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183840630Northampton: J. H. Butler / John Metcalf 1838. 1st printing presumed. Light blue printed paper wrappers with later navy blue cloth spine reinforcement. Significant wear to wrappers glue remains to sides of spine reinforcement light soiling and rubbing. A Good copy. 24 2 pp. Woodcut illustrations within. 5-3/16" x 2-7/8" <br/><br/> J. H. Butler / John Metcalf hardcover books
1850242322New York: Leonard Scott & Co 1850. Magazine. Pp.157-312p. i.e. about 150 pages printed doublecolumn throughout on reasonably alkaline paperstock sewn textblock in paste-fastened green printed wraps. Untrimmed very edgeworn with dirt and a stain to foredge and foxing to top edge short splits and small chips to head and tail some pencillings and here & there a little mouse-gnaw. A somewhat repulsive copy nonetheless quite securely bound and handleable. Topics include twenty pages on Welsh education twenty again of French/English vocabulary for travelers twenty on the geologic distribution of gold in Siberia and California Sierras "more lofty than the Appenines" histories of Spanish literature ditto ancient Greek lit twenty pages on urban water-supply and sanitation especially of London and. more. Leonard Scott & Co unknown books
1850WRCAM5467London & Edinburgh 1850. 7 chapters 32pp. each. Original decorated paper over boards rebacked in cloth. Boards rubbed as usual but very good. The fourth volume in this popular series aimed at satisfying the literary appetite of "higher minded" people. This volume includes "The Bourbon Family" "Every-day Life of the Greeks" "Science of the Sunbeam "Sir Robert Peel" and "California" which describes the gold rush. hardcover books
1814WRCLIT75129New York: Printed by Tunison & Snowden 1814. 41153-65pp. 12mo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume lower edges untrimmed. Moderate foxing good and sound. Four numbers of 11 published with the general title for the first number. The final number appeared in November. A sequence of anecdotes and ruminations on comportment as well a brief sketches of men among his acquaintance the anonymous author deemed exemplars of morality. The majority of locations in OCLC scattered among several entries are microfilm. OCLC: 1758711. Printed by Tunison & Snowden unknown books
1870WRCLIT23143Savannah GA.: Published by Wilson & Havens 1870. Stereopticon photograph mounted on card with printed label on verso. Small early ink name on verso of card else very nice. An example of the blizzard of racially stereotypical stereographs produced and sold in the South and North for that matter in the years following the Emancipation Proclamation. In this view a black man in a straw hat is riding a rather skeletal steer with an overloaded haycart drawn behind. The title label indicates this was image 126 in the publisher's series. Darrah cites Wilson and Havens as active in Savannah during the 1860s and the 1870s. Published by Wilson & Havens unknown books
187261762New York: James Sutton and Company. Very Good. 1872. Hardcover. This is a bound Volume V from 1872 of this heavily illustrated monthly. It lacks the first issue and so is Volume V No. 2- Volume V No. 12. Original boards but the binding has been crudely rebacked and repaired with a cloth tape by a Library. The Contents are clean and fresh and unmarked with the single exception of a library stamp at the top of one page of text in No. 4 and include many full page woodcut illustrations. . James Sutton and Company hardcover books
1897WRCLIT77280New York: Breitkopf and Hartell 1897. 92pp. Small folio 34 x 27.5 cm. Khaki cloth elaborately decorated in green gilt and dark brown with a floral art nouveau motif signed 'M.M'. Pictorial endsheets. Publisher's address revision stamp on title below imprint some pencil annotations otherwise a very near fine copy. A handsome period binding from the American branch of the venerable music publishers. While there are plate marks for the music v.a. 1868 OCLC suggests a far more reasonable publication date of 1897 which is highly consistent with the style of the binding and printing. OCLC locates copies at Cleveland Public and Martin Luther College. OCLC: 22334613. Breitkopf and Hartell hardcover books
18772292001D. Lothrop & Co 1877. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Edges rubbed ink gift note on front endpaper 'From "my dear little Josi" on my third birth-day Feb 21st. 1878.'. 1877 Hard Cover. 64 pp. Blue cloth spine color pictorial paper over boards. Engraved frontispiece silhouette illustration on title page full alphabet in both capital and lower case on copyright page alphabet paired with illustrations featuring two letters per page each paired with two lines of verse with an additional page for '&' followed by fifteen brief stories in which all polysyllabic words are hyphenated. D. Lothrop & Co hardcover books
189849371Meadville Pa / St. Louis Mo: Keystone View Company 1898. Pink mount slightly bowed with publisher imprint to either side caption under right image. Rounded corners. Blank verso. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. Light wear & soiling. Photo clear & sharp. A VG example. Domed b/w images of 7 men on a dock with a dozen or so sea turtles being gathered. Oblong format: 3-7/16" x 7" <br/><br/> Keystone View Company unknown books
182319787Philadelphia: Carey & Lea 1823. Engraving with full period colour. Backed on linen. Split at fold expertly repaired. Occasional creases. Fascinating and informative map of Connecticut from one of the most innovative American atlases of the 19th century.<br/> <br/>Carey & Lea's atlas established a style that was widely admired especially in Europe: placing a fully coloured map as the centerpiece of the page and surrounding it with geographical and historical facts. The texts were well written and intriguing. The immense transformation of continental America: the vast migration settlement and industrialization really began at about this time not long after the War of 1812 when expansion and opportunity were American by-words. It was at this time that American atlases began to need semi-annual revisions because the country had changed so rapidly. In fact the Carey & Lea gazetteer style most reminiscent of Herman Moll really was too time consuming for the firms that published atlases of America as the century progressed. Carey & Lea unknown books
18801006298vo original decorative cloth illustrated with 44 of 48 plates Volume two of a three volume set. Binding is worn around the extremities library plate some loose pages hinges are weak and a bit of foxing and aging but plates are generally bright and attractive. Originally published in a three volume set with 144 chromolithographed plates. Although the present volume contains only 44 of the plates they are bright and colorful illustrations. Hume & Marshall, hardcover books
188219572New York: G.W. Carleton & Co. 1882. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Printed cloth gilt-stamped titles. Very good. Modest scuffs edgewear to boards. Pages moderately to heavily foxed throughout but complete and unmarked. Binding cracked at several points; mostly good and sound throughout. 514pp. <br/><br/>Rare. Stated eighteenth edition but OCLC locates no other editions of this title so this was likely a marketing tactic to increase the impression of the book's popularity. OCLC finds only four worldwide holdings of the physical book: one in Canada and three in the U.S. An extensively illustrated general encyclopedia for popular consumption which includes "whole chapters upon" subjects including Fine Arts Jurisprudence Vegetable Creation Animal Creation Mineralogy Chronology and more; edited by "The Ablest Talent the World Affords." G.W. Carleton & Co. hardcover books
187824532Boston Massachusetts: Sampson Davenport and Company 1878. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. 6 ads 860 2 pages. Advertisements on endpapers as well. Colored folded map of Massachusetts in front. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth with coppergilt lettering on spine panel. Cover is worn with silverfish damage to surface of cloth and front hinge paper. Sound textblock front hinge loose and could use reinforcement. Cloth. A scarce survival most were discarded as they became dated or when the nice colored map was removed and sold separately. Now a great reference for who was active in Boston a major city at the time. Sampson, Davenport, and Company unknown books
1804247484Hudson N.Y. 1804. 8 pp. printed in three columns. 4to. Old fold lines. Minor soiling and toning. Very good. In a tan half morocco and cloth folder spine gilt. 8 pp. printed in three columns. 4to. A single issue of this Upstate New York weekly newspaper which began publication in 1801. This issue contains the text of President Jefferson's Message to Congress of Nov. 8th. In his speech Jefferson discusses relations with foreign powers including the Delaware and other Indian tribes the Louisiana Purchase; the United States Navy; and the federal budget. Critical of Jefferson Croswell would later be tried for libel and defended before the Supreme Court by Alexander Hamilton. The publication of this weekly newspaper would continue through 1807. unknown books
18676779London: F. Warne; Savill and Edwards Printers Chandos-Street Covent Garden 1867. From the "Warne's Bijou Books" series. Duodecimo 9.5 x 6.5 cm. 95 1 pages. Illustrated with a color lithograph frontispiece and extra-title and additional wood engravings in the text. Publisher's advertisement at rear listing twenty-one titles in the series at the time of publication. Evident FIRST EDITION. A tiny etiquette manual with information on how to behave at table accompanied by carving instructions which explain how to portion out a saddle of mutton and many other cuts. With a color lithographic frontispiece and extra title. Bound in blind- and gilt-stamped brown cloth covering flexible boards all edges gilt spine edges showing wear. The gilt-illustrated cover depicts a man and a woman at their dinner table. Edgeworn and a bit shaken; generally good. OCLC records two copies of this original edition. F. Warne; Savill and Edwards, Printers, Chandos-Street, Covent Garden hardcover books
186521705St. Paul: Groff & Bailey 1865. First edition 8vo pp. 16 ads 399 including rear free endpaper and rear pastedown; 6 leaves printed on colored paper and outside the pagination are inserted; final 18 leaves in pagination also printed on colored paper; lacking front free endpaper containing ads p. 120-121 torn with loss also pp. 225-234; worn and rubbed soiling to covers else good and sound in orig. red morocco-backed printed paper-covered boards. Includes a full-p. illustrated ad for the North-Western Packet Co. James J. Hill agent. Preface identifies this directory as "the first state directory ever published in Minnesota." <br/><br/> Groff & Bailey hardcover books
1883L0531<p>624 pages with frontispiece and over 300 black and white illustrations. Royal Octavo 9" x 6 1/4" bound in the original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial on spine and black and gilt lettering with pictorial to cover. Lacks the illustration of Twain's head in flames on page 441 and the corrected "St Charles Hotel" on page 443. Simultaneously published in 1883 in the United States and Great Britain the book is the first submitted to a publisher as a typewritten manuscript BAL 34II Second state of the first American edition.<br /><br />Twain once remarked that he considered this book his masterpiece the book that would outlive his other works and endure as a classic. Of course Twain once defined a classic as a book everybody talks about but nobody ever reads. At first glance it seems to be a travel book but it is really a highly readable discursive autobiographical account of Twain's boyhood and his region and of a culture that radically changed since he left home 30 years earlier. It makes good reading as background for <i>Huck Finn</i>. The only thing that is known of the printing history is what Twain wrote in 1891: that 50000 copies were printed and bound but only 32000 sold. Implication is that the unsold copies were reissued by Charles L Webster between 1884 and 1891 when he took over Osgood's stock. Copies are found with Osgood's sheets and Webster cancel title-page in Webster bindings dated 1888 and 1891. As a subscription book this book was similar in size to the hefty tomes of the American Publishing Company but the handsome pictorial brown cloth binding ranks with the binding of <i>Huck Finn</i> as one of the best on a Twain first edition. It could be ordered with gilt edges in full sheep three-quarter morocco and three-quarter calf. MacDonald: <i>Firsts</i>.<br /><br />This is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War and also a travel book recounting his trip along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the War. The book begins with a brief history of the river as reported by Europeans and Americans beginning with the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot as the 'cub' apprentice of an experienced pilot Horace E. Bixby. He describes with great affection the science of navigating the ever-changing Mississippi River in a section that was first published in 1876 entitled "Old Times on the Mississippi". Although Twain was actually 21 when he began his training he uses artistic license to make himself seem somewhat younger referring to himself as a "fledgling" and a "boy" who "ran away from home" to seek his fortune on the river and playing up his own callowness and naïveté. In the second half Twain narrates his trip many years later on a steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans. He describes the competition from railroads and the new large cities and adds his observations on greed gullibility tragedy and bad architecture. He also tells some stories that are most likely tall tales. In 1980 the book was adapted as a TV movie for American public television with David Knell performing as Sam Clemens and Robert Lansing as Horace Bixby the steamboat pilot who mentored him. The film used many tall tales from the book woven into a fictional narrative. In 2010 <i>Life on the Mississippi</i> was adapted as a stage musical with book and lyrics by Douglas M. Parker and music by Denver Casado. It was produced that year in Kansas City Missouri and Door County Wisconsin. <br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Recased in original spine some occasional foxing and finger soiling one signature slightly sprung else a very good and bright copy.</p> James R Osgood and Company hardcover books
185524811Fairfield Iowa and Philadelphia: Henn Williams & Co. and R. Barnes 1855. Folding pocket map lithographed by Friend & Aub of Philadelphia full original period hand colouring. Folds into original blue cloth covers blocked in blind the upper cover with publisher and title in gilt. A fine copy of this attractive map of Iowa from the early years of its settlement this second edition shows the rapid development within the state and is the first edition to include Sioux City and many proposed railroad routes.<br/> <br/>This large and colourful map of Iowa shows the state divided into numerous counties all within nine land districts with the sites of the land offices identified in each. Issued to promote settlement in the state the map includes an advertisement in the upper left corner for Henn Williams and Co.: "dealers in land land warrants & exchange . special attention given to Location of Land the sale and loan of Warrants and to the collecting & remitting of sight and time bills. Investments made in any part of Iowa." Besides locating numerous towns and river systems the state's burgeoning railroad system is shown with many proposed routes depicted across the state by means of dotted lines. This is the second edition of the map after the first of 1854 but apparently printed from a new plate to incorporate the rapid growth. A third edition followed in 1856.<br/> <br/>Phillips A List of Maps of America p. 337; Rumsey 1739; Graff 1857; Streeter sale 3898. Henn, Williams & Co. and R. Barnes unknown books
186145862Philadelphia 1861. Broadside approx. 18 x 14"; adorned with 32 small circular mustard-colored vignettes engraved in black each depicting the seal of a state of the Union; some offsetting due to having been previously folded else a fine example. Attractive advertisement for the Philadelphia weekly illustrated newspaper which "contains 8 Pages 40 columns of reading matter from the pens of the best American authors; national and not sectional; it is emphatically the best literary paper in America. It has no equal." Contents also include a review excerpt from the Philadelphia Weekly; terms of subscription; and a call for agents. Subscribers are additionally bribed with the promise of certificates being sold at $1 and redeemable for various goods the most luxurious of which is a gold chronometer hunting watch valued at $200. AAS only in OCLC as of July 2014. <br/><br/> unknown books
186213817New York: Currier & Ives 1862. Hand-coloured lithograph. Very good condition apart from a few small tears in the top margin and several light water stains in the margins one of which slightly extends into the top of the image. Slight discolouration of the paper due to age. A scenic tranquil landscape in upstate New York with a small glimpse of the Hudson River visible through the foliage between the two rocky outcroppings bordering the dirt road.<br/> <br/>Frances Flora Bond Palmer known as Fanny worked for Nathaniel Currier for over than twenty-five years. She was according to Gloria Deak "the foremost woman lithographer of her time" Picturing America 647. Born and raised in England by a cultivated family she was already an accomplished painter and lithographer when she came to America in 1844 at which time she exhibited two works at the National Academy of Design. By 1849 she was working for Currier producing landscapes and still lifes. She lithographed these prints herself usually after her own sketches.<br/> <br/>Cf. Gale Currier & Ives: A Catalogue Raisonné 1984 vol. 1 4611. Currier & Ives unknown books
189021478Np: MacLin-Zimmer-McGill 1890. Stiff Boards. Orig. decorated light blue and white illustrated backs. Fine. Complete deck of 53 chromolithographic playing cards 9.5 x 5.5 cm. including the "Little Joker." The Aces and numeral cards have the suit symbols superimposed over the costumes. Backs in blue and white depicting a sailor at the helm with the advertising line "Smoke and Chew Hard-A-Port Cut Plug." Hard-a-Port Cut Plug" tobacco insert playing cards published by MacLin-Zimmer-McGill USA c.1890 featuring a selection of beautiful actresses from a past era in poses some might consider risqué. This set of designs was used in around six different editions with various backs advertising "Hard-a-Port Cut Plug" and/or "Trumps Long Cut" chewing tobacco. They were originally produced by Moore and Calvi then by their successors MacLin and Zimmer and Maclin-Zimmer-McGill in around the 1890s. The "Hard-a-Port Cut Plug" series depicts actresses with angelic faces dressed for the pantomime or dance hall. MacLin-Zimmer-McGill unknown books
18883393San Francisco: Published by Bell & Heymans 1888. First Edition. Very good. Folio 350 x 258 mm. 86 ix 1 pp. including fascinating advertisements. Original wrappers chipped and foxed. Wrappers with two-color lithographs 44 b/w lithographs illustrating the text some extending over 2 pages all by Britton & Rey San Francisco. MAP 53 x 71 cm with some short tears at fold intersections. Recto: "Map of Sonoma County Cal'a sic. Showing Boundary Lines of County and Townships Railroads and Public Roads Cities Towns &c. &c." Published by Bell and Heymans 434 California St. San Francisco Copyrighted May 1888. Lithographer: Cal Label & MacCabe Lith Co. San Francisco. Verso: "Map of Verano Sonoma Valley California." Lithographer: H.S. Crocker & Co. San Francisco. Beautifully illustrated promotional materials for the nascent planned community of Verano Sonomy Valley created by the firm of Britton & Rey in their prime. The folio volume and the accompanying map sheet with color illustrations are rare: this is the only complete copy that has been recorded at auction.<br/><br/>Although more commercial than the Thompson & West local histories the present work has the same type of wonderful documentation with the added cache of ads that enhance the historical value. Following a history of Sonoma County and Russian River Valley are essays on industries agriculture orchards viticulture stock raising lumber minerals natural wonders business opportunities social life etc. These promotional materials were apparently aimed at investors from the East Coast and perhaps beyond; at some point our map was inscribed in French: "Californie" sic. <br/><br/>The remarkable lithographs by Britton & Rey depict scenes views panoramas portraits architecture vineyards orchards etc. some after photographs. Included with our copy is the rare folding lithograph sheet with map of Sonoma County on one side and colored illustrations and map of Verano on other side Hooker Falls orange and olive grove General Vallejo's home Sonoma Creek Verano Park. At that time Verano now known as El Verano was a planned community. The present promotional items were no doubt occasioned when a new train depot was built nearby. <br/><br/>The Bancroft copy as recorded by OskiCat does not contain the map but there is a related map greatly reduced defective and apparently printed on one side only by H.S. Crocker with the same title likewise surveyed by P.R. Davis which measures 26 x 46 cm or about half the size as ours. <br/><br/>Auction comparables: Dorothy Sloan Auction 20 2007 lot 6 this copy purchased after the sale for $1410. An ugly copy of the map backed with tissue thus obscuring the entire "Map of Sonoma County Cala" on the verso sold at PBA on June 7 2012 for $600. <br/><br/>Rocq 14850. Published by Bell & Heymans unknown books
18025174London: Harding 1802. Aquatint coloured by hand on laid paper watermark '1802' Publication line at foot of plate shaved with slight loss some expertly repaired tears to margins. An anonymous work of quality.<br/> <br/>Unusually the present work does not include either the artist responsible for the original or the engraver who worked on the plate. The publication line is very faint: sometimes an indication of a later issue but the early watermark does not support this. None of the standard reference works include either this print or mention of the horse Sacripant. This suggests that this image is rare and the absence of names allied with the early watermark may indicate some sort of proof issue. Harding unknown books
18905166London: J. Braill & Son 1890. Aquatint printed in colours and finished by hand. A fine copy of this excellent late example of the racing aquatint.<br/> <br/>The heyday of the racing aquatint in Britain was probably about 1830 but the present example shows that the art had not died out even sixty years later. The print is unfortunately unsigned but aside from the process used the style of painting is charming and recalls the work of John Frederick Herring and his contemporaries. J. Braill & Son unknown books
186119902New York: Currier & Ives 1861. Hand-coloured lithograph by Charles Parsons signature in image. Expert marginal repairs. Sheet size: 22 1/2 x 32 inches. Image size: 17 1/2 x 27 1/4 inches. A magnificent Currier & Ives portrait of one of the premier yachts in the New York Yacht Club: the yacht that beat the "America" in her speed trials.<br/> <br/>The Stevens brothers listed in the title were members of a prominent American family their father had served in the American Revolution. John Cox Stevens was one of the founding members of the New York Yacht Club the first Commodore and one of five sponsors of the "America" the yacht that went to England in 1851 and won the race thereafter known as the America's Cup Race. His brother Robert L. Stevens designed the "Maria" which beat the "America" during the series of speed trial races to Sandy Hook prior to the latter's epoch-making trip to England. The "Maria" was one of the most beautiful yachts in an era of exceptionally beautiful boats: an icon amongst American yachts. It was estimated that the Stevens spent a total of $100000 on experiments and alterations involving Maria in the 22 years that she was in the family. A 1914 article in the New York Times described her as "a scientific racing machine the first of her kind" cf. NYT 17 May 1914.<br/> <br/>Conningham 6805; Gale 7360. Currier & Ives unknown books
