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Reflections on Death by William Dodd. A New Edition, New York: Printed by Samuel Marks, 1828. Full-mottled calf binding, gilt-ruled covers and spine with gilt ornaments. 4 1/4" Tall. - $100
The Religious Souvenir by G. T. Bedell. Philadelphia: Key and Biddle, 1834. Bound in full red leather with blind and gilt tooling on front and rear covers; spine is gilt-tooled and dated. Foxed throughout; all fore-edges are gilt. 6 1/4" tall. - $130
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, with 51 tipped-in color plate drawings by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1905. Second impression, November 1905. 62 Pages of text; 10" tall. Gilt-decorated green cloth binding with medium wear; corners bumped; some foxing to the text pages and a tiny tear at the bottom of the spine. - $450
Satires by Joseph Hall, with the illustrations of the late Rev. Thomas Wharton and additional notes by Samuel Weller Singer. Chiswick, C. Whittingham, 1824. 3/4 green leather and marbled boards. Front hinge is starting to rend; corners are bumped, boards are scuffed, pages are foxed throughout. Spine has raised hubs and six compartments. This book is from the Joseph Blount Cheshire (Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina, 1893-1932) Collection. 6 3/4" tall. - $100
Schritte Zur Volkommenen Liebe Gottes...Mess Und Kommunionbuch Fur Fromme Katholiken. Wurzburg, 1834. Full red leather, gilt-tooled front, rear and spine, all fore-edges gilt, back cover dated 1836. 6 1/4" tall. - $125
The Scientific American Handbook of Travel by Albert A. Hopkins. New York: Munn & Co. Inc., 1910. Bound in original green cloth with decorated cover and black lettered spine. No dust-wrapper. Some wear to extremities. Interior toned but clean overall. Pocket inside back cover contains six folding maps all in very fine condition. 7 3/8" tall. - $75
The Seasons by James Thomson, Illustrated with Engravings by F. Bartolozzi & P. W. Tomkins from Original Pictures Painted for the Work by William Hamilton. London: Printed by T. Bensley, 1807. Folio Edition of 236 pages with ten full-page plates and a full-page frontispiece as well as five half-page plates of stipple and line engravings. Re-bound in full leather in the 1920's, retaining the original decorative leather covers overlaid on the re-bound covers. The laid paper end-papers were also re-bound at the same time. There is some internal toning and foxing but very nice overall. Binding has wear with bumped corners. The spine presentation is beautiful with gilt decorations. 12 1/8" tall. - $2000
Seymour's Homorous Sketches by Alfred Crowquill. London: T. Miles And Co., 1888. 173 pages of text and 86 etchings re-bound in 3/4 red leather with gilt-tooled and lettered spine with raised hubs and six compartments. Original cloth covers bound in at the end. Light external wear; interior is heavily foxed throughout. 10 1/8" tall. - $125
The Shipwreck by William Falconer. Philadelphia: Bennett and Walton, 1811. Full tan straight-grain leather unusual American binding; blind-tooled embossed front, rear and spine with vines and flowers surrounding a beehive encircled by bees, all underneath a medical emblem, or Staff of Asclepius. Very nice condition with bumped corners; interior is foxed and toned; all edges are gilt. 5 7/8" tall. - $125
The Song Of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. First American Edition with all points noted as First Printing: With "heron" on Page 27 Line 9, "in the moon" on Page 32 Line 11; "Wahonomin" on Page 39, Line 11 and Page 268, Lines 11 and 14; "Dove" on Page 96, Line 7; "cooed the Omemee" on Page 278, Line 17; and with the 'n' present in "one" on Page 279, Line 6. Rebound in a 3/4 rd morocco leather and signed by Stikeman & Co. with the original brown cloth covers bound in at rear. Raised hubs on spine with six compartments gilt-decorated with floral design and stated '1st Edition 1855' at the bottom of the spine. Interior has normal overall toning and light foxing. The title page was improperly opened after having been uncut, causing a loss of edge along the fore-edge starting from about 1/3 down to the bottom losing from 1/8" to 3/8" overall. Pen ownership: Mary A. Lincoln Nov. 1856. 7 1/4" tall. - $1000
Sophocles: Oedipus The King. Translated by Francis Storr and printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1955. - $100
The Splendid Elizabethan & Early Stuart Library of Mr. John L. Clawson, Buffalo, N. Y. Part One. The Anderson Galleries, 1926. Cloth-bound. - $100
Stories In Rhyme by Mary Howitt. Boston: Brown, Bazin & Co., 1856. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts. Part of the Young America Juvenile Library. Brown cloth with embossed covers and gilt-decorated spine; foxed throughout. 128 pages; 5 3/4" tall. - $300
The Sunday School Hymn Book. American Sunday School Union: Philadelphia, 1831. Full mottled calf binding; previous owner's markings on endpapers; foxed throughout. 4 1/4" tall; 128 pages. - $100
A Treatise On Ruptures by W. Lawrence. Fifth Edition. London: John Churchill, 1838. Full Leather Prize Binding With Presentation Inside Cover to William Naismith In Anatomy Class, 1844, University Of Glasgow. Spine darkened; both hinges cracked but attached. 8 7/8" Tall. - $185
"Two Years Before The Mast - A Personal Narrative" by Richard Henry Dana Jr. New Edition, With Subsequent Matter by the Author. Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1869. 470 pages. Bound in original green publisher's cloth, blind-ruled and decorated. Gilt-lettered spine, bumped and chipping some. Some wear to lower spine and extremities and some soiling to the front lower cover. Interior is nice except for a water stain affecting only upper right top and corner from first endpaper to Page 119 and from page 427 to 470. This stain is only in the upper margin and does not affect the text. The previous owner's bookplate is inside the front cover. 7 1/4" tall. - $300
Typographical Antiquities by Joseph Ames. London: W. Faden, 1749. Untrimmed copy, rebound in brown cloth. Collates complete; misnumbered pages 441-450, but text complete; pages 399-430 are worm-holed, not affecting text; pages 471 and 473 have margin tears not affecting the text. 11 1/4" tall. - $850
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