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1818109061London: John & Arthur Arch; Hackney: Conrad Loddiges & Sons et al 1818-1833. Rare first edition large paper issue set of Loddiges' renowned Botanical Cabinet with 2000 numbered hand-colored plates by George Cooke. Octavos 20 volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt all edges marbled. Illustrated with 2000 numbered hand-colored botanical plates by George Cooke. In near fine condition. Armorial bookplates. An exceptional collection most rare and desirable in a complete set. Founded by Joachim Conrad Loddiges in Hackey north of London the renowned Loddiges plant nursery rose to great prominence during the early nineteenth century under George Loddiges who published in serial numbers the present Botanical Cabinet produced in connection with George Cooke one of the more highly sought after engravers of the era. The 2000 hand-colored plates catalogued the broad array of exotic plants trees shrubs ferns palms and orchids introduced into the famed nursery's hothouses and gardens from around the world. John & Arthur Arch; Hackney: Conrad Loddiges & Sons, et al hardcover books
1900111201New York: Doubleday & McClure Co 1900. Signed limited edition of American arctic explorer Frederick Cook's narrative of the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region in which he saved numerous lives as the ship's surgeon. Octavo original illustrated cloth tissue-guarded frontispiece in color illustrated. One of one thousand numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation page opposite a tissue-guarded engraved portrait this is number 92. From the library of James Stephen "Steve" Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days 8 hours and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fossett was also one of sailing's most prolific distance record holders set the Absolute World Speed Record for airships with a Zeppelin NT in 2004. He received numerous awards and honors throughout his career including aviation's highest award the Gold Medal of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale FAI which he was awarded in 2002. Fossett disappeared on September 3 2007 while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert between Nevada and California. In near fine condition. American physician Frederick Albert Cook was the surgeon on Robert Peary's Arctic expedition of 1891-1892 and on the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-1899. He contributed to saving the lives of its crew members when their ship--the Belgica--was ice-bound during the winter as they had not prepared for such an event. It became the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. To prevent scurvy Cook went hunting to keep the crew supplied with fresh meat. "His narrative is certainly one of the finest and most interesting from any Antarctic expedition" Rosove and the first to contain an extensive photographic record of the region. Doubleday & McClure Co hardcover 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
1896238153Brooklyn NY 1896. 1-1/2 pp. in ink on personal stationery Frederick A. Cook M.D. 687 Bushwick Avenue Brooklyn N.Y. 1 vols. 12mo. Slightly soiled old folds docketed presumably by Operti "ans O/18/96. 1-1/2 pp. in ink on personal stationery Frederick A. Cook M.D. 687 Bushwick Avenue Brooklyn N.Y. 1 vols. 12mo. Cook Congratulates Operti 1896. A charming letter between two Arctic veterans. <br/><br/>Frederick Cook founding member of both the Arctic Club and the Explorer's Club and future rival claimant to Robert Peary as discoverer of the North Pole writes to his old friend Albert Operti. Both Cook and Operti had been with Peary on an Arctic expedition in 1891 Cook as surgeon Operti as artist and Operti had just returned from a second Peary expedition to Greenland with sketches notes paintings and memorabilia which now form an important part of the collections of the Explorer's Club. The letter reads:<br/><br/>"My dear Operti<br/><br/>"I am so glad that you succeeded. You must have had a glorious time. Accept my hearty congratulations.<br/>"I am anxious to see your hard earned collection and have a peasant chat about our old Eskimo friends in the far North . <br/>"if this is agreeable to you at what time and place may I have the honor . <br/>"Yours cordially<br/><br/>"Frederick A. Cook unknown books
1860WRCAM36352New York 1860. 226pp. Illustrated with ninety-nine lithographs of carriages one tinted plate advertising Henry Austin the architect and numerous black and white engravings. Double frontis. Oblong octavo. Original cloth stamped in blind. Inner hinges expertly repaired. A few light spots on the front free endpapers. Near fine. A handsomely produced catalogue of carriages and a commercial guide to New Haven and vicinity. Half of the pages are devoted to illustrating the line of carriages offered by G. & D. Cook one of the leading makers at the time when New Haven was the Detroit of the carriage industry. Other pages advertise all manner of Connecticut manufactures mainly in New Haven including billiard tables tools flour mills harnesses clothing guns etc. as well as a variety of business establishments in New Haven New York and Hartford. "Excellent tinted lithographic plates of every American carriage of the day" - Romaine. A wonderful and rare trade catalogue with ninety-nine fine illustrations of carriages. ROMAINE p.80. hardcover books
1820WRCAM20762Montreal i.e. Dublin: Published and Sold by T. Carey i.e. Richard Grace 1820. 179pp. plus three plates. Frontis. Titlepage vignette. 16mo. Contemporary cloth backed boards. Some fraying at head and toe of spine hinges bit shaken but intact. Good. In a cloth case leather label. A bibliographically curious edition of THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK actually printed in Dublin by Richard Grace in 1820 but with T. Carey's Montreal imprint pasted over the legitimate publisher's name and imprint. Not listed in Beddie as a Montreal imprint. A rare piece of Cookiana and an interesting example of a Canadian publisher's expedient response to the public demand for details of Cook's life albeit of questionable legitimacy. Not in Forbes. BEDDIE 1983 Dublin ed. Published and Sold by T. Carey [i.e. Richard Grace] hardcover books
1859WRCAM47080New Haven: T.J. Stafford 1859. 131pp.17-88 leaves paginated on rectos only including two leaves of advertisements89-971pp. Oblong octavo. Frontis. Original brown publisher's cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Cloth lightly faded extremities worn. Spine very weak. Front inner hinge cracked. Minor wear and soiling to text missing pp.15-16 but no evidence of removal. Still good. Handsomely illustrated catalogue of carriage- maker G. & D. Cook & Co. of New Haven displaying eighty lithographed images of different carriages with a brief history and description of New Haven. G. & D. Cook & Co. was founded in the 1850s and collapsed in 1861 under the economic pressures of the Civil War. They reformed as a joint stock company but that also failed. During the Civil War the company manufactured an early form of bullet-proof vest for Union soldiers at the front lines. Only two copies of this work turn up in OCLC at the University of Illinois and the Henry Ford. T.J. Stafford hardcover books
1879WRCLIT64146London: Frank Kerslake 1879. Contemporary three quarter gilt calf marbled boards t.e.g. Front free endsheet loose binding rather scuffed and worn a bit of soiling at edges; a sound copy with an early bookseller's description tipped to the front endsheet. First edition of the earliest Dickens bibliography. A significant association copy probably in a presentation binding inscribed by the compiler to the novelist's son on a preliminary leaf: "To Charles Dickens Esq. with the regards of the Compiler James Cook Aug. 27 1879." Cook's BIBLIOGRAPHY "made with a set of the various Works as they were originally published in parts or in volumes" precedes that of R.H. Shepherd Manchester 1881 and several items directed at collectors such as Johnson's HINTS TO COLLECTORS 1885. Cook provides "such particulars as are necessary to give the Bibliophilist or Collector a thorough knowledge of the peculiarities of the several editions". Major minor and miscellaneous works Christmas books biographies and portraits are described with notes on reprints and inscribed copies. GIMBEL H108. Frank Kerslake hardcover books
1820WRCAM37391Dublin: Printed by Richard Grace 1820. 179pp. including four plates including frontispiece. Titlepage vignette. 16mo. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards. Covers worn backstrip largely perished else very good. First printing of this Dublin edition of THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK abridged for young readers from the biography by Andrew Kippis. The wood-engraved frontispiece is a portrait of a facially tattooed South Sea warrior. Not in Forbes. BEDDIE 1983. Printed by Richard Grace 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
1862173892Philadelphia: George Childs 1862. First Edition. hardcover. near fine. 358pp. 12mo original blind stamped green cloth; bookplate otherwise very good. Philadelphia: George W. Childs 1862. Near fine.<br/><br/> Author was a lawyer and journalist. During the Civil War he was a correspondent from the Philadelphia Press. Cook was assigned to the Army of the Potomac and Washington D.C. Later in life he was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania. Ex libris from the Military Order of the Loyal Legion United States. Commandery of the State of Illinois.<br/><br/> George Childs unknown books
189328916NY: Charles ScribnerÕs Sons 1893. Second edition revised. Hardcover. Very good. NY: Charles ScribnerÕs Sons 1893. 2 vols. Second edition revised. Extra-illustrated. This set is greatly expanded by the insertion of 275 plates mostly copper and steel engravings some folding and a few colored. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Bound by Stikeman & Co. in full crushed dark blue morocco. Covers bordered in gilt with fleur-de-lis corner pieces. Spine decoratively paneled in gilt; gilt lettered in two compartments decoratively tooled with large central fleur-de-lis and small fleur-de-lis corner pieces. Board edges double ruled in gilt. Elaborate gilt turn-ins. Top edges gilt. Both volumes expertly rebacked two corners chipped small leather armorial bookplate. A beautiful set. Very good/. Multiple volumes - extra shipping charges apply Insurance required to ship this item. Charles ScribnerÕs Sons hardcover books
180935461Paris: Imprimerie de Brasseur Ainé Capelle & Renand 1809. First edition. Large folding gastronomic map of France by Tourcaty. xx 364 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Untrimmed map with good margins. Modern wrappers. First three leaves professionally repaired at outer margins ex-library with bookplate on title page verso some browning of paper stock else about very good. First edition. Large folding gastronomic map of France by Tourcaty. xx 364 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With a splendid 'Carte Gastronomique de la France'. The Avertissement states that the Cours gastronomique is published under the heading of Second Edition although it appears here for the first time in its entirety; earlier chapters had been published in the Épicurien Français.<br/>The glory of the book is the attractive Carte Gastronomique de la France depicting each region of France with the products for which it is famed. Bitting p. 71; Cagle 112; Vicaire 137-8 Imprimerie de Brasseur Ainé, Capelle & Renand unknown books
1827684181827. Dudley 1827. McCoy Freedom of the Press. Dudley 1827. McCoy Freedom of the Press. A Draper is Charged with Seditious Libel for Displaying a Strike Notice in His Shop Window Trial. Cook Samuel 1786-1861 Defendant. A Full Report of the Trial of Samuel Cook Draper Dudley For an Alleged Seditious Libel Tried at Worcester Aug. 1 1827 Before Mr. Justice Littledale. Taken in Short Hand by an Eminent Writer. Dudley Worcester: Sold by S. Cook Draper 1827. ii 72 pp. Octavo 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into period-style quarter morocco over marbled boards gilt titles and ornaments to spine endpapers renewed. Light toning to text somewhat heavier in places "4" in early hand to head of title page. $850. Only edition. Cook a linen draper and political radical was found guilty of displaying in his shop window a handbill promoting a nailers' strike that accused government ministers of contributing to the starvation of the people. However his punishment was light being bound over for the sum 200 to receive sentence "when called upon." This pamphlet was published by Cook to raise money for his legal expenses. A note at the foot of p. 72 is an appeal for additional financial assistance: "S. Cook will be happy to receive and Subscriptions towards his late expenses and towards such subsequent proceedings as may be deemed requisite." OCLC locates 4 copies 2 in North America Duke Southern Illinois University. McCoy Freedom of the Press Supplement IC318. unknown books
1860422391860. The preponderance printed on blue paper. Sizes range from 4-1/8" x 6-7/8" to 7-3/8" x 7-1/2" <br/><br/>"Paul Whitin helped found the Northbridge Cotton Manufacturing Company in Northbridge Massachusetts in 1809 and in 1816 joined his brothers-in-law in founding the Whitin & Fletchers mill in South Northbridge now Whitinsville of which he became sole owner in 1826. Around this time his two elder sons Paul Jr. and John joined him forming P. Whitin & Sons. Operating under that name Paul and John purchased the Northbridge Cotton Manufacturing Company mill after the death of their father in 1831 and they later added their younger brothers Charles and James to the company. The company prospered and supplemented its cotton production with the manufacture of pickers looms and other machinery. About half of the houses in Whitinsville were owned by the company and rented to its employees most of whom worked in the shop and foundry; a few employees were clerks in the company store." UM website. The P. Whitin & Sons firm was dissolved in 1864. This collection of receipts documents their purchases of foodstuffs & other sundry items from divers merchants in Providence R.I. e.g. Wm. F. Huntoon. Coffee & Spices Worcester e.g. L. Spring 2nd. Flour Meal Salt et al & Boston e.g. W. Baker & Co. Chocolate & Cocoa. A nice cache of material documenting food prices in the Northeast during the mid-19th C. unknown books
187842947New York: published by the New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society for the Indian Commission of the Protestant Episcopal Church 1878. 8vo pp. xxii 664; publisher's full red morocco lettered in gilt on spine a.e.g.; worn at edges else very good and sound. Written in the Santee dialect. Pilling notes that the literal translation of the title is as follows: "Fellowship a-crying-to-him something-written the and covenants how they-give-to-them the; and fellowship unmysterious in the deed and custom the America country in United States in Protestant Episcopal Church they-use-it the according-to: and also Psalter or David his-songs the." Also that Hinman and Cook were aided in the translation by the Rev. D. W. Hemans and Mr. Luke C. Walker. Pilling Siouan p. 37; Pilling Proof-sheets p. 352. <br/><br/> published by the New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society for the Indian Commission of the Protestant Episcopal Church unknown books
18997503Boston: F.M. Porter Co 1899. Quarto stapled in wrappers 24 x 17.5 cm. 80 pages; 1 plate. Illustrated black & white and chromolithograph plate. Advertising. FIRST EDITION. The "Official catalog musical program list of exhibitors" for this fourth congress of members of the Boston Retail Grocers Association. The association was founded in 1881 and held its first food fair that year. Photographic portraits of the senior members of the Association are included as is a description of Miss Nellie Dot Ranche of Chicago who was brought in for the occasion to run the Domestic Science Programs. It's interesting that the committee reached out to the Midwest at this moment when Cooking Schools in Boston were on the rise and very visible. The copious advertising displays a range of categories of goods one would find in a grocery of the turn of the 19th century: coffee cocoa mustard Havana cigars root beer Ceylon tea French Coca Wine virgin olive oil nut meats and salt as well as household goods including: thread collars washing liquids bluing ink. Also represented are goods and services aimed at the grocers and retailers: boxes and bags promotional printing specialized contracting refrigeration etc. Tiny bit of spotting to green and gold-printed gray wrappers otherwise fine. OCLC locates just one copy Winterthur. F.M. Porter Co unknown books
18901724Milwaukee: J.G. Flint 1890. About good. 4146pp. plus color frontispiece. Original brown faux-alligator wrappers. Front cover detached covers heavily worn; older tape on spine and front cover lightly soiled. Contemporary pencil ownership notations on end leaves. Lightly toned several small edge tears heavier to last few leaves. One of the earliest cook books published in Wisconsin. This promotional cook book was issued by the Star Crystal Baking Powder Company of Milwaukee edited by the principal of the Milwaukee Cooking School and featuring a handsome color frontispiece advertising their product. The work includes an index a table of proportions and equivalents and has blank leaves provided for notes and extra recipes. Opening with bread it includes recipes for cakes puddings sauces soups salads fish a section on roasting and brazing and a pastry section which begins "Don't make it! But if it must be made this is the way to do it." A second edition was published in 1895 and is also quite rare. We locate four copies in OCLC: the New York Public Library Library of Congress Michigan State University and the Milwaukee County Library.<br/> Bitting p.91. Brown Culinary Americana 4356. J.G. Flint unknown books
190013692New York: Doubleday & McClure Co 1900. First Edition. Very Good. Trade Edition Ex-Library 8vo 9x6.5in; xxiv 478 pp. 82 of 84 plates of 120 images including color frontispiece with tissue guard and three color illustrations without tissue guards 3 maps and 21 illustrations in text six appendices of scientific summaries and index; Rebound in dark blue cloth covers with silver lettering on spine and front all edges trimmed with rounded corners; Negligible shelf wear to covers edges and corners some soiling and spots to text and plates chip on p. 41 several small closed tears along text edges unobtrusive perforation stamp of Library Association of Portland Or. on title page and pp. 3 405 and 467 with handwritten number in ink on dedication page no other library markings or other prior owner markings. Near fine covers with very good interior. Rosove 76.A2 Howgego III C24C. Frederick Albert Cook 1865-1940 was a physician and polar explorer during the Heroic Age of Polar exploration. He also organized one of the first polar tourist excursions to Greenland. He began his polar experience in 1891 as a surgeon on Robert Peary's second Greenland expedition. This book is about his participation in the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897 in the Belgica under the command of Adrien De Gerlache de Gomery. The ship became icebound in the Bellingshausen Sea and was forced to over winter. This book was the first significant English-language account of over wintering in Antarctica until Gerlache's book was translated in 1998. From Rosove this book was "superior to the other two from both literary and informational viewpoints. Cook based his book . on his diary notes and recollections; he included some of the scientific results in the appendices ." Roald Amundsen was the mate on the expedition and gained his only Antarctic experience before his own expedition in 1911 to reach the South Pole. Doubleday & McClure Co unknown 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
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
18796456New York: Charles A. Lilley Publisher 7 Murray Street 1879. 115 1 pages. Advertisements. Date based on external evidence. The publisher produced only a very few books all issued in 1879. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A promotional cookbook featuring recipes that are brief if not altogether lacking in detail. The book is in service to Houghton & Dutton a dry goods specialist from Boston and the recipes are interspersed with descriptions of the shop's various departments crockery glassware millinery etc. In addition to the text descriptions there are advertisements throughout with varied typography but all hawking Houghton & Dutton. Susan G. Knight was also the author of a number of other works including one cookbook Tit-Bits How to prepare a nice dish at moderate expense Boston & New York 1865. A comparison of the two text would perhaps be of use. Some age-toning to text-block and wear to corners of some leaves. In printed yellow wrappers worn and soiled but whole. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies. Charles A. Lilley, Publisher, 7 Murray Street unknown books
1887013871Knapp Peck & Thomson 1887. Book. Fine. Full-Leather. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fine Copy in Full Leather First Edition With Very Minor Wear to Bottom Extremities. Pristine Maps and Text Rare in This Condition Classic Beautiful Fresh Copy. . Knapp ,Peck & Thomson Hardcover books
186053896Salem MA: William Cook 1860. First Edition. 8vo pp. 9-16 Bound in original pictorial wrappers stitched as issued. With two plates included in the pagination of a view of Broad Street Salem and of the District Schoolhouse in South Danvers Mass. Images finished in pencil as usual. Little chipped and worn a very good copy of a scarce and fragile piece. Jenkins 17. "Between 1852 and 1876 Cook 1807-1876 produced about forty different titles writing the text engraving the numerous woodcut illustrations and after laboriously printing the result proceeded to peddle his pamphlets about the streets in true chapman fashion"Lawrence Jenkins William Cook of Salem Mass.: Preacher Poet Artist and Publisher" in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society New Series Vol. 34 April 9 1924-October 15 1924. Jenkins notes that Cook had just enough type to set one page at a time. The woodblocks were made from birch or maple wood cut with a jack-knife and touched up with lead pencil as are these. Cook had built a small hand lever press that looked like an old fashioned high-back hand organ. Cook was a truly unique eccentric who eked out a living as a tutor lecturer printer and poet. The text in the present work contains Cook's remarks about education to a local Baptist church and two of his poems that illustrated his main points. William Cook unknown books
1868BOOKS003840x627 pages with diagrams. Octavo 8 7/8" x 6 ¼" bound in half leather. This edition was published in the same year as the first but is the expanded and preferred edition. The first edition consisted of 72 pages. Betts: 32-7 Second edition.<br /><br />PROSPECTUS: Provided a subscription list can be obtained sufficient to pay the expense of publication it is in contemplation to issue during the present year a large collection of Chess Problems by American Composers. The book will be under the editorship of Eugene B Cook and W R Henry; it will contain one thousand positions upon diagrams two and a half inches square and the price will not exceed two dollars. The names of subscribers should be sent to W R Henry Box 1129 New York City. Composers who wish their production to appear to the best advantage are requested to forward the latest versions to the same address. The editors would like also to publish the real name of the composer in every case and to give the proper credit to the periodical in which each problem originally appeared.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Hinges rubbed boards chipped pages 510-526 edge pages damaged pages 524/25 stained previous owner's name on front end paper. Overall about a good copy. Adelmour W King hardcover books
