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PETITE ENCYCLOPEDIE OU LES ELEMENS DES CONNOISSANCES HUMAINES, CONTENANT LES NOTIONS GENERALES DE...

Alletz, Pons Augustin

PETITE ENCYCLOPEDIE OU LES ELEMENS DES CONNOISSANCES HUMAINES, CONTENANT LES NOTIONS GENERALES DE TOUTES LES SCIENCES, DE TOUS LES ARTS UTILES, & DES MATIERES QUI ONT RAPPORT A LA SOCIETE (Deux Volumes, Complet).

Nyon, 1766. First Edition. In French.English translation as follows (approximately): SMALL ENCYCLOPEDIA OR ELEMENTS OF HUMAN CONNECTIONS, CONTAINING THE GENERAL CONCEPTS OF ALL SCIENCES, ALL USEFUL ARTS, AND MATERIALS WHICH HAVE REPORTED TO THE SOCIETY. Two Volumes, measuring 6.75" x 4.00" Mottled (tree?) calf boards. Boards with five raised bands..... More

Price: $200.00

HUDIBRAS IN THREE PARTS WRITTEN IN THE TIME OF THE LATE WARS : A NEW EDITION ADORNED WITH CUTS....

Butler, Samuel

HUDIBRAS IN THREE PARTS WRITTEN IN THE TIME OF THE LATE WARS : A NEW EDITION ADORNED WITH CUTS

Edinburgh: R. Clark, P. Anderson and A. Brown, 1784. Leather-bound. Original brown calf, measuring 7.0" x 4.25" x 1.25". Rubbing and wear to extremities, with corners bumped and a two-inch separation at front board near bottom. Five raised bands, six compartments, with contrasting spine label, triple-ruled in gilt. Text 324..... More

Price: $175.00

EVENINGS AT HADDON HALL, A SERIES OF ROMANTIC TALES OF OLDEN TIME (WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE...

Calabrella, E.C. (de) Baroness

EVENINGS AT HADDON HALL, A SERIES OF ROMANTIC TALES OF OLDEN TIME (WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE CATTERMOLE)

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Early Printing. Leather_bound. 6.75" x 4.5" x 1 5/8". Early Printing. 24 lovely engravings (Goodyear, Rolls, Bentley, Higham, & others) after drawings by George Cattermole. Half-Bound in butterscotch calf, over a striking flame-tongued marbling, repeated on endpapers. Four raised hubs to spine, with contrasting spine..... More

Price: $100.00

THE WORKS OF MR. CONGREVE, IN TWO VOLUMES A NEW EDITION, ORNAMENTED WITH COPPER-PLATES TO WHICH...

Congreve, William

THE WORKS OF MR. CONGREVE, IN TWO VOLUMES A NEW EDITION, ORNAMENTED WITH COPPER-PLATES TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR

London: W. Lowndes, 1788. Hardcover. A "NEW" EDITION. SOLIDLY BOUND. Red morocco half-leather. Rubbing at extremities. Corners are scuffed and gently nudged Some foxing, particularly pp. 217 to 245 in Vol. 1. Gilt lettering debossed to leather spines with five raised bands and ruled gilt. Illustrations with copper plate, 6..... More

Price: $125.00

LIBER PRIMUS, OR FIRST BOOK OF LATIN EXERCISES. TO WHICH HAVE BEEN ADDED, COLLOQUIES FROM...

Dana, Charles

LIBER PRIMUS, OR FIRST BOOK OF LATIN EXERCISES. TO WHICH HAVE BEEN ADDED, COLLOQUIES FROM ERASMUS; WITH A VOCABULARY (Charles K. Dillaway)

Boston, Mass: J.H.A. Frost, Lincoln and Edmands, Stimpson and Clapp, Marsh, Capen and Lyon, B.B. Mussey; Portland, Coleman, Holden and Co.; New York,Collins and Hannay; Troy, N.Y., William S. Parker; Philadelphia, Grigg and Elliot; Baltimore, Cushing and Sons; Cin, 1833. Thirteenth Edition. Leather-bound, measuring 7" x 4.25". Leather covered boards..... More

Price: $75.00

AN INTRODUCTION TO ALGEBRA; Being the First Part of a Course on Mathematics, Adapted to the...

Day, Jeremiah

AN INTRODUCTION TO ALGEBRA; Being the First Part of a Course on Mathematics, Adapted to the Method of Instruction in the American Colleges

New Haven, Connecticut: Hezekiah Howe & Co., 1834. Thirteenth Edition. Leather-bound. Later edition of an early 19th century algebra text by Congregational minister, Professor of Mathematics and (later) President of Yale College for almost thirty years (1817-1846). Full original brown tree calf, with contrasting (red) spine label. Two pull-out charts..... More

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BUCANIERS OF AMERICA: OR A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE MOST REMARKABLE ASSAULTS COMMITTED OF LATE YEARS...

EXQUEMELIN, Alexandre Olivier

BUCANIERS OF AMERICA: OR A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE MOST REMARKABLE ASSAULTS COMMITTED OF LATE YEARS UPON THE COASTS OF THE WEST INDIES, BY THE BUCANIERS OF JAMAICA AND TORTUGA, BOTH ENGLISH AND FRENCH. WHEREIN ARE CONTAINED MORE ESPECIALLY, THE UNPARALLEL'D EXPLOITS OF SIR HENRY MORGAN, OUR ENGLISH JAMAICAN HERO, WHO SACK'D PUERTO VELO, BURNT PANAMA, &c.

London, England: William Crooke (Printed For), 1684. Second English Edition. Leather-bound. NOTE: Restored. Original text: RECASED in period calf (measuring 8 1/4" x 6 3/8"), recently rebacked with new spine, contrasting spine label gilt lettering, and date at bottom also in gilt. MISSING: Two sets of two leaves each (pp..... More

Price: $4,000.00

THE PHYSICIAN'S WIFE AND THE THINGS THAT PERTAIN TO HER LIFE (Original 1894). Ellen M. Firebaugh

Firebaugh, Ellen M.

THE PHYSICIAN'S WIFE AND THE THINGS THAT PERTAIN TO HER LIFE (Original 1894)

Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis Company, 1894. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Bound in brown boards, gold lettering to spine, and dark brown lettering to front board. Rubbing to extremities, corners very slightly nudged. Previous owner's name and date to front free endpaper; residue from bookplate to front endpaper. Some foxing to title..... More

Price: $50.00

POEMS CHIEFLY CONSISTING OF SATYRS AND SATYRICAL EPISTLES. Robert Gould

Gould, Robert

POEMS CHIEFLY CONSISTING OF SATYRS AND SATYRICAL EPISTLES

London: R. Bentley, 1689. First Edition. Hardcover. 16mo, (6.75" x 4.5") Half-calf over non-pareil marbled boards.Outer spine lacking but binding tight. Lacks pp. 27-30, which, according to the table of contents should be "Sylvia Perjured", but no pages appear cut out, perhaps rather neglected to originally be bound-in. The later..... More

Price: $350.00

THE DIER'S ASSISTANT IN THE ART OF DYING WOOL AND WOOLLEN GOODS; Extracted from the Philosophical...

Haigh, James (Editor and Translator)

THE DIER'S ASSISTANT IN THE ART OF DYING WOOL AND WOOLLEN GOODS; Extracted from the Philosophical and Chymical Works of Those Most Eminent Authors Ferguson, Dufay, Hellot, Geoffery, Colbert, and That Reputale French Dier Mons. De Julienne. Translated from the French with Additions and Practical Experiments by James Haigh, Late Silk and Muslin Dier, Leeds.

Philadelphia, PA: James Humphreys, 1810. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Leather_bound. Original binding -- full period calf, measuring 7 3/8 x 4 1/2. Spine gilt-lettered, and double-ruled into five sections, the top section (only) with an extra set of decorative gilt lines. Text block darkened, with only occasional spots of foxing throughout..... More

Price: $500.00

Salmon, Thomas and Sollom Emlyn

A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF STATE-TRIALS AND PROCEEDINGS UPON HIGH-TREASON, AND OTHER CRIMES AND MISDEMEANOURS; FROM THE REIGN OF KING RICHARD II. TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE I: THE THIRD VOLUME (1679-1684); (With Two Alphabetical Tables to the Whole)

London, England: Printed for the undertakers, J. Walthoe Sen. and jun. ; Thomas Wotton, Charles Bathurst, Jacob and Richard Tonson, and the representatives of John Darby ... and also for J. Basket ... [and 29 others], 1742. Third Edition, with Additions. Leather-bound. Large folio.The third of six volumes of this..... More

Price: $450.00

Salmon, Thomas and Sollom Emlyn

A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF STATE-TRIALS AND PROCEEDINGS UPON HIGH-TREASON, AND OTHER CRIMES AND MISDEMEANOURS; FROM THE REIGN OF KING RICHARD II. TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE I: THE FOURTH VOLUME (1685-1696); (With Two Alphabetical Tables to the Whole)

London, England: Printed for the undertakers, J. Walthoe Sen. and jun. ; Thomas Wotton, Charles Bathurst, Jacob and Richard Tonson, and the representatives of John Darby ... and also for J. Basket ... [and 29 others], 1730. Second Edition, with Additions. Leather-bound. Large folio.The fourth of six volumes of this..... More

Price: $450.00

THALABA THE DESTROYER : A RHYTHMICAL ROMANCE (PART II). Robert Southey

Southey, Robert

THALABA THE DESTROYER : A RHYTHMICAL ROMANCE (PART II)

Boston, Mass: T.B. Wait and Co., and Charles Williams, 1812. Hardcover. NOTE: Part II only. 23mo (measuring 5.75" x 4"). Three-quarter bound red morocco over gorgeous deep blue, gold and white marbled boards, ruled in gilt. Rubbing to leather extremities, but very solidly bound. Publisher's red-stain to all edges. The..... More

Price: $75.00

Strong, Ezra Baldwin

THE LIVES AND BLOODY EXPLOITS OF THE MOST NOTED PIRATES, THEIR TRIALS AND EXECUTIONS, INCLUDING CORRECT ACCOUNTS OF THE LATE PIRACIES, COMMITTED IN THE WEST INDIAS, AND THE EXPEDITION OF THE COMMODORE PORTER ; ALSO, THOSE COMMITTED ON THE BRIG MEXICAN, WHO WERE EXECUTED AT BOSTON IN 1835

Hartford, Connecticut: Ezra Strong, 1836. Fourth Edition. Leather-bound. 8vo. Original tree-calf boards, measuring approximately 7.75" x 4.50". Marbled edges, though faded. Front hinge barely started, center crack length middle of spine, split at p. 142-143. In need of repair. Numerous (at least a dozen) illustrations. Probably the fourth edition. (Earlier..... More

Price: $350.00

THE TR REGISTER, (Toilet Requisites)1926 EDITION: A REFERENCE BOOK FOR BUYERS OF PERFUMERIES,...

Toilet Requisites

THE TR REGISTER, (Toilet Requisites)1926 EDITION: A REFERENCE BOOK FOR BUYERS OF PERFUMERIES, COSMETICS, AND TOILET ARTICLES

New York: Pope Publishing, 1926. Hardcover. Navy blue flexible boards, faded, with gilt lettering to front/spine. 280 pp with alphabetical index and index to advertisers. Light rubbing to edges and corners, corners have a soft curl to them. A light 3" crease to rear board, gilt lettering on covers a...... More

Price: $125.00

TRAITE' DE L'ORTHOGRAPHE FRANCOISE EN FORME DE DICTIONNAIRE (NOUVELLE EDITION, REVUE &...

Unknown (Charles Le Roy?)

TRAITE' DE L'ORTHOGRAPHE FRANCOISE EN FORME DE DICTIONNAIRE (NOUVELLE EDITION, REVUE & CORRIGEE); ENRICHI DE NOTES CRITIQUES, & DE REMARQUES FUR L'ETYMOLOGIE & LE GENRE DES MOTS, LA CONJUGAISON DES VERBES IRREGULIERS ET LES VARIATIONS DES AUTEURS

Paris, France: Gabriel Martin, 1742. (Revue & Corrigee) Revised and Corrected. Leather-bound. NOUVELLE EDITION, REVUE & CORRIGEE) 8vo, full leather (tree calf), ruled in blind. Five raised bands to spine (six compartments), five with gilt ornamentation, one with contrasting (red) spine label. Rubbing and wear to leather, considerably to rear..... More

Price: $200.00

Webster, Noah

DICTIONARY FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS

New York: Huntington and Savage, [1833] 1844. Early Printing. Leather-bound. Original full tan calf, measuring 5.5" x 4.5", with contrasting spine label ruled in gilt. Rubbing to extremities and some evidence of small leather loss at spine caps. and spotting to boards. List of words in faint pencil to front..... More

Price: $300.00

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