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1860039911Philadelphia: G.G. Evans 1860. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition. Offsetting to frontispiece light wear to edges of stamped blue cloth. A nice copy of this patriotic collection printed on the eve of the Civil War. 503pp plus 22pp of ads. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 039911. <br/><br/> G.G. Evans hardcover books
1871TB22734New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons 1871. Good in the publisher's original green cloth over beveled boards with gilt text and black decorations on the spine and the same on the front board with brown clay end sheets. The cloth at the upper front joint is worn and rubbed through and the front and rear hinges have been repaired. Nonetheless the binding remains tight and strong with no loose or weak signatures. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is rubbed through as it is in several areas at the lower edge of the boards. Without a dust jacket probably as issued. 133 pages of text with 47 illustrations by various artists including: Wm. Hart Hows Darley Nast Casilear Smillie Shattuck McEntee Bellows and Huntington and with a frontispiece by H. B. Hall. A collection of seventeen short stories by William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving W. D. Howells William Allen Butler T. Buchanan Read Howard Glyndon Bayard Taylor W. D. O'Connor R. H. Stoddard George William Curtis BAL 10387 Irving 2236 Butler 16471 Read and 1721 Bryant An anthology named after Washington Irving's home. G. P. Putnam & Sons hardcover books
1869190903Stuttgart. : Julius Maier. 1869. First year of publication. . Contemporary quarter green morocco over marbled boards raised bands gilt spine decorations. . Very good light shelfwear to extremities light scattered foxing. 4to. 24.7x16.5 cm. . German text. Bound volume of 12 monthly journals with index. weight: 2.7 lb. Sparsely illustrated with vignettes and maps one folding map of Germany one full-page map of Formosa. Julius Maier. hardcover books
1865189628Chur. : L. Hitz. 1865. 1st Edition. Publishers yellow printed wraps. . Very good old ink name to title page. 8vo. 19x12.5 cm. . German text. weight: 0.4 lb. Two folding maps. L. Hitz. paperback books
1832182278New York & Philadelphia.: Foreign and Classical Bookstore. 1832. Elaborately tooled and gilt black calf gilt borders inside covers all edges gilt glossy endpapers. Very good light wear to corners. 12mo.16.2x10 cm. . French text. Souvenir books for visitors to America with a collection of contemporary literature and steel engravings in an elaborate binding. weight: 0.7 lb. 11 engraved plates including frontis. Foreign and Classical Bookstore. unknown books
1837184003Paris. : Les Bureaux D'Abonnement et de Vente. 1837. Publisher’s dark pink cloth. . Good plus spine edges and corners worn ink name to ffep contents very good. 4to. 29.5x19.8 cm. . French text. Annual collection of this popular profusely illustrated general interest magazine. weight 2.3 lb. Numerous illustrations of varied subject matter. Les Bureaux D'Abonnement et de Vente. hardcover books
1833184000Paris. : Les Bureaux 1833. Publisher’s pink cloth. . Good plus spine sunned glue repair to rear hinge ink name to ffep contents very good. . 4to. 29.8x19.5 cm. . French text. First annual collection of this popular profusely illustrated general interest magazine. weight 2.2 lb. Numerous illustrations of varied subject matter. Les Bureaux hardcover books
1835184002Paris. : Les Bureaux D'Abonnement et de Vente. 1835. Publisher’s pink cloth. . Very good spine sunned ink name to ffep. . 4to. 29.5x19.3 cm. . French text. Annual collection of this popular profusely illustrated general interest magazine. weight 2.2 lb. Numerous illustrations of varied subject matter. Les Bureaux D'Abonnement et de Vente. hardcover books
1833186206Geneve.: L.Collin. 1833. Green marbled boards vellum spine label yellow edges. Good plus moderate shelfwear to cover contents very good. 8vo. 22.5x14 cm. French text. First 12 issues of this periodical of instruction in useful arts. weight: 1.2 lb. L.Collin. hardcover books
1833186205Geneve.: L.Collin. 1833. Quarter red leather over marbled boards. Good plus moderate shelfwear to extremities contents very good. 8vo. 22.5x14 cm. . French text. First 12 issues of this periodical of instruction in useful arts. weight: 1.1 lb. L.Collin. hardcover books
1833290264Paris. : Bureau de Journal. 1833. Contemporary marbled boards no spine label. . Good plus covers shelfworn scattered moderate foxing dampstain to a few pages. 31x24 cm. . French text. Journal of science literature fine arts and morals with articles by many popular authors of the time. Heavy book weight: 3.0 lb. may require extra shipping. Bureau de Journal. hardcover books
1834183661Paris. : Bureau de Journal. 1834 . Contemporary marbled boards no spine label. . Good plus covers shelfworn scattered moderate foxing dampstain to a few pages. . 31x24 cm. . French text. Journal of science literature fine arts and morals with articles by many popular authors of the time. Heavy book weight: 3.0 lb. may require extra shipping. Bureau de Journal. hardcover books
1854011641D.Appleton & Company 1854. Book. Near Fine. Full-Leather. Beautiful Full-Leather Brown Copy.Terrific Tooled Leather.1854. Exceptional Copy. Great Illustrations. Hand Colored Plates. D.Appleton & Company Hardcover books
18531285321New York: G. P. Putnam and Co 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 366pp.; VG; bound in original brown cloth paneled spine with gilt lettering embossing to cloth; all edges of text block gilt; mild wear and rubbing to boards; marbled endpapers; bookplate on front pastedown; contains engraved title page 19 steel engraved plates including frontispiece 16 facsimiles of manuscripts 15 hand-colored mounted proof-paper illustrations; contains a handwritten letter torn naturally along creases detailing the gift of this book to a Anna Kelsey. Anna Halleck Kelsey was a teacher of Elocution and English literature towards the end of the nineteenth century.; shelved case 12. 1285321. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. G. P. Putnam and Co hardcover books
185255897New York: G. P. Putnam and Co. Very Good. 1852. Hardcover. Previous owner signed blue baords with gilt stamping are scuffed and worn page edges are gilt contents are clean and complete a very good copy. . G. P. Putnam and Co. hardcover books
188454941New York: Orange Judd Company. Very Good. 1884. Hardcover. Green boards have gilt and black stamping spine ends and cover corners are gently rubbed showing just minor wear previous owner signed overall a clean nice copy. Very Good. . Orange Judd Company hardcover books
188266856London: Samuel Golbourn. Good. 1882. Hardcover. 128 pages. Stiff paper-covered boards. The covers are soiled and chipped but the contents are bright and complete. Good . Samuel Golbourn hardcover books
1900009646The <i>Virginia's</i> guest register is a bound leather book measuring approximately 8.5" x 10.5" with approximately 250 gilt-edged pages. About 75 of those pages are filled with notes signatures and drawings by visitors and passengers. The cover is adorned with enameled metal ornaments in the shape of New York and Manhattan Yacht Club burgees. The frontispiece appears to be hand-painted and shows the same two burgees with text reading "Steam Yacht Virginia". All of the entries are in ink. In nice shape.<br /><br /> The <i>Virginia </i>was an incredibly luxurious 441-ton steam yacht built in 1899 at Bath Maine for the New York department store magnate Isaac Stern. <br /><br /> Entries in its guest book begin in February of 1900 and contain messages from about 400 people from around the world. I noticed notations from Belgium Cyprus Egypt England including the Isle of Wight Germany Greece India Turkey and the U.S. East Coast in a variety of languages including Arabic English French German Greek and Japanese. <br /><br />Some signatures are from diplomats consuls foreign ministers military officers and no doubt quite a number of wealthy businessmen financiers and socialites. <br /><br />Many of the entries refer to attendance at specific events like the Hudson-Fulton Celebration including its Naval Parade the International Yacht Race of 1903 and Yale-Harvard Races. The last entry in the guest book is dated September 25 1910 just before Stern's death. <br /><br /> The accompanying first edition book <i>Ten Thousand Miles in a Yacht</i> chronicles a trip on the <i>Virginia</i> organized by "Commodore" E. C. Benedict a New York financier who chartered the vessel from Stern to make the cruise with ten friends and a crew of 33 officers and men between November 1904 and January 1905. Benedict felt his own yacht was not up to the voyage. Apparently Stern retained the guest book during the voyage as no entries were made during that time. <br /><br />Contemporary newspaper articles suggest that following Stern's death Benedict purchased the vessel after first chartering it once more from Stern's estate to undertake a second Amazon River voyage. He in turn sold the vessel to F. K. Vanderbilt the grandson of Cornelius. During World War One it was acquired by the U.S. Navy on a free-lease renamed the <i>U.S.S. Vedette</i> and deployed on patrol duty escorting convoys in the Atlantic where it rescued survivors from a torpedoed Greek ship as well as a disabled French seaplane and its crew. Following the war the yacht was returned to Vanderbilt.<br /><br /> Isaac Stern and his brothers sons of German-Jewish immigrants opened a one-room dry goods store in Buffalo New York in 1867 and moved their operation to New York City not far from Washington Square Park the following year. They relocated to 22nd Street near Madison Square Park and continually enlarged their business until it became an enormous and elegant six-story department store known for selling a wide range of goods from working-class merchandise to elegant Parisian fashions coveted by New York's wealthiest women. After the business was purchased by the Allied Stores Corporation Stern's acquired a number of defunct Gimbles and Gertz stores throughout the region. Allied Stores was in turn acquired by Federated Department Stores which in 2001 converted most Stern's stores into Macy's or Bloomingdale's and closed the rest. <br /><br /> A unique first-hand testament to the life of the ultra-rich in the early pre-World War One years in New York City. hardcover books
1848009349Forsyth County Georgia 1848. Unbound. Very good. <br /><br />In this one-page document bondsmen pledge $100 as a guarantee that: <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">"Adam Campbell shall personally appear before the Superior Court when held for said County on the fourth Monday in August next then and there to answer . . . for and concerning the offence of a Misdemeanor for furnishing a certain negro man slave by the name of Buc the property of one Captain McQuering with spiritous liquor for his own use. . . ."<p>Although during the earliest days of slavery in the American colonies slaves were permitted to use alcohol and beer in ceremonies and rituals that they had practiced in Africa as their numbers increased colonial governments began passing laws regulating the practice. By the middle of the 18th century most colonies were severely limiting slaves' access to liquor "based on the notion that Blacks were too irresponsible to be trusted with the use of alcohol or fear that Blacks would be less accepting of the conditions of their servitude more difficult to control and more prone to violence. Concern regarding mass drunkenness and potential revolt was heightened following Nat Turner's and Denmark Vessey's revolts." See Christmom's "Historical Overview of Alcohol in the African American Community" in <i>Journal of Black Studies</i> Jan. 1995. <br /><br />From the size of Campbell's bond it would appear that he may have previously been convicted for the same crime as in 1848 the Georgia Code specified that if any "person whatsoever shall sell to or furnish any slave . . . spirituous liquor wines cider or any intoxicating liquors for his own use or for the purpose of sale such person so offending shall upon conviction thereof pay a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for the first offence and upon a second conviction to be subject to a fine and imprisonment in the common jail of the county at the discretion of the court not to exceed sixty days of imprisonment and five hundred dollars fine. . . ." <br /><br />Rather scarce. At time of listing there are two similar documents for sale in the trade and the Rare Book Hub shows two have been sold at auction. OCLC shows three similar documents are held in institutional collections. <br /><br /> books
186624824New York: Harper & Brothers 1866. First edition. Paperback. Fair. Single bound issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. 199 December 1866. Notable for the inclusion of "Forty Three Days In An Open Boat" pp 104-113 now recognized as the first appearance of Mark Twain in a national magazine. Noted apparently as Mark Swain in the list of contributors. This copy in relatively poor condition with some substantial soiling chipping to edges and other general wear. However still bound with most of the spine intact. Not often found as a separate issue it is much more common for this to be found as part of a bound set of twelve issues. Harper & Brothers paperback books
188236736New York: Imprinted by the Press of Francis Hart & Co. for Charles Pratt & Co. Christmas 1882. 8vo 20.6 cm; 8.125". 6 997 7 pp. <br><br>Promotional gift book created by Charles Pratt & Co. for "patrons of ours already or shall become such hereafter" to celebrate the Christmas season p. 5. The text contains a variety of poems and songs some about Christmas some not from Longfellow Robert Burns Edmund Clarence Stedman Keats and more. A surprising number of poems discuss death and one from the Cottonian MS. beseeches women not to be "wilful wives."<br>Â Â Â Â => Following the poetry section there is a series of advertisements for products such as Pratt's Astral Oil and double-deodorized benzine. This is an interesting attractive little relic of an era when manufacturers of such humble products sought surprisingly often to associate themselves with Much Higher Things often going to real trouble and expense to do so! Beige printed wrappers with "1888" written on the front cover in ink and a small pink stain at top edge; light age-toning. Imprinted [by the Press of Francis Hart & Co.] for Charles Pratt & Co. unknown books
1879WN57922Philadelphia: The Times Publishing Company 1879. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations and beveled edges. Top edge brown stained. Brown endpapers. Owner names on preliminaries. Some foxing throughout. A compilation of short essays by participants in the Civil War said to be very authoritative. . First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. The Times Publishing Company Hardcover books
189623073Philadelphia.: World Bible House. 1896. Salesman’s sample. . Pictorial cloth: color pictorial boards. . Covers soiled and worn at extremities. Good only. . 4to. Numerous illustrations. World Bible House. hardcover books
181446563Baltimore: Edward J. Coale 1814. First Thus. 16mo 13.5cm.; publisher's mottled sheep tan gilt spine label; ix8-308pp.; engraved frontispiece by Richard Westall and added lithographed title page. Boards rather scuffed and leather dried hairline cracking at joints spine darkened toning along endpaper margins else Very Good internally fine. Quite an attractive collection of poetry with a frontispiece by the English painter Richard Westall best known as Queen Victoria's drawing master and for his portraits of Lord Byron. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 31070. Edward J. Coale unknown books
1866008746France: Eleutheropolis aux devantures des libraires Ailleurs dans leurs Arrière-Boutiques 1866. Frontispiece engraved by Félicien Rops on China in double proof in black and bistre. Fine and finely bound by A. Bertrand stamp-signed in half crushed gold morocco over marbled boards the back with five raised bands and gilt lettering marbled end papers top gilt. With the excellent provenance; FEP the bookplate of Charles Reginald Dawes 1879-1964 noted British collector of erotica whose library was left to the British Museum library now the British Library. This title not found in the Sotheby auction of 1965 titled "Property of a Gentleman". . First Edition. Half Morocco. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Eleutheropolis, aux devantures des libraires Ailleurs dans leurs Arrière-Boutiques Hardcover books
