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1856006302Boston: John P. Jewett & Co. 1856. This was the platform for the first national Presidential election 1856 with a Republican candidate John C. Frémont. A RARE publication in its own right Rare Book Hub notes last copy appearing in a dealer catalog in 1970. This copy rendered unique and historically significant by the original owner's addition of 78 blank pages which he mostly filled with pasted in contemporaneous newspaper clippings including 7 pp. of the Democratic Party Platform of 1856. Other significant clippings are headed: The Sanford Letter Wash. Aug. 21 1848 2 pp.; Kansas Affairs-Official Instructions to Gov. Geary and Gen. Smith Wash. Sept.3 1856; Kansas Slave Code 4 pp.; Who Are the Disunionists ; 4th of July Toasts in South Carolina: The White Man Shall Be a Slave If a Laborer: Slaves Horses and other Cattle a Sale by J.B. Sproull & Co. 1855; and The Buchanan Democracy Hate Freedom. Overall approximately 40 newspaper clippings pasted in with some marginal writings and notations in ink in the handwriting of the original owner who although unnamed appears to have resided in Greene Co. OH and was most definitely a Republican ! Very Good bound in sewn brown leather 78 blank pp. with contemporary newspaper articles pasted onto most of the blank pages; the Republican Party Platform 36 pp.; Declaration and Constitution 32 PP. Whenever any other copy of the 1856 Platform comes to market it is unlikely to be as intriguing to historians and collectors as this copy. First Edition. Leather. Very Good. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. John P. Jewett & Co. Hardcover books
1793008189London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Caddell in the Strand 1793. Two volumes in contemporary tree calf the backs a bit later with gilt tooled decorations and red and black morocco labels. Very Good old booksellers label and small bookplate front paste down Very Good front end page starting to separate Vol. I light wear at corners and edges light soiling. . Eighth Edition. Tree Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed for A. Strahan and T. Caddell, in the Strand Hardcover books
17971022408vo modern calf 407 pp. Lacks half title ex-library stamps on both sides of title front endpaper chipped on top expert repair to last page a little soiling normal aging and foxing; otherwise very good in a very nice modern binding. Before James Monroe 1758-1831 became president of the United States his political apprenticeship included serving as Minister to France. He was appointed by George Washington in 1794 to this post which proved disastrous from a political standpoint. He was recalled in 1796 and while he was an enthusiastic supporter of the French Revolution he was openly critical of the Jay Treaty with Britain which antagonized Washington's pro -British cabinet. This work was Monroe's attempt to justify his position. New Book of Knowledge. Evans 32491. Sabin 50020. Howes M727. Benj. Franklin Bache, books
17971022418vo contemporary calf spine and tips rebacked with original spine label laid down new endpapers includes half title 407 pp. Signature on front endpaper and title ink and pencil numbers on back of title extremity wear to binding corner mended dampstaining to the bottom third of book some soiling foxing and aging; otherwise in very good condition overall. Before James Monroe 1758-1831 became president of the United States his political apprenticeship included serving as Minister to France. He was appointed by George Washington in 1794 to this post which proved disastrous from a political standpoint. He was recalled in 1796 and while he was an enthusiastic supporter of the French Revolution he was openly critical of the Jay Treaty with Britain which antagonized Washington's pro-British cabinet. This work was Monroe's attempt to justify his position. New Book of Knowledge. Evans 32491. Sabin 50020. Howes M727. Benj. Franklin Bache, books
1853BOOKS0066102 volumes xxii332 pages with folding frontispiece and folding map; ii478 pages. Small Octavo 7 3/4" x 5 1/4". Bound in original embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. The map is titled Mexico and Texas and shows the Republic of Texas including a large sectin of today's New Mexico Kansas and southern Colorado northward to the Arkansas River and westward to the Rio Grade. Sabin 72016 1st American edition. 2 volumes. xxii332 pages with fold out frontispiece and foldout map; ii478 pages with appendix. Small Octavo 7 3/4" x 5 1/4". Bound in original decorative blind stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. The map is titled Mexico and Texas and shows the Republic of Texas including a large section of today's New Mexico Kansas and southern Colorado northward to the Arkansas River and westward to the Rio Grade. Sabin 72016 First American edition. Robertson was appointed Mexican commissioner in 1848. He journeyed with his daughter from Southampton to Bermuda on the Avon and then to the Yucatan Peninsular on the Forth. Written in the form of a journal the book includes both details of everyday life on board ship and dramatic events such as shipwreck. Both father and daughter contributed to the book which gives an interesting perspective on Robertson's sojourn in Mexico. The book provides information on the country's mines politics and mores as well as anecdotes of the Yucatan and West Indies. Condition: Front inner hinge of volume one cracked through spine ends and corners chipped and rubbed previous owner's name on front end papers. A good copy. Simpkin, Marshall & Co hardcover books
1748BOOKS00585324548 pages with three folding engraved maps present southern part of South America; part of the Pacific Ocean and the track of the Centurion round the world. Octavo 8 1/4" x 5 1/2" bound in full leather with five raised spine bands with red label to spine in gilt lettering with decorative blind-stamped ruled edges. Compiled from papers and other materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson and published under his direction by Richard Walter M.A. Chaplain of his Majesty's Ship the Centurion in that expedition. Hill I pp 317-138. Third edition.<br /><br />"This is the official account of Anson's voyage. England at war with Spain in 1739 equipped eight ships under the command of George Anson to harass the Spaniards on the western coast of South America for the purpose of cutting off Spanish supplies of wealth from the Pacific area. Lord Anson who was a friend and patron of Benjamin Robins after returning from the voyage around the world in the Centurion appears to have entrusted to Robins for revision the account of the voyage which had been compiled from the journals by his chaplain Richard Walter. It is probable that Robins revised and edited the work wrote an introduction and added dissertations." Hill. Perhaps the most popular account of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century. Anson's account of harrying the Spanish of South America and the taking of the Manilla galleon with treasure with a contemporary value of $800000 and his circumnavigation has long enjoyed a distinguished place as a masterpiece in descriptive travel.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Some small closed tears at the edges of the maps. Rebound in tooled leather with raised bands. Over all a very good to fine copy. John and Paul Knapton hardcover books
1717E01353559index pages 36 of 37 maps and copper cuts of the coasts harbor cities plants and other curiosities comprising: 14 plates 3 folding 22 maps charts or plans 14 folding. title page printed in red and black. Printed from the author's original plates inserted in the Paris edition. Lacks the frontispiece map. Royal octavo 9 3/4" x 7 3/4" bound in leather with raised spine bands and red label with gilt lettering. Postscript by Dr Edmund Halley and an account of the settlement commerce and riches of the Jesuits in Paraguay. Palau 94965 Sabin 25926 Nissen ZBI 1433 Hill p117 First English edition.<br /><br />Frézier was educated in Paris and served as lieutenant of infantry from 1702 til 1707 when he entered the engineer corps. In 1712 the government sent him to examine the condition of the Spanish colonies in America. After visiting the principal points in Peru Chili and Brazil he returned to Marseilles. He pointed out several mistakes in the "Relation" of Father Feuille and this led to a bitter controversy between the two travelers. Frézier introduced the large Chili strawberry into France. First published in France in 1714. The first edition into English is preferable to the French original "because it contains Halley's. postscript which corrects certain geographical errors made by Frézier" Hill. "The first part of this book gives an interesting account of the voyage from France around Cape Horn. The second part relates to the voyage along the coasts of Chile and Peru describing the chief towns and cities. Frézier a man of observation brought back information of considerable geographical and scientific value. Much data is included about the native inhabitants.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br /> Rebacked with original spine label laid down; lacking frontispiece map and binder's leaf free endpapers renewed intermittent foxing else a very nice copy. Jonah Bowyer hardcover books
194621353Houston TX 1946. Hardcover. Very good. Black buckram album 10" x 13" containing a one-page printed introduction by Preston and 60 gelatin silver prints by Waddell inserted into pre-cut corners rectos only each with a fairly detailed typed caption underneath. Very good condition. According to the Introduction Clyde Waddell was Chief Photographer for the Houston Press before entering the Army where he was attached to the Public Relations Staff of the Southeast Asia Command. After two busy years on documenting action on the Burma front Waddell took the photographs in this album while on leave in Calcutta. "By the time he completed this project which brought him into some of the remotest out-of-bounds areas" writes Preston "he was flooded with requests from Americans and Britishers for copies of his photographs. That is how this album came to be.As a documentary of Calcutta it's tops." The album includes wonderful views of the city and its people including many bustling street scenes buildings Hindustan Building Karnani Estates American Red Cross Burra Club Jain Temple Nimtolla Mosque the Stock Exchange billboards street vendors and performers among them a snake charmer and shops and markets--including a wonderful shot of American GIs browsing at a book stall. There are also scenes of poverty and struggle including striking tram workers homeless people sleeping in the streets an opium den and a woman dying on a sidewalk as people walk by indifferent to her plight. The captions are chatty offering both information and Waddell's personal commentary on the scenes. This particular copy of the album belonged to Lyle Oberwise 1908-1993. Like Waddell Oberwise was a an American Army photographer assigned to the China-Burma-India theater of operations. But he is better known as a prolific Milwaukee street photographer whose work was discovered only upon his death. More than 43000 slides he shot in Milwaukee between 1945 and 1993 now reside at the Milwaukee County Historical Society. There is a photo of Oberwise in his military uniform mounted on the verso of the title page of this album. Also tipped in or laid in are a Red Cross Guide Book to Calcutta Agra Delhi Karachi and Bombay 93 pp with folding maps; tickets and programs for two American Red Cross-Burra Club tours of parts of Calcutta; An American Red Cross Guide to Calcutta for Servicemen 4 pp including a double-page map; and an uncredited 8" x 10" photograph of the Taj Mahal. hardcover books
19133478Michigan 1913. Pebbled cloth ledger measuring 8 x 10 inches with boards rubbed and spine largely perished. Two contemporary black and white photos loosely inserted at rear with subjects unidentified. Comprised of a total of 200 manuscript pages in two hands -- 11 pages in the hand of Elijah W. Middaugh and the remaining 189 pages in the hand of his daughter Julia Edmunds Middaugh. Both leave their ownership inscriptions on the front endpaper with the latter notating that her writing picks up in 1913. A candid poetic and at times heartbreaking family history the present manuscript reveals a young woman grappling with her place in the world and seeking to create a sense of order in her own life by understanding and exerting narrative control over the unstable relationship of her parents. <br/><br/>Elijah affectionately called "Lege" by Julia later in the notebook was born into privilege as the son of a prominent Gross Pointe family. Educated at the University of Michigan and Harvard he also was under the tutelage of private instructors during a stretch in Europe. Disappointing the hopes of his own father a businessman he did not take to the workforce with aplomb. He struggled to maintain himself by selling travel stories and reports to the Detroit Free Press and was fiscally irresponsible. Initially his marriage to the working class widow Juddie Palmer Kelso seemed promising. The owner of a shop in Paw Paw Lake she seemed to provide the industriousness Elijah lacked. According to Julia "the first years of their lives were the happiest." She and her brother were born and her parents "bought a King 8 car and went traveling." Indeed this King 8 features prominently in Elijah's opening narrative wherein he records "My trip in a King Auto from Michigan to San Francisco." From its opening one gleans that Julia's later story is a mixture of fact and father worship. He writes "It was said by that great & good man Emerson that travel is the fool's paradise. Without desiring to offer my own experience in proof of this I may state that I have always found pleasure in traveling." And he scorns those travelers who do not get swept up in the romance of the road focusing instead on practicalities; "greenhorns" he calls them "who would ask how fast we could travel how much it cost per mile." Of course the trip in the end did cost the family greatly. He reports multiple breakdowns and flat tires as he tour goes on; and when his radiator fails he opts to buy a new car rather than wait for a replacement part. What's more Julia's version of the story includes a jarring fact: "It was while we were away on a trip to California that the house burned down. When my parents drove up to the lake that night cold and hungry and eager for home Lege turned the car up the lane and there in the blaze of the headlights stood the gray chimney the only remains of the life that had been."<br/><br/>Julia's longer narrative contains multiple such harrowing incidents. And while she at times praises her mother at one point she says Juddie has "more enterprise and natural courage commonly called guts than any woman I know" she frankly sees Juddie's lower class background as the root of her parents' problems and the ultimate reason for their divorce. Her father meanwhile she glorifies. Rather than focus on his failings as such she creates a hero's arc for him. He failed in business because "he was cut out to be a poet" rather than a captain of industry -- and it was a mark of his own superiority. Indeed she writes "he had a better education and his branch of the human race was a little more cultural." After her parents' split and her mother gaining custody Julia remarks "without father things just weren't the same."<br/><br/>Notably it is the women and the female communities Julia encounters in life that provide support and stability. She recounts that after the house fire her father's sister Clara takes the family into her Gross Pointe home. After the divorce when she discovers "mother and two dirty little kids with a forlorn story she said at once Juddie you'll have to come out with me." It is Clara and later the sisters in a convent where Julia goes to be educated that give the young woman space to process her family pains and reflect on how they shape her selfhood. <br/><br/>It is a unique densely written and research rich piece deserving of study. In addition to providing opportunities for genealogical research including Julia's forebears Emilie Eugene Maynard and Judge A.B. Maynard it has extensive details on early automobile road travel from the Midwest to the West Coast information on early divorce and custody including the impact on children and women's finances female communities and women-run businesses class conflict in marriage courtship and historical narrative studies both fiction and non-fiction performances. It poses a valuable opportunity to study how young women in an age of increased attention towards inequality and rights were affected. The extent to which Julia is independent and mobile links both to the women around her and to a larger movement; at the same time Julia is affected by traditional patriarchal narratives including popular novels that position gender family wealth and class as markers of superior morality. unknown books
1931041568Brussels: van het Congoleesch Aandenken 1931. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Original blue wraps sunned worn at spine ends heavy foxing to endpapers printed on heavy paper. A fascinating retrospective on the Belgian Congo and the Belgians who died opening it up. 292pp filled with photos facsimiles and illustration. Scarce especially the Dutch edition. Published the same year in French. Size: Quarto 4to. Text is clean and unmarked. Scattered foxing but text mostly clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Exploration. Inventory No: 041568. <br/><br/> van het Congoleesch Aandenken paperback books
1938003236Cincinnati Ohio: Willis Music Co. 1938. SCARCE. "Based on the Boyhood and Youth of Abe Lincoln Unison or Three Part S.A.B." Book by Milton Dorey Adapted by Bryceson Treharne with Traditional American Melodies. Near Fine very light soil to wrappers. 64 pages. First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Willis Music Co. Paperback books
006589No Place: Bernhardt Wall SCARCE. A set of 26 pencil SIGNED individual drypoint etchings plus the unsigned title page etching to Wall's book "Following Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865". With tissue guards for all but 3 of the etchings all of the etchings are Fine No Date circa 1933-1942. On heavy laid paper the sheets ranging in size from 8 1/2" x 9 3/4" to 10" x 12 1/2". Each etching with small "Lilly Library" stamp verso at corner the whole set housed in a plain manila envelope marked "Dups.". A unique array of Wall's Lincoln etchings that could if matted and framed grace the walls of any Lincoln collection. SIGNED BY ARTIST. Etchings . Fine. Bernhardt Wall Paperback books
1785045311Paris: Duflos 1785. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Marillier; Duflos. Full contemporary crushed red morocco a bit of wear at edges and corners. Incomplete binding up a small section of the complete work - 30 plates along with 2 title pages and table the last section of 6 plates from Abrege de l'Histoire Sacrée. Mostly very light dampstain in the inner margin of the first half - quite attractive and engraved throughout on recto only. The complete work is rare complete and had over 200 plates and was issued in parts this comprises plates 1-6 of parts 1-3 of Abrege de l'Histoire Universelle along with 1-6 part 1 of Sacrée along with 7-12 of part 2. An attractive selection in a nice binding. Size: Octavo 8vo. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Illustrator: Marillier; Duflos. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045311. <br/><br/> Duflos hardcover books
1967770London: Oxford University Press 1967. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 312 pp illustrations portraits with index. A fine copy in clean dust jacket with light shelf wear. Sketches of twenty-four people or couples considered here as equivalent to one person such as the Webbs the Tawneys and the Hammonds who made a personal impression on Toynbee. Includes essays on T.E. Lawrence Sir Lewis Namier Lionel Curtis W.L. Westermann C.P. Scott Lord Bryce Jan Smuts Lord Samuel and Sri Jawaharalal Nehru among others. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1940006910Helsinki Finland: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura 1940. Two volumes in original dustjackets. Both volumes are Fine Vol.I dustjacket Very Good 1 1/2" triangular chip bottom edge at spine tears at spine folds and 2 tears horizontally at spine Vol. II jacket Near Fine small chips bottom edge of spine. List of donors laid in. One folding plate map index 15 folding maps at rear Vol. II. Numerous black and white photographs in text. A classic scholarly text ''In the spring of 1906 I received orders from the Russian General Staff to undertake a journey from Russian Turkestan through Chinese Turkestan and Western China and the provinces of Kan Su Shensi and Shansi to Peiping as the final goal. The object of this expedition was to study the conditions in the interior of Northern China collect statistical materials and perform various tasks of a military nature'' Preface. Mannerheim also collected archaeological and ethnographic materials and manuscripts and studied little-known peoples and tribes in Norther China. Mannerheim later became the 6th President of Finland after serving as Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish armed forces during WWII. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura Hardcover books
195734392La Habana 1957. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A near fine copy. 22 pp. 16mo. OCLC shows only a single copy. unknown books
183333029New-York: Printed by Order of the Convention by James Ormond 1833. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; disbound; 32pp. Textblock rather foxed and a bit dust-soiled stitching somewhat loose but still holding dampstaining along gutter slightly later 1845 repeated ownership signature of a Robert Garlington of South Carolina College to title page with his notes on verso and p. 3. Additional signature on p. 3 of E.A. Garlington 1853-1934 a United States General who served during the Indian Wars. Good or better. Scarce address delivered shortly after the founding of the General Trades' Union by Moore in August of the same year. The GTU is considered to be the first large trade union headed by the delegates of nine craft trades. Moore elected its first president would go on to be a U.S. Representative from New York from 1835 to 1839 and later in 1845 president of the National Trade Union. The present document is possibly the first publication issued by the Union the opening statement explinaing that "We have assembled on the present occasion for the purpose of publicly proclaiming the motives which induced us to organize a General Union of the various trades and arts in this city and its victinity" p. 7: "We in order to guard against the encroachments of aristocracy to preserve our natural and political rights to elevate our moral and intellectual condition to promote our pecuniary interests to narrow the line of distinction between the journeyman and employer.have deemed it expedient to form ourselves into a 'General Trades' Union'" p. 10. Printed by Order of the Convention [by] James Ormond unknown books
19432997Stamford CT: Overbrook Press 1943. Hardcover. Very Good. 15 pp with lovely color illustrations by Randolph Ruzicka. Very minor wear to boards light foxing to title page and first page of text. One of an edition of 500 printed on Maidstone paper. Overbrook Press hardcover books
1938001022New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 225 pictures generally one per page sometimes more sometimes one per two pages all with extensive text or captions. This copy is very good or better. Light age toning to pages. Minor wear to textured boards. The most trivial of wear to spine label. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
19022444Philadelphia: The Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of PA. 1902. Fourth Edition. Staplebound. Color illustrated wraps. Near fine. 96 pages. 16 x 11.5 cm. Helen Louise Johnson authored a number of targeted cookbooks for various cookware and food production companies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries including this volume for the Enterprise Manufacturing Company in Philadelphia PA which produced Sad Irons food grinders and ice makes. Advertisements for these products are dispersed throughout the text with full page listings featuring black and white illustrations. Recipes include main course dishes side dishes and coffee preparation. “The Clark-Sawyer Co. Worcester Mass.” printed on back cover. Clean and crisp copy. <br/><br/> The Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of PA. paperback books
185717948Andover: Warren F. Draper 1857. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Pamphlet 24 pp in original sewn wrappers. Author's name and an old ink stamp on the front wrapper else clean with a mild vertical crease and light handling wear. Very good. Shedd 1820-1894 was a distinguished Presbyterian theologian and enthusiastic supporter of colonization. Asserting that "Africa has no past" and is "the continent of the future" he anticipates that with proper Christian guidance "a career similar to that of the British colonies in America and similar to that of all the great colonizing movements of the past awaits the Republic of Liberia." Sabin 80072. Warren F. Draper unknown books
200028955London: Struik Publishers Amplats. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 1868724131 . Text by Sandra Klopper. Color photographs throughout. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Struik Publishers (Amplats) hardcover books
199338099NY:: Garland Publishing. Near Fine. 1993. Hardcover. 0815310102 . First edition. Near fine in dark gray cloth. No dust jacket as issued. ; 227 pages . Garland Publishing, hardcover books
19302050San Francisco: Hawaiian Pineapple Company 1930. Fifth Printing. Staplebound. White wraps. Good. 55 pages. 15.5 x 9 cm. A folkloric account of James Drummond Dole's climb to become the "Pineapple King". Narrative takes the reader through the early days of planting canning and role in the company's success to pack and ship pineapple to overseas markets. Black and white photo images include farming canning production and Lanai City cottages store school and hospital. Color images include the description of the three grades of canned pineapple along with recipes. Rear cover illustration of a giant pineapple-shaped water tank built in 1927. Covers creased and stained interior clean. <br/><br/> Hawaiian Pineapple Company paperback books
194049443Burbank California: Compiled and Published by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation 1940. 1st Printing. Comb-bound with light blue paper covers lettered in dark blue. General wear & soiling to covers. Ownership stamps primarily to cover & prelims. A VG copy. Part I: Major Breakdowns Wings Controls Fuselage etc: Part II: Complete Aircraft Single Engine Twin Engine Multi-Engine; Part III: Miscellaneous comprised by 12 sections all together with divers paginations in each section. Profusely illustrated with drawings and from b/w photographs. 11" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/>From the preface regarding the publication of this book ". there has been but one purpose in view - to give the designer a collection of ideas in sketch form that will stimulate his own creative and inventive mind. It must be remembered that the ideas as sketched in this book should not be bodily lifted because by so doing the purpose of the book is defeated." Compiled and Published by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation unknown books
