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009782Neosho. Missouri/ St. Louis: Missouri Land and Live Stock Company/ Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co Book. Very Good. Single Sheet Folded. 16 1/2" x 16 3/4". No date after 1881 circa mid-1880s to mid-1890s. Single Sheet Folded 16 1/2" x 16 3/4" folded 4 times to make a 4 1/4" x 8 1/2" brochure. Verso a single map - "Map of Christian & Stone Counties Missouri" measuring 16 1/2" x 16 3/4" Recto includes front and rear covers 4 fold description of the two counties with terms of sale and an 8 1/2" x 8 1/2" map - "Map showing the Railroads of Southwest Missouri already in operation in the vicinity of Christian and Stone Counties". Very Good small tears at edges of folds a 1" internal tear at fold. The Missouri Land & Live Stock Company Limited of Scotland was in operation from 1882-1908. The Company bought 350000 acres of land in SW Missouri in 1882 to use primarily for cattle grazing playing a big role in the development of the cattle industry in the region. The purpose of this map and brochure was to sell 80000 acres of land in Stone County and 10000 acres in Christian County for farming and agricultural uses. A RARE brochure not found at OCLC which only records two other county maps published by this company. Missouri Land and Live Stock Company/ Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co unknown
a92105New York 1792 first edition. Francis Childs and John Swaine. Sm folio. Stringbound wraps. 247p. complete. First 16 pages and titlepage lack top margin and outer corner with very little loss of text. Binding secure. Fair. . paperback
189355608Seattle WA & Silverton WA: Stillaguamish & Sultan Mining Co. 606 Bailey Bldg. ca. 1893. Four albumen cabinet photographs sized 3.9 x 4.9 in. mounted on thick studio board stock sized 4.25 x 5.25 in. w/ all four containing manuscript annotations in ink on versos minor dustsoiling edgewear minor over-exposure to a couple images still a nice grouping with consistent contrast and definition. These scarce original albumen photos show the canyon water fall power and miners along the Hoodoo Quartz Claim Mineral Survey No. 403A and B which was filed originally in 1892 and are neatly numbered 3 6 15 & 11. The first image shows a heavily forested canyon with creek running through and annotations on verso detailing that the “Anaconda and Roman Senator lodes at the head of gulch.†The second photo shows fast running water fall and creek -- “water power that will be utilized in the development of the Stilliguamish sic and Sultan Mining Co’s property. Copper Lake Canyon.†Third photo depicts gold miners carrying and working with pick axes in “Hoodoo Canyon 500 feet higher up. . . the vein is found in the bed of the gulch at this point.†The series of mines developed by the Stillaguamish & Sultan Mining Co. had a well-defined fissure vein carrying iron and copper pyrites and pyrrhotite with bell metal all contained in a lime quartz gangue. The main tunnel was driven 420 feet on the Hoodoo ledge with about another 200 feet of tunneling ore concentrate worth about $83 a ton including gold silver and copper ores. The description on back of four describes “passageway where work was shot away for approach to Hoodoo tunnel. The snow banks in the distance and at the right are at the foot of Big Four Mountain. . . seen plainly from Monte Cristo 8 miles East.†By 1905 the company was largely dormant and later the mines would be owned by the Sykes Estate of which the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago was the trustee. See: L.K. Hodges Mining in the Pacific Northwest: A Complete Reivew of the Mineral Resources of Washington and British Columbia 1897; The Copper Handbook: A Manual of the Copper Industry of the World 1905 Vol. V p. 655; Carithers & Guard Geology and Ore Deposits of the Sultan Basin Snohomish County Washington Bulletin No. 36 1949 pp. 49-50. Stillaguamish & Sultan Mining Co., 606 Bailey Bldg., unknown
77773Small album containing 12 photographs captured during an ascent of "Old Baldy" which looms majestically above Spokane Washington at 5883 feet. The southernmost mountain in the Selkirk Range it was known as Mount Carlton until August 1912 when it was renamed Mount Spokane.<br /> <br /> The images show a party of eight men at the start of their journey and at various points along the way including Sky Line Spring Brickell Creek and the summit. All the photographs are accompanied by holographic captions and two are identified as the work of Joe Shields. Notably there is an image of Cook's Camp and a portrait of Francis H. Cook.<br /> <br /> A pioneering figure in Spokane's history Cook 1851-1920 published the city's first newspaper The Spokan Times before setting his sights on developing an area on Spokane's South Hill. He purchased 680 acres and platted it out for development and in 1888 started the first steam-powered street railroad to move residents up and down the hill. Later Cook purchased the top of Old Baldy and set about securing the rights of way in order to build a road to the summit. Though he did not live to see it his vision was realized with the establishment of the Mt. Spokane State Park in 1927.<br /> <br /> The photographs are pasted to leaves of an oblong album which is bound with string in brown paper wrappers 8 1/2" x 5 1/4". The front panel features black titles and an original white ink and watercolor rendering of Old Baldy framed by tall trees. Some mild edgewear; else very good. unknown
195920047073New York: Antiquarian Press 1959. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Limited edition of 550 copies. This is numbered 339. 757 pp. This is the facsimile edition bound in half leather cowhide with top edge gilt and housed in slipcase. No markings of any kind. A beautiful copy. Ships within 24 hours. <br/> <br/> Antiquarian Press hardcover
1930106202Houghton Mifflin Company. 1930. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 1930. First Printing. Houghton Mifflin Company. 272 pages. Book has light shelfwear else Very Good condition. Scarce Dust Jacket has some wear and chipping else Very Good Minus. Price clipped. Owners name and date from Christmas 1931 on endpaper. One of a large collection of James Willard Schultz we have acquired. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 272 pages . Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
19104203Rochester NY: United Litho. and Printing Co. and Vredenberg Co. 1910. Good. Album of 66 leaves plus one duplicate of chromolithograph or half-tone illustrations some printed in two or more colors depicting plants flowers and trees in some instances alongside homes also of fruit specimens all with full-page descriptive text on verso. Contemporary wrappers printed in black on front cover with the name of the nursery William C. Moore & Co. recent black cloth spine wrappers worn signs of heavy use throughout inscription inside front cover. With faults and priced accordingly. AMERICAN ART AND BOOK PRODUCTION IN THE SERVICE OF COMMERCE: A MODEST NURSERYMAN'S FRUIT FLOWER AND TREE SALES CATALOGUE PRINTED IN VIBRANT COLORS. SEED CATALOGUES SUCH AS THIS ONE WERE HEAVILY USED AS VEHICLES OF SALE BY TRAVELING SEED PEDDLERS THROUGHOUT SMALL TOWN AMERICA. <br /> <br /> "Nurserymen's plates were an American innovation. . In design and coloring these plates were more akin to folk painting than to the commercial art of their time" Charles von Ravenswaay "Drawn and Colored from Nature" in Antiques Magazine March 1983 pp. 594-599. <br /> <br /> Vintage Nurseryman's Guides provide a "floracopia" of American chromolithography at its apogee. All the plates have descriptive text on the versos giving name of the plant / tree / fruit useful information about color fragrance production preferred growing season and other particulars such as taste in the case of fruit. Our catalogue was issued by the William C. Moore & Co. of Newark New York State which evidently offered a wide selection indeed. Unusually the text on our wrappers bears a curious attestation by the Arcadia National Bank proclaiming that "in our opinion the Nursery is a reliable and responsible concern with ample capital to carry on its large operations." The President and General Manager of the firm was at that time Wilson M. Gould whose name appears as such in the Dec. 5 1912 issue of Florists' Review vol. 31 p. 82. <br /> <br /> Most fruit seed catalogues are undated because they were literally assembled according to which seeds were or would be in stock as here. The most "recent" plate in the present nurseryman's guide is dated 1904. United Litho. and Printing Co. [and Vredenberg Co.] unknown
2006BN129144Taylor & Francis Inc 2006. 2006. Hardcover. An Introduction to Quasigroups and Their Representations <br/><br/>An Introduction to Quasigroups and Their Representations Jonathan D. H. Iowa State University Ames USA Smith Taylor & Francis Inc hardcover
2019BN129159Elsevier - Health Sciences Division 2019. 2019. Hardcover. Lewis's Medical-Surgical Nursing <br/><br/>Lewis's Medical-Surgical Nursing Mariann M. Professor of Nursing TechnologyKent State University TuscarawasNew Philadelphia Ohio Harding Jeffrey Program Director Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Program; Program Director Elsevier - Health Sciences Division hardcover
1809001591Philadelphia Pa: David Hogan 1809. Paperback. Very Good -. Title page continued: "Containing The Speeches of the Attorney General and Jared Ingersoll Esq. on behalf of the Commonwealth and William Lewis Esq. on the part of the Defendant. And also the opinion of the Honorable William Tilghman Esq. Chief Justice of the State of Pennsylvania." iv 1 6-52 p.; 21 cm. Printed by T.T. Stiles. Disbound from a nonce volume. Early American Imprints 2nd series Shaw & Shoemaker 18494. This report is part of a lengthy and complicated matter involving a Revolutionary War privateer Gideon Olmstead who fought for over three decades for a larger share of a British ship taken during the war and Elizabeth Sergeant & Esther Waters the daughters and heirs of David Rittenhouse Pennsylvania's treasurer during the Revolution. Rittenhouse had been charged with protecting the prize money until the matter was resolved. However even after federal courts ruled in favor of Olmstead Pennsylvania refused to relinquish its claim to the money. In 1809 the United States Supreme Court in U.S. v. Peters 9 U.S. 5 Cranch 115 1809 in a nationalistic Marshall Court decision made it the first case to strike down a state statute. In response Gov. Snyder ordered the militia "to protect the daughters of Rittenhouse" who lived in adjoining houses at Arch and 7th Streets which they did for five weeks in March and April 1809. When the U.S. Marshal John Smith tried to serve the writ he was stopped by crossed bayonets. After he entered Sergeant's house through a rear window and arrested her Gov. Snyder finally paid the sum to the marshal striking a blow to the doctrine of state supremacy. This report relates to the unsuccessful attempt to force the marshall to release Elizabeth Sergeant Pennsylvania Chief Justice William Tilghman ruling that although he thought he had the power to discharge them if the federal court did not have jurisdiction he determined that in this case the federal court did have jurisdiction and so she should remain in custody of the U.S. marshall. A very scarce early 19th-century American legal report. In Very Good- Condition: disbound; scattered foxing and soiling first several leaves are the most heavily foxed; trimmed too closely at the foot of p. 39 with slight loss of text; old dampstain along upper edge of some leaves. David Hogan paperback
181030344Boston: Russell and Cutler Printers 1810. Broadside. Letterpress broadside issued by Massachusetts Governor Christopher Gore in 1810. Text in two columns. The visible area of the broadside measures approximately 42 x 50.5 cm 16.5 x 20". Minor loss at folds. Professionally framed by S. C. Rose and Co. of Boston label on the back. Full text as follows: "Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency Christopher Gore Governor and Commander of in Chief of the State Aforesaid A Proclamation for a Day of Humiliation Fasting and Prayer. In conformity with the invariable usage of this Commonwealth and with a Sense of our absolute Dependence on the beneficent Parent of Mankind and of our numerous and aggravated Offenses against his holy Will and Commandments I have thought fit to appoint and by and with the advice and consent of the council I do appoint THURSDAY the FIFTH DAY of APRIL next as a Day of Public Humiliation Fasting and Prayer in this Commonwealth. And I do request the Ministers and People of every Denomination throughout the same to assemble on that Day in their several Places of Public Worship that we may unitedly humble ourselves in the presence of Almighty God and acknowledge with deep Contrition our manifold Sins and Transgressions; that we may devoutly deprecate his Judgments and implore His merciful Forgiveness through the merits of our blessed Lord and Redeemer.While we thus bow in humble Adoration before the Most High let us render Him our unfeigned thanks for the numerous Instances of His continued Bounty towards us and our Forefathers whom He planted in this fruitful Soil; and in an especial manners that He endued Them with Wisdom to render this a Land of Piety Freedom and Order. And inasmuch as we have disregarded their Example and neglected those Principles by which They obtained and transmitted to us the inestimable Blessings of the Christian Religion of Law and of Liberty let us earnestly beseech Him to heal our Backslidings and to restore us to that Temper and Conduct by which alone we can hope to be Happy in this World and in that which is to come. At the same time that we look with all humility to His Grace for the Remission of our Sins let us with one mind and one voice supplicate His Blessing for us and our beloved Country; that He would alike preserve us from the Pestilence that walketh in Darkness and the Destruction that wasteth at Noon Day; that He would graciously smile on the Labors of the Husbandman and cause the Earth to bring forth her Increase in due Season; that He would relieve our Commerce from the Embarrassments with which it is burdened and grant that Prosperity may again distinguish our Navigation and Fisheries so that they who go down to the Sea in Ships and do Business in great Waters may have abundant reason to praise his Holy Name that he would afford success to our Manufactures and prosper all the Work of our Hands. That He would graciously condescend to direct the Government of the United States and give Them wisdom to discern and Firmness to pursue the true Interests of the Country; that He would preserve us from War and from all Connections that lead to Dishonor and Adversity; that He would dispel the Clouds that encompass us about and continue to us the Enjoyments of Peace Liberty and Religion; That He would influence the Governments of the several States to do every thing within their respective Spheres to preserve the Union Order Tranquility and Independence of the United States; that He would protect us from the assaults of open enemies and from the snares of insidious Friends; that He would suffer no weapon formed against us to prosper but would set at nought the Counsels of those who devise Mischief against us. That He would vouchsafe his Blessings on our University our Colleges and Seminaries of Learning; that He would advance all means used for propagating true Religion and promote the pious purposes of those who endeavor to disseminate a Knowledge of the holy Scriptures that all may learn his Will and obey his Commandments. And it is recommended that all servile Labour and Recreation be suspended upon the said Day. Given at the Council Chamber in Boston this twenty-seventh Day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ten and in the Thirty-fourth Year of the Independence of the United States of America. CHRISTOPHER GORE. By His Excellency the Governor with the advice and consent of the council. WILLIAM TUDOR Secretary of the State. GOD SAVE THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS!" Shaw & Shoemaker 20674. Russell and Cutler, Printers unknown
1980ZB393823Pittsburgh: Pressley Ridge School 1980. volumes 3; 5; 7; 9-11; 14-17; 19. 1980-1996 all complete volumes partly bound library markings textually clean & tight price is for the lot. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Pittsburgh: Pressley Ridge School unknown
18602303160002State of Maryland 1860. Hardcover. Very Good. Maryland at the Eve of the Civil War Bound in contemporary full leather with red and gold spine label. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. I. Public general laws. Contemporary signature of Richard H. Dorsey Rockland Howard Co Maryland. Includes related letters and contemporary ephemera from Dorsey. Baltimore related bank scripts post cards letters etc The Dorsey family was a politically prominent family throughout Maryland history. <br> Article 66 Negroes. The Article covers the legal rights of slave holders and the penalties for slaves who runaway or commit crimes. State of Maryland hardcover
2011SBS-9781409417590ASHGATE 2011. Hardcover. New. ASHGATE hardcover
2011SBS-9781409417590ASHGATE 2011. Hardcover. New. ASHGATE hardcover
2000Star-9783540650997Springer 2000. Hardcover. New. Springer hardcover
2000Star-9783540650997Springer 2000. Hardcover. New. Springer hardcover
1833963F11Liverpool: J. and J. Mawdsley 1833 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 15.5" by 10.5". None. A lovely example of the very scarce first edition of this report into the practices of the Liverpool corporation prompted by concerns about corruption. The very scarce first edition of this work.Illustrated with four lithographed plates each hand coloured and three of which are folding. Collated lacking one folding plate.An early nineteenth century examination of the governance finances and administrative practices of the Liverpool Corporation prompted by public concern over corruption mismanagement and lack of accountability in municipal government. The Court of Inquiry convened under parliamentary authority investigated allegations of nepotism misuse of public funds and undemocratic procedures within the Corporation's operations.With a town clerk library stamp to the title page head.The findings of this report added to the national momentum for municipal reform contributing to the case for the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. Rebacked in cloth retaining the original cloth boards. Retaining the original endpapers. Externally excellent with a touch of shelf wear to back strip tail. Stamp to title page head. Internally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned but generally clean with only the odd light handling mark. Lacking one folding plate. Very Good Indeed J. and J. Mawdsley hardcover
2024x-0357763165Cengage Learning Inc 2024. Paperback / Softback. New. 10 ed edition. 608 pages. 8.58x0.94x10.94 inches. Cengage Learning, Inc paperback
1871250193Geneva IL: Thompson and Everts 1871. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. lithographed portraits. Folio 57 pages modern half leather preserving the original cover title new endpapers pp. 6-9 with tidal stain at fore-edges archival paper repairs to some fore-edges some offset color to page 51 which covers part of the town of Somonauk leaf 24 was rebound upside down Clinton Township. Quite Scarce: no auction records located. <br/><br/>Buck 771 citing only 3 copies in 1914. This is the first atlas of De Kalb County. It opens with a handsome double-page color spread of the State of Illinois. This includes a Business Directory many many cuts of buildings and farms and pages for Real Estate Transactions. This was among the earliest atlases of counties published nationally. The number of copies published was driven by the number of subscribers. Thompson and Everts hardcover
1855040132Fairfield Iowa / Philadelphia: Henn Williams & Co. / R.L. Barnes 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Full-color folding map 22" x 35". Folds into embossed red-cloth covers gilt lettering on cover 5.75" x 3.75". Near fine condition. Drawn in 1854 and issued early in 1855 this map shows a "Great Western Mail & Emigrant Route to the Pacific" extending from Omaha. The first American settlers arrived in Iowa from the East in 1833. By 1855 the new state had become a magnet for homesteaders and settlers to work the rich land. Henn, Williams & Co. / R.L. Barnes hardcover
1963WA-55Utah: Wasatch County Chapter Daughters Of Utah Pioneers 1963. Comprehensive classic text presents a detailed centennial history of Wasatch County Utah from the time the first settlers arrived in 1859 to the beginning of the county's second century in the 1960's. This volume has been prepared almost exclusively from manuscript material. Diaries letters journals and biographies of pioneers and accounts related personally by the early settlers or by their sons and daughters have contributed a great deal to this work. Material as arranged in this book includes the religious educational civic and political cultural commercial and industrial histories of each community in the county. Each of the communities is included in a separate section of the text and at the end of each section contains pictures and biographies of the pioneers and others who made Wasatch County what it is today. Signed by W.J. Mortimer on the title page. 1198 pp. Illustrated. Pictorial covers. No spine cracks or creases. Very minimal shelfwear. Scarce. Signed by Author. Pictorial Hard Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Wasatch County Chapter Daughters Of Utah Pioneers Hardcover
1904009545Leipsic: Karl Baedeker Publisher 1904. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Third Edition Revised. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. SCARCE in any edition in the original unprinted dust jacket with the title label affixed to the spine. In red flexible cloth binding marbled edges red and black ribbon markers ciii 660 pages with 25 maps and 35 plans. Near Fine the front fold-out map detached leaving a triangular section still attached that map otherwise complete and with no other flaws. All other maps and plans present and Fine. The SCARCE dust jacket Very Good lightly soiled mild wear at folds small chips tears and creases at edges. Karl Baedeker, Publisher Hardcover
1886009181Indianapolis IN: The Bowen-Merrill Co. 1886. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE in current commerce in the First Edition and in any of its five States. Riley's 2nd published book. 263 pages. Illustrated blue-stamped tan cloth boards. Coated brown endpapers. First Edition State 5 verso of title page changed lacking the advertisement for "The Old Swimmin'- Hole" Russo pp.8-11. A Very Good copy cloth opened about 3" along front gutter and 1" rear gutter rear board soiled with cloth a bit loose at bottom edge Contemporary gift inscription front end page dated March 25 1886. The Bowen-Merrill Co. Hardcover
185124212Saint Paul: James M. Goodhue 1851. 8vo pp. 224; original printed blue wrappers neatly rebacked; some spotting of the text but near fine copy printed by Minnesota's first printer. Martin 29. Sabin 49257 citing the1850 journal. James M. Goodhue unknown
