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The Character of A Popish Successour, and what England may expect From Such a One. Humbly offered to the Consideration of Both Houses of Parliament, Appointed to meet at Oxford, On the One and twentieth of March, 1680/1.

By: Settle (Elkanah) [issued anonymously].

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London: Printed for T. Davies, 1681.:

Seller ID: 54530

First edition. 4to. Disbound, the spine secured by a full-length strip of cloth tape. A few stains to margins, paper very browned and brittle, considerable marginal chipping, particularly to later leaves; generally very good otherwise. Written in reference to the succession of the Duke of York, later James II.
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Elementary Treatise on Steam and Locomotion; Based on the Principles of Connecting Science with Practice, in a Popular Form. With Illustrations. Vol. I.

By: Sewell (John, L.E.)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London: John Weale, 1852.:

Seller ID: 55448

Volume 1 Only. Green blind-stamped flexible cloth, printed paper label on front cover. 144pp. Yellow coated end papers. Frontispiece and many illustrations in the text. Eight pages of ads at the front dated 1852. Chipping to spine, rear hinge splitting, very good. The frontispiece depicts a locomotive: Lord Of The Isles. This is Volume 1 only; Volume 2 appeared in 1853.
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The American Journal of Improvements in the Useful Arts, and Mirror of the Patent Office in the United States. Published Quarterly.

By: Skinner (Ichabod L.) -editor.

Price: $150.00

Seller ID: 54570

Washington: William Greer, 1828. 560 pages. Volume 1, Numbers 1 - 4. All four numbers of this journal bound into a single volume. Contemporary boards, corners quite worn, rebacked with a brown cloth spine and new end papers sometime in the late 20th century, from the look of it. Complete with 39 plates printed on 38 sheets (one is a double), of which several are folding. Subjects include spinning and weaving. Some faint library stamps on the initial few and final leaves, quite heavily foxed in the early numbers, cleaner toward the rear of the volume. There are a few short tears in margins, pa...
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The Chace, A Poem. A New Edition. To Which is Prefixed A Critical Essay, By J. Aikin, M.D.

By: Somerville (William)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London: Cadell & Davies, 1796. New Edition.:

Seller ID: 56576

8vo. Full calf, spine gilt. With six engraved plates by Stothard. Outer joints a bit worn, a sound very good copy, some light foxing and offsetting at the plates. An ownership signature on the front end paper is dated 1803. This long sporting poem was first published in 1735; this 1796 edition is the first to contain these plates by Stothard, which are finely engraved and handsome.
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Image for FORM. A Quarterly Journal Containing Poetry, Sketches, Articles of Literary and Critical Interest Combined with Prints, Woodcuts, Lithographs, Calligraphy, Decorations and Initials. Edited by Austin O. Spare and Francis Marsden. [Cover Title: FORM. A Quarterly Of The Arts].

FORM. A Quarterly Journal Containing Poetry, Sketches, Articles of Literary and Critical Interest Combined with Prints, Woodcuts, Lithographs, Calligraphy, Decorations and Initials. Edited by Austin O. Spare and Francis Marsden. [Cover Title: FORM. A Quarterly Of The Arts].

By: Spare (Austin) and Francis Marsden - editors.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London & NY: John Lane, April,1916.:

Seller ID: 53024

Vol. 1, No. 1. The first issue of this short-lived periodical. Folio: 29 X 47.5 cm. 58 pages. Pictorial wrappers. This copy is disbound, with some wear to the spine. There is some moderate soiling and edge wear to the outer wrappers, and a closed tear partway across the front wrapper (not touching text or illustration); basically very good otherwise. Internally the sheets are all clean, with no stains or blemishes. Sensational grotesques by Austin Spare, several double-page; also art by Charles Ricketts, Frederick Carter, Frank Brangwyn, and others. Literary contributors include De la Mare & Y...
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Memoire sur le Lemithochorton, Reconnu Vermifuge Specifique dans les Hopitaux Militaires, & par les observations des Medecins de France.

By: Stefanopoli (Dimo) [Dimo Stephanopoli de Comnne]

Price: $225.00

Seller ID: 54840

[No Publisher], 1778. 4to. Disbound, remnants of binding clinging to spine. 24pp. Contemporary inscription on the title, undated, from Lyon, which may concern the distribution of this book. The final leaf is defective, having had the bottom two inches mostly torn away; this has affected the text on page 23 with the loss of two or three lines, and has touched the text at the bottom of page 24. Very scarce. Worldcat records a copy dated 1777, with 20 pages. This 1778 edition is not listed. Concerns the use of the plant Lemithochorton (also known as Corsican Moss, or Rock Moss) as a vermifuge, us...
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Evolution, and the Cost of the Human. An Address (Originally prepared for the Civic League of New Orleans). Giving a Sketch of the Development of The Earch From Chaos to Yesterday. The Haunting Cry of the Mighty Past. The Hope of the Future.

By: Stephenson (E. Frank)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: St. Louis: The Author, (1911). First edition.:

Seller ID: 51180

Original blue-green wrappers, front cover lettered in black. 90pp. Lacking the spine and back wrapper, edges chipped, ownership signature and date on front wrapper; about very good otherwise. A curious blend of science, religion and philosophy. Uncommon.
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Domesticated Trout. How to Breed and Grow Them.

By: Stone (Livingston)

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 54792

Charlestown, N.H.: For Sale at the Cold Spring Trout Ponds, 1877. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Original green cloth, beveled edges, spine lettered in gilt, front cover with a design of a trout in gilt. Brown coated end papers. [368]pp. Frontispiece, many figures in the text. Spine a bit rubbed, inner hinges cracking, old stain to upper edge of first few and last few leaves, some marginalia in pen throughout, a bright very good copy generally. The first edition was published in 1872.
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Reflections for Every Day in the Year, on The Works of God, and of His Providence Throughout All Nature. Translated first from The German of Mr. C.C. Sturm, into French; and Now From the French into English.

By: Sturm (Christoph Christian)

Price: $150.00

Seller ID: 54308

London: Printed for N.R. Cheyne; and Sold by F. and C. Rivington, 1798. Sixth Edition. Three volumes. 8vo. Green full calf, borders in gilt, spines lettered and designed in gilt. Marbled end papers and page edges. Frontispieces in all volumes. A few creased leaves, a couple of leaves starting, some scuffing to spine ends and corners, but in general a clean and very good set. A popular and often reprinted work; reputedly it was influential in the life of Beethoven, who owned a heavily annotated copy.
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Image for Programma De Coniungendo Eruditionis Antiquae Et Novae Studio Quo Sub Auspicia Operarum Scholasticarum Post Exactas Ferias Cereales Ad Orationem De Fallacibus Instituendae Iuventutis Compendiis A ... IO. Mich. Heusingero In Ill. Gymnasio Gothano ... Conrectore ... Die XVIII. Sept. Hora VII. Matut. ... Habendam Illustres Musarum Patronos Humanitatisque Fautores Atque Cultores Observanter Invitat Io. Henricus Stuss Gymn. Rector

Programma De Coniungendo Eruditionis Antiquae Et Novae Studio Quo Sub Auspicia Operarum Scholasticarum Post Exactas Ferias Cereales Ad Orationem De Fallacibus Instituendae Iuventutis Compendiis A ... IO. Mich. Heusingero In Ill. Gymnasio Gothano ... Conrectore ... Die XVIII. Sept. Hora VII. Matut. ... Habendam Illustres Musarum Patronos Humanitatisque Fautores Atque Cultores Observanter Invitat Io. Henricus Stuss Gymn. Rector

By: Stuss (Johann Heinrich) & Johann Michael Heusinger, others.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Gothae: Literis Reyherianis, 1730.:

Seller ID: 56466

Printed self-wrapper, 12pp. Decorative headpiece. Marbled paper strip on spine, some wear to corners, old library stamp on title, a very good copy.
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Richard Vincent Sutton: A Record of His Life Together with Extracts From His Papers.

By: Sutton (Richard Vincent)

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Printed by George W. Jones at the Sign of The Dolphin, 1922.:

Seller ID: 55924

Quarter-cloth, buff paper boards, white cloth spine. Titled in black on the front cover, and on a printed paper label on the spine. Six photographic illustrations, three with onion skins loose but present. Decorative initials at chapter headings. Inscribed on a preliminary leaf by the subject's mother (Constance Astley): "To / Walter Broomhead / from / Sir Richard's Mother / Christmas 1922". Erratta leaflet laid in. A little wear to tips, upper page edges dusty, a clean and very good copy. Privately published, attractively printed, a scarce book. Sir Richard Vincent Sutton, 6th Baronet (26 Apr...
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Mr. Meek's Notes on my Preliminary Report of the Geology of Kansas, as Edited by Dr. Hayden.

By: Swallow (Prof. G.C.)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: St. Louis: Knapp, 1868. First ediiton.:

Seller ID: 55831

Original printed wrappers, sewn. 20pp. Vertical creases, some wear to fore-edge of wrappers, very good. An offprint (From the Transactions of the Acad. of Sci. of St. Louis, vol. II., pp. 507-526.)
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Trout Fishing From All Angles. A Complete Guide to Modern Methods ... With two hundred & fifty Illustrations.

By: Taverner (Eric) et al.

Price: $875.00

Publisher: London: Seeley, Service, 1929. First edition.:

Seller ID: 56553

Blue full morocco, designed and lettered in gilt. Marbled end papers. 65 plates and many illustrations in the text. Faint rubbing to spine and edges, but a bright and clean copy, free from the fading which so often afflicts this book. Red ink stamp on divisional half-title leaf, facing the colophon. A nice copy of this specimen book. 30 artificial flies mounted behind plastic on the rear board, with a captioned tissue guard. Issued as a volume in The Lonsdale Library, limited to 375 numbered copies signed by Taverner; this is copy #266.
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Untold Miles. Three Gold-Hunting Expeditions Amongst the Picturesque Border-Land Ranges of Central Australia.

By: Terry (Michael)

Price: $225.00

Publisher: London: Selwyn & Blount, [1933]. First edition.:

Seller ID: 56577

Rebound in blue half-calf, spine gilt, marbled edges & end papers. A prize binding, gold insignia on the front board and label on inner cover dated 1936. Frontispiece and 14 inserted plates, two maps in the text, and two folding maps at the rear. Some wrinkling to rear maps, modest edge wear, a clean very good copy in an attractive prize binding. A scarce book.
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How It Must Work: In an Address to the Freeholders and Electors of the United Empire.

By: Teynham (Henry Francis Roper-Curzon, Baron)

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 54805

London: Ridgway, 1832. First edition. 8vo. [44]pp. Disbound. Small stains, very good. Advocates various political reforms, and a closer alliance with North America.
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The Satirist, or Monthly Meteor. Vol. II.

By: The Satirist

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London: Printed for Samuel Tipper, 1808.:

Seller ID: 55387

8vo. Full calf, spine gilt. Some scuffing of spine and covers, rear blank removed, scattered foxing throughout, contemporary ink inscription on title; otherwise generally tight and very good. This is the second volume, containing the issues of March, April, May, June, and July, 1808 (the July issue is misdated 1807). Each number has a folding frontispiece; the first three are in colour. Considerable wear to the plates, which have been split and repaired with varying degrees of expertise; the first plate has been reassembled using glued paper strips, the others principally with what looks like ...
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An Inquiry into The Nature and Effects of The Paper Credit of Great Britain.

By: Thornton (Henry)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1807. First American edition.:

Seller ID: 55491

272 pp. Old calf. Spine very chipped, no label, both covers detached, very good otherwise. A rough but complete copy which will benefit from a trip to the binder. An earlier edition was published in England in 1802 under a slightly different title.
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Association Francaise Contre L'Abus du Tabac et des Boissons Alcooliques. Compte-Rendu de la Quatrieme Seance Annuelle - 1873 - (Extrait du Bulletin de l'Association).

By: Tobacco. [Anti-Tobacco].

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: 53379

Paris: Au Siege de L'Association, 1873. Original blue printed wrappers. A 44-page pamphlet. A bit of wrinkling to covers, light chipping at edges, a clean very good copy. An organ of the anti-tobacco association,
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Le Flux-Moteur de La Maree. Employee Comme Force Motrice. A N'Importe Quelle Distance de la Mer. (Invention brevetee en France et a l'Etranger.

By: Tommasi (Ferdinand)

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: 54775

Paris: Librairie Scientifique, Industrielle et Agricole / Eugene Lacroix, 1869. 34 pages. Tables and illustrations in the text. Red half-morocco, marbled end papers, owner's monograph in gilt on the upper cover. Upper cover detached, modest edge wear, very good otherwise. Errata slip affixed to the verso of the title. Text in French. An English edition appeared in London in 1871. A treatise on tide-power.
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Magnolia foliis ovato oblongis ad basin et apicem angustis, utrinque virentib.

By: Trew (Christoph Jakob) and Georg Dionysius Ehret.

Price: $675.00

Publisher: [Nuremberg, 1765].:

Seller ID: 56171

A folio engraving, coloured, on laid paper. This is plate LXIII from Christoph Trew's PLANTAE SELECTAE (1750-1773). This plate of the Magnolia is from part 7 (Decuria VII), published in 1765. Plate size is 29cm x 44cm, on a sheet measuring 33,5cm x 49cm. Some tiny marginal tears, a very clean and attractive copy with original colouring. Drawn by the eighteenth-century botanical artist George Dionysius Ehret, Trew's 'Plantae Selectae' is considered to be one of the greatest of eighteenth-century botanical books.
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