8vo 8" - 9" tall; 746 pages; Passau, Mangoldischen Hofbuchdruckerei; 1791. 2 volumes bound as 1. Paged continuously [4] 1 - 746; with seperate title pages for the volumes. Squat, stout volume in period patterned paper over boards. Binding sound and snug with boards sound in joints. Paper over boards rubbed over spine edges with flaking and light chipping; boards visible at spine edges but remaining well bound. Scattered toning and foxing to text is generally mild. Spine panel unlettered but a rectangular paper label is mounted near crown with a hand lettered 3 digit numeral. Sound and... View More...
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 1st edition of this important and enduring Lancaster Mennonite songbook. Bound in full period polished calf which is chipped at spine ends and rubbed at edges; both clasps are lacking. Text block is intact and the paper is supple, though with expected light uniform toning. Rear board is detatched, front board holding. Paged [6], 79, [1], 415, [1], 17, [1]pp ; 18 cm. Some pages with bars of music. Printed in two columns. Bound, as always, with Ein Neues Unpartheyisches Gesangbuch, with separate title page and pagination. Also imprinted Johann Albrecht, 1804 (Shaw an... View More...
16mo 6" - 7" tall; Johann Albrecht, Lancaster; 1804. 1st edition of this important and enduring Lancaster Mennonite songbook. Bound in full period calf; both clasps and straps are lacking, but brass bosses and closures are intact. Light shelf rubbing to leather at spine ends and over the raised bands. Text block is intact and the paper is supple, though with expected light uniform toning. Prior owner inscription to 2nd blank endpage appears to be dated 1804 and 1807. Prior owner names appear to be Schenck and Denlingen, but the page is crazed with apparent insect predation or deterior... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 483 pages; 6th revised edition of this important and enduring Lancaster Mennonite song book. Full marbled calf binding with horizontal gilt ruling across spine compartment bands and with black leather title label to spine. Paged [6], 79, [1], 483, 18p. Printed in 2 columns, additional title page for the second part. Some bars of shape-music notation in text. Both starps and clasps missing. Mild vertical stress wrinkling to spine. VG View More...
Woodcut figures; folding map; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 92 pages; 1845 Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington. 1st edition. 92 pp with folding color map at rear. This copy presumably published in paper covers, lacking in this copy. Bound with a 3 hole stab and single thread. Light spotting to page stock, heavier at front and back. Top corners ofthe last 15 or so leaves dog eared. Hand colored map of Vermont by Zadock Thomspon is wrinkled and lightly soiled with ruffled edges and an arrowhead sized chip from the "western" edge, with a very small area of loss to the map itself. Uncommon in the original edition.... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 512 pages; 1677 Antonio Goncalez de Reyes, Madrid. [16], 512, [24] p. Full vellum binding. Vellum covers nearly detached from text block. Vellum soiled and wrinkled. Half title page tatterd and torn . Worming here and there throughout, occasionally somewhat heavy - as in the first 15 or so leaves, but usually minor with some interference in the text. Contents appear complete. Some paper restoration needed and attention also to the binding. Margins trimmed and a little tight. With all faults. Fair only View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 142 pages; Presumed 4th edition, with Akenside's name recorded on the red and black printed title page as "Akinside" - but lacking the half-title page. One page publisher ad following the text of the poem. Rebound in a handsome modern 1/2 polished calf with five raised bands and gilt tooled morocco title label over marbled paper boards. Title page trimmed hard in the right margin with engraved vignette off center and only a sliver of margin to the image. Contents snug and neat; decent margins remain in the text. Handsomely rebound. VG thus View More...
Woodcuts; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 900 pages; 1591; 1585; 1584 - Officina Plantiniana / Franciscus Raphelengius; Christophorum Plantinum : Christophe Plantin. Antwerp & Leiden. Three Emblem books from the press of Plantin, bound together in one volume. 16mo in 8s. 389; 159; 352 pp. Full vellum binding with yapped edges. All three books collated, complete including blanks. Though all are later printings, in the smaller 16mo format by the Plantin publishing house, they are remarkably well preserved, complete and clean. Some superficial damp lines and halos observed here and there. Woodcuts clean and... View More...
Map, folding; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 154 pages; Small format volume bound in 1/4 sheep over marbled paper boards. Folding map of palestine at front. Copyrighted in 1831, this is presumably the 1st edition. Leather spine unlettered but supple and with only light rub to ends and surface. Boards lightly rubbed edges. Contetns complete and clean with just the expected mild toning. Bookplate of a Liberal Arts College Philosophical Society. Solid neat copy. VG View More...
Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 380 pages; 1876 World Publishing House. Stout HC in original green cloth with decorative borders in black and titles in gilt and black. Early printing. Cloth thinned and fraying at spine ends; slightly rubbed through at corner tips. Page stock lightly toned at edges. Binding cords visible between signatures with a few signatures starting slightly at the front edge. Light silverfish scaling to board surfaces and mild pitting to page block edges. Some full page drawings scattered through are signed Pesoa. G++ View More...
Engraved plats, some folding; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 576 pages; 1825 John Knight and Henry Lacey, London. 1st edition. Volumes I & II (of 3). 288; 288 pp Soundly and uniformly bound in 1/4 polished calf backed spines with marbled paper over boards. Engraved pictorial title pages for both volumes. Contents clean and neat with plates complete, several folding in each volume, of facsimile manuscript and portraits. Bookplate of John Henry Gurney to pastedown of Vol I. Just mild shelf rubbing to leather surfaces of spines. VG thus, lacking the 3rd Volume View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1372 pages; 1733 Moller. Very stout octavo bound in sturdy (pigskin? ) leather over wooden boards with remanants of brass catches and clasps anchored with brass brads. Leather sides with decorative designs in blind. Later reinforcements with heavy leather straps across the top and bottom of the spine anchored with short iron and brass brads and collars. Binding is sound but there is a pronounced concavity to the page block with the middle portion of the book starting significantly at the front edge and the leather spine indented over the gapping back of the spine. Front and ... View More...
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 280 pages; Reprinting from the 1658 original edition. Small format in period vellum. In 12's. Soundly bound and generallu clean. Prior ownership in Italian (Mario Franco Placocos[? ]) to front endpage and base of title. Period manuscrip to vellum at spine, simply "Francese". Mild worming to the pastedowns and front free endpage. Two or three pin head sized worm holes to the vellum at the rear joint. Flake of vellum missing top edge rear boars. Solid and clean; VG View More...
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 251 pages; 1829 R Lockwood, NY. HC in printed paper covered boards and gilt ruled cloth backstrip. 2nd edition after and 1820 printing. An early American school book with intermediate level narrative pieces relating to American history, Scripture as well as charachter formation. Paper covered boards have bordered title printing at front and printer's advertisements on rear surface. Simple gitl ruling acros spine; unlettered, as issued. Sound clean copy has a prior ownership inscription to the front endpage. Cloth rubbed and just a little tender at spine edges. Moder... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 474 pages; 1791 G. G. J. And J. Robinson, London. Volume I only (of 7). Soundly bound in original treed calf with red and black leather title labels to spine. Prior ownership penned top edge of several of the first few leaves. Joints tender with partial and incipient splitting to leather. Front free endpage (and half-title) lacking. Mild damp staining to corner of first and last 35 or so pages. Shallow chipping from leather at base of spine; corners lightly bruised and light shelf rubbing to extremities. G+ View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 490 pages; 1791 G. G. J. And J. Robinson, London. Volume V only (of 7). Soundly bound in original treed calf with red and black leather title labels to spine. Prior ownership penned top edge of several of the first few leaves. Shallow chipping from leather at base of spine; corners lightly bruised and light shelf rubbing to extremities. Superficial toning to fist and last few leaves. VG- to VG View More...
Steel Plate engravings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 3 volumes, complete. Soundly bound in matching publisher's deluxe trade binding of full red pebbled calfleather with highly decorative borders and vignettes tooled in gilt to boards and decorative title desing sna flourishes gilt tooled to spines. [7], 698; 720; 726 pp. Some light to moderate scuffing and rubbing to leather at board edges; Vol I has a small piece of leather chipped from the crown and Vol III has shallow loss from leather at the tail of the spine. Tissue guarded steel engraved plates throughout, over 80 in total and including... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 367 pages; In original full calf over boards with black morocco title label to spine. Soundly bound example with light ru to leather at corners and a moderate bump to the crown of the spine. Severla surface abarasion scars to the leather boards. Prior owner's painted "B" catalog aid at the base of the spine. Pages supple but with expected light to moderate foxing and toning. Sporadic pencil underling in several of the sermons. Solid copy in original binding. VG- View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 168 pages; Hardcover in quarter cloth and marbled paper over boards. Snug and solid although ex-library indications include a catalog label at spine and light attachments to endpages. Prior ownership signature of noted classicist, Gonzalez Lodge. Lodge presumably donated his library to Franklin & Marshall College's library. Remnants of paper title label to spine. Corners and edges of book slightly worn and rubbed. Partial splits in the endpage joint. G++ View More...
Engravings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; A New Edition. Complete in ten volumes, uniformly bound in 3/4 grained calf and marbled paper boards with gilt work and titles tooled to spines. "Upwards of 50 engravings" some on doubled leaves. All edges marbled. Extra engraved title pages for each volume from the 1835 edition. Frontis engravings present for all volumes along with half-title pages for all but Vol III. Some dryness to leather at spines with mild stress crazing. Boards tenuous or detached in Vols I, II and X. Mild foxing to front and rear endmatter, but text pages generally bright and clean wit... View More...
