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180616606City of Washington: A. & G. Way printers 1806. 8vo. 8 pp. <br><br>Letter addressed to Robert Marion U.S. House of Representatives. Includes the text of "An act to authorise the City Council of Charleston with the consent of Congress to impose and levy a duty on the tonnage of ships and vessels for the Purpose therein mentioned. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 11602. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with a librarian's lightly pencilled notation. Very good. A. & G. Way, printers unknown books
183712016Washington: Blair & Rives 1837. 8vo. 3 1 pp. <br><br>Uncommon record of financial intercourse with the Barbary Powers. Doc. no. 69 24th Congress 2nd session. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with inked numeral in upper margin; pages age-toned. Blair & Rives unknown books
1898339791898. SPRING LAKE. WILBURTON-BY-THE-SEA. A two-page autograph letter signed on stationery from the Wilburton-By-The-Sea Hotel Spring Lake dated September 1 1898. From a mother who is summering in Spring Lake to her daughter who resides in Philadelphia discussing the heat lack of a breeze and a Philadelphia girl staying at the hotel who sings beautifully. "Papa would love to hear her but she goes home this afternoon." With the original post-marked Wilburton envelope. $35.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
18938723St. Paul Minn.: D. Ramaley & Son. Very Good. 1893. Hardcover. ex-library; normal wear; front hinge cracked; author inscribed; Good . D. Ramaley & Son hardcover books
18481261261London: Andrews & Company 1848. Second Edition. Octavo; G/no-DJ; Black spine gold text; Boards strong major edge/shelf wear chipping along spine frayed corners rubbing age tone and spotting on paste-downs; Text block is age toned with minor-to-moderate spotting/foxing and rubbing throughout general wear from use text is legible; pp 72. <br /> <br /> <p>Shelve upstairs on shelf next to copier. 1261261. FP New Rockville Stock. Andrews & Company unknown books
187612155New York: Harper & Bros 1876. Early US prtg. Purple publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering. VG sp sunned/contemporary pos on ffep/some foxing. 209 pp 6 pp of adverts 8vo. <br/><br/>Title first issued in 1876 & this probably the first US though it somewhat problematic to determine with certainty due to the piratical nature of 19th C. US publishers. Harper & Bros hardcover books
184011652Washington: Blair & Rives printers 1840. 8vo. 18 pp. <br><br>Land use surveys in Mississippi. Government document: 26th Congress 1st Session. Senate. 149. Removed from a nonce volume; two holes in inner margin not touching text. Final page with brown stain in lower right corner. Leaves separating. Blair & Rives, printers unknown books
183821597New York: J.S. Taylor 1838. 8vo. 47 pp. <br><br>Review of the Presbyterian General Assembly's actions in 1837: Effective reform or outright tyrrany Removed from a nonce volume; dust soiled; ex-library with stamp on verso of title-page. J.S. Taylor unknown books
181621312Washington D.C.: Pr. by William A. Davis 1816. 8vo. 43 1 pp. <br><br>Detailed review of the income and expenses of the nation. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 39365. Removed from a nonce volume. War Department library stamp on title-page. Pr. by William A. Davis unknown books
181111386Washington City: Printed by R. C. Weightman 1811. 8vo. 4 pp. <br><br>Letter of Albert Gallatin to the Speaker of the House of Representatives dated "January 3d 1811." Scarce: OCLC locates only two copies at Yale and at the US Navy Dept. Library Naval Hist. Ctr. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 24188. Removed from a nonce volume; gutter margin a little irregular; light foxing to first and last pages. Good condition. Printed by R. C. Weightman unknown books
189779029Washington 1897. Hardcover. Good. folding map index 133p. Contemporary 1/2 leather. 23cm. Backstrip faded. Cover scuffed. Contents sound. Bureau of American Republics Handbook No. 84 August 1897. 55th Congress 2d Session. Senate Doc. No. 178 Part 13. A former owner has used 13 of the blank pages bound in at the end to record the Constitution and Bylaws of the Alfred College Club a list of members and the minutes of six meetings of the association between 1925 and 1929. <br/><br/> hardcover books
18891865New York: Pr. by Gilliss Brothers & Turnure 1889. 8vo. 1 blank 1 ff. 59 1 blank pp. <br><br>Vermilye was a well-loved and much respected pastor as this amply documented order of service testifies including addresses by Morgan Dix the rector of Trinity Church and Merill Gates president of Rutgers. Good. Bound in original printed wrappers. Front wrapper detached and chipped. Leaves untrimmed. Exhistorical society copy rubber stamp on front wrapper and title-page. Pr. by Gilliss Brothers & Turnure unknown books
18346222Philadelphia: Pr. by the principal booksellers 1834. 12mo. viii 81 1 xii 168 75 i.e. 76 pp.; 1 plt. <br><br>First U.S. edition with reproductions of the original title-pages for several of the collected works and one silhouette plate. 19th-century library half sheep in imitation of morocco and paper-covered sides worn with loss to top of spine. Front cover separated front and back covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct institution spine with paper shelving label. Title-page and several others stamped back free endpaper with pocket. Moderate spotting throughout. Pr. by the principal booksellers unknown books
1865291854New York: J. H. Colton 1865. Second Edition. Colored engraved map with a bit of creasing at the fold. 11 3/4 x 9 1/2". From the second edition of Colton's Condensed Octavo Atlas of the Union. Some pencil marks on the recto and the verso. J. H. Colton unknown books
1886170523San Francisco: Bancroft Whitney Company 1886. Leather Bound. xxiv 666p. "in binding" full calf boards panelled and ruled in blind with red and black spine labels gilt. Generally sound but the cow is deteriorating with its pressed surface hanging in shreds on the back cover. Hinges holding well textblock clean and sound. Bancroft, Whitney Company unknown books
1837174798Washington DC: s.n. 1837. Single folio leaf printed and folded to present a 13p. text 9.5x6.2 inch self-wraps; some partial tearing of fold-lines some crumpling of untrimmed edges scattered light foxing good copy. Regards "ten sections of land granted to said Territory of Arkansas for the erection of a public building at Little Rock" and claims against the grant. 24th Congress 2d session. 184. s.n. unknown books
182129925Edinburgh: John Robertson 1821. 8vo. 2 523 1 pp. <br><br>Sole edition: Scottish polemic apparently addressed to the Marquis of Huntly with complaints regarding a Tory party function attended by Sir Walter Scott that degenerated into conduct "derogatory to the dignity of the Pitt Club and hurtful to the interests of morality" p. 20. Although NSTC attributes this piece to Lord Cockburn internal evidence may suggest otherwise. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2C28398. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with small inked numeral in upper portion title-page verso institutionally rubber-stamped. Two small pencilled annotations offset onto opposing page; last few leaves with spots of mild foxing. John Robertson unknown books
18441931New York: Leavitt Trow and Co. 194 Broadway 1844. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 104p. 22cm removed. Mild foxing. Authority infallibility of Catholic Faith. Many in holdings none found in trade at time of writing. <br/><br/> Leavitt, Trow and Co. 194 Broadway unknown books
187847828Philadelphia: Hubbard Bros 1878. First Edition. Thick octavo 22.5cm; dark green cloth stamped in gilt and black pictorial spine beveled edges; brown endpapers; 605pp frontispiece 52 plates fold-out map. Boards worn and soiled; rubbing to extremities and rear panel leading corners bumped. Bindings shaken title page sprung; hinges at pg. 294 split pp. 295-320 sprung; dust-soiling and foxing else just about Good.<br/><br/>One of several histories written by journalist J. T. Headley this large tome summarizes the exploits of famed explorer Henry M. Stanley in equatorial Africa including his famously quotable discovery of the presumed dead explorer Dr. David Livingstone. With many plate-illustrations in b/w plus a fold-out map of equatorial Africa showing routes taken by Stanley Cameron and Livingstone. Hubbard Bros unknown books
186510475Glasgow: Pr. by McLaren & Erskine for James Macleshose and others 1865. 8vo. 74 pp. 1 f. <br><br>Defence of the observation of the Christian Sabbath on the first day of the week i.e. Sunday. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2M7203 imprint 1. Removed from a nonce volume. First quire detached. Some soiling on outer pages and some very shallow dog ears. [Pr. by McLaren & Erskine for] James Macleshose and others unknown books
184230726London: Royal Asiatic Society 1842. First edition. Removed from a larger volume. Disbound else a very good copy with library stamp on edge of drawing. 172-199 pp. Illus. with one folded b/w drawing. 8vo. Khonds Kandhs were an aboriginal tribe of Orissa who provided protection for the Raja of Goomsur during the Goomsur Wars of 1835 to 1837. Royal Asiatic Society unknown books
183027562Boston: n.p. 1830. First edition. Stitched self-wrappers. A very good copy browning along edge and lightly foxed. 13 pp. 8vo. The inspectors of the state prison were instructed to examine employment programs to help prisoners readjust after discharge an early example of the halfway house. The inspectors found no examples at other prisons and also dismissed the idea as wrong-headed concluding that the prisons already did an adequate job. A discussion follows on various punishments inducements and prison policy. OCLC and RLIN show 2 copies at Harvard and LOC. n.p. unknown books
188831610New York: Macgowan & Slipper 1888. Full limp morocco with stamped in gilt and blind. A very good copy with some wear to spine and corners the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedown shelf sticker on foot of backstrip chip to corner of free front end paper. 71 pp. Illus. with musical scores. 16mo. Musical score to some songs. Gift note from the New York Commandery. Macgowan & Slipper unknown books
1895588071895. Paperback. Very Good. Holograph. Two-pages. 32cm. Embossed seal of Justice Potter. Endorsement on back of second sheet by the Constable saying that he has executed the warrant. Later folds. Williams was accused of entering the AME Church on Lincoln Avenue in Jersey Shore Pa. on June 21 1895 and forcing the pastor and congregation to leave. It is further alleged that he ". by force and with a strong hand and by menaces and threats unlawfully holds and keeps possession possession of the .Church." There is no explanation as to why Williams did what is alleged. <br/><br/> paperback books
1891000936New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Robida A. 8vo - over 7¾. xi 264 pp 29 colored plates of costume by Robida. Some rubbing and wear to brown cloth decorated with images of women in period dress. Some toning to pages with occasional generally light soilage. Small stain on foreedge. A few minor close tears or creases at edges of a few pages. A good not perfect copy with clean plates. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
