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189639060Sacramento: State Office A. J. Johnston. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth/gilt. Small area of biopredation to spine. Corners lightly bumped. Sound and square. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 726 pages . State Office, A. J. Johnston hardcover
189849548Albany NY: State of New York. Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn hinges cracked corners . bumped. 1898. Hardcover. Annual report covering the year 1897 by the Fisheries Game and Forest Commissioners of New York State. Numerous photographs and illustrations maps one color folding map of catchment basins of some New York State rivers has hole in center. Green decorated cloth boards. Includes sections about maple sugaring game fish fish hatcheries fishways wood-ducks snipe forestry forest reservoirs and other topics. Some beautiful color plates of fish species. Nine color plates by Sherman F. Denton of Cisco White Bass Silver Chub Female Common Whitefish Rocky Mountain Trout Steelhead Golden Shiner Alewife and Male Common Whitefish. Five color plates by J. H. Ridgway of birds: Kingfisher Great Blue Heron Male Woodduck Female Woodduck and Wilson's Snipe. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 455 pages . State of New York hardcover
185077981Albany NY.: Weed Parsons & Company Public Printers. Very Good. 1850. Hardcover. 9 1/4 x 6 inches bound in a sunned brown / plum colored cloth with faded spine and small loss at tail of spine. See photos. Cut out of upper 1/3 of front free endpage otherwise contents are complete and bright. Terrific color plates / some folding with some offsetting. . Weed, Parsons & Company, Public Printers hardcover
1868015469Jefferson City MO: Ellwood Kirby 1868. Spine lettered in gilt. Old water-stains to corners first 50 pages. Frontispiece illustration of a sorghum evaporating range. Quite a clean copy. Article of wine districts of Missouri has 4 pages of diagrams of planting techniques. Chapters on minerals education plants. 447pp. 6pp index. . First Edition. Black Embossed Cloth. Moderate Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. Demy Octavo. Ellwood Kirby Hardcover
1857ZB454364Albany: 1857. 106 pp bottom half damp stained throughout paper wrappers. - 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. Albany: unknown
188024198Boston and New York: Lee and Shepard; Charles T. Dillingham 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 6" x 7.5" 19 leaves printed rectos only. Original brick red cloth decorated in black with gilt title beveled edges all edges gilt. Offsetting to first leaf dedication from something once laid in; else fine. Curry and Kruska 25: "A poem extolling the natural wonders of Yosemite. Of interest for the sixteen woodcut illustrations" by Smillie who wrote and illustrated the chapter on Yosemite in William Cullen Bryant's Picturesque America 1872. Lee and Shepard; Charles T. Dillingham hardcover
185461500<p>NY: G. P. Putnam and Company. Fair with no dust jacket; Boards heavily worn lower half of backstrip missing pages toned page 61-62 removed lower corners of pages 63-64 and . pages 47-48 removed. 1854. Hardcover. Brown cloth binding 504 illustrations including a color plate of Minton tiles. Well-illustrated survey of the art works housewares fabrics machinery and scientific items displayed at the 1853-54 New York City Industry of All Nations world's fair. The fair was America's first patterned after the successful 1851 Crystal Palace exhibition in London. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall .</p> G. P. Putnam and Company hardcover
189012351San Francisco: The Bancroft Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. The decorated covers are lightly soiled with rubbing at the corners. The spine is darkened. Very clean & tight internally. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 152 pages . The Bancroft Company hardcover
187224393Boston and New York: Alexander Moore and Lee Shepard & Dillingham 1872. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition revised and enlarged; second printing. Small quarto pp. v-x xi-xii 13-98 with two maps and 20 original mounted albumen photographs credited to Boston photographer John Soule. In publisher's green cloth with beveled edges; front board decorated in gilt black and rose; all edges gilt; each text page and each photograph bordered in red. A very good copy with rubbing and fraying to corners and spine ends bookplate of Canadian bookseller and collector G. Ducharme on front pastedown handwritten date of December 15 1872 on front free endpaper evidence of an erased ink stamp on title page. Lacks tissue guard over plate facing p. 35 all others present. Contents sound and clean. This is the rarest and most desirable edition of this work as it is the only one to contain 20 rather than 10 mounted photographs. Kneeland 1821-1888 was a physician naturalist and Professor of Zoology and Physiology at MIT. This book is based on his first visit to the Yosemite Valley in 1870 and includes a narrative of his trip from and return to Boston. "Kneeland made every effort to obtain current and accurate information and each of the later editions of the guide incorporates new material.Weston J. Naef in his book Era of Exploration the Rise of Landscape Photography in the American West 1860-1885.comments that the photographs 'are curious because there is no evidence that Soule a talented landscape photographer was ever in California.which suggests that he might have purchased the negatives from a California photographer not an uncommon transaction'" Currey & Kruska 225. Eadweard Muybridge and Martin Hazeltine are both considered strong candidates to have been the actual photographer. Farqhuar #10; Cowan p. 333. Only two copies of this edition have appeared at auction in the past 30 years and there are no others on the market as of September 2025. Alexander Moore [and] Lee, Shepard & Dillingham hardcover
1874AC2590Lancaster PA: Inquirer Printing and Publishing Co. 1874. Ex-library original copy minimally marked; Surface abraided at the spine from removal of book from a cardboard sleeve; Moderately worn edges and heavily worn covers. Aged but Clean and tight textblock. 53p. Howes C614. Wynar/Depp 6729. First Edition. Tan Wraps. Good. 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Ex-Library Paperback. Inquirer Printing and Publishing Co. Paperback
185419316New York: J.H. Colton & Co 1854. 16mo pp. 89 23 4; large folding hand-colored map of the region approx. 21" x 26"; one short split at one fold otherwise the map is generally in fine condition; original red cloth gilt stamped on upper cover extremities rubbed and the binding slightly stained front free flyleaf excised old pencil notes on rear flyleaf in German; pretty good copy. Howes S615. J.H. Colton & Co unknown
18801615London: Cassell Petter Galpin & Co 1880. Paperback. 16mo. Wrappers. 30pp. Very good. ".ALL HONOUR WESTERN FARMERS OF AMERICA TO THE BRAVE AND BLESSED WORK WHICH YOUR INDOMITABLE ENERGY AND BRAWNY ARMS ARE ACCOMPLISHING!" One of a series of publications of the Cobden Club which espoused free trade among nations. "The golden rule for successful trading is 'to buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market'" writes Mongredien. "Strange to say the American farmer reverses this rule." He argues for reducing import duties 5% per year until abolished. First edition. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co paperback
18966759Westminster UK: Archibald Constable 1896. Hardcover. Good. A.D. McCormick. New Edition stated; 8vo original blue cloth no dj; good cocked; gilt illustration on front board rubbed; gilt on top edge darkened; edges foxed; spine ends and corners bumped and worn corners to boards; hinges starting; cracked at pp1 32-3 64-5 80-1 160-1 176-7 and 192-3; library stamp on ffep only library mark; tear to title page; owner's name with 1902 date on half-title page; frontis with interleaf title page and folding map in rear foxed; light sporadic foxing to text; plates both painted and photographed still bright. 277 pp. <br/> <br/> Archibald Constable hardcover
1845001628New York: J. H. Colton 1845. Book. Good. Decorative Cloth. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Orig. issued 1839 this an early edition 5th overall with revised title from 1843 edition later issued as "Colton's Traveller and tourist's guide-book through the western states and territories." Howes W 615. Brown blind-decorated cloth gilt lettering. Cloth quite faded with frayed extremities underboards exposed at corners soiling and dampstaining to rear cover a bit cocked. Modest dampstaining to upper fore-edge corner of all interior leaves present but not pronounced. All leaves firm modestly toned with little foxing evident. Former owner signature in pencil on front flyleaf. Portion of map present at rear mostly lacking showing portions of western Missouri southern Iowa and "Indian Territory" later Oklahoma to the west. Rear pastedown also contains original bookseller's tag from Chicago Book Store S. F. Gale & Co. Chicago. Worn but not abused acceptable as reference copy with a portion of the rare map for novelty's sake. J. H. Colton Hardcover
1849005100West Chester Pa: J. Hodgson printer 1849. Pamphlet. Very Good -. 8 p.: tables; 22 cm. Lacking wrapper. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "18" in ink at upper right-hand corner of title page. Caption title. Publication information from library records. Robert Emmet Monaghan 1822-1895 was a Pennsylvania lawyer and represented Chester County in the state legislature. His mechanical vote counter was patented on March 14 1848. This pamphlet reports on the demonstration of the machine given to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1849. Ink notations on p. 3 correct the description of the levers indicating Yea and Nay votes. In Very Good- Condition: first leaf and last leaf are detached but present; light foxing on p. 8; otherwise clean. J. Hodgson, printer unknown
1898SB14120Denver CO: The Christian Endeavor Printing Co. 1898. Ex-library copy with usual stamps stickers labels and marks; Blue cloth binding with moderate reading wear; Frayed head and foot of spine frayed corners; The library labels have been removed from the front cover leaving surface scratches and scuff marks; 64p. First Edition. Cloth. Fair to Good. Illus. by Photographs from nature; Reistle engravings by. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library Hardcover. The Christian Endeavor Printing Co. Hardcover
184716682Very Good HC no DJ. Light brown vertical rib-grain cloth over boards; front and rear covers blind stamped with tendril and scrolled bandsaround edges; front cover with gilt stamped title and central winged Father Time; spine not stamped; very pale rose end papers. Clean lightly scuffed covers and spine; gnawing damage along front and rear cover top edges at fore corners exposing boards; slight fading along cover edges; tightly bound; pencil note on front pastedown; pencil notes on daily minder section; other sections unmarked; otherwise all interior bright and clean. 24mo 144 pp; index. Woodstock, VT: Haskell and Palmer/Mercury Press hardcover
186440121Trenton 1864. Broadside 8-1/2" x 11-1/4." Addressed in ink at head of text to "Hon. Bowers Esq." Dated in typescript "Trenton September 8 1864." Signed in type at the end by W.S. Johnson S.S. Stryker Jr. and I.D. James members of the Committee on Campaign Documents. Some chipping at upper and lower blank edges. Light wear Good or so.<br /> <br /> The broadside lists 36 campaign pamphlets supporting the re-election of Abraham Lincoln and denouncing the "Copperhead Democrats." <br /> The stakes in the election could not be higher: "Hitherto parties have been divided upon questions of policy; but in the present contest the issue is boldly made up between the maintenance of our Constitutional Government on the one hand and on the other of its base and cowardly surrender to more than half vanquished treason armed in bloody array for its overthrow and the erection on its ruins of a despotism more odious than the world has tolerated in modern times."<br /> Not in Felcone. Not located on OCLC as of February 2025. unknown
1894035156Paterson NJ: Self-Published 1894. Book. Good. Original Wraps. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gray wraps lettered in black. Original edition limited to 100 copies NOT a modern facsimile. This copy shows approx. 25% loss along spine panel which has been reinforced with clear tape both covers chipped with loss along edges. xvii197 pp. Contents fully intact. Extremely scarce. Self-Published Paperback
