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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: New. In English.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On June 3, 1920, Brigadier General Mott Hooton was laid to rest in a quiet corner of Oaklands Cemetery, a leafy burial ground on the outskirts of the small south eastern Pennsylvania town of West Chester. A singular man with a singular name, Mott's subsequent fall into historical obscurity belies an adventurous life inextricably linked to a nation in turmoil and transformation. Educated in the 1840s and 1850s by a militaristic French schoolmaster and forged in the crucible of war as commander of a local unit of volunteer soldiers during the Civil War, Mott became a career soldier who bore witness to the westward expansion of settlers onto lands still occupied by indigenous people; revolutions in industry advanced at the expense of American labor; post-Civil War reconstruction of the American south where racial and ideological divisions remained galvanized long after the cannons fell silent; and the evolution of an insular nation into an imperialist power. All the while encountering some of the most notable men of his age: Meade, Custer, Sitting Bull, Miles, Otis, Chaffee, and Theodore Roosevelt.Complex and enigmatic, the story of Mott Hooton reveals a man dedicated to honor and integrity as an officer of the United States Army, yet often conflicted about the role his Government played in subjugating and displacing the indigenous people of the American west. Possessed of a restless spirit and fascinated by humanity, Mott travelled the world. From the great concert halls of Europe and the shores of the Nile to the immensity of Siberia and the royal court of the King of Siam, the story of Mott Hooton reminds us that greatness can be found in the unlikeliest of places.…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. CONDITION: Very Good in Fair jacket; no names or other marks, tight, straight, clean, corner tips worn through and edges rubbed, spine nice, pages clean and flat; in jacket with little loss of paper but very wrinkled closed 3-4" tears all across top, also spine bottom end; unclipped 3.50. Picture book hardback The busy life of the castle and its long sleep under the hedge of thorns are beautifully rendered. ABE Heritage Seller, since 1996: Search ABE Keyword: oldchildrensbooks. Conservative AB condition grading, secure packing, international shipping. /Felix Hoffmann, illustrator. /Felix Hoffmann, illustrator (illustrator). …

Zustand: Very Good. reprint. Full red morocco, VG. unpaginated but contents complete with signatures matching ( [ A8] B-2D8 ), marbled endpapers, leather a little rubbed, wallet style binding in good order but lacking the closure strip, gift inscription to the first bank reads ' To Emma from Marion, June 10th 1848', pages clean & with some occasional slight age toning. The text is printed by Charles Corrall in a minute but clear typface, which would later be used to print Pickering's 'Diamond Classics' series. 150 grams. …

Leather. Zustand: Fair. 887pp + Tables of Statutes passed, Front board detached, block split in 2 in middle but contents of both halves still well bound together. Interior in nice clean condition. Owner's name on 1st blank. A few pages have a small vertical crease, not severe, could be ironed out but all quite readable as is. Contains many fascinating acts including for example ones on THE SOUTH SEA COMPANY (several), PUNISHING MUTINY and DESERTION, BETTER PAY FOR ARMY, PREVENTING MISCHIEF by STORING GUN-POWDER, REGULATE PRICE of BREAD, FRAUDS COMITTED by BANKRUPTS, DUTIES on MALT, MUM, CYDER & PERRY, TRADE with EAST INDIES, PUNISHMENT of DEER STEALERS, HIGHWAY REPAIRS, Etc, Etc. Marked 4 on spine, Vol IV on both title pages.See my other listings for more similarly bound vols. See pictures attached.…

Leather. Zustand: Fair. The two bound as one. 526 + 347pp + Tables of Statutes passed, Front board detached, block split in 2 in middle but contents of both halves still well bound together. Interior in nice clean condition. Missing blank prior to title page. Contains many fascinating acts including for example ones on THE SOUTH SEA COMPANY (several), DUTIES on MALT, MUM, CYDER & PERRY, REPAIRS TO WHITBY & BRIDPORT PIER, MAKING RIVERS NAVIGABLE, LIGHTING STREETS in GREAT YARMOUTH, HIGHWAY REPAIRS, ETC ETC. Marked 5 on spine, Vol V on 1st title page.See my other listings for more similarly bound vols. See pictures attached.…

First edition. 562, 114, [vii]pp. Bound in full contemporary calf, lower hinge cracked but sound. Slight worming in two places affecting a few internal pages, now deceasd. Generally a clean and sound volume.

First edition. 3 vols., 12mo., pp. [iv], 331, [i]; [iv], 333, [i]; [iv], 351, [i]. Each volume with its half-title; the second and third volumes each with a second half-title bound after the title-page. The misspelling 'attentoin' appears in volume one, in the final line of p.226; volume two has "Chapter II" on both p. 26 and p. 63, and "Chapter III" on pp. 89 and 123. A few spots and smudges, but very good. Near contemporary half brown calf, spines gilt terracotta and blue marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Rubbed, joints and edges worn, a few chips, very good. Ownership inscription of Robert Taylor in an old hand to the head of each title-page, though barely visible in vol. I. The first edition of The Monastery, in three volumes. Published with a print run of 10,000 and a price £1 4s (£1.20). Like all the other Waverley novels before 1827, it was published anonymously.…

First Edition. Provenance; bookplate of Lieut. Gen. Sir John Hope. Very good copies all in the original half calf over plain boards. Professionally and period sympathetically re-backed with ruled cross bands and the title and volume indicators blocked direct in gilt; very impressively finished. Remains a particularly well-preserved set; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Physical desc.: 3 v. ([4], [1], 2-58, [1], 60-76, [3], 80-331, [1] p.; [4], 333, [3] p.; [4], 351, [1] p.) ; 12°. Notes: Signatures: V. 1: pi A-N  O6 P4; v. 2: pi A-O  ; v. 3: pi A-O  P6 Q . "In three volumes"--t.p. The final page of vols. 1 & 3 and the last 3 pages of vol. 2 are blank. In volume 1, pages [1]-58 contain the 'Introductory Epistle' signed by 'Cuthbert Clutterbuck'; pages [59]-76 the 'Answer' by 'the author of Waverly'. Page [77] is the fly-title, and pages [79]-331 the text. In some copies (such as this) of vol. 1, page 226, last line, the word "attention" is altered to "attentoin" these two states appear in both the first and second editions. In some copies (such as this) of vol. 1, page 263 is misnumbered 268. --cf. Todd and Bowden. In vol. 2, chapter numbers on pages 26 and 63 both read 'II', and those for 89 and 123 read 'III' all subsequent chapter numbers are short by two. The only Scott publication where John Ballantyne used "bookseller to the King" in the title imprint, cf. Todd and Bowden. Colophon: Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. ('and Co.' in vols. 2-3.). Subject: Scotland - History - 16th century - Fiction. Referenced by: Worthington, 9. Todd and Bowden, 144Aa. 2 Kg. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Revised Edition. Volume1 only of a three volume set. Leather binding, rebacked with original boards. It appears to have been done perhaps in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century with five raised bands and labels on the second and fourth (from top) compartments and gold stamped decorations in the other compartments. The two front and two rear end papers have been replaced. The front free paper is creased along the fold and top two inches are torn, but the rest of the page is still attached. ; Volume 1 only of a three volume set. This volume consists of 12 chapters, including his "History of Gardening" which is considered the first comprehensive written history of gardening in England, essays on the importance of precipitation and sunlight on vegetation, directions in raising trees, planting instructions and embellishments in country gardens. At the end of the book is a 16 page index of the first volume. There are two copper plates in this volume- frontispiece illustation of a nobleman's garden and a five fold plate (four vertical folds and one horizontal fold) opposite page 283. The plates are in nice shape- the folding plate is complete with no tears. ; frontispiece and fold-out plate; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xlv, 352, [16] p. pages; A previous owner has written extensive notes (mostly in ink) on the end pages and in the margins of many of the pages of the text. The notations refer to planting instructions, classical writings referred to by Switzer and also the writer's own views on nature and gardening. An inscription on the front free end paper is dated 1912. Illustrated by Illustrated with 2 Copper Plates (illustrator).…

First Edition. Finely bound in modern gilt-blocked, aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages; Physical description: [22], 276 p ; 8vo. Subjects: Finance - Great Britain - Early works to 1800. Great Britain - Economic conditions - 18th century. Great Britain - Politics and government - 1714-1727. Notes: The Club's deliberations written down by William Paterson (ESTC). Proceedings of Wednesday's Club in Friday Street, June 27, 1716 to January 16, 1716/17. Referenced by: Goldsmiths' 5339; ESTC t084446; Kress 3030. 1 Kg.…

12mo, pp. [5]-219, [3]; full brown cloth, gilt title on spine; spine ends rubbed, text cocked, lower joint starting, front free endpaper lacking, spotting throughout, religious evocations penciled into margins; good. Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall was "an abolitionist, poet, novelist, editor, botanist, spiritualist medium, and advocate of women's, voters', and workers' rights. In contrast to many other 19th-century women writers, throughout most of her adult life she earned her living as an author; at the same time she often donated her writing for causes she believed in, such as the abolition of slavery" (Wikipedia). Her fiction often had a political argument. In the case of The mechanic she aligns herself with the working class. Wright I, 1747. …

8vo. First edition. Pp. [9] 10 - 78. Many text photographs and facsimiles. Contents clean and bright. Original publisher's cloth lightly soiled and rubbed. Published by a Committee on behalf of the Teachers and Managers of the Sunday School in aid of the centenary celebrations on 28 and 29 November, 1908. Although the school was founded in 1808 the first school room was not built until 1811.The illustrations include a photograph of a ' Ferrule ' a long type of wooden spoon used for disciplining ' Bad Boys in School '. This is a rare book. COPAC ( on - line 12/08 ) locates only one copy - British Library. There is also a copy at the Cheshire Record Office, Chester. …

Disbound. Zustand: Fair. 742 + 449pp + Tables of Statutes passed, The three bound as one. Both boards missing, block split in 2 in middle but contents of both halves still well bound together. Interior generally in nice clean condition, a few pages had corners folded over but now being flattened. Contains many fascinating acts. Marked 6 on spine, Vol VI on all 3 title pages. See my other listings for more similarly bound vols. See pictures attached. …

First Edition. 3 vols. 1st edition. Original boards and labels, rebacked with new endpapers (a fitting match). Soiled and worn else very good, but troublesome to weigh against other sets, because variables won't and constants aren't. Just after publishing Ivanhoe, Scott returned to his Scottish roots for this novel. The monastery of the title is Saint Mary's Cistercian Abbey and the action is mostly within or surrounding it. The time is the Scottish Reformation (16th century) when the religious question had not been settled, but Scott wrote as the detached narrator, and presents its resolution as inevitable. The characters are (as is the custom in historical romance) a gathering (or a compaction) of real and fictional figures, playing out their personal, petty roles, rendered (and contrasted) against the great events surrounding them, as worldly life goes on, oblivious to all private vicissitudes and recoveries. The only grownup hero, with a marginally objective sense of the times, is the Catholic Benedictine/Cistercian monk, Sub-Prior Eustace (once William Allan) who fights for his lost cause as stubbornly and gallantly, as would Robert E. Lee, 300 years later.…

3 volumes, 12mo, pp. [4], 331, [1]; [4], 333. [1]; [4], 351, [1]; original drab paper-covered boards, green muslin shelfback, printed paper labels on spines; labels darkened, spines, sunned, corners bumped, boards soiled on volume III; all else very good. Todd & Bowden's "first edition, second issue." See 144Ab.…

First edition in English, published in French the previous year. D'Arvieux was a French traveller and diplomat who journeyed extensively in the Middle East. The content of this volume was drawn from the author's posthumous papers and published by Jean de la Roque, who had himself participated in two expeditions to the Arabian peninsula. Laurent D'Arvieux (1635-1702) left his native Marseilles for the Middle East in 1653, settling first in Sidon with his cousin Bertandie and subsequently travelling throughout the region. A lengthy stay in a Bedouin camp on Mount Carmel enabled d'Arvieux to offer "some very remarkable observations of that nation, which differed greatly from previous reports, and were doubted until confirmed by later travellers such as Niebuhr" (Henze). "In 1672 he was sent to Constantinople where he assisted Nointel and in 1679 he was named Consul at Aleppo" (Blackmer). He learned to speak Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Hebrew, and Syriac. Because of his knowledge of Turkish manners and dress he was able to furnish Molière with the Turkish element in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670). He retired to Marseilles in 1686 and lived there until his death in 1702. It was almost certainly there that he met Jean de La Roque, the son of a Marseillaise merchant. La Roque had been interested in d'Arvieux for some time, making enquiries of the French chaplain at Sidon during an expedition in 1688-89. D'Arvieux's friend Antoine Galland, the orientalist and first translator of the Thousand and One Nights, provided La Roque with the manuscript from which this work was produced. The first part are his observations of Arab and Turkish society in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and the Ottoman Empire. He covers religion, hospitality, animals, jurisprudence, trade, food, and funeral customs. The second part was translated by La Roque from the Arabic of Abulfeda (1273-1331), the renowned Kurdish historian and geographer, and was the first translation of Abulfeda's writings. Blackmer 50 for the first French; ESTC T113346; Henze I, 101. Duodecimo (162 x 92 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 4 similar plates. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked to style, red morocco label, compartments decorated in blind, raised bands, boards tooled with blind wavy roll, endpapers renewed, edges speckled red. Signature to first blank of one Jane Carne of Tragern Castle, Cornwall. Binding lightly worn and shaken, minor foxing: a very good copy.…

First Edition. First edition, 12mo, 3 volumes, pp. [4], 331, [1]; [4], 333, [1]; [4], 351, [1]; original gray paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines; spines rubbed, joints starting, some loss of paper at the joints (especially volume III), inkspot on two leaves, some light foxing mostly to fore-edges and ends of textblock, ownership signatures of E. Barker (crossed out) and P. J. Heisch on endpapers, good. P. J. Heisch was an early biographer of Lavater, having published in 1842 Memoirs of John Caspar Lavater with a brief memoir of his widow. Todd & Bowden 144Aa.…