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2004106537Dallas: Southern Methodist University 2004. stiff wrappers. 4to. stiff wrappers. 97 pages. Catalogue of exihibition of presidential election ephemera from 1789 to 2000 at the Birdwell Library Essays by the Williams and Priddy. Southern Methodist University. Color illustrations throughout. Wrappers creased at spine. Southern Methodist University unknown books
1835133617Worcester MA: Dorr Howland & Co 1835. marbled paper-covered boards. Astronomy. 16mo. marbled paper-covered boards. 144 pages. Rinderknecht 35408. Fifth edition. Dedication preface table of contents introduction glossary of astronomical terms appendices. This edition "improved" by the addition of problems in practical astronomy by E. Davis. Foldout frontispiece illustration of the solar system. Charts and illustrations in text. Front cover separated. Covers rubbed and scuffed. Foxing. Dorr, Howland & Co unknown books
1831JS6947New Haven: Durrie and Peck 1831. Second Edition with an Appendix of Problems on the Globes and Useful Tables. Hardcover. Good. Marbled paper over boards backed in gilt-ruled morocco; 16mo 3.75 x 5.75 inches; pp. 8 mispaginated 9-144 plus folding frontispiece and 7 plates collates complete. Backstrip perished; front board detached. Text block browned as usual but still perfectly legible. <br/><br/> Durrie and Peck hardcover books
18722305954New York: D. Appleton and Company 1872. Soft Cover. Good. Wrappers loose should be easily reparable minor loss from spine head and foot ink name and library stamp on front wrapper and title page bookplate inside front wrapper. 1872 Soft Cover. 35 pp. An assessment of the philosophical school of materialism by the superintendent of the New York Asylum for Idiots. Despite the use of the word 'insanity' in the title this is a work on mental disabilities using philosophical terminology. Wilbur established residential institutions for the mentally retarded Elm Hill Private School and Home for the Education of Feeble-Minded Youth in Barre Massachusetts 1848 and the New York Asylum for Idiots in Albany New York 1851 and played a large role in the movement for education and care for the mentally retarded and the mentally ill in the United States. D. Appleton and Company paperback books
1926114738New York: The Macmillan Company 1926. Octavo illustrations by Elizabeth MacKinstry original black cloth front and spine panels stamped in orange. First edition. Adventure novel set in Mexico. Light stain to rear cover free endpapers and fore-edge of text block foxed else a very good copy. #114738 The Macmillan Company unknown books
1883591Fishkill Landing N.Y.: J. W. Spaight 1883. 12mo. 36 pp. <br><br>With a presentation inscription in the author's hand "T. R. Westbrook" to the New Jersey Historical Society. Original printed wrappers with both "covers" present but detached; a little chipped and a little dust-soiled. Final leaf with a closed tear not approaching text. J. W. Spaight unknown books
1776718821776. in a superb Dusel binding. in a superb Dusel binding. A Colorful Duchess Trial. Kingston Elizabeth Chudleigh Hervey Duchess of 1720-1788 Defendant. The Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy Before the Right Honourable the House of Peers In Westminster-Hall In Full-Parliament On Monday the 15th Tuesday the 16th Friday the 19th Saturday the 20th and Monday the 22d of April 1776; On the Last of Which Days the Said Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston was Found Guilty. Published by Order of the House of Peers. London: Printed for Charles Bathurst 1776. iv 176 pp. Title page preceded by imprimatur leaf. Folio 15" x 9". Recent period-style three-quarter calf over marbled boards by Phil Dusel gilt spine with lettering piece endpapers renewed. Moderate toning light soiling and dampspotting to margins of a few leaves faint dampstaining to heads of preliminaries. $1500. Only edition. The colorful duchess is said to have been the basis for William Thackeray's character of Beatrice in Esmond and of the Baroness Bernstein in The Virginians and was also ridiculed in a play that she tried to legally suppress The Capuchin. Prone to romantic entanglements and scandals she had many lovers and it is said that George II was one of many to be swayed by her charms. When she determined to marry the Duke of Kingston Elizabeth feared the scandal of divorce from her first husband Augustus Hervey later Earl of Bristol who wanted a divorce so she instituted a suit of jactitation against him. His negative response ignored she took an oath that she was unmarried and the court so declared her. She married the Duke of Kingston in 1769 and he died in 1770 and left her a substantial estate on the condition that she remain a widow. The duke's nephew Mr. Evelyn Meadow brought suit against her for bigamy shortly after the duke's death while she was traveling in Italy. She returned to England to stand trial. Found guilty she would have been "burned on the hand" but she claimed the privilege of her peerage which served to exempt her from corporal punishment. She continued a life of travel and adventure until her sudden death in Paris in 1788. Dictionary of National Biography IX:730. Sowerby Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 1957. English Short-Title Catalogue T92941. unknown books
194039436Mystic CT: Marine Historical Association 1940. xi 86 pp. b/w plates. <br /><br />"Self portrait of an American Packet ship sailor." Townshend began his career in 1848 and continued throughout the age of sail transferring to the command of a steamship when he was 34 years of age. This account is compiled from his hundreds of letters to family members and gives an excellent sense of the daily life of a merchant sailor. This is copy #V in a limited edition of 100. Covers lightly faded else very good codnition Marine Historical Association books
1835271800London: Edward Churton 1835. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The fictitious biography of the most notorious executioner in English history and there have been a number of them!. A nicely bound copy in 3/4 crimson morocco. The bookplate of W. R Grace is on the pastedown. With fourteen illustrations from designs by Meadows. Very Good binding. Edward Churton unknown books
1957280750London. : Secker and Warburg. 1957. 1st British edition. . Red cloth silver spine title. . Near fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket with some sunning to spine. 20.2x13.3 cm. . The fantastic true story of a housewife who was three women in one body--told by the doctors who helped her to find her real self". weight: 1.0 lb. Secker and Warburg. hardcover books
1957218598New York: McGraw-Hill 1957. First. hardcover. near fine. ix 308pp. 8vo two-toned cloth lightly rubbed d.w. New York: McGraw Hill 1957. First edition. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> McGraw-Hill unknown books
1937WRCLIT70515London: Paramount 1937. 10pp. Quarto. Pictorial self-wrappers with upper wrapper bearing Paramount's standard house imagery. Heavily illustrated. About fine. Original campaign pressbook for the British release of this film adaptation of a story by Paul and Elsie Fox with the screenplay by Louis Stevens and Robert Wyler. Directed by James P. Hogan starring Dorothy Lamour Lew Ayers Gilbert Roland Lionel Atwill Anthony Quinn et al. The film is obviously set within the context of the Spanish Civil War and was touted as the "First Spanish War Romance" but the war serves chiefly as a backdrop affording little insight into the causes and events. The publicity paper however offered some dramatic period imagery. Paramount unknown books
185062375Washington D.C.: Senate 31st Congress 1st Session Doc. No. 12 1850. Disbound pamphlet. 8vo. 25 pp. Four folding maps at rear. Very good. A descriptive account of the route pursued by US troops from Fort Smith Arkansas to Santa Fe New Mexico via the south side of the Canadian river in 1849 while escorting a party of Californian emigrants. GRAFF 3790 HOWES S-500 WAGNER- CAMP 192 WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 640. <br/><br/> Senate, 31st Congress, 1st Session, Doc. No. 12 unknown books
021116House of Representatives 31st Congress 1st Session Ex. Doc. No. 45 1850. 8vo 8 - 9 tall. 89pp. Hardcover. Very Good. Modern black cloth with gilt lettering; includes both plates and folding map titled Topographical Map of the Road from Fort Smith Arks. To Santa Fe N. M. and From Dona Ana N. M. To Fort Smith. Text block has light toning; map has been repaired with archival tape along all fold lines has a 4 tear and moderate toning. This government publication provides the report of Lieutenant James Hervey Simpson regarding the route surveyed from Fort Smith Arkansas to Santa Fe New Mexico and the report of Captain Randolph B. Marcy regarding his journey escorting citizens emigrating to the newly acquired territories of Texas and New Mexico. Howes S-500. . hardcover books
19891339112Cambridge: M.I.T. Press 1989. Fourteenth Printing. Hardcover. Quarto; VG- Hardcover; Tan spine with Black text; Boards strong some edgewear slight shelfwear bending along tail edge of spine small faint brown marks on spine; Textblock has black and brown marks along edges otherwise clean; 837 pp<br /> <br /> <p> Oversized order. Additional shipping and handling may be necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy international shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. Contact seller if you have any questions.<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office in wraparound bookcase next to 15's. 1339112. FP New Rockville Stock. M.I.T. Press hardcover books
176837848London: Printed for John Bowles et. al. 1768. Engraving. Nine numbered references. Among the rarest and most beautifully engraved Canadian views of the 18th century.<br/> <br/>Published following the conclusion of the French and Indian War and in a period of great public interest in the American colonies the Scenographia Americana was the first series of views dedicated to a large-scale artistic depiction of the American landscape. From the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the West indies the scenes include locations of battles views of strategic provincial capitals and newly secured areas of commercial importance. In 1768 the plates were published in three forms: individually; the complete set of 28 engraved plates priced at four guineas; or as seven separate suites as follows: six views of Canada after Smyth plates 1-6 priced 1 guinea; two views in Canada plates 7-8 priced 7s; two views of New York after Howdell plates 9-10 priced 7s; two views of Boston and Charlestown SC plates 11-12 priced 7s 6d for the pair or 3s 6d individually; six views after Pownall plates 13-18 priced 1 guinea; six views of Havana after Durnford plates 19-24 priced 1 guinea; and four views in the West Indies after Campbell plates 25-28 priced 14s. Referring to the suite of views by Smyth Spendlove write: "They are pictures of considerable charm and have much to offer the collector." The present image from the suite depicts the unsuccessful attack made by General Wolfe on July 31 1759.<br/> <br/>Sabin 77467 giving the French title only as per Leclerc 532; Lowndes p. 2185 incorrectly describing the work as 27 views; Deak Picturing America 107; Stokes The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498-1909 I: pp. 281-295; Stokes American Historical Prints B-92; Fowble Two Centuries of Prints in America 25-30; John E. Crowley "The Scenographia Americana 1768: A transnational landscape for early America" in Common-Place vol. 6 no. 2 January 2006; Donald F. Clark "Six Remarkable Views 1761: the Collaboration of Governor Pownall and Paul Sandby" in Imprint vol. 4 no. 1 April 1979; Graham Hood "America the Scenic" in Colonial Williamsburg Journal Spring 2009; Spendlove pp. 12-13. Printed for John Bowles [et. al.] unknown books
3304610" x 15-1/2" folded to 7-3/4" x 10". 4pp. Letter on page 1 interior pages blank and addressed on final page to Southerland. In ink manuscript. Wax seal small tear on blank area of rear leaf opening of the seal. Light wear. Very Good. <br/><br/> This letter concerns the high-profile counterfeiting case involving William Brockway Henry Knickerbacker and a Mr. Snyder. In 1847 and 1848 counterfeit bills of several New Haven banks appeared in commerce. The banks-- through Hervey Sanford and Henry Hotchkiss-- made vigorous efforts to identify the criminals and to procure new plates. But the counterfeiters copied the new bills expertly. The criminals then counterfeited bills of the North River Bank in Hudson New York. Here their luck ran out; they were caught and arrested in Hudson in 1849. This January 1850 letter to Attorney Southerland is in preparation for the trial of the malefactors. <br/> Brockway escaped from jail around April 1850; he was recaptured in September. POUGHKEEPSIE JOURNAL April 13 1850 Page 2 and September 7 1850 Page 2; NEW YORK TRIBUNE April 19 1850 Page 1. William Brockway 1822-1920 had a 50-year counterfeiting career. One of the best most famous and most interesting counterfeiters of his day he studied chemistry at Yale and made exact copies of currency printing plates. He fooled the most accomplished forgery detectors and Treasury officials. Undeterred by this arrest he continued to practice his trade and was arrested and convicted several times into the early 1900's.<br/> Henry Hotchkiss 1801-1871 was president of the New Haven County Bank for 21 years. A pillar of the New Haven establishment he was a member of every significant community institution. Hervey Sanford 1785-1869 was president of City Bank of New Haven for many years and president of the New Haven Bank. He also served as director of the New Haven County Bank. <br/> Waterman Lilly Ormsby 1809-1883 born in Connecticut settled in New York. He was an engraver and inventor of a ruling-machine a transfer-press and the "grammagraph" for roll-die engraving on steel which engraved on steel directly from medals medallions and the like using a "roll-die" engraving technique for engraving on steel. He later contracted with Samuel Colt to add engraving to his guns. He was a founder of the Continental Bank Note Company of New York. In 1852 he wrote a book on bank note engraving and preventing forgery. Stauffer & Fielding: AMERICAN ENGRAVERS UPON COPPER AND STEEL. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 1907. Pages 194-5; THE AMERICAN STATIONER VOLUME 14. NOVEMBER 8 1883 Page 715. unknown books
17961264109London: T. Heptinstall 1796. First edition. Octavos in brown calf with gold gilt spine; VG; study binding and moderate fraying around edges; paper age-toned with foxing and discoloration on title pages and frontispiece engravings; text clean; pp. 280 and 310; shelved in end case. 1264109. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. T. Heptinstall unknown books
1735268209London i.e. Edinburgh: Printed for A. Dodd; Printed for T. Osborne 1735. The fifth edition corrected. 8; 8 pp. Folio. Modern half calf. Near fine. The fifth edition corrected". 8; 8 pp. Folio. Foxon V44 & P1135 Printed for A. Dodd; Printed for T. Osborne unknown books
1980018143Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press 1980. v 236p. dj author's SIGNED presentation copy. Scottish Academic Press unknown books
1980002225Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press 1980. v 236p. dj author's signed presentation copy. Scottish Academic Press unknown books
1820012246London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1820. "Compiled entirely from the Polish system instituted by Marshal Prince Joseph Poniatowski and General Count Corvin Krasinski and adapted to the formations movements and exercise of the British Cavalry. To which is affixed an historical account of the most celebrated banners and orders of chivalry being emblematic and descriptive of the origin and honor formerly attached to bearing gonfanons or gonfalons chivalric banners and lances." Marbled endpapers. The attractive old binding is probably mid-nineteenth century. Spine with six panels two leathers spine labels and gilt rules. Top edge gilt others untrimmed. Fine hand-colored frontispiece a folded engraving of Poniatowski astride his horse in full regalia. Nineteen full-page plates throughout the text. Bound with the half-title. Very light foxing and spotting. Several manuscript corrections in ink in an old hand. blank half-title frontispiece xiii iii 149 blank. Quite a handsome copy of a rare work on the use of the lance. OCLC Worldcat lists five libraries throughout the world with the book. ABPC and ESTC list no copies. Montmorency 1778-1827 was a strong proponent of the use of the lance. He studied the Polish system and recommended it to be used in the exercises of the British Cavalry. In 1816 four regiments of British Lancer was formed. This publication was to be used as a correct guide. Thimm 187. First Edition. 1/2 Vellum Over Marbled Boards. Minor Soiling. Quarto. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown Hardcover books
1924133471Coeur d'Alene Idaho: The Character Building Company 1924. Octavo inserted frontispiece. original pictorial green cloth stamped in gold. First edition. A collection of short stories. Smith M-88. A very good copy. #133471 The Character Building Company unknown books
187857528New York: Wheat & Cornett printers no. 8 Spruce St 1878. 16mo pp. 63 1; original pictorial red wrappers printed in black; near fine. Seems like there are too many fine copies currently being offered which makes me suspect this was once a remainder. Wright III 3082a noting only the Huntington copy. Quite a few in OCLC however. <br/><br/> Wheat & Cornett, printers, no. 8 Spruce St unknown books
187859495New York: Wheat & Cornett Printers 1878. First ed. 12mo. 63 pp. Mohawk River Valley New York romantic fiction. Wright III 3082a. Fine. Orig. illus. red wrappers. #6923. <br/><br/> Wheat & Cornett, Printers unknown books
