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1852WRCAM10989Rochester N.Y.: Charles H. McDonell Printer 1852. 256pp. Original printed wrappers. Some wear to wrappers. Occasional trace of foxing late minor dampstain. Still about fine. A superior copy of a scarce work. Converted to spiritualism in 1848 by teenaged Kate and Margaret Fox the author and his wife were early believers and did a good deal to further the movement. Spirits contacted here include Swedenborg Calhoun Washington Penn Voltaire and Jefferson with an introduction by Franklin. Post was a noted abolitionist and his wife was a supporter of women's rights; their circle of friends included William Lloyd Garrison Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. "Post had a mind quick and vigorous in the perception and acceptance of new ideas and ready to acknowledge them regardless of consequences" - DAB. Charles H. McDonell, Printer unknown books
1865WRCAM22692New York: William Wood 1865. 139pp. plus eleven lithographic plates one colored and two tinted. Large quarto. Original brown gilt cloth. Cloth tanned some scattered foxing. Overall just about very good. A practical manual for orchardists to identify fruit tree enemies. Trimble was the entomologist of the State Agricultural Society of New Jersey and entomologist of the Horticultural Association of the American Institute. "The plates are rather horrifying examples of all the problems from insects which faced the fruit grower" - Hedrick. McGRATH p.220. BENNETT p.106. HEDRICK p.529. William Wood hardcover books
1707WRCLIT65630London: Printed by J. Humfreys 1707. 45-56pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Residue of old spine somewhat foxed title trimmed a bit close at fore-margin just touching a portion of the inner frame but a good copy with the half-title. First edition. A relatively early publication by Watts a sermon delivered before the influential activist association pursuing the suppression and prosecution of what they perceived as public and private immorality in behaviour commerce and the arts. ESTC located only three copies in Britain and six in the U.S. OCLC locates a total of ten original printed copies. Not in NCBEL. ESTC N22787. Printed by J. Humfreys unknown books
1742WRCLIT65631London: Printed for James Brackstone 1742. xii1026pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Residue of old spine faint trace of dustiness and minor foxing but a very good crisp copy. First edition published anonymously. An interpretive work aimed particularly at delineating and reconciling the different views of the relation of Judaism to Christianity. ESTC locates six copies in North America. Not in NCBEL. ESTC T82972. Printed for James Brackstone unknown books
39934HOBBS Isaac. HOBB'S ARCHITECTURE CONTAINING DESIGNS AND GROUND PLANS FOR VILLAS COTTAGES AND OTHER EDIFICES. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1873. 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth. 189 pages. First edition. Hitchcock 595. Hobbs' work is a most uncommon architectural pattern book illustrated with ov 100 engravings with plans and elevations for eighty-four separate houses in widely diverse styles many of which were originally printed in Godey's Ladie Book and The Farmer. The remaining plans have never before appeared in print Each listing includes a drawing of the exterior of the house a plan and a description in which the author recommends building materials suggests a cos for construction describes the style of the house and discusses the characteristics of a suitable tenant. Many of the houses are identified by owner and location. A diverse collection of Victorian cottages villas churches and more. The houses are mainly in the Philadelphia Pittsburgh a Youngstown Ohio areas. Very good in dark green cloth boards with gilt titl to spine and gilt illustration of a house to front board. Professionally respined using original spine as an overlay else very good. unknown books
1950140905086New York: Doubleday 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with price intact. Light edge wear to cloth. The dust jacket shows rubbing toning edge wear with chipping and a bit of loss to the top end of the spine and top edge of the rear panel. A nice copy. Doubleday hardcover books
179933102Northampton: William Butler 1799. 8vo pp. 233; title within woodcut border text in double column; original full sheep rubbed and worn but sound. Early American bookplate of Lemuel Dady partially peeled and his ownership inscription on the front free endpaper. This version of Watts' Psalms of David was first published in 1785 in Hartford. The "Advertisement to the Reader" p. 2-3 was written by Joel Barlow who revised and supplemented the 1785 edition for the American market. See BAL 860. Evans 35196. <br/><br/> William Butler unknown books
19743496New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1974. First edition of this work by the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Tall quarto original cloth illustrated throughout. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Signed by Eric Carle on the title page. "This great storyteller has put a new and mildly moral twist on the story of Noahs Ark . . . and Eric Carle does not disappoint. His cut-out portraits of the animals are colorful and vigorous and combined with his paintings varied and provocative. This is good stuff for hungry little eyes" The Boston Globe. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
1803945London: John Murray 1803. First edition. First edition. Quarto. Original light green boards with printed title on cover. Title-page with large woodcut illustration of angel statue in garden. Uncut. Boards soiled corners rubbed spine lacking. A nice copy quite tight with both hinges intact. Scarce. <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
183121773London: James Nisbet &T. Stevenson Cambridge 1831. 8vo 23.5 cm; 9". 1 f. xii 250 pp. <br><br>Third edition. In addition to being a physicist mathematician and natural philosopher Sir Isaac Newton was something of a Biblical scholar as well as shown by the present exegesis on apocalyptic texts. His analysis generally reads as being practical in nature as the New Catholic Encyclopedia X 428 says "Newton's writings on apocalyptical prophecies were not mystical or millenarian in any sense but more exercises in deciphering cryptograms." They comport with our sense of him as someone who believed in the scientific method!<br>Â Â Â Â "A new edition with the citations translated and notes by P. Borthwick . . . of Downing College Cambridge. Publisher's quarter green cloth with paper-covered boards. Rebacked in sympathetic cloth and new paper label antique style applied. Boards show age-stains and wear but are solid. Old library pressure-stamp on title-page. In an open back slipcase of green library cloth; spine of box with author title and call number in gilt. => A nice copy sound for reading. James Nisbet, &T. Stevenson, Cambridge hardcover books
1907315424Middletown Conn: Arawana Mills I.E. Palmer 1907. Over 100 chromolithographic plates of Hammocks on recto and desciption opposite. 270 pp. Oblong 12mo. Printed pictorial green wrappers. Some minor creasing and soiling to wrappers but a near fine copy. Over 100 chromolithographic plates of Hammocks on recto and desciption opposite. 270 pp. Oblong 12mo. A hammock catalogue lushly illustrated with chromolithographs from a New England manufacturer at the turn of the 20th century. A charming survival. Arawana Mills, I.E. Palmer unknown books
197319642New York: Walker and Company 1973. First edition first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illustrated by Daniel Nevins. Thin 8vo. 63pp. Illustrated in black and white. Red textured paper over boards. Spine printed in black. Upper board embossed in blind with a design by the illustrator. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Asimov: "For Rick Harrison." A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and shows the original $4.50 price. It is lightly toned with age else fine. Scarce signed. Walker and Company hardcover books
1800WRCAM35324Philadelphia: From the Press of R. Folwell 1800. 32pp. Later marbled wrappers with handwritten paper label. Leaves detached. Internally near fine. "Read before the American Philosophical Society on the 20th of June 1800" - page 3. Cathrall was a Philadelphia physician trained in London Edinburgh and Paris. A personal survivor of yellow fever Cathrall treated patients and studied cadavers during the Philadelphia outbreaks of 1797-99. AUSTIN 434. EVANS 37110. APPLETON'S CYCLOPÆDIA http://www.famousamericans.net/isaaccathrall/. From the Press of R. Folwell unknown books
179519605Baltimore: Clayland Dobbin & Co. for Keatinge's Book-Store 1795. Leather covers detached. Half title present. viii 127 1 blank xii pp. Text lightly foxed and Very Good. Pagination corresponds with the London edition. A Table of Cases appears at the beginning; an Index comprises the last twelve pages. <br/>FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Evans 28636. Not in Harv. Law Cat. BEAL or Marvin though many of his other works are Jenkins Marke. Clayland, Dobbin, & Co. for Keatinge's Book-Store unknown books
186014804Charleston: Evans & Cogswell 1860. 23 1 pp. Disbound light spotting and some pages tanned. Good. <br/><br/> This 1860 Association Tract contrasts the New York Tribune's ugly distorted view of the South with the "cool-headed sensible unimpassioned" views of South Carolina's Senator Hammond. Tracing the intractable conflict between North and South to the country's birth the author asserts "It is a great mistake to assign the election of Lincoln as the CAUSE for a disruption of the Federal Government. It is but the occasion." Secession and a separate Southern slave-holding Confederacy are passionately urged. <br/> The last page unnumbered prints the 'Constitution of 1860 Association' whose purpose is "promoting resistance by the slaveholding States to the aggressions of the non-slaveholding States." This is one of two 1860 Charleston issues. <br/>III Turnbull 306 different imprint. Not in LCP. Evans & Cogswell unknown books
18577467New York: Harper & Bros. 1857. First edition. 8vo 605 pp. with 2 colored maps one folding and one double-page. Numerous wood-cuts throughout some of which are full-page. Harvey Gardiner says of Holton's book in his introduction to the reprint: "New Granada is the fullest and best-written assessment of that country at mid-century by a foreign observer. In 1852 the bespectacled bachelor botanist carrying two bales of paper for drying plants but no passport for himself first glimpsed a tropical landscape.For twenty unhurried months on itineraries of his own choosing he traveled widely visiting many areas more than once. When he bade farewell to New Granada in mid-May 1854 his luggage contained approximately 1800 botanical specimens a diary crowded with details and vast quantities of data concerning political subdivisions mail routes altitude climate weights and measures etc." He style is full of wry Yankee humor as well which make it a good read. The appendices are detailed and in themselves constitute a gazetteer of Colombia. Much was left out of the reprint inc. the maps appendices illustrations etc. Binding is contemporary 3/4 calf over marble boards; very clean text and maps. Very good copy. <br/><br/> Harper & Bros. hardcover books
19195Garden City NY: Doubleday. Boards. Very Good /Very Good . A handsome copy of this uncommon --and very early-- Doubleday reprint of the 1st title of 3 in Isaac Asimov's legendary "Foundation" series. Re-issuing the original Gnome Press sheets from 1951 --resulting in a degree of inevitable light browning to the pages-- this copy probably circa 1960 has the look and feel of a very early --if not the 2nd-- printing of "Foundation". Tight and VG very light offsetting along the pastedown and endpaper top-edges in a crisp price-clipped VG dustjacket with just a touch of light creasing along the spine ends. Octavo original Gnome Press photograph of Asimov by Phillip Leonian appearing on the rear panel. <br/><br/> Doubleday hardcover books
19728256Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co 1972. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Very Good. WARMLY INSCRIBED IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION BY ISAAC ASIMOV TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND CHAUCY BENNETTS. A very solid copy to boot of the 1972 stated 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bright price-intact VG dustjacket with light soiling to the panels and light wear at the spne ends. Octavo 288 pgs. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> Doubleday & Co hardcover books
1836WRCAM49081Lexington Ky 1836. 39pp. 20th-century three-quarter speckled calf and cloth gilt spine leather label by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown light foxing to text approximately two-thirds of last leaf restored not affecting any text. Very good. Howes attributes authorship to Jackson and indicates this Lexington imprint as somewhat later than the New York edition from the same year. Harrison had long thought of running for President and this is his first campaign biography covering all the military highlights of his career in the Old Northwest. HOWES J20. hardcover books
1873WRCAM52619Columbus Ga.: Isaac I. Moses Co. 1873. Broadside 10 x 8 inches. Minor soiling. Near fine. With directions for use. At the time of the Civil War the Moses family were fifth- generation Sephardic Jews. They were "completely acculturated into Columbus society while remaining devout Jews" Rosen. During the war Isaac Moses manufactured rifles for the Confederacy at Columbus. The American Civil War database lists an Isaac Moses serving in Nelson's Georgia cavalry but provides no further information. Not in Hummel or Singerman. ROSEN THE JEWISH CONFEDERATES 18-19 385 note 37. Isaac I. Moses Co. unknown books
1818545Philadelphia and Baltimore: G. W. Mentz; Schäffer und Maund 1818. Oblong 8vo. 145 x 2 70 mm. 5 ¾ x 10 ½ inches. 10 2 105 3 pp. Contemporary leather spine over paper covered boards; spine and boards rubbed with a 2 x 2-inch circle of paper missing from lower board; paper stock aged brown and lightly foxed small piece missing from title-page not affecting text. This copy with the repeated inscription which reads "Henry Landis his book bought in Harrisburg January 20th 1818." With faults a very good copy of a scarce book. First edition reprinted in Harrisburg in 1822. John Wyeth was a Harrisburg printer who produced music and voice books for ministers and church groups during the first quarter of the 19th century. He was the first printer to use shape-note type in his books for the German religious community. In addition to printing for Rev. Isaac Gerhart he printed music books for James Doll and Johannes Rothbaust. Rev. Isaac Gerhart was a Reformed Minister of the Lykens Valley in Dauphin County Pennsylvania. "In addition to preaching administering the sacraments and conducting catechetical instructions Rev. Gerhart set about to improve church worship. He found a 'great defect' in the singing in those early churches. Since he had musical knowledge and talent he prepared a music book called Church Harmonia." Shaw and Shoemaker American Bibliography 44154. Arndt German Language Printing 2274. Biographical information found at LykensValley.org/rev-isaac-gerhart. G. W. Mentz; Schäffer und Maund unknown books
195516470Garden City: Doubleday 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. 8vo. 191 pp. Stated first edition. Classic science fiction novel of time travel by the author of I Robot and the Foundation Trilogy. An extremely handsome copy in black boards with bright red spine lettering in a very good price-intact dustwrapper with minor small chips to spine tips and minor cover wear. An excellent copy. Jacket design by Mel Hunter. Doubleday hardcover books
198193816New York: Sweetwater 1981. Limited. hardcover. fine. Moskowitz ira. 10 signed etchings by Ira Moskowitz. 4to 1/2 dark red morocco; cloth slipcase. N.Y. 1981. Limited Edition. Of an edition of 475 copies this is one of only 75 bound thus. Accompanied by an additional suite of the 10 etchings each signed. The book is autographed by the author and the illustrator.<br/><br/> Sweetwater unknown books
1966217523New York: Harper & Row 1966. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Maurice Sendak. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. thin 8vo cloth d.w. New York: Harper & Row 1966. First Edition.<br/><br/> Singer's first book for children. Near fine copy in the first issue dust wrapper with the $4.50 price. Small chip on top edge of back panel otherwise fine. Presentation from Maurice Sendak to Burt Britton with a 2 x 3 inch outline ink sketch of a goat.<br/><br/> Harper & Row unknown books
1969571201969. An interesting letter from Singer on a 5.5- by 7.75-inch sheet on personalized stationery dated Oct. 22 1969 to Mr. Don Gold. Singer writes that he remembers having lunch with Gold who apparently wants to become Singer's new literary agent. "As things are now my publisher Mr. Straus is my agent as far as translations and theatrical presentations are concerned. They have done quite well and it would be very difficult for me to get another agent suddenly." He writes that there is always the possibility he may change agents. "As a matter of fact my publisher has done a lot for me in the literary field but not too much in selling my works to the movies which may be my fault not his." He writes he may call Gold in the future and wishes him well in his new job. A very interesting insightful letter from Singer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. Letters by Singer are uncommon!. Very nice condition few minor corrections by Singer in text. unknown books
