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1856182308New York: George Virtue & Co 1856. Hardcover. VG All covers show wear. Most interior pages show age toning and foxing. Several pages are loose from the spine especially vol 1. Spines have internal damage where they connect with pages. Vol 1 and 3 have water damage to lower part of pages. Red leather boards with gilt lettering and design. All edge gilt. All volumes with 5 raised bands on spine. All volumes with b/w frontace piece w/ protecive guard. B/w illustrated half title page in all volumes. Majority of illustrated plates have protective guard. Pagination of each volume respectively: 698 720 and 726 pages with 8 pages of publisher's advertisements following volume 3 at the end of division 7./ Includes folded facsimile of the signatures at the end of the Declaration of Independence in division 2. The most common engravers of plates are J.C. Armytage W.J. Edwards T. Knight R. Wallis Chas. Hall T.W. Hunt and J. Stephenson. Some of the portraits are based on daguerrotypes by Mathew Brady. Contents: v. 1. From the earliest period to the installation of Washington as first president -- v. 2. From the administration of Washington to that of Madison -- v. 3. From "the second war" to the present times. George Virtue & Co hardcover books
18532307276Auburn: Derby & Miller 1853. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition second thousand. Corners slightly pushed front and end matter and edges faintly foxed. 1853 Hard Cover. xii 13-298 pp. Brown stamped cloth gilt titles. Frontispiece of Lady Jane Grey which has a few points of resemblance to the Streatham portrait. English noblewoman Lady Jane Grey is one of the most romanticized monarchs of Tudor England. Her short nine-day rule was an unsuccessful attempt to maintain Protestant rule. This challenge cost her the throne and her head. Lady Jane Grey was born in 1537 in Leicester England. Her life began with promise and high expectations but ended tragically due in part to the ambitions of her father and the religious strife of the times. The great-granddaughter of Henry VII Grey was named the successor to Edward VI during a tumultuous competition for the throne. She was deposed as Queen of England by Mary Tudor Derby & Miller unknown books
18442987391844. fine. A MOST UNUSUAL ITEM FORMERLY OWNED BY THE BARTLETT EXTENDED FAMILY. Original 1860's C-D-V of a painting of Josiah Bartlett with a full flawless signature executed in 1767 mounted below his image. Accompanied by an A.L.S. by the signers Grandson Ezra Bartlett who writes his nephew gifting him the above described autograph 8vo. 1 page personal letterhead Exeter New Hampshire September 15th 1884 to his nephew also Ezra in full: "As no autograph letter can be obtained I send you a picture of the gentleman with his signature written in July 1767 nine years before he signed The Declaration of Independence and while he was a member of the Provisional government. I also send not included a memorandum made in the company Day Book as a sample of his writing. His partner was my maternal grandfather Amos Gale". Accompanied by the original holograph envelope addressed to his nephew Ezra A. Bartlett M.D. All items are in fine condition.<br/><br/> American statesman and signatory of the Declaration of Independence. He was later Governor of New Hampshire and Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court<br/><br/> unknown books
185633289Wash. : Polkinhorn 1856. First edition. 711pp. Original blue wrapper left corner of front cover missing chips to spine pencil notes on front cover and errata page. Bartlett was one of the original participants in the conquest of California and the first major of San Francisco in 1846-47. An attack on his conduct during this period caused him to defend his case in this pamphlet. It was charged that he had been engaged in financial irregularities when acting as an agent for the Treasury when he was an officer in the African Squadron. When he withdrew his petition in 1847 he was restored to service by the U. S. Senate. Polkinhorn unknown books
1850287457London: Peter Jackson Late Fisher Son & Co. The Caxton Press 1850. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Wright and Buckingham's historical descriptions of various places in Belgium the Rhine Italy Greece and the Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean with engraved illustrations by various artists. Complete with two volumes bound in one. Vol. I is complete with all 73 plates called for in the 'Contents' though "Great Canal and Antique Gothic House" or "Ghent" is bound in at Vol. II p. 58 and "The City of Catania and Mount Etna" is bound in near Vol. II p. 152. Vol. II is lacking pp. 25-32 and pp. 49-56 and also lacks the eight plates that would have been in those two signatures. This is quite possibly a binder's error as there does not appear to be any explicit damage to the textblock at those locations; the binder also misplaces a number of plates though most of these errors are simply a few pages off. Vol. I with all 73 plates. Vol. II with 73 of the 81 plates. Altogether with 146 of the 154 plates which includes the frontispieces and additional title pages engraved. Some foxing to the plates; previous owners' names on the front pastedown and recto of the initial frontispiece lacking front endpaper. Surface wear to the joints spine and corners of the boards. Some soiling to the cloth covered boards. Half brown leather with designs in blind decorative gilt rules and gilt lettering and gray cloth covered boards. Very Good. Very Good binding. Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son, & Co. | The Caxton Press unknown books
18422274986James S. Virtue 1842. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Bartlett W.H. Restoration to front joint boards lightly discolored tide mark to bottom margin light foxing throughout ink gift note on front flyleaf. 1842 Hard Cover. Both books bound together in one volume. 128; 116 pp. 4to. Half-leather gilt titles marbled endpapers includes about 120 engraved plates and a map of the eastern portion of Canada. A companion to American Scenery published two years earlier. James S. Virtue hardcover books
1841D12958London: George Virtue 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Ornately gilt-stamped contemporary morocco a.e.g.; complete set of 2 volumes 4to; pp. iv 2 170 plus frontis. additional title-p. with steel-engraved vignette map of Ireland 60 plates; 4 186 additional title-p. with engraved vignette 58 plates; collates complete. Bookplate tasteful on front paste-down of both volumes. Bindings heavily scuffed along joints and edges of boards; some light chipping at spine tips and corners; boards rubbed and a bit scratched. Nonetheless a handsome set gilt remains nice and bright. Internally clean and unmarked -- plates are lovely suitable for display. <br/><br/> George Virtue hardcover books
187728850Boston: Little Brown and Co 1877. Last and best edition 8vo pp. xlvi 2 813; spine faded else fine in original purple cloth. This copy inscribed to "George W. Danielson Esq. with the compliments of John R. Bartlett December 12 1877." Danielson was the editor of the Providence Journal. Includes the prefaces to the first and second editions. This is greatly enlarged over the 3rd edition of 1860 with the lexicon approximately one-third again as large. Vancil p. 21. <br/><br/> Little, Brown, and Co hardcover books
1895253008Boston: Little Brown 1895. Ninth. hardcover. very good. 1158 pages thick 8vo gilt-stamped brown cloth minor fraying at the top and bottom of the spine. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1895. Ninth edition. Very good condition.<br/><br/> Inscribed on the front flyleaf to "Florence Beard with the kindest regards of John Bartlett." Florence's sister Bessie perhaps jealous of the inscription penned her own name at the top added the date "1895" on the side and wrote the following at the bottom: "This volume was given to me and my sister by Mr. Bartlett who lived on Brattle Street Cambridge Mass." In the middle of the page a crudely trimmed portrait photograph of Bartlett has been pasted.<br/><br/> Little Brown unknown books
188816754New York: John R. Bartlett and Associates 1888. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. First Edition. Original brown cloth boards with plain spine and titled front board. Title faded and only partially readable. Corners bent head/tail spine with some wear. Front endpaper has tipped in paper "Judge Henry Wilder Allen New York Hotel City" handwritten with "With the compliments of JR Bartlett No. 2 Wall Street New York" printed below. 117 pages. Includes Birdseye View of Northwestern NJ and Orange/Rockland Counties in NY showing mountains lakes rivers and streams color Map of the Croton and Passaic Watersheds colored engraved by the American Bank Note Co Views of Great Falls Little Falls Ramapo River Rockaway Rover Macopin Lake Split Rock Lake Lake Mecanesi Greenwood Lake and Lake Hopatcong all monochrome photographic reproductions. Also bound in is a clarification insert at pages 66/67 explaining something in more detail. There is also a Profile Map of Pipe Line from Great Notch Reservoir to New York foldout with 7 panels in color. The table of illustrations also calls for a Profile showing Completed Tunnel Working in Heading No 1. No 2. Sectional View showing the beginning of Construction of the Tunnel and Sectional Views of Tunnel and Pipe Lines. Although this is listed on 4 lines in the text there are in fact 2 full page plates highlighting the tunnel headers labeled No 1 and No 2 and 2 sections of the Hudson tunnel labeled No 3 and No 4. The following page is a foldout in 3 sections highlighting the Profile of the Hudson River Tunnel with Water Conduit from Jersey City to New York across the top with a cutaway of the tunnel to scale on the Jersey City side and 3 smaller illustrations showing the interior of the air lock springing the arch and putting up the plate sections. These illustrations are numbered No 5 through No 9. While far from clear given the layout of the illustrations table this section also appears complete. Several of these illustrations appear to have been reprinted from the Scientific American NY. One plate fold is torn about 3 inches. The "Large Map of Croton and Passaic Water-sheds" called for in the table of illustrations is not present as is true in the only other copy we've seen. The book is otherwise complete. 2 - title page iv A-D 1-117 pages. Hard Cover. John R. Bartlett and Associates unknown books
18362147London: George Virtue 1836. 1st . Hardcover. Fine. Bartlett W.H. Illustrated by W.H. Bartlett. London George Virtue 1836. 1st edition. Folio. Beautifully rebound in quarter moroccan oasis goat with marbled boa rds and the spines lettered in gilt a.e.g. Matching cloth slipcase. 2 engraved title viii 188 pp. 57 full-page engraved plates; engraved title iv 152 pp. 49 full-page engraved plates and a folding map of Switzerland. Light foxing throughout small tear at a fold in the map just touching the impression otherwise very good condition. BMC. <br/><br/> George Virtue hardcover books
1856218130Providence: A. Crawford Greene 1856. hardcover. good. A few portraits. 10 volumes. 8vo original brown cloth. Providence: A. Crawford Greene 1856-1865.<br/><br/> The records begin in the year 1636 and end with state records for the year 1792. Volume one has been rebound in modern library buckram and was inscribed by the editor. John Bartlett was the Secretary of State of Rhode Island for seventeen years. All volumes except Vol. I are worn at the spine ends and have been crudely repaired with black tape. The front inner hinge is weak in Vol. V. The set is ex-lib from the Society of Colonial Wars of the State of New York and has library markings from two other libraries.<br/><br/> A. Crawford Greene unknown books
185819665London: James Blackwood 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher crimson cloth elaborate oval front cover gilt motif frames bright gilt title with back cover decorated similarily in blind. Aeg. Near fine. Bartlett W.H. 24 pages in text. 26 x 18 cm. Ten engraved full page color plates with tissue guards from drawings by W.H. Bartlett with descriptive letterpress -- Bethlehem The Dead Sea Mount Lebanon Mount of Olives from the Wall Solomon's Pools Nain Tiberias Caesarea Hills of Samaria and Plain of Jericho. Tissue guards toned Nain plate repaired scattered light spotting and remarkable Victorian calligraphic presentation dated 1860 on front flyleaf. James Blackwood hardcover books
186057986New York: Derby & Jackson publishers no. 498 Broadway 1860. 12mo pp. iii-vi 216-354 4 ads paginated 29 6 5 4; ads on recto of rear free endpaper; frontispiece portrait from a photograph by Brady; original brown blindstamped cloth gilt-stamped spine; spine faded small hole in front free endpaper all else very good. Eugene Field's copy with his signature dated Dec. 6th 1893 at the top of the title page; his forged signature of "A. Lincoln" on the front pastedown an ink certification on the verso of the rear free endpaper by Sonya Garfield a notary public for Cook County Illinois attesting to a statement on the rear pastedown by Eugene Field II viz.: "This 'Life' of A. Lincoln came from the library of my father Eugene Field. It is a first edition and bears the original manuscript signature of A. Lincoln. This volume was presented to my father by H. H. Kohlsaat publisher of the Times Herald who was a very dear friend of my father and was prized by him very highly as a very rare Lincoln item. Eugene Field II June 18 1935." With the pressure stamp of Sonya Garfield signatures of two witnesses one Gillespie and a W. Maxwell and the ownership signature of H. H. Kohlsaat crossed out presumably by Field on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a 5" x 4" photograph of Eugene Field by S. L. Stein Milwaukee inscribed at the top "With very much love to H. H. Kohlsaat from Eugene Field 1894." <br/><br/> Derby & Jackson, publishers, no. 498 Broadway hardcover books
183885316London: Fisher Son & Co 1838. Hardcover. Near Fine. 3 vols. 120 plates including 3 vignette titles 2 maps ii 3-80 76 100p. Fancy gilt-stamped contemporary leather. All edges gilt. 27cm. Minor scuffing on backstrip. Carne traveled in the Middle East in the 1820s. This work with its steel-engraved views by Bartlett enjoyed great popularity in the mid-19th century. <br/><br/> Fisher, Son & Co hardcover books
1840WRCAM47282London 1840. Two volumes. 2iv140pp. plus sixty-six plates frontispiece portrait and engraved title; iv106pp. plus fifty-two plates and engraved title. Quarto. Contemporary black morocco gilt extra a.e.g. silk endpapers. Minor shelf wear. Foxing to a few plates light tanning to some leaves more pronounced in second volume. Near fine an elegant copy. Bartlett's most famous work. He visited Canada and the United States on four separate occasions and the illustrations show many of the principal cities of North America as well as the most famous scenic vistas of the day. The majority of the views are in New York and New England but Bartlett went as far north as the White Mountains and as far south as Virginia. He found Niagara and the Hudson Valley most suitable for landscape. There are city views in Washington Saratoga Boston New Haven Baltimore Rochester Philadelphia and New York among others. A very pretty copy. HOWES B209 "aa." ABBEY 651. CLARK III:256. SABIN 3784. unknown books
183831686London: Published for the proprietors by George Virtue 1838. First edition. Three quarter dark green morocco over marbled boards boards ruled in gilt five raised bands ruled in gilt four compartments with floral gilt decorations two with gilt titles marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Very good boards and extremities rubbed owner's bookplate to free front end paper small faint semicircular stain to fore edge of first two preliminary leaves tissue guard and engraved title foxed and offset faint dampstain to lower inner corner marginal only scattered foxing to plates nearly all marginal or on blank backs otherwise plates are crisp text clean binding sold. A very handsome copy. 164 pp. 81 lvs. Illus. with 81 steel engravings: port. frontis title page vignette 78 view plates and 1 map. Sm. 4to. "This work had much influence in terms of increasing popular appreciation of its subject" Blackmer Lib. p. 405. Atabey 922; CBEL 3rd IV: 1378; Blackmer Coll. 1254; Blackmer Lib. 888. Published for the proprietors by George Virtue hardcover books
185466997Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents BARTLETT John. Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents. In Texas New Mexico California Sonora and Chihuahua Connected with The United States and Mexican Boundary Commision During the years 1850- 51 52 and 53. In Two Volumes with Maps and Illustrations. New York: D. Appleton & Company 1854. First edition issued simultaneously with the two volume edition. Octavo. Two volumes bound in one. Publisher's original brown cloth decoratively blindstamped. Illustrated with 2 folding frontispieces large folding map of US and Mexican border area 14 tinted lithograph plates including the Tucson plate not called for 29 full-page woodcuts and many smaller text cuts throughout. Spine rubbed along extremities edges bumped. Overall a very good copy of a very thick book. Howes. Howes. Streeter. Streeter. HBS 66997. $1250 D. Appleton & Company hardcover books
1854018868New York NY: D. Appleton & Company 1854. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. Two volume set. Original hardcover cloth bindings each with a gilt-stamped cactus on spine. Minor rubbing and fraying to the extremities with minor cracking to the hinges; protected in archival mylar. Complete with two folding frontispieces a large fold-out map showing the border of the US and Mexico archivally mended and 14 tinted lithographed plates including one of Tucson Sonora not called for in the index. There is minor foxing to the plates. About 100 pages of text in Vol. 2 are discolored from what appears to be caused by the use of the volume as a tree leaf press and the pages facing the endpapers are moderately toned/browned. Previous owner's small bookplate in Vol. I: John R. Walsh. The endpapers in the 1st volume are different than in the 2nd volume. Howes B201; Wagner-Camp 234: 1; Streeter Sale 173. Vol. I: ii xxii 506 pages of text followed by vi pages of publisher's advertisement. Vol. II: ii xvii i blank 624 pages of text including an index. First edition. D. Appleton & Company Hardcover books
1842WRCAM47281London 1842. Two volumes. 4128; 4116pp. plus frontispiece and engraved title in each volume and 117 engraved plates. Quarto. Contemporary green morocco gilt extra a.e.g. Corners bumped. Some light shelf wear. Internally clean. A very pretty near fine copy. First edition first issue with the portrait of Bartlett. Bartlett was a skilled topographical draughtsman who travelled extensively providing the plates for a number of travelogues. CANADIAN SCENERY is considered his finest work. Between 1836 and 1852 he visited the U.S. and Canada four times and sketched much of what he saw. The views include Kingston Cobourg Ottawa River Quebec Toronto Queenstown scenes of Indians and much more. Willis provides the text descriptive of the plates and relating a history and the current conditions in the eastern provinces and Upper and Lower Canada in 1839-40. SABIN 3786 ref. TPL 2424 imperfect. LANDE 2310. unknown books
1840158271London: George Virtue 1840. hardcover. very good. 2 volumes. Engraved frontispiece portrait and extra illustrated title page. Illustrated with 122 tissue protected plates including the map and the title pages from drawings by W.H. Bartlett engraved in the first style of the art by R. Wallis J. Cousen Willmore et al. 4to. Handsomely bound in contemporary brown polished calf; blind-stamped panels and gilt-stamped spines with black leather labels; marbled endpapers and page edges leather is rubbed but sound and attractive; one plate loose; minimal scattered foxing. London: George Virtue 1840. Very good.<br/><br/> George Virtue unknown books
185447359New York: D. Appleton and Company 1854. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. New York: D. Appleton and Company 1854. 2 vols. First edition. Folding tinted lithograph frontispiece in each volume plus 14 additional tinted lithograph plates many uncolored engraved plates and woodcuts throughout. xxii 506 6; xvii 624 pp. Hardcover. Small 4to. Dark green cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Edges of heads and heels professionally mended; frontispieces foxed as are the title-pages; scattered foxing throughout but mostly to plates. Overall a much better set than usual. Housed in a custom made clam-shell case with contrasting leather label. Very good/No jacket issued. Multiple volumes - extra shipping charges apply Insurance required to ship this item. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
185413439New York: D. Appleton & Company 1854. First Edition. Very Good. In two volumes 8vo 8.75x5.75in; Vol. I - xxii fold out map General Map Showing the Countries Explored & Surveyed by the United States & Mexican Boundary Commission in the years 1850 51 52 & 53 Under the direction of John R. Bartlett U.S. Commissioner 506 pp. fold out lithograph Frontispiece of Fort Yuma 29 woodcuts in text and 3 on plates and 6 plates tinted lithograph illustrations Vol. II xvii 624 pp. fold out Lithograph Frontispiece of Ruins at Casas Grandes 33 woodcuts in text and 26 on plates and 10 plates tinted lithograph illustrations includes Tucson plate not listed appendices and index; Later binding of tan half calf-backed marbled covers with raised ribbed gilt lettered and decorative spine marbled end papers appears to have been rebound in early 1900's by the Rose Bindery Boston also appears to have a second rebinding with replaced marbled covers end papers and possible text block washing/repairs within last 50 years top edge gilt fore edge untrimmed; Minor shelf wear to edges and leather prior owner's archival closed tears repairs throughout both volumes with some offset staining of material used folding map closed tear repaired lacks advertisements. Cowan64 p.36 Wagner-Camp 234:1 Graff 198. John Russell Bartlett 1805-1886 a historian and linguist was appointed to oversee the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission to survey and establish the current boundary between the United States and Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo and expanded with the Gadsden Purchase. The survey also determined the route of a southern railroad. Bartlett was also an artist and made illustrations of the southwest landscape. From Wagner-Camp ". Bartlett was a talented artist observer and reporter who contributed greatly to the knowledge of the geography and topography of the Southwest in his Personal Narrative. During three years with the Mexican Boundary Commission he traveled widely from central Texas to the Pacific Ocean and from Mazatlan to San Francisco. A contentious man and lacking perhaps certain administrative skills Bartlett succeeded in antagonizing most of his fellow-official on the Commission. Graff points out that "a number of incidents described by Bartlett have been differently interpreted by his associates." D. Appleton & Company unknown books
186446446Boston: Little Brown & Co 1864. 12mo pp. x 480; near fine copy in original green cloth. Presentation copy from Bartlett inscribed on the front pastedown to Joseph A. Willard "from his friend and brother the author or editor. Aug. 27 1864." A year prior to the publication of this edition Bartlett had joined Little Brown and in 1878 became senior partner. <br/><br/> Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
1840005359London: George Virtue 1840. First edition. Full Calf. Very Good. All plates including frontis portrait two half title and map of the Northeastern United States hand-colored by a meticulous contemporary hand or a total of 120 plates hand-colored. 4to. 27.5 by 22 cm. iv 140 iv 106 pp with first volume also including the hand-colored frontis portrait of Bartlett the map and 66 plates the second volume 53 plates. Bartlett 1809-1854 was a renowned English painter or architectural and topographical views and panoramas who did similar books on such countries as Switzerland and Canada all of which are epitomize the steel engraved view books of the period and are easy to find standard works. In this copy of "American Scenery" there is no question that the hand-coloring greatly enhances the otherwise appealing but unexciting steel engravings and one can not but think that the plates were intended to be colored so. Some finger soiling to the leaves including those with the plates but overall a clean copy. The binding does have wear with abrasions to the diced calf repaired joints and moderate wear besides. Chipping to the black spine labels. <br/><br/> George Virtue unknown books
