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184621994Philadelphia: Carey & Hart 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Title continues: "With a Description of the Countries Passed Through Including their Geography Geology Resources Present Condition and the Different Nations Inhabiting Them." 7.5" x 4.5" 303 pp bound in three-quarter leather and marbled boards; rebacked with new endpapers earlier spine laid down. The large folding map is supplied in facsimile. Light foxing to title page stain affecting margin and a small amount of text on last ca. 20 leaves otherwise quite clean. First edition first issue with page numbers 77-88 270-271 and 302 placed in the inner margin of one of the most important overland narratives with considerable detail on the fur trade. Sage 1817-1893 was a self-taught newspaper printer and editor from Ohio with a strong impulse to travel and explore. Eager to learn more about the vast region beyond the Missouri frontier in 1841 he organized a small party and headed west. His travels brought him into close association with trappers traders Indians hunters and soldiers. According to Wheat Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 527: "he worked for a fur company on the waters of the Platte and on White River in present-day South Dakota and traveled as far as Taos Fort Uintah and Fort Hall." Field 1345 describes the book witten after Sage returned to Ohio as "crowded with incidents of Indian life legend and adventure." Howes S-16 says it is an "intelligent narrative of extensive travels from the Platte to the Arkansas including the best account of Snively's abortive land pirate expedition." The map again present here in facsimile is "one of the earliest to depict the finally-determined Oregon boundary" and "one of the earliest attempts to show on a map the evermore-heavily traveled emigrant road to California" according to Wheat who also explains that the map "had not been printed when the first copies of the book arrived in Connecticut where Sage and his brother Edmund undertook to market most of them by house-to-house canvas. When the maps were received they were sold for 25 cents extra to purchasers of the book or others who were interested." Thus it is likely that our copy never had an original map. Rader 2870; Cowan pp. 548-9; Field 1345; Graff 3633; Sabin 74892; Streeter 3049. Carey & Hart hardcover
18975059San Francisco: Board of Supervisors 1897 & 1898. Very Good. 1897. Hardcover. 1205 pp. plus appendix 460 p.; 483 pp. plus appendix 202 p.; 8vo; black cloth; ex-lib Society of Calif. Pioneers with handstamps above their bookplate on front pastedowns; handstamps on rear pastedowns otherwise very clean and tight. . Board of Supervisors 1897 & 1898 hardcover
19109506San Francisco: Charles C. Hoag 1910. Very Good. 1910. Hardcover. 640 pp.; 8vo; original blue cloth lettered in gilt; illustrated advertisements throughout many full page some color; maps. Cover with minor wear at corners light soil and rubbing to spine with one small divot to cloth near rear joint. Top half of front hinge shows some splitting with appearance of repair actually quite solid. . Charles C. Hoag (1910) hardcover
45197Ephemera. Five photos of William Judson Sarratt 1877-1939 born in Schull Shoals Union County South Carolina. A large photo by Reckling & Sons studio Columbia South Carolina measures about 4 x 5 1/2 inches and is mounted on stiff black stock which has been neatly trimmed by us at the top to eliminate a jagged edge. It's a high-quality image of Sarratt in formal dress: black top hat black coat white tie white gloves. The reverse side notes he was a graduate of Clemson and president of his class. A second smaller image is dated 1897 by the photographer. The reverse identifies the subject as Judson Sarratt with printed photographer's promo info that this is one of 12 "So-Kute" Photos reproduced by J. M. House Photo Studio in Gadsden Alabama. It is almost identical to a larger 3rd image of Sarratt. A 4th image shows him apparently with a female cast member as part of a local drama. A 5th photo in sepia and taken by studio photographer P. B. Barnes Union S. C. shows Sarratt in a white suit and white hat and shoes against a tropical backdrop. All photos very closely resemble the Judson Sarratt who appears in a Sarratt family photo on page 245 of Union County Heritage 1981. ; . unknown
18901368417Washington: Government Printing Office 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto Four Volumes in Three Books. In Good plus condition. Rebound in red library binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Light soiling to boards overall. Textblocks have light plus age toning and foxing to the edges moderate to light uneven age toning throughout interior most significant on front and back second free end papers light chipping to front second free end papers. RWO Consignment.<br> <br> CONTENTS: Vol. I. 554 pages.Moderate soiling to rear board chipping to head of spine. Small closed tear to second and third front free end papers. -- Vol. II. iv 555 - 1203 pages. -- Vol. III. "Excursion Appendix. Narrative Of The Tour Of The Delegates Through The United States; Together With Descriptions Of Places Visited And Reports Of Addresses Delivered." 343 pages. -- Vol. IV. "Historical Appendix. The Congress Of 1826 At Panama And Subsequent Movements Toward A Conference Of American Nations." 375 pages. 1368417. Special Collections. [Government Printing Office] hardcover
18681354617Washington: Government Printing Office 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavos Three Volumes; G; Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and "U.S. Government Bindery" imprint; Boards show light plus wear to corners mild bumping to head/tail of spines a crease to the back board of Vol. I light plus chipping to head of Vol. II some cracking to joint near tail of Vol. II and very light wear overall; Textblocks have moderate age-toning and light staining to edges light foxing to free end pages a closed tear to the ffep of Vol. I and some moderate damp-staining to pages in the second half of Vol. I; CONTENTS: Vol. I 6 xxii 741 pages 6 -- Vol. II 6 xxii 3-498 pages 4 -- Vol. III 6 xxii 3 - 401 pages 5. RWO. 1354617. Special Collections - Downstairs. Government Printing Office hardcover
185419316New York: J.H. Colton & Co 1854. 16mo pp. 89 23 4; large folding hand-colored map of the region approx. 21" x 26"; one short split at one fold otherwise the map is generally in fine condition; original red cloth gilt stamped on upper cover extremities rubbed and the binding slightly stained front free flyleaf excised old pencil notes on rear flyleaf in German; pretty good copy. Howes S615. J.H. Colton & Co unknown
183148475Boston: Stephen Foster 1831. First edition of the author's first book of poetry 16mo pp. vi 7-52; without the errata slip not present in all copies; a nice copy in original muslin-backed drab boards the cloth a little nicked and brooken along the spine. Snelling 1804-1848 was the son of Josiah Snelling commandant of the fort that bears his name at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers in St. Paul. William lived at Fort Snelling for seven years 1820-27 where he became familiar with the Indians their language and habits. After returning east he wrote many newspaper and magazine articles and several books which drew on his experiences with the Indians and this poem a satirical commentary on the state of American poetry and poets "that rocked the small literary world of Boston for a time. But the onslaughts of his political and literary foes combined with personal misfortunes gradually drove him to dispair and he took refuge in drink. To the great delight of his ill-wishers he spent four months in the House of Correction but he emerged broken rather than in health or in spirit. He continued as an independent journalist and in 1847 became the editor of the Boston Herald which he conducted with great vigor for one year before he died in Chelsea at the age of forty-four burned out. Snelling is best remembered as . the author of Truth which is one of the best verse satires ever written in America" DAB. BAL 18413. Stephen Foster unknown
19885Pierre SD: South Dakota Rural Credit Board. Feeling like a cog in the machine or a slave to industry South Dakota is the answer! This 1930s promotional piece seeks "real men and women" to settle on the state's homestead lands. "If you are dissatisfied with your lot in life if you are tired of the worries and uncertainties of city life if you are at present farming high priced land or paying a high rental if you have only become a cog in the machine.here is offered a golden opportunity to build a future as you would like to have it." Undated but 1930s. Four-panel brochure 3.5 x 8.5 inches when folded. Fine. Feeling like a cog in the machine or a slave to industry South Dakota is the answer! This 1930s promotional piece seeks "real men and women" to settle on the state's homestead lands. "If you are dissatisfied with your lot in life if you are tired of the worries and uncertainties of city life if you are at present farming high priced land or paying a high rental if you have only become a cog in the machine.here is offered a golden opportunity to build a future as you would like to have it." South Dakota Rural Credit Board unknown
188323501Springfield Mass: Star Publishing Co 1883. Softcover. Near fine. 4.5 x 7.5 inches sewn wrappers. pp. 27 7 publisher's ads. Trimmed off-center small chip to corner of back wrapperelse fine. Papers Sixteen to Twenty-Two of a series purportedly delivered by deceased newspaper editor Samuel Bowles through the mediumship of Carrie Twing. Among the subjects "Bowles" discusses are the use of phrenology to determine marital compatibility the need for tolerance among Spiritualists and how cyclones appear to spirits. Most notably he reports on a meeting and reconciliation between President James Garfield and his recently executed assassin Charles Guiteau in the afterlife and condemns the use of capital punishment. Star Publishing Co unknown
19901636Dallas Fort Worth: AMR Information Serv. Fine. 1990. 19 & 21 pp.; 9" x 6"; 2 volumes one text in English one in French; bound in a continuous printed blue stapled wrapper in opposition with a common back cover. Forward by David Farmer DeGolyer Library. Introduction by Jean-Marie Metzler SNCF Societe Nationale de Chemins de Fer Francais. . AMR Information Serv. unknown
18741497Washington DC: M'Gill & Witherow 1874. Softcover. Very Good. 96 pp indexed. Light general wear and soiling to wrappers small notation in ink on back cover. Contents clean binding sound. Includes an opinion of Jeremiah S. Black attorney for the Sutro Tunnel Comany; a report by Adolph Sutro on "The Mineral Resources of the United States and the Importance and Necessity of Inaugurating a Rational System of Mining"; a "memorial" from the Nevada Legislature asking the United States to aid in the construction of the Sutro Tunnel and additional documents related to controversies arising from the Sutro Tunnel Act of 1866. The Act granted Sutro the right of way he needed to construct his proposed drainage tunnel which he argued would alleviate the flooding of the mines under Virginia City saving pumping costs allowing for deeper mining and providing better ventilation and an additional means of escape for miners. The Act also granted him lucrative mining rights along the length of the tunnel and was perceived as a threat by other mining interests. M'Gill & Witherow paperback
191019624New York & Washington D.C.: Telepost Company 1910. 20 pp 6.5 x 8.25 inches folding to 3.25 x 8.25 inches in stapled wrappers printed in black and red illustrated with photographic portraits. A little soiling at the creases staining at the bottom edge of the front wrap; very good. One copy located in OCLC at Yale. A relic of the early telephony/telegraphy wars. By the turn of the 20th century Bell American Telephone & Telegraph was ascendant in the telephone sphere and "The Telegraph Combination" Western Union combined with the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Companies dominated the realm of telegraphy. Enter the small scrappy independent telephone companies trying to eke out a corner of the market for themselves. One of these was Telepost a company possessing superior technology allowing for far faster and far cheaper telegraphic transmissions. Based on the inventions of American electrical engineer Patrick B. Delany their automatic telegraph system was capable of transmitting and recording 3000 words a minute over a single wire. The company made a brave stand with an impressive marketing campaign in the pages of Popular Mechanics the Journal of Telephony and other journals both high-brow and low. This little pamphlet bravely sallies forth offering short biographies of its accomplished and highly respectable trustees providing glowing testimonials to the speed and economy of their services anointing Telepost "The People's Telegraph" and declaring "The Combination cannot get the Telepost Company." Alas despite its bravado Telepost could not beat the big boys and by the late 'teens Western Union had gobbled it up whole. Telepost Company unknown
181914884London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1819. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition. 8vo. pp. xv 454. Rebound in green buckram with gilt titles on spine. Old bookseller's description affixed to front free endpaper; pages a bit wavy from storage in a humid environment but quite clean and sound. Very good. Fearon had a favorable impression of America when he set out in search of a suitable location for a group of English families to settle. But as he explored he "became disillusioned by slavery the high cost of property and the lack of cleanliness generosity liberality and comprehension of liberty or honor.and advocated emigration for few Englishmen other than mechanics small farmers and poor people" Hubach p. 49. He provides much interesting detail and commentary on social conditions wages and trades rents taxes natural resources and the cost of clothes and other goods in the various locales he visited which included New York Boston Philadelphia Washington Ohio Kentucky the Illinois Territory and New Orleans. Sabin 23956; Howes F-65. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown hardcover
1894898Washington D.C.: Department of the Interior Office of Indian Affairs The Senate of the United States March 21 1894. First edition. Leather Bound. pp. 41. Slim 8vo. measuring 23 cm. New textured black leather over boards with silver title to front board new endpapers. Coloured hand-drawn map by surveyor William H. Carlton affixed to the rear pastedown entitled: "Portion of the Map of the Indian Nations and Tribes of the Territory of Washington and of the Territory of Nebraska West of the Mouth of the Yellowstone." The map measures 29 x 32 cm and bears a legend with the approximate names of the tribes within the geographic area as well their respective populations. A fascinating historical document containing all the deliberations by the appointed agents of the government of the United States John Lane & Lewis T. Erwin with the various tribes and their "chiefs masters and principal men" to put forward proposals for the purchase of their lands along with securing fishing and hunting rights. Amongst the deliberations are discussions recounting disagreement between the agents and Indigenous chiefs over the proposed price per acre and the concern expressed by the chiefs and elders of the fragmentation of their peoples. In other exchanges the Elders also express their disdain of alcohol on their land with many disavowing its use at the urging of Christian missionaries. The agreement ends with the names of all the "chiefs masters and principal men" of the various tribes written in phonetics and their signatures as denoted by "x". No detectable flaws contents bright clean and unmarked with tight sound binding; fine. Rare. OCLC #: 39146970. Exceedingly scarce with only two institutions believed to house this title. At time of cataloguing this title does not appear amongst the holdings at LAC/BAC Peel University of British Columbia Special Collections University of Washington Special Collections. <br/><br/> Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs | The Senate of the United States hardcover
1894959Washington D.C.: Department of the Interior Office of Indian Affairs The Senate of the United States March 21 1894. First edition. Card Covers. pp. 41. Slim 8vo. measuring 23 cm. Card covers. Coloured hand-drawn map by surveyor William H. Carlton affixed to the rear pastedown entitled: "Portion of the Map of the Indian Nations and Tribes of the Territory of Washington and of the Territory of Nebraska West of the Mouth of the Yellowstone." The map measures 29 x 32 cm and bears a legend with the approximate names of the tribes within the geographic area as well their respective populations. A fascinating historical document containing all the deliberations by the appointed agents of the government of the United States John Lane & Lewis T. Erwin with the various tribes and their "chiefs masters and principal men" to put forward proposals for the purchase of their lands along with securing fishing and hunting rights. Amongst the deliberations are discussions recounting disagreement between the agents and Indigenous chiefs over the proposed price per acre and the concern expressed by the chiefs and elders of the fragmentation of their peoples. In other exchanges the Elders also express their disdain of alcohol on their land with many disavowing its use at the urging of Christian missionaries. The agreement ends with the names of all the "chiefs masters and principal men" of the various tribes written in phonetics and their signatures as denoted by "x". No detectable flaws contents bright clean and unmarked with tight sound binding; fine. Rare. OCLC #: 39146970. Exceedingly scarce with only two institutions believed to house this title. At time of cataloguing this title does not appear amongst the holdings at LAC/BAC Peel University of British Columbia Special Collections University of Washington Special Collections. <br/><br/> Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs | The Senate of the United States unknown
179432216Philadelphia: Childs and Swaine 1794. 2 2 blanks pp. Disbound else Very Good.<br /> <br /> "The committee consisted of Rufus King James Gunn and Oliver Ellsworth" NAIP. Reviewing American payments on the French debt the Committee concludes that all obligations to France for the year 1794 have been satisfied and that no further payments for the year should be made. NAIP records holdings of this rare little item only at the Library of Congress and AAS.<br /> Evans 27897. NAIP w000926 2. Childs and Swaine? unknown
1874106559<p>Folio double page map 25" x 16 ½" with some coloring. Very slight creasing at centerfold normal darkening and aging; otherwise very good. Attractive map of the United States and still showing Indian Territory.</p> None Listed
179740973Philadelphia: Ross 1797. 12pp. Disbound else Very Good.<br /> <br /> The Committee concludes "that it would not be expedient" to exclude any claims from the operation of statutes of limitations. The Committee reminds "that at the commencement of the war the United States were destitute of money; and during a long period of years afterwards were obliged to rely principally upon credit for carrying on all their important operations. Nevertheless the government has done "everything which could rationally have been expected. . . for the accommodation of individuals having claims against the public." <br /> ESTC W21607. Evans 33006. Ross? unknown
179741072Philadelphia: Ross 1797. 4pp. Disbound. Signature of "Sitgreaves" above the title. Good.<br /> <br /> "Sitgreaves" is probably Samuel Sitgreaves a Pennsylvania Congressman during this Congress. The Committee makes a few recommendations concerning the Light Dragoons the Brigadier-General addition of privates and compensation.<br /> Evans 32985. ESTC W988 4- AAS NYHS Yale DLC. Ross? unknown
1897286765Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1897. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. The House of Representatives 54th Congress 2nd Session Documents number 151 through 249. Some of the issues dealt by the Congress include “Investigation of Coal and Gold Resources of Alaska†with a color folding map ‘Annual Reports’ from ten railway companies and a “List of Judgments Court of Claims.†The Panic of 1893 caused by collapsing wheat prices and a coup in Buenos Aires was first signaled by the bankruptcy of the overextended Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. Blaming the largely Democratic Congress and President voters vented their frustrations in the ballot box. The historic midterm elections just before the 54th Congress saw the Republicans gain 130 seats securing the first of a series of GOP-controlled Congresses. Lacking House Documents No. 158 164 192 202 218 230. With 18 folding maps and surveys some color some quite large with significant loss to the final two maps. Minor fore edge dampstaining to the final five House documents. Half brown morocco over marbled paper with gilt lettering on the spine. Very Good. . Very Good binding. Government Printing Office unknown
18301356086Boston: Perkins and Marvin 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo viii 304 pages; G; Original brown paper boards rebacked with buckram with white papers spine and black lettering; Boards show moderate wear to edges light wear overall and significant wear to head/tail of spine; Textblock has moderate age-toning to edges light shelfwear to bottom edge light foxing interiorly throughout more substantial on endpapers and the pastedowns are torn along the hinges; Textblock fore-edge untrimmed; RWO. 1356086. Special Collections - Downstairs. Perkins and Marvin hardcover
1888000012768New York: Brentanos 1888 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 3 iv-v 4 4-656 2 pp. Black publisher's cloth with a purple morocco label with gilt lettering on the spine. With a slip bound in a note from the treasurer of the Democratic Party stating the price of this book one dollar is to be paid by anyone requesting a copy but a bulk discount will be granted for orders of ten or more copies. The Campaign book is an advertisement for Grover Cleveland and his virtues. He ran for re-election in 1888 only to lose to Benjamin Harrison in the electoral college though Cleveland did win the popular vote. Cleveland would go on to win the 1892 election and serve a second term as President of the United States. This volume offers charts and data intended to help the Democratic Party win the 1888 presidential election: it is a collection of strategic talking points for the party. A small dampspot on the bottom textblock the rear hinge neatly repaired a tiny abrasion on the title page not obscuring the text. Brentanos [1888] hardcover
22634San Francisco: Bankers Utilities Co. Inc N.D. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Circa 1928. Original brown half cloth and paper covered boards. A large pictorial advertising book that was given to banks. It came with an easel that allowed it to be displayed in a lobby together with some book banks. With numerous b&w and color photographs and color illustrations by Walter L. Greene and others. Some wear to extremities a few short tears to some of the leaves. Comes with the original instructions affixed to the front free endpaper. A nice promotional item from right before the depression era. ; Folio. Bankers Utilities Co. Inc hardcover
179517611Philadelphia: Francis Childs 1795. Caption title as issued. 6" x 9 3/4". 2 pp. Minor edge wear bound in modern wrappers. Good or better. <br /> <br /> The Act establishes duties on imported printing-types sugars Malaga wine burgundy and champagne teas and other items. Approved January 29 1795 it is signed in type by President Washington Vice President and Senate President Adams and House Speaker Muhlenberg. <br /> Two states exist: Evans's copy notes the deposition statement; this one like the Bristol copy and as noted by Stark and Cole NYPL is without the statement. Very scarce each having only a few institutional locations. <br /> Evans 29699. Bristol B9375 2. Stark & Cole 1164. NAIP w014576 5. Francis Childs unknown
