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1837009821New York: Merrill and Baker 1837. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Illustrated Cabinet Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1837-1886. v. 1-2. The Conquest of Peru.--v. 3-5. The Conquest of Mexico.--v. 6-8. Ferdinand and Isabella.--v. 9-11. The Reign of Charles V.--v. 12-14. The Reign of Philip II.--v. 15. Miscellanies.--v. 16 Life of William H. Prescott by George Ticknor. SCARCE Complete 16 volume set bound in half morocco over marbled boards marbled end papers top edges gilt. Near Fine small rubs at corners. OCLC locates only two copies at Texas A.&M. and University of Nevada Reno. A lovely and quite uncommon set. Merrill and Baker Hardcover
1949063518Lancaster Kutztown Collegeville PA: Pennsylvania Dutch Folklore Center/Pennsylvania Folklife Society 1949. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Complete run of The Pennsylvania Dutchman/Pennsylvania Folklife 1949-1997. This influential periodical began as a biweekly newspaper first issue dated 5 May 1949 eventually migrating to a quarterly magazine final issue dated Spring 1997. Vols. 1-22 are custom-bound in brown leatherette lettered in gilt on front covers and spine panels Vols. 1-3 in the original elephant folio format of the Dutchman Vols. 4-22 in standard quarto magazine format. Note that the title changed to "Pennsylvania Folklife" with Vol. 9. Vols. 23-46 are unbound each issue individually sleeved. Vol. 1 consists of 25 issues with some still bright white suggesting that they are possibly from a later reprint Vols. 2-3 of 22 each Vols. 4-5 of 15 each Vols. 7-45 mostly of 4 each with some volumes in the '60s including an unnumbered 5th "Folk Festival" issue and Vol. 46 of 3 issues all published totaling about 260 issues. The entire set is solid Near Fine to Fine the bound volumes all essentially as issued except of course for having been bound in hardcover and the unbound issues show only slight handling wear in some cases most virtually unworn. The bound volumes show two former owner signatures/stamps on the front flyleaf of each volume but are otherwise unmarked. A rare opportunity to purchase a complete run of a publication that has become almost impossible to assemble "in the wild." Delivery options possible depending on location. Pennsylvania Dutch Folklore Center/Pennsylvania Folklife Society Hardcover
186425016Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey 1864. First Edition of the first publication of the definitive version of the Gettysburg Address; In his own hand Abraham Lincoln wrote his final version of the Gettysburg Address for this publication a work conceived and created by a former Union Army officer to benefit fellow soldiers in the Civil War. Alexander Bliss and John Pendleton Kennedy assembled and published this book in 1864 to raise money for the Baltimore Sanitary Fair The Maryland State Fair for Soldier Relief. They solicited many prominent Americans including Abraham Lincoln John Greenleaf Whittier Oliver Wendell Holmes Harriet Beecher Stowe Ralph Waldo Emerson and Edgar Allen Poe just to name a few to provide hand-written copies of one of their works. This book contains the final and definitive version of the Gettysburg Address. There are five copies of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's handwriting each slightly different in its wording and punctuation. This book contains the only copy that includes a title - "Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg" - dated November 19 1863 and his full signature. The binding is tight but very scuffed with loss at the spine extremities edge wear and worn at the board corners; The interior is nearly spotless with the original flat brown endpapers extant and unbroken at the gutters. . First Edition. Embossed Cloth. Very Good. 4to - Over 9 3/4 " - 12" Tall. Hardcover. Cushings & Bailey Hardcover
182382468Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea. Very Good. 1823. Hardcover. A two-volume first edition of an account of the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains by expedition botanist and geologist Edwin James. Compiled from the notes of Major Stephen H. Long Mr. T. Say and other gentlemen of the party by Mr. James. This rather scarce set presents the account of the experiences of the Stephen H. Long expedition of 1819-1820 in which Long was sent to find the source of the Platte River in the Rocky Mountains. Lacks the separate accompanying oversize atlas which was issued in 1822 per Howes J.41 who remarks the expedition was notable in that it supplemented ". . .earlier discoveries of Pike and of Lewis and Clark and pronouncing the plains region as nothing but a desert incapable of cultivation!". --- In maroon half leather and marbled paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling four raised bands to spines and marbled endpapers. --- A very nice set with bright mostly unrubbed marbling. Hinges just starting vol's retain their tightness. What appear to be inked stampings on leaf near front and p.361 of vol. II proclaims "H.L. Scott/7Cavalry". The U.S. Army Seventh Cavalry Regiment was charged with protecting settlers on the plains and was commanded by Col. George Custer. Prior owner's signatures to versos of ffep's and with a few inkings small tears and rubbed spots to cover leather.; Octavo 8 to 9 in. tall; 11 503 6 442 xcciii pages . H. C. Carey and I. Lea hardcover
1803001778Paris Chez Gérard, Imprimerie de Munier 1803. Trois volumes in-8 (205 x 130 mm), demi-veau glacé bleu marine, dos lisse orné or et à froid, tranches mouchetées (reliure milieu 19e s.). Seconde édition française, ornée d'une carte dépliante et de 11 planches gravées sur acier d'après les dessins de l'auteur, représentant le Mont Vernon et la maison du Général Washington, les Chutes du Niagara, le Cap-Diamant, etc. Ex-libris Mr de Gaudechart. (dos très légèrement passé, quelques défauts, frottements sur les plats, quelques manques de cuir tome 1, quelques petites déchirures marginales, t. 3 sur les 30 premières pages mouillure angulaire, rousseurs). // Three octavo volumes (205 x 130 mm), dark blue glazed half calf, smooth spine tooled in gilt and blind, sprinkled edges (middle of 19th-cent. binding). Second french edition, illustrated with a folding map and 11 plates engraved on steel after the author's drawings, depicting Mont Vernon and General Washington's house, Niagara Falls, Cap-Diamant, etc. Bookplate Mr de Gaudechart. (spine a little bit faded, some defects, rubbings on covers, some lack of leather vol. 1, some little tears, vol. 3 water-stain on top corner of the 30 first pages, spots).
006567Washington D.C.: The White House 1997. Photographic Image. Fine. No Binding. Signed by Authors. A unique personal archive of photographs and letters received by William K. Estes when awarded the President's National Medal of Science on December 16 1997. Included are a SIGNED BY PRESIDENT CLINTON photograph of Estes receiving the medal from Clinton and a SIGNED BY VICE-PRESIDENT AL GORE photograph of Estes with Gore and also two separate unsigned White House-issued group photographs one of the awardees wth President Clinton and the other the awardees with Vice-President Gore. In addition a letter on White House stationery dated May 14 1997 SIGNED by Josh H. Gibbons Asst. to the President for Science and Technology to Estes confirming his selection as a recipient a White House Press Release from the Office of Media Affairs dated April 30 1997 announcing the recipients a congratulatory letter dated December 17 1997 on U.S. Senate letterhead from the office of Senator John Kerry Mass. SIGNED by Senator Kerry and two programs for the event. Also included two congratulatory letters on Harvard University letterheads one dated Dec.18 1997 and SIGNED by Neil Rudenstine President of Harvard and the other dated Dec. 23 1997 SIGNED by Harvey V. Fineberg Provost of Harvard. All materials are in Fine condition. William K. Estes June 17 1919- August 17 2011 was an American psychologist who pioneered the application of mathematics to the study of animal learning and human cognition. He received this award "for his fundamental theories of learning memory and decision. His pioneering development and testing of mathematical models of psychological processes have set the standard for theoretical progress in behavioral and cognitive science". That same year the other awardees included James D. Watson. Robert A. Weinberg Darlene C. Hoffman Martin Schwarzschild among other notable scientists. The White House unknown
66230Minneapolis: Mnemonic Press 2022. Edition limited to 25 signed and numbered copies 7½" x 5" consisting of a title leaf a 12-page gathering "Prologue" and six bifolia containing a total of 26 collages and mixed media created by Bart during the incipient days of the pandemic. Conceived and directed by Harriet Bart; produced by Paul Nylander at Four Tree Press; giclee and letterpress print on paper; boxed deigned by Jody Williams and executed by Campbell-Logan Bindery; folio titles excerpted from Emily Dickinson. Covid: Book of Days is based on mixed-media drawings and collages created in response to the events of March through May 2020. On March 13 Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz closed the State in response to the deadly spread of Covid-19. Bart went to her studio that day collected a small box of art materials a stack of precut paper and went home. There she created a workspace 18 x 18" the size of Emily Dickinson's desk. From March 13 thru May she created more than 50 mixed media drawings and collages some of which comprise Covid: Book of Days. From the artist's website: "Harriet Bart creates evocative content through the narrative power of objects the theater of installation and the intimacy of artists books. She has a deep and abiding interest in the personal and cultural expression of memory; it is at the core of her work. Using bronze and stone wood and paper books and words everyday and found objects Bart's work signifies a site marks an event and draws attention to imprints of the past as they live in the present. "Bart's work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Germany and she has completed more than a dozen public art commissions in the United States Japan and Israel. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Bush Foundation McKnight Foundation MacDowell Colony Virginia Center for Creative Arts NEA Arts Midwest and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Since 2000 Bart has published numerous fine-press books and mixed media bookworks. She has won three Minnesota Book Awards most recently in 2015 for Ghost Maps. Her work is included in many museum university and private collections. In 2020 the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis presented "Harriet Bart: Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection." Curated by Laura Wertheim Joseph Abracadabra. will be the first retrospective and monograph of her work. Bart is a guest lecturer curator and founding member W.A.R.M. and the Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art in Minneapolis MN. Mnemonic Press unknown
187936105Washington D.C.: General Land Office printed in New York by Julius Bien lithographer 1879. Color-lithographed map. A very detailed colour-coded map of Nevada showing towns rivers roads railroads among other landmarks.<br/> <br/> The General Land Office was founded in 1812 as an independent government agency responsible for the surveying and disposition of land in the public domain. Prior to the Civil War much of the attention of the GLO was fixed on the settlement of such land east of the Mississippi which had resulted from military bounties and cessations by the original thirteen states. The end of the Civil War the Homestead Act the completion of the Trans-Continental Railroad and the military campaigns against Native Americans in the West with resulting treaties that "transferred" land ownership to the United States together engendered an incredible increase in westward settlement and expansion. Newly-admitted states and newly-created territories west of the Mississippi were primed for settlement. Between 1866 and 1876 the GLO surveyed over 200000000 acres of land in the public domain for settlement in New Mexico Idaho Dakota Nebraska Montana Colorado Wyoming and elsewhere. As the official surveyors of these remote areas and with access to military information the maps of the General Land Office were far and away the most accurate and detailed of the western states and territories published to that time. Indeed these large-scale official maps became the basis for future maps of those regions by commercial cartographers. In 1876 the GLO headed by S.S. Burdett published an atlas containing 18 maps on 19 sheets California being on two sheets showing the regions of the United States with newly surveyed and plotted public lands. Although the GLO had issued individual maps of the United States to accompany their annual report in 1866 and 1868 the 1876 Geographical and Political Atlas of the States and Territories sometimes referred to as The Centennial Atlas was the first atlas to be published by the department. The incredible growth of settlement in the west coupled with new exploration and surveying in the short time following the 1876 atlas engendered a second atlas to be published by the General Land Office between 1878 and 1879 i.e. where the present example is from. Like the Centennial Atlas the maps were composed by the chief draughtsman in the GLO Charles Roeser Jr. The maps were done on a large scale and are consequently very detailed. Chromolithographed by Julius Bien each map is colour coded to clearly depict land plotted for settlement the locations of the general land offices Indian territories county divisions towns rivers roads railroads etc. Furthermore like The Centennial Atlas the Atlas of the States and Territories over which Land Surveys have been Extended was produced for official purposes and distributed to members of Congress government agencies each land office the post office the railroads and other large entities and was not available for public distribution. The limited distribution of this atlas coupled with its large size accounts for its great rarity today; very few copies are known to be in private hands and no copies were in the famed collections of Rumsey Streeter or Graff.<br/> <br/> Phillips Atlases 1405. General Land Office [printed in New York by Julius Bien, lithographer] unknown
187936103Washington D.C.: General Land Office printed in New York by Julius Bien lithographer 1879. Color-lithographed map. A very detailed colour-coded map of the Territory of Dakota showing towns rivers roads railroads among other landmarks.<br/> <br/> The General Land Office was founded in 1812 as an independent government agency responsible for the surveying and disposition of land in the public domain. Prior to the Civil War much of the attention of the GLO was fixed on the settlement of such land east of the Mississippi which had resulted from military bounties and cessations by the original thirteen states. The end of the Civil War the Homestead Act the completion of the Trans-Continental Railroad and the military campaigns against Native Americans in the West with resulting treaties that "transferred" land ownership to the United States together engendered an incredible increase in westward settlement and expansion. Newly-admitted states and newly-created territories west of the Mississippi were primed for settlement. Between 1866 and 1876 the GLO surveyed over 200000000 acres of land in the public domain for settlement in New Mexico Idaho Dakota Nebraska Montana Colorado Wyoming and elsewhere. As the official surveyors of these remote areas and with access to military information the maps of the General Land Office were far and away the most accurate and detailed of the western states and territories published to that time. Indeed these large-scale official maps became the basis for future maps of those regions by commercial cartographers. In 1876 the GLO headed by S.S. Burdett published an atlas containing 18 maps on 19 sheets California being on two sheets showing the regions of the United States with newly surveyed and plotted public lands. Although the GLO had issued individual maps of the United States to accompany their annual report in 1866 and 1868 the 1876 Geographical and Political Atlas of the States and Territories sometimes referred to as The Centennial Atlas was the first atlas to be published by the department. The incredible growth of settlement in the west coupled with new exploration and surveying in the short time following the 1876 atlas engendered a second atlas to be published by the General Land Office between 1878 and 1879 i.e. where the present example is from. Like the Centennial Atlas the maps were composed by the chief draughtsman in the GLO Charles Roeser Jr. The maps were done on a large scale and are consequently very detailed. Chromolithographed by Julius Bien each map is colour coded to clearly depict land plotted for settlement the locations of the general land offices Indian territories county divisions towns rivers roads railroads etc. Furthermore like The Centennial Atlas the Atlas of the States and Territories over which Land Surveys have been Extended was produced for official purposes and distributed to members of Congress government agencies each land office the post office the railroads and other large entities and was not available for public distribution. The limited distribution of this atlas coupled with its large size accounts for its great rarity today; very few copies are known to be in private hands and no copies were in the famed collections of Rumsey Streeter or Graff.<br/> <br/> Phillips Atlases 1405. General Land Office [printed in New York by Julius Bien, lithographer] unknown
1844013097New York: Wiley and Putnam 1844 New York: Wiley and Putnam 1844. 8vo. Cloth binding. First edition. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR GENERAL HENRY WHITING and by his son Henry M. Whiting who served in the U.S. Mexican War. Rare ephemera announcing the death and mourning period of General Henry Whiting is tipped in. Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General Henry Whiting was commissioned a Cornet of Dragoons October 20 1808 and served on the Niagara frontier in the War of 1812 with Great Britain. In the War with Mexico he served as Quartermaster General. His father Col. John Whiting of the 5th U.S. Infantry was Adjutant of the 2d Regiment of the Massachusetts Line commanded by Lieut.-Col. Commandant E. Sproat. He preserved most if not all of the Orders from General Washington. These fascinating Orders cover matters great and small: the discipline of the troops health and sanitation the organization of the army and its support services and a uniform system of manoeuvres. Throughout the Orders Washington evidences deep concern for his soliders as well as civilians a deep spirituality and his gratitude for the support from France. Rebacked with original decorated silk boards new endpapers. Very good. Wiley and Putnam hardcover
237625Paris, Maradan, an IX - 1801 3 vol. in-8, XXXII-427, XIV-434 et XII-410 pp., demi-basane fauve mouchetée, dos lisse orné (rel. de l'époque).
78860Paris, Delpire (Encyclopédie Essentielle - Série Histoire N°3), 1958, in 8° oblong, cartonnage de l'éditeur illustré par STEINBERG, 172 pages ; quelques rares piqûres.
18256784Paris: Dondey-Dupre Pere et Fils 1825. Hardcover — Tapa dura. 133x80mm. 5¼x3¼". Paris Dondey-Dupre Pere et Fils 1825. En 12º 133 x 80mm. 110 pp. 1 h. Encuadernación de la época en piel. Primera edición francesa. La Constitución Federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos de 1824 entró en vigor el 4 de octubre de ese año después del Imperio Mexicano de AgustÃn de Iturbide. En la nueva Constitución la República tomaba el nombre de Estados Unidos Mexicanos y era definida como una República Federal Representativa. Esta traducción francesa es rara en comercio. Dondey-Dupre Pere et Fils hardcover
183744434Paris, H. Fournier aîné, Leipzig, Brockhaus & Avenarius, 1837-1838. 6 vols. in-8 de (4)-VIII- 495 pp. ; (4)-504 pp. ; (4)-520 pp. ; (4)-II-448-(2) pp. ; (4)-544-(2) pp. ; (4)-814 pp., la carte manque, demi-veau taupe, dos lisse orné, pièces de titre et de tomaison en maroquin noir (reliure de l'époque).
104239De l'Imprimerie Didot Jeune, An X (1801-1802), 5 volumes +1atlas in-8 de 220x140 mm environ, viij-341 pages - 384 pp., - 381 pp., - 368 pp.,- 438 pp., dernier volume-atlas contenant 17 vues sous serpentes et 9 cartes dont 8 dépliantes, cartonnage de l'éditeur portant titres et tomaisons dorés sur le dos. Feuillets non rognés. Dos insolés, frottements sur les coins et coiffes, petits défauts de marge sur quelques pages sans atteinte au texte, sinon bon état.
39309In-8 (220 x 146 mm), cartonnage éditeur de percaline brique, dos lisse, titre, auteur et éditeur dorés, filets aux coiffes, quadruple filets d'encadrement à froid sur les plats, xv, (3), 550 pages. London : Macmillan and Co., 1878.
"Here is PRAIRIE FIRE, our political ideology - a strategy for anti-imperialism and revolution inside the imperial US. This paper has been collectively adopted as the political statement of the Weather Underground. PRAIRIE FIRE is written to communist-minded revolutionaries, independent organizers and anti-imperialists. It is written as an argument against those who oppose action and hold back the struggle." - Opening statement by Bernadine Dohrn, Billy (Bill) Ayers, Jeff Jones and Celia Sojourn. pp. [6], 7- 186, [6]. Frequently illustrated with grainy black and white reproductions of photos. Includes list of books studied in the preparation of this work. Chapters include: Impressions of U.S. History; Imperialism in Crisis - The Third World; Imperialism in Crisis - The Home Front; Against the Common Enemy; and more. "We are a guerrilla organization. We are communist women and men, underground in the United States for more than four years... Our intention is to disrupt the empire... to incapacitate it... to forge an underground, a clandestine political organization engaged in every form of struggle, protected from the eyes and weapons of the state, a base against repression, to accumulate lessons, experience and constant practice, a base from which to attack." - page 1 of an earlier edition. Prior to publication the Weather Underground had already bombed multiple government buildings. Twenty-one years after publication, Ayers and Dohrn hosted a meeting at which Illinois state Sen. Alice Palmer introduced Barack Obama as her chosen successor. The rest is history. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. Sunning to spine. A sound vintage copy of this work, the influence of which dominates headlines almost fifty years after publication . 8.5" x 5.5". Book
1883051482Pasadena Ca: R. W. C. Farnsworth / Pacific Press 1883. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 132 Pp. Bright Red Cloth Elaborately Gilt On Front Cover Elaborately Stamped In Blind On Rear Cover; Floral Endpapers. Pacific Press Imprint On Copyright Page And Their Pacific Press Book Bindery" Paper Label On Front Pastedown. Possibly The Earliest Book To Include "Pasadena" In Its Title. Presentation Inscription To A Member Of A Prominent Pasadena Family From Winifred Farnsworth Hall Daughter Of The Editor Dated In 1945 And With The Recipient's Ownership Signature And A Few Pencil Notes Around The Printed Text Referring To His Family. <br/> <br/> R. W. C. Farnsworth / Pacific Press hardcover
177934207Dublin: S. Price et al. 1779. Hardcover. 8vo. Rebound in full calf with compartments and gilt spine lettering. 18pp xiii 508pp. Engraved full-page plate. Modern binding and endpapers are fine while text block is good plus to very good. Moderately age toned throughout with occasional bits of foxing; lacks map and one plate. First Irish edition appearing after the 1778 London first edition and apparently before the 1779 London second edition. Reaffixed to the new front pastedown is an armorial bookplate that purports to be that of George Washington -- but alas our research shows this is spurious as it bears neither the chain lines nor the well-known slip-of-the-burin scratch near lower right that are hallmarks of authentic Washington plates. This example is also not one of the forged bookplates that appeared in a couple hundred volumes in a New England auction in 1863 nor is it one of the late 19th century restrikes made from the original copper plate by well-meaning Washington descendants. Carver's influential account traces his travels further inland than any other Englishman prior to the Revolution and served as inspiration to Lewis and Clark and other explorers. NEW HOWES C 218 note. SABIN 11184. S. Price, et al. hardcover
1804044518Newbern North Carolina: Martin & Ogden 1804. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to. 501 1; 226 156 1 1 pages. Bound in full leather with a clear removable mylar cover. Early leather over boards with a modern reback in brown leather with spine rules in gilt and with a burgundy leather title label. A sound copy. Professionally conserved. Front flyleaf is tipped in. THE TITLE PAGE IS IN FACSIMILE as are the next two leaves the leaf in printed in italics front and back and the leaf on the Second Charter by Charles II front and back. Very nicely done. The leaf following the last facsimile leaf of Charles II is the remains of the original leaf on Charles II 3/4 of the page encapsulated in tissue and properly tipped in. The rear flyleaf blank is also tipped in. The leather spine is fresh and clean. The boards are scuffed bumped and abraded with a piece chipped out from the top corner of the front cover. The text block is sound likely re-sewn. The text is toned with occasional foxing. The title page to the second part also dated 1804 shows heavier foxing. The conservation work is very good. An attractive copy. <br/> <br/> Martin & Ogden hardcover
179736485Philadelphia 1797. Folio Broadsheet 7-3/8" x 12." Old horizontal folds three chips at blank edges some foxing in the upper blank margin. Good.<br/><br/> This apparently unrecorded imprint of the Fourth Congress prints three Acts two of them approved March 3 1797 the day before the inauguration of President John Adams and one approved March 2 1797. <br/> The first Act suspends duties on snuff and sugar. The second establishes procedures for remitting or mitigating forfeitures and fines levied pursuant to acts regulating vessels in the fisheries or coasting trade. The third Act concerns the registration and licensing of ships engaged in the coasting and fisheries trade. Each Act is signed in type by George Washington among his final acts as President Jonathan Dayton Speaker of the House and William Bingham President of the Senate pro tempore. <br/>Not in Evans Bristol Shipton & Mooney Stark & Cole ESTC or the online sites of AAS and OCLC as of December 2019. unknown books
18497441Saint Paul: James M. Goodhue printer 1849. 16mo pp. 15 1; original plain brown printed wrappers fine. A very early - if not the first - piece of printing in Minnesota exclusive of newspapers. Of the 14 pieces of printing identified by Martin in her Checklist of Minnesota Imprints 1849-1865 only two items Martin 6 and 8 broadside proclamations by territorial governor Ramsey bear an earlier date on the title-p. and one other Rules for the Government of the House of Representatives bears the same date. Includes standing rules for the legislative council rules of order and procedure of the two Houses and a list of the standing committees of the Council and joint committees of the House of Representatives. Rare. 100 copies were ordered printed. Martin 11 MHS only. Jerabek 66 identifying this as the first publication of the territorial legislature. Kreidberg Fragments of Early Printing . in the Territory and State of Minnesota p. 18: "The first public territorial issuance put into type was a booklet dated September 3 1849 which appeared under James M. Goodhue's imprint. In fifteen pages of hand-set type the territorial printer produced the Rules for the Government of the Council of Minnesota Territory. James M. Goodhue, printer unknown
18497441Saint Paul: James M. Goodhue printer 1849. 16mo pp. 15 1; original plain brown printed wrappers fine. A very early - if not the first - piece of printing in Minnesota exclusive of newspapers. Of the 14 pieces of printing identified by Martin in her Checklist of Minnesota Imprints 1849-1865 only two items Martin 6 and 8 broadside proclamations by territorial governor Ramsey bear an earlier date on the title-p. and one other Rules for the Government of the House of Representatives bears the same date. Includes standing rules for the legislative council rules of order and procedure of the two Houses and a list of the standing committees of the Council and joint committees of the House of Representatives. Rare. 100 copies were ordered printed. Martin 11 MHS only. Jerabek 66 identifying this as the first publication of the territorial legislature. Kreidberg Fragments of Early Printing . in the Territory and State of Minnesota p. 18: "The first public territorial issuance put into type was a booklet dated September 3 1849 which appeared under James M. Goodhue's imprint. In fifteen pages of hand-set type the territorial printer produced the Rules for the Government of the Council of Minnesota Territory." <br/><br/> James M. Goodhue, printer unknown books
17808583Hamburg: C.E. Bohn 1780. First German edition and first edition in a foreign language 8vo pp. xxiv 456; engraved folding map; nice copy of a scarce edition in 20th century 3/4 red morocco gilt by Stikeman. A seminal book in the history of the exploration of the American west and a cornerstone in Minnesota history. Peace between Great Britain and France at the close of the French and Indian Wars in 1763 brought eastern Minnesota under the British flag for the first time thus opening the vast territory to British fur traders. "Carver spent the winter of 1766-67 a short distance up the Minnesota River with the Sioux. He was then serving as mapmaker and advance man on an expedition led by Captain James Tute and inspired by Maj. Robert Rogers commandant at Fort Mackinac intended to cross the continent in quest of the Northwest Passage. The plan had to be given up but Carver later wrote and published an account of his travels which became a "best seller" of its day and gave to thousands on both sides of the Atlantic their first information about the Minnesota country" Fridley A Sketch of Minnesota p. 3. Sabin 11187. <br/><br/> C.E. Bohn unknown books
