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1864253074Providence: Alfred Anthony 1864. First. hardcover. good. 287pp. Small 4to original 1/2 green cloth edges of boards worn corners bumped. Providence: Alfred Anthony 1864. First Edition<br/><br/> Author was Secretary of State of Rhode Island for seventeen years starting in 1855. Under his tenure his organized the state papers and records of Rhode Island for publication.<br/><br/> Alfred Anthony unknown books
186044533Boston: Little Brown and Company 1860. Third actually a reprint of the second edition "greatly improved and enlarged" 8vo pp. xxxii 524; 20th-century brown cloth gilt-lettered spine; about fine. Warren N. and Suzanne B. Cordell bookplate on front pastedown. First published in New York in 1848 it remains a classic study of American English. The last edition was published in 1877 and it is still useful and entertaining today. Kennedy 11397; Vancil p. 21. <br/><br/> Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
184844581New York: Bartlett and Welford 1848. First edition 8vo pp. xxvii 1 412; original brown blind-stamped cloth gilt spine; a few cracks to spine; hinges reinforced preliminaries foxed else very good and sound. Late 19th-century bookplate on front pastedown contemporary ownership signature on title page. This popular and influential work went through four editions the last in 1878 and was translated into Dutch and German. After Pickering's Vocabulary of Words Peculiar to The United States 1815 which treated a mere 500 words no significant work on Americanisms appeared until this work of Bartlett which Mencken calls "the first attempt at a comprehensive dictionary of Americanisms." Kennedy 11380; Sabin 3738; Vancil p. 20. <br/><br/> Bartlett and Welford hardcover books
184844488New York: Bartlett & Welford 1848. First edition 8vo expanded to small folio xxvii 1 412; the whole interleaved in folio throughout; 20th-century quarter brown morocco over marbled boards; generally fine; judging from the soiling on the page edges this copy was interleaved at an early date much earlier than the relatively modern binding but there are no annotations on the interleaves. This popular and influential work went through four editions the last in 1878 and was translated into Dutch and German. After Pickering's Vocabulary of Words Peculiar to The United States 1815 which treated a mere 500 words no significant work on Americanisms appeared until this work of Bartlett which Mencken calls "the first attempt at a comprehensive dictionary of Americanisms." Kennedy 11380; Sabin 3738; Vancil p. 20. <br/><br/> Bartlett & Welford hardcover books
184944402New York: Bartlett and Welford. London: John Russell Smith 1849. First London issue the book appeared under the New York imprint only in 1848; lg. 8vo xxviii & 412pp. bookplate on front pastedown front hinge separated at joints cracked at joints chipped at extremities paper label on spine rubbed and partially perished with loss of half of lettering the 12 shilling price remains; otherwise clean and reasonably bright in original blue cloth. Uncommon edition. Vancil p. 20. <br/><br/> Bartlett and Welford. London: John Russell Smith 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
186055898Boston: Little Brown 1860. Third edition greatly improved and enlarged a reprint of the second edition. 8vo pp. 524. Bound in drab cloth previous owner's name on end paper some marginal water staining a good copy. See Kennedy 11397; Sabin 3738; Vancil p. 10. Mencken calls "the first attempt at a comprehensive dictionary of Americanisms." Little, Brown unknown books
18599019247Boston: Little Brown 1859. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition greatly improved and enlaeged bound in the publisher's original brown cloth over boards spine stamped in gilt. Shelfwear to cloth at extremities particularly at the head & heel. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown and presentation in ink on ffep. <br/><br/> Little, Brown hardcover books
1859035032Boston: Little Brown and Company; London Trübner and Company 1859. 2d edition greatly improved and enlarged. xxxii 524p. red buckram ex libris. Little Brown and Company; London, Trübner and Company unknown books
186124712Providence RH: A. Crawford Greene 1861. One of an edition limited to 125 copies printed for private distribution. Softcover. Good/No jacket issued. Providence RH: A. Crawford Greene 1861. One of an edition limited to 125 copies printed for private distribution. 140 pp. Softcover. Large 8vo size. Brown cloth backed tan paper wrappers. Wrappers professionally restored. Previous ownerÕs name in ink to front wrap. Large faint dampstain on front wrap extending through only to half-title. Wraps edges and pages lightly toned with light to moderate scattered foxing insect damage and staining wraps more so. Internally quite nice. Good/No dust jacket. Oversized - extra shipping charges apply Insurance required to ship this item. A. Crawford Greene paperback books
1866107755Boston: Draper and Halliday 1866. later library buckram. Civil War. thick 8vo. later library buckram. 477 pages. First edition Besterman 6304. This book was the first and still one of the most comprehensive bibliographies on the literature of the Civil War. 6073 entries covering books pamphlets Congressional Reports official publications of the States etc. Ex library copy with markings including the library name embossed on the title page. Title page has pieces missing along edge and has been repaired along hinge. Draper and Halliday unknown 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
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
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
2005294770Elibron Classics 2005. paperback. near fine. 609pp. 8vo pr. wrs. N.p.: Elibron Classics 2005. Near Fine<br/><br/> Elibron Classics unknown 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
235084Kraus Reprint Corp. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Sold as a 2 volume set. Volume I published 1961. Volume II published 1963. Both volumes reprinted by permission of the John Carter Brown Library. No pencil or ink markings in volume I. Scant ink markings in volume II. Black cloth bindings with gilt lettering on spines. Light to moderate edgewear to boards particularly head and tail of spines. Very Good binding. Kraus Reprint Corp unknown books
188424610New York: Geo. A. Leavitt 1884. 8vo pp. viii 434; fine in recent mustard cloth printed paper label on spine. Includes a 4-p. account of Murphy and his library and more than 3100 lots. Mackay 3051. <br/><br/> Geo. A. Leavitt hardcover books
183923433Boston: Dutton and Wentworth State Printers 1839. 55 1 blank pp stitched untrimmed light dustsoiling of untrimmed edges. Near Fine except for the absence of wrappers. "5/4 cts Postage" in ink on final blank.<br/><br/> After the Massachusetts Medical Society had expelled him Bartlett sought to revoke the Society's Charter. The case illustrates the early efforts of medical societies to control physicians' treatment of their patients. The Society had tossed Bartlett for praising a physician who the Society contended was a quack. Bartlett said the Society itself "tended to promote quackery." Moreover it sought exclusive privileges for its members and prohibited "consultation with any who do not become members of that body." Witnesses are sworn and testimony presented. Benjamin Franklin Hallett represented Dr. Bartlett. <br/>II Harv. Law Cat. 1012. AI 54294 5. Cohen 14867.50. Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers unknown books
183939320Boston: Dutton & Wentworth 1839. 8vo 25 cm 10". 55 1 pp. <br><br>The cataloguer at the American Antiquarian Society tell us that this tit for tat law suit concerns "the power of the Massachusetts Medical Society to control the practice of medicine in the state. John Stephen Bartlett had been expelled from the Society for malpractice after 'consulting with irregular practitioners and aiding and abetting quacks' namely Patrick Kearney an Irish Catholic physician and John Williams an oculist who had practiced in France. He had therefore petitioned the legislature to declare the charter of the Massachusetts Medical Society void. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â American Imprints 54294; Beal 14867.50; Sabin 3756. Never bound; original stitching perished and all leaves loose; chipping at edges; dust-soiled. One handy with needle and appropriate thread can easily make this right again. Dutton & Wentworth unknown books
1992Embry 194126Little Brown & Co. 1992. Sixteenth Edition. Fine in fine faintly rubbed dust jacket. Little, Brown & Co., 1992. Sixteenth Edition. unknown books
197640971NY:: Gordon Press. Near Fine. 1976. Hardcover. 0879682663 . Complete in four volumes. A reprint of the 1913 Macmillan edition. First printing thus. Faint damp mark on the top edge of Volume 4 else each volume is fine in red cloth with gilt lettering. No dust jackets.; 1910 pages . Gordon Press, hardcover books
1810WRCAM7622Portsmouth 1810. 148pp. Half title. 12mo. Original three quarter calf and boards. Edges rubbed scattered foxing else very good. The author's dedication "To All My Enemies" is alone worth the price: "I.rest assured that your most vigorous opposition your most virulent slander and most inveterate malice will be duly appreciated and receive the proper acknowledgements of him who has been is now and ever solicits to be distinguished by your hatred." SHAW & SHOEMAKER 19474. hardcover books
18210046721821. Hardcover. Leather spine. Good. A manuscript notebook with lovely original folk art oil paintings on both boards and two watercolors within! 4to. 30.5 by 19.5 cm. Unpaginated 18 leaves of wove paper with content followed by a few blanks. Watercolored title page with American eagle atop an orb and pedestal and a beautiful painting of ships bearing the American flag near a lighthouse perched on a rocky spit and a cape house beyond. The paintings on the boards are what strike us as the most unusual though especially because the medium is oils. One is of a windmill and a pastoral setting the other a cow drinking at a pond. Also a faint pencil sketch on the final leaf possibly a draft of one of the two cover paintings and elsewhere a tail vignette of a tombstone. The verse is not credited. The longest selection is "An abbreviation of the Shipwreck" which is in fact an abridged version of Falconer's narrative poem. Another "Epitaph on a Blacksmith" was written by Alexander Pennecuik. A poem entitled "Water" was penned by an Ann Taylor. We thus assume based on the title that most of the poetry was transcribed. The sea is the most common subject but by no means the exclusive one. The alum-tawed leather of the spine is heavily soiled. Repair of the sewing which binds the text block. Rubbing and minor loss on the cover panels. Darkening of the cover paintings. <br /><br /> hardcover books
181055963Portsmouth N.H.: printed at the Oracle Office 1810. First edition 12mo pp. xi 2 134-148; bound without Physiognomy a Poem by Joseph Bartlett Portsmouth: printed by William Treadwell 1810 pp. 19 1; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards; last gathering extended; good and sound. It has been asumed by some including me that Physiognomy a Poem was issued with Aphorisms. The contemporary binding on this copy with no evidence of any removal belies that assumption. The book is dedicated "To all my enemies . I now most humbly supplicate that you would take this little volume into your malignant keeping I pray you to oppose it do all you can to destroy it . don't fear my anger or my vengeance be inattentive to my mortification and be regardless of my distress: I know your goodness your friendship and attachment and rest assured that your most vigorous opposition and your most virulent slander will be duly appreciated and receive the proper acknowledgment." American Imprints 19474; Sabin 3760. <br/><br/> printed at the Oracle Office hardcover books