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1900007120Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1900. In original half leather over brown cloth boards end pages and page edges marbled at least 28 fold-out maps other maps in text illustrated with numerous black and white photographs. 477 pp errata page at rear. Detailed reports from the Phillipines under Major-General MacArthur including reports from Departments of Northern and Southern Luzon Visayas and Mindanao and Jolo. Very Good stamped in gilt front boards "Property of Columbia Club Indianapolis" with its stamp title page as well leather rubbed at edges leather starting to separate externally at spine. Maps all in Near Fine to Fine condition. SCARCE overall a quite handsome copy. . First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Government Printing Office Hardcover books
191721669New York: Fleming H. Revell Company 1917. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 5" x 7.25" 89 pp in original wrappers. Good only: three inches of the backstrip missing crease at upper corner of front wrapper with archival tape reinforcement on the verso old dampstain to margins of first 40 pp. Text otherwise clean binding sound. Sidey Gulick 1860-1945 was "an advocate for international understanding and the best-known defender of the rights of Japanese Americans in the early 20th century.In 1887 he was posted by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Japan and was assigned a remote outpost in Matsumaya Kumamoto prefecture. In the years that followed he became an admirer of Japanese culture and learned to read write and speak Japanese fluently. In 1906 he was named professor of Systematic Theology at Doshisha University in Kyoto and a year later was also invited as lecturer at Imperial University in Kyoto.During this period Gulick became a notable interpreter of Japan for the West. In his book Evolution of the Japanese: Social and Psychic 1903 he reported on society religion and family life among the Japanese.He also presented himself as an opponent of imperialism and an advocate of independence for Asian countries.In 1913 due to poor health Gulick resigned his professorships and left Japan. Upon returning to the United States he was named secretary of the department of international justice and goodwill of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Through this position he sought to improve international understanding especially between the United States and Japan and deter war.In the wake of the enactment of California's anti-Asian alien land law he threw himself into the immigration question and distinguished himself as a defender of Japanese Americans. Gulick called for just treatment of all aliens and immigrants regardless of their race color or religion" Densho Encyclopedia. In this book he addresses and attempts to dispel common American misconceptions about the Japanese writing in the Foreword "It is hoped that this brief statement concerning widely circulated falsehoods may serve as an antidote for the poison" of anti-Japanese propaganda. Fleming H. Revell Company unknown books
190121723Boston: Ginn & Company 1901. First Edition. Softcover. Good. Radcliffe College Monographs No. 11. 255 pp in original printed wrappers. Paper covering spine mostly gone leaving binding a bit tender. Chipping at edges of covers. Text clean. As described in the preface "the aims of this investigation have been to trace the early development of anti-slavery sentiment under the influence of religious and ethical principles and of political theories; to indicate its practical outcome on the revolutionary period and the years immediately following; to discover the relation of early anti-slavery to that which culminated in universal emancipation and to determine whether the anti-slavery movement may be regarded as a continuous growth. Ginn & Company 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
1552WB18316Lugduni: apud Seb. Gryphium 1552. Hardcover. Good. 16mo. pp. 887. Old leather with attractive decorative endpapers. Contents shaken with a few leaves loose. Uncommon pocket edition of this ancient history miscellany. <br/><br/> apud Seb. Gryphium hardcover books
1826039485Edinburgh: Waugh & Innes 1826. Later Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 2 volumes in blindstamped gray cloth modest wear volume 1 a bit shaken and the front joint split - bindings still generally tight. Foxing to frontis. Bright internally largely uncut. Fold out of The Temple at Jerusalem slightly foxed but intact and attractive. Size: Octavo 8vo. 2-volume set complete. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: anthropology; Ancient BC; History. Inventory No: 039485. <br/><br/> Waugh & Innes hardcover books
20041229258Lodz: Author 2004. first. Thin quarto in beige illustrated soft covers with black and white letters; VG; covers with minimal soiling; paper clean; text in Polish and English; pp. 32. 1229258. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. Author unknown books
18592221732<p>First edition. Octavo. 2 large folding tables at rear. Errata leaf. Contemporary maroon calf over marbled boards red morocco label minor rubbing. Very good. 65 pages XXVIII appendix.</p><p>Scarce work by this Mexican Lt. Colonel of Artillery 1831-1877. He achieved the rank of brigadier general and was appointed commander of the imperial artillery at the Siege of Queretara.</p><p>Provenance: From the library of the great English collector and bibliophile Sir Thomas Phillips 1792-1872 with his MS pressmark.</p> Imprenta de J. M. Lana hardcover books
189944243New York: MatbaÕat Jaridat al-Ayyam 1899 . Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. New York: MatbaÕat Jaridat al-Ayyam 1899 . A number of b/w plates mostly portraits of world leaders and rulers. 308 pp. Text in Arabic. Hardcover. 4to. Dark blue cloth. The text of this book is in Arabic only the dedication to President William McKinley is in English. The overall theme of the work is the Lebanese Diaspora but a large part of the book consists of short biographical pieces on world leaders and rulers including Queen Victoria and other rulers of Europe Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey Abbas Pasha of Egypt Muzaffar ad-Din of Persia and Melelik of Ethiopia. Other biographical sketches include the reform politicians of the Ottoman Empire Lebanese and Syrian politicians and intellectuals and the patriarchs of the Eastern Christian churches. Also included is a short preview of the Paris Exhibition of 1900. Because of the cheap paper used both free endpapers are separated at the hinge otherwise the book is tight and clean. Nonetheless the textblock paper is extremely brittle and therefore fragile. Very good/No jacket issued. Insurance required to ship this item. MatbaÕat Jaridat al-Ayyam hardcover books
1935008926Charleston SC 1935. Bespoke project documentation book for the Works Progress Administration restoration of the Dock Street Theatre Charleston South Carolina with the architect Douglas D. Ellington's. personal bookplate. Housed in an embossed calf binder with string tie gilt lettering. 48 pages listed in table of contents which refer to 48 labelled sections each with items such as a summary of the project folder of photographs taken in Stoll's Alley newspaper clippings theatre programs and broadsides research records of holders of the property maps plans photographs drawings and other related ephemera. Very Good the leather binder with wear at spine ends and folders. Douglas D. Ellington 1886-1960 was a Native of North Carolina and trained at the Ecole des Beauv Arts being the first American to win the top honor for decorative competitions at the École. In addition to his work on this theatre project he designed numerous churches residences and government housing projects in Charleston as well as facilities associated with the Charleston Naval Base during the 1940s and 1950s. He is best known for his Art Deco buildings of the 1920s for Asheville N.C. The original Dock Street Theatre opened Feb. 12 1736 and was the site of the first building designed for theatric performances in the Thirteen Colonies. Likely destroyed in the Great Fire of 1740 the restored building was built as The Planters Hotel in 1809. The restoration started in 1935 and was completed by the time of the grand opening Nov. 26 1937. Perhaps the sole documentary record of this historic restoration provenance - from the collection of Joseph Hyde Pratt noted North Carolina geologist conservationist state and civic leader and WWI hero with personal invitation to him for the grand opening of Nov. 26 1937 laid in at rear. Embossed Calf Binder . Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover books
19811309524University Gallery Univesity of Delaware 1981. Softcover. Quarto: VG-/no-DJ paperback: Thin gray spine with white text: Covers have general shelfwear. some creasing to hinges some rubbing binding solid: Textblock is clean:60 pp. 1309524. FP New Rockville Stock. University Gallery Univesity of Delaware unknown books
200541444New Haven:: Yale University Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0300106866 . Black and white photographs throughout. First edition. As new in like dust jacket. . Yale University Press, hardcover books
47848Johnstown New York: Karg Brothers n. d. Ca 1920s. Lot of photographs now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Images yellowed but generally sharp with little fading. Mounts with some age-toning and minor edgewear. "Clipping Room" with chip to top edge. Overall Very Good. 8 photographs captioned with white writing in the image. 9 images operational in nature e.g. "Clipping Room" with the remaining 3 depicting office space & personnel one of a great old walk-in safe. Image: 5-1/2" x 7-3/4". Mount: ~8-1/2" x 10-3/4" <br/><br/>Karg a long time business in Johnstown New York founded in the latter part of the 19th C. ceasing operation in 1996. Karg Brothers unknown books
1860422391860. The preponderance printed on blue paper. Sizes range from 4-1/8" x 6-7/8" to 7-3/8" x 7-1/2" <br/><br/>"Paul Whitin helped found the Northbridge Cotton Manufacturing Company in Northbridge Massachusetts in 1809 and in 1816 joined his brothers-in-law in founding the Whitin & Fletchers mill in South Northbridge now Whitinsville of which he became sole owner in 1826. Around this time his two elder sons Paul Jr. and John joined him forming P. Whitin & Sons. Operating under that name Paul and John purchased the Northbridge Cotton Manufacturing Company mill after the death of their father in 1831 and they later added their younger brothers Charles and James to the company. The company prospered and supplemented its cotton production with the manufacture of pickers looms and other machinery. About half of the houses in Whitinsville were owned by the company and rented to its employees most of whom worked in the shop and foundry; a few employees were clerks in the company store." UM website. The P. Whitin & Sons firm was dissolved in 1864. This collection of receipts documents their purchases of foodstuffs & other sundry items from divers merchants in Providence R.I. e.g. Wm. F. Huntoon. Coffee & Spices Worcester e.g. L. Spring 2nd. Flour Meal Salt et al & Boston e.g. W. Baker & Co. Chocolate & Cocoa. A nice cache of material documenting food prices in the Northeast during the mid-19th C. unknown books
192638323London and elsewhere: Various Publishers 1926. Fifteen pieces including printed periodicals and ephemera. Contents generally fresh and well-preserved; a few with original folds from distribution; Very Good. The entirety housed in a custom folding cloth chemise and quarter-morocco slipcase. Includes: <br/><br/> • The British Gazette. Vol 1 no 1 - Vol 1 no 8 all issued. Lon: HMSO May 5- May 13 1926. All issues in excellent state of preservation with slight tenderness but no tears or loss at the horizontal and vertical mailing folds.<br/><br/> • Strike Bulletin. Bradford: TheYorkshire Observer. 2 issues. no. 1 May 5 1926 & no. 6 May 11 1926. Mimeographed sheets corner stapled; 5pp 6pp. Horizontal folds at bottom 2" whether from storage or distribution uncertain. "Cessation of work by the whole Technical and Labouring staff of "The Yorkshire Observer" - without notice and in flagrant disregard of their contracts of service - has made it necessary for us to present these small sheets instead of a normal newspaper." <br/><br/> • London Daily Express. 2 issues. Nos. 8126-27 May 12-13 1926; 1 4pp. Both issues severely abbreviated due to work stoppages. <br/><br/> • Mayfair Bulletin. Giving the Latest Strike Home & Foreign News. 14th May 1926. Lon: April Showers Ltd. Mimeographed on pink paper corner stapled with horizontal folds from distribution. <br/><br/> • Broadside: Emergency Bulletin! Strike to Continue - No prospect of Early Settlement. Sans imprint. Letterpress recto-only; ca 26 x 21cm 10" x 8"; type in single column below double rule. Announces a number of emergency measures to replace striking transportation newspaper and dairy workers including the pending appearance of The British Gazette. OCLC locates one copy only British Library. <br/><br/> • Handbill: Hurley's Library Free Bulletin. Obtainable twice daily at Hurley's Newspaper Counter without charge. May 10 1926; ca 25cm x 10cm 10" x 4"; printed both sides of sheet. Announces latest strike news; verso bears headline: "Hurley's - our Library Service is Not on Strike!". Important archive of primary documents relating to the 1926 General Strike in Great Britain which though brief and a failure from the syndicalist point of view would nonetheless be the only General Strike in British history. The event also established a pattern for Tory suppression of radical labour including the use of "emergency" legislative measures and the mass distribution of propaganda through state-run media. Ironically the strike also presaged a massive sweep to power of the Labour Party in the years immediately following a wave which was at least in part a response to the repressive measures employed by the Conservatives against the Trades Union Congress in the General Strike. <br/><br/>Of primary interest here is the complete run of eight issues of The British Gazette a government propaganda sheet edited and including numerous contributions by Winston Churchill who was at this time Chancellor of the Exchequer. Depending upon one's point of view the Gazette marked something of a low-point in Churchill's career: though it claimed to be filling a journalistic void created by striking newspaper workers Churchill's paper was more or less a pure exercise in disinformation filled with intentional inaccuracies intended to build public sentiment against the strikers and to demoralize participants in the strike. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was said to have given Churchill the Gazette job ".to keep him busy and to keep him from doing worse things" see John M. Davidson Memoirs of a Conservative; the newspaper's prevarications so galled professional journalists that one was moved to write: "One of the worst outrages which the country had to endure - and to pay for - in the course of the strike was the publication of the British Gazette. This organ throughout the seven days of its existence was a disgrace alike to the British Government and to British journalism" Kingsley Martin in The New Statesman May 15 1926. <br/><br/>Also included here are several other private news sheets indicative of the hunger for information felt by British populace suddenly without any reliable source of news; and a broadside without imprint but likely issued by HMSO as a prospectus of sorts announcing the imminent publication of the Gazette. Various Publishers unknown books
1997006567Washington D.C.: The White House 1997. A unique personal archive of photographs and letters received by William K. Estes when awarded the President's National Medal of Science on December 16 1997. Included are a SIGNED BY PRESIDENT CLINTON photograph of Estes receiving the medal from Clinton and a SIGNED BY VICE-PRESIDENT AL GORE photograph of Estes with Gore and also two separate unsigned White House-issued group photographs one of the awardees wth President Clinton and the other the awardees with Vice-President Gore. In addition a letter on White House stationery dated May 14 1997 SIGNED by Josh H. Gibbons Asst. to the President for Science and Technology to Estes confirming his selection as a recipient a White House Press Release from the Office of Media Affairs dated April 30 1997 announcing the recipients a congratulatory letter dated December 17 1997 on U.S. Senate letterhead from the office of Senator John Kerry Mass. SIGNED by Senator Kerry and two programs for the event. Also included two congratulatory letters on Harvard University letterheads one dated Dec.18 1997 and SIGNED by Neil Rudenstine President of Harvard and the other dated Dec. 23 1997 SIGNED by Harvey V. Fineberg Provost of Harvard. All materials are in Fine condition. William K. Estes June 17 1919- August 17 2011 was an American psychologist who pioneered the application of mathematics to the study of animal learning and human cognition. He received this award "for his fundamental theories of learning memory and decision. His pioneering development and testing of mathematical models of pyschological processes have set the standard for theoretical progress in behavioral and cognitive science". That same year the other awardees included James D. Watson. Robert A. Weinberg Darlene C. Hoffman Martin Schwarzschild among other notable scientists. . SIGNED. Fine/No Jacket. The White House unknown books
16270Small broadside comparing women's suffrage in different U.S. states before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. 7 x 5 in. Excellent condition. Expected toning. This broadside compares the status and voting rights of women in different states specifically comparing the status of women in Western states where they were granted the vote earlier. The broadside states that "Women now vote on equal terms with men" in twelve listed states; it especially emphasizes Nevada and Montana which adopted equal suffrage in 1914. The broadside was originally printed to call for the vote for women from New Jersey although handwritten modifications have altered it to specifically reference New York. An interesting document that emphasizes the greater voting progress afforded to women in Western states before universal suffrage in the U.S. unknown books
18741497Washington DC: M'Gill & Witherow 1874. Softcover. Very Good. 96 pp indexed. Light general wear and soiling to wrappers small notation in ink on back cover. Contents clean binding sound. Includes an opinion of Jeremiah S. Black attorney for the Sutro Tunnel Comany; a report by Adolph Sutro on "The Mineral Resources of the United States and the Importance and Necessity of Inaugurating a Rational System of Mining"; a "memorial" from the Nevada Legislature asking the United States to aid in the construction of the Sutro Tunnel and additional documents related to controversies arising from the Sutro Tunnel Act of 1866. The Act granted Sutro the right of way he needed to construct his proposed drainage tunnel which he argued would alleviate the flooding of the mines under Virginia City saving pumping costs allowing for deeper mining and providing better ventilation and an additional means of escape for miners. The Act also granted him lucrative mining rights along the length of the tunnel and was perceived as a threat by other mining interests. M'Gill & Witherow paperback books
200638605New Haven:: Yale University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 0300113374 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Yale University Press, hardcover books
198125274San Francisco CA: The Arion Press 1981. Andrew Hoyem's letter-announcement only for his new discount policy for the Arion Press. With detailed information on currently available and forthcoming projects for the press. Approx. 8 1/2" x 11" letter size printed one side only. Old fold lines; light shallow creasing at one top tip; clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good. The Arion Press paperback 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
1946009405Privately Published 1946. First Edition. Red Cloth Spine/Paper Boards. Very Good -. Red cloth spine black and white pictorial paper-backed boards. Lower corners bumped faint stain to top spine end confined to that area. Internals near fine. A rather unique example of the early photographic work of "Mr. Conservative" the Republican libertarian sympathizer known both for his 1964 presidential campaign against Lyndon B. Johnson and for his opposition to the Christian right's takeover of the party especially on issues like gay rights and abortion. One of his books of photography Barry Goldwater and the Southwest 1976 was worthy enough to receive an introduction by Ansel Adams. Privately Published unknown books
200333272Berkeley: University of California Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0520234928 . Black and white photographs by Jerry Berndt. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . University of California Press hardcover books
1944005998Washington D.C.: Army and Navy Journal Inc. 1944. Special edition of this WWII magazine bound in dark blue cloth and title stamped in gilt front cover. The Presentation Copy of the Honorable Will H. Hays his name stamped in gilt bottom edge front cover. Hays managed Warren G. Harding's successful campaign for the Presidency of the U.S. and was subsequently appointed Postmaster General. After a year in that position he resigned to become most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America MPPDA which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. Book is Very Good cloth lightly soiled a few marginal pencil notations by Hays in margins of table of contents page browning at edges . . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Army and Navy Journal, Inc. Hardcover books
190920648London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons 1909. Hardcover. Very good. First edition in English. 217 pp. with index 3 maps and more than 70 photographic illustrations. Foxing to the first ca. 20 pp otherwise a very nice copy. "Major Émile Antoine Henry de Bouillane de Lacoste 1867-1937 was a military officer who after serving with the French army in Indochina undertook a number of extended voyages to different parts of Asia on behalf of the French authorities. He wrote several books based on his travels. Around Afghanistan is an English translation of a work originally published in Paris in 1908 under the title Autour de l'Afghanistan aux frontières interdites Around Afghanistan by forbidden borders. As the French title makes clearer than the English Bouillane de Lacoste was denied permission by the Afghan authorities to travel in Afghanistan. He thereupon he devised a scheme to travel around the borders of the country. Starting from Tehran in late April 1906 Bouillane de Lacoste traveled first to Meshed in northeastern Persia Iran and from there into Russian Central Asia through Ashkabad present-day Ashgabat and Merv both in present-day Turkmenistan Bukhara and Samarkand. After reaching the end of the Russian railway line at Andijan present-day Andijon Uzbekistan he proceeded into the Altai Mountains in present-day Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan which he then crossed into China and British India. The next stage of journey was from Srinagar Kashmir to Lahore and from there across Baluchistan in present-day Pakistan and back into Persia where he eventually reached Tehran in late January of 1907. The journey was made by rail and horse caravan. Bouillane de Lacoste was accompanied by Lieutenant Hippolyte Marie Joseph Antoine Enselme born 1872 who had served with Bouillane de Lacoste in Indochina and accompanied him on an earlier voyage to Manchuria. Bouillane de Lacoste's account is written as a diary and contains descriptions of the landscape and the people he encountered" World Digital Library. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons hardcover books
