A handwritten letter measuring 7 3/4" x 9.5". The letter was composed by 1st Lieut. John Heard stationed at Perth Amboy, NJ to Colonel Jonathan Rhea. He is asking the Colonel to inform Mr. Philips if he would come to Amboy. He then mentions that he should have visited the.....
Newburyport: W. and J. Gilman, 1808. 33. Disbound. Untrimmed edges. Signature cut from the top corner of the title page. Regarding the Embargo Act of 1807. One small marginal spot on p30 and light foxing to the title page, otherwise clean throughout. Sabin 282.
London: George Pawlet, 1688. [4], 95p, [18]. 19th century quarter tan calf over marbled boards. Some rubbing to the board extremities. Lacking the leather along two corner tips. Institutional bookplate on the inside front board. Foxing to the title page and the first two leaves and some fraying to the.....
London: J. Bell, (successor to Mr. Bathoe:, 1769. Hardcover. 2 folio volumes. Unpaginated. Contemporary calf. Includes ten plates in volume 1, eight plates in volume II. Last leaf of volume I detached and trimmed. Lacking the frontispiece and the title page to volume II. 19th century marginal annotations throughout in.....
Stanley Paul & Co, 1910. Hardcover. Frontispiece, xiv, 327p; viii, 329-696p. Burgundy morocco boards and a slightly brown spine. Richly gilt dentelles along the marbled end papers. BINDING SIGNED RIVIERE & SONS. INCLUDES A GIFT INSCRIPTION BY THE DUKE SIGNED "From John Xmas 1910" ON THE INSIDE FRONT BOARD. The.....
London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. Hardcover. Frontispiece, xvi, 486p. LARGE PAPER COPY. Limited to 150 numbered copies whereof this is #36. Half vellum over boards with paper label and untrimmed foredge. Binders ticket of Burn & Co. on the lower portion of the inside rear boards. Light soiling to the.....
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.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935. Soft cover. Frontispiece, 157p. Publishers wrapper. Entirely unopened. 206 items listed and described in detail. A fresh clean copy. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, 1870. Frontispiece, 540p. Publisher original green cloth over boards. John Hanson Beadle (1840-1897) was a soldier in the American Civil War and foreign Correspondent. Volume recased and professional restored. Some rubbing to the boards.
Edinburgh: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1812. Fourteen volumes. Early three quarter mottled brown calf gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers. Later edition of the collected works of these contemporaries of Shakespeare. The playwrights Beaumont and Fletcher were regarded in their time as two men so closely in harmony as.....
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1937. Hardcover. ix, 48p. Publishers peach colored cloth boards. Untrimmed edges. Nicely printed. Couple of small spots on rear blank otherwise a fresh clean copy. From the Library of Duncan Dunning, Berkeley, CA with his monogram in blind on the front blank, 4to - over.....
Bethesda: National Library of Medicine, 1979. Cloth. 501p, A fresh clean copy bound in light grey cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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.....
London: J. Johnson, 1805. Hardcover. x, 208p. Contemporary calf with a gilt ruled spine and burgundy label. The seventh edition. The author, John Bonnycastle, (1751-1821) was an English teacher and mathematician. Shaylor in his 'The Fascination of Books' published in 1920 includes a chapter on educational books from Paternoster Row.....
Chicago: McClurg, 1911. Hardcover. Frontispiece, xiv, 290p. Blue cloth. A nicely illustrated edition forming a part of the series 'Little Books on Art" edited by Cyril Davenport. A fresh clean copy. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.
London: Fisher Son and Co. Hardcover. Frontispiece, lvii, 447p. Contemporary morocco with gilt ruled boards and spine. Marbled end papers. Boards green and spine tan colored. Gilt foredge. Twenty five engravings including one by George Cruikshank. A crisp clean copy. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1979. Hardcover. Frontispiece, xv, 189p. Publisher genuine leather with richly gilt boards and spine. Includes the original bookplate loosely inserted. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
London: E. Churton. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 1844-45. LII plates and explanatory text, cviii plates. Later blue buckram. Volume 1 was printed by Whittingham. Paper repairs to some margins with tape. A working copy only. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Washington: Gibson Brothers, 1870. 57p. Stitched spine. An important event during reconstruction when the US Judiciary Committee reviewed the Georgia Question. A complicated set of issues regarding Georgia's readmission into the Union following the Civil War and Reconstruction. There were conditions imposed and to ensure the rights of African Americans.....
New York: Charles Scribner & Sons, 1934. v, 294p. Publishers cloth with a well-preserved dust jacket. First American edition. The rear part of the dust jacket includes the original advertisement write up for John Carter and Graham Pollard's 'An Inquiry into the nature of certain XIX century Pamphlets". A fresh.....
Chicago: Chicago Legal New Company, 1893. Frontispiece, vi, 252p. Original brown cloth over boards. John Dean Caton (1812-1895) was Chief Justice of Illinois and had tried the first jury cases int he countries of Cook, Kane, and Will. Also covers Life on the Circuit, with anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln [not.....
London: D. Midwinter, 1741. [14], 443p, 280p, 67p. Contemporary calf with gilt ruled boards. Bound together with A General List, or Catalogue, of all the Offices and Officers Employ'd. 34 edition. Lacking the plate called for. Hinges cracked and weak. Some rubbing of the extremities and headband worn. Otherwise internally.....
1790. No Binding. One parchment sheet measuring 13.2" x 15.4". The indenture is for land purchase York County, Pennsylvania by John Steinmetz (1760-1831), a wealthy Philadelphia merchant. its signed by the Pennsylvania Statesman Charles Biddle (1745-1821). Written in clear legible script. A fresh clean document. Folio - over 12 -.....
London: Henrry Lintot, 1744. [12], 757p, [28]. Modern half leather over cloth boards. Lacks the two last leaves of advertisement and pages 345-348. Unfortunately stained across the lower margin. Sir John Comyns (1667-1740) was barrister. His two major works were published after his death. A good reading copy only.