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187828959Boston: Frank Wood Printer 1878. 34pp plus portrait frontis and original tissue guard of John Everitt who "sailed for Valparaiso from New York.to be associated with the General Superintendent at the Mines"; and large Bird's-Eye View 32" x 16" and Topographical Plan of the mines. Original printed wrappers stitched. Wrappers chipped at edges and reinforced at the spine with tape. Some chipping to several blank margins. Good.<br/><br/> The Company based in New York issued this Prospectus which includes a detailed report from its Mining Engineer W.A. Holcomb. Flagler its President was a major capitalist during the last half of the 19th century; he formed the National Tube Company and owned one of the predecessors to U.S. Steel. <br/>OCLC 1013744777 1- U IL as of November 2020. Frank Wood, Printer unknown books
1877269049Case Lockwood & Brainard Co. 1877. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo in rust-colored cloth spine title in gilt title and decorations in black on the front board bevelled edges. Binding tight and square very light rubbing at the corners and spine ends. All of the albumen prints present; they're a bit wavy but there is no evidence of water damage. The front pastedown bears the ownership signature of Walter B. Douglas prominent St. Louis jurist and historian. Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. hardcover
186624824New York: Harper & Brothers 1866. First edition. Paperback. Fair. Single bound issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. 199 December 1866. Notable for the inclusion of "Forty Three Days In An Open Boat" pp 104-113 now recognized as the first appearance of Mark Twain in a national magazine. Noted apparently as Mark Swain in the list of contributors. This copy in relatively poor condition with some substantial soiling chipping to edges and other general wear. However still bound with most of the spine intact. Not often found as a separate issue it is much more common for this to be found as part of a bound set of twelve issues. Harper & Brothers paperback books
188513975E. H. Mayer, Köln und Leipzig 1865 - 1885. 600-800 S. je Band mit zahlreichen Hozschnitt-Abbildnungen und wenigen Tafeln und Karten, Groß 8°, marmoriertes Halb-Leder der Zeit mit Rückentitel und mit schlichter Rückenvergoldung, Bibliotheksexemplare (ordnungsgemäß entwidmet), Stempel auf Titel und Vorsatz, Einbände gering berieben und bestoßen, Rücken in Klarsichtfolie eingeschlagen, leichte Rückstände und Klebereste im Bereich des ehemaligen Rückenschildes, Papier vereinzelt leicht braunfelckig, dekorative Exemplare in gutem Gesamtzustand,
1894GHTctVAH18St. Petersburg: Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Marine 1894. 1894. 8vo. pp. x 1 leaf 390 11 8ads. titles in French & Russian text in Russian French & English. folding table. woodcut title & vignettes. 4 double-page plates showing ships. contemporary quarter sheep original printed wrs. bound in rubbed several rubberstamps. Second Edition. St. Petersburg: Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Marine, 1894. unknown
189863466Vancouver & Victoria B.C.: Province Publishing Company Ltd. 1898. Folio. 10 x 14 in. 2 63 3 pp. With photo illustrations throughout in colour and black & white plan of Vancouver on last leaf. Textured purple-coloured softcovers decorative silver lettering stamped on front cover yapp fore-edges minor sunning to front cover minor creasing curling front cover edgewear still a VG- copy. First edition of this exceedingly scarce and lavishly illustrated guidebook promoting Vancouver & Victoria B.C. as the primary outfitting stations for the Klondike Gold Rush. Photos depict the military contingent departing to police and restore order in the gold country and even features an interview with F.M. Rattenbury advocating the coastal route to the Klondike via the Chilkoot and White Passes. Many of the photographs depict miners on the trail the Canadian customs house at Chilkoot Pass and Dawson City. Worldcat locates 5 copies Yale UBC Toronto Bancroft Canadian Centre for Architecture; See: Kurutz Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes A Descriptive Bibliography 480. Province Publishing Company, Ltd., paperback
185148953Logtown Eldorado County California 1851. SIGNED by McKemson at conclusion. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Bit of age toning. Fold-lines. Later pencil annotation at top noting location of Logtown. Very Good. Single sheet 25 lines of mss ~ 7 words per line ~ 175 words. 2 sums penned to right of sheet. Docket summary to verso. All writing clear & sharp entirely legible. 9-5/8" x 7-1/2" <br/><br/>An interesting & information-laden letter detailing the contractual & financial agreements between two individuals engaged in mining along with sums paid for divers aspects of same to wit: "to John and Peter for pork" .75 "balance on beef to the butcher down Town" 4.15 and "balance on account with King" 9.86. We note athat the value of labor is recognized e.g. "it was agreed by J. S. Bigalow and I that as George was sick most of the time that the cooking that he did should pay his part of the living for which our bebts were principally contracted." <br /> <br />A nice primary source ADs documenting divers aspects of mine life amongs those so practiciing. unknown books
190045326Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1900. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Small folio 12 x 9 1/2". viii 2 438pp Vol. 1; vii 3 597 1pp Vol. 2. Modern blue cloth with gold lettering to spines. <br /> <br /> Rare first edition of this first catalogue of the Greek manuscripts on Mount Athos a mountain and peninsula in northeastern Greece and an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism.<br /> <br /> In this 2-volume set the author lists no less than 6618 fully annotated religious manuscripts at the time of publication 1895-1900.<br /> <br /> From the time monks first settled on the Holy Mountain and formed an organized monastic community there was a need for books to satisfy their devotional and liturgical needs and also to cultivate the mind. These factors proved decisive in determining the types and content of the manuscripts which gradually began to accumulate in the monasteries and other foundations and which were eventually to form the manuscript collection of each.<br /> <br /> Includes an extensive Index and bibliography at the end of second volume pp. 477-597.<br /> <br /> Ex-library bookplate on inside of each front cover and reference sticker on inside of back covers. Stamp at top and bottom edges. Some ink staining at verso of title page and first text page of second volume with one stain slightly affecting lettering. Title pages in English and Greek. Catalogue in Greek. Binding in overall good interior in good to very good condition. Cambridge University Press hardcover
18555250London: May 19 1855. About very good. 2pp. on a bifolium. Previously folded. Light wear along top edge; short closed tear at right margin. Scattered faint foxing. With original mailing envelope. This two-page printed circular dated May 19th 1855 from the Anglo-California Gold Mining Company in London offers to convert "unissued shares" of company stock into "preference shares." The first page of the circular reads in part:<br /> <br /> "You will observe from the enclosed report not present of the adjourned General Meeting that circumstances have arisen in California rendering it imperative that the Director should immediately have at his command a further sum of £6600. You will also observe that the Board have power to convert the unissued shares into preference shares at par to be offered in the first instance to the present holders of shares. The advantage offered to persons taking those Shares is that they are guaranteed a dividend of 25 per cent per annum before any dividend is paid on the other Shares."<br /> <br /> The second leaf of the bifolium prints a blank form for recipients to purchase said preferred shares. During the first years of the California gold rush approximately 120 companies formed in Great Britain to offer mining shares in the booming goldfields to the public. Many saw these companies as an opportunity to invest in the boom without facing the expense or the danger of traveling to California. Most however ended in failure and investors collectively lost almost £2 million at the time.<br /> <br /> The Anglo-California Gold Mining Company formed by Luke Williams in March 1849 was one of the first and largest of these British ventures and it sold thousands of ten shilling shares to the public. Williams sent a former Royal Navy Captain Henry Vere Huntley to the Calaveras River in early 1850 to start the operation. When he failed Williams arranged a deal with Fremont's Quartz Rock Mariposa Gold Company to crush and refine their ore and the ore of smaller ventures. To that end the company sent two steam-powered crushing mills to California and when those proved useless to the task the company failed. May 19 unknown
18563459n.p.: n.p. 1856. Hardcover. Fair. This quarto-sized scrapbook in green cloth over boards was manufactured c. 1850 by Eayrs & Fairbanks No. 133 Washington St. Boston. It is about half full of contemporary news clippings affixed with paste. The scrapbooker did not comment on them with the exception of one instruction to "See the loose piece."The first 40 pages are from 1856-1857. The majority of articles deal with slavery especially political events in the Kansas Territory "Bleeding Kansas" the Dred Scott Case and President James Buchanan. The first clipping is from Feb. 9 1856 and details a pro-slavery meeting in Missouri addressed by David Atchison. The last clipping in this section is from April 24 1857 and reports on Stanton's speech at Lawrence Kansas.After a break of three blank pages the scrapbook resumes with news of Reconstruction from June 30 1868. There are 6 more pages of eclectica: political news clippings interspersed with a poem by Whittier and advice on How to Keep the Feet Dry.While the scrapbook is unsigned it can be tentatively identified with the Orton family since the last page contains an 1868 20th reunion announcement from the Hamilton College class of 1848 along with 1868 clippings from southwestern Ohio newspapers including the Springfield Ohio Republic. The only surviving member of that class residing near the Dayton-Springfield area is Prof. Edward Orton Sr. Yellow Springs OH where he was president of Antioch College. The 1850s clippings come mostly from New York newspapers particularly the Tribune and the Orton family was living in Chester Orange County NY at that time.Orton went on to become the first President of the Ohio State University from 1873 to 1881.The scrapbook is in fair condition; the pages and paper have held up remarkably well. However the spine is mostly detached and the binding is weak at several signatures. 003477 n.p. hardcover
1837202347<p>Venice: In Insula S. Lazari 1837. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed. Full leather binding with gilt lettering & decoration to spine gilt ruled borders on both boards all edges gilt marbled endpapers engraved frontispiece and title page 6-1/4" x 4†434 pp. Aucher’s name appears in three different versions on the first leaf: Armenian transliterated Armenian and Latin dated 1847. George Gordon Lord Byron traveled to the Island of St. Lazar where Father Pascal Aucher 1774-1854 taught him Armenian. Together they published Grammar of the English and Armenian Languages in 1819 and contributed to Aucher’s 1821 English Armenian Dictionary. Byron was devoted to the Armenian language writing: “I learned the language of the Armenians in order to understand how and what language the Gods spoke for the Armenian language is the language of the Gods and Armenia is the homeland of the Gods and the Gods come from the Ararat valley.â€A translation of twenty-four prayers one for each hour of the day of St. Nerses the Graceful translated into twenty-four languages. This is the culmination of an effort that first had 6 10 14 and then 16 translations. This effort was likely from many of the Mekhitarist monks at San Lazzaro degli Armeni. The monastery was founded in 1715 by twelve monks; when Byron visited there were 70; today there are 12 monks and five novices. Despite the small population St. Lazzaro has been a major center of Armenian studies for centuries and still maintains the third-largest library of Armenian materials in the world. This polyglot prayer book is notable not just for its place in Armenian history and the spread of Orthodoxy but it is also a typographic success in acquiring the various fonts.</p> In Insula S. Lazari hardcover
186442016Boston: Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery 3 Cornhill 1864. 31 1 blank pp. Stitched in original dark wrappers with gilt lettering and decorative border. Fine.<br /> <br /> The Company property consists of about fifty acres in the Waverley Gold District "about twelve miles from Halifax N. S." A quarter mile away is excellent inexpensive housing for miners in the town of Waverley. "This mine will yield a large per cent. upon a capital of one million dollars."<br /> Accompanying reports fully justify this optimism.<br /> Not in TPL or Sabin. Not located on OCLC. Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 3 Cornhill unknown
1850DEMO015143ILille France: L. Lefort 1850. Stated Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. steel-engraved frontispiece. 8vo 258 pages 20th century half sprinkled calf marbled boards original wrappers bound in place. <br/><br/>Needs to be read with de Smet's LETTERS AND SKETCHES . AMONG THE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS 1843 which contains several letters not included in this French text; but this French text "contains material not found in the English - Wagner-Camp-Becker 113a:5." Howes M288; Graff 3831; Monaghan 1332. Binding by "Reliure Francais". Issued in the Bibliotheque Historique et Morale this is actually the Third French Edition. Steel-engraved frontispiece. L. Lefort hardcover
18374940London: Longman Rees Orme Brown Green & Longman 1837. First edition. References: Ibrahim-Hilmy i 310; Kalfatovic 0338. Fine. 22 cm; xvi 338 i.e. 341 pages map and 20 engraved plates 3 of them folding. Bound in recent half leather over marbled boards in period style. Marbled edges. Ownership inscription of W. Cushman of Watertown. <br /><br />Living in Luxor in 1836 Hoskins traveled with Robert Hay and Frederick Catherwood to the oases of Libya where he ran into Joseph Bonomi. "A good account" Kalfatovic illustrated with maps and engravings from Hoskins's own drawings. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, unknown
1855WRCAM50640Washington 1855. 7pp. Printed on blue paper. Folio stitched as issued. Gatherings loose. Edges toned internally clean. Very good. Concluded September 10 1853 proclaimed February 5 1855. Concluded by Joel Palmer at Table Rock in Oregon Territory. The Rogue River tribe agrees to sell their lands between Rogue River and Siskiyou Mountains in return for $60000. EBERSTADT 109. unknown books
186364926Austin TX 1863. 4to. One page approximately 125 words in part: "Gents I am as a military board constituted by the authority of the state submitted to me for sale . thirty four United States Bonds Texas Indemnity with coupons attached . and I sold the same about the 10th of January 1863 to James Thorpe of the state of Louisiana for 85 cents on the dollar in Confederate notes . handed over to you with this report." Murrah a native of Alabama eventually read law and settled in Texas in the late 1840s opening an office in Marshall for his practice. He served in the Texas house before the war then in administrative offices before succeeding Lubbock as Governor in November 1863. Fleeing Texas at the end of the war he died in Mexico in August 1865. Very good. Folded for mailing. 11144. <br/><br/> unknown books
18898588Baltimore: Self-published 1889. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. Wonderful --and uncommon-- 1889 treatise on the "breaking and taming of wild and vicious horses" with over 200 illustrations complementing the text. Written by Oscar Gleason the inventor of "The Gleason Bridle" and "The Gleason New Break Harness". Solid and well-preserved and VG in its brown pictorial wrappers with one small spot at the front panel. Octavo 300 pgs. Self-published unknown
18898588Baltimore: Self-published 1889. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. Wonderful --and uncommon-- 1889 treatise on the "breaking and taming of wild and vicious horses" with over 200 illustrations complementing the text. Written by Oscar Gleason the inventor of "The Gleason Bridle" and "The Gleason New Break Harness". Solid and well-preserved and VG in its brown pictorial wrappers with one small spot at the front panel. Octavo 300 pgs. <br/><br/> Self-published paperback books
184071584London: Sumptibus Societatis 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. William of Malmesbury's Deeds of the English Kings is one of the great histories of England and one of the most important historical works of the European Middle Ages. Although its focus is national its scope encompasses most of Western Europe and beyond providing a full-scale account of the First Crusade. Apart from its formidable learning it is characterized by narrative skill and entertainment value with topics including unpowered flight and Henry I's zoo. This edition is edited by English archivist and antiquary Thomas Duffus Hardy 1804-78 from the early 12th century manuscript. The text is in Latin with Hardy's preface footnates shoulder notes and an index in English. From the library of John Patrick Crichton-Stuart 3rd Marquess of Bute 1847-1900 the industrial magnate antiquarian and philanthropist whose vast inheritance reportedly made him the richest man in the world with his armorial bookplate to each front pastedown. Tall octavo two volumes. Sumptuously bound in full red morocco with decorative gilt stamping five raised bands black leather onlays ornamental dentelles and marbled endpapers. The spines are darkened just a touch with some light rubbing to the corners and tips. A striking set. Sumptibus Societatis hardcover books
1845362403Oxford : The University press 1845. Third Edition. Hardcover. Worn set bound in half leather over marble boards with gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some minor wear and tear to the spine and boards along with some dust-toning. Remains well-preserved overall; bright clean and sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the library of Willelmi Dalrymple Maclagan S. P. Episcpi Lichfeldensis with the owner's bookplate. Physical description; 3 vols. fold. facsim. fold. general. tab. ; 22 cm. Notes; ""A supplication made to the Council by Master Walter Travers."" Mr. Hooker's answer to the supplication that Mr. Travers made to the Council"" and seven sermons are included in vol. III. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Church of England Doctrines. Church of England Doctrinal and controversial works. Ecclesiastical law. Church polity. Sermons English 16th century. Church polity. Ecclesiastical law. Sermons English. Theology Doctrinal. Sermons English. Genres; Collected works - England - 1845. Oxford : The University press hardcover
189775633hNew York: Illustrated London News 1897. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Half-year run bound in original marbled boards rebacked in leather. Handling and some staining to fore-edge of text. Otherwise clean tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome volume. Spectacular illustrations including numerous fold-outs on the Diamond Jubilee; a good deal including illustrations of the Klondike. Illustrated London News Hardcover
187458293Neapel, Detken-Rocholl, ( 1874). Je 1 Titelblatt, je 2 Bll. Index; 60; 60; 60; 60 gestochene Taf. 4to. Neues Ln. auf 4 Bünden mit 2 ledernen RSch.
189355608Seattle WA & Silverton WA: Stillaguamish & Sultan Mining Co. 606 Bailey Bldg. ca. 1893. Four albumen cabinet photographs sized 3.9 x 4.9 in. mounted on thick studio board stock sized 4.25 x 5.25 in. w/ all four containing manuscript annotations in ink on versos minor dustsoiling edgewear minor over-exposure to a couple images still a nice grouping with consistent contrast and definition. These scarce original albumen photos show the canyon water fall power and miners along the Hoodoo Quartz Claim Mineral Survey No. 403A and B which was filed originally in 1892 and are neatly numbered 3 6 15 & 11. The first image shows a heavily forested canyon with creek running through and annotations on verso detailing that the “Anaconda and Roman Senator lodes at the head of gulch.†The second photo shows fast running water fall and creek -- “water power that will be utilized in the development of the Stilliguamish sic and Sultan Mining Co’s property. Copper Lake Canyon.†Third photo depicts gold miners carrying and working with pick axes in “Hoodoo Canyon 500 feet higher up. . . the vein is found in the bed of the gulch at this point.†The series of mines developed by the Stillaguamish & Sultan Mining Co. had a well-defined fissure vein carrying iron and copper pyrites and pyrrhotite with bell metal all contained in a lime quartz gangue. The main tunnel was driven 420 feet on the Hoodoo ledge with about another 200 feet of tunneling ore concentrate worth about $83 a ton including gold silver and copper ores. The description on back of four describes “passageway where work was shot away for approach to Hoodoo tunnel. The snow banks in the distance and at the right are at the foot of Big Four Mountain. . . seen plainly from Monte Cristo 8 miles East.†By 1905 the company was largely dormant and later the mines would be owned by the Sykes Estate of which the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago was the trustee. See: L.K. Hodges Mining in the Pacific Northwest: A Complete Reivew of the Mineral Resources of Washington and British Columbia 1897; The Copper Handbook: A Manual of the Copper Industry of the World 1905 Vol. V p. 655; Carithers & Guard Geology and Ore Deposits of the Sultan Basin Snohomish County Washington Bulletin No. 36 1949 pp. 49-50. Stillaguamish & Sultan Mining Co., 606 Bailey Bldg., unknown
184747222(Paris, Bachelier), 1847. 4to. No wrappers. In ""Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences"", Vol. 25, No 17. Pp. (561-) 608. (Entire issue offered). Niepce de Saint-Victor's paper: pp. 579-589.
180942988(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1809). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1809 - Part I. Pp. 39-104 and 1 engraved plate showing some of the apparatus used in his electrochemical researches. Fine and clean.