1852 et al (6 risultati)

Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Condizione: Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Bound in 1/4 leather, quite scuffed, hinges cracked, corners bumped & worn. Book plate inside front cover with stamp on fly leaf. Much of the paper used has age toned & is slightly brittle, part of the paper is not browning, but is foxed. Size: 8vo. 160 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 pound or less. Category: Religion & Theology; Medicine & Health. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Early reprint ("Fifteenth Thousand" as stated upon title page; first published 1851). 370 pages. Hardcover: H 19.5cm x L 13.25cm. Contemporary brown cloth; several black ink stains to boards and slightly sunned spine; bumping and slight wear at spine ends and board corners. Strong toning to pastedowns; three antiquarian ink inscriptions Port Gibson, Mississippi resident Samuel Briscoe, Esq. on front free endpaper with yet another on front flyleaf with those having some carry-through impressions onto successive title and Preface leaves; varied foxing (occasionally quite strong) throughout; several ink blots/stains obscuring some text on pages 119-120; top corners of pages 129-130 and 341-342 creased from past fold-down. Binding is firm. Preface by editor James Young who, as the title page notes, served as Grand Worthy Patriarch of the Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance in Kentucky. Features seventeen essays by various contributors including the renowned Dr. Daniel Drake of Cincinnati, and Methodist Episcopal Church theologian Reverend Thomas O. Summers. The book also has three notable Mississippi contributors: Reverend A.B. Longstreet of Oxford, twice president of University of Mississippi ("The Voice of Warning" - pages 41-60); Rev. William Winans of Woodville ("An O'er True Tale" - pages 113-118); and Rev. Philip P. Neely [Philip Phillips Neely] of Columbus ("Idella Pemberton, of the Prayer of Faith" - pages 291-298). As for the enthusiastic owner, a cemetery reference site notes a Samuel M. Briscoe (1849-1894) of Claiborne County, Mississippi and, although obviously only age 5 upon this book's publication, the penmanship and ink is certainly contemporary to 1850s-1870s.…

Presumed first edition (no direct statement nor publisher imprint provided). 192 pages. Hardcover: H 21cm x L 13.75cm. No dust jacket present. Blue cloth; some toning and light soiling/staining; speckling to spine cloth with heel bumped. Light foxing to interior pages which otherwise remain clean. Binding is firm. No publisher imprint present but 1946 copyright is specified on page 2; LoC catalog cites Seminary Hill Press as printer. …

Wrappers. Octavo. 21 pages. Condizione: Good. The Reform Convention of Maryland, assembled to reform the state constitution, honored Mr. Webster for his role in the Compromise of 1850. This pamphlet contains Webster's address that evening as well as the toasts and speeches by some of Maryland's most prominent men of the day. The dinner was held at Walton's City Hotel, and Mr. And Mrs. Webster took lodgings at Mrs. Green's, opposite the State House. Printed front cover, sewn binding. Light scattered foxing inside, some silverfishing to fore edge of rear cover and last leaf, other mild cover wear.…

Five volumes. Lacks the first volume. 8vo. [8], 374; xiv, 375-690; [4], 358; [4], (369)-821; vii, 443 pp. Mixed binding states: original half calf over marbled boards, gilt-stamped red morocco spine label; boards rubbed, corners showing. Ex-library bookplates, ink stamps and markings; volume 2 stamped "W.J. Holt" on spine, ink stamp of Frank Lester PLEADWELL (1872-1957). Very good. RARE. The production of this medical dictionary spanned several years; this set, though lacking the first volume, consists of three matched and two mis-matched bindings of the author's work. Vol. I, pt. 2 covers letters "D"-"FOU"; vol. II "FOU"-"HAG"; vol. III pt. I, "H"-"KYP"; vol. III pt. 2. "L"-"ROE"; vol. IV, "R"-"Z". [Extra postage will apply]. Garrison and Morton 6709.1.…

11 volumes, 8vo, 23.7cm. Vol. I: pp. xii,410, frontispiece portrait of Pieter Bleeker. Vol. II: pp. xx,404, frontispiece portrait of Melchior Treub, 141 figs., index. Vol. III: pp. xvi,455, 213 figs., index. Vol. .IV: pp. xiv,410, 103 figs., index. Vol. V: pp. xiv,458, 98 figs., index. Vol. VI: pp. xii,458, 81 figs., index. Vol. VII: pp. xvi,607, 100 figs., index. Vol. VIII: :pp. xvi,508, 56 figs., index. Vol. IX: pp. xii,484,88 figs., index. Vol. X: pp. xiv,423, 95 figs., index. Vol. XI: pp. xii,481, 100 figs., index. Hardbound, uniform original gilt-lettered cloth. Rare complete set in excellent state. - [phd,303]. …