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Image for THE BOOK OF COSTUME: or, Annals of Fashion, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. By a Lady of Rank. Illustrated with Upwards of Two Hundred Engravings on Wood by the most Eminent Artists.

THE BOOK OF COSTUME: or, Annals of Fashion, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. By a Lady of Rank. Illustrated with Upwards of Two Hundred Engravings on Wood by the most Eminent Artists.

By: A Lady of Rank ; (Mary Margaret Egerton of Wilton)

Price: $25.96

Publisher: London, Henry Colburn: 1847

Seller ID: 42436

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

xii, 482, (2) pages; Colour chromolithograph title-page and over 200 wood engravings (text illustrations), original blind stamped green cloth binding with gilt decoration and lettering at spine. Contents tight in binding, but hinges starting. Covers rubbed and bumped, top right corner of front board chipped off, top edge of spine panel missing (see image), former owner's bookplate, light scattered foxing. Condition noted in pricing.
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Image for Jesus of Nazareth: His Life and Teachings Founded on the Four Gospels and Illustrated by Reference to the Manners, Customs, Religious Beliefs and Political Institutions

Jesus of Nazareth: His Life and Teachings Founded on the Four Gospels and Illustrated by Reference to the Manners, Customs, Religious Beliefs and Political Institutions

By: Abbott, Lyman

Price: $74.95

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1869

Seller ID: 42483

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

with Designs by Gustave Dore, De Laroche, Fenn, and Others.; 522, (4) pages; Former owner's name on first blank, a few scattered ink lines, otherwise clean and secure in original brown cloth binding with decorative stamping and lettering in gilt at spine and front board. Illustrated throughout with 23 full page plates, 18 vignettes and three maps/plans after engravings by Gustav Dore, De Laroche, Fenn and others. OCLC 842973502 lists only one copy [British Library, St Pancras]. A thorough examination of the life and teaching of Jesus in historical context. "Abbott claimed that Jesus' tea...
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Hand-Book of SOCIAL ECONOMY or The WORKER'S A B C

By: About, Edmond

Price: $24.95

Publisher: New York, Appleton: 1873

Seller ID: 39058

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Worn at head & tail of spine, former owner's name, otherwise Very Good in original brown cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. Written by a French novelist and journalist with progressive leanings. ;
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Manual with Rules and Orders for the Use of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island, 1885-86

By: Addeman, Joshua M

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Providence, E. L. Freeman: 1885

Seller ID: 38352

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

xvi, 298 pages; Lacks ffep, otherwise clean and tight in original green cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and front cover. Colour folding map of Rhode Island in good condition with 2" closed split at one fold. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Manual with Rules and Orders for the Use of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island, 1893-94

By: Addeman, Joshua M

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Providence, E. L. Freeman: 1893

Seller ID: 38353

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xvi, 322 pages; Clean and tight in original green cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and front cover. Colour folding map of Rhode Island in good condition with 2" closed tear at left edge. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Les Fables d'Esope, mises en François Avec des quatrains a la morale. Nouvelle edition dédié a la jeunesse. Prix 75 sous.

By: Aesop

Price: $199.95

Publisher: A Philadelphie, none listed: 1823

Seller ID: 41589

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

[4], iv, 112 pages; Contemporary, probably original binding: calf-backed marbled paper-covered boards. Significant wear to the binding, sewing compromised, considerable foxing throughout -- but a complete copy of this rare American edition of an Aesop's fables, in French quatrains. Title page states: "Nouvelle edition dédié a la jeunesse." There is a dedication (in verse quatrains) to youth, page [3], signed with initials at the bottom -- "F. M." ["A LA JEUNESSE"] The French text appears to the version of Jean-Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde. The statement of ...
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Volgarizzamento delle Favole di Esopo testo Riccardiano inedito, citato dagli Accademici della Crusca

By: Aesop [edited by Luigi Rigoli]

Price: $119.99

Publisher: Firenze [Florence, Italy], Stamperia del giglio, a spese di A. Garine: 1818

Seller ID: 39611

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

118, [2] pages; Contemporary cream colored boards, two small labels with collection numbers on spine and front cover -- (the faint spine label matches the number on the booklabel of Leo S. Olschki [ Ex libris Leonis S. Olschki bibliopolae Veneti Established heading] -- longtime booksellers in Florence, etc. Two small inscriptions dated 1843 on the enpapers. A well preserved uncut copy, impressed as an octavo with generous margins, possibly on large paper -- (the copy in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, similarly sized, has an ink note suggesting that this issue can be designated thus). Thi...
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ROBINSON CRUSOE in Words of One Syllable with Six Illustrations

By: Aikin, Lucy ; (Mary Godolphin) ; Daniel Defoe

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, American News Company: 1869

Seller ID: 42108

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

71 pages; Original owner's name on first blank after ffep, Frank H. ?? / January 1, 1869, Contents clean and secure in original brown cloth binding with elaborate gilt lettering and vignette on front board and at spine. Six charming full page illustrations (not coloured). OCLC 67409811 A charming edition of this classic for very young readers.
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THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF WASHINGTON ALLSTON With Reproductions from Allston's Pictures

By: Allston, Washington; Jared B. Flagg (editor)

Price: $39.95

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1892

Seller ID: 40909

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

435 pages; An attractive example in the handsome buckram binding. Former owner's name on ffep, otherwise clean and tight in original tan buckram binding with gilt lettering at spine and a gilt silohuette on front cover; cloth worn at head of spine. Washington Allston (1779 – 1843) was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston was a pioneer of the American Romantic movement in landscape painting. He was well known for his dramatic subject matter and bold use of light and colour. After graduating from Harvard College in 1800, Allston moved to Charleston,...
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AYER'S AMERICAN ALMANAC 1880

By: Anonymous

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Lowell, MA, Dr. J. C. Ayer & Company: 1880

Seller ID: 36970

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

40 pages; In original pictorial wrappers. Bottom interior corner of "October" clipped, otherwise Very Good. Starts off with an astrological chart and cures (Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, etc) for various ailments, then presents the month by with astronomical information and various interesting and humorous anecdotes and notes on historic anniversaries. OCLC: 823514973; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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AYER'S AMERICAN ALMANAC for the use of Farmers, Planters, Mechanics, Mariners, and all Families - 1866

By: Anonymous

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Lowell, MA, Dr. J. C. Ayer & Company: 1866

Seller ID: 37137

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Former owner's name at top of front wrapper, corners of wrappers creased with marginal chipping, string loop run through upper left corner, general light dust soiling. Starts off with an astrological chart and cures (Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, etc) for various ailments, then presents the month by with astronomical information and various interesting and humorous anecdotes and notes on historic anniversaries. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Nacht en Morgen en andere verhalen Door den hoofdredacteur van "De vriend van oud en jong"

By: Anonymous

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Leiden, R. Fuik: 1880

Seller ID: 38591

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

96 p., [2] bl. pages; Date is approximate. Publisher's brown cloth, covers decoratively stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Colored frontispiece and three full page chromolithographed plates. (The frontispiece and the first of the plates are mounted on heavier coated paper stock; the first plate appears to have been mounted over another plate, of which just a tiny bit of the border is now visible). Very minor wear and rubbing to the spine ends, just a hint of cracking to the inner hinges, text paper is slightly toned thorughout, but a very good copy of this scarce Dutch book for children...
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ABERDEEN FIFTY YEARS AGO being A Series of Twenty-One Engravings of Buildings In and that were about Aberdeen

By: Anonymous

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Aberdeen, Lewis Smith: 1868

Seller ID: 39090

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

129 pages; along with Wood Engravings of Some of the Wells, etc. Brown cloth over pictorial boards showing the Gateway to the Old Trades Hall (repeating the engraved titlepage inside). All engraved plates and maps present, lightly age toned. Boards lightly soiled, rubbed and bumped at edges. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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The P. D. & Co. Keystone Cook Book

By: Anonymous

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Philadelphia, Paine, Diehl & Co.: 1888

Seller ID: 39654

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+

85 pages; Contents unmarked, shallow marginal stain at lower edge of rear pages. Pictorial light green wrappers are rubbed and soiled with some chipping. Front wrapper shows a woman standing at a table in her kitchen using a Keystone Beater with a large fireplace and tall cabinet in the background with the phrase: "Better the Utensil; Better the Cook." OCLC: 166594332 Illustrated with images of the Keystone Beater and the Keystone Ice Cream Freezer manufactured by Paine, Diehl & Co. The Keystone beater was invented and patented in 1885 by Edwin Baltzley, who was then working for Senate...
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THE ROYAL CABINET ALBUM OF WINDSOR

By: Anonymous

Price: $24.95

Publisher: London, Rock and Co.: 1880

Seller ID: 40004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Contents clean and secure in original cloth cover with extensive gilt lettering and decoration to front board, gilt a bit rubbed along edge. This charming accordion paged viewbook contains 24 images of Windsor with dates ranging from 1852 to 1880. All images clean and clear; hinges firm. This edition not located in OCLC.
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The Poet's Gift of Consolation to Sorrowing Mothers

By: Anonymous

Price: $34.95

Publisher: New York, A. S. Barnes & Co.: 1870

Seller ID: 40976

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

167 pages; Publisher's green cloth, beveled edges, decorative lettering in gilt on front cover and spine, additional decorative stamping in black and in blind, chocolate brown endpapers, all edges gilt. Date is approximate, none printed. A handsome copy, the binding shows just a bit of the lightest rubbing at the tips of the spine ends and points of the corners. Some diffuse foxing scattered throughout the text leaves, which are elegantly set within decorative framed borders of rules and type ornaments at the corners. [Cover title is: "Poems of Consolation"]. There is an engraved o...
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PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS AND THE RAILROAD SCENERY OF PENNSYLVANIA

By: Anonymous

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott: 1875

Seller ID: 41114

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

110; 50 pages; With 225 Illustrations and a double-page map of Philadelphia. OCLC: 3661579 Original brown cloth binding worn at spine ends and corners, lacks free endpapers. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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EXCITING STORIES OF LONDON SOCIETY [A collection of stories and illustrations from "London Society - An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for Hours of Relaxation"

By: Anonymous

Price: $74.95

Publisher: New York, Hurd and Houghton: 1869

Seller ID: 41151

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

570 pages; An anthology of the best works from the nineteenth century periodical London Society. Clean and tight in original brick red cloth binding with faded gilt lettering at spine. Binding worn at corners and spine ends. "London Society - An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for Hours of Relaxation" was a Victorian era illustrated monthly periodical published between 1862 and 1898. No listing for this volume found in OCLC. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a chara...
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MY FRIEND'S FRIEND

By: Anonymous

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Tract Society: 1867

Seller ID: 41178

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

62 pages; Former owner's name on ffep in pencil, 19th century Presbyterian bookplate on front pastedown, light scattered foxing, otherwise clean and tight in original binding of leather spine over marbled boards. Frontispiece and one additional engraved illustration. A story of rafting on the St. Lawrence River. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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TOM'S OPINION A Story of School Life

By: Anonymous

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop & Co: 1884

Seller ID: 41452

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Small quarto. Charming Victorian children's book. Black cloth spine with illustrated pictorial boards, worn along edges, scattered foxing. OCLC: 405842; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Category: 19th Century