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1875008332Chester Pa: Manufacturers' Association of Delaware County 1875. Very Good. 5 printed documents published by the Manufacturers' Association of Delaware County Pennsylvania in 1875 1876 and 1877. #1: 20 x 13 cm. Announcement of a meeting of the Manufacturers of Delaware County to be held on Nov. 20 1875 "to obtain relief from the burdensome and unequal taxation suffered" by those manufacturers. By order of Samuel Riddle president of the group. Pencil notations on the back headed "Riddle mill burned." #2-3: 26 x 21 cm. Printed notice dated Nov. 29 1875 from a committee of Manufacturers of Delaware County urging individual manufacturers to explain to their county assessor "the great depreciation in the value of machinery since the last triennial assessment." The committee are Amos Gartside James Stephens and Abram Blakeley. Includes a list of assessors of Delaware County for 1876. There are 2 copies of this one with an ink note reading: "Jno. R. Rhodes." #4: 21 x 13 cm. Printed letter dated May 6 1876 from William Ward "Acting for Committee of Delaware County Manufacturers." Ward who represented Pennsylvania in Congress from 1877 to 1883 requests the recipient to have the "enclosed memorial" signed by all employees "both male and female" to be used during the debate on the Morrison Free Trade Bill. #5: 21 x 25 cm. Printed letter dated Jan. 29 1877 from Amos Gartside and James Stephens on behalf of the Committee of Delaware County Manufacturers. To manufacturers urging them to talk to the county assessors in their districts about the burden put on Delaware County manufacturers by the "unfair and unequal valuation and taxation of machinery." Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: all are lightly creased; closed 2-cm. tear from edgeof #1; several closed tears of less than 1 cm. from edges; minor loss near upper edge of #1; slight discoloration on #5. Manufacturers' Association of Delaware County unknown
187910226Various Places: Various Publishers 1879; 1887; 1921. Very Good. 1879. First Editions. Hardcover. Cloth; Stebbins in dust jacket with tear to middle of spine. California Pilgimage cover soiled; Pioneer Pastorate with rubbing to spine. The others very good or better condition. Bristol's Pioneer Preacher is signed Regards of the Author; Pastorate is inscribed to Prof. Arnold Guyot with the kind respect of Albert Williams. Numbers 234 have the bookplate of the Pacific Union Club Library on front pastedowns no other library treatments save for small call numbers on copyright. A nice small collection on this important aspect of 19th century California religious pastoral and social work.; Signed by Authors . Various Publishers 1879; 1887; 1921 hardcover
1841H450Washington DC: Printed by Thomas Allen 1841. First printing. Hardcover. Fair. Folio 15 x 10 inches half leather buff boards 375 2 pp. Fair to good copy solidly bound but boards rubbed and worn leather dry and with loss contents have light library marks bookplates on pastedown barcode on rear flyleaf blindstamp on title page pages show tanning and foxing but usable copy. The Sixth U.S. Census of 1840 was notable as the first to gather social statistics in addition to basic population counts including data on literacy education occupations and mental health. It marked the government’s earliest effort to measure the nation’s social and economic conditions not just its numbers. However the census became infamous for its errors in reporting insanity rates which falsely indicated that free Black people in the North suffered mental illness at much higher rates than enslaved people in the South. Pro-slavery advocates used these figures to argue that enslavement was beneficial while abolitionists denounced the results as fraudulent and demanded correction. The controversy made the 1840 census both a statistical milestone and a cautionary example of how inaccurate data could be weaponized in political debates. Printed by Thomas Allen hardcover
1880008483Cincinnati Ohio: Western Biographical Publishing Company 1880. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Thick 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Two thick quarto volumes arranged by congressional district and paged separately. SCARCE in commerce as the complete set. Very Good in original pebbled calf with decorative embossing white moire silk end papers all edges gilt numerous engraved portraits with tissue guards. Very Good rubbed at edges and corners corners bumped scattered foxing associated mainly with tissue guards. A quite handsome set that will require extra postage for priority and international mail. Western Biographical Publishing Company Hardcover
1823List3302London England: Ellerton and Henderson 1823. Three page document measuring 8 ½ x 13 ¼ inches. Folded with some small wrinkles at edges else Near Fine. A document produced by the Society for Mitigating and Gradually Abolishing the State of Slavery throughout the British Dominions better known as the Anti-Slavery Society. The group was founded in London in 1823 by a group of politicians philanthropists and businessmen including William Wilberforce Joseph Sturge and Zachary Macaulay. The document discusses the horrors of enslavement—even unfavorably comparing the British colonies’ conditions with those in the US—and decries the fact that after the 1807 Slave Trade Act essentially nothing more had been done to put “an end to a condition of society which so grievously outrages every feeling of humanityâ€. We find a single copy of the Ellerton and Henderson edition in physical format listed in OCLC as accession number 83930673. Ellerton and Henderson unknown
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
1862111111112835J. Chace Jr. & Co 1862. Hardcover. Good. J. Chace Jr. & Co.; Portland ND 1862. Hardcover. Good brown cloth binding with blemished gilt lettering on spine pink paper printed endpapers moisture damage lightly warped boards some soiled spots to boards moderate wear with abrasions to board/spine edges/corners fading to spine badly cracked rear hinge but still attached moisture stains to bottom/top text block edges and front/back matters sunned pages text block intact interior free from markings without Dust wrapper8vooctavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches 344pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scans are available for any item please inquire. J. Chace, Jr. & Co hardcover
186632720Columbus Ohio: Christian Witness Office 1866. Hardcover. First Edition. 3 x 4.5in. 285pp. Bound in pebbled leather with gilt decoration and titling. VERY GOOD. Shows the corners shelf rubbed and showing boards slightly bowed early and late text-block with slight discoloration otherwise the binding is strong and tight the text is clean and unmarked and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured. Extremely uncommon with only one copy listed in WorldCat. Christian Witness Office hardcover
1876056379Philadelphia PA: Ig. Kohler 1876. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown pebbled cloth lettered in gold foil. 2nd revised/enlarged edition 1st ptg. thus: 1876. Scarce original edition of a standard genealogical reference. Mild wear with rubbing and minor exposure to corners and spine extremities. Firm binding intact hinges. Two small vintage color litho. illustrations mounted inside front cover former owner's signature inked on front blank otherwise unmarked. Ig. Kohler Hardcover
184835767Columbia: Printed Jointly by S. A. Johnston and A. G. Summer 1848. First Edition. Stitched wraps. Fair. Wraps. Octavo. . 1 xx 753 pages. Stitched brown paper wraps with title on the front cover. Brown paper spine. Outer wraps are toned and lightly damp stained. Paper spine and edges chipped. Several unopened/uncut pages. Text edges untrimmed. There is a vertical thin spit evident on the spine but the text block is still sturdy. Light toning and scattered foxing to contents. Possibly an unread copy. <br /> <br /> Sabin 87686. Printed Jointly by S. A. Johnston and A. G. Summer unknown
18251352936Columbus: George Nashee 1825. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 534 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Quarter bound in calf with morocco spine label and gilt lettering. Boards have very light wear to corners and head/tail of spine. Text-block shows moderate plus age-toning and light foxing to edges. Ink signatures of two prior owners one appears on pastedown the other on the title-page. RW Consignment. 1352936. Special Collections - Downstairs. George Nashee hardcover
184872178vo. Blue cloth with gilt stamped spine. Original yellow wrappers bound in. Published by order of The Legislature; Printed jointly by A.S. Johnston and A.G. Summer Columbia 1848. First Edition. Binding worn interior hinges reinforced by tape; damp staining to the first two-thirds of the book; some foxing. <br /><br /> Printed, jointly by A.S. Johnston and A.G. Summer,
1872003074Philadelphia: Kay & Brother 1872. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition. 8 791 p.; 25 cm. Contemporary full calf; black spine labels reading: Smith's Forms of Procedure Pennsylvania." Small stamp on front fixed endpaper and title page verso: "Law Office of Thomas Lack 115 North High St. West Chester Pa." Blank leaf following front free endpaper inscribed: "Thomas Lack April 28th 1891" and "Geo. Guier Cardwell." A few notations; small slip tipped in between p. 162 and p. 163 section on decedents. Includes 65 items under Lunatics and Habitual Drunkards. In Very Good Condition: both boards have been sensatively re-attached by conservator whose report is available on request; lacking original leather spine labels which have been reproduced in period style; small loss of leather at ends of spine; occasional soiling primarily in the table of contents. A solid copy of this mid-19th-century Pennsylvania legal form book. Kay & Brother hardcover
1831004874Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis 1831. Hardcover. Very Good . 976 p.; 25 cm. Contemporary full calf with five spine compartments between raised bands. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Purdon's Digest 1830. Formerly there was a second label in the fourth compartment. Blind-rolled chain border on each board. Former owner's name on title page and endpapers: J. Miles. Contains the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of Pennsylvania and the laws of Pennsylvania arranged by topic. In Very Good Condition: lacking one original spine label; leather is rubbed with several small scrapes; leather over spine is starting to crack; light foxing; pages are somewhat browned but clean and tight. A solid copy. M'Carty & Davis hardcover
1869008334New York: Masonic Publishing and Manufacturing Co. 1869. Book. Very Good Plus. Cloth. Early Printing. Small 8vo. vi paginated 9-319 4 pp. publishers ads. Dated 1864 copyright page 1869 title page. Very Good Plus in publishers embossed brown cloth gilt lettering at spine. Lettering at spine faded yet still legible spine and front cover lightened from sun two small spots to fore edge. SCARCE Masonic treatise. Masonic Publishing and Manufacturing Co. Hardcover
1834046082Trenton NJ: Daniel Fenton 1834. Book. Good. Full-Leather. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Two volumes bound in one full original calf spine title label missing. Leather is rubbed along edges and joints with some surface rubbing. Firm binding lacking front flyleaf with minor loss to main title affecting "S" in "State." 266xii339 pp. Lacking map as usual. Interior shows foxing generally minor ranging to moderate and some dogeared corners. Daniel Fenton Hardcover
1849038533Boston: John F. Jewett 1849. First Edition. Morocco & Cloth. Good. 264pp; frontispiece view and two plates with tissue guards; plates foxed scattered foxing in the text. Bound in blind-stamped brown cloth gilt-pictorial black morocco spine; spine ends chipped. 7.75" x 5" Sabin 31071. John F. Jewett unknown
1897028262Self-Published 1897. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Dark green cloth decorated/bordered in blind lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed corners and spine extremities a few light spots to cloth. ii24 pp. rear blanks index color armorial crest frontis. with minor Japanese paper repair to bottom corner. Inscribed by author to Samuel Townsend on front flyleaf dated 19 April 1897. Accompanied by several manuscript sheets of additional family data recorded in pencil also some notations in pencil on a rear blank. Exceptionally scarce. Self-Published Hardcover
1848009170Not Indicated: Not Indicated 1848. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. History of Lancaster Lebanon Dauphin Counties Pennsylvania touching also on York Cumberland Berks Schuylkill and Northumberland Counties specifically providing the township borough and county boundary descriptions in the period between 1729 and 1848 during which time Dauphin County was formed from portions of Lancaster County and Lebanon County formed from portions of Dauphin and Lancaster. Brown 1/4 leather mottled paper over boards with "Halifax Township" possibly indicating former Township ownership gilt on leather label on front panel. Leather is chipped with some loss at both spine extremities; board edges and corners are rubbed. Former ownership inscription of W. J. Daniel Elizabethville Dauphin Co. PA" on front pastedown dated 1915. Front endpapers show soiling and a stain that bleeds through lightly onto the first plate. 14 pp. index illus. w/ 6 hand-colored plates No. 1 shows approx. 1" square of loss to blank portion of page. Interior shows occasional light soiling with a dime-sized soil mark on the top edge of each leaf near the binding gutter. No publisher information provided though contents indicate publication date in or about 1848. Contents: Derry 1729 Peshtank Twp. 1729 Lebanon Twp. 1729 Hanover Twp. 1739 Bethel Twp. 1739 Berks County 1752 Heidleburg Twp. 1757 Upper Paxton Twp. 1767 Londonderry Twp. 1768 Division of Hanover into East and West Hanover 1785 York Cumberland and Northumberland Counties Dauphin County Middle Paxton Township 1787 Harrisburg Borough 1791 Annville Twp. 1799 Swatara Twp. 1799 Halifax Twp. 1804 Lykens Twp. 1810 Lebanon County 1813 Susquehanna Twp. 1815 Schuylkill County Mifflin Twp. 1819 Rush Twp. 1820 Derry and Londonderry Twp. as Re-formed 1826 Jackson Twp. 1828 Lower Swatara Twp. 1840 Wisconisco Twp. 1840 South and East Hanover Twps. out of West Hanover 1842 Jefferson Twp. 1842 Washington Twp. 1846. Plate No. I: Peshtank Derry Lebanon Twps; No. II: Paxton West Hanover East Hanover Bethel Heidelburg Lebanon Londonderry Derry Twps.; No. III: Upper Paxton Lykens Halifax Middle Paxton Twps. to 1810; No. IV: Swatara Annville Twps. 1785-1813; No. V: Susquehanna Lower Paxton West Hanover East Hanover South Hanover Derry Londonderry Lower Swatara and Swatara Twps. 1848; No. VI: Mifflin Washington Wisconisco Jackson Jefferson Rush Twps. to 1848. Overall exterior rates G-VG with interior excepting the one damaged plate noted above VG to Near Fine. Extremely scarce. Not Indicated Hardcover
1837001821Reading Pa: George Getz 1837. Hard Cover. Very Good. Title continued: "Besides many other forms useful to the farmer mechanic and trader." Second edition enlarged and improved. xi 1 143 1 p.: facsimiles tables; 27 cm. Contemporary half calf with green paper over boards. Six spine compartments between double gilt rules; red morocco spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Getz' Forms. Complete imprint: "Reading Pa. George Getz. Philadelphia--George & Byington Geo. W. Mentz & Son. Printed by John C. Clark 60 Dock Street Philadelphia." Running title: Precedents in Conveyancing. A scarce ante-bellum legal form book. Of particular note is the form for a bond to be made before a marriage to permit the woman to make a will after marriage to dispose of those furniture clothing and other goods she owned prior to the marriage. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed and soiled; slight loss of leather at head of spine; corners are rubbed through; foxing throughout; otherwise clean and tight. George Getz unknown
18970008084Rochester NY: George P. Humphrey 1897. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo viii 41 pages clothbacked printed yellow boards toned <br/><br/>Copy no. 275 of only 300 initialled by G.P.H. Printed by The Genesee Press. Howes C762 . The nitty-gritty about the whys and hows of planning the town of Cooperstown New York. Told in a series of letters to William Sampson of NYC - but originally published in Dublin in 1810. The New Preface by James Fenimore Cooper Jr. explains how that happened. George P. Humphrey hardcover
1860009376Louisville KY: Printed by Bradley & Gilbert 1860. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. SCARCE while OCLC locates 23 copies in institutions no copies foumd in current commerce and only the earlier 1858 edition found at auction and that not since 1963. From the collection of noted Mammoth Cave historian and author Harold Meloy his small name label front paste down. Bound in contemporary quarter black leather over marbled boards without the original wrappers Very Good moderate toning throughout. vi 7-61 pages. "Doctors had written about the cave before but with Charles W. Wright M.D. of the Kentucky School of Medicinein Louisville a new era of Mammoth Cave medical authors began.Wright was present in Mammoth Cave during the first descent of a deep pit known as the Maelstrom and he was one of the first explorers of Diamond Caverns. His book The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky was published in 1858 and again in 1859. In 1860 he revised and enlarged it. As A Guide Manual to the Mammoth Cave the 1860 edition became the standard reference book about the cave until it was replaced nine years later by Dr. Binkerd's book. Even after Binkerd's book was replaced by Dr. Forwood's book Wright's Guide Manual was still in demand. It was republished in 1870 and again in 1875." MEDICS AT MAMMOTH CAVE by Harold Meloy Journal of Spelean History Vol. 5 No. 4 Fall 1972. Printed by Bradley & Gilbert Hardcover
1892000000000005228Boston: Little Brown and Company 1892. Limited First Edition . Full-Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Polished brown leather boards. Vol I 3iv-viii333pdepribbed Gilt title on spine. Vol II 5vi-vii395pdepribbedmaps. Interior fine Limited to 75 copies. Early owners book plate on paste-down Mrs George Washington Wales. Tooled gilt decoration on spine. <br/> <br/> Little, Brown and Company hardcover
185440305Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co 1854. Hardcover. 12mo. Red buckram with gilt spine lettering. xvii 447pp 8pp ads. Very good. A tight and nice first edition of this first important history of the state rebound 1968 in library buckram. Second state with "1818" in title rather than "1814." Noted for its coverage of such events as the Black Hawk War the early Mormon history including the death of Joseph Smith and the murder of abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy in Alton this discreet ex-library copy with very few and mostly-removed markings hails from the Black Hawk War city of Galena in northwest Illinois where Ford himself briefly resided. Byrd notes that some copies contain six pages of advertisements at the rear and some eight but suggests no priority. BRADFORD 1337. BYRD 2105. GRAFF 1380. HOWES F254. SABIN 25070. S.C. Griggs & Co hardcover
1900031217Bethlehem PA: Times Publishing Co. 1900. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original edition rebound in dark green cloth lettered in gold foil on spine panel new head- and tail-bands. Thus presents "as issued" with fully intact text block. xii632 pp. Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society Vol. VI here issued separately. A lovely gift-quality copy rendered considerably more durable by virtue of rebinding ideal for a historical society collection. Times Publishing Co. Hardcover
