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186820565New York: Currier & Ives 1868. Hand-coloured lithograph by James Merrit Ives after Fanny Palmer. A poignant image demonstrating the triumph of the human spirit and depicting the twin stack steam paddle wheel and riverboat "Stonewall Jackson."<br/> <br/>In the foreground uprooted trees bob in the current using a roof as a raft two men pole themselves and nine others to safety one of their companions holds tight to reins of a mule swimming beside the roof whilst two others rescue furniture and a barrel. In the mid-ground: a large white-painted house with second-floor balconies front and back and a smaller cook-house off to the right side. Two men in a row boat approach the back of the house a lady stands on the balcony speaking to the men; on the widow's walk on the roof a man and a woman stand: the man waves a handkerchief to the twin-stack riverboat. The riverboat "Stonewall Jackson" is travelling at speed: the near-side paddle creates a substantial wake the flags fly in the stiff breeze and the smoke from the stacks steams backwards: passengers line the rails attracted by the human drama they are passing. The overall impression is of a crisis that is being survived and dealt with by man's ingenuity whilst life continues.<br/> <br/>Conningham 2819; Gale 3057. Currier & Ives 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
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
20002311374Newton Abbot Devon: David & Charles 2000. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Sticker on rear panel of publisher sleeve. 2000 Soft Cover. Fold-out map in publisher sleeve. "This series offers reprints of the first edition of the one-inch Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales dating from 1805 to 1900. Detail includes villages hamlets farms county boundaries roads and railways. David & Charles paperback books
20002311373Newton Abbot Devon: David & Charles 2000. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Sticker on rear panel of publisher sleeve. 2000 Soft Cover. Fold-out map in publisher sleeve. "This series offers reprints of the first edition of the one-inch Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales dating from 1805 to 1900. Detail includes villages hamlets farms county boundaries roads and railways. David & Charles paperback books
20002311372Newton Abbot Devon: David & Charles 2000. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Sticker on rear panel of publisher sleeve. 2000 Soft Cover. Fold-out map in publisher sleeve. David & Charles paperback books
197124286New York: Create Situations 1971. Reprint. Wraps. Very good . 8vo. Saddle-stapled photographic wraps. Very good plus. Light surface rubbing to wraps; moderate handling wear but clean and unmarked. 60pp. <br/><br/>Translation of a text published in INTERNATIONALE SITUATIONNISTE No. 12 September 1969 originally uncredited but likely authored by Debord; also includes additional documents from ENRAGÉS ET SITUATIONNISTES DANS LE MOUVEMENT DES OCCUPATIONS Gallimard 1968 and classic situationist 'detourned' comics. Tony Verlaan of "Create Situations" was a former member of the American section of the first Situationist International. Ford 167 lists this title but its described contents are confused with another item from same publisher – THE POOR & THE SUPERPOOR. (Create Situations) paperback books
200381303Madrid:: Del Prado Publishers. Fine. 2003. Hardcover. 8483729210 . Part of The Miniature Classics Library series. Unabridged. First edition thus miniature - measures roughly 2" x 2.5". Fine in a red leather binding. . Del Prado Publishers, hardcover books
193517129Moundsville WV: Delf Norona 1935. Hardcover. Very good. Volume 2 Articles 17 to 33. Moundsville WV: Delf Norona 1935. Numerous b/w illustrations. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Olive cloth. Extremities lightly bumped and rubbed; edges and pages lightly yellowed. Very good/. Delf Norona hardcover books
1979011475London: Prospect Books 1979. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. A nice run of the first 20 issues plus 4 non-contiguous issues and the book list for summer/autumn 1982. This copy of issue 1 is a limited edition of only 500 copies for sale and this is especially numbered "HS Lors serie JS 20 of the surplus review copies" and then signed by publisher Alan Davidson. Scarce thus. All clean solid copies - very good or better or near fine. Prospect Books unknown books
30430<p>Quarto two pages plus stamp-less address leaf some light toning to paper else in good legible condition.<br /></p><p>1850 Book-shop patronized by Abraham Lincoln</p><p>Sends a bill of lading for $ 568.20 in books purchased including the "Barn Book" Clater "Farmer's barn-book: containing the causes symptoms and treatment of all the diseases incident to oxen sheep swine… horses" 1850 sent for Leary & Co. in Philadelphia. Also sends a bill for 33 Chambers Information probably William and Robert Chambers Information for the People Philadephia 1847 "a book which you ought to sell cords of." The other titles in the shipment are: Remarkable Events in the History of America Lovechild's Nursery Stories Hart's Spenser's Faerie Queen White's History of the World Songs for the People Gems from Moore's Melodies Gems of Art and Beauty Ballad of Lord Bateman Pollok's Course of Time Baron Trenck Robinson Crusoe Don Juan and Childe Harold.</p><p>Caleb Brichall opened his first Springfield store in 1837. In the following years he was partners with various printers and bookbinders and published Goudy's Illinois Farmer's Almanac and from 1848 to 1855 with druggist Thomas Jefferson Vance Owen a veteran of the Mexican War in which he served as assistant surgeon. Their thriving business on the Capitol Square in Springfield sold books stationery patent medicine medical and dental supplies shipped from Philadelphia Boston and Chicago. Brichall was an ardent Whig and a supporter of the group that sent free Blacks to "colonize" Liberia. Abraham Lincoln had a long history of connection to the book-store both as customer and politician. He purchased his law office ledgers there but not his cough medicine which he bought from another druggist and once delivered to the store 23 copies of a steamy novel written by the daughter of a fellow lawyer and state legislator which was read appreciatively by Mary Lincoln.</p> 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
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
1980235453San Francisco: Bill Hartman & Roland Shembari 1980. Newspaper. Nine issue broken run four pages each folded tabloid event calendars with photos ads news opinion reviews some wear and toning otherwise good on newsprint. First issue and very early issues of the simple free calendar of events which became San Francisco Bay Times then Coming Up! a full-fledged multi-page newspaper. Began with October 1979. The first issue is heavily toned and creased. Issues include October-December 1979 January March August-December 1980. Bill Hartman & Roland Shembari unknown books
177318688Paris 1773. Engraved plan cut into sections but now mounted on a single sheet of card. Image size: 20 1/4 x 31 1/2 inches. Lovely pre-Revolution map of Paris.<br/> <br/>Fascinating 1773 map of Paris that locates all major buildings and parks with an extensive index. unknown books
2008189355Hendrickson Publishers 2008-09-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Illustrated boards. Hendrickson Publishers hardcover 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
1928125624New York: International Publishers 1928. Eight panel brochure 3.5x6 inches. Communist Party's publisher's catalog. International Publishers unknown books
1967239899New York: International Publishers 1967. Pamphlet. 30p. wraps two pages browned else very good condition 6x9 inches illus. International Publishers unknown 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
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
1971231921San Francisco: ADZ 1971. Newspaper. 8p. folded tabloid newspaper fewer personal ads and more local ads for gay services and sex toys toning newsprint. Special issue with centerfold maps to SF gay bars baths shops etc. ADZ 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
1925401647New York: Knight and Knight 1925. First edition. Some soiling and light handling wear soft horizontal crease. 4to. 16pp. Illustrated throughout with designs and plans for dolls. Stapled in self-wrappers. A fully-realized how-to for children starting with the tools and materials required through design and craft techniques. Includes general directions details for making hair and hats instructions on how to trace how to make clothes-pin dolls spoon dolls tiny china dolls a full-sized hat made of crepe paper the waist button dolly and "circus friend". This was the second in the "Betsy Bobbet" series following 'Dolly and her Dresses.' These how-tos were originaly boxed with materials and a pattern and retailed for $1.00 each. <br/><br/> Knight and Knight hardcover books
1930249191Paris: Lagesse & Neymarck 1930. 24p. presswork in black and green spot-color on alkaline coated paperstock softbound a stapled booklet or pamphlet in 10.5x6 inch wraps that are decorated with rulings gilt and an onlaid color vignette showing a completed stoa or promenade. Illustrated with forty of fifty b&w photos showing a team of three levelling a surface pouring tar installing tiles plus some diagrams the customer to know exactly what to expect. Good copy; the overlapping yapp-edged covers are a little edgeworn top margins have sun-bleached lines there's a little crimping along spinefold. Entirely sound clean and unmarked really a very good copy. Text title passages rendered in attractive deco sanserif commences: "Vos instants sont precieux vous n'avez pas le temps de lire les nombreux imprimes recus quotidiennement - que ce film vous renseigne clairement. Il vous prouve la simplicite du procede 'Couvraneuf' et la securite que vous pouvez en attendre" &c &c. Lagesse & Neymarck unknown books
