Uncle Sam's Palace; or, The Reigning King

By: Wellmont, Emma

Price: $25.00  $20.00

Publisher: Benjamin B. Mussey and Company: 1853

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 1964230

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine lightly sunned, one gathering sprung but holding nicely, pencil gift note on front endpaper. 1853 Hard Cover. 308 pp. 8vo. Original cloth with elaborate blind-stamped decorations, gilt titles & floral borders on spine. Engraved frontispiece of 'The Old Liquor Store', several engraved plates in text, by 'Billings'. A temperance novel telling the story of Mr. Samuel Beals Jr., or 'Uncle Sam', the owner of a wholesale liquor business, and depicted as bu... View more info

An Epitome of Human Histology For the Use of Students in Connection with Lectures and Laboratory Work

By: Weysse, Arthur W.

Price: $10.00  $8.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co: 1898

Seller ID: 1534300

Condition: Very Good

1898 Large Hardcover. 90 pp. 9 3/4 x 6 1/2. CONTENTS: Definitions; The Cell; Cell Multiplication; Epithelial Tissues; Connective Tissues; Muscular Tissue; Nervous Tissue; The Skeletal System; The Muscular System; The Peripheral Nervous System; The Skin and Its Appendages; The Circulatory System; The Respiratory System; The Digestive System; The Excretory System; The Reproductive System; The Central Nervous System; The Special Sense Organs. View more info

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, As Pleasingly Exemplified in Many Instances, Wherein the Serious Ones of This Earth, Carefully Exasperated, Have Been Prettily Spurred on to Unseemliness and Indiscretion, While Overcome by an Undue Sense of Right

By: Whistler, J. McNeill

Price: $50.00  $40.00

Publisher: John W. Lovell Co.: 1890

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2199446

Condition: Good

First authorized American edition. Front hinge loosening, boards rubbed. Affixed to the front blanks are newspaper clippings of a review of a later edition of the work, a biographical article about Whistler, and a brief article about the discovery of some of his early work. 1890 Hard Cover. 292 pp. 8vo. Light brown cloth spine, dark brown paper over boards, gilt titles. A publication detailing the legal action Whistler took against critic John Ruskin for disparaging mark... View more info

The Natural History of Selborne; with Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and The Naturalist's Calendar

By: White, Gilbert; Jardine, William; Jesse, Edward

Price: $25.00  $20.00

Publisher: Henry G. Bohn: 1851

Seller ID: 2200952

Condition: Good

Hinges repaired, boards rubbed, pages toned, spine sunned. 1851 Hard Cover. 416 pp. 7 3/8 x 4 3/4. 40 engravings. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, or just The Natural History of Selborne is a book by pioneering English naturalist and ornithologist Gilbert White first published in 1789. It has been continuously in print since then, with nearly 300 editions up to Thames & Hudson's The Illustrated Natural History of Selborne in 2007. This book was a compilat... View more info

A Memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., Governor of New England, New York and Virginia, &c., &c., with a Portrait.

By: Whitmore, William Henry

Price: $500.00  $400.00

Publisher: T.R. Marvin & Son: 1868

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 2008336

Condition: Good

Second edition. Front hinge starting, corners faded, boards a bit rubbed. 1868 Hard Cover. xlix, [1] pp. 4to. Black leather spine & corners, marbled boards, red top edge, pink endpapers, gilt titles & rules, printed on laid paper. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Edmund Andros. 1868 reissue, reprinted from the 'Andros Tracts' (Howes A271), published by the Prince Society of Boston. Sabin 103755 also references the Andros Tracts, stating that Whitmore was the editor. View more info

Mother Goose for Grown Folks: A Christmas Reading.

By: Whitney, A.D.T. [Adeline Dutton Train]

Price: $20.00  $16.00

Publisher: Loring, Publisher / Rockwell & Churchill, Printers: 1870

Edition: Revised Edition

Seller ID: 2262844

Condition: Very Good

Revised and enlarged edition. Boards lightly soiled with faint stain along spine, minor loss from spine head. 1870 Hard Cover. iv, 144 pp. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title page precedes printed title, engravings throughout text. A collection of Mother Goose nursery rhymes, humorously adapted to the verbosity an adult might have expected from verse in the nineteenth century. The original rhyme, or a portion of it, is offered at the beginning of each section, the... View more info

1875 Engraving, Warwick Castle, from the West [Warwickshire, England]

By: Whymper

Price: $15.00  $12.00

Publisher: 1875

Seller ID: 1665576

Condition: Near Fine

Matted and ready for framing. An exceptional example. 1875 Print. Matted to 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 (mat measures 11 3/4 x 14 1/4). Illegible engraver's mark in lower left corner. An artistic rendering of the west wall of Warwick Castle. Originally built by William the Conqueror, it has undergone numerous structural and functional changes in its lifetime. It withstood siege during the English Civil War, and remains among the more well-known fortified structures in England. View more info

Scrambles amongst the Alps, and Down the Rhine

By: Whymper, Edward; Murphy, Blanche

Price: $20.00  $16.00

Publisher: J.B. Lippincott & Co.: 1890

Seller ID: 2280372

Condition: Fair

Rear board and edges stained, all silver from front board decoration rubbed away. 1890 Hard Cover. Two books in one volume: 164; 75, [1] pp. Brown cloth, silver & gilt titles & decorations, gilt page ridges. Whymper's narrative details attempts to scale the Matterhorn and other peaks in the Swiss Alps. Murphy's recounts a trip down the Rhine River, with descriptions and illustrations of various points of interest, including many notable examples of architecture (Heidelbe... View more info

The Capitals of the Globe, the Political, Commercial, Artistic and Sacred Capitals of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America and the West Indies

By: Wilberforce, Archibald (Editor)

Price: $15.00  $12.00

Publisher: Peter Fenelon Collier: 1893

Seller ID: 2200530

Condition: Good

Boards toned, one gathering slightly sprung. 1893 Large Hardcover. 586 pp. Folio. Cover depicts images of Paris, London, Africa, Washington, Asia, and Berlin. The Capitals of the Globe, the Political, Commercial, Artistic and Sacred Capitals of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America and the West Indies, with Graphic and Accurate Descriptions of all their Wonders, Shrines, Traditions, Sensations and Treasures... View more info

The Family Adviser; or, A Plain and Modern Practice of Physic; Calculated for the Use of Families Who Have Not the Advantages of a Physician, and Accommodated to the Diseases of America. To which is Annexed, Mr. Wesley's Primitive Physic, Revised.

By: Wilkins, Henry

Price: $75.00  $60.00

Publisher: John C. Totten, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Sold by Ezekiel Cooper and John Wilson, at the Book-Room: 1804

Edition: Fourth Edition

Seller ID: 2012655

Condition: Good

Fourth edition. Edges rubbed & faintly stained with minor loss from front wrapper corner. Unclear whether this was issued as a softcover or hardcover originally - leather along spine with loss from head & foot. 1804 Soft Cover. 105, [3] pp. This is the fourth edition referenced in Hoolihan 3784, but (despite the title page) is missing the Wesley portion: The eight editions of Wilkins' Family adviser published between 1793 and 1833 attest to the book's enduring popularity... View more info

The Cleverdale Mystery; or, The Machine and Its Wheels. A Story of American Life.

By: Wilkins, W.A.

Price: $75.00  $60.00

Publisher: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert.: 1882

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2285917

Condition: Good

First edition. 1/2 inch tear to spine head, boards and a few pages lightly soiled. 1882 Hard Cover. 287, [11] pp. 8vo. Mustard cloth, gilt and black titles and decorations. A late 19th century novel of political intrigue, set in the Lake George area of New York State. View more info

Universal History, in Perspective.

By: Willard, Emma

Price: $75.00  $60.00

Publisher: A.S. Barnes & Co.: 1853

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2172097

Condition: Good

Twelfth edition. Foxed throughout, ink name crossed out on front flyleaf. 1853 Hard Cover. xxxii, 494 pp. 8vo. Maps and engravings throughout. A history of the world from the year of creation (4004 B.C.) through 1843. View more info

A Treatise on the Law of Executors, Administrators and Guardians, and of the Remedies by and Against Them, in Surrogates' Courts of the State of New York; Together with an Account of the Jurisdiction and Practice of Those Courts in the Admeasurement of Dower.

By: Willard, John

Price: $50.00  $40.00

Publisher: William Gould, Law Bookseller: 1859

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 1930707

Condition: Good

First edition. Spine, corners, and hinges reinforced with leather & cloth, ink name handwritten & stamped on front endpapers. 1859 Full-Leather. xxiv, 592 pp. 8vo. Original full calf, red leather spine label, gilt titles. A legal reference regarding the administration of wills in New York State. View more info

Dr. John Williams' Last Legacy, and Useful Family Guide.

By: Williams, John

Price: $65.00  $52.00

Publisher: [S. Wilder]: 1827

Edition: Third Edition

Seller ID: 2012658

Condition: Good

Third edition. Top corner stained, edges rubbed with minor loss from edge of final page, pages toned, one gathering loosening. 1827 Soft Cover. 24 pp. 12mo bound in sixes. Sewn binding. A medical guide designed for use by families, offering herbal remedies for such common ailments as colic, stiff joints, hooping cough, consumption, dropsy, etc. Hoolihan 3797.1: This 1827 New York edition of the Last legacy was published separately, and in 1828 was appended to The New-Eng... View more info

Fun-Jottings; or, Laughs I Have Taken a Pen To

By: Willis, N. [Nathaniel] Parker

Price: $30.00  $24.00

Publisher: Alden, Beardsley & Co. / Wanzer, Beardsley & Co.: 1853

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2263035

Condition: Good

First edition, third state (BAL 22822). Boards stained, 1 inch chip from spine head, ink name and date on front endpaper (Fanny S. Lacy, May 23d 1854, Caledonia). 1853 Hard Cover. vi, 371, 4, [3] pp. 8vo. A collection of short pieces, including: Larks in Vacation; Meena Dimity; or, Why Mr. Brown Crash Took the Tour; Mrs. Passable Trott; The Spirit-Love of 'Ione S---------'; The Ghost Ball at Congress Hall; Pasquali, the Tailor of Venice; The Widow by Brevet; Nora Mehidy;... View more info

Canadian Scenery, Illustrated.

By: Willis, N.P.; Bartlett, W.H.

Price: $500.00  $400.00

Publisher: James S. Virtue: 1842

Seller ID: 2274986

Condition: Good

Restoration to front joint, boards lightly discolored, tide mark to bottom margin, light foxing throughout, ink gift note on front flyleaf. 1842 Hard Cover. Both books bound together in one volume. 128; 116 pp. 4to. Half-leather, gilt titles, marbled endpapers, includes about 120 engraved plates, and a map of the eastern portion of Canada. A companion to American Scenery, published two years earlier. View more info

The Universal Restoration: Exhibited in a Series of Dialogues, between a Minister and His Friend. Comprehending the Substance of Several Conversations, That the Author Hath Had with Various Persons, both in America and Europe, on That Interesting Subject, Chiefly Designed to Fully State, and Fairly to Answer the Most Common Objections That Are Brought Against it from the Scriptures.

By: Winchester, Elhanan

Price: $75.00  $60.00

Publisher: Isaiah Thomas, Jun.: 1803

Seller ID: 1998605

Condition: Good

Later edition, with biographical preface. Front joint weak, edges a bit rubbed, minor transfer throughout, ink stamp and pencil name on front endpapers. 1803 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xxxii, 251, [1] pp. 12mo. Original full leather, red leather spine label, gilt titles & rules. Winchester's most well-known work, originally published in London in 1788. 'To this edition is prefixed, a brief account of the means and manner of the author's e... View more info

The Process and Empire of Christ; From His Birth to the End of the Mediatorial Kingdom; A Poem, in Twelve Books.

By: Winchester, Elhanan

Price: $125.00  $100.00

Publisher: William Fessenden: 1805

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 1998609

Condition: Good

First American edition. Two gatherings sprung, one holding at bottom edge, other loose but included. Lightly foxed throughout, ink name and stamp and pencil notes on endpapers, quite old sticker on spine, edges rubbed. 1805 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 352 pp. 12mo. Original full leather, black leather spine label, gilt titles & rules. A long-form religious poem. Winchester's most well-known work was The Universal Restoration, originally pu... View more info

Elements of Civil Liberty, or, the Way to Maintain Free Institutions.

By: Wisner, William

Price: $75.00  $60.00

Publisher: Andrus, Gauntlett & Co., Printers: 1853

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2001393

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Frontispiece & title page foxed, minor loss from spine head & foot. 1853 Hard Cover. vi, 238 pp. 8vo. Original dark brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles. A collection of essays on various aspects of American civil liberties, written by the pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Ithaca, NY (Sabin 104918, referring to one of Wisner's sermons, not offered here). Of particular interest are chapters on the free press and the liquor traffick (from the standpoi... View more info

An Address on the Occasion of the Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Pennsylvania Hospital, Delivered June 10th, 1851

By: Wood, George B. [Bacon]

Price: $20.00  $16.00

Publisher: T.K. and P.G. Collins, Printers: 1851

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2026225

Condition: Good

Lacks backstrip, corners rubbed with minor loss of cloth, former copy of Rochester Academy of Medicine via the University of Michigan, donated by the author's sister-in-law (pencil number on title page, '12-16-10 G of Miss Juliana Wood' in pencil in margin of first preface page). R.A.M. bookplate on front endpaper, frontispiece foxed. This copy is also signed by George Wood on the front endpaper, and inscribed to his brother (Juliana's father): 'Richard D Wood / from his... View more info

Life Recollections and Opinions of Solomon Jackson Woolley: An Autobiography

By: Woolley, Solomon Jackson

Price: $30.00  $24.00

Publisher: Cott & Hann: 1881

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2164062

Condition: Good

First edition. Boards rubbed, spine faded, page ridges & endpapers lightly foxed, minor stain to margin of one portrait. 1881 Hard Cover. 325 pp. 8vo. Blind-stamped black cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt. Frontispiece of author, portrait of author's wife in text. A memoir of the author's various entrepreneurial efforts, along with comments regarding some of his contemporaries, including Sam Houston and Zachary Taylor. View more info

The First Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor, March, 1886: Industrial Depressions

By: Wright, Carroll D.

Price: $15.00  $12.00

Publisher: Washington: Government Printing Office: 1886

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 1540119

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Edges faded. 1886 Hard Cover. 496 pp. Covers topics such as the industrial depression, railroad speculation, immigration, credit, profit-sharing, and statistical labor data of the period. View more info

General Scott (Great Commanders) [Winfield]

By: Wright, Marcus J.; Wilson, James Grant

Price: $50.00  $40.00

Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1894

Seller ID: 2282969

Condition: Very Good

Spine toned, minor loss from spine head, rear hinge just starting, ink name (Mortimer Adler) date (June '94) on front flyleaf (sadly, this is not THE Mortimer [J.] Adler; he was born eight years later). 1894 Hard Cover. xii, [2], 349, [7] pp. 8vo. Frontispiece of Winfield Scott, five battlefield maps in text. A biography of the military commander who served in the War of 1812, and as Commanding General of the United States Army during the Mexican War and the early days o... View more info

Medical Thermometry, and Human Temperature

By: Wunderlich, C.A.; Seguin, Edward

Price: $50.00  $40.00

Publisher: William Wood & Company: 1871

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 1998689

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Tiny restoration mark to spine head, Rochester Academy of Medicine bookplate on front endpaper, bottom corner faintly bumped, ink name on front flyleaf. 1871 Hard Cover. viii, 280 pp. 8vo. An abridgment by Edward Seguin of 'On the Temperature in Diseases, of which Fielding H. Garrison said This classic work on temperature in disease laid the foundation of modern knowledge regarding clinical thermometry. Garrison has said of Wunderlich that he 'found fever ... View more info

Wife No. 19, or The Story of a Life in Bondage, Being a Complete Expose of Mormonism, and Revealing the Sorrows, Sacrifices and Sufferings of Women in Polygamy, by Ann Eliza Young, Brigham Young's Apostate Wife

By: Young, Ann Eliza; Gough, John B.; Livermore, Mary A.

Price: $175.00  $140.00

Publisher: Dustin, Gilman & Co.: 1876

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 2283767

Condition: Good

Second edition. 1 inch tear to spine head, front joint beginning to split, corners a bit rubbed, frontispiece a bit foxed, a few pages lightly soiled. 1876 Full-Leather. 605, [1] pp. 8vo. A memoir by the wife of Mormon leader Brigham Young, condemning the religion in general, and the practice of polygamy in particular. View more info

Wife No. 19, or The Story of a Life in Bondage, Being a Complete Expose of Mormonism, and Revealing the Sorrows, Sacrifices and Sufferings of Women in Polygamy, by Ann Eliza Young, Brigham Young's Apostate Wife

By: Young, Ann Eliza; Gough, John B.; Livermore, Mary A.

Price: $175.00  $140.00

Publisher: Dustin, Gilman & Co.: 1876

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 2286940

Condition: Good

Second edition. Rebacked with new endpapers, original backstrip laid down, a couple pages lightly smudged. 1876 Hard Cover. 605, [1] pp. 8vo. A memoir by the wife of Mormon leader Brigham Young, condemning the religion in general, and the practice of polygamy in particular. View more info

Voyage in Italie Pendant l'Annee 1789

By: Young, Arthur; Soules, Francois

Price: $500.00  $400.00

Publisher: Chez J.-J. Fuchs, Libraire: 1796

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2198755

Condition: Near Fine

First French edition. Boards lightly rubbed with corners just beginning to rub through, scattered light foxing in text, small contemporary owner bookplate (Buri) and larger modern bookplate on front endpaper. 1796 Half-Leather. vii, [1], 376 pp. 8vo. A late 18th century Italian travelogue, translated into French from the original English by Francois Soules, who also translated Young's 'Voyages in France'. Young was a writer on the subjects of agriculture, economics, s... View more info

Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality. with the Life of the Author.

By: Young, Edward

Price: $50.00  $40.00

Publisher: Printed for F. and C. Rivington; Otridge and Son; Longman and Rees; Cadell and Davies; Vernor and Hood; J. Mawman; T. Hurst; J. Scatcherd; and J. Hookham / J. Cundee, Printer: 1802

Edition: Revised Edition

Seller ID: 2263775

Condition: Very Good

'New Edition'. Spine and corners a bit rubbed, a few pages lightly foxed. 1802 Full-Leather. xviii, [4], 361, [5] pp. 8vo. Full black morocco, gilt titles and rules, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. A long poem in blank verse, originally published in nine parts between 1742 and 1745. This edition includes the complete work, a biographical sketch of the author, and engraved illustrations by Thomas Stothard. This work was quite popular in its day, but became more so when... View more info

Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army. Authors and Subjects, Vol. VIII. [8]: Legier-Medicine (Naval).

By: [Billings, John Shaw]

Price: $40.00  $32.00

Publisher: Government Printing Office: 1887

Seller ID: 2028487

Condition: Good

Boards a bit rubbed, corners lightly stained. 1887 Half-Leather. 10, 1078 pp. The eighth in a 61-volume series which spanned 81 years, and was ultimately comprised of five series. The first series (of which this volume was a part) was primarily indexed by John Shaw Billings - his work would become a cornerstone for the foundation of the National Library of Medicine. John Shaw Billings selected a dictionary arrangement for the printed Index-Catalogue and explained in his ... View more info

The Little Musicians

By: [Bowen, C.E. (Charlotte Elizabeth)]

Price: $10.00  $8.00

Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons: 1893

Seller ID: 1534091

Condition: Good

Front hinge weak. 1893 Hard Cover. 64 pp. 6 1/4 x 4 1/2. A late 19th century juvenile by C.E. Bowen, who also wrote The Babes in the Basket. CONTENTS: I. The Sunday-School Friend; II. A New Scholar; III. Rachel's Plan; IV. Going Out to Tea; V. Light; VI. Out of Temptation; VII. Joy for Silvio; VIII. Berta. View more info