Dumas, Alexander (Charles H. Town, translator), Miss Ellen Pickering, G.P.R. James, Fredrika Bremer

The Regent's Daughter (Dumas), The Grumbler (Pickering), Arabella Stuart. A Romance from English History (James), H-- Family: Tralinnan; Axel and Anna; and Other Tales (Bremer). Four novels bound in one volume.

New York, Harper & Bros, 1844. First Edition. 0 pp. Half Leather. Good in 3/4 leather with rubbing and flaking to spine and cracks along outside leather of the hinges. Four novels are bound in one volume: "H-- Family: Tralinnan; Axel and Anna; and Other Tales" by Fredrika Bremer (translated by Mary Howitt) (Harper, 1844, 136 pages); "Arabella Stuart. A Romance from English History" by G.P.R. James (Harper, 1844, 142 pages); and "The Regent's Daughter" by Alexandre Dumas (translated by Charles H. Town) (Harper, 124 pages). Pages faded and some dark dampstaining to top edge and foredge of some pages. Light foxing to foredge and stray foxing spots to a few pages. Off-setting to endpapers. Unique item. These all appear to be first editions of the novels published by Harper in 1844 and 1845. Good.

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Book number: b42306

CHARLES PICKERING

Chronological History of Plants: Man's Record of His Own Existence Illustrated Through Their Names Uses and Companionship

Boston, Little, Brown and Company. 1879, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book, 1222pp hardback brown library cloth gilt, ex-university library with usual stamps and labels, few signs of use, clean copy in sturdy tight binding. Good.

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Book number: 068187

Keywords: botany

PICKERING, Charles.:

The Gliddon mummy-case in the Museum of The Smithsonian Institution. [Smithsonian Contrributions to Knowledge, 208.]

Washington City: The Smithsonian Institution, 1869. Folio, 33cm. Pp. [iv],4, 1 large folding lithographed plate printed in full colour (ca. 32 x 64 cm). Orig. printed wrappers, uncut. Covers a little dustmarked, contents fine.

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Book number: 9697