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1897ZB327926Chicago: G. P. Engelhard & Co. 1897-1898. Volumes 19 and 20 only; quarto 592 pp. 589 pp both in one later half leather binding now worn and lacking spine covering text age toned but not fragile good only. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Chicago: G. P. Engelhard & Co., hardcover
1891ZB331609Washington: GPO 1891. 4 pp issued as 51st Congress 2d Session HMD 83; light extraction roughness at spine text browned now in self wrappers. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Washington: GPO, unknown
1883513221883. Western Australian Statutes 1883 Australia. The Statutes Of Western Australia. By Authority. Melbourne: M'Carron Bird & Co. 1883. 2 volumes. Quarto 10-1/2" x 8-1/2". Contemporary calf rebacked lettering pieces to spine. Moderate rubbing with some wear to extremities internally clean. Ex-library with shelf location labels to spines small property stamps to title pages. $500. Contents digested alphabetically. Topics include Aborigines administration of justice admiralty lands aliens hawking immigrants industrial schools intestates' estates jetties and bridges juries joint stock companies justices of the peace wild horses and wrecks. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:91. unknown
18701203290287Cincinnati : Western Tract and Book Society 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Bound in contemporary black cloth. Gilt design on front cover and spine. Good binding and cover. Minimal shelfwear. Clean unmarked pages. Please feel free to view our photographs. <br><br> John Rankin February 5 1793-March 18 1886 was an American Presbyterian minister educator and abolitionist. Upon moving to Ripley Ohio in 1822 he became known as one of Ohio's first and most active conductors on the Underground Railroad. Prominent pre-Civil War abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe were influenced by Rankin's writings and work in the anti-slavery movement. When Beecher was asked after the end of the Civil War "Who abolished slavery" she answered "Reverend John Rankin and his sons did. Cincinnati : Western Tract and Book Society hardcover
18394904Edinburgh: Printed for the Maitland Club 1839. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 28 cm; xxiv 185 pages. Bound in contemporary red half morocco over pebbled boards edged with gilt rules . Spine decorated and titled in gilt. Marbled endleaves. Moderate wear especially at extremities with spine chipped a bit at heel. Two labels removed from pastedowns. A little foxing at front blank and the pages are not bright but text is effectively unblemished. Reference: Graesse 4 92; <br /><br />First printing of a fifteenth-century Scottish version of the Arthurian romance that was composed for the court of James III. It survived in a unique and incomplete manuscript in the Cambridge library. The text was edited by the librarian of Durham Cathedral Joseph Stevenson and published by the Maitland Club an association dedicated to the promotion of Scottish literature and culture. Printed for the Maitland Club hardcover
187162250Hartford CT: Columbian Book Co. 1871. 8vo. xxi 1 23-602 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher’s ads. Steel-engraved frontisp. with numerous woodcut engravings & illustrations. Plum-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt bear stamped on front cover title lettering embossed in blind on spine minor foxing to frontisp. minor sunning & wear to spine edgewear slight uniform interior toning still a VG- copy. Second printing of this informative work gathered from the author’s first-hand interviews with early settlers and mountain men of the Pacific Northwest including Joe Meek William Henry Gray and others. Much of the work was actually written in the house of noted Oregon pioneer & author Belle W. Cooke who describes how she was “often reading the manuscript to my father and mother for comment.†Victor herself notes after publication that some of the historical facts regarding Marcus Whitman his efforts in the Oregon Country and the massacre orally related to her by Gray needed to have been checked more carefully. Victor d. 1902 was the primary author for the Bancroft histories of Oregon Washington and the Northwest Coast as well as a noted author of poetry and literature. See Powers History of Oregon Literature pp. 282 305-309 Graff 4477 1870 ed. Columbian Book Co., 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
18505004760London: Sampson Low 1850. Bound in one quarter black leather and printed boards. The title page is missing and the two ffep.'s are loose. All the "editions" are present. Binding shows some edgewear but still tight. Ex-Lib Yale - with withdrawn stamp few marks. 452 pp. in total. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good /No Jacket. Sampson Low Hardcover
18505004759London: Sampson Low 1850. Bound in one quarter black leather and printed boards. Binding shows some edgewear but still tight. Ex-Lib Yale - with withdrawn stamp few marks. 440 pp. in total. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Sampson Low Hardcover
188128032Cleveland OH: Morgan Lith. Co. 1881. Ephemera. Good overall. Trade card advertising the New Home Sewing Machine Co. 30 Union Square NY & Orange Massachusetts. Attracive image of a propering homestead the woman sitting at her sewing machine on the front verandah the family & their dog walking in from work. Color lithograph 3 x 5". Some glue residue on verso and slt. marginal browning. <br /> <br /> The Morgan Lithograph Company was established by William J. Morgan 1838-1904 and his younger brother George W. 1843-1905 in 1864. The Morgan brothers' parents emigrated from Wales in 1842 first settling in Pittsburgh before arriving in Cleveland in 1854. Located originally on Superior Street the W. J. Morgan & Company produced broadsheets trade cards pamphlets blotters postcards and posters to advertise local businesses. Increasing orders from surrounding states soon allowed the company to move to larger headquarters. Morgan Lith. Co. unknown
1835H21346Pittsburgh: White & Grant 1835. First printing. Paperback. Good. 8vo wraps disbound pamphlet lacking original covers good with some tanning and foxing. 22 pp. Rare and hard to tell from OCLC's typical chaos how many original copies there are in libraries. White & Grant paperback
187085311New York New York: Western and Company 1870. Volume II Numbers 1 - 12. Bound periodical in hard covers. Good. Black loose-leaf covers 13 in. x 9 3/4 in. blind-stamped binder. Binding loose with some detached but present pages and center-of-the-page closed tears to few pages towards the rear.<br /> <br /> The 12 bound issues LOADED with fabulously fine-line etchings of the latest then-modern manufacturing equipment queries correspondence diagrams schematics wonderful commcercial and private advertising and in-depth articles on new discoveries or processes inventions. Western and Company unknown
18692301180062Engineers Manufacturers Publishing Co; Western & Company 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. The Dawn of Computing and communications technology: Industrial Arts: A four year run of this rare magazine in particularly fine condition 4 volumes containing 48 monthly issues printed 1869-1872. 35 cm. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Exceptionally clean and white pages. iv 380; iv 380; iv 288 12; 2 iv 288 8 pages. Lovely illustrations numerous ads. <br> The 1869 issue has a cover article on the invention of the telephone six years before Alexander Graham Bell's famous call to Mr. Watson. "This invention may in its present state have no direct practical application . . . but who can say that it does not contain the germ of a new method of working the telegraph" page 129. The August 1870 issue discusses "Calculating by Machinery" with an illustration of "the Swedish calculating machine at Albany N.Y." page 225. Lomazow 768. Engineers Manufacturers Publishing Co; Western & Company hardcover
1897Cat358New York: Willis Woodward & Co 1897. Folio sheet music complete. Illustrated color lithograph title page by Robert Teller. Covers detached contents complete good with lithographed cover in particularly bright and attractive condition. Sheet music issued at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush capitalizing directly on the surge of public interest following the discoveries in the Yukon in 1896–1897. The lithographed title page signed in style by Robert Teller shows a dramatic scene of prospectors working a gold deposit in the mountains with two miners in the foreground bent over a pile of freshly uncovered gold tools in hand. Theodore August Metz was a German-born musician trained on violin in Hanover who emigrated to the United States and worked various trades before establishing himself as a bandleader and composer in Chicago’s late 19th-century popular music scene. He achieved national prominence with “There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight†1896–97 a widely performed marching tune that became especially popular during the Spanish-American War and in minstrel and touring band repertories. <br /> <br /> OCLC 726910235 locating a single copy at the Levy Collection. Willis Woodward & Co unknown
1856mon0000018903George Virtue and Co c. 1856. HardcoverLeatherSpineCorners. Like New. in x in x in. No DJ. Volume II only. Few pages with light foxing. No other marks in lightly read book. 36 b/w plates no foxing. Binding intact. Three-quarter leather over marbled boards with wear of leather. No publication date. George Virtue and Co 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
1882List2451Chicago: Rand McNally and Co 1882. Lithographic broadside illustration printed in color measuring 11 x 5 ¾ inches. Closed tear to margin paper reinforcement to corners verso very good condition quite bright and attractive. Very Good. An attractive advertisement for the Chicago and North-Western’s routes to San Francisco printed during the tenure of the railroad tycoon Marvin Hughitt as General Manager a position he held from 1876 to 1880 before being named Second Vice President. The advertisement was printed by Rand McNally and Company which in its early years focused on railroad-related materials. The Omaha and California line of the Chicago and North-West Railway connected passengers from Chicago to California. Other maps printed by Rand McNally and Co. during the period illustrate the route. We find no other examples of this broadside. Rand, McNally and Co unknown
188311061Chicago: Rand McNally & Co 1883. Softcover. Very good. Large octavo 16pp. plus folding illustration at rear. A very good copy in the original printed wrappers with some splitting at the spine and a few nicks but overall sound. The folding plate is in excellent condition. It shows a detailed image of the "Multiple Switch Board for Indianapolis." In 1881 just two years before this pamphlet was produced Alexander Graham Bell purchased the Western Electric Company which scholars have described as a crucial step in the standardization of telephone technology and equipment. Just a few years earlier telephone conversations could only be had between rented pairs of phones attached by a line that had no way to connect to other telephones. The switchboard allowed for operators to manually move connections between lines so that anyone with a telephone could call anyone else with a telephone-at least locally-and the technology rapidly improved from then on. Quite scarce with none in the auction record and just two separately catalogued listings in OCLC NYHS Duke. . Rand, McNally & Co unknown
182928055London: John Murray 1829. Paperback. Very good condition. Important early report on the Swan River Colony based on Captain Stirling's findings during his 1827 expedition and intended as a guide for prospective emigrants. The 29 page article is titled "Regulations for the Guidance of those who may Propose to embark as settlers for the New Settlement on the Western Coast of New Holland" and includes a one page woodblock map. The map "Sketch of the New Settlement on Swan River" has the text "Fine undulating grass plains thinly wooded" stretching from Mangles Bay to Port Leschenault. The WA coast is shown from above Swan River in the north around Cape Leeuwin and further to the East. Disbound from Vol XXXIX with the title page pp 315-344 with some extraneous pages. John Murray paperback
188646293New York: Compiled and published by the Passenger Department of the New York Lake Erie & Western Railroad 1886. 1886. RAILROAD NEW JERSEY. First edition. 8vo. Attractive colorful wrappers that have been bound into a cloth case with titles stamped in gilt on the spine 40 pp. rear cover is a color map showing the territory specially adapted to Suburban Residence for the Picturesque Erie beautiful black & white illustrations list of Suburban Real Estate Agents and Suburban Building Associations. This is a promotional by the railroad to encourage people to locate in Northern New Jersey due to crowded conditions in NYC. They promote that to build a home in Northern New Jersey and New York state is the way to go and point out the wonderful convenient and speedy service available to and from NYC via their railroad company. Provided are home plans showing that a three bedroom home to an eight bedroom home can be built for a low of $2000.00 to a high of $5000.00. Recommended counties in New Jersey are Bergen Passaic and Essex and Rockland County in New York. The railroad company provides most of the information for one to consider moving to the areas where expenses are considerably less there is room for growth and they can supply economic and regular transportation. Fine copy. Compiled and published by the Passenger Department of the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad, 1886. hardcover
19007934Portage la Prairie Manitoba Canada: Palmer's Elite Studio Proprietor J. Thomas Palmer N.D. Circa 1900-1911. First Edition First Printing. Original Photograph on Mount. Original silver gelatin photograph measuring 14 cm x 7 cm mounted on its original thick textured black card-stock frame and housed within blind-stamped arabesque borders to an overall size of 33.5 cm x 13 cm. An utterly charming and highly uncommon pre-war group portrait capturing five young women most likely sisters arranged side-by-side in order of height. The eldest three sporting characteristic high-collared white blouses typical of the era with delicate lace trim and pin-tucks while the younger girls wear elaborately layered ruffled white dresses with large ribbon bows in their hair. Bears the stylized imprint of the rural Manitoba photography firm of "Palmer's Elite Studio Portage la Prairie Man." imprinted in silver-white cursive script to the lower-left margin of the mount. Captured and produced by the studios of Thomas J. Palmer a local photographer active in the rural locales of Gladstone MacGregor and the then growing City of Portage la Prairie between the years of 1900 and 1911. Exceptionally well-preserved retaining excellent clarity and sharp focus. Original mount remains equally without blemish. Near fine. Thoroughly lovely and charming turn-of-the-century group portrait. <br/><br/> Palmer's Elite Studio (Proprietor, J. Thomas Palmer) unknown
1889866a4761Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1889. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Public Acts dealing with: Consolidation of the Statutes Bush Fires Charitable Associations Companies Courts - Official Stenographer Regulation of Elections Protection of Game Jurors Land Grants Licenses Mechanics Liens Lulu Island railway purposes Magistrates Medicine and Surgery Minerals other than Coal Quartz Mines Municipalities Probate and Letters of Administration Canadian Western Central Railway Columbia and Kootenay Railway Public Roads Royal Columbia Hospital Royal Hospital Public Schools Summary Proceedings before Justice of the Peace Supply Taxes on Property Trespass on Enclosed Land. Private Acts relating to: Anglican Synod of B.C.; Brockton Point Athletic Club Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company New Westminster Incorporation Canadian Western Central Railway New Westminster Southern Railway New Westminster and Vancouver Short Line Vancouver Street Railway National and Electric Tramway and Lighting Vancouver Incorporation Victoria City Official Map. Binding fragile. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Rubber stamp of one E. Johnson inside boards and scattered through text. Queen's Printer Hardcover