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1934R5706Moscow: Ogonek 1934. Ogonek Library No. 37 808. Paperback. Very Good. Original staple-bound wraps; pp. 48. Covers lightly rubbed dust-soiled and with vendor's marks. <br/><br/> Ogonek paperback books
180023633Philadelphia 1800. 4pp. Disbound. Else Near Fine. <br/><br/> Isaac Zane was a member of the Zane family of Wheeling after whom Zanesville Ohio is named. He was "made a prisoner by the Wyandot Indians when an infant of nine years of age with which nation he has ever since remained having married an Indian woman by whom he has many children." <br/> The Wyandots assigned him a tract of land. That land was later ceded to the United States by the Treaty of 1795. Zane asks that his title be confirmed. The Committee agrees recommending that the United States convey to him 2560 acres of land at Big Bottom on Mad River. The Committee observes that Zane during "the Indian war rendered great and repeated services to the frontier settlements." <br/>Evans 38864. NAIP w021902 12. unknown books
04274London: Allen & Co. 1807. A Study the Inhabitants of the Roundhouse and the Regular Attendants at the Police-Court"<br/>A Journey in Caricature through Early Nineteenth Century England.<br/><br/>WOODWARD. George Moutard. Eccentric Excursions or Literary & Pictorial Sketches of Countenance Character & Country in different parts of England & South Wales. Interspersed with Curious Anecdotes Embellished with upwards of One Hundred Characteristic & Illustrative Prints. London: Allen & Co. 1807 but ca. 1813. <br/><br/>Later issue first published in 1796. Quarto 10 3/16 x 8 3/8 in; 259 x 213 mm. iv v 6-217 1 list of plates pp. Engraved title-page included in pagination Hand colored frontispiece and 100 hand-colored etched plates on ninety-nine leaves by Isaac Cruikshank after Woodward including three folding plates Plates 1 2 and 3. The text is watermarked "W. Balston 1813". <br/><br/>Bound by Rivière & Son stamp-signed on verso of front endpaper ca. 1890. Full maroon morocco covers with double-gilt borders spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt ruled board-edges decorative gilt turn-ins marbled end-papers top edge gilt others uncut. Occasional toning or foxing a few leaves with neatly repaired or strengthened edges. Overall an excellent copy of this journey in caricature through early nineteenth century England. <br/><br/>Originally published in 1796 with subsequent issues in 1797 1798 1799 1801 1807. 1814 1815 1816 1818 Eccentric Excursions is quite rare in all yet curiously is rarer still in the later issues.<br/><br/>This satire amongst Moutard's earliest work enthusiastically depicts all types: high- and low-born rural and urban lawyers and peddlers coaching scenes misadventures on ice-skates Oxford dons gypsies etc.<br/><br/>"The first and most celebrated of Woodward's books. The text describes an idiosyncratic ramble around the counties of England and Wales." Gordon p. 15.<br/><br/>George Moutard Woodward 1760-1809 was "prolific and popular designer of social caricature much in the style of Banbury etched chiefly by Thomas Rowlandson and Isaac Cruikshank.his caricatures display a wealth of imagination and insight into character.extremely entertaining" DNB.<br/><br/>"Another popular caricaturist of the day was George Moutard Woodward commonly called ‘Mustard George.' Woodward according to his friend Henry Angelo was the son of a land agent and spent his youth in a country town where nothing was less known than everything pertaining to the arts. ‘A caricaturist in a country town' said Mustard George ‘like a bull in a china shop cannot live without noise; so having made a little noise in my native place I persuaded my father to let me seek my fortune in town.' Thanks to a small allowance from his father supplemented by his own earnings George was able to enjoy life in his own Bohemian fashion and ultimately took up his quarters at the ‘Brown Bear' Bow Street where he was able to study the inhabitants of the roundhouse and the regular attendants at the police-court. At the ‘Brown Bear' he died suddenly departing in character with a glass of brandy in his hand and was long mourned by his tavern associates. In his Eccentric Excursions which appeared in volume form in 1796 the designs engraved by Isaac Cruikshank there are several domestic subjects such as The Polite Congregation Showing Family Pictures and The Formal Introduction. Among other popular designs by Woodward are Raffling for a Coffin The Club of Quidnuncs Babes in the Wood A Goldfinch and his Mistress.and a series called Six Ways of Carrying a Stick. The majority are marred by extravagant hideousness but Angelo was of opinion that ‘had this low humourist studied drawing and been temperate in his habits such was the fecundity of his imagination and perception of character that he might rivalled even Hogarth" Paston Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century pp. 137-138.<br/><br/>Gordon BC-26; Widener 207; Not in Abbey or Tooley. London: Allen & Co., 1807 unknown books
193925046NY: Lee Furman 1939. First Edition. 8vo pp. 480. Index. Illustrated. Cover little worn o/w VG. The firm published America's music for over 50 years until bought out by Warner Brothers. Lee Furman unknown books
1985161043New York: Hirschl & Adler Modern 1985. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 20 through May 18 1985. Introduction by Phyllis Tuchman. Includes with the covers 13 color illustrations list of previous exhibitions selected bibliography checklist and public collections. A near fine copy in wrappers. Hirschl & Adler Modern unknown books
1988120588New York: Hirschl & Adler Modern 1988. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran May 19 through June 24 1988. Includes 8 illustrations with 7 in color. A clean very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Hirschl & Adler Modern unknown books
1996168869Hamilton NJ: Grounds For Sculpture 1996. Softcover. VG-. Ex-library with usual marks. White wraps. 24 pp. 14 color plates additional illustrations 2 BW photos inside covers. Catalogue of an exhibition held in May 1996. Grounds For Sculpture paperback books
19371363baIPhiladelphia: Wistar Institute of Anatony and Biology 1937. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. vii 528 pages of text including an index. Measures 26.6cm height; blue cloth slightly rubbed; frontis. portrait of author; 8 illustrations listed on page v; folded map; dustjacket torn faded; Institute founded 1808 by Dr. Casper Wistar great uncle of author; Broadfoot Seagrave; Nevins. California; fur trade; mining. Wistar Institute of Anatony and Biology Hardcover books
193753656Philadelphia:: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology. Very Good. 1937. Hardcover. Fold-out map. First edition. Minor shelf wear and aging else very good in blue buckram binding with gilt lettering. No dust jacket. . Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, hardcover books
19374725Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology 1937. 528pp. Quarto 26 cm Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Spine of jacket sunned. Former owner's blind stamp on the endsheets. "When one not inordinately addicted to discoursing of himself begins to contemplate a lapse from such negative virtue." Isaac J. Wistar who never confused modesty with self-repression opens his autobiography in this forbidding Victorian language. But he soon shifts to easily written easily read narrative reflecting Dana's 'Two Years Before the Mast' in its salt-tanged sea tales; twinkling here and there with a roguish humor not unworthy of Mark Twain his contemporary; and pausing at the end of blood-and-thunder passages for Wistar the adventurer to allow the scientific-minded Wistar to relate some wound treatment or psychological observation. For Wistar lived through remarkable times and made the most of them. He traveled across the continent with the vanguard of the Forty-Niners in a journey almost epic in itself. he earned and lost small fortunes as a miner trapper muleteer speculator and lawyer before he was thirty such was his versatility. He never hesitated to pistol club or butt anyone who crossed him; yet the Governor of California singled him out to suppress the Vigilante rioters of 1856. He stood armed to fight Abolitionists and believed ardently in states rights; yet his privately raised regiment is credited with saving the Union at Gettysburg and in the Seven Days Battles. All these seeming inconsistencies become an orderly part of the picture of the day in Isaac J. Wistar's forceful writing of his autobiography. It is the last word from a leader of a vanished American generation." - from the jacket. Graff 4724. Howes W598. The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology unknown books
193758800Philadelphia: Wistar Institute 1937. hardcover. near fine/very good. Illustrated folding map. 530pp. untrimmed tall thick 8vo blue cloth d.w. Philadelphia: Wistar Institute 1937. Near Fine.<br/><br/> "Largely devoted to the opening and development of the far West from 1849 to 1860 in which Wistar played a conspicuous part before achieving fame and fortune in Pennsylvania."--Howes. A very fine copy.<br/><br/> Wistar Institute unknown books
003965Philadelphia: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology 1937. Quarto. 527 pp. Fold-out map end of text. Dj faded. 8 b&w plates in text. Originally intended only for the author's kinsmen. 1937 edition issued with an eye to historical scholarship. In dust jacket. Philadelphia: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1937 unknown books
1914WRCAM26564Philadelphia 1914. Two volumes. Original cloth backed boards printed label on front covers. Inner front hinge of second volume neatly detached corners bumped. Very good. This is the Graff copy with his bookplate sold at the Newberry duplicate sale in 1966. Each volume contains a bookplate stating: "This book is no. 166 of an edition of 250 copies and is presented to Richard Wistar Davis by The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology Philadelphia Pa." An additional printed tipped-in slip in states: "The recipient of this book is requested to regard its contents for the present as confidential." Contains Wistar's overland journal of 1849 a long account of his life in the gold region of California experiences in Oregon hunting with Indians and then as a lawyer in California through 1857. The second volume is mainly devoted to his Civil War service. MINTZ 501. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 234. HOWES W598 "b." KURUTZ 691. GRAFF 4724. COWAN p.692. NEVINS I p.181 citing only the 2nd ed. hardcover books
19379019152Philadelphia: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology 1937. 1st . Hardcover. Fine/very good. First this edition bound in blue cloth over boards cover and spine stamped in gilt. Blue gilt stamped dust jacket is very lightly worn at the extremities and sunned at the spine. Frontis and additional illustrations tipped in throughout. <br/><br/> Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology hardcover books
185982600Cincinnati: Bloch & Co 1859. First edition of American Reform Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise's historical account of the era of Herod I. Octavo contemporary cloth over boards lacking the front free endpaper library bookplate to the front pastedown later collector's stamps to the title page with some rubbing and wear to the extremities. In good condition. Rare. American reform rabbi editor and author Isaac Mayer Wise established the first synagogue in the United States to include a mixed-gender choir family pews and count women in forming a quorum. Published in 1847 his Manhag American prayer-book was adopted and became the standard prayer book in most congregations throughout the Western and Southern states. He additionally published over two dozen works on the history of Judaism and Christianity including The Martyrdom of Jesus of Nazareth Judaism and Christianity: Their Agreements and Disagreements and The Cosmic God. Bloch & Co hardcover books
186682401Cincinatti: Block and Co. Publishers and Printers 1866. First edition of one of the earliest Jewish American devotionals written by one of the most influential Reform rabbis in the history of the United States and published by the oldest Jewish printing house in the United States. With text in Hebrew English and German. Small octavo original publisher's cloth gilt titles and tooling to the spine all edges gilt. In good condition with some rubbing to the extremities. Early American Reform rabbi editor and author Isaac Mayer Wise was the author of over 20 novels religious and philosophical texts. Wise moved to Cincinatti in 1854 where he met and married Therese Bloch the sister of Edward H. Bloch the founder of the earliest Jewish Printing house in America Block Publishing. He is also credited with organizing the building of the Plum Street Temple which was later renamed the Isaac M. Wise Temple in his honor. During his lifetime Wise was regarded as the most prominent and influential Reform Jew of his time in the United States. Block and Co., Publishers and Printers hardcover books
1975281044Washington. : Government Printing Office. 1975. . Grey printed wraps. . Upper corner bumped light edgewear to covers otherwise a very good copy. . 4to. Folding maps in pocket. Government Printing Office. paperback books
18908217Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club 1890. paper wrappers. Ford Paul Leicester. 12mo. paper wrappers. 22 pages. Limited to 250 copies. BAL 6188. Winnowings in American History Revolutionary Narratives No.III. With two pages of notes by Ford. Wrappers worn along edges with pieces chipped away. Historical Printing Club unknown books
1855SKU1026777Baltimore: Hedian and O'Brien 1855. Hardcover. Good. 1855. Black cloth in original publisher blind stamped boards- boards have rubbed through at the corners- overall minor wear. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. x 333 pages. 8vo. Hedian and O'Brien hardcover books
1842005259London: James Burns 1842. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. x 286 pages of text. Green leather spine and corners with bright gilt spine lettering and decoration; marbled paper-covered boards. Minor rubbing to extremities. Engraved title page in black and red with several in-text black & white illustrations. James Burns Hardcover books
1903265996Taunton MA: Self-published by the author 1903. 29p. 6x9 inches dedication introduction note very good chapbook in plain printed and stapled wraps with mild toning. Rev. White was a Presbyterian minister born in Hickory who served for a time in the 1890s in Ensenada Baja California where he was known to write poetry. He died in 1907. No holdings located in OCLC as of 5/2021. Self-published by the author unknown books
1801D13028Haage: J. C. Leeuwestijn 1801. Hardcover. Very Good. Nineteenth-century half brown morocco and marbled paper gilt-stamped lettering in spine compartments 5 raised bands; 3 volumes 8vo 223x135mmwith folding engraved plates and maps; pp. xxxii 391 plus 5 plates and 1 map Washington D.C. see below; xv 1 425 plus 5 plates and 3 maps; xii 340 with 1 plate and 1 map this one larger than the others and hand-colored. Bindings a bit scuffed but tight and square. Library inkstamps on verso of title-pages and verso of plates sometimes multiple stamps per plate ink does not leak through; some browning and off-setting but generally text blocks are nice and clean. The map of Washington D.C. is early and rare unrecorded in Baynton-Williams Phillips and Verner. <br/><br/> J. C. Leeuwestijn hardcover books
1799D14040London: John Stockdale 1799. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Modern half gilt-ruled red morocco and marbled paper gilt-stamped lettering in spine compartments 5 raised bands; complete set of 2 volumes 8vo; pp. xxiii 1 427; xii 376; plus 16 folding engraved plates including large hand-colored map. A little light scuffing along joints; some faint spotting to upper board of Volume 2. About a 2-inch tear to hand-colored map repairable; text blocks a bit browned mostly confined to first and last few leaves of each volume. A nice set. <br/><br/>An account of late-18th century America by Weld a long time member and eventual Vice President of the Royal Society of Dublin. It includes his impressions of important US citizens of the day Washingon Jefferson as well as the many pages on his perception of the Native American Indians. John Stockdale hardcover books
18001005852 vols. 8vo modern half morocco & marbled boards spine ruled in gilt raised bands morocco lettering pieces new endpapers. Illustrated with 16 folding views plans and maps; xix 1 427; viii 376 pp. Minor aging and some darkening to a few pages and some foxing to one plate. Near fine condition. Weld an Irishman came to America in 1795 when he was nineteen. This work narrates his travels through the former colonies along the eastern seaboard and the Canadian provinces. Very popular at the time it was published Weld comments on the population and social habits and customs of the people he saw. According to Howes Weld seemed to prefer Canada to the States. Compared to the similar works of this period Weld seems to be fairly objective on most things. However whether or not his observation that Americans lose their teeth prematurely is accurate would be hard to substantiate. Contains several interesting views of Niagara Falls Mt. Vernon Bethlehem PA and a large map of the northern portion of the United States with inset of the southern States. John Stockdale hardcover books
1800WRCAM50821Paris 1800. Three volumes. 4viii5-321pp. plus six plates; 344pp. plus four plates; 4294pp. plus one plate and a large folding map. Half title in each volume. Contemporary marbled paper-covered boards gilt leather spine labels. Minor shelf wear some sunning to spines. Contemporary French bookplate on pastedown of first volume. Internally clean. Very good. The scarce first French translation of Weld's TRAVELS THROUGH THE STATES OF NORTH AMERICA AND THE PROVINCES OF UPPER AND LOWER CANADA DURING THE YEARS 1795 1796 AND 1797. The date on the titlepages is given as "8" referring to the eighth year of the new French Republic after the Revolution. Weld an Irishman arrived in Philadelphia in late 1795 at the age of nineteen. His observations during two years of travels through eastern North America and Canada told through a series of letters comprise one of the most popular narratives of the day. Story wrote that "his account of Canada letters 21-25 is a clear and sustained description of an area and a way of life that pleased him more than had the United States." The engraved plates are after sketches by the author. The map shows the east coast of America south through North Carolina and west through the Great Lakes region with an inset map of the Great Lakes area as well. TPL 710. HOWES W235. LANDE 890 ref. CLARK II:132 ref. GAGNON I:3701 ref. JCB II:4062 ref. SABIN 192541 ref. hardcover books