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184767736Utica: Roberts Sherman & Colston Printers. Very Good. 1847. Pamphlet. 31 pages blue printed wrappers. The wraps are slightly soiled and toned. The contents show some very light foxing but otherwise- bright and complete. A nice copy. . Roberts, Sherman & Colston, Printers unknown books
188963031889. Conscience is the Chamber of Justice" Coy Simeon. The Great Conspiracy: A Complete History of the Famous Tally-Sheet Cases. Indianapolis: 1889. Frontispiece portrait. 261 pp. Original brown cloth. Head and foot of spine and extremities rubbed Institutional bookplate with withdrawal stamp. $25. First edition. A convicted politico's attempt at self-justification. "There is an old proverb which says 'Conscience is the chamber of justice.' It does not matter what was done in some other 'chamber of justice' there never was a verdict rendered against me in the chamber of justice where conscience presided and this fact has as I shall hope to show kept me while submitting to the mandate of the law from nursing enmities towards those who in the heat of partisan passion sought my ruin." Preface p. 6. unknown books
1886216293New Haven: Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor Press 1886. Disbound. Fair binding. Rear cover missing. Scant markings. ; NOT Ex-Library. Fair binding. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press unknown books
18836955San Francisco: W. M. Hinton & Co 1883. First edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 464pp. Orig. printed wrappers spine & corners a bit chipped. W. M. Hinton & Co paperback books
188439334No place: No publisher 1884. 8vo 23 cm 9". 14 pp. <br><br>A paper "read before the Medico-Legal Society of New York Nov. 19 1884" that praises the evolving approach to mentally ill patients and offers the idea that insanity is not only caused by an "organic disease of the brain" but can also be caused in "short durations" by "functional disturbances . . . in organs remote from the brain." Clark argues that there is not a clear line between the sane and insane as even the clinically sane can have bouts of acting in an abnormal or irregular way.<br>Â Â Â Â Dr. Simeon Tucker Clark 183691 was a Berkshire Medical College graduate who practiced in Lockport New York. He was also a passionate published poet.<br>Â Â Â Â WorldCat cannot locate any institutional copies. In paper wrappers; minor chipping to edges small hole to front page front page pulling from binding but still attached binding generally a bit fragile waterstaining to two corners. An interesting late 19th century look at the origins of mental illness. No publisher unknown books
18292392Williamstown : Printed by Ridley Bannister 1829. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 13p. removed. None in trade. <br/><br/> Printed by Ridley Bannister unknown books
18338242bamAlbany NY 1833. Book. Very good condition. No Binding. Maps; matted; 8 1/4" x 9 1/2"; drawn by S. D. Drown from actual survey by Simeon De Witt; extracted from Josiah Priest American antiquities Albany 1833. unknown books
18989940New York: Press of J. J. Little & Co. 1898. 16mo. 120 pp.; illus. lacks map. <br><br>12th edition. Illustrated guidebook to New York City revised to January 1 1898. With ads for the Grand Union Hotel. Original illustrated front wrapper soiled loose and slightly chipped without loss of printing or illustration back wrapper missing. One instance of a blue crayon line drawn across page without obscuring text several instances of pencilling and one marginal tear. Otherwise pages clean and without chips or tears. Lacks map. Press of J. J. Little & Co. unknown books
1891235534New York: J. J. Little 1891. paperback. good. Illus. 136pp. 18mo original wrappers lacks folding map. New York: J. J. Little 1891. Eighth Edition<br/><br/> Guidebook to New York City. Wrappers chipped title page chipped and torn in margin with illustration on back of title page torn with some loss of text. Wrappers and title page crudely repaired with tape. Spine rebacked with tape.<br/><br/> J. J. Little unknown books
1836WRCAM54065Lexington Ky 1836. 23pp. Dbd. Chipping to fore-edge of first leaf toned and somewhat brittle overall. Good. A rare address on George Washington and the American character delivered in Lexington in 1836. OCLC records only three copies at the Huntington Library the Filson Historical Society and the University of Kentucky. OCLC 34706895. unknown books
1883WRCAM13884San Francisco 1883. 263pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers detached and chipped blindstamp on front wrap ownership sticker on titlepage else good. Outlines the "fatal defects" of the electoral system in the United States and suggests changes. unknown books
1841011935NY: M. W. Dodd 1841. 1st Edition or early edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Mid-19thC American edition of this religious treatiseby Simeon Ashe first printed in London in 1853. Original binding blind-ruled brown cloth spine decorated in gilt. 8vo 256 pages foxed throughout but solidly bound. A very good unsophisticated copy distinctive as this is an early printing - 1840s - of printer Dodd which thrived and survived through the 20thC as Dodd Mead. M. W. Dodd hardcover books
189556864Bristol:: John Wright & Co. Very Good. 1895. Hardcover. Black and white photographs. First edition. Brief gift inscription on half-title page damp mark to eye chart in the rear moderate shelf wear else very good in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. ; 70 pages . John Wright & Co., hardcover books
1895282089New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1895. Second Edition. Three Quarters Leather. Near Fine binding. First published as Napoleon Intime in 1893 the English edition was issued in London the following year. This "Second Edition" in English is handsomely bound in three-quarter crimson morocco over marbled boards with matching endpapers; top edges gilt; raised bands with Napoleonic devices and lettering stamped in gilt. Each volume with engraved portrait frontispiece. The book was panned in The Spectator in 1894 as a "whitewash" cf. The Spectator Archive 28 April 1894 p. 36. Near Fine binding. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1873007709Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles 1873. Cette édition a été tirée à 500 exemplaires sur papier de Hollande. one of 500 copies printed on Halland paper. In a Fine signed 19th century Auguste Petit binding of gold-toned full crushed morocco back in five raised bands with gilt rules lettering and tail date covers and edges bordered in 3 gilt rules ornate gilt dentelles marbled end papers top edges gilt A Fine and lovely set with just the slightest of soiling. . First Edition. Morocco. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Librairie des Bibliophiles Hardcover books
186944510Paris: Mainsonneuve et cie 1869. First edition. Quarter navy calf over marbled boards 4 raised bands gilt titles all edges speckled. A very good copy extremities rubbed tiny inked numeral at corner of title light soiling and foxing occasional pencil markings light toning to a few plates. xviii 19-240 pp. plates; 2 81- 142 pp. Illus. 146 plates 15 folding 4 color and numerous in text figures. Plates numbered 1-103 1 unnumbered109-132 & 141-156 2 unnumbered. 8vo. This the first 1869 edition of "Archives paléographiques de l'Orient et de l'Amérique." Sabin notes an edition in 1870 with a slightly different title. The Mexican hierographic "Codex Telleriano-Remensis" is provided in facsimile on a large number of plates with an explanation by Brasseur de Bourbourg pp. 190-232. Also includes works on Middle Eastern Asian Sanskrit Oceanic and Cuneiform language systems. Plus a bibliographical list of works on American Paleography. Bound with Siméon Rémi. Société Américaine de France Session de 1884. Paris: Société américaine de France E. Dangu. 2 81- 142 pp. Includes: "Les Systémes Religieux dans L'antiquité Péruvienne" by A. Castaing; "Nouvelle Recherches pour L'interprétation des Caractéres Hiératiques de L'amérique Centrale" by Léon de Rosny; and "Actes de la Société Américaine de France 1884" by Remi Siméon. Both items are scarce. Sabin 73299; Pilling 3374. Field 1319. Phillips: Central America p. 19. Mainsonneuve et cie hardcover books
1852WRCAM36523Arequipa: Imprenta de Francisco Ibañez y Herm 1852. 48pp. Dbd. Slight age-toning occasional minor foxing. A very good copy. A rare pamphlet reproducing the address delivered at the installation of the author a Doctor of Political Economy and a lawyer in the Academia Lauretana de ciencias y artes de Arequipa. The titlepage indicates that the work was published by the author for his friends. Tejeda a lawyer who also held a doctorate in political economy discusses various social political regulatory and economic aspects of industry. Included is a chapter on intellectual production noting that lawyers doctors and other professionals can be also considered as industrial entities subject to the laws of free commerce. A rare vanity publication concerned with philosophical aspects of industry printed in Arequipa in the early 1850s. OCLC records a single copy at Princeton. OCLC 40594747. Imprenta de Francisco Ibañez y Herm unknown books
181225627New York 1812. Engraved map hand-coloured in outline sectioned and linen-backed at a contemporary date. Housed in a black morocco backed box. Unique copy of De Witt's important 1804 map of New York with county divisions updated to 1812.<br/> <br/>In 1778 George Washington appointed Simeon De Witt as the assistant to Robert Erskine the first Geographer and Surveyor General of the United States a position De Witt attained several years later. Following the war De Witt became the first Surveyor General of New York a position he held for an unprecedented fifty years. Among his first acts was to create the definitive first map of the state based on actual surveys. Following the settlement of the state's boundaries and accurate surveys which he directed De Witt published a large wall map in 1802 - the first map of the state and the progenitor of similar mappings in other states. Two years later De Witt issued this "contracted" version of his wall map intending its circulation to meet a wider audience. According to Allen however the map which was sold by subscription "does not seem to have been as widely distributed as its predecessor although it appears to have been designed to reach a wider audience. It may be that De Witt's 1804 map was unable to find a niche in competition with other small-scale maps of the state such as those of Samuel Lewis" Allen. Nevertheless as Streeter commented De Witt's 1804 map is "one of the earliest separate folding maps of New York after it became a state." Interestingly the present copy suggests that De Witt or an enterprising mapseller made an additional attempt to market this map. This copy of the 1804 map is updated to 1812; that is the map is as printed in 1804 but the county boundaries shown via period hand colouring depicts the state in 1812: the far western counties established in 1808 are clearly delineated e.g. Chautauqua Cattaraugus and Niagara counties but Erie County created in 1821 is not shown; Putnam county is shown separate from Dutchess County as per its establishment in 1812; Oneida County is shown with its western boundary on Lake Ontario i.e. before the 1816 establishment of Oswego County; among other additions. In all the state is divided into 47 counties. We find no other example of De Witt's 1804 map altered in this fashion. The exactness and appearance of the colouring however suggests it to be a distinct issue of the map or done for some official purpose as opposed to an early owner's mere manuscript addition.<br/> <br/>Ristow American Maps and Mapmakers pp. 73-83; Rumsey 2489; Streeter Sale 893; David Y. Allen How Simeon De Witt Mapped New York State. unknown books
188028186Claremont N.H.: Printed for the subscribers 1880. 12mo. 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. 2 239 1pp. Half title. Expertly bound to style in period purple straight grain morocco covers bordered in blind upper cover lettered in gilt<br/> <br/>Provenance: E. T. Ide signature on title<br/> <br/>An Ide family association copy of a Bear Flag Rebellion rarity.<br/> <br/>"This Sketch contains an account of the early years of W.B. Ide recollections by his daughter of the family's trip across the plains to California in 1845 and an account of the Bear Flag revolt of 1846 as told by Ide to his brother in 1849 and in a letter to a Senator Wambough which as Ide died in 1852 must have been written within a few years of the event. An interesting account of the overland journey of 1845 and important source on the beginnings of American rule in California in 1846." Streeter. The work is also important in that it is one of the few overland journals written from the point of view of a woman Ide's daughter who at eighteen accompanied her father west in 1845 and is unique in its exclusive treatment of the Bear Flag Revolt. Howes speculates that this first edition printed by the author at the age of eighty-six on a handpress "was probably small." A rare and important California book.<br/> <br/>Howes I4 "B"; Streeter Sale 2967; Tutorow 3466; Graff 2059; Zamorano 80 45; Cowan 1914 p.118. Printed for the subscribers unknown books
1837S13080Paris:: Bachelier 1837. 1837. 4to. 4 ix 3 415 1 pp. Half title; light foxing within. Original quarter dark green gilt-stamped calf marbled boards; extremities worn. Very good. PROVENANCE: SIGNATURE OF KARL PEARSON 1857-1936. KARL PEARSON'S COPY WITH HIS BOLD SIGNATURE. First edition of the work that presented Poisson's 'Law of large numbers.' "He improved Laplace's work by relating it explicitly to Jacob Sernoulli's fundamental theorem and by showing that the invariance in the prior probabilities of mutually exclusive events is not a necessary condition for calculating the approximate probabilities. It is also from Poisson that we derive the study of a problem that Laplace had passed over the case of great asymmetry between opposite events such that the prior probability of either event is very small." :: DSB p. 489. / "Poisson's major work on probability was a book Recherches sur la probabilite. . . published in 1837. The book was in large part a treatise on probability theory after the manner of Laplace with an emphasis on the behavior of means of large numbers of measurements. The latter portion p. 318-415 dealt with the subject matter of the title. Some of this material was taken from memoirs Poisson published in the two preceding years. Only a charitable modern reading could identify a new concept in the work; yet the book contains the germ of the two things now most commonly associated with the Poisson's name. The first of these is the probability distribution now commonly called the Poisson distribution. . . In a section of the book concerned with the form of the binomial distribution for large numbers of trials Poisson does in fact derive this distribution in its cumulative form as a limit to the binomial distribution when the chance of a success is very small. The distribution appears on only one page in all of Poisson's work see p. 206. Although it is given no special emphasis tis brief notice did catch the eye of Cournot who republished it in 1843 with calculations demonstrating the effectiveness of the approximation Cournot 1843 . . . The second most common appearance of Poisson's name in modern literature is in connection with a generalization of the Bernoulli law of large numbers." :: Stigler. / "This work is significant for the author's participation in an important contemporary debate. The legitimacy of the application of the calculus to areas relating to the moral order that is to say within the broad area of what is now called the humanistic sciences was bitterly disputed beginning in 1820 in politically conservative circles. . . Poission was bold enough to take pen in hand to defend the universality of the probabilistic thesis and to demonstrate the conformability to the order of nature of the regularities that the calculus of probability without recourse to hidden causes reveals when things are subjected to a great number of observations." –DSB pp. 489. LAID WITHIN THIS VOLUME ARE FIVE PAGES ON FOUR LEAVES OF MATHEMATICAL NOTATIONS IN FRENCH SUGGESTING AN OWNERSHIP UNKNOWN PRIOR TO PEARSON. Karl Pearson 1857-1936 "was a major player in the early development of statistics as a serious scientific discipline in its own right. He founded the Department of Applied Statistics now the Department of Statistical Science at University College London in 1911; it was the first university statistics department in the world. The present departments of Statistical Science and Computer Science as well as the Genetics and Biometry group in Biology and the physical side of Anthropology are all part of his legacy to UCL." A major proponent of eugenics Pearson was also a protege and biographer of Sir Francis Galton. / REFERENCES: F. Fraunberger within DSB XV Supple. I pp. 480-491; Dodge Yadolah The Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics 2008 p. 427; Stigler The History of Statistics pp. 182-3. See: Pearson E.S. Karl Pearson: an appreciation of some aspects of his life and work. Cambridge University Press 1938. PLEASE CONTACT DIRECT FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. Bachelier, 1837. hardcover books
1880WRCAM48335CClaremont N.H.: Published for the subscribers 1880. 22391pp. Half title. 12mo. Original brown cloth gilt. Cloth moderately faded light edge wear. Rear hinge very mildly cracked but still holding firm. Quite clean internally. Very good. William Ide emigrated to California in 1845 and a year later after rumors that the Mexican Republic was going to expel all non- citizens he led a group of settlers in what became known as the Bear Flag Revolt. The rebellious Americans raised the California Bear Flag and took control of the Sonoma pueblo and Ide was named Commander of the California Republic. Afterwards most of the party joined Lieut. Col. John C. Fremont in seizing California from Mexico. <br> <br> "This SKETCH contains an account of the early years of W.B. Ide recollections by his daughter of the family's trip across the plains to California in 1845 and an account of the Bear Flag revolt of 1846 as told by Ide to his brother in 1849 and in a letter to a Senator Wambough which as Ide died in 1852 must have been written within a few years of the event. An interesting account of the overland journey of 1845 and important source on the beginnings of American rule in California in 1846." - Streeter. The work is also important in that it is one of the few overland journals written from the point of view of a woman Ide's daughter who in 1845 at age eighteen accompanied her father west. Howes speculates that this first edition printed by the author at the age of eighty-six on a handpress "was probably small." The Streeter copy sold to Michael Ginsberg then with Western Hemisphere for $175 in 1968. <br> <br> A rare and important California book. ZAMORANO 80 45. COWAN p.301. FLAKE 4183b. MINTZ 250. EBERSTADT MODERN OVERLANDS 241. HOWES I4 "b." ROCQ 14960. TUTOROW 3466. STREETER SALE 2967. GRAFF 2059. Published for the subscribers hardcover books
188067843First Edition and a Rare Variant with Original Wrappers Bound In IDE Simeon. Scraps of Califonia History. Never Before Published. A Biographical Sketch of the Life of William B. Ide: With A Minute and Interesting Account of One of the Largest Emigrating Companies 3000 Miles Over Land From the East to the Pacific Coast. And What is Claimed as the Most Authentic and Reliable Account of "The Virtual Conquest of California in June 1846 by the Bear Flag Party" as Given by its Leader The Late Hon. William Brown Ide. Claremont New Hampshire: Published for the Subscribers 1880. First edition and an interesting variant as noted by Streeter 2992 with the original printed wrappers and ten additional preliminary pages of text. Sixteenmo 6 7/16 x 4 1/4 inches; 164 x 110 mm. 82 2 half-title: Scraps of California History Never Before Published verso blank 1- 239 1 ìThe Inscriptionî pp. Inscribed to the New Hampshire Historical society by the nephew of William B. Ide dated 1904 on the half-title. No other copy of this variant with the wrappers and additional text has sold at auction aside from present copy and the Larson copy of 1995 since 1962. This copy gifted to the New Hampshire historical society the state of publication is bound with the original printed wrappers for "Scraps of California" still intact and bound in along with the text. Additionally it has the preliminary leaves of Ide's follow-up work entitled Who Conquered California Back cover has at top a caption reading: ìMore Testimony in Favor of the Efficiency of the ëBear Flag Partyà in Bringing about the Conquest of Californiaî followed by reference to and quotations from TinkhamÃs History of Stockton 1880. The preliminary 10 pages in this variant has favorable reviews and a criticism of the Upham Life of Fremont and of T. W. HigginsonÃs account of the events in California of 1846. All of this is the exact same as the Streeter 2992 copy. It is believed that this variant was was assembled with the various extra parts in addition to the first edition of the text for presentation. Bound in full speckled polished calf. Boards double-ruled in gilt. Spine stamped in in gilt. Red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Boards edges tooled in gilt. Newer endpapers. Wrappers with some minor discoloration. Some very slight dampstains on bottom edge of first few pages. N.H. Historical Society stamp blindstamped almost invisibly on first leaf. Overall an about fine copy. "William Ide was the leader of the Bear Flag movement at Sonoma and has often been referred to as the "President" of California. He was a man of high ideals and integrity. This little book is source material and the only volume published thus far that deals exclusively with this incident of California history. Ide died in California in 1852. The book was set in type by hand by Simeon Ide William's brother when he was 86 years old. The edition was small and copies are now extremely rare. J. G. L. J. Gregg Layne historian and editor of the Quarterly of the Historical Society of Southern California." Zamorano Eighty 45. This self-published volume was printed on a small press by the 86 year-old Simeon Ide in apparently very limited numbers. Mintz lists that only 80 copies were printed. Graff 2059. Howes I4. Streeter 2967 2992 2993. Zamorano Eighty 45. HBS 67843. $4500 Published for the Subscribers hardcover books
1880WRCAM48335DClaremont N.H.: Published for the subscribers 1880. 22391pp. Half title. 12mo. Publisher's three-quarter brown morocco and cloth boards front cover stamped in gilt spine with raised bands. Light soiling to boards some edge wear. Presentation inscription and bookseller's stamp C. Beach San Francisco on front flyleaf. A few annotations in pencil. Closed tear in inner portion of front flyleaf. Very good. A presentation copy inscribed by Simeon Ide to the editor of THE EVENING BULLETIN on a front fly leaf: "This volume is respectfully inscribed in "Vindication" of a beloved Brother." Also includes a brief pencil correction on page 93 likely in Ide's hand. <br> <br> William Ide emigrated to California in 1845. In 1846 after rumors that the Mexican Republic was going to expel all non-citizens he led a group of settlers in what became known as the Bear Flag Revolt after the California Bear Flag raised as they took control of the Sonoma pueblo. Ide was named Commander of the California Republic. Afterwards most of the party joined Lieut. Col. John C. Fremont in seizing California from Mexico. Uriel Crocker was a founder of leading Boston publishers Crocker & Brewster and later sat on the board of several railroad companies including the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad South Pacific Railroad and St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad. <br> <br> "This SKETCH contains an account of the early years of W.B. Ide recollections by his daughter of the family's trip across the plains to California in 1845 and an account of the Bear Flag revolt of 1846 as told by Ide to his brother in 1849 and in a letter to a Senator Wambough which as Ide died in 1852 must have been written within a few years of the event. An interesting account of the overland journey of 1845 and important source on the beginnings of American rule in California in 1846." - Streeter. The work is also important in that it is one of the few overland journals written from the point of view of a woman Ide's daughter who in 1845 at age eighteen accompanied her father west and is unique in its exclusive treatment of the Bear Flag Revolt. Howes speculates that this first edition printed by the author at the age of eighty-six on a handpress "was probably small." A rare and important California book. <br> <br> The Streeter copy sold to Michael Ginsberg then with Western Hemisphere for $175 in 1968. HOWES I4 "b." STREETER SALE 2967. TUTOROW 3466. EBERSTADT 105:136 ref. GRAFF 2059. ZAMORANO 80 45. COWAN 1914 p.118. MINTZ 250. Published for the subscribers hardcover books
