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1882194111882. First Edition. Privately printed with date of 1881 on title page but actually published in 1882. 6 x 8.75 inches pp. viii 376 in original black cloth stamped in blind with gilt lettering on spine. Moderate edgewear to boards smudging/light soiling on some page margins small hole in front free endpaper; else very good. Zamorano 80 #75. Gary Kurutz writes in the Dorothy Sloan Zamorano 80 Catalogue: Tyler's narrative has long been considered the authoritative work on this heroic battalion of Mormon volunteers. The battalion numbering about 500 men was organized at Council Bluffs Iowa in July 1846.After reaching Santa Fe they headed to California following the Gila River. They experienced as reflected in Tylers vividly written account a journey filled with unbelieveable hardship. Thirst starvation heat and freezing cold were their constant companions." The reached San Diego in January 1847 and though they never saw combat they "established Fort Moore in Los Angeles and strengthened the American hold on California.In addition to telling the story of the trek west Tyler provides and important overview of the bitter rivalry between Stephen Watts Kearny and John C. Fremont for political control of newly conquered California; life in the pueblos of San Diego and Los Angeles; the return journey to Salt Lake City; and the role of several 'Battalion Boys' who were at Sutter's Mill on that fateful January 1848 morning when John Marshall discovered gold." Howes T-447; Cowan p. 648; Flake 9063; Graff 4226; Streeter 2314. hardcover books
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
1869008334New York: Masonic Publishing and Manufacturing Co. 1869. 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. . Early Printing. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. Small 8vo. Masonic Publishing and Manufacturing Co. Hardcover books
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
1859biblio420<p>This is the original text of Volume 1 of Logan's History for which Volume 2 was never created one story has it that his notes were mostly destroyed in a Civil War fire. Somewhere along the way this copy lost its cover and spine cloth but the text remains from title page to rear end paper thus making this an affordable candidate for rebinding.</p><p>Photo on request.</p> S.G. Courtenay & Co. hardcover
1889038245New York: Harper & Brothers 1889. First Edition. Original Cloth. Good. pp: xxii 294 with index 6 adverts. Bound in green cloth gilt spine lettering; cover spotted spine sunned. Prior owner's label on front pastedown. Inscribed on the free-endpaper: "With love and best wishes from the grandson of the author." Tipped at the top of the page is a clipped signature of Eli Thayer. 7.5" x 5" Covers the repeal of the Missouri Compromise the New England Emigrant Aid Company which Thayer organized Horace Greeley's Plan of Freedom Antislavery Disunionists Abolitionists Kansas and John Brown &c. Socolofsky & Dean Kansas Bibliography 716. Harper & Brothers unknown
18595137<p>Good softcover with ephemera. Scuffed lightly soiled wrappers; split in wrapper at spine upper third; 1 inch closed tear at front cover fore edge; clean interior with slight general age darkening. 8vo 61 pp 7 pp appendixes. Cf Bassett # 3964. Laid in is a postcard showing dedication of Civil War monument in Coventry 1912.</p> Irasburgh, VT: A.A. Earle, Printer paperback
1881biblio672<p>This is a completely preserved near-unique copy of a Lancaster County Pennsylvania Dutch congregation with its surrounding ministries recorded in 1881 and thus invaluable source of cultural hiustory as well as genealogical data. A true rarity.</p><p>Phoitos on request.</p> Record Printing Office hardcover
1885056057Cincinnati: J. R. Baumes 1885. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 671 8 pages indexed. Hardcover bound in original brown cloth. Heavy wear to the binding which is covered with several strips of brown cloth book tape over the spine and boards. An ex-library copy with full markings. Inner hinges taped. The text is toned but is generally clean. A reading or reference copy only. Volume II Only. <br/> <br/> J. R. Baumes hardcover
1870DEMO003141IPhiladelphia: John Campbell 1870. First edition. printed wrappers. Good . Octavos 478 pages wrappers of pt.1 very chipped worn; others very good - fine. <br/><br/>Containing a Full Account of the First Dutch and Swedish Settlements with a description of its geography and geology. Howes V110. This is the Issue in 15 Parts. John Campbell unknown
1877799Pennsylvania: Valley Sentinel Office 1877. Hardcover. Fair. Blue hardcover lacking dustjacket no additional printings listed so probably first edition. A fair to good copy with heavy wear to the extremeties most pronounced at the spine ends. Both hinges are split and fragile but boards still attached. Front free endpaper detached otherwise all pages bound in and intact. Previous owners inscriptions to the first blank - one from 1881 and one from 1968 - otherwise an unmarked copy. Pages with age toning and a bit of foxing text clean and legible. 263 pp. indexed ahistory of the church's first 100 years. Laid in at front is a newspaper article from the local paper about a man who brings his chair to the Presbyterian Church to spend the day after the local benches were all removed. <br/><br/> Valley Sentinel Office hardcover
187624332Saint Paul: published by the Minnesota Historical Society 1876. First and only edition 8vo 475pp. 5 engraved portraits many others and 9 views in text; a very good sound copy in contemporary half brown morocco slightly scuffed. This is the first full history of St. Paul and Ramsey County. <br/><br/> published by the [Minnesota Historical] Society unknown books
18764340Saint Paul: published by the Minnesota Historical Society 1876. First and only edition 8vo 475pp. 5 engraved portraits many others and 9 views in text; a fine copy in orig. dec. green cloth stamped in gilt and black; this copy enhanced by two ownership signatures of Edward Bromley Minneapolis Minnesota's earliest important photographer. This is the first full history of St. Paul and Ramsey County. <br/><br/> published by the [Minnesota Historical] Society hardcover books
1890SJ5201Greeley CO: The Greeley Tribune Press 1890. front gutter reglued with former owner's signature in light pencil on ffep; the aged textblock is overall clean and tight; binding lightly character and shelf worn with frayed and bumped lower corners; 448pp. including index. Wynar/Depp 1461. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. The Greeley Tribune Press Hardcover
183418883New York: Printed by B.G. Jansen 1834. Paperback. Orig. blue stitched wrappers. Near fine. 8 pages. 15 x 10 cm. Eleven paragraphs of rules and regulations. Internally clean and fresh. A few worm holes in front cover spine head. Printed by B.G. Jansen paperback books
