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177521457London: T. Cadell 1775. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition. 8vo 411 pp with folding map as frontispiece. Bound in early full calf with gilt spine in six compartments red spine label. Front joint rubbed and partially cracked; binding otherwise sound text very clean. Armorial bookplate of Johnathan Pytts Esq. on front pastedown. "Wraxall's travelogue is elegantly written and its Scandinavian and Russian itinerary was novel and therefore of great interest to the reading public.The narrative is self-consciously chivalric and testifies to Wraxall's lifelong interest in tales of intrigue and distress although Queen Caroline Matilda's predicament does not figure in the text presumably in the interests of diplomacy" ODNB. T. Cadell hardcover books
19301604Various locations including the Caribbean Europe Brazil and Africa 1930. Very good. 529 photographs on forty-five leaves images measuring 3.5 x 4.5 inches. Oblong folio. Original leather covers string tied; grey card leaves photos mounted with black corners. Moderate wear to covers string ties mostly perished. Earlier leaves captioned contents clean images crisp. An extensive photo album kept by adventurous world travelers with images ranging from standard destinations like Niagara Falls to camel rides in the Sahara Desert. Highlights include "Badger Hunting in Normandy" scenes from Cairo views of Atlantic City and an extensive series of views in the Caribbean. This group of 136 photographs covers Morro Castle in Puerto Rico; St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands with scenes of streets and locals in small boats; Martinique and Barbados; Trinidad and Curacao; Colon in Panama in the Canal Zone with scenes of the streets and locks; posh resort life in Kingston Jamaica; and finally Cuba. Images of Cuba include street views of Havana and its important buildings including the Senate the "National Casino" insane asylum the treasury the presidential palace the Inglaterra Hotel and the country club. Additionally scenes in La Playa outside Havana at the beach; the town of Hershey and its plant built by chocolate magnate Milton Hershey; and views of Mariel and Batamano depicting life in the more rural countryside. Later images show scenes touring Europe as well as a series of photos taken in Rio de Janeiro. Though a bit scattered in content the album is an interesting and extensive document of wealthy travel over the course of several years and several continents. unknown books
19243357Kentucky Wisconsin Illinois Kansas Minnesota Ohio Wyoming Michigan South Dakota Colorado 1924. Red leather sheep over card ornately stamped in gilt. Album measures 8 x 9.75 inches and is comprised of 108 manuscript pages in a variety of hands with multiple entries per page. Also includes two pasted-in newspaper clippings and a series of loosely inserted ephemera two obituary clippings for the book's owner five calling cards a church bulletin a gown ad an envelope with a death notice of a friend and a car rental flyer from Oklahoma. Tracing the life of Laura Nethers nee Earl from her girlhood and marriage to her old age. Obituaries and census records show that Laura was a resident of Colorado Springs for 56 years following her family's move from the South through the Western US.<br/><br/>The inscription to the first page of the album reveals it to be a gift: "1860. A Christmas gift from father. Covington KY." Above this is the ownership stamp of Laura L. Earl. Little did Laura know the album would follow her across 64 years and to a variety of states documenting her relationships and major moments in her life. For researchers it is an opportunity to trace a woman's development from one century to the next across multiple states in the South and West as she grew into a teacher wife and woman's club activist. Growing up in Kentucky Laura's family moved West. Entries show that she and her father lived awhile in Minnesota and she became a teacher in Wisconsin before marrying and settling in Colorado Springs. Entries come from family pastors students neighbors and friends. Many entries show women's bonds across large stretches of space and together they show what a mobile lifestyle women were increasingly living. No longer confined so a small radius or single homestead they were maintaining relationships and making friends across the miles. <br/><br/>Some early entries like that of Celia E. Hay Illinois 1878 are traditional in nature: "Over our hearts and into our lives shadows may sometimes fall But the sunshine is never wholly dead And heaven is shadowless overhead And God is over all." Students politely thank her for her work and hope they made an impact too: "I ever remain your true friend James U. Cobb. To Miss Laura Earl much Respected Teacher Ellensboro Wisconsin Feb 25 1872." People write poetic verses on friendship or her new marriage throughout.<br/><br/>Yet more often entries are personal. In 1879 Laura's father leaves her a humorous message that "It is ten o'clock and your sixty-one year old father expects a long trip to the Injun Reservation two hundred miles north in the morning.So you see I cannot write any tonight." Elva Walker writes from Colorado in 1885 "We will ever remember our camping trip.and going in a cave" and John Dietrich writes of the same trip "Did it rain while we were camping! I hope we will meet again soon." In August 1919 a friend Emma Eggleston writes an original piece about their recent travel titled Pike's Peak by Auto which begins "19 and 19 was a year to remember from the last of July to the last of September" and which documents in 36 verses the landscapes they passed and the friendship they strengthened while driving. Moments like these are a reminder of changing times -- of early attitudes toward indigenous tribes or of women's freedom as suffrage approached. <br/><br/>A charter member of the Colorado Women's Club and a participant in Frances Willard's Women's Christian Temperance Union according to her obituary Laura's friendship album is a rich space for researchers to trace her movements through communities in the West for genealogists to study the families and lives of contributors and for historians to track which entries come from other educated women and activists. The present is one of the best we've seen. unknown books
199934720Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0226900185 . First printing. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper else fine in a fine dust jacket. . University of Chicago Press hardcover books
19918953NY: Lyons & Burford. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 1558211187 . First printing. Bottom rear corner is scraped and fore edge is somewhat soiled else near fine in a near fine short closed tear at the bottom rear corner dust jacket. . Lyons & Burford hardcover books
02896912mo Includes the following: 14 pp. Richard Wheatley's Journal dated 13 Sept 1805 - 26 Nov 1807; 10 pp. Richard Wheatley's business ledger; and 12 pp. of Ellen W. Pease's manuscript poetry and verse dated February 5 1835 - February 24 1839 plus blanks. The last leaf is missing. Bound in contemporary vellum worn rubbed scuffed text block nearly detached from binding written in ink some fading though largely legible else good.Manuscript journal of Richard Wheatley b. c. 1770-80 d. c. 1840 describing his travels including a trip to Savannah and elsewhere in Georgia. The journal commences with Wheatley's return home after an eight week "passage." He takes a stage from New York to his home in Boston making several stops along the way. Upon returning to Boston he visits a number of places including Canton the home of his future wife Hannah Dunbar. <p>Wheatley who appears to have been in the textile business begins another trip traveling by steam packet to New York before boarding a brig for Savannah. Here he meets fellow business men and inspects cargos upon arrival from Liverpool. </p> <p>The journal contains a four page description of his travels within Georgia. He meets a Mr. Macky <i>"a Scotchman who told me he could walk thru the streets of this town </i>Savannah<i> from the first of July to the end of September without meeting a white man and if he appeared to meet one he looked like as if he had come out of the Hospital."</i> Wheatley then set out by stagecoach for Augusta Georgia where he met with some businessmen purchased a horse and rode to Briar Creek where he dined then on to Louisville and to Milledgeville a place that is <i>"to be the capital of the state of Georgia. 12 months ago there was no house in it but a log house."</i> </p> <p>After further travels in Georgia Wheatley made his way back to Savannah. Here he became sick and complained: <i>"This country is troubled with almost all kind of troublesome insects. such as sand flies tick Myscatoco sic and several kinds of insects that breed in rotton sic food several stories being told of Mrs. Wilson such as that no sick person ever got well in her house." </i> Wheatley was then an unfortunate guest at Mrs. Wilson's house. </p> <p>Wheatley departed Savannah upon his recovery aboard the Brig <i>Mount Vernon</i> bound for Providence Rhode Island. While traveling he witnessed an eclipse which he describes before returning to Boston. </p> <p>Wheatley later makes a journey to Maine here he mentions visiting a horse fair at Brunswick on a trip from Boston to Bath Maine. He made a number of stops at Hallowell Freeport "Kennebunk" as well as others. At Augusta he relates hearing the news of a man who killed his wife seven children and then himself. Wheatley conducts his travels to further his textile business and interests. There is not much detail on his business the journal only mentioning the names of people he met with. </p> <p>Almost every Sunday that Wheatley is in Boston he attends "Stilman's Meeting-House" which would appear to be the Revolutionary War Baptist preacher Samuel Stillman's 1737-1807 church. Stillman's Boston church was a place where the likes of John Adams and John Hancock could be found listening to Stillman's preaching. It was also Stillman's Church at about this time 1805 that gave birth to the First African Church now Peoples Baptist Church of Roxbury. In 1807 Wheatley mentions attending the funeral for "Docter Stilman." sic </p> <p>Near the end of the journal Wheatley mentions renting a house from an "Ezra Davis" for "$400 per annum" and then getting married to "Hannah Dunbar" of Canton MA and returning with her to Boston. </p> <p>Ellen W. Pease the author of the poetry and verse has written under her name that she was born 22 April 1808. Also under her name are the names Mary D. Pease born June 9 Windwell Pease born April 19 and Gamaliel Pease born May. While there are no years for the birth of Mary D. Windwell and Gamaliel Pease the names of Windwell and Gamaliel Pease are unique enough that a check of the genealogical databases of Ancestry.com shows that George Pease of Suffield CT had married Ellen Wheatley. George immigrated to Ohio in 1825 and along with other Pease family members they were considered some of the pioneers of the Miami Valley. The couple moved to Miami OH where George had a sizable farm. The couple had at least four children Mary D. Windwell Gamaliel and Ellen. George Pease's family had been in Enfield CT since at least the 1680's and before that in Salem MA since the 1650's. </p> <p>Ellen Wheatley is statedin <i>Centennial Portrait and Biographical Record of The City of Dayton and of Montgomery County Ohio</i> 1897 to be the daughter of Richard Wheatley and Hannah Dunbar of Washington Township Ohio. It would appear that Richard Wheatley immigrated to Ohio as well and went into business with Thomas Basson Isaac Cowder and William Black and formed The Ohio Manufacturing Company in 1816 where they manufactured yarn and cloth from cotton and wool at Woodbourn in Montgomery County Ohio. The company purchased the original plots numbered 26 and 33-34 in the town plan. After the Panic of 1819 the Ohio Manufacturing Company bought out some of its competitors in town and acquired the mill dam raceway and all the machinery and unfinished and finished stock of the Farmers and Mechanics Manufacturing Company of Centerville Ohio. He appears to have been somewhat successful for a time. </p> <p>Ellen's poetry is of a morbid nature with such titles as: <i>"Lines on the Death of a lovely Child"</i> and <i>"Epitaph."</i> In another poem Ellen welcomes death so that she can sleep with her loved one: </p> <p> <i>"I come I come if in that tide</i> </p> <p> <i>Thou sleepest tonight I'll sleep there too</i> </p> <p> <i>In death's cold wedlock by thy side</i> </p> <p> <i>Oh! I would ask no happier bed</i> </p> <p> <i>Than the chill wave my love lies under</i> </p> <p> <i>Sweeter to rest together dead</i> </p> <p> <i>Far sweeter than to live asunder."</i> </p> <p>Ellen Wheatley welcomed death and it came; she died the same year as some of poems were written still grieving over her lost children. </p> hardcover books
200432436NY: Rizzoli. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0847826090 . With color photographs by Jonas Dovydenas. First printing. Review copy with publisher's promotional material laid in. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. . Rizzoli hardcover books
19091557Various locations in the West 1909. Very good. Forty-seven leaves containing forty-one photographs 4 x 6 inches supplemented by postcards and a few newspaper clippings. Oblong octavo album. Original leather cover gilt black paper leaves. Spine perished but holding covers worn. Some leaves intentionally trimmed on fore edge. Two photos loose and laid in. Contents clean and fresh. An interesting album documenting a train trip to the Western United States taken by several businessmen from Chicago on a tour to study irrigation investments in Colorado Idaho and Wyoming. The album starts out with panels from the trip brochure pasted onto the first two leaves followed by newspaper clippings documenting the trip as well as a map of the train routes in the west and a sheet of stationery signed by all the members of the party. The trip was organized by Trowbridge & Niver a municipal bond company based in Chicago and one Denver newspaper headline notes "Half-Billion Dollars Represented in Party. Many are already backing projects here and are making trip to investigate." Each photograph is captioned with a typed label documenting stops along the route starting with Fort Morgan Colorado. There are several images of Eldorado Springs including the swimming pool and a large building whose roof says "Moving Pictures" which we presume to be an early movie theatre. There are many group shots of the "Buffalo Party" along the way all looking quite dapper in caps and touring coats out to spend their millions. One image shows the group on a tour by buggy captioned "Our party inspecting irrigated orchards at Palisade Colorado." There are three photographs of Salt Lake City followed by a series in Idaho which includes a charming photo of several women laughing captioned "Shoshone Indians at Pocatello Idaho." There is a series taken along the Snake River in Idaho and Oregon followed by several images taken in Boise. This cataloguer's favorite is a pair of photos taken at the local pool showing the men in their swimsuits: "Buffalonians in the Natatorium Boise." The final four photos depict the group at stops in Wyoming. Throughout the compiler has used postcards to set the scenery for the trip using the photographs to capture the group itself on tour. Altogether a wonderful album documenting a business trip yet assembled like a family vacation album or young woman's scrapbook. The format speaks to the novelty of such a trip even for businessmen in the early years of the 20th century. unknown books
2001S8167Kansas City:: Linda Hall Library 2001. 2001. 4to. 20 pp. Numerous illus. many color index. Pictorial wrappers. FINE. Linda Hall Library, 2001. unknown books
59417This includes 2 large boxes of correspondence having to do with the publication of the magazine manuscripts notes illustrations and much more as well as printed material thaty belonged to Claire who was involved with the Folger Library poetry series. Included amongst the printed material is a signed Keith Wilson broadside poem A Lynd Ward Christmas image small press ephemera a Don Bachardy drawing of Gloria Vanderbilt an image of Dorothy Parker by Bachardy several photos by Robert Lax and many magazines and ephemera from the Wasginton DC scene from the later 1960 and early 1970's. A very interesting lot. The magazine ran 1967-1973- Volume one features a fine cover photo by Elliot Porter drawings by Thomas Merton and interview with Carolyn Kizer. Vyages published work by Roethke Robert Bly Joyce Carol Oates Mark Van Doren Anais Nin and many more and while this archive does not include material from these authors necessarly it does give an excellent windowminto the wookings of a literary magazine. This includes 2 files on the arrangeing of a symnposium on mystery writer Geogre Simenon DC Faulkner film festival readings at the Folger Shakespeare Library corrspondece with publishers and authors and much more inclding a thick file of photocopies of Anais Nin letters and much material about Nin and her relationship with Mr. Clare. unknown books
199211875JDunlap Tennesee: Alpha Control Press 1992. First Edition. Signed by the author - actor David Hedison who starred as Captain Lee Crane of the submarine Seaview in the classic science fiction television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. 155 pages. A dual book the definitive work on both Irwin Allen television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and The Time Tunnel. Profusely illustrated. With interviews of cast and crew members. Complete episode synopsis and guides. Large format paperbound 9†x 12â€. Very fine copy. Alpha Control Press unknown books
178120257London: Printed by J. Nichols 1781. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. Large 4to. iv ii-viii 1-468 469-470 471-472 471-477 blank 473-557 558 binder's directions and errata pages. Lacking the portrait of Mozart at age seven and map of the Ohthere's Voyage. The Map of the Northwest coast of America and portrait of Sir John Wynne Baronet are both present. Modern library buckram gilt; binding lightly scuffed; library stamp to top edge; personal bookplate Archie W Shiels and ex library institutional stamps to front pastedown; new endpapers; inserted modern frontispiece on coated photo paper; title page with handwritten annotations; "Contents" page marked with colored pencil; scattered foxing throughout; some pages brittle due to paper quality; library pockets and electronic tags at rear pastedown; an imperfect ex library copy. Properly de-accessioned. Cloth. This copy owned by Vincent Novello and presented by him to the Musical Antiquarian Society July 8 1845. "Novello was an original member of the Philharmonic Society of the Classical Harmonists and of the Choral Harmonists officiating frequently as conductor. In 1849 he went to live at Nice where he died. Many of his compositions were sacred music much of which was very popular. His great contribution however together with Christian Ignatius Latrobe lay in the introduction to England of unknown compositions by the great masters such as the Masses of Haydn and Mozart the works of Palestrina the treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum and innumerable now well known great compositions." wikipedia<br/><br/>Much on travel to the Northwest and polar regions natural history the Linnean system and other subjects including a report on Mozart a "very remarkable young musician." Among Americana collectors the book is notable for publishing the "journal of Maurelle pilot with the fleet commanded by Don Juan de la Bodega while exploring the coast northward of California in 1775; this portion was also issued in separate form." <br/><br/>Streeter mentions the account to be the only contemporary source in English of this important voyage. <br/><br/>See Howes B177 and Streeter Sale IV 2445. Also: Sabin 3628. Printed by J. Nichols unknown books
198815023Mexico: Coleccion Distrito Federal 1988. Softcover. Very good. Text in Spanish. 74 pp with color illustrations from photographs in original illustrated wrappers. Gift inscription on front endpaper; else clean and sound with light handling wear. Coleccion Distrito Federal paperback books
186614703London: Longmans Green Reader & Dyer 1866. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition re-drawn first published 1864. 10.25 x 14 inches oblong. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. Elizabeth Fox Tuckett 1837-1872 was the sister of the well-known English alpinist Francis Fox Tuckett 1834-1913 who regularly gathered a party of friends and family to accompany him on climbing expeditions. Elizabeth had a talent for drawing as well as a love of travel and produced four popular light-hearted books of which this was the first chronicling her adventures in the form of humorous sketches. Neate T66. Some creasing to cloth corners rubbed occasional foxing lacking rear free endpaper; overall about very good. Inscribed in light pencil on the front free endpaper "With heartfelt good wishes for the/New Year E.F. Tuckett iIllegible place name Dec. 30 1869." In addition Tuckett has written out the full names of the members of the expedition on the "Dramatis Personae" page where they are identified in print only by their initials. Rarely found signed. Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer hardcover books
193814545Pittsburgh PA: Pittsburgh Motor Club ca. 1938. Near fine. Folding printed card folder measuring approximately 10.5" x 5"; unfolds to approximately 20" wide. Contains 15 various publications maps and ephemera all loosely laid-in. Contents housed in original mailing envelope mild age toning in areas otherwise near fine throughout. <br/><br/>A seemingly complete 1938 membership packet of the Pittsburgh Motor Club containing maps of the environs surrounding Pittsburgh membership materials and pamphlets with fantastic examples of period design. A scarce surviving group from the dawn of the American highway. Pittsburgh Motor Club unknown books
189926955Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co 1899. "New Edition Revised and Corrected.". Dark blue binding with elaborate gilt decorations/lettering. TEG. Ribbon page marker. VG sq & tight/gilt bright/minor shelfwear/bpt/poi. 2 volumes vii 1 303; vii 1 318 pp including Index. Illustrated with inserted plates. Folding map at rear of Volume II. 8vo. <br/><br/> Henry T. Coates & Co unknown books
188714499Racine WI: Advocate Steam Print 1887. 1st edition. Original green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Beveled edges. VG slt lean/avg wear. iv 148 pp. 5" x 6 3/4" <br/><br/>Miss Mary McMurphy's European trip via the steamer Noordland. Not in Smith. Advocate Steam Print hardcover books
185211322New York: D. Appleton & Co 1852. 1st US edition. Original publisher's red cloth with black lettering. VG foxing & browning/bpt/pos on ffep/lower joint starting on Vol I. 2 volumes 245; 248 pp. 12mo 4 1/2" x 6 7/8". <br/><br/> D. Appleton & Co hardcover books
191316504San Francisco: Paul Elder & Co 1913. 1st edition. Orangish rough-weave linen cloth stamped in gilt & black. Orange topstain. Dust jacket mirroring binding design. NF slt lean/VG 2 chips at spine panel head & 1 at foot. xx 177 pp including index. Partially unopened. Illustrated from photographs 74 plates total. 12mo. <br/><br/>Printed at the Tomoyé Press under the direction of John Swart. Uncommon in dj. Paul Elder & Co hardcover books
19647774Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society by the Cambridge University Press 1964. 1st edition. Lt Blue cloth with gilt lettering & cover device. NF/VG sp sunned. 230 pp including index illustrated 8vo. <br/><br/>Hakluyt Society Series II Volume CXXII. Published for the Hakluyt Society by the Cambridge University Press hardcover books
19687783Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society by the Cambridge University Press 1968. 1st edition. Lt Blue cloth with gilt lettering & cover device. NF/NF sp panels sltly darkened. 3 volumes illustrated with plates & maps 8vo. <br/><br/>Hakluyt Society Series II Nos CXXXIII CXXXIV & CXXXV. Leichhardt known primarily for his scientific explorations of Australia. Published for the Hakluyt Society by the Cambridge University Press hardcover books
19707776Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society by the Cambridge University Press 1970. 1st edition. Lt Blue cloth with gilt lettering & cover device. NF binding defect to 2 preliminary leaves of V2/NF lt wear. 2 volumes illustrated with plates & maps including color frontis in each volume 8vo. <br/><br/>Hakluyt Society Series II Volume CXXXIX. Published for the Hakluyt Society by the Cambridge University Press hardcover books
43573London: British Travel. Printed in Great Britain at The Curwen Press 206/ENG/70/15 n. d. Circa 1970s. Light wear to edges; few tiny spots to upper edge. A VG example. Broadside. Colorful image of a map of Britain with locations of historical purport for America demarcated with a small illustration and brief textual explanation. 39-3/4" x 27-3/4" <br/><br/>A rather curious travel poster from Britain to its former colony in that the "American associations" depicted on the map are more often than not the birthplaces and/or early residences of Mayflower pilgrims and leaders of the American Revolution. We speculate that it was issued to coincide with the increased interest in US colonial history during/leading up to the bicentennial. British Travel. Printed in Great Britain at The Curwen Press 206/ENG/70/15 unknown books
2072Paris Imp. Eugene Marz 1897-1898. Image:27 3/4 x 38 1/2. Margins: 42 1/2 x 30. Beautiful red blue green scenes of Biarritz coastline and seashore. this poster is an advertisement for a holiday during the winter to visit Biarritz on the western French coast near Spain. In fine condition with the usual folds. unknown books
189044169New York: D. Appleton and Company 1890. "Authorized" edition. Original publisher's light brown cloth binding with dark brown blue & gilt stamping. Pale green eps. General shelf-wear. One proud gathering. Bookplate & booklabel to front paste-down. Evidence of pocket removal to rear paste-down. Withal a VG copy. x 417 5 pp. 4 pages of publisher adverts conclude volume. 111 illustrations by Townsend. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/> D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
