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183617436Washington D.C.: Gales and Seaton 1836. First edition 8vo pp. 168; 4 engraved plates plus a large folding map in separate sleeve of later green cloth paper label on spine; original brown cloth extremities faded some spotting bookplate removed else very good. This copy inscribed to "The Hon. Mr. Woodbury with the comps. of the author." The map which measures approx. 27 1/2" x 40" shows "a portion of the Indian country lying east and west of the Mississippi River to the forty-sixth degree of north latitude" showing much of Wisconsin and sections of Illinois Minnesota and Iowa and all of Lake Michigan. The result of a British scientist's geological reconnaissance through the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi valley in 1835-37. Featherstonhaugh began his journey in Washington D.C. and traveled via Pittsburgh and Cleveland before visiting Detroit and travelling by canoe on Lakes Huron and Michigan to Mackinac and Green Bay thence via the Fox and Mississippi Rivers to Saint Anthony and Fort Snelling where Featherstonhaugh's party ascended the Minnesota River as far as Lake Traverse on the Dakota border and back again via Lake Pepin Galena and Saint Louis. His travels by canoe in Wisconsin and Minnesota are of particular interest. Not in Howes or Graff; Sabin 23963. <br/><br/> Gales and Seaton hardcover books
185710042Saint Paul: Goodrich & Somers 1857. Small 8vo pp. viii 194 2; printed endpapers and pastedowns without the rare folding map lacking in most copies; printed on yellow blue white and green paper original printed paper-covered boards backed in black morocco lettered in gilt; boards soiled top and bottom of spine chipped away otherwise a sound and reasonably clean copy. This is Saint Paul's second city directory substantially augmented over the first of the previous year which contained 76pp. only. Martin Minnesota Imprints 175; Spear p. 333. <br/><br/> Goodrich & Somers hardcover books
182917150Monterrey: imprenta de gobierno à cargo del ciudadano Sixto Gonzalez 1829. Folio. 5 ff. 19 tables some fold. <br><br>The state constitution required the secretary of state to provide an annual accounting of income and expenses of the state's operation. The first five leaves here summarize in narrative form such things as governmental operations public health jails roads education industry agriculture religion and the militia. The tables at the end are statistical and here curiously two of the folding ones census data are completely filled in by hand. Each table is authenticated as to accuracy by the governor's secretary having affixed his manuscript paraph. Elegant modern full rich brown calf covers tooled in black and gilt and with a red title label on front cover. Gilt-tooled roll on turn-ins. imprenta de gobierno à cargo del ciudadano Sixto Gonzalez unknown books
1808008919Raleigh NC: Printed by William Boylan 1808. RARE. No institutional holdings noted at OCLC. A Good copy of the 2nd Edition the 1st Haywood published 1800. Missing 1/2" of calf at top of spine 1/2"-2" at bottom of spine front board with 3" missing outer leather layer rear paste down with scribbles in reddish pencil front blank end page detached front board hanging by a strip of leather at spine blank rear end page missing. All pages with text present. Front paste down and front end page with several early owner names and dates early owner name at title page. Front end page unattached. 414 pages. Laid in one page circa 1904-1908 titled "Important Meetings for Fishermen and Oystermen - Itinereray of Fish Committee" listing a number of meetings with dates and places. On verso is a manuscript in pencil roughly 50 word description of where and how this book was found and who one of its prior owners was said to have been. The writing presumable in the hand of Joseph Hyde Pratt state geologist of North Carolina at the time as noted on the front and from whose estate this book came. For all its flaws. a fascinating copy of this RARE early North Carolina imprint. Cohen 8443 Shaw 34857. . Second Edition. Calf. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Printed by William Boylan Hardcover books
1825100946<p>Small 8vo 6 3/4x4 1/4 original printed wrappers bound inside late 19th century quarter leather and cloth hinges reinforced map printed inside front cover of the original wrapper 67 pp. Scuffing and wear to leather rubbing and edge wear short tears to wrapper covers 1/2" chip to front cover margin which just about touches the map on the reverse side but doesn't really affect the image a few red pencil marks within some soiling staining and foxing ex Brooklyn Library copy bookplate on front pastedown perforated library stamp on title; still a good copy. A very scarce directory that probably began in the early 1820s. It continued to be published through 1829 but in 1830 it seems to have become The Brooklyn Directory although Spooner was still the publisher in that year. The first 48 pages appear to provide the "names and residence of all the Householders." The occupations of the people that are named are also provided. Additional information ranging from village by-laws to important members of the fire department is included. Spooner also provides a list of churches in Brooklyn and the results of the 1820 census for Kings County. The total population of Brooklyn in 1820 was 11183. This is a fairly rare title which offers a vivid picture about what Brooklyn looked like almost 200 years ago.</p> Alden Spooner, books
1815WRCAM43580Boston: Printed and Published by T.B. Wait & Sons 1815. Five volumes. Numerous folding tables. Contemporary blue boards with paper spines and labels; one volume rebound with later boards one volume rebacked with modern paper. Spines chipped. Bookplate on front pastedowns contemporary ownership inscriptions. Overall about very good. Untrimmed. In half morocco slipcases. An important collection of United States state papers and foreign relations documents during the important period from 1789 through 1815 including Washington's first speech to Congress his message on the situation with Algiers Pickering's letter to Pinckney while the latter was plenipotentiary of the United States in Paris and many others of equal importance. The volumes also contain documents relating to French depredations on American vessels; messages relative to affairs with Spain on the Mississippi; intercourse with Indians; the XYZ Affair; commerce with St. Domingo; Jefferson's inaugural addresses of March 4 1801 and March 4 1805; documents concerning the Barbary Powers; notices of treaty negotiations from Messrs. Monroe and Pinckney; reports and lists of captured American vessels; and extensive official correspondence regarding U.S. relations with the European powers. This is the first edition of Wait's "State Papers" compilation which is listed under two separate entries in Sabin of three and five volumes respectively for a total of eight volumes in a complete set the second volume of the three-volume set is lacking here. A second edition in ten volumes appeared in 1817. See Sabin for an extensive note on this useful collection. Prior to the beginning of the standard U.S. documents Serial Set in 1817 and to Peter Force's compilations in the 1830s this was the first standard compilation of American State Papers. SABIN 90637. COHEN 7363. Printed and Published by T.B. Wait & Sons hardcover books
1865WRCAM32129New York: Dopp & Nolan 1865. Photograph 11 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches mounted on printed card stock 16 x 19 3/4 inches. The image and card stock have equal light tanning otherwise the photograph is clean and unblemished. Minor chipping and staining to mount. Very good. Archival matting and protected with mylar sheet. A large and impressive photograph of the Stanwix Hall Hotel dating to around the end of the Civil War. The photograph shows the large four-story hotel from an elevated height across the corner of the building showing the full length of two sides of the building. Men with top hats and women with parasols are shown on two balconies and in the open windows. Three horse-drawn carriages and a buckboard are also shown. Several other people stand in the doorway and one man leans against a large gas lamp. Two businesses are visible on the ground floor one owned by "T. Flanagan" and the other a "Wholesale Liquor Store" which also sells tobacco and cigars. A sign for a wood coal yard is also visible in the foreground. The mount has dramatic large-type shaded print advertising the hotel. <br> <br> W.B. Sink moved to Rome New York in 1865 and bought the Stanwix Hall Hotel and the adjacent Mansion House Hotel. He also opened the "Sink Opera House." This poster advertising the Stanwix was likely taken shortly after Sink bought the hotel serving as a compelling advertisement for one of Rome's grandest buildings. An evocative promotional piece offering much information about American economics architecture and culture at the close of the Civil War. Dopp & Nolan unknown books
18497441Saint Paul: James M. Goodhue printer 1849. 16mo pp. 15 1; original plain brown printed wrappers fine. A very early - if not the first - piece of printing in Minnesota exclusive of newspapers. Of the 14 pieces of printing identified by Martin in her Checklist of Minnesota Imprints 1849-1865 only two items Martin 6 and 8 broadside proclamations by territorial governor Ramsey bear an earlier date on the title-p. and one other Rules for the Government of the House of Representatives bears the same date. Includes standing rules for the legislative council rules of order and procedure of the two Houses and a list of the standing committees of the Council and joint committees of the House of Representatives. Rare. 100 copies were ordered printed. Martin 11 MHS only. Jerabek 66 identifying this as the first publication of the territorial legislature. Kreidberg Fragments of Early Printing . in the Territory and State of Minnesota p. 18: "The first public territorial issuance put into type was a booklet dated September 3 1849 which appeared under James M. Goodhue's imprint. In fifteen pages of hand-set type the territorial printer produced the Rules for the Government of the Council of Minnesota Territory." <br/><br/> James M. Goodhue, printer unknown books
1855WRCAM55650Albany N.Y. 1855. Broadside 20 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches. Woodcut illustration in upper margin. Four closed tears no loss to text seven early repairs to tears text slightly affected old folds and crumpling some soiling but overall still sharp and clear. Good. A dramatic broadside announcing a new waxwork exhibit depicting the murder of Major Benjamin Birdsall by James Hamilton along with Hamilton's subsequent execution by hanging. At the very top there is a small woodcut of Hamilton on the gallows. The text below promises that viewers can see the scene "at the moment the ball entered the Major's side. Both the figures are dressed in the same clothing worn by them at the time the affair took place; and the Rifle in the hands of Hamilton is the identical one with which the murderous deed was committed." Visitors are also guaranteed "a correct likeness of James Hamilton on the gallows the moment previous to his execution dressed in the identical apparel worn by him at the time and the same rope round his neck with which he was hung." <br> <br> According to his brief autobiography dictated to Calvin Pepper Hamilton's was a sad story: a rough childhood in which he turned to crime and was in and out of debt and trouble until he learned that soldiers were exempt from the bailiffs and so he enlisted in the 6th U.S. Infantry Regiment in Albany in 1812. He fought at York and Fort George and was then captured by the British. After his release he bounced in and out of the Army - tried to join the Navy - and was in and out of the Army again. Despite slipping deeper into vice and debauchery he ended up in the Army one more time joining Major Birdsall's rifle company stationed at Albany in early 1818. In July of the same year so drunk he could not remember the act he shot Birdsall and was executed November 6 1818. <br> <br> The date "December 24 1818" appears at the lower left corner of the page but it is not clear what it references. The New-York State Museum was not founded until 1836 and not open to the public until 1845. It was initially located at the Old State House not "Old City-Hall" as found here and moved when the hall was demolished in 1855. No doubt the murder of Major Birdsall was still exciting news as much for the murder as for Hamilton's salacious autobiography. <br> <br> This broadside is decidedly rare. We could find no other record of it in OCLC or on the market. THE LIFE AND DYING CONFESSIONS OF JAMES HAMILTON EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF MAJOR BENJAMIN BIRDSALL NOV. 6 1818 ALBANY Albany: Calvin Pepper 1819. hardcover books
1839006294Philadelphia: William E. Burton 1839. Very Good Plus and handsomely bound in later red cloth with gilt titles and rules top edge gilt marbled end pages 332 pp.with six tissue-guarded plates. gilt initials P.L. front board. complete with all illustrations lacking only the tissue guard for the month of September. Bound without the original wrappers. Cloth rubbed at corners and spine ends. Contains the First Printing of Poe's classic story "The Fall of the House of Usher" basis for several movies and TV shows including the 1960 classic "House of Usher" starring Vincent Price and with the screenplay by Richard Matheson. Also includes several other Poe stories and poems including "To Ianthe in Heaven" "The Man that was Used Up: A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign" "William Wilson: A tale" basis for several TV episodes "Morella: A tale" also filmed 1999 and "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion". . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William E. Burton, Hardcover books
1841008954London: Published By the Author at the Egyptian Hall Piccadilly 1841. "Written During Eight Years Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America in 1832 33 34 35 36. 37 38 and 39. With 400 Illustrations carefully engraved from His Original Paintings." Two volumes in contemporary bright red cloth with decorations and lettering in gilt and black at front covers and spines. With decorative end papers. Very Good spines slightly sunned and with slight lean hinges starting with rear hinge Vol. I open all hinges holding well. At first blank end page both vols. an 1890s prior owner name and prior owner inscription detailing provenance. Fold-out map at frontis Vol. I and frontis map and map at p. 259 Vol. II are Fine. The First Edition of Catlin's self-published classic 2nd issue with error "Frederick" for "Zedekiah" on page 104 line 26 of Volume I corrected. Alll illustrations in black and white. No errata slip found. Interior pages clean and bright a quite pleasing set. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Tall 8vo. Published By the Author, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly Hardcover books
1820105055<p>Archive contains more than 5o items including letters manifests printed and manuscript and pay vouchers etc. in a loose-leaf binder. Some light wear and creasing some minor chips and fold tears normal aging and toning; overall about fine.This is a fairly large archive of the career of Captain Paul Ambrose Oliver c1796-c1848 and his ships the "Louisiana" the "Tiber' and the "Trenton". The archive includes manifests for the shipment of sugar cigars and coffee from Havana to New Orleans St. Petersburg Hamburg and London. One key item is a partially printed Bill of Sale for the Ship "Tiber" dated January 13 1834 for $21500. There is also an estimate for repairs to the "Tiber' dated November 6 1836. The earliest document is dated September 14 1829 and while most of the other documents are between the late 1820s to the 1840s the archive includes some items that are later. There is a letter to his son Brigadier-General and Medal of Honor recipient Paul A. Oliver dated March 29 1869 there is also a copy of the Last Will and Testament of the younger Oliver done in 1911. General Oliver was actually born on his father’s ship the "Louisiana’". There are numerous pay vouchers and receipts from what appears to be a successful career. There is even a rare book list and the burial confirmation for Captain Oliver dated September 17 1849. Other interesting items include a family tree for the Olivers some family letters including a letter to his sons several receipts concerning coffee shipments and a number of ship manifests from various places. Over 50 documents in the collection.</p> books
1866007591Boston: Ticknor & Fields 1866. First Edition in original plum cloth spine lettering and decoration in gilt wreath decoration stamped with borders in blind on boards dark brown end pages 286 pp. Very Good Plus spine lightened from sun gilt lettering a bit dulled yet quite legible small fray top edge of spine scattered light foxing. A tight square copy of this Thoreau classic uncommon in such lovely condition. Contains his important essay "Civil Disobedience" originally published in 1849 as "Resistance to Civil Government" which has served as a call to action and inspired generations ever since. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ticknor & Fields Hardcover books
189547674Philadelphia.: G. Wm. Baist. No date. Ca. 1895. Broadside map handcolored lithograph 39 1/4 x 27 1/4 inches on sheet 41 1/4 x 28 3/4 inches folded. A few extra creases loss to upper left margin just touching neatline couple of other chips and tears in margin one just entering the map area blank at left centre. Overall clean and crisp very good condition. A very attractive softly handcolored map showing the growing city of Everett shortly after its incorporation in 1893 and the completion of the Great Northern Railroad. Additions mapped include Riverside Addition at the south end of the map Bay View Addition and Church Loveland Lamoure's Addition at the west and Church & La Moure's Addition at the north end. The Hotel Monte Cristo and many industries are marked. The Great Northern Railroad enters Everett from the east and the railroad along the Puget Sound is the Seattle and Montana Railway. An inset map at the upper left shows Western Washington the inset map at upper right shows Everett and vicinity. A large and handsome map of great historical interest. . G. Wm. Baist. unknown books
188851749St. Paul: Northwestern Photo Co. n.d. 1888. Only edition 4to 8 p.l. plus 60 leaves showing 105 photogravures of houses and scenery in and around St. Paul some printed in sepia some in blue; original black pebble-grain cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover brown morocco shelfback a.e.g. upper joint rubbed extremities worn; a good sound copy. Includes the hand-colored chromolithograph title page showing a vignette photogravure of an ice palace with 2 other vignetted views half-title printed in red 4 pages of introduction by Pyle who was the private secretary of the railroad tycoon James J. Hill and the first librarian at the James J. Hill Library and a 7-page description of the plates. This copy is from the J. J. Hill Library without the bookplate bought by us in 1994 and now recently found in a stray box. <br/><br/> Northwestern Photo Co., n.d. hardcover books
185825243Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1858. First edition of the first history of Minnesota large paper issue limited to 100 copies this copy out-of-series but see below; large 4to pp. xlviii 49-628; frontispiece portrait of Alexander Ramsey Minnesota's first governor 7 other engraved portraits of prominent figures in Minnesota history one of Anna E. Ramsey the wife of Alexander and the dedicatee of this book is loose and laid in and bound in its place is an original albumen photograph portrait of her in a similar pose; 5 maps 1 folding 36 engraved plates mostly after Seth Eastman and mostly mounted proofs on India paper; original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind cracked at spine ends and along hinges corners bumped and showing; a good copy or better. This copy enhanced by a presentation on the flyleaf in pencil: "Mrs. D. Blakely with compliments of Mrs. Anna E. Ramsey." Mrs. Blakeley is likely Mrs. David Blakeley wife of the Minnesota Secretary of State 1862-66. The Eastman plates were not included in the octavo trade edition of the same year. Not in Graff; Howes N-40; Sabin 52284. <br/><br/> J. B. Lippincott hardcover books
18452221815<p>On verso of title: S. W. Benedict Stereotyper and Printer. First edition. Octavo. Frontispiece folding map with wear at fold. Original black cloth with title "Prairiedom" and ornamentation stamped in gilt on spine; cover stamped in blind. No dust jacket. Very good tight copy slight wear to corners. 166 pages 18 pages of ads. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Streeter Texas #1604 his copy in wrappers but also recording copies issued in green and black cloth.</p><p>Howe. P-9.</p><p>Rader 2568.</p><p>Graff 3159.</p> Paine & Burgess hardcover books
186952169N.p. Saint Paul 1869. Large plate albumen photograph approx. 12" x 21" mounted on a printed card approx. 16" x 21"; slight toning; very good. A large and unusual photograph by an unnamed photographer showing the steamer Buckeye towing what was at the time the largest raft ever run on the Mississippi River from Read's Landing in Minnesota to St. Louis Missouri. <br/><br/> unknown books
188257546New York: Charles Hart lithographer 1882. Large folding color lithograph panorama of the east and west prospects of Washington Avenue in Minneapolis from 8th Avenue South to Fourth Avenue North the whole in an oblong quarto binding original brown cloth gilt lettering on upper cover. The panorama extends to a total length of 30 feet 15 feet for each side of the avenue; each building is identified in the margins and the bustle of everyday city life is captured in the many people horses carriages etc. depicted throughout. Neat professional repair and strengthening of several folds on verso one small hole in a cloudy sky but on the whole very good and attractive. <br/><br/> Charles Hart, lithographer hardcover books
1851008968Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo & Company 1851. "Collected and prepared under the direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs per Act of Congress of March 3d 1847." Presentation Copies of Parts I III and IV only each part a First Edition 1851 1853 and 1854 published by Lippincott Grambo & Company Philadelphia . Part I SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "Prof. George Howe with respect of H.R. Schoolcraft" at front paste down in tidy secretatial hand. Parts III and IV SIGNED AND INSCRIBED alike "Rev. George Howe with respects of H.R. Schoolcraft". George Howe 1802-1883 was an ordained minister and professor at Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Columbia S.C. and the author of History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina published 1870-1883. Provenance: Part I additionally SIGNED AND INSCRIBED at front paste down "Presented to Joseph Hyde Pratt by Prof. George Howe University of North Carolina". Prof. George Howe 1876-1936 was the grandson of George Howe and was a longtime professor of Latin and the Classics at UNC. He was also the nephew of President Woodrow Wilson. Joseph Hyde Pratt 1870-1942 was State Mineralogist and State Geologist of North Carolina a longtime professor at UNC and a WWI hero. Parts III and IV with Pratt's ownership signature at front end page. The three volumes are complete with all plates. Part I xviii 13-568 p. 76 plates; Part III xviii 19-635 p. 45 plates 3 of which are listed as appearing in Vol. IV; Part IV xxvi 19-668 p. 41 plates. A good set in unsophisticated original decorative cloth bindings Part I with damping at fore edge margins worn at corners cloth at spine torn and separating from front joint cloth chipped at head of spine. Part III cloth torn and peeling from top and bottom of spine corners worn; Part IV rear hinge starting corners worn holes in cloth along top half of front joint 1/4" loss of cloth at head of spine. Scattered toning and end papers soiled throughout the set Presentation Copy with distinguished provenance. of three of the first four volumes of Schoolcraft's six volume massive contribution to the history of Native Americans. SIGNED. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Presentation Copy. Lippincott, Grambo & Company Hardcover books
181052825Philadelphia: C. & A. Conrad & Co. Somerville & Conrad Petersburgh. Bonsal Conrad & Co. Norfolk and Fielding Lucas Jr. Baltimore 1810. First edition 8vo pp. 5 3 105 10 41-65 1 53 1 107-277 5 40 87 1; the appendices for parts 1 and 2 are bound out of order but the book is complete; engraved frontispiece portrait 6 maps 5 folding 3 folding tables; contemporary marbled boards neatly rebacked in quarter calf gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine; good and sound the maps generally in a nice state of preservation. With an 1892 ownership signature of Louis G. Carpenter at the top of the title page. Carpenter 1861-1935 was a college Professor and later the Dean of Engineering & Physics at Colorado State University formerly known as the Colorado Agricultural College. He was also a mathematician and an irrigation and consulting engineer. See Wikipedia for an account of his life. Pike's personal journal of the earliest U.S. government expedition to the southwest. Even before Lewis and Clark had returned in 1806 Lieutenant Zebulon Pike was sent to explore the southern reaches of the Louisiana Territory. Pike traveled to Colorado and down the Front Range looking for the Red River. His party failed to find it and instead wandered into New Mexico where the Spanish caught him and escorted him home. His expedition returned with valuable information about the northern provinces of colonial Mexico. He explored the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red Rivers and reported on the Spanish settlements in New Mexico as well as his account of his expedition to the upper Mississippi in Minnesota. The maps "were the first of this entire region to display knowledge derived from actual exploration and are of outstanding historic interest" Wheat Trans-Mississippi West Maps II pp. 20-21. Field 1218; Graff 3290; Howes P-373; Sabin 62836; Shaw & Shoemaker 21089; Streeter 3125; Streeter Texas 1047; Wagner-Camp 9. <br/><br/> C. & A. Conrad, & Co. Somerville & Conrad, Petersburgh. Bonsal, Conrad & Co. Norfolk, and Fielding Lucas, Jr. Baltimore hardcover books
