B Porter (26 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee. Eyolfson, Norman (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 150 pages, 23 cm. "Between 1830 and 1850 six Porter cousins emigrated from Ireland to Canada and then moved into Maine. Although some information is given about ancestors of these cousins most of the information is about them and their descendants. Many stayed in Maine but others moved into Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota." A fine copy of a rare genealogy.…

Single sheet. Condition: Near Fine. 1st edition thus. Cambridgeport , Mass.: Linn B. Porter. Cambridgeport , Mass.: Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1879. This vintage 4 and 1/2 by 8 and1/4 inch billhead is in near fine collectible condition with minor dust soiling and creases from being folded. See Photos; A scarce piece of vintage Cambridgeport Mass. Ephemera and genealogy. The billhead is dated December 31st 1879 and payment was recived from Ada P. Uorse Of Broad Street, Cambridgeport. Linn B. Porter was and agent for The Cambridge Chronicle . . whbx 3 /E.…

Full Calf. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pp. xlvii, 310, index. Volume the first (all published) scarce dublin edition. Covers worn scuffed. Externally fair internally good.

Newspaper. 24p., folded tabloid newspaper on newsprint, photos, editorials, ads, services, resources, reviews, articles, news, maps of taverns in Seattle and Portland, closed tears else very good condition. Monthly newspaper that succeeded The Fountain.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Ex Library. Ex-library copy with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marks of any kind. Very clean copy with no creases to covers or spine, book shows very little use. Signed on title page. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine First edition in Fine d/j. All in VG heavy duty slipcase. Bound in burgundy Winterbottom buckram. Limited to 1000 copies, this being number 62. Loosely inserted at front of book are : original copy of the book prospectus, small errata sheet, Invitation to book launch and a signed copy of the speech given by the author at the book launch. Book SIGNED and dedicated by author to owners. A beautiful production.…

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, pictorial blue cloth, lettered gilt to spine, patterned endpapers. Lightly rubbed to some extremities, the binding remains tight and the text is free of marking, but with some foxing to the closed edges, and pre-lims. Colour frontis and four colour plates, four mounted photographs and three folding maps. List of subscribers at rear. The colour plates are all clean and unmarked, the mounted photographs are clean but the surrounding margin and facing pages are foxed, the three maps have foxing, lxxxvii + 459 + 7 pp.…

Original Boards. Condition: Good. Sixth Edition. Pp. xiii.498. Full calf title and vol. no. in gilt on wine and black cold. labels on spine. Light split along spine edges between it an covers. Ex-lib with just one label on front pastedown and neat stamps at verson of title page & bottom of last page. Occasional internal wear and small tear on one leaf with small portion of text affected.Else good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 16 mo hardcover volume in original marbled boards and black leather spine. Pages have some toning and some stain spots on bottom edge. There are 128 pages missing the last 2 leave of the appendix and page 128 has a tear but complete. Case 1.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Printed by William Sleater for P. Wogan, L. White, P. Byrne, W. Porter, W. Sleater, J. Jones, J. Moore, B. Dornin, C. Lewis, W. Jones, G. Draper, J. Milliken and R. White. Complete 6 volume set with 55 plates and 6 folding plans and maps. Vol. I: lxxx, 381 pages of text; six plates. Vol. II: [viii], 592 pages; three plates including one fold-out. Vol. III: [vi], 687 pages; three plates including one fold-out map. Vol. IV: [viii], [777] pages (misnumbered 775) followed by three sheets, printed on one side only, four plates including three fold-out battle plans. Vol. V: [viii], 496 pages. Vol. VI: Titled "Select Specimens of Natural History. Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia. xxiv, 286 pages, followed by 13 pages of index and 3 pages "List of Plates". 42 plates plus three large fold-out maps. The plate of the papyrus in volume VI is missing. otherwise a complete set. Binding is half leather with marbled paper boards. Front covers of volumes I, III and VI are detached. …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good string tied portfolio. Edges of front and rear covers are chipped. No names or marks. Beautiful color illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover. Front cover is detached and missing; back cover remains attached by three threads. Brown leather over boards. Title page dated 1791. 775 pages. In fair condition. Leather is coming detached and has lifted from back board, appears quite cracked along edges, overall soiled and scuffed. Leather over spine has been almost completely chipped away, revealing binding beneath. Portions of the title label with gilt stamping remain. Although outside appearance is quite worn, inside contents remain in quite good, readable condition overall. Pages are clean, with some foxing throughout. Includes three fold out maps, all three in good condition overall -- some light tidelines, but no significant tears or markings. Binding is starting to split between pages 482-483, but has held up quite well, with no loose signatures. Please e-mail with questions or to request photos. …

(2), IV, 78 pp. Publisher's printed blue wrappers. Covers slightly soiled, corners slightly creased, spine ends just slightly chipped. A well-kept copy of this scarce title. Rules and regulations for Bedford County Gaol in accordance with the Prisons' Act of 1865. Scarce.

First Dublin edition. 216 pp. A series of 39 letters written by L. Sterne dating from July 1764 to August 1766. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. Armorial plate of Esher on fep. Browning around margins of text only. Full brown leather with gilt rule on spine. Original spine replaced. No lettering on spine. Edges and corners of boards chipped and rubbed. Overall condition Good+.…

Hardcover. 16mo (6.625" x 4"), marbled paper over boards, later red cloth spine. [2], half-title, frontis., viii, [9]-132 pp. Second illus. at p. 122, facing appendix. Early ownership and presentation inscriptions in ink and pencil at ffep ("Christmas 1956 [i.e., 1856] Rufus to Sam"); p. [1] ("John A Soasy[?] Boston Sept 28 1836"); and p. [3] ("Fred W G. May from Ely before embarking for China 1858"). A few additional pencil annotations to initial and final leaves. CONDITION: Very good, covers worn, rubbed at extremities, occasional light foxing and toning to contents, as usual, with a few very minor spots of soiling. Stated second edition, presumed second printing of this important and enthusiastically wide-ranging work of popular artistic and scientific instruction by the "Yankee Da Vinci" and founder of Scientific American. Among the most popular works in a wave of art instruction books in the wake of American independence, Curious Arts was first published in a small edition-without a copyright-in 1820, printed by J. T. Peters of Concord, Massachusetts. A revised, enlarged edition under the present altered title appeared in 1825, printed by Jacob B. Moore of Concord, New Hampshire. With its 116 brief chapters, the volume is "a personally selected compendium of practical art recipes, simple experiments in general science and the tricks of a number of trades. The chances are that most of the arts described.-from glass painting and etching to painting carpets and wallpapers-were at some time attempted by the author, and a number of them Porter had practiced professionally" (Lipman, p. 78). In addition to sections on "Landscape painting on walls of rooms," "Copper plate engraving," and instructions "To make good shining black ink," the volume contains wide-ranging assortment of more fanciful recipes for "Sympathetic inks for secret correspondence" and "Luminous ink that will shine in the dark"; "To change wood, apparently, to stone" and "to render, wood, cloth or paper fire proof"; "To make sky rockets and fire wheels"; "To kindle a fire under water" and (thanks to a recent discovery by Sir Humphrey Davy) "To light a candle by application of ice," and more. One rather cruel trick, "To change the colours of animals," relies on the application of "any substance that will blister the skin" directly to the animal's shaven body. A final section, titled "Sundry experiments," provides single-sentence instructions for a variety of curiosities of chemistry and physics. The frontispiece, titled "Sketches of Landscapes," comprises three scenes, possibly intended as models for murals: a boy resting beneath a tree, with fields in the distance; three youngsters playing with a kite, hoops, and sticks, and a peaceful homestead. The illustration facing the appendix shows a "classical building with a cupola that symbolized learned institutions. This image was [Abel] Bowen's cut of the Hanover Medical School," originally accomplished for John Farmer's Gazetteer of the State of New-Hampshire, "now assuming a purported new identity as the Boston Dispensary," which is recommended in the appendix as a reliable source for many of the materials mentioned in the volume (Sprague and Wolff, p. 28). Rufus Porter (1792-1884) was an inventor, itinerant painter, writer, and founder of the Scientific American. Born in Boxford Mass. he was raised in Maine, where he began his career as a sign and house painter, later living in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York City. He traveled widely throughout the northeast and as far south as Virginia, painting the portraits and murals for which he is perhaps best known. Porter was a tireless inventor of a wide variety of useful machines, apparatuses, and improvements-some fully realized and others not-including the self-adjusting cheese press, two carpenter's levels, an elevated railroad, turbine water wheels, windmills, flying ships, a car for moving houses, a combined chair and cane, a revolving almanack, and more. A very good copy of this popular handbook of science and art by a pioneering New England contributor to American art and invention. REFERENCES: Shaw & Shoemaker 26045; Rink, Evald. Technical Americana 207; Lipman, Jean. Rufus Porter : Yankee Pioneer (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1968); Sprague, Laura Fecych and Justin Wolff. Rufus Porter's Curious World : Art and Invention in America, 1815-1860 (2019).…

A collection of papers issued in fourteen parts in irregular intervals. The majority were written by Rowley himself although other well known ornithologists such as Dresser, Salvin, Sclater, Seebohn, and Sharpe made important contributions. First edition; 14 parts in 3 vols, 4to (34.5 x 26 cm); 135 plates, of which 104 hand-coloured and chromolithographic by J.G. Keulemans and J. Smit, three maps, some pages slightly loose, scattered light foxing, very occasional inoffensive spotting to plates, else plates generally clean and fresh; publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, corners and spine ends bumped, slight rubbing to extremities, original wrappers bound in at rear; a very good set. Provenance: The Avicultural Society, T.H. Newman Bequest 1944 (bookplate to front pastedown of each volume). Zimmer 533; Anker 432; Fine Bird Books 103; McGill/Wood 543; Nissen IVB, 798; Nissen SVB, 421; Trinity College 204; Yale Library 246.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The sixth edition, with corrections, complete in two volumes. A good set in contemporary calf the bindings are a bit scuffed and frayed at the spine head of vol 2. Previous owner's name on the title page and front pastedown of vol 1 with a related newspaper clipping tipped in, the end papers are browned and spotted but the main text is sound. A scarce early Dublin edition in a good period binding.…

Condition: Good. 1790. Hardback. Vols 1, 2, 4 & 5, lacking Vols 3 and 6. Rare Dublin edition. Half leather with marbled paper boards. Covers showing age and wear. Binding is tight. Fold out maps. Lightly toned, text and illustrations clear and remains a fine set. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Octavo. Six volumes. I: lxxx, 381pp.; II: [viii], 592pp.; III: [vi], 687pp.; IV: [viii], 775pp.; V: [viii], 496pp.; VI: xxiv, 286, [xii], [iii] pp. First authorized Dublin edition. Contemporary blue half calf over marbled boards. With 56 plates on 63 leaves, including 6 folding maps and plans, tables of weather, index. Altogether 60 engraved plates (1 double-plate) and 3 large engraved maps by Bruce. I: six plates; II: three plates including one fold-out: III: three plates including one fold-out map; IV: three sheets, printed on one side only, offering a "First Battle Observation" followed by "Second" and "Third." Illustrated with four plates including three fold-out battle plans and maps; V: no plates; VI: Forty-three plates plus three large fold-out maps. Cox I, p. 381; Nissen 6127; Blackmer 434; NZI 617; ESTC N27890.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good+ condition. First Edition. Six volume set. The set is complete with a total of 56 plates and maps, some of which are folding. All volumes newly rebound by Scott Kellar in matching tan canapetta cloth with gold-embossed French-split goatskin labels. A few interior pages with small archival repairs to tears in the margin, and minor scattered foxing. Vol. I: lxxx, 381 pages of text; six plates. Vol. II: [viii], 592 pages; three plates including one fold-out. Vol. III: [vi], 687 pages; three plates including one fold-out map. Vol. IV: [viii], [777] pages (misnumbered 775) followed by three sheets, printed on one side only, offering a "First Battle Observation" followed by a "Second" and a "Third." Illustrated with four plates including three fold-out battle plans/maps. The title page and index are included again (repeated), interspersed among the final leaves of text, and bound out of sequence. Vol. V: [viii], 496 pages. Vol. VI: Titled "Select Specimens of Natural History. Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia. xxiv, 286 pages, followed by [xvi] of index. Forty-three plates plus three large fold-out maps. An attractive copy of the first Dublin edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Book.…

Fourth Irish edition of the "first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM), in a handsome contemporary Irish binding. Towards the end of the Wealth of Nations, Smith outlines an expansive and audacious plan for the political-economic consolidation of the British Empire. In this plan, Ireland was to be united with Great Britain in a move largely modelled on the Anglo-Scottish union of 1707. Smith stresses the political and economic benefits to the Irish, anticipating that the move would end British trade restrictions and even neutralize the fractious nature of Irish politics. Ironically, Smith's wider theories of political economy in the Wealth of Nations were often co-opted by Irishmen diametrically opposed to his political proposals, most notably the United Irishman Arthur O'Connor (1763-1852), whose approach to democratic land reform was "a radicalised version of Smith's political economy" (Andersen). The United Irishmen mounted a rebellion in 1798, the failure of which led to precisely the Anglo-Irish union advocated by Smith. This fourth Irish edition was the first to be published in the newly formed United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Kress B.4448; Tribe 75; Vanderblue, p. 20. L. S. Andersen, "The Political Economy of Ireland and Its Counterfactuals: Review of James Strafford The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848 (CUP, 2022)", History of European Ideas, vol. 50, no. 1, 2023. 2 vols, octavo (204 x 131 mm), pp. xiii, [1], 498; viii, 489. [61]; lacking blank A1 in vol. II. Tables in the text. Contemporary red straight-grain sheep, spines lettered, ruled, and decorated in gilt, covers panelled in gilt, marbled endpapers. With 1824 prize inscription in Latin to fourth blank of vol. I. Extremities refurbished, light scuffing, faint sunning to spines, minor foxing and offsetting to contents, leaf P6 of vol. II with 7 cm closed tear, touching text: a very good copy. …

Full calf. Condition: Very Good. Very early Irish editions of "The Wealth of Nations", both volumes published out of Dublin, in mixed states. Vol. I is the 1801 "sixth edition, with additions"; and Vol. II is the 1785 "fourth edition, with additions". Thick, uniform octavos, both volumes bound identifically in their contemporary-to-the-period full calf, with professionally, handsomely rebacked spines ansd new endsheets. The original text and bindings have held up very well: solid and VG+, with bright, crisp pages. Only the original title page of Vol. I shows notable wear, with creasing, several small closed tears and soiling along the top-edge. Originally published out of London in 1776, this elegant, early set out of Dublin (though mismatched editions) remains very presentable and deeply historic.…

Condition: Good. 1790. Hardback. Vols 1, 2, 4 & 5, lacking Vols 3 and 6. Rare Dublin edition. Half leather with marbled paper boards. Covers showing age and wear. Binding is tight. Fold out maps. Lightly toned, text and illustrations clear and remains a fine set. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…