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185825131Long Island New York: W. R. Burling 1858. Two small 'payment received' for subscriptions to this newspaper one dated 1858- 59 for the Estate of John Tredwell George Burling the agent selling; the other for 1868 Est. of A. L. Sands W. Eldridge the agent. Different type-styles & ornament on each. Approx. 2" x 5" size; old fold lines a little light wear. In good condition and interesting 19th century Long Island newspaper industry history ephemera. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. W. R. Burling paperback books
1839WRCAM41144Boston 1839. 289-579pp. plus three plates. Later wrappers. In a folding cloth box leather label by James MacDonald. Volume 2 numbers 3 and 4 of the BOSTON JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY issued in August 1839. A survey of fish in Massachusetts' waters completed as part of a Zoological Survey of Massachusetts. hardcover books
187627149New York: The Aldine Company 1876. 1st thus. Original brown publisher's pebbled cloth with gilt lettering. Bevelled edges. Overall VG edgewear. Ex-lib with usual markings some plates with discrete perforation. 382 pp. Chromolithograph title page. Illustrated with inserted plates & intratextual cuts. Folio. 16-1/2" x 11-1/2" <br/><br/>Bound volume of 12 issues. The Aldine Company hardcover books
189323400New York 1893. Small broadsheet 5" x 7" printed on tan card stock single hole punch at top. Rubberstamp at head of title: 'American Engineer and Railroad Journal' a few letters partly affected by hole punch. Very Good. unknown books
18322818baCPhiladelphia PA: Henry H. Porter 1832. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. First presumed edition. Octavo 8vo. 80 pages of text. Hardcover; brown cloth spine lacking; blue-green paper covered boards nearly detached. Original orange printed paper front cover label intact. Minor foxing scattered throughout text. Medicine; influenza; rhinovirus. Measures 22.9cm height. Henry H. Porter Hardcover books
184230726London: Royal Asiatic Society 1842. First edition. Removed from a larger volume. Disbound else a very good copy with library stamp on edge of drawing. 172-199 pp. Illus. with one folded b/w drawing. 8vo. Khonds Kandhs were an aboriginal tribe of Orissa who provided protection for the Raja of Goomsur during the Goomsur Wars of 1835 to 1837. Royal Asiatic Society unknown books
189042717New York: J. S. Ogilvie Publisher 1890. 1st printing thus cf. Wright III 5689. Printed paper wrappers. Paper loss at head & base of spine. Other modest wear. Age-toning to paper. A VG copy. 9 - 168 pp. Illustrated. 7-1/4" x 5" <br/><br/> J. S. Ogilvie, Publisher 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
1865018675Clarion PA: Clarion Extra 1865. Book. Very good- condition. Unbound. First Edition. Quarto 4to. Issued the day President Lincoln died as he succumbed to the assassin's bullet. A one-sheet publication no place of publication listed but thought to be Clarion PA issued in haste as it has numerous typographical errors. Folded into fourths moderately foxed with one corner torn off affecting a few letters of text. It reads: CLARION EXTRA. FROM WASHINGTON. Pres. Lincoln Assassinated! Sec. Seward Assassinated! Seward's Son Dangerously Wounded! THE NATION MOURNS. Curiously the final line of text reads: The latest despatch states that Booth the supposed assassin has been captured. - Ed. Measures 5.5 inches width by 12.75 inches height. . Clarion Extra Paperback books
18982200908Harper & Brothers 1898. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Ink name on front endpaper. 1898 Hard Cover. 374 1 pp. 8vo. A collection of anecdotes partially taken from personal experiences and partially gleaned from books and stories heard from others. Originally published in the Manchester Guardian the previous year. The author George William Erskine Russell was a British biographer memoirist and Liberal politician. Harper & Brothers hardcover 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
1830M11919Philadelphia:: L. Johnson 1830. 1830. "4th improved edition." 8vo. 385-90 381 pp. Foxed throughout not hindering legibility. Original red cloth spine paper title label; front cover detached but present ffe loose extremities worn spine chipped. Rear free endpaper early ownership signature. As is. RARE. The first volume of a pioneer American health journal published from 1829-33. It features a selection of fascinating perspectives on medicine including analyses of the effects on health of headwear wine and malt liquor consumption mealtimes and water drinking among other things as well as considerations of race and longevity quacks mothering and more. On tobacco: "'A Victim of the Weed' is desirous of knowing whether he can at once abandon his pipe and segars or must part company in a gradual manner. Our advice is to desist immediately and entirely from the use of tobacco in every form and in any quantity however small" 220. On race: "The differences in this respect are primitive in the different races; the mucous body or varnish which constitutes the layer between the true skin beneath and the outer covering or cuticle being white or nearly so in the European or Caucasian races; yellowish in the Mongul or African; and black in the African" 146. On the education of girls: "Under twelve years of age it should be an invariable rule that the hours of close application should never exceed those of amusement and exercise" 267. Contains nos. 1-24: September 9 1829 through August 25 1830. L. Johnson, 1830. hardcover books
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
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
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
1870D11031England 1870s. Hardcover. Very Good. England Kent and Norfolk counties: c. 1871-1874. 8vo 175 x 115mm; 61 numbered pages in the hand of Charles W. Prescott detailing his various hunting excursions around the Kent countryside. Prescotts ownership inscription on front free-endpaper is dated 1871. His entries are easily read and cover Prescotts adventures on hunting hares with a skulk of foxes writing Found another in the same field ran her straight back to Old Park round the pond and the pack hunted her beautifully . Dec. 16 1871. The hunts took place over sprawling village and countryside or as he describes hop-gardens hills and ploughs of land in the Herne Bay area of Kent England. Many entries are headed by recognizable locations; Stroud Park Broomfield Hilsborough Wolston Heath and Chislet Mill and are dated with month and sometimes year. Only a portion of the way full his entries span about three years the first dated: Oct. 19 71 Stroud Park and last March 25 1874. Contemporary black morocco marbled endpapers and marbled endpapers with original brass clasp faint splitting at lower hinge of first few leaves strengthened at endpapers corners rubbed otherwise in very good shape especially considering it was wielded around so much of the Kentish countryside. Prescott makes many personal anecdotes about his day noting things in his surroundings like scent moderate or adding his opinions we could not kill I think we should have but the sun was too hot. Prescott often ends the entries with jotting down the days weather as something like very indifferent but as good as could be expected with a very cold east wind or simply stating Frost. It is evident from Prescotts personal asides that he was a vigilant huntsman quite dedicated to the task. Further personal glimpses reveal a record of his horses charming names including Salt Fish and Molly Malone. At the time Prescott was taking these notes Herne Bay area and the Kentish villages would have been teeming with people. The Victoria era was one of prosperity when elite English folk flocked to popular destinations to partake in their favorite pastimes. From 1873 on in the journal Prescott notes he was hunting with Pytchley by writing their name in parentheses. The Pytchley hunt is an organization originally based in Northamptonshire in formation as early at the 1630s. The organization is still active today. Pytchleys website notes that from 1819-1873 right as Prescott began with Pytchley for one year the Althorp and Pytchley countries were hunted by one pack with a second pack established at Brigstock. Prescott was part of the famous hunt organization at a time when it was amid significant change and expansion. His notes may keep further clue of such growth. While the huntsman himself may be unknown to history the anecdotal evidence in Prescotts diary gives us a glimpse of the Victorian man fond of his sport. <br/><br/> hardcover 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
188135571881. FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. PRESIDENT JAMES A. GARFIELD ASSASSINATION PRINT 1881. An original double-page engraving about 11 by 22 inches from the October 8 1881 issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. An image of President Garfield's body on view in the Capitol Rotunda. The caption reads: "The Death Of President Garfield- President Arthur and Secretary Blaine Viewing The Remains Of The Martyred Chief In The Rotunda Of The Capitol Wednesday Evening Sept. 21st- From A Sketch By A Staff Artist." Very Good few short tears edges; mends on verso of center fold with clear archival tape. $75.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
1881JC9300New York: Harper's Bazar 1881. Ephemera. Poor. Staple-bound newspaper; pp. 16 plus supplement. Lightly chipped along the edges; chips and closed tear along middle fold; quite brittle. A fragile item sold as is. Hailed as "A Repository of Fashion Pleasure and Instruction" showing a number of women's garments dresses hats coats and more. With laid-in supplement of patterns and embroidery. <br/><br/> Harper's Bazar unknown books
1861184634London: Limited Liability Journal 1861. 15p. 5.5x8.5 inches very good first edition pamphlet in later pasted marbled paper wraps. Offprint of articles printed in the journal on the subject. Only two holdings listed in OCLC and those are microform. Limited Liability Journal 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
18307704Philadelphia 1830. hardcover. very good-. Volumes I and II volume I is complete in 24 numbers volume II is mostly complete but missing several issues. Thick 8vo 3/4 leather over marbled boards red leather spine label; foxed covers very worn. Philadelphia 1830. A very good - copy.<br/><br/> Each number was issued fortnightly.<br/><br/> unknown 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
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
