C J Phillips (26 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Sale no. 1. The cover is tan; about a third of it has darkened from shelf wear. A 4 in., light bend line is on the front cover. The content is a list of lot #'s with descriptions. There are no illustrations, as published. An Addenda and Corrigenda is laid in. Scans e-mailed upon request.…

Embossed Cloth, Gilt. Condition: Good. First Edition, First State. 384 Pp. Hardcover, Original Cloth, Spine Gilt, Covers Stamped In Blind. First State. Covers Worn, Spine Gilt Still Present, Bottom And Top Of Spine Chipped Away About 1/4", Fraying At Corners And A Fw Points At Edges. Tissue Guards All Present And Well-Preserved. Hinges Solid. No Names Or Marks. Frontispiece, Plates (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Presume First Edition. Heavily embossed green paper-wrapped binding. Spine is faded to brown with gold colored print. Spine has splits and tears, only real defect. Rubwear to end papers, Black soiling on rear cover.Otherwisr very sound and unmarked.384 pages. Frontspiece (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. New edition. 12mo, 235 pages, embossed red cloth, a bit shaken, publisher's advertisements With extensive Notes to the poem. Edited by Thomas Moore, Byron's fellow Romantic poet, friend, and biographer.

Printed Green Card Covers. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket as Published. Catalogue printed with black & white illustrations, price list at rear dated 1903, pages clean, printed green card covers, front cover is stamped REVISED PATTERN SHOP. Size: 8vo. Catalogue.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. A New Edition. Front and back cover panels barely hanging on, half of spine is flapping loose, text block, however, is tight, some foxing / browning to pages. A book who would love to be rebound. Poor.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with no DJ. Brown cloth over boards with gold lettering on spine. Title and copyright pages dated 1854. 527 pages. Embossed floral pattern on front and rear boards. 4 inch long area of dark staining on front board along right side. Cloth cover worn at top and bottom edges of boards as well as at corner. Cloth covering at top 2 inches of spine is partially cut away from binding but still attached along front board. Gold lettering and gold illustration on spine are very lightly faded but still legible. Endpapers toned. Illustrations from various scenes in this title as frontispiece, protected by tissue paper. Pages are lightly toned around edges. Text remains tidy and legible. Binding secure with no missing pages. Good condition. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback copy in quarter bound grey cloth, grey boards with brown lettering to front boards, no dustjacket as issued. B/w illustrations throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions, foxing to endpapers. (14/4).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 360 pp. Original red cloth covers stamped in blind w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed w/ wear to extremities. Spine a bit darkened. Light foxing throughout. Small piece of bottom corner torn from front blank endpaper; small chip at top edge of rear blank endpaper. Illust. w/ a color frontispiece. Still a strong, sturdy copy for its age.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Full black leather ornately decorated in gilt, AEG. Reissue. Viii (actually iv) [2], 13-324pp. 2 b/w litho plates. One tissued color litho half- title page by W. C. Sharp Boston. Text within double-rule borders. PO name, mild foxing, boards slightly flared. No date, circa 1850. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. …

Hardcover. First Edition. Original brown cloth. BAL 17540: State 1, Imprint A. Wright II #2208. Illustrated with 8 plates & text engravings. A collection of comic pieces including a brief chapter on Daguerrotypes. In 1851, Shillaber became the founding editor of the The Carpet-Bag, one of the country's first comic publications. An 1852 issue ran a short article titled "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter" by a 16-year old Samuel L. Clemens. Head of spine chipped, some marginal dampstaining. Good+.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 340 pp. Original brown cloth covers stamped in blind w/ gilt title on spine. Binding soiled and rubbed w/ sunning to spine and edges. Corners bumped; wear to spine ends. Previous owner's name on front endpaper; evidence of bookplate (?) removed from front paste-down. Light scattered foxing. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Two volumes (complete). Two comfortable books. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spines have wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spines are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 149pp + portfolio of plates. The blue card covers are somewhat faded on the edges. Small, faint Linn's Stamp News handstamps on front and rear covers. A clean, solid set for this auction, never held. Size: Small Quartos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Original full brown morocco, ornately stamped in black on boards and in spine compartments, gilt-stamped lettering on boards and in second spine compartment (5 raised bands), a.e.g.; 4to; pp. 944, text in double-column, plus tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Jonson by Gerard Honthorst, engraved by H. W. Smith. Spine somewhat darkened, and scuffed at tips; some light scuffing along joints and edges of board. Some off-setting of frontispiece onto title-p., but, aside form the ghost of Jonson, text is bright and clean. Jonson (1572-1637) is best remembered for his plays and poetry. his first play to be produced, "Every Man Out of His Humour," featured William Shakespeare in its cast. A scarce American printing, finely bound, and including William Gifford's memoir, a selection of Commendatory Verses on Jonson written by his contemporaries, and a glossary and index.…

An expanded version of the theory of cosmogony published by the author in 1848, developed through 1871 and 1890 and left at his death in manuscript, for his daughter to illustrate and publish. Crown 8vo.xiii 163pp.Frontispiece & 12 text figures. Contemporary newspaper article "The Chertsey Carlisle"- How our Earth was Created, tipped to free endpaper. Plus an offprint review. Facing the half title is a tipped-in addenda headed "Remarks on Prof.Wegener's claim to be the originator of two of Franklin Coxworthy's discoveries" signed Julia Coxworthy Original publishers cloth.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 352 pages(complete). An estimable copy. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spine wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spine are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very, very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming and dignified. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Two volumes (complete). Two comfortable books. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spines have wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spines are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Two volumes (complete). Both copies are smart. Full calf leather. Stamped gilt cypher on the front boards. The spines have five ridges with different coloured leather patches for titling. The boards have blind stamped decoration, gilt borders. The inside rims of the boards have gilt decoration. The boards have shelving wear to the edges and corners. The spines have much wear all along the bodies, to the heads and feet. Nonetheless, the boards are handsome, steady and sure. The contents are most pleasing. They are fresh-faced, certain, agreeably healthy, clean and clear, convivial, neat, tidy, classy, with a pleasing jeunesse. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Printed for Richard Phillips by J C Bernard, London, UK. 1808. 442 pgs. Complete with all plates, including folding map of Spain, The Ferry of the Bidassoa, 6 plates of bullfighting, Palace of the Escurial, Palce of Aranjuez and View of Montserrat (most plates folding). First English edition, translated from the French. Bound in cloth with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Jean-François, baron de Bourgoing (20 November 1748 in Nevers 20 July 1811 in Karlovy Vary) was a French diplomat, writer and translator. A commander of the Légion d'honneur, he was also a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences, a member of the Copenhagen Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1810, a knight then a baron de l'Empire, and a knight of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Full leather. Condition: Near Fine. Third Edition. 8vo.Pp. xvi, 17- 543, 22 + index. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait, four black and white engraved plates, two hand-colored engraved maps, and one hand-colored engraved plate of a tobacco plant. Third edition, second issue (with index), includes biography of the author, and the colored plate of a tobacco plant not present in earlier editions. Rebound in full tan goatskin, original red spine label lettered in gilt laid down, five raised bands, gilt decorated compartments. Near Fine. Bookplates from three previous owners interior notably clean and bright. Two of the bookplates are armorial: those of T. Beale M. A., and Herbert S. Leon (likely Sir Herbert Samuel Leon, 1st Baronet, English financier and MP for Buckingham, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire). The third is that of Laurence Selling, the noted neurological physician-bibliophile.Considered the best edition, and a high-spot of early Western travel in America. Indeed, Carver's narrative was an influence on Lewis & Clark. Contains the first published mention of the word "Oregon." HOWES C215, "b." FIELD 251. SABIN 11184.…

Full Leather. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition, Second Issue. 22 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. 543pp (22). Bound in full calf with red leather spine label. Housed in a custom made 1/4 leather clam-shell box, embossed with previous owner's name. Illustrated with 7 plates which include two folding color maps and 6 engraved plates including frontispiece, of which 4 are in color. The 3rd and best edition, according to Sabin, with a biography of the author and an index added by John Coakley Lettsom. The spine was split but has been professionally repaired and rebacked preserving much of the original spine. Armorial bookplate (name obscured) on front fixed endpaper and two more modern names on the verso. Scattered foxing including to the edges and back of the maps. Howes C215. ESTC T133716. Sabin 11184. Streeter III, 1772.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Octavo. [6], 22, [16], i-xvi, 17-543, [21]pp. []2, A4, A4-C4 [C4 blank], b8, A1, A8, []3?, B8-Z8, Aa8-Mm8, Nn4, Oo2. Third edition, considered the best. Per Howes, second issue. Contemporary calf. With handcolored maps and plates. With engraved frontispiece portrait, four black and white engraved plates, two hand-colored engraved maps, and one hand-colored engraved plate of a tobacco plant. Howes C215; Field 251; Sabin 11184; Vail 670; Parker, The Journals of Jonathan Carver and Related Documents 1766-1770 222-224 (I, III). Lowndes I, 383; Cox II, 151; Arents III, 890, 916A; Streeter III, 1772; ESTC T133716.…

8vo in fours, pp. xxxii, 359, 362-464; text continuous despite the jump at p. 359 (see below); some waterstains on title and first few leaves,and also at end; contemporary half calf, a little worn, but sound. First and only edition: this collection appears to have been published at Rack's own risk, and is preceded by a substantial subscription list. Amongst the subscribers are many Norfolk gentry and nobility (Walpoles and Townshends among them), and agricultural reformers such as Arthur Young. Edmund Rack (c. 1735-87) was from a Quaker weaving family of Norfolk, but took an interest in literature, agriculture and other subjects, and contributed to magazines under the name of Eusebius. In the mid-1770s he settled in Bath and some of his later works were on agricultural reform; he also made topographical collections for the history of Somerset. The poems here include 'The Banks of the Avon' (written in 1779: pp. 79-82), ' The Cell of Contemplation' (1770: pp. 216-224), 'The Temple of Fancy' (pp. 377-390), and odes to Melancholy, to Spring and other subjects. In Bath, he helped to found the Bath Philosophical Society. The jump in pagination at p. 359 must be deliberate, and arises from the cancellation of leaves 2Z4 and 3A1, with a single leaf substituted in their stead. This is not noticed by ESTC, and is perhaps not present in all copies. …

Two volumes, small 8vo, pp. [ii], x, 188; [vi], [5]-236; first title with stain in inner margin, and some spotting, most notably at beginning and end; bound in contemporary tree calf, but since rebacked and recornered in a different style, with new marbled endpapers, preserving earlier bookplates (see below). First British edition: this text was first published in Philadelphia by Robert Bell, in 1774, as Observations on a variety of subjects. It is by Jacob Duché (1737-98), son of a mayor of Philadelphia and an Anglican clergyman. He was an early supporter of the move to independence, and in July 1776 he was chosen as the first chaplain to Congress. However, the following year he was captured by the British and became a turncoat; he fled to England, not returning to America until 1792. This edition was edited by Edmund Rack (d. 1787), who added the appendix on William Penn, which in fact takes up half of the second volume. Provenance. Contemporary bookplates of Sir William Maynard Gomm (1784-1875), soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, and later in various parts of the expanding British Empire. Gomm's first wife was Sophia Penn, great-granddaughter of William Penn, and so he would have had a family interest in the book.…

Third and best edition. Third and best edition. 2 folding engraved maps, finely colored in outline; engraved portrait of the author, five engraved plates (four colored). 1 vols. 8vo. Carver penetrated further West than any other pre-Revolutionary explorer in his search for a Northwest Passage, mapping several tributaries of the Mississippi, and making many observations of flora and fauna, Indian tribes, etc., which were to prove useful to later explorers. His frontier experiences in Minnesota and Wisconsin have, according to Vail, "been accepted as one of the earliest and best accounts of pioneer days in this region." And although Carver's mission proved abortive, his book excited an intense curiosity later satisfied by Mackenzie and Lewis & Clark. This edition includes a biography of the author, the index, and a colored plate of the tobacco plant not present in earlier editions. Howes C215; Sabin 11184; Field 251; Graff 622; Reese, Best of the West 13; Reese & Osborn, Struggle for North America 88 Recent quarter calf and marbled boards 2 folding engraved maps, finely colored in outline; engraved portrait of the author, five engraved plates (four colored). 1 vols. 8vo. …