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1852WRCAM31820APhiladelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. 1852. Chromolithographic title with large vignette; handcolored frontispiece of heights of principal mountains and lengths of principal rivers; contents list printed in red black and gold; seventy-three handcolored lithographic maps charts and city plans one double-page. Folio. Publisher's three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards spine ruled in gilt morocco label lettered in gilt on front board. Binding worn and rubbed front hinge tender. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Some toning but generally clean internally. Very good overall. A famous atlas with handcolored maps of all the individual states and territories with the map of California showing counties in California and New Mexico for the first time and with the locations of Native American tribes shown in several western states and territories. Despite its title the atlas concentrates to a marked degree on the American continent with forty-three maps of the area including a fine double-page coast- to-coast map of the United States. <br> <br> S. Augustus Mitchell and his sons were the leading publishers of maps in the United States during most of the 19th century. Mitchell had come to Philadelphia round 1830 with the intention of improving the standard of geography textbooks Philadelphia then being the leading city in America for cartographical publications. A NEW AMERICAN ATLAS published in 1831 was his first work. In 1845 he acquired the right to Tanner's NEW UNIVERSAL ATLAS first published in 1836 and in 1846 he published his first edition of the present work. Mitchell continued to publish the atlas until 1850 when he sold the copyright to Cowperthwait & Co. of Philadelphia. Thomas Cowperthwait & Company published it until 1856 when it was purchased by Charles DeSilver. The Cowperthwait company continued to add edit alter and hand-color the maps. PHILLIPS ATLASES 807. RISTOW pp.311-13 ref. RUMSEY 553. Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. hardcover books
1852236680Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait & Co 1852. Chromolithograph title hand-colored frontispiece 73 hand-colored lithographic maps. 1 vols. Folio. Half red morocco in period style original marbled boards with printed label on upper cover very clean. Chromolithograph title hand-colored frontispiece 73 hand-colored lithographic maps. 1 vols. Folio. Mitchell & Sons first published their NEW UNIVERSAL ATLAS in 1846 having acquired Tanner's NEW UNIVERSAL ATLAS in 1845 and printed it several times subsequently until 1850 when the firm sold the rights to Cowperthwait & Co. of Philadelphia who published it until 1856 continually adding to and editing the hand-colored maps. Despite the attribute "Universal" in the title the Atlas clearly concentrates on America with 43 maps of the continent and features a large double-page transcontinental map of the U.S; and this 1852 Cowperthwait edition is the first to show counties in California and New Mexico. Phillips 809; Ristow pp.311-13; Rumsey p.240 Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co unknown books
18496558Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell 1849 Folio. 17 3/8 x 14 inches. Lithographed title with large vignette letterpress "Table of Contents" and 73 hand-colored lithographed maps charts and city plans. Three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards large red morocco title label on front cover elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt. Spine and corners renewed in red leather. Boards rubbed and scuffed at edges. Maps in fine condition. Overall a fine copy. A very nice copy of this very scarce atlas with hand-colored maps of all the individual States and Territories and including the rare and famous map of "Oregon Upper California & New Mexico" showing the large yellow-colored area in California labeled "Gold Region." The Atlas concentrates on the American continent with 43 maps of the area including a fine double-page coast-to-coast map of the United States. Samuel Augustus Mitchell and his sons were the leading publishers of maps in the United States during most of the nineteenth century. A New American Atlas published in 1831 was Mitchell's first work. In 1846 he published his first edition of the present work. He continued to publish the Atlas until 1850 when he sold the copyright to Cowperthwait & Co. It was with this 1849 edition that "New Mexico" was added to the title of the map as well as the words "Gold Region" added in a large yellow area in "Upper or New California." As Wheat states "We find S. Augustus Mitchell in Philadelphia publishing in 1849 a revised version of his Texas Oregon and California map taking advantage of Frémont's later work and displaying a large colored Gold Region." Also many routes are shown by red hand-colored lines including Frémont's routes. Wheat: Mapping the Transmississippi West: 630 p.284; text p.82; not noted in Wheat's Maps of the Gold Region. S. Augustus Mitchell hardcover books
18525810Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait & Co 1852. Folio. 17 x 13 3/4 inches. Chromolithographic title with large vignette hand-coloured frontispiece of the heights of the principal mountains and lengths of the principal rivers contents list printed in red black and gold 73 hand-coloured lithographed maps charts and city plans 1 double-page. Publisher's green marbled paper-covered boards with morocco title label elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt on upper cover red morocco spine and corners expertly renewed to style. Modern red cloth box morocco lettering piece<br/> <br/>A fine copy of this famous atlas with hand-coloured maps of all the individual States and Territories. The map of California shows counties in California and New Mexico for the first time.<br/> <br/>Despite its title the Atlas concentrates to a marked degree on the American continent with 43 maps of the area including a fine double-page east-to-west-coast map of the United States. S. Augustus Mitchell and his sons were the leading publishers of maps in the United States during most of the nineteenth century. Mitchell had come to Philadelphia around 1830 with the intention of improving the standard of geography textbooks Philadelphia then being the leading city in America for cartographical publications. A New American Atlas published in 1831 was his first work. In 1845 he acquired the rights to Tanner's New Universal Atlas first published in 1836 and in 1846 he published his first edition of the present work. Mitchell continued to publish the atlas until 1850 when he sold the copyright to Cowperthwait & Co. of Philadelphia. Thomas Cowperthwait & Company published it until the mid-1850s when it was purchased by Charles De Silver. The Cowperthwait company continued to add edit alter and hand-colour the maps.<br/> <br/>Phillips Atlases 807; cf. Ristow pp. 311-313; Rumsey p.239. Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co unknown books
18556365Philadelphia: Charles DeSilver 1855. Folio. 17 x 14 inches. Chromolithographic title with large vignette hand-coloured frontispiece of the heights of the principal mountains and lengths of the principal rivers contents list printed in red black and gold 71 hand-coloured lithographed maps and charts 3 double-page and 1 city plan. Publisher's red half morocco with green marbled paper-covered boards morocco title label elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt on upper cover. Modern red cloth box dark red morocco lettering piece<br/> <br/>A fine copy of this famous atlas with hand-coloured maps of all the individual States and Territories. The first edition to have DeSilver as publisher and here including 'A New Map of Nebraska Kansas New Mexico & the Indian Territories' for the first time: present here as an additional map un-numbered and not called for in the contents list<br/> <br/>Despite its title the Atlas concentrates to a marked degree on the American continent with a city plan of Washington D.C. and 42 maps of the area including a fine double-page coast-to-coast map of the United States and 30 maps of the States and Territories. The un-numbered map of Nebraska Kansas etc. is here bound between sheets numbered 37 and 38. S. Augustus Mitchell and his sons were the leading publishers of maps in the United States during most of the nineteenth century. Mitchell had come to Philadelphia around 1830 with the intention of improving the standard of geography textbooks Philadelphia then being the leading city in America for cartographical publications. A New American Atlas published in 1831 was his first work. In 1845 he acquired the rights to Tanner's New Universal Atlas first published in 1836 and in 1846 he published his first edition of the present work. Mitchell continued to publish the atlas until 1850 when he sold the copyright to Cowperthwait & Co. of Philadelphia. Thomas Cowperthwait & Company published it until the mid-1850s when it was purchased by Charles De Silver. The Cowperthwait company continued to add edit alter and hand-colour the maps.<br/> <br/>Phillips Atlases 6118; cf. Ristow pp. 311-313; Rumsey pp.240-241. Charles DeSilver unknown books
1975311865Palm Beach Florida 1975. Together 2 pp. 4to. On personal letterhead one with original envelope. Fine. Together 2 pp. 4to. A pair of letters from Apollo 14 astronaut Ed Mitchell 1930-2016 to William Targ editor at Putnam's in which Mitchell expresses his annoyance at the publisher's failure to send royalty statements for his book Psychic Exploration 1974 and expressing frustration at the publisher's failure to adequately promote the book. unknown books
19001318926Paisley: Alexander Gardner 1900. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair hardcover; Spine blue with gold print; Boards in blue cloth worn corners and spine caps wear to hinges shelfwear; Text block has gilt top edge deckle edged cracked hinges intermittent spine breaks spotting to some page edges small stain to front endpapers newspaper clipping taped to rear pastedown stains to front endpapers and title page annotation in ink on front endpapers; 707 pages frontispiece. 1318926. FP New Rockville Stock. Alexander Gardner hardcover books
1953001707Charlottesville VA: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 1953. First Edition. Stapled Wraps. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 99pp. Mimeograph printing printed on single side of paper. In light tan wraps lightly soiled and tanned. Spine has been torn in two places obscuring the last portion of title. Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia unknown books
1890D17725Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. 6 70 pp. Original white cloth-backed green paper-covered boards paper spine label. Boards soiled wear to label internally fine. BAL 14141. First edition inscribed on the f.f.e.p.: "My dear Ned If you find anything within to interest I shall be glad Weir". One of 322 copies printed. Loosely inserted is a 12 line poem of Mitchell's printed on a card with a botanical illustration at top printed Corell Press from its Mount Washington Mass. shop 1917. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
194458816New York: The New Yorker 1944. First separate edition originally appeared in the November 1944 issue of The New Yorker. 8vo. 16 pp. printed double-column. A native of eastern North Carolina Mitchell 1908-1996 wrote similar sketches for The New Yorker for decades 1930s-1960s continuing to go to his office every day until near his death though publishing nothing of significance in the periodical after 1965. Not in Thornton. OCLC locates one copy Ohio State. Very good. Original decorated tan wrappers rubbed small browned spot on front wrapper stapled. #5910. <br/><br/> The New Yorker unknown books
1944124776New York: New Yorker 1944. First. paperback. near fine. 8vo 16 pages pictorial self-wrappers stapled. N.Y. 1944. First separate printing. Reprinted from The New Yorker November 25 1944. Presentation copy boldly inscribed on the front wrapper. "For Edith Oliver Mr. Flood sends his best regards and so do I." Oliver was Mitchell's long time friend and colleague at The New Yorker.<br/><br/> New Yorker unknown books
194558817New York: The New Yorker 1945. First separate edition originally appeared in the August 4 1945 issue of The New Yorker. 8vo. 18 pp. printed double-column. A native of eastern North Carolina Mitchell 1908-1996 wrote similar sketches for The New Yorker for decades 1930s-1960s continuing to go to his office daily until near his death though publishing in the periodical nothing of significance after 1965. Cover title: "Mr. Flood's Party." Not in Thornton. Apparently unrecorded on OCLC. Very good. Orig. decorated tan wrappers rubbed small old tideline through lower corner stapled. #5911. <br/><br/> The New Yorker unknown books
1846WRCAM39939Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell 1846. 46pp. plus large folding map 25 x 34 1/4 inches with full period color. 16mo. Original blindstamped and gilt blue morocco with original clasp. Morocco a bit rubbed and edgeworn. Map with two closed tears in left edge where bound in with no loss; small closed tear along Iowa-Missouri border with no loss. The text is very clean. In very good condition the map with brilliant contemporary color. Second edition after the first of 1843 of this rare pocket map of North America showing the United States west to Texas Indian Territory and Dakota Territory i.e. 19° longitude west of Washington D.C. The map J.H. Young's "Mitchell's National Map of the American Republic or the United States of North America" is revised and updated from the 1843 version most notably by the addition of the newly created Territory of Iowa. The inset map of Texas is new to this 1846 edition and dates from the first year of statehood still showing Texas with its Republic boundaries. The Oregon inset is also new and shows the Oregon border going north into Canada i.e. before the 1846 treaty boundaries. There are also two population tables and the text lists the major railroad steamboat and stage routes all the way west to Iowa Wisconsin and Missouri. The four insets are: "Map of the North-Eastern boundary of the United States According to the Treaty of 1842" "Map of the Southern part of Florida" "Map of Oregon Territory" and "Map of the State of Texas." These four insets take the place of the thirty-two small inset maps of cities and town from the 1843 version of the map. Rumsey lists only the wall map version of this 1846 map. OCLC locates eight copies of this important pocket map. RISTOW p.310. OCLC 228693421 8551053. RUMSEY 3796 ref. S. Augustus Mitchell unknown books
184631381Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell 1846. 16mo. 46pp. plus large folding map 25 x 34 1/4 inches with full period color. Original blindstamped and gilt purple morocco with original clasp. Morocco a bit rubbed and edgeworn. One significant tear from the left edge where bound in with no loss; several other noticeable separations along folds.<br/> <br/>Second edition after the first of 1843 of this rare pocket map of North America showing the United States west to Texas Indian Territory and Dakota Territory i.e. 19° longitude west of Washington D.C.<br/> <br/>The map J.H. Young's "Mitchell's National Map of the American Republic or the United States of North America" is revised and updated from the 1843 version most notably by the addition of the newly created Territory of Iowa. The inset map of Texas is new to this 1846 edition and dates from the first year of statehood still showing Texas with its Republic boundaries. The Oregon inset is also new and shows the Oregon border going north into Canada i.e. before the 1846 treaty boundaries. There are also two population tables and the text lists the major railroad steamboat and stage routes all the way west to Iowa Wisconsin and Missouri. The four insets are: "Map of the North-Eastern boundary of the United States According to the Treaty of 1842" "Map of the Southern part of Florida" "Map of Oregon Territory" and "Map of the State of Texas." These four insets take the place of the thirty-two small inset maps of cities and town from the 1843 version of the map. Rumsey lists only the wall map version of this 1846 map. OCLC locates eight copies of this important pocket map.<br/> <br/>OCLC 228693421 8551053; Ristow p.310; Rumsey 3796 ref. S. Augustus Mitchell unknown books
1932124744London: Jarrolds Publishers 1932-1934. First editions of each volume of Gibbon's classic trilogy describing the life of Chris Guthrie a woman from the north-east of Scotland during the early 20th century each volume inscribed by him to George Malcolm Thomson. Octavo original cloth 3 volumes. Sunset Song is inscribed on the title page "For G. Malcolm Thomson L. Grassic Gibbon." Cloud Howe is the dedication copy inscribed on the title page "For the 'dedicatee' with kind regards. L. Grassic Gibbon." Grey Granite is inscribed on the title page "For George Malcolm Thomson with good wishes L. Grassic Gibbon." Each are in very good condition. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. A Scots Quair is revolutionary - innovative in its form deft and humorous in its use of language courageous in its characterization and politics. Central to the trilogy is Chris Guthrie one of the most remarkable female characters in modern literature. In Sunset Song Gibbon's finest achievement the reader follows Chris through her girlhood in a tight-knit Scottish farming community: the seasons the weddings the funerals the grind of work the gossip. As the Great War takes its toll machines replace the old way of life. Cloud Howe and Grey Granite take Chris from her rural homeland to life in an industrial Scotland and the desperate years of the Depression. Gibbon attracted attention from his earliest attempts at fiction notably from H. G. Wells but it was his trilogy entitled A Scots Quair and in particular its first book Sunset Song with which he made his mark. A Scots Quair with its combination of stream-of-consciousness lyrical use of dialect and social realism is considered to be among the defining works of the 20th century Scottish Renaissance. All three parts of the trilogy have been turned into serials by BBC Scotland written by Bill Craig with Vivien Heilbron as Chris. Additionally Sunset Song has been adapted into a film released in 2015. Jarrolds Publishers hardcover books
1964256894Los Angeles: Institute of Industrial Relations University of California Los Angeles 1964. Hardcover. x 265p. boards lighlty worn offsetting to both front endpapers from laid in sheet a typewritten letter advertising the book else very good condition. No dj. Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Los Angeles hardcover books
1964233304Los Angeles: Institute of Industrial Relations University of California Los Angeles 1964. x 265p. spine faded previous owner's name on free front endpaper else very good hardcover. Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Los Angeles unknown books
19643518Los Angeles: Institute of Industrial Relations University of California Los Angeles 1964. x 265p. original red cloth binding. Useful annotations about many of the books in the bibliography. Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Los Angeles unknown books
196443803Los Angeles: Institute of Industrial Relations University of California Los Angeles 1964. Hardcover. x 265p. very good hardcover. Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Los Angeles hardcover books
183056636New York: printed by R. & G.S. Wood for the Trustees of Obadiah Brown's Benevolent Fund 1830. First edition 16mo pp. 72; contemporary and likely original full sheep gilt-paneled spine; some rubbing previous owner's bookplate; good and sound. Born in Newport R.I. married in Providence Mary Mitchell moved to Nantucket in 1787. The publication of this edition was paid for by the Obadiah Brown Fund which was founded in Providence in 1823 by bequest of Obadiah Brown "to be a fund independent of New England Yearly Meeting to enhance the Religious Society of Friends through grants to individuals and Friends organizations and specifically for 'the printing and disseminating of useful books for the promulgation of the gospel and by that means as well as otherwise spreading our Religious Principals where they are little known'." Obadiah Brown was the son of Moses Brown the founder of the Quaker School in Rhode Island i.e. Moses Brown and the nephew of John Brown founder of Brown University. The original bequest from Brown was $100000 said to be the largest single bequest to an institution of learning up to that time. The Obadiah Brown Fund exists to this day. American Imprints 2605; Sabin 49706 for the first edition of 1812. <br/><br/> printed by R. & G.S. Wood, for the Trustees of Obadiah Brown's Benevolent Fund unknown books
171669paperback. Frontis. 42pp. 8vo original printed wrappers; ex-lib spine worn wrs. chipped. Boston: David Clapp 1906. First Separate Edition.<br/><br/> Author was a descendant from New York City of James Mitchell Varnum of Rhode Island. The author has inscribed the front wrapper. James Mitchell Varnum of Rhode Island was a brigadier-general of the Continental Army and a member of the Continental Congress.<br/><br/> unknown books
184715085Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait & Co 1847. Ltr prtg of the 2nd revised edition. Original publisher's leather spine lettered in gilt with brown printed paper-wrapped boards. Gd binding worn/a bit shaken/rear joint staring at bottom/pos on ffep. 336 pp. Profusely illustrated with woodcut engravings. 6-3/4" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/> Thomas Cowperthwait & Co hardcover books
1908251562Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs 1908. First. hardcover. good. A few Illus. 120pp. 8vo tan cloth cloth lightly soiled endpapers lightly browned. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs 1908.<br/><br/> A novel set in Revolutionary Philadephia.<br/><br/> George W. Jacobs unknown books
190867375Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company. Very Good. 1908. Hardcover. First Edition Binding A. 120 pages. Yellow pictorial cloth with black and green stamping. Covers are slightly rubbed and soiled. Previous owner bookplate on the front pastedown. The front hinge is tender. Contents are bright and complete. Good. . George W. Jacobs & Company hardcover books
196600313sBarre Massachusetts: Barre Publishers 1966. Signed by the Author. Square octavo illustrated gold boards hardcover gilt letters 94 pp. Very Good with small bookplate and slight edgewear in a chipped glassine dust jacket. “A photographic essay about the Georgetown heritage based on sources and archives in the public domain and buildings in use today within Old Georgetown. Barre Publishers, 1966. hardcover books
