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184618871New York 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo pp. iv 480. Bound volume containing six monthly issues January-June 1846 with index frontis engraving of a statue of Thomas Jefferson and four engraved portraits by T. Doney. Edited by Thomas Prentice Kettell. Contemporary quarter-leather and marbled boards. Spine and corners scuffed chipping to upper of two spine labels soiling to title page scattered foxing. Bookplate of book collector William Mitchell Van Winkle on front pastedown.The United States Magazine and Democratic Review was published from 1837 to 1859 by John L. O'Sullivan.It was a highly regarded journal meant to champion Jacksonian Democracy a movement usually been disparaged in the more conservative North American Review. The magazine featured political essays extolling the virtues of Jacksonian democracy and criticizing what Democrats regarded as the aristocratic pretensions of their opponents. The journal supported Martin Van Buren in the 1840 presidential election who lost and James K. Polk in the 1844 election who won. The Democratic Review was also perhaps even primarily a literary magazine promoting the development of American literature. Some of its regular contributors were Nathaniel Hawthorne and John Greenleaf Whittier with occasional contributions by William Cullen Bryant and James Fenimore Cooper" Wiki. This volume includes several poems by Whittier; Notes on the Iroquois by Schoolcraft; three articles on Game of North America by Frank Forester; "Papers of an Old Dartmoor Prisoner" edited by Hawthorne and much other interesting content. hardcover books
185542709.1New York: Herrmann J. Meyer 1855. 1st edition Howes D45; Sabin 18396. Not in Cowan. Original printed buff paper wrappers. General wear & soiling to wrappers with fore-edge chipping/curling. Prior owner signature of "Luther Calvin" to front wrapper right margin. Foxing. A VG item. 20 pp. 4 full page steel plate engravings depicting the geographic area featured. 4to. 12-3/8" x 10" <br/><br/>From a preliminary advertisement in Part I EAST "In commencing the serial issue of a work which it is hoped may be long continued the Publisher and Editor deem it proper to say that their object will be to render it in every respect worthy of its title and deserving of the National patronage. . The Volume of the work to which the part herewith published belongs will be exclusively devoted to views in the Seaboard states from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico. The West will be illustrated in another Volume which though issued simultaneously with this and in the same style can be procured separately as Subscribers may prefer." Comprised of "Lake Itasca" "Falls of St. Anthony" 2 plates "San Francisco" early view of the bay from a western hilltop. Herrmann J. Meyer unknown books
185542709New York: Herrmann J. Meyer 1855. 1st edition Howes D45; Sabin 18396. Not in Cowan. Custom bound in deep maroon morocco style sheep with gilt decorated spine. "American Scenery" gilt stamped to front board. Marbled eps. 24 20 pp. Each part with 4 full page steel plate engravings depicting the geographic area featured. 4to. 11-3/4" x 9" <br/><br/>From a preliminary advertisement "In commencing the serial issue of a work which it is hoped may be long continued the Publisher and Editor deem it proper to say that their object will be to render it in every respect worthy of its title and deserving of the National patronage. . The Volume of the work to which the part herewith published belongs will be exclusively devoted to views in the Seaboard states from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico. The West will be illustrated in another Volume which though issued simultaneously with this and in the same style can be procured separately as Subscribers may prefer." EAST with "The President's House" "Niagara" "Barhydt's Lake" & "Bunker Hill Monument"; WEST with "Lake Itasca" "Falls of St. Anthony" 2 plates "San Francisco" early view of the bay from a western hilltop. Herrmann J. Meyer unknown books
196742698n. p. 1967. Printed blue paper covers white comb binding. Average signs of use. Faint cup ring to front cover. Very Good. Unpaginated though ~ 100 pp. 5 section tabs: 'Features' 'Control Cabin' 'Panels' 'Controls' & 'Conveniences'. Illustrations & drawings throughout. Oblong format: 8-3/4" x 11-3/8" <br/><br/>Originally envisioned in 1964 the initial 737-100 made its first flight in April 1967 and entered airline service in February 1968 at Lufthansa. This evidently a manual prepared by Boeing for United personnel to introduce them to the many then advanced features of the new Boeing 737 as to be flown by United Airlines. From the publication codes on the divers pages we see the various sections being published from April 1965 to February 1967 i.e. pre-first flight. unknown books
1860039911Philadelphia: G.G. Evans 1860. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition. Offsetting to frontispiece light wear to edges of stamped blue cloth. A nice copy of this patriotic collection printed on the eve of the Civil War. 503pp plus 22pp of ads. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 039911. <br/><br/> G.G. Evans hardcover books
186835665New York: Published by the Company 1868. 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers with elaborate lithographed graphic to front wrapper. Bit of light soiling & age-toning to wrappers. Faint vertical fold-line. A VG to Nr Fine copy and unusual thus. 32 pp. Frontis "Map of the Union Pacific Rail Road and its Connections." 8vo. p" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/>A progress report as well as promotional pamphlet issued by the company 2 April 1868 keeping their efforts in front of the public as well as Congress who was providing the financial underwriting. Published by the Company unknown books
1898008472New York: The Macmillan Co 1898. SCARCE xxv 478 pp with 24 pp. publisher's catalogue at end. With numerous illustrations portraits facsimiles and maps inclusing one fold-out map which is Fine. Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering at spine black end papers top edge gilt. Very Good Minus cloth at joints torn yet holding nicely corners rubbed prior owner names and inscription in ink and pencil prior owner name stamps. A comprehensive history of the system that helped fugitive slaves escape from the South to find freedom as far north as Canada the first documented history of its kind and invaluable in saving and preserving much history that otherwise might have been lost. While not uncommon in institutional holdingsSCARCE at auction the last recorded auction sale 1978. RBH. And SCARCE in today's marketplace. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Macmillan Co, Hardcover books
198225267San Francisco CA: The Arion Press 1982. The announcement only for this publication; Folding 4 panel-pages; cover with silhouette illustration text in red and black giving the details of the book and its printing. Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4" size; laid-in discount to book dealers card; light wear; clean and in very good condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. The Arion Press paperback books
190521408New York: Geo. Borgfeldt & Co 1905. Hardcover. Very good. 84 pp extensively illustrated with portraits and views of the company's various branches and departments. Bound in half-cloth and dark-green paper-covered boards with lovely art nouveau design stamped in black endpapers patterened with the company logo attractive design features throughout. Foot of spine bumped foxing to last four pages binding has a little play but overall a nice copy. Laid in is an embossed compliments card sent with the book printed on thick cardstock and dated January 1 1906. Founded in 1881 Geo. Borgfeldt & Company was best known as an importer and distributer of dolls and other toys but also dealt in china and cut glass stationery musical instruments imported glassware household furnishings decorative objects and a variety of "notions' and "fancy goods." Later in the 20th century the company would obtain the first major contract to sell Disney character merchandise. According to this book -- the only published history of this successful company - George Borgfeldt "conceived of the idea" of being able to offer Americans merchants easier access to a variety of foreign goods by "assembling in New York samples of the products of the best factories of Europe manufacturing dolls toys and kindred articles and of booking import orders through the display of these samples." His first location at 83 Leonard Street in New York City had 6.750 square feet of display space in which 100000 items were available for inspection by wholesale buyers. The text goes on to describe the evolution of this sales model and the company's subsequent growth. Separate short sections summarize the history of each of the different sales departments. Geo. Borgfeldt & Co hardcover books
1930007037New York: Rimington & Hoopes Publishers 1930. # 262 of 377 copies designed and printed by Richard W. Ellis at The Georgian Press. Fine pages uncut in a Near Fine cardboard slipcase printed paper label at spine very faint soiling. Savoy Editions Issue No. 3 Distributed by Doubleday Doran & Co. Inc. . Limited and Numbered Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Tall 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Limited Edition. Rimington & Hoopes, Publishers Hardcover books
1826007708London: John Murray 1826. First Edition 1826. Bound in half polished calf over marbled boards. back ornately gilt ribbon marker later plain beige end papers. with SCARCE handwritten errata slip tipped at p. 105 reading "p. 105 l. 2 from 6 m. for Carrosa read Canopa". Very Good a small scrape to calf rear cover dampstains bottom margins unaffecting text which is quite clean. An attractive copy. The source for the Alexander Dumas novel "The Man in the Iron Mask". . First Edition. Half Calf Over Marbled Boards. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Murray Hardcover books
1800E0068viii514 pages with frontispiece map. Quarto 10 1/2" x 8 3/4" housed in a custom slipcase. Translated by Maurice Keatinge. First English edition.Bernal Dïaz del Castillo was a conquistador who wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernan Cortes himself serving as a rodelero under Cortes. Born in Medina del Campo Spain he came from a family of little wealth and he himself had received only a minimal education. He sailed to Cuba in 1514 to make his fortune but after two years found few opportunities there. Much of the native population of the island had already been killed by epidemics and forced labor and in 1517 an expedition was sent to the smaller Caribbean islands to find alternative sources of labor. Dïaz joined this group under the command of Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba. It was a difficult venture and although they discovered the Yucatan coast by the time the expedition returned to Cuba they were in disastrous shape. Nevertheless Dïaz returned to the coast of Yucatan the following year on an expedition led by Juan de Grijalva with the intent of exploring the newly discovered lands. Upon returning to Cuba he enlisted in a new expedition this one led by Hernan Cortes. In this third effort Dïaz took part in one of the legendary military campaigns of history bringing an end to the Aztec empire in Mesoamerica. During this campaign Dïaz spoke frequently with his companions in arms about their experiences collecting them into a coherent narration. The book that resulted from this was Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espana English: The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. In it he describes many of the 119 battles in which he claims to have participated culminating in the fall of the Aztec Empire in 1521.As a reward for his service Dïaz was appointed governor of Santiago de los Caballeros present-day Antigua Guatemala. He began writing his history in 1568 almost fifty years after the events described in response to an alternative history written by Cortes's chaplain who had not actually participated in the campaign. He called his book the Verdadera Historia True History in response to the claims made in the earlier work. Dïaz died in 1585 without seeing his book published. A manuscript was found in a Madrid library in 1632 and finally published providing an eye-witness account of the events often told from the perspective of a common soldier. Today it is one of the most important sources in understanding the campaign that led to the collapse of the Aztec Empire and the Spanish conquest of Mexico.Condition:Spine renewed with new period spine label and original boards which the corners and edges are heavily rubbed some foxing to early pages. Frontispiece map repaired. Custom made red slipcase with Japanese toggles and leather spine label in gilt lettering else about a very good copy in a near fine case. Printed for J Wright by John Dean hardcover books
190719069New York: The Outing Publishing Company 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes pp. x 435; x 481 with illustrations from drawings by the author half-tone photographs maps some folding. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt on spines and upper boards. Corners rubbed spine lettering somewhat faded fraying to head of Volume I minor spotting to front board of Volume II. Internally sound and clean. No dust jackets. McCormick 1870-1951 was an American war correspondent who wrote about living conditions in China before reporting on the Russo-Japanese war for Reuters anf for Collier's Magazine. Following events from the Russian side he was present for many signficant battles and toward the end of the war was briefly captured by the Japanese. The Outing Publishing Company hardcover 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
1939007656Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1939. Fine no jacket with the namestamp of Pulitzer Prize winning historian Michael G. Kammen front paste down. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harvard University Press Hardcover books
1934008179London: Eyre and Spottiswoode 1934. SCARCE as complete set and in collectible condition. Four volumes in publisher's original grey cloth gilt lettering at spine and gilt tooled emblem front covers. Numerous illustrations particularly in Vol. IV. Very Good Plus gilt a bit dulled light toning mainly at end pages no jackets. A heavy four volume set that will require added charges for priority mail and international orders. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Eyre and Spottiswoode Hardcover books
201321611NY: Viking 2013. First US edition first prnt. Introduction. Notes. Index. Spine topedge with small creases; dustjacket rear panel topedge corner with touch of wear. Unread copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Viking Hardcover books
1981007420London: The Hakluyt Society 1981. Volume I Fine in Near Fine dust jacket light edge wear Volume II with 3 maps Fine in Near Fine dust jacket maps are Fine. . First Edition Thus. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Hakluyt Society Hardcover books
19232978London: John Lane at the Bodley Head 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. ix 257 pp illustrations from photographs. Original red cloth with gilt spine lettering; no dust jacket. Light sunning to spine else fine. This precedes the American edition by two years. A native of England Richard Baxter Townshend traveled to the American West in 1869 and spent five years wandering and briefly cattle ranchng in Colorado. After leaving Colorado he decided to see what New Mexico was like and established a trading post in Jemez. This book contains colorful accounts of his various travels and adventures from that time. John Lane at the Bodley Head hardcover books
1998W40438Rochester VT: Inner Traditions 1998. Dark blue cloth spines and glossy paper covered boards gilt. Glossy paper slipcase with 2 small beginning splits at bottom of mouth. Originally published in 1957 in France. This translation by Deborah and Robert Lawlor. Vol. 1 is text and entire Vol. 2 is plates depicting the Apet of the South at Luxor. First Edition. Cloth Backed Boards. Very Good/Slipcase Good. Illus. by Lucie Lamy. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Trade. Inner Traditions Hardcover 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
20639New York: Voluntary Parenthood League. Softcover. Very good. Undated ca. 1920. 4 pp ca. 6 x 8 inches self wrappers. Some old creasing general handling wear; very good. Social reformer Mary Ware Dennett 1872-1947 founded the Voluntary Parenthood League in 1919. The organization's main goal was to change the Comstock Laws so information about birth control would not be deemed obscene and could legally be distributed by mail. In this pamphlet Dennett argues that just as humans eat for pleasure as well as from necessity and just as they chose stylish clothes rather than the simplest thing that will keep them warm so there are "similar emotional mental moral and spiritual values to be derived from this function sexual relations." Getting "the Birth Control question straightened out" she argues "is the first imperative step. It will open the way for all the rest. And presently it will be as natural to apply science and art to sex relations as it is now to the matters of food clothes and shelter." Voluntary Parenthood League paperback 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
1968007907Cambridge MA: Harvard Univ Press 1968. Association Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at half-title page -" To Jim Armsey with the deep appreciation of his friend. McGeorge Bundy February 11. 1969". James Armsey 1918-2008 who was the Ford Foundation executive who oversaw grants to universities and colleges in the 1960s with the only requirement that they had to raise matching funds from other sources. At his urging the Foundation added the requirement that the colleges and universities could not bar black students. This change caused a number of them including Duke University Vanderbilt University Emory University Tulane University and several major private colleges to admit black students for the first time. At the time of publication McGeorge Bundy was the President of the Ford Foundation. He also served both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson from 1961-1966 as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs. Fine Armsey's name and initials front paste down and end page hidden by front flap. In a Near Fine dust jacket small corner creases at flaps. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. Harvard Univ Press Hardcover books
33074Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company n. d. Revised edition Eighty-Third Thousand. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt & black stamping. Slight cock. Modest binding wear. A VG copy. viii 265 1 blank pp. Frontis of Fisk. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 5" <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin and Company hardcover books
