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1777BB002<p>CLINTON George First Governor of New York State 1777-1795 1801-1804; also 4th Vice-President of the United States 1805-1812 under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.<br /></p><p>"Kingston laid in ashes by the Enemy" . <br /></p><p>8vo 7-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches 1-1/2 pages on laid paper with integral address leaf remnants of wax seal some fading to text and signature scattered minor<br /></p><p>It should be noted that Clinton was sworn in as New York's first governor on 9th July 1777 shortly after Kingston was established as its first capitol 20th April 1777. Thus the burning of Kingston and change of capitol to eventually Albany was a consequence of the War for Independence. <br /></p><p>Remarkable handwritten manuscript explaining that the British troops arrived at Kingston before his own re-enforcements whereupon 1000 men burned the town and immediately returned to their ships warning that a similar fate awaits the settlements along the shore and that forage and property should be moved from the path of the enemy reminding him to take the sleigh from the barn as it is all the personal property that remains to him after the destruction in Kingston noting that the enemy is advancing up the river to Saugerties with Tryon commanding on the east side and Vaughn on the west.<br /></p><p>Transcript</p><p><i>Head Quarters Hurley 17th October 1777</i></p><p><i>Dear Brother</i></p><p><i>"Before this can reach you you will receive the – disagreeable account of Kingston being laid in ashes by the Enemy. They landed before my troops arrived after a little opposition by the few militia Cols Pawling & Snyder could collect and marched about 1000 Men immediately up to Town - where they were told by some Tories who continued in it that my People were advancing on the Hurley Road & they immediately set it in Flames and extracted precipitately on Board their Vessels tho their Orders were to proceed to Hurley & the adjacent Neighborhoods to give them the same Fate so that tho I was not able to get my Troops Time enough to save Kingston they saved this and the other Parts of the Country near it. This will show you the Fate New Windsor & the other settlements along shore are to partake on the Enemy's Return down. Therefore the Necessity of removing the Forage &c from the Banks of the River among which remember my Slay in the Barn as it is now the only moveable Property I have left the Best being removed to Kingston shared its Fate tho indeed a great share of Property has been saved out of Town. The enemy sailed up the River this Morning as high as Saghertyes burning along Shore as they go. When they go a little higher I will follow them. They have Parties on both Sides of the River. Tryon commands those on the East & Vaughan on the West Side of the River.</i></p><p><i>Yours Sincerely</i></p><p><i>Geo Clinton</i></p><p>On Friday evening 16 October 1777 a British fleet commandeered by James Wallace and John Vaughn the latter on board the 'Friendship' which had anchored near Easopus Island the day before came into the mouth of Rondout Creek and engaged the gallery "Lady Washington". Shortly after noon the British landed on Rondout Creek and the Cove above Columbus Point. Vaughn personally led the march capturing and forcing a negro to lead them into town without meeting resistance. The troops went through the streets in parties led by Tories setting the whole place on fire in response to the occasional resistance lodged by residents from within their houses. There was looting and vandalism. Meanwhile part of the fleet went a bit up the River and creek to destroy landings and sloops. By the time George Clinton arrived into Kingston the whole town was ablaze and the British party had set out to return to their ships.</p><p>In a letter on 18 October penned at Little Britain NY in response to this letter his brother B. Genl. James Clinton writes:</p><p><i>D'r Brother</i></p><p><i>Yours of yesterday's Date I have just received. I am sorry for the Loss of Kingston &c. </i><i>Five of the Enemy's Shipping Returned Down the River last night without Doing any Damage Except fireing Some Cannon and small arms at our men and wounding one of ours on Board of a Ferry Boat…"</i></p><p>The war became personal for the governor specially after what had happened to Kingston. In a letter to William Smith @ 31 October 1777 his sentiments and commitment are laid bare:</p><p><i>"The Cruelties as well Cowardice with which this Warr has been conducted ag't us must I think be sufficient at this late Hour to convince every Man that all connection with Great Britain is at an End…"</i></p><p>Reference: <b><i>Public Paper of George Clinton</i></b> First Governor of New York War of the Revolution Series. New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. 1900. Volume II pp. 457-459. Our letter of 17 October 1777 appears to be unknown to the editors of the Clinton papers although they do list and transcribe the 18th October response by his brother James. Consequently our letter appears to be the only firsthand account by the governor of New York on the actual burning of Kingston an event historically reenacted locally each year within Ulster County.</p> Autograph Letter Signed, “Geo Clintonâ€, written to his brother Gen. James Clinton in New Windsor (“Dear Brotherâ€), from books
197342792n.p. 1973. Small 8vo approx. 8½ x 6 inches in black Flair pen and apparently torn from a notebook; 3 small holes not significantly affecting any legibility otherwise very good. A typically enigmatic inscription: "Proud of you" in a hand-drawn box at the top to the right of which is a small drawing of a face / "You never sniffed drainpipes but you two words crossed out have a good one word crossed out grasp of the alphabet - Highway 51 one word crossed out is not your road!" Signed boldly at the bottom "Bob Dylan / 1973" to the left of which signature is another drawing by Dylan of the rear end of an automobile depicting smoke coming from the tailpipe. Partly drawn from the lyrics of one of his masterpieces Desolation Row: "Einstein disguised as Robin Hood / With his memories in a trunk / Passed this way an hour ago / With his friend a jealous monk / He looked so immaculately frightful / As he bummed a cigarette / Then he went off sniffing drainpipes / And reciting the alphabet." <br/><br/> unknown books
201854594Saint Paul: Midnight Paper Sales 2018. Edition limited to 40 copies actually 41 large oblong folio 36 leaves 16 color illustrations mounted on handmade paper with text printed on verso and interleaved with protective translucent blank sheets; printed colophon sheet mounted to final leaf of handmade paper; bound in suminagashi paper over boards sewn on 10 cords with uncovered spine revealing sewing structure. The images were printed using blocks made from material collected along the banks of the Mississippi River where the waterfall traveled up the river gorge. The blocks also include wood cuts wood engravings and the occasional photo polymer plate. Images were printed on Mohawk Superfine paper and text on handmade Cave paper from handset ATF Bernhard Gothic foundry type. The suminigoshi cover art was created by Amanda Degener. Issued in a cloth-covered clamshell box 61 x 71 x 6 cm. A text for children but not a children's book about the 12000-year journey of Saint Anthony Falls from St. Paul to its current home in Minneapolis." <br/><br/> Midnight Paper Sales 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
201546592Stockholm WI: Midnight Paper Sales 2015. Edition limited to 119 copies this being one of 100 bound in quarter leather over marbled paper-covered boards 19 copies remain in sheets; folio approx. 15½" x 10¼" pp. 6 9-11 1 15-25 1 29-31 1 35-37 1 41-43 1 47-66 5; large folding wood-engraved map and 8 multi-color wood engravings on 7 sheets 5 folding depicting pelicans fish and river scenes inserted; 31 other zinc engravings of fish in the text; introduction by Patrick Coleman; title page and box label printed from specially made wood type based on tracings by Russell Maret from Aldus Manutius's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili; the binding is by Craig Jensen Book Lab II using hand-made marbled paper by Jemma Lewis based on photographs of wet stones along the shores of Lake Pepin. As new at the published price in the original leather-backed clamshell box with pelican label on the spine. Seven years in the making this homage to Schanilec's second home Lake Pepin - that great widening of the Mississippi River between St. Paul Minnesota and La Crosse Wisconsin - was his most ambitious project to date. <br/><br/> Midnight Paper Sales 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
194348523n.p. Minneapolis 1943. Original corrected 229-page typescript of Manfred's first novel likely used as the setting copy by the publishers Webb Publishing Company of Saint Paul with numerous typographical notes as to typesize fonts picas etc. and also containing many what we assume to be last minute corrections to the text proper by Manfred himself - a couple of hundred instances where the typescript differs from the work as published. Also a 6-page corrected typescript of the copy used for the dust jacket also a setting copy but with no corrections by Manfred. Also page proofs for the same tall 8vo 129 leaves printed on rectos only with extensive annotations throughout by the editior and printer including the amending of a number of words and phrases in the text. Also a first edition of the book 8vo pp. 8 226; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy inscribed "For Paul C. Hillestad 'our' first book together. Frederick Feikema Manfred." Hillestad was Manfred's editor at Webb. <br/><br/> unknown books
191244902New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co 1912. First edition of the author's first book 8vo pp. 12 275; 4 duotone plates by Arthur Hutchins; small piece of the corner missing on the last page of text 1912 Xmas inscription in ink on front free endpaper very light scratch on the front cover illustration otherwise fine and bright and unusual thus. Sinclair Lewis's pseudonymous debut novel. In a new quarter morocco clamshell box green morocco label lettered in gilt on spine. <br/><br/> Frederick A. Stokes Co unknown books
195530198Stockholm: Albert Bonniers 1955. First Swedish edition printed in a limited but unspecified number this is copy no. 155 signed by Lindbergh 8vo pp. 8 483 1 10; photographic portrait frontispiece 11 illustrations on rectos and versos of 3 plates 7 pages of maps and graphs at the back; fine copy in original full blue morocco by Nylén & Co. gilt-stamped upper cover and spine publisher's slipcase. This copy additionally inscribed to "Lucile Wright from the Royal Swedish Aero Club in appreciation of her contribution to aviation. Stockholm 6.9.1957 Nils Stirnberg." Lucile M. Wright was a famous American woman aviator one of the original Ninety-Nines pioneer women aviatrixes as assembled by Amelia Earhart in 1929 and the Lucile M. Wright Air Museum in Jamestown New York is named after her. This book an account of the first solo nonstop flight between the United States and Europe in 1927 won for Lindbergh the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography. This is the only limited signed edition published outside the United States. <br/><br/> Albert Bonniers 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
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
198750894Minneapolis: Vermillion Editions 1987. Edition limited to 40 copies consisting of 5 printer's proofs and 35 in the edition this copy no. 11; 4to 10 unbound sheets printed on rectos only and contained in a black cloth-covered portfolio with printed paper label on spine and pictorial pastedown on upper cover. Rathman's first book printed at Vermillion Editions under the guidance of Steve Anderson. Gerald Lange of the Bieler Press and Norman Fritzberg of the Hansestadt Letterfoundry were responsible for the typographic design and composition. The portfolios were constructed by the Campbell-Logan Bindery. "Mythological in conception and Nigerian in origin.the linocut illumination that accompanies the text exhibits such regimented verve that it almost seems as if a scourge has been placed upon each page. The jags curves and swirls of the elemental naturalistic borders take on pantheistic qualities as they move organically into the inner sanctum . harbors dangerous disorderly creatures alongside humans with their primitive and fantastic accoutrements. Gesture posture and facial expressions of beasts trees and humans.exhibit a stunning force of feeling and an atavistic quality that illuminates meaning and emotion." Pamela Sund in Artscape Volume 2 no. 4. <br/><br/> Vermillion Editions hardcover books
191050307n.p. n.d. Saint Paul 1910. Oblong folio containing 100 silver print photographic postcards each with Bromley's stamp in the right margin; printed index of the photographs "from negatives made by Whitney Tuttle Illingworth Zimmerman and others" is mounted inside the upper cover; original black cloth with one of the images mounted on the front cover; spine spotted the whole lightly rubbed; very good sound and complete. Images run the gamut from city scenes architecture Native Americans steamboats views of Fort Snelling the Mississippi River etc. Not found in OCLC but there is a set of these photographs at Minnesota Historical. A similar album exists for Minneapolis. <br/><br/> hardcover books
15910Three important writings from the first half of the 20th century on Zionism and the founding of the state of Israel. These documents chronicle some of the earliest support for establishing a Jewish state in Palestine and the growing Zionist movement as anti-Semitism spread in Europe between World War I and II. Includes:<br/><br/>"The Jewish Commonwealth" by Louis J. Gribetz a representative for the New York Zionist Organization c. 1918. Gribetz analyzes the earliest statement in support of Zionism from a major international power: the Balfour Declaration in which the British government issued a statement in support of a Jewish homeland. There are no copies of this document at any institutional collection worldwide as per OCLC Worldcat for this very rare publication. <br/><br/>A signed first edition of "The case for the Jews: An interpretation of their rights under the Balfour declaration and the mandate for Palestine" Louis J. Girbetz. New York: Bloch Publishing Co 1930. "The Case for the Jews" is an indictment of British rule in Palestine. This first edition was inscribed by the author to friend and fellow activist Louis Lipsky then-President of the Zionist Organization of America: "To a keen lucid fearless intelect - Louis Lipsky; whose name and will do honor to a great epoch in our history and will forever thrill and instruct - Louis J. Gribetz." Books signed by Gribetz are uncommon; and this copy's provenance is remarkable for its connection to two important leaders.<br/><br/>"The Jewish Problem a Report By the Executive Committee of the League of Nations Union Together with an Appendix Containing Suggestions Concerning Refugees Generally". London: League of Nations 1943. This final piece examines the fate of international Jewish Refugees during World War II; the report covers Jewish persecution and anti-Semitism in Europe a two-state solution in Palestine general recommendations for international refugee crises and details the "best solution" possible: creating a Jewish national home in Palestine. Minor rust to bindings of booklets. Light wear to extremities. All in good to very good condition. A remarkable collection following the earliest support for the state of Israel to the humanitarian crisis which prompted its founding amongst international support. unknown books
176415085Glocester: R. Raikes for T. Jefferys 1764. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Quarto pp. 8 280 8 with 7 engraved maps and plates 4 folding. Contemporary calf boards with new complementary calf spine in six compartments. Some edgewear to boards; minor foxing to endpapers; text and plates exceptionally clean and bright. Bookplate of Sir Joseph Copley on front pastedown. An abridged translation of the Russian edition of 1755 which offered "The first reliable descriptions of Kamchatka based on the observations of the author and his companions during the Russian expedition to the far north 1734-43 a part of Bering's Great Northern Expedition" Arctic Bib. 9264 9265. It describes the customs morals religion and languages of the inhabitants of the Kamchatkan peninsula. In addition the the author had access to the notes made by pioneering German botanist George Steller during his travels to North America with Bering's expedition and the second part of the narrative includes much on the natural history of the region. Steller's observations "are an important part of this work and constitute one of the earliest accounts of Alaska and the Aleutian islands" Hill 948. R. Raikes for T. Jefferys 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
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
196556708New York: Newport Folk Art Foundation 1965. 4to pp. 63 1; illustrated throughout; original pictorial wrappers a bit soiled else very good. Joan Baez Donovan Maybelle Carter Peter Paul & Mary Mississippi John Hurt but who cares. That Sunday night July 25 Dylan took the stage with guitarist Mike Bloomfield and Barry Goldberg of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band Dylan with a Fender Stratocaster - a scene familiar to all from Martin Scorsese's documentary No Direction Home - thereby changing the course of pop music forever. That night at Newport in an abbreviated performance he opened with "Maggie's Farm" and followed that with "Like a Rolling Stone" which had only been released five days earlier and "It Takes a Lot to Laugh It Takes a Train to Cry." He finished his performance that night with two acoustic songs "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "It's All Over Now Baby Blue." He never played at Newport again. This issue of the program also prints a short story of sorts by Bob Dylan "Off the Top of My Head" featuring off-the-top-of-his-head characters Horseman Photochick Miss Flunk and the Prez. <br/><br/> Newport Folk Art Foundation unknown books
194548525St. Paul: Webb Publishing Co 1945. Long galley proofs measuring approx. 24" x 6" bound in paper wrappers with cloth top-strip printed paper label on upper cover; with numerous editorial corrections throughout by Manfred's editor at Webb Paul C. Hillestad but also with several longer ones in Manfred's hand both often changing text resulting in many different readings from the published version. Together with a review copy of the published book warmly inscribed by the author to Hillestad noting that "this book and the life it reflects really was the turning point in my life . You were very patient to have sweated it out with me as editor and friend." <br/><br/> Webb Publishing Co hardcover 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
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
16759Women's Education Movement. Pamphlet/ Volume 14 of 17: Acts for the State of Massachusetts January 12th Session 1804 Incorporation of Bradford Academy Containing the original incorporation of Bradford Academy. Bradford opened as the first coeducational institution in Massachusetts but due to overwhelming interest from parents of girls with no other option for education Bradford soon transitioned to become the first all-female academy in Massachusetts and among the first in the United States in 1836. Only three examples of these early Incorporation Acts could not be found among Institutional Collections according to OCLC Worldcat. <br/><br/>Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. But this document predates Seneca Falls by 40 years and Bradford was among the very first institutions to educate women in the United States. unknown 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
