Blake John Lauris Rev (5 results)

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good -. Boston Stereotype Edition. Frontis + 27 engraved plates with foxing. Original black spine label, intermittent small dog ears, previous owner's name on front flyleaf, rubbing at extremities, contents complete. PayPal accepted.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Thick octavo. iv, 960pp. Illustrated with ten colored plates, which includes a color frontispiece and also an engraved pictorial half-title page. Names of E.A. Rogers of New Orleans, Mary Louise Rogers of California, and a third individual on the second front flyleaf with births and deaths of their relatives recorded on the rear free endpaper. Quarter calf diced-cloth boards with a pinkish hue and gilt decoration and lettering on the spine. Boards and spine are worn particularly along the edges, fading and soiling to the boards, a torn piece of paper affixed to the pastedown, endpapers soiled, and foxing throughout, good or better with the hinges remaining tight and sound.…

Illustrated by four engraved plates (at rear). First edition. Full leather. 12mo. pp. 372. Index. Good. Old toned dampstains on several pages, hinges and joints sound. Sadly missing the six color lithographs (4 rear engravings present), merit as text reseach: conversations between Emily, Caroline and Mrs. B. Reverend Blake was a prolific writer with intersts in American history (and Indians), astronomy, oceanography, school readers, earth science, chemistry, anthropology/sociology, farming, natural philosophy, biography and geography as well as religion. He was also founder of the Ladies' Magazine (edited by Sarah Josepha Hale 1827-36). American Imprints 2390 [later reprinted in 2012].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Sixth Edition. This is a VG hardcover 1846 sixth edition copy in a 960 page maroon tooled and gold embossed leather binding. marbled end papers and edges. The kind of spine gilt job that you see on an English King's book. With frontispiece etching of Hell Gate and four color flower plates, Amaranth, Crocus, Rose, and Sunflower. MEDIA SHIPPING ONLY, extra for airmail or international shipping. Photos on request.…

Large 8vo in 4s (approx. 10¼" x 6½"), pp. [6], 960; alphabetical text in double column; engraved oval frontispiece portrait of George Washington, and 22 lithographs by Pendleton of notable American architecture; contemporary quarter diced russia over marbled boards; boards worn, neatly rebacked with old spine laid down; internally clean and the binding remains sound. Early owner's ownership signature on two flyleaves and recto of the frontispiece. Originally published in monthly parts beginning in 1832 (of which no copies in OCLC), this is the first book edition. Among the buildings represented are City Hall, Augusta, Georgia; Columbia College; the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Philadelphia; Mount Auburn Cemetery; Andover Theological Seminary; Mount Vernon; the Arcade in Providence; Kenyon College; Dartmouth College; the Capitol of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg; Yale College and State House; The White House, State House in Boston, and City Hall in New York, among others. That six of the nine records in OCLC are for individual plates suggests that this was a book often broken up for the lithographs. OCLC locates a total of only 7 copies: Yale, Boston Athenaeum, Boston Public, Harvard, Lehigh, Houston, and the University of Edinburgh. Not noted in Walsh, Anglo-American General Encyclopedias. Not in the Arents Collection of Books in Parts. American Imprints 23440; Sabin 5782.…