Comstock John L Md (7 results)
Published by New York: Pratt, Woodford & Co., pp. 1847
- Hardcover
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, U.S.A.Lighthouse Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerOctavo, leather-backed black boards, gilt lettering, 369 pp + 12 pp. Very Good with edgewear. Natural History, Education, Schoolbooks, School Books nslic.
- Hardcover
Seller: Peter L. Masi - books, MONTAGUE, MA, U.S.A.Peter L. Masi - books
Contact seller4-star sellerAre Familiarly Explained, & Illustrated by More than 250 Engravings; to Which Are Added, Questions for the Examination of Pupils Designed for the Use of Schools & Academies. 62nd Edition. N-Y: Pratt, Woodford & Co, 1845. 360 pages. 7.75x4.75", leather. Tips chipped, hinges cracked, foxed, fair.
More imagesPublished by B.B. Barber, Hartford 1832
- Hardcover
Seller: Lochinvar's Library, Chadds Ford, PA, U.S.A.Lochinvar's Library
Contact seller3-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fair. Second. B.B. Barber, 1832. Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Leather bound boards worn but intact. Spine shows significant wear, but gold lettering visible. End papers browned. Previous owners name written on front free end paper. Pages are consistently foxed. Overall condition as would be expected for the…age of the work. A volume discussing contemporary advances in minerology. 143 pages.
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by William W. Reed & Co., New York 1828
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Good
£ 1,699.89
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition dark brown leather boards. Includes 5 sections of Appendices consisting of: The Last Days of Lord Byron, Communicated from Zante to a Friend in England; Funeral Oration on Lord Noel Byron Composed and Delivered by Mr Spiridion Tricoupi, of Missolonghi, Printed by Order of G…overnment, Missolonghi, 10th April, Thursday in Easter Week, 1824; Philanthropic Society, Address of Nicolas Jeracaris, of Scio, delivered to a Meeting of Patriots convened at Napoli di Romania on the 10th of August 1824, to discuss the propriety of forming a Philanthropic Society in Greece; Memorial Addressed to the Provisional Government of Greece, Relative to the Formation of a Philanthropic Society; Letter Addressed by the Deputation of the Philanthropic Society of Greece, to Joseph Hume, Esq, M.P. William Allen, Esq, Treasurer and Secretary to the Committee of Friends, in favour if Indigent Greeks - Jeremy Bentham, Esq. and John Bowring, Esq., Hon. Secretary of the Greek Committee - enclosing a copy of the Rules of the new Society, together with a power to act for it in the United Kingdom, dated August 12-24, 1824; Organization of the Philanthropic Society of Greece; Declaration of Independence, The National Assembly to the Greeks; and Delcaration to the Christian Powers. ILLUSTRATED with a full double page sized elaborately illustrated steel engraved frontispiece entitled: Fall of MISSOLONGH and a full double-page steel engraving entitled Battle of NavarinoI. The title page indicates a "Map of Greece which is not present but the two elaborate double-sized engravings are contained in the volume. Spine edge wear and dry wear to spine.Pages 283 - 290 are detached but those pages are bundled from the publisher as one section so they are still neatly contained within the volume. All pages show the normal foxing accompanying an almost 200 year old book. This is an exceedingly rare volume.
Published by Simpkin Marshall & Co c1838 1838
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Seller: Deightons, Bournemouth, , United KingdomDeightons
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
£ 75.00
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. New edition. Large 16mo. viii, 442pp. Numerous bw illustrations intext. Brown dimpled cloth with blind stamped margins to front and rear, titles gilt to spine, including '3/6'. Neat owner's sig on pastedown. 2cm split rear hinge, ends of spine and edges slight rubbed. Attractive copy. VG+.
More imagesPublished by New York: Pratt, Woodward & Co, 1849. 1849
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Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)
Contact seller5-star sellerIllustrated by 82 b/w engraved text figures. Stated 24th from the 54th edition. c.1831, 1846. Rebound in brown J. Hewit acid free cawburn goat, new head bands, Dodin French shell endpapers and topboard cut out. Entire text block dis-assembled, washed, dried and restitiched removing all foxing and stains. Gilt stamped spine. 16mo…. pp. viii, 9-422, [12] index. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Beautiful restored to new copy.
Published by S.G. Goodrich 1827
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Seller: Orca Knowledge Systems, Inc., Novato, CA, U.S.A.Orca Knowledge Systems, Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerLeather. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Last page of the book is an errata page. Full leather. Front hinge badly cracked. Previous owner placed the book in a suede book jacket. Inscribed in the suede is 'Love Letters of a Musician'. Some staining to approx. 40 pages near the front of the book.…Droplet mark on one page. Some scattered foxing but very minor amount. Comstock, John Lee (1789 - 1858). Little is known of his life until the war of 1812-15. There he worked as a surgeon in the army and thereafter added M.D. to his name. Comstock was a self educated man. Upon his discharge from military service, he returned to Connecticut where he lived the remainder of his life in Hartford. As a means of livelihood, Comstock prepared texts for the use of schools on a large spectrum of subjects, including chemistry, mineralogy, botany, natural history, geography, and physiology.
