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1842027989New Bedford MA 1842. 2 page autographed Bifolium to James R. Williams April 20 1842. New Bedford MA: 1842. Dr. Lyman Bartlett was one of the leading physicians of New Bedford. He studied in Paris and took a liberal position when some physicians disparaged homeopathy. His view while conventional felt that it's major points ought to be considered by medical science. This letter is written to his friend James R. Williams in Constantine Michigan on behalf of his brother Edwin 1812-1903 who wanted a loan to establish a sheep business in Wisconsin. Dr. Bartlett lists nine serious questions as to the feasibility of his brother's proposed idea. He is concerned for the good of his brother and clearly is willing to help him financially. In an interesting aside he speaks of the concerns of the whale men in Massachusetts who fear the rise of land oil will end their profession. He notes the rising sickness contemporary accounts speak of lung disease thought to be tuberculosis. Finally he notes the economic issue and hopes for a new tariff undefined. In 1852 he was among the Medical examiners at Harvard's Anatomical Museum. Folded addressed and stamped New Bedford MA April 21 with partial wax red seal. unknown books
1883018927Oakland CA: California Publishing Co. 1883. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 255 pages of text. Hardcover binding with minor browning to the spine a small scuff/perforation on the rear board and minor shelfwear. The closed page edges have several small spots of dark staining on them and the final few pages have a few small stains. Previous owner's name on title page neatly in pencil. Second edition. California Publishing Co. Hardcover books
188013469Oakland CA: Oakland Evening Tribune Office 1880. First Edition. Very Good. 7.75x6in; vi 212 pp.; Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine stamped rules and designs in black on front and blind on spine and back all edges trimmed dark brown matte end papers book seller stamp on lower front end paper Author inscription to George H. Wheaton on front free end paper; Some shelf wear of rubbing and soiling to covers corners bumped top of spine frayed darken age toning and damp stains at edges to pages. William Chauncey Bartlett 1818-1907 wrote a series of essays originally printed in the Overland Monthly in Northern California by the author. Oakland Evening Tribune Office unknown books
1896030343New York: Macmillan Co.; London Macmillan and Co 1896. 1910p. original green cloth the front panel mottled by a former stain thick quarto format. Macmillan Co.; London, Macmillan and Co unknown books
185183975London 1851. Paperback. Very Good. 38p. Original wrapper. 22cm. Modest gnawed or torn area at center of top edge of front cover and first few pages. Laid in is an orange pasteboard ticket "Lecture on the Lands of the Bible. Admit the Bearer". An illustrated 66-page version was also published -- we don't know if there were any differences in the text. <br/><br/> paperback books
189668117n.p. 1896. Paperback. Fair. Folded four-page leaflet. 22cm. Numerous short edges tears repaired with archival tape along fore-edge. Browned. Later folds. Fair. <br/><br/> paperback books
185643570New York: J.S. Bartlett 1856. First edition. Self wrappers. Good ragged edges some tears at the margins and folds minor loss to a few words at folds third issue has one large marginal chip issues partially unopened. 8 pp. 12 pp. 12 pp. Folio. A weekly that ran from 1822-1856. Long articles on "The Royal Sport of Falconry" "Death of the Earl Grey" "India" Account of current state of British occupation of India "Rajah of Sarawak: Piracy in the Indian Archipelago" "Gang Robbers of India Estimation and accounts of plundering and pillaging during this tumultuous time" "California- The English Press" Breakdown of early appropriation of gold and silver mines as well as caution against British to travel for it "Miraculous Escape of a Sailor" from the Emerald "The Discovery of America by the Northmen of Europe in the Tenth Century debate about archaeological evidence of early settlements in the Americas paralleled with accounts from Icelandic 'Saga'" and more with many long reviews. [J.S. Bartlett] unknown books
1840238057London: George Virtue 1840. First edition state A of volume II with Contents list numbered. With 120 steel engraved plates by William H. Bartlett including a full-page map of the Northeastern United States portrait and two engraved title pages tissue guards. 2 vols. 4to. In HARPER'S binding of half purple-morocco gilt spine a.e.g. Harper was likely the American distributor; extremities slightly rubbed vol. II covers soiled plates with scattered light foxing mostly marginal overall a very attractive copy. First edition state A of volume II with Contents list numbered. With 120 steel engraved plates by William H. Bartlett including a full-page map of the Northeastern United States portrait and two engraved title pages tissue guards. 2 vols. 4to. Originally published in 30 parts without text and appearing here for the first time in expanded book form this is a beautiful series of views showing principal cities and scenic views engraved from drawings Bartlett made during a visit to America and Canada 1837-1838. He stayed with his collaborator the poet N.P. Willis and accompanied him on a trip West. A handsome survey of the New World. Sabin 3784; Howes B209; BAL 22755; Abbey Travel 651 George Virtue unknown 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
1840185602London: George Virtue 1840. Hardcover. VG Cover has general edge/corner wear. Bookblock has age toning. Interior pages have age toning and foxing. 2 volumes bound together Marbled book boards with leather corners and spines. illustrations map portrait. From drawings by W.H. Bartlett engraved in the first style of the art by R. Wallis J. Cousen Wilmore Brandard Adlard Richardson &c. ; The literary department by N.P. Willis Esq. author of "Pencillings by the way" "Inklings of adventure" etc. George Virtue hardcover books
184252681London: published for the proprietors by George Virtue 1842. 4to 4 volumes in 13; 2 maps and over 200 fine steel engravings list of subscribers and advertisement leaves with the author's notice in the final volume. Bound with: Canadian Scenery Illustrated. Original quarter roan gilt-lettered in decorated publisher's boards; occassional spotting to edges of plates. A rare set of the two works issued together and assembled from the original parts. A most appealing set of an illustrated classic here in extended form with both the separate American and Canadian publications issued in this form as one continuous work numbered as a coherent series on the bindings. The series in this form includes over 200 steel-engraved images. The publisher's charming binding is in particularly good condition. "The New World of Columbus.its sudden rise to independence wealth and power" Author's preface is captured in this Victorian publication on the United States and "British America" Canada with fine engravings after the noted British landscape painter William Henry Bartlett. This is a wonderful illustrated romp published at a time to illustrate the last days of relative freedom of the North American native peoples Willis cites Blumenbach in analysing the "real character of the aboriginal inhabitant" and the development of the cities on the West coast of America and unusually Lower Canada. William Bartlett "made four voyages to the United States and Canada.the fruits of which appeared in American Scenery and Canadian Scenery" DNB. The famous plates depict North American cities New York Philadelphia Boston Washington; important buildings such as the U.S. Bank the Capitol and Yale College; bridges parks falls ferries rivers; as well as fine views of Canada through Quebec Montreal Toronto and including Niagara Falls and Thousand Isles. Also included is an engraved portrait of Bartlett a map of the north-eastern United States and Lower Canada. Sabin calls Canadian Scenery "the finest of Mr. Bartlett's works." Willis's "The Literary Department" accompanying letterpress lyrically opines on the picturesque quoting Byron's Childe Harold on sighting Niagara Falls and noting that in America the traveller may imagine "an Eden newly-sprung from the ocean". Abbey 651 American Scenery; Sabin 3784 3786. <br/><br/> published for the proprietors by George Virtue hardcover books
184022476London: George Virtue 1840. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth decorated in blind and gilt front and back covers with gilt arabesques and lettering at spine. Aeg. Very good. Bartlett William H. 48 106 96 140 4 52 28 x 22 cm. 117 steel engrave plates with tissue guards. Originally published in Thirty parts at one shilling or in Divisions 6s. 6d. cloth gilt. Drawings by William Henry Bartlett one of the most prolific of illustrators for topographical works. "It is almost certain that there are more steel engravings after Bartlett than after any other painter of views" -- see RUSSELLp.196. Bartlett made four voyages to America between the years 1836 and 1852. HOWES B209. From the publisher's original announcement: "Like Columbus at first we only dream of America. It is yet both a new and an unknown world to us in regard to its scenes of natural beauty and sublimity. The Proprietors.have sought to produce a series of Select Views which will form a characteristic Panorama of the Western World; especially in its Lake and River Scenery which has no parallel in Europe perhaps not on earth." Four pages of adverts Vol. 1 Vol. III booklabel rear pastedown of publisher rare first issue in five volumes. Slight rubbing to backstrip extremities and a few corners cover gilt illustrations very bright and fresh. George Virtue hardcover books
1840025470London: Virtue 1840. Quarto. Volume I: Portrait frontispiece hand-colored vignette title page and regular title page ix 140 pages 66 leaves of plates one map. Volume II: hand-colored vignette title page and regular title page iv. 106 pages 52 leaves of plates. The map plate in volume I was done by W. Hughes. All 119 plates are present. In 1836 William Henry Bartlett was sent to America to begin making engravings of the major sites in the United States. Virtue had also commissioned Nathaniel Willis to make letterpress descriptions of each image. Thomas Dougherty drew two of the originals while the rest were done with remarkable precision by Bartlett. While Willis is first on the title page it is Bartlett's fine work that has made this the finest 19th century work on America from the artists' perspective. the plates view the Eastern U.S. before the full force of the Industrial Revolution changed the face of the eastern landscape forever. Bound in a very fine rich red 3/4 red morocco spines with bands and decorative panels with a matching slipcase. Abbey Travel in aquatint and lithography 651; Blanck BAL 22755; Sabin 3784. Virtue 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
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
181321007Charlestown MA: Printed by Samuel Etheridge Jun. 1813. 12 3 1 blank pp. Disbound untrimmed. Light dustsoiling of edges. Minor foxing. Very Good. OCLC 26473529 10. Printed by Samuel Etheridge, Jun. unknown books
186512121Chicago: Dunlop Sewell & Spalding 1865. 19pp. Original printed wrappers disbound partly loosened. Minor wear Good. bound with THE PRESENT AND PROSPECTIVE SCARCITY OF MINISTERS. Broadside printed on bright yellow paper signed by EG Hammond and E W Blatchford urging the importance of the Appeal. <br/><br/> Our national life civilization and faith have "all been assailed by the shock and ruin of this war. All require renovation and new creation." Moreover "had the church of Christ been faithful" the War would have been avoided. "A true ministry in Southern pulpits sustained by a clear testimony from the whole body of Northern Christians would have rendered such a wide apostacy and conspiracy impossible." The vastness of the national territory "a whole South is to be opened for a free gospel" the ongoing waves of immigration-- all establish the need for ministers of the gospel. For Bartlett's biography see DAB. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Ante-Fire Imprints 880 "Not located". 37 NUC 0161273 8. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker Graff Soliday. Dunlop, Sewell & Spalding unknown 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
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
181055962Portsmouth N.H.: printed at the Oracle Office 1810. First edition 12mo pp. xi 2 134-148; bound with almost certainly as issued: Physiognomy a Poem by Joseph Bartlett Portsmouth: printed by William Treadwell 1810 pp. 19 1; together in full contemporary sheep scuffed and rubbed joints cracked spine flaky cords holding. 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 unknown books
182320045Boston: Printed by Jonathan Howe 1823. Original grained sheep spine and tips blue boards 7.25 x 4.5 inches 148 16 16 pages. Errata slip tipped in after the final page of text. Second edition. <br /><br />The attorney Bartlett first published this collection of aphorisms in 1810 in Portsmouth N.H.; this edition has a new dedication to John Quincy Adams the 1810 edition had been dedicated to his enemies has a new preface and an added poem on Lavatar and the science of physiognomy as well as an essay on the blessings of poverty. <i>American Imprints</i> 11752. <br /><br />Spine and corners somewhat rubbed some soiling to the boards; a bit foxed and a trifle shaken; a very good copy. Printed by Jonathan Howe 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
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
186421050Providence: State of Rhode Island 1864. original cloth-backed boards. Rhode Island. 8vo. original cloth-backed boards. 287 pages. First edition Besterman 5391. Two page preface by Bartlett followed by the bibliography.The annotations accompanying a number of the entries make this a valuable reference tool. Chipped around edges yet still very well-preserved. State of Rhode Island unknown books
1864107802Providence: State of Rhode Island 1864. later library buckram. Rhode Island. 8vo. later library buckram. 287 pages. First edition Besterman 5391. Two page preface by Bartlett followed by the bibliography.The annotations accompanying a number of the entries make this a valuable reference tool. Ex library copy with markings and library name perforated on the title page. Paper repairs to title page. State of Rhode Island unknown books
