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18681206T100London: Vincent Brooks Day & Son 1868. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 34 8 plates. Very Good. 4.75 x 7.25 inches 11.5 x 18 cm. Brown cloth binding panelled in gilt to front board and in blind to rear board. All edges gilt. Chromolithographic title page following by letterpress title page with light foxing. Eight chromolithographic plates three with perforations along outer margin. Red border to text pages. Binding strained at title page but securely bound. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper: 'Marion Aubin St. Helena January 26th 1870' and name again to upper margin of the colour title page. A very scarce title rarely found in commerce. WorldCat lists 10 copies in libraries worldwide. Overall condition is Very Good. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £11.00; USA £15.00; Oceania £16.00; Rest of World £18.00. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 4.75 x 7.25 inches 11.5 x 18 cm. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son hardcover
186638290Salem OR: W.A. McPherson State Printer 1866. Hardcover. Very Good. Each 110 and 118 pages respectively. Preliminary and ending blank leaves removed. Several small date stamps and contemporary signature. Bound in half leather over marbled covers. A near very good copy with cover wear. <br/> <br/> W.A. McPherson, State Printer hardcover
186212179Washington DC: United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO 1862. Hardcover. Fine. Senate 37th Congress 2nd Session Document No. 108. The seminal legislation outlining the route and conditions for construction of the Pacific Railroad. Government document crating the Union Pacific Railroad Company. 12 pages. A handsome copy privately bound in red quarter leather with marbled boards. Tiny chip to very last page else fine. <br/> <br/> United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO hardcover
1880056106New York: Maverick & Wiseinger 1880. Single sheet. Near Fine. Certificate for 100 shares number 4999. Signatures of the Secretary and Treasurer. Two cancellation punches. A near fine copy. <br/> <br/> Maverick & Wiseinger unknown
188224814Portland OR: A.G. Walling Printer and Lithographer 1882. Soft cover. Very Good. Showing constructive and willful fraud in the transfer of Jesse Applegate's land to his children; and the children should pay the rents and profits for six years." 59 pages. Small chip to rear cover and light edge wear. A very good copy. <br/> <br/> A.G. Walling, Printer and Lithographer paperback
1899009172Le Caire: Ministere des Finances 1899 Binding condition: VG in maroon leather boards with contrasting indigo spine and corners; raised bands and gilt titles to spine; a couple of bumps. Contents: Good with darkening to page edges; browning/smudges to prelims; ink date to title page; very faint spotting to a couple of pages; bump/small crease to corners of page block; light reading wear. 649 pages. Text in French and Arabic. First Edition. An attractive binding. Heavy book. Shipping cost may be higher than stated for buyers outside of the UK. Ministere des Finances hardcover
1899005419Munich: Hermann Lukaschik 1899. Hardcover. Very Good -. 4 39 1 p.: in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Leather spine with dark brown pebble-grain paper over boards. Green leaf-pattern endpapers. Austrian Arabist and archeologist Eduard Glaser 1855-1908 was one of the first Europeans to explore South Arabia and is still considered the most important scholar to have studied Yemen. Very scarce. In Very Good- Condition: leather lacking along spine but boards are still attached; edge of boards rubbed; scattered page soiling; solid. Hermann Lukaschik hardcover
183268324John Murray. Good with no dust jacket. 1832. Reprint. Hardcover. Brown cardboard boards rubbed shelfwear. Bindings are sound hinges weak vol. II tape-repaired spine paper is worn away on Vols 1. Inner pages show foxing but otherwise unmarked. Vol. 1: 272Pp vol. 2: 354Pp . John Murray hardcover
188138668Des Moines IA: Board of Railroad Commissioners 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. A map and profile in a single volume which accompanied the Board of Railroad Commissioners Report. The first is a folded Railroad Map of Iowa engraved and printed by The Western Litho Co. measuring two feet by three feet. The second is a much larger 13 feet x 3 feet folded Profile of Grades of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway from McGregor to The Big Sioux River the Demoines and Fort Dodge Railroad the Chicago and North Western Railroad the Illinois Central and the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific. Both are folded and bound into the original brown cloth over limp boards measuring 6" by 9". Spine professionally replaced. There are no tears to the maps though they are very delicate and the paper can be easily torn. A little dust along upper folds. A handsome very good copy. <br/> <br/> Board of Railroad Commissioners hardcover
186341005Richmond VA: William F. Ritchie 1863. Hardcover. Very Good. Message of the Governor seventeen pages followed by seventeen of nineteen documents plus another Message of the Governor 24 pages followed again by thirty-four documents. The two missing documents: Document IX REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH TO THE JOINT LIBRARY COMMITTEE 1863 presents a report on the affairs of the state library focusing on the details of a library robbery! and Document X GOVERNOR'S COMMUNICATION TRANSMITTING DOCUMENTS FROM GEORGIA 1863 transmits a letter complaining about the treatment of Georgian business agents during a trip to Virginia. A thick volume pages bulk at 2 & 7/8th inches. Bound with original cloth spine with paper title label over paper covered boards. Early California State Library plate fixed to the inside of the front cover. No other library markings labels or pockets were ever present. Split interior hinge where the two documents were pulled cover corners worn else an about very good copy. <br/> <br/> William F. Ritchie hardcover
18423983London: JC Bridgewater 1842. First Edition. Soft cover. VG. with the undermentioned persons connected with the late operations in Afghanistan from the commencement of the revolt in November 1842 to the final evacuation of that country by the British troops in October 1842. Correspondence men such as R. Shakespeare Major Rawlinson Capt. Durand J. Willoughbu Capt. Lawrence. 105 pages in 3 sections. Lengthy correspondence about the British involvement in Afghanistan. Original plain wrappers housed in a half leather folding clamshell box. Marbled boards. Gilt title: Outram's Afghanistan correspondence. JC Bridgewater unknown
188957805Washington: James C. Dunn later: American Colonization Society 1889. An incomplete and disparate run and with a major gap 1851-1870 88 issues in all volumes 16-18 in a bound volume but without a front cover the rest in wrappers; a few wrappers missing a few defective a number loose but present; edge tears chips and curls. Condition ranges from fair to very good. Included are volumes 14 1838 nos. 1-10 12; volume XV 1839 no.1-3 5-6 8-9 11 14-18; volume 16 1840 nos. 1 4-16 18 21 23-24; volume 17 1841 nos. 1-8; volume 18 1842 nos. 3-4 9-10 15-18 20 22-24; volume 26 1850 nos. 10-11big gap; volume 47 1871 nos. 1 11; volume 50 1874 nos. 1-4 8-9; volume 51 1875 no. 2; volume 53 1876 nos. 2-4; volume 54 1878 nos. 2-4; volume 57 1881 nos. 6-8; volume 59 1883 nos. 3-4; volume 64 1888 no. 4; volume 65 1889 nos. 2-4. Much on Liberia abolition slavery the Amistad case African colonization African languages etc. The African Repository and Colonial Journal title simplified in 1850 to African Repository was the official publication of the American Colonization Society which supported the migration of free American Blacks to Africa specifically to its colony of Liberia. It began publication in 1825 and ceased in 1892 and is a primary source for the early history of Liberia. James C. Dunn [later: American Colonization Society] unknown
1900056105New York: American Bank Note Company 1900. Single sheet. Fine. Certificate for less than 100 shares number A3499. A fine copy unused and as new. <br/> <br/> American Bank Note Company unknown
189224819Portland OR: Oregon Pioneer Association/A. Anderson & Co. Printers and Lithographers 1892. First edition . Soft cover. Very good plus. 80 pages including rememberences of pioneer members plus additional material. Frontis photograph of Joseph Watt. Small chip at head of spine. Mild toning to cover edges. Small bookstore sticker inside front cover. A very good plus copy. <br/> <br/> Oregon Pioneer Association/A. Anderson & Co., Printers and Lithographers paperback
188624816Salem OR: Oregon Pioneer Association/E.M. Waite Steam Printer and Bookbinder 1886. First edition . No Binding. Very good plus. 44 pages plus "Ode to the Pioneers" by S.A. Clarke and obituaries. Disbound from original hardcover. A very good plus copy. <br/> <br/> Oregon Pioneer Association/E.M. Waite, Steam Printer and Bookbinder unknown
1899056302Washington DC;: United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO 1899. Hardcover. Very good plus. House of Representatives. 55th Congress 3rd Session Dobument No. 307. Chapters on breeds of dairy cattle inoculation to produce immunity from Texas fever in northern cattle the cattle industry of Colorado Wyoming and Nevada a cattle disease in Marshall County Kansas preliminary catalogue of plants poisonous to stock etc. 647 pages with numeous photographs and plates some in color. Folded map present. Bound in full calf leather. Front hinge just starting. A very good plus copy. <br/> <br/> United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO hardcover
1897056303Washington DC;: United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO 1897. Hardcover. Very good plus. Chapters on dipping of cattle for ticks investigations of diseases of domesticated animals infectious leukemia in fowl tuberculosis in swine detection of tuberculosis in cattle etc. 8vo. 362 pages plus many plates featuring organs cells and micro-organisms many of these in color. Bound in full calf leather. Some splash discoloration along spine. A very good plus copy. <br/> <br/> United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO hardcover
1893056301Washington DC;: United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO 1893. Hardcover. Very good plus. Includes a chapter on the treatment of cattle for lumpy-jaw with eight illustrated plates. Also included are ten color plates featuring healthy and diseased organs cells and micro-organisms and the cattle tick which carries Texas fever. Adams; Rampaging Herd 2370. 8vo. 428 pages. Bound in full calf leather. Toning to page edges. Small library plate to front paste-down endpaper but none of the other usual library markings or attachments. Leather covers show some areas of light soiling. A very good plus copy. <br/> <br/> United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO hardcover
189713059Washington DC;: United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO 1897. Hardcover. Very good plus. Chapters on dipping of cattle for ticks investigations of diseases of domesticated animals infectious leukemia in fowl tuberculosis in swine detection of tuberculosis in cattle etc. 8vo. 362 pages plus many plates featuring organs cells and micro-organisms many of these in color. Bound in full calf leather. Some splash discoloration along spine. A very good plus copy. <br/> <br/> United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO hardcover
186046943New York: S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. 1860. Folio 15" X 12" image area 13¼" X 10½". Hand colored. Very good. Minor age toning and faint soiling. Nice example of this continental map with portion of Arabia and Persia as well and large central portion of Africa marked as "Unknown Interior" from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World Plans of Cities Etc." Inset at lower left titled "Island of St. Helena" with "Tomb of Napoleon" prominently noted. Tastefully colored and with attractive floral border. S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. unknown
186057821Kjøbenhavn 1860. Leks8vo. Samtidig skinnryggbind med svakt opphøyde ryggbånd og enkel ryggforgylling. 500 434 s. Illustrert. Med foldet kart bak i bind II. Fr. Wøldikes Forlagsboghandel Dansk. <br/><br/><em>Ryggen svakt bleket. </em> unknown
182269767London 1822. 8vo. 1800-talls vinrøde helskinnbind med rik ryggforgylling svakt opphøyde ryggbånd tittelfelter i mørkerødt skinn enkel strekdekor på deklene bindenes snitt dekorert i gull. viii xii 322 2 ; 2 384 s. Med et kolorert foldet kart samt 13 håndkolorerte akvatinter. Alle plansjene dublert med lerrett. Printed for the Society. Published and sold by Francis Westley Engelsk. <br/><br/><em>Tooley s. 123. Ex libris. Materien noe gulnet. </em> unknown
1824376899South Afrca 1824. Folio. Very Good a few margin tears 1 closed 2 with holes from seal generally sound some with postmarks. Folio. Report of Arrivals in Simons Bay Cape of Good Hope.which is l on the shores of Simon's Bay in False Bay on the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula. For more than two centuries it has been a naval base and harbour first for the British Royal Navy and now the South African Navy. The town is named after Simon van der Stel an early governor of the Cape Colony.<br /> 4 documents. 1823-24. Each SIGNED BY RICHARD WEATHERLEY HARBOR MASTER <br /> <br /> Report of Arrivals and Departures.Algoa Bay. Port Elizabeth. Eastern Cape SA 6 documents to Captain Francis Evatt important Commandant of Fort Frederick at Port Elizabeth. Each document signed by Evatt. 1824. unknown
1870351805Paris 1870. Ink inscription on verso. Spotting in the image the image mounted upside down on the mount. Ink inscription on verso. unknown
1894177068Chicago.: Geo. F. Cram. 1894. Chromolithographed maps 54.3 x 34.1 cm sheet central fold a few small edge tears and marginal age toning but in very good condition. Detailed maps prepared for George F. Cram's 1894 "Standard American Atlas": one of the first American firms to publish a world atlas. Maps of Oceania and South Africa printed on the verso. . Geo. F. Cram. unknown
