Search Results: Titles starting with L from Mill Race Books (IOBA)

Harrisburg, PA: Edwin Meyers, 1885. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. <p> VG, bound tightly in unbumped boards. Darkening to the spine. Marks from Delaware County Court Room No. 2 on boards, all edges, and title page. Bookseller's label on front pastedown for Geo. T. Bisel of Philadelphia.</p> <P> Octavo. 562 pages. Hardcover. Bound in brown cloth-covered boards stamped in blind frame on boards, in black on spine with leather labels.</P>

Jameson, Mrs. (Anna Brownell). Legends of the Monastic Orders as Represented in the Fine Arts. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1867)
Octavo. xlvii, 462 pages, illustrated with 88 woodcuts and 11 etchings. Hardcover. All edges gilt.
Condition: VG, Rebound in library buckram. not Ex-Library.Anna Brownell Jameson (17 May 1794 – 17 March 1860) was the first Anglo-Irish art historian. Born in Ireland, she migrated to England at the age of four, becoming a well-known British writer and contributor to nineteenth-century thought on a range of subjects including early feminism, art history (particularly sacred art), travel, Shakespeare, poets, and German culture. Jameson was connected to some of the most prominent names of the period including Fanny Kemble, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and Robert Browning, Harriet Martineau, Ottilie von Goethe (the daughter-in-law of Goethe), Lady Byron, Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. – Wikipedia

Newhauser, Richard G. & Alford, John A. Literature and Religion in the Later Middle Ages: Philological Studies in Honor of Sigfried Wenzel. (Binghampton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1995) Volume 118 in the Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series.
Octavo. 414 pages. Hardbound in blue cloth covered boards with gilt titling on front cover and spine. No DJ as issued.
Condition: Near fine with crisp and bright gilt stamping. No ownership marks, not ex-library.

Galt, John. The Lives of the Players. (London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831)
Volume 1 ([v], vi, [vii], viii, 315 pages), Volume 2 ([vi]. 308 pages). Hardcover. Matching half morocco with marbled boards and matching marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Spine shows five raised bands, Title and author stamped in gilt along with date stamped in gilt on tail of spine.
Condition: VG with with wear at corners and fore-edge. Hinges are solid, though show some wear, Paper strip on inside of front cover, both volumes, as though an ex-libris had been carefully trimmed from the book.. Top and bottom of spine show some minor shelf-wear as well as some minor spotting to spine of volume two. Overall an attractive copy.

Wright, Roy V., et. al. Locomotive Cyclopedia of American Practice: Definitions and Typical Illustrations of Railroad and Industrial Locomotives, Their Parts and Equipment; also Locomotives Built in America for Operation in Foreign Countries – Including a Section on Locomotive Shops and Engine Terminals. (New York: Simmons-Boardman, 1938) - 10th edition
Quarto. 1232 pages, profusely illustrated. Hardcover. Bound in black cloth-covered boards stamped in gilt on spine with title and date and blind stamped rules on covers. All edges stained red.
Condition: VG+. Spotting on cover, corners bumped. Bookplate on front pastedown of Thomas Townsend Taber, a prolific author of railroad histories.
Provenance: From the collection of Thomas Townsend Taber III.Only one copy of this edition in OCLC

Sinclair, Angus. Locomotive Engine Running and Management: A Treatise on Locomotive Engines Showing their Performance in Running Different Kinds of Trains with Economy and Dispatch; also directions regarding the care, management, and repairs of locomotives and all their connections. (New York: John Wiley and Sons,1885) Second Edition
Duodecimo. xviii, 390 pages plus 6 pages adv. Illus w/ line drawings and steel engravings. Hardbound. Brown cloth-covered boards stamped in blind and gilt.
Condition: VG. Shows wear, as expected of a book of this nature but minor as compared with most copies. Front lower corner is bumped and shows wear-through. Hinges show wear but continue to perform well. Bookplate on front pastedown, with signs of a previous bookplate removal. The gathering beginning on page 239 through 268 is beginning to separate from the binding, but is still attached.
Provenance: Bookplate from the library of Thomas Townsend Taber, a prolific author and historian of railroads.

Delvau, Alfred. À la porte du paradis. Ma première leçon de boxe. Je me tuerai demain. Feu André-André. L'Héritier du mandarin, etc. (Paris: Achille Faure, 1867) 1st edition. Trans: At the door of paradise. My first boxing lesson. I will kill myself tomorrow. The late André-André. The Heir of the Mandarin, etc.
16mo. 317 pages followed by Table of Contents and 3 page list of his works. Hardcover. Quarter bound in marbled paper with dark green leather spine stamped in gilt. Marbled endpapers.
Provenance: S. P. Scott (Samuel Parsons Scott)
– (1846-1929) was a lawyer, banker and book collector who, upon his death, donated his estate to build a library at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia – leaving his wife with a token of his esteem. "…because on account of the insults, outrages, cruelty, disgrace and humiliation which she has constantly and without reason, during my entire married life, heaped upon me", he left her $75,000 of his 3 million dollar estate. The library… Read More