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188037675Tarrytown: Geo. L. Wiley & Bro. civil engineers and surveyors 1880. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. About very good wrappers chipped at edges front wrapper partially detached map split at joint a few small tears along folds otherwise quite bright. 24 pp. Illus. with 1 hand colored folding map and 1 b/w engraving. 8vo. Issued on the centennial anniversary of the capture of Major André on September 23 1780 at Tarrytown N.Y. "The Andre papers": pp. 12-18. The title vignette which is also reproduced on the front wrapper is captioned "Monument erected near the spot where Major Andre was captured September 23d 1780" and signed E.M. Bacon. The map which measures 18 x 14 inches and hand-colored in yellow blue and green is captioned: Tarwe-town in the manor of Phillipsburgh Westchester Co. N.Y. One hundred years ago. Uncommon and quite fragile due to mounting of map on front wrapper. OCLC locates six copies under two accession numbers: NYPL NYS Hist. Asn NJ Histo. Soc. 19111384 and NY Hist. Soc. Westchester Lib. and Boston Athenaeum 82174650. Geo. L. Wiley & Bro., civil engineers and surveyors unknown books
189662111Tuscumbia AL: O.G. Simpson job printer 1896. First edition . 8vo. 30 pp. Folding map; title-page printed in red ads for local businesses including one for the printer and another for the compiler both printed in red several buildings illustrated from wood engravings and a photograph. Detailed prospectus for this Alabama county lying just south of the Tennessee River near Florence. Signed by the compiler at the head of the front wrapper. Apparently not recorded in OCLC and we have not been able to trace a copy in other bibliographical or online sources. Very good. Original decorated green and white wrappers stapled. 8917. <br/><br/> O.G. Simpson, job printer unknown books
182856557New Haven: Hezekiah Howe 1828. First edition 8vo pp. 36; removed from binding wrappers wanting; last couple leaves lightly foxed otherwise clean and sound. Jehudi Ashmun a caucasian was a member of the American Colonialization Society which founded the colony of Liberia. Ashmun moved there and served as the de facto governor and supported a constitution that gave black citizens the ability to serve in government. He grew ill shortly after his second term and died soon after returning to the States. Leonard Bacon was an influential anti-slavery advocate. His work Slavery Discussed in Occasional Essays from 1833 to 1846 was an influence on Lincoln. American Imprints 32060; not in Afro-Americana. <br/><br/> Hezekiah Howe unknown books
185958527NY and Savannah: D. Appleton and William Thorne Williams 1859. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: xiii 2 503; 524 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Oglethorpe in volume one 3 plans folding view of St. Augustine. Typed letter in pocket at rear of volume one related to the provenance of this set. "Writing with precision and accuracy and using the documentary sources Stevens produced a history which has not yet been supplanted." Howes S-974. Sabin 91574. De Renne catalogue II pp. 516-516. Harwell & Willingham Georgiana 36. Ex-institutional library copy with stamp on title page overstamped "duplicate" and bookplates on front pastedown stamped "released" otherwise very good. Original embossed black pebbled cloth gilt spine title. #5772. <br/><br/> D. Appleton and William Thorne Williams hardcover books
1801289249Dublin: Luke White 1801. Sixth Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. The set in the Sixth Edition complete in five volumes with Volumes 6 and 7 being An Appendix to Bacon's New Abridgement of the Law in two volumes alphabetically digested by Henry Willims. The five volume set printed by Luke White in Dublin in 1793 and the Appendix volumes printed by White in 1801. Each of the seven volumes with the signature of Philip Lightfoot -- perhaps the same Lightfoot of Culpeper County who served in the Continental Army Artillery from 1778-1781 and was a prominent lawyer and merchant the little town of Lightfoot Virginia near Williamsburg bears his name . The volumes also have the name of another Culpeper lawyer James French Strother. Uniformly bound in contemporary calf with a decorative roll in blind to the perimeters of each board and morocco labels minor loss to one label. Numbers are stamped in blind. Very Good binding. Luke White unknown books
185729112New York: C. S. Francis & Co. 1857. 8vo. xx 536 pp. <br><br>First U.S. edition of Bacon's essays with Whately's annotations. "From the second London edition revised." Whately 1787-1863 the archbishop of Dublin was a philosopher and political activist for Irish political reform. Bacon's essays are wide-ranging covering such topics as truth death revenge envy love boldness sedition cunning friendship suspicion discourse innovations empire travel suitors prophecies beauty deformity praise ceremonies faction anger and judicature to mention just a few. Publisher's textured dull green cloth; covers stamped in blind; lettered in gilt now dull on spine. Top of spine pulled with small loss of cloth and with a small paper label. Exsocial club library: 19th-century bookplate call number on endpaper no other markings A rather nice copy. C. S. Francis & Co. hardcover books
18673282London: Longmans Green Reader and Dyer 1867. Lg. 8vo. xxiv620pp. Indices. Plus 24pp. publisher's catalog. Early 20th c. 1/2 calf gilt black morocco spine label over cloth lightly soiled. Whately the editor was Archbishop of Dublin. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer hardcover books
180641226London: Vernor Hood & Sharpe 1806. Margin: 200x103 mm. Very faint soiling. Vernor, Hood & Sharpe unknown books
188526551New York: Harper & Brothers 1885. 8vo. Frontis. 312 pp. lacks the map. <br><br>First edition second issue. Mrs. Custer wrote a trilogy in defense of her husband this being the first volume of that threesome. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Rader 1010; Howes C980; Graff 959. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt and black on front cover showing a sunrise sunset on Plains with low hills. Slightly skewed in binding. Bookplate on front pastedown ownership signature on title-page. Lacking the map. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
186224177Washington 1862. 20pp. Original printed wrappers a few very small chips spine split and wraps detaching stitched. Good or so. <br/><br/> The firm Russell Majors and Waddell contracted with the War Department in 1860 "for the transportation of military stores and supplies to the army then occupying Utah and New Mexico." War Secretary John Floyd soon to desert to the Confederacy accepted drafts drawn by the firm "thus solemnly acknowledging the indebtedness of the United States to the drawers for the amounts so accepted." Peirce and Bacon purchased these drafts and sought payment from the United States but the government has rebuffed them. This pamphlet demonstrates their entitlement citing and explaining appropriate legal precedents. <br/>OCLC 28140977 8. unknown books
1862WRCAM26652Washington 1862. 20pp. Original printed wrappers detached. Old library stamp on front wrapper. Good. The case of Peirce & Bacon Boston merchants revolves around drafts drawn on the Department of War for money due the freighters Russell Majors and Wadell the major firm freighting government supplies to New Mexico and Utah in the 1850's. Peirce & Bacon purchased a total of $260000 worth of these drafts what they believed to be "first class paper" backed by the "pledged faith and well known laws of the Government." The bankruptcy of the shipping firm threw the value of the paper into doubt. After submitting the drafts for payment and receiving no payments after eighteen months Peirce & Bacon appealed to Congress. This pamphlet sets forth their side of the case. unknown books
184510008New Haven: Pr. by B. L. Hamlen for the Foreign Evangelical Society 1845. 8vo. 43 1 blank pp. <br><br>Removed from a nonce volume. Lightly age-toned. Pencilled presentation inscription on title-page partially cut off by binder's trimming. Pr. by B. L. Hamlen for the Foreign Evangelical Society unknown books
1848WRCLIT40920New Haven: Printed by B.L. Hamlen Printer to Yale College 1848. Printed salmon wrappers. First edition. Very light foxing early and late faint dust soiling to wrappers tiny nick to toe of spine else a fine copy as usual. Printed by B.L. Hamlen, Printer to Yale College unknown books
180765108Boston: Published by Oliver and Munroe 1807. First American edition of the first complete edition of Bacon's "Essays" and first separate American edition. In 1688 William Bradford had printed the first American appearance of Bacon's essays in the third part of a collection edited by Daniel Leeds entitled "The Temple of Wisdom for the Little World. 12mo. Contemporary sheep red morocco label. Ex-library with small paper label on spine and pockets and labels on pastedowns rubbing and wear to extremities and joints some browning of text mostly at the front and back and of endpapers. With the signature of William Pickering the gift to the library of Charles Walker Pickering. In a leather tipped brown cloth open end case. First American edition of the first complete edition of Bacon's "Essays" and first separate American edition. In 1688 William Bradford had printed the first American appearance of Bacon's essays in the third part of a collection edited by Daniel Leeds entitled "The Temple of Wisdom for the Little World" 12mo. Bacon's theories and his reasoning methods were popular during the Jeffersonian era. Jefferson was a strong advocate and believer in his inductive scientific methods and Baconian theory was evident in many of his actions; he even catalogued his library using "Bacon's classification of the human mind into 'Reason' "Memory' and 'Imagination.' " Brown "Thomas Jefferson" p.196. Lilly "Grolier 100 Books Famous Books in English Literature" 13; Shaw and Shoemaker 43127. For the first complete edition: Gibson 13; Pforzheimer 30 Published by Oliver and Munroe unknown books
180740830London: Printed for J. Johnson and 20 others 1807. Small 12mo pp. xv 216; engraved frontispiece 8 plates; contemporary tree calf gilt lettered spine ex-Hill Library will usual markings extremities rubbed hinges reinforced with modern cloth endpaper edges toned interior fine. <br/><br/> Printed for J. Johnson [and 20 others] hardcover books
1812769051812. BACON Francis. ESSAYS MORAL ECONOMICAL AND POLITICAL With the Life of the Author. London Printed at the Chiswick Press by C. Whittingham for J. Carpenter 1812 Octavo. xl295pp. Frontispiece portrait. Nicely bound in green diced calf expertly and almost imperceptibly rebacked in green leather gilt with red label. Small ownership stamp to fly and offset from frontispiece onto title else fine. unknown books
180758971Boston: Published by Oliver and Munroe No. 78 State-Street 1807. First American edition of the first complete edition of Bacon's "Essays" and first separate American edition. xv xvi blank 2 Contents 270 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary tree calf board edges worn. New morocco spine with black morocco label. Sound clean copy. First American edition of the first complete edition of Bacon's "Essays" and first separate American edition. xv xvi blank 2 Contents 270 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. In 1688 William Bradford had printed the first American appearance of Bacon's essays in the third part of a collection edited by Daniel Leeds entitled "The Temple of Wisdom for the Little World". Bacon's theories and his reasoning methods were popular during the Jeffersonian era. Jefferson was a strong advocate and believer in his inductive scientific methods and Baconian theory was evident in many of his actions he even catalogued his library using "Bacon's classification of the human mind into 'Reason' 'Memory' and 'Imagination.'" Brown "Thomas Jefferson" p.196. The Baconian theory "that one is educated partly by teachers studies and books but mostly by experience carefully observed and thoughtfully considered was especially appealing in America where Bacon was virtually canonized during the eighteenth century. as one of the true progenitors of the modern world." Cremin L. A. "American Education" 1970 p. 102. Lilly "Grolier 100 Books Famous Books in English Literature" 13; Shaw and Shoemaker 12020. For the first complete edition of 1625: Gibson 13; Pforzheimer 30 Published by Oliver and Munroe, No. 78, State-Street unknown books
1828BL4560Boston:: Timothy Bedlington 1828. 1828. 12mo. 218 pp. Original full calf gilt spine decoration and title; extremities worn joints cracked upper board holding by cords only. Title signature of Joseph H. Crane. Good. Timothy Bedlington, 1828. unknown books
1807WRCAM27886Boston: Joseph Greenleaf 1807. xv3270pp. Contemporary calf ornate gilt spine gilt- tooling on edges of binding. Spine lightly chipped. Attractive and very good with the ownership signature of Samuel Putnam Waldo on the front free endpaper. First American edition and the first work by Bacon to be published separately in the United States. Samuel Putnam Waldo was the grandson of Gen. Israel Putnam and a popular writer known for his biographies of Andrew Jackson and Stephen Decatur and particularly his TOUR OF JAMES MONROE. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 12020. Joseph Greenleaf unknown books
1870WRCLIT65467Lyon & Paris: H. Pélgaud Fils et Roblot 1870. Two volumes. Handsome half calf and marbled boards original wrappers bound in. New edition first published posthumously in 1836. Spines a trace darkened else very good or better. H. Pélgaud Fils et Roblot hardcover books
1837321388London: Wm. H. Allen and Co. Leadenhall Street 1837. First edition. Full-page map frontispieces plates. xx 406; xvi 436 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in half contemporary blue morocco and marbled boards. First edition. Full-page map frontispieces plates. xx 406; xvi 436 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. "An officer in the Bengal Horse Artillery Bacon recounts his assignment to India with vivid descriptions of life in the cantonments travels along the Ganges River and observations of the peoples he encountered. He also enjoyed hunting wild boar and tiger in the 'junguls' near the confluence of the Ganges and Jumna Rivers. Near Hurdwar he hunted wild elephant and tiger. Continuing into the Dehra Doon he collected bear and encountered more tiger. An interesting view of pre-Raj India and its wild sports" Czech. Czech Asia p. 16 Wm. H. Allen and Co. Leadenhall Street unknown books
186647875New Haven: T.J. Stafford 1866. Paperback. Good. 66pp. Wraps darkened front lightly chipped with some loss to the spine. <br/><br/> T.J. Stafford paperback books
189412536Paris and New York: Boussod Valadon & Co 1894. Hardcover. VG with slight and random spotting to covers scattered light foxing. Spotted red cloth with gilt lettering 102 pp. numerous plates within the text. Includes 100 plates-photogravures and Etchings and one water-color Fac-simile by Goupil & Co. The color reproduction is of "A Whisper of Love" by P. Carrier-Belleuse. Despite some random spotting to the covers this is a solid copy of the Vellum edition. text is in English. Boussod, Valadon & Co hardcover books
1895118698Paris: Bousod Valadon & Co 1895. Hardcover. VG slight focused and local damage to cloth on front cover not bad. Foxing. Red cloth over boards; Gilt lettering and decoration; 101 pp. plus plates; 101 color and duotone plates and figures 100 plates--photogravures and etchings 1 water color fac-simile per title page. Text in English translated from French by Henry Bacon. Contains painting and sculpture from the 1895 exhibitons of the Salon and the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts including works by J. Frappa Guignard P. Dubois L. Loir L. Royer L. Doucet R. Ernst and many more. Color frontispiece is after Daniel Ridgway Knight. Bousod, Valadon & Co hardcover books
1898275232Boston: Silver Burdett 1898. hardcover. good. Illus. 475pp. 8vo decorated cloth pages throughout are slightly wavy some pages in front of book have a small dampstain to the upper right corners margins spine darkened. Boston: Silver Burdett 1898.<br/><br/> Silver, Burdett unknown books
