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18912165Madras: Higginbotham and Co. 1891. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Plain cream boards gray linen spine. Good. 608 pages. 20 x 13 cm. 'Wyvern' wrote about gastronomy for for the Madras Athenaeum and Daily News during his time in Madras as a Colonel in the India Army. With social changes stirring in India the Colonel's directives furnished to local staff to create the Victorian haute cuisine desired by the Anglo-Indian elite illustrate the transformations occurring throughout the British empire. Chapters cover every aspect of the kitchen the storeroom model menus and of course curries. This edition the sixth contains all preceding prefaces illustrating the changes in taste and style during the mid to later 1800's in Anglo-Indian culture. Hinges cracked but holding. Covers rubbed closed tears to cloth spine. Interior clean. <br/><br/> Higginbotham and Co. hardcover books
1846008682London: John Russell Smith 1846. Binding stamp-signed by Matthews. Two volumes in contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards marbled end papers tops gilt the plain bookplate of Arnold Green front paste downs. Near Fine light rubbing to boards at edges. An uncommon title particularly so in lovely binding. Arnold Green was a noted Rhode Island lawyer civic leader and man of letters. . First Edition. Half Morocco. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Russell Smith Hardcover books
185412748Cincinnati: J.A. Brainerd 1854. Hardcover. Fair. Twenty-second thousand. 304 pp illustrated with many engravings. Original blind-stamped cloth boards. Spine slanted horizontal tear in spine cloth corners worn through cloth chipped at head of spine. Rear hinge cracked. First and last few pages foxed text otherwise clean and unmarked. Text based on a serious of lectures on the "manners and customs" of India the author gave after a period of travel in the country. Illustrations show female costume wildlife landscape religious ceremony festivals etc. J.A. Brainerd hardcover books
1884008385New York and London: Scribner and Welford / Bickers and Son 1884. Five volumes in publisher's original decorative paper covered boards gilt crest front covers and gilt lettering back dark blue end papers four engraved portraits each volume except Vol. II with three. Bookplate of Mary Rivers with added name in ink of R.G. Russell. A Very Good set small tears at spine ends moderate toning associated with frontis engravings. Wraxall's Memoirs was a scandalous success on its initial publication in 1815. The first edition sold out in a month and a libel suit cost Wraxall a jail term and a fine. Even so the facts appear to have been mostly true and the book makes for fine reading to this day. A heavy set that will require additional shipping charges for priority and international mail. Please inquire as to cost before ordering. . Later Edition. Decorative Paper Covered Board. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Scribner and Welford / Bickers and Son Hardcover books
1807008188London: Rinted for J. Mawman in the Poultry 1807. Two volumes in contemporary half vellum over marbled boards the bookplate of Hugh Penfold Wyatt front paste downs. Very Good the vellum back evenly darkened light scattered toning to end papers small chip to marbled boards edges a bit rubbed binding tight interiors clean. . Third Edition. Half Vellum. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rinted for J. Mawman, in the Poultry Hardcover books
1853006389Boston: William J. Reynolds & Co. 1853. With color map frontispiece the map Near fine small tear. Very Good in contemporary full calf black leather spine label with gilt lettering. Contemporary prior owner name dated 1854 front end page later small ook plate front paste down. Leather lightly rubbed and a bit worn at the corners toning at edges of end pages. A handsome copy. . Revised Edition. Full Calf. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William J. Reynolds & Co. Hardcover books
186221258Washington: GPO 1862. Softcover. Very good. 4 pp. Report No. 83 of the 37th Congress 2d session. Lower corners creased some dust soiling; very good. House Bill 143 was entitled "A bill for the relief of certain half-breeds of mixed bloods of the Dacotah or Sioux nation of Indians and their grantees." It related to the provisions of an act passed in 1854 granting the "half-breeds" scrip in exchange for land previously assigned to them under an 1830 treaty. This report from the Committee on Public Lands recommends against passage of the bill which would have presented obstacles to railroad construction in Minnesota. The committee argues that "Congress ought not to interfere by special legislation but should leave the parties to their legal rights." A scarce report with only digitial copies located in OCLC. [GPO] unknown books
187947623Parisiis: Apud Isidorum Liseux 1879. First Thus. 12mo 15cm.; publisher's cream pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; xii89pp. Some light shelf wear and a few small soil spots tiny chips at spine ends else Very Good or better. Scarce extract from Sinistrari's larger work "De Delictis et Poenis" 1654 text entirely in Latin save for the publisher's tongue-in-cheek introduction in French. Liseux gained some notoriety a few years earlier when he published "De Daemonialitate et Incubus et Succubis" claiming to have discovered this heretofore unknown manuscript written in 1680 by the Franciscan priest Ludovico Maria Sinistrari 1622-1701. The work described the qualities of such beasts as vampires succubi and incubi though it has since been proposed that Liseux himself wrote the piece see J. Gordon Melton "The Vampire Book" 2010 p. 380. "De Daemonialitate" was eventually translated into English in 1879 and found its way into the hands of W.B. Yeats who borrowed Ezra Pound's copy and from it was inspired to compose the poem "The Black Centaur" first published in "The Tower" in 1928 Catherine E. Paul and Warwick Gould "W.B. Yeats and the Problem of Belief" "Yeats Annual" no. 21 p. 313. <br/><br/>The present work is indeed authored by Sinistrari and remains here in its unalter ed Latin form presumably to avoid censure Liseux noting in his introduction that there's a reason he decided to publish this work sans illustration. Though the publisher's advertisement on the final leaf of text and rear cover only mention "De Daemonialitate" Liseux's catalog would go on to include the Kama Sutra and Ernest Dowson's "White Stains: Containing Also the Contemporary and Most Exhaustive Love's Cyclopaedia with Five Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley in His Most Erotic Vein. Apud Isidorum Liseux unknown books
18992984New York 1899. Soft-bound sheep over card with rubbing to extremities and some loss to spine. Ownership signature to third blank: "Elizabeth B. Williams. 34 West 17th Street. January 1st 1877." Comprised of 32 handwritten pages providing a glimpse into the bohemian life of an educated woman living in New York at the turn of the century. <br/><br/>By the time of this notebook's use New York's Greenwich Village had gained a reputation as a haven for artists writers and musicians to live and gather. Boarding houses and bachelor flats like the well-known Benedick Building made the Village an affordable place even for single people to find housing that was safe and affordable. The brownstone building that Elizabeth lists as hers in the ownership signature in fact still exists allowing us to image the space in which this manuscript was used. While we've been unable to locate information on Elizabeth's history the pages here reveal her to be a woman interested in history reading and music. 13 pages focus on a range of historical facts -- including historical timelines of the Hebrews lists of British monarchs and American presidents notes on the genres of authors from the Renaissance to Romantic period and the history of landmarks in London. 4 pages with her hand notably sloppier as if writing while working make notes on musical scales and techniques for effective fingering while playing. And 9 pages reveal that for a number of years Elizabeth was involved in a Book Club as she keeps track of her reading lists for meetings by month and year including Harriet Beecher Stowe Annie Fields and Edna Lyall as well as books on Victorian Literature Social Life in Old Virginia and histories of England and Korea -- 64 titles in all.<br/><br/>Elizabeth's life was not confined to New York however. She dedicates 2 pages for example to a packing list for a voyage detailing the clothes she'll need in her trunk. Another 3 pages list addresses for friends in New York New Jersey Ohio and Illinois to whom she'll send letters while away.<br/><br/>Within these pages exist opportunities for researchers to explore genealogy practices of self-education through reading book clubs and reading habits lifestyles of women living in New York at the turn of the century musical practice and paleography. unknown books
189444281New York: D. Appleton and Company 1894. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 17.5cm; flexible dark brown cloth boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; ii45-666pp ads. Light wear to extremities hint of softening to corners with a faint diagonal tear to rear pastedown; contemporary owners ink signature to front endpaper Gertrude H. Souther / March 1895 with holograph pencil notes relative to the weight of two babies on rear endpaper; Very Good. Influential manual for mothers and nurses by Holt 1855-1924 an American author physician and pioneer in the field of pediatrics who helped shape the New York Babies Hospital into the leading pediatric facility of its time. The book was expanded from Holt's Catechism for Nurses 1893 a pamphlet prepared for nursery-maids during their four months training at the Babies Hospital. "The nurses studied the catechism and when they graduated took it with them. There followed requests for copies from their employers and the supply was soon exhausted. It was apparent there was a popular demand for something of the kind. The catechism was expanded and in 1894 The Care and Feeding of Children made its appearance.Probably no one would have been more surprised than Dr. Holt or his publishers had they been told that they were launching a volume that was to go through seventy-five printings and which was to be translated into Spanish Russian and Chinese.The book became the mainstay of many a worried mother and exerted no inconsiderable influence on the profession as well for the practitioners had to keep abreast of the pediatric knowledge which the mothers possessed" DUFFUS R.L. L. Emmett Holt. NY 1940 pp.116-117. <br/><br/>Prior to the publication of The Care and Feeding of Children there was no standard text for pediatric care in print for laymen or medical professionals. A revolutionary volume written in clear simple language providing an orderly presentation of pediatric knowledge which empowered women to care for their children. A cornerstone work responsible for "lifting child sickness and care out of the neglect of the past" Dunn Peter M. "Dr. Emmett Holt 1855-1924 and the foundation of North American paediatrics." Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2000. Rare in the first edition; we find no copies for sale in trade May 2019 with the last copy at auction sold at the Streeter Sale. ATWATER 1743 citing the 1895 edition; STREETER 4159; Grolier American 100 97. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
189544165New York December 8th 1895. Autograph letter signed on recto and verso of single cream laid sheet 22x14.5cm.; approx. 85 words; dated 26 West 61st N.Y. Dec 8th and simply addressed to "Parker" presumably Stanton's friend and fellow-suffragist Parker Pillsbury 1809-1898 who with Stanton had co-edited the women's rights newsletter "The Revolution" twenty years earlier. Faint mail folds small unobtrusive archival paper remnants to two corners from having been previously mounted else Near Fine and still quite fresh. Brief contemporary 1897 pencil note at bottom edge "Mrs. Stanton - born Nov. 12 1815 Now past 82 - C.E.R." though based on contents we would place this letter as having been written around 1895. Brief but significant missive addressed to Parker Pillsbury the American minister and women's suffrage advocate regarding a copy of Stanton's "Woman's Bible" she had just sent him. "I wonder if I could interest them a "Mrs. White" and one other sufficiently in the Woman's Bible to sell ten or twenty copies in there sic respective woman's clubs It is published at my expense hence I am trying to push its circulation." The controversial "Woman's Bible" a series of commentaries pertaining to the portions of the Bible relating to women was published in two parts in 1895 and 1898 and composed almost entirely by Stanton alone her committee of Bible revisors finding the project too controversial and harmful to the cause of women's suffrage. Clearly at the time of writing this letter the book was still meeting with resistance thus our placing the date at around 1895 Stanton turning to Pillsbury as a potential source of influential and wealthy patrons she inquires "Is Mrs. White still living & working Is that rich woman that Mr. illegible used to visit in Maine living". But by 1897 the book had become a best seller though many of the members of the women's suffrage movement would continue to distance themselves from it. This letter quite significant as a testimony to the aging Stanton organizer of the historical 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and her continuing indefatigable efforts and initial lack of support in getting this work circulated. See Tracy A. Thomas "Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundation of Family Law" 2016 pp. 15 & 223. unknown books
187043875N.p. n.d. but ca. 1870s. Autograph letter on seven leaves of blue laid sheets 25x20.5cm. rectos only "Kent" blind-stamped at top left-hand corner of each leaf; occasional faint soil spots minor shallow creases and faint fold lines else Very Good or better. Extensive and rather rambling unsigned letter or lyceum address draft "To the President" though which President and of what is not stated in which the author quite possibly a public figure based on references to his "detractors" strongly argues against women's suffrage: "would we have our females eschewing their more gentle nature hardening the finer sensibilities of her mind by rushing to the ballot box And mingling in the excitement of an election thereby throwing off the garb of female modesty and timidity I think not." Though the first leaf has the appearance of a clean copy the author's hand begins to turn sloppy with a number of manuscript corrections in the later leaves. Due to a lack of contemporary references Mary Wollstonecraft is the only person explicitly mentioned we cannot place with certainty a date or author for the item though the hand ink and paper and reference to women tending to wounded soldiers during wartime indicate this was penned within a few years of the Civil War as the women's suffrage movement was beginning to gather steam in the 1870s. unknown books
184444191Bath NY: R. L. Underwood & Co 1844. Second Edition. 18mo 15.5cm.; publisher's full sheep red gilt morocco spine label; viii9-288pp.; portrait frontispiece. Boards rather worn and joints cracked but holding old dampstain to rear cover very slightly bleeding into textblock some soil to early leaves else a Good or better copy overall. Account of the life of Jemima Wilkinson 1752-1819 the Rhode Island-born Quaker and Evangelist who claimed after a long illness to have died and been risen from the dead. Through her preaching she became known as the "Universal Friend" creating a Shaker-like sect that practiced celibacy and poverty on a massive property she named "Jerusalem." Some have argued that Wilkinson was an imposter who accrued vast wealth from her followers Howes describes her as "the first religious charlatan of her sex in America". Indeed the sect would not survive after her death. This work first published in 1821 attributed to David Hudson SABIN 33485 and HOWES H-761. See also "Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography" Vol. 6 p. 512. R. L. Underwood & Co unknown books
1864006616Boston: Wright & Potter State Printers 1864. pp. 1022 8 22 20. Very Good in the original black cloth with gilt-stamped spine title cloth separating at bottom edge front gutter rubbing to cloth at tips and minor loss of cloth at spine ends front hinge starting dampstain top corner affecting margin but not text of about 200 pages period gift inscription front end page to H.W. Taft Esq. Henry Waters Taft was the brother of President William Howard Taft and a renowned antitrust lawyer. Much detailed information on Massachusetts troops and their involvement in the Civil War. SCARCE in collectible condition. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Thick 8vo. Wright & Potter, State Printers Hardcover books
1825008735London: Harding Triphook and Lepard 1825. Three volumes with professional 20th c. reback of quarter calf red morocco labels brightly lettered in gilt and with blind-tooled chevron decorations original contemporary marbled boards and end papers frontispiece engraved portrait of Henry the Eighth Vol. I frontispiece facsimile of seal and signature of Prince Charles Vol. III a quite pleasing and well bound set. Near Fine light rubs at edges 2" tear at crease of fold-out front of Vol. II scattered light toning at end papers internally clean and lovely. Previous seller's pencil note indicates " First 2 Series Complete. 2 More Published Later". . Second Edition. Quarter Calf. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harding, Triphook, and Lepard Hardcover books
182347748Montpellier France 1823. Letter now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning. Fold-lines. Faint tide line to verso under address. Stamped "33 Montpellier" above address. Very Good. Bifolium with 1st page of manuscript ~ 33 lines ~ 300 words. Text in French. Writing small neat precise & legible. 10" x 7-7/8" <br/><br/>Schröder & Schyler a longtime wine merchant from Bordeaux founded in 1739 and still in business today. Here offered a letter ordering quanties of 'vin blanc' et 'vin rouge' along with other related correspondence. unknown books
1830044921New Haven: William Storer 1830. Early Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Fair Condition. The 11th edition in 1/4 leather over boards - boards quite worn spine dry but binding sound. Stain the gutter a few marginal tears one page adhered in the gutter but no loss of text. Plates of the Battle of Trenton Bunker Hill and Saratoga. Size: Octavo 8vo. Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Americana. Inventory No: 044921. <br/><br/> William Storer hardcover books
18802455London: Williams' M. Proprietress c. 1880's. Cards. Cream cards red and black ink. Good. 11.5 x 7.75 cm. Folded cream cards. Small menu featuring prices for Breakfast Dinners and Apartments. Temperance Hotels followed the spread of the temperance movement in the late 1830's - providing a place for the traveling teetotaler. Here a person could eat and drink as well as transact business read the papers and enjoy social interaction. Cards foxed. <br/><br/> Williams', M. Proprietress unknown books
1865006220Morrisania NY: Press of J.M. Bradstreet 1865. #56 of only 100 copies printed and SIGNED by Henry B. Dawson. SCARCE in collectible condition. Rebound in black cloth with grey end pages and without the original wrappers. Cloth is untitled with light rubbing armorial bookplate of Thornton Walbridge front paste down. The original book is Near Fine light foxing to endpages faint crease rear end page. "The following Tract concerning a very important event in the War of the American Revolution was written by WILLIAM GRAVES EFQ. the eldeft brother Admiral THOMAS GRAVES and privately circulated for the purpofe of defending the latter from the ferious charges which were brought againft him fubfequent to the furrender by LORD CORNWALLIS at Yorktown". 39 pp. Revolutionary War. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. Press of J.M. Bradstreet Hardcover books
1819228266London: Effingham Wilson 1819. First Edition. Half Leather. near Very Good binding. Backed in sheep with corners this copy has been tastefully rebacked in japanese tissue with original backstrip laid down; the paper that once covered the boards is oddly lost so that bare board is visible . which is not as bad as it sounds; general shelf wear with some soiling to the endpapers. First Edition of Anderson's London Commercial Dictionary and Sea-Port Gazetteer and assesses the relative quality of various products coming from different places or regions. It contains over 2900 entries some on places others on products and often on the processes of commercial transactions -- weights currencies regulations import and export restrictions and the like. With handsome frontispiece elevation of the South Front of the New Custom House. Bound together with Anderson's Consolidated Duties 1819. Duties of Excise and Customs. Digital images available upon request. near Very Good binding. Effingham Wilson unknown books
1893231362Portland OR: First Unitarian Church 1893. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Illustrations; No pencil or ink markings in text. Black leather binding with stamped gilt lettering. Text block edges are gilded. Light edgewear with slightly heavier wear at top edge of rear board. Very Good binding. First Unitarian Church unknown books
1847042349London: Wiley and Putnam 1847. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition. Full green publishers cloth some spotting on front board two small splits to cloth on spine lightly bumped corners. Very light scattered foxing otherwise clean. Title is a cancel from the American edition of the same year issued in wraps both in Wiley & Putnam's Library of American Books. The cloth issue is even scarcer than the US wraps issue. 71pp. Whittier's second work of prose. BAL 21753 This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042349. <br/><br/> Wiley and Putnam hardcover books
1814032571Danbury: Nathaniel L. Skinner 1814. First Edition. Full Calf. Very Good. Leather worn slightly at corners and bumped. Otherwise clean copy with one spot of heavy wear and chipping on rear board. Age toning to pages throughout. Text is bright and pages are crisp with some light foxing. A nice tight binding Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Americana; Antiquarian & Rare; History. Inventory No: 032571. <br/><br/> Nathaniel L. Skinner unknown books
1855008163London: Longman Brown Green & Longmans 1855. Two volumes handsomely bound in contemporary half red polished calf over marbled boards the backs intricately tooled in gilt marbled end papers top edges gilt the bookplates of the Right Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Wyoming serving from 1909 to 192 and Albert Rowe Merrill. Very Good Plus light rubbing at edges and corners original cloth spine affixed front paste down of Vol. I partially covered by bookplate. Internally clean and bright . New Edition. Half Polished Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Hardcover books
185920297New Haven: Morehouse & Taylor Printers 1859. Wraps. Very good. 5-3/4 x 9" sewn printed wraps pp. 72 wraps foxed and lightly soiled spine with loss to the head and tail with lesser chipping along its length but the binding sound and text clean A most-thoroughgoing census of all 150 members of the class of 1855 including dropouts five months in the making as per the Editor's "Valedictory" statement. The preliminary pages give in copious detail descriptions of various meetings and reunions which have taken place in the years all four of them since graduation and then lists every member of the class along with "Where Are They Now" biographical tidbits that make my mother's Christmas letters look tame. These are followed by various cross-indices by place of birth date of birth "the aggregate age of the Class at graduation was 1978 years" time of entrance profession etc. Then are listed those who "left without graduating" in decreasing order of years of attainment poor William Ross Degarmo "Entered from Fort Miller N.J. Oct. 18 1851; left Dec. 24 1851 and has not since been heard from". A labor of love truly by one committed to the cause. Wheeler would not alas be much longer with us as was no doubt true of many of his classmates -- he was killed fighting for the Union side in 1864. His devotion lived on however: After the war his mother published a memorial volume entitled "Letters of William Wheeler of the Class of 1855 Y.C." Houghton 1875. Morehouse & Taylor, Printers paperback books
