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Author: T.M. Newson
Publisher: Donohue, Henberry (Chicago)
Year: 1890
Description: Full title: Thrilling Scenes Among the Indians. Stories of life among the Indians, including a not so thrilling account (from Gen. Custer's perspective) of the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Author: Edward Eastman
Publisher: Clark Johnson, MD
Year: 1874
Description: Full title: Seven and Nine Years Among the Camanches and Apaches, An Autobiography. Fabricated Indian captivity tale (or, in modern parlance, alternative facts) by "Edwin Eastman". Includes a testimonial for advertisement Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian Blood Syrup which is hawked several times throughout the book.
Author: William Thayer
Publisher: Henry Bill (Norwich CT)
Description: Gilt and leather bound with over 350 engravings and maps
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Publisher: Bureau of Equipment (Washington DC)
Year: 1899
Description: Full title: The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac for the Year 1900. A book chock full of charts and data about the position of the sun, the moon, planets, and stars, presumably as navigation aids. Of note are 2 color fold out maps of eclipses during the coming year (1900).
Publisher: Selmar Hess
Description: Full title: All Around the World: an Illustrated Record of Voyages, Travels and Adventures in all Parts of the Globe (4 volumes - complete). Hundreds of illustrations including dozens of b&w full page engravings, with tissue guards. Gilt edges and titles, tightly bound and clean books with only slight wear to edges of boards. A very attractive set.
Author: George Ticknor
Publisher: Houghton, Osgood
Year: 1880
Description: Full title: Life and Letters of George Ticknor ( 2 vols.). Nicely bound (vintage pebbled leather / gilt) to proudly occupy 4" of your bookshelves!
Publisher: Charles Knight
Year: 1834
Description: Full title: The Penny Magazine of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. (1834). Vintage half-leather binding. The Penny Magazine was published weekly and existed from 1832 to 1845. It was an attempt to supply a cheap and informative periodical for the masses in the wake of the political agitation and demand of the early 1830's. A good way to acquire some useful knowledge...
Author: Charles Wesley, M.A.
Publisher: E.P. Dutton (NY)
Description: Full title: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing: with illustrations from the old masters. 15 monochrome engravings of angels, Madonna, Jesus, etc. with 2-3 lines of text opposite each engraving. A lovely book / great gift at Christmas time.
Author: Lord Lytton
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
Year: 1875
Description: Half leather with marbled covers and endpapers, and raised spine. Engraved frontispiece. An attractive book.
Author: Pisistratus Caxton
Description: Full title: My Novel or Varieties of English Life (vol 2 of 2). Half leather with marbled covers and endpapers, and raised spine. Engraved frontispiece. An attractive book.
Author: W. L. Roy
Publisher: Stanford & Swords
Year: 1855
Description: Full title: A Complete Hebrew and English Critical and Pronouncing Dictionary, On a New and Improved Plan. Half leather with brown cloth boards with raised spine and gilt. A clean and solid copy. An important work "Containing all the words in the Holy Bible, both Hebrew and Chaldee, with the vowel points, prefixes, and affixes, as they stand in the original text; together with their derivation..."
Author: Isaac Greenwood
Publisher: The Dunlap Society
Year: 1898
Description: Full title: The Circus: Its Origin And Growth Prior To 1835. Scarce history of the circus prior to 1835. Contains 12 black & white illustrations, one folding. Binding is tight and all pages are intact and clean. Library binding
Author: Samuel Woodworth
Publisher: D. Lothrop (Boston)
Year: c 1880
Description: A similar format book to previous title. Lovely beveled boards with gold and silver stamped birds and fern. Gilt edges / gilt titles. 20 b/w engravings on heavy boards. Fine condition.
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: T.Y. Crowell & Co. (NY)
Description: Full title: Barrack-Room Ballads and other Poems. Unusual imitation wood-grained / decorative boards.
Author: George Cheyne Shattuck, M.D.
Publisher: Farrand, Mallory, & Co
Year: 1808
Description: Full title: Three Dissertations on Boylston Prize Questions for the Years 1806 and 1807. Contains 3 prestigious Boylston Prize-winning dissertations by Shattuck (1784-1854). Shattuck was a co-founder of 'New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery" and also helped finance printing of Audubon's "Birds of America". A reading copy with boards detached.
Author: J.L. Comstock
Publisher: Oliver D. Cooke (Hartford)
Year: 1822
Description: Full title: Conversations on Chemistry; in Which The Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments. Full calf leather with red leather spine label. Moderate foxing and toning. With 16 copper plate engravings.
Author: B. Perez Galdos
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Year: 1896
Description: First edition with elegant blue boards decordated in silver and gilt. Old ownership label affixed to back of front board.
Author: George Du Maurier
Publisher: Harper and Brothers
Description: Full title: Legend of Camelot, Pictures and Poems, Etc.. Interesting period poems and illustrations in an folio sized book, mostly taken from the pages of "punch". Ex-Library with vintage library label on front board and check-out pouch rear board. Text is unmarked and very clean.
Author: F. Colburn Adams
Publisher: Dick & Fitzgerald
Year: 1865
Description: Full title: The Story of a Trooper, With Much of Interest Concerning the Campaign on the Peninsula. A novel of the Civil War. Spine partially separated from binding but all intact.
Author: George Spurr
Publisher: A. Williams & Company
Year: 1881
Description: Full title: The Land of Gold, A Tale of '49. History of California with 7 illustrations. Attractive cover in green cloth with black and gilt stamped designs. Tightly bound.
Author: Horace, Henry Thomas Smith
Publisher: Wallis & Newell
Year: 1835
Description: Full title: Brambletye House and Anne Grey. 2 volumes bound in one -- "Franklin Library", likely privately bound near time of publication. Marbled paper covered boards with half leather. Significant foxing and wear.
Author: William M. Thayer
Publisher: The Henry Bill Publishing Company
Year: 1888
Description: Early Western classic profusely illustrated. Marbled edged pages. Pages are unmarked and clean. Rebound with original embossed / gilt front board.
Author: T.J. Morgan
Publisher: American Baptist Public Society
Description: Full title: The Negro In America And The Ideal American Republic. A collection of 7 essays including "Negroes in the Civil War, The Higher Education of Negro Women, and Negrophobia". Morgan was a minister whose father was an abolitionist and whose grandfather was a slaveholder.
Author: Alexander Hyde
Publisher: Columbian Book Co. (Hartford)
Year: 1878
Description: "Desperate encounters with cataracts and cannibals told chiefly in his own words". Sold by subscription only. First edition. Numerous b/w illustrations. 2 pages loose.
Author: Richard Ely
Publisher: Flood & Vincent (NY)
Year: 1893
Description: The state of economics 125 years ago. Ely was Founder of the American Economic Association and one of the most influential economists of his time. The way it was before Keynes, Friedman, and Kudlow(?!) advanced this field.
Author: John A. Marshall
Publisher: Thomas Hartley (Phila.)
Year: 1872
Description: Full title: American Bastile - A History of the Illegal Arrests and Imprisonment of American Citizens During the Late Civil War. Leather bound. Early account of martial law during the Civil War.
Author: P. Paulino, A S. Bartholomaeo.
Publisher: Ex Typographia Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, Romae
Year: 1792
Description: Full title: Examen historico-criticum codicum Indicorum. Very early catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts. Printed on fine laid paper, with custom cloth binding. Philip Wesdin ("Paulino Batholomaeo") was a missionary who spent 15 years in the Far East from 1774-1789.
Author: John Sephton, Translator
Publisher: David Nutt (London)
Year: 1895
Description: Full title: The Saga of King Olaf Tryggwason Who Reigned Over Norway A. D. 995 to A. D. 1000. Everything you wanted to know about King Olaf from a millennium ago. Unlike translations of many Nordic sagas, this is quite readable and a gripping story.
Author: S. Reynolds Hole
Publisher: J.M. Dent
Description: Full title: Our Gardens (illustrations by Arthur Rackham). Illustrated endpapers by Arthur Rackham, also sketches at beginning and end of each chapter. Color frontispiece & 10 other b/w plates. Attractive copy.
Author: Wm. Worthington Fowler
Publisher: Washington, Dustin (Hartford)
Year: 1870
Description: Full title: Ten Years on Wall Street; or, Revelations of Inside Life and Experience on Change. First edition of the author's memoir of Wall Street. Includes the "histories, mysteries, and men of the 'Street'". Frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated title page, and 15 similar plates. Very good copy with tight binding.
Publisher: McLoughlin Bros. (NY)
Year: c 1900
Description: Full title: Animal and Bird in Picture and Word. Illustrated glossy paper over boards. Detailed black and white illustrations on each page showing animals in action.
Author: Robert B. McGregor
Publisher: Martin
Year: 1849
Description: Full title: The Byron Gallery of Highly Finished Engravings, Illustrating Lord Byron's Works. With Selected Beauties from His Poems. Highly decorated green tooled leather cover with gilt fantasy forest scene. Remarkably clean pages with many tissue guarded plates. Spine detached and binding is loose.
Author: Arthur Murphy
Publisher: Printed for G. G. J. And J. Robinson, London,
Year: 1793
Description: Volume 1. Full leather. Covers are detached binding is otherwise tight. Fold-out plate of map titled 'The Ancient World' is intact.
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.
Year: 1856
Description: Full title: The Token; A Gift for all Seasons. Variety of stories, articles and poems by various authors. Covers have elaborate gilt stamping and all edges gilt.
Author: Lew Wallace
Year: 1887
Description: Full title: Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ. Very handsome copy of an early printing of this epic novel. Gilt title and starburst on cover. Blue cloth. Binding is tight and some wear to spine ends.
Author: S.M. Bowman and R.B. Irwin
Publisher: Charles B. Richardson
Description: Biography of General Sherman written shortly after the end of the Civil War. Good condition - tightly bound, moderately foxed on edges of pages.
Author: Captain McClintock
Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
Year: 1860
Description: Full title: A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions. Author's Edition as stated. Covers boards badly faded and binding starting to separate. Book all intact including five appendices, sixteen black and white illustrations, two fold-out maps including Arrowsmith's 1859 pull-out map at rear, and two sketch maps.
Author: Mary Howitt
Publisher: D. Appleton
Year: 1845
Description: A mid-19th century inspirational story for youth. Attractive copy. Tightly bound in original ribbed brown cloth and decorative paneling in blind to boards. 180 pages followed by a 17 pages of publisher's advertisement.
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Year: 1867
Description: Pebbled maroon cloth boards with decorative gilt lettering and paneled decoration to front. Tightly bound.
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: American Publishing
Description: 14 volumes of a 23 volume set. This is the "Japan edition", printed on Japan paper, each with engraved title pages and numbered #261 / 1000.
Author: John Brougham, ed.
Publisher: William F. Gill
Description: Original stories, essays, and poems of various period authors, including Tennyson, Twain, Collins. Spectacular Victorian original binding - gilt-blocked and elaborately tooled cloth over bevelled boards. This book, a product of the literary Lotos Club. took its name from Tennyson's poem "The Lotos Eaters".
Author: Adolphus W. Greely
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Year: 1886
Description: (2 volumes). "Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84. The commander, Greely, provides vivid accounts of camp life, geography, and their explorations which left all but 6 of the team dead from starvation. Rebound. Heavily illustrated and large folding map included.
Author: A Citizen of Ohio
Publisher: J. & B. Turnbull
Year: 1833
Description: Full title: A History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Jewish history starting with Abraham to "its final dispersion" as it existed in 1833. Full leather red binding with nice wear. Includes fold out maps and engravings.
Author: John Gilbert, illus.
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott
Description: Full title: Shakespeare's Songs and Sonnets. Leatherlike boards. Illustrations and/or decorations on every page. A charming book.
Author: Sir Walter Scott (name not given)
Publisher: Archibald Constable & Co.
Year: 1816
Description: Being one of the first British civilians to view the battlefield at Waterloo, Scott provides a close account of the conflict. Gilt title and decorations embossed on spine. Marbled boards in half leather. Moderate foxing.
Author: Laurence Sterne
Year: c 1890
Description: Full title: Works of Laurence Sterne-- Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, &c.. Hand tooled quarter leather marbled boards with marbling on all edges. Binding is tight and pages are all clean with no foxing. Gilt decoration on raised spine. An exquisite specimen.
Author: Samuel White Baker
Publisher: Macmillan and Co; J.B. Lippincott and Co.
Year: 1866
Description: Full title: The Albert Nyanza, Great Basin of the Nile and Explorations of the Nile Sources. First single volume edition of this classic tale of African exploration. Rebound. Two colored maps at rear, one of which is missing a significant portion. Engraved frontis and numerous illustrations throughout.
Author: Ernest Ingersoll
Publisher: Edgewood Publishing Company
Year: 1897
Description: Full title: Gold Fields of the Klondike and the Wonders of Alaska. Illustrated green cloth cover with decorated spine. Photographs throughout. Spine is separating but book is all intact.
Author: Frederick Schwatka
Publisher: J.W. Henry
Description: Beautifully illustrated account of an 1883 US military and geographical expedition through Alaska, traversing the Inland Passage. Numerous engravings taken from photographs & sketches. Rebound but original red leather embossed boards retained.
Author: Alfred A., ed. Philips
Publisher: Nafis and Cornish
Year: 1848
Description: Full Leather, elaborately illustrated on dark gold morocco , with chromolithographic title page. Loss to the spine. Includes eight black and white plates. All edges gilt.
Author: Emma DeLong
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin
Description: Edited journals of Lieut. DeLong who unsuccessfully attempted to reach the North Pole through the Bering Strait. Illustrated with numerous plates and wood engravings. Folding map in pocket intact.
Author: J.T. Headley
Publisher: M.W. Jones
Year: 1891
Description: Full title: Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa. "A graphic account of the several expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the heart of the dark continent."
Author: Henry M. Stanley
Publisher: Scribners
Description: Volume 2 only of 2 volume set. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine and front, heavily worn. Ex-library. 2 of the 3 folding maps included. Many full page illustrations and steel engraved frontispeice.
Author: S.O.; Smith, Ronald Beeton
Publisher: Adams, Victor & Co.
Description: Full title: Livingstone and his African Explorations. Scarce title. Brown cloth with gilt title and cover decorations. Frontis of Livingstone. An account of various exploratory expeditions through equatorial Africa, focusing primarily on the exploits of Henry Stanley, who is arguably the most notable 19th century explorer of the Dark Continent.
Author: Charles Buck
Publisher: Joseph J. Woodward
Year: 1826
Description: A reading copy.. Original full leather binding with some loss to spine and back board. Heavily foxed. Charles Buck was an English Independent minister and theological writer, best known for this work.
Author: Frederick Whittaker
Publisher: Sheldon & Company
Date: 1876
Description: Full title: A Complete Life of Gen. George A. Custer. The first edition of this work, published three months after Battle of Little Big Horn. In original red cloth binding with pictorial boards. Frontis of Custer. Total of 17 plates including Native American portraits. Tight binding and clean pages. Some foxing.
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