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185320236Auburn: Derby and Miller et al. 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. xvi17-336pp. 4pp. publisher's ads inserted between the front endpapers. Original brown cloth spine lettered in gilt boards embossed in blind. Yellow coated endpapers. Illustrated with seven full page illustrations including the frontispiece of the author. Significantly foxed as usual. Binding faded and worn at edges and corners spine gilt worn but still a presentable copy. Housed in a new leather backed custom clamshell case. A farmer and a professional violinist Northup had been a landowner in New York. In 1841 he went to Washington D.C.; there he was drugged kidnapped and sold as a slave. He was held as a slave for 12 years in the Red River region of Louisiana. Made into a movie in 2013 which received the Best Picture Award. Rare in first printing. Derby and Miller, et al. hardcover books
18531321937Auburn: Derby and Miller 1853. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 336 pages; G; bound in 3/4 red leather pebbled dark green cloth boards paneled spine with gilt and no titling; hinges cracked some rubbing to binding; reinforcement to both front and rear gutters; gift inscription to second free endpaper; page 336 with significant damage appears to have at one point been glued to something; Significantly foxed as usual with finger smudges and wear to pages some fraying to scattered fore edges; <br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> With all seven wood engravings including frontispiece portrait; true first printing of this scarce title with no mention of "Thousand" at top of title page; lacking four-page catalogue;<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> LB consignment; shelved case 1. Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. <br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Northup a black man who was born free in New York state details his being tricked to go to Washington D.C. where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. He was in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before he was able to secretly get information to friends and family in New York who in turn secured his release with the aid of the state. Northup's account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington D.C. and New Orleans and describes at length cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana. wikipedia;. 1321937. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Derby and Miller hardcover books
18531403999Derby and Miller 1853. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Derby And Miller Auburn 1853. Hardcover. The scarce true first edition.No mention of thousand on top of title page later printings have Fifth Thousand Eighth Thousand Tenth thousand or Seventeenth thousand indicating later printings Also 1853 on both title and copyright pages and no mention of London on either title or copyright pages.4 page catalog inserted between inside cover and F.E.P. The seven illustrations are all there.The book shows much wear on the edges and the back of the spine is going. Furthermore there is foxing throughout the book. Also there is a name stamped in front cover. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. Basis for the award-winning movie of the same title. Derby and Miller hardcover books
183050857n.p. n.d. Enfield Mass: Solomon Howe 1830. Small broadside approx. 6¼" x 6" text in double column beneath a running head typographic border between the two columns; fine. Poem consists of six 8-line stanzas. Solomon Howe printer son of Baptist minister and author Solomon Howe 1750-1835 printed with his brother John 1783-1845 in Greenwich and Enfield Mass. and published some broadsides with his own imprint in the 1830's. Not in American Imprints; not in "Publications of the Howes of Enfield and Greenwich" in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society vol. 60 no. 2 1950; OCLC locates copies at the Library Co. Brown Mass. Historical UNC-Chapel Hill Michigan AAS and Miami University in Ohio. One evening as I walk'd alone / I hear'd a fair maid make her moan /And thus did she begin her tone / 'I can no longer lay alone:' / I wonder what the cause can be / The young men do not fancy me / I have a thing that belongs to me / Would please a young man handsomely." <br/><br/> Solomon Howe unknown books
183044001Boston: Gray and Bowen 1830. 1st Edition American Imprints 3535; Erickson p. 225; Graff 3875; Howes S-739; Sabin 85429. Original publishers salmon colored cloth spine over drab paper boards; leather title label to spine with gilt stamped lettering. General wear. Spotting & browning throughout. P. xiii with prior owner initials & date 1936 in gutter. A VG copy. xvi 162 pp. Illustrated with a two-page map frontis & t.p. vignette 37 intratextual cuts. 12mo. 6" x 3-5/8" <br/><br/>The volume consists of "Lewis and Clark's Travels" pp. 1 - 105 "Long's Expedition" and "Jewitt's Narrative." The work publishes the earliest known printed image of Fort Clatsop Oregon. Per Graff "This was Snelling's first book the earliest juvenile on the Far west." Howes adds "First American juvenile book on the trans-Mississippi region giving account of its early explorers wild tribes etc." While well represented in institutional settings now somewhat uncommon in the trade. Gray and Bowen hardcover books
18561401303Miller Orton & Mulligan 1856. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good early printing. Basis for award winning movie this year. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Miller, Orton & Mulligan hardcover books
1885313486London: William Blackwood 1885. Second edition. 90 6 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Originla pink pictorial boards a little faded. Second edition. 90 6 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. William Blackwood unknown books
180753701Headquarters City of Albany: June 4 1807. Bifolium 12½" x 8" 3 paragraphs of text beneath the running head signed at the end in manuscript "Sol Van Rensselaer" as Adjutant-General with the additional postscript "In disposition of the Adjt. General has delayed those orders." Pp. 2-4 are blank save for the postal address on the verso of the integral leaf with Albany postmark of July 12 the notation "Military //" in the upper corner and addressed to Brig. Genl. Benjamin Moores / Clinton County." An order calling for review and inspection of the "regiments and corps" of the state militia to which Van Rensselaer adds "a fervent wish that the militia of his country may so progress in the acquisition of the military art as to render standing armies forever unnecessary and enable themselves by their own exertions to be the safeguards and protectors of the rights of freemen." Moores was a lieutenant in the New York militia was the sheriff of Clinton County and a presidential elector in 1808. Van Rensselaer was Adjutant General of New York from 1801 to 1809 1810 to 1811 and 1813 to 1821. Not in OCLC. <br/><br/> June 4 unknown books
183010282Boston: Gray and Bowen 1830. First Edition. Boards. Very good. First edition of Tales Of Travels West Of The Mississippi by Solomon Bell published in 1830 the first juvenile book about the region west of the Mississippi and specifically the Lewis and Clark Expedition. This copy is lacking the map. Twelvemo xvi 162pp. Publisher's original boards modern brown cloth spine title in gilt. Contemporary endpapers. Frontispiece portrait plus 42 individual illustrations some colored. Prior ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Occasional toning and spotting throughout. Authored by Solomon Bell the pseudonym for William Joseph Snelling. Sabin 85429 Howes S-739 Graff 3875 Literature Lewis & Clark 6b 225 All illustrations called for in The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition are present. A nice example. Gray and Bowen unknown books
184922378Philadelphia: Printed by John C. Clark 60 Dock Street 1849. 24pp folding map. Original green printed wrappers stitched. Map is 15" x 9.5" and depicts Indiana Ohio and the Western part of Pennsylvania. Very Good plus. <br/><br/> "This is the project of a railroad to connect the lines of Ohio with those of Pennsylvania together with an evaluation of the importance of the plan 'as a part of the general system of Rail-roads in the U.S.'" Eberstadt emphasizing the importance of the connections to Chicago St. Louis and points west. <br/>107 Eberstadt 342. BRE 247. Printed by John C. Clark, 60 Dock Street unknown books
1808665801808. Albany NY: Croswell & Frary 1808. Albany NY: Croswell & Frary 1808. Bloody Clashes Between Federalists and Jeffersonians in Albany Trials. Van Rensselaer Solomon 1774-1852 Primary Defendant. Assault and Battery: Report of the Trials of the Causes of Elisha Jenkins vs. Solomon Van Rensselaer Solomon Van Rensselaer vs. John Tayler the Same vs. Charles D. Cooper And the Same vs. Francis Bloodgood: Before Arbitrators At Albany August 16th 17th and 18th 1808. Albany NY: Croswell & Frary 1808. 80 pp. Woodcut map. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/4". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet untrimmed fore and bottom edges. Light soiling to exterior tiny stain to title page a few signatures loose light browning to text. Small mark in pencil to verso of title page interior otherwise clean. $450. Only edition. A notorious episode in Albany's political history these trials were the result of a street brawl between a group of Federalists and Jeffersonians. It was initiated when Rensselaer attacked Jenkins from behind with his walking stick after an argument over the fate of Irish rebels seeking admission to the United States. Cooper Tayler and Bloodgood joined the fight. Jenkins was awarded $2500.00 in damages. Bloodgood would later become mayor of Albany. Tayler later a judge went on to become lieutenant governor of New York. Taylor and Cooper a judge were involved in the controversy that precipitated the Hamilton-Burr duel. The street map shows locations of relevant sites and the positions of witnesses. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 14363. unknown books
1809124409London England: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1809. Hardcover. VG- Front hinge split; Some foxing mostly confined to endpapers. Marbled paper over boards; Brown leather at spine and corners; Marbled endpapers; 256 pp.; No illustrations. A collection of poems by Swiss poet Salomon Gessner translated from the original German by George Baker; Includes a prefaces by both Gessner and Baker. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme hardcover books
182718533London: James Ridgway 1827. Disbound. 51 1 blank pp. Small chip to blank inner margin of title page. Very Good. Atkinson continues his attack on England's new policy of Free Trade saying it threatens England's maritime domination and "the root of all our wealth and power." He argues that "the British shipowner can not compete with foreigners without that protection which the Legislature of this country has granted in all former times." Similarly protection for other British industries and agriculture is necessary. Atkinson throws much data around in support of his argument. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 2285. James Ridgway unknown books
182718532London: James Ridgway 1827. Disbound. 63 1 blank pp. Very Good. <br/><br/> Atkinson opposes Free Trade identifying it with the detested French Revolution "an apology for the adoption of the wildest theories." He advocates Protectionism based on Britain's undisputed maritime might "out of which has grown the grandeur of England." Free Trade is destroying West Indian commerce and indeed is a deliberate policy intended for "the overthrow of the landowners" there. In great detail he reviews the state of British commerce with Canada the West Indies and that of its competitors. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Sabin 2285. James Ridgway unknown books
183035099New Market Shenandoah County Virginia 1830. Broadside 5-1/2" x 7-3/4". Some foxing Good. <br/><br/> The entire broadside is in German fraktur. Dr. Henkel 1777-1847 was among the region's earliest physicians and druggists as well as New Market's first mayor first postmaster a printer a school trustee and perhaps New Market's first banker. Two labels are printed at the end.<br/>Hummel More Virginia Broadsides 60 2- Vi photocopy ViU. OCLC 38567178 1- U VA 16122847 1- Lib. VA as of June 2018. unknown books
182019708Zürich: Caspar Näf 1820. 8vo. Frontis. 336 pp. <br><br>Second edition: Includes short biographical notes on prominent women of the Reformation including Argula von Grumbach Olympia Fulvia Morata and Katharina Zell. 19th-century German boards covered with mottled paper spine with inked paper label; binding rubbed and abraded. Ex-library: spine with call number label lined through front pastedown with institutional bookplate. One signature separated; some light foxing mostly to last few leaves. Caspar Näf hardcover books
183032518Enfield: S. Howe 1830. Oblong broadside 8" x 6-1/4". Light wear illustration of arrangement of musical instruments and score. Small closed tear at blank upper margin partly repaired on verso else Very Good.<br/><br/> Solomon Howe was the son of a Baptist minister by the same name. Young Solomon and his brother John were printers in Enfield. During the 1830s he published broadsides with his own imprint. S. Howe unknown books
189490930Boston: Arena Publishing Company 1894. Octavo pp. 1-4 1-283 284: blank note: first leaf is a blank note: first leaf is a blank original light green cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. "Julian West's son's biography provides a detailed account of the life cycle in Bellamy's utopia especially education. Emphasizes that fundamental change comes only with the gradual internalization of new values over several generations." - Roemer The Obsolete Necessity p. 198. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1958. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 674. Lewis Utopian Literature p. 173. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 190. Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1006. Rooney Dreams and Visions: A Study of American Utopias 1865-1917 p. 196. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 104. Bleiler 1978 p. 175. Reginald 12759. Wright III 4812. Early owner's signature dated January 1895 on front free endpaper. Hint of rubbing to cloth at spine ends and several corners a bright near fine copy. The publisher's leaf regarding the colored margins is laid in. A lovely copy and uncommon in this condition. #90930 Arena Publishing Company unknown books
186862681New York: Harper & Brothers 1868. First edition. 8vo. 271 1 pp. In-text wood engravings portrait; 4-page publisher's catalogue dated Oct. 1 1868. Howes S-672. Clark Old South III 415: "This actor appears to have performed in many of the cities of the West and South during the years 1823-1853." Owner's name else very good. Original brown cloth rubbed gilt spine title faint. 9453. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
184937312Washington D.C.: n.p. 1849. First edition. Removed. A very good copy. 10 pp. 8vo. Minority report on the admission of California into the Union. n.p. unknown books
181551422Northampton MA: Printed at the Hampshire Gazette Office W.W. Clapp 1815. First edition. 8vo. 24 pp. Includes the Indian depredations. Sabin 104372. Disbound pamphlet foxed; owner's name on title page upper corner of title page torn away. Good copy. <br/><br/> Printed at the Hampshire Gazette Office, W.W. Clapp unknown books
183410589Albany: Hoffman & White 1834. 12mo original cloth with paper spine label a bit of wear. pp 10 314. Scattered light foxing about Very Good. <br/><br/> Southwick writing in the last years of his life "became a religious and moral enthusiast." DAB. Herttell a well-regarded New York City lawyer and assemblyman who favored a wall of separation between Church and State had argued against the appointment of Chaplains to minister to the State's legislature. Southwick warns of "the dark cloud of INFIDELITY which has lately made its appearance in our political horison" and which will destroy America unless religion-- and chaplains-- prevail and the influence of Herttell Fanny Wright and Robert Owen is diminished. <br/>FIRST EDITION. AI 26884 5. Sabin 88643. Cohen 6043. Singerman 0592. Not in Eberstadt Decker Marvin Harv. Law Cat. Marke. Hoffman & White unknown books
183855219Enfield Mass: S. Howe 1838. Small oblong broadside approx. 6¼" x 7¾" text in double column beneath the running head and woodcut incorporating masonic emblems; near fine. Hymn in ten numbered stanzas; first line: "We're travelling home to heaven above will you go" OCLC notes: Printed by Solomon Howe at Enfield Mass. about 1838. Cf. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 1950 v. 60 p. 223. Another edition has a different woodcut with the caption: "Passage free accommodation lane." Solomon Howe printer son of the Baptist minister and author Solomon Howe 1750-1835 printed with his brother John 1783-1845 in Greenwich and Enfield Mass.; Solomon printed some broadsides with his own imprint in the 1830's. AAS Amherst Brown Mass. Historical and Boston Athenaeum in OCLC. Not in American Imprints. <br/><br/> S. Howe unknown books
183835625Enfield MA: Printed by Solomon Howe 1838. Broadside 6.25" x 8". Enfield MA 1838. Untrimmed. Beneath title is illustration of Masonic emblems. Printed in double columns ten numbered stanzas. Words only no music. Minor foxing Very Good. <br/><br/> OCLC states the following: "Imprint information from Howe bibliography in Proc. Amer. Antiquarian Society n.s. 60 1950 p.217-233./ Solomon Howe printer son of Baptist minister and author Solomon Howe 1750-1835 printed with his brother John 1783-1845 in Greenwich and Enfield Mass.; Solomon printed some broadsides with his own imprint in the 1830's./." <br/>OCLC 27443189 4 and four other locations under two additional accession numbers as of January 2019. Printed by Solomon Howe unknown books
188628622Montgomery Ala.: Barrett & Co. 1886. Original printed yellow wrappers stitched. 186pp. Light wrapper wear Very Good.<br/><br/> Palmer the State Superintendent of Education says "The teachers of the colored race are very earnest in their efforts to dispel illiteracy and are doing a work that should receive the encouragement of the State." Reports are printed for the Peabody Institutes for the Colored Race the State Normal School and University for the Colored Race the Huntsville State Colored Normal and Industrial School the Tuskegee State Normal School for Colored Teachers as well as other educational institutions. An enormous amount of data is presented in numerous Tables. Barrett & Co. unknown books
