Complete Set of Bound Harper's Monthly Magazines 1850 to 1940 Unique by Various - 1850: RARE 181 volumes of 1086 Monthly over 180,000 pages

New York, New York: Abradale Press. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. 3656 pages: 7.5 x 9.75 in.: 33.4: KB#006434: No Jacket as Issued. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. LCCN# 76-166507 and SBN 810902869. Set Consists of Twenty Volumes. Spines and front board of books are slightly tanned due to age. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Set contains over 2,000 clear, informative photographs and drawings, many in full color. This is a heavy book set, but price INCLUDES FULL EXTRA COST of Media Delivery; however USPS Priority would incur additional charge due to weight. "There are seven easy keys to finding information. All entries are arranged alphabetically. Each volume has a Table of Contents. Volume 1 has a Table of Contents for all 20 volumes. Volume 20 has a Complete Index to all volumes. Volume 19 contains a Glossary. Cross references are listed under major entries. A complete… Read More

London: Orr & Smith/William S. Orr & Co, 1834. Sixteen octavo volumes (9 ? x 6 ½ inches; 236 x 166 mm). With 717 hand-colored engraved or lithographed plates. Numerous wood engravings in the text. Including the rarely present volume XVI. With an additional 5 colored plates on ornaments, and one unnumbered plate. Half green morocco over green cloth boards. Gilt decoration and lettering on the spine. Spines lightly sunned and extremities slightly bumped. Overall a very good complete set. Joseph Paxton was the head gardener to the Duke of Devonshire for whom he cultivated and developed one of the most famous European gardens. Nissen 2351 HBS 64304. $15,000.

First edition, hard covers, blind and gilt designs and lettering on the binding. 1,169 total pages with many illustrations and an index. Volume 1 includes: Soil Survey of Lancaster County, Early Settlement of Lancaster County, Organization and Government - County Elections - Court House, Important Proceedings of the Board of County Commissioners, The Story of the Salt Basin, The town of Lancaster, John Morris' Report on State House Construction, The Capital Question in Nebraska, The Beginning of Lincoln and Lancaster County, Lancaster and Lincoln Lot Exchanges, The Progress of Lincoln and her Utilities, Lincoln Banks, The Press, Post-office, Library, Military History of Lancaster County, Education in Lancaster County, Churches in Lincoln, The Bench and Bar, Medical, The Incarceration of the Lincoln City Council, Railroads, Lancaster County Towns, Volume II. All Biographical notes of early settlers of the area.
Condition: Both books are very good , bindings are good and contents are… Read More

This is a 17-Volume collection of works of Historical Fiction by Luise Mühlbach, a well-known German Author, who wrote most of her work in the 1860s and early 1870s. Her Books focus on several well-known German and European personalities including Frederick the Great, Joseph the Second, Empress Josephine, Goethe and Schiller, Napoleon, Marie Antoinette, King Henry and others. Her Books were translated into English by several different translators and published as a set by A.L. Fowle, Publisher, of New York in 1905. This Set was not published with Volume Numbers for each Book. Each Book contains 400-650 pages of text and three to five illustrations.There are 20 Volumes in the complete set. However, the set being offered here is limited to 17 Volumes and are listed below:BERLIN AND SANS-SOUCI, Translated by Mrs. Chapman Coleman and Daughters;FREDERICK THE GREAT AND HIS FAMILY, Translated by Mrs. Chapman Coleman and Daughters;MARIE ANTOINETTE AND HER SON, Translated by Rev. W. L. Gage;ANDREAS HOFER,… Read More

The Nonesuch Press. London. 1924-27. FIVE VOLUMES. Tall 4to. (12.3 x 8.3 inches). Limited edition. One of 1000 sets printed on Japon vellum (The Apochrypha is one of 1250 copies) from a total edition of 1075 copies. The typography was arranged by Frances Meynell. Each volume decorated with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden, including the title pages. A lovely clean set finely bound in recent full black morocco, decorative gilt border to boards. Spines with raised bands, each with decorative gilt piping and ruling. Red title labels, gilt. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. A beautiful set.

London: Orr & Smith/William S. Orr & Co, 1834. Sixteen octavo volumes (9 ? x 6 ½ inches; 236 x 166 mm). With 717 hand-colored engraved or lithographed plates. Numerous wood engravings in the text. Including the rarely present volume XVI. With an additional 5 colored plates on ornaments, and one unnumbered plate. Half green morocco over green cloth boards. Gilt decoration and lettering on the spine. Spines lightly sunned and extremities slightly bumped. Overall a very good complete set. Joseph Paxton was the head gardener to the Duke of Devonshire for whom he cultivated and developed one of the most famous European gardens. Nissen 2351 HBS 64304. $15,000.

Uncut and in original printer's soft covers with Didot 5-point star. Pagination and chapter numbers start anew for each volume. Vol.1 217 pp.; Vol.2 216 pp.; Vol.3 233 PP.By the author of "Waverly," "Guy Mannering," and "The Antiquary". Ref. Kohler(1) 106(with illustration. Contact bookseller for full detailed description.

Brondum, 1995. Very Good. 3-volume compilation of Jens Birkemose erotica. I: Negeren og Papegøjen (The Negro and the Parrot). II: Spejlet forsvinder (The Mirror Disappears). III: Det sidste hus (The Last House). All volumes signed by Birkemose on limitation pages. Includes original slipcase and laid-in signed lithograph unique to this copy. Copy #344 of 500 issued. All volumes tight and unmarked with minimal shelf wear. Faint crease to Volume I spine panel. Faint stain to Volume II spine panel. Limitation pages translated from Danish in part: Contains 180 drawings made as a direct copy of the plates and printed at Brondum's graphic workshop in Copenhagen. Each volume 7 1/2" x 6 3/4". Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

Vol I: 799p, 31 pl. [i]; Vol. II: 799p, 60 pl. Pp 594-600 tear into text without loss; Vol III: 806p, 20pl.; Vol IV. 793p, 26 pl.; Vol V: 807p, 24 pl.; Vol VI: 794p, 22 pl.; Vol VII: 797p, 38 pl. Neatsfoot oil stained pages,; Vol VIII: 800p, 18 pl.; Vol IX: 800p, 31 pl. lacking plate 260; Vol X: 788p, 22 pl.; Vol XI:814p, 19 pl. Several neatsfoot oil stained pages, plate 299 bound in Vol XII on page 78; Vol XII: 799p, 35 pl.; Vol XIII: 799p, 32 pl.Deep neatsfoot oil stains to fore edge, ; Vol XIV: 797p, 16 pl.Initial and last pages with neatsfoot oil stains ; Vol XV: 799p, 41 pl. Several pages detached but present; plates 433-434 bound in Vol XVI; Vol XVI: 799p, 12 pl.; Vol XVII: 827p, 37 pl.Several pages detached but present,; Vol XVIII: 945p, 59 pl. 486 placed at end. Despite internal oddities, a handsome set in the original sturdy calf. Sabin 22555

Set of 25 Volumes. Impressed to look like leather, In remarkable condition considering there are. Printing very good. Photography throughout some in color. He traveled all over Europe and made talks lectures on what he had experienced and seen.Vol I Norway, Switzerland, Athens, Venice Vol II Japan I, Japan II, ChinaVol IV India I, India II, The Passion PlayVol V Paris, La Belle France, SpainVol VI Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, MoscowVol VII The Rhine, Belgium, Holland, MexicoVol VIII Florence, Naples, RomeVol IX Scotland, England, LondonVol X Southern California, Grand Canyon, Conon of the Colorado River, Yellowstone National ParkVol XI IrelandI, Ireland II, Denmark, SwedenVol XII Canada I, Canada II, Malta & GibraltarVol XIII South Tyrol, Around Lake Garda, The DolomiteVol XIV Sicily, Genoa, A drive through the EngadineVol XV Lake Como, The Upper Danube, Bohemia