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187554620Wash. DC: Government Printing Office. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Rebound in recent cloth gilt new eps. Points and text block corner gently bumped. Frontis and numerous illustrations. ; quarto; xi 291 pages . Government Printing Office hardcover
189064215Fairhaven WA: Webster & Pierce the Peoples Landscape and Portrait Photographers of the Pacific Coast ca. 1890. One oblong 4to. original albumen photograph sized 9.25 x 7.5 in. mounted on 11 x 9.5 beige studio board date in ink below image on recto photographer’s imprint on verso 2 different ink manuscript notes offsetting from removed black paper backing very minor tidemark at fore-edges still a VG sharp image with excellent contrast. An exceedingly scarce original albumen photographic birdseye photo of Fairhaven WA just a year after statehood. During the 1870s up through the mid-1880s Fairhaven actively competed with Seattle Bellingham and Sehome as the potential terminal of the Great Northern Railroad even after it was decided Seattle would take precedence. Fairhaven exploded within just a couple years from the competitive real estate railroad building boom in the Pacific Northwest prior to the 1893 bust which caused tremendous economic dislocation and real estate empires to dissolve. This image captures the fast developing hillsides soon after they were stripped of timber and scraggly treeline topping the ridge in the background. The smoke blowing across downtown appears to have drifted from the far right of the photograph obscuring the Fairhave Hotel designed by Longstaff & Black and completed by 1890 for Nelson Bennett and C.X. Larrabee. In 1903 the cities of Whatcom Sehome & Whatcom Fairhaven and Bellingham which shared a street grid and electric streetcar system merged through a general election to become the present day city. Webster & Pierce established their photographic partnership about 1889 and by 1892 had dissolved with very few records detailing their subsequent careers except for Wesley Pierce becoming owner and operator of Waldrip Oyster Co. in Seattle by 1899. No similar examples in institutional holdings. Webster & Pierce, the Peoples Landscape and Portrait Photographers of the Pacific Coast, unknown
18793535Cheyenne WY: Leader Steam Book and Job Printing House 1879. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. <br /> <br /> Scarce Wyoming pamphlet printed during the territory's greatest years of cattle industry which of course Hoyt addresses in this publication. Also covered are Yellowstone National Park which was dedicated by Grant some 7 years prior new counties and other topics of the time. Adams Herd 1085 Stopka Wyoming Territorial Imprints 1879.7. Very good in printed yellow wraps with some soiling and wear at spine ends. Leader Steam Book and Job Printing House unknown
1815349387Manchester: Printed and published by J. Gleave 1815. New Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy finely bound in modern gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description: 1 Volume 2 Volumes in one various paging: ill. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Dissenters Religious England. Ambrose Isaac. Dissenters Religious. Manchester: Printed and published by J. Gleave hardcover
185629959<p>Published in 1856 by Keen & Lee in Chicago this first edition of Minnesota and Its Resources by J. Wesley Bond captures the Minnesota Territory on the cusp of statehood. It surveys social commercial and political life with substantial focus on Indigenous nations including the Sioux Winnebagoes Chippewas Assiniboins Montagnes and Esquimaux. The volume addresses the 1851 Sioux treaty and the regional activity of both the Hudson's Bay and Northwest companies. The final section titled "Campfire Sketches" presents narrative pieces reflecting frontier scenes and experiences. This example includes the original folding map of the territory. Good condition. Binding shows moderate rubbing at corners and hinges. Text block secure with some age toning and minor staining present. Octavo 12mo single volume. Collation: 412 pp. Illustrations: full-page engravings folding map. Edition: First Edition. Item Number SKU: #29959. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.</p> Keen & Lee hardcover
1825058949London: John Bennett 1825. One-Volume Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. Engravings. LONDON : 1825. Complete in One Volume. Hardback. Contemporary-style binding. Prefixed His Life and Biographical Sketches of his Family. Illustrated; Engraved frontispiece portrait and of City Road Chapel engraved title page. engraved full-page plates; Wesley being rescued from the burning house a page of five vignette portraits facsimile of Wesley's hand-writing Kingswood School and Bristol. Printed title-page. Later medium-brown calf spine; gilt lettered and ruled & dated. Marbled boards. No owner name or internal markings. Bright tight and clean. Light foxing to engravings. VERY GOOD xx 902 pages. Scarce edition. No copy recorded in the UK. 8vo. Heavy book; please note there will be some extra postage. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. John Bennett. VERY SCARCE <br/> <br/> John Bennett hardcover
1863830F5London: Bell and Daldy 1863 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10.5" by 8". John Curtis. Prominent nineteenth century coleopterist E. W. Janson's study of British beetles illustrated throughout by John Curtis. The first edition of this scarce work. Illustrated with twenty-nine uncoloured plates containing 259 illustrations of various beetles all the work of entomologist and illustrator John Curtis. Collated complete.The scarce first edition of English entomologist Edward Wesley Janson's study of the native British beetle.With the illustrations taken from Curtis's 'British Entomology'.With half title.A detailed and scarce study of British coleoptera with an alphabetically arranged index. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Rebacked with original back strip laid down boards restored and endpapers renewed. Internally firmly bound. Light spotting throughout. Tide marks to seven plates. Very Good Indeed Bell and Daldy hardcover
18910001963TRENTON NEW JERSEY. Good. 1891. On offer is an interesting original 1890s manuscript notebook handwritten by Wesley Creveling who was the Mayor of Trenton New Jersey in 1875 to 1877. The 5½" x 2½" book has about 70 pages of handwritten notes on architecture hotels in various cities facts banking remedies genealogy personal notes etc. The book is somewhat worn but overall G. BIO NOTES: one on line source: Birth: Oct. 7 1845 Broadway Warren County New Jersey USA Death: Apr. 16 1920 Philadelphia Philadelphia County Pennsylvania USA Wesley Creveling married Clara Bradway b.1853 in Clarksboro NJ.-d.July 10 1930 in Philadelphia PA. on April 23 1884 at her home in Woodbury NJ. The ceremony was officiated by Rev. Dr. Samuel M. Studdiford. Clara Bradway Creveling was the daughter of Hon. John H. and Mary Elizabeth Tonkin Clark Bradway. Clara Bradway Creveling was a Daughter of the American Revolution. She was a descendant of Thomas Clark 1737-1809. Thomas Clark was on the Committee of Safety and a Deputy to the Provisional Continental Congress. Thomas Clark was born and died in Gloucester NJ. Wesley Creveling was a prominent Democrat and served as the Mayor of Trenton NJ. from 1875-1877. He was an attorney and had an office at 45 East State St. in Trenton. He led the Centennial Parade in Trenton on July 4 1876. During his term in office the first post office in Trenton was built. He was a member of the 3rd. Presbyterian Church of Trenton. After his retirement he wintered in Florida and spent the summers in the mountains of New York. The Wesley Creveling Family resided at 48 Clinton Avenue in Trenton Mercer County NJ. They had one child. Mary Bradway Creveling their daughter was borrn on February 24 1885 in Trenton NJ. She died on September 7 1885 in Trenton NJ. Her funeral was conducted from her parents Clinton Avenue home. Mary Bradway Creveling was originally interred in the Mercer Cemetery with her grandparents. She was later reinterred in the Riverview Cemtery in the Wesley Creveling Family Plot. Mary Bradway Creveling is Find-A-Grave Memorial Number 39190093. Mary Bradway Creveling's grandparents were also reinterred in the Wesley Creveling Burial Plot Number 571. Wesley Creveling's last address was 911 South 47th. St. in Philadelphia PA. Wesley Creveling died of a cerebral hemorrhage.; Manuscript; 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF WESLEY CREVELING TRENTON NEW JERSEY CLARA BRADWAY CREVELING MAYOR OF TRENTON DEMOCRATIC MAYORS OF NEW JERSEY AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito Papel . unknown
1809060844London: J. Stratford 112 Holborn Hill 1809. New Edition Revised & Corrected . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 12mo. NEW EDITION REVISED & CORRECTED. LONDON : 1809. First published in Bristol in two volumes in 1763. Vol. 3 published in 1770. Hardback. 5 volumes complete. Original calf-leather binding. Volume 2 re-spined to match; spines ruled in gilt with matching red leather labels. Original end-papers. Bright tight and clean. Neat owner names one dated 'Robert Foss 1809'. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD INDEED. SCARCE as a set in matching state. Scarce. 2nd Edition in 1770 3rd 1777 4th 1784 1809 is unrecorded. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Sm.8vo. London: J. Stratford 112 Holborn Hill. VERY SCARCE. <br/> <br/> J. Stratford, 112 Holborn Hill hardcover
188040326Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1880. First edition. Original brown cloth ruled in blind gilt titles. About very good extremities worn with some loss of cloth especially at spine ends tape shadow on spine small bookplate to front pastedown marginal tear to one plate at fold otherwise contents and plates quite fine. xxxii 307 pp. Illus. with 11 b/w heliotype plates with tissue guards 1 of which is folding and 4 cross-section plates all folding. 4to. At the head of the title: Department of the Interior U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. J.W. Powell in Charge. This copy is the text volume only the Atlas volume is not present. Provenance: From the library of Kenneth E. Hill with his bookplate. [U.S.] Government Printing Office hardcover
1890587790Atlanta Georgia: Franklin Publishing House 1890. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Introduction by Prof. W.S. Scarborough. Small octavo. 305pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author with his autograph in facsimile. Red cloth gilt. Small archival tape repair on the verso of frontispiece boards and corners scuffed and rubbed some scattered foxing a good copy of an uncommon title. Franklin Publishing House hardcover
189210386New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons "for private circulation" 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo 155pp. illustrated. A crisp clean copy very near fine in the publisher's navy cloth. Bottom corners bumped contemporary owner's name on the front free endpaper and again on the title page else a nice clean copy with a few pages unopened. Extremely scarce memoir of this Civil War General from Indiana who served as aide-de-camp to McClellan at the start of the war then being elected to Congress and later serving as Judge Advocate General of the US Army. During his time in the Indiana state Legislature and in the US Congress he was a vocal opponent of the expansion of slavery into the west and some of his speeches to that effect are included in this book. This privately printed volume was evidently produced in very small numbers; we count just two holdings in OCLC Indiana State Library App. State. Missed by Broadfoot Nevins etc. Untraced at auction. An elusive rarity among Indiana Civil War volumes. [G. P. Putnam's Sons ("for private circulation")] hardcover
1805LTH29-F-20Dublin: John Jones 1805. Leather. Good Only. 8.5" by 5". None. A memoir of Methodist leader Charles Wesley compiled by John Whitehead. With an engraved frontispiece of Wesley. A scarce edition of this work which is the Second Edition. This work is taken from Wesley's private journal and compiled by John Whitehead author of the discourse delivered at John Welsey's funeral. In a quarter calf binding with paper covered boards. Externally worn. Paper coverings to boards are detaching due to damp staining and have suffered loss. Small amount of rubbing to the head and tail of spine. Gilt stamping to spine have started fading. Hinges are slightly strained but firm. Frontispiece is detached. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with light spots throughout. Good Only John Jones hardcover
187518600Washington: Government Printing Office 1875. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Near fine. The first edition of Exploration Of The Colorado River Of The West And Its Tributaries published in 1875. Quarto xi 1 291pp 5. Contemporary three-quarter olive morocco raised bands title stamped in gilt over a red morocco label. Maroon cloth boards. Complete with 80 wood engraved views on 72 individual plates. Includes the two fold-out maps at the rear. New endpapers. Bumped fore-edge with a closed tear from p. 240-248 no impact to text. Clean text throughout solid text block. Sabin 64753 Howes P528 Graff 3336 A near fine example. John Wesley Powell 1834-1902 was an American explorer Civil War veteran scientist and public intellectual best known for leading the first successful expeditions through the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon in 1869 and 1871-72. Having lost his right arm at the Battle of Shiloh Powell became a symbol of postwar scientific exploration combining firsthand fieldwork with rigorous analysis of the American West. As second director of the U.S. Geological Survey and longtime head of the Bureau of American Ethnology he argued that western settlement should be planned around watersheds and water availability rather than arbitrary political boundaries. Government Printing Office unknown
18551677Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson Printer 1855. First edition. Hardcover. Good. John Wesley Powell's copy of Volume II of these 1853-54 reports with his stamp faintly in purple ink on the title page. A good only copy with dampstaining throughout but collectible in light of its owner who famously would go on to survey and provide his own report on the Grand Canyon. These 1853-54 reports were issued somewhat haphazardly in 12 volumes apparently as they were received rather than by region. Volume II contains the following: 1 "Report by Lieutenant E.G. Beckwith Third Artillery upon the Route near the Thirty-Eighth and Thirty-Ninth Parallels Explored by Captain J.W. Gunnison Corps of Topographical Engineers" Gunnison was killed on the journey; 2 "Report of Lieutenant E.G. Beckwith . . . upon the Route near the Forty-First Parallel"; 3 Report of a Reconnaissance from Puget Sound via South Pass to the Mississippi River by F.W. Lander Civil Engineer"; 4 "Report of Brevet Captain John Pope Corps Topographical Engineers upon the Portion of the Route near the Thirty-Second Parallel Lying between the Red River the Colorado and the Rio Grande"; 5 "Report of Lieutenant John G. Park Corps Topographical Engineers upon the Portion of the Route near the Thirty-Second Parallel Lying between the Rio Grande and Pimas Village on the Gila"; and 6 "Extract from Report of a Military Reconnaissance Made by Lieutenant Colonel W.H. Emory U.S. Army of the Portion of the Route near the Thirty-Second Parallel Lying between the Mouths of the San Pedro and Gila Rivers." Among several of the later reports are botanical sections by Asa Gray and John Torrey. These are replete with nice line-drawing botanical plates. In the first Beckwith report J.M. Stanley provides a series of beautiful vista illustrations in color of the Gunnison route. Near the rear are a fold out map and a fold out geological section depicting the stretch between the Colorado River "Red River and the Rio Grande. A contemporary binding of red cloth and quarter/corner leather with five raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. Red marbled endpapers. Again good only with dampstaining to all corners of the pages top and bottom see photos. The pages have some light waviness to them but turn fine and are readable the text itself mostly free of staining. Mottling on front board wrinkle on rear. Rubbing to board edges and nicks to spine corners as one might expect for a heavy book of this age. Despite its condition still a special copy--Powell's. The inclusion of the Colorado River in the fourth report in the volume would have ultimately been of special interest to him and one imagines the example of these reports would have influenced his own. A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer hardcover
1879422485Washington D.C. 1879. Very Good. Autograph Letter Signed by John Wesley Powell Director of the Bureau of Ethnology in Washington D.C. together with an accompanying photograph which he sent in 1880 to John S. Billings a surgeon and a statistician on medicine in the U.S. Army. The one page letter is written on "Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology" letterhead dated: "Ap. 27" 1880 and is addressed at the bottom to "Dr. John S. Billings Surgeon U.S.A. Army Medical Museum." Some water staining to the edges and related blurring to the manuscript text still legible and three-inch tear repaired with tape on the verso good only. The Albumen Print measures 9 ½ x 12 inches laid down on a cardboard mount 11 x 16". Contemporary manuscript caption in ink on the bottom margin of the mount: "3824 Photo. Tailed man" and on the back in French which identifies the photograph as a being from the Society of Anthropology in Berlin. Dated "Oct. 18" with "1879" inserted in pencil. Light soiling and toning to the mount with a tear to the top margin of the mount very good.<br /> <br /> The photograph of a tailed man which Powell takes "pleasure in sending" to Billings is an enlargement of the photo taken in 1879 by Surgeon-General Bernhard Ornstein chief physician of the Greek army. The original photo sent to the Berlin Anthropological Society sparked a decade-long debate about whether such protuberances were "atavistic tails" or "pathological protuberances."<br /> <br /> Powell was a celebrated naturalist and explorer who despite losing an arm in the Civil War led the first known passage through the Grand Canyon in 1869. When Congress created the Bureau of Ethnology in 1879 Powell was named its first director a post he held until his death. John Shaw Billings is best known as the modernizer of the Surgeon General's Library the nation's first comprehensive library for medicine. He also started Index Medicus a monthly guide to contemporary medicine that ran until his retirement at the Medical Museum and Library. A nice association. unknown
18942311448Harrogate Tennessee: Lincoln Memorial University 1894. Limited Edition. Half-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Limited edition #399 of an unspecified limitation this set 'especially prepared for Harry J. Williams.' Signed by John Wesley Hill opposite limitation page. Copyright page states 1894 but this is clearly reproduced from the plates of the original - this set is circa 1905. Volume 1 has very minor discoloration to edges of cloth on rear board minor wear to corners spine a bit faded. Complete in twelve hardcover volumes. Red half-leather gilt titles and decorations top edges gilt decorative endpapers. A complete collection of Abraham Lincoln's works including speeches letters biographical writings etc. with an introduction by John Wesley Hill and special articles by various other contributors. The editors were Lincoln's private secretary and assistant secretary and also served in various other governmental roles Hay going on to become Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt. Nicolay and Hay are perhaps best known for their ten-volume biographical history of Lincoln's administration originally published serially in The Century Magazine beginning in 1886 -- it remains one of the more exhaustive and personal accounts of the life of the 16th President of the United States and is notable for the inclusion of facsimiles of original drafts of important documents most importantly the Emancipation Proclamation. This set includes facsimiles of original correspondence and documents reproductions of contemporary photographs and engravings etc. Lincoln Memorial University hardcover
1894112666Lincoln Memorial University 1894. Leather. Very Good. 1894 Lincoln Memorial University Sponsors edition #500 of unstated limitation. 12 volume gilt decorated full leather bindings top edge gilt. Fine condition with no issues. oversized and overweight. B67 Please email for photos. Lincoln Memorial University hardcover
187571484Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good . 291pp. Quarto 29.5 cm Dark green cloth over boards. With map has a couple of minor fold splits and profile in an envelope at the rear. Both in near pristine condition. Light scratching and scuffing to the monograph's boards. Multiple small faint spots on backstrip. Darkening to p. 180 and the plate opposite. Text block cracked at p. 185 but book remains very sturdy. Complete. In better than very good condition. Powell's 1869 exploration was the first documented expedition to successfully navigate the perilous rapids of the Colorado River through the uncharted Grand Canyon. The expedition set off in 1869 with ten men and four boats under the direction of one-armed American explorer and Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell 1834-1902. After three months and nearly 1000 miles only five of the original party emerged from the depths of the canyon. Their historic journey mapped the last wild untamed river of the American West and named the last unknown regions of American geography. The Henry Mountains and the Dirty Devil River were until the Powell expedition the last nameless mountain range and river in the continental U.S. Carl Wheat writes in "Mapping the Transmississippi West 1850-1861" "As a narrative of adventure this book of 1875 is one of the most justly celebrated documents in the literature of exploration." In recognition of Powell's contributions to American exploration geology and ethnology he was appointed the first director of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution. He also served as director of the U.S. Geological Survey from 1881 to 1894. Powell Plateau a butte in Grand Canyon National Park is named after him as is Lake Powell. Howes P525. Farquhar 42a. Wheat 1261. Graff 3336. Sabin 64753. Government Printing Office hardcover
18640002339WITH THE 2ND NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. Good. 1864. On offer is a superb original historically significant manuscript diary and relic of the Civil War handwritten by noted Chaplain John Wesley Adams born in Townsend Massachusetts in 1832 the seventh generation ancestor of the Presidents Adams. On December 5 1863 Mr. Adams was commissioned chaplain of General Gilman Marston's original command "The Fighting Second". Devoting himself to social and moral welfare of his comrades Adams was renowned for the care of his men. Side by side he participated in the battles at Bermuda Hundred Point of Rocks the second engagement at Fair Oaks Swift Creek Proctor's Creek Drury's Bluff Cold Harbor Siege of Petersburg and entering Richmond under General Devens the day of his surrender. Mr. Adams preached before his regiment on the death of Abraham Lincoln Adams was discharged in 1865 in a testimonial on parchment. Joining the NH Conference Adams was successful with over a dozen notable pastorates. In 1876 he was chosen a delegate to the General Conference in Baltimore serving four years as secretary of his conference. The 42 page coverless diary is comprised of folio sized sheets are in 3 text blocks held by string and are titled as detailed 'excerpts' from the diaries of the renowned pastor. Retrospectively done but very very soon after the dates of the original writings Chaplain Adams provides a factual retelling of his vast service and in fact the writings include for example in one case a riveting word for word passages with a soldier condemned to die for desertion only to exalt in a reprieve to then be shot the next day. Overall G.; Manuscript; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF CHAPLAIN JOHN WESLEY ADAMS BATTLEFIELD DIARY CIVIL WAR BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER TOWNSEND MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL CONFERENCE IN BALTIMORE THE 2ND NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS GENERAL GILMAN MARSTON THE FIGHTING SECOND BATTLES AT BERMUDA HUNDRED POINT OF ROCKS SECOND ENGAGEMENT AT FAIR OAKS SWIFT CREEK PROCTOR'S CREEK DRURY'S BLUFF COLD HARBOR SIEGE OF PETERSBURG RICHMOND UNDER GENERAL DEVENS ABRAHAM LINCOLN HARRIET PATIENCE DAME AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES JOURNAL LOG PRIMARY SOURCE FIRST HAND ACCOUNT SOCIAL HISTORY PERSONAL STORIES LIVING HISTORY ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPELBIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY PERSONAL NARRATIVES . unknown
