Bachelor belles by FISHER, Harrison - 1908

1856 American Architecture Houses Economic Cottage Builder Construction Plans
Charles Dwyer's "Economic Cottage Builder" is a rare, mid-19th-century architectural treaise written to instruct designers, surveyors, and builders. It contains building plans, floor plans, and impressive illustrations of homes, cottages, and buildings.

Item number: #19598
Price: $499
DWYER, Charles P
The economic cottage builder
Buffalo, N.Y. : Wanzer McKim, 1856.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o 127, [1]
o 31 plates, plus illustrated title page
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Provenance: Handwritten – Edwd Miller
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Language: English
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Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
o Decorative blue cloth
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Size: ~9in X 6in (23cm x 15.5cm)
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1873 Occult Mediums Mrs Conant Spiritualism Prophecy Fortunes Paine Sagoyewatha
Frances Conant was a 19th-century American medium and spiritualist known for her fanatical and wild séances, communicating with the dead, and teaching others of spiritualism. Author John Day offers a biographical survey of Conant's life focusing on her remarkable physical and mental manifestations, her prophetic tendencies, and invocation of notable figures including Thomas Paine, Pope Gregory VIII, and Seneca Indian chief Sagoyewatha or Red Jacket!
Item number: #21023
Price: $499
DAY, John W
Biography of Mrs. J.H. Conant, the world's medium of the nineteenth century
Boston: William White and Co., 1873.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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322
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Includes engraved frontispiece
· Provenance:
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Bookplate – Dr. Chas. A. Smith
o Handwritten –
H. F. Cooledge, 1873
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
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Green cloth
· Size: ~7.75in X 5in (19.5cm… Read More

1628 Apuleius Metamorphoses Socrates & Plato Philosophy Florida Golden Ass Mundo

Apuleius's 'Metamorphoses', also known as 'The Golden Ass,' is the only ancient Roman novel to exist complete as it was originally written. This work is a collection short tales following Lucius and his curios desire for magic. Apuleius describes interesting and bizarre encounters including sword swallowers, evil witches and bodily dismemberment, notes of mythological gods, daring escapes, and adventure.

This collection of the works of Apuleius was edited by Peter Schriver and published by Janson in Amsterdam. Works included in this small book include:
• "Florida"
• "Apologia"
• "Metamorphoseon", or "of Asino Avero"
• "On the God of Socrates"
• "On Philosophy"
• "On Plato and his Doctrine"
• "De Mundo", or "On the Universe"

Item number: #21434
Price: $499

APULEIUS

Apuleius Madaurensis Platonicus, serio castigates

Amsterodami: Apud J. Jansonium, 1628.

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• Collation: Complete with all pages
o… Read More

1844 MONKEYS Jardine Illustrated Primate Mandrill Baboon Color Evolution Macaque

Sir William Jardine was a 19th-century Scottish naturalist most known for his extensive series of books on natural history, 'The Naturalist's Library'.

This fine 1833 edition of Jardine's 'Mammalia' is beautifully color illustrated with 30 engravings of various species of monkeys! The plates from Jardine's works are exceedingly desirable and are found framed and displayed by themselves. This volume showcases illustrations and descriptions of simpai monkey, gray langers, white-eyed mangabey monkeys, lion-tailed macaque, chacma baboon, and the mandrill!

Item number: #21628
Price: $499

JARDINE, Sir William

The Naturalist's Library, Mammalia… Monkeys

Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars and Stirling and Kenney, Longman…Curry…1844.

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• Collation: Complete with all pages
o [2], 230
o 30 hand-colored engraved plates, plus portrait frontispiece and vignette title page
• References: Lowndes 1192
• Language: English… Read More

1908 BEAUTIFUL 1ed Princes & Princesses Haakon Norway Napoleon Valois Lang
Andrew Lang was a late 19th-century children's book author who is best known for his colored 'fairy books'. He and his wife recognized that fairy stories were immensely popular amongst young readers. According to the preface of "Princes and Princesses", Mrs. Lang says,
"There are some children who [say] that stories about fairies are true, and that they like fairies; and that they do not like true stories about real people who lived long ago."
The Lang's decided to publish a collection of true stories that would fascinate children – children who would primarily want to read exciting fictional stories. Notable stories found in this book include those of the lives of:
· Napoleon Bonaparte
· Haakon III of Norway, grandson of King Sverre
· Jeanne d'Albert, Queen of Navarre
· Henrietta of England, daughter of Charles I
· Marie Louise d'Orleans, niece of Louis XIV
· Isabella of Valois and princess of France, married Richard… Read More

1880 The Pacific Tourist American West INDIANS Utah Mormons Railroad Illustrated
'The Pacific Tourist' is a late 19th-century American travel guide designed to provide travelers with information on the American west. This guide includes details on the Pacific Railroad as well as descriptions and notes on iconic sights. Notable locations include:
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Salt Lake City
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Mormon Temple
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Brigham Young offices and homes
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Great Plains
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Prairie dog city
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Hunting excursions
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Indian scenes, teepees
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Landscapes
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Twin Sisters Rocks
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Teapot Rock
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Devil's Gate gorge, Wyoming

Item number: #15665
Price: $499
SHEARER, Frederick
The Pacific tourist. Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads and all points of business or pleasure travel
New York: Adams & Bishop, Publishers, 1880.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o… Read More

1878 FINE BINDING Claude Voisenon French Tales Literature Contes Zulmis Zelmaide
Claude-Henri de Voisenon was an 18th-century French playwright who wrote numerous works dealing with remorse, indecency, and human struggle. This 1878 limited print run of Voisenon's "Contes" or 'tales' was collected and edited by Octave Uzanne and one of just 100 in the print run. This tome contains works such as 'Zulmis et Zelmaide' and 'Tant mieux pour elle'.
Item number: #17118
Price: $499
VOISENON, Claude Henri de Fusee
Contes de l'abbé Voisenon ... avec une notice bio-bibliographique
Paris, A. Quantin, 1878. Limited edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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[4], LXVI, [2], 222, [4]
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8 engraved plates
· Provenance: Supralibros/Bookplate – Tougard de Bousmilon
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Possibly Narcisse- Étienne Tougard de Bousmilon, an architecture student at the Central Society of French Architects in 1841 under the tutelage of Léon Vaudoyer.
· Language: French
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Binding: Leather;… Read More

1882 King Louis XII of France Anne of Brittany Color Illustrated French BINDING

Paul Lacroix was a 19th-century French author whose books covered a broad set of topics, including some controversial. Lacroix wrote about ballets, costumes, romance, masquerades, heraldry, religion in the military, and the history of prostitution. One of his best books was "Louis XII et Anne de Bretagne", a history of early 16th-century France and the reuniting of Brittany and France.
While the contents of this and other Lacroix works are fascinating, it is the exquisite binding and color illustrations that make this book so desirable. It contains more than 200 illustrations in addition to the 14 chromolithograph engravings!
Item number: #18789
Price: $499
LaCROIX, Paul
Louis XII et Anne de Bretagne
Paris : Georges Hurtrel, 1882.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o [6], IV, [2], 644
o 30 plates (14 in color), with numerous in-text illustrations
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Language: French
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Binding: Leather;… Read More

1889 Civil War Secret Service Wilkes Booth Lincoln Assassination Baker Military

A beautiful, decorative first edition of the history of "The United States Secret Service." This book, by General La Fayette Baker, deals with the interactions in the American government as well as Baker's views on the role slavery played in the Civil War. Other important events discussed include Wilson's Raid, Abraham Lincoln speeches, organization of the First District Cavalry, role of women in the Civil War and more.

The most interesting chapter, however, is the chapter on famous assassinations throughout history including:
• Eglon, King of Moab
• Julius Caesar
• James I of England
• Marat, the French Revolution leader
• Alexander of Russia
• Abraham Lincoln

The portion on Abraham Lincoln features an engraving of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin, being killed in a tobacco barn by Richard Garrett. Other engravings relating to Booth include him crossing the Potomac and his secret burial. This book… Read More

1923 Dracula Bram Stoker Horror Gothic Occult Transylvania Vampires RARE Blood

"There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' has been labeled as one of the most important, popular and scariest horror novels of all time. It helped establish many horror tropes that would appear in subsequent vampire fantasies, in film, on stage, and in print. This 1923 edition is notable being printed prior to the photoplay and stage play editions of the book!

Item number: #25041
Price: $499

STOKER, Bram

Dracula

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1923.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [2], ix, [1], 378
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~7.25in X 4.5in (18cm x 11.5cm)

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