La Belle Assemblée or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine Addressed Particularly to the Ladies,John Bell, publisherLivre Rare Book
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1807255861807 London,la belle assemblée fashionable magazine,J.BELL 1807 - black and white print,line engraving,
1863List1004New Hampshire: Printer Unknown 1863. First Edition. Printed broadside 16 ½ x 11 ½ inches archivally mounted and matted. A very good copy with some light toning small closed tear at upper margin light foxing at upper margin very tiny spot of loss to illustration at fold. Franklin Pierce remained politically active upon his return to New Hampshire following his presidency advocating for the Democratic cause and generally opposing the Civil War and Lincoln's policies. This scarce pro-Union anti-slavery broadside printed for the 1863 New Hampshire elections which happened March 12 takes aim at Pierce and his fellow Democrats repeating the unfounded claim first made in 1862 by William Seward that Pierce belonged to the secret Knights of the Golden Circle the secret society formed with the goal of forming a new territory out of the CSA Mexico Central America and the Caribbean. There was never evidence that Pierce had any involvement in the KGC though the society had members in southern parts of some Union states such as Indiana Ohio Illinois and Missouri.<br /> <br /> The broadside printed for the March 12 elections quotes heavily from Pierce as well as the other Democrat candidates and party officials who were either running for office in New Hampshire or involved in politics a group which included Ira Eastman John Goerge Josiah Minot Thomas Treadwell Daniel Marcy William Burns and George Stevens. The broadside includes an engraving of coiled snakes each with these politicians named and the caption "et id omne genus." Eastman the Democratic candidate for governor won the popular vote but lacked the constitutional majority necessary for election. Marcy was successful in his bid for the First District. "Men of New Hampshire!" the broadside asks: "Will you Vote the Ticket Made up by Such Men" with the final line imploring to "Please paste up in a Conspicuous Place." <br /> <br /> Overall an uncommon survival from the 1863 elections. A very good copy with some light toning small closed tear at upper magin light foxing at upper margin very tiny spot of loss to illustration at fold. Quite scarce with OCLC locating two copies only at the Huntington Library and the New York Historical Society. Printer Unknown unknown books
1863List1004New Hampshire: Printer Unknown 1863. First Edition. Printed broadside 16 ½ x 11 ½ inches archivally mounted and matted. A very good copy with some light toning small closed tear at upper margin light foxing at upper margin very tiny spot of loss to illustration at fold. Franklin Pierce remained politically active upon his return to New Hampshire following his presidency advocating for the Democratic cause and generally opposing the Civil War and Lincoln’s policies. This scarce pro-Union anti-slavery broadside printed for the 1863 New Hampshire elections which happened March 12 takes aim at Pierce and his fellow Democrats repeating the unfounded claim first made in 1862 by William Seward that Pierce belonged to the secret Knights of the Golden Circle the secret society formed with the goal of forming a new territory out of the CSA Mexico Central America and the Caribbean. There was never evidence that Pierce had any involvement in the KGC though the society had members in southern parts of some Union states such as Indiana Ohio Illinois and Missouri.<br /> <br /> The broadside printed for the March 12 elections quotes heavily from Pierce as well as the other Democrat candidates and party officials who were either running for office in New Hampshire or involved in politics a group which included Ira Eastman John Goerge Josiah Minot Thomas Treadwell Daniel Marcy William Burns and George Stevens. The broadside includes an engraving of coiled snakes each with these politicians named and the caption “et id omne genus.†Eastman the Democratic candidate for governor won the popular vote but lacked the constitutional majority necessary for election. Marcy was successful in his bid for the First District. “Men of New Hampshire!†the broadside asks: “Will you Vote the Ticket Made up by Such Men†with the final line imploring to “Please paste up in a Conspicuous Place.†<br /> <br /> Overall an uncommon survival from the 1863 elections. A very good copy with some light toning small closed tear at upper magin light foxing at upper margin very tiny spot of loss to illustration at fold. Quite scarce with OCLC locating two copies only at the Huntington Library and the New York Historical Society. Printer Unknown unknown
184975634hLondon: For Private Circulation 1849. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards with some neat professional restoration to spine corners and hinges. Some toning and foxing to text; old owner's armorial bookplate inside front cover. Otherwise clean tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. . For Private Circulation Hardcover
186434709Boston: E. P. Dutton and Company 1864. Very Scarce First Edition Worldcat lists only 22 copies of the first edition in institutional holdings and we are aware of no other copies currently on the market. With two engraved plates by Augustus Hoppin and with chapter headpieces and engraved initials Small 8vo in the publisher's original textured green cloth the upper cover framed in blind and lettered "A Christmas Story" in gilt with stylized decorative lettering the design repeated on the rear cover but in blind the spine blind lettered within a gilt decorative emblem yellow endpapers. 104 pp. A rare survival in original cloth and in unusually well preserved condition the text clean and with minimal mellowing the green cloth bright and unfaded the hinges firm and intact a little wear or rubbing to the corners and edges. This is one of the brightest and well preserved copies we have studied. RARE FIRST EDITION. A CIVIL WAR ERA RARITY. AN IMPORTANT WORK ABOUT FORMER SLAVES CELEBRATING THEIR FIRST CHRISTMAS AFTER EMANCIPATION the story reflects Northern sentiments and pro-emancipation ideals and recounts the first Christmas in the North celebrated by fugitive slaves and those liberated by the Emancipation Proclamation.<br> This scarce first edition is an important fugitive slave novel. The first edition was published toward the end of the Civil War then re-issued in 1865 at the war's conclusion. It is perhaps the first novel to discuss openly the "N" word and its possible derivation from the word "niger" and how the word was used to denigrate the individual and persist in pre-emancipation prejudice.<br> CONTRABAND CHRISTMAS tells the story of formerly enslaved people “contrabands†who have taken refuge with Union forces. As Christmas approaches they will be experiencing the holiday as free individuals for the first time. The story culminates in a Christmas gathering filled with hymns prayer and reflection. Themes include freedom slavery faith human dignity and the transformative impact of the Civil War. One point of note CONTRABAND CHRISTMAS contains one of the earliest explanations of the entirely derogatory character of the "N" word.<br> Worldcat credits the author as being Taylor Root but it is sometimes attributed to William Henry Hurlbert. Artist Augustus Hoppin was well known at this time for his Civil War imagery found in Harper's Weekly. E. P. Dutton and Company hardcover
18778744Sacramento: H. S. Crocker & Co. Printers 1877. 1877 Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. H. S. Crocker & Co. Printers Sacramento 1877. 1877 Edition. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Local History Light stain to very bottom of the front cover. Else near fine condition. A lovely copy with minor defects. Original cloth with blindstamped decorated border front and rear. Size: 16mo very small. 76 2pp. Item Type: Local History. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Groups Clubs & Associations; Western Americana; California; United States; 19th century; Local History / Genealogy; Antiquarian & Rare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8744. H. S. Crocker & Co., Printers hardcover
188460757New York: A.D. Clarke Rm. 26 - 61 Broadway 1884. Two pieces. 4to. 4 pp unpaginated. w/ 1 large woodcut-engraved vignette w/ fold creases and slight creasing; with Oblong 8vo. 9 x 4 in. illustrated envelope small woodcut engraving of gold placer mine in Idaho w/ recipient address in ink on recto of Mary Augusta Gray b. 1853 Olney Clatsop County OR stamped envelope w/ NY postmark minor age toning still a VG pair from the library of her older sister Caroline Augusta Gray Kamm 1840-1932 noted socialite and philanthropist in Portland built home for poor women & girls with the YWCA and was daughter of PNW pioneer William H. Gray 1810-1889 who traveled to the Lapwai Mission in Lewiston ID in 1836 where he was the Nez Perce secular agent and she subsequently later married Jacob Kamm 1823-1912 pioneering Oregon industrialist and entrepreneur. First edition of this exceedingly scarce promotional offprint for the placer gold mining concentrator for “float or flour gold†developed by A.D. Clarke in the early 1880’s at an Idaho gold mining operation. The invention required parallel bars of iron an 1/8th of an inch apart bolted in place allowing water to flow through a sluice from a hydraulic mining operation with good gentle water flow and then would be directed through a series of tanks fitted with sage brush to collect the particles of gold and then across a series of riffles to pick up still finer gold particles. There was a mini gold rush in Clatsop OR in late-1884-1885 after J.M. Weed filed a placer claim for his mine Gertrude on Rock Creek in May 1885 which claimed loose valuable material in gravel on Rock Creek followed by a plethora of gold miners staking claims in the area and by 1889 the Rock Creek Mining District was formed. Maggie Gray b. 1853 was the youngest daughter of William H. Gray and served as postmaster in Olney OR from about 1878-1884 according to government publications but sadly there are no production figures for any of the mines and no further census or government records for Maggie after 1884. No copies in Worldcat; See: The Clark Concentrator for Float or Flour Gold The Engineering and Mining Journal Vol. XXXVII No. 8 Feb. 23 1884 p. 141; Elleda Wilson In One Ear: Golden Dreams The Astorian June 6 2019. A.D. Clarke, Rm. 26 - 61 Broadway, unknown
1843F68072Dublin: CurryJun.ie Jr. and Co. London Wm.S.Orr Edinb.Fraser & Co first 1st edition in book form 1843. Hardcover. Good. Steel engraved plates 28 as listed by Phiz ie Hablot K. Browne. Octavo roan spined marbled boards but lacking leather to spine but covers firmly attached tips rubbed xvi440pp first issued in parts and here still carrying the part numbers I-XIV at the foot of each section. Plates are mostly rather foxed else neat and tight copy. Last page with a sour marginal note in pencil. Humorous novel includes cross dressing a man in stays and women's attire and later the women revolt and get the upper hand and later it ends up happily. Aside from the foxed plates rest of bookblock in nice condition. Curry,Jun.(ie Jr.) and Co. London Wm.S.Orr, Edinb.Fraser & Co first 1st edition in book form hardcover
1853WRCAM46036Columbia Ca.: Gazette Print 1853. Broadside 10 3/4 x 8 inches. Printed in three columns. A bit of light foxing mostly in margins. Near fine. In a folding cloth clamshell case spine gilt. A rare broadside printing of the laws of the Columbia Mining District in California in 1853 created and enforced by the miners for their own self-government. The seventeen articles all deal with regulations for mining and claims. The first nine set out rules for making and operating claims. The next three address foreign ownership of claims. Article 10: "None but Americans and Europeans who have or shall declare their intentions of becoming citizens shall hold claims in this district." Article 11: "Neither Asiatics nor South Sea Islanders shall be allowed to mine in this district either for themselves or for others." Article 12 sets out a punishment for any miner who sells a claim to an Asian or a Polynesian. The final five articles set out rules for enforcing the laws including the creation of a Miners Committee and a system of binding arbitration. According to the text the laws were adopted "at a meeting of the Miners of the Columbia Mining District held Oct. 1st 1853." and the laws are signed in print by "C.H. Chamberlain Pres." and "R.A. Robinson Sec'y." <br> <br> "The item is of basic importance.as an example of how the California miners - or men beyond the reach of government anywhere else in our States and Territories for that matter - banded together and enacted and enforced codes of law for their own protection" - Eberstadt. The COLUMBIA GAZETTE which printed this broadside was according to Kemble the second newspaper to operate in Columbia starting operations in the fall of 1852. The first newspaper in the area the COLUMBIA STAR apparently printed only two or three issues in October-November of 1851 before the printing press was destroyed by vandals. <br> <br> Greenwood locates only three copies at the California Historical Society and the Bancroft Library and the Streeter copy which was sold at the Clifford sale in 1994. Rocq lists a copy at the Huntington Library. OCLC adds copies at Yale Library of Congress University of California at San Diego Stanford and DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University. A rare and interesting example of the search for order in the tumult of the gold rush. <br> <br> The Streeter copy sold to Howell for $550 in 1968. It later reappeared in the sale of California collector Henry Clifford in 1994. GREENWOOD 381. ROCQ 15427. EBERSTADT 131:105. STREETER SALE 2735. CLIFFORD SALE 26. OCLC 29876358. Gazette Print hardcover books
181210794Vienna: Maria Geisler 1812. Contemporary light green glazed paper boards with a ropework roll for an outer frame ochre endleaves gilt-ruled flat spine hinges rubbed gilt-lettered red paper label all edges gilt. The Austro-Hungarian capital in your pocket - her only view book. The prints include theaters opera houses the Imperial Riding School gardens parade grounds a swim club an obelisk coffee houses porcelain and weapons factories hospitals painting galleries the bustling Danube christoph de bac's famous hexadecagon circus building etc. The publisher's address 1200 Graben dates the suite. I have not located a set outside Austria. Individual prints were and are offered for sale. In good condition; two double-page views were likely issued later and are not present here. Two plates have been neatly mounted at the time of issue on the paper stock of the edition nos. 89 and 99. All but two views are in their first or only state.¶Nebehay & Wagner Bibliographie altösterreichischer Ansichtenwerke 193. Maria Geisler unknown books
1862899701862. Near Fine. Interesting content in this Maine Infantry Civil War Letter of almost 4 full pages written in a clear hand from Beaufort South Carolina and dated Aug. 22 1862. 25 cm. Envelope not present. The writer probably a Lieutenant references colored negro troops from Connecticut and gives a long opinion on how the north should win the war with the resources at its disposal. He also mentions troop misconduct at a "Negro Meeting: "Last night one of my sergeants attended a "Negro Meeting: in company with a few men belonging to the 6th Connecticut Vols. and as they had been drinking whiskey rather freely they thought to show their smartness by breaking in doors and windows of the meeting house and by kicking up a row generally. The sergeant was arrested and will probably be tried by a Court Martial. If he is found guilty I hope he will be punished to the full extent of the law. The sergeant George J. Card is quite young and smart and I have tried to make a man of him but it is of no use -- it can't be done. unknown
189535288Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company 1895. A New Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 1895 revised edition of 1831 first edition. A Very Good copy. 8vo. 447 pp. bound in publishers green cloth with title in gilt on spine. Tips top/base of spine and edges rubbed with a small wrinkle on spine. Small bubble under cloth on rear cover. Binding very slightly bowed. Rear hinge cracked. Text appears clean and unmarked. <br /> <br /> HOWES W-601 a. Alexander Scott Withers 12 October 1792 – 23 January 1865 was a Virginia lawyer planter magistrate teacher and delegate to the First Wheeling Convention 1861 establishing the state of West Virginia. He is celebrated as the author of Chronicles of Border Warfare 1831 a history of and important primary source on the early white settlement of western Virginia and consequent conflicts with American Indians. The Robert Clarke Company unknown
18957217Cincinnati: Robert Clarke Company 1895. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Octavo. 2 xx 447 pp. frontis. New edition. In publisher's green cloth. Some dampstaining to the bottom of the front boards at the spine limited to some minor discoloration to the cloth; the contents are clean ad bright; a solid copy in very nice condition but for this limited flaw. Originally issued in 1831 this new edition includes a biographical sketch by Draper. "The author took much pains to be authentic and his chronicles are considered by Western antiquarians to form the best collection of frontier life and Indian warfare that has been printed." Field 1690 first edition; Howes W-601; Sabin 104928. Robert Clarke Company unknown
18951170313.29The Robert Clarke Company Cincinnati 1895. A New Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo hardcover no dj. Green cloth gilt spine lettering. Good condition. Prev. owner's inscription on half-title pg. Short handwritten note in margin of last pg. of Table of Contents; single underline in the footnote on pg. 170. Contents otherwise clean no foxing or brittleness to pgs binding & hinges firm; outer textblock edge mildly foxed not affecting interior. Boards lightly rubbed tiny nicks at lower spine front board corners just barely rubbed through. xx 447 pp. frontis. portrait. The focal point of Chronicles of Border Warfare is the American settlement throughout the northwestern portion of colonial Virginia an area which today encompasses parts of Virginia West Virginia Kentucky Ohio and Pennsylvania from the French and Indian War to the Battle of Fallen Timbers and the ensuing clashes with the indigenous population. The Robert Clarke Company, Cincinnati hardcover
185772639New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Co 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Traces the history of Christianity in China from its earliest documented appearance with St. Thomas and the missionary rush sparked by the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 to the Manchu-Tartar Dynasty in the sixteenth century. Abbe Huc a French Catholic priest Lazarite missionary and traveler became famous for his accounts of Qing-era China Mongolia and Tibet which was largely unknown at the time. He and his companion Joseph Gabet were the first Europeans to reach Lhasa since Thomas Manning in 1812. 358 p. and 348 p. with publisher's ads. Octavo two volumes. Ex-19th century library Nevada City Free Public Library with a bookplate to each rear pastedown two small ink date stamps and a small label to each front endpaper and a gilt-stamped accession number and label shadow to each spine. It appears a pocket was neatly removed from each pastedown. Both bindings are quite sound. The spines are sun faded with some minor bumping to the corners and tips. Scarce. D. & J. Sadlier & Co hardcover books
18848725Portland: Published by Authority 1884. Edition Unstated. Hardcover 3/4 Leather. Very Good Condition. Published by Authority Portland 1884. Edition Unstated. Very Good Condition. Non-Fiction Light exterior wear. Internally clean binding sound. -- Some later ordinances published in a newspaper pasted to blank leaves at the rear. Some annotations in ink througout the text pertinent to the published material. 3/4 black leather and cloth with COUNCIL CHAMBER in gilt on the front cover. -- Printers label pasted inside the front cover top left: R. H. Schwab & Bro Leading Printers Binders and Paper Rulers. 5 washington Street Portland OR. Size: Octavo standard book size. 437 pages. Item Type: Non-Fiction . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Politics & Government; Pacific Northwest; Oregon; United States; 19th century; Pacific Northwest; Antiquarian & Rare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8725. Published by Authority hardcover
1890008904Paris Calmann Lévy 1890 In-12 Pleine percaline
183747870London: J. Templeman 248 Regent Street . J. Miller 404 Oxford Street 1837. Second Edition a reissue of the 1st edition sheets with Horne's new introduction. Cf. NCBEL III 1232. Original publisher's green cloth binding with printed paper title label to spine professionally rebacked. General wear & soiling. Period prior owner signatures to front eps. A solid VG copy. 152 pp. 12mo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/> J. Templeman, 248 Regent Street ... J. Miller, 404 Oxford Street hardcover books
1874014370Paris Librairie des Publications Législatives - Wittersheim & Cie. 1874 Reliure d'époque
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
189529628HBDJ CIRCA 1895 1ST EDITION THUS IN GLASSINE DUSTJACKET MAY HAVE BEEN CUT AT BTM LITTLE SHORT small Tears 34 pages full-color illus. in VINTAGE ORIGINAL brown Antique BOX with edge Rub & Small Tears & TITLE LABEL SMALL MARBLELIZED LIKE WITH TITLE ON FRONT WITH GOLD GILT CLOTH CVR WITH PAPER LABEL ON SPINE CVR WITH TINY EXTREMITIES CHIPS WEAR The Hayes Lithographing Company BUFFALO NY hardcover
1849WRCAM52151Kreuznach: R. Voigtlander 1849. 32pp. Printed blue wrappers rear wrapper original front wrapper in facsimile. Small corner repairs to rear wrapper. Some foxing two ink stamps on titlepage. Else very good. In a half morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. The first edition of an exceedingly rare Gold Rush pamphlet printed in the hallowed year of that epochal event. "Like many guidebooks for Europeans this pamphlet gives general information on California's physical features history and 'Notes for Emigrants' on the gold discovery. The portion on California's gold riches consists primarily of an article reprinted from the KOELNER ZEITUNG of January 14 1849 which in turn summarizes R.B. Mason and others. The guide mentions the many German settlers in the Sacramento Valley and speaks proudly of Captain Sutter" - Kurutz. <br> <br> Only four institutions worldwide report a copy of this book: the California State Library the University of California at Berkeley Yale and the State Library in Berlin. It is even more difficult to encounter at auction this copy being the only one on record to pass through the rooms. COWAN II p.102. HOWES C43 "aa." KURUTZ 112. SABIN 9984. R. Voigtlander hardcover books
18636644ABerlin, Thiele, 1863. 8°. 744 Seiten. Mit 8 Chromotafeln u. 51 Textholzschnitten. OHledereinband mit Rückenvergoldung. Wenige Seiten minimal fleckig.
1847012383Paris J. Hetzel 1847 In-8 Demi-reliure
