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18461171192Halle (Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses), 1846. (VIII); 104 Seiten; 18,5 cm. Fadengeh. Pappband.
18952019359Leipzig, E. Ungleich 1895. VIII, 205 Seiten, mit Frontispizportrait, 8° (22,5 x 15 cm)
1856ZB1160031Albany: United Society Called Shakers 1856. xxiv 631 1 pp. late 19th century full calf light moisture rippling throughout and foxing throughout however overall good. - 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. Albany: United Society Called Shakers unknown
185216578Raleigh: Office of the 'Weekly Post.' 1852. 12mo. Contemporary full leather rebacked with original red leather spine label laid down. New endpapers. pp 199 1 blank xi 1 blank 4 publ. advts. Spotted endpapers else scattered spotting and foxing. Numerical accession rubberstamp in bottom margin of A2. About Good. <br /> <br /> Not a form book for lawyers the author explains but rather "a complete list of Forms of the various Instruments which the people themselves should know how to write and which in the course of their business they are constantly making." <br /> FIRST EDITION. Thornton 14855. BEAL 8091. 663 NUC 0305423 4. Not in Sabin Marke Harv. Law Cat. Office of the 'Weekly Post.' unknown
186012904New York: A.S. Barnes & Burr 1860. Octavo 8 x 5.5" original brown cloth with brown morocco spine gilt spine titles 2 6 3-251 pp. A school textbook for North Carolina students one of a series of three authored by Calvin H. Wiley a pioneering North Carolina educator. Wiley was the first superintendent of North Carolina Common Schools working to reorganize and expand the school such that literacy increased and North Carolina became an education leader among Southern states. The book was first published in 1851; this is the third revised edition.<br /> <br /> The reader contains descriptions of the various cities and regions of the state statistical information and a series of North Carolina themed essays and poems including "importance of female society in improvement of mind and formation of character" and "advantages of state pride". The text prints statistics regarding enslaved persons in the state and stresses that that state should be welcoming to farmers of all stripes including slaveowners. Another section covers a planned July 1775 slave rebellion emphasizing the violent intentions of the would-be participants and criticizing their British supporters: "they had been directed to fall on the night of the 8th on the white family in which they resided; and after destroying it to set fire to the buildings and proceed thus from plantation to plantation.This plan agrees with that suggested by the celebrated Samuel Johnson a distinguished English critic but a hateful bigot and uniform defender of tyranny." Seven in OCLC for this 1860 edition. A good copy with toning and foxing occasional damp staining to pages wear to covers with chip to lower spine leather. A.S. Barnes & Burr hardcover
185216578Raleigh: Office of the 'Weekly Post.' 1852. 12mo. Contemporary full leather rebacked with original red leather spine label laid down. New endpapers. pp 199 1 blank xi 1 blank 4 publ. advts. Spotted endpapers else scattered spotting and foxing. Numerical accession rubberstamp in bottom margin of A2. About Good. <br/><br/> Not a form book for lawyers the author explains but rather "a complete list of Forms of the various Instruments which the people themselves should know how to write and which in the course of their business they are constantly making." <br/>FIRST EDITION. Thornton 14855. BEAL 8091. 663 NUC 0305423 4. Not in Sabin Marke Harv. Law Cat. Office of the 'Weekly Post.' unknown books
1882ZB328092Washington: GPO 1882. 129 pp needs rebinding small damp stain in top margin ownership markings of a contemporary Pension Office employee on blank working copy 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. Washington: GPO, unknown
188914486Genève, Imprimerie H. Trembley, 1889. Plaquette in-8 brochée de 17 pages, couverture imprimée.
18945646Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office. Good. 1894. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Full tan leather 2 title labels on spine. 16 plates one in color. Ex-library copy with library numbers on spine library sticker on front; library bookplate and barcode sticker on front pastedown. Leather dried and worn; some peeling on spine; title labels scraped. Endpapers browned at edges and chipped. ; 9'1/4" x 11-3/4"; 147 pages . Government Printing Office hardcover
188544513<p>Report of a second cruise by the <em>Thomas Corwin</em> to the Alaskan Arctic to counter British poachers. While at it Captain Hooper made valuable observations on Inuit natives. Hard Cover. 147 pages 14 plates with guardsheets including two color botanical plates at end printed by "Heliotype Printing Co."; 30 cm. Title-page/first flyleaf loose; plate at page 48 loose with soiled lower edge. Bound in blue cloth front cover lettered in gold; corners & spine ends bumped & frayed; withal Good. Stock#44513/h.</p> James Anglim & Co. hardcover
1853682261853. Boston Med. Surg. J. 48/ 1. - Boston David Clapp Wednesday February 2 1853 8° 28 pp. fine wrappers. First Print! "Calvin Thomas M.D. M.M.S.S. Tyngsborough Mass. was born in Chesterfield Cheshire Country N.H. Dec. 22 1765." unknown
183812442Berlin, Thome, 1838. Gr.-8°, Pappbände der Zeit mit Rückenschildern
184071211New York:: Tanner & Disturnell 1840. First edition. publisher's ribbed cloth with applied printed paper label. Slight use to the cloth portfolio; both maps and contents very nice. . 5-1/4 x 3-1/4 inches. Engraved frontispiece and two folding color maps "New Map of the City of New York with Brooklyn & Part of Williamsburg" and "Map of the State of New York." . Tanner & Disturnell, hardcover
1863147327Elberfeld: Friderichs 1863. 479 Seiten. Frakturdruck. 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Halblederband der Zeit. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
182842215Andover MA: G. & C. Carvill. Fair with no dust jacket; Boards heavily worn spine label 2/3 gone . shaken foxing front hinge tender insect damage to endpapers and spine . label library markings. 1828. Hardcover. Translated from the German by Calvin E. Stowe. Printed at the Codman Press by Flagg and Gould for G. & C. Carvill. Cloth-backed boards with printed paper spine label. xii 9-512pp dxii-dxviii 513-692pp with p. 238 misnumbered as p. 338. Inscribed by Stowe on the front free endpaper: For the Dover Library from the Translator in grateful remembrance of the benefit which he derived from that library in his early youth. Stowe was a Biblical scholar and graduated from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829 he also later taught at this Massachusetts institution. After his first wife's death he married Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1836.; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . G. & C. Carvill hardcover
1838Q372Boston: Dutton and Wentworth / Massachusetts Board of Education 1838. Paperback. Good. Stitched wrappers 8vo 68pp. 2-part engraved table showing weekly course of study. Originally published as 57p report in 1837 Sabin 92392. In Good condition with a faint tidemark through most of the textblock and wrappers mostly chipped away at the spine tentatively attached. "Stowe was actively interested in the improvement of the common schools regarding such improvement as the great need of the West." He became chair of Biblical literature in Lane Theological Seminary Cincinnati Ohio in 1833 and married Harriet Elizabeth Beecher in 1836. In 1836 the state of Ohio appointed him commissioner to investigate the public school systems of Europe especially of Prussia. For this congenial task he was given every facility in England and on the Continent. Returning in 1837 he published his famous Report on Elementary Instruction in Europe a copy of which the legislature put into every school district of the state." DAB. Pencil signature of Joshua Armsby on the cover. Scarce. <br/><br/> Dutton and Wentworth / Massachusetts Board of Education paperback
186886215Hartford Connecticut: Hartford Publishing Company 1868. Leather-bound. Very Good. Quarto. Recent re-binding in plush deerskin with contrasting black labels lettered in gilt affixed to spine. Marbled endpapers. New front free endpapers. Sunning to spine. A very few light smudges and tiny blems to deerskin - hardly noticeable. Stowe's thesis is that "the chain of documentary evidence has been broken. The author writes in the preface: ".Each one of the books of the New Testament must be traced up to the Apostles who only had authority to deliver inspired books to the churches. This is what the present volume professes to do. It is a book of authorities and testimonies; it is the tracing and verifying of title deeds." "But there are some deeds in which the chain is broken before we get to the original proprietors; there are some which are forgeries and others which were given by the persons whose names they bear but these persons had no authority to make the sales. All such deeds are invalid and confer no title." "These latter deeds represent the apocryphal books. It is proposed to show that every one of the apocryphal books belongs to one of these three classes to wit: 1. They can not be traced to the apostles; 2. Some of them are proved to be forgeries; 3. And others though genuine were written by persons who had no apostolic authority to give them to the churches." <br /> <br /> Stowe was married to Harriet Beecher Stowe and while the two were part of a group which provided shelter to northward-bound freedom seekers aka escaped slaves or free Blacks "<br /> <br /> ".As references in William Lloyd Garrison's radical abolitionist paper The Liberator document although Stowe privately decried slavery he was no abolitionist. He believed slavery was sanctioned by the Bible and that through Christian education slavery would gradually fade away. He was instead an advocate of colonization of free Blacks in Liberia as a "solution" to slavery. It was only after his wife Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852 that Stowe began haltingly to change his stance regarding slavery first as a signatory to a petition of New England clergy in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act issued in 1854.Wikipedia. Hartford Publishing Company unknown
183713544Columbus 1837. 57pp stitched original plain wrappers folding table. Scattered foxing. Good. <br/><br/> Harriet Beecher Stowe's husband Calvin was a crusader for education in the old West. "In 1836 the state of Ohio appointed him commissioner to investigate the public school systems of Europe especially of Prussia. For this congenial task he was given every facility in England and on the Continent. Returning in 1837 he published his famous Report on Elementary Instruction in Europe a copy of which the legislature put into every school district of the state. It was reprinted by the legislatures of Massachusetts Pennsylvania Michigan and other states." DAB. <br/>FIRST EDITION. XVIII DAB 115. Sabin 92392. AI 46937 5. Not in Thomson Eberstadt Decker. unknown books
1889816921889. STEVENS John Calvin and Albert Winslow COBB. Example of American Domestic Architecture. New York: William T. Comstock 1889. 1st ed. Oblong 4to. 30 24 31-40 2 pp frontis. plates illus. In orig. cloth. Binding is a bit soiled with some light fraying to the cloth at the corners and spine ends. Previous owner name on the first blank else clean with only light and scattered foxing. Very good or better. Hitchcock 1240. A scarce book by the Portland Maine based architects. Hitchcock erroneously calls for 50 plates. There are 59 numbered plates plus the frontispiece. unknown
1889100598New York: William T. Comstock 1889. First edition. Oblong 4to. 59 plates after drawings by Stevens numerous illustrations in text. 40 pp. Publisher's blue-green cloth front cover and spine stamped in gilt; spine ends repaired hinges reinforced and now sturdy some repairs to endsheets covers scuffed and extremities worn moderate soiling and scuffing final paragraph of Preface effaced Scarce first edition of this important treatise on the Shingle Style of architecture. Stevens 1855-1940 who supplied the plans and drawings illustrated here was a major innovator of the Shingle Style. He was prolific completing some 1000 commissions mostly along the Maine coast including approximately 300 homes on the Portland peninsula. In 1888 he formed a partnership with Albert Winslow Cobb who had previously worked at the Boston office of William Ralph Emerson another major innovator of the Shingle Style. Cobb who provides the text argues for the Shingle Style as a necessary reform to produce a more democratic straightforward and uniquely American style of domestic architecture. "Examples of American Domestic Architecture was nothing short of an impassioned clarion call for a new form of architecture that was aesthetically beautiful and purposely engineered to reduce the widespread social inequalities of the period. While the strident and occasionally ponderous idealism on evidence in Examples is widely considered to be Cobbs doing the books lyrical prose and innovative Shingle Style illustrations won international recognition and acclaim for the two architects" Stephen Abbott "John Calvin Stevens: The Early Years" in Maine Home DesignREFERENCE: Hitchcock 1240; Vincent Scully The Shingle Style pp. 113-120; Sprague The Mirror of Maine 32 William T. Comstock hardcover
185931054Berlin, Walter Herz:, 1859. 8°. 562 S. Goldgepräger Halbleinen der Zeit.
1847106023<p>16mo original brown cloth decoratively stamped in gilt and blind illustrated with 125 engravings 233 pp. and folding map 52 x 67 cm 20 1/2" x 26 1/4" plus decorative border. Minor fading and wear to covers some pencil notes on endpapers about a 6" split at one fold a smaller split at another fold otherwise a really nice map; overall very good or better. Smith was a prominent mapmaker in the mid 19th century. He competed with the likes of Colton and Mitchell and was associated with John Disturnell back in the 1840s.He published a number of city maps around that time. In 1843 Smith published a large map of the United States and three years later in 1846 he published the first edition of this map. Considered a really good map it basically covers the eastern and midwestern part of the U.S. California and Oregon are featured in an inset and part of Texas is also shown. Some railroad and canal routs in the northeast are also highlighted. Ristow: American Maps. </p> Sherman & Smith,
1848106024<p>16mo original red cloth decoratively stamped in gilt and blind illustrated with 125 engravings 234 pp. and folding map 52 x 67 cm 20 1/2" x 26 1/4" plus decorative border. Old ink name on front pastedown with catalogue entry glued in some light foxing within map slightly darkened a few short splits at folds; otherwise very good. Smith was a prominent mapmaker in the mid 19th century. He competed with the likes of Colton and Mitchell and was associated with John Disturnell back in the 1840s.He published a number of city maps around that time. In 1843 Smith published a large map of the United States and three years later in 1846 he published the first edition of this map. Considered a really good map it basically covers the eastern and midwestern part of the U.S. California and Oregon are featured in an inset and part of Texas is also shown. Some railroad and canal routs in the northeast are also highlighted. Ristow: American Maps. </p> Sherman & Smith,
1845001628New York: J. H. Colton 1845. Book. Good. Decorative Cloth. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Orig. issued 1839 this an early edition 5th overall with revised title from 1843 edition later issued as "Colton's Traveller and tourist's guide-book through the western states and territories." Howes W 615. Brown blind-decorated cloth gilt lettering. Cloth quite faded with frayed extremities underboards exposed at corners soiling and dampstaining to rear cover a bit cocked. Modest dampstaining to upper fore-edge corner of all interior leaves present but not pronounced. All leaves firm modestly toned with little foxing evident. Former owner signature in pencil on front flyleaf. Portion of map present at rear mostly lacking showing portions of western Missouri southern Iowa and "Indian Territory" later Oklahoma to the west. Rear pastedown also contains original bookseller's tag from Chicago Book Store S. F. Gale & Co. Chicago. Worn but not abused acceptable as reference copy with a portion of the rare map for novelty's sake. J. H. Colton Hardcover
1849216749New York: Sherman & Smith 122 Broadway 1849. Illustrated with 125 engravings in the text. Large folding map by Smith 22 x 25 3/4 inches at the back outlined in period color "A New Map for Travellers throught the United States" New York Sherman & Smith 1849". 2 ads 234 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original green gilt-stamped cloth with slight wear at extremities. One piece missing from right edge of map approximately 3 x 3 inches affecting one inset. Illustrated with 125 engravings in the text. Large folding map by Smith 22 x 25 3/4 inches at the back outlined in period color "A New Map for Travellers throught the United States" New York Sherman & Smith 1849". 2 ads 234 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. An important map of the U.S. first published in the 1846 edition which was updated for the editions of 1848 1849 this and 1850 then published separately in 1853 and 1853. With five insets to the general map: "Railroad & Canal Routes from Albany to Buffalo" "Map Showing the Rail Roads between the Cities of New York Boston & Albany" mostly missing in this copy "Railroad Route from New York to Philadelphia" "Railroad Route from Philadelphia to Washington" and "Map of Oregon Northern California Santa Fe &c." The latter inset first published in the 1846 edition although small is important for showing regions before the Mexican War and was copied by other map makers. Howes S 614; Sabin 82928; Wheat 56 ref Sherman & Smith, 122 Broadway unknown