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1829100354Pamphlet removed 8vo disbound 23 pp. Browning to first leaf add some foxing and aging throughout but generally pretty clean. Ink signature to first leaf. Overall very good. Isaac McCoy 1784-1846 was born near Uniontown Pennsylvania. In 1804 he moved with his family to Clark County Indiana and became a minister. He spent much of his life doing missionary work among the Indians and was dedicated to improving the civil and religious condition of these people. The present pamphlet is extremely important since it represents the first step in a shift in U.S. policy from respecting the rights of Native Americans to forcing them to live where the government wanted them to. This pamphlet was published just before the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and includes information about the Arkansas Territory. McCoy provides details of his tour of this country with a delegation of Indians who were to be moved across the Mississippi. unknown
188440137Washington: Government Printing Office 1884. 1884. First edition. 48th Congress lst Session. House of Representatives. Rept. 1351 Part 2. 9" x 5 3/4" in hardcover binder title stamped in gold gilt on the front cover 57 pp. Other contributors include George V. Lawrence Isaac S. Struble and William P. Kellogg. Subjects include Testimony of an Internal-Revenue Collector in Utah Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution R. N. Baskin Mormon polygamy Joseph Cook on the Plan Recommended by President Arthur and Garfield on Mormonism. Light tanning to page edges else a fine bright copy. Government Printing Office, 1884. hardcover
1828104316Columbus 1828. Ephemera. Fair. 13 p. 23 cm. Folded pages tied with cord. Uneven edge. Remnants of sealing material on rear. Three horizontal creases. Ink signatures on title page. Label of former owner on first page. Report to the General Assembly of the State of Ohio. Includes schedule of donations to the Canal Fund to build a canal from Piketon to Portsmouth on E side of Scioto river. <br/><br/> unknown
1863103102-FWashington DC.: GOV.Printing Office 1863. Book. Illus. by Various. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st.ed. 1863 Hard cover in green cloth with gold letters on spine 698 pp. illustrated with black and white wood block engravings of animals fruit and farm machinery of the time. Mr. Hewton report takes about production numbers of comoditys and brings up the Battle of Gettysburg in his quote " With the exception of some fruitless incurgents along the border and the invasion of Pennsylvania and the defeat of the insurgents on the now historic field of Gettysburg the loyal people have everywhere enjoyed a "broad and quiet land" with abundant health and prosperity." The lletter ends with To His Excellency Abraham Lincoln President.Condition:Very good with aging and light soiling to the covers and some light fraing at the spine and on the back cover the book is complete front cover inside has a small rip at the joint 1". Size: 6 1/2" x 9". GOV.Printing Office Hardcover
1863COLLECTI013510IWASHINGTON D.C.: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. VERY GOOD. PUB 1863. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. THE AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT WAS ESTABLISHED MAY 15 1862 DURING A. LINCOLN'S ADMINISTRATION & THIS IS IT'S FIRST REPORT . BROWN PEBBLED CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH 48 FULL PAGE BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS OF VARIOUS FRUIT AND FARM ANIMALS PRECEDING THE 632 PAGES OF TEXT. GILT SPINE TITLES ARE NEAR PERISHED BUT THE BOOK HAS ONLY MODEST WEAR TO THE CORNERS AND EDGES WITH SOME SCATTERED FOXING MOSTLY TO THE PRELIMINARY AND TERMINAL LEAVES. AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS FIRST REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT TO THE 37TH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES AND A FASCINATING LOOK AT THE STATE OF FARMING DURING THE CIVIL WAR. COPYRIGHT PAGE INDICATES: Resolved That there be printed by the Superintendent of Public Printing under the direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture one hundered thousand extra copies of the report of the Department of Agriculture for 1862 for the use of this present House and twenty thousand extra copies for distribution by that department. . GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE hardcover
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
181094816Hartford: printed by Hudson and Goodwin 1810. 1810. Fair. - Octavo contemporary tan calf with a gilt-lettered leather label on the spine. The binding is rubbed & scuffed. The bottom corner of the rear cover is bumped & the edges of the cover are darkened. The spine is darkened with the leather dried out & cracking & the gilt lettering is partially rubbed away. xii & 274 pages and iv & 241 pages plus index. The front hinge is just starting. The pastedown endpapers & rear blanks are foxed with occasional light foxing to the rest of the volume. There are small scraps of paper adhering to the pastedowns.There is a small black stain to the front endpaper & fore-edge with tiny stains to the front edges of a few pages. Good working copy. <p>"A New Edition with Improvements. By Thomas Day."<p>From the library of Dutchess County NY lawyer Stephen Eno with his signature dated 1811 and a notation on the front endpaper additional signatures on the flyleaf & title and his notes in the text and on the rear blanks & rear endpaper. Hartford: printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1810. hardcover
1811500026960London: Butterworth 1811. Third edition. . Hardcover. Good. 4 of 6 volumes ex plymouth law society more recent binding marbled boards cloth spine gilt <br/> <br/> Butterworth hardcover
1802854F48London: J. Butterworth 1802-1811 . Leather. Very Good. 10" by 6.5". None. A scarce complete set of the legal reports of Isaac Espinasse with all six volumes bound in four in mixed editions. Consisting of the second edition of volumes I and II published in 1803; an 1802 edition of volume III; the 1804 edition of volume IV; the 1807 edition of volume V and the 1811 edition of volume VI. With half titles to volumes I & II III and IV. Lacking half title to volumes V and VI.This legal reference work authored by British lawyer and legal writer Isaac Espinasse details reports of cases argued and ruled on in the Nisi Prius courts between 1793 and 1807. The works provides detailed accounts of the arguments and rulings made in a wide range of cases including those involving commercial law personal injury and property disputes. With the stamp of the Queen's College Oxford to each front pastedown but no further library markings.A scarce complete set of this work offering fascinating insight into the legal system of late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century England. Rebacked in half calf bindings retaining the original marbled paper covered boards. Endpapers renewed. Rubbing to centre of volume I back strip. Rubbing to boards with bumping to board perimeters. Front joints of volumes I and IV starting with boards holding firm. Library stamp to front pastedowns. Internally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned but generally clean and bright with only the odd spot. Very Good J. Butterworth hardcover
18602402160034T. Ford Printer Washington 1860. Hardcover. Acceptable. Volume XII. Book II Quarto. 358 41 pages : illustrations some color maps ; 30 cm. Spine perished. Hardcover. Ex. doc. / 36th Congress 1st session House of Representatives no. 56 etc. Route near the 47th and 49th parallels concluded T. Ford, Printer, Washington hardcover
18602502040131Thomas H. Ford 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Volume 12 book 2. Quarto 30 x 24 cm. Bound in publisher's navy cloth. Rebacked with renewed spine original covers laid on newer cloth. Marbled end sheets. 399 pp. plus LXXV plates of plants reptiles insects mammals birds and fish found between the 47th and 49th parallels. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Thomas H. Ford hardcover
1856DEMO015982IWashington: Beverly Tucker 1856-7. First & Quarto edition. Hardcover. Fair. chromolithographs. 4to original sheep lacks t-pg. Ex libris U.S. House of Representatives. <br/><br/>Comprised of 5 reports by John Grubb Parke Albert Henry Campbell Thomas Antisell John Torrey Andrew Atkinson Humphreys. "This widely known work requires no comment - Cowan CALIFORNIA p.512." Illustrated with chromolithographs. Beverly Tucker hardcover
1860DEMO010833IWashington: Thomas H. Ford 1860. First & Quarto edition. Hardcover. chromolithographs b&w pls. Quartos 358 40; 399 pages 21stC 3/4 calf marbled boards waterstains <br/><br/>House Exec. Doc. no. 56. Howes P3; Wheat TRANSMISSISSIPPI 822ff; Wagner - Camp - Becker 261ff; Rittenhouse 442. Vol.I has 70 chromolithographed scenes. With 3 folding maps. Vol.1 has the Report. Vol.2 has the Botany Zoology Ornithology Fish Mollusks & Crustaceans. "The plates in Book 1 are all really tinted. Book II has 8 fine colored plates of birds; 45 black & white plates of fish animals insects and plants -Whitman Bennett in his PRACTICAL GUIDE TO AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY COLOR PLATE BOOKS p.101." Thomas H. Ford hardcover
1858DEMO013873IWashington 1858. First & Quarto edition. Hardcover. 4to 1005 pages worn orig. sheep lacks t-pg. Ex libris U.S. House of Rep. #799 <br/><br/>This is the BIRDS. By Spencer F. Baird with John Cassin and Geo. N. Lawrence. Sitwell p. 74. This is a text-only volume. House Exec. Doc. no. 91 Pt. 9. Howes P3; Wheat TRANSMISSISSIPPI 822ff; Wagner - Camp - Becker 266b; Rittenhouse 442. "This widely known work requires no comment - Cowan CALIFORNIA p.512." hardcover
186045464358 pages and appendices at rear 41 this being Vol 12. Book 1. Narrative and Final Report of Explorations for a route for a Pacific Railroad near the forty-seventh and forty-ninth parallels of north latitude from St. Paul to Puget Sound complete with 72 plates comprising 70 lithographic colour plates 1 sheet of profiles and 1 large folding map from Milk River to Crossing of Columbia loose at rear Printed by Thomas H. Ford hardcover
1823bn196London: J. Harris & Son 1823. Book. Illus. by 84 Hand Colored Engraved Scenes and Folding Map. Very Good. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The sixth edition of Isaac Taylor's popular European travel guide for children. An illustrated work. A delightful nineteenth century travel guide to Europe written in an accessible manner for children.Taylor discusses various European countries giving an overview of each one and providing further engaging information. Countries mentioned include Iceland Russia Italy Switzerland France Holland Poland and more. This European travel guide has 84 hand colored engravings a folding hand colored map. This is a tidy pocket sized book measuring approx. 7"x4.25" 108 pages illustrations and a publisher's catalog at the rear. Bound in the original pictorial covers with red leather spine. The boards are evenly darkened & exhibit minimal corner wear. The binding is in good solid condition. The leather spine is bright & tight with no cracking. Internally mild foxing and offsetting of the plates to the opposing pages of text. Overall in nice condition and the volume presents handsomely. J. Harris & Son Hardcover
186011995New-York: B. J. Relyea Mother's Magazine Office 397 Broadway 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Dark blue cloth decorated in blind & gilt some edge-wear particularly along the edges of the back cover light soil 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 pages. 143 pages tight many full-page and in-text wood engravings; infrequent foxing a few finger smudges. The date taken from the WorldCat entry. The book is included in the "Women's Studies Archive: Rare Titles from the American Antiquarian Society 1820-1922.""These pieces are mostly selected from 'Rhymes for the Nursery' by Jane Taylor. We have taken the liberty to insert a few from Dr. Watts Mary Lundy Duncan and other authors. They have stood the test of time. They please the fancy and are not only unobjectionable in their tendency but each one inculcates some useful lesson." - Preface.The signed illustrations include the artists John Andrew Strong Cloves Hartwell and others.Includes Taylor's "Twinkle twinkle little star" as The Star p. 23. Also the popular "Now I lay me down to sleep." as Little Child's Prayer p. 25.Jane Taylor 1783-1824 b. London England; d. Ongar Essex England. She was born to a literary family her parents and her sister Ann all contributed to the press of the day. In addition to her children's books essay plays poems and novels Jane was the editor of the the religious Youth's Magazine. Many of her works were collected and published by her brother in five volumes in 1832. B. J. Relyea, Mother's Magazine Office, 397 Broadway hardcover
18631587Plano Ill 1863. Good condition/None. True Latter-Day Saints' Herald Dec. 15 1863 No. 12 Vol. 4 Whole No. 48 Isaac Sheen Plano Ill. 1863. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 177-192pp. <br /> <br /> Self-wraps. Disbound with remnants of string binding along spine. Text block has moderate soiling and toning and minor chipping along spine. Last leaf has creasing in one corner. Good condition. <br /> <br /> This is the official newspaper of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was established in 1860 and is still in publication today under the name "The Herald.". unknown
18631588Plano Ill 1863. Fair condition/None. True Latter-Day Saints' Herald Dec. 1 1863 No. 11 Vol. 4 Whole No. 47 Isaac Sheen Plano Ill. 1863. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 161-176pp. <br /> <br /> Self-wraps. Disbound with last leaf detached. Text block has moderate soiling and toning and 1/4 inch chipping along the bottom edge. Fair condition. <br /> <br /> This is the official newspaper of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was established in 1860 and is still in publication today under the name "The Herald." This issue contains an article entitled "Brigham's Conference at Salt Lake City Oct. 6-8 unknown