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1834WRCAM55483Boston: Published by the Author 1834. 43pp. Modern green cloth gilt spine title. Faint foxing small American Antiquarian Society deaccession stamp on verso of last text leaf. Very good. A rare early work by Rhode Island labor organizer Seth Luther following his first printed work AN ADDRESS TO THE WORKING-MEN OF NEW-ENGLAND. and his AN ADDRESS ON THE RIGHT OF FREE SUFFRAGE published the previous two years. Seth Luther 1795-1863 was born in Providence Rhode Island and worked as a carpenter by trade. Like his earlier publications the present ADDRESS was printed from a speech Luther delivered this time before the Union Association of Working Men in Charlestown Massachusetts in late January 1834. Setting the tone for the speech in the first paragraph Luther rails against those "clothed in purple and fine linen" on the backs "of those who labor day after day." The present work is further described by the DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY as follows: "A denunciation of political and religious as well as economic oppression.the author laid down the following program of reform: universal equal education by means of manual labor schools supported at the public expense; abolition of all licensed monopolies; abolition of capital punishment and of imprisonment for debt.equal taxation for property; and an effective mechanic's lien law. His deadly sincerity forceful language grim humor and biting sarcasm made his pamphlets valuable weapons in the labor movement." <br> <br> This title is rare with this copy being the only one appearing in Rare Book Hub formerly offered by M&S Rare Books. Not in Sabin. OCLC seems to report about a baker's dozen physical copies over several records. This is the first copy ever handled by this firm. Adams RADICAL LITERATURE IN AMERICA p.43. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 25382. ANB 14 pp.151-52. DAB XI p.511. Published by the Author hardcover books
189444281New York: D. Appleton and Company 1894. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 17.5cm; flexible dark brown cloth boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; ii45-666pp ads. Light wear to extremities hint of softening to corners with a faint diagonal tear to rear pastedown; contemporary owners ink signature to front endpaper Gertrude H. Souther / March 1895 with holograph pencil notes relative to the weight of two babies on rear endpaper; Very Good. Influential manual for mothers and nurses by Holt 1855-1924 an American author physician and pioneer in the field of pediatrics who helped shape the New York Babies Hospital into the leading pediatric facility of its time. The book was expanded from Holt's Catechism for Nurses 1893 a pamphlet prepared for nursery-maids during their four months training at the Babies Hospital. "The nurses studied the catechism and when they graduated took it with them. There followed requests for copies from their employers and the supply was soon exhausted. It was apparent there was a popular demand for something of the kind. The catechism was expanded and in 1894 The Care and Feeding of Children made its appearance.Probably no one would have been more surprised than Dr. Holt or his publishers had they been told that they were launching a volume that was to go through seventy-five printings and which was to be translated into Spanish Russian and Chinese.The book became the mainstay of many a worried mother and exerted no inconsiderable influence on the profession as well for the practitioners had to keep abreast of the pediatric knowledge which the mothers possessed" DUFFUS R.L. L. Emmett Holt. NY 1940 pp.116-117. <br/><br/>Prior to the publication of The Care and Feeding of Children there was no standard text for pediatric care in print for laymen or medical professionals. A revolutionary volume written in clear simple language providing an orderly presentation of pediatric knowledge which empowered women to care for their children. A cornerstone work responsible for "lifting child sickness and care out of the neglect of the past" Dunn Peter M. "Dr. Emmett Holt 1855-1924 and the foundation of North American paediatrics." Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2000. Rare in the first edition; we find no copies for sale in trade May 2019 with the last copy at auction sold at the Streeter Sale. ATWATER 1743 citing the 1895 edition; STREETER 4159; Grolier American 100 97. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1853WRCAM39439CNew York: Printed for the author by George P. Putnam 1853. 336pp. plus frontispiece map and folding map. Original blindstamped brown cloth spine gilt. Spine extremities and corners lightly worn head of spine somewhat chipped. Pencil ownership inscription on front pastedown. Frontispiece map leaf loosening text block cracked. Preliminaries and text edges tanned throughout dampstaining to upper corners of rear leaves. Good. A scarce work providing a very good picture of army life during the Mexican-American War including accounts of some of the major battles of the war including the Battle of Monterrey and with material on the Texas Rangers. The author's regiment returned home after the Battle of Buena Vista. HOWES G156. SABIN 27330. TUTOROW 3387. GARRETT p.139. HAFERKORN p.45. Printed for the author by George P. Putnam hardcover books
180527430Reading: Gedruckt und zu finden bey Gottlob Jungmann 1805. 4to. 2 vols. in 1. 34 ff. 1008 pp. 1 f. 277 1 pp. 1 f. family register excised. <br><br>The first edition of the first Bible in German printed outside of Philadelphia; the first printing of the Bible in Reading. The New Testament here has a separate title-page pagination and signatures. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Arndt & Eck German Language Printing in the U.S. 1467; O'Callaghan 7879; Seidensticker 166; Shaw & Shoemaker 7984. Publisher's plain brown calf with remnants of metal and leather closures leather abraded; front board expertly strengthened at joint new front free endpaper. Family register excised. Interior with foxing toning and some staining including to title-page; initial and final leaves with staining and chipping as with all copies we've seen in libraries and in commerce. => All said a solid and satisfactory copy of a famous early American Bible. Gedruckt und zu finden bey Gottlob Jungmann hardcover books
1813WRCAM34468N.p. but likely Washington 1813. Broadside 11 1/2 x 18 inches. Large woodcut seal of the United States in upper blank margin. Backed with tissue paper. Light fold lines light foxing. Good. Expertly matted and protected with Mylar sheet. This copy bears the faint signature in the lower margin of patentee Luther Gale. A broadside announcement of James Madison's granting of a patent for the improvement of the bark mill to Luther Gale. The bark mill was of vital importance to tanners since the bark was used in the tanning process. The broadside has a handsome woodcut version of the Great Seal of the United States. It was Madison along with Charles Pinckney who introduced the first U.S. patent law during the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Rare. Not in Rink nor on OCLC although Rink does locate another Gale "bark mill" broadside. unknown books
1851008000New York: Charles Scribner 1851. RARE. Not found in Sabin. Last copy sold at auction 1916 Rare Book Hub. Two volumes frontispiece portraits one portrait in text Vol. I one fold-out map Fine. x paginated 18 - 563 v pag. 7- 621 pp. Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards backs ornately gilt with brown morocco labels gilt marbled end papers and page edges. A Fine and RARE set beautifully bound. First Edition. Half Calf. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Charles Scribner Hardcover books
1857694811857. A Notable Nineteenth-Century Will Case Involving Codicils and Questions of Sanity Trial. Parish Will Case. Bell Luther V. 1806-1862. Medical Opinion in the Parish Will Case. New York: John F. Trow 1857. 69 pp. Octavo 9-1/4" x 6". Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. Light soiling to exterior wear to spine ends and corners some chipping and edgewear to wrappers which are partially detached at ends dampstaining to wrappers and text block moderate toning lower corners lacking from first three leaves with no loss to text corners of some other leaves chipped or dog-eared early owner signature "Wm Bouvier" of "Bonner" to front wrapper and half-title. $750. Only edition. Henry Parish a New York merchant died in 1856 at age 69. He left a will made in 1842 that had been amended with three codicils signed by him some time after suffering a paralyzing stroke in 1849. These codicils were contested on the grounds of mental impairment. This trial attracted a good deal of attention and it involved testimony by several leading medical and legal experts. At time of this pamphlet's publication Bell was president of the Massachusetts Medical Society and a former superintendent of the McLean Asylum for the Insane near Boston. Not in Cohen which lists a composite volume by Trow containing this title. See Bibliography of Early American Law 11386. unknown books
18503517Washington DC 1850. First Edition. Very good. Large folding lithograph map with U.S. Army routes in red 659 x 500 mm. Splits at folds on left where attached to text light browning. Text: 8vo 224 x 140 mm. 14 2 pp. including final blank leaf extracted from a larger volume and repaired. First edition of this excellent map illustrative of both the Mexican-American War and the cartography of Mexico prepared by members of the U.S. Army Topographical Engineers. Our map is accompanied by the essential text which is not always present. Herein "cartographer M.L. Smith Lieutenant of the Topographical Engineers writes to J.J. Abert Colonel Corps Topographical Engineers paying homage to the accuracy of Baron Humboldt's map of the Valley of Mexico and stating that it was the only one in which they placed confidence for moving troops in to capture the city. He remarks however that he believes that the present map is the first survey of the valley ever made by triangulation. His colleague E.L.F. Hardcastle supplements the report with memoirs of the march made in his journal as events occurred. This sparse but pithy report has excellent details on military engineering." Dorothy Sloan Auction 24a lot 242. The present example comes from Dorothy Sloan's own Americana collection which was purchased by us in 2020.<br/><br/>Garrett & Goodwin The Mexican-American War pp. 296 430-431. Haferkorn p. 31. Tutorow 1632. unknown books
182169381Albany:: Websters and Skinners. Good. 1821. Hardcover. B00BP1WRIQ . First edition. Octavo in modern light brown leather binding red leather label with gilt lettering along the spine. Previous owner's name in pencil on front endpage age darkening and scattered foxing throughout text block else good or better. ; 308 pages . Websters and Skinners, hardcover books
18994990New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press 1899. First edition. First edition. Thick quarto. Original blue fine weave cloth with gorgeous all over gilt blocked cover design by Margaret Armstrong consisting of grapes and grape vine on a trellis also used for spine. This model cover design appears in later Putnam titles Morris Tennyson Emerson Rossettis however in those later uses clumsy lettering by another hand was employed as per Gullans. This is the quite rare first edition of 1899 the only copy on the market as of this date. Two marks are rear cover slight wear to corners and margins of spine. Overall the binding is very good and near fine in the interior. Gullans #61. G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press unknown books
18973752New York: D. Appleton 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ as Issued. Light/moderate shelf wear tips through light wear at head minor rubbing at hinges/tips spine evenly toned gilt bright else tight bright and unmarred. Halfbound black leather spine and tips blue pebbled cloth boards red dye speckled at text block edges. 8vo. xvii 1117pp. Illus. color and b/w plates one fold-out. Index. <br/><br/>The first real complete and authoritative American text on pediatrics. Cone History of American Pediatrics 104- 105pp; Levinson p.108; Veeder 33-60pp. Overall a handsome copy. D. Appleton hardcover books
181565189Lenox Mass 1815. Single sheet 24.5 x 20 cm. partly printed completed in manuscript. Old folds heavily foxed. For $60.00 Gale sells one bark mill and grants to Elias Gould of Henniker County of Hillsborough NH "the full and exclusive right and liberty of using the said Bark-Mill in the town and county aforesaid." Signed by Gale and witnessed probably by his wife dated in ink September 11 1815. See RINK 1394 for one copy of an 1818 broadside printed in Lenox which takes note of a patent infringement for this patent; and for the grant of patent right see RINK 1392 which is an 1813 notification that Gale has purchased exclusive right to C. Tobey's patent bark mill. Presumably this is a somewhat different machine than our 1811 Gale patent. This broadside is not listed in Rink or Imprints. <br/><br/> unknown books
1900136802Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company 1900. Octavo pp. 1-6 7-308 309-320: ads frontispiece with illustration by Virginia H. Davisson title page printed in red and black original pictorial white cloth front and spine panels stamped in red and purple rear panel stamped in red binding signed "H" t.e.g. other edges untrimmed. First edition. A presentation copy with initialed inscription by Long on the front free endpaper: "Das heist vergiss-mein-nich" This means "forget-me-not". "If the exotic quality in Lafcadio Hearn was made authentic by observation that of John Luther Long 1861-1927 was largely the product of his imagination at times of high order and one that has not had proper appreciation either in fiction or drama. He was never in Japan but inspired by information which he received from his sister Mrs. Irwin Currell he established an atmosphere which has the illusion of reality and from it he evolved one character at least of supreme importance who has passed into world literature . Long continued his exotic romance in THE FOX WOMAN 1900 an imaginative novel of a crippled Japanese artist and his worship of a beautiful but soulless American woman to whom he is just a passing whim. She is the 'Fox Woman' of the Japanese who is without a soul. For her own pleasure she models him after the hideous Ni-O figures and in order to please her he tries to look like these grotesques until he grows as bestial as they and his soul becomes subject to his body just as before his ugly body had been made noble in the eyes of his wife Jewel by the splendor of his soul. Long uses effectively the utter submission of a Japanese wife to her husband's will in Marushida's present to Miss Carroway of Jewel for her body servant. The inevitable discovery on the artist's part of his abandonment by the goddess and the return of Jewel are told simply and naturally." - Quinn American Fiction pp. 516-518. Long is best known for his long short story "Madame Butterfly" dramatized in collaboration with David Belasco later made into the famous opera by Puccini. Wright III 3388. Stamping on spine panel faded mild dust soiling to rear panel a very good copy. A very nice copy of a rare vampire novel. #136802 J. B. Lippincott Company unknown books
1857694891857. A Notable Nineteenth-Century Will Case Involving Codicils and Questions of Sanity Trial. Parish Will Case. Bell Luther V. 1806-1862. Medical Opinion in the Parish Will Case. New York: John F. Trow 1857. 69 pp. Octavo 9-1/4" x 6". Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers spine reinforced with archival tape. Light soiling and a few minor marks to exterior wear to spine ends and corners a few small chips to wrappers and edges of a few leaves moderate toning to interior. $450. Only edition. Henry Parish a New York merchant died in 1856 at age 69. He left a will made in 1842 that had been amended with three codicils signed by him some time after suffering a paralyzing stroke in 1849. These codicils were contested on the grounds of mental impairment. This trial attracted a good deal of attention and it involved testimony by several leading medical and legal experts. At time of this pamphlet's publication Bell was president of the Massachusetts Medical Society and a former superintendent of the McLean Asylum for the Insane near Boston. Not in Cohen which lists a composite volume by Trow containing this title. See Bibliography of Early American Law 11386. unknown books
181935752Lancaster Pa.: Johann Bär 1819. Folio 39.5 cm 15.5". Frontis. 5 ff. 100 12 pp. 2 ff. 738 26 pp.; 2 blank ff.; 227 1 92 pp. Lacks plate before the N.T. <br><br>Johann Bär's 1819 German Luther Bible in fraktur type a.k.a. "black letter" was the first complete Bible printed in "Lancaster Penn" and the=> first folio German Bible printed in America: It was an impressive production large in size set on good paper and the type pleasantly laid out and neatly impressed in double-column format. The frontispiece engraved by J. Henry and showing Moses with the tables of the law is appealing.<br>Â Â Â Â In the preliminaries the double-column text includes a brief biography of Luther and an essay by the famous Pietist August Herman Franke 16631727 advising how to read Scripture. The printer was only 19 years old when he undertook this massive project and despite the numerous subscribers listed on five preliminary pages in four-cloumn format he was nearly bankrupted by the enterprise.<br>Â Â Â Â In the upper outer corner of the front pastedown is the large printed binder's label of "Henrich Miller buchbinder in der Ost Dranien Strasse gegeneuber der Lancaster. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â O'Callaghan 146; Shaw & Shoemaker 47206; Arndt & Eck German Language Printing in the U.S. 2363. Contemporary calf over wood boards evidence of metal and leather clasp closures; leather perished joints outside open front board much loosened but holding tenuously and rear board more securely attached. Foxing and brown staining as usual. Lacks the plate opposite the New Testament title-page. A good copy only yet still => a touching "story" and a touchstone American Bible. Johann Bär hardcover books
184221404Lowell Mass: Daniel Bixby 1842. First edition large 12mo pp. 242 2; very good copy in orig. green ribbed cloth paper label on spine with one very small nick in the corner. "A work dealing with the chemistry of soils and manures and one of the first such scientific treatises written by an American and published in the United States. It attracted immediate attention and went through several editions. He later wrote an Essay on Manures 1850 which was widely used as a rural handbook and for which the author was awarded a prize by the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture" DAB. <br/><br/> Daniel Bixby hardcover books
1860241907New York: James Egbert Printer 321 Pearl Street 1860. First edition. 247 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original cloth. Fine. Bookplate. First edition. 247 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Cowan p. 570; Hill 1535; Wheat Gold Rush 176; Sabin 77485 James Egbert, Printer, 321 Pearl Street unknown books
1855274329Charleston VA 1855. unbound. 1 page 9.75 x 7.5 inches Charleston Virginia October 1 1855 to Dr. Rufus Woodward during Bell's brief retirement in full: "Your letter was received just as I was leaving home and with some others accidentally overlooked until to-day when the application of an interested party to learn where a patient could be sent when insane to a State Hospital reminded me of it. I need scarcely say that I shall be very willing to be referred to via connection with your.for which I wish all success. Hoping that this reply may not be too late for your purpose." Irregular left margin; natural folds but otherwise in very good condition. Provenance: The Rufus Woodward Archive: sold at Alexander Autographs February 2007; The Richard Manzi Collection; Argosy Books.<br/><br/> American physician and one of the most important figures in Mental Health during the early 19th century. He was one of the founders of the Association Institutions for the Insane now the American Psychiatric Association -- the first Medical Society in the United States. During the Civil War he was assigned a commission as a surgeon in the U.S. Army 11th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. He took part in the Battle of Bull Run but became ill and died several months later on February 11 1862. His papers are housed in the University of New Hampshire Library.<br/><br/> unknown books
1894242457Franklin Falls N.H.: Merrimack Journal Print 1894. Vignette of black gelding. 98 lines of text including ornamental headline and 27-line advertisement for Dr. Goudy's Magic Liniment; 24 lines naming references in N.H. and Vt. 15 inches x 5-1/2 inches. A few tiny marginal flaws. Small tape repair on verso at old fold. Fine. Vignette of black gelding. 98 lines of text including ornamental headline and 27-line advertisement for Dr. Goudy's Magic Liniment; 24 lines naming references in N.H. and Vt. 15 inches x 5-1/2 inches. Informative professional circular for an unusual specialty with related advertisements for liniment and for spaying dogs. Merrimack Journal Print unknown books
187822274n.p.: S.D. Harris Printer 1878. 42pp. Original printed wrappers light dustsoiling and wear stitched wraps lightly dusted. Institutional rubberstamp on front wrapper. Very Good. <br/> offered with EBEN NEWTON ET ALS. VS. THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MAHONING COUNTY OHIO. ARGUMENT FOR DEFENDANT BY T.W. SANDERSON. Youngstown OH: News Print. 23 1 blank 35 1 blank pp. @1878 Original printed wrappers light dust and wear stitched. Institutional rubberstamp on front wrapper. <br/> offered with EBEN NEWTON ET ALS. SUPPLEMENTAL ARGUMENT FOR DEFENDANT BY. THOS. W. SANDERSON. Youngstown OH: News Print. @ 27 1 blank pp. Original printed wrappers light dust rubberstamp on front wrap stitched. Very Good. Two stab holes in left margin. Very Good. Light old folds. Very Good. <br/><br/> The controversy related to the removal of a county seat from one town to another. Plaintiffs sought to prevent the removal on the ground that the State's action violated the Constitution's prohibition on impairing the obligation of contracts. The case is reported at 100 U.S. 548 1879. S.D. Harris, Printer unknown books
18719027291Philadelphia: Menamin & Ringwalt and J. Lippincott 1871. 1st. Hardcover. Good. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with spine and front cover elaborately stamped in gilt rear cover elaborately stamped in blind. Edges worn through at extremities half-inch tear at head of spine small chips at heel of spine front hinge separated. Text block is sound. All pages are present intact cleam and bright. Contains many elaborate illustrations of the printer's craft including a two-page color facsimile of illuminated text from a Bible printed by Gutenburg and Fust about the year 1455 following p. 240 printers' coat of arms granted by Frederick III printers' devices by Caxton and numerous technical tables. <br/><br/> Menamin & Ringwalt, and J. Lippincott hardcover books
1838707231838. Massachusetts Addresses the Effects of the Panic of 1837 Cushing Luther Stearns 1803-1856. An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors and for the More Equal Distribution of Their Effects; Passed by the Legislature of Massachusetts April 23 1838. With an Outline of the System Thereby Introduced And Forms of Proceeding Under the Same. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1838. vii 1 93 pp. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Original paper-covered boards with decorative blind stamping printed paper title label to front board. Light rubbing to extremities some soiling and staining to title panel corners lightly bumped and worn moderate toning and light foxing to text. $250. Only edition. This annotated edition of the newly-passed laws on debt and insolvency at a time when federal and state law was attempting to devise legislation to remedy the effects of the Panic of 1837. Cushing was an important Massachusetts jurist and expert on parliamentary procedure. He was clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives when he published this book. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2499. unknown books
188134425New York 1881. First edition. 1 vols. Small 4to. Blue gilt clotha.e.g. About fine. First edition. 1 vols. Small 4to. unknown books
18605679New York: James Egbert 1860. 1st edition Cowan p. 570; Sabin 77485. Original brown bindstamped cloth w/ gilt spine lettering. Nr Fine spine somewhat dull/bpt of Thomas & Estelle Magee. 247 pp. 12mo. <br/><br/>Per Cowan "The author arrived aat San Francisco in Sept. 1849 and nearly the entire work is devoted to California. His narrations are exceedingly interesting." James Egbert hardcover books
18409027386Philadelphia: Miller & Burlock 1840. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in half leather with spine stamped in gilt marbled paper on boards and marbled endpapers. Frontispiece lithograph of Luther by P. S. Duval. Text block is tight. Pages are clean with a minimum of foxing. 749 pages. <br/><br/> Miller & Burlock hardcover books
