Shannon, C. Hazelwood and Gleeson White (eds.) (Lucien Pisarro, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, et al) Ills.

The Pageant 1897

London: Henry and Co. 1897, 1897. 1st. Hardcover. First printing. Pp. 266 + ads, frontis + 23 plates, one colour plate and illustrated endpapers by Pisarro, 4to, brown cloth with gilt decorations. A tight, complete, original copy with no owner's marks, bright fresh boards with spine slightly faded but titles clear. Half-inch pull-tear to head of spine, backstrip splitting a bit along one joint around three inches, otherwise no serious flaws. The Pisarro plate is in Fine condition with no foxing, no flaws. A lovely book. Good.

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Book number: 781845

Catalogue: Old Stuff

Stanfield, Clarkson.

Stanfield's Coast Scenery: A Series of Views in the British Channel.

London: Smith, Elder, 1836. 1836. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First printing. Viii, 128 pp. 40 plates, small 4to, publisher's brown morocco with heavy gilt decorations aeg. All original, including binding and endpapers. Morocco is very bright and unfaded (even the spine-titles are fresh) but a bit worn at tips. All tissue guards present. Externally VG but considerable foxing internally, as usual for this title. Rear endpaper and previous blank page have tears near the binding. Decent copy, except for the foxing. Very Good.

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Book number: 776113

Catalogue: Travel, Old Stuff

Statham, F. Reginald

Blacks, Boers, & British; A Three-Cornered Problem (Rare First Edition)

London, MacMillan, 1881. 1st. Hardcover. First printing. 271 pp. + 43 pp. ads, octavo, original navy buckram with gilt titles. A Very Good copy, tight and fresh with no significant flaws, just light wear to extremities, spine slightly faded. Rare and important book on the subject. Very Good.

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Book number: 784127

Catalogue: Old Stuff

Sterne, Laurence

The Works of Laurence Sterne in Ten Volumes Complete Etc. With a Life of the Author (Complete 10 Volume Set)

London, T. Johnson Etc. 1798. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Full-Leather. Ten volume set in early full calf with gilt decorations and spine titles on black labels, marbled endpapers, frontis plate in each volume, ribbon markers present in most volumes. Tight complete set with no significant flaws except spines quite worn and dry, 4 lacking the spine label, one volume has a 2-inch chip to the foot of the backstrip. Contents very fresh and bright, almost no foxing, just a couple of tears to leaves. A good presentable set, internally Very Good. Good.

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Book number: 784957

Catalogue: Old Stuff

Stodart, Edwd. (Edward)

Queens of the Drama: A Series of Portraits Engraved in the Stipple Manner By Edwd. Stodart - Artists Signed Proofs (SIGNED LTD. ED.)

London: F. B. Daniell, 1891, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Richardson, J. Van Bleeck, Downman, Sir T. Lawrence. First printing, limited edition of 50 copies. Elephant folio in original green paper-covered boards. Eight signed proofs, 4 in black ink, 4 in tinted ink, with tissue guards. Subjects are: Ann Oldfield, Mrs. Woffington, Mrs. Siddons, Miss Farren, after J. Richardson, Van Bleeck, Downman and Sir T. Lawrence. Brief bio on each actress. Plates are Nearly Fine with no foxing, but disbound in the covers. Boards are quite worn at extremities, as expected for the age, but holding well. Rare and interesting item. Fair.

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Book number: 782480

Catalogue: Old Stuff

Traill, Catharine Parr

Studies of Plant Life in Canada: Gleanings from Forest, Lake and Plain

Ottawa, Woodburn, 1885. 1st. Original Cloth. First printing. 288 pp. frontis port. with tissue guard, chromolithograph plates with tissue guards, small quarto in original green morocco-grain cloth and gilt decorations, aeg. A complete, original copy with all contents, endpapers and binding present. Both hinges are split, with the contents loose within the covers. However, the binding is in excellent, unfaded condition with only minor wear to tips. Certainly a worthy candidate for repair. "C. W. Spencer with compliments of Publisher" inscribed on the front blank leaf in attractive 19th century calligraphic hand. The inscribeed may have been C. W. Spencer Manager of the Eastern Division of the CPR. Poor.

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Book number: 784093

Catalogue: Canadiana, Old Stuff

Valentine, D. T.

Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for 1860

New York, M. Spedon & Baker, 1860. 1st. Hardcover. First printing. Xi, 13-630, illustrated and tinted title page showing the coat of arms and scenes of industry, three folding plates, other plates and ills. in text, octavo, all edges gilt. Newer binding in full red leather with original elaborately decorated front and rear panels laid on. Gilt spine titles. Binding is Fine, with the expected wear showing in the original panels. Contents are very good with usual age-darkening, some minor foxing and some tears to the fragile folding plates. This copy is lacking the maps unfortunately. A lovely copy in a bright fresh binding. Fair.

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Book number: 785986

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Wallace, Thomas

Essay on the Manufactures of Ireland Etc.

Dublin, Campbell & Shea, 1798. 1st. Hardcover. First printing. Xx, 340 pp. octavo, contemporary calf boards. Covers very worn at tips, front board detached. Tiny hole (about 1/8 inch) on p. 2, edge-tear to p. 33, otherwise text is VG with expected age-toning and minor foxing to a few leaves. Some notations by previous early owners. An excellent candidate for rebinding. Poor.

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Book number: 784121

Catalogue: Old Stuff

WALTON, Izaak and Charles Cotton.

The Compleat Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation; being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and Fishing. In two parts: The First Written by Mr Izaak Walton. The Second by Charles Cotton Esq. With the Lives of the Authors: and Notes.

London: for Samuel Bagster by R. Watts. 1815. 1815. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First printing of Bagster's Second Edition (8th since originally published) with an expanded index. Two parts in one. 514 pp. + extensive index, 50 plates indexed (some full-page on heavy stock), 8vo, original full leather binding with gilt edge-decorations to boards, raised bands, gilt spine titles and decorations. Contents complete with moderate foxing as usual, frontis port torn but neatly repaired. Rear hinge is intact but front hinge badly split and poorly repaired. Could benefit from binding repair. A Fair copy overall. Fair.

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Book number: 780297

Catalogue: Old Stuff

Egerton-Warburton, R. E.

Songs and Verses on Sporting Subjects

London: Pickering, 1879, 1879. 1st. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Apparent first printing. 35 pp. 12mo, green cloth gilt titles. VG copy, complete and original, intact hinges, minor soiling to contents, modest wear/bumping to extremities. "From the Author Oct 2 1879" inscribed on the front end-paper. Very Good.

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Book number: 783310

Catalogue: Old Stuff

John Tyler Wheelwright & Frederic J. Stimson

Rollo's Journey to Cambridge

Cambridge, Walker & Aspinwall, 1895. 8th. Hardcover. Attwood, Francis G. Eighth edition. First was 1880. 28 pp. about 25 comical illustrations by line drawings, oversized format (quarto) about 8" by 10 1/2", in red and black linen-coverd boards with stamped titles and decorations. The binding is firm with no cracking or loose pages. There are no owner's markings, in fact the printed pages are in Fine condition. The only significant flaw to the interior of the book is where a previous owner has removed a 2" by 3 1/2" portion from the blank front free endpaper, apparently where there was an inscription. The exterior of the boards is very good with expected wear to the edges especially the rear cover and the bottom-right corner of the front cover, affecting about 1/2" by 1/4". An attractive copy of this fragile item. Photos available upon request. Good.

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Book number: 790020

Catalogue: Children, Old Stuff

White, Francis & Co.

History, Gazetteer and Directory of Cheshire Comprising a General Survey ...

Francis White, Sheffield, 1860. 1860. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First printing. Xvi, 1016 pp. thick 8vo, original marbled boards in three-quarters leather with five raised bands, gilt spine titles. Good copy: couple of library stamps, spine numbers, moderate wear to binding, front hinge weak but rear hinge holding well. Very detailed reference. Good.

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Book number: 780837

Catalogue: Old Stuff

Williams, Archibald

The Romance of Modern Mining

London, Seeley & Co. 1907. Hardcover. 402 pp. + ads, 24 photos, octavo, green buckram with extravagent gilt, red and white decorations of mining scene. Early ex-library copy with spine numbers, considerable wear to covers, particularly to spine, significant foxing to leaves, not affecting the photos much, some children's pencil marks to text. A useable reading copy. Fair.

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Book number: 783790

Catalogue: Old Stuff

Wright, Rev G. N., Illustrated by Cockburn, Colonel; Irton, Major; Bartlett; Leitch; Wolfensberger.

The Rhine, Italy And Greece. In A Series of Drawings From Nature By Colonel Cockburn, Major Irton, Messrs. Bartlett, et al. (INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY)

London: Fisher and Son, 1841. 1841. 1st. Hardcover. First printing. Two volumes: 76 + 90 pp. 34 + 41 steel engraved plates (including frontis), index, 4to, original elaborate gilt-decorated cloth boards, aeg. Both volume I and II bear inscriptions from Rev. G. N. Wright to a "Mrs. Huntley". Complete original texts with all plates, lacking only a couple of tissue guards. Average foxing to plates, ranging from virtually none in some cases to serious in a few. Bindings are Poor with three boards detached, both volumes lacking the backstrips. An excellent candidate for rebinding. Very Good.

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Book number: 780298

Catalogue: Old Stuff

Yonge, Charlotte M., Illustrated by Various.

A Pictorial History of the World's Great Nations From the Earliest Dates to the Present Time. (Three Volume Set).

New York, NY: Selmar Hess, 1882. 1st. Hardcover. Three volume set. First printing. 1184 pp. in total, consecutively numbered, profusely illustrated with full-page steel-engraved plates plus many ills. in text, decorated endpapers, morocco binding with elaborate gilt titles and borders, five raised bands on spine with gilt decorations. A very deluxe production. Internally Fine with no foxing, no soiling, no tears. Most tissue guards present. The bindings are very lightly worn at extremities, no serious problems. Hinges and joints in excellent condition. Fine.

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Book number: 780304

Catalogue: Old Stuff