Search Results: Titles starting with G from Quaker Hill Books

Original American revolutionary era newspaper dated September 16, 1789, detailing the first news of the storming of the Basille with acconts of the battle. Framed and in excellent condition. A remarkable historical document.. Very Good.

New York, 1864. 3/4 tan calf. Moderately rubbed and scuffed. Very good. Engraved frontis. 8vo., Marbled boards and edges..

J&R Tonson. London, 1759. First Edition. Full calf. Very good - very minor soiling and toning to contents. 8vo., 2 volumes..

London:: Printed for Sherwood Jones, & Co.,, 1823. Illustrated throughout with 8 large folding maps rendered in color, 3 folding tables also in color, 5 folding engravings and 1 folding table. Contents are very clean. Tears in one map professionally secured all other maps and charts in tact, bright and clean. Small stains on back of title page. Beautifully bound in modern polished calf over marbled boards. Spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt. Published a year after the first edition (1822) of the larger Carey and Lea atlas. This edition is quite rare and includes The United States, General Map of North America, Pantography of American History, British Possessions in America, View of Quebec, View of Havannah, Chart of the Constitutions of the United States, View of Philadelphia, Mexico (Spanish Possessions), West Indies, Cuba (with St. Domingo, Jamaica and Bahama Islands), SOuth America, Colombia, Brazil, View of Rio Janeiro, United Provinces (and Chili), View of Monte Video (and Plan of… Read More

New YorkNew York: , 1904 Tan Cloth. First Edition. Fine beautiful copy, tan wrappers printed in red with three of Whitler's trade mark butterfly designs. Keppler was a noted New York art critic who had inadvertantly arroused the anger of Whistler. Keppel took Whistler's insults as a badge of honor and published a private pamphlet with his response for his friends. 16 pp. including a 4-page facsimile of Whistler's insulting note..

Nurenburg, 1672. First edition Orig.vellum Binding soiled and rubbed, contents somewhat age toned - Good. Maps and charts. 16to., 74pp..

New York:: Harper & Brothers, 1898. 228 pages + 2 pages of ads, with 6 illustrations, including frontispiece. Quite a nice copy that shows some rubbing and fading but still quite strong. Some offsetting on the list of illustration page. Small bookplate from previous owner on the upper right corner of the ffep. On the last two endpapers is a golf lesson, written in pencil, (quite legible and interesting) from a previous owner.. First Edition. Red Cloth Over Paper Boards. Very Good. 8vo..

HonoluluHonolulu: Mission Press, 1854 Half-cloth Over Marbled Boards. Excellent. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Moderate foxing throughout. A lovely copy of this important Hawaiian classic text..

Bensley. London, 1808. Illustrated with twelve etchings executed from original designs. First edtion, 4to.. Frontis portrait of Blake by Phillips, engraved by Schiavonettti and eleven illustrations drawn by Blake and engrarved by Schiavonetti on India paper. Dedicatory poem "To the Queen" by Blake followed by the list of subscribers and three page prospectus in rear. Overall a very good copy, clean and sound with only some light foxing and faint dampstain to frontis and title page. Bound in recent 1/2 black morocco with gilt lettering and brown spine label over marbled boards.. First Edition. Modern 1/2 Black Morocco. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Philadelphia:: J.P. Lippincott., 1901. Original red cloth decorated in silver and gilt. A lovely copy with only very light rubbing to the extremities. Crane, the iconoclastic novelist, poet, short-story writer, journalist, and war correspondent who propelled American literature into the modernist age. His second novel, The Red Badge Of Courage, brought him international fame. Great Battles of the World is a work of nonfiction culled from a popular magazine series.. First Edition. Original reddish-brown cloth.. Excellent. 8vo..

Silus Andrus. Hartford, 1826. First Edition full calf. Rubbed and nicked with some foxing and creasing at page edges. 8vo., 2vol in 1., Good..