Contemporary smooth calf, double border-ruled in gilt. Five raised bands; gilt title on replaceement red panel on spine. Shelfwear, nicks and gouges, but solidly bound. Provenance note to front pastedown "Purchased by N.W. Saffon from Lowe's of Birmingham 18/6/55." No half title page; author's name written on title page. 482 pp. Letters include: I) Considerations on the importance of agriculture, compared with that of manufactures -- the high price of provisions. -- of Riots, Taxes, &c.; II) The exportation of corn considered; III) The different circumstances of large and small farms examined -- Quantity and value of their product -- Number and value of the hands employed in them -- Landlord's advantage -- Grass-farms; IV) Proportion between the arable and grasslands of a farm--Arrangement of crops -- Great importance of working with oxen; V)…
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FARTHEST NORTH, BEING A RECORD OF A VOYAGE OF EXPLORATION OF THE SHIP "FRAM" 1893-96 AND OF A FIFTEEN MONTHS' SLEIGH JOURNEY BY DR. NANSEN AND LIEUT. JOHANSON (TWO VOLUMES); Appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram
by Nansen, Fridtjof
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavos, 6.5 x 9.5 in., pp. 587 (Volume I); pp. 729 (Volume II). Illustrated with "About 120 Full-page and Numerous Text Illustrations, 16 Color Plates in Fascimile from Dr. Nansen's Own Sketches (with tissue guards), Etched Portrait, Photogravures, and 4 Maps." Gray-green cloth boards with gilt, green, red, and silver rope design and gilt title to covers, and gilt title to spines. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to extremities of both volumes. Untrimmed pages. Books lightly shaken. Four maps, laid in and stored in pockets on front and rear pastedowns of Volume I. All four maps in very good plus condition. Light age-toning to pages. Half-circle offset stain to edges of both front and rear endpapers from half-circle cutaway to map pocket in front pastedown endpaper of Volume I. "Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian explorer, oceanographer, humanitarian, diplomat, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was born on October 10, 1861 in Store…
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FAUST (SIGNED BY TRANSLATOR & ILLUSTRATOR); From the German by John Anster, Illustrated by Harry Clarke
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London, England: G. Harrap & Company, Ltd, 1925. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good Plus (slipcase). Harry Clarke. Quarto, 11.7 in. x 8.5 in., pp. 254. Limited edition #447/1000 of the English issue. Signed on the limited edition page by the translator and illustrator. Illustrated with twenty-one full-page color and black and white plates by Harry Clarke, and numerous ink drawings. Quarter calf vellum over speckled gray paper boards. Gilt title to spine. Gilt top-edge; untrimmed fore- and bottom edges. Very light rubbing to extremities. Light nudge to upper front corner. Illustrated endpapers. Front hinge just a touch tender. Very light and occasional spotting throughout. Unmarked interior. Slipcase is of designer brown and tan paper with buckram edging.
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FEAR OF FLYING : A NOVEL
by Jong, Erica
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New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus / Very Good. Octavo, 8.4 in. x 5.6 in. , p. 340. Light blue cloth boards with red title to spine. Sunning to spine, rear board, and top edge of boards. Red endpapers. A couple small chips to dustjacket edges. Llght sunning to back of dustjacket. Protected in mylar.
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THE FEMALE MEDICAL COUNSELOR, BEING A DOMESTIC TREATMENT OF THE DISEASES OF FEMALES AND CHILDREN; SETTING FORTH IN PLAIN TERMS, DISEASES PECULIAR TO FEMALES AND CHILDREN, WITH THEIR VARIOUS REMEDIES, VALUABLE INSTRUCTIONS, MEDICAL RECIPES, ETC. ETC.
by Woodruff E.(Dr.)
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San Francisco: Self-Published, 1885. First Edition. Leather-bound. Very Good. Full speckled sheep . A then-contemporary, detailed look at female anatomy, health, hygiene, midwifery, diseases, pharmaceuticals, with a table of medical properties, a general discourse on fevers. Boards repaired or replaced. 383 pp.
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THE FERMANAGH STORY : A DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF THE COUNTY FERMANAGH FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY (SIGNED)
by Livingstone, Peadar
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Enniskillen: Cumann Seanchais Chlochair, 1974. Second Impression. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 8.6 in. x 5.5 in., pp. viii, 570. Inscribed "With best wishes" and signed and dated by the author on the title page. Illustrated wiht black and white photographs, maps, and drawings. Green cloth boards with small harp stamped in blind to front, and silver title to front and spine. Green topstain. Light rubbing to extremities. Bottom corners lightly nudged. Very slight warp to front board. Endpaper maps. Hinge exposed at pp. 8/9, but holding well. Fr. Peadar Livingstone (1932 - 1987) was a Roman Catholic priest in the Diocese of Clogher, Ireland. Fr. Livingstone was a renowned scholar in both the Irish language and local history. In 1969, he published The Fermanagh Story, a comprehensive history of the county of Fermanagh. He also wrote a regular column for The Fermanagh Herald, a local newspaper, under the name "Ernesense." (from Wikpedia).
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FIDDLER'S QUEST
by Lynch, Patricia
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New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1943. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Isobel Morton-Sale. Octavo, 8 in. x 5.5 in., pp. 309. Illustrated with color frontis and twelve ink drawings. Light blue clo;th boards with children's scene stamped in black to front. Black title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Unmarked interior. Light rubbing to dustjacket edges; small chips to base of dustjacket spine. LIght sunning to dustjacket spine. Protected in mylar. Patricia Lynch (1894-1972) was an Irish children's writer and a journalist. She is best known for blending Irish rural life and fantasy fiction... Patricia Lynch's earliest children's stories were published in the Irish Press in 1931... she wrote some fifty children's books and around two hundred short stories. (from Dictionary of Irish Biography).
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FIELD NOTES : THE GRACE NOTE OF THE CANYON WREN (SIGNED)
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. 12mo, 7.25 in. x 5.2 in. pp. 159. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Biege paper boards over brown cloth spine with gilt title to front and spine. From the dustjacket: "In this collection of twelve stories the author evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, with nature. In these stories we find men or women - sometimes at odds with themselves, sometimes transcendently well grounded - who have an experience that is profound, unsettling, and oddly liberating." Barry Holstun Lopez (1945Â - 2020) was an American author, essayist, nature writer, and fiction writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns. He was the winner of the National Book Award in 1986 for his book, Arctic Dreams.
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FIELDS, FACTORIES & WORKSHOPS, OR INDUSTRY COMBINED WITH AGRICULTURE AND BRAIN WORK WITH MANUAL WORK
by Kropotkin, Pyotr Alexeyevich
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London, England: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1912. New, revised and enlarged edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Good. 12mo, 6.3 in. x 4.3 in., pp. xii, 477, [3]. Illustrated with black and white frontispiece plate and other photographic plates. Blue cloth boards staped with elaborate floral and column design in darker blue. Gilt title to spine. Previous owners' names, dated 1916, to front free endpaper. Chips to dustjacket corners, creases and closed tears to top of rear dustjacket, and open tear to top inch of dustjacket spine. Original British price sticker to spine. Protected in mylar. Preface is dated October, 1912. Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842-1921) was a Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geographer, writer, and one of the world's foremost anarcho-communists.
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FIFTY CLASSIC CLIMBS OF NORTH AMERICA
by Roper, Steve and Allen Steck
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San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Quarto, 11 in. x 8.5 in., pp. xii, 324. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Olive linen boards with gilt title to front and spine. Very light rubbing to extremities. Spine is slightly shaken. Unmarked interior. Light rubbing to edges of dustjacket; a couple chips to bottom of spine and a few small closed tears to dustjacket edges.Maps by Edwin A. Gustafson. Protected in mylar. Steve Roper is a noted climber and historian of the Sierra Nevada in the United States. He along with Allen Steck are the founding editors of the Sierra Club journal Ascent. Roper is the winner of the Sierra Club's Francis P. Farquhar Mountaineering Award for 1983. He is also, with Allen Steck, the recipient of the American Alpine Club's Literary Award.
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