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185345888New York: George P. Putnam & Co 1853. First Edition. Presumed Third Printing First Issue. Octavo 19.25cm; brown vertically-ribbed cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine triple-ruled border and decorative centerpieces stamped in blind to covers; pale yellow endpapers; iiviii1793pp. Inscribed in pencil on the front flyleaf: "Hon. J. Collamer / With respects of The Author" possibly Jacob Collamer judge and U.S. Senator from Vermont. Tiny chip to upper left corner of rear endpaper handful of dog-eared pages smoothed out else very Near Fine. Handsome copy of this volume Hawthorne edited for his friend and patron Horatio Bridge 1806-1893 a United States Navy officer. First printed in wrappers in 1845 Journal is the narrative of Bridge's trip on the USS Saratoga "the flagship of Commodore Matthew Perry with the mission to stop and search all American ships on the west coast of Africa that might be carrying slaves. That mission was fruitless they saw none but Bridge's comments on the efforts of the American Colonization Society in Liberia and on Africa in general were vivid" Moore Margaret B. the Salem World of Nathaniel Hawthorne p.135. An interesting printing not noted by BAL - "What appear to be first-issue sheets with the Putnam title page intact gathered in the same form as the Putnam publication are also found in a typical Ticknor format A binding.When Ticknor and Fields bought the Putnam plates for Mosses and Cruiser at the Bangs Bros. Trade Sale in New York March 1854 they may have acquired some Putnam sheets that were later bound up in Ticknor style and distributed in an effort to recover some of the purchase costs" Note: CLARK A14.1.c1. Presentation copies uncommon with only two noted in Rare Book Hub PBA 2019; Goodspeed 1910. cf.BAL 7597. George P. Putnam & Co unknown books
185834656Albany: Weed Parsons & Company Printers 1858. 48pp. Disbound bit of blank edge chipping Good. <br/><br/> This pamphlet prints Hill's argument in a significant constitutional case. One Coleman sought to enjoin the Hudson River Bridge Company from building a bridge over the Hudson at Albany; a New York statute permitted the construction. The issue was whether a State could authorize the erection of a bridge over navigable rivers of the United States. Defending the statute Hill says the real party in interest is the City of Troy which it fears would be competitively disadvantaged by the bridge. "And now comes Troy-- a city distinguished chiefly for the favors she has received and is constantly asking at the hands of the State-- and pointing to her local interests which have prospered under state patronage asks you to interdict an exercise of sovereign power prompted by state necessity." <br/> Hill argues that New York's authority is not hindered by Congress's constitutional power to regulate commerce and navigable waters. The Circuit Court which included Justice Miller of the U.S. Supreme Court agreed and dismissed the complaint. On appeal the Supreme Court divided 3-3 see 69 U.S. 403 1864; the tie vote rendered the Circuit Court's decision a final judgment. <br/>FIRST EDITION. II Harv. Law Cat. 1189. Sabin 31850n. OCLC 7627679 12. Cohen Supp. 12096.53. Weed, Parsons & Company, Printers unknown books
189032067East Berlin CT: Berlin Iron Bridge Co ca. 1890s. Large broadside 31.75x47cm.; previous mail folds as issued very slightly postally used on verso else a Very Good or Near Fine example. Advertisement issued by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company depicting their "Patent" municipal signboards including information on production materials and a price guide. Text includes extracts from pertinent New England and mid-Atlantic state laws regarding guide boards. Presumably issued sometime after 1888 the laws in Vermont having been approved November 2nd of that year. As of today many of bridges built by the Company can be found on the National Register of Historic Places. One copy catalogued in OCLC as of November 2016 at the Connecticut Historical Society. Berlin Iron Bridge Co unknown books
39287BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE-PARLIAMENTARY ACT ANNO REGNI GEORGII III. REGIS.AT TH PARLIAMENT BEGUN AND HOLDEN AT WESTMINSTER THE NINETEENTH DAY OF MAY ANNO D 1761. London: Mark Baskett 1767. Folio. Disbound. Pages 459-499. The Parliamentary act passed in 1766 "for completing the bridge cross the Riv Thames from Black Fryars in the City of London." In 1761 there were only tw bridges crossing the Thames - London Bridge and Westminster Bridge. Parliame passed a bill in 1761 to commence building a new bridge about equal distance between the two existing ones to ease congestion of building traffic crossing the Thames. The architect Robert Mylne was awarded the contract. By 1766 Parliament was requested to fund the completion of the bridge plus redeeming tolls on the bridge as well as adding additional provision in the bill "for rebuilding the gaol of Newgate.; for repairing the Royal Exchange." etc. The new bridge was finished in 1769. Very good. unknown books
1679212225n.p. London: s.n. 1679. 4pp. 1 vols. Folio 32 cm. Unbound partly separated at fold. 4pp. 1 vols. Folio 32 cm. The Defeat and Pursuit of the Scottish Covenanters. The context here is the late-breaking news of the crushing defeat of he Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Borthwell Bridge on June 22 1679 by government troops under the Duke of Monmouth only 5 days prior the the publication of these relaed events. Several hundred Covenanters were killed 1200 were taken prisoner and marched off to Edinburgh but several -- like William Kelso -- fled to Ireland. His capture and examination is recounted here; a report several boats of rebels sailing to Ireland; and a call for their apprehension by Ormond Viceroy of Ireland on June 30<br/><br/>After the battle the surviving Covenanters were ruthlessly pursued and killed and many banished to America. Wing N972 s.n. unknown books
186933020Galveston 1869. Single sheet folded to 7-5/8" x 12-1/4" with the transfer agreement and signatures of twenty-six transferors on page 1 transferring their stock to John Sealy. Page 2 is the manuscript document signed by Sealy transferring those shares to Thomas W. Peirce. Pages 3-4 are blank. On lined paper. Each Receipt is oblong 3-3/4" x 7-1/2" printed and completed in manuscript each including a 2 cent Revenue Stamp with picture of George Washington. Very Good.<br/><br/> The Brazos Iron Bridge Company was organized in 1867. Its mission was to construct a railway bridge across the Brazos River. The bridge completed in July 1869 was purchased by the Buffalo Bayou Brazos and Colorado Railway later known as the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. When the dust settled on the various transactions among the shareholders John Sealy owned a one-eighth interest in the Railway Company. Sealy's biography appears in the Handbook of Texas. unknown books
1897243600New York: 11 West 36th Street 1897. First edition. 62 pp. Printed by the Brooklyn Eagle Printing Department. 1 vols. 12mo. Olive original cloth stained and warped corner of front flyleaf excised. First edition. 62 pp. Printed by the Brooklyn Eagle Printing Department. 1 vols. 12mo. An early bridge rule book the first appeared in London 1886.<br/><br/>OCLC locates three copies. 11 West 36th Street unknown books
1932214425Boston: Little Brown 1932. Advance Review copy of the Author's First book. 1 vols. 8vo. Wrappers. Very fine. Advance Review copy of the Author's First book. 1 vols. 8vo. Won the Atlantic $10000 prize novel. Little, Brown unknown books
19346429Boston: Little Brown and Company 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. Very good copy bound in dark blue cloth with light edge fading light foxing edges. In Very good dust jacket bright and colorful with light wear at extremities. 409 pp. <br/><br/> Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
195873605London: Chatto and Windus 1958. First edition. 320 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to crown of spine. London: Chatto and Windus, unknown books
193016877E1930s. Original autograph signature of British author Anne Bridge written in vintage fountain pen ink on a 4†x 3†piece of paper. Fine. Anne Bridge is the author of The Episode at Toledo The Dangerous Islands Peking Picnic Singing Waters etc. - many of which feature her characters Julia Probyn and Hetta Paloczy Atherley. unknown books
199031053NY: Evans. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0871316242 . First American printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Evans hardcover books
1978148582London: Cassell 1978. hardcover. very good/very good. Illustrated. ix 194pp. small 8vo cloth. London: Cassell 1978. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.<br/><br/> Cassell unknown books
1814280422London. : T.Cadell and W. Davies. 1814. . Contemporary half brown calf over marbled boards raised bands gilt spine title. . Moderate wear to covers scattered foxing and marginal dampstains still a good plus tight copy. . 8vo. T.Cadell and W. Davies. hardcover books
176734249Boston: Green and Russell 1767. 60pp but lacking the half title. Stitched and untrimmed. Title and last several leaves heavily foxed. Else Good. <br/><br/> A fine Sermon delivered soon after the repeal of the Stamp Act and just before enactment of the equally execrated Townshend Acts. Bridge warns that rulers have the duty to promulgate "only such laws as.are fit for the government of rational intelligent moral agents all equal and upon a par antecedent to any political combinations among men;" and not to abuse their God-given trust "by serving the purposes of ambition usurpation and tyranny.But I must not enlarge." <br/> Whatever the form of government all men "have a natural right" to enjoy freedom: "every man protected in his just rights sitting under his own vine and under his own fig tree.and none to make him afraid." Careful to be conciliatory he praises English rule even Parliament "which tho' liable to mistakes has yet been attentive to the good of the nation and kingdom and her colonies and dependencies." He praises God that the "late transactions" did not proceed "to that extremity which many feared and which would have terminated in.the ruin of the colonies." <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 10569. Vail N.E. Election Sermons 20. Lapham Newberry Library 73. Green and Russell unknown books
1767100637Pamphlet 8vo with half title 60 pp. Unbound untrimmed stitched as issued some aging and staining some chips small tears and folds at the corners and edges last leaf with tears and wrinkles partially separated and with the loss of a few words of text. This pamphlet warns the crown about abuse of power and sets the stage for the issues that would frame the American Revolution. Bridge a minister of Chelmsford would denounce the Stamp Act riots in Boston but warned the governor of the dangers of measures that threatened the rights of the people which he felt would also damage the relationship with the Mother Country. Evans 10569. Green and Russell, books
1990Embry 127998Berg 1990. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Berg, 1990. First edition. unknown books
191534103London: Augener Ltd. PN 14978 1915. Small folio 310 x 235 mm. Original publisher's dark ivory wrappers with titling in brown and black to upper publisher's advertisement to lower. 15 music i publisher's advertisement pp. <br/><br/>Wrappers slightly soiled; bookseller's handstamp to upper and title "Papasian & Co. Egypt ." First Edition.<br/><br/>Frank Bridge was an "English composer violist and conductor. He studied the violin and composition at the RCM where a scholarship won in 1899 enabled him to work under Stanford for four years. He quickly made a professional reputation as an outstanding conductor and chamber music player.He was also a remarkable teacher though Britten was his only composition pupil. <br/><br/>"The isolation of English musical life from far-reaching developments abroad was an obstacle to the recognition of Bridge's later works. After his death his music fell into almost complete neglect though interest was subsequently revived. The poetic insight and consummate technique of his work promise it a permanent place in the repertory." Anthony Payne Paul Hindmarsh and Lewis Foreman in Grove Music Online. Augener Ltd. [PN 14978] unknown books
191833761London: Novello 1918. 363 pp. With coloured frontispiece. Binding slightly worn; annotations to front free endpaper. Minor foxing. Novello unknown books
12701Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Boldly penned musical quotation from the noted English composer organist and writer on music. Bridge has written 3 measures of the Processional March from Callirhoë his secular cantata of 1888 with a further four notes in the bass clef on a separate staff. The composer's name is written in an unknown hand in the lower left corner. Slight horizontal and vertical creases one ink smudge bottom edge rough; otherwise in fine condition. 24.4 x 15.6 cm. unknown books
1986134139New Britain CT: REM Miniatures 1986. cloth wrappers paper label in clamshell box. Miniature Books. miniature book 6.0 by 4.0 cm. cloth wrappers paper label in clamshell box. 12 pages. Bradbury REM Miniatures 75. Limited to 333 numbered copies. Hand-colored illustrations by C. Ernest Massmann. Half moon shape. With "Halley's Moon Rock" "sequestered by full moon light" at the time of Halley's Comet in 1986. REM Miniatures unknown books
1968275113London: Dawsons of Pall Mall 1968. hardcover. very good-. and other places of interest on the West Coast of Africa. 12mo green cloth small area of light soiling to back cover pages slightly wavy throughout. London: Dawsons of Pall Mall 1968<br/><br/> Facsimile of the London 1845 edition. Author served on the United States Navy ship Saratoga a sloop in the anti-slavery squadron sent to West Africa.<br/><br/> Dawsons of Pall Mall unknown books
1845Embry 166971Wiley & Putnam New York: 1845. First edition. Light to moderate foxing spine and edges lightly sunned overall very good to near fine in custom mylar cover. Green textured cloth titled in gilt and decoratively stamped in blind. Blanck's printing B with three lines of type on the copyright page and with imprints of stereotyper and printer not present. Blanck 7597. Wiley & Putnam, New York: 1845. First edition. hardcover books
1853405812New York: George P. Putnam & Co 1853. A very good copy with some light spotting to first few leaves and light wear at extremities bookplate of Henry A. Hoffmann and neat ownership signature on front free endpaper. 8vo 7.25 x 5 inches. viii 179 pages. Original green cloth gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION BAL printing C with cancel title-page dated 1853. BAL 7597; Clark A14.1.c1. See Hill 183 for the first British edition. <br/><br/> George P. Putnam & Co hardcover books
1903WN3811New York: The Aldine Book Company 1903. Original red cloth gilt with wear and fraying at spine ends corners foreedges and joints. Hinges starting book a little shaky. Prior owner stamp on ffep penciled out. Article about Andrew Carnegie fastened to rear pastedown. Fourth Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. The Aldine Book Company Hardcover books
