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•  Drake 707; Shaw & Shoemaker 13185.   Removed from a nonce volume and resewn.  (9489)

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•  Signed binding with unfortunately unidentifiable initials! Publisher's quarter brown cloth over paper-covered sides, printed pictorial paper front cover, spine with gilt-stamped title; cream-colored paper slightly darkened, with very minor rubbing over corners. (15006)

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•  Publisher's tan cloth with terra-cotta printed medieval pattern, dust wrapper lacking; spine sunned, corners with minor soiling. Title-page with minor offsetting from frontispiece. Showing some external wear, but still a clean, solid, engaging copy of an entertaining work — in fact, a joy.  (26068)

•  Very good condition with a good+ dust jacket (small tears, price clipped from front flap).

The volume is illustrated withan oversized, folding panoramic view of Quebec along with 13 other plates, including two maps of the Niagara Falls region; views of Bristol, DE, and Chester, MA; and a bucolic depiction of the “Water Works of Philadelphia on the Schuylkil,” all engraved after De Roos's own designs.

Binding:  Contemporary hunter green diced calf, covers framed in gilt double fillets and an interior blind rule with small gilt-stamped corner fleurons; spine gilt extra in five compartments. Board edges and turn-ins decorated with gilt rolls; rich blue marbled endpapers; all edges marbled.

•  Howes D268; Sabin 19677.   Binding as above, corners/joints scuffed and back joint starting from head; spine a little sunned, evenly and attractively. Scattered light foxing, pages and plates otherwise clean. An admirable book in a nice copy.  (26665)

•  Publisher's pale blue wrappers printed in red. A fine copy. (7945)

•  Ornate, polychromatic Victorian-era front wrapper. A later paste-over changes the price from 30 cents to 40 cents. Excellent condition.

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•  BAL 4685. Handsome green publisher’s cloth; front cover gilt-stamped with title at top and Indian Pipes in lower right corner: corners rubbed with a little loss of cloth. Some very shallow chipping on corners, and traces of soiling on edges and endpapers. An attractive book.

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•  Publisher's cloth, front cover and spine decoratively gilt-stamped; spine, lower edges, and corners a touch rubbed. Top edge gilt. A few leaves and plates with waterstaining to lower outer corners, scattered spots of light foxing. (18409)

•  Publisher's brown-orange cloth. Very good. (5734)

This is illustrated with a good many half-tones.

•  Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine with black-stamped title; spine sunned and with inked call number, spine head chipped, corners slightly rubbed. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, front free endpaper faintly rubber-stamped.  (24822)

•  Sabin 21232; Gaer, California Literature of the Gold-Rush, 25; Cowan & Cowan, Bibliography of the History of California, 187.   Publisher's textured maroon cloth, front cover with very decorative gilt-stamped title presentation; lightly rubbed, spine sunned and with some other sort of discoloration at top. Ex–social club library: front free endpaper and fly-leaf with inked numerals in a 19th-century hand; title-page, one plate, and one other page rubber-stamped. Pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean. A nice little book.  (26296)

Signed binding: Publisher's blue-gray cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title in black and silver framework, signed “GWE” (George Wharton Edwards).  The front cover and spine give the author's name as Lawrence rather than Laurence, making this BAL's binding state A.

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Provenance:  Front free endpaper with inked gift inscription to journalist, lecturer, and poet Nixon Waterman from Edward F. Burns, likely the poet and Boston Globe editor of that name.

•  BAL 4923; Wright, III, 1671.   Binding as above, a little cocked, spine sunned, extremities lightly rubbed; front cover clean and bright. Front free endpaper with inked gift inscription (see above) dated Christmas 1898, half-title with extensive inked inscription dated 1953. The latter hand has made a checkmark beside almost every page number as well as occasional annotations and marks of emphasis; pages otherwise clean.  (26651)

The practical sciences of agriculture, husbandry, and manufacture have their places here along with much on the physical and biological worlds as such.

Bindings: Publisher's half green morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped title and decorations; very attractive.

•  American Imprints 55446.   Spines slightly darkened; lightly rubbed. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplates, call number on endpapers, no other markings. A clean, sound handsome set.  (27171)

Binding:  Publisher's charcoal-colored ribbed cloth, front and rear covers blind-embossed with “Carter's Cabinet Library First Series” in a cartouche, and spine elaborately stamped in gilt. Small piece of cloth absent from top of spine.

Nicely done up, with several plates including a rather seductive one of “Mary Wilson.”

•  Binding as above. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Spotting and discoloration in margins of early and late pages; occasional foxing. With that, still, a rather nice copy in a good example of this handsome and delicate American binding.  (26508)

•  Publisher's cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and landscape vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding worn over extremities, with gilt showing some rubbing. Pages clean.  (5701)