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189547460New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1895. First American Edition. First illustrated edition. 12mo. Publisher's gilt-decorated pale maroon cloth boards; xiv1-137;4pp; frontispiece pictorial title-page and numerous text illustrations by Charles Robinson. Hint of sun-fading to spine cloth and board edges; crease to first and second fly-leaves; text tight fresh and unmarked with gilt still bright on spine and covers; Very Good. Ownership signature "Jessie Guernsey" dated 1896; later annotation below signature in pencil describing the book's family provenance. Quite presentable copy of the First American edition of this classic of children's literature in the attractive Art Nouveau binding after Robinson's designs. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
180349599London: Printed for Tegg & Castleman at the Eccentric Book Warehouse 122 St. John-Street Smithfield; . Hartnell Printer 3 New-Street Borough 1803. 1st Edition. Period full brown tree calf binding with later respining to style. Later eps. Binding - modest wear VG. Text-block - age-toning the occasional smudge old paper repair to frontis. Overall Very Good. iv 28 pp. Folding copperplate frontispiece. Tailpiece. 12mo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/8" <br/><br/>Scarce publication OCLC records only 5 holding institutions world-wide with just 2 of those in the U.S. <br /> <br />This title is one of 3 titles bound together into one volume: volume also includes Tavistocks Books inventory IDs 49598 & 49600. The price is for the one volume containing the 3 titles. Printed for Tegg & Castleman, at the Eccentric Book Warehouse, 122, St. John-Street, Smithfield; ... Hartnell, Printer, 3, New- unknown books
1883166754San Francisco: A. Roman 1883. 17x12 cm pp. i-ix x-xv xvi 17 18-216 217-219: ads 220: blank flyleaves at front and rear inserted frontispiece original red cloth front panel stamped in black and gold spine panel stamped in gold rear panel stamped in blind floral patterned endpapers. Second edition enlarged. A new edition of A YOUTH'S HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD OF ITS DISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT TIME San Francisco: A. Roman & Company 1867. The 1867 edition is uncommon. "Among the earliest schoolbooks relating exclusively to California. The author Louise Palmer Heaven wrote a number of children's books under different pseudonyms" Howell. Heaven was a popular contributor to OVERLAND MONTHLY and the author of "indifferent novels" Walker San Francisco's Literary Frontier whose best known work is CHATA AND CHINITA 1889 a novel set in Mexico. Cowan 1933 p. 456. Sabin 55495. California news agent's stamp on the front and rear flyleaves. Cloth worn at edges a sound good copy. A nice copy overall. #166754 A. Roman unknown books
1808WRCAM43389Boston 1808. 20pp. Dbd. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Minor foxing and toning. Very good. A Federalist pamphlet prepared for the presidential election of 1808 in which the author recounts the grievances against the past eight years of government under the Jefferson administration. A typical New England view of Jefferson after the Embargo. In the end Jeffersonian candidate and current Vice President James Madison soundly defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 16057. unknown books
182936934New-York: Printed by A. Ming Jr. Beekman-Street 1829. 1st edition American Imprints 39290. Printed self-wrappers sewn. Outer leaves age-toned & browned with some wear staining & curling at corners. An About VG copy. 96 pp. Pages 7-10 contain the "Testimony" of the orthodox seceding members disowning Elias Hicks "signed on behalf and by direction of the monthly meeting of Friends of Westbury and Jerico held at Westbury the 29th day of the 4th month 1829. By Valentine Willetts Clerk." 8vo. <br/><br/> Printed by A. Ming, Jr. Beekman-Street unknown books
189044169New York: D. Appleton and Company 1890. "Authorized" edition. Original publisher's light brown cloth binding with dark brown blue & gilt stamping. Pale green eps. General shelf-wear. One proud gathering. Bookplate & booklabel to front paste-down. Evidence of pocket removal to rear paste-down. Withal a VG copy. x 417 5 pp. 4 pages of publisher adverts conclude volume. 111 illustrations by Townsend. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/> D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
183022897Amherst: Published by J. S. & C. Adams and Co. Jonathan Leavitt New York. Pierce and Williams Boston 1830. 1st edition American Imprints 1866; Arents N. 1349; Sabin 32550n. Original pale grey-green wrappers lettered in black. Overall VG minor soiling to wrappers with some paper chipping to lower portion of spine/faint stain to rear wrapper extending into text block 4-5 leaves. 48 pp. 12mo in 6s. 17.5 cm x 11 cm. <br/><br/>Hitchcock both a clergyman as well as a Professor of Chemistry & Natural History at Amherst who eventually rose to the position of College President was primarily known for his geological work/publications. Herein early in his professorial career he admonishes college students as to the evils of addictive narcotics including opium & tobacco. Published by J. S. & C. Adams and Co. Jonathan Leavitt, New York. Pierce and Williams, Boston unknown books
188638609New York: F. M. Lupton 1886. Early printing with the rear wrapper advert listing through No. 123 in the series. OCLC records two holding institutions: Yale & the Huntington. Printed self wrappers sewn. Age toning to paper. Two stab holes in margin along spine. A VG copy of this rare title. 16 pp text double column. Ornamental masthead. Folio. 11-5/8" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/> F. M. Lupton unknown books
187043875N.p. n.d. but ca. 1870s. Autograph letter on seven leaves of blue laid sheets 25x20.5cm. rectos only "Kent" blind-stamped at top left-hand corner of each leaf; occasional faint soil spots minor shallow creases and faint fold lines else Very Good or better. Extensive and rather rambling unsigned letter or lyceum address draft "To the President" though which President and of what is not stated in which the author quite possibly a public figure based on references to his "detractors" strongly argues against women's suffrage: "would we have our females eschewing their more gentle nature hardening the finer sensibilities of her mind by rushing to the ballot box And mingling in the excitement of an election thereby throwing off the garb of female modesty and timidity I think not." Though the first leaf has the appearance of a clean copy the author's hand begins to turn sloppy with a number of manuscript corrections in the later leaves. Due to a lack of contemporary references Mary Wollstonecraft is the only person explicitly mentioned we cannot place with certainty a date or author for the item though the hand ink and paper and reference to women tending to wounded soldiers during wartime indicate this was penned within a few years of the Civil War as the women's suffrage movement was beginning to gather steam in the 1870s. unknown books
189544165New York December 8th 1895. Autograph letter signed on recto and verso of single cream laid sheet 22x14.5cm.; approx. 85 words; dated 26 West 61st N.Y. Dec 8th and simply addressed to "Parker" presumably Stanton's friend and fellow-suffragist Parker Pillsbury 1809-1898 who with Stanton had co-edited the women's rights newsletter "The Revolution" twenty years earlier. Faint mail folds small unobtrusive archival paper remnants to two corners from having been previously mounted else Near Fine and still quite fresh. Brief contemporary 1897 pencil note at bottom edge "Mrs. Stanton - born Nov. 12 1815 Now past 82 - C.E.R." though based on contents we would place this letter as having been written around 1895. Brief but significant missive addressed to Parker Pillsbury the American minister and women's suffrage advocate regarding a copy of Stanton's "Woman's Bible" she had just sent him. "I wonder if I could interest them a "Mrs. White" and one other sufficiently in the Woman's Bible to sell ten or twenty copies in there sic respective woman's clubs It is published at my expense hence I am trying to push its circulation." The controversial "Woman's Bible" a series of commentaries pertaining to the portions of the Bible relating to women was published in two parts in 1895 and 1898 and composed almost entirely by Stanton alone her committee of Bible revisors finding the project too controversial and harmful to the cause of women's suffrage. Clearly at the time of writing this letter the book was still meeting with resistance thus our placing the date at around 1895 Stanton turning to Pillsbury as a potential source of influential and wealthy patrons she inquires "Is Mrs. White still living & working Is that rich woman that Mr. illegible used to visit in Maine living". But by 1897 the book had become a best seller though many of the members of the women's suffrage movement would continue to distance themselves from it. This letter quite significant as a testimony to the aging Stanton organizer of the historical 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and her continuing indefatigable efforts and initial lack of support in getting this work circulated. See Tracy A. Thomas "Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundation of Family Law" 2016 pp. 15 & 223. unknown books
181745585New York: by D. Longworth at the Dramatic Repository Shakspeare-Gallery 1817. Third edition. 12mo 15cm; modern decorative wrappers; 44pp. Complete and good with minimal aging to text. According to a note by Goodspeed this third edition posthumous was the first to include Samuel Woodworth's "Ode for the Fourth March 1817" on pp.43-44. Burk a transplanted Irishman premiered this work at Boston's Haymarket Theatre in 1798. Though undistinguished as literature the play captured the anti-British zeitgeist and Burk's reputation and fortune were secured by it. Reputation alas failed to save Burk from dying badly: in 1808 while drinking in a Virginia tavern Burk made injudicious remarks at table regarding the character of the French; a nearby citizen of France overhearing challenged Burk to a duel in which the playwright perished the next morning. A brief but diverting account of Burk's career prior to emigration is provided by Wegelin Early American Plays 1904 in his citation for this work. HILL American Plays 35. WEGELIN p.24. by D. Longworth, at the Dramatic Repository, Shakspeare-Gallery unknown books
184653670Albany: Erastus H. Pease 1846. 16mo 14.5cm. Publisher's morocco-backed printed paper-covered boards; 74pp; illus. Slight scuffing to spine but a tight well-preserved copy Very Good or better. <br/><br/>Catechism for primary-school readers on agronomy fertilizers and other soil amendments for agricultural production. Includes a substantial introduction for American readers by John Pitkin Norton a Connecticut agriculturalist and student of J.F.W. Johnston and testimonials from American authorities including Benjamin Silliman Benjamin P. Johnson and others. Wood-engraved text figures illustrating chemical apparati to accompany lectures. Erastus H. Pease unknown books
189644448Mexico: Imprenta del Museo Nacional 1896. Stitched paper wrappers. Very good extremities worn split at tail of spine contents faintly browned otherwise clean. xv 35 pp. 1 pp. aviso on verso of rear wrapper. Illus. with 57 b/w drawings. 8vo. Museo Nacional Catálogo no. 4. Human and animal abnormalities such as Siamese twins etc. Illustrated. Palau 246824. Imprenta del Museo Nacional unknown books
187947623Parisiis: Apud Isidorum Liseux 1879. First Thus. 12mo 15cm.; publisher's cream pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; xii89pp. Some light shelf wear and a few small soil spots tiny chips at spine ends else Very Good or better. Scarce extract from Sinistrari's larger work "De Delictis et Poenis" 1654 text entirely in Latin save for the publisher's tongue-in-cheek introduction in French. Liseux gained some notoriety a few years earlier when he published "De Daemonialitate et Incubus et Succubis" claiming to have discovered this heretofore unknown manuscript written in 1680 by the Franciscan priest Ludovico Maria Sinistrari 1622-1701. The work described the qualities of such beasts as vampires succubi and incubi though it has since been proposed that Liseux himself wrote the piece see J. Gordon Melton "The Vampire Book" 2010 p. 380. "De Daemonialitate" was eventually translated into English in 1879 and found its way into the hands of W.B. Yeats who borrowed Ezra Pound's copy and from it was inspired to compose the poem "The Black Centaur" first published in "The Tower" in 1928 Catherine E. Paul and Warwick Gould "W.B. Yeats and the Problem of Belief" "Yeats Annual" no. 21 p. 313. <br/><br/>The present work is indeed authored by Sinistrari and remains here in its unalter ed Latin form presumably to avoid censure Liseux noting in his introduction that there's a reason he decided to publish this work sans illustration. Though the publisher's advertisement on the final leaf of text and rear cover only mention "De Daemonialitate" Liseux's catalog would go on to include the Kama Sutra and Ernest Dowson's "White Stains: Containing Also the Contemporary and Most Exhaustive Love's Cyclopaedia with Five Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley in His Most Erotic Vein. Apud Isidorum Liseux unknown books
1888LIST117New York: E. & H.T. Anthony Company 1888. First Edition. Large 8vo wraps 115 pp. 7 x 10 ½ inches. Good. Edward Anthony and his brother Henry operated the largest photographic supply company in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Edward operated a small photography practice before converting his business to a supply house. Henry came on board in 1852. The brothers operated successful business for the decades following until Edward's death in 1888. This trade catalog published the same year as Edward's death provides an overview of the photographic technologies of the day with all aspects of the process represented including photographer's props. The Anthony firm published a series of instructional books on photography and acted as distributors for British periodicals. <br /> <br /> A scarce catalog with eight copies held the varying cover title and title listed on the title page have led to multiple entries. Good condition overall with some chipping to wraps and excellent contents. <br /> <br /> Cover Title:<br /> Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Materials. Including Dallmeyer's Celebrated Lenses Novel Success and Climax Cameras Fairy and Bicycle Cameras Detective Cameras Apparatus Amateur Outfits Chemicals Stanley Dry Plates Etc. Etc. E. & H.T. Anthony Company unknown books
18119905Paris: Demonville 1811. Contemporary full calf with maroon spine label. Marbled eps. VG front joint tender & starting in lower 2"/abrasion to corners w/ board showing. 196 pp 80 pp including Table of Contents. Illustrated with copperplate engravings. Bound in 6s 8.5 cm x 14 cm. <br/><br/> Demonville unknown books
1805250665Wien 1805. 3 ff. 1 vols. 4to. Removed. paper excision in gutter margin leaves slightly toned. Very good. 3 ff. 1 vols. 4to. Napoleon Made Me Do It. The emperor of France forced me to go to war! <br/>Imperial Call-Up to "fight for Europe's freedom the security of thrones and of peoples".<br/><br/>In response to the breach of treaty military provocations and invasion of Germany by Napoleon Franz II Holy Roman emperor and hereditary emperor of Austria calls for inner strength unity and decisive action to save the throne independence national honor and national happiness. Franz II and the members of his coalition the emperor of Russia and others took up the "fight for Europe's freedom the security of thrones and of peoples". Dated 28 October 1805 in the name of the Emperor by Franz Graf von Sauran Landesfürstlicher Hof-Commissar.<br/><br/>With a Nachricht of the same date instructing youths of noble and bourgeois birth to present themselves for military service; and ordering foreigners Fremden in non-essential professions positions or industries to leave Vienna within six days and from all of lower Austria within ten days. All horses and freight wagons are subject to guidelines for use on official or public business<br/><br/>The joint efforts of the coalition were in vain and after their defeat by Napoleon at Austerlitz in August 1806 the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved. OCLC 249470850 and 254364523 each imprint held in Staatsbibliothek Berlin only unknown books
18794026Paris. Librairie Hachette. 1879. Bound in extravagantly ornate gilt pictorial red Morocco depicting gilt tooled Roman emblematic seals and large embellishment of armour eagles and statuary to front and rear covers. Gilt tooled spine compartments embellished with seals and laurel leaves. Raised bands. White silk moire endsheets. a.e.g. Thick 4to. New Edition. Illustrated with 50 brilliantly illuminated full page tissue-guarded chromolithographic plates. Further illustrated with over 3400 gravure engravings and 30 colour maps. A monumental work in a most impressive Hachette gilt binding - truly one of the most stunning bindings we've encountered. Sumptuously illustrated with eye-boggling iridescent Chromolithographs this extremely rare set is a true work of design art. Some chipping to head and tailpieces to various volumes with some small bits lacking hinges rubbed on various volumes some corners bumped through front cover of Vol. 1 starting mild scattered foxing throughout else Very Good. A bright crisp gleaming gilt gem.Featured Sets. Librairie Hachette. hardcover books
18971231Salinas CIty: Wyatt & Rodgers 1897. Very good. 46pp. Oblong 12mo. Original tan printed wrappers. Light soiling and wear. Contemporary ownership inscriptions inside front cover. Minor soiling internally. Promotional souvenir of Salinas City California providing a brief history and overview of the climate but primarily an illustrated work depicting local houses and businesses. At the time Salinas City was a town of about 3000 people. In addition to residences there are several street scenes of businesses and an image of the Salinas Brewery which was founded in 1892. There are also numerous advertisements throughout. We find one copy of the 1899 edition at the California State Library; the only copy recorded of the present edition at the Salinas Public Library appears to be a photocopy. Wyatt & Rodgers unknown books
1854WRCLIT68217Boston: Crosby Nichols and Company 1854. viii9-120pp. 12mo. Cloth decorated in blind spine stamped in gilt. Frontis and illustrations. Extremities a bit worn some spotting but a good or better sound copy with an abundance of extra blank endleaves front and back. First published in Britain in 1798 and in the U.S. in 1808 this popular and often reprinted tale has been charged with having revolutionized the depiction of animals in literature. Crosby, Nichols and Company hardcover books
184143848Boston: E.P. Peabody 1841. First Edition. 16mo 13cm. Original publisher's brown ribbed cloth with printed paper label to front cover; 160pp. Binding uniformly faded with spot of staining to front cover below title; thin crack to cloth at upper 1/2" of front joint. Internally clean and tight with bookplates of both A. Edward Newton and Carroll A. Wilson. Earlier bookplate of J. Harson Purdy and partial remnant of a clipped auction listing adhered to front pastedown. Good or better. Distinguished copy with provenance of two important collectors of this scarce Hawthorne work - the second volume in his juvenile trilogy The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair later issued together in one volume 1851. Depending on authority this is either the second printing see BAL 7592b or second edition see Clark A8.2a. In the descriptive catalogue of his collection Wilson writes of this copy: "A. Edward Newton's copy of the second issue with his bookplate. It is the text of the first issue and not of the second which persists in later printings which made me doubful of the accepted priority and determined to have both" see Wilson Thirteen Author Collections 1950. E.P. Peabody unknown books
189328389New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1893. Second edition. Cloth. Very Good. Two octavos with decorative bindings. Literature of the Civil War by Page with illustrations by W. T. Smedley. Both volumes are second printings. Both are in very clean condition. 53 and 70 pp respectively. Published in 1892 and 1893. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
184444191Bath NY: R. L. Underwood & Co 1844. Second Edition. 18mo 15.5cm.; publisher's full sheep red gilt morocco spine label; viii9-288pp.; portrait frontispiece. Boards rather worn and joints cracked but holding old dampstain to rear cover very slightly bleeding into textblock some soil to early leaves else a Good or better copy overall. Account of the life of Jemima Wilkinson 1752-1819 the Rhode Island-born Quaker and Evangelist who claimed after a long illness to have died and been risen from the dead. Through her preaching she became known as the "Universal Friend" creating a Shaker-like sect that practiced celibacy and poverty on a massive property she named "Jerusalem." Some have argued that Wilkinson was an imposter who accrued vast wealth from her followers Howes describes her as "the first religious charlatan of her sex in America". Indeed the sect would not survive after her death. This work first published in 1821 attributed to David Hudson SABIN 33485 and HOWES H-761. See also "Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography" Vol. 6 p. 512. R. L. Underwood & Co unknown books
183731185New York: Saunders and Otley Ann Street 1837. 2nd edition American Imprints 44114. Not in Amerine & Borg. Original publisher's green ribbon-embossed cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Overall VG modest wear/usual bit of foxing to paper. vi 2 6 - 208; 220 pp. 12mo. <br/><br/> Saunders and Otley, Ann Street hardcover books
185728207Sydney: James W. Waugh 1857 1857. First edition. Some stains and foxing; binding worn at the corners and boards faded; a good copy. 12mo contemporary dark green quarter calf marbled paper boards red leather spine label gilt rules and lettering. Half-title present. An uncommon work of over 40 poems and sonnets by Sir Henry Parkes 1815-1896 an Englishman who migrated to Australia in 1839 and eventually became one of its most prominent political leaders. See Wikipedia. Interesting contemporary annotations in ink on the title-page one which reads "Not published / Aug 15 1857." <br/><br/> Sydney: James W. Waugh, 1857 hardcover books
