New Arrivals

London: James Burns, [1845]. Frontispiece, illustrated title page, 242p, glossary. 17 cm. Publisher's stamped decorative gilt leather covers; spine in gilt; all edges gilt. Corners rubbed, minor wear to the head of the spine; prior owner's neat signature on the front cover pastedown; occasional foxing. In very good condition.
Item #21243

Easton, Maryland: Upper Shore Genealogical Society of Maryland, 1985. 182p; 266p, 180p. 28 cm. Uniform yellow card soft cover with black titling n the front cover and spine. Former library copies with all markings; clear taped fore edges, clear taped spines. In very good condition.
Item #21371

Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, 1854. Individual tracts are paginated. Includes 121 tracts on various subjects accompanied by illustrations. 18 cm. Publisher's blue stamped blue cloth with gilt decorated spines. One volume is missing its title page and prelims, contemporary gift inscription on the pastedown of one volume; a group of several pages in one volume are dog-eared and other volumes have single pages that are dog-eared, prior owner's contemporary neat signature on all front cover pastedowns; paper toned but only occasional foxing; covers and spines slightly rubbed, more so on one volume; corners slightly bumped and worn. In very good condition.
Item #21250

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. Frontispiece, viii, 304p, illustrations. 27 cm. Vellum back and green cloth covers with illustration in gilt and red on the front cover; spine with illustrations and titling in gilt; top edge gilt. Edition Deluxe with only 250 copies printed for America, this being copy 105 signed by the publisher. Prior owner's contemporary bookplate on the front cover pastedown; corners rubbed; slight fading of cloth at the edges; spine slightly darkened; slight tobacco odor. In very good condition.
Item #21230

London: A. H. Payne and Company, 1864. Title page, 100 pages of engravings. 27 cm. Quarter green morocco with decorative rule to the corners and spine edge; raised bands and spine in gilt; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Prior owner's contemporary bookplate on the front cover pastedown; edges rubbed; wear to spine ends; some plates foxed; slight tobacco odor. In better than good condition.
Item #21231

New York: The University Society, 1903. Frontispiece, 370p, illustrations; frontispiece, pp. 371-828; frontispiece, pp. 829-1248; frontispiece, xviii, 475p, illustrations, index. 23 cm. Uniform blue cloth with an illustration of the capitol dome stamped on the front covers; titling in gilt on the spine. Spines, corners rubbed; short tear in the joint cloth of volume four as well as small puncture in the spine; title page in volume two partially pulled; bookplate in each volume on the front cover pastedown; still, in very good condition overall.
Item #21381

London: Printed for and sold by C. and G. Kearsley, Fleet-street, [1791]. xvi, 320p, two fold out maps. 17 cm. Bound in tree calf with gilt ruled covers, gilt cover fore edges; double gilt rules on the spine, red morocco spine label in gilt. Edges rubbed, wear to the head of the spine, corners slightly bumped, rubbed; foxing, small hole with loss of a few letters of text on p. 295/296. In very good condition. [ESTC, T121276].
Item #21430

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1897 -1918. 539p, plates, maps, index; 509p, plates, maps, index; 481, 80p, plates,maps, index; 524p, plates, maps, index; 656p, plates, maps, index; 578p, plates, maps, index, geological map of Maryland in pocket (unopened); 412p, plates, maps, index, geological map of Maryland in pocket; 486p, plates, maps, index, geological map of Maryland in pocket; 348p, plates, maps, index; 553p, illustrations, plates, maps. 26 cm. Uniform green cloth covers with titling in gilt on the front cover and spine; A few volumes have weak hinges, two have old library labels on their spines with darker spines, pockets removed; corners rubbed, a few bumped; minor wear to the spine ends. Overall in very good condition.
Item #21428

Baltimore: By the author, 1898. 24 unnumbered red bordered pages of poems and corresponding pressed dried flowers and leaves. 21 x 17 cm. Card covered printed in red with red card wrap around. "This little book- a labor of love during many months- is published and given to the Confederate Relief Bazaar by the collector of the flowers- B. E. J. G."--page [1]. Contains a sprig of dried flowers or plants gathered from each site [Manassas -- Mouth of the crater -- Fredericksburg, (Marye's Heights, &c.) -- Turner Ashby's grave -- Battlefields around Winchester - Sharpsburg (Antietam) -- Fort McHenry -- Chancellorsville -- Stonewall Jackson's grave -- Gettysburg -- The "Lee ivy" -- Appomattox] and a poem about each site listed in the contents [The Battle of Manassas / Mrs. Clarke (North Carolina) -- Untitled -- Coming at last / George H. Miles (Maryland) -- Ashby / John R. Thompson (Virginia) -- Stonewall Jackson's way / Dr. J. W. Palmer (Maryland) -- There's life in the old land yet / James R. Randall -- Stonewall's dead -- Untitled / Margaret J. Preston (Virginia) -- Heart victories -- The sword of Robert Lee / Father A. J. Ryan -- The conquered banner / Father A. J. Ryan]. Each poem and matching flower are on opposite, facing pages. Japanese paper is between each poem and pressed flower. Covers are slightly soiled, one corner folded, edges rubbed, some staining, red stain on bottom cover; occasional missing tissue guard and some parts of plants detached. A surviving copy of an unknown number produced. Rare. 2 copes found.
Item #21466

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1867. Frontispiece 656p, illustrations, index. 24 cm. Brown beveled morocco binding with tripe gilt border on the covers framing floriated decorative gilt vines; gilt spine; all edges gilt; gilt turn-ins. Presentation binding for Robert C. Grier, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. According to Wikipedia Grier was a member of the majority in Dred Scott, and wrote the majority opinion in the Prize Cases in 1863 which upheld Lincoln's presidential power to blockade Confederate ports. Edges and corners rubbed; small stain on the front cover. In very good condition.
Item #21334

Springfield, MA: G & C Merriam Company, 1943 (1939). [Plates 1-8], frontispiece, civ, 3210p, illustrated, plates, diagrams. 31cm. Second edition first published in 1934. With the "New Word Section" added in 1939. Tan cloth over boards titling in gilt on the front cover, red and black leather titles labels on the spine in gilt; all edges marbled; fore edges with black alphabet tabs in gilt. The famous "dord" dictionary in which this ghost word passed into the annals of great lexicographic errors. Intended as an abbreviation for density "D or d" several missteps by typists led to its birth as a noun (dôrd), or dord. It lived for five years until 1939 when an office editor noticed the lack of an etymology for the word. The error can be found in printings of the dictionary into the 1940s, and eventually it disappeared from the dictionary's pages. [American Speech, May, 1954, p. 136-138]. Corners skinned, front cover rubbed; spine labels rubbed; first few pages wrinkled; biography of Noah Webster detached; front hinge shaken; joint cloth torn from the bottom of the front cover up about two inches and across the spine end. A better than good copy.
Item #21227

Philadelphia: Desilver, Thomas & Co. 1836. viii, 531p. 22 cm. Leather covers with raised bands on the spine and back morocco spine label in gilt. Corners bumped, spine leather cracking, joints rubbed, spine ends worn; foxing; prior owner's signature on the front free endpaper. A good copy.
Item #21440

Baltimore: Roberts Brothers, 1880. Frontispiece, illustrated title page, 586p, illustrations. 21 cm. A new edition with illustrations by Frank T. Merrill . Bound in publisher's green cloth with titling and illustrations in black and gilt on the front cover; titling and decoration in gilt and black on the spine; all edges gilt. Bottom edge of the bottom cover skinned; slight flecking on covers; minor wear to the head of spine, cloth of the tail is torn; slight tobacco odor. A bright front cover and in very good condition.
Item #21236

New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1932. Frontispiece, 244p, illustrations. 19 cm. Bound in green with titling in black on the front cover and spine; illustration on the front cover in black and orange. Front free endpaper foxed which impacted the verso of the frontispiece, bottom free endpaper foxed which impacted the last page of text; wear to the spine ends, corners rubbed; slightly soiled. In better than good condition.
Item #21375

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1955. 256p, illustrations. 22 cm. Black cloth with titling in gilt and red on the spine; dust jacket. Fore edge of front cover slightly rubbed, few small spots on the front cover near the bottom edge; end papers toned; jacket corners chipped, spine ends chipped, few small fore edge tears; prior owner's bookplate and neat signature on the front free endpaper. A near fine copy in a very good jacket.
Item #21362