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Doctor's Ledger Book
Circa 1850-1856

Unknown doctor's book relating to treatments and patients in "Greenvillage".
Various poems from newspapers pasted on the inside covers.
Covers worn, but pages in good condition.
Dimensions: 15.5 by 6.25-inches.

Price: $395

562-19

Our Prize Dogs
Descriptions and Criticisms of the Prize Winners of 1887
By Charles H. Mason
Circa 1888
Forest & Stream Publishing Company

"Artotype" illustrations, leather spine with gilt lettering, green cloth covers, library markings, some scuffing on spine, corners bent. Approximately 11-inches x 8 ½-inches x 2-inches, 588 pages, ex-library copy.

Price: $375

110-260

Marmaduke Multiply

A James Miller, NY published copy of the 1816 English Standard. Fabulous hand colored engravings with some of the finest and most colorful details.

Price: $400

ACD

History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore.

Fine descriptions of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore. By. W. H. Pyne. Illustrated by one hundred highly finished and coloured engravings, fac-similes of original drawings by the most eminent artists. In three volumes. London, Printed for A. Dry, 1819. Eight parts in three large quarto volumes. Red Morocco with fancy gold lettering. Some shelf wear and other minor issues; see pictures. Not pristine, but a very worth set of a very rare issue.

Price: $15,000

ACD

The Art of George Frederick Munn - Limited Edtition, Number 208 of 1000 Copies (NINETEENTH CENTURY ART, 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN ART)

Munn, Margaret Crosby and Cabot, Mary R. (editors). Limited Edition, unnumbered, but inscribed with several important additions., including a cabinet card of George F Munn in Mass General Hospital C. 1900 suffering from “La Grippe”; a mss. Letter from Munn’s wife, Margaret C. Munn, also a famous artist of the period; an inscription from from both Frederick and Margaret to Louise C Cobb, an apparent friend and admirer.. The volume itself suffers from shelf wear and reading usage, but is also covered in a less than protective paper cover with a MSS inscription of the title. Taken in it’s entirely, an important insight into Munn’s life as he lived it.

Price: $1,450

ACD

History of Manchester, Mass, Book

Book Description: Published By The Town, [manchester, Mass.], 1895. Hard cover. First Printing edition. - Very Good. No dust jacket. Folding map. Shelf and reading wear.

Price: $125

ACD

Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families
By Amos Otis

Book Description: 1890. Book Condition: Tight copy, but boards coming loose, spine loose, needs to be re-attached. Owner has written on inner front leaf with extensive ownership history. OTIS, Amos. 2 vols. in one. 8vo, orig. cloth; (ex- lib, inner hinge wea1k). Barnstable: F. Goss, 1888, 1890. Tow volumes in one; brown cloth cover needing restoration, yet a rare survivor. Technically, and ethically, a reading copy, yet one that shows the passion of research. A true researcher’s copy. If it were a musical instrument, it would be called a “player’s instrument; in need of a good home.

Price: $175

ACD

The Microcosm of London
Ackermann, Rudolph | Combe, William | Pugin | Rowlandson

Book Description: London: R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1808. Early Issue "Microcosm" in a Contemporary Binding ACKERMANN, R[udolph]. [The Microcosm of London; or, London in Miniature]. London: R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, [1808-1810].First edition, early issue, with text watermarked 1806-1807 and plates watermarked 1805-1808 ). Three large quarto volumes (12 7/8 x 10 11/16 inches; 327 x 271 mm With 104 hand-colored aquatint plates, including fifty-four by J. Bluck, twenty-nine by J.C. Stadler, ten by T. Sutherland, ten by J. Hill, and one by Harraden, after Rowlandson and Pugin "original impressions of these splendid plates have a luminous quality entirely absent from later printings". Minor water issues on some pages of one volume, not affecting plates or text. Worst pages are pictured. For the most part, a wonderful and early set of Ackermann’s best. These early sets often sell for $25,000

Price: $14,500

ACD

Salmon Fishing on the Coin River
New Brunswick
By Lee Sturges

1919; Chicago, Private Printing; One of Five Known Copies; PERFECT; Custom Box

Price: $18,000

ACD

Pierce Egan's Book of Sports, and Mirror of Life: Embracing the Turf, the Chase, the Ring, and the Stage; Interspersed with Original Memoirs of Sporting Men, etc.

Egan, Pierce. Book Description: W. Tegg, London, c.1835., 1835. 414 pp, gold blocked red boards and spine, engravings throughout, very good, original and solid copy. Covers most sports of the day in great detail, including a good chapter on cricket. A very nice book with excellent shelf appeal, great content, and no apologies required.