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1879001013Hartford Connecticut: The Case Lockwood & Brainard Co. 1879. Three years of the New Haven City Yearbook bound together in an attractive Victorian binding limited to 1000 copies. Each year's publication contains a list of the officers of the City and Town Governments Reports of Department Heads Official Communications from the Mayor Public Documents Reports of Committess of the Court of Common Council Diagrams of Aldermen's and Other Chambers Miscellaneous Papers. Dark red cloth with lettering and the city seal in gilt other decorations in black 299 274 512 pages plus the indices for each year bound in at the back. Light edge and corner wear plus what looks like a puppy chew at the bottom of the spine which affects the exterior only - not the pages which are clean and free from chips tears markings etc. Hinges good binding sound. Internally near fine. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. Hardcover
185440865New Haven: Northrop 1854. Each Number stitched in original printed wrappers minor wear; November 1853 lacking rear wrapper. Scattered foxing. Each volume continuously paginated. 668; 648; 675 1 7 pp. Very Good. <br /> <br /> The New Englander was a quarterly which issued in February May August and November. It "was established in 1843 by a group of New Haven ministers and educators to uphold what they found best in the New England tradition. . .It deserves a place among the more general reviews as well as among those actuated by religious motives and ideals" Mott.<br /> I Mott 371. Lomazow 445. Northrop unknown
187551010New York: Nelson & Phillips 1875. 8vo. 467 1 pp. plus 2 pp. publ. ads. Woodcut-engraved frontisp. numerous woodcut-engraved plates tissue guards woodcut-engraved text illustrations. Olive-green cloth gilt lettering on spine gilt illustration on front cover minor bumping to corners slight fraying head & foot of spine minor dustsoiling VG- copy. First edition of this travel account through the Yucatan up through Mexico to Mexico City over to Monterey and then onto Havana Cuba. Haven 1821-1880 was a radical abolitionist and strong advocate for civil and social rights who worked tirelessly for abolishing slavery and after the Civil War for securing equal social and political status for freed slaves and African-Americans. In addition he devoted time as a missionary to establish Methodist Churches in Mexico the Caribbean South America and Africa. See: Gilbert Haven Papers United Methodist Church General Commission on Archives & History 2016. Nelson & Phillips, hardcover
182755173N.p. 1827. First edition. old half morocco over marbled boards. First few leaves blanks at front and title page foxed; spine sunned; light scuffing to binding; tight and sound. 8vo. hardcover
186329531New York: D. Appleton 1863. 12mo pp. 214 2 ads; extra pictorial chromolithographic title-p. 4 wood-engraved plates; some wear else a very good copy in original blindstamped brown cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine. A moralizing tale about the allure of California gold on New Englanders. D. Appleton unknown
1885000756Cleveland Ohio: Mrs. M. B. Haven 1885. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine. Original blue cloth gilt titles and decorative board. 10 vi 4 244 10 pp. with advertisements at front and rear. Advertisement endpapers. A scarce example of a 19th century city directory with the listings advertising and businsess directories all socially oriented towards women. A clean tight copy showing just light wear. Size: Octavo <br/> <br/> Mrs. M. B. Haven hardcover
1869217483New York: N. Tibbals & Co 1869. First editions. Folding map of New Haven double-page lithograph frontispiece and 2 plates. 4 141 1 pp. 1 vols. 16mo 5-5/6 x 3-3/4 in. Three quarter olive-green morocco and marbled paper boards matching endpapers. Fine copy from the library of J.B. VOORHEES of Brooklyn. First editions. Folding map of New Haven double-page lithograph frontispiece and 2 plates. 4 141 1 pp. 1 vols. 16mo 5-5/6 x 3-3/4 in. Two very scarce and important texts relating to New Haven and Yale bound together and in superb condtion. The Sturgis catalogue of the Jarves collection one of the most important and influential collectors of his day is the first book by the young architect and art critic describing the contents if the collection three years before it was acquired by Yale in 1871; it is extra-illustrated with the insertion of 2 tinted lithographed plates. N. Tibbals & Co unknown