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188676211Philadelphia: Allen Lane & Scott Printers. Very Good. 1886. Stapled wraps. Spine stained. Corner fold to rear cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 22 pages . Allen, Lane & Scott, Printers 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
187564248Salem & Portland OR: E.M. Waite Book & Job Printer; Press of George H. Himes 169-177 Second Street 1875-1887. Fourteen parts in one vol. Thick 8vo. 96; 88; 65 3; 98; 95 1; 63 1; 64; 80; 90 2; 29 3; 43 1; 44; 109 1; 10 pp. Oregon Pioneer Association emblem on titles 3 collotype photo plates tables. Contemporary quarter-brown calf over black cloth rubbing edgewear scuffing rubbing & wear to fore-edges wear to corners shaken still G copy from the library of Addie Mae Wilson Brant 1898-1985 noted home cook from Yoncalla Oregon granddaughter of famed Oregon settler William Hunt Wilson 1822-1902 who drove wagons for Jesse Applegate 1811-1888 over the Oregon Trail and a staunch abolitionist who virulently opposed the anti-immigration and anti-Black laws passed in early Oregon w/ additional pencil inscription of “Uncle Jesse Applegate†on front pastedowns possibly indicating this was his copy. First editions of these thirteen early publications issued by the Oregon Pioneer Association featuring an invaluable separately printed index as well as the first local printing of Applegate’s famed “A Day with the Cow Column in 1843†which was first published in 1868 in the Overland Monthly. The account is still considered one of the best early first person accounts of pioneer families trekking across the Oregon Trail. Nesmith 1820-1885 has included his own memoir of the 1853 Rogue River War serving with General Joseph Lane and commanding forces at the pivotal 1853 engagement at Evans Creek resulting in the Table Rock Treaty. Within two years following the 1855 Lupton Massacre the Rogue River War renewed resulting in the forced removal of the Takelma Shasta and Applegate Indigenous Peoples to the Siletz Reservation. E.M. Waite, Book & Job Printer; Press of George H. Himes, 169-177 Second Street, hardcover
186510246Boston: the hotel 1865. Menu printed on silk 30 x 10.5 cm. one leaf printed verso only. Illustrated with an engraving of vignettes of freight transport via ship and train. WITH: Printed envelope 8 x 13 cm. with an engraving. A handsome menu printed on silk for a banquet celebrating the Boards of Trade of the Western Cities given by the City of Boston at the Revere Hotel. Revere House was one of the city's leading hotels hosting guests that included Charles Dickens Jenny Lind and Walt Whitman. Daniel Webster addressed audience from the steps of the portico. The engraving on the envelope depicts the hotel from across Boston's Bowdoin Square. The hotel has had an additional structure added to the previously flat roof. The bill of fare for the Western Boards of Trade included Green Turtle Soup Baked Shad in a Wine Sauce Leg of Southshore Mutton in Caper Sauce Duffield's Ham Pate de Foie and much more. In remarkably fine condition with only the slightest fraying to the edges of the silk. The envelope with an engraving of the Boston's City Hall has some light soil but is near fine. the hotel hardcover
1841104249London: John Richards & Co 1841. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Richards & Co. 1841 'Third edition revised and corrected to the present time'. Octavo ii title leaf xviii 476 civ appendix and index pages. Early half tan calf and marbled papered boards with a contrasting leather title-label on the spine; covers a little rubbed and scuffed with the head of both joints slightly cracked but firm; endpapers and adjacent leaves offset mainly from the leather turn-ins; minimal scattered light foxing; early marginal emphases in pencil and rarely in ink in particular to the later sections relating to the institutions and processes of government; related annotations on several pages; overall an excellent copy. Western's apparent aim was to demonstrate the superiority of the English constitution over all other forms of government. In that context the parochial provenance of this copy is hard to beat. The ownership signature of 'J.F. Burton Adelaide 1850' appears at the head of the title page and on the front free endpaper without the place-name. The latter is also signed in pencil 'J.H. Fisher' James Hurtle Fisher around which George Fife Angas has written 'Sept 21 1853. Presented by JHF to G.F. Angas'. The full name of George Fife Angas is also written there in pencil in what we recognize as a later secretarial hand indicating in our experience that the book came originally from Angas's library. Sir James Hurtle Fisher 1790-1875 'was one of the most important pioneers of South Australia': a lawyer he was appointed first Resident Commissioner of South Australia and arrived in the colony on the 'Buffalo' with the Governor's party. He eventually became a leader of the South Australian Bar 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Angas needs no introduction; suffice to say the provenance takes some beating. We know little about Burton other than that he was an Adelaide solicitor; he is mentioned as such occasionally in the local newspapers of the day. John Richards & Co hardcover
188678130New York: G.W. and C.B. Colton 1886. Hand-colored pre-statehood map published only three years before the Dakota Territory was split into North and South Dakota. Depicts the various counties railroads and townships with relief indicated by hachures.<br />  <br /> The 15 ½†x 12 ½†map folds into the original burgundy cloth-covered boards 3 ¾†x 5 ¾†with gilt and blind stamping. “Compliments off Aug. T. Post Banker 25 Nassau St. New York†is stamped on the front panel. Near fine. Scarce OCLC locates only two holdings: Yale and State Historical Society of North Dakota. G.W. and C.B. Colton unknown
187579372Del Norte Colorado 1875. Engraved and printed in black on thin cream stock 11†by 8†this certificate No. 62 is for 100 shares of capital stock for $100 each. The certificate is signed and includes a blue cancellation stamp.<br /> <br /> Mining property in the San Juan Mountains region of the Colorado Territory. unknown
188579373Colorado Springs Colorado 1885. Engraved and printed in purple and green on thin cream stock 14 ¾†x 15 ½†this is bond number 4 signed. $500 10 percent bond secured by a deed of trust to the Fidelity Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Cincinnati Ohio. Includes six coupons valued at $25 each that are punched by still intact. unknown
186579374Boston Massachusetts 1865. Engraved and printed in black on thin blue stock 7 ¾†x 6 ¾†with a green stamp this is certificate number 143 signed. Faded revenue stamp pasted on the left edge.<br /> <br /> A certificate for 100 shares in the mining company. Clear Creek owned 600 feet on the Kinney Tunnel Lode on North Creek in Black Hawk Colorado. Gold was found as high at $600 per ton and the mine also owned a mill-site on the creek at the mouth of a mine entrance a house and a 25-horse engine Hollister Ovando James: The Mines of Colorado. unknown
1876H26995Pittsburgh: Benjamin Singerly 1876. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo publisher's dark green cloth gilt very good clean copy lightest wear and toning. With handwritten errata sheet for this book clearly from the time of publication. 445 pp illustrated with plates. Benjamin Singerly hardcover
1876z014102Pittsburgh: Benjamin Singerly 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1876. First edition. Hardcover 8vo. in green cloth with gilt titles. 445pp. frontis illustrated. Very good. Light scuffing edge wear to boards. Contents bright and unmarked. Benjamin Singerly hardcover
1882103473Perth: Government Printer George Inkpen. 1882. Folio original printed wraps with cloth spine folding map with colour detail pp vii 131. With the ex-library stamps of the Eastern Districts Chronicle which was published in York 1877-1927. Closed tear to the large folding map. Small silverfished area corner of endpapers light marks wraps some creasing. Good condition. Scarce. A fascinating glimpse into life in Western Australia in 1881. Sections include: population and dwellings ages conjugal condition education religion occupations nationalities year of entering the colony sick and infirm agriculture mines and manufactories and appendices. Aborigines are specifically excluded from the census except in a table showing the numbers "in service". A valuable resource for historians and researchers. 1st Edition. Wraps. Government Printer (George Inkpen) paperback
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
184625916Paris: French Admiralty chart 1846. Very rare early map of the south west coast of Western Australia just 17 years after the founding of the colony. The map covers much of the Western Australian coast from the Dampier Archipelago in the north Broome Exmouth Gulf Shark Bay Perth Geographe Bay Cape Leeuwin Albany all the way to Port Lincoln in South Australia. To our knowledge the only copy held in an Australian institution is at the State Library of Western Australia. It is not recorded in the collection of National Library of Australia collection nor other Australian institutions.<br /> <br /> It is very interesting for the early inland detail. The areas around Perth and Fremantle are shown extending inland to Beverley York Bejoording Toodjoy and Northam on the Swan River with the Swan Avon & Moore Rivers.<br /> <br /> There are 4 insets: Plan de la entree de la Riviere Cygnes Swan River et de l'Ile Rottnest J. L. Stokes; Plan de Port Grey nomme aussi Baie Champion Captain Wickham Plan du Havre Peel dans la Baie Warnbro Lieut. J. S. Roe Plan de la Baie Warnbro J.S. Roe. Coastal features include Baie de l'Esperence; Houtmann's Abrolhos; Albany north east of Albany a mountain described as "Montagne escarpee visible a 10 lieues"; Golfe Exmouth with a prominent Cape Nord Ouest. Depth soundings are taken all around the coast. <br /> <br /> Daussy maps are rare. The State Library of Western Australia holds two. Their copy of this map bears the "Prix deux francs" lower right; with an applied printed chart sellers label from P. Sauvat Bordeaux below the rule on the lower right. They also hold the following: "Carte des mers Australes partie comprise entre les méridiens du Cap de Bonne Espérance et du Port du Roi Georges" cartographic material / dressée par M. Daussy Ingénieur Hydrographe en Chef ; gravé par Jacobs ; écrit par J.M. Hacq. MAPR0000018. This map is recorded as Tooley 1470 and Libraries Australia ID 23501679 which calls it "Rare". <br /> <br /> Centered below the margin - Ecrit de J. M. Hacq Grave par Jacobs lower left Noo. 1111 in upper right margin. Printed area 34.5 x 23.25" with very large margins 40 1/4 x 27 1/2". Backed with tissue on the center fold and margin edges supporting some small closed tears. <br /> <br /> In magnificent condition overall. An extremely rare map especially in this condition. French Admiralty chart unknown
1889List1436St. Paul 1889. Cabinet card portrait measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. Fine condition with great contrast. Fine. A striking portrait of a family taken by F. Jay Haynes in his St. Paul studio taken after 1889 when he opened it his last studio of his career. A family sits together one man holding a violin another with a revolver visible at his side. unknown
190022027Perth: Sands & McDougall 1900. Very good condition. Two lithographed beer labels one on red paper and printed in red and black the second on cream paper and printed in black and both with the brewery's logo. Bottled by H. Sherwood & Co. Esplanade Perth. 3 1/2 x 2 3/4" Sands & McDougall unknown
188560593New York: Harper & Brothers 1885. 12mo. 312 pp. Frontisp. map. Pictorial brown publisher’s cloth gilt & black illust. of bugle and sunrise on front cover wear to fore-edges corners rubbing to spine still good copy w/ mounted albumen photo of a classroom on school steps on front pastedown sized 4 x 5 in. from the library of Florence Puher fl. 1890-1920 teacher and stenographer in Kansas City MO. First edition 2nd state of this account of General Custer and his wife during the Dakota campaigns right up till the battle at Little Big Horn. “Libbie†Custer 1842-1933 graduated valedictorian from the Young Ladies’ Seminary & Collegiate Institute in Monroe MI and soon after meeting Captain Custer and his meteoric rise to Brigidair General before Gettysburg married him Feb. 9 1864. Libbie’s charm and intelligence helped advance her husband’s career was admired by Gen. Phil Sheridan and accompanied her husband following the Civil War as he marched a cavalry division from Louisiana to Texas. After the Battle of Little Big Horn she would spend the next 57 years tirelessly writing and promoting to defend Gen. Custer’s reputation including this title and later the Following the Guidon 1890. See: Shirley Leckie Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth 1993. Harper & Brothers, hardcover
184819850Edward Kearny NY 1848. somewhat better the good condition in original cloth. Edward Kearny, NY hardcover
186929221London: by the author printed by Richard and John E. Taylor 1840-_ 1869. First edition. A FINE COPY OF GOULD'S MOST IMPORTANT WORK which was issued in 41 parts over 30 years and occupied more than half of his career. In the original publishers' full morocco gilt stamped binding.<br /> <br /> Provenance: Presented to the Right Reverend Mathew Blagden Hale by the members of the Church of England and other Denominations of Christians of Western Australia Perth October 28th 1876. With large presentation label printed in gold dated in each volume. Mathew Blagden Hale 1811-1895 was the first Bishop of Western Australia and founder of Hale School.<br /> <br /> Gould started work on the Birds of Australia in 1837 but ceased this effort when he found he did not have enough material to work from in England. He and his family departed for Australia where his wife had two brothers and remained there for 18 months collecting new specimens in New South Wales and Tasmania. John Gilbert was sent to collect specimens from Western Australia Queensland and South Australia. As Gould had introductions to the explorers working at the time he also received contributions of specimens from Sturt and Grey. As a result of this intensive effort 300 new species were claimed by Gould. <br /> <br /> AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS' CONTRIBUTION TO GOULD'S BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA<br /> <br /> In May 1838 Gould his wife Elizabeth John Gilbert their zoological collector one of their sons a nephew & two servants sailed for Australia. On their 27 montsh stay in the Colonies they received assistance from all sides ~ the Colonial Governors and most importantly the early explorers of Australia's interior.<br /> <br /> In Tasmania the Goulds were looked after by the Governor Sir John Franklin of later Arctic fame and Lady Franklin who were greatly interested in the flora and fauna of the country. Gould and Gilbert explored much of Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands. <br /> <br /> In February 1839 John Gilbert departed for an eleven month stay in the Swan River Colony. Gilbert made further explorations to the Northern Territory with Ludwig Leichhardt but during Leichhardt's overland expedition in 1845 from Brisbane to Port Essington was tragically killed by aboriginals. Book - Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia. 1847.<br /> <br /> In June of 1839 Gould began a journey with Captain Charles Sturt from Adelaide to "the Murray Scrubs" the Mallee returning to Adelaide in July from where he visited Kangaroo Island before returning to Hobart. Books- Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia. 1833 & Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia. 1849.<br /> <br /> Contributions of specimens & information came from all quarters. George French Angas contributed eggs and information about the Yellow- eared Black Cockatoo. Book- South Australia Illustrated one of the great Australian topographical view books. In the course of his hydrographical voyage on the H.M.S. Rattlesnake John MacGillivray contributed information about the Great Palm Cockatoo. Book- Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley. 1852 Cape York area. T.L. Mitchell surveyor general of New South Wales supplied descriptions of the Leadbeater's Cockatoo commonly known as the "Major Mitchell". Books- Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia.1838 & Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia.1848. <br /> <br /> The last voyage of the "Beagle" was in Australian waters from 1837 to 1843. In 1841 Capt. Wickham suffering ill-health was relieved of his command by Lieut. John Lort Stokes Book - Discoveries in Australia; with an account of the Coasts and Rivers explored and surveyed during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle In the Years 1837- 1843. 1846. The task of the expedition was to survey those parts of the northern coast of Australia not already charted by Flinders or King. Accompanying them on this trip was the young lieutenant George Grey whose duty it was to explore the land in Australia's northwest with a view to establishing a permanent settlement there. Book - Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia. 1841 The scientific appendices in volume two of Grey's "Journals" include one on birds by John Gould ~ " Mr. Gould kindly forwarded the following enumeration of the species which have come under his notice as inhabiting that part of the country Western Australia." There follows a 7 pp listing of birds of W.A. "Officers of the Beagle" are credited by Gould's "Handbook to the Birds of Australia" as supplying information on the Rose-breasted Cockatoo. <br /> <br /> To conclude the history of Australia's inland exploration is inextricably bound up with Gould's masterwork The Birds of Australia. It was an extremely fertile and productive time in Australia ~ Sturt Mitchell & Angas in eastern & southern Australia; Leichhardt MacGillivray Stokes & Grey in the north & west. Reading the letter-press that accompanies each color plate of Gould's Birds bears witness to the combined efforts of Gould and the explorers and settlers of Australia ~ Gould constantly refers to specimens and information on the birds' customs and habitat sent to him by various explorers. Many times this spirit of cooperation overflows into the naming of the bird itself. Gould was the touchstone who pulled together the contributions of Australia's explorers into the foundation work on Australia's ornithology. This combined with Gould's work with Darwin interpreting the specimens from the famous "Beagle" voyages takes Gould's Birds of Australia out of a strictly natural history realm and places it firmly alongside the great scientific discovery expeditions of the 19th century.<br /> <br /> GOULD'S CONTRIBUTION TO DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION<br /> <br /> Before the Goulds' plans for the work on the Birds of Australia came to fruition John Gould became involved in a co-operative project with another scholar - Charles Darwin. In October 1836 Darwin returned to England from his 5 year circumnavigation on the H.M.S. Beagle on which John Lort Stokes served for 18 years- rising from midshipman in 1825 to commander in 1841. Darwin needed expert help in the description & identification of the preserved birds insects rocks shells & insects for his production of the Zoology of the Voyages of H.M.S. Beagle. Darwin had heard of Gould's books from Thomas Campbell Eyton a naturalist friend from Cambridge days who had bought Gould's Toucan prints. They were expensive he wrote but of good value as he had since been offered a higher price! Through the Zoological Society where Gould had established his reputation as a premier taxidermist Darwin initially made contact with Gould about a special Rhea seen during his travels in Northern Patagonia. This Rhea was an ostrich of dark mottled color with shorter legs than the Common Rhea. Conrad Martens the artist on the Beagle expedition shot one for food and it was cooked and eaten before Darwin realized that it was a less-known species. Fortunately the head neck feathers & skin had been preserved and were sent to the Zoological Society where it was put together and a nearly perfect specimen made for display. Gould classified the Rhea as a new species "Rhea Darwinii". <br /> <br /> The third volume of the "Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle" contained fifty bird plates which was advertised by Darwin as "taken from sketches made by Mr. Gould himself and executed on stone by Mrs. Gould". When Gould & Darwin were examining the birds brought from the Galapagos Islands they were fascinated by a group of about thirteen finches of the same species which had curiously different-sized beaks. These modifications occurred on different islands and it was the investigation of this and other scientific data accumulated over a long period that led to Darwin's theories of evolution by adaptation formulated many years later. Frank Sulloway Harvard University 1982 has investigated Gould's part in Darwin's theory of evolution and shows that Gould astutely realised the basic peculiarities of these birds thus paving the way for Darwin's first notes on the "Transmutation of Species". Gould presented descriptions of the Galapagos finches and mockingbird specimens at the Zoological Society in January 1837. However he was unable to finish his work for Darwin. Due to the rush before the Goulds' departure to Australia parts of his manuscript were left unresolved and the work was completed by George Robert Gray of the British Museum.<br /> <br /> As Gould only published 250 sets of "The Birds of Australia" the number of complete copies which could possibly come on the market is significantly diminished by many factors ~ the work was issued in parts and not all copies were bound which would contribute to their demise over time. Many of the sets that survive are in institutional hands and unlikely to come onto the market. Over the last 20 years at least 10 copies have been "broken up" and sold as plates. This loss of a number of complete sets will certainly lead to a complete and undisturbed Gould attracting a premium by virtue of its increasing scarcity. <br /> <br /> 8 imperial folio volumes including supplement 2 pp list of subscribers 681 hand-colored lithograph plates including 3 double-page by John and Elizabeth Gould or by Gould and H.C. Richter. Printed by Hullmandel and Walton. Occasional minor spotting. Uniformly bound in publisher's green period full green morocco sides with gilt borders spines gilt in 6 compartments gilt edge by Clyde. The books are presently in the UK. <br /> <br /> Nissen IVB 370; Anker 174 and 179; Fine Bird Books p. 78; Wood p. 365; Zimmer pp 255-6 and 259; Sauer 9 and 18; Ferguson 4773 & 10032a. <br /> <br /> Bibliography: Lambourne Maureen Wm. McEvoy & Dr. Gordon Sauer. "John Gould - BIRD MAN" London 1987 Wantrup Jonathan "Australian Rare Books 1788-1900" Sydney 1987. by the author, printed by Richard and John E. Taylor, (1840-_ unknown
1900659c9602Victoria B.C.: Hicks & Lovick 1900. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 75 pages. Intended for entry-level pianists this work begins with the rudiments of piano playing then leads readers through many pages of increasingly difficult songs. Binding tender but intact. Above-average wear. Some markings to contents. Pages tanned with age. A worthy copy of this vintage British Columbian piano text. Undated circa 1900. Hicks & Lovick Hardcover
