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189110515Phoenix Insurance Co 1891. Paperback. Used - Good. May 1891. 30 leaves fronts only 1p Contents 29 halftones of Phoenix-insured buildings: Institution for Deaf Mutes Danville KY; Library Lafayette IN: Congregational Church Grinnell IA; Methodist Church Wooster OH; Yankton College SD; Lane Theological Seminary Cincinnati; Calvary Church Louisville; Congregational Church Cedar Rapids; Congregational Church New Hampton IA; Tainter Memorial Menomonie WI; State Normal School Terre Haute; Schools in Waukon IA Arcola IL Ishpeming MI Lake City CO Shawano WI Farmington IL Hastings MI Chippewa Falls WI Lamar CO; University of Michigan Ann Arbor; Cumberland Church Sedalia MO; Church of Annunciation Houston; Presbyterian Church Austin; St. Mary's South Bend; Art Museum Cincinnati; First Presbyterian St. Louis; Center College Danville KY. 6x9" printed wrapper. Wrap bit soiled few edge nicks VG. Phoenix Insurance Co paperback
18651272081899NY: Carleton 1865. Purple cloth. Cloth waterstained & buckled missing 1/2" top spine front cover partially torn at joint and reglued: Good-. text clean/bright/tight. small 8vo. illustrated in black & white by the author. 1st edition. BAL 4651: 5 states noted. This copy represents a 6th: signature mark for 3rd sig is NOT present but 4th is. Artemus Ward's 2nd book is advertised by title "His Travels". LWII 740 Hamilton-- Illustrators #693 Carleton hardcover
188527883Boston: Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co. Boston & New York 1885. Business card 3" x 5" printed on white card stock on both sides using several different typesettings. Front of card has detailed engraving of the Phenix Iron Foundry buildings with people and carriages along the streets surrounding the foundry and water and ships in the background. Quite clean. Very attractive Near Fine.<br /> <br /> The Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company moved to Chelsea Mass. in the early 1880s. This business card was probably engraved and printed within the several years preceding that move. The Phenix Iron Company was established in 1830 and incorporated as a stock company in 1832. The foundry produced some of the earliest American textile-printing machines including the first American-made calico printing machine. Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co., Boston & New York unknown
1893MASTER193243ICHICAGO: PHOENIX PUBLISHING CO. G IN WRAPS. STAPLE-BOUND TEXT. PAGES TONING. Pages: 272. . 1893. TRADE PAPERBACK. LIGHT WEAR & EDGEWEAR. SMALL CHIP & TEAR TO LAST PAGE. LIGHT SOILING. TEXT BLOCK CLEAN INTACT. . PHOENIX PUBLISHING CO. paperback
1865002985New York: Carleton Publisher 1865. Pebbled green cloth lettered in gold on spine. Light blue endpapers. Illustrated with numerous comic line drawings by author. Tips lightly bumped and cloth shows light age wear. Sporadic light foxing throughout. Contemporary owner's signature on prelim in pencil dated July 1865. A humorist and sataritst who published widely in West Coast newpapers Derby was a West Point Graduate friend to general George McClelland --to whom this volume is dedicated and all round wag. Overall a nice copy of this collection of short humorous pieces good or better. BAL 4651. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Carleton, Publisher Hardcover
18678251New York: D. Appleton & Company 1867. Twelfth Edition. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good in boards. Minor edgewear and rubbing to exterior. A few small stains to interior. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. D. Appleton & Company hardcover
1856212652New York: Appleton 1856. First. hardcover. very good. Frontispiece woodcut. 274 pages 14 pages of advertisements. 12mo blind stamped blue cloth with a heavily gilt spine and front cover extremities of spine chipped. New York: Appleton 1856. First Edition. Very Good.<br/> <br/> Appleton unknown
185685406New York: D. Appleton and Company 1856. Eleventh Edition. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo 7 1/2 in. x 5 in. Brown publishers cloth blind-spamped decorations to front and back boards. Gilt portrait to front board. Some rubbing to extremities corners bumped. Cloth chipped to front hinge top and bottom of spine. Letters in gilt on spine with humorous scene in gilt. pp. 1 274 14-advertisements. Dark maroon colored pastedowns and free endpapers. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper "Bueyins J.H. Hofman Sept 17 1859" possibly 1889. Pencil inscription "Dave yocum" to the back of frontispiece. Portrait frontispiece with printed autograph. Pencil inscription "J.H. Hofman" to titlepage. Some spotting mostly in margins and first 25 pages. Faint damp stain to bottom edge of rear advertisements. Internal pages clean. Sabin 19665. The army lieutenant George Horatio Derby 1823-1861 wrote popular sketches and burlesques under the pseudonym John Phoenix or John P. Squibob. After graduating from West Point in 1846 he joined the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers to fight in the Mexican-American War. In 1853 Derby relocated to San Diego. In his spare time there he wrote short sketches and burlesques for the San Francisco Herald California Pioneer and the San Diego Herald. Topics included military surveyors travel accounts and local women's clubs. He compiled his writings into the present publication which saw 11 editions in one year. Wikipedia. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1884CD125New York: D. Appleton & Company 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. Green Cloth minor edge wear gilt imp on cover gilt lettering on spine gilt demon in ink well illustration on spine original floral endpapers previous owners inscription. "Sundry sketches recently published in the newspapers and magazines of California." --Pref. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 276 pages. D. Appleton & Company hardcover
185699279<p>New York: D. Appleton and Company 1856. 1856. Good. - Octavo 7-7/8 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover bound in brown cloth titled with a vignette in gilt on the spine and a larger gilt illustration within blind-stamped floral decorations on front cover. The head and tail of the book's spine are heavily chipped and the top edge of the front cover and the spine are faded. 274 pages & 14 pages of publisher's ads illustrated with a frontispiece. The first few leaves are slightly darkened and lightly foxed. Good.</p><p>First edition. BAL 4650.</p><p>The work contains Derby's pieces as "Professor John Phoenixiana" and "Squibob" poking fun at such topics as military surveyors and explorers; contemporary travel accounts of the Mission Dolores Benecia Sonoma San Francisco and San Diego; literary societies and women's clubs; astronomy; and Army life.</p><p>Henry Morton's copy signed by him on front endpaper. Henry Jackson Morton December 11 1836 – May 9 1902 was an American scientist and the first president of the Stevens Institute of Technology.</p> New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1856. hardcover
18657544New York: Carleton 1865 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition first issue. With comic illustrations by the author. Pp. 247 6 ads. Frontispiece 11 plates 17 text illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth. Slight wear to foot of spine corners lightly worn fading to spine. Overall a fine copy internally fine with very little of the usual heavy foxing. Another comic title by the author of "Phoenixiana". John Phoenix or John Squibob were the pen names of U.S. Lieutenant George H. Derby. This work was edited by the author's widow. Signed on end by the late Wells Fargo historian Bob Chandler. BAL: 4651 state A; Cowan: p. 167;. Carleton hardcover
180112760Leeds: printed by Thomas Wright January 18 1801. 11.9 x 7.6 cm. Printed on one side only with a border of small printer’s flowers. Bit darkened at edges with a little spotting on the bottom left corner.R. Spencer & Sons were a chemist and alcohol merchants in Leeds who imported good Brandy and rum from the Caribbean as well as Gin and what they called British wines viz. madeira malaga mountain calcavella orange cowslip &c “which from Age and Quality are little inferior to Foreign Wines of nearly double the price.<br>The card refers to a “present scarcity of corn†and advertise “pectoral and cordial balls for racers hunters and horses of every descriptionâ€. printed by Thomas Wright unknown
1880285AG1880. Dublin c. 1880. Original 19th century Gouache painting with title in ink mounted separately. Beautifully framed. Size of the Gouache in the frame: 36 cm x 38.5 cm. The Gouache itself measures: 15 cm high x 19 cm wide. Excellent condition of this very accomplished and atmospheric work capturing the full romance of the early 19th century Phoenix Park. The Wellington Monument or more correctly the Wellington Testimonial; Irish: Teistiméireacht Wellington is an obelisk located in the Phoenix Park Dublin Ireland. The testimonial is situated at the southeast end of the Park overlooking Kilmainham and the River Liffey. The structure is 62 metres 203 ft tall making it the largest obelisk in Europe. The Wellington Testimonial was built to commemorate the victories of Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington. Wellington an Irishman also known as the 'Iron Duke' was born in Dublin. Originally planned to be located in Merrion Square it was built in the Phoenix Park after opposition from the square's residents. The Testimonial was designed by the architect Sir Robert Smirke and the foundation stone was laid in 1817. However in 1820 it ran out of construction funds and therefore remained unfinished until 18 June 1861 when it was opened to the public. There were also plans for a statue of Wellesley on horseback but the shortage of funds ruled that out. Wikipedia Phoenix Park Irish: Páirc an Fhionnuisce is an urban park in Dublin Ireland lying 24 km west of the city centre north of the River Liffey. Its 11 km perimeter wall encloses 707 hectares 1750 acres one of the largest walled city parks in Europe. It includes large areas of grassland and tree-lined avenues and since the seventeenth century has been home to a herd of wild Fallow deer. The English name comes from the Irish fionn uisce meaning "clear water". The Irish Government is lobbying UNESCO to have the park designated as a world heritage site. Wikipedia Gouache also spelled guache is a type of paint consisting of pigment a binding agent usually gum arabic and sometimes added inert material designed to be used in an opaque method. It also refers to paintings that use this opaque method. The name derives from the Italian guazzo. Gouache differs from watercolor in that the particles are larger the ratio of pigment to water is much higher and an additional inert white pigment such as chalk is also present. This makes gouache heavier and more opaque with greater reflective qualities. Wikipedia. unknown
187832882New York: Privately Printed. Bradstreet Press 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Tall thick heavy quartos. Volume I: 3 xii 916 pages 1. illustrated with frontispiece color lithograph Coat of Arms. Folding charts in text. Volume II: 5 pages 917-1814. folding charts in text. Volume III: 5 pages 1815-2740 2. Reddish marbled paper covered boards with brown leather corners and spines. Raised bands and gilt stamped titles on the spines. Reddish marbled end sheets. Leather is rubbed and scuffed on the spines and board edges. Marbled paper on the front cover of volume 3 is torn and chipped with medium sized loss. Foxing to the end sheets and title page volume 1. Damp staining to the early pages of volume 3. The right front flyleaf is chipped on the edge of volume 3. Volumes 1 and 2 are in good or better condition while volume 3 is in fair to good condition. This is one of 500 copies of which 10 were folios. Privately Printed. Bradstreet Press hardcover
1852D59641852. Hardcover. Very Good. Original full red morocco ornately stamped in blind and gilt; 8vo; 31 manuscript pages including an illustrated short story landscapes in pencil Havana the Hudson River harbor of St. Thomas Martinique and 3 colored-pencil cartoons of American Indians these seemingly contributed by a child. Just a little scuffed along joints and edges of boards else fine. Likely the work of Horace Richardson the title-page and "publication information" see above states that this unique item was "copied" by him and one of the drawings most of which are clearly by the same artist is initialed "H. R." The book does indeed seem to correspond at least in part with a journey on the Winfield Scott a sidewheel steamer that transported cargo and passengers from San Francisco and Panama during the California Gold Rush -- then sank in December of 1853. The landscapes are nicely accomplished: "Yosemite Falls from Black's Hotel" signed "H.R." "Highland Park Hotel Aiken S.C." "Vineyard Haven" "View from the Window in our Parlor in the Hotel El Telegrafo Havana 1872" "View from my Window at the West Point Hotel Looking up the Hudson 1872" and "Fort de France Martinique from the Sea." Opens with a weird little short story in which the malefactor Joseph Shed spends his entire life stealing stockings even dirty ones punishment be damned. <br/><br/> hardcover