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18484955New York: Edward Kearny 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo 299 pages original embossed cloth tips of spine worn tight. <br/><br/> 'Embracing an account of the life and exploits of this celebrated chieftain; the Black Hawk war; a legend of the Illinois Tribe of Indians showing the manner in which they became extinct; a succinct description of the Wisconsin and Lake Superior Countries and their rich minerals; the Massacre of Chicago and other deeply interesting scenes in The West.' - Sabin 82462. Ex llibris Frank B. Cornell. Edgeworn tips of spine worn Lathrop Harper noted it was the first work of verse by a Wisconsin writer. Brinley 6896 Field 1001. Lithographed frontispiece portrait of Black Hawk and a title-page. Edward Kearny hardcover
1894106114New York: Western Union Telegraph Company 1894 1896 1912-1920. Original wraps. Good . 9; 9; 18; 8; 13; 9; 10; 9; 9; 26; 10 p. 23 cm. First two booklets are coverless; others have green paper wraps. Covers are ink-stamped and have library notations. 1917-1919 are also stamped on rear. Some soiling of covers. Rear cover and last page of 1912 chipped and slightly torn. Tear in 1894 at bottom of first page and 1919 at base of spine. Title pages blind-stamped. <br/><br/>Eleven annual financial reports from Western Union Telegraph. Each booklet lists the directors and officers of the company gives a message to its stockholders shows assets and liabilities. Western Union Telegraph Company paperback
186227147Great Western Railway 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Very good copy. Original time tables not a facsimile. Recently bound in paper covered boards with a printed label to the fronts. No inscriptions. 63 pages. Approx. size 10" by 6". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Railways; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 27147. . Great Western Railway hardcover
186227149Great Western Railway 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Very good copy. Original time tables not a facsimile. Recently bound in paper covered boards with a printed label to the fronts. No inscriptions. 63 pages. Approx. size 10" by 6". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Railways; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 27149. . Great Western Railway hardcover
186227146Great Western Railway 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Very good copy. Original time tables not a facsimile. Recently bound in paper covered boards with a printed label to the fronts. No inscriptions. 63 pages. Approx. size 10" by 6". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Railways; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 27146. . Great Western Railway hardcover
186227150Great Western Railway 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Very good copy. Original time tables not a facsimile. Recently bound in paper covered boards with a printed label to the fronts. No inscriptions. 63 pages. Approx. size 10" by 6". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Railways; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 27150. . Great Western Railway hardcover
190022858Moline IL: C.J. Martin Publisher & Press of J.W. Warr 1900. Tall quarto; 16 pp. Profusely illustrated with 30 half tones 5 full-page of buildings and activities of the Illinois Western Hospital for the Insane also known as Watertown State Hospital East Moline State Hospital and then ultimately State Hospital. A Near Fine copy in string-tied grey wrappers titled in gold on front cover. The corner stone for the Hospital was laid in September 1896. At its peak 1944 it held 2200 patients.In 1980 the Illinois Department of Corrections took over the property and currently uses it as a minimum security facility. C.J. Martin, Publisher & Press of J.W. Warr unknown
1884499London & New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Decorative cloth over boards title stamped in gilt onto spine 12mo 7.75 inches tall pp. i-ii iii-vi 1-339 illustrated with four folding maps by Leonard Forbes Beckwith C.E. ÉCOLE CENTRALE PARIS all edges trimmed decorative endpapers. Rubbing and light general wear to covers corners and spine ends softened fade to spine front hinge cracked but still solid blush of age tone and soil to text prev. owners neat gift insc. dated August 29th 1884 to ffep and in the same period hand " Byron Sherman 1884" at top of title page small splash marks to fore-edge. Booksellers tag "Old Eagle Book Shop.Kennebunkport Maine" at bottom of ffep. Text and all fold-out maps fine. "On the last day of May1863 in company with my father I left Fifth Avenue for Alaska." and so begins the author's four month journey by rail steamer wagon and horseback for well over 12000 miles with his famous father across America. Included are visits to and observations of Salt Lake the Mormons San Fransico and her markets buildings and the Chinese Quarter Yosemite Valley Astoria Vancouver's Island and of course on to Alaska and return. The New York edition of the same year has ten fewer pages 329 pp. with all else identical. Ref. Wickersham 6455; Lowther 668; Whale 1174; Smith 8141. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1874012170Hudson Mich.: Jas. M. Scarritt printer 1874. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Authors. Inscribed by the author to his step-daughter on ffep. Original green boards with blind stamped borders and embellished gilt lettering on front cover. Tips of corners worn; ends of spine rubbed. Interior shows a few minor spots of soiling. Pencil marginalia on a couple poems which appear to be the author's own revisions. 130 pp. 7 x 4.5 inches. A collection of poetry and prose by John Tremain Comstock 1807-1884 a Quaker and abolitionist who with his wife Elizabeth Rous Wright Comstock operated a very active Underground Railroad station in Rollin Michigan. Inscription on ffep reads "Caroline De Greene / from / the author". Caroline was John Comstock's step-daughter the daughter of his wife Elizabeth and her first husband Leslie Wright. Includes a couple poems each with an explanatory introduction about Native Americans: the first is about White Pigeon a white boy stolen by Indians from Lenawee County Michigan; the second being about the Sioux Winona. Other pieces reflect on being at Devils Lake in Lenawee County in the 1830s and at Minnehaha Creek in Minneapolis in 1865 Civil War dead King Alcohol Colorado and the Rockies the western prairies old age and family working with skeptics peace youth his father Otis Comstock Lady Ann Erskine longtime friend of the poor and the Countess of Huntingdon and mothers and children. Jas. M. Scarritt, printer hardcover
190069540n.p. 1900. Hardcover. Good. photos map on front pastedown xx 164p. Blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver on front cover. 28cm. Numerous small brown cover spots. About 20& of silver gone from cover lettering & decoration. Contents sound with moderate soil wear and occasional brown spots. No Jacket. A somewhat more common edition with 308 pages was published in 1905. <br/><br/> hardcover books
188033675Cincinnati: Western Biographical Publishing Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1880. 1st Edition. Full-leather. Original full leather boards with gilt lettering rubbing to extremities and spine leather with loss at points chipping to spine ends. All edges gilt scattered foxing mainly to tissue guards tightly bound and a solid first edition copy. Thick collection of late nineteenth-century Indiana biographical sketches with index of biographies. Volume I only.; MCN27704; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Western Biographical Publishing Co. hardcover
189056902Great Western Railway 1890. Hardback. Good only hardback edgewear pages age-toned spine cracked over the top half of its length and cloth peeling but all intact and binding essentially firm but shaken. Large hardback volume bound in original brown cloth with gilt titles on spine. This volume contains the first 24 issues of what became an important historical source for the GWR. The issues are largely concerned with the health and welfare of the GWR employees in particular encouraging temperance. There are numerous illustrations including some views of places and locomotives but mainly portraits. This volume is a presentation copy signed by W J S Cox the General Secretary and Treasurer of the GWR. There is an 8 line ink presentation inscription to the recipient of the volume above the signature on a Great Western Railway headed memorandum pasted on to the inside of the front board. This makes this copy particularly interesting as a record of company practice at the time. The image on this listing page is of the actual book for sale. Great Western Railway hardcover
186661262New York: Orange Judd & Company 1866. Hardcover. Fair with no dust jacket. Published in 1866 a New Englander who moves "west" Ohio to establish a vineyard gives advice 143 pages green cloth gilt decoration on spine. Text block in Very Good conditionspine ends and corners chipped frayed; edges rubbed name pencilled on title page.; 5 x 7 1/2 Orange Judd & Company hardcover
1880OVW5444Chicago: Western Historical Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1880. Hardcover. Hard cover published by Western Historical Co. in 1880. Ex-library book rebound by library and used as a reference copy. No dust jacket. Black covers with gilt lettering and library number on spine. Title page has a faint embossed stamp and reverse side has library numbers and information on it. Some other pages have library numbers on them. Top side and bottom edges of pages are decorated. Pages are tanned some at top. Book measures 10" x 8.25" x 2.75".; 10" x 8.25" x 2.75"; 1006 pages . Western Historical Company hardcover
18602083002116205439Ishida Manpado Oka Shirokoma Western Notes Sasaki Koyo Nagato Sign 1860. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Ishida Manpado Oka Shirokoma (Western) Notes Sasaki Koyo (Nagato) Sign paperback
1897272613Cardiff : Western Mail 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked decorated cloth. Text remains in fine condition without blemish. Physical description; xlv 252p : ill ports ; 30cm. Subjects; Biography — 19th century. Wales — Biography — Dictionaries. Cardiff : Western Mail hardcover
1880G520822mug166023Generic 1880-01-01. Leather Bound. Acceptable. SET of 2 volumes. V1 has an ink spill dot splash on some pages. Looks plenty usable and most likely from an Quill pen back in the day. V2 has a light ripple at the beginning pages. Wear to the corners and edges of the leather covers with heavy wear to V1 spinal edge that has split more than half of the way. Good bindings otherwise. No Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping. -5a- Generic hardcover
18465004753London: Sampson Low 1846. Bound in one quarter black leather and printed boards. Binding shows some edgewear but still tight. Ex-Lib Yale - with withdrawn stamp few marks. 400 pp. in total. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Sampson Low Hardcover
186836748Augusta ME: Owen & Nash Printers to the State 1868. 1868. Fair. - Octavo softcover bound in tan wrappers. The binding is dampstained & creased including 2 vertical creases to each wrap. 16 pages. The pages are bumped & creased with dampstaining. Fair working copy. <p>The first 10 pages of this pamphlet list the names and addresses of students both women and men attending the Western State Normal College in Farmington Maine. Following this is general information about the school: "This Institution established for the purpose of preparing teachers for the Common Schools of our State went into operation August 24 1864." Students who intend to teach in Maine receive free tuition but students who wish to teach in other states are also admitted. A general outline of the curriculum which includes a wide range of scientific literary and artistic studies is given in the rear along with the school's regulations.<p>SCARCE. Augusta, ME: Owen & Nash, Printers to the State, 1868. paperback
1900210191900. Very good condition. Gelatin photograph with exceptional clarity a view of Albany from lower down Mt. Clarence with boulders framing the roof tops and the long jetty into the bay at center. Mounted on stiff board as found in photo albums of the time with title hand written below "Albany". Image 8 x 6". not found on Trove. unknown
187723994Dublin: The Central Tenants' Defense Committee 1877. First printing. Hardcover. Good overall. The trial of returned convict John Sarsfield Casey an activist defender of Irish tenant farmers who earlier in his career wrote letters to Fenian newspapers as 'The Galtee Boy' which were used in his 1865 trial to support a charge of treason and a sentence of transportation to Australia. Casey was one of the 62 Fenians transported to Western Australia. He was granted a free pardon in 1869 and returned to Dublin in 1870.<br /> <br /> The 1877 trial recorded here was brought against Casey in Ireland by the agent for a wealthy land owner Nathaniel Buckley named Patten Smith Bridge. <br /> <br /> Bridge had imposed enormous rent increases on the Galtee Mountain tenant farmers; he alleged that Casey's articles to the press about the excessive rent increases had libeled him. Huge rents increases and the inability of farmers to pay resulted in whole families being thrown out of their homes; Casey knew these facts from personal experience as some of these tenants were his relatives. The trial lasted 8 days; Bridge's claim for damages against Casey was repudiated.<br /> <br /> 8vo vii 98pp. Deaccessed by the NY Association of the Bar Library with their stamp on the title page. Tan library cloth binding with leather gilt spine label and paper label. Cloth sunned at spine leather label slightly rubbed. Printed on cheap newsprint paper Title page detached chipped at edges with early paper repair on verso; Preface pages through vi chipped along gutter but holding. OCLC: 20515747. The Central Tenants' Defense Committee hardcover
185435390Boston: Phillips Sampson and Company 1854. 1854. Hardcover. Fair. Small octavo. 1 viii 9-256 pages 4 pages advertisements 1. Folding frontispiece map. Blue cloth hardcover with blind stamped covers. Gilt title and decoration on the spine. Folding map has some wrinkling and creases. Cloth hardcover is shelf worn rubbed at the extremities and chipped at the head and base of the spine. Lean to the binding. Light scattered toning and foxing to the contents. Fair. <br /> <br /> Graff 1079. Phillips, Sampson and Company hardcover
184333589Cincinnati: E. Morgan and Company Printers 1843. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Wraps. 22 pages. Yellow covers with printed title on the front wrap. Ex-institutional copy from the Western Reserve Historical Society with an embossed stamp on the title page. "Withdrawn" written in black over the stamp. Light soiling to the covers. Some margin marks in the text. A good copy. Scarce. 3 copies located in OCLC. Despite an excellent start the Western Baptist Theological Institute proved very fragile. The institute was established to serve western Baptist both those from the north and the south. The issue of slavery however divided the western Baptists from the very founding. Reverend Patterson the institute’s president also served on the National Board of Foreign Missions. This board published a number of articles indicating that slavery should not be tolerated in the Baptist faith. This association between Patterson and abolitionism caused much concern among the institutes southern trustees and students. On May 8 1845 Baptists delegates from the southern states met in Augusta Georgia and formally established the Southern Baptist Convention. This split would have grave consequences for the Western Baptist Theological Institute.<br /> <br /> Several southern members of the board of trustees asked Dr. Patterson to publicly state his opinions on abolitionism. He refused to do so. Instead Patterson left Covington and was replaced by Dr. S.W. Lynd. In 1848 a southern member of the board introduced a resolution that spoke of slavery as divinely inspired. The resolution was defeated. The four southern board members who voted for the resolution were undaunted. These members without consent of the rest of the board lobbied for the passage of a bill at the Kentucky General Assembly in Frankfort. The bill called for the appointment of 16 new members to the Board of the Western Baptist Theological Institute. In addition all future trustees were required to be Kentucky citizens. The bill became law.<br /> <br /> The northern members of the board were stunned by this obvious attempt to take control of the institute. They were particularly angry because most of the funds that had donated to the institute were donated by northerners and because most of the students were from the north. The northern members of the board fought to strike down the new law. Eventually the Kenton Court of Appeals declared the law null and void. The abolitionist controversy and the split between factions on the board took its toll on the institute. Donations plummeted along with the student enrollment. In 1855 the board decided to close the Western Baptist Theological Institute. Both factions agreed to a sale of all the property with the proceeds being divided equally.<br /> <br /> In August 1855 the Main building of the institute was sold to W. Scott. Mr. Scott operated a small female college and preparatory school in the building for several years. During the Civil War the hospital was utilized as a convalescent hospital for wounded Union soldiers. In 1867 the building was purchased by the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis. The sisters relocated their St. Elizabeth Hospital to the site. St. Elizabeth Hospital occupied the building until 1914 when the current hospital was completed. In 1916 the main building of the Western Baptist Theological Institute was razed and Wadsworth Electric Company was built on the site. Ware Orie S. “Western Baptist Theological Institute†In the Papers of the Christopher Gist Historical Society Vol. I p. 43-49; James W.C. “A History of the Western Baptist Theological Institute†In the Collection of the KCPL; Licking Valley Register May 25 1842 p. 3 June 4 1842 p. 3 May 31 1845 August 23 1845 p. 1; Covington Journal August 24 1849 p. 3 November 22 1851 p. 2 August 12 1854 p. 2; Kentucky Post November 24 1916 p. 1. E. Morgan and Company, Printers unknown
188843552Cleveland: Western Reserve Protective Tariff League 1888. First edition. Broadsheet. Good to very good copies edges browned worn some chips and tears. 2222 pp. 6 x 9 1/2 inches. With the main issue of the 1888 campaign about tariff policy the broadsheets detail the horrors of free trade in specific industries and the need to defeat the incumbent President Grover Cleveland. 1. Publication No. 2: Eagle and the Lion: begins with a Harrison quote on evils of free trade and goes on to show how England will benefit from free trade. Ends with "Cleveland & Mills Surgeons Reductions neatly effected. God save the Queen!" bordered in black box. 2. Publication No. 5: How Free Trade Works in England. & verso How Free Trade Works in England. Further Testimony. Read! Read! Read!. 3. Publication No. 6: A House Divided Against Itself. Who Tells the Truth & verso "To Iron and Steel Workers." 4. Publication No. 9: Eleven Years of Free Trade. Good Democratic Testimony as to the Ruin They Wrought. & verso Tom L. Johnson and the Farmer." Scarce. All four are apparently unrecorded. We could find no copies in OCLC NUC or other reference sources of these or any other broadsheets from the society. Western Reserve Protective Tariff League unknown
18836128Dayton OH: John H. Thomas 1883. New edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 178 pages gray cloth one leaf inter-leaved <br/><br/>Facing woodcuts of the church. John H. Thomas hardcover