Nonfiction Antique 1800s Books 25%-75% OFF! Memoir History Children's

Description: For 32 years Truth & Tales has been selling rare & scarce antiquarian volumes, contemporary & classic first editions and great vintage reading. Now, through BookCandy, we are offering deeply discounted books to reduce inventory. Items will be added to the dropdown lists regularly, so please check back. ALSO, to peruse BookCandy's other "BUY-IT-NOW" listings & LIVE AUCTIONS, visit >> Seller's other items Follow us for decorative, leather, gilt, beautifully-bound antique volumes, classic literature, vintage fiction, and fascinating non-fiction.Seller's other items All wins and purchases shipped Media Mail with appropriate insurance. To make an offer or for questions regarding edition, condition, prices, photos, etc., please send us a message! Dealers welcome. Please inquire about our combined shipping discounts. FOR NON-BOOK GIFTS AND QUALITY ITEMS, PLEASE SEARCH FOR OUR AFFILIATE, JanesAttic - Thank you. NOTES ON SELECTIONS:Across the Continent from Cape Cod to the Golden Gate: by Kate Tannatt Woods, Lothrop Publishing Co. 1897. About 112 illustrations--of which at least 30 are full page--all illustrations present and accounted for. At 240 pages, that's nearly a illustration every other page. Originally published as a children's book, this is actually a nonfiction account including a great deal of illustrated history, some of which includes: Cape Cod, Nantucket, ships and trains and railroads, Niagara Falls, Cleveland and the Great Fire of Chicago Native Americans and the landscape and points of interest of Colorado, Utah and the Mormons, San Francisco Yosemite and the Cheyenne, teepee building and insight into the ways of Native Americans, buildings of the old west, and much more. Please see photos. This book is 127 years old, rendering it scarce and unusual in G-VG condition overall, with colors still bright, gilt still shining, binding intact, and pages in surprisingly good condition. Cover and page wear to edges, some off setting, crack at title page renders cloth spine somewhat shifty, professional repair a tear across one of the full page plates, bit of creasing and small chips with a tiny "Busby" stamp On the free front end paper. A few bits of ephemera tipped in. The Complete Angler: Izaac Walton & Charles Cotton, Published by Scribner and Welford, Illustrated, ca1881. RARE Edition. Externally Fair, Internally VG, pages browning, profusely illustrated, advertisement at back. Extremely scarce/rare decorative edition. Beveled orange boards, all page edges gilt, gilt and black stamping to front and spine, deep blind stamping to back cover. The complete arithmetic, oral and written, "Robinsons shorter course" published by Ivison, Blakeman company New York and Chicago, Daniel W Fish, very good, leather spine, Highly decorated paper over boards, title page verso: copyright 1874, clean, tight, ffep absent, a few pencil marks, edgewear, slight dampstain at bottom of some pages, depicted in photos. Contains diagrams. PATTERSON'S & SANDER'S (2 books for one price): 1. Patterson's Speller Analyzer Adapted to Written Lessons and accompanied by an Exercise Book, published by Sheldon & Company, cr 1875. They may not have done their lessons as this is clean and tight and unmarked save for pencil scribbles on extreme pages and hole in blank endpaper, cloth spine, deterioration at extremities. 2. Sanders' New Speller Definer and Analyzer published by Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor 7 Co, Charles W. Sanders, 1854 edition with quill pen notation of "Bethany School 1872," SHOWING CALIFORNIA abbreviation BUT NOT KANSAS. This one in rough condition but an absolutely fascinating glimpse into history, with old English letters, calligraphy, and "ye" listed as a bonified two-letter word with instruction on its usage. Illustrated.

Price: 35 USD

Location: Medford, New Jersey

End Time: 2025-01-16T21:35:02.000Z

Shipping Cost: 7.5 USD

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Nonfiction Antique 1800s Books 25%-75% OFF! Memoir History Children

Item Specifics

All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

Book Title: Various

Ex Libris: Yes

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Publisher: Various

Original Language: English

Intended Audience: Ages 4-8, Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults

Edition: Collector's Edition, First Edition, Luxury Edition

Vintage: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Era: 1800s

Author: Mixed Authors

Features: Illustrated, Leather Bound, Library Binding

Genre: Children & Young Adults, History, World literature & Classics

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