Category: Biography

In Memoriam, Richard Greenough : born November 11th, 1814, died January 16th, 1886

Price: $344.54

Publisher: Leigh, Lancashire, D. and J. Forbes : 1886

Seller ID: Books014523

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

vi, 42 leaves printed recto. All edges gilt. Light rubbing and soil to cloth; foxing to first few and final few leaves. "With the kind regards of the family" inked to first white leaf. 10.2 x 7.7 inches.
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In Memory of Royden Wolcott Allen 1891-1913

Price: $172.26

Publisher: Boston, Merrymount Press : 1913

Seller ID: Books008466

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Quarter cloth, with grey paper over boards with gilt to front and spine. Grey endpapers, two blank white leaves, half title, tissue guarded frontispiece, title page, Phillips Brooks quotation, 15 paginated pages, Arthur Hugh Clough quotation, blanks as at front. The Brooks>Page 1 leaves are unopened. Merrymount watermark to paper. No inscriptions. Slight nick to fore-edge of page 5, else fine in chipped glassine wrapper. Apart from the aforementioned quotations, the text consists of two parts: a condensation of obituary notices and "An Appreciation of" RWA by his Pastor, Rev. Spencer E. Evans.
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Betha Colaim Chille. Life of Columcille. Compiled By Manus O'Donnell in 1532

By: A. O'Kelleher and G. Schoepperle (trs. & eds.)

Price: $199.83

Publisher: Urbana, IL, University of Illinois : 1918

Seller ID: Books014005

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

lxxviii, 516 pages. Unopened. Extremities rubbed; spine and rear panel sunned. Marginal spotting to frontispiece. No inscriptions; binding sound. 10.75 x 7 inches.
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Dignorum Laude Virorum, Quos Musa vetat mori, Immortalitas, Seu Vitae Theologorum... [vol. 1 of 2]

By: Adam, Melchior

Price: $292.50

Publisher: Frankfurt, Johann Maximilian von Sand : 1706

Seller ID: Books014849

Binding: vellum

Condition: Good

[20], 418, [24], 127 pages. Editio Tertia. The first two (of five) parts: Vitae Germanorum theologorum qui superiori seculo Ecclesiam Christi ....; AND: Decades duae continentes vitas theologorum exterorum principum, qui Ecclesiam Christi superiori seculo .... Front pastedown torn and separating from board; textblock secure. Leaves toned. 14 x 8.25 inches.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., with Critical Observations on his Works

By: Anderson, Robert

Price: $268.74

Publisher: Edinburgh, Printed for Doig & Stirling, et al. : 1815

Seller ID: Books012907

Binding: quarter leather

Condition: Very Good

vii, 639 pages. Rebound in quarter leather, paper over board, new endpapers. Contents complete with half title. Occasional light foxing/offsetting; pink hue to lower outer corner from page 427 not affecting text. Overall very good, in sound binding; no inscriptions. 8.4 x 5.5 inches.
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Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, The Prolegomena of Kuhner, Wiggers' Lofe of Socrates, Etc.

By: Anthon, Charles

Price: $130.92

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers : 1848

Seller ID: Books014388

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

xxxiii, [2], 458 pages, and 10 page catalogue at rear. Leather rubbed but sound. Former owner's signature to first leaf; else unmarked. Greek text, with notes in English. 7.75 x 4.9 inches.
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Image for An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism. BOUND WITH: The Works Of Dr Benjamin Franklin, Consisting Of Essays, Humorous, Moral, And Literary, With His Life, Written By Himself & A Call to the Unconverted

An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism. BOUND WITH: The Works Of Dr Benjamin Franklin, Consisting Of Essays, Humorous, Moral, And Literary, With His Life, Written By Himself & A Call to the Unconverted

By: Beattie, James. Benjamin Franklin. Richard Baxter.

Price: $117.14

Publisher: London; Edinburgh; London, J. F. Dove; Thomas Nelson and Peter Brown; J. Smith : 1827

Seller ID: Books010502

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

xxiv, 268; viii, 324; xii, 174 pages. Three works bound in one volume measuring 5.25 x 3 inches. Contemporary half leather with marbled paper over boards. Engraved frontispiece and engraved title page to first work, published 1827. Separate title page for each work. Franklin published 1831; Baxter not dated. Endpapers dusty; personal library stamp to front pastedown, first free endpaper clipped. Baxter has title page, followed by A2 [ix] The Reason of this Work, likely an introductory iii-viii was not bound in; The 20 page Preface is present. Binding is sound.
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Kate Douglas Wiggin's Country of Childhood [University of Maine Bulletin vol. LVIII, No. 12 / U of M Studies, Second Series, No. 71: April 1, 1956]

By: Benner, Helen Frances

Price: $55.13

Publisher: Orono, ME, University of Maine : 1956

Seller ID: Books009079

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

v, 145 pages. Covers mottled and spine sunned. Binding is sound and interior clean and free of marks. Photo frontispiece.
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The life of Madame de Beauharnais de Miramion, 1629-1696

By: Bonneau, M. Alfred. Baroness de Montaignac trs.; Lady Herbert ed.

Price: $172.26

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley : 1870

Seller ID: Books010269

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

xiv, 349 pages. Boards soiled and rubbed at extremities. Front free slate endpaper fully adhered to front pastedown; foxing up to title page; hinges starting. Text in English.
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

By: Boswell, James

Price: $1,026.70

Publisher: London, Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly : 1785

Seller ID: Books012908

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

xx, [1], 534, [1]. Complete, with half title, and advert leaf at rear. Ding to top corner of front board. Old bookplate and signature to front pastedown; signature again at head of title page. Light foxing/offsetting to first few and final few leaves; else remarkably clean. A pleasing unsophisticated example in sound contemporary binding.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson [first issue]

By: Boswell, James

Price: $10,267.04

Publisher: London, Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly : 1791

Seller ID: Books012732

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

xii, [16], 516; 586 pages; with fronispiece portrait in Vol. I, Round Robin and facsimile of Johnson's handwriting in II. First issue, with "gve" on page 135 of Vol. I. Contemporary marbled calf, rebacked, with gilt tooling in compartments, contrasting spine labels, corners restored. Intermittent light foxing throughout, 1cm tideline along fore-edge of textblock of Vol. I (not penetrating to margin), small marginal stains on final leaves of Vol. I, not affecting text. With Paul Lockwood's [Abelard Books] c.1980 catalogue description laid in: "Despite minor faults, overall an exceptionally clea...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending An Account of his Studies and Numerous Works...

By: Boswell, James

Price: $682.17

Publisher: London, Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly : 1793

Seller ID: Books013293

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

xviii, [*1]-*xxii, [*xxiv]-*xxvi, *xxvi (sic)-*xxxvi, [1], [1]-603; [1]-634; [xvii]-[xl], [1]-711 pages, complete with frontispiece, two folding plates, and the leaf of Additional Corrections. Spines darkened and dry, labels chipped. Hinges of i and ii reinforced with cloth tape. Upper board of i detached, lower a little tender; upper joint of ii split but board secure; iii was at some point rebacked using original spine. John Le Marchant signature dated 1794 and bookplate (Me Minerva Ducit) to front pastedown of each. Plate of W. Morton Webb, and his 1910 signature in each. Foxing to first fe...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides: Complete in Four Volumes

By: Boswell, James

Price: $241.17

Publisher: New York, Chicago, Siegel - Cooper : 1896

Seller ID: Books009135

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

468, 479, 452, 452 pages. Rare issue, not recorded in Worldcat. Appears identical (in title and pagination) to Derby & Jackson though without frontispieces. Each title page is a cancel and no date of issue is specified. Siegel-Cooper opened in New York 1896. Title page: "New Edition, with numerous additions and notes by the Rt. Hon. John Wilson Croker, M.P. and copious notes by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy, Tyers, Reynolds, Malone, Nichols, Steevens, Cumberland, Scott, Markland, Burney, Blakeway, Chalmers, Porter, Langton, and others." Olive cloth with gilt to spine and top edges. Quite handsome ex...
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Remarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin; in a series of letters from John Earl of Orrery to his son, the Honourable Hamilton Boyle

By: Boyle, John

Price: $241.17

Publisher: London, A. Millar : 1752

Seller ID: Books012758

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

214, [8] pages. Engraved frontispiece by Ravenet. Rebacked. Foxing to endpapers; contents clean; binding sound. A tidy example of the second edition.
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Remarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin; in a series of letters from John Earl of Orrery to his son, the Honourable Hamilton Boyle

By: Boyle, John

Price: $241.17

Publisher: London, A. Millar : 1752

Seller ID: Books012903

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

240, [10] pages. Engraved frontispiece by Ravenet. March 1784 ownership signature; tideline to first three and final three leaves (see foot of frontis.). Unsophisticated contemporary binding is sound. 6.6 x 4.2 inches.
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The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci, with A Critical Account of His Works

By: Brown, John William

Price: $447.89

Publisher: London, William Pickering : 1828

Seller ID: Books010042

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

xv, 256 pages. Fine unsigned late C19 binding in red leather, marbled boards, gilt to spine and top edge. Frontispiece evidently not bound in. A handsome volume, with Last Supper headpiece at p. 179.
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The Hornes - An American Family

By: Buckley, Gail Lumet

Price: $68.91

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1986

Seller ID: Books013879

ISBN-13: 9780394513065

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xii, 262 pages. First edition stated. Signed by the author on first leaf; no other markings. Light wear to jacket, spine sunned, price clipped. Light foxing to fore-edge. 9.5 x 7 inches.
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Ham on Rye

By: Bukowski, Charles

Price: $487.50

Publisher: Santa Rosa, CA, Black Sparrow Press : 1982

Seller ID: Books015129

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

283, [3] pages. Light soil to covers; no creasing to spine; foxing to textblock edges and first white leaf; no inscriptions. 9 x 5.8 inches.
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Shakespeare Never Did This

By: Bukowski, Charles

Price: $97.50

Publisher: Santa Rosa, CA, Black Sparrow Press : 1995

Seller ID: Books015131

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

Unpaged. Light soil and creasing to covers; no creasing to spine; no inscriptions. 8.5 x 10.5 inches.
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The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton

By: Burton, Isabel

Price: $447.89

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall : 1893

Seller ID: Books012744

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

xxiii, [2], 606; ix, 664 pages; will all plates and illustrations called for, with plate to face p. 168 in Vol II used as frontispiece. Half title present in each, as well as tissue guard for frontispiece. Bound by Bayntun in half leather over cloth, with gilt to spines, and marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Bookplate to pastedown of Vol. I. Light occasional foxing.
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Category: Biography