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173047850London: Printed for Weaver Bickerton in Devereux - Court near Temple - Bar 1730. 2nd edition. Cf. ESTC 222510. Disbound from a larger volume now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning. Binding remnants along spine. Very Good. Pp. 2 81 - 94 = 16 pp. First leaf recto a bastard title with "Price One Shilling and Six-pence" at bottom indicating this section available separately from the volume itself; verso a sale list for Bickerton. 8vo signed in 4s. 7-5/8" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/> [Printed for Weaver Bickerton, in Devereux - Court, near Temple - Bar] unknown books
191020624Nakatsucho Japan 1910. 7.5 x 10.5 in. oblong in string-tied faux-leather boards. Some edgewear one tie replaced and one lacking. Very good. Souvenir view book with two pages of text in Japanese folding map and 34 half-tone photographic plates captioned in Japanese and English. Located in the upper and middle reaches of the Yamaguni River in Nakatsu City Oita Prefecture the Yabakei Valley is considered one of Japan's most beautiful scenic areas. Among the views included here are Sugi Village from Blue Grotto Peak of Kyoshu Hachioji Rock Rakanji Temple Goryu Falls Nembutsu Bridge and other bridges waterfalls and geologic formations. unknown books
16863Jewish Medical History Nurse with a Star of David on her cap peers into a microscope. 1935. Original silver gelatin print photograph. 7 x 5 in. Date handwritten in ink bottom right corner image verso "Sept. 1935". At the start of the Great Depression having skilled nurses was ever more important as malnutrition overcrowding poor sanitation and other side effects of extreme poverty caused by the sudden economic decline took an enormous toll on human health. Additionally Jewish emigration from Europe to the U.S. increased sharply in the 1930s with the rise of the Nazi Party so having compassionate culturally-sensitive medical care would be important for the growing Jewish population in America. Two light brown stains in lower center quadrant of image and 3 light stains along right edge. Good condition. unknown books
1923244734Philadelphia: Dorrance 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Walter R. Huber. Signed and Inscribed by Funk on the front free endpaper. 204pp. Publishers red cloth binding with light edgewear to extremities; spine a bit sunned; small closed tear to the foredge of the rear free endpaper and the preceding leaf; contents clean and binding sound; digital images can be made available upon request. near Very Good binding. Dorrance unknown books
193621413Salt Lake City UT: Privately printed for the author by Western Printing Company 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Copy 274 of a limited edition of 350. 128 pp indexed illustrated. Bound in textured green cloth with embossed illustration of a covered wagon. Lower corners bumped and rubbed mild wear to spine ends. Binding tight contents clean. Privately printed for the author by Western Printing Company hardcover books
1872001584Washington D.C.: United States Treasury Dept. 1872. John Jay Knox's bookplate "With the Compliments of Jno. Jay Knox Comptroller of the Currency" pasted to front pastedown. Knox was the 4th Comptroller General to serve in this office and also the longest-serving ; his time in office lasting 12 years from 1872-1884. Top edge of page block soiled. Dark blue cloth boards have some spotting near the top edge. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. A wonderful resource for anyone studying the history of banking in the U.S. and let us all hope that more than a few people currently are doing just that !. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. United States Treasury Dept. Hardcover books
187945074New York: The World 1879. First Edition. Octavo 18.25cm; red cloth with titling and decorations stamped in black and gilt on spine and front cover; vi8626pp ads. Faint crease to front endpaper mild dustiness to cloth else Near Fine. History of the Seventh New York Regiment's involvement during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 a conflict lasting 45 days before being put down by local and state militias. The World unknown books
198020585Paris: Imprimerie nationale 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Slight handling wear to wrappers else fine. The first section describes Lawrence's summer travels in France while he was an undergraduate. This is followed by discussions of his role in French politics literature and culture. O'Brien E378. Imprimerie nationale paperback books
2001003893Random House 2001 2001. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near fine copy.Fine jacket. Ink number on front pastedown.Difficult book in first edition as stated. Nice copy. Random House, 2001 Hardcover books
1848046752Mexico: Vicente G Torres 1848. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Original wraps mild wear a few light stains internally. Details a convoluted property dispute during the US occupation of Mexico City. 47pp. Rare. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; History. Inventory No: 046752. Vicente G Torres unknown books
18892086Washington DC: The Brodix Publishing Co. 1889. Wraps. Oversized pink paper wrappers staple bound. Very good. 12 pages. 42 x 28 cm. This charming periodical features six sheets of cooking instructions detailing: Fish-Soup; Meat; Sauces-salads; Vegetables; Pastry; Sweets and Preserves; and How to Make Bread. The binding style and large type set likely indicates that this publication was meant for display in the kitchen. The inside cover purports the benefits of a healthy diet especially focused on wheat and grain's positive effects on the brain. The following pages outline recipes and instructions for proper food preparation taking care to mention the repercussions of poorly tended food ranging from indigestion from unchopped capers to dangers of under or overcooked vegetables. The final page includes helpful hints for food shopping health and safety suggestions as well as a treatise on the proper diet for invalids. <br />The Home Magazine a monthly illustrated periodical ran from 1888 to 1908 serving as a guide to social domestic and business life. Mrs. John A Logan served as editor for the Home Magazine following the death of her husband a Civil War general and statesman John A. Logan. Born Mary Simmerson Cunningham an educated woman from Missouri she played an active role in her husband's political life accompanying him on campaigns and organizing volunteers. Mary became a prominent figure in Washington society in her own right often meeting with Adele Douglas wife of Senator Stephen A. Douglas and Julia Dent Grant wife of Ulysses S. Grant to discuss political happenings and social issues. Mary was a celebrated American writer and editor authoring two books and contributing to several publications including William Randolph Hearst's monthly syndicate Cosmopolitan. She was committed to social causes dedicating herself to the women's suffrage movement and was an early supporter of the American Red Cross. Weak fold across cover wear to edges and small paper loss to inside pages not effecting text. <br/><br/> The Brodix Publishing Co. paperback books
2002006532Harper Collins 2002. Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. Sign Bookplate. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy.Full Numberline.Signed Bookplate.Excellent Copy. Harper Collins Paperback books
1919004903Camp Custer Battle Creek MI: T.F Mock 1919. Original panoramic photograph 8' x 37 3/4" unframed rolled. Very Good small chip top corner a few small edge tears light soiling to back. Printed on photo - "Post Laundry Group Camp Custer 1919 Photo by Mock". Theodore F. Mock was listed as the Camp Custer Photographer in David V. Tinder's "Directory of Early Michigan Photographers" published by Clements Library 2013. Camp Custer at Battle Creek Michigan had over 100000 US Army troops pass through its doors between 1917-1919. The workers are pictured in front of building with sign stating "Hardware Repair Shop Reclamation Unit QMC". SCARCE. First Printing. Photograph. Very Good. T.F Mock Paperback books
19081270Shanghai Hongkong Singapore & Yokohama: Kelly and Walsh 1908. Hardcover. Very good. xi 451 pp with folding maps illustrations from photographs index. Moderate general wear to boards previous owner's name on front free endpaper; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Morse served in the Chinese Imperial Maritime Custom Service from 1874 to 1908 and then wrote several scholarly works on China in his retirement. The Preface to this volume says it "is intended to portray the present state of the Chinese Empire with such record of the past as will show by what process of evolution the existing state has been reached." Kelly and Walsh hardcover books
18642696New York: Harper & Brothers 1864. Hardcover. Good. Third edition revised and enlarged with mining content not found in the first edition. 251 pp with frontis engraving of the Mowry Silver Mines. Original brown cloth boards are edgeworn with corners rubbed through chips at spine ends and cloth partially split at front joint. Penciled gift inscription on front endpaper internals otherwise clean and sound. Includes sections on the geography the condition of Arizona and Sonora from 1859-1864 the mines of Arizona and surrounding areas a mineralogical sketch governmental issues and the southern railroad route. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
028874Manuscript. Very Good. quarto three page letter inscribed on a four page bi-folium formerly folded with splits along several folds remains of sealing wax Canton Michigan postal stamp else in good clean legible condition. An interesting letter with exceptional content on the election of 1840 and on the origin and significance of Harrison's Log Cabin and Hard Cider emblem: "I am pleased to hear of the zeal among the Whigs of V.T. I have great hopes of a favorable result. Your objection to the use we are making of the Log Cabin & Hard Cider emblem surprises me. I glory in it & deem that we are making just use of what was intended to sneer & ridicule us & our candidate. And besides it is a beautiful emblem of the purity & simplicity that should again prevail at the seat of Govt. where corruption riots in the treasury that are created by the tenants of Log Cabins. You must recollect that we are indebted to the Van Buren press for the watchword of L. Cabin & Cider. They said after the nomination in allusion to Harrison's imbecility & vanity that give him a pension of $ 2000 plenty of cider & a Log Cabin to live in & he would be contented - & again that the old ladies of Washington were making up a present of old clothes for him and requested contributions of old cloths shoes &c to send to the poor old General - such things were enough to arouse the feeling of every Whig & it has done so as well as many Democrats & when a whole nation are animated by the same feeling it must not be deemed "childish absurd ridiculous silly or immoral." And again the Whigs never wished to discuss or bring before the people his military life. It was forded upon them by wholesale charges of cowardice against Harrison" <br /> books
1923004267Washington D.C.: U. S. Senate 1923. Copy # 107 of an unnumbered Limited First Edition. Bound in dark blue flexible leather gilt titles and rules all edges gilt marbled endpages. Very Good the leather is moderately rubbed at the tips. No interior markings contents are Fine. 395 pages. SCARCE. Limited and Numbered First Edition. Flexible Leather. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Limited Edition. U. S. Senate Paperback books
192021355Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1920. 206 pages; useful index; with a detailed color map depicting the Indian reservations west of the Mississippi River in 1920 the legend for which gives the sites of the former reservations day schools supervisors districts boarding schools hospitals mission boarding contract and day schools non res. schools superintendents headquarters more approx. 28" x 40"; topics of the text including factors concerning Indian education employment citizenship for Indian soldiers and sailors oil and gas in the Five Civilized Tribes Oklahoma Indians land allocations and settlements individual Indian moneys court decisions "The Pueblo Problem" Black Hills Sioux claims and much of statistical use with 47 tables listed; bound in sturdy olive buckram cloth gilt spine titles; library ink numbers on spine withdrawn stamp from the Hill Reference Library St. Paul on title page; map with short 1" closed marginal tear; binding strong and in very good condition interesting historical cultural information on the condition of the various Indian peoples at the beginning part of the 20th century and the relationships of the tribes with the U.S. government. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Government Printing Office Hardcover books
191626968London England: Linnean Society's Journal - Botany 1916. C. 55 pages; with 11 very sharply defined black and white photo-plates on heavy paper stock illustrated in the collotype process taken by the author & printed by the London Stereoscopic Co.; several of the plates with human perspective-witnesses wearing the local cultural garb of the time. A folding black and white survey map of The Delta of the Danube according to the latest surveys of the Rumanian Fisheries Commission approx. 14" x 15 is at the back. This is the separately-printed offprint edition of this report extracted from the Linnean Society's Journal - Botany Vol. xliii July 1916. The botanical researcher and author Marietta Pallis 1882-1963 notes that her ".acquaintance with Plav dates from September 1912 when I went to Rumania to study the aquatic vegetation of the Danube valley and delta. I had for some years past been working at the vegetation of the Norfolk Broads and it was with the object of gaining for comparative purposes some knowledge of similar localities and their vegetation that I decided to visit the Danube in Rumania where it seemed to me probable that the most primitive aquatic vegetation in Europe would be found." Previous owner name on cover at top edge. Approx. 7" x 10 1/4" size original printed blue paper wrap covers. Some edge tips wear and darkening of the binding back cover with closed edge-tears 'v'-shaped edge-bump & short tears at back no losses; in very good condition. . Offprint Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Linnean Society's Journal - Botany paperback books
19782222106<p>First edition so stated. Octavo. Pictorial endpapers from b/w photographs. Dust jacket typography by Al Nagy and watercolor wash drawing by Hubert Shuptrine unclipped. Very good few nicks. 469 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed by Louis Nizer on the half title page: "To Pete Conrad with awe and admiration for his achievements and affection for him. Louis Nizer Jan 1978."</p><p>Includes a chapter on pornography and comments on several Hollywood personalities.</p><p>Pete Conrad 1930-1999 was an astronaut test pilot. During Apollo 12 he was the their man to walk on the moon.</p> Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover books
248195Nok Publishers International. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Nok Publishers International unknown books
2003262478Cambridge University Press 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Fine dust jacket. A pristine copy with no marks of any kind. The dustjacket is protected with a new mylar cover. Fine binding / Fine dust jacket. Cambridge University Press unknown books
1998263140Oxford University Press 1998. Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket. Oxford University Press unknown books
190220871Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs 1902. First Edition. 7.5 x 5 in. 97 pp with three illustrations from photographs in original pictorial cloth. Light scuffing to corners and spine ends pale stain to frontis not affecting illustration previous owners' names on front endpapers. Very good. In 1902 the United States depended on anthracite or "hard coal" for domestic heating. Anthracite coal miners in Pennsylvania went on strike on May 12 demanding higher wages a shorter workday and recognition of their union the United Mine Workers of America. As the strike dragged on over several months public anxiety about fuel shortages led President Roosevelt to take the unprecedented action of stepping in to bring about a resolution. On October 3 1902 he met with presidents of the mine-owning railroads and union leaders. The owners refused to enter into negotiations with the union and the conference disbanded without resolving the crisis. Roosevelt then formed a commission to investigate the strike. Secretary of War Elihu Root and banker J. P. Morgan convinced railroad leaders to abide by the findings of the presidentially appointed commission. The union also accepted the commission and on October 20 voted to end the strike. In March 1903 the anthracite-coal commission recommended increasing miners' pay by ten percent one half of their demand and reducing the working day from ten to nine hours. Stewart Culin was a private in the Second Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry which was sent in August 1902 to maintain peace and order in Carbon County where the strike was centered. He later became an important ethnographer and his considered narrative and analysis of the strike reflects the eye of a keen observer. George W. Jacobs hardcover books
189846318Sacramento 1898. Housed in an old faded black wood frame. Frame - Good only. Photograph - clear & sharp a solid Very Good. Frame: 10-1/4" x 12-5/8". Photograph: 6-1/8" x 8-1/4" <br/><br/>"The Sisters of Mercy broke ground on Sacramento's first private hospital Mater Misericordiae Latin for "Mother of Mercy" in the mid-1890s. The hospital was one of the most modern and best equipped hospitals in California at the time. It operated at 23rd and R streets until 1925." Sisters of Mercy site. While the caption states a date of 1895 since the hospital did not open until 1897 we believe the photograph ca 1898 - 1900. An on-line image search did not find this image depicted elsewhere. unknown books
