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18211010Y11London: J. Harris and Son 1821-1823. Leather. Good. 6.5" by 4". Not Stated The Rev. Isaac Taylor. Three beautifully illustrated topographies for young readers by Isaac Taylor complete with folding maps and engraved plates. A delightful trio of 19th-century travel works from the Rev. Isaac Taylor designed with younger readers in mind and describing the views topographies geographies and inhabitants across the world. Comprising the first edition of 'Scenes in America' second edition of 'Scenes in England' and the sixth edition of 'Scenes in Europe'. 'America' and 'Europe' in the publisher's quarter roan. 'England' rebacked with the original paper covers laid down bound with contemporary endpapers and lacking half title. 'America' illustrated with a folding map frontispiece title page vignette and twenty-eight further plates each with three engravings. Advertisement leaf to the rear. Collated complete. 'Europe' illustrated with a folding map frontispiece title page vignette and twenty-eight further plates each with three engravings. Four pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. Collated complete.'England' illustrated with a folding map frontispiece title page vignette and twenty-eight further plates each with three engravings. Collated complete. 'America' and 'Europe' in the publisher's quarter roan. 'England' rebacked with the original paper covers laid down. Externally original boards are toned with notable marks and fading to 'England'. Vertical crack down the spine of 'America' and rubbing to the extremities resulting in loss to the spine's head; with two short splits to the head of the joints. Ownership bookplates to the front paste downs of 'England' and 'America'. Internally firmly bound. Pages are slightly toned in places with occasional scattered spots. 2.5" closed tear to pp. 91 of 'America'. Contemporary ink inscription to 'Europe' front free endpaper. Good J. Harris and Son hardcover
182044636London: T. Dolby 299 Strand and 34 Wardour Street Soho 1820. Broadside approx. 42 x 27 cm; hand-colored engraving approx. 16 x 23 cm text in double column 12 verses lightly creased at edges small sections of left side chipped occasional spots overall very good or better. A colorful satire depicting an infant version of a chubby King George IV shown in a cradle with the 'green bag' hanging on the wall in the background. The first verse reads "Hush! Great Babe! lie still and slumber Troops of Lancers guard thy bed Chinese gimcracks without number Nicely dangle o'er thy head." The King a bloated and whiskered infant sleeps in a cradle rocked by Sidmouth right a lean old woman wearing a cap and bag-wig who sits in a rocking-chair his clyster-pipe cf. British Museum Satires No. 9849 on the ground. The cradle is surmounted by a pagoda with bells and ornamented by two large crocodiles representing the Chinese dragons of the Pavilion cf. British Museum Satires No. 12749. On it are also a sun with a fool's cap in its disk between crescent moons. Round the cradle lie toys: soldiers mounted lancers &c. on wheels a cannon a sceptre a crown with a toy windmill stuck in it. With these are papers: 'Divorce'; 'Protocal' sic; 'Send her to Hell'. The infant holds a coral and bells and a corkscrew. Castlereagh sits over the fire warming a napkin. Canning see British Museum Satires No. 13737 walks off to the left disgustedly carrying the pan of a commode decorated with a crown and 'G.R.' On the chimneypiece are pap-boat bottle of 'Dolby's Carminative &c'. Dolby was a radical bookseller 'Dalby's carminative' a well-known remedy for infants. A large 'Green Bag' hangs on the wall. In a doorway behind Sidmouth inscribed 'French Dolls' stand two young women in evening dress stiff and impassive."--British Museum online catalogue. OCLC locates Harvard and Yale only. T. Dolby, 299, Strand, and 34, Wardour Street, Soho unknown
1893elala1542New York London & Toronto: Funk & Wagnalls Company 1893-95. 1893. 2 Volumes. 4to. pp. xix 1 1060; 1 p.l. 1061-2318. 14 plates 1 double-page 10 colour & numerous text illus. text in triple columns. contemporary blind & gilt-stamped leather joints & extremities rubbed joints starting to crack spines faded 1 plate with long tear no loss. First Edition. The general editor believed strongly in accurate phonetics and simplified spellings whenever possible. Definitions were ordered according to current rather than historical usage and etymologies were placed at the end of definitions rather than at the beginning. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New York, London & Toronto: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1893-95. Hardcover
185639486Cincinnati Printed At The Office Of The Israelite & Deborah 1856. Hardback. 1st edition. Period Cloth 8vo 107 pages. Singerman 1444. Deinard 357. <br> <br> Goldman 269: "Mayer was born in Alsace or Bavaria in 1809. He studied in yeshivot near his native town and in Frankfor am Main and he pursued secular studies in Frankfort and Mayence.<br> Mayer 'inherited a considerable property which was swept away in the German revolution of 1848' Israelite. He subsequently immigrated to America. Mayer served as a teacher and rabbi in Cincinnati Rochester and Hartford.The speech delivered by his son Alfred on the occasion of becoming a bar mitzvah was printed in Occident 17.1 31 Mar 1859 3." <br> Includes 2 title pages: The first entirely in English is dated 1856. The second primarily in Hebrew is dated 1855. For a review see Occident 14.1 April 1856 p. 39. No copy offered at major auction in the past 25 years. <br> <br> OCLC: 2269993. <br> Ex-library with minimal markings. Binding repaired some ink stains About Very Good- Condition. KH-8-18-RGGFDBYL. Cincinnati, Printed At The Office Of The Israelite & Deborah unknown
185221535Columbia S.C.: R.W. Gibbes State Printer 1852. 24pp stitched. Untrimmed minor edgewear generously margined light toning and foxing. Very Good. <br /> <br /> A rare early informative Report on prisons and South Carolina's criminal law. The Report recommends changes in the penal law; not Hayne assures from "sympathy with the spirit of indiscriminate and sweeping innovation which to some extent is the characteristic of the age and which absolutely runs riot in many of the States of this Confederacy." South Carolina has a low crime rate: "more than half of our population and the portion amongst whom from their position crime would naturally most abound are slaves who are kept in order without a resort to the Courts." But he fears an "alarming" rise in crime in Charleston. Urging greater efficiency "in detecting crime" he recommends employing prosecutors in each district and "physicians for post mortem examinations in murder cases." <br /> Hayne wants to streamline outmoded judicial procedures allow appeals "in cases not capital only on cause shown" to curtail the power of pardon with standards to guide issuance of pardons to curb the most wretched prison conditions particularly housing "the arrested debtor and the innocent witness" with "the convicted felon"; and to provide separate cells at night and employ prisoners in shoemaking and other useful tasks. An Appendix prints valuable data on the prison population of South Carolina. <br /> III Turnbull 143. Cohen 4567. Not in Harv. Law Cat. or Marke. OCLC 8348549 3- Harvard U Chi. U SC 8348544 2- AAS U SC as of September 2024. R.W. Gibbes, State Printer unknown
1813List1947Plymouth 1813. Plymouth Devon England: 21st July 1813. Folio 7 pages 13 1/8 x 8 ¼ inches duty blindstamp small ink stamp to upper inner margin of the first page two seals to the last page signed twice by Galindo. Toned some small repaired tears using reversible archival ph-neutral paper-repair tape very good to near fine. Very Good. An interesting document of privateering in the Peninsular war this ‘Public Instrument of Protest‘ documents a Portuguese captain and crew complaint in detail to an English notary. After sailing from Calcutta to Brazil and then from Rio to just outside of Lisbon their ship the 700-ton ‘Oceano’ was seized and comprehensively ransacked by a French privateer the ‘Lion’ out of Lorient. Most of the crew and passengers were offloaded onto a passing American vessel the ‘Leda’ bound for Lisbon. Meanwhile the ‘Lyon’ escorted her prize towards the nearest French port but before a friendly haven was reached they were both set upon by the brigantine HMS ‘Achates’. The ‘Lyon’ escaped but the ‘Ocean’ was captured by Commander Morrison and the ‘Achetes’. The ’Ocean’ was taken to Plymouth and moored in the Hamoaze. The remaining Portuguese crew who had been forced to remain aboard the ‘Ocean’ by the French got a message to the ‘Ocean’s Master Dn. Ignacio Joze Martins and he and the boatswain made their way to Plymouth as quickly as possible. The sworn statement presented here is in English thanks to the translation given by Francisco Martins d' Magalhaens master of a Portuguese ship “now dwelling in Plymouthâ€<br /> <br /> The ’Oceano’ sailed from Calcutta to Brazil arriving 10th February 1813. She left Rio on 4th April all was plain sailing until the afternoon of the 7th June off the Rock of Lisbon when the ‘Lion’ showed up first under false British colors then French. The fighting was fierce the privateer was driven off once but eventually the ‘Oceano’ was taken. The night of the 7th June was spent by the French ‘conveying everything Moveable and Valuable from the Ocean to the Privateer’. The ‘Leda’ the US vessel landed the majority of the ‘Ocean’s crew including the Master in Lisbon on the evening of the 9th June.Monday 14th June the ‘Lyon’ engaged in a running battle with HMS ‘Achates’ and escaped but the ‘Achates’ did capture the ‘Ocean’. Wednesday 16th June the ‘Ocean’ arrived in Plymouth under the watchful eye of the ‘Achates’. Receiving the crew’s message the Captain of the ‘Ocean’ left Lisbon for Falmouth and then Plymouth arriving on the 20th July. The document was dated 21st July 1813.<br /> <br /> Full transcription available. unknown
1879404855Washington D.C.: Mohun Brothers Publishers and Bangs & Co. Auctioneers 1879. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo. Two booklets in original printed wrappers and nine inserted leaves of clippings stitched and quarter bound together in an outer plain paper wrapper with a marbled paper spine. The outer wrapper is toned and chipped at the edges very good. The first booklet: A Tribute to Bayard Taylor is a presentation copy Inscribed by I. Edwards Clarke on the dedication page dated: "Washington D.C. Dec. 8th 1879". In the original printed wrapper: pp. 6 1-17 18-20 illustrated with 3 portrait plates: a steel engraved frontispiece; halftone photograph; and wood engraving. Washington D.C.: Mohun Brothers 1879.<br /> <br /> The second booklet is the Executor's sale catalogue of Taylor's library with a few contemporary marginal annotations: Catalogue of the Library of the late Mr. Bayard Taylor. English German & American books . to be sold at Auction . November 24th and 25th 1879 by Bangs & Co. 739 and 741 Broadway New York. In the original blue printed wrapper. Octavo. pp. 1 2-26 with an engraved frontispiece portrait plate and tipped-in supplemental printed slip item no. 503. Inserted after p. 26 i.e. in between the final letterpress leaf and rear printed wrap are nine leaves with newspaper articles memorial tributes mounted on the rectos and verso of each sheet and on the inside of the rear wrap.<br /> <br /> A unique presentation copy by Issac Clarke a founding member of the Literary Society of Washington 1874 and the Cosmos Club 1878. (Mohun Brothers, Publishers [and] Bangs & Co. Auctioneers) unknown
18089225City of Washington: A. & G. Way 1808. Very Good. City of Washington: A. & G. Way 1808. First Edition. Octavo 21cm.; removed; 51pp. Light foxing spine nearly split else Good to Very Good despite slightly musty odor.<br /> <br /> Exceedingly uncommon pamphlet reproducing three pieces of correspondence between President Thomas Jefferson and American engineer Isaac Briggs. Briggs had volunteered his services in 1804 to lead an expedition to New Orleans with the "view of discovering the most direct and convenient route for a post-road from the city of Washington to New Orleans." The trip proved more difficult than expected and Briggs "encountered great expense and extreme hardships which were immediately followed by a severe and tedious sickness and a shock to his constitution from the effects of which it will probably never recover." Briggs concludes his letter with a plea for proper compensation for his hardships most likely a dangerous bout of malaria though he does appear to have recovered enough to work as one of the chief engineers on both the Erie Canal and the James River and Kanawha Canal up until his death in 1825. <br /> <br /> Jefferson's first response in this pamphlet corroborates Briggs' claims noting from his report that "the enterprise was expensive laborious and tedious infinitely beyond expectation. The way being then quite unknown he had to pursue his course through the woods to go through marshes swim rivers cut open his path sometimes and to encounter all obstacles as they presented themselves sleeping out without cover and distressed for food." Jefferson's second letter offers Briggs two hundred dollars by the sixth of June "Saturday se'nnight" and an additional two hundred dollars the following month. Jefferson goes on to say "I am really mortified that you should have been left to suffer in an undertaking wherein I was agent" but concludes with the happy news that a road is indeed being constructed based on Briggs' survey.<br /> <br /> Shaw & Shoemaker 16384 but missed by Sabin. A. & G. Way unknown
1853M11324Washington DC United States 1853-4. Very Good backed on acid free tissue paper for long term preservation. Notes: Map showing the Route Near the 47th and 49th Parallels.<br>It covers the Rocky Mountains in Montana to Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean. Inset map titled "Reconnaissance of the Railroad Route from Wallawalla to Seattle via Yak-e-mah River & Snoqualmie Pass. By A.W. Tinkham in January 1854." Size : 632x934 mm 24.88x36.77 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Category: Maps United States West Washington & Oregon; unknown
1820B2592London: Thomas Boys 1820. Occasional mild browning otherwise a very good copy. Edition: 1st edition Binding: contemporary ½ calf with marbled boards spine with 6 compartments of raised bands black morocco label on two. Size: 8vo Illustration: 12 hand coloured aquatints plates by Isaac Robert Cruikshank hand coloured engraved title. References: Tooley 165; Abbey Life 276 Pages: P.frontis engraved title blank i-xvi 1-240 Category: Book Caricatures Thomas Boys hardcover
188257978Boston:: S. E. Cassino 1882. publisher's gilt-lettered cloth t.e.g. Old bookplate on each pastedown; some light rubbing to cloth at extremities; otherwise very nice. Folio. With fifty colored plates from original drawings by Isaac Sprague. Text by George L. Goodale. S. E. Cassino, hardcover
1853M8797US: War Department 1853. Very Good. Notes: http://www.murrayhudson.com/Wall%20Maps%20Pre%201900.htm<br><br>The northern railroad expedition was led by Governor Stevens of Washington Territory. The Expeditions of 1853 1854 and 1855 by Secretary of the War Jefferson Davis was to find the best route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean Size : 1540x595 mm 60.63x23.43 Inches Coloring: Black & White Category: Maps United States West; War Department unknown
1873008783London: Macmillan and Co. 1873 476 508 pages. The pages are uncut and mostly unopened. In the original green cloth bindings. A previous owner's inscriptions are on the front free endpapers of each volume. The same owner also made notes on the first two pages of the Preface otherwise the pages are clean. Spine ends lightly worn and top page edges spotted. A scarce first edition of this classic work by a leading Victorian author of works on mathematics. First Edition. Green Cloth. Very Good. Macmillan and Co. hardcover
188034237A. C. Armstrong and Son 1880. VG to VG-/na. Softcover. Leather spine & corners with marbled boards & page edges make this a very attractive set. Some wear on the leather - some edgwear & some chips; couple spots of discoloration. Books have some rubbing & edgewear; some yellowing; overall clean & tight. A. C. Armstrong and Son paperback
1822614182Northampton NJ 1822. Softcover. Good. Original holograph cyphering book of Isaac Haines of Northampton Mount Holly Burlington County New Jersey. Folio. Approximately 80 pages. Sewn marbled paper wrappers with paper owner label on front wrapper. One leaf torn lacking the bottom third scattered foxing and soiling throughout signatures partially loose wrappers worn and stained with a stain on the front wrapper affecting the first two pages and a tear along a portion of the rear wrapper still a pleasing good or better example with the contents remaining clear and bright with little to no fading of the ink. Laid in are three hexagonal pieces of paper that appear to have been cutout of the missing bottom third of the previously mentioned leaf as they contain fragments of writing and sums that appear to be in the same hand.<br /> <br /> The owner label on the front wrapper is dated 1801 and about halfway through the book a page is dated March 12 1802. The book contains instructions on mathematical concepts accompanied by examples of their applications. Many of the concepts introduced are expanded upon later in the book. Concepts such as "Addition of Money" "Federal Money" "Cloth Measure" "Land Measure" "Avoirdupois Weight" "The Single Rule of Three" and more are explored and worked through. The headings and subheadings are written in an elegant calligraphic script and the pages are broken up into sections by use of a straightedge some in a rather unconventional manner with bits of work occupying triangular spaces.<br /> <br /> The most curious page in the book and the only mention of a location contains no school work. Instead it contains the following passage “Article of agreement entered into this twenty-fifth day of January eighteen hundred and twenty-two between John Stokes of the first part and Isaac T. Haines of the second part both of the Township of Northampton County of Burlington and State of New Jersey†Northampton is now known as Mount Holly. But there are no signatures underneath and no other information about this agreement.<br /> <br /> The Haines were a very prosperous and influential family in Burlington County. Their endeavors and pursuits helped develop much of the region and their influence can still be seen in the area today. 51 Union Street a house originally built by Jonathan Haines in 1760 and later known as the Haines/Thompson house is still standing. Another Isaac Haines perhaps the father of this book's owner is responsible for the construction of what came to be known as Kirby's Mill which was completed in 1778 and was still in operation during 1969 making it the last working commercial mill in New Jersey. In 1971 it was designated a State Historical Site and though no longer in operation as a commercial mill it can still be visited today.<br /> <br /> An interesting look into mathematical and economic studies in the early 19th century with a nice connection to New Jersey history. unknown
1840A2250ab<p>vii611 pages. Octavo 9" x 5 3/4" bound in original publisher pebbled cloth with spine label lettered in gilt. Howes: M-68 First edition.</p><p>Isaac McCoy was a Baptist missionary among the Native Americans in present-day Indiana Michigan Missouri and Kansas. He was an advocate of Indian removal from the eastern United States proposing an Indian state in what is now Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma. He also played an instrumental role in the founding of Grand Rapids Michigan and Kansas City Missouri. McCoy founded his first "religious station" and school in October 1818 in what became Parke County Indiana on Big Raccoon Creek upstream from the later Wea Indian reservation at Armiesburg. The mission was said to be situated between Rosedale and Bridgeton. The Wea showed little interest in the school however and it failed. McCoy at that time was likely the only white settler in Parke County. In February 1819 he performed the first marriage in the county between two matis Christmas Dazney Noel Dagenet and Mary Ann Isaacs a Brotherton or Mohegan from upstate New York. In 1821 in compensation for his work with McCoy and for the federal government as an interpreter Dazney filed a land claim between the mouths of Sugar Creek and Big Raccoon Creek north and east of present-day Montezuma and established a Wea-Miami reservation there. This was the first reservation that came about as a result of a connection with Isaac McCoy though McCoy had left the area by then. Dazney was eventually instrumental in leading bands of Indiana Indians west to Kansas after the Indian Removal Act of 1830. In May 1820 the McCoy family moved to Fort Wayne Indiana to set up a mission to the Miami tribe. His school at Fort Wayne attracted 40 Miami Potawatomi and mixed-blood children several whites and one African American. The Miami and Potawatomi tribes at this time consisted of mixed-race people and there were no clear lines of distinction between races within the tribes. In 1821 McCoy made the first of many visits to Washington DC seeking approval by the federal government unsuccessfully on this occasion for him to appoint teachers blacksmiths and other "agents of civilization" to be provided the Indians under newly ratified treaties. In December 1822 McCoy left Fort Wayne and moved his family and 18 Indian students to a site on the St. Joseph River near the present-day city of Niles in southwestern Michigan; he opened a mission to the Pottawatomi. The Carey Mission as it came to be known was 100 miles from the nearest White settlement. The Pottawatomi gave McCoy a relatively warm welcome and helped feed his large family and Indian students through their early seasons in the territory. McCoy enjoyed more success here than in his earlier endeavors. His school expanded to have 76 Indian children four Indian employees five missionaries six white children and a millwright. In 1826 McCoy led his family in another move deeper into the frontier where he established the Thomas Mission to the Odawa people at what was later to become Grand Rapids Michigan. McCoy and his missionaries were the first European-American settlers in Niles and Grand Rapids.</p><p>Condition: Signed on front end paper. Corners bumped and rubbed through some minor foxing edges bumped spine rubbed else about a very good copy.</p> William M Morrison, H &; S Raynor and Bennett, Backus &; Hawley hardcover
1812154510London: Printed by Joyce Gold; and sold by T. Egerton 1812. Fourth edition including three plates conceptualizing the trace italienne in a 19th-century context. The author "was highly thought of and was a technical scholar who had great influence over the many young men he taught for a period of nearly thirty-eight years" ODNB. All editions are uncommon in commerce: in the last two decades one copy of the fourth and one copy of the second have appeared at auction. Landmann 1741-1826 lectured for many years at the École Royale Militaire in Paris before his appointment in 1777 as Professor of Fortification and Artillery at the Royal Military Academy: "A letter from the Board of Ordnance to the lieutenant-governor of the academy introduced him as a gentleman who 'has seen a great deal of service and acted as ADC to Marshal Broglie in the last war'" ODNB. First published in 1796 Principles went through seven editions the last 1853 revised by Landmann's son George. This edition like its predecessors is advertised on the title page as containing "many additions" although this is a marketing ploy. Octavo 205 x 123 mm pp. iv 72 12 index and explanation of plates. With 3 folding engraved diagrammatic plates. Contemporary calf recently rebacked with brown leatherette. Contemporary annotation "B71 Morris" on front pastedown. Boards rubbed contents generally clean occasional faint staining to plates: a very good copy. hardcover
1824166494London: Josiah Taylor 1824. First Taylor edition of Theophrastus' timeless gallery of personality traits translated into English and beautifully illustrated with caricatures. The English translation is followed by the Greek text and notes. Taylor 1787-1865 was a philosophical and historical writer artist and inventor. Born into a family of engravers he initially followed this trade before turning to literature. This edition was welcomed with enthusiastic reviews the Literary Chronicle highlighting that "The sketches are bold and spirited full of character; there is scarcely an extraneous or unnecessary line in their whole engraving". This copy was bound for Sotheran's in London for Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale 1849-1912 with his gilt monogram stamp on the front cover. Dimsdale was a British banker and Conservative politician who served as Lord Mayor of London from 1901 to 1902. Quarto 270 x 193 mm. With 50 mounted wood-engraved illustrations. Late 19th-century green morocco over bevelled boards spine with raised bands gilt lettering in compartments monogram stamp "D" surmounted by a griffin's head and motto "quod Deus vult fiet" of Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale 1849-1912 on front cover marbled endpapers edges gilt. Spine and extremities faded to brown a few spots of wear at extremities front joint partly cracked short splits at rear joint ends and inner hinges but firm a little peripheral skinning to endpapers from adhesion margins of rear blanks toned occasional spot of foxing to contents otherwise clean. A very good wide-margined copy. hardcover
1838059423London: John Murray Albemarle Street. 1838. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. Frontispieces . FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1838. lovely set; scarce complete in original publisher's cloth-binding 5-Volume complete-set. The first biography of Wilberforce; issued first the previous year. Based on William Wilberforce's manuscript books or "diary" religious reflections or "journal" private correspondence manuscript memoranda and other personal writings. In five volumes complete. Hardbacks. Frontispieces portraits folded table to each volume. Contemporary purple cloth; gilt lettered spines; a matching set. Untrimmed edges as issued. Original yellow end-papers. Armorial bookplate of Edward Davenport. No other owner markings. Matching set in very good state. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD INDEED. Includes bibliographical references. Index v. 5. CONTENTS: v. 1. 1759-1752. -- v. 2. 1792-1800. -- v. 3. 1801-1811. v. 4. 1812-1818. 8vo. Heavy books; extra postage needed. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Makes an ideal gift. John Murray Albemarle Street. SCARCE First Printing. <br/> <br/> John Murray, Albemarle Street. hardcover
18542212220029New York Tribune; Buell and Blanchard; Union Office; Congressional Globe; Greeley & McElrath; L. Towers; 1854-1860 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Bloody Kansas: The Expansion of Slavery to the Territories Prelude to the Civil War Rebound in fine modern cloth. Fine binding and cover. Leather spine and cover labels with gilt. Generally clean unmarked pages. Old Dartmouth College Stamps. Contents: 1. Speech of the Hon. M. Norris of New Hampshire in the United States Senate March 3 1854 on Nebraska and Kansas; 2. The wrongs of Kansas : speech of Hon. John P. Hale of New Hampshire in the United States Senate February 1856; 3. The admission of Kansas : speech of William H. Seward of New York; 4. Speech of Hon. J.P. Benjamin of Louisiana on the Kansas question : delivered in the Senate May 2 1856; 5. Nebraska and Kansas. Speech of Hon. James Knox of Illinois in the House of representatives May 19 1854; 6. The border ruffian code in Kansas with map; 7. Speech of the Hon. Robert Toombs of Georgia on the President's Kansas message : Delivered in the Senate February 28 1856; 8. Speeches of Senator Toucey upon Kansas affairs : delivered in the Senate February 18 and March 5 1856; 9. Front cover image for The compromise bill : speech of Hon. John Bell of Tennessee in the Senate of the United States July 3 and 5 1850 on the bill for admission of California into the Union the establishment of territorial governments for Utah and New Mexico and making proposals to Texas for the settlement of her northern and western boundaries The compromise bill : speech of Hon. John Bell of Tennessee in the Senate of the United States July 3 and 5 1850 on the bill for admission of California into the Union the establishment of territorial governments for Utah and New Mexico and making proposals to Texas for the settlement of her northern and western boundaries; 10. The crime against Kansas : Speech of Hon. Chas. Sumner of Massachusetts in the Senate of the United States May 19 1856; 11. The crime against Kansas : speech of Hon. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts ; in the Senate of the United States ; May 19 1856; 12. Speech of Hon. John J. Crittenden of Kentucky on the admission of the state of Kansas. New York Tribune; Buell and Blanchard; Union Office; Congressional Globe; Greeley & McElrath; L. Towers; 1854-1860 hardcover
1808mon0000072296Samuel Bagster 1808. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. The Complete Angler or Contemplative Man's Recreation being a Discourse on Rivers Fish-Ponds Fish and Fishing. 7th edition 1st Bagster Samuel Bagster 1808 Samuel Bagster hardcover
1808427011Cooperstown New York 1808. Very Good. A small archive of about 23 manuscript documents relating to Jerome Clark’s Company of Cavalry also known as the “Light Dragoons†at Cooperstown New York dating from 1808-14. The collection includes a few manuscripts written and signed by Lieutenant Isaac Cooper elder brother of James Fenimore Cooper who was a member of the Cavalry and served as its Secretary. Contemporary folds some modest soiling a few scattered short tears to the edges of the larger folio sheets very good or better overall.<br /> <br /> An interesting cache of documents that sheds light on a little known Cavalry company in upstate New York. Most of the documents date from 1814 and relate to a general meeting of the Cavalry’s officers and upcoming annual Company parade. Also included are three variant copies of the Company’s Muster roll. In addition to the Isaac Cooper documents the archive includes references to and likely autograph signatures of several other prominent persons at Hartwick and Cooperstown such as Major Van Rensselaer and the papermaker Bethel Todd.<br /> <br /> In his 1823 novel The Pioneers set in the Cooperstown “Templeton†of the early 1790s James Fenimore Cooper named the village’s principal tavern “The Bold Dragoon.†The question as to whether the name was taken after Clark’s Light Dragoons remains an intriguing possibility that would warrant further research. A scarce survival.<br /> <br /> A more detailed inventory of the documents is available. unknown
182246London: Sherwood Neely and Jones 1822. Second Edition. Near fine. Isaac Robert Cruikshank & George Cruikshank. Tall 8vo 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches 234 x 148 mm; half-title hand-colored frontispiece title with vignette of St. Paul's xvi 376 pp 8 pp. advertisements. 3 foldout pages of music with Corinthian Tom's Song. 36 aquatint plates with hand-coloring each with protective blank sheet with offset from facing illustration; copious small in-text woodcuts. Later full red pebbled morocco with original spine panel single gilt fillet framing on boards gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers double raised bands with gilt and decorative motifs in compartments all edges gilt; spine very lightly rubbed. <br /> Second edition as stated at the foot of page 9.<br /> Tooley 198; Prideaux 335. A beautifully illustrated and hand-colored volume. Pierce Egan 1772-1849 was a British journalist sportswriter and writer on popular culture best-knows work is Life in London first published in 1821. The book was adapted into the stage play Tom and Jerry or Life in London later that year and it became the first play to have a continuous run of 100 performances in London while at the Adelphi Theatre in the West End. Egan turned to the Cruikshank brothers Robert and George for the illustrations. They produced 21 woodcuts and 36 lively and colorful plates to represent the range of characters and situations described in the book. The success of Life in London was so great that the artists could not color the engravings quickly enough for the demand. The book was adapted for the stage later that year and the play Tom and Jerry or Life in London became the first play to have a continuous run of 100 performances in London while at the Adelphi Theatre in the West End. The book was reprinted in 1822 1823 1830 1841 1870 and 1904. Numerous imitations soon appeared namely Carey's Life in Paris Real Life in London Real Life in Ireland et al. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones unknown
1848026108Boston: Little Brown 1848. First . Hardcover. VG. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Complete with alll 16 plates 2 of which are attributed to Godfrey N. Frankenstein 1820-1873. Original dark brown cloth binding with original decorative gilt titles on the front cover. This particular example also boasts the ownership signature Fully investigated & referenced of Hiester Henry Muhlenberg 1812-1886 He was a member of the distinguished Muhlenberg family of Pennsylvania. And the bookplate where he/his family apparently donated the volume many decades ago 'The Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery' both on the inside of the front cover. Inside the rear cover is a small trapazoidal piece of manilla card where assumed an inventory card was kept. Book was clearly NOT for public viewing. Plates are in lovely near fine to fine condition with none of the usual foxing as seen in most examples. All are perfect for framing or to keep whole for propserity. The corners & spine ends a bit worn. A very nice example of this cornerstone to any White Mountains Book Collection. Oakes was drowned in the same year of this publication 1848 somewhere between East Boston & Boston. One wonders what he would have done to top this masterpiece had he lived. Bents page 1 Second listing of 'The Classics'. The plates are as follows: 1 "The White Mountains" 2 "Mount Crawford" 3 "The Notch of the White Mountains" 4 "The Lower Cascade of the Notch" 5 "The Gate of the Notch" 6 "The Falls of the Amonoosuck" 7 "The Granite Cliffs of the Falls" two views 8 "The Franconia Notch" 9 "Profile Mountain at Franconia" 10 "The Profile Rock" 11 "The Basin in Lincoln N.H." 12 "The Flume in Lincoln N.H." 13 "Nancy`s Bridge" 14 "Mt. Crawford from the Notch" two views 15 "Mount Washington" two views and 16 "Mt. Washington over Tuckerman`s Ravine." Come by for a look! <br/> <br/> Little Brown, hardcover
184355333Providence: December 14 1843. Folio bifolium approx. 13¾" x 8¼" printed on the first page only; near fine. An anti-Dorrite text urging the election of the Law and Order ticket and the steps needed to be made to ensure a successful outcome. "The undersigned were appointed to correspond with active and influential friends of Law and Order in every town in the state; and to urge upon them the necessity of commencing immediately that efficient organization which cannot fail to secure for the good cause in which we are engaged another and yet more glorious triumph . Defeat would cover us with deep shame and it would bring upon us irretrievable disasters." OCLC locates the Brown University copy only. Not in American Imprints Bartlett or Sabin. DeSimone & Schofield 230 adding R.I. Historical. December 14 unknown
