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NY: Sears, 1846. Sears' Pictorial Magazine 1846. The third year of a short lived magazine, which ran until 1849. Published NY: Sears, 1846. 8vo., 6 1/2" x 10." Bound in half leather with gilt lettering and designs on spine, and marbleized paper covered boards. The first 9 monthly issues for the year 1846 are present, which run from pp. 9 - 378. Pages 379 - 528 for the subsequent issues are not present. Frontis, title page, preface, table of contents and embellishments are missing (pp.1 -8), as is the plate of The Old Billop House on p.106. (P. 105 was blank, being the verso of plate.) Profusely illustrated with many full page engravings - approximately 85 are present among the nine issues. Articles include The Whale and Whale Catching, The Pampas of Buenos Aryes, Music, The Pallisades of New Jersey, Cicero, Benjamin Franklin, The Island of Capri, Form and Structure of the Earth, etc. Some rubbing to the leather with wear at the tips and extremities. Binding is tight and sound. Pages…
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Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: A Systematic Description of the Native Plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's, and Macquarrie's Islands
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London: Reeve and Co., 1867. Thick octavo, pp lxviii, 798 + 16 page bookseller's catalogue, printed using two different paper stocks so the first half of the book is a little age-toned and the second half very clean, the hinge at the title page cracked and slightly weak, a few pages slightly carelessly opened but over all very bright, bound in original green cloth, slight creases to the spine head but a good copy. With the bookplate of Kenneth Lazenby, a founding father of the Alpine Garden Society.. First Edition. Cloth. Good.
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Hartford, Conn.: O. D. Case & Co.. Very Good+. 1868. First American Edition. Hardcover. Rebound in green buckram cloth, clean with gilt lettering on spine. Text tight, clean & intact Pictorial frontispiece. Illustrated with engravings and maps. The sources, supply and overflow of the Nile; the country, people and customs. Africa ; Engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 608 pages .
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