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1851005086Philadelphia: the committee 1851. Paperback. Very Good. 8 p.; 22 cm. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "4" in ink at upper right-hand corner of title page. Caption title. The address was put together by a committee chaired by William M. Meredith. The address is followed by a statement by Daniel L. Miller Jr. president of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company about the railroad proposed to connect Sunbury to Erie. The Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company had been chartered in 1837 but did not begin construction until 1852 when the state passed enabling legislation. No date of publication; based on information in the address 1851 is the most likely date. William Morris Meredith 1799-1873 was a lawyer in Philadelphia; he served as Secretary of the Treasury under President Zachary Taylor in 1849 and 1850. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: disbound; minor foxing along gutter; otherwise clean and tight. the committee paperback
1867299869Carson City.: Joseph E. Eckley State Printer. 1867. 8vo. Contemporary half sheep over marbled boards red and black spine labels with gilt title. Very good spine hear chipped several pages at the outside of the volume have tanned corners caused by the leather used on the corners slight rippling to pages throughout endpapers heavily wrinkled and bubbled. 23x14.5x2.8 cm. A nice copy of this early account of the Nevada Legislature. weight: 1.3 lb. Joseph E. Eckley, State Printer. hardcover
18840000908Raleigh N.C.: Edwards Broughton & Co. 1884. 16 pages. Original printed wraps. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Good. The lower third of the spine is split; some foxing and marginal soiling to the wraps; minor foxing to title page. FIRST EDITION. The topic of Reades address is "The Legal Profession of North Carolina -- What It is and What It Ought to Be." Expounding on the virtues that make a great attorney Reade discusses some of the eminent jurists he knew including George E. Badger William A. Graham Judge Mangum and Justice Ruffin. His prefatory remarks allude to women in attendance and he recalls his experience of giving the examination to the first woman to apply to the North Carolina bar Tabitha Ann Holton admitted 1878. Edwin Godwin Reade 1812-1894 was an antebellum U.S. Congressman Confederate Senator president of the North Carolina convention on Reconstruction of 1865-66 and justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court 1868-1879. OCLC finds nine copies; NUC adds no others. Thornton 11578. � Edwards, Broughton, & Co. paperback
189610042<p>Hardcover. Gilt tooled green cloth with title deco and Lincoln profile on front cover embossed Lincoln profile and signature in gilt on cover. Cover has white discolorations rubbing and some dark spots. Spine is darkened. Corners slightly bumped and worn. Frontpiece portrait page starting to pull out and has small vertical tear on top edge. Otherwise tight square with clean pages. Writing in pencil on endpaper. With 160 illustrations including 20 portraits of Lincoln. Octavo - 6 3/4" x 9 5/8".240 pp endpapers.</p> S.S. McClure hardcover
1859241621859 PARIS, Charles Douniol & LYON, Girard & Josserand, 1859 - In-8 - Broché - LVII-XXIII-210-[1] pages - Exemplaire non coupé - BON EXEMPLAIRE, très frais
1850005268Indianapolis IN: E. Chamberlain 1850. Book. Good. Full Calf. Third Edition. 8vo. RARE. Third Edition 1850. In the original Full Calf binding 440 pp. 25 engravings throughout black leather spine label with gilt title. Good title page missing large section bottom right corner leather boards worn particularly at spine ends light foxing throughout period prior owner names front end pages. Contents clean and unmarked rear board detached. Contains 2 parts "A General View of the State" and "Topography and Statistics". E. Chamberlain Hardcover
1864003821Hartford CT: Hurlbut Scranton & Co. 1864. Book. Very Good Plus. Cloth. First Edition Thus. Nicely rebound in red cloth with gilt titles at spine Very Good Plus cloth at spine a bit faded prior owner name stamp front endpage light foxing throughout. Binding is tight and pages are clean and free from markings. Overall a quite solid and handsome copy. 750 pages with "numerous and diversified colored illustrations from original designs". Hurlbut, Scranton & Co. Hardcover
1886004767Indianapolis IN: The Bowen-Merrill Co. 1886. Book. Very Good. Pamphlet. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. RARE the second pamphlet published by the Indiana Historical Society after its reorganization in 1886 under the direction of Jacob Piatt Dunn. Very Good small corner chips rear wrapper and at spine tips sticker shadow and small inked number front wrapper. 20 pages in stapled blue wrappers. The Bowen-Merrill Co. Paperback
1871003159Indianapolis IN: W.H. Drapier Printer 1871. Book. Very Good. Full Calf. First Edition. Very Good prior owner name "WM Ellsworth" front board and front endpage. Front endpage creased diagonally. Light foxing throughout. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. Light rubbing to calf at spine tips. SCARCE. W.H. Drapier, Printer Hardcover
1868003181Boston: Wiggin and Lunt 1868. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. Very Good boards rubbed at the tips prior owner name front endpage front hinge starting small dampstain top edge rear endpage 2 pages with a name neatly underlined. Contents are clean and book is tight. SCARCE early local history and a great genealogy resource book. U.S. History. Indiana History. Genealogy. Wiggin and Lunt Hardcover
1855002413New York: Carlton & Phillips 1855. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. Rebound in beige cloth with library bindings gilt title on spine with "Ind. Univ." stamped in gilt at bottom of spine. The magazine is in Very Good condition with some marginal staining but contents legible. Articles include Valentin Christmas Customs Military Strategems Methodist Church Architecture The California Oyster Impressions of Travel in France Bibliomania and Medical Superstitions. A great window into the United States pre-Civil War. SCARCE. Carlton & Phillips Hardcover
1890004899Indianapolis IN: William R. Burford 1890. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine cloth a bit faded at spine. 472 pages bound in the original dark blue cloth with gilt titles at spine. Illustrated with photographs and drawings an excellent source of early Indiana University history and also a great genealogical source book. SCARCE in such lovely collector's condition. William R. Burford Hardcover
1890SJ5201Greeley CO: The Greeley Tribune Press 1890. front gutter reglued with former owner's signature in light pencil on ffep; the aged textblock is overall clean and tight; binding lightly character and shelf worn with frayed and bumped lower corners; 448pp. including index. Wynar/Depp 1461. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. The Greeley Tribune Press Hardcover
1895000461NEW YORK: THE CENTURY CO. 1895 LARGE HEAVY BOOK. GREAT DETAIL AND INFORMATION ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. SIGNED BY PREVIOUS OWNER IN 1896. IN PENCIL INDICATES REBOUND CORNERS AND BACK IN MAY 1931. VERY GOOD CONDITION SLIGHT WEAR ON A COUPLE SPOTS ON FRONT WHERE NOT REBOUND. 1ST BLANK PAGE INSIDE IS TORN 2/3 WAY DOWN FROM SPINE BINDING. ALL INTERNAL PAGES EXCELLENT NO MARKINGS TIGHT. NICE LOOKING ANTIQUE BOOK. A PRONOUNCING AND ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF NAMES IN GEOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHY MYTHOLOGY HISTORY ETHNOLOGY ART ARCHAEOLOGY FICTION ETC. ETC. ETC. SMITH WAS MANAGING EDITOR OF THE CENTURY DICTIONARY AND WAS ASSISTED BY A NUMBER OF EMINENT SPECIALISTS. GREAT COLLECTOR ITEM. TERRIFIC HISTORICAL ITEM THAT GIVES DETAIL ABOUT EACH NAME. VERY INTERESTING TO READ. AMERICAN HISTORY AND WORLD HISTORY. GREAT DETAIL. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN WHERE HISTORY LIVES. THE CENTURY CO. hardcover
1883004408Harrisburg Pa: Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey 1883. Hardcover. Very Good -. Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania: 1883. xx 574 5 1 p. frontispiece map and 54 leaves of plates: 60 in-text illustrations; 23 cm. Original grey cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Without the separate atlas containing 25 large plates listed on p. vii. Whitpain Library Co. stamps on front endpapers. Printed slip attached to front free endpaper stating that the volume was "Compliments of Theodore M. Harrar House of Representatives." The Whitpain Library Company was a subscription library established in 1817 in Broad Ax a village in Whitpain Township Pennsylvania; in 1884 it contained 2000 volumes. Theodore M. Harrar b. 1846 represented Montgomery County in the Pennsylvania House in 1883 and 1884. In Very Good- Condition: cloth is rubbed and faded; most of gilt is lacking from spine; three small splits in cloth; one plate is detached but present; otherwise clean and tight. Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey hardcover
1847244919Dublin : Printed by A. Thom for H.M.S.O 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked buckram edges very slightly toned. Corners sharp with an overall tight bright and clean impression. Physical description; volume 1 only: 702 p. : ill. some folded. Subjects; Land tenure — Ireland. Agricultural laborers — Ireland. Agricultureal laborer — Ireland. Land tenure — Law and legislation — Ireland. Land tenure — Ireland — History — 19th century. Republic of Ireland. Land reform. Irish Question. Tenancy. Land tenure. Farmers. Rent. Rural workers. Dublin : Printed by A. Thom, for H.M.S.O hardcover
186166321Saint Paul: Wm. R. Marshall State Printer 1861. 8vo pp. 448; red and black leather labels on spine; full original sheep a bit scuffed otherwise on the whole good and sound. Ownership label on Wallace H. Davis at the bottom of the spine. "5000 copies ordered printed." Martin Minnesota Imprints 378. Wm. R. Marshall, State Printer unknown
185738235Washington: Robert Farnham 1857. Second edition printed the same year as the first and in the same format 12mo pp. viii 215 1; original brown blind-tooled cloth soiled faded gilt spine; edges and corners badly bumped and worn small loss to spine head; contemporary signature on title page Edward Chenery Gale's bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. A good copy. With statistical information appended at the back including post and land offices tables of distances newspapers town seats etc. A good travel account describing settlements along his route and his visit with the Chippewa Indians. Howes A-253 calling for a map but there is no evidence that any map was ever in this copy; and until recently we had never seen a copy with the map until we found a copy of the fourth edition that had one. Was the map in the fourth edition only Sabin 14881. <br/><br/> Robert Farnham hardcover books
186217344Faribault Minnesota: Alex. Johnston 1862. 8vo pp. 10 2; removed from binding; minor foxing at one time was creased horizontally across middle; very good or better. Martin 420 locates only the MHS copy. OCLC adds no others. Alex. Johnston unknown
186217343Faribault Minnesota: Alex. Johnston 1862. 8vo pp. 8; removed from binding; minor foxing at one time was creased horizontally across middle; very good or better. Martin 420 locates only the MHS copy. OCLC adds no others. Alex. Johnston unknown
186317345Faribault Minnesota: Alex. Johnston 1863. 8vo pp. 7 1; removed from binding; very slight foxing small nick in fore-edge of last page not affecting text; else very good or better. Martin 473 locates only the MHS copy. OCLC adds no others. Alex. Johnston unknown
186217344Faribault: Alex. Johnston 1862. 8vo pp. 10 2; disbound minor foxing at one time was creased horizontally across middle; very good or better. Martin 420 locates only the MHS copy. <br/><br/> Alex. Johnston unknown books
186217343Faribault: Alex. Johnston 1862. 8vo pp. 8; disbound minor foxing at one time was creased horizontally across middle; very good or better. Martin 420 locates only the MHS copy. <br/><br/> Alex. Johnston unknown books
186317345Faribault: Alex. Johnston 1863. 8vo pp. 7 1; disbound very slight foxing small nick in fore-edge of last page not affecting text; else very good or better. Martin 473 locates only the MHS copy. <br/><br/> Alex. Johnston unknown books
187011910Boston: Fields Osgood 1870. First edition 8vo pp. viii and 232 plus pp. 12 ads at back; frontis showing "White Bear Lake" 5 plates charts and tables in text and large folding map handcolored in outline approx. 42" x 16" showing the northern regions of the U.S.A. and southern Canada from Nova Scotia to Vancouver Island southern portions of Hudson Bay south to northern Kansas; original green cloth gilt very minor wear to extremities spine ends chipping the front hinge cracking else very good. <br/><br/> Fields, Osgood hardcover books
