1738. No Binding. Folio sheet. A lad purchase between Aaron Leaming Sr, father of the Aaron Leaming (1715-1780) who together with Jacob Spicer, (1716-1765) compiled early colonial New Jersey Law, and Henry Peterson (1696-1741). The Leaming family were prominent landowners in Cape May. It seems Henry was selling the land.....
London: William Emans, 1820. xxiv, 688p. Contemporary calf with a gilt spine. Lacking the engraved title page and the illustration of the Inner Temple on p596. Both seem not to have been bound in. Light dusting to the printed title page otherwise internally clean.
New York: S. Tuttle, 1844. 1st Edition. 512p. Original sheep over boards with a gilt ruled spine. First edition of this brief historical overview of the State of New Jersey and nicely illustrated throughout. Includes the two frontispieces in color. Inner front hinge strengthened with old tape repair. Hinges cracked.....
Exeter: Henry Besley, 1861. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo, Modern cloth over boards preserving the original spine and the end papers. Includes 59 steel engravings of the region. Some light foxing to the title page and a few paper guards are loose, otherwise a very nice copy of a rather scarce edition.....
London: H. Haines, 1735. Hardcover. xxxi, 246p, [2]. Contemporary English calf with a gilt ruled spine and boards. Marbled end papers. Binders sticker "Wood, Binder Worcester" on the inside front end paper. Third Edition and dedicated to Sir Robert Walpole. Written by the English politician and political philosopher Viscount Henry.....
New York: Carey and Hart, 1841. Frontispiece, 514p: 508p: 535p: 531p. Contemporary quarter blue leather over marbled boards with richly gilt spines and marbled end papers. From the Library of Leo & Helen Leventritt with bookplates in all four volumes. Henry St. John 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) was a British.....
No Binding. Henry Brougham is informing Lord Lyndhurst that he is writing to James MacArthur at Sydney to introduce his nephew John Brougham. He adds further that he knows his nephew's mother well, "but not nearly as well as you did". He is asking Lord Lyndhurst to comment favorably to.....
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1838. Hardcover. 4 volumes, [x], 676p, [1]; [iv], 632p; [iv], 626p; 571p+Index. Contemporary quarter calf with marbled end papers with the gilt monogram of the EARL OF MALMESBURY at the top of each spine. Probably James Howard Harris 3rd Earl of Malmesbury (1807-1889). ALSO INCLUDES.....
Genevae: Bibliothèque des Érudits, 1951. Wrapper. xxvi, 1246 col. Limited to 500 numbered copies whereof this is #201. A fresh clean copy entirely uncut and unopened. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Paris: P. Rouqette, 1873. xv, 273p. Cloth over marbelized boards. Limited to 550 numbered copies where of this is #488. Second edition. Printed on thick paper with untrimmed edges. Spine torn at foot and left side of the head. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
New York: Random House, 1931. Hardcover. Foldout plate. 116p. Publisher cloth over boards. First edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies whereof this is #408. Includes an inserted letter from The Walden Book Shop in Chicago dated 20 November 1931 and addressed to Hemingway's attorney Maurice J. Speiser (1880-1948) in Philadelphia.....
London: George Bell and Sons, 1883. Hardcover. Frontispiece, xlviii, 543p. 19th century vellum over boards with gilt ruled boards and spine. Foredge red stained. Rev Francis Cary (1772-1844) first edition of this translation appeared in 1814. See Lowndes II p590. According to Bohn's Complete Catalogue, 1889, p30, the editions by.....
London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1841. Hardcover. xvi, 96p. Contemporary cloth over boards. From the Library of Rev. Silas Ketchum (1835-1880) with his Masonic bookplate on the inside front cover and signature on the front blank dated 1857. Later bookplate of the New Hampshire Antiquarian Society with the text.....
Boston: The Gorham Press, 1906. 61p, [1]. Publishers original cloth over boards with the original protective cover. Small white spot on the plastic cover otherwise internally clean.
London: James Cochrane and Co, 1832. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Frontispiece, xi, 336p. Contemporary quarter tan calf with richly gilt spine. Professionally rebacked preserving the original spine. Nicely illustrated by George Cruikshank. One spot on the upper corner and two small along the inner hinge on the front board, otherwise.....
London: A. Millar, 1781. [10] 11-214p: 200p. Contemporary calf. Lacking the spine labels. From the Library of James Francis Anderton with bookplates in both volumes. Hinges a little cracked, but holding. A horizontal tear in volume II, p57 with no loss and a marginal stain in the upper corner on.....
London: Henry Bohn, 1851. Hardcover. Frontispiece, xxviii, 1116p. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards and end papers. Includes twenty-two plates by George Cruikshank. Light rubbing to the boards and corners worn. Scattered marginal foxing to some plates. Includes a memoir of the author by Thomas Roscoe. 8vo - over 7¾.....
London: A Millar, 1754. viii, 149p. Contemporary calf. The use of the Greek accents became quite a controversy in 18th century England. Some works in Greek were printed without accents. See Greek Studies in England 1700-1830 by Clarke. Henry Gally (1696-1769) was an English divine and classical scholar. Spine chipped.....
London: Jones & Co, 1830. Hardcover. Containing 42 plates with 84 images as well as text. Also includes three loosely inserted steel engravings of landscapes. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards and end papers. Henry Gastineau (1791-1876) was born in London to a family of Huguenot descent. It is interesting.....
Paris: Plon-Nourrit, 1900. Frontispiece, 419p, [1]. Original polished half morocco over marbled boards with marbled end papers. A crisp clean copy with some minor rubbing to the boards. Signed inscription by the author on the inside front blant. . Inscribed by Author(s).
Boston: Fetridge and Company, 1854. 83p, [8]. Publishers' original green cloth over boards with an eagle design on the front board. Complete with 3 plates. Captain Henry D. Grafton (1818-1855), a West--Point graduate in 1839. Some wear to the head and foot of the spine. Very light foxing to the.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1839. Hardcover. Frontispiece, xvi, 465p; xi, 455p; xvi, 519p; xiv, 468p; xv, 607p. Complete in five volumes (1839-1846). Contemporary quarter green calf over marbled boards and end papers. Spines brown and gilt ruled with gilt designs in compartments. A very attractive binding by Zaehnsdorf sitamped on the.....
Philadelphia: C. Sherman Printer, 1851. 71p. Original wrappers. Rev. William Henry Green (1824-1900) was an American theologian and Hebrew scholar. He published among things a grammar of the Hebrew language in 1861 which was revised in 1888. Rev Green was a scholar of the Orthodox wing of American Presbyterianism. Light.....
London: John Murray, 1854. 3 volumes. xxvii, 575p: xii, 589p: xii, 666p. 19th century burgundy morocco with gilt decorated spines and boards. Binding stamped 'Morrell Binder for Scribner". Fourth edition. First printed in 1837. Henry Hallam (1777-1859) was an English historian. Still a very useful reference source. An attractive copy.....
Paris: P. Rouquette, 1880, 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo. xv, 591, 4p. Fourth edition. Quarter calf over marbleised boards. Some general wear to the binding and rubbing to the headband. Internally in excellent condition. Large 8vo.