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1850183076Boston: Samuel G. Drake 1850. Hardcover. G covers show normal wear but spine is only slightly faded. Corners bumped and worn. Back hinge is coming loose. Ex-library label inside front cover. Text block shows some stains but pages are clean. Brown cloth boards embossed art on front gilt lettering and six seals on spine. 388 pp illustrations salmon wrappers bound in back of title. Published under the direction of: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Wonderfully bound - has great shelf appeal. Samuel G. Drake hardcover books
184336025Northampton: Printed at the Gazette Office 1843. 20pp. Stitched lightly dusted Very Good.<br/><br/> The Convention expresses "strong confidence in the ultimate triumph of the silk cause in this country." Edward Dickinson of Amherst the Treasurer of Amherst College and father of Emily Dickinson was President of the Convention. Animated discussions of silk worms and silk are printed. <br/>American Imprints records the 1842 first edition but not this 1843 second. OCLC locates four copies as of June 2019. Printed at the Gazette Office unknown books
1803WRCAM35404Washington 1803. pp.195-316ivlxxxv pp. plus index. Half title. Original plain wrappers. Some old waterstaining at top of many leaves. Overall good untrimmed. The 85pp. supplement contains treaties of the United States in their first Congressional printings. The treaty with France had attempted to reconcile the many commercial problems the United States had with the French republic; promulgated in 1800 it was ratified by John Adams in one of his last acts as President. The British convention of 1802 was an attempt to settle the commercial differences arising from interpretations of Jay's Treaty although this measure did not solve the problems which drove Jefferson to the Embargo a few years later. This volume also contains U.S. treaties with the Chickasaws Creeks Choctaws and Senecas. MALLOY pp.496 610. unknown books
182019259Middletown Conn.: Printed by Clark & Lyman for Thomas Spencer Jr. 1820. Wrappers worn some staining; a few tears final leaf a bit loose; a good sound copy. Contemporary blue paste-paper wrappers scant 4 x 3.25 inches 72 pages. Illus. The Spencer family seems to have been publishing New-England Primers in Middletown as early as 1812. Early juvenile ink signature doodling and ink staining to the title page. American Imprints 2419; not found in Heartman. Printed by Clark & Lyman, for Thomas Spencer, Jr., unknown books
182019260Hartford: Printed by George Goodwin & Sons 1820. Wrappers worn and soiled with a portion of the spine perishing; somewhat toned; a few bits of light marginal staining; a good sound copy. Original blue sugar paper wrappers 4.25 x 2.63 inches 1 3-62 1 pages. Frontis illus. The first and last leaf are mounted to the inside of the wrappers. With ads for Goodwin on the leaf mounted to the rear wrapper. Heartman 329; American Imprints 2416; Hamilton American Illustrators 361: "The frontispiece is signed 'J. W. Barber.' While it is impossible to say whether he made the conventional cuts for the alphabet . . . and the cut of 'The Burning of Mr. John Rogers' it would seem likely that he did. Printed by George Goodwin & Sons, unknown books
1876010487London: George Philip & Son 1876. Hardcover. VG. 8vo publishers brown pebbled cloth gilt vignette and titles front gilt spine titles corners moderately worn binding firm all maps extant. Apparently unused internals near fine George Philip & Son hardcover books
182719257Rochester N.Y.: Printed by E. Peck & Co. 1827. Wrappers somewhat rubbed and worn; some foxing; a very good copy. Original drab wrappers 4.5 x 3.25 inches 1 61 pages. Illus. Peck appears to have been issuing New-England Primers as early as 1822. The first and last printed leaf mounted to the inside of the wrappers. Ink ownership inscription dated 1835 on the outside front wrapper. American Imprints 29932; Heartman 371. Printed by E. Peck & Co., unknown books
185623747Washington: Buell & Blanchard 1856. 8pp caption title as issued. Disbound else Very Good. <br/><br/> The New England Emigrant Aid Society was formed in 1854 to promote the emigration to Kansas of anti-slavery men and their families. Its Executive Committee whose members included Eli Thayer Edward Hale and William Spooner responds to criticism that the Society is a "mammoth moneyed corporation" which seeks "to control the institutions of Kansas." The charges against the Society were leveled in a Senate Report issued by the Chairman Stephen A. Douglas of the Committee on Territories. <br/> The Society says the Executive Committee does not promote "interference with the internal affairs and domestic concerns of the Territory;" it "has done what it could in a peaceable legal and constitutional way to aid in the settlement of Kansas by a population of freemen." <br/>FIRST EDITION. 22 Decker 220. Not in Sabin Dary Eberstadt Work Dumond Blockson LCP. Buell & Blanchard unknown books
18472345Boston: Printed by S.N. Dickinson & Co. 1847. 12mo 7 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches; 183 x 119 mm 12 pages in original printed wrappers softcover.<br /><br />A full-throated cry against slavery. The Quakers who had long opposed slavery wonder how a supposedly Christian nation could allow such evil to exist. "From the border slave states to the far south and southwest the vessels of the slave-trader regularly ply laden with youthful victims reared like cattle for the market" page 4. <br /><br />OCLC shows 21 physical holdings of this pamphlet by institutions with far more in digital formats. None in commerce. <b>SCARCE.</b> <br /><br />CONDITION: Slight soiling and creasing to wrappers horizontal fold probably for mailing. Very Good or better. Printed by S.N. Dickinson & Co. paperback books
180234027Worcester: Isaiah Thomas Jun 1802. 48 pages including self-wrappers. vignette on title head-pieces on page 2 is illustration of "Anatomy of Man's Body as governed by the 12 constellations." At the foot of this same page are notations of Medical Lectures at Harvard and Dartmouth. 1 vols. 12mo. Self wrappers stitched. Spotting some light offsetting and browning else near fine. 48 pages including self-wrappers. vignette on title head-pieces on page 2 is illustration of "Anatomy of Man's Body as governed by the 12 constellations." At the foot of this same page are notations of Medical Lectures at Harvard and Dartmouth. 1 vols. 12mo. With Roads to the Principal Towns and Inns with innkeeper's names on the last three pages. On the back page is a short advertisement from Isaiah Thomas for books. S & S 2457 Isaiah Thomas Jun unknown books
1845042401West Roxbury MA: Brook Farm Press 1845. Newspaper. Good. 8 individual issues of the Brook Farm newspaper issued weekly. Browning occasional light dampstains many pages splitting at the folds chipping and wear and a few small tears to the edges of a few of the issues scattered foxing. Complete pages 1-127. Articles on Fourier including Cosogony by Fourier translated for the Harbinger in two parts and the first two parts of The New Industrial World by Fourier labor unions famine in Ireland and Consuelo by George Sand in parts the first 14 chapters. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Philosophy; Antiquarian & Rare; Boston; Inventory No: 042401. <br/><br/> Brook Farm Press unknown books
181125444Oxford: printed at the Clarendon Press by Bensley Cooke and Collingwood 1811. 4to unpaginated portions except for the title-p. lacking all before I4 2D1-4F4 and 2H1-3G4 2B and 2B2 with tears mended; bound in a dated binding of full black straight-grain morocco elaborately decorated in blind the central panel with "Nevedon Vincent Edwards A.M. Rector William Sparrow Church-Warden 1816" in gilt central on upper cover paneled spine also elaborately tooled in blind lettered in gilt a.e.g.; very good. <br/><br/> printed at the Clarendon Press, by Bensley, Cooke, and Collingwood unknown books
1853FF2448Oxford:: University Press 1853 1852. 1853. 12 cm. unpaginated. Original full chocolate brown blind- and gilt-stamped morocco all edges gilt with fore-edges protected by brass-edging and clasp verso of clasp states "DOWNES". Ownership inscriptions of J.C. McMullen to Stanley Herbert McMullen 1854 . . . and with love to Charles T. McMullen Xmas 1898 both predating the painting. Very good. With a fore-edge painting of a single full-bloomed rose with three buds surrounding 3 leaves and a spray of blue dots. There is no background. The painting is 20th century. / Bound together with N. Brady & N. Tate A NEW VERSION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID fitted to the tunes used in Churches. Oxford 1852. University Press, 1853, 1852. unknown books
1826WRCAM40087Boston: Printed by James Loring 1826. 61pp. Lacks frontispiece leaf. 16mo. Contemporary half calf and modern blue boards. Some damp-staining to boards. Titlepage stained and torn with some loss to border and text on verso. First leaf lacking frontispiece; last leaf pasted to rear board torn with minor loss to text. Some foxing and staining some tears repaired with Japanese tissue. Overall a fair copy. A much later edition of the often revised and updated first school book printed in the American colonies first published circa 1690. A combination speller reader and religious catechism. Illustrated with attractive woodcuts. The American Antiquarian Society notes variant issues of this edition this being the issue with titlepage frame design featuring diamonds and flowers and page 61 featuring a wood engraving of a boy and girl kneeling in prayer before seated parents. Rosenbach notes that the first and last leaf are pasted down as they are here though the first leaf is here lacking. Bristol dates this edition incorrectly as 1798. All early editions of this fragile little book are rare. HEARTMAN 343 2nd ed. ROSENBACH EARLY AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS 531. BRISTOL B10406. SHIPTON & MOONEY 48521. Printed by James Loring hardcover books
184939429Boston: Redding & Co.; New York:Clark Austin & Co 1849. States outlined in colors. 1 vols. 20 1/2 x 24 3/4 inches overall. Folding engraved map 16 ca. 5 x 6 inch panels Four rows of four panels backed on linen engraved ornamental bordersmall engraved paper label on back. Some browning or soiling generally light cloth darkened with some spotting on verso of map else a very good copy. States outlined in colors. 1 vols. 20 1/2 x 24 3/4 inches overall. Each of the railroad lines is identified. Redding & Co.; New York:Clark, Austin & Co unknown books
186133179Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black 1861. 28 maps. Map of Northern Wales has short tears some spotting outer panel from folding map at 237 lacking map at page 437 with tears along folds map at page 493 separated at folds folding map of England at back repaired with tape some tears and spotting. 15 plates of views and one illustration lacking frontispiece. Pp. vi-xxviii 554 30 of 32 pages publisher's advertisements at back advertiseing third edition of this work. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green limp cloth boards by Ramage spine gilt upper cover with gilt. Rubbed tears along joints some repair lacking leaves preceding title and first leaf of advertisements some waterstaining and browning else quite good. 28 maps. Map of Northern Wales has short tears some spotting outer panel from folding map at 237 lacking map at page 437 with tears along folds map at page 493 separated at folds folding map of England at back repaired with tape some tears and spotting. 15 plates of views and one illustration lacking frontispiece. Pp. vi-xxviii 554 30 of 32 pages publisher's advertisements at back advertiseing third edition of this work. 1 vols. 8vo. Adam and Charles Black unknown books
18711247Wells VT 1871-1873. Leather bound. Leather account book with pocket. Good. 72 pages written 62 blank. 15.5 x 10 cm. Leather notebook with flap and pocket property of R.M.W Lewis Wells VT. Handwritten notebook with 16 additional daily accounts using "Lake Austin Woolen Mill" letterhead for this cheese factories daily tally. Ledger describes what seems to be a cheese co-op with dividends divided per day report of the season most milk received in one day June 16th - 9195 gallons days cheese was made per year 207 etc. Wells VT rests on the edge of Rutland county and in 1870 the populations total was 430 people. In the early 1800's a dam was built on Lake St. Catherine which enabled industry such as a woolen mill wood working shop and cheese factory to thrive. Covers worn joints cracked but holding 2 cm. loss of leather to tail of spine. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1899LLV2362London Paris New York & Melbourne:: Cassell ca.1899. 1899. Eight volumes. 4to. xii 612 standard pagination for all volumes. Frontispieces profusely illustrated throughout indexes; slightly browning along margins endpapers lightly foxed. Original quarter gilt-stamped maroon calf over dark blue textured cloth binding by W. Scovell Wolverhampton; extremities rubbed joint cracked on vol. I vols. 6 & 8 with minor kozo repair to outer joint. Bookplates of Frederick C. Thompson corner text scoured off. Very good. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND AND FULLY ILLUSTRATED. This revised edition had been enhanced with additional beautiful and "originally drawings by the best artists" title. We have eight volumes; some other sets include two additional volumes but this history here is complete to the year 1898. These volumes are titled: Volumes I-VIII: From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses; From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion’ From the Great Rebellion to the Fall of Marlborough; From the Fall of Marlborough to the Peninsular War; From the Peninsular War to the Death of Sir Robert Peel; From the Death of Sir Robert Peel to the Illness of the Prince of Wales; From the Illness of the Prince of Wales to the British Occupation of Egypt; From the British Occupation of Egypt to the Death of Mr. Gladstone. Laid in are at least two leaves of advertisements including one from Cassell & Company publishers for the Thanksgiving Service at St. Paul’s Cathedral on Diamond Jubilee Day June 22 1897. Another sheet is a tipped in insert to Vol. III from the Koko-Maricopas Co. Ltd. to prevent graying of hair and "prevents hair falling" Cassell, [ca.1899]. hardcover books
180819696London 1808. 126pp. Five engraved plates 3 folding 2 full-page many in-text illustrations. bound with SECOND REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE ON THE HIGHWAYS OF THE KINGDOM. ORDERED TO BE PRINTED 30TH MAY 1808. pp 127-193 1 blank. bound with THIRD REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE ON THE HIGHWAYS OF THE KINGDOM. ORDERED TO BE PRINTED 17TH JUNE 1808. pp 195-215 1 blank. One full-page plate. Folio disbound title leaf of First Report loosened collated complete. Very Good. <br/><br/> The Committee was charged with determining the "use of Broad Wheels and to examine what shape is the best calculated for ease of draught and the preservation of the Roads; also to suggest such additional Regulations as may contribute to the preservation of the Turnpike Roads and Highways of the Kingdom." Thus the Committee investigated Wheels Carriages "in general" and "The Construction of Highways." The Committee conscientiously consulted the latest and most advanced thinking of the day and presents it here. OCLC locates copies only at the Library of Congress and the University of Indiana. <br/>OCLC 4499251 2. unknown books
189156860London: Eyre & Spottiswoode C. J. Clay 1891. Folio pp. 544 plus 5 pages of signatures and facsimile of the back of the original book. Brown embossed cloth printed in gilt on the spine. Cover worn at edges and somewhat dust spotted some staining on endpapers o/w VG. Extremely heavy. Griffiths 1891/1. A very good copy of the original handwritten draft of the 1661 English BCP reproduced by letterpress and printed in black with printed red rules. Eyre & Spottiswoode | C. J. Clay unknown books
186341080Boston: Printed by order of the General Committe 1863. 4to. 2 vols.: 4 4 pp. Original self wrappers; second series chipped along fore-edges and with old institutional blindstamp overmarked "withdrawn"; third series clean. First editions of the second and third series the first was published in 1862 a fourth series appeared in 1864. Reports and testimonials of the teachers' work among the Freedmen and their children; all of the letters are signed with initials. OCLC records three copies of each series Library of Congress Boston Public SUNY-Geneseo for the second series; Western Reserve Library Company of Philadelphia Oxford for the third. RLIN adds the American Antiquarian Society for each. <br/><br/> Printed by order of the General Committe unknown books
1857List317New Hampshire 1857. Broadside advertisement 5 ½ x 11 inches. Very Good. An unusual advertisement for a penmanship instructor a Mr. Chadbourn announcing the opening of his academy on September 15 1857 in Wolfborough New Hampshire. The broadside states "Inspired with the confidence of more than five years experience as a Teacher of Writing now offers to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Wolfborough his universally admired system of Penmanship which for beauty of style ease of acquisition rapidity of execution and ready adaptation to the wants of business and private correspondence stands unrivalled by any system extant." An interesting relic from the middle of the Bleeding Kansas period which would serve as a harbinger for the bloodiness of the American Civil War. A very good example with a chip with loss to upper corner and some toning to head but attractive and well preserved. Unrecorded in OCLC. unknown books
186337487Boston 1863. Folio broadside 9-1/4" x 13-1/2". Printed beneath the caption in three columns each column separated by a rule. Blank upper left corner with a slight smudge. Very Good plus.<br/><br/> The Society founded in 1863 published numerous articles to promote support for the Union emancipation and victory. Its folio broadsides are far scarcer than the octavo imprints of the Loyal Publication Society in Philadelphia.<br/> The first of several articles reports on the stunning election results in Pennsylvania and Ohio: "The people of this country-- the great democratic masses-- without regard to parties or prejudices are determined to maintain their government in all its integrity and strength. Both the peace men of the North and the war men of the South received a stunning blow yesterday." In Ohio the traitor Vallandigham "has been beaten by an unprecedented majority." And in Pennsylvania the Copperhead Woodward has been repudiated. Another article expresses hope that the small farmers of the South and "are thoroughly tired of the war."<br/> The final article reports on Kentucky's Joseph Holt's advocacy of the use of Negro soldiers. <br/>Sabin 52696 reference. unknown books
186334187Boston 1863. Folio broadside printed in three columns 9-1/2" x 16-1/2". Printed in three columns beneath the caption Very Good.<br/><br/> The Society founded in 1863 published numerous articles to promote support for the Union emancipation and victory. The first essay "a letter of an eminent Englishman" expresses dismay at the London Times's support for the Confederacy "a thing which I should have thought impossible." Englishmen support "the federal cause by a great majority." The second essay delights in the victory of the Union party in Maryland and "the sudden development of a radical emancipation sentiment in Maryland in Missouri and in West Virginia. The same phenomenon is manifesting itself slowly in Kentucky rapidly in Tennessee Louisiana and North Carolina." A third piece recites the "Rebel Terms of Peace" as stated by the Richmond Enquirer: "the North must yield all-- we nothing." Finally an article from the Boston Transcript entitled 'The Contraband Question in the South-West' urges "the most sure and vigorous means to get every able-bodied black under arms."<br/>Sabin 52696 reference. The Society's broadsides are scarce. The Library Company owns several but not this one. We note a location at Gettysburg College. The Rubinstein Collection at Duke owns some Society broadsides but evidently not this one. unknown books
184137610Boston: J.A. Collins 1841. Original printed and illustrated green wrappers ink stain along half the front wrapper's blank inner margin with engraving of Lady Liberty surrounded by slaves and freedom-loving white people. Stitched. 36pp. Title page and text illustrations. Lightly foxed. Very Good. <br/><br/> A scarce Almanac also appearing with a publication date of 1840. The Almanac is noteworthy for its excellent content on the Amistad incident including portraits of Cinque and others. <br/> "Things for Abolitionists to Do" recommends working to establish schools for free children of color. Also included are "Hints to Anti-Slavery Debaters;" an "Ecclesiastical Roll of Infamy" listing northern clergy of the Methodist Episcopal Church who voted for a resolution prohibiting "colored persons to give testimony against white persons;" and a "Congressional Roll of Infamy" of Northern congressmen who voted for the Gag Rule prohibiting Congress from entertaining petitions to abolish slavery in Washington D.C. As to the presidential campaign the authors say "President Van Buren and General Harrison have both publicly taken the side of the oppressor against the oppressed and the God of the oppressed. Both of them glory in it." <br/>Dumond 83 this imprint. Drake 4222. J.A. Collins unknown books
