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18582093New York: H. Dayton 1858. Hardcover. Black embossed boards title in gilt. Good. 126 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Similar to earlier edition Ladies' Indispensable Assistant 1852 but with some medical updates and insights into vaccinations. Text provides guidance to recognize various illnesses with treatments with 14 pages listing the medical properties of plants. The Ladies' Domestic Economy and Housekeepers' guide provides copious recipes cookery for the sick the lady's work-box stitching dress work baskets directions for coloring garments with etiquette following the same pattern as earlier editions although the rules for marriage love letters and proposals have been dispensed with. Two pages of recipes from another cook book laid in. Owner's signature on front free end paper. Pages foxed boards heavily rubbed. Lowenstein lists a 1859 copy. <br/><br/> H. Dayton hardcover books
1884206161884. 400 N. 3RD ST. PHILADELPHIA PA. Philadelphia 1880's. 4.5" x 5.75". 30 pp. Original printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations throughout. Title misprinted on front wrapper "The Philadelphila Bird." Uniformly tanned. Very Good. OCLC lists several printings with similar titles but not this particular title. unknown books
18702275133Weed Parsons and Company Printers 1870. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Front matter foxed. 1870 Hard Cover. 351 3 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth gilt titles. Frontispiece of John T. Hoffman New York's twenty-third Governor. Biographical sketches of New York State Legislators. Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers hardcover books
18702199732Weed Parsons and Company Printers 1870. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ink gift note on front endpaper 'Miss Mary E. Husbands Christmas Present December 25. AD 1875 From her affectionate Father.'. Pencil note on base of frontispiece noting date of Hoffman's death. 1870 Hard Cover. 351 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth gilt titles. Frontispiece of John T. Hoffman New York's twenty-third Governor. Biographical sketches of New York State Legislators. Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers hardcover books
18068381London: T. Cook 1806. Later Edition. The complete series plates I-X uncut as issued. These are the Thomas Cook re-engravings ca. 1806. Plate marks 21-1/4" x 14" on 24" x 17" sheets; printed on heavy wove paper. Occasional shallow chipping soiling & foxing to extremities; images fresh and unfoxed; Very Good. A fresh and attractive set of Hogarth's illustrations to Hudibras filled with the artist's typically allusive and symbolic humor. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. T. Cook unknown books
188719211Gettysburg Pa.: Wm. J. Cook ca. 1887. First edition. Roughly opened or trimmed along the lower edge; some light chipping and light soiling; a very good copy. Original printed yellow wrappers 6 x 4 inches 9 1 pages. Illus. Seemingly unrecorded a bound pamphlet of irregular leaves and varied typefaces stitched together into printed wrappers; likely only a short step up from an amateur press production. With a historical summary plus dramatic poetry on Gettysburg; one of the poems is signed in type W. J. C. and the rear wrappers note that the book is available from Wm. J. Cook Box 82 Gettysburg. The rear wrappers also note that one poem concerns an 1887 reunion of veterans from both sides of the war. Wm. J. Cook), unknown books
1862WRCAM54585Washington D.C.: War Department Adjutant General's Office 1862. Three volumes with over 300 individual imprints. 12mo. Uniformly bound in contemporary three- quarter roan and marbled boards gilt leather labels. Wear to leather and edges boards somewhat rubbed front hinges tender. Contemporary ownership inscriptions and binder's tickets on front endpapers of second and third volumes; later bookplate on front pastedown of first volume. Light toning in places otherwise internally clean. Very good. A uniformly-bound set of General Orders issued by the Adjutant General's Office of the War Department in Washington D.C. previously owned by Brig. Gen. John Pope Cook. The orders cover 1861 and 1862 and comprise a nearly complete run of orders for the Union Army during the first two years of the Civil War. Undoubtedly the most significant General Order in this collection is a preliminary printing of the Emancipation Proclamation. <br> <br> A handful of the orders are signed in ink by the various adjutant generals. The Emancipation Proclamation bound in the third volume is as follows: <br> <br> GENERAL ORDERS No. 139. THE FOLLOWING PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT IS PUBLISHED FOR THE INFORMATION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE ARMY AND ALL CONCERNED: BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION caption title. Washington D.C.: War Department Adjutant General's Office ca. September 24 1862. 3pp. This work is one of the earliest printings of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued to regimental commanders in the field during the Civil War in the week after President Lincoln's official manuscript version was finished. Here the third paragraph rings out with Lincoln's timeless words: "That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty- three all persons held as slaves within any State or designated area of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then thenceforward and forever free." <br> <br> Following the Seven Days Battle and Gen. McClellan's retreat from the Peninsula at the end of June 1862 President Lincoln realized that there would be no early end to the war and found himself "as inconsolable as it was possible for a human to be and yet live." Anxious for news from the army and needing to escape the constant interruptions at the White House he frequently visited the telegraph office in the War Department building to await dispatches. It was during one such visit early in July that he asked the chief of the telegraph staff Maj. Thomas Thompson Eckert for some paper to "write something special" and began the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation completing it in a few weeks. <br> <br> Lincoln had long hoped to resolve the slavery issue through a congressional act of emancipation compensating slave owners for their loss of "property" but that approach was roundly rejected by representatives from the border states leaving the President who had decided upon the necessity of emancipation with a presidential proclamation as the only option. The extraordinary document he conceived would announce the liberation on January 1 1863 of all slaves in those states still in rebellion against the Union and promised compensation to slave owners in those states that returned to the fold before that time if they adopted "immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery." This proclamation would be followed by a final proclamation issued on the 1st of January identifying those states still in rebellion and confirming the liberation of all slaves therein. <br> <br> On Tuesday July 22 Lincoln presented his draft to the Cabinet telling them that he had resolved firmly upon the course of action it specified and asking them not for advice but suggestions. The only observation he had not anticipated came from Secretary of State Seward who proposed that it might be best to wait for a military victory before issuing the Proclamation as it could otherwise seem like "the last measure of an exhausted government." Immediately recognizing the wisdom of the suggestion Lincoln held back. On September 17 after an anxious wait of nearly two months he received the victory he needed at the bloody Battle of Antietam. Completing his final draft Lincoln presented it to his cabinet for refinement on September 22. Following the meeting Seward took the amended draft with him to the State Department where a formal manuscript copy was made then signed by Lincoln and Seward. <br> <br> The first edition of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation Eberstadt #1 a small three-page circular intended for distribution within the government and to the local press was likely printed on September 22. At the time that Charles Eberstadt published his study of the Proclamation 1950 he was able to locate only one copy which he himself owned and as nearly as we have been able to determine no other copies have come to light since then. <br> <br> Eberstadt #2 is a supposed second edition no copy of which Charles Eberstadt was able to locate whose existence he inferred from the standard State Department practice of printing a folio edition consisting solely of the text of the proclamation followed by another printing consisting of the text of a letter of transmittal from the Secretary of State as well as the text of the proclamation. While there may be a copy of Eberstadt #2 in the National Archives as he speculated it is not recorded in their online catalogue nor have we been able to find a copy in any other online catalogue including OCLC the Library of Congress and the Abraham Lincoln Library. <br> <br> Eberstadt's third printing of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation is without a doubt the earliest obtainable printing. It consists of Secretary of State Seward's one-page letter of transmittal addressed "To the Diplomatic and Consular Officers of the United States in foreign countries" and the text of the proclamation. Eberstadt located a total of only five copies in institutions at the Library of Congress the National Archives Yale the Clements Library and Brown. OCLC does not record any additional copies nor is it recorded in Monaghan. This firm sold a copy several years ago. <br> <br> The present copy of GENERAL ORDERS No. 139 is Eberstadt's fourth printing of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation dated in print on September 24. Charles Eberstadt surmises that this field order printing could have been accomplished as late as September 29 or 30 and produced in as many as 15000 copies. It is however rather uncommon in the market and this is the first copy of this printing of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation offered by this firm. <br> <br> "From the first days of the Civil War slaves had acted to secure their own liberty. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically. As a milestone along the road to slavery's final destruction the Emancipation Proclamation has assumed a place among the great documents of human freedom" - National Archives. "The proclamation has been called by responsible persons one of the three great documents of world history ranking with Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence" - Eberstadt. <br> <br> Besides including about 300 orders on all manner of Union military activity at the outset of the Civil War the present collection also contains the 1861 printing of REGULATIONS FOR THE UNIFORM AND DRESS FOR THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. Set out in GENERAL ORDERS No. 6 this twenty-four-page printing of the Army dress regulations was the first to set out uniform requirements for the Union during the conflict. The first sentence of the first section requires officers to "wear a frock coat of dark blue cloth." Thus the Blue and the Gray begins. <br> <br> This set was collected and bound by John Pope Cook who began the Civil War as a colonel in command of the 7th Illinois Volunteer Regiment. He was promoted to brigadier general after his troops played a key role in the Union victory at Fort Donelson early in 1862. After his promotion he was transferred to a command in the Department of Iowa and Dakota Territory where he remained until early 1863 conducting campaigns against the Sioux from his base in Sioux City Iowa. These orders must have been bound near the end of this period since contemporary labels note the binder one William F. Kiter as being from relatively close by Council Bluffs. <br> <br> A very early printing of one of the most important political acts in the Civil War and indeed in American history contained in a set of General Orders contemporaneously assembled by a significant Union Army commander. EBERSTADT LINCOLN'S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 4. War Department, Adjutant General's Office hardcover books
18931333309Boston: Ginn & Company 1893. Hardcover. 12mo; pp 98; G; navy blue spine with gilt text; no jacket; cloth has modest wear to exterior; strong boards; minor wear to edges; text block exterior edges show age toning; previous owner's name to endpapers and title page; some pencil inside; detaching first few pages otherwise intact binding. 1333309. FP New Rockville Stock. Ginn & Company hardcover books
18256731Concord. Isaac Hill. 1825. Bound in half calf and pictorial paper covered boards. 12mo. Second Edition. A scarce copy of an early American reader. Spine moderately chipped and worn. Several page corners creased Not affecting plates. Corners bumped. Various offset to prelims. A Very Good Copy of this extrmely rare title. Isaac Hill. hardcover books
182088525London: H. Hogg & Co 1820. Hardcover. Fair. Volume 1 ONLY of 2 frontis 423p. Old quarterbinding cloth backed in black leather. 27cm. Binding still sound but not attractive because cover cloth has a few holes and is worn off along cover edges as well as being quite faded and beginning to curl away from the undelying boards. Endpaper split along front hinge. Internally sound and clean. We have only Volume I the text volume; Volume 2 not present here was the plate volume. <br/><br/> H. Hogg & Co hardcover books
187518315Chicago Ill.: Charles E. Southard 1875. Original printed wrappers stitched 34pp. Light wear Very Good. Signature 'Edwin H. Abbot' on front wrap. <br/><br/> On the constitutionality of Wisconsin's 'Potter Law' prescribing maximum freight rates within the State and imposing penalties for evasion of the Act. Cook argues that the Potter Law "would take the property of the railroad without just compensation" in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Charles E. Southard unknown books
188874249London: Ward Lock Bowden 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vols. frontises folding map illustrations iv 1.xiv-xx 596 xi 4 600-1176p. Light blue cloth backed in darker blue cloth. 26cm. Some cover scuffing and rubbing. Age-toning. "No date edition" written on title-pages. No Jacket. <br/><br/> Ward, Lock, Bowden hardcover books
1893311005London: Elliot Stock 1893. First Wharton edition. Frontispiece portrait 4 folding map and charts 4 plates including two manuscript facsimiles 3 folding maps in pocket at rear as issued. lvi 400 pp. 4to. Publisher's green cloth spine lettered gilt facsimile signature of Cook in gilt to upper cover. Some soiling to boards hinges cracked leaves toned title page working loose very good. First Wharton edition. Frontispiece portrait 4 folding map and charts 4 plates including two manuscript facsimiles 3 folding maps in pocket at rear as issued. lvi 400 pp. 4to. Beddie 683. Provenance: W.K. Bixby bookplate; Missouri Historical Society presentation stamp from Bixby and a few other discrete stamps; bookplate Elliot Stock unknown books
1888182830New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1888. Hardcover. VG- light shelfwear to boards pages are very clean binding tight. Beige cloth boards stamped in brown and green design made to look like cross stitch; all edges yellow tinted; bw portrait frontispiece with tissue guard; xii 239 pp 13 portraits on 11 plates. Originally published in Scribner's magazine v. 2 1887. Includes a list of the illustrations. The daily life of an upper class woman. Introduction by Clarence Cook. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1888223752New York: Selmar Press 1888. Illustrated with many full-page steel engravings after Doré Gerôme etc. 3 vols. Folio. Bound in three quarters Publisher's morocco and cloth gilt stamped edges red. Binding dry and splitting at the joints. Internally very fine. Illustrated with many full-page steel engravings after Doré Gerôme etc. 3 vols. Folio. Selmar Press unknown books
1888006734New York: Selmar Hess 1888. First edition. Half Morocco. Pebbled Cloth over boards. Good. With Publisher's half morocco binding. Folio. 33 by 26 cm. Condition: heavy rubbing along joints raised bands edges. Large chipped loss of leather at spine base first volume. Moderate age toning of leaves otherwise mostly clean with occasional foxing mostly on the tissue guards. One plate with small marginal closed tear where there had been a rusty paper clip. <br /><br /> Selmar Hess hardcover books
1888133906New York: Selmar Hess 1888. Hardcover. Good ex-library with typical markings light wear at cover edges binding quite solid internally gorgeous. Dark red buckram. 336 pp. Profusely illustrated steel engravings. Loose vol. III of a three volume set about 200 pp. devoted specifically to American artists and their work. A hefty substantive work peppered with crisp lovely steel engravings. Excellent reference for the student or collector of 19th century works. All the steel engravings are quite suitable for framing should that be your desire. Selmar Hess hardcover books
1888155630New York: Selmar Hess 1888. Hardbound. G Moderate wear and scuffs to spines and corners; outer spine of vol. 3 is separating from hinge; front board of vol. 3 has soiling patch at bottom quarter; pages have aged only lightly; engravings are clear; some wear at front inner hinges of first two vols.; may have been re-lined at flyleaves in contemporary times; a solid set in general. Leather dusting/flaking off where rubbed. 3 vols. Black textured cloth boards with brown leather spine & corners gilt letters and ornate gilt decorations on spines gilt outlines on covers gilt decorations on front covers gilt edges all around; 974 total pp. hundreds of BW illus. A three-volume set devoted specifically to a variety of artists and their work. A hefty substantive work peppered with crisp lovely steel engravings. An excellent reference for the student or collector of 19th century works. Selmar Hess hardcover books
1888127779New York: Selmar Hess 1888. Hardcover. Good wear at cover edges internally gorgeous. Dark brown cloth. appx. 400 pp. Profusely illustrated numerous steel engravings. Apparently Volumes 2 and 3 bound together but the order of the plates makes it hard to tell. Sold as a collection of very clean steel engravings numbering appx. 33 all with tissue guards. Selmar Hess hardcover books
1888139068New York: Selmar Hess 1888. Hardbound. G Bindings are well worn on edges and spines; hinges are good and pages are terrific with only faint mirroring from full-page engravings to adjacent pages. 2 vols. Three-quarter marbled boards with brown leather spines and corners gilt letters on spines gilt edges all around; marbled flyleaves 636 pp. total hundreds of BW illus. Two volumes of a larger set devoted specifically to artists and their work. A hefty substantive work peppered with crisp lovely steel engravings. Excellent reference for the student or collector of 19th century works. The marble boards and flyleaves are especially exquisite in bubbles of green yellow and blue. Selmar Hess hardcover books
18975037Boston/Providence: C.S. Cook/Livermore & Knight 1897. Sewn booklet 24 pages. First edition. An early guide to simple French for the English-speaking tourist. The author claims "This little book is imperfect and incomplete but it will enable the owner to speak French enough to get about Paris." The book is divided into sections on the Hotel Railway Station Public Carriages About Bread and Coffee Midday Meal Dinner About Wines Things for Men Things for Women and then general numbers and vocabulary. Sections are interspersed with helpful hints such as "Pinch your nose when you say anything ending in n in order to achieve the nasal sound desirable." Wine vocabulary includes translations for Good Red Wine St. Jullien and Good White Wine Sauterne revealing some contemporary prejudices. There is a little bit of pencil annotation to the wine page and to one other otherwise very good in printed pale green canvas wrappers with a pocket in the front. Bit of edge wear and light soiling to wrappers otherwise very good. Rare. OCLC locates four copies of the 1907 second edition only only one in the US and none of this first edition. C.S. Cook/Livermore & Knight unknown books
18979026651Denver: W. F Robinson 1897. Hardcover. Very good. Compiled by John W. Cook. A Condensed Criminal History of te Far West. Both inner hinges cracked but holding. Revised and enlarged from 1882 edition. Howes C728. Adams 6 Guns 483 <br/><br/> W. F Robinson hardcover books
1897Embry 176428Robinson 1897. Revised edition. Near Fine with previous owners name and brief pencilled bibliographic references rear inner hinge starting and light wear to edges and corners. B&W illustrations. Brown cloth with gilt titles now in protective mylar. Signed and dated by author. Robinson, 1897. Revised edition. hardcover books
1861450London: Routledge Warne & Routledge 1861. First edition. First edition. 4to. Publisher's gilt blue cloth with bold embossed design both covers and spine by John Leighton. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Gilbert Watson Weir and others. Corners considerably worn extr. spine and edges show wear. Rear endpaper starting to crack. Occasional foxing. AEG. <br/><br/> Routledge, Warne, & Routledge hardcover books
186025726London 6 June 1860. 12mo 7.25" x. 4.5". 1 p. <br><br>Cook 181889 was a Chartist poet author and proponent of political and sexual freedom for women. She writes "I am again here for a few days . . . and want to know if you can receive me on Friday about eleven. I am anxious you should do a writing portrait to see which will afford you most satisfaction. I will bring the proofs of the sonnet with me."<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Residue of the stock of Seven Gables Bookshop 193079 via the son of Michael Papantonio 2009. Very good condition. Tipped onto a slightly larger sheet. With the integral blank. unknown books