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184113679Washington D. C.: GPO. Very Good. 1841. Softcover. Disbound moderate foxing to text text complete intact else G Delivered in the House of Representatives . GPO paperback books
18529201Washington 1852. 15pp folded untrimmed and uncut. Tanned and light to moderate wear. Good. A New York Democrat Dean details the profligacy of the Whig Administration of Millard Fillmore and the inadequacy of that Party's candidate Winfield Scott in the upcoming presidential contest. The letter from Senator Shields attributes the country's great progress to the Democratic Party's support of western expansion and its stand against the national bank and protective tariffs. FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin or Eberstadt. unknown books
186154589Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co 1861. 8vo pp. 96; contemporary purple cloth; ex library with call label stamps and residue on endpapers lower free endpaper torn and chipped covers sunned; fair. Inscribed by Shields to James T. Chamberlain on flyleaf. Philosophia ultima was "in effect a manifesto for a grand unity of academic disciplines setting forth a scheme of scholarship which should fully reconcile science and Christian religion which he considered the academic culture of the United States uniquely qualified to advance." Wikipedia. <br/><br/> J. B. Lippincott & Co hardcover books
1889145528Chicago: Rand McNally 1889. First Edition. First Edition. <br/><br/>Very Good with bumps to the corners light rubbing and soil. Rand McNally unknown books
1861648851861. SHIELDS Charles Woodruff. PHILOSOPHIA ULTIMA. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1861. First edition inscribed presentation copy. 8vo. purple cloth lettered in gilt. Sun to spine and extremes slight surface wear touch of bubbling to cloth. Just a hint of soil internally. A very good tight copy. unknown books
188327113Chicago: Belford Clarke & Co. 1883. 8vo. Frontis. xvi vii/viii bound in after xvi9306 6 adv. pp.; illus. <br><br>Early edition following the first of 1880 published as Hunting the Great West: Outdoors adventures among the bears and buffalo not to mention the trout and the alligator as well as encounters with the Cheyenne and Sioux all illustrated with numerous full-page and in-text steel engravings. The author a.k.a. Coquina was president of the League of American Sportsmen and a frequent contributor to American Field.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Publisher's brown cloth front cover with black-stamped hunting scene and title framed in gilt spine with gilt-stamped title. Binding as above corners and spine head lightly rubbed. Exsocial club library: call number on endpaper rubber-stamp on title-page no other markings. Pages clean. Belford, Clarke & Co. hardcover books
189021416Chicago and New York: Rand McNally 1890. Hardcover. Good. 169 pp a lengthy and interesting advertising section approximately 32 pages. Bound in original brick red cloth with gilt lettering and hunting/fishing insignia and image of a teepee on front board. Boards edgeworn and scuffed small area of dampstain visible on rear endpapers abrasion to front free endpaper where a label was removed. Binding sound text clean. Shields 1846-1925 wrote extensively on sporting topics under the pen-name Coquina before establishing Recreation: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies in 1894. Between 1897 and 1902 he was head of the Campfire Club of America. In this book he offers practical information on a range of outdoorsy topics including clothing and personal equipment bedding and sleeping bags tents guns and rigles fishing tackles selecting horses and tack selecting a good guide food for camping chosing a campsite making a campfire and what to do if you get lost. At the end are three chapters contributed by other authors: Camp Hygeine Medicine and Surgery by Dr. Charles Gilbert Davis; Camp Cookery by Col. J. Fry Lawrence; and How to Load a Pack-Horse by Frank F. Frisbee. Among the items advertised at the end: a folding canvas boat camp bed fishing tackle guns portable houses outdoor clothing maps books and railroad travel. Rand McNally hardcover books
189019395Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Company 1890. Decorative Cloth. Very Good . WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR G.O. SHIELDS on the first blank endpaper. A crisp very solid copy to boot of the 1890 1st edition. Tight and VG to Near Fine in its dark-green cloth with bright gilt-titling along the front panel and spine. Just a touch of light scuffing at the rear panel otherwise sharp as could be. And internally very clean with no writing or markings to speak of beyond the author inscription. Octavo also includes wonderful camping-related ads --a number of them nicely engraved-- at the rear. <br/><br/> Rand, McNally & Company hardcover books
188957169Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Company 1889. First edition. 8vo. 120 4 ads pp. Frontispiece and six plates portraits. Howes S-412. Graff 3759. Smith 9420. Eberstadt 114 693: "Contains in addition accounts of the atrocities perpetrated by Chief Joseph and his followers." While Howes and other bibliographies call for eight plates frontispiece plus 7 Graff and the OCLC description call for 7 frontispiece plus 6; we have handled several copies all with a total of seven plates as here. Original gilt-stamped brown cloth. Lacking front endpaper light marginal tideline through first 11 pages otherwise very good. <br/><br/> Rand, McNally & Company hardcover books
1890252105Chicago: Rand McNally 1890. First. hardcover. good. Plates and text Illustrations. 581pp. ad pages. 8vo original brown with gilt decoration corners bumped and lightly worn cloth lightly spotted and lightly soiled very light foxing to margins of plates foxing to first blank page margin of title page and last blank page. Chicago: Rand McNally 1890. First Edition<br/><br/> Internally a tight bright copy.<br/><br/> Rand, McNally unknown books
188960848Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Co 1889. First edition. 8vo. 339 pp. Illustrated from photographs and wood engravings plates vignettes and historiated initials; ad for two other Shields titles tipped in at the front endpaper. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to A.W. Hooper businessman and sportsman who served as President of the Tarpon Club in Port Aransas Texas in the early 1910s. Phillips p. 343. Heller 620: "The sporting adventures transpired in the Cascade Range in Oregon Washington and British Columbia the Rocky Mountains and the Texas Plains." Riling 1256. Bruns S-142. Fine bright copy. Original gilt-stamped decorated blue-green cloth floral endpapers. #7807. <br/><br/> Rand, McNally & Co hardcover books