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188443312London 1884. 1st Printing. Modern plum colored cloth spine over marbled paper-wrapped boards. Printed paper title label to front board. Binding - Fine. Textblock - VG age-toning. 2 adverts 685 - 716 2 adverts pp. Text double column. Probert's article pp. 703 - 711. Adverts illustrated with cuts. 8vo. 10" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/> hardcover books
1866360122Chicago: Church and Goodman 1866. 1st . Hard Back. G-vg/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. brown cloth 239 pp wear to corners ow vg <br/> <br/> Church and Goodman hardcover
184036557Philadelphia: Marshall Williams & Butler 1840. 12mo 15.5 cm; 6". 14 5 vix `5222 pp. complete despite odd pagination. <br><br>Fifth edition of this campaign biography a => greatly expanded version of Jackson's The life of Major-General William Henry Harrison: comprising a brief account of his important civil and military services and an accurate description of the council at Vincennes with Tecumseh as well as the victories of Tippecanoe Fort Meigs and the Thames that had appeared earlier in 1840 prior to Harrison's candidacy.<br>Â Â Â Â => Needless to say the emphasis is on his military career with much about native Americans.<br>Â Â Â Â The text is unillustrated but the front cover has a => central medallion bust of Harrison in gold.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Author's presentation copy "Joseph Barclay Esq. from the author" in ink on the first blank page after the front free endpaper. In an appropriately contemporary style hand.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Publisher's brown textured cloth front and rear boards stamped with blind corner devices and front board with a large bust of Harrison in gold in a circle and with his rank and name in gilt below. Cloth not in Krupp but closely related to her Wav1. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Sabin 35422. On binding cloth see: Krupp Bookcloth in England and America 182350. Publisher's textured purplish-brown cloth covers embossed with border rules and foliate corner pieces to frame the gilt image of "General Harrison" as above. A very good copy light sun-fading to spine; the usual foxing. Marshall, Williams & Butler hardcover books
18652508010021W.J. Widdleton. New York 1865. Hardcover. Very Good. 7x5x0. 6 volume set. Bound in 3/4 green leather over marbled boards. Marbled edges and end pages. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Some rubbing. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. W.J. Widdleton., New York hardcover
1826035089Hartford Connecticut: Oliver D. Cooke 1826. First American edition 1826. Heavily worn but complete printed hardcover with black cloth spine 168 pages. Covers very heavily worn and chipped spine covering nearly completely chipped away text block not firm but with no loosened pages two text pages mended with old clear paper tape rear free endpaper torn age-toning foxing and dampstaining throughout no names or other markings. Includes all 68 engravings mainly three to a page exhibiting common and archaic occupations many with a sense of humor see gunpowder. Indexed. Worn. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Oliver D. Cooke Hardcover
185957260Newport: Printed By W Christopher. 1859. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 336pp 3 bound in original red embossed cloth. minor bumping to top/base spine occ minor odd spotting. Written in ink on endpapers is :- "Fragments from the History of GLamorgan unpublished by William Davies 1756-1823 Cringell Neath." Siluriana was privately printed only a few copies being distributed. This book is very scarce.; Octavo . Printed By W Christopher hardcover
1830d2004dLondon: John Harris. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Covers rubbed and marked loss to spine head. Front outer hinge splitting. Sporadic light foxing. 1830. First Edition. Quarter-leather cover with marbled boards and gilt titles. 180mm x 110mm 7" x 4". 387pp; 24pp. 54 engravings on 18 plates. Inscribed 'Miss Mary Stokes with Mr. Smedley's love 1833'. Each chapter decribes where items such as silk wine glass salt tobacco and lead come from followed by the history of commerce. History and reference for children. . John Harris hardcover
1898038004NY: THE DUNLAP SOCIETY. ONE OF 260 COPIES OWNER'S NAME & BOOKPLATE. ALL PLATES PRESENT. CLEAN TEXT. . Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1898. THE DUNLAP SOCIETY hardcover
1830026795Boston MA: Carter and Hendee 1830. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. The cover shows some edgewear with rubbing and soiling. The soine has been tape reinforced. The binding is sound. Ex-library with the usual markings. <br/> <br/> Carter and Hendee hardcover
184844325Camden: P. Keen and E. Chandler 1848. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Modern black cloth. Extremities a little rubbed dampstaining on last two leaves else vg. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Howes M 881. Howes M 881 <br/><br/> P. Keen and E. Chandler hardcover
185896770New Haven: E. Hayes Printer 1858. 1858. Good. - Octavo 9-7/8 inches high by 6 inches wide. Softcover light grey printed wraps. The edges of the covers are chipped with a few short tears. There is dampstaining along the front edge of the front cover and bottom inner corners of both covers. viii & 456 pages illustrated with 2 folding charts.Both are charts of the "U.S. Coast Survey / A.D. Bache superintendent" the first being "Sketches Nos. 1 to 5 / Showing the set of currents in Sandy Hook Bay". The other is a folding chart depicting the "Curves Illustrating the Descent of the Sounding Weight and Line in Deep Sea Soundings 1858". There is dampstaining to the front edge of the first 74 pages and the top corner of several other pages. Good. <p>Included is an article "On an Earthquake in Western New York" by C.E. West pages 177 through 182; an article "On Chinese Poisons" by D.J. Macgowan M.D.; "Observations upon the Practicability of reaching the North Pole - with a map" by Isaac L. Hayes M.D. no map was published pages 305 through 323; an article on "The Atlantic Cable" pages 285 through 288; an article on "Photography - Sensitiveness of Photographic Reagents" page 397; W.P. Towbridge "On Deep Sea Explorations" pages 386-391; G.C. Swallow of Missouri on "The Rocks of Kansas" pages 182 through 186; "Sixth Supplement to Dana's Mineralogy" by the author pages 345 through 364; D.F. Weinland on the "Zoology of Hayti" i.e. Haiti pages 210 through 214; and Charles Lyell "On the Formation of Volcanic Cones" pages 214 through 219. New Haven: E. Hayes, Printer, 1858. paperback
184648053Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1846. First Edition. Octavo ca. 22cm.; disbound; 40pp. Title page serving as upper cover a bit browned upper signature very nearly separated else Good to Very Good internally clean and fresh. A "plain but graphic narrative of the difficulties dangers and sufferings" during the campaign cf. Stephen Darley "Voices from the Wilderness Expedition" 2011 p. 23. HOWES S-291; SABIN 79148 attributing editorship to Edward D. Ingraham. Historical Society of Pennsylvania unknown
186544826<p>Hilton Head SC 1865. Very good folded staples removed from top corners lightly creased minor soiling and fading contents clean. 2 pp rectos only. 8 x 10 inches. September 3rd 1865 from Isaac Arnold Jr. Chief of Ordnance Department of the South at Hilton Head S. C. This letter acknowledges the service of Major Wheelock Pratt before Arnold departs to serve as Asst. Ordinance Officer in for Allegheny PA. Arnold praises the competencies of Pratt claiming that "In no instance has any complaint reached me. At the same time the achievements of affairs within the Depot was satisfactorily constructed upon the arrival of Genl Sherman's Army. with you again rested the responsibility of. a large part of it. And the dispatch with which you completed this duty is deserving of the greater credit.Upon hearing your being mustered out of service I made an effort to have you retained in position but am sorry to say it failed as the request made was contrary to the rules of the War Dept."<br /><br />In his closing Arnold warmly wishes Pratt happiness should he choose civilian life but would "extend the right hand of fellowship" if he chose to remain in service. But Pratt would die a year later due to injuries<br /><br />Isaac Arnold Jr. 1839-1901 graduated from the Military Academy in 1862 and over the years had earned the ranks of Brevet Captain Captain Major and Lieutenant Colonel. He died Oct. 15 1901 at Allegheny Arsenal PA.<br /><br />Major Wheelock Pratt 1829-1866 enlisted in In Sept. 1861 in "C" Company United-States Engineer Battalionwhere he served through the peninsular campaign at Antietam South Mountain and Fredericksburg. But due to his serving as leader of a "Black" company a written protest by by Engineers kept him from being placed in charge of the reconstruction of Battery Wagner; he was " placed in charge of Battery Chatfield in rear of Cummings Point. While superintending the construction of that work a shell from Fort Moultrie exploded near him inflicting a slight wound on his face and causing a permanent injury to the brain which three years later Dec. 30 1866 resulted in coma paralysis and death." <br /><br />References: 1. edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army<br />USMA/ Cullums_Register/1979.html. 2. Charles Barnard Fox: Record of the Service of the Fifty-fifth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Cambridge 1868 pp. 90-1.</p>
183913408New York: Office of the New York Express 1839. First Edition Early Issue. Sewn binding. Very good. A Sketch of the Life and Public Services of William H. Harrison published in New York in 1839. Octavo 32pp. Pamphlet bound with string. Occasional foxing and toning throughout. A very good copy of a campaign pamphlet printed during Harrison's second run for president. Sabin 81523 Howes J20 Thomson 152. Office of the New York Express unknown
188078395Paris:: Librairie Hachette et Cie. 1880. First edition. publisher's red cloth decorated in gold and black. Some light foxing and dampstaining to the lower margins; tissue overleaves with tears chips and creasing; light spotting to the cloth with fraying at corners. . Oversized folio. Complete with 14 engraved plates with captioned tissue overleaves. Traduit de la Sainte Bible par Lemaistre de Sacy. Additional postage applicable; international shipping prohibitive. Librairie Hachette et Cie., hardcover
1824176999London: John Murray 1824. Leather. 3 vols. 512p; 511p; 472p. A set of three hardcover books bound with golden-brown leather spines and corners. The boards endpapers and foredges are all marbled. The spines and edges are scuffed marring the gilt decorations on the spines and making the lettering a bit difficult to read. Small chip off the head of volume II's spine. Pages mildly age-toned and faintly foxed. Otherwise text unmarked and binding secure across the set. Each volume contains the bookplate of Norwood Penrose Holloway Jr. of Massachusetts. Volume II contains a foldout facsimile of Pope's manuscript of Homer; this foldout has a small closed tear and some mild foxing. John Murray unknown
1840369343Philadelphia: W. Marshall & Co 1840. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition. 12mo. 218pp. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt-stamped portrait of General Harrison on the front cover. Ex-library copy with spine lettering bookplate perforated stamp on the title paper shelf label on the rear free endpaper else a very good sound copy. Sabin 30586. W. Marshall & Co hardcover
188141747Chicago: Fergus Publishing Co. 1881. 18pp. Stitched with caption title and wrapper title. Clean text. Front wrapper with a couple of small holes no text affected. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Circuit-riding stories serious and humorous the Lovejoy trial for harboring fugitive slaves recollections of Lincoln and Douglas.<br /> Monaghan 969. Fergus Publishing Co. unknown
1885142510140015Jansen McClurg & Company 1885. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Hardcover. SCARCE ORIGINAL 1885 PRINTING. NO DUST JACKET. Pages are clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned with gilt top-edge. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering along spine show moderate edge wear with general rubbing light scuffing to corners and edges. Hinges are cracked binding remains tight. COVER MAY NOT MATCH THE PICTURE ON THIS SITE.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! Jansen, McClurg, & Company hardcover
189328257Munsell & Company. Good. 1893. Leather. Part II only. Bound in brown half-leather with brown pebbled leather boards. Binding a little weak especially front hinge but holding. Pages unmarked and only slightly aged. Many illustrations some with tissue protective page. Gilt edges all in pretty good condtiion. Former property of Excelsion-Lake Minnetonka Historical Society with tiny handwritten donor reference and gold sticker. Coveris quite worn at corners with boards showing. Front title fine but spine title rubbed. Support an independent used-book store in Minneapolis! ; 1010 pages . Munsell & Company hardcover
1810WRCAM21261Washington 1810. 8pp. Modern cloth leather label. Very good. Briggs herein petitions the U.S. government for compensation for the hardships and expenses he undertook while fulfilling an appointment to survey a route from Washington to New Orleans through Tennessee. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 21655. hardcover books
1900295221London: Longmans 1900. hardcover. very good. Many black & white illustrations. 382 pages 8vo rebound in burgundy cloth. Lodnon: Longmans Green 1900. Very good .<br/><br/> Longmans unknown books
1900295221London: Longmans 1900. hardcover. very good. Many black & white illustrations. 382 pages 8vo rebound in burgundy cloth. Lodnon: Longmans Green 1900. Very good .<br/> <br/> Longmans unknown
186938078Rochester N.Y.: Benton & Andrews 1869. Original printed yellow wrappers stitched. x 100 pp. Rubberstamped front wrapper and title page. Otherwise a clean and Very Good copy.<br /> <br /> Butts had supported the Free Soil Party and the "Barnburner" or antislavery wing of the Democratic Party. But during the War he consistently opposed the Lincoln administration. He believed the War was wrong "and that nothing but evil could result from it so far as the nation was concerned" web site of Prabook. <br /> Butts argues that binding succeeding generations to the debts contracted by a prior generation is "monstrous; it is abhorrent to the laws of God and utterly subversive of the inalienable Rights of Man." In the next 100 pages he tells us why this is so. <br /> Sabin 9680. Benton & Andrews unknown
1826D20141New York: James Campbell 1826. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. Part 1. All published. 47 pp. Stiched wraps. Edges are quite torn and frayed especially at rear but any losses are contained to margin. Scarce. <br/><br/> James Campbell paperback
