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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
196213560Paris: Journal De La Marine Marchande 1962. First edition. Cloth. Very Good . 4to. 350 pp plus six detailed fold-out schematics at rear of book. Text in French. A superb book illustrated with photographs and design schematics for the SS France Cruise Liner. Details about every aspect of the ship from the mechanics and engineering all the way down to the menu served. Very minor soiling to edges but an excellent copy overall in illustrated thick cloth covers with gilt lettering. A large and heavy volume. <br/><br/> Journal De La Marine Marchande 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
188135641881. FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. LONG BRANCH: ELBERON- PRESIDENT GARFIELD ASSASINATION PRINT 1881. An original print from the October 8 1881 issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Magazine. The caption reads: "The Death Of President Garfield- The Wife And Daughter Keeping Vigil Over Their Dead." Garfield died in his seaside cottage in the Elberon section of Long Branch on Sept. 19 1881 after being brought there 13 days earlier. $50.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
188135621881. FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. LONG BRANCH: ELBERON- PRESIDENT GARFIELD ASSASSINATION PRINT 1881. An original front-page print from the September 17 1881 issue of Frank leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. The caption reads: "Washington DC- Mrs. Garfield Preparing Food For Her Husband." From a Sketch by Walter Goater. Mrs. Garfiled is cooking in the Garfiled Cottage in the Elberon section of Long Branch where he was taken on September 6. He died there on September 19. $50.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
1865218991865. FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE. LONG BRNACH: LAIRD'S MANSION. An 11-inch by 16-inch handcolored print from the magazine's July 15 1865 issue. With one upper illustration of Laird's Mansion House with the caption "Our Summer Watering Places- Laird's Mansion House Long Branch New Jersey." There is some unrelated text in the middle of the print and then another illustration of the hotel's dining room captioned "Dining Room Of Laird's Mansion House Long Branch New Jersey." An early and uncommon print. $85.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
1869323251869. APPLETON'S JOURNAL. LONG BRANCH "SEA-SIDE ATTRACTIONS." A full hand-colored page from Appleton's Journal copyright 1869. The 11-inch by 16-inch page depicts a Victorian-era couple and their two children on the beach with other beach-goers and small bathing pavilions in the distance. Could be Long Branch but the location is not noted. Very Good fold down the center- as issued. $85.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
1858288511858. FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. "SUMMER WATERING-PLACES. LONG BRANCH. VIEW OF THE UNITED STATES HOTEL." A hand-colored front page of the Saturday June 19 1858 issue of the newspaper depicting the Long Branch beach in front of the United States Hotel. With the text describing the scene above. Quite early and uncommon. $85.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
1873343571873. FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. "LONG BRANCH THE CITY BY THE SEA- VIEWS EN ROUTE." An original 11-inch by 16-inch hand-colored engraving from the July 26 1873 issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. The page depicts two scenes: "Off For Long Branch- Scene On The Promenade Deck Of The Steamer Jesse Hoyt" and "Arrival Of The Train At Long Branch Depot." Text is on the same page and continues on the verso. Very Good. <br/><br/> unknown books
2002TB31694n.p. : Pediment Publishing 2002. First Edition. Fine in pictorial paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine with gilt and white text on the front board. An oblong octavo of 8 by 11 inches. Without a dust jacket. 128 pages each illustrated from images of black and white photographs of the towns listed in the title. Pediment Publishing hardcover 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
1834106639Newspaper folio sheets 4 pp. Center folds some aging and a little foxing but overall in very good condition.Local manufacturing and farming news. books
1834106650<p> Newspaper folio folded 4pp. Some aging and foxing center fold minor wear; otherwise very good. Some national news but lots of local stuff too including small ads. </p> 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
02972612mo 361 pages of manuscript entries plus 16 pages of memoranda and cash accounts at rear pocket diary bound in original dark blue leather wallet style binding some minor wear to binding few old tape repairs to wallet flap entries in a good clear legible hand. The entries are dated January 1st through December 31st 1865. Accompanied by mid-twentieth century typescript transcription compiled by a Michener family descendant. Manuscript diary of Philip Fie Michener a carpenter and resident of Duncannon Pennsylvania. Michener was born July 30 1821 and died July 22 1889. The entries record the daily activities of Michener the work he was engaged in news of the Civil War the death of Abraham Lincoln and his experiences on a trip west across Iowa to Sioux City Iowa and into Nebraska Territory looking at various properties with a view to purchasing a homestead in that Territory. Michener was a correspondent of Rev. Samuel Aughey 1832-1912 a Lutheran minister and natural scientist and former Pennsylvanian and who had been in Nebraska since 1864 who acting in the role of promoter and booster seems to have induced a number of residents of Duncannon to Dakota Nebraska Territory to seek homesteads. Aughey was appointed in 1871 by the regents of the University of Nebraska to a chair of natural history at the new university. The only scientist on a faculty of five Aughey acquired the title of “Honorary State Geologist.” He was possibly the best known member of the university faculty during the 1870’s Aughey became a well-known Nebraska booster. He promoted the richness of the state’s soils the idea of increasing precipitation by cultivating more acres and the prospects for coal fuel in that state with few trees. Sample Quotations: Sunday January 1 1865. “Sunday the weather fine and clear at Sunday School at 1 o’clock. School opened by P. F. Michener Sup’t and closed by Father Sylvanus Green with a few appropriate remarks we did get the news of the death of M. B. P. Stewart who was seriously wounded and died from the effects on the 27th of November 1864.” Monday January 2 1865. “… received from A. G. White twelve dollars for making sleigh and one dollar & half from A. Miller for repairing sausage cutter John McLain is very sick and he is at John Jones no person is allowed to go into see him save the family …” Monday January 9 1865. “This morning the coldest this winter. This evening somewhat warmer… Received a letter from Rev. Samuel Aughey from Dakota Nebraska Territory he gives much information about the country…” Wednesday January 25 1865. “This morning clear and very cold and has been all day and this is going to be a very cold night. The boys have a fine time sliding down the hills on their sleds. I was told today that the Smithsonian Institute at Washington has been partly destroyed by fire very lately which did contain many things that can never be replaced Such as paintings and so forth which is a great loss to the country.” Wednesday February 1 1865. “This morning cloudy and not so cold as it has been the sleighing is first rate yet. 18 years today since I did commence business. Chickens are crowing and it is but 9 o’clock. This evening is cloudy. I did today send my application with some certificates and a partition to Provost Marshall General for to try and get back my commutation and also a letter to the Hon. Jas. Bailey member of congress. Slavery is forever done with in the United States.” Wednesday February 22 1865. “This morning clear and pretty cold about 9 o’clock … There is a ball up at Bloomfield. I think it would be better for them here and hereafter if they would turn it into a prayer meeting and ask God to have mercy on their souls. Received the Governor’s message from Nebraska Territory I suppose sent by Bro. Aughey. Some very good things in it.”write for fuller description unknown 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
10118ORIGINAL May 7 1945 NEWSPAPER the day the war ended in Europe of the Daily Advance published in Lynchburg Virginia. Lynchburg is quite close to Bedford Virginia a small town which lost a record number of servicemen in proportion to its population on D Day. The headline story begins "Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Western Allies and Russia at 2:41 A.M. French time today." There is also an interesting separate article on the front page with the headline NAZIS BURNED HITLER HOME." There is also a reference in a front page article to Britain and her old WWI mandates such as Palestine. An article on an inside page reports on Oswiecim concentration camp in Poland where over four million people of various nationalities were killed. Very good condition with folds. unknown books
18993640Pittsburgh: Mercantile Journal and Pennsylvania Grocer 1899. 30.5 x 23.5 cm 24 pages. Illustrated advertisements throughout. Single issue of this periodical for Pittsburgh grocers featuring market prices news of retail associations and obituaries. In printed wrappers some creasing and chipping otherwise very good. Mercantile Journal and Pennsylvania Grocer unknown books
201048760Poughkeepsie NY: The Poughkeepsie Journal 2010. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A Pictorial Reflection of Our History. Poughkeepsie NY: The Poughkeepsie Journal 2010. Copious b/w photographs. 128 pp. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. Black cloth. Silver lettering to spine. Bumped and rubbed at head heel and corners; interior bright clean and tight. A nice copy in like dustjacket. Very good/Very good. The Poughkeepsie Journal hardcover books
1861344431861. NEW JERSEY: CIVIL WAR. FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. "CAMP PRINCETON." An original 10.5-inch by 15-inch hand-colored print from the July 18 1861 issue of "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper." The print depicts three scenes and a bust of Gen. Runyon commander of the 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th New Jersey Regiments at Camp Princeton in VirginIa subtitled "Camp Princeton Virginia The Headquarters Of Gen. Runyon's New Jersey Brigade." Very nice & uncommon! $85.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
1975WRCLIT50093Berkeley: Turtle Island 1975. Whole number one. Pictorial wrappers. Pale green wrappers a bit sunned and smudged very good. Edited by Bob Callahan. Published in association with the Nezahaulcoytol Historical Society. Cardenal Olson et al. Turtle Island unknown books
1901471551901. NEWSPAPER. NEW YORK TIMES JUBILEE SUPPLEMENT. Vol. L. No. 1. Sept. 18 1901. Folio chromolithograph full colour wrappers. 36pp. Just good copy with wrappers detached which also shows some edgewear chipping and light soiling at the wraps. unknown books
197128023New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp 1971. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Single issue #91 of this long-running underground newspaper published out of New Orleans. Folded tabloid newspaper format. Includes a Notes of a Dirty Old Man column by Bukowski plus an article on Ginsberg in New Orleans Jean-Paul Sarte Jack Minnis and more. Cover picture by Linden Waguespack. Pages tanned as often seen else a solid very good copy. 32 pp. Southern Louisiana Media Corp paperback books
1934134565Oakland CA: San Francisco Bay Metropolitan Newspaper Guild 1934. Single 6.5x10.75 inch leaflet very good printed on one side. Asks readers to cancel their subscriptions after publisher Joseph Knowland's firing of three employees for joining the American Newspaper Guild. San Francisco Bay Metropolitan Newspaper Guild unknown books
