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185638134Chicago: Keen and Lee 1856. Fourth edition. Lithographic frontispiece A View of St. Paul and title page View of the Falls of St. Anthony. Three plates. Colored folding map Fine tipped in at back. 412 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue blind stamped cloth with an elaborate gilt stamped spine. Spine ends gently bumped minor rubbing to extremities. Fourth edition. Lithographic frontispiece A View of St. Paul and title page View of the Falls of St. Anthony. Three plates. Colored folding map Fine tipped in at back. 412 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Howes 1014 Keen and Lee unknown
185338133New York: Redfield 1853. First edition. Lithographi frontispiece A View of St. Paul and t.p View of the Falls of St. Anthony WITH FINE COPY OF FOLDING MAP LAID IN. 364 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cloth spine faded else fine. First edition. Lithographi frontispiece A View of St. Paul and t.p View of the Falls of St. Anthony WITH FINE COPY OF FOLDING MAP LAID IN. 364 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Not in Howes or Graff Redfield unknown
1802010570Printed at the Conference-Office; London 1802. Publication date 1802-3 respectively. . Hard. Good-. 16mo. 6 4/5. Good-. Contemporarneous full calf worn. Spine and hinges reinforced with labelled brown tape. All as pictured. 2 v. iv 5-388 i.e. 288; 277 3 p. <br/> <br/> Printed at the Conference-Office; London unknown
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
188327220New York:: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1883. First edition. original plum cloth. The plates are all foxed at the margins; some pencil underlining; very slight use to cloth. Large 8bo. Frontispiece portrait and six plates; folding plate of the seating plan. G. P. Putnam's Sons, hardcover
188722491Boston: The Prince Society 1887. One of 250 copies printed. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Originally issued as wrappers with front cover retained printed in red and black inks. Bound or rebound in tan canvas cloth light wear some rubbing to spine leather title label affixed to spine suggesting this was previously bound then rebound the spine title was retained. A very sturdy binding. Former institutional copy Mercantile Library of New York with rubber ink stamp to title page with inked number several page are stamped again but no other institutional markings or ephemera. Otherwise the book is clean and unmarked with minor age toned paper. xii 492 pages plus fold-out plate and folded map of Newfoundland fascimiles and chapter head & tail pieces. <br/><br/>Experienced full-time used & antiquarian bookseller since 1994. Images may be added by request. Questions welcome. The Prince Society 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
18642790Philadelphia: C.W. Alexander & Co 1864. First Edition. Original pictorial wrappers printed in blue and black 9.25 x 5.75 inches i-iv 21-30 31-32 39-52 53-54 61-74 75-76 85-100 pages i.e. 64 pages as published. Full-page woodcut illustrations included in the pagination. Copyright date on the title page of 1863; the dated preliminary text dated January 15 1864. Somewhat worn some staining and light foxing especially toward the rear; a good sound copy. Fact or fiction the present account celebrates the covert role of women as gatherers of military intelligence during the Civil War. The spectacular illustrated cover is given a full-page reproduction by Alice Fahs' in her "The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South 1861-1865" p. 243. The text is accompanied by a number of naive woodcuts and presents the account of "Maud Melville" the non-de-guerre of "Pauline D'Estraye" who is herself a fictional character invented by "Wesley Bradshaw" pseudonym of Charles Wesley Alexander. The layers of literary deceipt are appropriate for a spy-thriller such as this.<br/><br/>"There is little evidence that the author's Civil War characters were based on real people. However at the beginning of 'Pauline of the Potomac' 1862 Bradshaw hinted at the fact asserting that in the tale he had merged stories from real wartime incidents. Some believe that the character of Pauline D'Estraye was Pauline Cushman 1835-1893 actress and Union spy who was born in New Orleans to a Spanish political refugee and a Frenchwoman. At age 18 she went to New York to earn her living and was recruited there by the manager of the New Orleans Varieties for his show. She and her husband another performer toured throughout the country. When the Civil War erupted he enlisted in the Union army as a musician; she continued to perform until commissioned as a secret agent by the federal government in 1863 with instructions to penetrate as far south as possible. Apprehended by Confederate forces near Tullahoma Tennessee she was tried and sentenced to hang in June 1863. Fortunately for her she was left behind when the advancing army of General William S. Rosecrans forced the Confederates to retreat. Although her usefulness as a spy came to an end she returned to the stage lecturing throughout the North in a federal uniform to great acclaim. Cushman's glamorous but slightly shady profession in addition to her feats of espionage was ideal material for the dime novels of the day. "Maud of the Mississippi" is one of several such novels that appeared during the war years. The heroine Maud Melville gathers intelligence for General Grant as she performs as an actress in towns along the lower Mississippi River. <br/><br/>¶ Fact or fiction Gen. Grant's woman spy Maud Melville was a coquettish young woman with nerves of steel and a genius for military strategy. She is sent by Grant into Vicksburg as a spy; her efforts help the Union army capture the city. Hints that she has captured the affections of General Pemberton are offset by her evident piety; Maud meets with such success that the present account concludes with the promise "Her daring exploits during General Grant's subsequent campaign and her final discovery and capture by the rebels in Georgia which are far more exciting than her previous adventures will be published immediately in a second volume of the same style and price as this book."<br/><br/>Scarce: we have located only one copy in on the market since 2008 namely in M & S Rare Books Catalogue Eighty Four item 16 - this copy<br/><br/>REFERENCES: Women in the American Civil War ed. Lisa Tendrich Frank vol. I p. 99. Thomas Ruys Smith River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain p. 188. C.W. Alexander & Co unknown books
186457051Philadelphia: C. W. Alexander & Co 1864. First edition 8vo pp. 2 21-30 31-32 39-52 53-54 61-74 75-76 85-100 irregular pagination as published; 3 full-page woodcut illustrations; wrappers wanting; stab-sewn; some dampstaining throughout; lacks printed frontgispiece letter; otherwise good and sound. "A thrilling narrative of the adventures of Miss Pauline D'Estraye a young and beautiful French lady who after performing the most heroic deeds in Virginia in behalf of the Union was sent officially to the Department of the Mississippi where she rendered herself for ever famous by her conspicuous daring and bravery during the Vicksburg Campaign under Major-General U. S. Grant." A fictional account of a Civil War spy. Some believe the character of Maud of the Mississippi was based on the actress and Union spy Pauline Cushman 1835-1893. Wright II 47. <br/><br/> C. W. Alexander & Co unknown books
18677110Philadelphia: C.W. Alexander Publisher 224 South Third Street 1867. Octavo sewn on cord 23 x 14.5 cm. 2 19-94 pages. Stated "New and Enlarged Edition" but we have been unable to locate a citation of an earlier printing. A household compendium with recipes and formulas for cookery as well as for useful articles for the home such as Leather Flowers. Includes recipes for "the following celebrated articles: Godfrey's Cordial Carrot Ointment German Bitters Pickalily Sauce and Parisian Enamel" which should give some sense of the range on exhibition here. Short sections on Family Wines Valuable Dyes and Distemper Colors for Walls and Ceilings. Charles Wesley Alexander 1837-1927 was an American author who often wrote under the pseudonym Wesley Bradshaw. Here the name is given simply as "Alexander" in the title and C.W. Alexander in the copyright information. A German language edition Alexander's Familien-freund was issued the same year. Text block with age-toning and a bit of edgewear. Decorated wrapper printed in blue and brown has a large chip out of the upper right corner of the front panel; rear wrapper panel separated at hinge. Still better than good. Scarce. OCLC records five copies; not in Cagle. C.W. Alexander, Publisher, 224 South Third Street hardcover books
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
1894812H1431New York: Cruger Bros. 1894. Sheet music. Good. Paperback. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 6 pages. Cover photo of Bessie Tannehell. Moderate wear. Name atop front cover. A quality vintage copy. Cruger Bros. Paperback
181111842Dublin: Printed by John Jones.For the Methodist Book-Room 1811. A New Edition. Hardcover. Good. Full brown calf with a red leather spine title label edges rubbed yet tight with good joints 7 x 4 1/2 inches. i-vi 7-327 4 generally clean pp. counted and complete. Infrequent foxing; rear end papers with inscribed with family births 1810 to 1847; old clipping of the poem "I Will arise and Go Unto My Father" laid in. A spiritual classic that develops the theme of communion with God in this life in preparation for the next.Richard Baxter 1615-1697 "an eminent nonconformist divine. He was unlucky in his education by falling into the hands of ignorant schoolmasters; neither had he the advantage of academical study; but he had the use of an excellent library with which he endeavored to supply the deficiency. Received orders 1638; became minister at Kidderminster 1640. At the Restoration he was appointed one of the kings chaplains and was offered the bishopric of Hereford which he declined. Not being allowed to continue at Kidderminster he settled in London. Although he did not conform he attended the parish churches. His theological system has been called Baxterianism; it holds a middle way between Calvinism and Arminianism. He was a man of great piety zeal and simplicity with a moving and pathetical way of writing. His industry was great having published 168 distinct treatises and few have ever been to better purpose. Dr. Barrow affirmed that his practical writings were never mended and his controversial ones seldom confuted. According to Dr. Bates they contain a treasure of controversial casuistical positive and practical divinity." Darling."Baxter is my particular favorite: it is impossible to tell you how much I am charmed with the devotion good sense and pathos which is everywhere to be found in him." Doddridge. "He cultivated every subject he handled and if he had lived in the primitive time he had been one of the fathers of the church. It was enough for one age to produce such a person." Bishop Wilkins. "He must be very wise or very stupid to whom Baxter can import no instruction." Orme. "His books of practical divinity have been effectual for more numerous conversions of sinners to God than any printed in our time; and while the church remains on earth will be of continual efficacy to recover lost souls." Dr. Bates. Printed by John Jones...For the Methodist Book-Room hardcover
18050047406London: Printed at he Conference Office North Green Worship Street 1805. Not Given . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Small Octavo. LONDON : 1805. Wesley's popular abridgement of Baxter's classic work; which has helped Christians over the last the last four centuries. First published 1754 in Wesley's 50-volume 'A Christian Library'. Hardback. Contemporary full-calf leather; spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Neat contemporary owner name. No internal markings. Bright tight and clean. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD. 339 pages. Referenced by: English Short Title Catalog ESTCT212141. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Sm.8vo. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books CHS Cumberland Everyman GKC Inklings Keswick Literature MacDonald Rarities Theology and History. . SCARCE. <br/> <br/> Printed at he Conference Office, North Green, Worship Street hardcover
18723829Washington DC: U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountains 1872. Albumen stereoview 11 cm x 15.5 cm on a yellow J.W. Powell and A.H. Thompson mount 11.5 cm x 17.5 cm with a printed paper label on the reverse. Nice condition with strong contrasts. Cataract Canon Series: This canon is 40 ¾ miles in length and from 1500 to 3000 feet in depth. Image shows a rocky landscape with the Colorado River running through it. This photograph was taken on the second Powell expedition.<br/><br/>E.O. Beaman 1837-1876 was a New York landscape photographer who became the official photographer of the U.S. Geological Survey's Powell Expedition summer 1871 upon the recommendation of his supplier E. & H.T. Anthony & Company. Beaman left the survey January 1872 and spent some time photographing the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona before returning East. U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountains unknown books
1893007651St. Louis MO: Continental Printing Co. 1893 12 pages. Old vertical mailing fold otherwise very good. A rare pamphlet -- no copies in OCLC. Beaumont proposes a way to promote manufacturing. The Beaumont Tower at Michigan State University is named for him. Size: 8vo. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Continental Printing Co. paperback
183725250New York: T. Mason & G. Lane for the Methodist Episcopal Church pr. by J. Collord 1837. 8vo 22.5 cm 8.9". 734 pp. 219/20 lacking. <br><br>Commentary by John Wesley the founding father of Methodism on the New Testament including the Book of Revelation. The text is "that of the Common English Translation with some of Bengel's readings incorporated" according to O'Callaghan. Having originally appeared in 1754 the Notes were here published by Mason and Lane who in collaboration with printer James Collord produced numerous Methodist treatises and Bible editions.<br>Â Â Â Â Uncommon: OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 locate only 10 U.S. holdings of this edition. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â American Imprints 1837 43174; O'Callaghan 253. This ed. not in Hills; not in Wright. Period-style quarter tan cloth and light blue papercovered boards spine with printed paper label. Title-page and first and last sections with lower portions of leaves waterstained though not darkly; foxing throughout. Significant portions of the two leaves bearing pp. 21518 torn diagonally away with loss of most notes and some text of John; leaf bearing pp. 219/20 lacking. T. Mason & G. Lane for the Methodist Episcopal Church (pr. by J. Collord) hardcover books
1873WRCLIT76137London: Wesleyan Conference Office 1873. 12mo. Full richly gilt paneled black morocco a.e.g. Portrait. A couple of ownership inscriptions one from 1873 on slightly smudged coated endsheets otherwise an attractive copy in unsigned binding. Wesleyan Conference Office unknown books
189343643Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Company 1893. First Edition. 12mo 18.5cm.; publisher's white gilt-lettered cloth; 103pp. Cloth a bit soiled especially at spine with a few shallow surface scratches corners gently bumped else Very Good internally fine. Quite scarce collection of poems by a near-unknown poet. Despite the imprint the poems are inspired mostly by nature and Greek mythology rather than socialist politics. We find one contemporary review whose critic rightly strips the work of any literary merit stating that "Much of his work shows no idea of the meaning of words" providing as evidence the following line: "A dreamer fair and bland!" San Francisco Chronicle August 13 1893. Charles H. Kerr and Company unknown
189343643Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Company 1893. First Edition. 12mo 18.5cm.; publisher's white gilt-lettered cloth; 103pp. Cloth a bit soiled especially at spine with a few shallow surface scratches corners gently bumped else Very Good internally fine. Quite scarce collection of poems by a near-unknown poet. Despite the imprint the poems are inspired mostly by nature and Greek mythology rather than socialist politics. We find one contemporary review whose critic rightly strips the work of any literary merit stating that "Much of his work shows no idea of the meaning of words" providing as evidence the following line: "A dreamer fair and bland!" San Francisco Chronicle August 13 1893. Charles H. Kerr and Company unknown books
1857WRCAM44168Chicago and Philadelphia 1857. 412pp. plus plates and folding map. Original blue publisher's cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Extremities very lightly rubbed. Some minor soiling and light offsetting form plates else quite nice. Very good plus. Promotional work for Minnesota published on the eve of its entrance into the Union as the 32nd state. With information on the history climate and Native Americans of the region and illustrated with several views. hardcover books
18549003New York: Redfield 1854. First Edition 2nd issue. Cloth. Very good. 12mo. 4004pp. Tinted litho added title with a view and 1 other tinted litho and a large folding map at back. Orig. brown cloth gilt spine. Top of spine a bit chipped. This is the first edition second issue with the title dated 1854 rather than 1853. Redfield hardcover books
1853H33330New York: Redfield 1853. First Printing. Hardcover. Fair. Publisher's cloth fair copy with some ex-library marks spine worn portions of endpapers have been bleached or something and there's a hole in the middle of the flyleaf; similar bleaching to area of the lithographic title page that has bled through to the letterpress title page see pics for clarification but lithographic frontispiece apparently not affected. With folding map at rear 1.5" easily reparable tear at stub. Text a little tanned too. But clean enough and a good reading copy. Redfield hardcover
185753940Chicago: Keen & Lee 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Good condition. Octavo. 412pp. 6 plates 1 folding map. Original blind-stamped decorative blue cloth illustration and lettering in gilt on spine. Frontispiece lithograph with tissue guard St. Paul in 1853. Lithograph of Falls of St. Anthony with decorative frame on first title page. Illustrated with four additional lithographs of Minnesota land and city scapes. Inscription on front free endpaper. Contains map of Minnesota in color at rear 1:240000. Three pages of publishing advertisements on faint yellow pages at front. Contains few library stamps and markings library pocket with card on inside back cover. Light wear along edges and light rubbing of covers. Keen & Lee hardcover
