no date circa 1890 (62 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. 12 mo., hardcover, green ornate designed boards; (boards are very bright and in VG shape) no dj. pages browned, front hinge broken, first few endpapers loose, else a good reading copy. 446 and 419 pp. s. Appears to be late 1800's edition. Contains introduction by author. Pages browning. A novel of the castle of Kenilworth, Queen Elizabeth, Raleigh, Leicester and Amy Robsart, a historical romance. Ronan's Well, one of only two novels set within Scott's lifetime, is the only one in which he attempts contemporary social satire. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book size about 5 1/2 by 7 1/2 with some 43 numbered pages. Bound in marbled paper covered boards with purple cloth spine. Numerous illustrations throughout. A primer for children in German additionally containing penmanship lessons. Free front end paper missing; several page edge tears; couple of illustrations lightly crayoned; all covers edges rubbed. GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Translated, with notes, by Horace Walpole; and with additional notes, etc. by Sir Walter Scott and Mrs. Jameson. Original grey cloth, a little marked, edges slightly rubbed, pp. viii + 408, few illustrations. A little foxing; still good.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small book about 3 1/4 by 4 1/4 inches with some 12 pages including the covers. Bound in string tied embossed color chromolithograph illustrated thin cardboard. All edges scalloped. With two interior color chromolithograph illustrations. Title page with gilt lettering and decoration. Lovely little Christmas gift book with the words to the famous hymn. Foxing to center two pages else slight wear. NEAR FINE Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small book about 4 by 5 1/2 inches with some 16 pages including the covers. Ribbon bound white thin cardboard with embossed color chromolithograph illustrated front cover. All edges decoratively cut. With four interior color chromolithograph images. A Christmas gift book. Lovely little book with slight wear. FINE Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small oblong book about 6 by 4 inches with some 16 pages. Ribbon bound in embossed color illustrated thin cardboard covers. With six chromolithograph color illustrations--smaller images in light blue on the remaining pages. An Easter gift book of very high quality. A bit of light covers soil else slight wear. NEAR FINE Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Book size about 5 1/2 by 7 1/2 inches with some 310 pages. Bound in pale blue cloth with front cover and spine extensive black decoration and some gilt--lettering in pale blue on gilt panels. Frontis and one full page illustration. Follow-up book to Female Life Among the Mormons apparently published by the author's wife. Well worn book with heavy covers wear and soil. Hinges unbroken but a reading copy only. FAIR Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Oblong book about 5 1/2 by 4 inches with some 16 pages including covers. Gold string bound in color illustrated cream wraps (Thin cardboard). All edges gilt. Six internal chromolithographs full page and smaller. Very slight wear; previous owner Xmas greeting very neatly on title page. Beautiful copy. NEAR FINE Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

stapled wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 8vo, 48 pages, green printed wrappers, with some cellophane tape repairs The London was a 154 State Street. Also includes silver and silver plate, imported silk, clocks, and umbrrellas.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. ] Hardback, 12mo, gilt and embossed on maroon ribbed cloth, 122 + 47 pp + 8 pp ads, G to G+. Not bad looking (appears to have darkened just a little uniformly), but FFEP missing with front hinge split. Pencil scribbling to 3 of the 8 pages of ads). RWR5 19th Century Fiction.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Pictoral boards. School prize sticker dated 1890 inside the front board. Tissue guarded frontis. 1st edition. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Blue pictoral boards. Firm binding. Toning to page edges otherwise clean pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Milk chocolate brown cloth with beveled edges. Front cover illustration of a village scene in black, gold and gray; gilt title lettering. Spine lettering in gilt. Slate blue EP's. All edges gilt. Unpaginated (Some 40 pages). 4to. Printed on heavy thick paper the format of the book is to have a Biblical verse, hymn or other religious text on an illustrated page. Twelve of the pages are illustrated in full color (all chromolithographs) and the remainder are in black/white. Illustrations BY FRED HINES. Light to moderate general wear most noticeable at the spine top/bottom and tips; moderate soiling; rear hinge cracked with tape marks; front hinge cracked. Beautiful book in the usual Nister high quality mode with a bright and clean interior--lovely chromolithographs in a rural pastoral style. GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Condition: Very Good. A very good tight copy. 12mo. 301 pp. Brown cloth, gilt spine title, black cover decorations.

?New Edition?. Duncan Matheson, a lay preacher of the 1859 revival associated with the old Free Church of Scotland, generated thousands of gospel tracts and booklets in his attempts to make the gospel readily available. Religious scholars and those studying the impact of print will want to add this volume to their libraries. weight: 0.7 lb. Very good, endpapers toned, Sunday School bookplate to ffep. Portrait frontis. 18.2x12x2 cm. 277 pp. + 7 pp. ads. Half dark green calf over dark green textured cloth, gilt spine title all edges gilt, crackle pattern endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 24 illustrations from Photographs (illustrator). Original Souvenit Album. Green cloth, darkler green spine cloth, gilt title and decorations on front cover, blindstamped rear cover, no publisher or date indicated but views show Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park but no motorized vehicles. 24 glossy views, two per page, printed as if photographs, but all illustrations are idealized near-photographic images. Apparently quite scarce, only two copies shown in institutional holdings indexed in WorldCat. Pages detached, spine mostly detached, but all there, cover gilt still brilliant.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ] Hardback, 12mo, gilt on maroon cloth, 257 pages, VG/no dj. Tight binding, front hinge intact, neat repair to partial rear hinge cracking. Generally bright and clean exterior, but minor smudging (some exaggeration in the ofc photo) + a front cover ring stain nearly unnoticeable. Top corner back cover 2-inch quarter-circle bend-crease in the cloth (noticeable inside too). Top edges gilt, text pages stiff & browning, name in ink second blank page. As with my copy I'm seeing in other seller photos the gilt "Oxford Edition" logo (base of spine) for this edition is a bit skewed & off-center. RWR5 Fiction 19th Century.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. String tied thin cardboard wraps. Twelve pages of text and (Including the covers) eight thin cardboard pages with color chromolithograph mounted plates. Oblong book about 10 by 7 inches. The author name is not given in the book. The mounted color plates are about 7 1/2 by 4 1/2 inches and are mounted on the front cover, inside the rear cover and on six interior pages. The plates are heavy art stock and the chromolithograph images (Of watercolor scenes) are very high quality with real depth. Each text page has the poem on one side and a black/white illustration on the rear. This of course, is the verse written by Woodworth in 1817 and enormously popular in the middle to late 1800's in the U.S. An artistic book obviously made for the gift market. Small chips at top and bottom of front cover fore-edge; a bit of paper offsetting from the facing text page to the last plate. A lovely, unusual, fragile and scarce book. GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

litho engraved map, 200 x 257 mm, hand coloured, narrow margins, some minor foxing, else good. This is an original antique map. We do not sell reproductions or facsimiles.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Maroon cloth with gold lettering, 4 3/4 X 7 inches, 386 pages. First edition by this publisher, Clery & Company department store. Small tears to top and bottom edge of spine (see photo) Corners rubbed, pages slightly yellowed. Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Slightly oblong book about 6 1/2 by 5 inches with some 16 pages including the covers. Bound in string tied color embossed thin cardboard. All edges die cut. With four color illustrations. A Christmas poem. Light wear. Lovely little Victorian Christmas book. NEAR FINE Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book size about 6 by 4 1/2 inches with some 12 pages including the covers. Bound in string tied color illustrated wraps. All edges gilt. Book consists of the entire Christmas Hymn 'It Came Upon The Midnight Clear -----' with all verses. A very lovely unattributed cover illustration of angels. Book with slight wear. FINE Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Condition: Very Good. German text. weight: 0.5 lb. Corners lightly bumped, otherwise a very good copy in a nice binding. 12mo. 346 pp. + 6 pp. ads. Half red morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine decorations, blue top edge.

hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 18mo, Friends' Bookstore, no date, circa 1890, brown cloth binding with gilt lettering, small smudge on cover otherwise book is bright and clean, 192 pages + index,

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Light red pictorial wrappers. 8vo. 41pp plus 7pp ads. Illustrated. Promotional piece for the White Mountains issued by this local summer newspaper. The first part describes various routes by railway and steamboat. This is followed by a listing of resorts in the White Mountain and lake region of New Hampshire. There is also a listing of resorts in other areas including Newport and Saratoga Springs as well as winter retreats in Bermuda and Florida. The last section of the booklet has ads for various railroads. Scattered throughout the work are engravings of local scenery such as Old Man of the Mountain and Goodrich Falls. The covers have some soiling and wear with some chipping to the spine and creasing to the corners. The text is good with some browning to a few pages and some light chipping to a few page edges. A scarce bit of ephemera.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good oversized hardcover in contemporary rebound dark brown cloth boards with white spinal title lettering and all edges gilt (one plate, p.159, is loose and has a small chip missing to its top right corner and some small tears taped to its blank right edge; same to last 2 pages of text). Translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A. Illustrated with numerous full-page b/w plates by M. Gustave Dore. New Edition. With Critical and Explanatory Notes. 337pp. Please note that the actual shipping rate will apply for this very large and heavy hardcover. No international shipping due to the size and weight of book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Brown beveled boards decorated gold with cloth spine, 7 1/2 X 9 3/4 inches, 6 chromolithographs and additional sepia printed illustrations. (28 pages) Poems include: The Passionate Shepard to His Love by Marlow; The Nymphs Reply by Sir Walter Raleigh, To Althea From Prison by Lovelace; Encouragements To A Lover by Suckling; Bride by Suckling, Sweet and Twenty by Shakespeare, A Madrigal by Shakespeare and The Night Piece To Julia on her Departure by Herrick. Edges rubbed, name on end paper. Good. Illustrations bright and beautiful.

Staple bound. Catalog of two-wheeled horse-drawn carts. Text in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Lacks the cover, light soiling to title page and last page, otherwise a complete copy with clean contents. 44 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. String tied white wraps with front and rear cover chromolithograph illustrations of ships. Front cover brown lettering in the form of a rope. 20 pages including covers. Oblong 8vo. Book consists of 10 leaves with a chromolithograph illustration of a boat on one side and either a boat or advertising in sepia on the reverse. Format is to have an illustration of a boat in sepia with numbers on each part of the boat corresponding to explanations at the bottom of the page; this facing a color plate of the same boat. Quite complex when describing the Bark with some 42 named parts and the Brig with 63 named parts (Mostly different sails and sail parts). Boats included are: Sloop Yacht; Ocean Steamer; Bark; Long Island Sound Steamer; Schooner Yacht; Brig; Mississippi River Steamboat; Three Masted Schooner. The last two pages of the book are advertisements for PISO's Cure for Consumption and PISO's Remedy for Catarrh. The book was presumably an advertising give-away, perhaps to the merchant who carried the product. It is too expensive an item to be given to the general public. Light general wear; small crease at the rear cover corner top; few small dents to the front cover. A bright clean lovely copy of a very scarce item. NEAR FINE Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Small 4to.; decorative blue cloth covered beveled-edged boards, hardcover; 192 gilt edged pages; colored frontispiece with black and white illustrations throughout including the Wain cats on page 59; boards are edgeworn especially on spine ends and corners else a very good clean tight copy.