The New-York Annual Register for the year of our Lord, 1840 by Williams, Edwin

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: Edwin Williams, 1836. Hardcover. Good. Published 1836, good plus copy in leather-backed printed pictorial dark tan boards, 515 pp, 9 pp. ads at rear, frontispiece, and the mercantile almanac with small zodiac illustrations. Moderate wear to binding, joints a little tender, spine darkened with light loss to top of spine, some stains and wear to rear board, contents very good, a bit tanned and foxed, old owner has written name of book on fore edge.

New York: Peter Hill, 1833. Poor. Quarter Leather. 12mo (up to 7½" tall). 408, 12pp, unpaginated illustrations. Leather spine with printed paper boards. Heavy wear to boards. Hinges cracked. Text appears to be complete, but two of the illustrations are damaged: one missing bottom 1-2" of page, another with a round 1" hole torn through the center. Part of one signature is free from binding. Bottom 2/3s of RFEP is torn away. Toning to edges of text with a few fox spots scattered through out. Chock full of minutiae regarding New York State in 1833 regarding towns, post offices, schools, prisons, etc..

12mo (7 x 4 1/2), original printed and illustrated boards, with leather spine with gilt lettering, illustrated, 396 pp. plus ads. Binding worn and a bit faded, top cover detached, extremities worn and rubbed, spine is split, which makes the book almost two parts, pagination appears complete, but could be lacking frontispiece or front endpaper, contents a bit aged, foxed and browned. The register was first published in 1830, which makes this the third installment, and includes useful information about manufacturing, banking, schools, post offices, courts and newspapers. There is even a list of lawyers and clergymen, and the book comes with its own almanac. This edition also contains several illustrations, including a full page engraving of an early railroad train.

New York:: Printed by J. Seymour,, 1832.. First edition.. publishers quarter leather over printed boards.. Some light foxing and age-toning; boards rubbed and soiled; insect damage affects about 20% of the spine.. 12mo,. Illustrated from engravings..

New York: J. Seymour, 1832. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. Small octavo, 396pp., illustrated, plus advertisements. A nice, clean example in the publisher's printed boards with brown morocco spine. Some scuffing to edges, shallow insect damage at the frontispiece (not affecting the image), and the hinges a bit weak, but still intact. A solid, clean, original copy, with a few contemporary ownership markings, overall very good or better. Text and illustrations particularly clean, including the famed train plate, inserted at pp. 158-9. Includes an early 20th-century 1/2 buckram and brown cloth clamshell box, and an old clipping from a Maggs catalogue.

J. Seymour. Small octavo, 396pp., illustrated, plus advertisements. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1831.

J. Seymour. Small octavo,, illustrated, plus advertisements. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1835.

Light shelfwear to edges. Glossy covers. Clean interior pages free of markings. 152 pages. 0.3" X 6" X 4.5" 1cmX 15X11cm Facts and trivia about collectible dolls such as many dolls made between 1700 and 1780 were called Queen Ann dolls, the first manufactured dolls to look like a baby were made by Madame Augusta Montanari, and the swivel socket neck was invented in 1861 by Mme. Huret in France.

Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2

Lucky You: What Science Has Done For Us J.B. Lippincott Stated First Edition. SCIENCE. Artfully illustrated by MUNRO LEAF. Good EXLIB in a Good unclipped $2.25 orig. price dust jacket. Last page states: 152 4.

New York: The Free Press, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [vi]vii-xxiii [4]1-702. THE FIRST EDITION of the 1968 Free Press publication. The copyright page states 'first printing'. Includes a preface to the 1957 revised edition. Robert K. Merton is generally considered the father of modern Sociology and a major influence in the study of criminology. This was his first book and has become established as a work of central importance in the social science. The 1968 edition includes the complete 1957 text and two new essays; "On the History and Systematic of Sociological Theory," and "On Sociological Theories of the Middle Range," This is a very good copy in a dust jacket with moderate edge wear, mainly at the top. There is some soiling and darkening of the spine. The jacket is now protected with a Brodart cover.

xvi+469 pages with appendix and bibliography. Royal octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First editionFocusing on the fate of the natives under Spanish rule, the author traces in graphic detail the rupturing of Indian traditions and the fate that befell the Indian people. While demonstrating the excesses of the conquistadors and unscrupulous crown officials, he also emphasizes that Central America was the scene of the first attempt to apply the famous New Laws. Although that legislation was not fully implemented, the reformist judge Alonso Lopez de Cerrato made significant improvements in labor conditions, in the face of furious opposition from the Spanish settlers. Aside from it discussion of labor practices, this account deals with population figures and the extent of the slave trade, and corrects a number of errors in traditional sources. In addition, Spanish Indian policy, particularly at the local level, is examined… Read More

Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."

Calcutta : Royal Asiatic Society, 1950. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Volume I only. Rebound in modern gray cloth. Pencil marginalia. Stamp to final text pages. Lacking original wraps.

ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. THE VIKING PRESS, FIRST EDITION STATED FIRST PRINTING THUS, APRIL, 1947. Used. Very good condition/Good + condition original unclipped, $2.00 price appears on front flap. Fuscia dust jacket spine is a trace sunned. Mylar wrap. Another Part of the Forest, a play in three acts by Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes", and "The Searching Wind". Patricia Neal frontispiece.

xxx+392+iv pages with 3 fold out maps, appendixes and index. Royal octavo (9½" x 6½")issued in blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Edited by E.E. Rich, Assisted by A.M. Johnson. Introduction by G.P. de T. Glazebrook. Hudson Bay Record Society volume XVII. Number 1549 of a limited edition.A fort was built near the mouth of the Moose River on James Bay North East Ontario, Canada, by Charles Bayly, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, in the early 1670s. In the struggle between the English and French in Canada, the fort changed hands several times and shortly after 1696 was destroyed. In 1730 the company built a post close to the ruins of the original fort. This post has been in continuous operation to the present day. This is the first publication of the Record Society to deal specifically with affairs at the "Bottom of the Bay."Condition:Pages unread. A very good to fine copy without jacket as issued.

45 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") issued in wrappers. Edited by Luis Vargas Rea. From the library of professor George M Foster. First edition limited to 100 copies.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America, and worldview. The quantity, quality, and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of… Read More