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18352100London: J Saunders. G : in Good condition. Modern rebind with new eps. Frontis and plates stained. Slight foxing. 1835. First Edition. Marbled hardback boards with brown leather spines. 220mm x 140mm 9" x 6". x 782pp plates. 8 b/w plates. . J Saunders hardcover
18331409110020New Haven : L.H. Young 1833-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 404 pages : illustrations map ; 20 cm. Bound in contemporary full leather. Gilt tooling and lettering on spine. Marbled end pages. Good binding and cover. Wear to extremities. Contemporary hand colored map is present on title page. Faint scattered foxing. Pages unmarked. New Haven : L.H. Young hardcover
1803848F42London: J. Nichols and Son for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1803. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 9" by 6". J. T. Barber. The first edition of British army officer artist and philanthropist John Thomas Barber's topographical guide to Monmouthshire and South Wales. The first edition of this work illustrated with twenty engraved aquatint plates and one folding hand coloured map all the work of the author. Collated complete.Barber provides a general survey of the scenery history social customs and archaeological remains of the regions discussed with various aspects of Monmouthshire and South Wales discussed in twenty-three chapters.With the bookplate of Egerton Parker to the recto of a front blank.A beautifully illustrated first edition work providing wonderful insight into life in Wales in the early nineteenth century. In a full calf binding with gilt detailing to back strip and board perimeters. Light fading to back strip. Front joint starting and a touch tender. Rubbing to rear joint. Bookplate to recto of a front blank. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright with offsetting to pages facing plates. Very Good J. Nichols and Son for T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
184165509Worcester Mass. Dorr Howland & Co. 1841. First Edition. Hardback. Uninked impressed institutional mark to the title. Scattered marginal foxing. Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands; spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. A v. Good example - scans etc. On request. ; 576 pages; Description: viii 9-576 pp. Front. illus. Pl. Cm. Subjects: New England--History. New York State --History. New Jersey--History. Worcester [Mass. ] Dorr, Howland & Co. hardcover
184670805Charleston:: Babcock & Co. 1846. old deep purple straight-grain morocco and marbled sides; t.e.g. Some minor rubbing to the edges of the leather; a lovely copy. 16mo. Illustrated from engravings by Alex Anderson. Translated from the Latin. Babcock & Co., hardcover
1836List2949Clarke Cobb and Harris Counties Georgia 1836. Three documents. One four-page document measuring 5 x 8 ¾ inches likely previously a single sheet; water stained with some tearing at folds very good. One double-sided document measuring 8 x 10 inches; water stained and folded with large tears at folds possibly with part missing good. One single-sided document measuring 7 ¾ x 12 ¾ inches. Water stained and folded with large tears at folds much damage to margins good. Overall good. Three legal documents in which William Barber buys and sells plots of land shortly following the establishment of Cobb County. In 1834 and 1835 Barber buys plots from John Gann and Elizabeth Kennon for $100 each and in 1836 sells land to Gilbert Rake for $500. Gann is possibly the plantation owner Cobb County pioneer and State Senator. <br /> <br /> These land contracts date to a time at which a small number of Cherokee—whose territory included present-day Cobb County—had voluntarily left the area following the Indian Removal Act of 1830 while a majority had not done so. The Indian Removal Act required Indigenous people east of the Mississippi River to cede their land to Euro-Americans and move west of it to so-called Indian Territory now Oklahoma. In 1835 the US government met with a group of Cherokee claiming to represent the tribe in New Echota Georgia and signed a removal treaty. When the majority of the tribe viewing the treaty as illegitimate refused to move voluntarily the US government sent the military to intervene.<br /> <br /> Of interest to historians of Cobb County and land dealings between its early Euro-American residents during the removal of its Indigenous population. unknown
1837TB31667New Haven: Durrie & Peck and J. W. Barber 1837. Second Edition. Very good in its original binding of full leather covered boards with a black leather label with gilt text and extensive gilt decorations on the spine. The front and rear boards are decorated with gilt borders. An octavo measuring 8 7/8 by 5 1/2 inches with heavy rubbing to the leather over the joints and to the edges of the boards. The front free end page is torn at its lower two inches and there is an early prior owner's name Lynda Brownell Sherman Conn. written in pencil on the third free end page. The hand-colored fold-out map of Connecticut is completely intact and has suffered no damage. The preliminaries show moderate foxing and the last 50 pages of the text also show moderate foxing. The joints and hinges remain tight and strong. 560 pages of text. Illustrated throughout with 190 wood block engravings. Contrary to the information contained in Wright Howes bibliography U.S. Iana the first edition of this title was published in 1836. Barber an illustrator and historian 1798-1885 was Connecticut's first popular historian creating one of the first travel guides of the state. Following the index in the front of the book is a hand colored fold-out map of the State of Connecticut noting all of its towns at the time see note above regarding condition. Considered to be "mildly scarce" by Howes. Howes B-120 Originally published in 1836. Durrie & Peck and J. W. Barber hardcover
1803221781London : printed by J. Nichols and Son. for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1803. First Edition. Hardback. Provenance; from the library of Richard Yerburgh with his familial bookplate to the front pastedown. Very good copy in the original full tree calf. Professionally and period sympathetically re-backed with a matching gilt-blocked label; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; Physical description; xiii 1 359 p. aquatint plates : ill. color map; 21 cm. Notes; Aquatint frontispiece of Tintern Abbey. ""Sketched on the spot by J.T. Barber. Aquatinted by W. Pickett."" Subjects; Monmouthshire South Wales & Gwent - Nineteenth century - Description and travel. Wales - Topography. Other names; Pickett William engraver. Referenced by: NSTC B1166. London : printed by J. Nichols and Son... for T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
184048730Paris: Paul Masgana 1840. Fine. Paul Masgana Paris 1840 14.50 x 22.50 cm relié First edition of which there were no deluxe copies. Bound in half cherry red Russian morocco with corners spine with five fine raised bands set with double gilt fillets decorated with double gilt compartments enhanced with gilt romantic tools gilt date at foot one joint showing traces of rubbing gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns covers and spine preserved handsome binding in the Romantic taste signed by Canape. Rare autograph inscription signed by Auguste Barbier to Monsieur Oliveira. Some minor foxing affecting mainly the margins of certain leaves. Handsome copy perfectly bound in a handsome pastiche Romantic binding by Canape. Paul Masgana hardcover
189821736Kansas City MO: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co. 1898 1898. Third edition. 8vo. xiv 566 pp. 1 page ad. Illustrated with 50 cuts drawings several of which are in color. Original black cloth on beveled boards binding. Barber was a graduate of the first class of Still's institute. Light wear at the extremities name Dr. Elliott J. Sossei written on title page else very good plus. Uncommon thus. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. (Kansas City, MO: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co., 1898) hardcover
183677221New Haven J. W. Barber: Hartford A. Willard 1836. First Edition. Hardback. Scattered minor marginal foxing. Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with gilt cross-bands and titling. An exceptional example - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 560 pages; Description: 560 p. Illus. Fold. Map. 23 cm. Subjects: Connecticut--History. Connecticut--Description and travel. Connecticut--History Local. Notes: Map colored by hand. New Haven, J. W. Barber: Hartford, A. Willard hardcover
189357116East Hampton North Adams & Boston MA; Bethlehem PA & New York: Caulkins & Post Co.; Harry S. Millard; Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons; Stewart & Sparry; Pettinos Brothers Atha V. Hughes; Barber Leather Co.; N.N. Hill Brass Co. 1893-1918. 4to. 72 letters some mimeographed others typed carbon copies and a few ALS sized 5.75 x 9.25 in. up to 8.5 x 11 in. many on steel-engraved letterhead a couple on ruled paper and many featuring the offsetting from the leather dyes with over 40 attached samples of papers White coated sign muslin foundry sand and assorted leathers. All preserved in archival mylar sleeves in recent full calf 3-ring binder w/ stamping. An exceptional archive of original TLS many with original samples of paper leather and even sand which were used in ever increasing quantities by the noted manufacturer of sleigh bells bells pull toys and many other toys for children from the Gilded Age through World War I. The earliest letter dated Feb. 10 1899 includes two paper samples from the Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons Paper Warehouse in New York on Bleeker Street noting that “we can furnish in the shade of your sample at $ 8.00 per hundred sheets basis 25 x 36. We could not make less than a thousand yards.†Sixty or the majority of the letters and samples were sent by the Barber Co. beginning in 1902 and continuing into World War I. Their letters and samples describe the colour grain and general finish of the included samples as well as their perfect applications in “baby carriage straps shawl straps small cases i.e. for toys small tool boxes†and of course sleigh bells and bell hangers and bell flappers as well as handle grips. Leathers encompass Red Straight Grain Cowhide Pigskin straps Black Bell Leather Walnut Strap Leather and specialized leathers for tumbling purposes for brasswork. Barber 1836-1909 was the longtime owner and operator of the Barber Leather Co. in North Adams until his death when his son Archer Barber took over the business. Many of the samples offered to the Hill Brass Co. are mounted on TLS and TLS copy letters from Harry S. Millard who later was brought into the Barber Co. in 1914 as Treasurer of the Company. The samples here include splits black pig leather as well as embossed strips in assorted coloured leather Caulkins & Post whose building at 484-494 Main Street in Middletown was considered one of the first “modern†stores and specialized in drapes window shades furniture and bicycles before opening up their successful card dealership in 1903. The Hill Brass Co. required products beyond leathers & papers as shown by the reply to their request for a quote for White Sign Muslin waterproof textile intended for use on children’s carriages and go-carts. For their manufacturing processes they required foundry sands and the Pettinos Brothers based in Columbia Ceylon Bethlehem PA and Mexico sent them a sample of their plumbago “high grade Ceylon stock.†There is even a May 29 1905 solicitation letter from F. von Bardeleben after seeing the Hill Brass Co. exhibit at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair mentioning that his company can supply a “very fine grade of non-poisonous unchangeable paints to be used for painting toys.†The N.N. Hill Brass Co. founded by Norman Newton Hill 1863-1950 in 1889 operated until the early 1960’s was one of the largest factory’s in the World producing bells & toys and by the 1930’s produced Walt Disney merchandise. Along with the Bevin Brothers and other local Massachusetts foundries they manufactured Salvation Army bells sleight bells bicycle bells alarm bells and more. See: N.N. Hill Brass Company Business Correspondence Jay T. Last Collection of Transportation Huntington Library; Edward T. Howe Small Bells of Connecticut: One Town Made Sounds that Rang in Millions of Ears New England Historical Society 2019; Norman N. Hill Brass Company Connecticut Historical Society 2020. Caulkins & Post Co.; Harry S. Millard; Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons; Stewart & Sparry; Pettinos Brothers, Atha V. Hughes; Barber Leat hardcover
1841231798Paris : Furne 1841. New edition. Hardcover. Provenance; WEDGWOOD bookplates. Clement F. Wedgwood's austere plate to the front paste-down with the more elaborate armorial plate of Ralph Lewis Wedgwood to the front free endpaper. Finely bound all in near contemporary vellum over marble boards. Gilt cross-bands with contrasting leather labels and elaborate spine compartment tooling. Generalized wear to the boards. Remains quite a well-preserved set; tight bright clean and strong. Subjects; Biography - dictionaries. Language; French. Physical description; 6 v ; 23 cm. Paris : Furne hardcover
182741340Washington City: Printed for the Author by S. C. Ustick 1827. 48pp in contemporary plain wrappers. Stitching absent unbound. Faint rubberstamp on title page gum label at lower spine. Good plus. <br /> <br /> This is the first part of what became a three-part book. Each is a separate imprint. Parts II and III were printed in 1828 and 1832. Part II like the first Part was printed by Ustick in Washington. Part III was printed in Frederick Maryland by Neilson Poe. <br /> "The conversion of the Barber family despite the prejudices of a Puritan education and environment was one of the most notable and far-reaching in its results of any recorded in the early annals of the Church in New England. Daniel Barber has left a 'History of My Own Times' Washington 1827 in which he states that his father and mother were Congregational Dissenters of strict Puritanic rule and he continued in that sect until his twenty-seventh year when he joined the Episcopalians. Previous to this he had served two terms as a soldier in the Continental army" "Barber Family" by Thomas Francis Meehan Catholic Encyclopedia website accessed May 01 2026. <br /> "Daniel Barber came from good Puritan stock and was a fine upstanding Congregationalist minister. Until some Episcopalians convinced him that Apostolic Succession matters when it comes to ministerial Orders. So he became an Episcopalian priest. He was a fine upstanding Episcopalian priest for many years. He and his wife Chloe raised three children as good Episcopalians. But eventually the question of Apostolic Succession came back to him and he realized that Episcopalianism didn't satisfy the question of Apostolic Succession - the Catholics actually had it and the Episcopalians didn't. Meantime his son Virgil had also become a fine upstanding Episcopalian priest. He and his wife Jerusha were in charge of a good school and had a comfortable life with their children. But a chance encounter with a pamphlet on the life of St. Francis Xavier fired his heart to seek the faith that motivated a man like St. Francis to do what he'd done. Eventually Virgil and Jerusha became Catholic. Then Chloe converted along with a number of other members of the family. And finally Daniel also became Catholic. The entire affair was very upsetting to fine upstanding New England Protestant sensibilities and caused a sensation" "Barber Family" by Thomas Francis Meehan Catholic Encyclopedia website accessed May 01 2026. <br /> FIRST EDITION. Parsons 922. Howes B117. Printed for the Author, by S. C. Ustick unknown
1831001294New Haven: Printed and Sold By J. W. Barber 1831. Modern quarter calf; marbled boards. Eight hand-colored plates. Issue with 120 pages including 12 pages added in 1832. Foxing. Very Good. First Edition. Printed and Sold By J. W. Barber hardcover
18222171961822. Second. hardcover. very good. .Accompagne de Notes Historiques et Critiques. Copper engraved frontispiece portrait . 4 volumes 8vo 1/2 leather spines slightly scuffed one chip mended marbled boards. Paris 1822-1827. Seconde Edition Revue Corrigee et Considerablement Augmentee. Very Good .<br/> <br/> unknown
1846041287Charleston SC: Babcock & Co 1846. Hardcover. Very Good. Holbein. Rare. 47 Engravings from Original Designs by Holbein the celebrated German Painter exhibiting all orders and conditions of men first published in 1538. Holbein was patronized by Sir Thomas More and appointed Court painter to Henry VIII. Cloth spine with wood veneer boards. Corners and board edges worn. 102pp. Notices regarding the book pastedown inside both covers. Pencil drawing and marginalia inside both covers. Photos on request. Full refund if not satisfied. Babcock & Co hardcover
1836433505New Haven and Hartford: John W. Barber and A. Willard 1836. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Thick octavo. viii 9-560pp. Illustrated by 180 engravings six plates lacking the map. Full brown leather with gilt-stamped black leather spine label gilt-tooled on board edges. Owner's name inked on blank preliminary pages foxed with hints of dampstaining in margins hinges cracked leather is dry and worn and chipped a good only copy lacking the rear fly and the fold-out map. Barber a notable engraver unwittingly became the state's historian while traveling through Connecticut. He spoke to the local townspeople collected documents made sketches of important locations and buildings. This book has been called "the first popular local history published in the U.S. John W. Barber and A. Willard hardcover
183628038New Haven and Hartford: Published and Sold by John W. Barber and A. Willard 1836. Very Good. New Haven and Hartford: Published and Sold by John W. Barber and A. Willard 1836. First Edition. Octavo; full contemporary gilt-tooled calf gilt spine lacking label all edges marbled marbled endpapers; 560pp.; hand-colored folding map; six plates; numerous in-text illustrations.<br /> <br /> Boards worn and scuffed with chipping to extremities split at top of spine heavier rubbing and surface fractures to spine and front board bowed towards fore-edge binding otherwise sound. Map toned with a few splits along folds else intact and sound. Ownership inscriptions of Joseph H. Clayton to endpapers along with his inscription presenting the volume to the Library of Harmony Lodge. Clayton is also listed in the subscriber list at rear with residence listed as New Haven. Very Good copy of a scarce local history uncommon with the hand-colored map. . Published and Sold by John W. Barber and A. Willard unknown
18698482Paris: Paul Daffis 1869 - 1879. Very Good. 1869. Hardcover. 7 volumes total. 4to; quarter bound in brown leather over patterned boards; spines lettered in gilt; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Each volume with bookseller's label of Bernard Rosenthal lower hinge corner front pastedowns. A few spot of light rubbing to leather; slight tanning to prelims and rear endpapers. Overall a clean well preserved set. The literary tricks unveiled. Gallery of French writers from all over Europe who have disguised themselves under anagrams asteronyms cryptonymes initialisms literary names facetious or bizarre pseudonyms etc. Second edition considerably increased published by MM. Gustave Brunet and Pierre Jannet 3 volumes. Suvie Dictionary of anonymous works. 3rd ed. Revised and expanded by Olivier Barbier René and Paul Billar 4 volumes. . Paul Daffis 1869 - 1879 hardcover
183770803Paris: Félix Bonnaire 1837. Fine. Félix Bonnaire Paris 1837 13.50 x 21.50 cm relié Edition with some parts in first edition. Autograph inscription from the author: ""A mon cousin et bon ami Sicard. Auguste Barbier."" ""To my cousin and good friend Sicard. Auguste Barbier."" Followed by a note: ""Après la mort de M. Sicard M. Auguste Barbier est venu à Angers et a donné ce livre à M. Selou notaire."" ""After the death of M. Sicard M. Auguste Barbier came to Angers and gave this book to M. Selou notary."" Iambes is augmented with 3 unpublished poems and the collection Lazare appears for the first time. Contemporary half green Russian leather with corners. Smooth spine decorated with a large central decorative panel roll tool at foot. Gilt title and date. Rubbing to corners. Some pale foxing and browning. Very handsome copy. Les Iambes initially appeared in 1832 and remains the author's best-known collection which made him immediately famous and made him the spokesman for the July 1830 Revolution and one of the essential figures of Romanticism. ""This collection ranks him among the greatest combat poets between Agrippa d'Aubigné and Victor Hugo"" Laffont-Bompiani Dictionnaire des Oeuvres. Hugo said he found in Iambes ""astonishing verses that no one else will ever write again"" and Baudelaire that he was ""naturally a poet and a great poet."" The series of poems on social misery Lazare which completes the work is one of Barbier's greatest successes and makes the entire collection the most important published by the author in an inspiration that the poet for many critics would never surpass again. NB : Cet ouvrage est disponible à la librairie sur demande sous 48 heures. Félix Bonnaire hardcover
187788601Meaux: Imprimerie A. Cochet 1877. Fine. Journey through Palestine Egypt the Levant and Constantinople Imprimerie A. Cochet Meaux 1877 14.5 x 23 cm Broché Uncommon first edition illustrated with a double-page plan: ""Plan du Saint-Sépulcre à Jérusalem"" see Röhricht p. 587. Not in Blackmer or Atabey.The text is divided as follows: Letters on Italy and Egypt pp. 564 Palestine pp. 65604 the Levant and Constantinople pp. 605685.Minor tears to the spine and boards with some light foxing. Imprimerie A. Cochet hardcover
18423iiiEh0040New York: S. Tuttle 1842. Book. Used-Acceptable. Decorative Hardcover. 8vo or 8° Medium Octavo: 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 608 pp. Book shows heavy use with clean text. No dj. Extra mylar wrapper included. Back cover board heavily worn and damaged. Corners bumped. Water warped pages. Spine strengthened with adhesive tape. Light foxing on page edges. S. Tuttle Hardcover
180269953Newport R.I.: Tuesday September 28 1802. Issue no. 2112. Folio approx. 18¾" x 11½" pp. 4; text in quadruple column; previous folds in quarters light staining paper a bit toned 2 or 3 tiny holes else very good. The front page prints a 2-column account from the New-York Evening Post on "Jefferson vs. Callender" concerning payments made by Jefferson to James T. Callender ostensibly to buy the latter's silence and this is followed on page 2 by an early public disclosure taken "from a Baltimore paper" of the long-term sexual "relationship" between President Thomas Jefferson and a woman enslaved to him Sally Hemings. After being refused an appointment to a postmaster position by Thomas Jefferson and issuing veiled threats of "consequences" journalist James T. Callender reported that "the President of the United States keeps and has for many years kept one of his own slaves as a concubine and that he has had several children by her." The article either by Callender himself in the third person or a political ally is signed by "One of the People." Jefferson made no public comment on the matter. The Newport Mercury founded in 1758 by Ann Smith Franklin 1696-1763 and her son James Franklin 1730-1762 the nephew of Benjamin Franklin is one of the oldest in the country. It was likely the first American newspaper edited by a woman and was also first paper to publish poetry by an African American Phillis Wheatley. The paper was published regulary up until the time of the British occupation of Newport in December 1776 and was started up again in 1780 by Solomon Southwick in partnership with Henry Barber. Barber died in 1800 and the paper continued to be published by his wife Ann whose name had appeared in the Mercury imprint as early as 1795 and later their children. Tuesday, September 28 unknown
185654959George F. Tuttle. As New. 1856. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 252 pages -- with a bonus offer-- . George F. Tuttle hardcover
