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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dj.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dj.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 240 pages; Description: xviii, 240 p. Incl. Front. (facsim. ) facsim. 29 cm. Subjects: Horace--Bibliography--Union lists. Latin Poetry--Rome--In literature--Bibliography--Union lists. 2 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 240 pages; Description: xviii, 240 p. Incl. Front. (facsim. ) facsim. 29 cm. Subjects: Horace--Bibliography--Union lists. Latin Poetry--Rome--In literature--Bibliography--Union lists. 2 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Chapters from the early history of the Erie Railway bt. Librarian in the Yale School of Law (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Front cover has one closed tear of an inch and a half. Otherwise the condition is very good.

Hardcover. Repr,corrected. xxxv, [1], 475 p.; 4 facsimiles in text; 26 cm. [1500 copies printed] Arranged chronologically, with 6 indexes. Foreword, by Eric M. North, p. v-vi -- Table of contents, p. [vii] -- Introduction, p. ix-xiii -- The English Bible in America [historical summary], p. xv-xxvi -- Reference works consulted, p. xxvii-xxviii -- Location symbols, p. xxix-xxxv -- Part I, 1777 through 1825, p. [1], 1-84: nos. 1-545 (all known printings) -- Part II, 1826 through 1957, p. 85-426: nos. 546-2573 (first and reset editions -- Indices: geographical index of publishers and printers, p. [427]-43; index of publishers and printers, p. 445-59; index of translations and of translators and revisers, p. 461-63; index of editors and commentators, p. 465-68; index of edition titles, p. 469-71; general index, p. 473-75 -- Errata, p. 477. -- `We have included in this work only Scriptures in English but hope that a similar publication covering editions in other languages may eventually be prepared. In the case of frequently reprinted editions from the same plates or series of plates,we have listed later printings under the first entry. In Part I we have included allthe reported printings of American Bible Society editions, but in Part II we have listed only new formats, recording in some instances the number of copies that have been printed from some of the more popular forms during the life of the plates or the series of related plates.We have not been very systematic in dealing with illustrations. We were interested in Alexander Anderson and a few other American artists, who are listed in the general index, but have made no attempt to list all the artists, engravers, etc whose works appear in the books described.' (p. ix-xiii) VG blue buckram, lower cover scratched. Ink scoring p. ix-xvii.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. No jacket. First American Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. Near Fine condition (one tiny water spot on the spine). Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Hinges are perfectly sound. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with a few engravings and a double-page "Map of Central Africa, Showing H.M. Stanley's Route and Discoveries." This is the true story of Henry Stanley's expedition to rescue Mehmed Emin Pasha (1840-92). Pasha, whose birth name was Eduard Schnitzer, was a physician and German explorer who served as a medical officer under Gen. Charles Gordon in the Sudan from 1876-78. Pasha succeeded Gordon in 1878 as governor of Equatoria, at that time a province of Egyptian Sudan. As a result of the Mahdist revolt of 1882, Pasha was cut off from the outside world. Stanley's last expedition was organized to rescue him. In April 1889, some 1,500 people set out from Lake Albert for the east coast. Along the way, they found the Ruwenzori Range. They also succeeded in proving that Lakes Edward and Albert were linked by the Semliki River, a fact that cleared up one of the last mysteries concerning sources of the Nile. Arriving in December of that year, Stanley and his expedition safely escorted Pasha to Mombasa. But only two years after this book was published, Pasha was murdered while exploring in the region of Lake Tanganyika. Bound in the original red cloth. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No jacket. 8vo. 176pp. …

Hardcover. 1st edition. xxxv, [1], 477 p.; 4 facsimiles in text; 26 cm. [1000 copies printed] Arranged chronologically, with 6 indexes. Foreword, by Eric M. North -- Introduction (noting on p. v and xiii this bookseller's part in the project) -- [historical summary of] The English Bible in America -- Reference works consulted -- Location symbols -- Part I, 1777 through 1825: all known printings, nos. 1-545, p. [1], 1-84 -- Part II, 1826 through 1957: first and reset printings, nos. 546-2573, p. 85-426 -- Geographical index of publishers and printers, p. [427]-43; index of publishers and printers, p. 445-59; index of translations and of translators and revisers, p. 461-63; index of editors and commentators, p. 465-68; index of edition titles, p. 469-71; general index, p. 473-75 -- Errata, p. 477. -- `We have included in this work only Scriptures in English but hope that a similar publication covering editions in other languages may eventually be prepared. In the case of frequently reprinted editions from the same plates or series of plates, we have listed later printings under the first entry. In Part I we have included all the reported printings of American Bible Society editions, but in Part II we have listed only new formats, recording in some instances the number of copies that have been printed from some of the more popular forms during the life of the plates or the series of related plates. We have not been very systematic in dealing with illustrations. We were interested in Alexander Anderson and a few other American artists, who are listed in the general index, but have made no attempt to list all the artists, engravers, etc whose works appear in the books described.' (p. ix-xiii) NF orig.blue buckram in torn orig. glassine wrapper. Unused copy.…

Hardcover. [4], xxii, 188 p.: front. (3 facs., offset to title-page); 21 cm. Northern homily cycle: Advent to Purification of the B.V.M. From the introduction: 'The Collection is remarkable in many respects, more especially from its containing numerous legends of saints and illustrative tales, which must have rendered it a very popular book in the Middle Ages. At the same time these legends in all probability marked it out as an object of mutilation or destruction at the period of the Reformation, when so many memorials of the former religion were destroyed by the zeal of the reformers--a zeal which was especially directed against books used in the service of the Church, or in the private devotins of the people. Fortunately, however, there are preserved in the Manuscript Collections of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the British Museum, and the Lambeth Library, London, complete copies of this series of Homilies, which, though versified, afford a graphic view of the style of popular preaching at the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth centuries. .The present volume is printed from an ancient MS. preserved in the Library of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. .The sermons are defective, however, in many places; but the portions wanting are supplied in the present volume by extracts from the Cambridge MS. Gg V. 31, and the Ashmolean MS. No. 42.' -- The notes both describe sources and give modern equivalents for obsolete words; the long s is employed throughout. -- With armonial bookplate of Ezra Otis Swift. VG purple cl,spine ends chipped. Teal eps. Pages toned, unopened.…