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Cooper, Sarah.
Animal Life in the Sea and on the Land: a Zoology for Young People
New York, Harper & Bros,
1888, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, Nicely illustrated (278 illustrations) volume for young children. Starting with the sponge and going systematically through the animal kingdom. Gradual development is traced from the simple forms of life up to the highest. Special attnetion is given to the structure of animals, their habits and mode of life. Ex-school lib, plate to pastedown, stamp to upper edge of title page. Brown cloth boards & spine, gilt lettering to spine. Upper spine edges 1/2 tears, rubbing of lower spine ends, bumping of corners. Clean text & illustrations, tightly bound. 413 pages, 12 mo.
(Childrens, Books, Antique, Childrens, School, Books, Zoology, For, Children, Natural, History, For, Children, Illustrated, Childrens, School, Books, Zoology, Spones, Hydroids, Wasps, And Mosquitoes) Cat No. 1203.
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18.00
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Tristram, W. Outram.
Coaching Days and Coaching Ways, Illustrated
London, Macmillan,
1903, Full Leather,
illus: Hugh Thomson, Herbert Railton, Condition: Very Good, Wonderful reprint (1903); of travel by Coach through the English Countryside. Anecdotes from the coachman's point of view; and then from Miss Burney and Samuel Pepys. Glimpses of social life in London and the provinces; showing ancestors of all ages in all kinds of coustmes: trunk hose, doublet and ruffles, sacks and sarcinets, periwigs and full bottomed coatds, beacers and top boots. Of travel life: eating, drinking, flirting, quarrelling; a motely crowd of kings, queens, statesmen, highwaymen, generals, poets, wits, fine ladies, conspirators and coachmen. Picturing them in all sorts of positions on and off the road, snowed up, in peril from the great waters, waiting for stage coaches & alighting at Inns. Those Inns of which England was once famous, with their broad corridors, their snug bars, their four-posted beds hung with silk, their sheets smelling of lavender, their choice cookery, etc. Hundreds of illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railton, such as: The King's Head, Thatcham, Great Chatfield Manor, near Bath, Haunted Room, Littlecote, High Street, Bath, The Three Swans, Salisbury, Castle Arch Guilford, A Duel on Putney Heath, Barry Lyndon Cracks a bottle, Courtyard of the Castle and Balls, Charging a snowdrift, The Old Church, Esher, The gossips, quaint signs, The Fly Horse Canterbury, etc. Full brown leather, TEG, spine gilt lettering, spine edges quite rubbed, ends chipped, small closed chip to rear upper edge. Marbled e.p. Previous owner ornate name sticker to upper pastedown, in small script under name: rebound 1911 after winks fire: Very clean text, solidly bound. 16 mo, 376 pages. In protective polyester wraps.
(Antique, Books, Leather, Bound, Books, Rare, Books, England, Landscape, Old, Inns, Of, England, Coach, Travel, Traveling, By, Horse, Great, Roads, Of, England, English, Countryside, 1800, S, Thatcham, England, Bath, England, Vintage, Travel, Guides, Hugh, Thomson, Herbert, Railton, Travel, In The Early, 19th, Century, Old, England, Travel, By, Coach) Cat No. 1204.
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Tristram, W. Outram.
Coaching Days and Coaching Ways, Illustrated
London, Macmillan,
1903, Full Leather,
illus: Hugh Thomson, Herbert Railton, Condition: Very Good, Wonderful reprint (1903); of travel by Coach through the English Countryside. Anecdotes from the coachman's point of view; and then from Miss Burney and Samuel Pepys. Glimpses of social life in London and the provinces; showing ancestors of all ages in all kinds of coustmes: trunk hose, doublet and ruffles, sacks and sarcinets, periwigs and full bottomed coatds, beacers and top boots. Of travel life: eating, drinking, flirting, quarrelling; a motely crowd of kings, queens, statesmen, highwaymen, generals, poets, wits, fine ladies, conspirators and coachmen. Picturing them in all sorts of positions on and off the road, snowed up, in peril from the great waters, waiting for stage coaches & alighting at Inns. Those Inns of which England was once famous, with their broad corridors, their snug bars, their four-posted beds hung with silk, their sheets smelling of lavender, their choice cookery, etc. Hundreds of illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railton, such as: The King's Head, Thatcham, Great Chatfield Manor, near Bath, Haunted Room, Littlecote, High Street, Bath, The Three Swans, Salisbury, Castle Arch Guilford, A Duel on Putney Heath, Barry Lyndon Cracks a bottle, Courtyard of the Castle and Balls, Charging a snowdrift, The Old Church, Esher, The gossips, quaint signs, The Fly Horse Canterbury, etc. Full brown leather, TEG, spine gilt lettering, spine edges quite rubbed, ends chipped, small closed chip to rear upper edge. Marbled e.p. Previous owner ornate name sticker to upper pastedown, in small script under name: rebound 1911 after winks fire: Very clean text, solidly bound. 16 mo, 376 pages. In protective polyester wraps.
(Antique, Books, Leather, Bound, Books, Rare, Books, England, Landscape, Old, Inns, Of, England, Coach, Travel, Traveling, By, Horse, Great, Roads, Of, England, English, Countryside, 1800, S, Thatcham, England, Bath, England, Vintage, Travel, Guides, Hugh, Thomson, Herbert, Railton, Travel, In The Early, 19th, Century, Old, England, Travel, By, Coach) Cat No. 1204.
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40.00
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Tristram, W. Outram.
Coaching Days and Coaching Ways, Illustrated
London, Macmillan,
1903, Full Leather,
illus: Hugh Thomson, Herbert Railton, Condition: Very Good, Wonderful reprint (1903); of travel by Coach through the English Countryside. Anecdotes from the coachman's point of view; and then from Miss Burney and Samuel Pepys. Glimpses of social life in London and the provinces; showing ancestors of all ages in all kinds of coustmes: trunk hose, doublet and ruffles, sacks and sarcinets, periwigs and full bottomed coatds, beacers and top boots. Of travel life: eating, drinking, flirting, quarrelling; a motely crowd of kings, queens, statesmen, highwaymen, generals, poets, wits, fine ladies, conspirators and coachmen. Picturing them in all sorts of positions on and off the road, snowed up, in peril from the great waters, waiting for stage coaches & alighting at Inns. Those Inns of which England was once famous, with their broad corridors, their snug bars, their four-posted beds hung with silk, their sheets smelling of lavender, their choice cookery, etc. Hundreds of illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railton, such as: The King's Head, Thatcham, Great Chatfield Manor, near Bath, Haunted Room, Littlecote, High Street, Bath, The Three Swans, Salisbury, Castle Arch Guilford, A Duel on Putney Heath, Barry Lyndon Cracks a bottle, Courtyard of the Castle and Balls, Charging a snowdrift, The Old Church, Esher, The gossips, quaint signs, The Fly Horse Canterbury, etc. Full brown leather, TEG, spine gilt lettering, spine edges quite rubbed, ends chipped, small closed chip to rear upper edge. Marbled e.p. Previous owner ornate name sticker to upper pastedown, in small script under name: rebound 1911 after winks fire: Very clean text, solidly bound. 16 mo, 376 pages. In protective polyester wraps.
(Antique, Books, Leather, Bound, Books, Rare, Books, England, Landscape, Old, Inns, Of, England, Coach, Travel, Traveling, By, Horse, Great, Roads, Of, England, English, Countryside, 1800, S, Thatcham, England, Bath, England, Vintage, Travel, Guides, Hugh, Thomson, Herbert, Railton, Travel, In The Early, 19th, Century, Old, England, Travel, By, Coach) Cat No. 1204.
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40.00
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Tristram, W. Outram.
Coaching Days and Coaching Ways, Illustrated
London, Macmillan,
1903, Full Leather,
illus: Hugh Thomson, Herbert Railton, Condition: Very Good, Wonderful reprint (1903); of travel by Coach through the English Countryside. Anecdotes from the coachman's point of view; and then from Miss Burney and Samuel Pepys. Glimpses of social life in London and the provinces; showing ancestors of all ages in all kinds of coustmes: trunk hose, doublet and ruffles, sacks and sarcinets, periwigs and full bottomed coatds, beacers and top boots. Of travel life: eating, drinking, flirting, quarrelling; a motely crowd of kings, queens, statesmen, highwaymen, generals, poets, wits, fine ladies, conspirators and coachmen. Picturing them in all sorts of positions on and off the road, snowed up, in peril from the great waters, waiting for stage coaches & alighting at Inns. Those Inns of which England was once famous, with their broad corridors, their snug bars, their four-posted beds hung with silk, their sheets smelling of lavender, their choice cookery, etc. Hundreds of illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railton, such as: The King's Head, Thatcham, Great Chatfield Manor, near Bath, Haunted Room, Littlecote, High Street, Bath, The Three Swans, Salisbury, Castle Arch Guilford, A Duel on Putney Heath, Barry Lyndon Cracks a bottle, Courtyard of the Castle and Balls, Charging a snowdrift, The Old Church, Esher, The gossips, quaint signs, The Fly Horse Canterbury, etc. Full brown leather, TEG, spine gilt lettering, spine edges quite rubbed, ends chipped, small closed chip to rear upper edge. Marbled e.p. Previous owner ornate name sticker to upper pastedown, in small script under name: rebound 1911 after winks fire: Very clean text, solidly bound. 16 mo, 376 pages. In protective polyester wraps.
(Antique, Books, Leather, Bound, Books, Rare, Books, England, Landscape, Old, Inns, Of, England, Coach, Travel, Traveling, By, Horse, Great, Roads, Of, England, English, Countryside, 1800, S, Thatcham, England, Bath, England, Vintage, Travel, Guides, Hugh, Thomson, Herbert, Railton, Travel, In The Early, 19th, Century, Old, England, Travel, By, Coach) Cat No. 1204.
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