Search Results: Titles starting with A from Michael Carroll Dooling

Boston: F. Trifet. First Edition . Gilt Decorated Green Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Two volumes - Volume I ( 1867 - 1868, 92 pp. ) and Volume 2 ( 1868 - 1869, 112 pp. ). Volume I has been trimmed before binding and has narrower margins than Volume 2 and results in a slightly smaller volume. All edges are gilt, the covers are bright and the pages are tight and bright with no tears. Topics include American and forwign stamps and although the title suggests numismatics, there are very few references to that field of study in these two volumes. This is a very nice run of this scarce early stamp-collecting journal, which I believe went to four volumes in total.

Londini: Typis Eliz. Flesher. Prostat apud Ric. Davis, Bibliopolam Oxoniensem, 1677. First Edition . Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Pagination: pp. (24), 754, 16; full leather covered boards (scuffed) and re-backed in brown leather with title gilt-stamped in second of six compartments, raised bands, title page has 3" split near inner margin, light soiling, some browning along page edges, rear blank end page has corner piece torn away. There are several indicators of provenance - the title is signed E. M. MacFarlane, there is a bookplate from Saints Peter & Paul College in Oxford ("MacFarlane Bequest"), and there are two blindstamps from the Wigan Free Public Library; Short Title Catalogue R-1680. This work was reprinted in 1686 by another printer. Hugo Robinson died before his religious and secular history of the ancient world was published. Dr. Thomas Pierce (Dean of Salisbury) finished editing the work and brought it to publication. This work is… Read More

Frankfurt am Main: Verlag der Gebruder Wilmans, 1818. Apparent First Edition . Mottled Calf. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Two volumes bound together in one, 376 pp. & 283 pp., front cover detached, mottled calf, all edges gilt, spine detached and partly missing, book is still bound together, contains 25 copper engravings (Kupfertafeln) by Radl, engraved by Geissler, Haldenwang, von Veith, Jury (?), and Duttenhofer, plus engraved title and folding table and folding map of Frankfurt by Frederich Wilmans in rear. Plates are, for the most part, bright with only minor foxing. Contains list of 349 subscribers who purchased a total of 413 copies, front pastedown has bookplate of Everhard Delius, title page has ink-stamp of B. B. De Montenegro, Aube (Orne). Views include many of Frankfurt as well as Bornheim, Hausen, Offenbach, Kronberg, Königstein, Epstein, Homburg, Wilhelmsbad, Soden, Wiesbaden, Langenschwalbach, Schlangenbad, Bad Ems. A very scarce work. Read More

Dublin: James McGlashan, 1848. Apparent First Edition . Gilt & Blindstamped Green Cl.. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A nice copy of this important work; 176 pp. plus 8 pp. ads in rear, b&w illustrations; spine slightly faded, minor shelf wear, bookplate on front pastedown from Wm. Swanston/Belfast.

Warner-Lambert Company, 1994. First Edition . Illustrated Blue Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contains 34 pp., monotone and color illustrations; traces the history of shaving, Schick Razor, Wilkinson Sword, the technology of making modern shaving systems; dermatological factors - hair, skin & pseudo-folliculitis barbae (ingrown hairs); shaving hints, care of razors. A fascinating look at shaving (if I do say so myself). SIGNED by Author on title page. This was written for Schick and Wilkinson Sword after Warner-Lambert acquired Wilkinson.

Np: Np, 1909. First Edition . Beige Boards w/Tan Cloth Spine. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Small stain on lower right front cover (smaller than a dime), frontispeice has what appears to be an erasure mark through the center of the image - the other illusttrations seem fine. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf "To my friend Victor Harris / Compliments of / D. W. Tryon / Dec. 1919." Contains 20 tipped-in b&w plates.