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17781076London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan. 1778. First edition. Folio 32 x 20cm. Unbound. 2 1007-1012. Woodcut coat of arms to the title page decorative woodcut initial to the first text page text in black letter. A very good copy with just a little toning slight separation and minor wear to the left-hand margin where once bound within a larger volume. An act restoring Ireland's ability to export goods directly to the colonies in the Americas and Africa issued in the context of the American Revolutionary War and amending what became known as the Navigation Acts. Restricting the freedoms of Britain's colonies with regard to the import and export of goods the Navigation Acts had been a significant factor in fermenting rebellious discontent in America - requiring all of a colony's imports to be either bought from Britain or resold by British merchants in Britain regardless of the price obtainable elsewhere. The acts were also resented in Ireland and damaged its economy as they permitted the importation of English goods into Ireland tariff-free and simultaneously imposed tariffs on Irish exports travelling in the opposite direction. The present act removing some of these barriers demonstrates the changing nature of British mercantilism as the American Revolution progressed. London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan. unknown
192371058New York: Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America 1923. 1st edition. Nice Copy. octavo. orig. dec. cloth viii 396pp. b/w pls. text ills. plans appendix index Covers: Commercial Aircraft in the US; National Airplane races; Airship progress in 1922; Technical progress in aircraft production; Aircraft & Engine design etc. with 56 nice three-view aircraft plans. Memorial bookplate on front paste-down. Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America hardcover
194928157London:: Longmans & Green 1949. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Very Good plus copy in an unclipped dust jacket with chipping to the extremities and spots of paper loss to the front panel and spine. The author recounts the suppression of the foreign slave trade by England's Royal Navy with the help of Foreign Office records dispatches between naval commanders and slave trade commissioners Parliament debates and the logs of certain ships. The English Navy worked both the east and west coasts of Africa in its attempts to bring an end to the slave trade. Illustrated with plates and two maps. Longmans & Green, unknown
ORD-8410°Année. N°28 (29, 30). Draguignan. Fabre. 1829. In-8 plein parchemin, dos noirci, 161pp.
187012108Paris, Armand-Aubrée, sans date (circa 1870) ; in-8, demi-veau glacé havane, dos lisse, faux nerfs dorés, fleurons décoratifs, titre doré ; (2), 451, (1) pp., 1 gravure aquarellée en frontispice.
72856Strasbourg, Imprimerie Alsacienne, 1924, grand in 4° relié demi-percaline rouge à coins de l'éditeur, dos lisse orné, 488 pages.
56548Pullman & Seattle WA: Frank A. Golder 1912. Atlas folio. Five leaves sized from 12 x 22 in. up to 22.75 x 28 in. 1st. - Pencil manuscript on hand-ruled graph chart w/ boxes all filled in some additions on thick yellow paper stock two pieces taped together on verso; 2nd - Original typescript w/ some corrections made on typing paper two pieces taped on verso minor tear creasing; 3rd -- Blueprint from typescript; 4 & 5 both typescript copies on thin typing paper couple minor closed tears still VG set. Original manuscript and typescript tables prepared by Golder 1877-1929 for early lectures on Russian economic and diplomatic history and “A Survey of Alaska 1743-1799†1913. Published in the Washington Historical Quarterly these charts trace the growth and economic impact of the Russian fur trade from the 18th Century into the 19th Century. At the time Golder was unable to find one single source of the information so he created his own charts and they chronicle the growth and impact of the fur trade in Alaska breaking down not only all the vessels navigators and owners but also the types of cargo including beaver fox sea otter otter tails sea bears sea lions whale mustaches walrus tusks blue arctic fox and their values. The two additional typescript tables separate out the furs from the Chelichof and Golikofs Co. i.e. Shelikhov-Golikov Co. from 1786-1797 notorious for their massacres of indigenous Alutiiqs in 1784 on Kodiak Island known as the Awa’uq Massacre allowing the Russian Co. control over the island. Directly afterwards Golder spent the next decade actively working in Russian Archives during the Russian Revolution and eventually produced his Guide to Materials for American History in Russian Archives and built the massive Slavic language collection at the Hoover War History Collection. Frank A. Golder, unknown
191546794Alhambra: Alhambra Chamber of Commerce May 1st 1915. 1915. 7 3/4" x 5 1/4" in pictorial brown wrappers bound with staples. 31pp. Illustrations. Descriptive booklet with facts and figures about the city information of it's library schools fire department banks churches manufactories etc. as well as no shortage of booster slogans including "California’s Suburban Home Place" and "Thirty Minutes from Broadway Los Angeles Cal." Includes numerous captioned black and white photographs including images of the Alhambra Fire Department its schools businesses and some of the city's palatial residences. Rear panel missing. Scarce. Alhambra Chamber of Commerce, May 1st, 1915. unknown
235938Paris, Antoine Bailleul, an VII (1799) in-8, [2] ff. n. ch., 113 pp., 20 pp., broché sous couverture d'attente de papier noir, non coupé. Abondantes mouillures claires.
1896List2820Sonora and Groveland CA; Portland OR; and Orange NJ 1896. 8 ½ x 13 ½ inch cash book thirty-two pages with nine loose sheets. Fine. A cash book for an unnamed business selling out of California Oregon and New Jersey in 1896. The book records total merchandise value cash and accounts liabilities individual sales and so on. The business sold a variety of items from raw cloth and furniture to food coffee and tea and soap. Most of the entries are from Sonora; located on California’s Mother Lode Sonora was by 1896 a bustling mining town. unknown
22684Philadelphia: Printed by John Richards No. 130 North Third Street. 1839. The full title is: 'An Address to the Quarterly Monthly and Preparative Meetings and the Members thereof composing the Yearly Meeting of Friends held in Philadelphia By the Committee appointed at the late Yearly Meeting to have charge of the Subject of Slavery.' 12pp 12mo. Pamphlet in original plain brown wraps. In good condition lightly aged and worn. Begins with two pages of extracts from the minutes 17 May 1839 regarding the setting up of the committee on 'the deeply interesting subject of Slavery' with reference to 'Benjamin Price Jr. Clerk' and 'Deborah F. Wharton Clerk.' The address itself 'Signed by direction and on behalf of the Committee by John Jackson Clerk' is eight pages long. Towards the beginning it notes that 'Many of our forefathers were slave-holders and the unrighteous practice of holding our fellow-creatures in bondage was not then forbidden by our discipline.' The change of policy is described with reference to 'Anthony Benezet and John Woolman'. Later the address notes: 'The advancement of this righteous concern and the increase of light upon the subject of human rights are causing this system of iniquity to totter to its base. Hence under the influence of fearful excitement many are putting forth their strength to impede the progress of principles which if ultimately triumphant will break the fetters of the slave. A part of the trading interests at the North is evidently involved with those of the South and an influence is in this way exerted against the onward course of Emancipation; thus light and darkness antagonize each other.' And later still: 'Within a few years great events hae occurred in relation to Slavery and much light has been spread on the subject. The experience derived from Emancipation in the British West Indies has opened a new era. . while we have painful evidence that a great body of slave-holders are influenced by injustice and cruelty . There are many whose consciences are burdened by a system which they derived from their ancestors . the money of the slave-trader is temptingly held up before them; . they cannot separate the tender ties of family connexion among their slaves; they dare not receive the price of blood. . We believe they are fervently desiring the deliverance of master and slave from the bondage to which both are subjected. Their hearts have bounded with joy at the success of Emancipation in the British West Indies; it has opened a door of hope thaty they also may be legally permitted to prove the advantage of requited labour over that which is extorted by the lash of the oppressor. .'. The entries on OCLC WorldCat are not clear but the item is uncommon. Philadelphia: Printed by John Richards, No. 130 North Third Street. 1839. paperback
186187508Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss 1861. Later edition first published 1856. 12mo 18cm. Publisher's full morocco elaborately embossed with gilt titles and matching gilt devices to front and rear boards; all edges gilt; 300pp; frontispiece engraved extra-title and 4 inserted leaves of plates; 4pp publisher's catalog bound in at end of text. Mild overall rubbing with some softness to leather at head and heel; top edge gilt slightly oxidized; still a sound Very Good copy in a quite lovely mid-19th c. gift binding. Early pencil gift inscription to a Mary F. Sisson dated 1854. <br /> <br /> A religious and temperance miscellany mostly short moral tales with a few verse works interspersed. T.S. Arthur 1809-1885 is best-remembered for his hugely popular temperance trace Ten Nights in A Bar-Room and What I Saw There 1854 but he was an incredibly prolific writer churning out more than 100 titles between 1840 and the early 1880s. For the current work see WRIGHT II:150 recording one copy of an 1856 edition by the current publisher and another the same year from a Chicago publisher. H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss unknown
1219s.l.: s.n. . . 8vo side-stitched; age-darkened and chipped; uncut and unopened; bottom lower right of all leaves dog-eared not affecting text. Sabin 105462Ñnot differentiating between this 14 pp. printing and one with 8 pp. The American Antiquarian Society's copy of the 14 pp. edition has a contemporary ownership signature dated 12 June 1810" on title. A Federalist pamphlet in the Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign of 1810 s.l.: s.n., . unknown
3267Marseille, Imprimerie Samat et Cie, 1906. 1 volume in-4, 341 pp., très nombreuses illustrations photographiques en noir et blanc, 3 cartes dépliantes in fine, reliure toile d'éditeur, coiffes émoussées, petit accroc sur le dos, intérieur en bon état.
1830843271830 Paris, Imprimerie de Selligue, 1830, plaquette in 8° brochée, 76 pages ; couverture bleue imprimée de parution.
34359Marseille, Imprimerie Marseillaise, 1911, in 12 broché, couverture cartonnée, 265 pages ; nombreuses publicités sur papier rose, en début et fin d'ouvrage ; couvetrure légèrement fanée. RARE.
Second Edition, 4to, half-title, [4], 30, [2] pp., signed on p. 27: John Anstie, with a final leaf containing a resolution of the Wool Meeting at the Crown and Anchor, March 17, 1788, stitched as issued. Although John Anstie wrote several pamphlets about the wool trade there does not seem to be a first edition of this work.
200429171New York:: Carroll & Graf 2004. First Printing of the First US Edition. A fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This history of the antiquarian booksellers of New York unfolds just south of 14th Street in Manhattan mostly on the seven blocks of Fourth Avenue bracketed by Union Square and Astor Place. There for nearly eight decades from the 1890s to the 1960s thrived a bibliophiles' paradise. They called it the New York Booksellers' Row or more commonly Book Row. It's an American story the story that this richly anecdotal historical memoir amiably tells: as American as the rags-to-riches tale of the Strand which began its life as book stall on Eighth Street and today houses 2.5 million volumes in twelve miles of space. It's a story cast with colorful characters: like the horse-betting poker-playing go-getter and book dealer George D. Smith; the irascible Russian-born book hunter Peter Stammer the visionary Theodore C. Schulte; Lou Cohen founder of the still-surviving Argosy Book Store; gentleman bookseller George Rubinowitz and his legendary shrewd wife Jenny. Rising rents street crime urban redevelopment television-the reasons are many for the demise of Book Row but in this volume based on interviews with dozens upon dozens of the book people who bought sold and collected there it lives again. Carroll & Graf, unknown
6184Registre de la maison Louis Comandon Cognac Kakena, copies de lettres du 8 novembre 1888 au 24 février 1889. grand in quarto : 500 feuillets et 82 pp. de répertoire, 1/2 rel. verte d'ép. Pièce de titre rouge, belle vignette illustrée noir et or sur le premier plat.
6185Registre de la maison Louis Comandon Cognac Kakena, copies de lettres du 25 février 1889 au 29 juillet 1889. grand in quarto : 500 feuillets et 82 pp. de répertoire, 1/2 rel. verte d'ép. Pièce de titre rouge, belle vignette illustrée noir et or sur le premier plat.
6186Registre de la maison Louis Comandon Cognac Kakena, copies de lettres du 21 mai 1890 au 17 novembre 1890. grand in quarto : 497 feuillets et 82 pp. de répertoire, 1/2 rel. verte d'ép. Pièce de titre rouge, belle vignette noir et or sur le premier plat.
6187Registre de la maison Louis Comandon Cognac Kakena, copies de lettres du 21 novembre au 28 février 1891. grand in quarto : 496 feuillets et 82 pp. de répertoire, 1/2 rel. verte d'ép. Pièce de titre rouge, belle vignette noir et or sur le premier plat.
6188Registre de la maison Louis Comandon Cognac Kakena, copies de lettres du 25 mars 1891 au 15 août 1891. grand in quarto : 502 feuillets et 82 pp. de répertoire, 1/2 rel. verte d'ép. Pièce de titre rouge, belle vignette illustrée noir et or sur le premier plat.
6189Registre de la maison Louis Comandon Cognac Kakena, copies de lettres du 11 juillet 1893 au 1er mars 1894. grand in quarto : 500 feuillets et 82 pp. de répertoire, 1/2 rel. verte d'ép. Pièce de titre rouge, belle vignette noir et or sur le premier plat.
