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189329887New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1893. 1st edition BAL v 4 p. 34. Original publisher's grey cloth binding with green & gilt stamping. TEG. Spine sun-tanned. Slight lean. A VG copy. ix 3 200 4 pp. Illustrated. 12mo. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
1893WRCLIT56136New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1893. xii2004pp. Gilt decorated cloth. Frontis portrait. Black- and-white engraved illustrations. Slight fraying to ends of the darkened spine panel binding loosening very slightly a few plates loose but present otherwise a good copy. First edition of this intimate study by the United States Naval officer and Chief of the Bureau of Provisions who graduated with Hawthorne from Bowdoin College in the class of 1825. Signed on the front free endpaper by the author's niece Marian Bridge Maurice in the year of publication. Hawthorne dedicated some of his works to Bridge and remarked that he "was responsible for my being an author." Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
1898WRCLIT58665Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Company 1898. Gilt forest green cloth t.e.g. others untrimmed. Foretips a bit bumped else near fine. First edition of the author's first book inscribed and signed by him in 1900. The author a Chicago physician and financier proved an important benefactor to universities in California and at home. KRAMER 170. Herbert S. Stone & Company hardcover books
183920407Boston 1839. 30pp. Disbound. Light scattered foxing. Inscribed in top margin "K.H.T. from Stedman Bullrick of Concord Mass." Very Good. Report on the two bridges that were the subject of the Supreme Court's landmark opinion in the Charles River Bridge Case. AI 57166 2. unknown 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
183920069Boston 1839. 30pp. Disbound. Light scattered foxing. Very Good. offered with REPORT RELATING TO EXPENSES OF WARREN BRIDGE. HD29. 7 1 blank pp. Disbound loosening. Light scattered foxing. Good to Very Good. Reports on the bridges that were the subject of the Supreme Court's landmark opinion in the Charles River Bridge Case. AI 57166 2. 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
1883106310<p>Pamphlet 8vo original wrappers illustrated. Crude tape repair of a tear on the reverse side of front cover some chipping and tears to spine and aling edges normal aging to contents; otherwise good. Published by Frederick Loeser a Brooklyn merchant this pamphlet illustrates the new Brooklyn Bridge. The introduction is written by J.H. Fisher and the rest of the text appears to have been written by Alfred C. Barnes. This pamphlet contains some wonderful wood engravings of the bride at the time the bridge was just opening.</p> Frederick Loesser & Co., books
183723922Concord: Asa M'Farland. November 1837. 12mo. Original printed front wrapper with wrapper title as issued. Disbound. 11 1 blank pp. Very Good. <br/><br/> The original Proprietors of the Bridge included Ebenezer Eastman Abraham Bean Orlando Brown and several others. They were authorized to build and maintain a bridge over the Merrimack River "in the northerly part of Concord"; and to charge tolls for its use. The Legislature enacted the original authorization to build the bridge in 1833. The enabling Act is signed in type by Franklin Pierce as Speaker of the House. Bylaws are included with a printed form for stock certificate. <br/>AI 46739 1- NhHi.OCLC 156529996 1- NHS. Asa M'Farland. November, 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
1853308026New York: George P. Putnam 1853. First edition BAL printing C with cancel title page dated 1853. iii-vi v-viii 179 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green publisher's cloth publisher's blindstamp on both covers spine faded to brown and chipped at extremities. First edition BAL printing C with cancel title page dated 1853. iii-vi v-viii 179 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 7597; Clark A14.1.c1 George P. Putnam 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
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
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
1886107035New York: Henry Holt and Company 1886. Octavo pp. i-v vi-vii viii 1 2-177 178-180: blank note: last leaf is a blank flyleaves at front and rear original decorated gray cloth front panel stamped in brown and black spine panel stamped in black and gold floral pattered endpapers. First edition. "Light satirical romance of the adventures of one Captain Grizzle. Able to propel his spirit about at will he visits the planet Jupiter one hundred years in the future which he finds to be an enlarged version of Earth; an exact counterpart in fact with Britain America etc. featured but with somewhat advanced technology including airships." - Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 42. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 289. Locke Voyages in Space 44. Bleiler 1978 p. 33 citing the first British edition of the same year from Sampson Low. Reginald 02085 also citing the Sampson Low edition. Wright III 667. Touch of rubbing to spine ends some light scattered foxing to preliminaries and fore-edge of text block a near fine copy. A very uncommon American eccentric interplanetary novel. #107035 Henry Holt and Company unknown books
1845157495New York Wiley and Putnam 1845. First edition second issue. Small thin 8vo. Half title. 179 pages. Contemporary 1/2 brown leather over rubbed green cloth with original printed front wrapper from the issue in wrappers tipped-in; chip at top of spine. Very good. This was edited by Hawthorne for his old college chum who had underwritten the cost of Hawthorne's first book1837. With the bookplate of William Temple Emmet's with his pencil signature on the front free endpaper and ink signature on the wrapper leaf. BAL 7597. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. New York, Wiley and Putnam, hardcover 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
1845306297New York: Wiley & Putnam 1845. First edition BAL printing B with 3-line copyright Clark's presumed second printing. iii-vi v-viii 179 pp. lacking first blank and half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter morocco richly gilt spines raised bands t.e.g by Stikeman. Foxing and staining to text throughout. Bookplate of Agnes Neustadt. First edition BAL printing B with 3-line copyright Clark's presumed second printing. iii-vi v-viii 179 pp. lacking first blank and half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Bridge and Hawthorne were classmates at Bowdoin and became lifelong friends with Bridge at times offering needed encouragement and financial aid. Bridge helped finance the publication of Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales 1837 and gave the proceeds of this popular work his first to Hawthorne. Bridge published his Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1893. BAL 7597; Clark A14.1.b1 Wiley & Putnam unknown books
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
1845319256New York & London: Wiley and Putnam 1845. 8vo 19 x 12.3 cm. i-viii v-vi 179 pages. Complete with half-title and 16-page advertisements at end. Early 20th-century brown half morocco marbled boards by the Club Bindery original printed wrappers bound in. Provenance: Edwin B. Holden bookplate; his sale American Art Association 28 April 1920 lot 774 part. Holden formed a very sizable book collection and was an early member and president of the Grolier Club; his bookplate was created by Edwin Davis French 1851-1906 one of the most respected bookplate engravers of his era. Some light rubbing to joints; very pale marginal dampstain in lower gutter but overall a very handsome copy. 8vo 19 x 12.3 cm. i-viii v-vi 179 pages. Complete with half-title and 16-page advertisements at end. Early 20th-century brown half morocco marbled boards by the Club Bindery original printed wrappers bound in. Provenance: Edwin B. Holden bookplate; his sale American Art Association 28 April 1920 lot 774 part. Holden formed a very sizable book collection and was an early member and president of the Grolier Club; his bookplate was created by Edwin Davis French 1851-1906 one of the most respected bookplate engravers of his era. FIRST EDITION BAL's Printing A the title with 4-line copyright and a cancel wrapper 1 three works listed under Wiley and Putnam's Library of American Books- including Poe's Tales. Bridge and Hawthorne were classmates at Bowdoin and became lifelong friends with Bridge at times offering needed encouragement and financial aid. Bridge helped finance the publication of Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales 1837 and gave the proceeds of this popular work his first to Hawthorne. Bridge published his Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1893. BAL 7597; Clark A14.1.a1. Wiley and Putnam unknown books