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Not-Always-Pretty
Lives Recounted
— but a Pretty Book!
Earle, Alice Morse. Child life in colonial days. New
York: Macmillan & Co., 1899. 8vo. Frontis., xxi, [1], 418, [2 (adv.)] pp.; 55 plts., illus.
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt, white, and yellow; slightly cocked, with edges and extremities a bit rubbed. Occasional small pencilled marks of emphasis. In fact, quite a nice copy. (15620)
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CRANBERRIESEastwood, B. A complete manual for the cultivation of the cranberry, with a description of the best varieties. New York: C.M. Saxton, Barker, & Co., 1860. 8vo. Engr. t.-p., 120 pp; 9 plts. 
• Publisher's embossed cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; corners and spine extremities showing minor wear, with gilt oxidized. Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription; some page edges with small blotches. 
Binding very handsome in its subtle way. Impossible! to get a good image of! (12986)
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Interesting
& Still
Instructive
Eberlein, Harold Donaldson; & Roger Wearne Ramsdell. The practical book of chinaware. With 12 illustrations in colours[,] 191 in doubletone, and diagrams. Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1925. Large 8vo. xix, 326; illus.
• Part of Lippincott's "Practical Book" series. Aimed at the era's
collectors of moderate but not extravagant means, this provides detailed descriptions
of china in its major varieties from the beginnings of its manufacture up to
1840. 
Numerous
black-and-white and color illustrations.
• Publisher's cloth, front and spine stamped in black and blue; small stain to front cover, some wear to head and foot of spine. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Sturdy; pages clean.
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Elegant Production — GORGEOUS Copy Ebhardt, Franz. Der gute Ton in allen Lebenslagen. Leipzig & Berlin: Julius Klinkhardt, [1889]. 8vo. viii, 774, [2 (adv.)] pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. Binding: Publisher's crimson cloth, front cover and spine gilt- and black-stamped, back cover black-stamped. All edges gilt. Actually, breathtaking.
• Binding as above, clean and bright with only very faint traces of wear to corners and joints. Pages clean; some lower outer corners slightly crumpled. It is hard to imagine a better copy. (23709)
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Political
Fury Elegy in memory of that valiant champion, Sir R. Grierson, late laird of Lag, who died Dec. 23d, 1733. Wherein the Prince of Darkness commends many of his best friends, who were the chief managers, of the late persecution. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, n.d. (ca. 1848). 12mo. 24 pp. 
anti-Bonnie Prince Charlie chapbook.
• Not in NSTC. Removed from a bound volume. Wrappers lacking. Good++ condition. (8412)
GOOD
“Traditional”
AMERICAN
History
Elliott, Charles W. The New England history, from the discovery of the continent by the Northmen, A.D. 986, to the period when the colonies declared their independence, A.D. 1776. New York: Charles Scribner, 1857. 8vo. 2 vols. I: Frontis., 479, [1] pp. II: Frontis., 492 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Sabin 22260. Publisher's brown cloth, covers framed in blind, spines with gilt-stamped title and banner motif; lightly worn and moreso at corners, spines each with relatively unobtrusive strip of cloth tape at head. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplates, front free endpapers excised, rubber-stamp on title-pages and a few others, no other markings. (26890)
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“The Mind Expresses Its Degree of Development through the Vocal Mechanism” Emerson, Charles Wesley. Psycho vox or the Emerson system of voice culture. Boston: Emerson College Publishing Dept., 1910. 4to. viii, [2], 117, [3] pp.; 14 plts. (incl. in pagination).
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a frontispiece portrait and 13 anatomical plates depicting parts of the body involved in respiration and vocalization — which include, according to the author, the intestines and liver.
Binding: Publisher's light blue cloth, front cover with decorative silver-stamped title (“Voice Culture [/] Emerson College of Oratory”) and white- and gilt-stamped vignette of a lyre-playing muse, spine with silver-stamped title. All edges gilt.
• Binding as above, corners and spine extremities rubbed, spine slightly discolored. Frontispiece “back” with ownership inscription; back pastedown with pencilled annotations. Sewing just starting to loosen. Faint foxing to title-page opposite frontispiece, pages with shadows of pencilled marks of emphasis, otherwise clean. (26826)
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“New Literary Connexions
inAMERICA”(English
Literary Periodical). The monthly magazine, and British register,
part I. 1798. From January to June, inclusive. Vol. V. London: R. Phillips, 1798.
8vo (22.5 cm, 9"). Frontis., [8], 552 (i.e., 554; lacking 499–504, 120 used
twice in pagination, 521–28 numbered 321–28) pp.
This volume’s oversized, folding frontispiece shows the front facade
of the “new East India House now building in Leadenhall Street”;
there is also one in-text engraving of Lethington House in East Lothian, residence
of the Maitland family.
Provenance:
Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription of Joshua Gilpin,
a Quaker from Philadelphia who established the first paper mill in Delaware,
in 1787.
• Disbound with front cover, front free endpaper, and frontispiece separated; back cover lost, and signature sewing exposed/going, with many leaves loose. Now contained in a simple, acid-free phase box. Edges untrimmed. Minor offsetting and a few stray marks; mostly clean.
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A Politician's Prose & Poetry — Presentation Copy Everhart, James B. Miscellanies. West Chester, PA: Edward F. James, 1862. 8vo. Frontis., [6], ii, 300 pp.
Provenance: Inscribed by the author: “To B.F. Pyle, Esq. [?] from his friend the author.”
• Publisher's textured violet cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; faded, especially over spine, tear to cloth along front joint with corners and extremities a bit rubbed. Front fly-leaf with inked inscription as above. Endpapers, frontispiece (“The Rhine”), and title-page lightly foxed. In fact a clean, nice copy. (23195)
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