Binding:  Publisher's textured tan cloth, covers and spine with stamped in brown with small pictorial vignettes evoking “the road”; title and author stamped in gilt. All edges subtly blue-sprinkled.

•  Spine very slightly darkened and virtually no wear otherwise. One signature loosening; one page with a scrape (with a bit of loss to type), this and a few others with the ink's having offset or adhered pages together (usually separable); and all otherwise clean and crisp. A handsome copy.  (26680)

•  NSTC 2H29711. Recent moiré cloth-covered boards. Front free endpaper with outer edge chipped; title-page with small inked numerals in upper outer corner. A very clean, fresh copy.

Boston-area businesses with full-page advertisements in this publication include a silversmith/jeweler, an apothecary, an upholsterer, a pianoforte manufacturer, and an ink maker; also provided are both an extensive business directory and an index of the smaller in-text advertisements promoting local merchants.

Binding:  Signed binding of brown straight-grained cloth, front cover gilt-stamped with vignette of the city and blind-stamped with two female figures representing Agriculture (holding a scythe) and Law and Order (holding scales), back cover similarly blind-stamped with central stamp of Benjamin Bradley & Co. bookbinders.

•  Drake, Almanacs, 4446; Spawn & Kinsella, American Signed Bindings, 56. Not in Phillips, List of Maps of America.   Binding as above, spine showing minimal wear; clean and beautiful. Front pastedown with ticket of a Massachusetts bookseller. Endpapers with offsetting; map age-toned with offsetting, outer edges slightly ragged; one index page with chip to outer margin, with loss of a few letters. Pages lightly age-toned. An excellent copy.  (26684)

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)

•  19th-century quarter sheep over paper-covered boards, worn and abraded with small discolorations; spine leather chipped, with remnants of gilt-stamped leather title label. Edges untrimmed. Some offsetting and a very few spots to pages; small area of worm damage in upper margins.

•  Venus: ESTC T73277; Ode: ESTC T41985 (first ed.). Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Second work lacking half-title and title-page. Inner margins of two leaves reinforced; last line of advertising page shaved. Title-page and last few leaves with moderate foxing; one page (not the title) stamped by a now-defunct institution, with some offsetting to opposing page.

•  Medina, Mexico, 9502; Palau 97721; Sabin 16551. Publisher's treed sheep binding, gilt spine extra, spine label mostly perished. All edges carmine. A very good copy.

The added title-page is printed in red and black and has a wood-engraved vignette of friends-and-family spectators rapt before a home stage.

Provenance:  The German Society of Pennsylvania.

•  Publisher's blue textured cloth stamped in blind; light discoloration to edges. Ex–social club library, as above: call number in a neat 19th-century hand on endpapers and fly-leaf, rubber- and pressure-stamp on title-page and rubber-stamp on a very few other pages. No other markings. Faint waterstain at front in some lower margins. With the handsome added title-page but without the printed “main” one. Withal, a good copy.  (26283)

•  Laced together with a silk ribbon. Some small spots of browning on drawing and elsewhere adjacent to ribbon; a little soiling exterior and along edges; and a few tiny tears in edges.

•  Laced together with a silk ribbon. Some browning, especially from ribbon.

•  Laced together with a silk ribbon. Some foxing, especially on drawing; soiling on exterior fold with traces elsewhere; and spotting to ribbon and wafer.

•  Laced together with a silk ribbon. Some browning, especially adjacent to ribbon and wafer; and a few tiny tears in edges. Short closed tears along the folds, without loss.

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•  Laced together with a silk ribbon. Some browning, especially adjacent to ribbon and wafer.

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Signed by the author:  With tipped-in typed sheet bearing inspirational message, signed in pencil. Also tipped in is a photograph of the author inan early motorized wheelchair.

•  Publisher's tan cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and gilt and green laurel wreath, spine with gilt-stamped title and a little sunned; touches of rubbing and some pages with light to moderate spotting. A nice copy.  (26621)

In addition to the vocabularies, each work features a number of wood-engraved, in-text illustrations, and four include a frontispiece.

Provenance:  Signature on front free endpaper of “Horace Adams / Lowell / Mass.”

•  Not in NSTC.   Contemporary quarter mottled calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; moderately rubbed overall, but solid and sturdy. Front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription. Electricity with upper outer corners of title-page and first few leaves ink-stained, occasional light offsetting elsewhere, pages otherwise clean. Some leaves closely trimmed at bottom edges. A charming compendium of scientific instruction, illustrated.  (26678)

•  Original printed wrappers; dusty. Number stamped in upper outside corner of the front wrapper.

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•  Shoemaker 21854. Light blue paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper title-label. First leaf with closed tear from outer margin, just touching text. Foxed, with some staining to final blank leaf.

•  Goldsmiths'-Kress 27353.19; this vol. not in American Imprints.   Publisher's quarter red cloth and tan paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label; binding lightly worn and faded, with paper chipped, spots of soiling, head of spine chipped and band of cloth tape extending across it. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page. No other markings. Uncut copy; pages generally clean.  (26262)

So many and various are these illustrations that we SIMPLY couldn't decide which to photograph!

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Provenance:  Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1943 and with rubber-stamp of Kanter's Magic Shop, a famed but now-defunct emporium in Philadelphia.

•  Publisher's gray-brown cloth without dust-jacket, front cover with black-stamped title and dummy vignette; spine very slightly darkened, edges and extremities with minor shelfwear. Front free endpaper as above. Pages age-toned. A nice copy.  (26622)

•  Not in Von Hunersdorff, Coffee. Publisher's embossed gilt-paper binding, moderately worn with the spine and board edges a bit darkened; still a very attractive, unusual binding. Front pastedown with small bookseller's ticket and with remnants of a school prize bookplate. Pages mostly clean, with scattered hints of light foxing. (10592)

•  ESTC T131282. On the Royal Society, see: Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed., XXIII, 791–93. On Sprat, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, LIII, 419–24. Recent quarter red morocco over marbled paper. Beading on spine bands and gilt quatrefoils in compartments; gilt-lettered title, author, and date. A foliate gilt roll at edge of leather on covers. Leaves sometime exposed to moisture and cockled, with shallow chipping and light to moderate soiling. Perforation-stamp on title-page, and rubber-stamps, including one on title-page, of a now-defunct library. All edges speckled red.

The "Buzaglo" referred to in the poem is the eponymous cast-iron stove designed by London inventor/ironmaster Abraham Buzaglo, which the author of the poem contends will, once installed, quell party strife in the House of Commons by warming the uncomfortable chill that provokes and riles the more partisan members.

•  Recent marbled paper wrappers. Very light foxing on first three leaves. Two page numbers shaved.

•  Goldsmiths’-Kress 7065; ESTC T81915 and N24607. Contemporary calf with remnants of gilt; dry, flaking, and partially gone to red, with some chips to edges, corners, and spine tips; old repairs to joints. Remnants of bookplate on front pastedown. Old water/mildew damage to lower margins, occasionally making its way a bit into text; several leaves repaired, long since. Plates generally quite clean and always pleasing, with faintest waterstaining to lower portion of plate 6 (only). All edges speckled red.

Published at the beginning of renewed interest in the U.S. and England in “scientific agriculture.”

•  Goldsmiths'-Kress 25812.   Publisher's blind-embossed green cloth, rebacked with much of old spine unobtrusively reapplied. Binding a little soiled and spine darkened with gilt of title dimmed; tips of corners chipped. Instances of dust-soiling at some top margins; one leaf with loss and soiling along outer edge without affecting text. Ex-library with old rubber-stamp on the title-page and several other pages.  (24439)

In addition to the five plates (three lithographed by A. Hoen & Co. after drawings by J.H. Emerton, one by A. Gast & Co. after a drawing by Riley, and one by Sinclair & Son after a drawing by C.S. Minot), the report is illustrated with a number of in-text woodcuts of locusts and other insects, their anatomy, and their eggs and egg-masses, as well as machines and devices designed to eradicate them. Appendices include a detailed comparison of insectivorous birds and their potential benefits.

Provenance: With affixed note on Entomological Commission letterhead, addressed to the Rev. E.H. Dalrymple of Baltimore, MD, and signed by C.V. Riley; front free endpaper bearing the mailing label to Dalrymple.

•  Publisher’s quarter cloth and printed paper wrappers; wrappers darkened, with small edge nicks, cloth starting to split from top of front joint. Front wrapper and front inside cover institutionally rubber-stamped, front free endpaper with label as above. First map and title-page partially torn along inner margin; plates 2 through 5 with small nick in upper edge, not approaching image. Pages clean.

Scarce: OCLC, RLIN, and NUC-Pre1956 locate only six U.S. holdings.

•  Brunet, V, 1118. Contemporary limp paste paper–covered wrappers, spine with hand-inked label; paper chipped at edges and front joint open; spine label darkened and peeling. Front pastedown with bookseller’s ticket and institutional bookplate; front free endpaper and title-page with institutional stamp; front free endpaper with ownership inscriptions dated 1829. Pages untrimmed.

•  Publisher's terra-cotta cloth, cover pictorially stamped, spine with black-stamped title; edges and spine a bit darkened, with corners and spine extremities slightly rubbed. Pages clean. (14992)

Though an "odd vol," this is a pleasing book, done up in a typical German style of the era. Paper marbled in browns, black, and greens is used over boards, with slivers of leather at corners; a round spine bears gilt ruling and a cream-colored label with author, title, translator, and volume number. All edges are green and the whole is exceptionally well preserved.

•  Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie, II: 1206. Bound as above. Vol. 3 of 4. Some little foxing but almost no scuffing.