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188216519Milwaukee WI: The Milwaukee Litho & Engr. Co 1882. 21st edition. Original blue cloth stamped in black & gilt. VG slightly shaken/spine darkened somewhat/chipping to cloth at base of spine. Label on front pastedown: "Compliments of William Langer Assembly". In lower left corner of ffep is binder's stamp in the form of a book: "Bound by / W. J. Park / & Co. / Booksellers / Madison Wis.". 634 pp. Illustrated with 1 folding map at rear 2 double-page diagrams & 18 images of state buildings. 8vo. <br/><br/> The Milwaukee Litho & Engr. Co hardcover books
186428477New York: Robert Carter and Brothers 1864. 1st edition BAL 21275; Wright II 2648. Original publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering professionally recased with new eps. Old pos to preliminary blank dated December 1864. General binding wear. Some staining & browing to paper especially lower corner/margin of Vol I's last 18 leaves. Withal a VG set. 2 volumes 328; 363 1 pp. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/> Robert Carter and Brothers hardcover books
1839TB28746Worcester Mass.: Dorr Howland & Co. 1839. First Edition. Near fine in a recent 1/2 brown leather and marbled paper covered boards with gilt black leather text block with gilt text stamping on the spine and new end sheets. A small quarto measuring 9 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches. The contents are in excellent condition with 624 pages of text with occasional spots of foxing to the pages throughout. The hand-colored four-color fold-out map is in place following the front index and is in near fine condition with a tiny 1/4" closed tear at the lower margin. Illustrated throughout by the author's 200 line drawings and wood cut engravings. Howes B-123 Dorr, Howland & Co. hardcover books
189937783London: British Museum Press 1899. hardcover. very good. Series I. - V. 150 photo lithograph plates with printed transcriptions. Thick large folio 3/4 leather rubbed; hinges reinforced. London: British Museum 1899. Very good.<br/><br/> Includes 85 historical documents of English royalty and statesmen with similar autographs of 6 continental monarchs. The second half of the volume is devoted to the autographs of 53 artists and men of letters with 6 continental autographs.<br/><br/> British Museum Press unknown books
190024490Cleveland Ohio: Warner & Swasey 1900. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. 2 36 leaves. 4to. 9 1/2 x 12 inches. Tan cloth with black embossed decoration and titling on the front board. Printed in black and white on recto only except for the title page the verso of which shows a view of the factory. Several tears and small blank chip in front flyleaf. Binding is very loose with the signatures detaching and in need of service. Evidence of ex-library status with spine lettering faded to illegibility ghosting on rear pastedown that indicates library pcoket etc. Front and rear flyleaf likely missing or the front glued down. Even withall the essence of the book remains which is a large format trade catalog and/or advertisement for Warner and Swasey highlighting their skill as craftsmen and engineers in this case in the field of astronomical instruments and their housings. Cloth. Ambrose Swasey 1846-1937 was an American mechanical engineer and inventor. With partner Worcester R. Warner he formed the company Warner & Swasey in Ohio. They are perhaps best known for their construction and installation of major telescopes and their mountings they built the Lick Observatory telescope mounting apparatus. The company was acquired in 1980 by Bendix Corporation. <br/><br/>"The number of leading observatories for which we have designed and made astronomical instruments affords us an opportunity to bring together a series of illustrations which we feel will not only be of general interest but also of service in showing the magnitude and completeness of modern astronomical equipment." <br/><br/>While noting the attempt to tell the current state of instruments we find a surprising number of views of building exteriors. In some cases the architects involved with the respective buildings are noted. Plate 1 shows the private observatory of the owners of the company both amateur astronomers and enthusiasts which perhaps accounts for their success in this field. <br/><br/>A useful historical document for those interested in the subject and/or restoration of existing equipment. Printed by Chasmar-Winchell Press New York and Pittsburg. <br/><br/>Not in Romaine or Davis and Dreyfuss. Warner & Swasey unknown books
1888WRCLIT79865Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin 1888. Pictorial cloth. Spine a bit dull slight fraying to spine ends endsheets a bit discolored otherwise a very good copy. First edition 1554 copies printed. An excellent association copy inscribed by Warner in the month of publication to "Joseph H. Twichell Forever Chas. Dudley Warner. Hartford Nov. 1888." Rev. Twichell was an intimate Hartford friend of both Clemens and Warner and officiated at Warner's funeral in 1900. BAL 21168. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1861WRCAM56551New York & London: Beadle and Company 1861. 104pp. Large titlepage vignette. Original printed orange wrappers. Front wrapper detached but present moderate soiling and edge wear three short horizontal tears across the spine. Tiny ink stamp on initial blank leaf corners a bit curled mild occasional foxing. Good. An early entry in Beadle and Adams' first series of Dime Novels this is Number 26 a genre that they originated and made vastly popular. "Buccaneers off the coast of Florida and the Island of Tortuga during the sixteenth century. An episode in the life of Sir Henry Morgan the famous English pirate who was knighted for his butcheries" - Johannsen. Published in 1861 and with a copyright date to that effect on the wrapper though the copyright on the verso of the titlepage reads 1862. JOHANNSEN BEADLE AND ADAMS I p.83. SERVIES 4647. Beadle and Company unknown books
1876WRCAM52022Los Angeles: Louis Lewin & Co. 1876. 88pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers brittle and heavily chipped reinforced with cloth tape. Text with old tape on spine and first few leaves. Tanned and brittle as is usual though internally clean. About good if a bit fragile. The expanded second issue a shorter version appeared earlier the same year of this rare early Los Angeles history apparently the first to be published by an Anglo American. Issued concurrent with the American Centennial with some account of the Los Angeles centennial celebration in an appendix. Includes Dr. J.S. Griffin's overland diary. Griffin was under Kearny's command. COWAN p.669. GRAFF 4540. LAYNE 49. HOWES W110. ROCQ 2652. DAWSON 80 75. ZAMORANO SELECT 112. Louis Lewin & Co. hardcover books
1837TB31667New Haven: Durrie & Peck and J. W. Barber 1837. Second Edition. Very good in its original binding of full leather covered boards with a black leather label with gilt text and extensive gilt decorations on the spine. The front and rear boards are decorated with gilt borders. An octavo measuring 8 7/8 by 5 1/2 inches with heavy rubbing to the leather over the joints and to the edges of the boards. The front free end page is torn at its lower two inches and there is an early prior owner's name Lynda Brownell Sherman Conn. written in pencil on the third free end page. The hand-colored fold-out map of Connecticut is completely intact and has suffered no damage. The preliminaries show moderate foxing and the last 50 pages of the text also show moderate foxing. The joints and hinges remain tight and strong. 560 pages of text. Illustrated throughout with 190 wood block engravings. Contrary to the information contained in Wright Howes bibliography U.S. Iana the first edition of this title was published in 1836. Barber an illustrator and historian 1798-1885 was Connecticut's first popular historian creating one of the first travel guides of the state. Following the index in the front of the book is a hand colored fold-out map of the State of Connecticut noting all of its towns at the time see note above regarding condition. Considered to be "mildly scarce" by Howes. Howes B-120 Originally published in 1836. Durrie & Peck and J. W. Barber hardcover books
188735929London: Kegan Paul 1887. Kegan Paul unknown books
187421493Hartford: American Publishing Company 1874. First Edition second issue. Illustrated by Hoppin Stephens Williams White and others. 1 vols. 8vo. Original publisher's sheep black leather spine labels lettered in gilt front cover rehinged else fine. First Edition second issue. Illustrated by Hoppin Stephens Williams White and others. 1 vols. 8vo. With a Page of Charles Dudley Warner's Manuscript. With a page of octavo manuscript in Warner's hand about 130 words concerning the character Philip Sterling with reflections on the fairer sex "It is probably on account of the lack of enterprise in women that they are not as fond of stock speculations and mine ventures as men. It is only when woman becomes demoralized that she takes to any sort of gambling.". BAL 3357 American Publishing Company unknown books
187638824Los Angeles: Mirror Printing for Louis Lewin & Co 1876. 1st edition 2nd issue Cowan II p. 669; Howes W-110; Rocq 2652; Zamorano Select 112. Original printed paper wrappers. Wrapper edges chipped with upper corner lacking from front wrapper. Japanese paper repair to spine. Occasional pencil marginalia. An About VG copy. 88 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Mirror Printing, for Louis Lewin & Co unknown books
184555313Philadelphia: V. F & M. F. Harrison no. 27 South Eighth Street 1845. Bust-length mezzotint portrait approx. 22½" x 16½" overall; image size: 12" x 9¾" taken from a daguerreotype; lightly foxed several short creases and breaks in the margins; all else very good. Includes a facsimile of his signature. "Copies were sold in Providence by Abraham Stillwell a local bookseller. Stillwell began advertising the sale of the likeness of Dorr beginning with the June 20 1842 issue of the Providence Daily Express. Stillwell's ad read 'GOV. DORR Just published and for sale at No. 1 Market square a Portrait of Thomas W. Dorr elected Governor of the State of Rhode Island under the People's Constitution'." Phillips Memorial Library Providence College. AAS only in OCLC. <br/><br/> V. F & M. F. Harrison, no. 27 South Eighth Street unknown books
