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190023220Paris & Pise: Antonin L. Neurdein and Étienne Neurdein 1900. A good large-sized image of some of the buildings of this expo along the river with tour boats in the foreground and crowds of visitors along the opposite avenue; albumen process photograph mounted on pale ivory gilt-edged cardstock; with the studio stamp of N.D. Phot. at lower right margin Antonin L. Neurdein and Étienne Neurdein; photo is approx. 10 1/2" x 17" size the mount makes it 12 1/2" x 18 3/4" overall; light edge tips wear to the cardstock one corners' surface scraped away; image a bit faded still good; an interesting original Paris Exposition and photographic history photograph. Photograph. Not Bound. Very Good. Antonin L. Neurdein and Étienne Neurdein Paperback books
1872248184Hyde Park 1872. unbound. Father of FDR. 4 pages front and back each two-page spread measuring 8.25 x 10.5 inches Hyde Park New York February 10 1872. Written in mock indignation to a friend acting as a broker in a small business arrangement in part: ".I am sorry to say I didn't think too much of your business capacity as I did before I received your note of yesterday.I cannot make erasures in my check book and you must either consent to accept the check or I shall spend it for you and perhaps get something that you would not like at all." Slight tears along the natural folds; chip in the right margin of the third page. Very good- condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
187040809New York: Printed by Lange & Hillman Steam Book and Job Printers 1870. 1st edition Neviins I p. 91. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & gilt stamped camp scene to front board. Bevelled board edges. Brown coated eps. Square & tight. Light shelfwear. Edge ding to 3 leaves pp. 49 - 54 no text affected. A VG copy. vii 3 9 - 274 2 blank pp. Frontispiece. Inserted plate p. 58. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/>Per Nevins "One of the better straightforward accounts of life in Federal hospitals; Miss Wheelock was stationed through the last three years of the war at Alexandria Va." Printed by Lange & Hillman, Steam Book and Job Printers hardcover books
1885255552Mobile AL 1885. unbound. 1 page 9.5 x 6 inches Mobile Alabama April 12 1885. Signed "Richard H. Wilmer" in his difficult-to-read handwriting responding to an inquiry concerning church policy in part: ".I report that it is out of my power to join the information sought in your letter of the 6th instant. Right Reverend Dr. Perry Bishop is his holiness of the American Church." Natural folds; near fine condition.<br/><br/> The second bishop of Alabama in the Episcopal Church. He was the only bishop to be consecrated by the Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America which was done on March 6 1862 in Richmond Virginia. As a staunch secessionist and slaveholder he was a favorite among the hierarchy of the CSA including the General staff.<br/><br/> unknown books
189126099London: Chappell & Co. PN 19001 1891. Quarto. Original decorative wrappers with title label to spine. In custom-made black cloth box. 1f. title i printed dedication to Queen Victoria i contents 261 iii publisher's catalogue and advertisements pp. Typeset. Additional advertisements to verso of upper wrapper and both sides of lower. Some leaves in act 3 unopened. <br/><br/>Early owner's signature "Spencer W. Brien 1891" in black ink to head of title.<br/><br/>Wrappers worn and soiled. Occasional foxing especially to title; several leaves creased at upper outer corner. First Edition. Sullivan and Flower p. 280. WorldCat OCLC 4794897. The present copy lacks the composer's handstamped facsimile autograph to title found in some other copies of this edition.<br/><br/>"On 31 January 1891 Sullivan's sole 'grand opera' Ivanhoe with a libretto by Julian Sturgis after Sir Walter Scott's novel was launched by Richard D'Oyly Carte on the extraordinary principle of a continuous nightly run as for operetta with constantly changing casts. Its total of 160 performances though remarkable enough was insufficient to cover Carte's costs and he had to sell the theatre." Arthur Jacobs in Grove Music Online. Chappell & Co. [PN 19,001] unknown books
189442936Habana Havana: Imprenta y Papeleria "La Universal" de Ruiz y Hermano 1894. 1st Edition. Period quarter bound red sheep spine over red marbled paper boards. Blue marbled paper eps. Binding worn & rubbed with joints starting. Paper yellowed & quite fragile. A Good copy. 6 9 - 377 7 pp. 3 page "Indice" at rear. RNBC "Autorización de Exportación" slip laid-in at rear. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/8" <br/><br/> Imprenta y Papeleria "La Universal" de Ruiz y Hermano hardcover books
1863026070Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1863. xvi 13-604 pages. While known as the first American physician to devote himself entirely to neurology and the author of the first treatise on the subject it was his role in the Civil War and this major work for which he is best remembered. When Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton fired Clement Finley the Surgeon General Abraham Lincoln against Stanton's advice named the 34-year-old Hammond to succeed him with the rank of brigadier general. On April 1962 he became Surgeon General of the Army. He launched many reforms ranging from qualifications of medical personnel importance of ventilation record-keeping and the creation of the Satterlee Hospital. He promoted Jonathan Letterman which brought an efficient ambulance system to the service. He banned mercury from army supplies. Since hygienic standards were still very poor in the United States Army and soldiers often died because of inadequate medical care poor sanitary conditions and lack of attention to proper shelter and nutrition since there was no up-to-date work on the subject he wrote this book to be distributed to all officers and medical personnel. A thorough and detailed book it contains many of the ideas and principles that Hammond instituted in his reform of the army medical service. In writing on morbid habits he warns of the mischief caused by masturbation which causes he notes that "the masturbator shuns society.and evinces an apathy for all kinds of amusements." He discusses all aspects of diet providing charts and comparisons of the requirements in the British and Russian armies. How to keep the alimentary canal in good order is a major concern for the soldier. Bound in publisher's brown embossed cloth wear to spine ends light chipping to head with a bit of wear to upper joint near head not cracked and some cloth missing from footabout 2" x 1" x 1.5" dark brown coated endpapers inner hinges fine early owner's names one in brown ink one in pencil to upper right corner of title page internally free from foxing. A very good copy of this scarce work. J.B. Lippincott unknown books
189634516.1East Aurora N. Y.: The Roycroft Printing Shop 1896. 1st edition BAL 4074; cf. McKenna p. 57 for a history of this early Roycroft publication which ceased after only 3 issues. Printed brown paper wrappers yapp edges. Housed in a custom maroon quarter morocco clamshell case with gilt stamped title lettering to front cover. Some chipping to the yapp edges. Very faint prior owner marginalia & commentary erased pencil. A VG or slightly better copy in a VG case. 48 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/>Contains 8 poems by Crane of which "Fast rode the Knight" makes its first appearance. The prose sketch "A Prologue" also here first published. The Roycroft Printing Shop unknown books
1880M11514New York:: William Wood & Co. 1880. 1880. Reprint: American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children Vol. XIII No 11. 8vo. 8pp. 1 lithographed plate. Original printed pale blue wrappers. Fine. The first description of "Skene's glands" or "ducts". Cordasco 80-5776; Garrison & Morton 1225. William Wood & Co., 1880. unknown books
187337402Providence: Printed for the Author 1873. 1st edition Cowan I p. 139; Cowan II p. 389; Currey & Kruska 236; Farquhar 13; Norris 2054. Printed pale grey paper wrappers. Some abrasion to spine paper with a bit of loss at each end. Some foxing to front wrapper. PO name stamp to front wrapper verso. A VG copy. 40 pp. Unopened. 8vo. 10" x 6-1/8" <br/><br/>Lester a prominent Providence attorney had visited Yosemite Valley the summer of 1872 during which time he met Galen Clark James Lamon James Hutchings & John Muir this latter with whom he discussed one evening geological theory. This work a publication of a subsequent talk on Yosemite read before the Rhode Island Historical Society 17 December 1872. Farquhar terms this publication "noteworthy for its appreciation of John Muir ." Per Cowan "Being privately issued the work is but little known." Printed for the Author unknown books
1888253042Farmington Ct. 1888. 3pp. Folded 4to sheet. Old fold lines. Near fine. 3pp. Folded 4to sheet. Letter written by Sarah Porter founder of Miss Porter's School for Girls to a friend and possibly former student regretfully declining an invitation to her wedding. Miss Porter studied privately with Yale Professors. and her brother Noah later became President of Yale. She was an opponent of women's suffrage. <br/>She notes in this letter that affairs at the school will keep her far too busy to make the journey. Sarah Porter 1813-1900 founded her school in Farmington in 1843 setting it up as an institution at which girls could receive a well-rounded academic education. She writes in part:<br/> <br/>"My dear Mary I thank you heartily that you have desired me as one of your wedding guests and I should be very happy in being with you at this so happy moment of your life. I could not easily under any circumstances easily leave school for so long a time as a journey to Newton would require - but now Mr. Brandt's wretched health renders him unable to teach and his classes fall daily into my care so that my place is daily here. Your own and your brother's wedding at once will not only doubly crown the day but give promise to multiplied successive anniversaries. unknown books
18972797941897. unbound. very good. Exceedingly rare signature "R.B. Wallace -- 1st Lt. U.S. Cav." 1.25 x 3.25 inches written on a portion of a cover of the Journal of the United States Army dated March 1897. Accompanied by impeccable provenance -- an attached note three weeks after his death that reads: "My brother died at Fort Huachoca March 13 1900 and never saw your letter. I enclose an autograph signature of his -- Co. W.W. -- 4/4/1900." Bruce is rare in any format; very good condition.<br/><br/> United States Army officer who died of wounds received at Calicoon Philippine Islands while leading a charge on February 10 1899 of which he died March 13 1900. He participated in every engagement while assigned as 1st Lieutenant of the 37th Volunteer Montana -- 2nd Cavalry.<br/><br/> unknown books
1896L0074vi15812 ad pages. Small octavo 7 1/2" x 5 1/4" bound in original publisher's cloth with black lettering to spine red decorative florets to cover and Maggie in gilt with black back ground deckle edges. Housed in red slipcase. BAL 4075 Two states noted 1 Title page printed in upper and lower case letters and 2 Title page printed in capital letters only. First edition first printing under Crane's name.<br /><br /><i>Maggie: A Girl of the Streets</i> is an 1893 novella by American author Stephen Crane 1871-1900. The story centers on Maggie a young girl from the Bowery who is driven to unfortunate circumstances by poverty and solitude. The work was considered risque by publishers because of its literary realism and strong themes. Crane who was 22 years old at the time financed the book's publication himself although the original 1893 edition was printed under the pseudonym Johnston Smith. After the success of 1895's <i>The Red Badge of Courage</i> <i>Maggie</i> was reissued in 1896 with considerable changes and re-writing. The story is followed by George's Mother.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Publisher's printed cloth binding heavily soiled else a very good copy in a very good slipcase. D Appleton and Company hardcover books
190053064Paris: Publisher not identified 1900. First edition. 4to. 28 cm. x 19 cm 102 pp. portrait frontispiece with tissue guard illustrations in text 10 plates with tissue guards 1 of these in color. Original printed wrappers. Neat ownership signature of a member of the jury of classe 5 on the blank reverse of the half-title page. Fine as new. A history of photography and processes which includes two chapters by Léon Vidal - one is a history of photogravure and the other on color photography. Details several other photomechanical processes and their inventors. Illustrations include those by Robert Demachy and by Puyo. <br/><br/>There are several issues of this report three of which vary only in size; a fourth a later issue has a slightly different wording to the title and is dated 1903. Étienne-Jules Marey was the president of the committee.<br/><br/>Roosens and Salu No. 3704. <br/><br/> Publisher not identified unknown books
1859C0297144 pages with diagrams. Duodecimo 6 1/4" x 4" issued in original publisher's decorative blind stamped boards with gilt-decorated and lettered spine. Hagedorn: 51 First edition.<br /><br />The second part of this book contains many clever problems selected from those which competed in a tournament arranged by Frere the chess editor of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. The first part was published without the sanction or approval of Morphy and comprises games with notes copied form the Chess Monthly The Era and other sources without any special acknowledgment. The collection was evidently hurriedly and incompetently made to take advantage of the demand created by Morphy's success in Europe. Hadgedorn.<br /><br />Born on 8th December 1820 in Brooklyn of a French Creole father and a mother of Irish descent Thomas Frere's interest in chess is sparked in 1827 on seeing "the Turk" Maelzel's automaton chess player at Tammany Hall. The story leaps forward to 1854 with Frere a married man with three children working for the Home Life Insurance Company in Wall Street whilst also operating a printing engraving and publishing business. He witnesses the start of public chess in New York when the owner of Limberger's saloon at the corner of Fulton and Nassau Streets decides to replace the decrepit chess equipment used by two patrons with several new sets and boards. Within three years in excess of fifty players are frequenting the establishment. Moving from Limberger's saloon to Brooklyn in 1856 Frere starts the Brooklyn Chess Club. Frere becomes involved with organizing and running the First American Chess Congress held in New York. Morphy takes first prize in the Grand Tournament ahead of Louis Paulson in second. Paulsen causes a sensation with his feats of blindfold chess. In 1859 Frere publishes the first book about the new American chess sensation Morphy's Games of Chess and Frere's Problem Tournament. During 1858 through 1859 he becomes embroiled in a feud with Daniel W. Fiske Editor of Chess Monthly and lead organizer of the First American Chess Congress regarding Staunton's refusal to contest a match with Morphy.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Spine head lightly chipped corners rubbed else a very good copy of an early American chess title. T W Strong hardcover books
189447327London: Privately Printed 1894. 1st Edition NCBEL III 1354; Pariser 156; Todd 213d. "The impression of this book is limited to a few copies for private circulation only."-- Page v; according to Pariser & Todd this 33 cc on Whatmann paper. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Bevelled boards. Minor wear. Bookseller ticket to front paste-down. A VG - Nr Fine copy. xiii 1 Errata 57 3 pp including Index. Facsimile letter as frontispiece. 8vo. <br/><br/>"Ernest Chesneau was the author of La Peintre Anglaise which was published in England in 1885 as The English School of Painting with a preface by John Ruskin. Ruskin’s twenty letters to Chesneau were written between 1867 and 1883 and contain many interesting passages devoted to Ruskin’s philosophy of art and his opinions of various painters." as quoted on RBH. Privately Printed hardcover books
1870138661870. Watercolor on board. 1 vols. Image approx. 13 x 17-1/2 inches; matted and framed to 20 x 24 inches overall. Fine condition. Vient Gustave. Watercolor on board. 1 vols. Image approx. 13 x 17-1/2 inches; matted and framed to 20 x 24 inches overall. Fine Original Franco-Prussian War Battle Scene by Vient. On the nearly barren landscape row after row of foot-soldiers march along the horizon at left. The focal point of the drawing is the artillery a few soldiers on horseback and several horses pulling and three soldiers pushing a cannon. Another group of soldiers on horseback appear at right. They all appear to be rushing towards the battlefield which is visible in the distance with clouds of smoke from fired weapons.<br/><br/><br/><br/>A dashing depiction by the French painter who specialized in landscapes and fans. Vient exhibited at the Salon of 1878-1881. unknown books
189541534East Aurura N.Y.: Elbert Hubbard The Roycroft Printing Shop 1895. 1st printing BAL 4072; Williams & Starrett pp. 153 - 154. Not recorded by McKenna. Printed self wrappers with burgundy cord tie. Housed in a custom blue cloth case. General wear & soiling with some spot staining. Faint horizontal fold-line. An About VG copy. Unpaginated though 8 pp. Dinner menu p. 7. Untitled 11-line poem by Crane "I have heard the sunset song of the birches" first line p. 8. Front wrapper with wood engraving signed Collin identical to that on the cover of "A Souvenir and a Medley". 9" x 6" <br/><br/>Post-dinner printed momento for this evening given in Crane's honor which publishes pp 3 - 6 diver quips by those invited but unable to attend which included Charles Dudley Warner Maurice Thomposon Irving Bacheller Charles F. Lummis Richard Harding Davis Bliss Carman Hamlin Garland William Dean Howells Daniel Appleton & Ambrose Bierce. Publisher info from BAL. Very scarce in the trade. [Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Printing Shop] hardcover books
1891C0149New York: Sixth American Chess Congress 1891 xxxviii490 pages with table and diagrams. Royal octavo 9 3/4" x 7" bound in original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and black chess pictorial to both covers. Limited to 500 copies. This is copy 88 issued to F M Teed of Brooklyn New York. Betts: 25-26. 1st edition. Contains the report of the Congress Committee and all 432 games with notes by Steinitz. This was a 20-man Double Round Robin Tournament. One of the longest tournaments in history. In the first half of the tournament draws were counted as a half point. In the second half they were replayed once. Between the 38 regular rounds 8 replay rounds and 4 game playoff for first at the end there were 50 rounds all told !. Like the 4th Congress this tournament consisted largely of foreign masters. The retirement of Captain Mackenzie seems to date from this time though some sources credit him as US Champion until his death in 1891 giving the top American finisher some claim on being de facto US Champion. The top American finisher was Solomon Lipschutz who finished in 6th Place with a score of 22-9=7 Condition: Corners bumped soiled spine ends and corneres rubbed exterior hinge cracked 1" at back head spine Teed's gift inscription on title and individual who received the book name errased some occasional internal soiling spine sunned esle a good copy of a scarce item. First Edition. Original Cloth. Good. Royal octavo. Sixth American Chess Congress hardcover books
1891C0039New York: Sixth American Chess Congress 1891 xxxviii490 pages with table and diagrams. Royal octavo 9 3/4" x 7" bound in full leather with gilt lettering to spine. Limited to 500 copies. This is copy 111 issued to R W Ferguson of Flushing New York. Betts: 25-26 .1st edition. Contains the report of the Congress Committee and all 432 games with notes by Steinitz. This was a 20-man Double Round Robin Tournament. One of the longest tournaments in history. In the first half of the tournament draws were counted as a half point. In the second half they were replayed once. Between the 38 regular rounds 8 replay rounds and 4 game playoff for first at the end there were 50 rounds all told !. Like the 4th Congress this tournament consisted largely of foreign masters. The retirement of Captain Mackenzie seems to date from this time though some sources credit him as US Champion until his death in 1891 giving the top American finisher some claim on being de facto US Champion. The top American finisher was Solomon Lipschutz who finished in 6th Place with a score of 22-9=7 Condition: Some internal pencil markings and notations. Attractively rebund in full leather with gilt lettering to spine. A very good copy of a very scarce chess item. . First Edition. Sixth American Chess Congress hardcover books
186762744New York NY: Charles Magnus 12 Frankfort St 1867. A collection of 360 images including several numbered sets. The majority approx. 280 are printed in bronze or sepia ink plus approx. 73 hand or stencil colored and 7 in green ink. All are printed on individual envelope-sized sheets most 3 x 5 1/2 in. but none are full envelopes. The majority are blank on verso and show no signs of mounting some few are backed with blue yellow or pink paper sheets trimmed to fit. All but a dozen or so bear the imprint of "Chas. Magnus 12 Frankfort St. NY." At least one has a Sachse imprint the other handful without imprint are all in the style of Magnus. All are in very good condition. <br/>The several sets include: 1 36 images in bronze ink not consecutively numbered of military hospitals encampments and batteries; 2 12 numbered images in bronze ink of various Civil War battles; 3 12 numbered images in bronze ink of the "Movement of the Army from Washington to Richmond" caption title; 4 11 of 12 numbered images in bronze ink lacking #9 of the "Battle of Gettysburg Pa. July 3 1863" caption title; 5 3 numbered images in bronze ink "Long Bridge Washington By Moonlight" caption title plus copies of two hand or stencil colored; 6 5 numbered images in bronze ink of the "Battle of Winchester under Gen. Shields" cation title; 7 12 numbered images in bronze ink "Siege and Capture of Fort Donelson" caption title plus copies of 8 of the 12 hand or stencil colored; 8 12 numbered images in bronze ink "Camp Scene from Photograph" caption title plus copies of 7 of the 12 hand or stencil colored; 9 12 unnumbered images of Maj. Gen. McClellan and his Generals in bronze ink; 10 two unnumbered sets of 12 each in bronze ink of various Generals portraits over a banner "The Union Must and Shall be Preserved" and accompanied by a full battle map of the U.S.; 11 10 unnumbered images in bronze ink of various Generals portraits each inset on a battle map plus copies of all 10 hand or stencil colored; 12 4 numbered images in bronze ink "Battle of New Bern NC" caption title.<br/>Additional images depict various Union Generals singly or in groups; the Battle of Bull Run; McClellan's Advance on Richmond; the Engagement between the Monitor and the Merrimac; etc. many with caption titles. Charles Magnus a German immigrant was a prolific publisher of lithographed material in New York City including maps and city views and during the Civil War pro- Union patriotic covers stationery and songsheets. He experimented with various colors of ink including the bronze and sepia colors represented in this group and was known for the quality of his printing techniques. <br/><br/> Charles Magnus, 12 Frankfort St unknown books
