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1867212358Washington 1867. unbound. Exceedingly rare and historically important two-page letter 10 x 8 inches Washington January 22 1867. Written on lined paper with "House Reps Confidential" at the top. In this correspondence Ashley writes to W.G. Brownlow the Governor of Tennessee soliciting witnesses who will testify against President Andrew Johnson at his impeachment trial. In part: ".give me the names at once of all witnesses who can sustain any of the charges preferred against the President.let this be done promptly.If the Union men are earnest let them come forward with the facts.I hope your legislature will promptly enfranchise the loyal men of color and this same Tennessee from the fate of Maryland." Several folds with light browning and foxing; small tear along one of the folds. Very good- condition.<br/><br/> Ashley was the democratic congressman and abolitionist who supervised the underground railroad and who drew the bill abolishing slavery the first proposition to amend the constitution. Through his hatred for Republican Andrew Johnson Ashley solicited charges and then introduced the Articles of Impeachment in 1867.<br/><br/> unknown books
1838286545Philadelphia: Hinman and Dutton 1838. Half Leather. Good binding. An Accompaniment to Mitchell's Map of the World with chapters of textual information only on certain geographical regions. Foxing; previous owner's name on the front pastedown in pencil. Half leather over marbled paper. Good. Good binding. Hinman and Dutton unknown books
1895134984Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution 1895. Hardcover. VG- Ex-lib. stamp inside front cover usual markings; Light wear to cloth particularly at extremities; Corners bumped; Interior clean and tight. Green cloth over boards; Gilt titling at front cover; 81 pp.; Numerous tables and bw figures. Smithsonian Institution hardcover books
189942254Chicago: Breckenridge & Anderson 1899. First Edition. Small 12mo pp. 58. Author's presentation and owner's name on flyleaf. Maroon cloth over flexible boards. Also includes a glossary of musical terms and a list of violin-makers arranged by school. VG. Breckenridge & Anderson unknown books
189144175New York: New York Printing Co. The Republic Press Publishers 1891. 1st edition thus Revised and Freshened with Notes by the Author. Original publisher's blue cloth spine over silver patterned paper covered boards with gilt stamped lettering. Green patterned paper paste-downs. Shelf & edgewear. Bookplate & booklabel to front paste-down. Age-toning to free eps. Removed library pocket from rear paste-down. About Very Good. 45 1 pp. Index at rear. Partially unopened. Frontis of Depew. Oblong format: 8" x 9-3/8" <br/><br/> New York Printing Co. (The Republic Press) Publishers hardcover books
1879WRCLIT19693Np 1879. Folio broadsheet. Approx. 79 x 43cm. Decorative border. Folded with a few short clean breaks at fold else very good. A relatively late but charmingly bad example of the genre. unknown books
189530875Chicago: Neely 1895. First Edition. 8vo pp. 223. Frontis illustration. Flyleaf missing o/w VG. Not in Wright. A novel. Neely unknown books
187358086Portsmouth: Griffin & Co 1873. 4to pp. 6 15 1; final leaf with list of subscribers; title page printed in blue and black 24 chromolithograph plates each with a descriptive leaf of text including one of the H.M.S. Sultan; original blue cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; light wear; very good and sound. With an inscription on the chocolate-coated flyleaf: "Daddy from Georgie. June 23rd 1873. H.M.S. 'Sultan'." In this instance "Daddy" is John Panton Gubbins 1806-1879 a judge in the Indian Civil Service who has penned his ownership signature on the title page. A further inscription under Georgie's is to a "Mr. Woodmass 10 Oct. '90 a souvenir of J. P. G." Laid in is an envelope with 5 sleeves each containing an embossed monogram cut from stationery four of them monograms from ships including the Sultan. Together with: The Royal Navy 1872-80. In a series of illustrations lithographed in colours. From original drawings by F. W. Mitchell Esq. with an introduction by a naval architect. Portsmouth: Griffin & Co. 1884. 4to pp. 6 11 1; title page printed in blue; 25 chromolithograph plates each with a descriptive leaf of text; original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; light wear; very good and sound. With an ownership inscription on the flyleaf: "Harold E. Sulivan Mid. H M.S. 'Royal Sovereign.' Chamiel Squadron." <br/><br/> Griffin & Co hardcover books
1883W0811WNew Haven: Privately Printed 1883. Original brown morocco spine and tips 5 gilt raised bands and gilt spine lettering. Brown and cream marbled boards. Owner signature from 1891 on ffep. Number 176 of 200 copies. Very complete geneaology of the decendants of Rev. John Woodbridge who settled in Massachusetts in 1634. Large fold out pedigree facing p. 156 has been supplemented in ink with information into the mid 20th century. Beautifully printed with typography with red ruled boxes. Limited/Numbered. Half-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Trade. Privately Printed Hardcover books
18931261762New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1893. Twelfth Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 78pp.; VG; spine blue faded to green; bound in blue cloth with a pictorial of the statue of liberty approached by a ship on front cover title and moon in gilt; bumping to head and tail of spine corners; pencil on ffep; minor foxing to endpages; frontispiece has minor tear along top inner edge; shelved case 8. 1261762. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover books
18961279090Sandbornton N.H. 1896. First Edition First Printing. 12mo. 253 pp. G; leather-bound spine and boards with gilded lettering and illustration to spine; bumping chipping and fraying to head and tail of spine as well as corners and along the edges of both boards; shelfwear minor rubbing to front and back boards; fading to marbled text block with some ink staining; age toning and staining throughout; some fading to text but still legible; shelved Front Case. 1279090. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. unknown books
183921386Londini: sumptibus Societatis i.e. English Historical Society 1839. First edition large paper copy printed for one of the Society's members John Mee Mathew Esq. with his name printed in red on the verso of the half-title; 6 volumes royal 8vo contemporary half green morocco gilt paneled spines t.e.g. with the gilt stamp on the upper covers of the Birmingham Law Society and their gilt supralibros on the back covers rubberstamps on the title pages and occasionally in the text; upper joint of volume I tender several others rubbed; all in all a good sound set. "After his marriage in 1836 Kemble appears to have resided in London for some time employing himself in literary work and specially in transcribing in the British Museum and in various collegiate and cathedral libraries the Anglo-Saxon charters afterwards printed in his Codex Diplomaticus.In his knowledge of Teutonic philology he was far ahead of any of his fellow-countrymen and was the recognised exponent of the investigations of Jacob Grimm and other German writers on the subject. With regard to the study of Anglo-Saxon Kemble had a more scientific as well as a more accurate knowledge of the language than any earlier scholar and a deeper insight into its relations to other branches of Teutonic speech. He used his knowledge chiefly in illustrating Anglo-Saxon literature and history writing in all his original work as a man of letters no less than as a scholar. In commenting on an early fable he notes its significance traces its development and examines the forms under which it appears at different times and in various countries. The publication of his collection of documents belonging to the Anglo-Saxon period may be said to have laid the foundation of our present knowledge of the institutions and customs of the English before the Norman conquest.His Codex Diplomaticus must remain the great original of all such undertakings and the pattern to be followed by all future editors of charters. Besides the exact knowledge of Anglo-Saxon and the skill in deciphering manuscripts displayed by this book it presents though so unobtrusively as to be almost likely to escape notice proofs of an amazing amount of knowledge and critical acumen. Every charter which offers ground for suspicion is marked with an asterisk. Kemble's work was always done with minute care and a charter that he has not marked as spurious may as a rule safely be accepted as genuine. Founded on the Codex Kemble's Saxons in England was until the appearance of Bishop Stubbs's Constitutional History in 1873 the best English treatise on the polity of our ancestors before the coming of the Normans" DNB. <br/><br/> sumptibus Societatis [i.e. English Historical Society] unknown books
186332832London: Lovell Reeve and Co. 1863. First edition 4to pp. xii 251; 34 lithograph plates 11 of them chromolithographs original brown cloth gilt crest stamped on upper cover gilt-lettered spine; small spot on front cover else fine and unusual thus. Includes a list of 196 subscribers and therefore likely printed in a small edition among whom are W. B. Donne Edward A. Freeman and Sir Thomas Phillipps. Posthumously published. <br/><br/> Lovell Reeve and Co. hardcover books
184942332London: Longman Brown et al. 1849. First edition 8vo 2 vols.; slight staining to covers but generally a very good copy in original blue-green cloth gilt-lettered spine. George Stephens's copy with his ownership signature dated the year on publication on the flyleaf of each volume with an occasional annotation by him in the text and three 12mo leaves of notes in his hand laid in. Important history by the famed philologist and Anglo-Saxon scholar. <br/><br/> Longman, Brown [et al.] hardcover books
189921509Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company 1899. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. stapled gray wrappers. Very good. Unpaginated. 30 x 23.5 cm. Illustrated with a host of photographs captioned with text excerpts from the play. The Marquis of Steyne part acted by Tyrone Power father of the Hollywood star and Maurice Barrymore father to the Hollywood Barrymore's plays the Crawley brothers. Mrs. Fiske Minnie Maddern Fiske who stars as Becky was one of the leading American actresses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. An early scarce Herbert S. Stone publication later Stone & Kimball with An Appreciation by Edward Fales Coward worthy of a publicity director. Clean internally chipping to fore-edge covers and to the spine. Herbert S. Stone and Company unknown books
1890245588New York.: Collier. No date circa 1890. Green cloth gilt and black decorations red edges. Good plus covers faded and worn at extremities inner hinges splitting very good contents. 25.5x16 cm. . weight: 2.8 lb. Collier. hardcover books
185545251Augusta House Augusta ME 1855. Very good folded small tear to one edge minor soiling and ink bleed through. 3 pp. Bifolium. 8 x 10 inches. Letter dated January 4th 1855 one day after the Maine elections from Maubec Mitchell Rawson newly elected Whig member of the Maine House of Representatives to fellow Whig party member and candidate for Governor Isaac Reed reporting on the efforts to fix the vote in favor of Reed's opponent Anson Morrill. Rawson had been appointed as a member of a gubernatorial committee that morning so was privy to the shenanigans: "Much talk is made about the course which some members of the Senate & House wish to pursue. I tell them I have no objections to throwing out the votes in the Hancock Plantation & thereby elect or in any way assist Mr. Milliken but to throw them all out & by so doing disfranchise some thousand & declare Mr. Morrill elected by the people. I tell them such a course will be suicidal to the great American party which Mr. Reed & myself are one."<br/><br/>He goes on to report who is opposed to these moves and who might be witnesses: "When I see you I will inform you who are the men who are so conscientious about this matter. I am perfectly quiet & cool but I have been at work. most of the time for the last 24 hours. They the Committee propose to spend the night in the committee room so as to have it said that we are doing up business in shape but they are more anxious to declare Mr. Morill Gov by the dear people. I have heard nothing from you but I think my course is patriotic or an honest one & I shall pursue it unless you suggest otherwise. Don't show my letters to anyone. I shall be glad when this session shall close."<br/><br/>Anson Morrill 1803-1887 was elected Maine's Governor in 1855 and served until 1856. He had been a candidate under the Know Nothing and then Republican parties.<br/><br/>John F. Milliken however was not among the list of Representatives in 1855 but seems to have gotten himself appointed Postmaster in his hometown.<br/><br/>Isaac Reed 1809-1887 was a merchant and shipbuilder. He served in the Maine Senate 1839-1840; 1850 1863; the Maine House of Representatives 1842-1843; 1846; 1870-1871; as State Treasurer 1856; and in the U.S. House of Representatives 1852-1853.<br/><br/>Maubec Mitchell Rawson b. 1825 was from Waldoboro Maine. unknown books
187322505New York: Scribner Armstrong and Company 1873. New edition. Green cloth binding with gilt-stamped spine. VG spine ends and corners rubbed. 280 pp. 12mo. 19cm x 13cm. <br/><br/>One of Merle Johnson's High Spots of American Literature. Scribner, Armstrong and Company hardcover books
18932288312Charles Scribner's Sons 1893. Small Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Morgan Percy. Ink name on second blank. 1893 Small Hard Cover. xxii 260 pp. Green boards top page ridge gilt. Reveries of a Bachelor or A Book of the Heart is a book by American author Donald Grant Mitchell published in 1850 under the pseudonym Ik Marvel. In the text the author theorizes on boyhood country life style marriage travel and dreaming. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
18515070bdNew York: Charles Scribner 1851. First Edition. Octavo cloth hardcover gilt decoration to upper cover upper edge gilt tissue-protected frontis. vii 286 pp. Good with professionaly repaired spine bumped corners sunning to edges. Photographs gladly provided upon request. Contents: Introductory: With My Aunt Tabity With My Reader; Dreams of Boyhood: Rain in the Garret School Dreams Boy Sentiment A Friend Made and Friend Lost Boy Religion A New Englad Squire The Country Church A Home Scene; Dreams of Youth: Cloister Life First Ambition College Romance First Look at the World A Broken Home Family Confidence A Good Wife A Broken Hope; Dreams of Manhood: Pride of Manliness Man of the World Manly Hope Manly Love Cheer and Children Dream of Darkness Peace; Dreams of Age: What is Gone What is Left Grief and Joy of Age The End of Dreams. Charles Scribner, 1851. First Edition. hardcover books
1851291647New York: Scribner 1851. First. hardcover. very good. 336 pages. 8vo gilt-stamped sunned and faded cloth; ex-library with bookplate inside front cover and bookseller's embossed stamp on flyleaf small notations in pencil on title page and first page. New York: Charles Scribner 1851. First edition. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Scribner unknown books
181427693New York: Whiting & Watson J. Seymour printer 1814. 8vo. 49 pp. <br><br>Original edition not a modern reprint. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 32023. Removed from a nonce volume. A clean very good copy. Whiting & Watson (J. Seymour, printer) unknown books
1864101300Philadelphia 1864. Unbound colored engraved map decorative boarder 14"x 11". Slight toning and aging minor chip in margin; otherwise bright and clear and in very good shape. Maps are wrapped with acid free board or in rigid sleeves. The Mitchell family started to produce atlases in 1846 and continued into the early 1890s. Around 1860 S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. took over and the atlas would be called Mitchell's New General Atlas. This is colorful attractive map of France Spain and Portugal from the 1864 installment of that atlas. Nicely presented color and detail. Ristow 311-313 Phillips 907 S. Augustus Mittchell, books
18599005506Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co. 1859. Hardcover. Very good condition. Bound in the publisher's original brown boards stamped in black with a black leather spine. Modest wear and soiling to the extremities. Some browning to the endpapers. Very clean internally. <br/><br/> E. H. Butler & Co. hardcover books
1858027463Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Company 1858. Quarto. 9 pages 23 unnumbered leaves. The maps are all from 1852 plates. OCLC shows copies are found at the Newberry and the Library of Congress. It has all 32 maps some of which are inset maps e.g. Galveston on the Texas map no. 13. Of particular interest is 1. no. 5 Map of the United States which shows New Mexico Territory which extends into what was later parts of Nevada and Colorado. The southern part of New Mexico was called Arizona but it was not until the Civil War that Arizona became a separate territory. This map was issued two years prior to the Gadsen Purchase. 2. no. 13 the State of Texas Besides showing Texas as it was after 1850 it also both in the insert and the full size map shows the range of the Comanche as well as the Apaches. This copy belonged to a Silas Wright of Greenwood. Bound in pictorial paper covered boards backed in black morocco some staining to boards small edge tears to spine toning or occasional spots of foxing to margins. A very good copy. E.H. Butler & Company unknown books
