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

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 i... View more info

Little Crumbs for Little Chickens. Written for the Mass. S.S. Society, and Approved by the Committee of Publication

By: Bullard, Asa

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society: 1865

Seller ID: 2098880

Condition: Fair

Corners rubbed with minor loss, binding shaken with several loose gatherings, several pages lightly soiled, a few pages with tears to bottom margin. 1865 Small Hard Cover. viii, 160 pp. An early educational picture book, which according to the preface is designed for very young children, and intended for use in Sunday school. View more info

Athens: Its Rise and Fall; with Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People, in Two Volumes.

By: Bulwer, Edward Lytton [Bulwer-Lytton, Edward]

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers: 1837

Seller ID: 2164522

Condition: Fair

Spines faded, top corner of vol. 2 stained, 'Library of 'The Union'' bookplates on front endpapers, ink name & number on front endpapers, lightly foxed throughout. 1837 Hard Cover. xi, 275; vi, 324, 12 pp. 8vo. A history of ancient Greece by the author of The Last Days of Pompeii. View more info

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: $35.00

Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons: 1871

Seller ID: 2207836

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 vi... View more info

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: American Tract Society: 1890

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2266386

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... View more info

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: $125.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company: 1897

Edition: First Thus

Seller ID: 2163501

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. View more info

The Poetical Works of Robert Burns; with Memoir, Prefatory Notes, and a Complete Marginal Glossary.

By: Burns, Robert

Price: $125.00

Publisher: John S. Marr: 1865

Seller ID: 2207837

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,... View more info

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: $160.00

Publisher: New England Publishing Company: 1866

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2193803

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. View more info

A Zigzag [Zig-Zag] Journey in the Sunny South; or, Wonder Tales of Early American History. A Visit to the Scenes and Associations of the Early American Settlements in the Southern States and the West Indies.

By: Butterworth, Hezekiah

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Estes and Lauriat: 1887

Seller ID: 1864936

Condition: Good

Boards rubbed with loss from spine & corners, front free endpaper removed, hinges loosening.No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 1887 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 320 pp. Original color-illustrated paper over boards, illustrated endpapers, engravings throughout text. Late 19th century travel writing, part of The Zig-Zag Series, this volume focusing on journeys in the American South and the West Indies. View more info

An Account of the Late Revolution in New-England. Together with the Declaration of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Inhabitants of Boston, and the Country Adjacent. April 18. 1689. (Sabin's Reprints, Quarto Series. No. I. [1])

By: Byfield, Nathaniel

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Reprinted for Joseph Sabin: 1865

Seller ID: 2007785

Condition: Good

Former library copy (Lowell City Library), usual marks. Binding edge corners of pages lightly stained. 1865 Hard Cover. 26, [1] pp. 4to. 8 3/4 x 7 1/8. Rubricated title page, laid paper. 1865 reissue of 1689 original. Numerous blanks follow text. Sabin 9709: Edition, 250 copies, of which 50 are on large paper. No colophon or other indication of limitation. An account of the uprising in Boston against Sir Edmund Andros, governor of the Dominion of New England, who promote... View more info

The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: Complete in One Volume [The Illustrated Byron]

By: Byron, Lord (Byron, George Gordon)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: W.H. Appleton / Leavitt & Allen: 1858

Seller ID: 2270804

Condition: Very Good

No date, circa 1860. Ink gift note dated 1882 on front endpaper. 1858 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxiv, 766 pp. 8vo. Green cloth with beveled edges, titles in relief against gilt decorations, engraved title page with red lettering precedes plain title, engraved plates throughout text. A collection of Lord Byron's verse, with a biographical sketch of the author that also includes a depiction of Byron's tombstone. Byron was a leading figure in... View more info

Gertrude of Wyoming; A Pennsylvanian Tale. and Other Poems. [The Pennsylvanian Cottage]

By: Campbell, Thomas

Price: $75.00

Publisher: D. Longworth, Shakspeare-Gallery: 1809

Seller ID: 1928324

Condition: Very Good

Professionally rebacked with brown cloth. Library blind stamps on margins of a few pages, no other library marks. Boards rubbed, pages lightly toned with minimal transfer. 1809 Hard Cover. 132 pp. Early American 8vo edition (July 1809), following the original London 4to edition by just a couple months. Marbled boards. Pages 52 and 57 misnumbered 57 and 52. A Spenserian romantic epic poem, inspired by the massacre in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, which occurred seve... View more info

Cortez; or the Conquest of Mexico. as Related by a Father to His Children, and Designed for the Instruction of Youth.

By: Campe, J.H. [Joachim Heinrich]; Helme, Elizabeth

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Printed for C. Cradock and W. Joy and P. Norbury: 1811

Seller ID: 2201455

Condition: Fair

Fold-out map included. Front board loose, spine label absent, corners rubbed with minor loss. We have left the binding as is so the book's next owner can have restorations done to his/her specifications. 1811 Full-Leather. iv, 259, [1] pp. 12mo. Original full tree calf. Translated from the German of J.H. Campe (author of the New Robinson Crusoe) by Elizabeth Helme (author of The History of England, Scotland, Rome, &c. &c.), with the translator's last corrections and impr... View more info

The French Revolution: A History. in Three Volumes.

By: Carlyle, Thomas

Price: $30.00

Publisher: White, Stokes and Allen / Bernhard Tauchnitz: 1888

Seller ID: 2269852

Condition: Very Good

No copyright date, circa 1890. Two volumes repaired at hinges, spines toned, two faint spots on rear board of third volume. 1888 Half-Leather. 366; 388; 430 pp. 16mo. Leather spine & corners, red & brown morocco spine labels, gilt titles & rules, top edge gilt, marbled boards & endpapers. The most famous work by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian, drawing together numerous sources to provide a detailed picture of the French Revolution. Still considered an ... View more info

A Journey to Palestine

By: Carradine, B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Christian Witness Company: 1892

Seller ID: 2004829

Condition: Near Fine

Minor wear to corners. 1892 Hard Cover. ii, 489 pp. 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt titles. Photographic plates. A travelogue of an American Methodist minister's time spent in Palestine in the late 1800s. Carradine was a veteran of the American Civil War, and published more than two dozen books, mostly focusing on the concept of sanctification. View more info

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.

By: Carroll, Lewis [Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Lee and Shepard, Boston / Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham: 1872

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2200523

Condition: Very Good

First American edition ('wade' for 'wabe' on p. 21). Professionally rebacked with original backstrip laid down (some loss from edges), new end sheets. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled, pencil name and year ('R.P. Blake 1880') on front flyleaf, a number of illustrations colored with pencil by a young reader, some quite nicely done. 1872 Hard Cover. x, [1]-224 pp. 8vo. The sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. This first Amer... View more info

Marcy the Refugee

By: Castlemon, Harry

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The John C. Winston Company: 1892

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 1529066

Condition: Good

First edition. Front hinge loosening, boards rubbed, pages toned. 1892 Hard Cover. 432 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Charles Austin Fosdick (September 6, 1842 – August 22, 1915), better known by his nom de plume Harry Castlemon, was a prolific writer of juvenile stories and novels, intended mainly for boys. He was born in Randolph, New York, and received a high school diploma from Central High School in Buffalo, New York. He served in the Union Navy from 1862 to 1865, during t... View more info

The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha. A New Edition in Four Volumes. [Parts I & II]

By: Cervantes [Saavedra], Miguel de

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., Cheapside: 1820

Seller ID: 2199848

Condition: Good

Rebound in plain blue cloth with gilt titles and rules, new endpapers. One gathering sprung in first volume, front and end matter, plates, and a few text pages foxed. A nice candidate for an elaborate new binding, though we have left this decision to the next owner (please inquire to discuss options for rebinding). 1820 Hard Cover. xx, 371; [iv], 388; [vi], 367; [vi], 436 pp. 16mo. Parts 1 and 2 complete in four volumes. This edition is notable for the engravings from de... View more info

Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha [Parts I & II in One Volume]

By: Cervantes [Saavedra], Miguel de; Jarvis, Charles

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Belford, Clarke & Co.:

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2164512

Condition: Near Fine

No date, circa 1880. Spine slightly faded, minimal wear to corners, ink name on front flyleaf. 811 pp. 8vo. Parts 1 and 2 complete in one volume. Original blue cloth, gilt & black decorations design, titles in relief, floral decorative endpapers. Don Quixote (fully titled The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha), is a novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story by inventing a Moorish chronicler for Don Qu... View more info

Some Effects of the Climate of Italy

By: Chambers, Thomas King

Price: $100.00

Publisher: John Churchill and Sons / J.E. Adlard: 1865

Edition: First Thus

Seller ID: 2199185

Condition: Very Good

First edition in book form. Presentation copy - 'With the author's compliments' in ink on front endpaper, owner bookplate on front paste-down, faint stain to board edges. 1865 Hard Cover. 95, [1] pp. 8vo. An examination of the health benefits of the Italian climate, written by a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. From the preface: This small volume contains the substance of a short course of lectures, written during the leisure of an involuntary holiday, delivere... View more info

Gazetteer and Business Directory of Monroe County, N.Y., for 1869-70.

By: Child, Hamilton

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Hamilton Child / The Journal Office, 23 & 24 E Washington St: 1869

Seller ID: 2199441

Condition: Good

Rebacked, hinges professionally reinforced. Map included, with amateur tape repair to fold, restoration along base, and 2 inch tear along binding edge. Board edges rubbed, several pages foxed. 1869 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 264 pp. 8vo. Original brown stamped cloth, gilt titles. A business directory for Monroe County immediately following the Civil War, with numerous advertisements. Includes a census report, government land measures, posta... View more info

Part First. Gazetteer of Washington County, VT. 1783-1889. [with] Part Second. Business Directory of Washington County, VT. 1889.

By: Child, Hamilton

Price: $200.00

Publisher: The Syracuse Journal Company, Printers and Binders.: 1889

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2203761

Condition: Good

First edition. Includes color fold-out map tipped in on rear endpaper. Rebacked with portion of original backstrip laid down (loss from head and foot), stain along top margin. 1889 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. Two volumes bound in one. 544, 280 pp. 8vo. Maroon blind-stamped leather, gilt titles. A gazetteer and business directory of Washington County, Vermont published in the late 19th century, with black-and-white photographs of prominent ... View more info

Gazetteer and Business Directory of Monroe County, N.Y., for 1869-70.

By: Child, Hamilton

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Hamilton Child / The Journal Office, 23 & 24 E Washington St: 1869

Seller ID: 2205205

Condition: Fair

Spine toned, page margins stained, moderately foxed, hinges weakening. 1869 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 264 pp. 8vo. Original brown stamped cloth, gilt titles. A business directory for Monroe County immediately following the Civil War, with numerous advertisements. Includes a census report, government land measures, postal rates and regulations, information on banking and currency, and a list of internal revenue officers. Each town's male in... View more info

New-England's Jonas Cast up at London. 1647.

By: Child, John; Marvin, W.T.R.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Wm. Parsons Lunt: 1869

Edition: Limited Edition

Seller ID: 2265018

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition, one of 150 small paper copies (20 large paper copies were also printed). Rebound in navy blue cloth with gilt titles and new end sheets. 1869 Hard Cover. lii, [2], 40, [2] pp. 4to. Introduction and notes by W. T. R. Marvin. Sabin 12706. From the introduction: The Tract which is reprinted in the following pages, is an evidence of the discontent which existed among certain classes of the people in New England, who were excluded from a share in the governme... View more info

Observations on the Diseases Incident to Pregnancy and Childbed. (Dunglison's American Medical Library.) [with] A Second Appeal to the People of Pennsylvania on the Subject of an Asylum for the Insane Poor of the Commonwealth.

By: Churchill, Fleetwood; Cope, Thomas P.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Adam Waldie: 1840

Seller ID: 2026808

Condition: Good

Former copy of Genesee County Memorial Library - bookplate on front endpaper, boards rubbed, endpapers heavily foxed, a few pages in text foxed. 1840 Full-Leather. iv, 290; 20 pp. 8vo. Full calf, black morocco spine label, gilt titles & rules. A follow-up to Churchill's earlier work On the Diseases of Females. Includes a short appeal to the people of Pennsylvania on the subject of an asylum for the insane poor. View more info

Ship Fever, So Called; Its History, Nature, and Best Treatment. The Fiske Fund Prize Dissertation, for 1849. Printed by Order of the Rhode Island Historical Society.

By: Clark, Henry G. [Grafton]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields.: 1850

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2009349

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lightly foxed, two faint stains on front board, 1 inch tear to spine base. 1850 Hard Cover. 48 pp. Grey paper-covered boards, paper label on front board. A brief history and medical guide for British Typhus, which the author is careful to distinguish from typhoid fever. Sabin 13297. View more info

Quaedam ex Colloquiis Corderii, Fabulis Aesopi, & Colloquiis Erasmi Selectae. with English Translations, as Literal as Possible; to which are added A Few of Erasmus's Familiaria Colloquia, without Translation. Intended for the Use of Schools on this Continent. Approved of and Recommended by the Professors and Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, of the College and Academy and also of the Episcopal Academy, both of Philadelphia, of Princeton College in New-Jersey, and of Washington College in Maryland; and for Them Printed, under the Direction of Mr. James Davidson, Professor of Humanity in the College of Philadelphia.

By: Clarke, H.; [Corderus / Cordier, Mathurin]; [Aesop]; [Erasmus]

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Benjamin Franklin Bache.: 1789

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2045502

Condition: Good

First edition. Rebound in new leather, with new endpapers. Two gatherings proud at fore-edge but holding firmly, minimal tears along edges and loss from marginal corners of a few pages, ink name (Charles Thompson) appears on title page, on blank following Aesop's fables (dated 1802), and twice on final page of text. An unscrupulous individual at some point in the past excised the bottom margin of the title page in such a way that 'Benjamin Franklin' remains visible, but ... View more info

A Looking-Glass for Persecutors; Containing Multitudes of Examples of God's Severe, but Righteous Judgments, upon Bloody and Merciless Haters of His Children in All Times, from the Beginning of the World to This Present Age. Collected Out of the Sacred Scriptures, and Other Ecclesiastical Writers, Both Ancient and Modern.

By: Clarke, Sam. [Samuel]

Price: $375.00

Publisher: Printed for William Miller, at the Sign of the Gilded Acorn, near the Little North Door in St. Paul's Church-Yard: 1675

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 1959819

Condition: Good

1675 second edition. Boards a bit rubbed, spine ends reinforced with leather tape quite some time ago, joints weakening, ink name in calligraphy on rear endpaper. [viii], 116, [14] pp. 16mo. Full leather, tooled double borders and rules in blind. 'A Table of the Names of the Persecutors, Visibly Plagued by God' follows text and serves as an index. Terminal publisher ad listing other books published by William Miller, as well as others written by Samuel Clarke. A history ... View more info

History of Steuben County, New York, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers.

By: Clayton, W.W.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Lewis, Peck & Co. / J.B. Lippincott & Co.: 1879

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2205716

Condition: Good

First edition. Binding shaken, edges rubbed, tear to binding edge of one engraving, ink name on front endpaper. 1879 Large Hardcover. 460 pp. Leather spine, gilt titles, cloth boards. A history of Steuben County, New York from the early days of the republic through the date of publication, with numerous engravings throughout. View more info