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2994Albany: The Government 1853. . 8vo disbound gutter showing evidence of previous pamphlet binding State of New York Senate Report No. 13 Albany: The Government, 1853. unknown books
1811104126<p>Pamphlet 8vo removed cloth spine and cardboard folder not attached 35pp. Ex-library blindstamp on title page some notes on endpapers last leaf partially detached small tape repair on back endpaper some browning staining and foxing throughout; still a very respectable copy. This is a somewhat scarce early title on the development of the Erie Canal. The pamphlet appears to discuss the benefits of developing the canal about six years before work began on this project. De Witt Clinton a strong advocate for the canal was one of the contributors to this report and his name appears in print on the last page. There is an old receipt dated February 28 1968 for this item included in the folder. </p> S. Southwick, books
1812104127<p>Pamphlet 8vo stitched 40 pp. Some chipping and folds at edges last leaf loose has a couple of small holes corner missing and tear with loss of a few words on page 39 a few additional tears some soiling signature on title browning and aging. This is an early title on the development of the Erie Canal. The pamphlet discusses some of the costs involved names some key people. Includes a short message from James Madison praising the project. Terms of the plan passed by the legislature are also included. De Witt Clinton a strong advocate for the canal was one of the contributors to part of this report and his name appears in print on page twenty-one. </p><br /> S. Southwick, books
195683956Saigon: the advisory group 1956. iv 34p. 20; appendices pull-out charts. Standard leaves mimeo'd recto professionally-printed cover and charts within 11 x 8.5 inch staplebound fastening with binder's tape spine. Somewhat browned a nice copy. A look at actualities of Thai top-down controls how to bring the economy into alignment with western practice; a circumspect but plainly realpolitik analysis. the advisory group unknown books
1889009294Albany: The Troy Press Company Printers 1889. First Edition. Cloth Hardcover. NF-. Original binding of dark brown fine ribbed cloth gilt-pressed titles spine. 410 pages. Gilt soiled at spine and a short tear to cloth at spine foot else near fine. A solid. clean copy. The Troy Press Company, Printers hardcover books
18461412Albany 1846. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 8pp removed lightly foxed. <br/><br/> unknown books
195972591Albany 1959. Paperback. Very Good. 62 ii 146p. Blue wrapper. 28cm. <br/><br/> paperback books
1915008918Washington D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Fisheries 1915. SCARCE study of the Alaska fishing industry 155 pages with numerous black and white photographs many of them of Native American fishermen. This copy finely bound and from the private collection of Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt noted North Carolina geologist conservationist and state and local civic leader and later during WW I he was colonel in command of the First Battalion of the 105th Engineers and part of the famous Thirtieth "Old Hickory" Division the first to break the Hindenburg Line. Bound in full black calf without original paper wrappers A distinctive copy of this SCARCE title. with gilt lettering Pratt's name in gilt and gilt rules marbled end papers and edges. Near Fine final blank end paper with worm holes at edge. . First Edition. Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries Hardcover books
183617436Washington D.C.: Gales and Seaton 1836. First edition 8vo pp. 168; 4 engraved plates plus a large folding map in separate sleeve of later green cloth paper label on spine; original brown cloth extremities faded some spotting bookplate removed else very good. This copy inscribed to "The Hon. Mr. Woodbury with the comps. of the author." The map which measures approx. 27 1/2" x 40" shows "a portion of the Indian country lying east and west of the Mississippi River to the forty-sixth degree of north latitude" showing much of Wisconsin and sections of Illinois Minnesota and Iowa and all of Lake Michigan. The result of a British scientist's geological reconnaissance through the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi valley in 1835-37. Featherstonhaugh began his journey in Washington D.C. and traveled via Pittsburgh and Cleveland before visiting Detroit and travelling by canoe on Lakes Huron and Michigan to Mackinac and Green Bay thence via the Fox and Mississippi Rivers to Saint Anthony and Fort Snelling where Featherstonhaugh's party ascended the Minnesota River as far as Lake Traverse on the Dakota border and back again via Lake Pepin Galena and Saint Louis. His travels by canoe in Wisconsin and Minnesota are of particular interest. Not in Howes or Graff; Sabin 23963. <br/><br/> Gales and Seaton hardcover books
183915467Washington: Blair & Rives 1839. 8vo. 73 pp. <br><br>Extremely detailed account in table form with good introduction of reciprocities duties restrictions etc. in place for U.S. ships doing business abroad. Government document: 26th Congress 1t Session Senate doc. 80. Removed from a nonce volume. Stab holes in inner margins from old binding. Blair & Rives unknown books
196846862Trenton: Governor's Select Commission on Civil Disorder State of New Jersey 1968. First Edition. Quarto 28cm.; publisher's grey printed card wrappers; xii201pp.; illus. External wear and soil; internally clean tight and unmarked; Very Good. Government-sponsored report on the causes effects and potential remedies to the civil disturbances of 1967 with special attention to the Newark and Plainfield riots of that year. Illustrated with photographic text illustrations halftones documenting African-American ghetto life in New Jersey's industrial cities. Governor's Select Commission on Civil Disorder, State of New Jersey unknown books
189220457Saint Paul: D.D. Merrill Company 1892. First edition in English second issue sheets bulking at 13/16"; the Note on p. iii beginning "These reminiscences" 8vo iv & 314pp. frontis portrait of the author illus. in the text throughout; very good sound copy in orig. brown cloth gilt. The trials and fortunes of a Swedish emigrant who made his way from Sweden to Minnesota where he later became secretary of state and U.S. consul to India. He exerted a wide influence in settlers to the state. <br/><br/> D.D. Merrill Company hardcover books
1990236187Privately Printed 1990. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Illustrations; Gift note written on short title page otherwise no markings in text. Green cloth binding. Very light edgewear to lower extremities. Very light edgewear to bottom edges of dustjacket; DJ protected with Mylar Cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Privately Printed unknown books
17808583Hamburg: C.E. Bohn 1780. First German edition and first edition in a foreign language 8vo pp. xxiv 456; engraved folding map; nice copy of a scarce edition in 20th century 3/4 red morocco gilt by Stikeman. A seminal book in the history of the exploration of the American west and a cornerstone in Minnesota history. Peace between Great Britain and France at the close of the French and Indian Wars in 1763 brought eastern Minnesota under the British flag for the first time thus opening the vast territory to British fur traders. "Carver spent the winter of 1766-67 a short distance up the Minnesota River with the Sioux. He was then serving as mapmaker and advance man on an expedition led by Captain James Tute and inspired by Maj. Robert Rogers commandant at Fort Mackinac intended to cross the continent in quest of the Northwest Passage. The plan had to be given up but Carver later wrote and published an account of his travels which became a "best seller" of its day and gave to thousands on both sides of the Atlantic their first information about the Minnesota country" Fridley A Sketch of Minnesota p. 3. Sabin 11187. <br/><br/> C.E. Bohn unknown books
1920008758Chester PA: Press of Chester Times 1920. RARE WorldCat shows no holdings. In original grey cloth gilt lettering Very Good Minus prior owner name front paste down most likely a cadet cloth soiled rear hinge open front hinge starting stains to end papers. 55 pages With 2 blank Quartermaster receipts laid in. Pennsylvania Military College was known as the"West Point of the Keystone State". . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Press of Chester Times Hardcover books
1882593911882. REGISTER OF THE COMMANDERY OF THE STATE OF MASS. Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. REGISTER OF THE COMMANDERY OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. Constitution and By-Laws 1882. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill 1882. First edition. Small 4to. mustard cloth lettered in gilt. Bookplate. Sun-darkening to cloth; slight bumps with some light fraying to edges. Ffep and first blank which bears some edge-tears detached but present. Clean internally; about very good overall. unknown books
198145718Saint Paul: Midnight Paper Sales Press 1981. Edition limited to 15 copies 274 mm. Bifolium with a wrap-around band on which is printed "Refugee" and with a printed leaf beginning "White feathers swept." mounted on the verso of the first leaf. Linoleum cut numbered and signed by GS on the recto of the second leaf. Gaylord was unhappy with this effort and he recollects now that he may have destroyed part of the edition. Quarter to Midnight A-42. <br/><br/> Midnight Paper Sales Press unknown books
1978226937<p>First edition so stated. Octavo. Pictorial endpapers from b/w photographs. Dust jacket typography by Al Nagy and watercolor wash drawing by Hubert Shuptrine unclipped. Very good. 469 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Signed and inscribed by Louis Nizer on the half title page: "To Bryan with warm regards Louis Nizer Oct. 1978." Includes a chapter on pornography and comments on several Hollywood personalities.</p> Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover books
19832222006<p>Oblong 4to 8 1/2" x 10 1/2". Edited by Peter E. Palmquist. Preface and catalog by Gary F. Kurutz. Original brown cloth. Plain glassine dust jacket short tears; few nicks. As new. 114 pages.</p><p>One of 600 copies printed by The Yolla Bolly Press.</p><p>A study of the rare 1884 edition; reproduces 25 photographs from the various printings.</p> The Book Club of California hardcover books
187114344Montreal: for the author by John Lovell 1871. First edition 8vo pp. 506; very good in orig. maroon cloth gilt-lettered spine. Travels from Quebec via Chicago and St. Paul to Fort Abercrombie and the Red River settlement in Manitoba and a history thereof. <br/><br/> for the author by John Lovell hardcover books
199743820St. Petersburg: Palace Edition / The State Russian Museum 1997. First Edition. Quarto 30.5cm x 25.5cm. Pictorical paper boards hardcover; 184pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelfwear to corner tips else clean and tight. Catalogue published on the occasion of an exhibition of works from the State Russian Museum devoted to the color red in Russian art. 207 color reproductions. Palace Edition / The State Russian Museum unknown books
1778296649Philadelphia: Chez Cellot & Jombert 1778. First. hardcover. near fine. 12 370 pages. Thick 12mo attractively bound in contemporary mottled calf with gilt-decorated spine leather worn at head; light foxing throughout; pages trimmed a bit close at top but otherwise with ample margins. Philadelphie et se vend a Paris: Chez Cellot & Jombert 1778. First Edition. A near fine copy with original drab wrappers bound in.<br/><br/> The earliest collection of American state constitutions printed in France. Contains early printing in French in a book of the Articles of Confederation and the Declaration of Independence. "First collected edition compiled by Regnier." Howes R-111.<br/><br/> Chez Cellot & Jombert unknown books
1778262556Paris: Chez les Libraires Associes 1778. hardcover. very good-. Auquel on a joint les Actes d'Independence; de Confederation.Dedie a M. le Docteur Franklin. 10 370pp. 16mo 19th century 1/2 calf with marbled boards leather label light foxing to some pages mostly to margins otherwise very good. En Suisse i. e. Paris: Chez les Libraires Associes 1778. Second Edition.<br/><br/> The earliest collection of American state constitutions printed in France. Contains early printing in French in a book of the Articles of Confederation and the Declaration of Independence. "First collected edition compiled by Regnier." Howes R-111. The edition was printed in Paris and not in Switzerland. Using a imprint outside of France was done by the French printer so that the French government could disassociate itself from a book that might be deemed as not expressing the official government's viewpoint.<br/><br/> Chez les Libraires Associes unknown books
1778152956Philadelphia: Chez Cellot & Jombert 1778. First. hardcover. near fine. 12 370 pages. Thick 12mo handsomely rebound in modern tree calf with red & green leather labels on gilt-decorated spine; deckled edges very light foxing and staining to some pages but mostly the text is bright and clean with wide margins. Philadelphie et se vend a Paris: Chez Cellot & Jombert 1778. First Edition. A near fine copy with original drab wrappers bound in.<br/><br/> The earliest collection of American state constitutions printed in France. Contains early printing in French in a book of the Articles of Confederation and the Declaration of Independence. "First collected edition compiled by Regnier." Howes R-111.<br/><br/> Chez Cellot & Jombert unknown books
18888470Port Jefferson L.I. Times Steam Job Print: Town of Brookhaven 1888. 551 pages table of contents; including much of interest concerning the early settlement of Brookhaven town and surrounds: disputes land transfers bonds and sale of goods oysters & oystering lands; Laurel Hill negro burial ground; islands in the Bay fishing and fisheries wildfowl schools highways arbitration of boundary line between Brookhaven and Smithtown Palace Brook Quanch beach flats railway; roads slavers and slave holdings South Bay various interests; town and trustee meetings; the extensive table of contents which acts as a paginated index finishes with the "Note. The careful reader may perhaps find many treasures in this volume not indicated in the foregoing Table but probably the list will be found sufficiently comprehensive and minute for all practical purposes."; more; laid-in is a circa 1930s carbon copy on tissue of a typed letter from Henry Ward Beer of New York regarding Pasture Road and various historical boundaries and mapping information regarding it - seemingly with a view to sell the property adjacent to the road; original publishers' olive cloth binding gilt spine titles; some edge tips wear and rubbing to binding short 1/8" closed tear to top spine cloth; short closed tear to endpaper; very good condition; interesting genealogy local history information for this Long Island township. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Town of Brookhaven Hardcover books