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The Decamerone di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio. in Three Volumes. [Decameron]

By: Boccaccio, Giovanni

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Londra [London], Guglielmo Pickering: 1825

Seller ID: 2281490

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Edges rubbed, spine labels mostly absent, minor splits to spine heads and feet along joints, first gathering of volume 1 (free endpaper, flyleaf, and half-title page) loose but included. An attractive set that could be beautiful with some minor restorations. 1825 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. Complete in three volumes. cxxxv, [1], 228, [2]; [229]-586, [2]; [587]-967, [3] pp. 8vo. Full sheep, morocco spine labels, gilt titles and decorations, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Italian text. Boccaccio's 14th century collection of 100 stories, controversial at the...
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Aphorismes de Monsieur Herman Boerhaave sur la Connoissance et la Cure des Maladies

By: Boerhaave, Herman; [de la Mettrie, Julien Offroy]

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Huart / Chez Briasson: 1739

Seller ID: 2307809

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Bottom corner exposed, a few pages lightly foxed, contents pages toned. 1739 Full-Leather. [xii], 560 pp. 16mo. Full leather, five raised spine bands with gilt titles and tooled decorations in compartments. French marbled endpapers. Julien Offroy de la Mettrie's tribute to Boerhaave's work, translated into French with his additions. Though de la Mettrie is not credited on the title page, which merely reads 'Traduits en Francois par ***,' his name appears after the Epitre Dedicatoire. Herman Boerhaave is widely regarded as the founder of the modern academic hospital, and clinical teaching in ge...
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Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century

By: Boisgilbert, Edmund (Donnelly, Ignatius)

Price: $375.00

Publisher: Chicago, F.J. Schulte & Company: 1891

Seller ID: 1688262

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing, released one year after first edition. Boards slightly rubbed, paper along front hinge split, hinge itself holding strongly, pages toned. 1891 Hard Cover. 367 pp. 8vo. Maroon cloth, gilt titles & decoration. One of the first dystopian novels written in the English language. First published in 1890, just three years after Bellamy's classic utopia Looking Backward, this work can be seen as a reaction to Bellamy, as well as to the political climate of the day. It illuminates injustices and social inequalities that exist in civilizations focused on technological progress and the purs...
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Il Ciro Politico dell Abbate Filippo Maria Bonini, Consultore, & Assistente del Sant'Officio in tutto lo Stato della Republica di Genoua. Diviso in Due Parti. All' Altezza Sereniss: E Reverendiss: Del Signor Principe Leopoldo Cardinal de Medici.

By: Bonini, Filippo Maria

Price: $950.00

Publisher: Venetia [Venice], Nicolo Pezzana: 1668

Seller ID: 2304812

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Bookworm hole to fore edge margin and another to bottom margin (no loss of text in either case), 1 inch split to top of front joint, ink scribbles on half-title and title pages (someone crossed out some very old writing, using so much ink on the base of the title page that it actually caused a split in that page margin), affixed to inside of front board is a certification that this volume belonged to The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, more commonly called The Knights Hospitaller or Knights of Malta. 1668 Hard Cover. [x], 216, [24], 276, [24] pp. 4to. Vellum boards...
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Life Sketches of Executive Officers, and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York Vol. III [3]

By: Boone, H.H.; Cook, Theodore P.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Albany, New York, Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers: 1870

Seller ID: 2199732

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ink gift note on front endpaper ('Miss Mary E. Husbands, Christmas Present, December 25. AD 1875, From her affectionate Father.'). Pencil note on base of frontispiece noting date of Hoffman's death. 1870 Hard Cover. 351, [3] pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt titles. Frontispiece of John T. Hoffman, New York's twenty-third Governor. Biographical sketches of New York State Legislators.
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Life Sketches of Executive Officers, and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York Vol. III [3]

By: Boone, H.H.; Cook, Theodore P.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Albany, New York, Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers: 1870

Seller ID: 2275133

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Front matter foxed. 1870 Hard Cover. 351, [3] pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt titles. Frontispiece of John T. Hoffman, New York's twenty-third Governor. Biographical sketches of New York State Legislators.
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American Civil War Manuscript Document: Monthly Return of Clothing, Camp and Garrison Equipage, Completed by First Lieutenant Henry Bose on Behalf of the 41st Regiment of New York Volunteers on October 4, 1864 (No. 51)

By: Bose, Henry

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Winchester, S.N.: 1864

Seller ID: 2195664

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Very Good

Lightly soiled, two horizontal creases (this was likely sent in an envelope, not included here), with splits beginning at fore-edge of these and along vertical fold. 1864 Unbound. 4 pp. Two folded sheets, unbound. The 41st NY Volunteers were part of the 11th Corps, and nicknamedDekalbs Zouaves. They took part in the Battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, were in the reserves during the first Battle of Bull Run, and fought in Second Bull Run. This document was completed shortly after the regiment joined the Army of the Shenandoah (September 27, 1864), but describes equipment received durin...
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Image for An Inquiry into the Cause of Natural Death, or Death from Old Age. Developing a New and Certain Method of Preventing the Consolidation or Ossification of the Body, and of Thus Indefinitely Prolonging Vigorous, Elastic, and Buoyant Health; and of Rendering Parturition Easy and Safe.

An Inquiry into the Cause of Natural Death, or Death from Old Age. Developing a New and Certain Method of Preventing the Consolidation or Ossification of the Body, and of Thus Indefinitely Prolonging Vigorous, Elastic, and Buoyant Health; and of Rendering Parturition Easy and Safe.

By: Bostwick, Homer

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Stringer and Townsend: 1851

Seller ID: 2012774

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Boards stained along fore-edge, ink name on front endpapers. 1851 Hard Cover. viii, 152 pp. 12mo. Brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles. Bostwick attributes aging's deleterious effects on the body to 'calcareous earthy matter' derived from food and drink that virtually hardens the tendons, ligaments, heart, muscles, blood vessels, etc. until the entire body, 'once elastic, healthy, active and lively... becomes rigid, diseased, feeble'. 'Life is extinguished by successive gradations,' Bostwick observes, 'and death is the last term in the succession.' Bostwick maintains that phos...
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The Great Rebellion: Its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and Disastrous Failure.

By: Botts, John Minor

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1866

Seller ID: 2285908

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition (Sabin 6828). Pencil name on front flyleaf, one gathering sprung but holding firmly, minor blemishes to corners. 1866 Hard Cover. xxviii, [29]-402, 2, 2, [6] pp. 12mo. Green cloth, gilt titles and rules, brown endpapers. A contemporary account of the American Civil War, written by a Virginian politician who supported the Unionist cause, despite his ownership of slaves who worked on his plantation. He was imprisoned for his beliefs in 1862.
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Oeuvres Philosophiques du Pere Buffier de la Compagnie de Jesus avec Notes et Introduction: Traite des premieres verites; Elements de metaphysique; Examen des prejuges vulgaires.

By: Bouillier, Francisque

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Charpentier, Libraire-Editeur: 1843

Seller ID: 2307964

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Lightly foxed throughout. 1843 Half-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xlvi, 475 pp. 12mo. French text. Red leather spine, marbled paper over boards, gilt titles, marbled endpapers. Three philosophical works by Claude Buffier, a Jesuit philosopher, with notes and introduction by Francisque Bouillier. Includes: Traite des premieres verites; Elements de metaphysique; Examen des prejuges vulgaires. Buffier's aim in the first work (his most well known) is similar to Rene Descartes's, in that he is attempting to discover the first principles of knowledge. His analysis of the hum...
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The Bear Hunters of the Rocky Mountains.

By: Bowman, Anne

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Porter & Coates: 1870

Seller ID: 2271893

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Boards rubbed, spine faded. 1870 Hard Cover. iv, 474, [4] pp. 8vo. No date, circa 1870 printing of a work first published in 1860 in London. A novel of adventure in the American west, following a group of immigrants as they seek their fortunes and explore the untamed frontier.
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Abraham Ulysses. and Other Stories

By: Branch, Mary L.B.; Eytinge, Margaret

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and Company: 1882

Seller ID: 2304563

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

None located in OCLC. No publisher date (ink gift note dated 1882). Board corners bumped, spine ends rubbed. Unpaginated. Green cloth boards with decor. Includes 12 plates. Stories, some in dialect with now-inappropriate racial language. Advertised by publisher as An entertaining story of a colored boy!
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The Early History of Illinois, from its Discovery by the French, in 1673, until its Cession to Great Britain in 1763, Including the Narrative of Marquette's Discovery of the Mississippi.

By: Breese, Sidney; Fuller, Melville W.; Hoyne, Thomas

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chicago, E.B. Myers & Company: 1884

Seller ID: 2197154

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

First edition (Howes B736). Former Library of Congress copy with surplus/duplicate stamp. Lacks all three maps and single text leaf (p.13/14). Lightly stained throughout causing minor warp to boards, binding shaken with a few loose gatherings. 1884 Hard Cover. xiii, 422 pp. 8vo. A history of the state of Illinois by one of its Supreme Court justices, covering a period of over two hundred years.
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The Pioneer Preacher: An Autobiography

By: Bristol, Sherlock; Fairchild, J.H.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York / Chicago, Fleming H. Revell: 1887

Seller ID: 2307960

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Presentation slip from previous owner's teacher mounted on front endpaper, front hinge weakening. 1887 Hard Cover. viii, 330, [6] pp. Includes an introduction by J.H. Fairchild, president of Oberlin College. Sherlock Bristol was a Congregationalist clergyman who also participated in the California gold rush. Howes B1210: Includes his 1852 trip to Oregon and experiences in California and Idaho mining camps. Graff 404. Cowan p. 72. Adams, Six Guns 279: Has some material on outlawry and robbery.A benefactor enabled him to attend Oberlin College, where he came under the influence of...
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Phillips Brooks's Poems

By: Brooks, Phillips

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London / New York, Ernest Nister / E.P. Dutton & Co.: 1886

Seller ID: 2207059

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Illustrated with chromolithographs and etchings. No publisher date (circa late 1800's), binding broken, two-inch tear to front endpaper, ink note to half-title page. 1886 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. Illustrated with chromolithographs and etchings. Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835 January 23, 1893) was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts, and particularly remembered as lyricist of the Christmas hymn, O Little Town of Bethlehem.
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Life on the Lagoons

By: Brown, Horatio [Robert] F. [Forbes]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Rivingtons: 1900

Seller ID: 2198746

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Third edition. Ink name and date on half-title page, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1900 Hard Cover. [vi], 297, 31, [1] pp. 8vo. A history and topography of the area surrounding Venice, by the Scottish historian specializing in Italian history, and best known for hisCalendar of State Papers (Venetian). Based in part on journeys undertaken with Brown's friend, and fellow Italian historian, John Addington Symonds.Black-and-white illustrations.
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Miscellanea Historiae Philosophiae Literariae Criticae: Olim Sparsim Edita Nunc Uno Fasce Collecta Multisque Accessionibus Aucta et Emendata a Iacobo Bruckero

By: Bruckero, Iacobo [Brucker, Jacob]

Price: $500.00

Publisher: ., Augustae Vindelicorum, Typis et Impensis Haeredum Ioannis Iacobi Lotteri: 1748

Seller ID: 2304868

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Boards lightly soiled and stained. 1748 Hard Cover. [xvi], 608, [13] pp. 8vo. Vellum binding, hand lettered spine, sprinkled edges. An extensive history of philosophy, by the author whose five-volume Historia Critica Philosophiae formed the basis of William Enfield's The History of Philosophy, the first English language history of philosophy to treat thinkers beyond ancient history (Locke, Newton, Hobbes, Leibniz, Descartes, etc.). Brucker is known primarily for his massive Historia Critica Philosophiae (5 volumes, 1742-44 with an Appendix, 1767). Passmore calls that work the standard history ...
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Image for The North East View of Conway Castle, in the County of Caernarvon -- Original Engraving from Buck's Antiquities; or, Venerable Remains of... Castles, Monasteries, Palaces, &c. &c., Number 372

The North East View of Conway Castle, in the County of Caernarvon -- Original Engraving from Buck's Antiquities; or, Venerable Remains of... Castles, Monasteries, Palaces, &c. &c., Number 372

By: Buck, Samuel & Nathaniel; Sayer, Robert

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London, D. Bond / Robert Sayer: 1774

Seller ID: 1662296

Binding: Print

Condition: Near Fine

About fine, with no marks or wear to the image. Professionally matted and ready for framing. 1774 Print. We have more books available by this author!. Single sheet, 8 3/8 x 15 3/8. A hand colored second strike printed by the Fleet Street printmaker Robert Sayers from the original copper plates used by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck. The original print was issued in 1742, and the print we offer bears this same date since the original plates were used. This printing, issued in 1774, was available bound in three volumes entitled Buck's Antiquities..., or as single sheets. A lengthy caption describes t...
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Image for The North East View of Warwick Castle - Original Engraving from Buck's Antiquities; or, Venerable Remains of... Castles, Monasteries, Palaces, &c. &c., Number 306

The North East View of Warwick Castle - Original Engraving from Buck's Antiquities; or, Venerable Remains of... Castles, Monasteries, Palaces, &c. &c., Number 306

By: Buck, Samuel & Nathaniel; Sayer, Robert

Price: $50.00

Publisher: D. Bond, London / Robert Sayer: 1774

Seller ID: 1662297

Binding: Print

Condition: Near Fine

About fine. Image clean & unmarked. Professionally matted and ready for framing. 1774 Print. We have more books available by this author!. Single sheet, 8 3/8 x 15 3/8. Second strike printed by the Fleet Street printmaker Robert Sayers from the original copper plates used by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck. The original print was issued in 1729, and the print we offer bears this same date since the original plates were used. This printing, issued in 1774, was available bound in three volumes entitled Buck's Antiquities..., or as single sheets. A lengthy caption describes the history of the castle fr...
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Image for The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which is to Come, Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream: Wherein is Discovered the Manner of His Setting Out, His Dangerous Journey and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country (Honor Books Series)

The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which is to Come, Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream: Wherein is Discovered the Manner of His Setting Out, His Dangerous Journey and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country (Honor Books Series)

By: Bunyan, John

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, T. Nelson and Sons: 1871

Seller ID: 2207836

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Pencil gift note on front endpaper ('To Jennie from her Pastor, Rev McAustice, 1873'), fore-edge corners slightly exposed. 1871 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 192 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt spine panels with title in relief, black blind-stamped decorations. Engraved frontispiece, three smaller engravings precede text. Two-column format. Religious allegory by John Bunyan, at one time second only to the Bible in popularity. It is a symbolic vision of the pilgrimage through life. The first and best-known book, published in 1678, in which the character Christian trave...
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The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which is to Come, Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream [with] The Life of Bunyan, or Grace Abounding

By: Bunyan, John

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, American Tract Society: 1890

Seller ID: 2266386

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Spine faded, owner bookplate and pencil name and date on front endpapers, first couple pages foxed. 1890 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 651, [3] pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles and decorations, engraved frontispiece and illustrations. Pilgrim's Progress bound together with The Life of Bunyan; or, Grace Abounding. Religious allegory by John Bunyan, at one time second only to the Bible in popularity. It is a symbolic vision of the pilgrimage through life. The first and best-known book, published in 1678, in which the character Christian travels on the road to salv...
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Image for The Doctrine of the Law & Grace Unfolded: or, A Discourse touching the Law and Grace. The Nature of the one, and the Nature of the other: Shewing what they are, as they are the two Covenants; and likewise who they be, and what their Conditions are, that be under either of these two Covenants. Wherein For the better Understanding of the Reader, there is several Questions answered, touching the Law and Grace, very easy to be read, and as easy to be understood, by those that are the Sons of Wisdom, the Children of the second Covenant.

The Doctrine of the Law & Grace Unfolded: or, A Discourse touching the Law and Grace. The Nature of the one, and the Nature of the other: Shewing what they are, as they are the two Covenants; and likewise who they be, and what their Conditions are, that be under either of these two Covenants. Wherein For the better Understanding of the Reader, there is several Questions answered, touching the Law and Grace, very easy to be read, and as easy to be understood, by those that are the Sons of Wisdom, the Children of the second Covenant.

By: Bunyan, John

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Boston, J. Draper for D. Henchman, at his Shop in Cornhil: 1742

Seller ID: 2289845

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fair

Third edition, first state, with 'Cornhil' in imprint (Evans 4905). Boards rubbed, leather drying, light stained with minor transfer throughout, rear board split horizontally but still whole, ink name on endpapers. 1742 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. x, 214, p. 215 mislabeled 115, [1] pp. 12mo. Leather over wooden boards. Originally published in 1659, preceding Bunyan's well-known The Pilgrim's Progress by nearly twenty years.
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Image for The Pilgrim's Progress, From This World to That Which is to Come, Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream [with] A Life of Bunyan by Himself, or Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

The Pilgrim's Progress, From This World to That Which is to Come, Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream [with] A Life of Bunyan by Himself, or Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

By: Bunyan, John; Southey, Robert

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, American Tract Society: 1865

Seller ID: 2286768

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

3 inch tear along rear joint, minor split to cloth at top of front joint, edges faded, lightly foxed throughout, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1865 Hard Cover. 348, [4] pp. 8vo. Purple cloth, gilt titles and decorations, engraved frontispiece and illustrations. Pilgrim's Progress bound together with A Life of Bunyan. Religious allegory by John Bunyan, at one time second only to the Bible in popularity. It is a symbolic vision of the pilgrimage through life. The first and best-known book, published in 1678, in which the character Christian travels on the road to salvation from the City o...
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A Prospect of the Colleges in Cambridge in New England Engraved by Wm. Burgis in 1726 [Colleges]

By: Burgis, Wm. [William]; Andrews, William Loring

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company: 1897

Seller ID: 2163501

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First thus. Bookplate on front endpaper, gatefold frontispiece loose but included. 1897 Hard Cover. 38 pp. 4to. 1897 reissue of 1726 original. A collection of early images of Harvard University, originally produced in 1726, and re-released here with descriptive text, including correspondence between Thomas Hollis and former Harvard President E. Holyoke.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy

By: Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1887

Seller ID: 2294183

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition, first state (includes DeVinne imprint). Front hinge weakening, ink stamp on front endpaper, light stain to edges of rear endpapers. 1887 Hard Cover. xi, [1], 209, [1] pp, 16 page terminal publisher ad. 8 1/2 x 7. Author's first children's novel. Original brown cloth, red, black, and gold designs on front cover and spine, gilt titles, brown endpapers. Frontispiece and 25 other illustrations by Reginald B. Birch. Little Lord Fauntleroy is the first children's novel written by EnglishAmerican playwright and author Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was originally published as a serial in ...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Burns; with Memoir, Prefatory Notes, and a Complete Marginal Glossary.

By: Burns, Robert

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Glasgow, John S. Marr: 1865

Seller ID: 2207837

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

No date, circa 1865. Rebound some time ago in full morocco with gilt titles and decorations, as well as blind-stamped devices in the spine compartments and at the board corners, original marbled endpapers retained. Possibly a personalized binding -- 'ELLA' appears in gilt at the base of the spine. Boards lightly smudged, front and end matter foxed and lightly stained, pencil owner information on front flyleaf ('Ms William W. Wilsom & Cos Book, Meadville, Crawford County, Penn'a'). 597 pp. 16mo. A collection of the verse of Robert Burns, with marginal translations of numerous instances of Scott...
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Burt's Illustrated Guide of the Connecticut Valley, Containing Descriptions of Mount Holyoke, Mount Mansfield, White Mountains, Lake Memphremagog, Lake Willoughby, Montreal, Quebec, &c.

By: Burt, Henry M.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Springfield, New England Publishing Company: 1866

Seller ID: 2193803

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Boards stained and warped, pages lightly stained throughout (does not obscure text), spine cocked, fold-out map preceding text included. A good candidate for rebinding. 1866 Hard Cover. vi, 235, [5] pp. 8vo. Two duotone color plates, engraved illustrations throughout. Fold-out map of Connecticut Valley precedes text. Includes early railroad timetables, accounts of towns, landscapes, railroads, churches, bridges, and other points of interest. Ads bound in following text.
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Image for Reports of Wm. A. Burt and Bela Hubbard, Esqs. on the Geography, Topography and Geology of the U.S. Surveys of the Mineral Region of the South Shore of Lake Superior, for 1845; Accompanied by a List of Working and Organized Mining Companies; a List of Mineral Locations; by Whom Made, and a Correct Map of the Mineral Region, Delineating the Township and Section Lines, and Their Connection with the Location Lines; and also, a Chart of Lake Superior, Reduced from the British Admiralty Survey.

Reports of Wm. A. Burt and Bela Hubbard, Esqs. on the Geography, Topography and Geology of the U.S. Surveys of the Mineral Region of the South Shore of Lake Superior, for 1845; Accompanied by a List of Working and Organized Mining Companies; a List of Mineral Locations; by Whom Made, and a Correct Map of the Mineral Region, Delineating the Township and Section Lines, and Their Connection with the Location Lines; and also, a Chart of Lake Superior, Reduced from the British Admiralty Survey.

By: Burt, Wm. A.; Hubbard, Bela; Houghton, J.; Bristol, T.W.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Detroit, Charles Willcox: 1846

Seller ID: 2289843

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Presentation copy ('Silas H. Douglass, from the authors' in pencil on front endpaper). Lacks fold-out map. Binding loosening, 1 inch tear to spine head, custom spine label added by a previous owner, Western Reserve Historical Society bookplate on front endpaper. 1846 Small Hard Cover. 109, [1] pp. Howes B-1027: First investigation into Michigan's mineral wealth. Sabin 38676.
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Image for The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, in Twelve Volumes (Library Edition) [A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men, and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights]

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, in Twelve Volumes (Library Edition) [A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men, and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights]

By: Burton, R.F. [Richard Francis]; Smithers, Leonard C.

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: London, H.S. Nichols & Co.: 1894

Seller ID: 2282238

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First Smithers edition, also called the Library Edition (Penzer p. 117-123). Minor cosmetic wear, ink name on front endpaper of each volume, front hinge of first volume just beginning to weaken. 1894 Hard Cover. Complete in twelve volumes, a reissue of the 1885 Benares edition (which was printed by the Kamashastra Society for private subscribers only), edited by Leonard C. Smithers. 8vo. According to the preface, In Lady Burton's edition, which was a reprint of the first ten volumes only of the original issue, it was thought advisable to omit no fewer than 215 pages; in this edition, which com...
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Image for The Family Aquarium; or, Aqua Vivarium. A 'New Pleasure' for the Domestic Circle: Being a Familiar and Complete Instructor upon the Subject of the Construction, Fitting-Up, Stocking, and Maintenance of the Fluvial and Marine Aquaria, or 'River and Ocean Gardens.'

The Family Aquarium; or, Aqua Vivarium. A 'New Pleasure' for the Domestic Circle: Being a Familiar and Complete Instructor upon the Subject of the Construction, Fitting-Up, Stocking, and Maintenance of the Fluvial and Marine Aquaria, or 'River and Ocean Gardens.'

By: Butler, Henry D.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Dick & Fitzgerald: 1858

Seller ID: 2308846

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lacks color frontispiece (perhaps never inserted?). Ink name, address, and date on front endpaper. 1858 Hard Cover. viii, [9]-121, [10] pp. The first American work on aquaria. Includes black-and-white woodcut illustrations in text.
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