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58382hardcover. illus. 478pp. 8vo 1/2 cloth d.w. New York 1988.<br/><br/> unknown books
20039006951New York: Simon & Schuster 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. 352 pp. Bound in paper covered boards with the spine stamped in silver. <br/><br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover books
179637306Philadelphia: Printed by John Page 1796. 352 4 pp 1 folded table. Later cloth some wear original red gilt-lettered red morocco spine label laid down. Good.<br/><br/> The Second Session of the Fourth Congress convened on December 5 1796 and closed on March 3 1797. Volume I reports in detail on the conclusion of George Washington's presidency. Evans records the total of three volumes as separate imprints with different printers noted as issued. The text is far more detailed than the official Journals of the period revealing starkly the division of the country into political parties one opposed to the President's policies the other supportive.<br/> The bulk of the volume treats President Washington's final speech to Congress in December with debate in House and Senate about a resolution of appreciation for the President's service and the measures he advocated. Washington's presidency had so alienated followers of Thomas Jefferson that a number of Congressmen including Andrew Jackson refused to join in a resolution of thanks. Yeas and Nays on a variety of votes are recorded; debates on the President's recommendation to establish a National University his advice on the militias; and also about the "Canadian and Nova Scotia refugees" "kidnapping of negroes and mulattoes" from vessels either to "sell them as slaves or the taking slaves to make them free;" and other matters Much discussion of the Creeks and Cherokees upon whose treatment the President remarked is printed.<br/>Evans 30165. Cohen 6858. I Harv. Law Cat. 338. Sabin 11006. Printed by John Page unknown books
272402Bowie: T. H. Carpenter. unbound. very good. by noted Texas photographer Thomas H. Carpenter whose imprint appears on the mount. The image depicts a shoulder-up studio image of a young man set into a photographic floral-wreath background. Bowie Texas n.d. circa 1892. Very good<br/><br/> Thomas H. Carpenter's first gallery was opened in New Orleans in 1865. By 1876 he operated out of Sherman Texas and advertised that he sold affordable custom portraits. In 1892 the Texas Gazette newspaper listed Carpenter as a photographer in Bowie Texas.<br/><br/> T. H. Carpenter unknown books
199694539Ithaca:: Cornell University Press. Near Fine. 1996. Paperback. 0801480620 . Second paperback printing. Near fine in illustrated wraps. . Cornell University Press, paperback books
JC14465Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Part 6 of Half-Hour Recreations in Popular Science. Boston: Estes & Lauriat n.d. Original printed blue wrappers creased; rear wrap of ads. Scarce. <br/><br/> paperback books
1920289Small hard cover 7 3/16" x 4 3/4". Publisher's green cloth binding. 164pp. Very good condition throughout with light shelf wear only to covers. An early instructional manual on the pleasures and practicalities of camping in cold weather with chapters on Personal Equipment Food Shelter and Beds Campfires and Stoves Wildlife in Winter etc.<br /><br />The design on the front cover which wraps around the spine is of a stylized forest with a top border of geese and lower border of salmon. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
29688Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Albany 1914. 128 pages hardbound very good condition. . Other hardcover books
188387216New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1883. cloth with gilt lettering and design. Holmes Oliver Wendell. 8vo. cloth with gilt lettering and design. viii 61 pagesfold out seating plan. A description of the medical profession dinner honoring Oliver Wendell Holmes. Includes menu description toasts speeches illustrations and fold-out seating plan. Front and back decorative endpaper with pale green maze design. Light foxing on frontispiece. Boards slightly faded and worn at top and bottom of spine and edges. G.P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
1853013845Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo 1853. Small Octavo. 336p. frontispiece Hendrick Hudson. History from the earliest times with Indian troubles Dutch and Revolutionary War to DeWitt Clinton and Tammany Hall. Verrazzani's voyage treaty with the five nations Washington commissioned negro pot and more.Bound in gray embossed cloth spine lettered and decroated in gilt some spotting to cloth one bump to edge of bottom board plate from Wales' library to front pastedown with rules listed. A very good copy. Lippincott, Grambo unknown books
195736955Austin: University of Texas Press 1957. Hardcover. Very good. xxii 119pp. Very good hardback in a price clipped and lightly rubbed jacket. <br/><br/> University of Texas Press hardcover books
9753AUSTON UN TX PRESS 1957. AUSTON, UN TX PRESS, 1957 unknown books
1957UCARLUC00LWUniversity of Texas Press 1957. Very Good. Carpenter Will Tom. Lucky 7: A Cowman's Autobiography. Miles editor Elton. Austin TX: University of Texas Press 1957. 119pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Green cloth. Book condition: Very good with light fading of top edges and spine; gift inscription on front free endsheet. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with spine faded and top edge of spine lightly crumpled; short open tear at bottom right of front cover. University of Texas Press hardcover books
1994915974Minneapolis: Milkweed. 1994. Slight corner taps else fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Milkweed hardcover books
19949010757Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Second printing. Author's first book. <br/><br/> Milkweed Editions hardcover books
1994913821Minneapolis: Milkweed. 1994. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Milkweed hardcover books
183317583Boston: Lincoln Edmands and Co. 1833. Hardcover. Very Good. First American From the Latest London. Frontisv6-408pp. Good solid copy in brown cloth with paper spine label. Label and cloth are faded but the book is tightly bound and internally clean. <br/><br/> Lincoln, Edmands and Co. hardcover books
184861797London: David Bogue 1848. First edition. 12mo. viii 153 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings cut of fish vignettes etc. frontispiece plate of hand-colored flies. Heckscher 357. With an old Liverpool subscriber's library label on the front pastedown; still a very good copy. Original gilt-stamped decorated green cloth spine ends somewhat worn with gilt-stamped illustrated spine dull. 8708. <br/><br/> David Bogue hardcover books
187941099London 1879. <p>Carpenter William B. 1813-85. Autograph letter signed to Mr. John Paget 1811-98. London 56 Regents Part Rd. N.W. June 2 1879. 4pp. 178 x 114 mm. A few tiny pin-holes but fine otherwise.</p> <p>From English physiologist and naturalist William B. Carpenter who "helped shape the modern life sciences in Britain Oxford DNB through both his writings and his work as a teacher and administrator at what is now the University of London. Carpenter performed valuable researches in marine zoology and was directly influential in persuading the British Admiralty to sponsor the Challenger expedition the first major scientific study of the deep oceans. Carpenter is also recognized as one of the founders of the modern theory of the adaptive unconscious-he observed that the human perceptual system and the mechanism of human thought operates almost completely outside of conscious awareness. </p> <p>Carpenter's letter which discusses a false confession to murder made by a mentally unbalanced young man reads in part as follows:</p> <p>Dear Mr. Paget In turning out my papers at the University today I have come upon a document which I forward to you containing the Father's statement of his Son's relation to the "Brompton Murder" case with full particulars of the latter's confession and its inconsistency with the facts. </p> <p>I believe that I did not send in this to the Home Secy.; but that what I specially urged upon him was the evidence with which Knowles had supplied me of the "cracky" nature of the youth's mind and of the obviously hereditary tendency to brood as shown in the father and aunt-the latter an old servant of Knowles. And I remember also that there was evidence of the youth having had money in the Savings Bank and of his having drawn out a pound just before the Crystal Palace Police Fête.</p> <p>This altogether made so strong an impression on Mr. Bruce that he at once commuted the sentence; and the family were so sensible that the lad was not fit to take care of himself that they expressed no disappointment at his not having received a free pardon. . . .</p> <p>Carpenter's correspondent was the police magistrate and author John Paget whose Paradoxes and Puzzles published in 1874 included accounts of a number of sensational crimes. We have not been able to identify the murder case to which Carpenter refers in his letter.</p> . unknown books
CA06A-00642no publisher. Collectible - Very Good. London: 1850. Pp. 727-7571. 4to. Extracted from a bound volume. VG. Weight: 4.0 ounces = 114 grams. Size: 12.0 x 9.2 x 0.8 inches = 30 x 23 x 2cm. Inquire if you need further information. Gach. no publisher unknown books
1866116991Philadelphia: Lea 1866. hardcover. very good. With a preface by D.F. Condie M.D. Small slim 8vo 178 pages contemporary brown cloth; spine chipped. Philadelphia: Henry Lea 1866. zzvery good.<br/><br/> An important example of the "public movements and social concern" aspect of the life and writing of this important figure. This work did much to spread a better informed opinion of the physiological dangers of alcohol among the working classes not only in England but in the United States as well.<br/><br/> Lea unknown books
1868021978London: John Churchill and Sons 1868. Small Thick Octavo. . 4th edition. half-title two engraved frontispieces 796pp. edited with additions By Francis Gurney Smith illustrated with 25 plates and 400 wood engravings. This edition enlarged with nearly 40 new pages to offer more illustrations from the smaller wood-cuts to full page illustrations some folding and new information. The author was an English physician invertebrate zoologist and physiologist. He wa voted Fellow of the Royal Society for his work. His most famous work was the Use and Abuse of Alcoholic Liquors in Health and Disease which was recognized as the first temperance book on the subject noting alcohol led to the disease of alcoholism. A very good copy bound in an earlier 20th century binding of 3/4 brown polished calf over marbled paper covered boards retaining original yellow endpapers with publisher's ads raised bands ruled in gilt lettering gilt internally free from foxing. John Churchill and Sons unknown books
18836627New York: National Temperance Society 1883. paperback. very good. 23 pages. Slim 12mo original salmon pink printed wrappers. N.Y.: National Temperance Society 1883. A very good copy.<br/><br/> National Temperance Society unknown books
185943703Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea 1859. 8vo. pp. xxiv 33-902 32 pub ads; 2 plates and numerous wood engraving within text front hinge cracked extremities lightly worn small section of spine label peeled away else very good in contemporary full calf with black morocco label lettered in gilt with gilt-ruled raised bands. <br/><br/> Blanchard and Lea hardcover books
18582286495Blanchard and Lea 1858. Revised Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. A New American Edition from the Last London Edition.' Edges rubbed ink name and pencil gift note on front endpaper. 1858 Full-Leather. Edited with additions by Francis Gurney Smith. 261 engraved illustrations including two plates. A treatise on human physiology by the examiner in physiology and comparative anatomy in the University of London who was also Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in University College and President of the Microscopical Society of London. Carpenter was a staunch advocate of temperance and wrote several works about the dangers of using and abusing alcohol in which he detailed the physiological ramifications. Blanchard and Lea hardcover books
