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187940474Des Moines: F.M. Mills State printer 1879. 8vo 22.5 cm 9". 52 pp. 1 f. <br><br>Planning for the Iowa Hospital for the Insane at Independence began in 1868. It was established on the Kirkbride model and was the second mental hospital in the state. It opened on 1 May 1873.<br>Â Â Â Â This report contains facts figures and statistics on patients and the day to day running of the facility as well as improvements. Interesting information on diet. Original printed wrappers. Very good. F.M. Mills, State printer unknown books
187740471Des Moines: R.P. Clarkson State printer 1877. 8vo 22.5 cm 9". 68 pp. <br><br>The Iowa Hospital for the Insane at Mount Pleasant opened in 1861. was the first asylum in Iowa and was built under the Kirkbride Plan. This report contains facts figures and statistics on patients and the day to day running of the facility including the surrounding farm and its animal husbandry. Original printed purple wrappers lacking the rear one. Signature on front wrapper. Very good. R.P. Clarkson, State printer unknown books
187440470Des Moines: R.P. Clarkson State printer 1874. 8vo 22.5 cm 9". 73 1 pp. <br><br>The Iowa Hospital for the Insane at Mount Pleasant opened in 1861 was the first asylum in Iowa and was built under the Kirkbride Plan. This report contains facts figures and statistics on patients and the day to day running of the facility including the surrounding farm and its animal husbandry. Original printed purple wrappers. Signature on front wrapper. Very good. R.P. Clarkson, State printer unknown books
182129483.1n. p.: Done at the Metropolitan Press 1821. Lacks original drab paper wrappers. 1st thus American Imprints 7397. Later printing with List of Changes & Errata as last page of text. Occasional stain to paper otherwise a Very Good copy. 31 1 pp. Changes / Errata last page. 12mo. 7-3/4" x 4-11/16" <br/><br/>Contains a wealth of service information including date of present commission or warrant date of original entry into the service where born & current duty or station; also includes a list of vessels with their gun complement. Rare edition of this fantastic historical reference which was to become a staple in Navy life how else except reference to the "Register" would one know who was senior to whom. OCLC shows no institutional holdings and American Imprints shows but one. Done at the Metropolitan Press unknown books
1851009695The Drake Brothers & Co.of Havana Cuba to Magoun & Clap of Bath Maine: The Drake Brothers & Co 1851. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This two-page bi-fold printed circular measures 8.25" x 11". It is datelined "Havana 8 May 1851" and signed in print by the Drake Brothers. It is addressed to a merchant in Bath Maine and bears to postal handstamps a straightline "PRINTED CIRCULAR" in black and a large bold "6" in red. In 1847 the U.S. established a rate of three cents for loose printed matter originating in the West Indies and given to the purser or mail agent aboard a contract steamship. If addressed beyond the U.S. port of arrival the "printed matter" delivery rate of three cent was added resulting in a total cost of six cents to mail this circular. <br /> <br /> <p>The circular is in nice shape with original folds light edgewear and a couple small spots of foxing. The circular provides a long list of the then current prices for various grades of Cuban sugar molasses and coffee as well as a few other spices and products.</p> . James Drake was a shrewd English merchant who settled in Cuba and married into an aristocratic Cuban family. He and his sons led by Charles owned a number of prominent Cuban merchant houses and one of the island's major plantations that alone was worked by over 400 slaves. <br /> <br /> <p>The Drakes were an important cog in Moses Taylor Pyne's Triangle Trade slaving network that created the fortune used to transform Princeton from a small and rather unimportant New Jersey college into the major university it is today. <br /> <br /> <p>The family became quite wealthy exporting sugar and coffee from their stable of warehouses while also serving as the island's largest importer of goods and luxuries which they sold to plantation owners. Additionally the Drakes made large profits financing slave ships and by provided 'banking' credit to the planting elite to fund the purchase of land plants equipment and slaves. <br /> <br /> <p> Magoun & Clapp was an important Maine shipping firm established in the 1840s and Magoun was elected as Bath's first mayor in 1848. David C. Magoun was a prominent merchant in Bath Maine who joined with a wholesale grocer Charles Clapp in the early 1840s to establish an important New England shipping company. Magoun was elected to serve as Bath's first mayor in 1848. <br /> <br /> <p>For more information see Glass's "Moses Taylor Pyne and the Sugar Plantations of America at the Princeton & Slavery Project online "Drake C. & Co." at the Rothschild Archive London and Flassler's "Enforcing Slavery Era Disclosure Ordinance 2-92-585 against UBS and Credit Suisse online at Zurich University. <br /> <br /> <p>A scarce ephemeral testament to the mercantile dominance of Great Britain and New England in the slave trade during height of the abolitionist movement made even more desirable by an unlisted "printed circular" handstamp and uncommon stand-alone red "6" rate stamp applied in Boston. See ASCC vol 1 p168. <br /> <br /> <p>At the time of listing nothing similar is for sale in the trade nor has the auction of a similar item been reported at the Rare Book Hub or Worthpoint. A box of Drake & Co. correspondence is located at the Rothschild Archive in London and OCLC shows collections of Magoun & Clapper papers are held at two institutions. The Drake Brothers & Co unknown books
189342477NY: The Engineering Record 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. 1pp. 17 plates 1pp. 17 plates 4ads. Some spotting and darkening to the red cloth with a bit of glue residue on the front small chip to edge of front free endpaper with some light wear to the extremities else a very good example in publisher's beveled boards lettered in gilt. Rear endpaper loose but present. <br/><br/> The Engineering Record hardcover books
189619520London: J. S. Virtue 1896. Collector's Edition limited to 20 copies signed by John Bernard Holborn the Editor. This being copy 10. Woodblocks for initials by Hugh Arnold illustrations by Cyril Goldie plates after Pennell Woodroffe M. Margaret Fisher John da Costa Alfred R. Hayward Arthur Briscoe Alice Woodward and Frederick Leighton. 1 vols. 4to. Original gilt decorated vellum. Some light soiling and wear warping first leaf of "Table of Contents" not present commences with page 7 following the limitation leaf some light soiling and chipping of illustrated endpapers with signature of H. P. Rossiter March 1911 else a very good copy of this very attractive work. Collector's Edition limited to 20 copies signed by John Bernard Holborn the Editor. This being copy 10. Woodblocks for initials by Hugh Arnold illustrations by Cyril Goldie plates after Pennell Woodroffe M. Margaret Fisher John da Costa Alfred R. Hayward Arthur Briscoe Alice Woodward and Frederick Leighton. 1 vols. 4to. One of 20 copies. Include's G. K. Chesterton's "A Picture of Tuesday" Joseph Pennell's "An English Illustrator" on Frederick Sandys as well as Edward F. Strange's piece on "Wall-Papers". J. S. Virtue unknown books
1813007903Printed by and for Bliss and Baxter : Oxford 1813. Handsomely bound in full red polished calf black morocco label lettered in gilt back decorated in gilt end papers and edges in matched marbling. 307 344 pp. Near Fine boards lightly rubbed scattered light toning. SCARCE. New Edition. Polished Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Oxford Hardcover books
1803265202Newburyport: Edmund M. Blunt 1803. First American Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Shaw & Shoemaker 4350. One of several works by a leading figure of the 18th century English evangelical revival. Haweis was member of the Countess of Huntigdon's "Connexion" and at her death became a principle trustee. A First American Edition of his Evangelical Principles a collection of 14 sermons which was part of the standard training of ordinands in the "Connexion". Bound in contemporary sheep with a cracked morocco title label which has some minor loss. Very Good binding. Edmund M. Blunt unknown books
190037584np 1900. Printed broadsheet on pale blue paper completed in manuscript and docketed on verso. Very Good. The application is endorsed by T.L. Massenburg Captain of Jackson Artillery Georgia; and D.S. Wright also a former Confederate. <br/><br/> Phillip Bender born c.1839 a German immigrant lived in Macon as a tailor by the 1860 United States Federal Census. Thomas Lowry Massenburg 1836-1908 was a Lieutenant in Massenburg's Battery Georgia Light Artillery; his brother Dr. R.C. Massenburg was also a member of this unit. Massenburg reached the rank of Captain and is listed on the Prisoner of War "parole of honor" statement he signed on May 10 1865 after his Department's surrender under the command of General Richard Taylor. He worked as a druggist with the family firm of Massenburg & Son and later as the City Clerk of Macon Georgia for many years. <br/> The Confederate Cross of Honor was originally known as the Southern Cross of Honor. "The Southern Cross of Honor award which later became known as the Cross of Military Service originated on October 13 1862 as an act of the Confederate Congress to recognize the courage valor and good conduct of officers non-commissioned officers and privates of the Confederate Army. Due to wartime shortages however the medals were unable to be made. The recipients' names were then recorded in an Honor Roll for future reference." The cross was later designed and issued by the United Daughters of the Confederacy beginning in July 1898. Administrative History "United Daughters of the Confederacy Southern Cross of Honor Records 1905-1941" website of James Madison University Libraries Collection No. SC 0097. unknown books
188118394Paris: 62 Rue de Rivoli 1881. First edition. Some light wear; near fine. 16mo original discreet plain rose pink wrappers 89 1 pages. Illus. Confidential medical promotional pamphlet for "men of the world" with much on skin maladies from impurities of the blood spermatorrhea female maladies etc. all tending to promote the sale of Biscuits DÈpuratifs de Docteur Ollivier available at 62 rue de Rivoli in Paris. The Ollivier name had been associated with mercury biscuits for the treatment of venereal diseases "des biscuits antisyphilitiques" since their original formulation in 1829 by Charles Prosper Ollivier see the both the "Extrait des Documents Officiels" included here as well as the Revue mÈdicale franÃaise et ÈtrangËre vol. 3 this implied reliability evidently appropriated by enterprising pharmacists; the Belgian Recueil officiel des marques de fabrique et de commerce Brussels 1883 notes the trademarks granted on March 31 1881 to Albert Pillet pharmacist of 62 rue de Rivoli Paris for labels and associated artwork for the Biscuits DÈpuratifs de Docteur Ollivier. This pamphlet not found on OCLC nor on the CCFr. Partially unopened; a few conjugate leaves roughly opened affecting a few letters but with no loss of sense. 62, Rue de Rivoli, unknown books
1835127369London England: Chatto and Windus 1835. half leather marbled paper-covered boards marbled endpapers. 12mo. half leather marbled paper-covered boards marbled endpapers. viii 160; ii 161-388; viii 184; ii 185-428 pages. 4 Volumes. First volume with prefatory remarks. Illustrations by George Cruikshank Cohn 184 and other illustrators. In a signed binding by W. Roach from NY. An assortment of humorous matter. Each volume with frontispiece a foldout in the third volume. Black and white plates and illustrations in text throughout. According to Cohn this is a complete run. Covers rubbed and scuffed at edges and along spine. Chatto and Windus unknown books
184455372Providence: B. F. Moore 1844. First edition 8vo pp. 115 1; text largely in double column; original blue printed wrappers bound in at the back; contemporary red calf-backed marbled boards spine perished else very good. Most of this report was published earlier in the Republican Herald according to the Preface which is signed: George Turner and W. S. Burges. American Imprints 2044; Bartlett p. 111; Cohen 14138; Sabin 20650. <br/><br/> B. F. Moore hardcover books
184729509London: Grant & Griffith 1847. First edition 16mo approx. 5" x 3 1/2"; pp. 59 1 4 ads; frontispiece by John Leech; orig. green cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover; generally very good. Three in OCLC all in the Midwest. Not found in the British Library Catalogue. <br/><br/> Grant & Griffith hardcover books
186032628.1Cincinnati: U. P. James 1860. Later edition Wagner-Camp-Becker 145:5; cf. BAL 1053 & Wright I 306a for the 1st edition of 1848. Original pink wrappers with wood engraved hunting scene to front wrapper. "Price 50 cents.". General wear & soiling to wrappers with front wrapper having a crease to lower corner. A VG copy. 154 2 pp. Text double column. Advert last 2 pages. Untrimmed & unopened. Illustrated. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/>While the title has been attributed to both gentleman named above current scholarship tips towards Bennett as the actual author. Curious too is the U P James copyright for this edition- for the illustrations perhaps U. P. James unknown books
182735012Ipswich: Printed and Sold by E. Shalders 1827. 1st edition NCBEL III 717; Sadleir 575; Wolff 1286. SIGNED by Robert Russell Cobbold on the half-title page. Green linen cloth spine over drab paper boards with printed paper title label to spine. Cocked. Rear joint cloth starting with evidence of an old repair attempt. Bookplate of R W Lamb. A Very Good copy. xv 1 blank 243 1 blank 241 - 244 245 - 262 pp. Errata slip tipped-in at rear. Untrimmed. Frontis 2 copperplate portraits & 101 inserted lithographic plates one folding from drawings by the author. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/>Much influenced by his late mother's interests and charitable impulses Cobbold published Valentine Verses . to benefit her favourite charities but he came to be embarrassed by the critical reception of both poems and pictures. He is best known today for his novel The History of Margaret Catchpole 1845." ODNB. Printed and Sold by E. Shalders hardcover books
184943199London: A. Vickers 1849. 1st Edition. Not in Sadleir nor Wolff. Later though to my eye still 19th C maroon cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Modest shelf wear. Some foxing. VG. 2 110 pp. Illustrated by the author. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6" <br/><br/>Scarce piece of fiction by this mid-tier Victorian author; OCLC records just 2 institutional holdings both British Library. A. Vickers hardcover books
186233591Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian & Journal. Printed by Dyke & Carlisle 1862. 79 1 blank IV pp. Bound in institutional cloth gilt-lettered spine labels institutional bookplate. A clean and lightly worn text. Very Good.<br/><br/> An early Florida Confederate imprint with much material on the ongoing War. <br/>Parrish & Willingham 2734. Office of the Floridian & Journal. Printed by Dyke & Carlisle unknown books
186856003New York: Insurance Monitor Office 1868. First edition. Small 4to. 105 3 pp. Introduction: "It is a collection of scattered fragments of insurance wisdom collated from a great variety of sources freely appropriated and brought into an aggregated form whence the tyro in the profession can gather the fruits divested of technicalities." With a southern ownership signature "Jno. R. Long Agt. / Columbus Miss." OCLC locates six copies Buffalo/Erie County Public New York Public Library of Congress Smithsonian North Carolina Brown. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth spine ends and corners rubbed. Very good. 2525. <br/><br/> Insurance Monitor Office hardcover books
183230232London: James Cochrane and Co 1832. 1st edition D'Hannay p. iv; NCBEL III 705; Sadleir 1588; Wolff 4527. Period tan half calf with marbled paper boards; gilt title lettering to spine. Spine leather rubbed with joints most affected though cords holding firm. Vol II with leather layer removed from front center of joint. Vol II with stain to upper outer quadrant of last 4 leaves. Usual bit of foxing. Withal a VG set. 3 volumes 4 270 2; 2 295 1; 4 260 pp. Half-titles & adverts in Vols I & III. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-5/8" <br/><br/>Sadleir rates this title as the 3rd scarcest of all Marryat titles in his Comparative Scarcity ranking p. 380. James Cochrane and Co hardcover books
183333792Philadelphia: Carey Lea and Blanchard 1833. 1st US edition American Imprints 19911. Original publisher's rose-colored cloth-backed drab paper boards. Printed paper title labels to spine. General wear with some cocking to volumes & sunned spines. Vol I with old repair to front hinge and lacks rfep. Period pencil pos to ffeps "J. Appleton". Usual foxing. Overall a Good set of a scarce US editon of an early Marryat novel. 2 volumes 191 13; 197 2 blank pp. 12 pages of publisher adverts conclude Vol I. 12mo. 8-1/8" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/> Carey Lea and Blanchard hardcover books
184008829London: British and Foreign Bible Society for Spottiswoode 1840. Full Leather. Very Good. Quarto. Bound in full embossed black leather with marbled edges. Very good with owner inscriptions on endpapers and pastedowns; rear inner hinge cracked ink stamp lower fore-edge; light wear at extremities. Internally clean and bright. A very good collectible example of the "family Bible size" King James Version. <br/><br/> British and Foreign Bible Society, for Spottiswoode hardcover books
185933655New Orleans: B.M. Norman Publisher 1859. Original printed wrappers moderately foxed stitched 16pp. Widely scattered light text foxing. Good. <br/><br/> The pamphlet recounts the history of efforts to establish the University. "The Southern States have not been indifferent to the subject of Collegiate education. Each of these States at a very early period of its history has founded an University upon which it was intended to concentrate the patronage of the State Legislature. Could this policy have been adhered to steadily free from the interference of popular clamor or religious differences the University which we are now proposing to establish might have been unnecessary. The South needs more than ever men of the very highest education who shall prove that our institutions are not adverse to the loftiest culture. The world is trying hard to persuade us that a slaveholding people cannot be a people of high moral and intellectual culture."<br/> The triumvirate of Bishops Otey Leonidas Polk and Elliott led the effort with a Board of Trustees consisting of the Bishops of eleven southern States not Virginia or Kentucky. This document prints the Trustees' Declaration of Principles placing the University "under the sole and perpetual direction of the Protestant Episcopal Church." Pages 15-16 print the Act to Establish the University of the South enacted by the Tennessee Legislature in 1858.<br/>Jumonville 2882. De Renne 605. B.M. Norman, Publisher unknown books
183457480NY: Bliss 1834. First Edition. 8vo pp. 209. Portrait bound in worn linen backed boards with paper label. Names on end paper An untrimmed copy.Very good. Imprints 24871. Howes T-152; Sabin 54391. Sailor soldier and adventurer Hewes was one of the few to acknowledge his part in The Boston Tea Party. Bliss unknown books
186057505Washington DC 1860. 8vo pp. 71 255. Bound in clothendpapers foxed VG. The official report into the revoutionary invasion of Harper's Ferry by John Brown. from Wikipedia: "John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry also known as John Brown's raid or The raid on Harpers Ferry; in many books the town is called "Harper's Ferry" was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry Virginia. Brown's raid accompanied by 21 men in his partywas defeated by a company of U.S. Marines from the Marine Barracks 8th And I Washington DC led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene USMC. Colonel Robert E. Lee USA was in overall command of the operation to retake the arsenal. John Brown had originally asked Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass both of whom he had met in his formative years as an abolitionist in Springfield Massachusetts to join him in his raid but Tubman was prevented by illness and Douglass declined as he believed Brown's plan would fail. unknown books
