Search Results: Reference from Attic Books

Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott, 1898. Hardcover. Fair. Unpaginated. 18 cm. Brown cloth with gold and black print. Light wear to extremities. Front hinge cracking internally. Rear free endpaper torn out. 1900-1911 are detached but present. Some stains to covers and dampstains within. "With a brief account of historical events in corresponding years of previous centuries."

Toronto: Editor, 1980. Softcover. Fine. [x], 58 p. 14 x 21 cm. Stapled orange card covers. Aphorisms an dproverbs about love from around the world .

Austria: Akademische Druck, 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Ex library - Very Good. 3 vol.: 458, 440, 408 p. 28 cm. Hardcovers. One bumped corner. Library spine labels, envelopes, and stamps. Paper bright and clean. German text.

Bridgetown, NS, 1890. Very good. 23 cm cards connected by turning card dial. Some stains to rear side. This almanac shows all the Days of the Week from January 1, 1800 to January 1, 1955. Includes directions for use and examples.

Bielefeld und Leipzig: Verlag Von Velhagen & Klasing, 1901. Hardcover. Very good. 186 colour maps + 183 p. index. 45 cm. Burgundy cloth with label in green with gold print. Patterned endpapers. Some scuffs to cloth. Ring mark on front label. Tear in top of front free endpaper. Ink inscription on title page. Scratch through rear pastedown. A little thumbing. in 126 Haupt- und 139 Nebenkarten nebst vollständigem alphabetischem Namenverzeichnis. Vierte, völlig neubearbeitete und vermehrte Auflage. Dritter revidierter und vermehrter Abdruck.

Boston: Milford House, 1969. Second Edition. Reprint of the 1926-27 edition. Hardcover. Very good +. 4 vols. in 2 books: Vol. I A-E. Vol. II F-N. Vol. III O-T. Vol. IV U-Z. Columns numbered, not pages: 544, 1001-1502; 2001-3447. Despite numerical gap, nothing seems to be missing. Grey cloth.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1974. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. xii, 187 p. 29 cm. Illustrations in b&w, partial colour, and colour. Brown cloth in dustjacket. Jacket has price clipped front flap. Some dust to cloth.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853. New edition, re-engraved, with corrections. Leather bound. Good. 24 colour plates + index. 24 cm. Quarter burgundy leather with green cloth. Spine and corners worn. Soiling to cloth on both boards. Ink inscriptions on front and rear endpapers and title page. Front endpapers have spots at top. Plates have a wave to them. Some soiling to p. 33 of index. Samuel Butler was an English classical scholar and schoolmaster. He is not to be confused with his better-known grandson of the same name, author of the novel Erewhon. This text is signed at rear by G. Perry McClintock of Seskanore House, Co. Tyrone. Online photos of the house suggest this book may once have formed part of the fine library in a gentleman's country seat.

The Royal Geographical Society, Edinburgh Geographical Institute, 1899. Hardcover. Good +. 40, 34 plates, xiv p. 47 cm. Frontispiece world map. All maps in colour or partial colour. Half leather with blue cloth. Tears in spine ends, a bit of bumping to corners, stains and fading to cloth. Some wrinkling and light soiling to endpapers.

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1963. Hardcover. Near fine. Publication 4503. v, 200 p. 24 cm. Green cloth. A little softening to spine ends.

Halifax: Nicholson, nd. Hardcover. Fair. Mostly unpaginated dictionary with text in two columns per page. 27 cm. Frontispiece map, title vignette and 8 other maps. From our As Is shelf. Leather binding wrapped in brown paper. Leather deteriorating, cracks in spine. Both boards detached, as are first pages up to p. iv and a few pages in Appendix. Edges worn. Brown paper has tears and chips and is chipping off the rear board. Ink signature on front free endpaper. Small tear at bottom of folding frontispiece map. First and last pages are darkened, soiled, worn at edges. Most pages between darkening a bit but neat and clean. Needs TLC. Maps included: Chart of the World (folding frontispiece); North America; South America; Asia; Europe; France; Germany; Italy; Spain and Portugal.

New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1886. Kansas edition. Hardcover. Fair. 140 p. 32 cm. Over 60 b&w illustrations, over 30 colour maps, and over 40 small b&w maps. Cloth hardcover. Spine poor. Worn corners and edges. Rear endpapers have ink and pencil notations. Tears in pp. 21, 53 and elsewhere. Thumbingd. Commentary on the earth, directions, measurements, the ocean, climate, minerals, vegetables, animals, political geography, industry, descriptions of the various continents. Kansas edition with special geography section on this state, two-page colour map, expanded description, drawing of state capitol building, about 6 p. in all. Other parts of the world are compared to Kansas ie. Iceland is about half its size, etc.

Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Co, 1908. Good. 21 cm folded. Opens to 90 cm. Coloured map on linen. Insets for Panama Canal, island of Trinidad, Rio, Montevideo, Buenos Ayres, Lima and Valparaiso. Foxing to linen. Advertising on rear cover and paper within.

Albion, NY, 1904. Booklet. Fair. 23 p. 21 cm. Stapled grey paper covers. Ring hole top corner. Staples a bit rusted. Vertical crease. Some soiling and notes on rear cover and inside. Executive offices 14 W. Seneca St., Buffalo, NY. May 1, 1904. E. A. Smith, Manager. Lists subscribers but also contains much local advertising.

Medina, NY, 1904. Booklet. Fair. 14 p. 21 cm. Stapled grey paper covers. Vertical crease. Some soiling and dampstains. Spine tail split. Other small tears. Executive offices 14 W. Seneca St., Buffalo, NY. July 1, 1904. Medina Exchange, Downs & Kearney Block. G. M. Frary, Manager.

London: Printed for the Author and Sold by W. Owen, 1776. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Good. viii, 511 p. + 16 p. index. 22 cm. Full leather with worn corners, rubbed boards, cracked hinges, spine label slightly chipped. Bookplate for Richard Board on front pastedown. Type a bit scuffed on half title. Pages are neat and clean. Sections: Theology; Ethics or Morality; Christianity; Judaism; Mahometanism; Gentilism; Mythology; Grammar and language; Rhetoric and oratory; Logic; Ontology; Poetry; Criticism; Geography; Chronology; History; Physiology; Botany; Anatomy; Pharmacy; Medicine; Polity and Oeconomics; Jurisprudence; Heraldry; Miscellanies.

Toronto: Bibliographical Society of Canada, 1953. Booklet. Very good. Originally Saint John, 1791. Facsimile Series No. 5. Publication 9. Mainly unpaginated. 23 cm. Stapled paper covers. Small tear in bottom front.

The Bell Telephone Company of Canada, 1950. Softcover. Good. 28, 44 p. 24 cm. Green paper covers. A little soiling, some tiny tears. Vertical crease. Ink number top front corner. Some damp stains to pages within. Regular listings and Yellow Pages. Also includes Montebello, Papineauville, Thurso and surrounding territory.

Toronto: W. C. Chewett & Co, 1869. Soft cover. Ex-Library-fair. 135 p. 23 cm. Paper covers with signatures held together with thread. Ex lib with ink stamp at top front. No map. Small chips at top of last pages and a little light speckling on front. Title continues: "Being After Leap Year, Containing Full and Authentic Commercial, Statistical, Astronomical, Departmental, Ecclesiastical, Educational, Financial, and General Information".

Toronto: W. C. Chewett & Co, 1864. Soft cover. Ex-Library-fair. 103 p. 23 cm. Paper covers with signatures held together with thread. Ex lib with ink stamp at top front. Well-preserved fold-out map of part of Canada West, today eastern Ontario. Book has numerous tears and stained front cover. Most pages white and clean. Title continues: "Being Leap Year, Containing Full and Authentic Commercial, Statistical, Astronomical, Departmental, Ecclesiastical, Educational, Financial, and General Information".