James w sheahan (31 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. 458pp. Green cloth, gold stamp. The cover is worn, and is detached . Numerous illustrations. Some foxing. Some of the early pages are detached but resting in place. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall J6.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Cover shows minor wear, slight loss on the corners and spine ends. pages tanned with some shaken, slight staining on the edges.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Acceptable. Union Publishing 1871 Binding: Hardcover Book is in very bad condition, front border, title page are all removed from the text.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Dust Jacket. 528 pages. Ex-university library marks, some wear to the original brown covers and spine; pages tanned, a few foxed; a decent reading copy of an original 1860 edition. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Inventory No: 214420.

Zustand: Fair. First edition copy. . Reading copy only. Front hinge cracked, nearly split. Stamped on front endpapers. Rear endpage and ad at rear of text missing. (Chicago, Fires, History).

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. cover shows moderate to heavy wear, tear, rubbing, soiling. pages tanned with some staining.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.

Leather Bound. Zustand: Poor. 520pp. German language book. Tan leather, the leather of the boards is heavily chipped and the spine leather is missing, the boards are attached by the cords. Tital page is free of the text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall I6.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. The Life of Stephen A. Douglas | James W. Sheahan | Taschenbuch | 544 S. | Englisch | 2016 | hansebooks | EAN 9783743310650 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Hansebooks GmbH, Trakehner Weg 52, 22844 Norderstedt, gb[at]hansebooks[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Very Good. Early Printing. 8vo. [2], 3-527, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4] pp. Green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and a gilt decoration on the front board, gilt lettering and gilt decorations on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. With two frontispieces, two folding plates, two in-text illustrations, and several full-page illustrations, all done in black and white. Completing the title page: Embracing a detailed narrative of the Great Conflagration in the north, south, and west divisions: origin, pregress and results of the fire. Prominent buildings burned, character of buildings, losses, and insurance, graphic description of the flames, scenes and incidents, loss of life, the flight of the people. Also, a condensed history of Chicago, its population, growth and great public works. And a statement of all the great fires of the world. First published in 1871, this is an early reprint. Traces of wear to the cloth. A large dampspot to the textblock.…

Detaillierter Bericht über die verheerende Feuerkatastrophe, die Chicago 1871 heimsuchte. Wahrscheinlich fehlt ein Diagramm. - Auch innen stärkere Gebrauchsspuren: durchgängig fingerfleckig u. tlw. gebräunt.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Chicago: Jevne & Almini, January 1866-January 1867. 13 original parts (all published). Oblong folio.(11 1/2" x 14 3/4", 295mm x 375mm) Complete set of 52 lithographed tinted plates, 4 per booklet. 8 parts in original lithographed pictorial wrappers with spines reinforced (2, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) and 5 others in modern wrappers. Housed in a maroon cloth clamshell box with calf paste down label. Letterpress prospectus tipped in to part 1. Large closed tear to "Chicago University" in part 6 amended on verso. Others in part 6 with short closed tears. First leaf of part 1 toned. Some off-setting throughout the parts. Covers of part 2 with small loss at upper corners and a few closed tears and chips. James W. Sheahan (1824-1883), a journalist for the Chicago Tribune, wrote the text. Publishers Otto Jevne and Peter Amini collaborated with Austrian-born illustrator Louis Kurz (1833-1921), forming the Chicago Lithographing Co. The scenes of Chicago show a lively, bustling city with impressive commerce and culture, including churches, hotels, theaters, banks, waterfront activities and an opera. It remains the best description of Chicago before the Great Fire of 1871. The complete work was originally meant to include 25 parts with 100 plates. In the prospectus, Jevne and Almini promised "to publish in Monthly Parts an illustrated History of Chicago.-that is a history of the more important and striking evidences of the city's improvement and enterprise." The parts were issued at $1.50 per fascicle until the project ended in January 1867. In addition to their lithography, Jevne and Almini painted frescoes and ornamental paintings around Chicago, including the Opera House. Howes J 108; Sabin 12623.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Octavo; 450 [irregular pagination], [ii] pages; embossed original green cloth One of the two contemporary, popular, book-length accounts of the fire of October, 1871, known as The Great Chicago Fire. Written by two journalists. [Jewel V25]. Includes the anecdote of the policeman who saved his house by showering it with apple cider ! 2 folding maps, 44 woodcuts. Includes a poem, "Chicago" by John Greenleaf Whittier: "Men said at vestpers: All is well ! / In one wild night the city fell". 2 folding maps, 44 woodcuts (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Octavo, 450, [ii] pages; in the scarcer contemporary full sheep, rebacked with new leather, with original black morocco spine label. One of the two contemporary, popular, book-length accounts of the fire of October, 1871, known as The Great Chicago Fire. Written by two journalists. [Jewel V25]. Includes the anecdote of the policeman who saved his house by showering it with apple cider ! 2 folding maps, 44 woodcuts. 2 folding maps, 44 woodcuts (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. THE REESE COPY. Chicago: Jevne & Almini, 1866. Oblong folio. Bound in contemporary half brown pebbled morocco (rebacked with original spine laid down) gilt. On the spine, title gilt to second panel. Illustrated with a pictorial lithographic title page and 36 tinted lithographic plates with English captions, and accompanying text in German. Heavy finger soiling and foxing, several leaves and plates with repaired marginal tears, one page lacking lower right corner, edges and extremities worn. Yellow endpapers with pencil owner inscription on the recto of first free endpaper and partial signature on the title page, lithographs mentioned in pencil on recto of second free endpaper. This German language version was originally issued in parts; this volume includes 36 of the original 52 lithographic plates. James W. Sheahan (1824-1883), a journalsit for the Chicago Tribune wrote the text. Publishers Otto Jevne and Peter Amini collaborated with Austrian-born illustrator Louis Kurz (1833-1921), forming the Chicago Lithographing Co. The scenes of Chicago show a lively, bustling city with impressive commerce and culture, including churches, hotels, theaters, banks, waterfront activities and an opera. It presents the best description of Chicago before the Great Fire of 1871. More than five million German immigrants came to the United States in the 1800s with people of German descent accounting for 20 percent of Chacago's population in 1860. (Keil & Jentz, German Workers in Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1988). From the collection of William S. Reese (1955-2018), who was one of the great Americana booksellers. His firm continues to trade in New Haven. After his death, Christie's New York sold his private collection (24-25 May 2022; the present item was lot 262). For English-language text see: America Pictured to the Life 23; Howes J 108; Sabin 12623. The German-text version is not listed in biographies.…