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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
5300CARIBBEAN TRAVEL JOURNAL. Diary. 101 pages. The Caribbean. c. 1908-9. The handwritten journal belonging to C. B. Benson of Hudson New York. The diary recounts Benson’s experience on an organized cruise group visit to Caribbean locations such as St. Thomas Puerto Rico Kingston Jamaica Caracas Venezuela Panama City Panama Port of Spain Trinidad and Martinique. Benson records his experiences in each location including his impressions of the town the locals sights he visited and local travel. He visited forts a school churches a mill a sugar plantation and Carnival celebrations. Benson took his tour during the era of colonial rule the attitudes of which infuse both his experiences and observations. Based on his mention of an earthquake in Kingston Jamaica taking place a year or two before he travelled in 1908 or 1909. “…St. Thomas where we arrived about 6 A.M. mid morning Jan 26 is one of the Virgin group and we found her framed and frescoed in the principal churches. Columbus in 1493 gave the group of 100 islands rocks and…which comprise the group. St. Thomas is 13 miles in length and 3 miles in width at its broadest. And I guess we walked the length of it speaking broadly and in the abstract at this distance.The heat of the tropical sun also takes its toll and blurs our ideas of time and distance somewhat. The town of Charlotte Amelia contains 13000 inhabitants – merchants and black babies and they are all dressed in their Sunday best to receive us properly.Thursday morning at 8 we went ashore at Porto sic Rico.Returning thro the village streets we stopped at the market place and noticed the display of fruits in baskets a couple of men seated on low stools with blacks in front of them.a native woman…was entertaining us in the middle of the road with a dance.When passing the island of Haiti.‘Do you know why we do not stop at the Island of Haiti’ ‘No’ There are cannibals there there are so many fat people aboard you would lose your wife’ At St Thomas the American council held open house and received some of us who dared to invade this solitude.An hour’s railroad ride which was made interesting by stops at every little…and station where the bare legged boy with the oil gun in hand squirted oil…bearings sic of the cars and engine. As it was before the 17 miles came to an end the rear axle of the parlor car so called because it had leather covered reclining seats caught fire. But when this happened we were nearly at the end of our journey and we were not delayed much. At the sugar plantation where we detrained we found we had some distance to walk down…to the sugar mill. As there was no path and the sticky wet ground to soil made worse by the heavy rain of the night before.A sugar mill is never a clean place.The process is somewhat intricate but way he likened to the process of brewing.The cane piled up in the yard is boiled in a number of vats then is run off with barrels and in a black and solid state in shipped to the Refineries at New York. The fiber of the cane is then hardened and dried and is fed to the furnaces to boil…cane. After return to the town San Juan we visited the shops. Walked out to the fort at the entrance of the harbor. The town is excellently policed and paved in the principal streets with telegram blocks.As this day was Thursday we concluded that every day was wash day for the native women and girls who for want of other diversions spend most of their time in this form of dissipation. Even the balconies of the main public street filled with traffic of street cars carriages and drays had their fill of wash some of which are found laying in the street having been carried down by the wind. No one had appropriated it as yet; and we did not add it to our collection of souvenirs. At the officers quarters I applied for a permit of the officer of the day to enter the fort ‘San Cristobal’ the fort commanding the entrance to the harbor.The fort was like most forts. The high tower gave a commanding view of the town and harbor. Then we visited the Governor’s Palace. In the Reception Room hanging on opposite sides facing each other are life sized oil paintings of McKinley & Cleveland. In the garden were some large palms tropical ferns a fountain &.Jan 29. early in the morning we were at Kingston in Jamaica. The channel is narrow and tortuous but well… Taking a local pilot we soon…opposite it…of three vessels one of which was the Princess Louise that was caught in the hurricane here three years ago and…the larger of the three vessels was trying to pick up the light from the light house which had been blown down. This destruction of the hurricane.After driving about a mile thru the city the destruction to the buildings & pavements made by the earthquake here a year or two ago half of the city seems to be in ruins and no attempt has been made apparently to rebuild & restore the city. Thousands of lives were lost here at that time which did immense damage to the fruits. Most of the uninhabitable part of the island belongs to the United Fruit Company a Boston Corporation who ships immense quantities of bananas from Port Antonio. Owing to recent destruction by fire of Hotel Litchfield our stop at the port of San Antonio and stay of night at the Hotel was omitted. An excursion across the island by train to Mandeville was arranged in its place.The town of Colon in its principle streets are paved with brick and appear clean. We noticed many buzzards. The air was clear and there was a delightful cool breeze blowing.We stopped at all of the stations going to Panama and noted the wonderful impressions made by the Sanitary Commission. The well ventilated and screened houses. The plan for disposal of garbage the open drainage the cleared lands…But of course the facts are here – bug and drain – all working to the mutual exclusion of some ideas to the American white employers. Therefore after a few months they must have a reaction in the States to…and detach themselves from all absorbing facts. The fighting for life against…fires. Most things are…between the white employers and the black employees. So we find the ‘White Bar’ and the ‘Black Bar’ ‘The White Employees’ ‘The Silver White Employees’ &c as signs on the cars intended to carry workmen back and forth from the works.Caracas the capital of Venezuela is about 3000 ft up but the sun in the middle of the day we found very hot.Plaza Bolivar was decorated with rows of colored electric lights. They are preparing for the Carnival season which ushers in Lent in Catholic countries. The market place had counters for dry goods highly colored handkerchiefs etc. Another section was devoted to fruits vegetables etc. We noticed some very large apricots. Mr. Bolivar apparently has done a great deal for his native town. He has given his name – while the people furnished the funds – for the largest parks a street and the coinage of the plutocrats.The Spaniard the…Hildago -in his easy subjugation of the…pleasure loving tropical savage has replaced the native of simple taste and left in his place the mongrel half-breed with all the vices of the conqueror and none of the virtues of the…Indian savage…â€. The diary is in very good condition. It is mostly written in pencil but is quite legible. hardcover books
199574592Atlanta:: Longstreet Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 1563522349 . Color photographs throughout. First printing. Bumped along the top board edges else near fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. . Longstreet Press, hardcover books
199522498Atlanta: Longstreet Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 1563522349 . Color photographs throughout. First printing. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper else fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Longstreet Press hardcover books
199517656Atlanta: Longstreet Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 1563522349 . Color photographs throughout. First printing. Lower corner of rear board is slightly bumped else fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Longstreet Press hardcover 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
193938801Amsterdam 1939. paperback. very good. Orgaan van de Maatschappij tot Bewordering der Bouwkunst Bond van Nederlandsche Architecten B.N.A. en het Genootschap Architectura et Amicitia. 60ste Jaargang. No. 1 - 52. 7 Jan. - 30 Dec. 1939. Illustrated. 52 vols. thin folio printed wrappers; some pp. stuck together else fine. Amsterdam 1939.<br/><br/> One year run of this technical journal edited by H. G. J. Schelling B. T. Boeyinga et al.<br/><br/> unknown books
19262293324Privately Printed / Murray Printing Co. Limited 1926. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Limited edition #933 of 1500 copies. Former copy of the Clifton Springs Medical Library with a few marks. 1926 Hard Cover. xxxviii 633 1 pp. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece of William Osler. A collection of essays published to honor the influential physician William Osler co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler's creation of the first residency program and emphasis on teaching students through clinical experience rather than lectures led many to call him the father of modern medicine. Privately Printed / Murray Printing Co., Limited hardcover books
191640342n. p. 1916. 1st printing thus i.e. of this issue. Not found on OCLC. Original publisher's grey-green paper wrappers printed in dark green & brown ink to front wrapper. Stapled. Age-toning. General wear & soiling to wrappers with largish stain to lower left portion of front wrapper affecting date text. A VG copy. Unpaginated. Illustrated with many photographic portraits of prominent men in the local butcher trade. 10-3/4" x 7-7/8" <br/><br/>Typical trade journal with topical articles on the business as well as pieces on the local practitioners. unknown books
1966WRCLIT70552San Francisco: City Lights Books 1966. Whole number three of four in this iteration. Pictorial wrappers. Ink gift inscription on title usual slight rubbing else very good. Edited and published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti with associate editors. The third number of this irregular anthology/periodical highlighting authors associated with the imprint as well as a wide range of native and international writers many of them early in their careers. Herein appear Beck Garson Ginsberg Plymell McClure Olson Guest Ferlinghetti McCord Shattuck Pelieu et al. According to Cook the first printing consisted of 6000 copies and an undifferentiated second printing of 5000 copies was produced in 1967. COOK 57. City Lights Books unknown books
1966WRCLIT70387San Francisco: City Lights Books 1966. Whole number three of four in this iteration. Pictorial wrappers. Slight dust smudging to lower wrapper but very good or better. Edited and published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti with associate editors. The third number of this irregular anthology/periodical highlighting authors associated with the imprint as well as a wide range of native and international writers many of them early in their careers. Herein appear Beck Garson Ginsberg Plymell McClure Olson Guest Ferlinghetti McCord Shattuck Pelieu et al. According to Cook the first printing consisted of 6000 copies and an undifferentiated second printing of 5000 copies was produced in 1967. COOK 57. City Lights Books unknown books
1966WRCLIT61127San Francisco: City Lights Books 1966. Whole numbers one through three of four in this iteration. Pictorial wrappers. Light edgewear and creasing to the spines some shelf smudges to edges a bit of light soiling to the white portions of the wrappers of #s 2 and 3 but very good. Edited and published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti with associate editors. The first three numbers of this irregular anthology/periodical highlighting authors associated with the imprint as well as a wide range of native and international writers many of them early in their careers. According to Cook the number of copies printed of the first number is not recorded and it was not reprinted; 6000 copies of the second were printed and it was not reprinted; 6000 copies of the third were printed and an undifferentiated second printing of 5000 copies was undertaken in 1967. COOK 39 49 & 57. City Lights Books 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
19082921New York & Chicago 1908. Thick quarto. 12 issues of this professional journal for the ice trade. Profusely illustrated with ads for all business connected to the trade. Contents include articles on large scale refrigeration installations various technical matters regional association activities trade conventions etc. Text block very good but three quarter brown morocco binding is split at the hinges and quite rubbed. Scarce in the trade. unknown books
192240955Various Hollister San Francisco Sacramento & Jamestown CA: Grand Lodge of California International Order of Good Templars 1922. Buff printed paper wrappers. Modest wear to newspapers age-toning soiling and rubbing/chipping apparent. Withal an About VG collection. 4 periodicals of various pages each. Two copies of "The Rescue" stapled together in pamphlet form. <br/><br/>Includes: Weekly Rescue Vol. X No. 37 Sacramento June 20th 1873; The Rescue Vol. XI No. 2 San Francisco February 1905; The Rescue Vol XIII No. 23 Hollister CA July & August 1910; Mother Lode Magnet Vol. XXVI No. 3 Jamestown Tuolumne County California February 1st 1922. Articles within newspapers include: Band of Hope Religious Intelligence Good Templars' Home for Orphans Weekly Rescue 1873; California Fruit Through the Smoke of Cattle Grand Chief Templar's Department & Water May be Used for Toasts in Germany The Rescue 1905; Roosevelt on the Saloon Business Action of Alcohol on the Stomach Thoughts and Suggestions for Good Templar Workers The Rescue 1910; Seven Sonora Lads Make Pleasant for Aged Man Popular Young Man Meets Death by Electrocution Death of Wm. Shutze Found Dead in Her Bed I'm noticing a trend here. Mother Lode Magnet 1922. Grand Lodge of California, International Order of Good Templars unknown 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
1798WRCAM43166Boston 1798. 4pp. Folio. Expertly silked on both sides. Small losses along old folds affecting a few lines of text. Some light foxing and soiling. Contemporary ownership inscription at top of first page. About very good. This issue of this long-running Boston paper contains the "Petition of J.J. Rousseau to the French Convention" as well as many notices for celebrations of George Washington's birthday. The COLUMBIAN CENTINEL was a later incarnation of THE MASSACHUSETTS CENTINEL an influential Federalist newspaper called by some the most enterprising newspaper in the state. The paper's publisher Benjamin Russell was a thorough-going Federalist and made his paper the leading Federalist organ in New England. 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
1910402041Philadelphia and New York: Lea & Febiger 1910. First edition. Binding broken; library stamps on title/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner M.D. 8vo. Original cloth. Includes: CUSHING Harvey Williams. "The functions of the pituitary body." Pp. 473-84. G-M-N 1161. BRILL Nathan Edwin. "An acute infectious disease of unknown origin. A clinical study based on 221 cases." Pp. 484-502. G-M-N 5382. <br/><br/> Lea & Febiger hardcover books
1903WRCAM43317Juneau 1903. 4pp. Folio. Chipped and browned at edges. Two leaves separated at fold. Good. Daily Alaskan newspaper containing news of William Sulzer's speech in support of the territory an idyllic word-portrait of prospecting and numerous advertisements. Sulzer a Democratic Congressman from New York argues that Alaska deserves to be a full-fledged territory rather than just a district owing to its beauty and vast natural resources. Sulzer would later serve as New York's governor and hold the record as the only governor of that state to be impeached; his brother Charles was an Alaskan politician. Alaska would not become a territory until 1912. unknown 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
