Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts: Giftables: Ha-Hd

Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company - Early Printed Books, Substantive Manuscripts, U.S. and Latin Americana, Mexico & New World Languages, Hispanica, Histories & the History of Ideas, Travels, Cookery, Law, Religion, & Bibles (All Antiquarian)

BIBLIO-GIFTABLES

A • Ba-Bn • Bo-Bz • Bibles • Ca-Cn • Co-Cz • D • E
F • G • Ha-Hd • He-Hz • I-J • K • L • Ma-Mb
Mc-Mz • N • O • P • Q-R • Sa-Sh • Si-Sz
Ta-Tg • Th-Tz • U-Wa • Wb-Wh • Wi-Z

Over 1100 Pages — Nearly 900 Illustrations

Hall, Samuel Carter, & Mrs. S. C. Hall (i.e., Anna Maria Fielding Hall). Ireland: its scenery and character, etc. London: Virtue & Co., [ca. 1880]. Tall 8vo. 3 vols. I: 436 pp., 467 illus. II: 512 pp., 188 illus. III: 204 pp., 217 illus.
$200.00

Click the images for enlargements.

• A standard work, here in a later edition. First edition was in the 1840s. Heavily and well illustrated.

Provenance:

• Later green cloth with paper spine labels; labels browned and chipped. A nice set. (30071)

For more of IRISH interest, click here.

For more ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, click here.
For more SETS, click here.

For more Books with SPECIAL
PROVENANCE, click here.

This book also appears in the GENERAL
MISCELLANY — click here.

English Grammar, 1855

Hallock, Edward J. A grammar of the English language. For the use of common schools, academies and seminaries...sixth edition. New York: Ivison & Phinney (pr. by Thomas B. Smith), 1855. 12mo. 250, [14 (illus. adv.)] pp.
$35.00

• Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title label; spine and edges lightly rubbed. Occasional pencilled marginalia and emphasis marks, confined to the first half of the work. (12103)

For more POST-1820 AMERICANA, click here.

For DICTIONARIES/GRAMMARS, ETC., click here.

For CHILDREN / EDUCATION, click here.

An All-Hamady Production

Hamady, Walter. Eyes touch & change, or weather conditions at other locations. Minor Confluence [i.e., Mt. Horeb], WI: Perishable Press, 1986. 8vo (20.8 cm, 8.25"). [16] pp.; illus.
$100.00

Click the images for enlargements.

First edition

The work is signed by Hamady in pencil towards the back.

• Publisher's tan paper wrappers, front wrapper with blind-stamped and embossed decoration. A nice copy. (30933)

For ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, click here.

For LITERATURE, click here.

For COLLECTED PRESSES
& TYPOGRAPHY, click here.

This book also appears in the GENERAL
MISCELLANY — click here.

Defending His DEFENSE ofCelebrating CHRISTMAS

Hammond, Henry. An account of Mr. Cawdry’s triplex diatribe concerning superstition, wil-worship, and Christmas festivall. London: Pr. by J. Flesher for Richard Royston, 1655. 4to (19.9 cm, 7.75"). [16], 295, [1 (errata)] pp.
$800.00

DNB

A Diatribe, against Dr. Hammond on Superstition and Festivals

Click the interior image for an enlargement.

This variant is less common than the Davis imprint of the same year; WorldCat and ESTC locate only six U.S. holdings, one since deaccessioned.

• ESTC R202302; Wing (rev. ed.) H510. On Hammond, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Lower (closed) edges institutionally rubber-stamped (no other markings). A few small corrections inked in an early hand. A nice copy. (25770)

For WING BOOKS, click here.

Broadside Shaker Manifesto

Hampton, Oliver C. [Broadside, begins:] A short but comprehensive definition of Shakerism. Union Village, OH: United Society of Shakers, [1901]. Folio (31.6 cm, 12.4"). [1] p.
$175.00

Click the image for an enlargement.

• Richmond, Shaker Literature, I, 764; McKinstry, Andrews Shaker Collection, 261. Evenly age-toned; corners bumped and lightly soiled. (27502)

For more POST-1820 AMERICANA, click here.

For RELIGION, click here.

For more BROADSIDES, click here.

This appears in the GENERAL
MISCELLANY — click here.

Dr. R's Class Haney, John Louis, ed. Who's who in '98 in 1923. Twenty-five year record of the class of 1898 college, University of Pennsylvania ... 1898–1923. Philadelphia: Printed for private circulation, 1923. 8vo. 79 pp.; illus.
$45.00

• Original red cloth, black-lettered on the front. Traces of soiling on covers. Small ink stain on title-page. Author's rubber-stamp on inner margin of p. [5]. Very good. (15956)

For BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS, click here.

For more of PHILADELPHIA
interest, click here.

Cultural Scholarship . . .

Hardison, O.B., Jr. Disappearing through the skylight. Culture and technology in the twentieth century. [New York]: Viking [Penguin], [1989]. 8vo. 389 pp.
$27.50

• Near fine. Quarter publisher's cloth over blue paper. Original dust jacket in good condition. Author's presentation inscription on half-title. (3083)

For our shelves of inexpensive GENERAL
READING, click here.

Virginia Discovery inLimited Edition Facsimile

Hariot, Thomas. A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia ... reproduced in facsimile from the first edition of 1588. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1903. 4to (23 cm, 9.1"). xiii, [1], [48] pp.
$100.00

Click the image for an enlargement.

• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; corners and spine extremities a little rubbed, spine with white-inked call number. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, no stamps or other markings; clean and nice. (24657)

For PRE-1820 AMERICANA, click here.

For VOYAGES, TRAVELS, & books on
“EXOTIC” PLACES, click here.

“My daddie looks sulky, my minnie looks sour,
They frown upon Jamie because he is poor”

Harry Bluff. Logie O'Buchan. Within a Mile of Edinburgh Town. / Oh! No, We Never Mention Her. / Oh, Say Not Womam's [sic] Love is Bought. / Dearest Maid, My Heart Is Thine. / Meet Me in the Moonlight. / Tell Me Why Men Will Deceive Us. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [ca. 1825?]. 12mo. 8 pp.
$95.00

• NSTC 2B38504. Removed from a nonce volume. A few traces of very faint spots of foxing, else clean and fresh. (16824)

For SCOTLAND & SCOTS, click here.
For more CHAPBOOKS, click here.

For more of WOMEN's interest, click here.

Or for OVER 100 items of Scottish interest
NOT IN THE ILLUSTRATED SCOTS WEB CATALOGUE — & offered
via unillustrated, PDF-format, printable list — click here.

He BeatMark Twain to the Use of Pike County Vernacular

Hay, John. The Pike County ballads. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912. 8vo (22.3 cm, 8.75"). 45, [3] pp.; illus.
$150.00

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• BAL 7841. Publisher's tan cloth, front cover with affixed color-printed paper illustration; binding somewhat darkened (especially spine), corners and spine extremities rubbed, a few small spots of discoloration to front and back covers. Front pastedown with pencilled gift inscription, front free endpaper with bookseller's small ticket. Pages clean. A very nice book. (20839)

For more POST-1820 AMERICANA, click here.

For more LITERATURE, click here.

For more ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, click here.

For the MISSISSIPPI RIVER, click here.

For DICTIONARIES/GRAMMARS, ETC., click here.

For more books in handsome
PUBLISHER'S CLOTH, click here.

This also appears in the GENERAL
MISCELLANY — click here.

Fossil Flora — 65 Plates

Hayden, Ferdinand Vandeveer. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the territories. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878. 4to (30.4 cm, 11.9"). xv, [3], 366 pp.; 65 plts.
$175.00

• Publisher’s cloth, covers framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title; front cover with discoloration to upper edge and small bump to outer edge, cloth rubbed along edges and joints, spine scuffed. Front pastedown institutionally rubber-stamped. Pages and plates clean, and the large volume quite solid.

For more POST-1820 AMERICANA, click here.

For more ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, click here.

For NATURAL HISTORY, click here.

This book also appears in the GENERAL
MISCELLANY — click here.

“Our COOKERY is, Like Our Tongue, an Amalgam”

Hazlitt, William Carew. Old cookery books and ancient cuisine. London: Elliot Stock, 1902. 12mo (17.9 cm, 7.1"). [4], 271, [1] pp.
[SOLD]

Click the images for enlargements.

• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title, front with owl vignette; corners and spine extremities rubbed. Two leaves each with short tear from outer margin, not touching text.A nice copy and a nice “read.” (31176)

For more COOKERY, click here.

For our shelves of inexpensive GENERAL
READING, click here.

For BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS, click here.

This appears in the GENERAL
MISCELLANY —
click here.

TO Part XII . . .

PLACE AN ORDER | E-MAIL US | PRB&M HOME