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Sketching From Nature [In 3 Parts].

By: Green (N.E.)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London: Rowney, [c.1890].:

Seller ID: 55503

Original brown cloth stamped in blind, spine and front cover designed and lettered in gilt. Yellow coated end papers. All edges gilt. Front free end-paper lacking, a few signatures starting, rubbing to hinges and extremities, in general a very good copy. A bind-up of three works with the same general title: Hints on Sketching From Nature. Part I. Thirteenth Edition. [51pp]. / Part II. Light and Shade. Twelfth Edition. [40pp]. / Part III. Colour. Thirteenth Edition. [68pp]. Plus, a 20-page publisher's catalogue at the rear. All three works are illustrated with inserted plates and figures in th...
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The Present State and Prospects of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales.

By: Griffith (Charles)

Price: $525.00

Publisher: Dublin: William Curry, Jun. , 1845. First edition.:

Seller ID: 55526

Original blind-stamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Frontispiece and several small illustrations within the text. Yellow coated end papers. One leaf of publisher's ads at the rear. Small worn spot on spine beneath title, discoloration to fore-edge of upper cover, armorial bookplate on inner front cover (the name has been scratched away); a very good copy otherwise. The frontispiece depicts a "native of Australia engaged in a Corrobaree".
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Answer To "Who is the Real Enemy of Germany?" A Pamphlet Published by Dulau & Co., London, 1868, and Extensively Circulated in this Country.

By: Heinemann (Arnold Henry)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London: Asher and Co., [1869].:

Seller ID: 55243

First edition. Disbound. [28]pp. Some wear to spine and remnants of binding, small embossed ownership stamp, very good. Heinemann responds to the 1868 pamphlet by Onno Klopp [Translated into English by Frederick L. Weinmann from the German original: Wer ist der wahre Erbfeind von Deutschland?].
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A Description of the Shetland Islands comprising an account of their Scenery, Antiquities and Superstition.

By: Hibbert (Samuel)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Lerwick: T & J Manson, 1891.:

Seller ID: 56570

4to. Half-calf, spine lettered in gilt. Frontispiece. A little foxing, but in general quite a fresh, very good copy, one creased page and a few notes in pencil. Inserted into this copy are a number of related newspaper clippings, some of which have caused yellowing of adjacent leaves. Originally published in 1822, this 1891 edition omits the plates & maps of the original, but adds music for two native airs. A description of the Shetlands, in the North of Scotland.
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Schediasma Philosophico-Juridicum de Dono Perspicuitatis, A Docentibus Tantopere Desiderato, atque Unice Desiderando, quod, Prodromum Logices Suae, Eruditorum Censurae Subjicit Dan. Fridericus Hoheisel, J. & P.D.

By: Hoheisel (Daniel Friedrich)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Lipsiae: Jacobum Schuster, 1724.:

Seller ID: 56448

Original wrappers. 24pp. Disbound from a larger volume, spine stitched, very good condition. Leaves are numbered in pen from 233 to 244. Author's name & title are in pen along the spine at the edge of the front wrapper. Woodcut headpiece & tailpiece. Hoheisel was a lawyer, born in Danzig in 1698, died in 1732. This looks to be a work on jurisprudence, relating to transparency. Text is in Latin.
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Image for Q.D.B.V. Daniel Frider. Hoheisel .... De Pupillaribus Tabulis A Matre Confectis Ad L. 33. pr. ff. de Vulg. & pupill. substit. Commentatur, Lectiones Suas Hibernas Studiosae Juventuti in Academia Fridericiana. Notas Faciens.

Q.D.B.V. Daniel Frider. Hoheisel .... De Pupillaribus Tabulis A Matre Confectis Ad L. 33. pr. ff. de Vulg. & pupill. substit. Commentatur, Lectiones Suas Hibernas Studiosae Juventuti in Academia Fridericiana. Notas Faciens.

By: Hoheisel (Daniel Friedrich)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Halae Magdeburgicae: Johannis Christiani Hendelii, 1726.:

Seller ID: 56449

Original wrappers. 24pp. Disbound from a larger volume, spine finished with a strip of marbled paper, very good condition, small chip from outer edge of front wrapper, minor wear to upper corner. A small library stamp on the title. Woodcut headpiece & tailpiece. Hoheisel was a lawyer, born in Danzig in 1698, died in 1732. This looks to be a work on inheritance. Text is in Latin.
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A Letter to Samuel Holden, Esq; Occasioned by his Speech delivered from the Chair, at a General Assembly of Dissenters, on the 29th of November, 1732.

By: Holden (Samuel)

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: 53410

London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1732. First edition. A 20-page booklet. Later archival boards. Small withdrawn stamp of a University Library on the verso of the title, old & very faded stain to upper margin; a clean very good copy otherwise. Half-title leaf is present.. A scarce pamphlet, responding to Holden, a notable among English Dissenters.
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Ancient Mysteries Described, Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded on Apocryphal New Testament Story, extant among the unpublished manuscripts in the British Museum .... With Engravings on Copper and Wood.

By: Hone (William)

Price: $90.00

Seller ID: 54932

London: Printed for William Hone, 1823 [actually c.1830]. Original printed silk-covered cloth. Frontispiece & several illustrations, including one folding plate. Armorial bookplate on inner front cover; short ownership inscription on front end paper. Cloth chipped at head of spine and along rear hinge, blemish to cloth on upper front cover, three small stickers at the base of the spine, generally very good. This book exists in a number of bindings, with the priority uncertain, but this one is likely from the early 1830s. It is of the variety having ANCIENT MYSTERIES on a single line on the fro...
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Britanny and the Chase; with Hints on French Affairs.

By: Hope (I.) [James Bromfield].

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853. First edition.:

Seller ID: 56568

Original blue decorative cloth designed and lettered in gilt. Yellow coated end papers. All edges gilt. A bit of edge wesr, a bright very good copy. All about shooting and sports in France, based on a journal kept by the author during a residence in Britanny. Bromfield was the author of several books dealing with Britanny.
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Image for Q.D.B.V. De Qualitatibus Occultis Superiorum indultu Sub Moderatione Dn. Johannis Cypriani ... Ad d. XXI. Januar. Anno MDCLXXXII. disputabit A. & R. Conradus Hulsius, Martisburgensis. Phil. Baccal. & Magisterii Candidatus. (24pp 1682). [bound with] Facultatis Philosophicae In Academia Lipsiensi Decanus Ad Solennem Magistrorum XXVI Renunciationem A.D. XXVI, Januarii Anni a Nato Christo MDCLXXXII, Benevolentes Lectores officiose invitat. (12pp. 1682) [bound with] Liber Metamorphoseon Novus In Solenni XXVI. Philosoph. Et Bon. Artium Magistrorum Promotione Rectore Magnifico Eodemqve Pro-Cancellario Splendidissimo Viro .... Editus A M. Joh. Heinrico Ernesti .... (44pp. 1682) [bound with] De Gradu Magisterii Viro-Juveni Perreximio Atque Literatis Simo Domino Conrado Hulsio Phil. Baccalaureo Corde, Ore, Calamo. Congratulantur Dn. Patroni, Praeceptores, Fautores, Amici. [12pp. c.1682] [bound with] Honores Magisteriales Fratri Germano Dn. Conrado Hulsio, Gratulatur. Germanus ipsius Frater Christianus Hulsius Gymnasii, quod Merseburgi est Alumnus. (4pp, c.1682).

Q.D.B.V. De Qualitatibus Occultis Superiorum indultu Sub Moderatione Dn. Johannis Cypriani ... Ad d. XXI. Januar. Anno MDCLXXXII. disputabit A. & R. Conradus Hulsius, Martisburgensis. Phil. Baccal. & Magisterii Candidatus. (24pp 1682). [bound with] Facultatis Philosophicae In Academia Lipsiensi Decanus Ad Solennem Magistrorum XXVI Renunciationem A.D. XXVI, Januarii Anni a Nato Christo MDCLXXXII, Benevolentes Lectores officiose invitat. (12pp. 1682) [bound with] Liber Metamorphoseon Novus In Solenni XXVI. Philosoph. Et Bon. Artium Magistrorum Promotione Rectore Magnifico Eodemqve Pro-Cancellario Splendidissimo Viro .... Editus A M. Joh. Heinrico Ernesti .... (44pp. 1682) [bound with] De Gradu Magisterii Viro-Juveni Perreximio Atque Literatis Simo Domino Conrado Hulsio Phil. Baccalaureo Corde, Ore, Calamo. Congratulantur Dn. Patroni, Praeceptores, Fautores, Amici. [12pp. c.1682] [bound with] Honores Magisteriales Fratri Germano Dn. Conrado Hulsio, Gratulatur. Germanus ipsius Frater Christianus Hulsius Gymnasii, quod Merseburgi est Alumnus. (4pp, c.1682).

By: Hulse (Conrad) [Conradus Hulsius] & Johann Cyprian, Adam Rechenberg, others. [Rare German Imprints].

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Lipsiae & Martisburgi: various publishers, 1682.:

Seller ID: 56461

The five works bound together in one volume; small 4to., marbled wrappers. Some foxing and yellowing, old stains and bent corners of first few leaves, clean and very good generally. Woodcut headpieces and tailpieces throughout, some decorative initials. Possibly a Hulse family bind-up, though nowhere so indicated. The works comprise writings by Conrad Hulse, also publications containing congratulatory poems and writings about him, and dedicated to him at the time of his graduation. The first two works are recorded by WorldCat with very few holdings, the third work is recorded only in a facsimi...
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Georgical Essays.

By: Hunter (Alexander)

Price: $300.00

Publisher: York: For A. Ward, etc., 1777. First collected edition.:

Seller ID: 56521

8vo. Old marbled boards, later cloth spine with a printed paper label. Three folding plates. Foxing of end papers, and sporadically throughout, but quite fresh for the most part; a very good copy. These agricultural writings by Hunter and others were first published in 4 volumes 1770-1772, and this collected edition contains other material issued later; a further two volumes were produced in 1804. Agriculture, farming techniques, manure and compost; one folding plate illustrates a variety of different spades.
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Values in Classification of the Stages of Growth and Decline. With Propositions For a New Nomenclature.

By: Hyatt (Alpheus)

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Salem, Mass.: Salem Press, 1888. First edition.:

Seller ID: 55825

Original printed wrappers. 12pp. Sewn. Old stain to upper margin, partly unopened, soft vertical crease, very good. This is an offprint: [From the Proceedings of The Boston Society of Natural History Vol. XXIII, March, 1888.] Pagination within is from (396) - 407.
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A Favorite Collection of Songs and Duetts for the Voice, Harpsichord, or Piano Forte. Composed by Dr. Jackson. Op. 3.

By: Jackson (George K.)

Price: $225.00

Seller ID: 55002

London: Longman and Broderip, [c.1792 - 1798]. Worldcat cites a copy at Harvard, with a date of [1791], but based on the extensive evidence given in Nicholas Temperley's "Bound For America: Three British Composers" (2003), the slightly later date seems more likely. [28] pages. Folio. Disbound. Some fraying at backstrip, wear to the edge of the final leaf, scattered moderate foxing, generally very good. There are pencil annotations on some songs. The verso of the final leaf prints a catalogue of Musical Publications available from Longman & Broderip. This is Jackson's Op. 3, comprising ten song...
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Die Lauersforter Phalerae. Erlaeutert von Otto Jahn. Fest-Programm zu Winckelmanns Geburtstage am 9 December 1860. Herausgegeben vom Vorstande des Vereins von Alterthumsfreunden in den Rheinlanden.

By: Jahn (Otto)

Price: $125.00

Seller ID: 54633

Bonn: A. Marcus, 1860. First edition. Original green printed wrappers. 4to. 28 pages, frontispiece and two plates at the rear on heavy stock. Some wear to spine, chipping at corners, some foxing, generally clean and very good. The plates depict Roman antiquities. This is the program for an art show held on the birthday of Johann Winckelmann, the celebrated art historian. Otto Jahn was a noted archaeologist, and author of a respected biography of Mozart.
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A New and Enlarged Military Dictionary, in French and English: In Which are Explained The Principal Terms with Appropriate Illustrations, of All the Sciences that are, more or less, Necessary for an Officer and Engineer. In Two Volumes.

By: James (Charles)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London: Printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, 1810. Third Edition.:

Seller ID: 56093

Two volumes, small 4to. Contemporary tree calf, spines ruled in gilt, lettered in gilt on panels of red. Half-titles present in both volumes; one leaf of publisher's ads at the end of Volume I (for books published by Rivington, May 1, 1815). Repairs to the front hinge of Volume I (glue externally - clear tape internally; inelegant, but sound and not too bad); some rubbing of covers, old stain to the upper fore-edge of the second volume (only affecting margins), a couple of creased pages, a very good set in general. First published in 1802, the Second Edition appeared in 1805; this is the Third...
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Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. President Of The French Republic.

By: Kellogg Lithograph of Napoleon III.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Buffalo, Conn.: Horace Thayer, [c.1849].:

Seller ID: 56182

A hand-coloured lithograph of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon III, proclaiming him President of the French Republic. Lithographed by the E.C. Kellogg Co. of NY & Hartford, Conn. It measures 24cm x 34.5cm. Small number "299" at bottom center. Old stains mostly toward the bottom, not very noticeable from the front. At the top of this lithograph is the legend "Universal Suffrage" and on a decorative ribbon "Elected 10th December 1848". "Peace" and "War" are on decorative ribbons at the sides. A product of the Kellogg Brothers lithographic company, rivals of New York's Currier & Ives, which op...
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An Essay on The Archaiology of Popular English Phrases and Nursery Rhymes.

By: Ker (John Bellenden)

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Southampton: Fletcher and Son/London: Black, Young, & Young, 1834. First edition.:

Seller ID: 56573

Rebound in brown cloth, the original cloth laid down, printed paper label on spine. Ownership inscription on inner front cover, small catalogue entry pasted in, a very good copy. Some foxing, mostly to later leaves. A curious attempt to read significance into nursery rhymes, this book is described in the Introduction to Opie's OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NURSERY RHYMES (1952 ed.), who say of it: "This volume is probably the most extraordinary example of misdirected labour in the history of English letters. .... Ker has given delight to students of mania ever since." The book saw further editions, an...
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De Libello In Processu Civili Ordinario Offerendo Inprimis Ex Legum Saxonicarum Constitutionibus

By: Klgel (Ernst Gottfried Christian) & Gottfried Joachim Thomas Georgi

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Vitembergae : Drrius, [1779]:

Seller ID: 56459

Self-wrapper, 58pp. Woodcut heapiece, and small woodcut running headlines. Disbound from a volume, very good condition, the last two leaves are detached. Text in Latin. This relates to the law around gifts.
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Image for Herr m. Christian Scrivers .... Sile-skatts kerne och stierna, eller vtfrliga och fullkomliga Register therfwer, jemwl richtig anledning, huru af thenna herliga boken allehanda vtur sn- och hgtidsdagarnas epistoliska och evangeliska samt paszions texter effter alla fyra evangelisterna, och Lutheri catechismo vtdragne och rare Usus vpbyggeligen vtfras kunna, vtarbetad af Christophoro Koch .... men nu effter then nya editionen af r 1726 p thet swenska tungomlet fwersatt.

Herr m. Christian Scrivers .... Sile-skatts kerne och stierna, eller vtfrliga och fullkomliga Register therfwer, jemwl richtig anledning, huru af thenna herliga boken allehanda vtur sn- och hgtidsdagarnas epistoliska och evangeliska samt paszions texter effter alla fyra evangelisterna, och Lutheri catechismo vtdragne och rare Usus vpbyggeligen vtfras kunna, vtarbetad af Christophoro Koch .... men nu effter then nya editionen af r 1726 p thet swenska tungomlet fwersatt.

By: Koch (Christoph) [Christian Scriver].

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Norrkping: Carl Friedrich Broocman, 1730:

Seller ID: 56094

4to. Half-calf & boards, spine lettered in gilt. Leather lifted at front hinge, boards rubbed, a very good copy. A few woodcut head & tailpieces, printed in black-letter. In Swedish. On the writings of Lutheran minister Christian Scriver (1629-93).
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Fables Choisies, Mises En Vers par J. De La Fontaine.

By: La Fontaine (Jean de)

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: Bouillon: Aux Depens de la Societe Typographique, 1776.:

Seller ID: 55913

Four Volumes. 8vo. Full marbled calf, covers ruled in gilt, spines designed and ruled in gilt, lettered in gilt on panels of red. Marbled end papers & edges. Two small, decorative bookplates on the inner front covers of all volumes. Half-titles present in all 4 volumes. Frontispiece and 248 engraved plates. Old repairs to the base of the spine on Volume 1, modest edge wear, a clean and sound very good set with all hinges strong. The plates are uniformly clean and unfoxed; a handsome set.
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