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1888224763Vicksburg Miss 1888. FACSIMILE. 1p. printed on verso of floral wallpaper. Folio. Stamped copyright applied for Jan. 1888 on lower margin. Some splitting at old folds. FACSIMILE. 1p. printed on verso of floral wallpaper. Folio. Wall-Paper Newspaper Facsimile. A facsimile of a Confederate wall-paper newspaper printed on the verso of a sheet of wallpaper due to the scarcity of paper. "Compelled to print on one side of the paper only and frequently shorn of advertisements the editor gave to his readers only the military information the local news and occasional quotations from other journals" Brigham.<br/>This issue is famous for the note added July 4th at the bottom of the page by just victorious Union soldiers: "Two days bring about great changes. The banner of the Union floats over Vicksburg . this is the last wall paper edition and is excepting this note from the type as we found them. It will be valuable hereafter as a curiousity". Clarence Brigham "Wall-Paper Newspapers of the Civil War unknown books
1841166Washington D.C.: Blair & Rives 1841. Good. 423pp. Volume 6 Numbers 1:27 paginated continuously. Folio. Contemporary half sheep and marbled boards. Boards detached with tape repairs. Light dampstaining at upper corner; light tanning and foxing. A complete run of this 1840 Democratic campaign newspaper published weekly as an extra to the District of Columbia periodical the Globe during political campaign seasons. This run of the Extra covers the 1840 presidential election between William Henry Harrison and Martin Van Buren. Content includes speeches and testimonials for Van Buren and against Harrison as well as editorials and other articles and party-related material that address all the principal issues of the campaign. Harrison would go on to sweep the electoral college handily but famously died in office after only four weeks as president to be succeeded by John Tyler. This is the sixth such volume the paper having started the Extra in 1834. It ran to seven volumes ending in 1841. The present volume was published from May 16 1840 to October 26 1840 with the final issue appearing post-election on January 29 1841. The whole was advertised as costing $1 for six months. The editors Francis Blair and John Rives were Jacksonian Democrats initially brought to D.C. by Jackson to be the mouth of the party. Blair & Rives unknown books
1837KC16640Paris: Achille Ricourt 1837. Hardcover. Good. 401pp. 8.5 x 11.25 French text. Starting as a weekly-illustrated journal LArtiste was published in Paris from 18311904 supplying "the richest single source of contemporary commentary on artists exhibitions and trends from the Romantic era to the end of the nineteenth century. Presumably the most important and innovative French fine arts journal encompassing: literature architecture sculpture painting engraving and music. TYPOGRAPHIE LACRAMPE ET COMP. RUE DAMIETTE 2. Full page decorative illustration preceding the Title page and signed in stone Albert Durer. Richly decorated with 50 single-leaf engravings vertical and horizontal most protected by tissue sometimes corresponding to the adjacent text. Good with the leather spine and marble covered boards rubbed with corners and edges bumped. Some pages thumbed with moderate foxing and soiling throughout; wrinkled and lightly worn early and late pages. Rear hinge split. Engravings generally clean and bright when protected by tissue. <br/><br/> Achille Ricourt hardcover books
18837738Medina Ohio: A.I. Root 1883. Volume I nos. 1-4 12; and volume II nos. 1-4 nine issues in alla complete set would be: Volume 1-2; April 1882 - December 1883 twenty-four issues in all. Slim periodical each issue bound on cord 25.5 x 17 cm. 8-24 pages each issue. Illustrated. A juvenile supplement or "Extra" to Gleanings in Bee Culture the newsletter of the famous apiarist A.I Root. Contents include simple advice on beekeeping entertaining stories moral guidance letters from readers and more. Some soiling and edgewear to front panel of first issue; tiny printed sticker with subscriber's name and address to each. Otherwise very good. Each issue with the same very attractive woodcut masthead. OCLC locates five complete sets indicated. A.I. Root unknown books
1809WRCAM8213Boston 1809. Vol. XL No. 2048 and Whole No. 2633. Two issues 4pp. each. Folio newspaper. Tanned old folds old ink signature and some wrinkling. Good. The earlier issue includes a brief biography of Lucien Bonaparte and various political notices most importantly regarding the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase its constitutional ramifications for the United States and the reluctance of Spain to recognize the sale of the territory by France to the U.S. News of the purchase had become public on Oct. 17. On Nov. 30 Spain formally delivered the colony to the French colonial prefect who transferred the territory to William Claiborne and Gen. Wilkinson the American commissioners on Dec. 20. BRIGHAM I pp.277-79. unknown books
1829WRCAM7078New York 1829. Vol. 1 Nos. 14-52. Thirty-nine issues in all 8pp. each paginated 105-416 index leaf. Folio. Old three quarter calf and marbled boards leather label. Front board detached old ex-lib. bookplate else clean and unmarked papers in fine condition. A nice run of this French-American newspaper in French with a mixture of domestic and foreign news and literary items. hardcover books
187437842Virginia City Nevada: The Daily Independent 1874. 1st printing Armstrong 767; Paher 1924; Streeter AMERICANA IV 2356. Printed self-wrappers. Age-toning to paper. Numerous fold-lines with splits developing along many. A couple 2-3" horizontal edge tears no text lost. Some minor edge rash. Withal a complete About VG copy. 4 pp; 8 columns per page. Illustrated with 27 wood engravings 5 cross-sections 3 profiles 1 graph & 1 facsimile of the 1867 Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 70. Elephant folio. 24" x 17-3/4" <br/><br/>"Here Sutro tells the dramatic story of his attempt to drain the Comstock Lode with the famous Sutro Tunnel. At first he was aided and later bitterly opposed by the Bank of California group who sought the profits for themselves. His completion of the tunnel in 1878 and his investment of the profits in San Francisco real estate gave Sutro great wealth. Part of this he used in building up the Sutro Library of San Francisco now a branch of the California State Library." Streeter. OCLC records 11 holding institutions. Per AmEx no copies at auction since the Streeter sale in 1968. Rare in the trade. The Daily Independent unknown books
1864694531864. A Curious 1864 Case Involving Murder and Insanity Editors of the Journal of Mental Science. Insanity and Crime: A Medico-Legal Commentary on the Case of George Victor Townley. London: John Churchill and Sons 1864. 47 1 pp. Octavo 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet with untrimmed edges bound into recent cloth printed paper title labels to front board and spine endpapers added. Moderate toning to text faint vertical crease through center small inkspots to a few leaves. $500. Only edition. In this unusual trial Townley was found sane and guilty of the murder of his fiancee but insane afterwards and thus incapable of execution. The discussion of this case in the interesting pamphlets examines among other related topics partial impulsive and "moral" insanity. OCLC locates 13 copies in North America 1 in a law library U.S. Supreme Court. unknown books
186295814Tallahassee: Printed by Dyke & Carlisle 1862. Rare first edition documenting the acts and resolutions passed by the General Assembly of Florida in the first year of the American Civil War. Octavo disbound. In very good condition. Scarce and desirable. Among the 34 United States of America in February 1861 seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the country to form the Confederate States of America causing the outbreak of the most studied and written about episode in United States History: the American Civil War. The Confederacy grew to include eleven states all of them slave-holding. After the secession of South Carolina on December 20 1860 the "cotton states" of Mississippi Florida Alabama Georgia Louisiana and Texas followed suit seceding in January and February 1861 Printed by Dyke & Carlisle unknown books
1862280305Richmond: Richmond Examiner 1862. unbound. very good. 2 pages of text on a single sheet 23 inches x 16 inches. Folded down the center and twice across the sheet. Richmond: Richmond Examiner 1862. Very good<br/><br/> On the front page is an extensive article on the Confiscation Act of 1862 and its passage by Congress. Included in the article is the text of Abraham Lincoln's Message on the act's constitutionality. The Confiscation Act gave legal authority to courts to implement the legal seizure of land and property from citizens who aided the Confederacy. Also in the act was a clause allowing emancipation of slaves in the Confederacy that lived in areas of Union occupation. Most of the rest of the text on both pages are small articles on Civil War battles and political news in the Confederacy. The publisher of the Richmond Examiner became anti-Jefferson Davis' political and military actions as the Civil War progressed.<br/><br/> Richmond Examiner unknown books
187941287San Francisco Cal 1879. 1st edition Cowan II p. 556. Original publisher's green cloth binding with elaborate gilt stamping. Bright gilt. Minor wear. A pleasing Nr Fine copy. 60 pp. Text double column. Frontispiece. 4 inserted chromolithographs. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/>The Chronicle newspaper was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by the two teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. Benefiting from the growth of San Francisco by 1880 it had the largest circulation of all West Coast newspapers. This book tells the story of that founding & growth. Uncommon in the trade. hardcover books
1819SS321-001Various: Various 1918-1955. Hardcover. Very Good. For an itemized list of the items in this lot please inquire. Condition Very Good to Good. The Courier-Journal newspaper began publication in Louisville Kentucky in 1868 - the last run of the Courier-Journal newspaper was Sunday February 28 2021; the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company printing facilities closed for good on March 4th 2021. The material offered here is dated 1918 through circa 1955 and includes technical material used by apprentices and compositors working in the composition and press rooms of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. Included are 6 volumes of the Typographic Technical Series For Apprentices Part VI Nos. 32-40 out of series Chicago IL: Published by the Committee on Education United Typothetae of America 1918. All copies with the bookplate "Property of Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. For EMPLOYES' sic Use Only Return to Superintendent's Office" in a handsome Art Nouveau design on the front paste-down. This educational material demonstrates that the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was unionized at least from the beginning of the twentieth-century and highlights the power and influence of typographers who were among the most educated economically mobile wage laborers in the United States and who were represented in every major urban center in the newspaper industry; the typographic unions won a 48-hour work week in 1897 and a standard wage scale throughout the newspaper industry; as an example of the power of the typographers unions in the 1930s the International Typographical Union introduced the 40-hour work week across the industry which spread to other unions and has sinse been codified across the labor sector by federal legislation; the typographers occupied an important if ambiguous place in the development of American labor history in as much as American labor was never successful in uniting all laborers together in one force but tended organize within industries. This grouping tends to focus on the tools of the trade including type specimens and catalogs of process inks issued in the 1920s and 1930s; Courier-Journal typographers left notes to themselves in these catalogs indicating material they felt needed representation in the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company's shops. Something of an outlier in this grouping is an accordion-fold volume of photographs of printing equipment available for use in the 1950s by the competing print shop The Standard Printing Company Incorporated of Louisville Kentucky. Most likely a salesman's dummy to show potential clients that The Standard Printing Company had the latest printing equipment and the most prestigious customers this undated circa 1955 without imprint accordion-fold photo-archive of printing equipment shows the most modern print shop of the 1950s. The earliest book printed by the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was issued in 1884. An interesting article by Chris Kenning in the Louisville Courier Journal March 11 2021 gave some valuable insights into the history of the newspaper the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company and the challenges to the newspaper business and printing in general in the United States with the advent of desktop computers and the rise of the internet. While the Kenning article did not touch much on the time period 1918-1955 there are still interesting stories to tell about the printing industry in America the place of printing in the American labor movement and printing technology in the first half of the twentieth century that can be told using the materials offered here as visual aids. With the sale of the Courier-Journal to the Gannett Co. Inc in 1986 the road to the shut down of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was opened. Now the Courier-Journal newspaper will be printed in Indianapolis IN. The current print circulation of the paper is now under 60000 while the Courier Journal's digital journalism garners 4.5 million monthly visitors to their website. Media consolidation has been made possible with the internet's ability to distribute news on a minute-by-minute basis making regional newspapers printed on paper a redundancy. The Cincinnati Enquirer the Lexington Herald-Leader the Bowling Green Daily News are all regional newspapers that will no longer be produced locally after having been produced in Louisville by the presses of the Courier-Journal. This consolidation of the newspaper industry means the loss of 102 Louisville jobs including printing press operators mailroom and transportation jobs that have been lost to the relocation of the press work to Indianapolis. Various hardcover books
1856334Lancaster PA 1856. Folio broadside. 495 x 330 mm. 19 1/2 x 13 inches. Text printed in five columns. Matted. Several tiny holes affecting a few words. Substantial reportage with text printed in six point type of an anti-Fremont pro-Buchanan rally held at the home of James Buchanan. This was billed as the "Greatest Political Meeting Ever Held in Pennsylvania" with 50000 people in attendance. The sons of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster were present and spoke on behalf of the Democratic State Ticket. The speeches dealt chiefly with the results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the resistance of the Abolitionists to it noting that Connecticut was the first ahead of the Keystone State to vote to arrest the tide of disunionism fomented by the abolitionists. Democratic speakers favored the preservation of the Union an end to sectionalism and the protection of the constitution. Not cited in OCLC or at AAS Library Company American Philosophical Society or NYPL. unknown books
1863WRCAM48378ASt. Louis: Wiebusch und Sohn 1863. Four volumes bound in one. 2208; 200 of 208; 4208 lacks pp.137-144; 2200pp. Vol. 17 lacks issue 26. Vol. 18 lacks issue 18. Folio. Half morocco and marbled boards. Spine and corners heavily worn front cover detached. Titlepage of first volume torn; second and third leaves heavily torn with some minor loss. Light to moderate foxing and wear. Else good. Lutheran German-language newspaper founded in 1844 by Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther 1811- 87. The paper and its founder were key components in introducing the idea of an umbrella church for Lutherans in America and the Midwest founding in 1847 the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri Ohio and Other States. In the 1840s and '50s Germans were the largest immigrant group in America settling heavily in the Midwest. Wiebusch und Sohn hardcover books
1807CAT000099Paris: Capelle et Renand 1807. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. A mixed set 11 volumes published 1807-1817. Volumes 2-10 in full acid calf worn spines dry and chipped one board detached others loose volume 1 in later half vellum and volume 11 in original wraps worn and chipped. A complete run of this annual of food and drink associated poetry and song. Volume 4 with a portrait of Marc-Antoine-Madeleine Désaugiers who wrote most of the songs laid down and each volume with an engraved frontispiece. Size: 12mo duodecimo. 11-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Music. Inventory No: CAT000099. Capelle et Renand hardcover books
1851WRCAM40376Primarily at sea 1851. 34pp. in a highly legible hand. Folio. Dbd. Lightly foxed. Several pages torn out. Doodles on blank versos of some leaves. Good. First-person narrative of a young man's sea voyage from Boston to Palermo and back. Though serving as a hand the young man seems to be of fairly good breeding and education having determined to teach himself the art of navigation while on board and often waxing poetic and sentimental. Departing on Oct. 21 1850 the author says the ship is "a very good looking vessel" and that the Captain and mates are "very fine men;" regarding the rest of the crew he says: "I have not been with them long enough to judge of their characters as yet." While his journal is filled with weather and wind and resetting the rigging it also has very contemplative passages: <br> <br> "At eight PM I went to the wheel it was a beautiful night the full moon shone in all her glory casting a mellow light on all around so light was the breeze that it scarce ruffled the surface of the Ocean our ship was gliding through the water with scarcely any perceptable sic motion ah who would not go to sea were it always thus. I have been thinking of home and friends this watch which I may never see again but I hope before many months are passed I shall return to my native land and grasp the hand of friends once more." <br> <br> He writes often of seeing friends and home again and of spending his future days more profitably than his past ones. On Nov. 18 he turns twenty and writes: "I must say that but a small portion of that time has been spent as it should have been but it is passed and cannot be recalled and I have only to try to do better in future and hope for success." The ship arrives at Palermo on Nov. 30 and the crew are let ashore on Dec. 8 having finally passed quarantine. The author writes at some length about Palermo and the sights seen including the King's gardens and the catacombs "where are the remains of some twenty thousand people of both sexes and all ages from the infant to the gray headed old man." But for all the sights of Palermo he is nevertheless eager to be underway again for home. One of the tasks the crew has been set to is the painting of the ship which the author finds quite enjoyable: "We have been painting the spars today which is hard work but I have a fancy for painting so I have got along very well." <br> <br> Impatient to be home he is not sorry when they set off from Palermo on Dec. 21: "I do not think I shall regret leaving here though I have nothing in particular to complain of respecting the town or the inhabitants." Light winds hamper their return journey and at times the ship is entirely becalmed. When they finally reach Gibraltar on Jan. 14 squalls are upon them and they have to anchor there for some days. While in port the author begins to be peevish with the Captain: <br> <br> ".the Capt. has found plenty of what I call humbuging sic or unnecessary work for us to do it seems strange to me that a man professing to be a gentleman should stoop to such low acts of meanness merely to show his authority and gratify a malicious spirit but so it is with some who wish to exercise a sort of tyranny over those who have not the power to defend themselves however we shall soon be on an even footing and can say and do as we please and then I shall express myself more freely." <br> <br> Things eventually settle out though with the Duchess arriving in Nantucket on Feb. 22 1851 ending the journal. An interesting and personal account of a trip to sea. unknown books
1865BW-44a<br /><b><i>Excitement in the city is intense-- bells are ringing-- and joy rules the hour. Glory to God on High.</i></b><br /><br />Newspaper: WATERBURY AMERICAN: Extra. Monday April 10 1865 LEE AND HIS ENTIRE ARMY SURRENDERED TO GENERAL GRANT. Let the Merry Church Bells Ring Bring out the Big Gun.<br /><br />Broadside: 9 3/4" x 4"<br /><br />Very good some browning stress at folds. Rare. WATERBURY AMERICAN books
1895D6188United States 1895-1897. Green cloth over flexible boards "Photographs" stamped in gilt on upper board; 4to; approx. pp. 50 with over 100 mounted postcard-format entries usually two per page on both the recto and the verso. Wonderful! Easily one of the nicest albums of this kind that we have had the pleasure of cataloguing. This unique album contains more than 100 dated "diary entries" out of chronological sequence each one a hand-made postcard featuring original artwork including watercolors pencil sketches ink drawings both naive and accomplished a photograph a cyanotype or an image cut from an unknown source such as a newspaper or magazine. The postcards are created by numerous contributors and their rich variety is difficult to capture except to say that they run the gamut of human capability the sketch artist offers an anthropomorphic chicken the watercolor painter a peaceful landscape and personality sentimental humorous sweet thoughtful. A short list gives you an idea: happy puppies photograph ladies in big dresses wading in the surf photograph a Rorsarch test ink of course kite ink drawing plant specimen baseball joke pencil cartoon a little bird feather collage 8 bars of music ink Jamaica Plain cyanotype bull fight photograph boats photograph a family portrait in the Adirondacks photograph. Our compiler must have enlisted far-flung friends for contributions as images and references hail from Perugia Brooklyn Boston Zermatt Valley Philadelphia Avignon and Arizona. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1839WRCAM42383Joliet Il. 1839. 5pp. Folio. Old folds. Separation at many folds most repaired with tape. Light soiling and foxing. Some small paper loss due to wax seals. Still quite legible. About good. In a green half morocco and cloth clamshell case spine gilt. A manuscript purchase agreement for the JULIET COURIER the Chicago area's oldest newspaper and the sixth oldest paper in Illinois. The JULIET COURIER was founded April 20 1839 by thirteen investors in Juliet Illinois changed to Joliet in 1845. They hired an editor named Balch variously referred to as P.O. Balch O.H. Balch and C.H. Balch who abandoned the project a few months later resulting in the present document. The paper was then edited by David L. Gregg a local attorney who rose to prominence and later served as Illinois Secretary of State; in 1853 Gregg was appointed United States Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands where he served for the next ten years. The paper was published as the JULIET COURIER until 1843 when the name was changed to the JULIET SIGNAL later the JOLIET SIGNAL with the change in the town's name. The paper is published to this day under the banner of the JOLIET HERALD NEWS. <br> <br> The document opens: <br> <br> "Whereas the JULIET COURIER lately under the management of P.O. Balch has been abandoned by the said Balch without any provision for its further publication. And whereas the said COURIER is likely to be discontinued unless funds be provided immediately for purchasing stock paying journeymen &c. And also whereas it is both necessary and expedient for the democracy to keep in existence a press of sound Democratic principles devoted to the best interests of the people - Therefore we the undersigned do promise & agree to pay for the purposes above specified to the committee of stockholders owning the printing establishment of the aforesaid COURIER the amount set opposite to our respective names with the express understanding & consideration that the same shall be refunded from the rents & profits due to the aforesaid establishment." <br> <br> It is signed by fifteen individuals or establishments with notes that each has paid the amount stated generally five dollars. The remainder of the document discusses the continuation of the paper's operation signing the responsibility over to David L. Gregg and W.P. Hudson. It is signed at the end by the twenty shareholders noting how many shares each owns in the company. <br> <br> An interesting and early piece of Illinois newspaper history. NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS OF ILLINOIS p.207. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHICAGO online. hardcover books
186337167Natchez Miss. 1863. Elephant Folio broadsheet 18" x 24." Each page printed in seven columns on dark blue-green "necessity paper." Old folds minor wear Very Good plus.<br/><br/> The Natchez Weekly Courier begun in 1848 ceased publication in 1870 when it merged with the Natchez Weekly Democrat. The Courier's publisher was William R. Adams. <br/> Printed on green "necessity paper" its War content is unusually rich. The middle of the first page prints and discusses "Butler's Order" of 15 May 1862 commenting on "the unparalleled order of Gen. Butler subjecting the women of New Orleans to insults and outrage by the soldiery under his command. The order will shock every person of the least refinement of decency." His "Proclamation" orders that "when any female shall by word gesture or movement insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States SHE SHALL BE REGARDED AND HELD LIABLE TO BE TREATED AS A WOMAN OF THE TOWN PLYING HER AVOCATION" capital letters in italics in original. A nine-stanza poem immortalizes Butler's abomination.<br/> Additional war news includes a long story on "The Fall of New Orleans" T.J. Jackson's progress in the Valley of Virginia "Stonewall Jackson is within twenty-five miles of the capitol." The roll of officers and privates of the Bingaman Rangers of Adams County Natchez is printed; military activities in Richmond Savannah Williamsport Jackson again with the support of "10000 Marylanders". Distressing news that "Jere. Clemens late Major-General of the Alabama militia has turned traitor. We can hardly believe that Jere would be guilty of such monstrous baseness. unknown books
