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1847162581847. Archive of 13 letters regarding the qualifications of a 19th century teacher in New England dating 1847-1853 . All letters are in very good condition. Fold lines and creases but clear writing and very little foxing. A collection of letters of recommendation and certification dated 1847-53 for a teacher Miss Emily L. Goddard from various schools and individuals in towns around Western Massachusetts including Barre Wilbraham New Salem Athol and Petersham. In the 19th century women were limited to workingonly in certain fields and teaching was generally accepted as one of these fields. The recommendation letters state her certifications in various districts or her general qualifications to teach a common school. The common school movement was a public education movement started in Massachusetts that promoted free schooling for all children. This archive outlines one tenacious young teacher experience as she gained recommendations and respect from those who worked with her to further her carrier. unknown
188239763Middletown 1882. Elephant folio broadside 15-7/8" x 22." Beneath the quoted title eight columns of printed women's names each column containing about one hundred names. Old folds shallow blank margin tear. Very Good.<br /> <br /> Beneath the lists of names is the announcement: "A COUNTY TEMPERANCE CONVENTION! Will be held in the large Dining Hall at FENWICK This Week SATURDAY Sept. 30 1882." Transportation instructions are printed.<br /> Not located on OCLC as of December 2023 or online sites of AAS Yale unknown
1900188011900. Women SPORTS Six action shots of a women's fencing dual in the early 1900s. 4" x 6" each. Stereoview on cardboard mount. N.p. Captioned "Le Duel" with each photograph numbered. Historically fencing has been primarily a men's sport and though women have been fencing for hundreds of years there was still heavy stigma against women taking up any sport. After WWI many French fencing schools opened up classes for women to grow their economy. This act opened up the doors for women to eventually be allowed to fence in the Olympics in 1924. This set of six stereoviews showcase two women fencers with a female referee and a group of female viewers. Each stereoview is numbered in the order of the duel; the first shows the two women facing each other with their swords down the second and third show the women mid duel and the last three show the victor heralding over the defeated opponent with two women side by side helping her recover. Minor wear to edges some sunning and wear to photos. Overall only good condition. unknown
1884228731884. Mundé Paul F. ed. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children August 1884 documents late nineteenth-century medical approaches to women's health reproduction and social organization including a significant clinical study of the Oneida Community. This issue supports research into the history of gynecology medicalized interpretations of alternative social systems and the intersection of reproductive science with utopian communal experiments in the United States. Appearing in the postbellum period of expanding professional medicine the journal situates women's bodies within emerging clinical frameworks while also engaging with controversial social practices such as communal marriage and controlled reproduction.<br /> Mundé Paul F. ed. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children. New York: William Wood & Company August 1884. Vol. XVII No. 8. Octavo. Original printed blue paper wrappers. The issue includes the article "A Gynecological Study of the Oneida Community" by Ely Van de Warker M.D. which examines the reproductive and social practices of the Oneida Community known for its system of "complex marriage" and regulated procreation. The Oneida Community was a Christian perfectionist communal society founded by John Humphrey Noyes and his followers in 1848 near Oneida New York. It was a utopian religious community dedicated to living as one family sharing all property work and love and is recognized as one of the longest-lasting communal experiments of the 19th centuryAdditional contents include original medical articles society proceedings reviews and abstracts printed in double-column format on wove paper. The front wrapper presents the journal title editorial staff subscription pricing and a list of European collaborators within a decorative border while the rear wrapper features a full-page advertisement for "Imperial Granum" illustrated with engraved portraits of children and promotional text. Interior pages are continuously paginated pp. 801-872 with publisher advertisements at the front. <br /> Single issue. Original printed wrappers. Octavo format approximately 9 x 6 inches. Wrappers clean and bright with a few small circular stains and light soiling minor corner wear and short splits at spine ends; spine lightly rubbed but legible; interior lightly age-toned at edges and otherwise clean and sound; overall good condition. Issued during a period when medical professionals increasingly analyzed and categorized alternative social arrangements through clinical frameworks this issue provides direct evidence of how nineteenth-century gynecology engaged with experimental communities offering value for the study of women's health reproductive history and the medical interpretation of social reform movements. unknown
1890162101890. Women in Sciences Two letters commending a female medical student Clara Cowles who is about to enter the field. The first is an autograph letter signed and dated 16 March 1893. 1 page handwritten on National Homeopathic Medical College of Chicago letterhead from the desk of W. M. W. Davison M. D. 9 x 5 ¾ in. Excellent condition with two horizontal fold lines. Davison writes in part: "Miss Cowles Kindly I wish to congratulate you for your most excellent paper." This letter also comes with a business card from W. M. W. Davison again dated March 16th 1893 which verifies that "Miss C S Cowles has passed the examination in Histology and Physiology and her standing is 90 in the former and 100 in the latter."<br /> <br /> The second is a typed letter signed and dated January 24 1896. 1 page on The People's Health Journal letterhead from the desk of editors L. D. Rogers M.D. and Ida Wright Rogers M.D. two married doctors. 8.5 x 11 in. They write:<br /> <br /> "Miss Clara CowlesEl Dorado Kas.<br /> Dear Miss Cowles:--<br /> Your favor of the 17th. together with your first examination papers came duly to hand. We have returned the papers. They were excellent. <br /> We thank you for the names of your two friends and will write to them. Let us hear from you often. <br /> Yours very sincerely Drs Rogers & Rogers"<br /> <br /> Very good condition with two vertical fold creases and one horizontal one at center. Small tear at upper left crease. Comes with a joint business card for Drs. Rogers & Rogers and inscribed in pencil on verso is the address for Dr. E. S. Reed Dentist. Four more inscribed business cards from doctors are included. One of the cards is from Dr. E. S. Reed and has a neat inscription on verso in ink declaring that Miss C. S. Cowles "has a standing of 98 in Dental-Surgery for the session of 1892 & '93" signed by E.S. Reed Professor of Dental Surgery. Interesting 19th century correspondence related to a young woman's medical education and those who offered her professional support and encouragement. unknown
1837001821Reading Pa: George Getz 1837. Hard Cover. Very Good. Title continued: "Besides many other forms useful to the farmer mechanic and trader." Second edition enlarged and improved. xi 1 143 1 p.: facsimiles tables; 27 cm. Contemporary half calf with green paper over boards. Six spine compartments between double gilt rules; red morocco spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Getz' Forms. Complete imprint: "Reading Pa. George Getz. Philadelphia--George & Byington Geo. W. Mentz & Son. Printed by John C. Clark 60 Dock Street Philadelphia." Running title: Precedents in Conveyancing. A scarce ante-bellum legal form book. Of particular note is the form for a bond to be made before a marriage to permit the woman to make a will after marriage to dispose of those furniture clothing and other goods she owned prior to the marriage. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed and soiled; slight loss of leather at head of spine; corners are rubbed through; foxing throughout; otherwise clean and tight. George Getz unknown
1843223669London.: John Murray. 1843. 2 maps 1 folding xvi 451pp. 12pp. publisher's advertisements original blind-stamped cloth with gilt vignette to the front board and gilt-lettered spine with the binder's ticket of Remnant & Edmonds 20.8 x 13cms backstrip chipped and sunned the boards a little faded scant spotting and browning occasional pencilled marginalia neat previous owner's name to the front free endpaper in good condition. ".Taken hostage by Akbar Khan after the massacre in the Khurd Kabul Pass along with her daughter Alexandrina Sturt and newly born granddaughter she nursed her son-in-law Lieutenant John Sturt after he was mortally wounded and made certain that he received a Christian burial.She was twice wounded and had a bullet in her wrist. Fortunately she had kept by her the diary she had begun at Kabul in September 1841 which provided a graphic account of the siege retreat and her imprisonment as a hostage. After the publication in 1843 of this work Lady Sale became the heroine of the hour renowned for her courage." ODNB . John Murray. hardcover
186063213London: Published for the Society at the Depository Gray’s Inn Road 1860. 12mo. viii 176 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher’s ads. Numerous text illustrations diagrams floor plans. Recent black cloth gilt lettering & ruling on spine light uniform interior toning a few leaves w/ slight creasing still VG bright copy. Fifth edition revised & expanded of this compact manual on domestic economy designed as a succinct education tool for girls in Victorian Era training schools including descriptions on house design heating ventilation cleanliness cooking food & drink household finances and even managing livestock. Tegetmeier and the Committee possibly with influence from Florence Nightingale’s essay “Cassandra†1852 that women should be receiving far more training and information in medicine and surgery for possible future employment in nursing and other related fields. Tegetmeier 1816-1912 was a noted naturalist domestic animal breeder beekeeper and frequent correspondent with Charles Darwin receiving mention in both the groundbreaking Origin of Species as well as The Descent of Man on his studies and efforts in sexual selection and inheritance experiments through the 1860’s. Worldcat locates 3 copies British Library DLC NLM; See: Veak Exploring Darwin’s Correspondence: Some Important but Lesser Known Correspondents and Projects 2003; Sayaka Nakagomi English Middle-Class Girls’ High Schools and ‘Domestic Subjects’ 1871-1914 2016; Amanda Serpi The Education of Women in the Victorian Era 2024. Published for the Society, at the Depository, Gray’s Inn Road, hardcover
1865Cat322Sycamore DeKalb County Illinois 1865. Two autograph letters signed “Rosa†docketed on rear likely in Everell Dutton’s hand 4 and 5 pages 8 x 5 inches. Folded at center else fine. Two letters written in the final weeks of the Civil War by Rosina Adelpha Paine Dutton of Sycamore Illinois to her husband Everell Fletcher Dutton then lieutenant colonel of the 105th Illinois Infantry engaged in the closing campaigns of the war. The couple had met through their mutual friend Helen Barns Woodmanse and began an unusually close correspondence at the outset of the war at times exchanging two or three letters a day through 1863. They married in Sycamore on December 31 1863 and spent several months together in Nashville while Dutton was detailed to the Examination Board residing at Mrs. Jernigan’s boarding house before Rosina returned to Illinois and Dutton rejoined his regiment in the field. Rosa wrote a considerable amount of letters to her husband during the war some of which were collected by the Sycamore History Museum for the exhibition General Dutton’s America. <br /> <br /> The two letters here written a week apart show Rosina’s fears and the general mood in the days prior to Lincoln’s assassination with a focus on a mysterious favor done for an unsavory character. The April 2 letter reflects Rosina’s anxiety as she awaits news from the regiment:<br /> <br /> “Five hours later. I got to feeling so badly I could not write. I will now resume my chat. I know dear one you are tired of receiving dark gloomy letters from me but you must not hope for better while you remain in the army. Love you know is always strongly anxious when the loved one is absent. I would give everything we possess in the world if it would but bring you safely home. I am in hopes we will hear something definite from the Regt. tomorrow. I am so anxious and yet I tremble to hear from the Regt… O my Husband if you should be taken from me.†<br /> <br /> She searches the newspapers repeatedly—“no list of casualties in the Tribune … sent Ida after the Times … sent Winnie & Mary … for the Evening Journalâ€â€”but finds “no relief of mind.†The strain is constant: “whenever I spoke … the tears would come†and even at church “I could not keep the tears from my eyes.†She notes that the 105th “could not have been through so severe a contest without losing very many men.â€<br /> <br /> The April 12 letter is dominated by Rosina’s pointed suspicion toward a man she calls “Gerret†who appears to have entrusted Dutton with a valuable object: <br /> <br /> “Gerret said you had in your valise for him said it was worth $500.00. If I were in your place I would get rid of it if I had to burn it. I wouldn’t carry anything five miles for that miserable scamp. No one scarcely believes his story about being captured &c. They think he made his way home as best he could & I would not be at all surprised if that were the case. He has told half a doz different stories already about his capture. He ought to have learned his story before he came home and then told it. Such conflicting ones create suspicion. Father said if he were in your place he would turn it over to Government & then bid it in.â€<br /> <br /> No individual of this name appears in the rosters or known correspondence of the 105th Illinois and the tone of the letter suggests he was not a member of Dutton’s regiment. <br /> <br /> She closes: “My darling husband do come and thereby make me the happiest woman in the world . try dear one. I don’t believe but that they will accept resignation now before long. May the good Father of us all take care of you is my constant prayer. Devotedly yours for all eternity. Rose.†<br /> <br /> Overall an interesting pair of letters from a well documented and significant correspondence. unknown
1894124133Oxford: printed for the Association by the Printers to the University 6 issues with the imprint of Horace Hart; the last 5 with that of Frederick Hall 1894-1919. The state of women's education in Oxford at the height of the suffragette agitation An important set of reports published by the pioneering Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women AEW containing a mass of information relating to the state of women's education in Oxford at the height of the suffragette agitation. The earliest report dates from 1894-95 and the latest from 1918-19 each running from October of one year to the same month of the next. The sequence is incomplete with two issues missing 1900-01 and 1910-11. The reports are scarce in any sequence. WorldCat and Library Hub record runs at the London School of Economics and the British Library. The society's papers and publications are held in the Bodleian deposited there in 1975. The question of women's suffrage and its relevance within the structures of the University of Oxford had been a topic of frequent discussion prior to the formal debate on the subject at the Oxford Union on 19 February 1880. Societies like the Oxford Women's Liberal Association OWLA and the Women's Emancipation Union plus the activism of Florence Davenport Hill who had been a founder member of the Bristol Women's Suffrage society in 1868 and had since moved to Headington paved the way for groups like the AEW and later the Oxford Women's Suffrage Society. The organization's work led to the founding of four women's colleges: Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville opened in 1879 followed by St Hugh's in 1886 and St Hilda's in 1893. St Anne's also originated as part of the AEW catering for female students who lived with private families in Oxford while attending courses run by the society. The AEW counted the activist Eleanor Smith 1823-1896 among its founding members and Annie Rogers 1856-1937 Oxford's first woman don as a secretary. Perhaps the most significant sections in these reports are those titled "General Statistics" which provide accounts of lectures attended by students tutorial arrangements results of examinations donations and subscriptions. The report of 1917-18 also provides a commentary on the "extension of the University Parliamentary Franchise to women who being British subjects and not subject to any legal incapacity have attained the age of thirty and have been admitted to and passed the final examination and kept under the conditions required of women by the University the period of residence necessary for a man to obtain a degree at Oxford. They are registered on specially favourable terms as the Act admitting them is so drafted that the fee of £1 for registration cannot be required of persons who are not graduates. The Register contains at present the names of 409 women." The AEW continued its activities until November 1920 when it dissolved itself as the university by admitting women to membership had taken responsibility for them. 23 issues octavo; comprising a total of 616 pages the issues c.20-30 pp. in length. Original printed paper wrappers sewn and wire-stitched as issued. Housed in a former library's dark purple cloth flat-back box with metal latch closure paper label to spine reading "Australian Council for Educational Research". Each issue complete with stamps shelf marks and labels of the Education Department Library latterly the Board of Education Library. Overall a scarce survival in very good condition. Shelfwear and creasing to wrappers those for the earliest issue detached; rear wrapper for the 1909-10 issue torn but no loss. hardcover
189522258Chicago: American Bible House 1895. HardBack NODustJacket 1895 1st Edition Dates match on title & Copyright page G/VG- AS-IS NODJ Interior relatively Nice condition light wear FoX & someone has colored in some of Illustrations & removed 1 after Page 114 pg 265 missing & pg 267 completely LOOSE Beige cloth with black pictorial cover with black lettering with Woman riding Bicycle on Cover. cover light rub wear & Stains & Discolorations Extremities Possible Moisture Exposure Back Cover 272 pgs . The author on a preliminary page lists 14 "Subject Discussed" and on another page lists the names of over 60 people to whom the work refers to at some point. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Chicago: American Bible House hardcover
1801003514Alexandria Va: Cottom and Stewart 1801. Hardcover. Very Good. Full imprint: "Alexandria: Printed by Cottom and Stewart for Robert and John Gray Alexandria; and for Conrad and Co. Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington City." 2 volumes: 256 248 p.; 18 cm. 12mo. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules. Gilt-tooled title on red morocco spine label in second compartment of each volume. Gilt-tooled volume number in fourth compartment of each volume with gilt-tooled decoration in the first third and fifth compartments. All page edges yellow. This is the First American edition after the British 1799 edition. Each volume has a label on the front fixed endpaper indicating that the volumes were given in 1855 to the Union Philosophical Society of Dickinson College by Samuel M. Dickson 1837-1866 and John W. Cornelius 1835-1894 graduates of the college who became Methodist ministers. Dickinson College Library oval stamp also on front fixed endpapers and embossed stamp at lower edge of title pages. Former owner's name at head of vol. 1 title page and first page of text in vol. 2: N. Amory. Very scarce. The anonymous author of this anti-Jacobin novel was Jane West 1758-1852 an English novelist poet and playwright. In Very Good Conditon: sensitive spine and joint repair; ends of spines and corners rubbed; ink stains on vol. 1 title page; lacking both endpapers from vol. 2; shadow on edges of title pages from binding; otherwise clean and tight. Cottom and Stewart hardcover
189164118London: George Routledge and Sons 1891. 8vo. xxvii 1 499 1 pp. Illustrated title page frontisp. w/ original tissue guard over 70 woodcut text engravings. Brick-red pictorial publisher’s cloth gilt illustrated borders of camel & pyramids gilt gray & black lettering very minor chipping head of spine minor edgewear slight scuffing still a VG bright copy w/ former ownership markings on endpapers. Second edition revised of this informative and well-illustrated work on her travels through Egypt and Egyptology by the famed Victorian Egyptologist world traveler journalist and author. Edwards 1831-1892 sailed a dahabiyey up the Nile to Abu Simbel and spent six weeks excavating at the Temple of Rameses II and writes against the pillaging and destruction of tomb looters. George Routledge and Sons, hardcover
185464185New York NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers 329 & 331 Pearl Street 1854. 12mo. 369 13 pp. With numerous woodcut-engravings. Embossed plum-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor sunning to spine slight sunning to fore-edges minor bumping to corners occasional light foxing still VG- copy from the library of Eleanore Weinstock. Revised & expanded edition of this groundbreaking work by one of the most significant women reformers of the 19th-Century older sister to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher. After the death of their mother Roxanna Foote Beecher left the 16-year-old Catharine as surrogate mother she spent her career promoting education for women and urging education reforms treating women as teaching professionals including founding of the short-lived Western Female Institute in 1837. Beecher advocated that not only should women receive rigorous instruction in child rearing home economics and domestic science but also taught history Latin rhetoric algebra logic physical education and science. Although she vigorously advocated for women’s education supported better health practices and increasing public roles she remained later in life resistant to women’s suffrage believing it would interfere with their roles in ensuring morality and security in the home. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 329 & 331 Pearl Street, hardcover
1894002790Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo 3/4 morocco <br/><br/>Bertha Palmer was the Chair of the Women's Pavilion at the World's Columbian Exposition. . Dybwad and Bliss 59. Rand, McNally & Company hardcover
1897WA6771New York: G. Schirmer 1897. Hardcover. Fair. 4to quarter morocco lacks spine floral cloth very edgeworn. Used as a scrapbook or souvenir book. Unique. <br/><br/>Ex libris Emílie Pavlína Venceslava Kittlová aka Emmy Destinn aka Ema Destinnova. As you know she was famed for her portrayal of Aida at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1908. This book bears a two-line inked inscription with her signature dated 11 November 1908 on the blank page. Tipped into the book are 5 official portrait photographs of her in costume. At least two of them are by H. Mishkin New York City. Also tipped-in or laid in are clippings and images of other Aida and operatic performers. Also glued in are reviews of her performances in English and in Czech from a Chicago magazine. Also included are all or parts of printed programs. G. Schirmer hardcover
18804292Wilmington De: E. Webb 1880. Good. Oval albumen photograph 7.25 x 5.25 inches at nexus points on a printed studio mount measuring 10 x 7.5 inches. Long stain along left edge not touching the image some edge wear and spotting to mount minor soiling and surface wear to image. Verso tanned. A striking photographic portrait of a dignified African-American man in jacket and collar leaning against a table in a Delaware photographic studio in the latter part of the 19th century. The photographer was Emily Webb 1830-1914 an early Delaware photographer trained by her shutterfly father Benjamin Webb. The printed caption on the present studio mount reads "Photographed by E. Webb 302 Market St. Wilmington Del." Webb opened her Union Gallery studio on Market Street in 1864 and became a legendary local figure who at one time was referred to as "The Most Interesting Woman in Wilmington." She was a prolific photographer who took studio portraits of the local community especially the African-American community but also pets and other wildlife. She even helped found the Wilmington chapter of the SPCA in 1882. Webb's photographs are uncommon in the trade but her portraits of African-American figures even more so. E. Webb unknown
1886List3234Boston Massachusetts: G. Schirmer Jr. 1886. Forty page booklet measuring 4 ¼ x 6 ½ inches in paper wraps. A biography of German pianist Anna Clark-Steiniger by English writer and cremation proponent John Storer Cobb. The biography details Steiniger’s early years as a student of Theodor Kullak and Ludwig Deppe her rise to prominence and performances with friends including Etelka Gerster and her arrival in the United States with her American husband Frederick Clark. Though popular at the time Steiniger seems to be fairly unknown at present with Cobb’s book written shortly after her American debut the main source of biographical information. We find eight copies of the book in OCLC. G. Schirmer, Jr. unknown
1870262319London: printed for George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1870. First Edition. Softcover. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Provenance; from the libary of Eward Stanhope and the Library of the University College of Leicester with their bookplates. Physical description; 348 pages. Subjects; Reports. Commission of Children. 19th century reports. Great Britain. London: printed for George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode paperback
1844339536Providence Rhode Island: House of Representatives 1844. First edition. Single sheet folded to make 4 octavo pages paginated 1073 -1075. 8vo. Moderate wear and creasing to text two-inch narrow chip on spine not affecting text text is foxed and soiled else a good copy. First edition. Single sheet folded to make 4 octavo pages paginated 1073 -1075. 8vo. A scarce publication OCLC lists no holdings.<br /> <br /> Prints "Addenda No. 242: Arrests of Women- Statement by Mrs. Abbey H. Lord" about her arrest for violation of the militia law signed in type "Abbey H. Lord/ Hon. E. Burke Member of Congress." Mrs. Abby H. Lord states in part: "I send you a correct statement of the arrests of the women and leave you to do as you see fit with it. I told him that I had no one to train in his company; that we were all Dorrites.". Also prints "Addenda No. 243: Copy of an indictment against Mrs. Abbey H. Lord" signed in type by "Joseph M. Blake. Attorney General and Walter Paine Jr. Clerk." The Dorr Rebellion named for its leader Thomas W. Dorr took place in 1842. It was directed against the government of Rhode Island for its unconstitutional activities including its failure to extend voting rights enact a bill of rights or reapportion the legislature. [House of Representatives] unknown
1886003987New York: Cassell & Co 1886. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 404 8 p.; 19 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; black-stamped decoration of spine and front board. Blind-stamped publisher's emblem on back board with blind-stamped decoration. Green floral endpapers. Publisher's advertisements on final 8 unpaginated pages. First Edition. The author of this anonymously published novel Anne Sheldon Coombs 1858-1890 was born in Albany N.Y. and died in Brooklyn. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: slightly cocked; edges rubbed; front endpaper scraped; clean and tight. Cassell & Co hardcover
189763938New York NY & London UK: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1897. Two vols. Thick 8vo. xxi 5 389 1; xvi 2 391 1 pp. Illustrated titles in sepia & green in both volumes photogravure frontisp. in both vols. w/ tissue guards numerous photogravure from drawings and photographs all w/ printed tissue guards decorative sepia tinted text borders throughout in both volumes. Maroon-coloured publisher’s illustrated cloth over beveled boards elaborate and intricate cover design w/ feather and arrowhead motifs both covers created by the famed book designer and artist Margaret Armstrong w/ her initials in lower right of each cover t.e.g. slight scuff on spine to vol. II hinges starting but still secure in vol. II still a VG bright clean set. The “Tacoma edition†printed of this exceptional version of the famed history and enhanced by text drawings by R.F. Zogbaum. This account of the adventures and exploits of John Jacob Astor’s fur trading enterprise includes Wilson Hunt’s overland expedition from St. Louis to the Astoria settlement at the mouth of the Columbia River along with much first-hand material as well as the notes of Astor himself. See: Tweney The Washington Eighty-Nine 34 Note. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, hardcover
1842003510Lisboa Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional 1842. Hardcover. Very Good. xx 154 vi p. 50 leaves of lithographed plates containing 196 illustrations; 26 cm. Rebacked retaining most of contemporary quarter calf with gilt-tooled spine title and decoration; marbled paper over boards. Blue endpapers. Includes list of subscribers. The extremely scarce Portugese edition of Atlas der Geburtshülflicher Abbildungen the important work of obstetrical plates by Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch first published the previous year. This was the first such obstetrical work published in Portuguese. In Very Good Condition: corners of boards are rubbed; reback as described; browning and foxing to both text and plates heavy at times; otherwise clean and tight. Imprensa Nacional hardcover
1872003744London: Frederick Warne and Co 1872. Hardcover. Very Good. 30 leaves of text interspersed with 24 leaves of color plates: wood-engravings; 27 cm. Original dark green cloth with gilt stamped spine and cover titles; gilt and black stamped cover illustration and decoration. Imprint includes: New York: Scribner Welford and Armstrong. Date taken from English Catalogue of Books. Publisher's device printed on title page. Colour wood-engraved plates include areas printed in colour with metal. All are unsigned and without imprint. Plates and text are separated by guard sheets. "Aunt Louisa" was a pseudonym of Laura Valentine general editor of Warne's publishing house. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Jennie Z. Banks Presented by her Uncle C. Jack Christmas 1874." Each story includes one double-page illustration. In Very Good Condition: corners are rubbed with minor fraying; front joint rubbed with 1-cm. split in cloth; back board slightly rubbed; front is clean and bright; finger-soiling on a few guard pages and one page of text; otherwise clean and bright. Frederick Warne and Co hardcover
1896315329Hacienda Rosendal Tantojón Pánuco Vera.Cruz Mexico 1896. 2 pages; with original envelope featuring pen and ink portrait of a bear on the back; and with clipped article from the "Mexican Herald" of December 24 1895. 4to. Old folds. 2 pages; with original envelope featuring pen and ink portrait of a bear on the back; and with clipped article from the "Mexican Herald" of December 24 1895. 4to. A charming tribute with subtle overtures from three Swedish bachelors living in Mexico to three California sisters whose hunting prowess was described in an article in the "Mexican Herald." Headlined "Three California Dianas. They Kill Bears and Panthers and Olive in Particular is an Expert Shot" the article describes the sisters who live in the "wilderness above Ukiah California" as "sportswomen of rare talent" and gives an account of their encounter with a bear which ends up with their treeing and killing the animal. The letter reads in part: ".we think it would interest you to know that your bravery and pluck are known even outside your own Country . We have read and reread the article and . we could not restrain ourselves from sending our respects. Down here you would find a great field for your guns. We have all kinds of big game . it is nothing unusual to meet an 8 or 9 feet sic tiger on the roads when we are out riding. We will described one of our hunting experiences that might interest you." The letter goes on to relate how after wounding and trailing a deer towards a lagoon "a big Puma jumped out from the jungle and pounced upon our poor wounded deer. A rifleshot and we had both deer and Puma." The letter continues: "We are three Swedes 26 28 & 31 years old and run a fruit plantation in partnership in the district of Huasteca on the shores of the beautiful Panuco river. We have been here only 5 months but we have found the prospects for the future very bright. We would greatly enjoy a few lines from you as to ascertain whether our epistle ever reached you . and if the article is a ghost-story or not." They close "With admiration for the 3 brave Dianas in California. unknown
