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181027020Philadelphia: Printed by John Binns published by C. & A. Conrad & Co. of Philadelphia Somervell & Conrad of Petersborough. Bonsal Conrad & Co. of Norfolk and Fielding Lucas Jr. of Baltimore 1810. 8vo. 8 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches. Stipple-engraved India paper proof portrait frontispiece of Pike by Edwin 6 engraved maps 5 folding 3 folding letterpress tables. Contemporary tree calf boards rebacked in modern calf and retaining original gilt morocco spine label.<br/> <br/>One of the most important of all American travel narratives: the first edition of the report of the first United States government expedition to the Southwest including an account of Pike's exploration of the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers the sources of the Mississippi River and the Spanish settlements in New Mexico.<br/> <br/>Pike's narrative stands with those of Lewis and Clark and Long as the most important of early books on western exploration and as a cornerstone of Western Americana. "In 1805 Pike was given the difficult assignment of conducting a reconnaissance of the upper Mississippi region. He was ordered to explore the headwaters of that river to purchase sites from the Indians for further military posts and to bring a few influential chiefs back to St. Louis for talks. The trip was only moderately successful as a mission to the tribes but Pike was able to convey important geographical information to President Jefferson and other Washington officials. On Pike's second expedition 1806-1807 he was assigned to explore the head-waters of the Arkansas River then proceed south and descend the Red River from its source . Pike and his men were taken into custody by a Spanish patrol and Pike was able to observe many areas in New Mexico Chihuahua and Texas . His book created interest in the Southwest and stimulated the expansionist movement in Texas" Hill. The maps were the first to exhibit a geographic knowledge of the Southwest based on first-hand exploration and are considered "milestones in the mapping of the American West" Wheat. "The description of Texas is excellent" Streeter Texas.<br/> <br/>Bradford 4415; Braislin 1474; Field 1217; Graff 3290; Hill 2004 1357; Howes P373; Jones 743; Rittenhouse 467; Sabin 62836; Streeter Sale 3125; Streeter Texas 1047C; Wagner-Camp 9:1; Wheat Transmississippi 297 298 299. Printed by John Binns, published by C. & A. Conrad, & Co. of Philadelphia, Somervell & Conrad of Petersborough. Bonsal, Conrad, unknown books
1888JMW003Philadelphia: The Athletic Publishing Company 1888 First edition. Publisher's olive cloth decorated in black to front board and spine and in blind to rear board lettered in gilt to front board yellow-coated endpapers. An exceptional copy with mild rubbing to the spine and corners else fine. Overall a lovely copy with a bright interior. Housed in a custom folding box. Smith 7017. This comprehensive guide to baseball was written by John Montgomery Ward 1860-1925 a Major League player and the first president of the Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players. With a chapter for each position in the game the book includes strategies and methods used by the players aimed at fans seeking to better understand the game as well as players seeking to improve their skills. Notably the book contains one of the first detailed descriptions of the game's history and origins. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Philadelphia: The Athletic Publishing Company hardcover books
18115236London: Longman Hurst et al. 1811. First British edition. . Quarto pp. xx 436. Two maps one of which is folding. Pike made the first American exploration of the Southwest under US government auspices: it is consequently the foundation of any collection on that area. Most of this region was Spanish territory at the timewhich led to Pike's arrest with his entire party above Santa Fe; he was sent to Chihuahua for trial. After considerable delay and the confiscation of all his notes maps etc. he was escorted through Texas back to Louisiana. Pike called attention to the weakness of the Spanish defenses and the importance of the Santa Fe trade. The American first edition came out in 1810 in a very confused textual state; the British edition is much clearer due to the editor Rees who "undertook to brink something like cosmos out of this chaos . by weaving as much as he could of the matter of the Appendixes into the main text or into the footnotes thereto thereby greatly reducing the bulk of the appendicial texts." Coues quoted in Wagner-Camp. The folding map shows some minor foxing common with this map; otherwise the text is quite clean and fresh. The binding is 19th century 3/4 calf over marbled boards. There is a bookplate on the inside front board otherwise no markings. Very nice copy. <br/><br/> Longman Hurst [et al.] hardcover books
1895248210New York: Francis P. Harper 1895. New Edition #4 of 150 on Holland paper. Best Edition. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait 7 maps including 6 large folding maps in pocket of Volume III at back. cxiv 356; vi 357-856; 8 857-956 pp. 3 vols. Original cloth and boards paper spine labels. Boards shelfworn spines clean. New Edition #4 of 150 on Holland paper. Best Edition. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait 7 maps including 6 large folding maps in pocket of Volume III at back. cxiv 356; vi 357-856; 8 857-956 pp. 3 vols. Howes P-373 "aa"; Basic Texas Books 163; Rittenhouse 467 note Francis P. Harper unknown books
1895100325New York: G.P. Putnam's 1895. Hildegarde edition. Volume one of two only vols. 12mo. Original green cloth. Fine. Hildegarde edition. Volume one of two only vols. 12mo. Inscribed by Pyle with a Drawing. Inscribed on the front free endpaper with a drawing of the recipient: "To Marion Robert Canby "from her friend underlined Howard Pyle portrait of a winged Miss Canby flying high in the clouds "As Fly ye Winds of Heaven so "will your Friends Thoughts follow you afar" ____ May 16 1906 G.P. Putnam's unknown books
1834W30905London: John Turrill 1834. Red morocco spine gilt professionally rebacked over marbled boards with matching marbled end papers. 5 raised bands. Edges red sprinkled. 10 color tissue titled plates plus a color missal title. Woodcut on p. 246 of The Crucifixion by John Franklin. Lithographic luminous plates colored under the direction of Charles Simpson and they are splendid. Fourth Edition. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Various. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Trade. John Turrill Hardcover books
184750719Montgomery AL: M'Cormick & Walshe printers 1847. 8vo. 22 pp. Original printed yellow wrappers; lightly foxed but very good. <br/><br/>First separate edition. With three pencil annotations by the author amounting to approximately 100 words each refining his observations and arguments; one manuscript ink correction. Not in Ellison or Owen. Recorded on OCLC but without giving locations. <br/><br/> M'Cormick & Walshe, printers unknown books
1860258259London: Routledge Warne & Routledge Farrington Street 1860. First edition thus. One hundred wood engravings by Pickengill Birket Foster J. Wolf John Gilbert William Harvey Duncan and others engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. 4to. Publisher's presentation binding of full green morocco covers with bevelled edges gilt a.e.g. Some rubbing to binding retouched else fine. First edition thus. One hundred wood engravings by Pickengill Birket Foster J. Wolf John Gilbert William Harvey Duncan and others engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. 4to. Inscribed by the Daziel Brothers on Christmas Eve to the Publisher's Widow. A pretty copy in a publisher's deluxe presentation binding with a Christmas inscription by the engravers the Daziel brothers to Mrs William Warne the widow of the publisher William Warne d. 1859. Routledge, Warne & Routledge, Farrington Street unknown books
18402307812London: Ball Arnold & Co 1840. Small Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. New edition revised seventh edition and fourth edition respectively. Both volumes feature idyllic fore-edge paintings: the first of a woman and a boy holding hands as they walk a road with large trees on either side in the foreground and copses of trees in the distance; the second depicts two figures rowing a canoe down a stream with a village in the distance. Each appears to be by the same artist. Corners a bit rubbed with evidence of minor restoration to spine head and foot ink name on front endpaper of each volume. 1840 Small Hard Cover. xi 171; 208 12 pp. 12mo. Volumes one and two of what was ultimately a six-volume set of Montgomery's collected poems. The presence of fore-edge paintings on these volumes is somewhat unusual as traditionally this was done on leather-bound volumes often quite a bit larger than these and the practice in general was considerably more common in the 18th century and earlier. That being said these are ably done so it is clear that they are not the work of an amateur and it is possible someone commissioned a contemporary artist to do the entire set and these are the volumes that remain. His poetry while it sold well during his lifetime is remembered best as the victim of excoriating reviews by John Wilson in Blackwood's and Thomas Babington Macaulay in the Edinburgh Review. Ball, Arnold, & Co hardcover books
1895018728New York: Francis P. Harper 1895. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First edition thus. Octavo 8vo. Three volume set. Original matching green cloth bindings in very good condition with minor bumping to two corners minor shelfwear and slight discoloration to the spine of the 2nd volume. Vol. I: cxiii 356 pages with portrait and facsimile. Vol. II: vi 357-855. Vol. III: 856-955 plus plate of the Falls of St. Anthony and 6 lithographed folding maps in rear pocket two of which are somewhat browned on one panel as a natural effect of offsetting from the binding material inside the pocket. An excellent edition of one of the first explorations of the American West and Southwest. See Wagner-Camp 9. Howes P373 aa "best edition." Limited to 1150 copies; this is number 946 printed on Fine Book Paper. The inner front hinge of the first volume is somewhat weakened and the title page was re-attached. Many pages in the 2nd and 3rd volumes are uncut and unopened. First thus edition. Francis P. Harper Hardcover books
183510077Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1835. First Edition. iv 13-254 blank leaf; iv 13-228pp. 34pp. publisher's catalogue inserted in rear of volume I; 4pp. catalogue at front of volume II and 36pp. catalogue at rear. 2 vols. 12mo. Original purple cloth slightly faded. Fine copy in quarter blue morocco slipcase with chemise. First Edition. iv 13-254 blank leaf; iv 13-228pp. 34pp. publisher's catalogue inserted in rear of volume I; 4pp. catalogue at front of volume II and 36pp. catalogue at rear. 2 vols. 12mo. Wright I 320; BAL 1154 Carey, Lea & Blanchard unknown books
1835WRCLIT27676Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1835. Two volumes. Original purple muslin paper spine labes BAL's state B - no priority. Trivial sunning and slight smudges to cloth some marginal discoloration early in the first volume typical uniform toning of paper but a very good set unusually nice for this title. First edition of the author's third novel a tale of a family of Tories who in the wake of the Revolution turn to outlawry. BAL 1155. WRIGHT I:1319. Carey, Lea & Blanchard hardcover books
1864WRCAM19660Chicago 1864. 288pp. plus folding map. Woodcuts. Original full morocco stamped in blind. Some minor rubbing at extremities occasional light foxing. Overall very good. An account of the early settlement of the county along with a history of involvement in the Civil War with lists of the officers and recruits of several Indiana regiments. Contains interesting material pertaining to fugitive slaves Indians early state organizations wild animals of the region etc. HOWES M743. SABIN 50154. CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 841. unknown books
18147383Norristown Penn. 1814. Single sheet 20.75 x 11.5 cm. but irregular printed recto only; typographical border. Manuscript annotations. ~ A very early Pennsylvania bill of fare for the Norristown Hotel with a list of items on offer including Breakfast Dinner Supper Lodging Wine Brandy Gin Spirits Punch Porter Beer Cider Segars Hay and Oats. Manuscript annotations indicate "Gentleman's Bill May 16th 1814" with handwritten prices added for dinner brandy porter hay and oats a man on the move!. The final lines indicate payment of $4.25 and the elaborate signature of hotel owner Morris Jones. "Morris Jones gives notice in July 1813 that he kept the "Norristown Hotel corner of Egypt or Main and De Kalb Streets" and that "a constant supply of newspapers will be kept for the use of the house." This is interesting for giving an early mention of "hotel" which it would appear was now about being introduced as more pretentious than inn or tavern. It was a two-story stone house forty by thirty-seven feet with an adjoining kitchen. The stable was also of stone fifty by twenty-seven feet with sheds and outbuildings. This property was built by General Isaiah Wells about 1800 and kept by him until his election as sheriff when he moved to the jail. It was long known as the most noted stage-house in Norristown. In 1834 the Norristown Hotel was then kept by Levi Roberts and was offered at public sale by the assignees of Isaiah Wells." Bean's 1884 History of Montgomery Co PA; http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/montgomery/beantoc.htm. A single horizontal crease from a fold; small pinhole between first two lines of text. Otherwise fine. Unrecorded. OCLC locates now copies not in AAS or Library Company of Philadelphia. unknown books
18499001London: T. and W. Boone 1849. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. viii1751pp. partially unopened. Plus 48248pp. publisher's ads. Illustrated with a text woodcut and a large folding map of British possessions in North America with the southern Canadian border outlined in red. Orig. blind stamped purple cloth corners a bit rounded rebacked in red morocco with brown morocco spine label small chip at top of spine. Large engraved library bookplate on front pastedown and with the same library's small embossed oval stamp on the title page. Sabin 44915. T. and W. Boone hardcover books
187335188New York: Diossy & Company 1873. Original printed front title wrapper loose but present lacking the rear wrapper. Pages 207-257 1 blank pp as issued. Disbound loosening rubberstamp on title page. Else a clean and Good text.<br/><br/> The publisher's Note says the case "is one of the most important of the recent adjudications on the subjects of insanity as a defense in criminal cases and the use of the testimony of experts." The pamphlet reproduces the official report published in the State law volumes. Montgomery was convicted of murdering his wife at Rochester New York in 1870. His defense was insanity. "He was a young man of twenty-two years of age; he had been married two years; his wife was a woman of bad character. She had left him a short time before he killed her and had gone to live in a house of ill-fame. She had a child nine months old; the child he kept and took care of himself during the nights; it was taken care of at his father's during the day." <br/> Montgomery got worn out from all the stress; he had several epileptic fits. "He had a disease of the brain also" all of which brought on "dementia which had the effect of enfeebling the mind." He had experts on his side: three physicians testified that "he was insane at the time the crime was committed." They were rebutted by the prosecution's physicians. After closely examining the evidence and the relevant law the Court upholds Montgomery's conviction and rejects his insanity defense.<br/>OCLC 41599720 5. Not in McDade Marke or Harv. Law Cat. II Harv. Law Cat. 1147 has a related pamphlet. Diossy & Company unknown books
185340115Silver Creek NY: Greenleaf & Montgomery 1853. First edition. Moderate wear and slight loss along fold some creasing still about very good. Broadside. 12" x 11 1/2" An early industrial broadside from the town of Silver Creek on the shore of Lake Erie in Western New York State founded in the early 19th century by Massachusetts residents incorporated in 1848 and an important port on the Lake until the coming of the railroad. The area had a number of businesses active in producing machinery including Howes Babcock given its strategic location in the country's westward expansion. Greenleaf & Montgomery the names at the bottom of the broadside were William R. Greenleaf and Ezekiel Montgomery who formed this company to produce steam engines and mill machinery. Not only do they argue for the superiority of their steam operated saw mills but claim invention of mully-heads for saw mills whether steam or water powered and guaranteed to produce the best results. No copies located in OCLC NUC or other online sources; possibly unique. Andrew Young: History of Chautauqua County New York pp. 409-420. Greenleaf & Montgomery unknown books
1836274328London: John Murray 1836. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Volume I only of the 5 volume set. With portrait frontispiece of Wellesley and an attractive map of India which has a closed tear and is colored in outline. Some foxing to the preliminaries including to the frontispiece. Half bound in red morocco over red cloth with raised bands and gilt titling. Very Good binding. John Murray unknown books
1821008722Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ballantyne and Co. for W. and C. Tait 1821. SCARCE in Fine Binding. With reproductions of title pages: The Cherrie and the Slae. Edinburgh 1597; and The Flyting betwixt Montgomery and Polwart. Edinburgh 1629. In fine contemporary binding stamp-signed James Toovey. Full Pebbled calf ornate gilt back marbled end papers all edges gilt. Near Fine light soiling to boards. Montgomery was a Scottish Jacobean courtier and one of the principal members of the Castalian Band a circle of poets in the court of James VI in the 1580s. . First Edition. Full Pebbled Calf . Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Printed by J. Ballantyne and Co. for W. and C. Tait Hardcover books
18401003858vo original cloth with gilt spine illustrated 219 pp. Some wear to binding a few white numbers on spine and cloth joints cracked. Lacks front flyleaf and have title is clipped but with no loss. Normal aging and embossed library stamp on title and folding plates. Overall in pretty good condition. Montgomery 1792-1880 presents considerable data a good portion in numerous tables on the different aspects of the cost of manufacturing cotton. He looks at manufacturing costs in several locations in America including Massachusetts New Jersey and Rhode Island. He argues that because factories in Great Britain are already as cost efficient as they can be; only additional technical advancement could improve their economies. By contrast he felt that American factories could improve their cost structure without significant investment by managing them a little differently. Sabin 51049 John Niven hardcover books
187151430Mobile AL: Printed at the Daily Register Office 1871. First edition. 8vo. 11 pp. Caption title: Anatomical and Physiological Reflections on Some Parts of the Eye. Inscribed by the "author" at the head of the front wrapper. Not in Owen. OCLC locates two copies Harvard-Countway National Library of Medicine. Original printed green wrappers removed; some light foxing but very good. <br/><br/> Printed at the Daily Register Office unknown books
18354852Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1835. First Edition. iv 13-254 blank leaf; iv 13-228pp. 34pp. publisher's catalogue inserted in rear of volume I; 4pp. catalogue at front of volume II and 36pp. catalogue at rear. 2 vols. 12mo. Original cloth faded printed paper spine labels chafed; ownership inscription of Virginia Struthers with her note on the title-page: "By Dr. Robert Montgomery Bird my father's brother. First Edition. iv 13-254 blank leaf; iv 13-228pp. 34pp. publisher's catalogue inserted in rear of volume I; 4pp. catalogue at front of volume II and 36pp. catalogue at rear. 2 vols. 12mo. Familial Ownership. Mexico 1520 - 1540. Wright I 320; BAL 1154 Carey, Lea & Blanchard unknown books
1869014195G.P.Putnam's Son 1869. Book. Fine. Full-Leather. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Full Leather First Edition 1869 Beautiful Copy Gilt Ship On Front Board Excellent Copy. G.P.Putnam's Son Hardcover books
1889226867Denver W.H. Lawrence & Co. 1889. 1889. Second edition. Large 4to. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Pike illustrated with 4 maps. 7 page new introduction by William M. Maguire. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt; floral endpapers. 394 pages. Signature of Albert A. Sanford June 1893 Denver. Maps on page 24; page 59 pages 148-149 double page pages 208-209 double map including those of the Mississippi from Leech Lake Minnesota to St. Louis; the Falls of St. Anthony; the Interior of Louisiana with a part of New Mexico; and Internal part of Louisiana. See Howes : P-373; Rader 2677. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Denver, W.H. Lawrence & Co., 1889. hardcover books
1872242124London: Richard Bentley 1872. Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher's gilt-stamped maroon cloth. Very Good lendinbg library lael removed on upper cover of each volume. Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Sadleir 1761 second edition; Wolff 4849 Richard Bentley unknown books
