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18551305517Hertford: Stephen Austin 1855. First Edition in English. Hardcover. Square Octavo 227 24 pages; VG; bound in modern 3/4 French morocco by Stikeman paneled spine with gilt tooling and lettering; gilt text block; with illuminated frontispiece and two title pages 14 full page woodcuts with illuminated borders in colors and gilt 17 vignettes in colors and gilt and 4 woodcut vignettes; all pages of text illuminated in borders of color and gilt; marbled endpapers; gift inscription on endpaper; minor wear to front hinge; consignment; shelved case 0. 1305517. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Stephen Austin hardcover books
1872220565Philadelphia: Alfred Martien 1872. hardcover. very good. 315pp. 12mo purple cloth lightly worn spine faded Philadelphia: Alfred Martien 1872. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Alfred Martien unknown books
1892252946Utica: J. E. Williams 1892. hardcover. good. New York Mills Whitesboro and Yorkville Together with a classified Business Directory and Miscellaneous Information of much use to the Public. 691pp. 8vo original 1/2 brown cloth with printed boards head of spine very lightly worn edges of boards worn. Utica: J. E. Williams 1892.<br/><br/> Contains many ads from local merchants. Internally a tight bright copy.<br/><br/> J. E. Williams unknown books
1819205371819. 7 1 blank pp. Foxed. Good. bound with LAWS OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE. 1829. 22 2 blank pp. Very Good. bound with COMMENCEMENT. WILLIAMS COLLEGE SEPTEMBER 3 1823. 4pp. Lightly foxed Good. bound with COMMENCEMENT. WILLIAMS COLLEGE SEPTEMBER 3 1828. 4pp Very Good. bound with EXHIBITION OF THE DELPHIC SOCIETY. WILLIAMS COLLEGE AUGUST 5 1829. 4pp Very Good. bound with SENIOR EXHIBITION. WILLIAMS COLLEGE DECEMBER 29 1829. 3 1 blank pp. Very Good. bound with COMMENCEMENT. WILLIAMS COLLEGE SEPTEMBER 2 1829. 4pp Very Good. bound with EXHIBITION OF THE JUNIOR CLASS. WILLIAMS COLLEGE MAY 18 1830. 3 1 blank pp. Very Good. bound with CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE. WILLIAMS COLLEGE JULY 5 1830. 4pp scattered fox else Very Good. bound with PRIZE DECLAMATION. WILLIAMS COLLEGE AUGUST 31 1830. 3 1 blank pp. Very Good. bound with COMMENCEMENT. WILLIAMS COLLEGE SEPTEMBER 1 1830. 4pp margin-foxed Good. np. 1819-1830. Bound together in disbound form. Williams College ephemera from its early years. THE LOT. unknown books
1866143232New York: D. Appleton & Co. Publishers 1866. Hardcover. F Spine material is missing; hinges are barely holding; much wear to covers otherwise; book was once wet and bares some brown stainage on flyleaves and selected pages; some occasional foxing; hand-lettered dedication to an exemplary student on first flyleaf; text portions of interior leaves are generally clear. Three-quarters reddish cloth with brown board spine gilt letters on front cover unpaginated BW engravings. Title on front cover: Gems of Penmanship by Williams & Packard. A 19th-century study book of styles fonts flourishes and techniques of lettering. Makes you realize what a personal art we've lost with the proliferation of electronics and computerization. A few engravings included as examples. This copy was "Presented to Sarah E. Thresher for the best Specimen of Business Penmanship" on May 31 1867 as noted on the opening flyleaf. A browser's delight. D. Appleton & Co. Publishers hardcover books
190024250<p><b><i>"No Crown of Thorns / No Cross of Gold / Equal Rights to All / Special Privileges to None"</i></b></p><p>William Jennings Bryan tried for the White House in 1896 1900 and 1908. The leading supporter of "free silver" against the gold standard and a champion of the "little guy" against moneyed Eastern businessmen and bankers Bryan came closest to victory in 1896.</p> <b>WILLIAMS JENNING BRYAN.</b><i>"The Issue--1900: Liberty Justice Humanity."</i> Columbus Ohio Neville Williams 1900. Chromolithograph printed by the Strobridge Lithograph Company Cincinnati Ohio. 20 x 30 in; edges slightly trimmed very faint mat toning; laid down on canvas.<p>Surrounding the central vignette of the candidate flanked by American flags nearly every theme of Bryan's long political career is represented in fantastic graphics. Quotes from his 1896 "Cross of Gold" speech on monetary policy and the free coinage of silver surround his name; a rooster and plow reveal his appeal to the nation's long-suffering Midwestern farmers; and "Blind Justice" looks longingly at Bryan's portrait. A bronze liberty bell dated 1776 juxtaposes a silver one labeled "1900 No Imperialism."</p><p>Below a white-clad Lady Democracy fashioned as a Jael-style avenger prepares to destroy monopolistic trusts by hacking the tentacles off an octopus that protects large American industries such as the U.S. Biscuit Company American Tobacco the American Steel Trust and perennial progressive punching bag Standard Oil. An octopus representing monopolies dates to the early 1880s but gained traction in the early years of the 1900s notably in <i>Puck</i> magazine's famous 1904 cartoon of Standard Oil's tentacles surrounding the U.S. Capitol building.</p><p>The anti-imperialist plank is shown by figures representing Cuba Mexico and probably the Philippines appealing to the Statue of Liberty shouting "give us liberty or give us death" paraphrasing Patrick Henry's famous line. The print itself boldly proclaims "Equal Rights to All Special Privileges to None."</p><p><b>William Jennings Bryan</b> 1860-1925 of Nebraska was a powerful orator and prominent populist who failed in bids for the presidency in 1896 1900 and 1908. His support for farmers and laborers led him to oppose trusts and seek monetary trade tariff and railroad rate regulation. After his third presidential bid he became Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State in 1913. A pacifist in 1915 Bryan resigned after Wilson began to move towards fighting Germany in WWI after the sinking of the <i>Lusitania</i>. Bryan supported Prohibition and was an ardent anti-Darwinist. He died in 1925 five days after the conclusion of the Scopes Monkey Trial where he defended Tennessee's anti-evolutionary position.</p> books
1877WRCLIT20374New York: The Author's Publishing Co. 1877. 1838pp. Gilt pictorial cloth. Portrait. Modest foxing early and late but a nice bright copy. First edition of the author's first collection including a long verse-play "The Maid of San-Domingo" signed and dated by him in 1882. Hubner was a prominent Atlanta journalist best remembered for his pioneering critical work REPRESENTATIVE SOUTHERN POETS Neale 1906. He published several later collections which saw wide circulation but this collection is uncommon. The NUC locates three copies. The Author's Publishing Co. hardcover books
188956831Deerfield MA: Pocumtuch Valley Memorial Association 1889. 8vo pp. 35. Paper wraps. Some pencil markings in margins cover worn at fold the whole creased vertically o/w VG. Williams the son of John Williams The Redeemed Captive was taken by the French and Indians at Deerfield February 29 1703-04. Also contains notes and stories found among Williams' papers. Pocumtuch Valley Memorial Association unknown books
183520126432<br /><br />A 6" x 5 1/2" heavy card applied to the front a larger blue lettersheet. The finely decorated card depicts two detailed vignettes - One with a harp violets forget-me-nots and fern the other an array of roses pansies forget-me-nots and more. The rose array is at the center razor cut laurel wreath with razor cut border decorations depicting sprays of grass or grain with a hashed razor design surrounding the entire border.<br /><br />The letter within is to dear Margaret who had requested the sender to paint a memento of friendship followed by lovely thoughts on the Beauty of mind and grace of a person. Addressed to Miss Margaret Williams on reverse. Letter sheet measures 10" x 8". Cutwork measures 6" x 5 1/2". The cutwork was most likely affixed to the letter at a later date to keep the two pieces together subsequent to Margaret completing the work. <br /><br /> Letter folds. Come separation at folds. books
1854WN5583New York: D.Appleton & Company 1854. A puzzling and interesting book. Original red cloth gilt with obvious removal by us of grey duct tape at bottom of spine. Another dealer has written on a preliminary that the book has "20 maps some folding". We have counted 24 with some folding and because there is a supplement bound in referring to the south and the west there are four more maps with 3 additional folding ones. A few of the maps folding have been opened roughly but are securely bound in and no pieces are missing. The supplement does not have an index of its maps but we believe that we have them all. There are charming small cuts picturing views of important sites about which the book speaks. The book has a mylar jacket and is a treasure for anyone interested in the U.S. in thepre-civil war era. In addition to paginations of 303 and 140 there are 4 pps of advertisements the last page of which has a small damp stain on its foredge. We have not seen another copy of this travel guide with the supplement included. New and Revised Edition. Cloth. Poor/No DJ. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Travel Guide. D.Appleton & Company Hardcover books
1898WRCLIT76250Chicago: Way & Williams 1898. Small octavo. Pictorial wrappers. Moderate tidemark to fore-edges of upper and lower wrapper but internally fine. First edition of this early collaboration by Rice a prolific Chicago poet editor and critic and important second tier figure in the Chicago literary renaissance. Inscribed and signed by him in the month of publication. One of 1000 copies printed. Contemporary reviewers commended the writers' "breezy and virile ballads" on nautical and naval themes. KRAUS 63. Way & Williams unknown books
1853010570Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo & Company. Good. 1853. Hardcover. A very early pocket map and guide of the United States. Brown blind embossed boards with bright gilt imprint. Tears in spine cloth with rear board detached. Rubbed and bumped corners. Soil on edges light foxing of fold-out map and pages throughout. Illustrated with engravings. Title continues: Containing the Routes of Tarvel by Railroad Steamboat Stage and Canal; Together with Descriptions of and Routes to the Principal Places of Fashionable and Healthful Resort; With Other Valuable Information. Accompanied by an Entirely New and Authentic Map of the United States Including California Oregon Etc. and a Map of the Island of Cuba. The brightly hand-colored map is in very good condition and measures 25" x 30" with a copyright date of 1851. Inset maps are of the western territories the Niagara River and Falls Cuba and Havana. The extensive travel information in the text gives mileage tables western migration routes steamship fares road and railroad construction updates and descriptions of eastern tourist destinations. ; 5 3/4" x 3 3/4"; 216 pp . Lippincott, Grambo & Company hardcover books
18672275128Van Benthuysen & Sons' Steam Printing House 1867. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Lightly foxed throughout edges a bit rubbed. 1867 Hard Cover. v 3 420 pp. 8vo. A collection of medical papers by various authors with discussions of: embalming; materia medica; carbonaceous lungs; wound of heart; gingival margin as a diagnostic sign; obstetrical statistics; report of a case of gunshot wound of the liver; fibrinous bronchial casts; ophthalmic surgery; biliary calculus; general paresis or incomplete progressive paralysis; recto-vaginal and recto-labial fistula; retroflexion of the unimpregnated uterus; ether; reparative autoplastic operation; excision; acute enteritis; chronic hydrocephaly; sanitary conditions of Fish Alley; congenital hypertrophy of tongue amputation; provision for the insane poor asylums; tetanus; diploteratology; progressive locomotor ataxy. Illustrated with black-and-white plates lists of members following articles. Garrison-Morton 534.64 referencing three separate articles published 1865-1867: "Includes a valuable history of teratology with a detailed bibliography. Fisher assembled one of the largest of all libraries on teratology. Van Benthuysen & Sons' Steam Printing House hardcover books
186336686Boston: Watson's Press 1863. 3-1/2" x 6." Printed on white card stock with red and gilt lettering and illustration of the Glidden & Williams white and gold pennant with red star in the middle. Some mounting remnants to blank verso. Very Good.<br/><br/> The Boston Post advertised the sailing of this Clipper Ship in its issues of October 22 and November 2 1863. The firm launched its clipper ships from Lewis Wharf in Boston to San Francisco beginning in 1852. "For Freight or Passage apply at California Packet Office 114 State Street."<br/> Clipper Ship Cards "are historically significant as the earliest form of multicolor business advertising in America. In maritime history they represent the golden age of wooden sailing ship technology. Since each card refers to a particular vessel each is also a document of specific history pertaining to that vessel listing such information as sailing time port of origin and captain. It has been estimated that only about 3000 clipper ship cards survive today and most of these are in institutional collections." Greg Gibson proprietor of Ten Pound Island Books a leading authority on the Clipper Ship online column September 22 2012. Watson's Press unknown books
1896261014Chicago: Marks & Williams 1896. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair binding. Quite a saga told by Mr. Williams many sad stories leading up to his conversion in a New Jersey jail after being incarcerated for public drunkenness. This is not a pretty copy with stains both to the boards and to the text-block. There is minor loss to the top corner of the last third of the book not affecting the text at all. Fair binding. Marks & Williams unknown books
1885WRCAM51658New York: Published for the Author by Fowler & Wells Company 1885. 4178pp. Original red cloth stamped in black and gilt. Spine lightly faded and soiled extremities lightly worn. Bookplate on front pastedown. Final forty pages bound out of order but all present. Very good. A quite rare privately printed personal account by the wife of a bugler about the Civil War campaigns on the Plains and in the Rockies New Mexico Kansas Missouri and Arkansas including a unit roster for the Second Colorado Cavalry on pages 161-176. Many of the men of the Second Colorado had been miners before the war. Mrs. Williams gives an interesting view of the little-known southwestern campaigns. DORNBUSCH Colorado 166. EBERSTADT 138:171. HOWES W452 "aa." GRAFF 4676. Published for the Author by Fowler & Wells Company hardcover books
1840770Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1840. 12mo. 3 vols. 220;208;208pp. Orig. red cloth spines with paper labels over boards. Spines & boards somewhat soiled. Scarce first American edition of this English novel 3 volumes London 1839 an imaginary story of the poets boyhood of which nothing is actually known. Jaggard. SHAKESPEARE BIBLIOGRAPHY p.691. Not in Sadleir or Wolff. See for a photograph. Lea and Blanchard hardcover books
1822290116London: Edward Jeffery and Son 1822. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The works of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams complete in three volumes. With portrait frontispiece in each volume. Fully rebacked in sympathetic cloth with the remnants of the original cloth spines and paper labels laid down. Red cloth overall in Very Good condition. Very Good binding. Edward Jeffery and Son unknown books
1811700261811. With Verses Addressed to "The Fair Sex" Murder. Williams John. The Winchester Tragedy; A Full True And Particular Account of a Most Bloody Murder! Committed on the Body of Mary Thomas Near Winchester In the County of Hants By John Williams A Young Farmer In the Same Neighborhood On Sunday Last. London: Printed and Sold by T. Evans c.1811. 8 pp. Woodcut illustrations on title page and p. 6. Octavo 7" x 4". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Light soiling and edgewear light toning. A well-preserved copy of a rare title. $650. Mary Thomas not yet 18 fell in love with John Williams a young farmer who lived near Winchester. Williams promised to marry her when she became pregnant. However he shifted his attention another young woman who recently inherited 200. He was determined to marry her. Mary and the unborn child complicated his plans. One night he put his arms around Mary as if to kiss her then pulled out a concealed knife and cut her throat in a most dreadful manner. He then dragged the body to a ditch covered it with brambles and returned home. The investigation led to Williams. Despite the evidence of his guilt he persisted in denying the crime until he was confronted with Mary's body. He was so shocked that he confessed his guilt. The two crude woodcuts depict Williams being taken through town by horse and cart surrounded by a baying crowd and the second shows him hanging from the gallows. The pamphlet concludes with verses "Addressed to the Fair Sex." Two editions listed in COPAC one of ours at the British Library. unknown books
1900134377New York London Montreal: The Abbey Press Publishers 1900. Octavo title page printed in red and black original red cloth stamped in black all edges untrimmed. First edition. Despite the book's title this is a short novel not a group of stories or sketches about a mysterious wealthy beautiful young widow who with her young son and servant a female dwarf move to a small town in Vermont on the White River in 1856. The widow is a "new woman": a freethinker an abolitionist and a philanthropist who home schools her son doesn't attend church and builds homes for the poor on her property. This doesn't sit well with many of the residents of the village who attempt to convert her to their ways. Part reform novel part domestic melodrama perhaps written long before it was published. "Compliments of the Author" inked on the front free endpaper. Not in Wright American Fiction 1876-1900. Cloth a bit marked and rubbed spine panel a bit sunned a very good copy. A scarce book. #134377 The Abbey Press Publishers unknown books
1900133562New York London Montreal: The Abbey Press Publishers 1900. Octavo title page printed in red and black original red cloth stamped in black all edges untrimmed. First edition. Despite the book's title this is a short novel not a group of stories or sketches about a mysterious wealthy beautiful young widow who with her young son and servant a female dwarf move to a small town in Vermont in 1856. The widow is a "new woman": a freethinker an abolitionist and a philanthropist who home-schools her son doesn't attend church and builds homes for the poor on her property. Her behavior offends many of the village residents and they attempt to convert her to their ways. Part reform novel part domestic melodrama perhaps written long before it was published. "Compliments of the Author" inked on the front free endpaper. Not in Wright American Fiction 1876-1900. Slight shelf lean a fine copy. #133562 The Abbey Press Publishers unknown books
1833001803Boston: James B. Dow 1833. Hardcover. First American edition; 6 x 4; pp. 260; early publisher's binding olive green cloth over boards; morocco label with gilt title to spine; a bit of wear to cloth; two small nicks to tips of spine; text mostly very clean but for some foxing to first and last few pages; previous owner's signature to front board verso; illustrated with a wood-engraved plate frontis; very good or better condition. An uncommon educational book aimed at children and young adults and presented in the form of conversations between the Elwood children and their parents it contains chapters on grapes olives dispersion of seeds and more. The original owner of the book Mrs. George A. Hayward Ellen of St. Louis was a well known figure in the literary and society circles of mid-19th century Missouri wife of businessman and investor in New Mexico copper mines George A. Hayward and mother of Florence Hayward - the Woman Commissioner of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the only American woman to be made an Honorary Associate of The French Academy and the only one to receive a Gold Medal for services rendered and a co-founder of the Artists' Guild. Boston: James B. Dow hardcover books
1819718231819. An Interesting Murder and Piracy Trial Joseph Story Presided Trial. Williams John Primary Defendant. The Trial of John Williams Francis Frederick John P. Rog Nils Peterson and Nathaniel White On an Indictment for Murder on the High Seas: Before the Circuit Court of the United States Holden for the District of Massachusetts At Boston On the 29th of December 1818. Boston: Printed by Russell and Gardner 1819. 92 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet in plain wrappers untrimmed edges. Moderate edgewear a few small tears and chips to wrappers spine abraded wrappers partially detached but secure faint inscription in pencil to head of front wrapper. Moderate toning and light foxing to text faint dampstaining to a few leaves soiling to p.92 and title page which has a chip to its lower inside corner. $1500. Only edition. Tried before Joseph Story in his capacity as the Judge of the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts this trial involved murders committed on the merchant schooner Plattsburgh bound from Baltimore to Smyrna. Led by Williams the accused murdered the captain and took the ship to Norway. All the defendants except White were found guilty of murder and piracy and hanged. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 13248. McDade The Annals of Murder 1103. unknown books
1856251177Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co 1856. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Blind-stamped cloth covers titled in gilt. With "A New Map of the United States Upon Which are Delineated its Vast Works of Internal Communication With the Proposed Routes Across the Continent &c. Showing Also Canada and the Island of Cuba". With insets of The City of Havana Map of the Island of Cuba and Map of California Oregon New Mexico Utah &c. With some splits at the fold and minor loss to edge where the map is attached. Very Good binding. J. B. Lippincott & Co unknown books
185136812Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo & Co 1851. 1st edition Clark III 434; Graff 4687; New Howes W-487. Original publisher's wallet-style purple leather binding with gilt title stamping to one side. Leather faded to dark tan. Old paper repair to top of rear hinge. Map with some age-toning along the two center horizontal fold-lines. Overall a respectable VG copy. iv 5 - 216 20 pp. Publisher catalogue last 20 pages. Fold-out map 24-3/4" x 29-1/2" at rear entitled "A New Map of the United States © 1851 upon which are Delineated its Vast Works of Internal Communication Routes across the Continent &c. Showing also Canada and the Island of Cuba." Map hand-colored in outline. Scale: ~ 65 mi = 1". 4 insets including one depicting California & Oregon. 12mo. 5-9/16" x 3-1/2" <br/><br/>While Howes categorizes this work as a derivative of Williams' earlier Appleton publications the author in his prefatory "To the Public" goes to great pains to reassure the reader this a new work in which an "entirely new plan has been adopted." a stance to which Clark & Graff agree. Further research suggests this the first Williams' publication to address California. This 1851 map not recorded by Wheat TRANSMISSIPPI though see entry 769 for the 1852 version. Wheat tells us the map "is largely based on Fremont but which carries much up-to-date information .". Somewhat uncommon on the commercial market with last copy to auction in 1999. Lippincott Grambo & Co hardcover books
