Baltimore: Joseph Cushing, 1817. v, 161p. Contemporary sheep over boards. From the Library of Grafton Tyler Jr with signature on the inside front blank. Possibly the African American artist Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918). But I have not been able to verify the signature. Paper browned and foxed throughout. Worn at.....
Cambridge: John Hayes, 1688. Engraved frontispiece, (xviii), 911p. Contemporary calf with a gilt spine and gilt ruled boards. Professionally rebacked preserving the original spine. Includes three of the five full page engravings. Joshua Barnes (1654-1712) became Professor of Greek at Cambridge in 1695. See Sandys p57. Lowndes p116 "An elaborate.....
Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1860. xx, 472p. Original brown cloth over marbled boards. First edition. George Barrell Cheever (1807 ? 1890) was an abolitionist minister and writer. Contemporary ownership of the temperance leader and physical culture advocate Diocletian Lewis 'Dio' (1823-1886) with his signature on the title page.....
London: E & R. Nutt, 1732. frontispiece, [4], 321p, [13]. Contemporary calf. Old rebacking preserving the original spine. John Fitzgibbon, (1708?-1780) was a barrister and politician born in Limerick, Ireland. At 16, he went to Paris to study medicine. For reasons unclear, he gave up medicine for law and was.....
London: J and P Knapton, 1751. Hardcover. xi, x, ix-xxvi, 176; 228p: xxxii, 207p, 264p: lv, 253p, [16]: iii, 347p; xxvii, 264: vii, 208p; x, 271p. Small 8vo. Complete with 24 plates as wanted. Nine volumes bound in five. Modern quarter calf over marbled boards. FROM THE LIBRARY OF EDWARD.....
New York: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1867. Frontispiece, li, 658p: xxxvii, 617p: lx, 670p: lvii, 694p. Publishers original light brown cloth over boards with titles lettered in gold on the spines. FROM THE LIBRARY OF ABOLITIONIST AND JAMES MADISON BIOGRAPHER SYDNEY HOWARD GAY WITH HIS SIGNATURE ON THE TITLE.....