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186117755New York: S. N. Gaston. Good. 1861. First Edition. Soft Covers. Rare pocket-sized atlas focusing on the secessionist or slave-holding states at the outset of the American Civil War. Bound in tan publisher's printed wrappers. Front wrap is identical to the title page & with American eagle emblem. Saddle-stitched binding is tight. 14 hand-colored cerograph maps 1 double-page. Blank on verso of each map. Cover has small areas of chipping but generally good; interior has only minor pencil marginalia & light age toning. The initial double-page map of the United States and Territories is indicated with "great cantonments and strategic points" marked with a hand-colored red dot. These points include New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh Baltimore Washington DC Norfolk Pensacola Cairo St. Louis Santa Fe Salt Lake City and San Francisco. Individual maps of the Confederate and Border States follow: Delaware/Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida Mississippi Alabama Louisiana Arkansas Missouri Kentucky/Tennessee and Texas. OCLC locates 5 copies. Military; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . S. N. Gaston paperback
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
1775c2412110474xbvkLouvain / Leuven, Belgium; 1775. Titlesheet (former blank front flyleaf), (9) pages 'Proemium Rhetorica / ...' and 'Deperiodo.', 5 blank sheets, pages 17-257 (of?), 1 blank sheet, blank rear flyleaf. - Vellum binding of the period over 5 raised bands with colour-marble-paper covered panel with vellum corners and red edges; small 4to.(ca. 19 x 16 x 2 cm).
191316729<p>Good HCs no DJs. 2 volume set. Green-brown buckram cloth over boards gilt stamped titles on spines. Covers are scuffed with uneven fading and some spotty stains; some rubbing at spine ends and fore corners light fraying; both volumes tightly bound; interiors are clean with slight general age darkening; all leaves are supple not brittle; cover leaf of final issue has short closed tear at mid-cover. Issues run from Vol 1 No 1 April 30 1910 through Vol 3 No 37 January 11 1913 presumably a complete run. Liberal-reformist weekly newspaper ran 1910-1913. Initial editor was Edward H. Clement thereafter Livy S. Richard. 100 shareholders held 1 share each. Exec. Comm: Ralph Albertson William E. Butler Alexander M. Wilson Robert Treat Paine Jr Charles M. Cabot. Many unsigned articles on local state and national affairs - political and social; some signed articles including writers: Mayor John F. 'Honey Fitz' Fitzgerald JFK's grandfather and mentor Gov. Curtis Guild Sen. Jonathan Bourne Jr Helen Campbell Frank Chouteau Brown Livingston Wright Everett B. Mero many others. Articles on politicians sports recreation architecture national politics railroads trusts reform movements theater socialism ranked voting planning development education and schools Henry Cabot Lodge Roosevelt law and the courts sanitation health laws much more. Fairly heavily illustrated in earlier issues less so later. Large 4to; paged by issue approx 1100 total pp. Cf OCLC #10741554.</p> Boston: Co-operative Publishing Company hardcover
180716527London: Richard Phillips. Good with no dust jacket. 1807. First English Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Contemporary 3/4 leather over scuffed marbled boards. Bright gilt lettering on spine. Text tight. Early owner's ink stamp on title page. Condition of individual books as noted after each title. Each book was issued separately throughout the year. Binding Instruction including insertion of plates is at the end of the volume although they were sometimes bound individually. These books were of considerable interest because at the time they were one of the only sources of information as to current conditions in foreign countries. Most travel & exploration books were of a more historical nature. There were 10 or more volumes published in this series. Full Titles: 1 "TRAVELS THROUGH THE TWO LOUISIANAS AND AMONG THE SAVAGE NATIONS OF THE MISSOURI; ALSO IN THE UNITED STATES ALONG THE OHIO AND THE ADJACENT PROVINCES IN 1801 1802 & 1803" by M. Perrin Du Lac translated from the French. Title page 106pp. 2pp index. Light waterstain on approx 1/3 of lower quarter of pages. 2 "VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE NORTH-EAST OF SIBERIA THE FROZEN OCEAN." by Gawrila Sarytschew Russian Imperial Major General translated from the Russian. Title page 80pp index at rear lacks plate of man & woman in Unilaschka. 3 "TRAVELS FROM ST. PETERSBURGH THROUGH MOSCOW GRODNO WARSAW BRESLAW.TO GERMANY IN.1805" by G. Reinbeck translated from the German. Title page 160pp fold out plate "Palace of the Czars" lower corners dampstained index at rear. 4 "TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR PARTS OF AMERICA COMMUNICATING DISCOVERIES MADE IN EXPLORING THE MISSOURI RED RIVER AND WASHITA BY CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK DR SIBLEY AND MR DUNBAR; WITH A STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE COUNTRIES ADJACENT" As Laid Before the Senate by the President of the United States and Never Before Published in Great Britain an edition of 1000 copies was published inWashington in 1806. Title page 116pp index at rear. Illustrated with charts & a folding table. Information on Indian tribes flora fauna geography & first account of Texas in book form. Nice condition: quite rare. 5 "ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO THE WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA; PERFORMED BY HIS MAJESTY'S SLOOP FAVOURITE IN THE YEAR 1805" by F. B. Spilsbury surgeon to the Favourite. Title page 2pp ad 43pp index 2 fold-out & 5 full page plates dealing mainly with slavery lacks 2 plates. Light scattered foxing. Parts 6 & 7 Analyses of New Works of Voyages and Travels Lately Published in London are summaries of larger works & do not have title pages. 6 " ANALYSES A VOYAGE TO SHEERAZ BY THE ROUTE OF KAZROON AND FEEROZABAD; .MANNERS CUSTOMS LAWS LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE OF THE PERSIANS." by Edward Scott Waring. 64pp index in rear. 7 "TRAVELS IN THE YEAR 1806 FROM ITALY TO ENGLAND THROUGH THE TYROL STYRIA BOHEMIA GALLICIA POLAND AND LAVONIA" by Marquis De Salvo. 32pp. World Travel Americana Africa Russia Persia Native American Slavery ; B.W. Plates; 8vo; 600 pages . Richard Phillips hardcover
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
1908ZB394356Illinois State Historical Society 1908-1977. volumes 1-12 14-38; 40-43; 45-48; 50-70 1908-1977. 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. Illinois State Historical Society unknown
Very Good Russian Original dark green cloth bdg. Oblong folio. (28 x 36 cm). Eight languages of the title on the colophon, the text is completely Russian. [6], [ii], 108 p., [36] maps in various sizes, some of folded: (62x47 cm, 52,5x45,5 cm, 49,5x27 cm [x3], 61x47 cm; other maps are 36x28 cm). Four unnumbered leaves with half-title and contents for each section. Two small millimetric cuttings on two text pages. Ex-owner's name is on the title page. Markings on the index. Otherwise a very good and clean copy. Rare complete and the first atlas including a fine collection of 36 attractive chromo-lithograph maps mostly with tissue papers of the Soviet Union, edited by the Central Executive Committee and Enukidze (1877-1937), who was a prominent Georgian "Old Bolshevik". One of 11000 copies. Being published only 10 years after the USSR was established, this is the earliest atlas of the country. It seems to have been published with a wider audience in mind, with a title page in various European languages. The borders of many areas -including not just administrative regions throughout the USSR, but also entire autonomous republics (especially in Central Asia)- were in a state of flux; as such, the borders in this Atlas (including the wax-paper overlays meant to update various maps with changes made between when they were drawn and when the Atlas was published) often don't look anything like the borders they were set at the end of the Soviet Union and have continued on to modern times. Since the boundaries were often ideologically- (sometimes ethnically-, less so economically-) motivated, this offers an interesting insight into the mindset of the administration that was making these changes. Map list: World map, General USSR, USSR in Europe, Asia and USSR, Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Komi-Zyryan Autonomous Oblast, Avt, Votskaya Oblast, Maryinskaya, Cherepovetsky District, Vologda Oblast, Avt. Chuvashskaya SSR (Chuvashia), Avt. Tatarskaya SSR (Tatarstan), Avt. Bashkirskaya SSR (Bashkiria), ASSR Nemchev Povoljiya, Kalmykia (Kalmykia), Krimskaya SSR (Crimea), Adigeiskaya (Tscherkeskaya) Obl. (Cherkesia), Kabardino-Balkarskaya Avt. Obl. (Kabardino-Balkarian Rep.), Karachayskaya Avt. Obl. & Tscherkesskiy Nation. Okrug (Karachay-Cherkessia), Chechenskaya Avt. Obl. (Chechnya), Ingushetiya, Severo-Osetiya, Avt. Daghestanskaya SSR, Avt. Kazakskaya SSR, Kyrgyzkaya ASSR, Avt. Oiuratskaya Oblast, Burito - Mongolskaya SSR (Kazakhstan), Avt. Yakustkaya SSR (Yakutia), Beloruskaya SSR (Belarus), Ukrainskaya, SSR (Ukraine), Moldavskaya SSR (Moldovia), Zakavkazkaya SSR (Abkhazia), Azerbaijanskaya SSR (Azerbaijan), Arminskaya SSR (Armenia), SSR Gruzii (Georgia), Central Asian SSR (Karakalpakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan. OCLC shows copies in twenty-three libraries worldwide: 7852120, 968755133, and 822577467.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original quarter black leather. Ottoman title-lettered gilt on the spine with decorative elements in compartments. Demy 8vo. (22 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 459 p., 32 woodcut plates with tissue papers and a folding color map of Khiva calligraphed by Mehmed Vasfi. AH 1292 = Gregorian: 1875. Extremely rare first Turkish edition of this richly illustrated eye-witness travel account of the 1873 Russo-Khivan war and the fall of the Khivan Khanate, by the American war correspondent MacGahan (1844-1878), which was first published in New York in 1874 as "Campaigning on the Oxus and the fall of Khiva", translated by Ahmed Sükrü (?-1876-77) who was the first Postmaster General. After a daring journey through the Kyzil Kum desert, McGahan joined von Kaufmann's army on the banks of the Amu-Darya, shortly before the fall of Khiva. Interesting and lively report with a description of Kazakh- (systematically called "Kirghiz", following the confusing habit of Russian historians) and Yomud Turkmen nomads, as well as of the settled Uzbek, Sart - and enslaved Persians of the Khanate. Probably one of the most complete and objective descriptions of the fall of the Khivan Khanate to three Russian columns which reach it from North and from East, after difficulties due to the climate and the huge distances. The young American makes many friends with Russian officers and gets a lot of information directly from the horse's mouth. There is also a well-documented report about previous Russian attempts to conquer Khiva, which all turned into disasters. The rather civilized behavior of the Russian army with the vanquished Khivans contrasts very much with their cruel and unfair treatment of the brave Yomud nomads, who offer only serious military opposition despite their heavy losses. The Khivan oasis is described as being very fertile and outstandingly well-cultivated. While Mac Gahan is impressed by the beautiful gardens and orchards of the Khanate, he is disappointed by the city of Khiva, the capital, the main residence of its ruler, and the second largest city of the Khanate. Even the Khan's palace (in which he is allowed to spend a few days by the Russian authorities) is disappointing. He visits the treasury room of the palace, in which the fleeing Khan left most of his possessions. He also left his whole harem behind, in his precipitous escape. The text is illustrated with numerous engravings from original designs and paintings by artists (and Russian officers), like Vereschagin and Feodoroff, and enriched with a great number of anecdotes. MacGahan was an American journalist and war correspondent working for the New York Herald and the London Daily News. His articles describing the massacre of Bulgarian civilians by Turkish soldiers and irregular volunteers in 1876 created public outrage in Europe and were a major factor in preventing Britain from supporting Turkey in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, which led to Bulgaria gaining independence from the Ottoman Empire. He learned in 1873 that Russia was planning to invade the khanate of Khiva, in Central Asia. Defying a Russian ban on foreign correspondents, he crossed the Kyzyl-Kum desert on horseback and witnessed the surrender of the city of Khiva to the Russian Army. There he met a Russian Lieutenant Colonel, Mikhail Skobelev, who later became famous as a Russian commander during the Russian-Turkish War of 1877-78. In 1874 he spent ten months in Spain, covering the Third Carlist War. In 1875, he voyaged with British explorer Sir Allan William Young on his steam yacht HMS Pandora on an expedition to try to find the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The expedition got as far as Peel Sound in the Canadian Arctic before it met pack ice and was forced to return. OCLC 1014870496.; Özege 7682.; Atabey 744 (Ed. in English).
1823423251London: Printed by Ellerton and Henderson Gough Square 1823. Near Fine. Folio 21.5 x 33 cm / 8½" x 13â€. pp. 1 2-3 4 blank. Light vertical and horizontal center folds three short tears at the horizontal fold near fine with a contemporary drawing of a few survey lines and diagrams very lightly sketched in ink and pencil on the final blank page. The Society states its case against slavery in the Colonies of Great Britain where "there are at this moment upwards of 800000 human beings in a state of degrading personal slavery." It provides a brief but detailed description of "the immoral inhuman and unjust" nature of the slave trade and of the absolute power of slave owners. Printed by Ellerton and Henderson, Gough Square unknown
6279<p>Randburg South Africa: Macdonald Purnell Ltd. 1994 later ptg. SIGNED half-title p. by Nelson Mandela and dated 18-7-95. 630pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: near Fine in a Fine dj in poly cover red remainder dot on fore edge; some light age darkening of top & fore edges; else nrF A very nice signature by Nelson Mandela 1918-2013 signed during his administration as South Africa’s first black president.</p> Randburg, South Africa: Macdonald Purnell Ltd. hardcover
1918015759Paris Editions de la Sirène 1918 In-8 carré Reliure
17875031London: Charles Eyre & Andrew Strahan 1787. First edition. 27 George III Chapter 44. A Fine copy measuring 310 x 190mm and collating complete: 2 987-988. A scarce and important piece of legal history which ESTC records at only one library Lincoln's Inn and which does not appear in the modern auction record. The present is the only example on the market. <br /> <br /> At the start of the Restoration "English church courts were revived by an act of Parliament on 27 July 1661 to resume their traditional task of correcting spiritual and moral misdemeanors. Soon thereafter parishioners across England's dioceses once more faced admonition fines excommunication and even imprisonment if they failed to conform to the laws of the restored Church of England" Aklund. As much as these courts sought to reestablish a monolithic Anglican communal identity during Charles II's reign their position in the 18th century became "a case study in the secularization of the legal system" particularly given their theoretical justification based in the problematic concept of divine right Harris. Numerous acts the present example among them "represented an important step in the direction of limiting the reach of of ecclesiastical jurisdiction" Harris. <br /> <br /> An Act to Prevent Frivolous and Vexatious Suits in Ecclesiastical Courts was passed in 1787 drawn from a bill presented in Parliament the previous year. Its major accomplishment was the removal of Church authority in the regulation of private sexual behaviors: "It shall be further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Suit shall be commenced in any Ecclesiastical Court for Fornication or Incontinence of for any striking or brawling." While the Church may have voiced its moral codes or enacted social shaming within its own communities it no longer had the legal authority to regulate or punish sexual behavior. Such secularization had significant benefits across a number of communities. For survivors of assault it ended the Church's ability to mandate that a woman marry her attacker; for queer communities it prevented Biblically based persecution; for sex workers it took away the risk of arrest or fines for conducting their livelihoods. Ultimately the jurisdiction of ecclesiastical courts over sexual behavior whether in the form of obscene or defamatory words sexual engagement and sensual pleasure was terminated by this act. Little to no legal regulation of sex would be enacted until the next century when the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act and a series of Contagious Diseases Acts would seek to give secular courts more control over individuals' bodies. <br /> <br /> ESTC N58717. Charles Eyre & Andrew Strahan unknown
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
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. Webb Publishing Co unknown
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
1891010274Saint Joseph Michigan 1891. Map. Very Good. Map. 1st Edition. A RARE late 19th century Michigan map apparently unrecorded dated by "Soundings taken December 11th - 18th 1891". A manuscript map by E.C. Dunbar Ass. Engr. on translucent vellum architectural paper 39" x 30" "Scale 1 inch = 100 feet Soundings reduced to zero of U.S. guage react - 20 ft." Drawn in black ink with State Street in pencil and red ink for the Vandalia Lines Depot Grounds area. Very Good light soiling and light wear at edges "24" in black ink at bottom right and top corners with the 24 top right inked out and replaced with "106-17" in black ink. Of particular interest is the small drawing about half way up the right edge of a shore bird with a frog in its mouth! Along with several streets the map shows The Morrison Channel St. Joseph River and the Pawpaw River. It also shows the lines of the West Michigan Railroad Cincinnati Wabash & Michigan Railroad and the Lake Michigan Railroad Vandalia Lines. 1891 was the year that Saint Joseph was incorporated as a city. An amazing piece of Southwestern Michigan history. . hardcover
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
Very Good English In contemporary full black leather bound. 4to. (28 x 20 cm). In Ottoman script. 627 p. 10 maps. Light wear on cover edge. Limited and special edition printed for members of the Republic of Turkey parliament. (Protocol copy). Cover and 10 maps was printed separately in Vienna by Ahmed Ihsan. Framed, illustrated and with maps edition (luxury paper) for protocol. Famous speech of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, (1881-1938). Extremely rare. Özege: 15583. 1000 copies were printed.
1766363001New York: Printed by Hugh Gaine at his Book-Store and Printing Office at the Bible & Crown in Hanover-Square 1766. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Two volume set. Thick folios. Contemporary full calf. Binding is worn with the boards nearly detached small bookplate on the front pastedowns else a good sound set. Volume one prints the proceedings from April 1691–September 1743; volume two from November 1743–December 1765. This edition includes: "the act for reversing the attainder of Jacob Leisler and others" on the last leaf of volume one. An invaluable resource for the early political social and economic history of New York. ESTC W6332; Evans 9756 10418. Printed by Hugh Gaine, at his Book-Store and Printing Office, at the Bible & Crown, in Hanover-Square hardcover
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
1929101409<p>Architectural diagram plans for the construction of the Empire State Building. 8 items all pencil on paper or tracing vellum various sizes ranging from 8x13 inches to 36x48 inches. Included are 5 plot plans showing the building's outline and the surrounding streets and properties 5 section plans of existing vaults and the machine room 2 sub-basement plans and the details of the pit for the refrigeration unit. Condition varies but is generally very good; most of the plans have minor folds or tears in the margins. The freight elevator plan has some tape repairs on the reverse but is not obtrusive. A plan showing a map of 34th and 33rd Streets has the most damage with tears in the margin some pieces missing and some significant wrinkling; probably the least important plan in this collection. Eight of the plans will be shipped rolled. The 102 story landmark Empire State Building was completed in 1931 on the former site of the original Waldof-Astoria Hotel. The cost of construction was about $41 million estimates suggest that today's cost would be close to $600 million and was completed in less than a year and a half. The building was designed by William Lamb of Shreve Lamb and Harmon whose plans are included in this collection. Considered as the "Eight Wonder of the World" when it opened the building has had its share of notoriety both good and bad. Suicides a shooting on the observation deck and even a plane crashing into it in 1945 have been part of the dark side of the building's history. However this iconic art deco building is as popular as ever and probably one of the busiest tourist attractions in New York City. One of the most significant parts of this architectural collection is the plan for the rather famous information desk. Other parts include plans for the sub-basement the machine room pit for the freight elevators and refrigeration unit and several plans illustrating the building's outline on the surrounding streets. A unique collection of New York City history. History1900s about website.</p>
1901010379East Aurora N.Y. : The Roycrofters at their Shop 1901. Book. Very Good. Flexible Leather. Limited and Numbered First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bound in original brown suede with leather label front cover lettered in gilt top edge gilt silk paste downs 8 iv 9-166 3 pp. Colophon: #439 of 450 SIGNED BY Elbert Hubbard also SIGNED "Illumined by Lily Ess" and additionally SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "This book contains sheets of my original Mss. Fra Elbertus Oct. 5th 1901" with 2pp #s 13 and 14 of original pencil manuscript bound in. Very Good some loss of suede at spine ends lacking the original cardboard box. The manuscript pages are from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Autobiographical first published in 1894 and are not from one of the fourteen essays in this volume. McKenna 70. The Roycrofters, at their Shop Hardcover
19154045Boston Mass: A. Williams & Co./Houghton Mifflin 1915. Hardcovers. all VG except for vols. 3 & 7: G. 8vos 9.25"x6.25". Brown coated cloth-covered boards with giltstamped titles. General shelfwear to roughly all volumes: rubbed corners edges spine extremes. Gilt-loss to the spines of several volumes. Pen and pencil marks to some front endpapers. Endpapers cracking at hinges to vols.: 1 3 4-6 8-9 and 12. Front hinge of vol. 7 cracked front and back hinges of vol. 3 cracked.<br /> Covered in rubbed seller's mylar. Pages toned. B&W plates and fold-out maps throughout some in color.<br /> <br /> Extra shipping will be charged due to weight. A. Williams & Co./Houghton Mifflin hardcover
