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179439904Philadelphia: John Fenno 1794. Folio. 205 1 blank; 114 12 pp. Each Journal is a separate imprint with separate title page each complete with Index bound together in contemporary sheep spine darkened and reinforced. Bit of endpaper spotting Very Good. <br /> <br /> These documents print Messages of President Washington including his December 1793 Address opening the Session his first Message to Congress since his re-election. He warns "The United States ought not to indulge a persuasion that contrary to the order of human events they will for ever keep at a distance those painful appeals to arms with which the history of every other nation abounds. There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld if not absolutely lost by the reputation of weakness." Washington urges fairness in commerce with the Indians: "It ought to be conducted without fraud without extortion with constant and plentiful supplies." <br /> Washington is profoundly annoyed with Citizen Genet who has sought "to involve us in war abroad and discord and anarchy at home." The First Session records Federalists' successful challenge to Albert Gallatin's election as Senator from Pennsylvania on the ground that he had not satisfied the Constitution's nine-year citizenship requirement. Affidavits and other information are printed regarding Gallatin's early years in the country. Also discussed are fiscal matters; the Bank of the United States; the treaty with England and other foreign policy issues; protection of the frontier and military questions; the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution withdrawing federal courts' jurisdiction of suits against a State by citizens of another State; and a host of other matters. The Session closed in May 1794. <br /> The President's Message opening the Second Session focuses on the Whisky Rebellion the major domestic event of the day. Washington recounts the attacks upon federal officers including the kidnapping of a federal marshal; and his careful measured response finally calling out the militia. The Second Session devotes much attention to matters affecting the militia and issues involving Creek Indian lands within the State of Georgia.<br /> Evans 27911 29724. John Fenno unknown
200676619Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. Serial No. 109-103. 3 of 4 volume set. Volume I v 1 1453 5 pages. Volume II v 1. 1455-2388 2. Volume III v 1 2389-4296. Volume IV NOT PRESENT. Footnotes. Illustrations. The Subcommittee will be holding its tenth hearing examining the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the temporary provisions that are to expire. They're set to expire in 2007 unless we reauthorize by Congress which I think most of us anticipate will occur. The Subcommittee examined each of the expiring provisions in great detail. This afternoon we examine the evidence of continued discrimination against racial and language minority citizens since 1982 that have been compiled by a number of non-governmental organizations who will be testifying. I'd thank these organizations for the time and effort that they have put into completing these reports and in making sure that this Committee and Congress has before it a complete and accurate record of discrimination over the last 25 years. In continuing to reauthorize the temporary provisions Congress on four separate occasions examined the extent to which discrimination continued to exist by analyzing information such as enforcement statistics minority voter registration rates minority voter turnout and litigation pursued to protect minority voting rights. Federal agencies such as the United States Commission on Civil Rights were instrumental in investigating analyzing and reporting back to Congress on the state of minority voting during each consideration. Each time Congress concluded based upon the evidence presented that the exceptional conditions which existed in 1966 continued to exist in 1970 1975 1982 and in 1992 when it was last reauthorized. This afternoon the Committee continues to examine whether the exceptional conditions warranting the extension of the temporary provisions continue to exist in 2006. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
179434555Philadelphia 1794. Broadside 8" x 13-1/2". ". Old horizontal folds several fold splits without affecting text bottom quarter toned. Margin reinforcements on blank verso. Good.<br/><br/> This scarce document is signed in type at the end by "Geo. Taylor jun. Ch. Clk. in the Department of State." The Rule prohibits a vessel within "the jurisdictional line of the United States on the ocean" from sailing for 24 hours against a belligerent vessel which has left American waters. Failure to abide by the Rule is deemed a violation of "the law of nations."<br/>Evans 27928. ESTC W23289 AAS NYPL Lib. Congress. unknown books
1906010333Springfield MO: unknown 1906. Photographic Image. Very Good. Photograph. TRIGGER WARNING . A cabinet card photograph of two innocent African-American men named Horace Duncan and Fred Coker also known as Jim Copeland who were abducted from the county jail by a white mob of several thousand participants and lynched in Springfield Missouri. The third innocent man lynched by the mob after returning to the jail was Will Allen also an African-American. Two days after the lynching the woman who reported having been assaulted recanted her statement. While a grand jury was called to indict anyone who had participated in the mob by April 19 four white men had been arrested and 25 warrants were issued. Only one white man was tried however and no one was ever convicted. The three men were among at least 60 African-American victims of racial terror lynching in Missouri between 1877 and 1950. As a result of this act of terror many African-Americans left Springfield some never to return. The cabinet card 4 3/8" x 6" photograph 3 7/8" x 5 1/2" is Very Good light soiling old tape at top corners verso and the inscription with details in ink verso. unknown unknown
186716491London: Cassell Petter & Glapin 1867. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good . Schedule of Ores Contributed by Sundry Persons to the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867. With some information about the region and its resources." Book is Signed inscribed to Colorado territorial governor John Evans by the author commissioner from the territory. Two fold-out black white & red maps and fold-out photograph of displayed ores at front of book. Booklets in three languages were published for the exposition. This book was apparently specially bound and contains the text in English 61 pgs French and German each 71 pgs. Full leather embossed and with raised bands all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Boards are rubbed at corners and folds. Cracks in the front endpapers at the gutter. Straight and tight. <br/><br/> Cassell, Petter, & Glapin hardcover
1840007646London: George Virtue. First edition. 2 volumes bound in 3/4 green leather with raised bands all edge gilting marbled endpapers. Published London: George Virtue 1840. Large 4to. 8 3/4" x 11" 140pp.map66 engravingsengraved title; state A of volume 2 with contents page numbered 106pp.53 engravingsengraved title. Magnificent views of the Eastern United States before industrialization altered the landscape. Bartlett was a skilled landscape artist with a keen eye. He travelled extensively in the U.S. and Canada. Ocassional foxing to the plates and tissue guards Light wear/rubbing to extremities faded area to the cloth of volume two mild outer hinge starting. Very good. . Very Good. Hard. 1st. 1840. George Virtue unknown
1912016735Borough of Hopatcong New Jersey 1912. Near Fine condition. SEE PHOTO. This is a beautiful and very scarce color map of Lake Hopatcong New Jersey. When unfolded it measures 18" tall by 38" wide. Some folds have been neatly reinforced on the blank side with archival-quality document repair tape. Buildings are represented by red squares water in green. Some of the properties and locations depicted are: Port Morris Landing Roxbury Township Borough of Mount Arlington Byram Township Nolans Point Atlas Powder Co. Brookland Borough of Hopatcong Byram Cove Henderson Bay Byram Bay Maxim Park Jefferson Township Woodport Hurdtown Hurd Mining Co. W. M. Force Estate John P. Lawless Mary Ingram estate Aaron Peck estate Raccoon Island Halsey Island Bertrand Island Theodore King Gertrude Otten Violet Littell Robert Dunlap estate etc. Full title: "Property Map of Lake Hopatcong New Jersey Prepared by Hudson Maxim for the Morris Canal Investigation Commission November 16 1912 Compiled from Various Maps and Actual Surveys by P. E. Boomer C. E.". First Edition. Folded map. Near Fine condition. 18" tall by 38" wide when unfolded. Borough of Hopatcong, New Jersey? Paperback
18843169<p>1884. soft. Fine. Original Edition The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine November 1884 - to - April 1888 Volumes 7 - to - 13 <strong>These 7 volumes each one containing 6 original issues 42 issues comprise one of the most desirable and highly sought after classics.</strong> Original text block beautifully rebound in black leather and buckram with gild lettering.</p><p>The December 1884 issue contains the <strong>First American Printing of Huckleberry Finn</strong> by Mark Twain .</p><p>Each issue contains the Famous Series entitled Battles and Leaders of the Civil War . These volumes contain this complete series . The publishers contracted with leaders on both sides of the Civil War to write their first hand accounts and details of the significant battles and events. U.S.Grant was paid $1000.00 of each of 4 articles. Grant later included these articles in his 2 volume set memoirs. The series drew so much interest that it lasted for three years. Among the contributors to the series besides Grant were Union generals William Tecumseh Sherman Philip Sheridan and George B. McClellan . As The Century tried to avoid bias and promote American unity it also sought out and accepted accounts from those on the Confederate side including the generals James Longstreet and P.G.T. Beauregard . The contributions led readers who had served in the war to submit unsolicited recollections and previously unpublished documents to the magazine in addition to criticisms and rebuttals of published pieces. These submissions were so numerous that in 1885 The Century began to include them in a section titled <strong>"Memoranda on the Civil War"</strong>. sources include Wikipedia Quote - These war papers created in this country the greatest interest ever felt in any series of articles published in a magazine There are so many Firsts in this set that they are too numerous to mention here. For example: articles by Theodore Roosevelt and Illustrated by the famous Frederick Remington Poems by Longfellow 'The Bostonians' by Henry James 'Abraham Lincoln a History' by former secretaries John Hay and John G. Nicolay All are authentic originals Publisher-Printing Location: The Century Company New York New York Date and Numbering: November 1884 - to - April 1888 Volumes 7 - to - 13 Size and Page Count:6.75 X 10 Tall Condition: - Fine - Professionally Rebound in black leather buckram with gild lettering text blocks in fine condition. Best condition I have ever seen these issues in. -- An excellent opportunity for the collector researcher or historian --</p><p>Illustrations Information: Hundreds of full page and part page B W illustrations engravings charts and maps by artists such as Frederick Remington T. Johnson Joseph Pennell etc.</p> hardcover
1928019866Pasadena: Pasadena City College 1928. Original Records . No Binding. Near Fine. The remaining archive of materials maintained as records of each of the Annual Faraday lectures given at Pasadena City College 1928-1972. The lectures were on scientific subjects and an award was given for the best notes of the lectures by a Junior High School Student. Almost all of the lectures were by well-known scientists who were innovative leaders in their field many being professors at CalTech. The Fourth and Fifth Lectures were given by Paul L. Johnson of Bell Laboratories on Sound Reproduction and on Television; the Sixth Lecture by Nobel Prize Winner Linus Pauling "Recent Developments Regarding the Structure of Atoms and Molecules" with an original photo of Pauling in front of the display; the Seventh by G. Ross Robertson was "Modern Miracles of Organic Chemistry" with a signed letter; The Eighth by Leroy G. Leishman "The Magic Story of Television" with his signature; the Ninth by Arnold O. Beckman Acidity and Its Practical Significance with his signature; the Tenth by Nobel Prize winner Carl D Anderson "Delving Into the Atom"; the Nineteenth 1946 by Nobel Prize winner Robert A Millikan "The Atomic age and Its Interpretation"; the Twentieth by Nobel Prize winner Glenn T. Seaborg; "New Elements and How to Make Them"; the Twentieth agaiin by Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling "Molecular Nature of Blood"; the Twenty-third by Nobel Prize winner Wendell M Stanley; the Twenty-Firth by Nobel Prize winner Edwin M. McMillan "Cyclotrons and Synchrotrons"; the Thirtieth by JPL Director William H Pickering "Rockets Missiles and Satellites"; the Thirty-Second by Charles F. Richter "Measuring Earth's Gravitation"; the Thirty-Third by Nobel Prize winner Willard F. Libby; the Thirtieth by Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman etc. The archive consists of records maintained by the faculty member responsible for the lectures after 1934; signatures of those attending the Faraday Dinners including the speakers G. Ross Robertson Leroy G. Leishman Arnold O. Beckman and some correspondence but no signatures of Nobel Prize winners; posters announcing the upcoming lectures most on card from 1935 on including Pauling Feynman etc some in multiple copies; some correspondence; newspaper clippings about the lectures; signed records from attendance at the Annual Faraday Dinners; some notes on the lectures by the winning students; odd tickets programs invitations. An interesting archive 3/4 of a file box in total. To be sold only as an entire archive no individual items with the possible exception of a few duplicates of the posters. <br/> <br/> Pasadena City College unknown
17691956London: Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers Printers for the Royal Society 1769. Paper over boards with leather spine. Octavo. xii 382 2 pages. Bound in blue patterned paper over boards with leather spine with five raised bands gilt spine titles and rules. There are a few unobtrusive stamps from the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia including one to the title page. Mild browning to textblock some folding plates with repairs some with short tears at folds. Folding plates. First publication of Mason and Dixon’s landmark geodetic paper: “Observations for Determining the Length of a Degree of Latitude in the Provinces of Maryland and Pennsylvania in North America†pp. 274–328. This is the second and most mathematically rigorous of their published contributions detailing pendulum experiments zenith sector readings and triangulation methods used to calibrate the colonial boundary line—now known as the Mason-Dixon Line.<br /> <br /> The present volume includes another paper by Mason and Dixon on astronomical observations for calibration of the Royal Society's astronomical clock used in their survey. Together these papers document the astronomical and geodetic precision underpinning the Mason-Dixon boundary survey—among the earliest applications of Enlightenment science to American territorial mapping. One fold-out map shows the areas of Maryland Pennsylvania and Delaware involved in the Mason-Dixon survey. <br /> <br /> Volume 58 of The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society also includes an important paper on small pox inoculation experiments in electricity and magnetism and much more. Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, Printers for the Royal Society unknown
185938203St. Anthony & Minneapolis: Croffut & Clark 1859. First edition of the second directory of Minneapolis 8vo pp. 6 15-162 2; numerous advertisements throughout; later black cloth with the insertion of 5 postcard photographs one with the stamp of Edward Bromley on the endpapers and pastedowns a number of early pencil annotations throughout the printed advertisements at the front and the title page have been trimmed no loss of letterpress ownership signatures of F.B. Cornell and Edward C. Gale; in spite of defects noted a good sound copy of a very scarce directory. Contains a brief historical sketch of St. Anthony and Minneapolis numerous full-page advertisements for various local businesses and an alphabetical listing of the city's residents with addresses. Spear p. 328 giving the collation as 3 11-162 3 probably including advertisements on the original paste-downs which are not present here and locating only 4 copies; Martin Minnesota Imprints 244. Croffut & Clark unknown
185938203St. Anthony & Minneapolis: Croffut & Clark 1859. First edition of the second directory of Minneapolis 8vo pp. 6 15-162 2; numerous advertisements throughout; later black cloth with the insertion of 5 postcard photographs one with the stamp of Edward Bromley on the endpapers and pastedowns a number of early pencil annotations throughout the printed advertisements at the front and the title page have been trimmed no loss of letterpress ownership signatures of F.B. Cornell and Edward C. Gale; in spite of defects noted a good sound copy of a very scarce directory. Contains a brief historical sketch of St. Anthony and Minneapolis numerous full-page advertisements for various local businesses and an alphabetical listing of the city's residents with addresses. Spear p. 328 giving the collation as 3 11-162 3 probably including advertisements on the original paste-downs which are not present here and locating only 4 copies; Martin Minnesota Imprints 244. <br/><br/> Croffut & Clark hardcover books
177961043Dublin: printed for S. Price R. Cross et al. 1779. First Dublin edition 8vo pp. 20 xiii 1 15-508; engraved folding map bound in as the frontispiece and 2 engraved plates without the Indian plates and the folding map of the Great Lakes region as issued which were present in the London editions full contemporary calf red morocco label on spine; flyleaf excised map is a bit miscreased and is worn through at one fold for about an inch; all else very good sound and clean. Early ownership signature of Elizabeth Ewing. Howes C-215; Sabin 11184. printed for S. Price, R. Cross [et al.] unknown
183617436Washington D.C.: Gales and Seaton 1836. First edition 8vo pp. 168; 4 engraved plates plus a large folding map in separate sleeve of later green cloth paper label on spine; original brown cloth extremities faded some spotting bookplate removed else very good. This copy inscribed to "The Hon. Mr. Woodbury with the comps. of the author." The map which measures approx. 27 1/2" x 40" shows "a portion of the Indian country lying east and west of the Mississippi River to the forty-sixth degree of north latitude" showing much of Wisconsin and sections of Illinois Minnesota and Iowa and all of Lake Michigan. The result of a British scientist's geological reconnaissance through the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi valley in 1835-37. Featherstonhaugh began his journey in Washington D.C. and traveled via Pittsburgh and Cleveland before visiting Detroit and travelling by canoe on Lakes Huron and Michigan to Mackinac and Green Bay thence via the Fox and Mississippi Rivers to Saint Anthony and Fort Snelling where Featherstonhaugh's party ascended the Minnesota River as far as Lake Traverse on the Dakota border and back again via Lake Pepin Galena and Saint Louis. His travels by canoe in Wisconsin and Minnesota are of particular interest. Not in Howes or Graff; Sabin 23963. <br/><br/> Gales and Seaton hardcover books
52682Minneapolis: First Avenue 2002. First Avenue and 7th St Entry are two music venues housed in the same building in downtown Minneapolis. During the 1980s Prince helped put it at the forefront of Minneapolis music venues by using it as the location for many scenes in his movie Purple Rain. He was also a frequent performer there in the late 80s and early 90s. Includes a nearly complete run of the First Avenue In-House Magazine Sept. 1998- August 2000 nos. 1-51 lacking only no. 23 each 14" x 8½" each 12 pages comprising articles on and illustrations of upcoming musicians together with a calendar of upcoming events. Among those featured are Sleator-Kinney Gil Scott-Heron Patti Smith The Flaming Lips The Jayhawks Johnny Winter NRBQ Black Eyed Peas Spider John Koerner Ray and Tony Glover Cheap Trick Aerosmith Warren Zevon Mason Jennings Robyn Hitchcock Better than Ezra Motorhead Billy Bragg The Cardigans P. J. Harvey Roger McGuinn and many others. Together with a complete run of The Developing Music and Arts Foundation March 2001-2001 nos. 1-35 each 16 pages several are only 8 pages each 8½" x 11" saddle-stitched each profusely illustrated. Features First Avenue acts and other news of the music industry including features on The Wailers The White Stripes Sonic Youth The Suburbs Sleator-Kinney Psychedelic Furs Soul Asylum Willie and the Bees Spider John Koerner Tony Glover NRBQ Rufus Wainwright Mason Jennings Hootie and the Blowfish Placebo Grandaddy The Samples Heroine Sheiks Toots and the Maytals The Jayhawks Indigo Girls Tonya Donnelly Blackalicious Billy Bragg George Clinton Motorhead Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls and the Butchers Jonathan Richman of The Modern Lovers Jurassic 5 The Misfits Death Cab for Cutie They Might Be Giants The Strokes Six Feet Under Stereo Lab Ian Hunter Lucinda Williams Junior Brown and many many others; also with various reviews of albums and performances a tribute to John Lennon calendar of upcoming events pertinent ads etc. And a significant run of First Avenue's Posters / Calendars 2000-2002 32 in all; the inside-spread of 17 of these feature a large poster of any number of particular bands and artists including Propaghandi Bob Dylan's 60th Birthday Bash Ex-Centric Sound Syatem Toots and the Maytals Cradle of Filth Buju Banton and Yellow Man Hank III and Assjack Killer Elite The Squabs The Magnolias Cold Cut Trailer Trash etc. and 13 Dancteria tickets free passes to the club undated but colorful; plus several duplicates and a piece or two of First Avenue ephemera. First Avenue unknown
200252682Minneapolis: First Avenue 2002. First Avenue and 7th St Entry are two music venues housed in the same building in downtown Minneapolis. During the 1980s Prince helped put it at the forefront of Minneapolis music venues by using it as the location for many scenes in his movie Purple Rain. He was also a frequent performer there in the late 80s and early 90s. Includes a nearly complete run of the First Avenue In-House Magazine Sept. 1998- August 2000 nos. 1-51 lacking only no. 23 each 14" x 8½" each 12 pages comprising articles on and illustrations of upcoming musicians together with a calendar of upcoming events. Among those featured are Sleator-Kinney Gil Scott-Heron Patti Smith The Flaming Lips The Jayhawks Johnny Winter NRBQ Black Eyed Peas Spider John Koerner Ray and Tony Glover Cheap Trick Aerosmith Warren Zevon Mason Jennings Robyn Hitchcock Better than Ezra Motorhead Billy Bragg The Cardigans P. J. Harvey Roger McGuinn and many others. Together with a complete run of The Developing Music and Arts Foundation March 2001-2001 nos. 1-35 each 16 pages several are only 8 pages each 8½" x 11" saddle-stitched each profusely illustrated. Features First Avenue acts and other news of the music industry including features on The Wailers The White Stripes Sonic Youth The Suburbs Sleator-Kinney Psychedelic Furs Soul Asylum Willie and the Bees Spider John Koerner Tony Glover NRBQ Rufus Wainwright Mason Jennings Hootie and the Blowfish Placebo Grandaddy The Samples Heroine Sheiks Toots and the Maytals The Jayhawks Indigo Girls Tonya Donnelly Blackalicious Billy Bragg George Clinton Motorhead Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls and the Butchers Jonathan Richman of The Modern Lovers Jurassic 5 The Misfits Death Cab for Cutie They Might Be Giants The Strokes Six Feet Under Stereo Lab Ian Hunter Lucinda Williams Junior Brown and many many others; also with various reviews of albums and performances a tribute to John Lennon calendar of upcoming events pertinent ads etc. And a significant run of First Avenue's Posters / Calendars 2000-2002 32 in all; the inside-spread of 17 of these feature a large poster of any number of particular bands and artists including Propaghandi Bob Dylan's 60th Birthday Bash Ex-Centric Sound Syatem Toots and the Maytals Cradle of Filth Buju Banton and Yellow Man Hank III and Assjack Killer Elite The Squabs The Magnolias Cold Cut Trailer Trash etc. and 13 Dancteria tickets free passes to the club undated but colorful; plus several duplicates and a piece or two of First Avenue ephemera. <br/><br/> First Avenue unknown books
185710042Saint Paul: Goodrich & Somers 1857. Small 8vo pp. viii 194 2; printed endpapers and pastedowns without the rare folding map lacking in most copies; printed on yellow blue white and green paper original printed paper-covered boards backed in black morocco lettered in gilt; boards soiled top and bottom of spine chipped away otherwise a sound and reasonably clean copy. This is Saint Paul's second city directory substantially augmented over the first of the previous year which contained 76pp. only. Martin Minnesota Imprints 175; Spear p. 333. Goodrich & Somers unknown
185710042Saint Paul: Goodrich & Somers 1857. Small 8vo pp. viii 194 2; printed endpapers and pastedowns without the rare folding map lacking in most copies; printed on yellow blue white and green paper original printed paper-covered boards backed in black morocco lettered in gilt; boards soiled top and bottom of spine chipped away otherwise a sound and reasonably clean copy. This is Saint Paul's second city directory substantially augmented over the first of the previous year which contained 76pp. only. Martin Minnesota Imprints 175; Spear p. 333. <br/><br/> Goodrich & Somers hardcover books
197322127New York: Harcourt Brace 1973. First edition 8vo pp. xix 1 363; 33 illus. on rectos and versos of 8 plates; shadow from newsprint on front flyleaf else fine in the jacket. Political biography of the aviator's father. Signed on the title-page by Lindbergh Jr. the aviator by the author and also by Eva Lindbergh Christo Spaeth Lindbergh's daughter. Accompanied by the program of events for the opening of the Lindbergh Interpretive Center: Minnesota Historical Society Welcomes You to Opening Ceremonies . Lindbergh State Park Little Falls Minnesota." a program which brought Lindbergh to his boyhood home for the last time which is also signed and dated Sept. 30 1973 by Lindbergh who died shortly after this visit. <br/><br/> Harcourt Brace unknown books
22127New York: Harcourt Brace 1973. First edition 8vo pp. xix 1 363; 33 illus. on rectos and versos of 8 plates; shadow from newsprint on front flyleaf else fine in the jacket. Political biography of the aviator's father. Signed on the title-page by Lindbergh Jr. the aviator by the author and also by Eva Lindbergh Christo Spaeth Lindbergh's daughter. Accompanied by the program of events for the opening of the Lindbergh Interpretive Center: Minnesota Historical Society Welcomes You to Opening Ceremonies . Lindbergh State Park Little Falls Minnesota." a program which brought Lindbergh to his boyhood home for the last time which is also signed and dated Sept. 30 1973 by Lindbergh who died shortly after this visit. Harcourt Brace unknown
188959298July 9 1889 to August 23 1889. 12mo approx. 7" x 4½" approx. 130 pages in ink; legible and in near fine condition. The journal begins with a London entry: "We arrived from Oxford at 6 o'clock and were driven at once to the Royal Hotel where we had engaged rooms." This is the journal of a tourist primarily albeit a famous one with visits and detailed descriptions of the National Gallery the British Museum and other museums where he discourses at length on the artworks and the Houses of Parliament where "the Queen's reading room which is rather more finished than the public rooms generally having a beautiful floor laid of hardwood polished and as equally as fine as some floors of this style in the best houses in Minneapolis." At Westminster Abbey he marvels at the statue of Pitt: "The first monument after entering immediately on the right is that of the immortal Pitt. This is chiselled from white marble and the design is most beautiful and impressive and as it should hold the place of honor or first-place in the Abby. We perhaps revered the name of Pitt more than that of any other from the fact of his great influence in behalf of the States during the early struggles for a republican form of government - and for the eloquent defence of the rights of American people and his continued friendship down to the day of his death." On July 16 Pillsbury notes: "This has been a rather quiet day with myself Mrs. P. Alfred and Bill in company with Mr. & Mrs. McMillan visited the museums & art gallery at East Kensington while I attended to some business with Morton Rose & Co. and Mr. Sterling of the Trustees Executors & Securities Co. which consumed nearly or quite the forenoon. In the afternoon Mr. McMillan and myself visited the Court Buildings . We were also admitted to the room where the Parnell trial was in session." Other visits in London include The Tower of London the Royal Academy Academy of Fine Arts Foundling Hospital Windsor Castle Hyde Park Madam Toussard's Wax Museum. On the 25th of July Pillsbury spent "most of the day in company with W. D. Washburn at Morton Rose & Co. . with matters connected with Mill Syndicate . Mr & Mrs. McMillan left this morning for Paris all expected to accompany them but I was detained by business. We expected to stop overnight at Canterbury as this is a historic city. We finally completed the purchase of Royal Worcester . and did some other looking about preparatory to leaving for Paris." By train to Paris via Dover and Calais. In Paris they visit the Exposition Buildings including the department of jewels and precious stones gold and silver and displays on Japan China and Egypt. Also the Louvre "Paris is almost under the rule of Roman Catholic religion. There are but few Protestant churches. The Sabbath is not generally observed. The stores retailers are open and business is being done by most all classes." Leaving Paris they visit Fontainbleau and Luxemburg Gardens. Back in Paris they visit the Pantheon the Museum of Cluney and the tomb of Napoleon. Later on they take the train to Versailles to which Pillsbury devotes a full 12 pages describing the history architecture and artworks. On August 9 Pillsbury writes: "Having received a dispatch from W. D. Washburn at Karlsbad in which he requested me to see Mr. Payson regarding the sale of the flour mills. We did not accomplish much in the forenoon. In the afternoon we visited the Louvre before going to the gallery however. We went to Goupes Art Gallery to look at some new paintings which had just arrived." Pillsbury has a keen eye and writes often in detail of the art sculpture and architecture he sees and is comfortable with his mixing pleasure and business interests. He has also visited Brussels and Waterloo the Hague Haarlem and Amsterdam where the journal ends. Pillsbury 1827-1901 was the 8th governor of Minnesota and the co-founder with his nephew Charles Alfred Pillsbury of the Pillsbury Company. July 9, 1889 to August 23 unknown
183461045Washington D.C.: Gales & Seaton print 1834. House Doc. 323 23d Congress 1st Session. 8vo pp. 68; large folding map "Map of the Route passed over by an expedition into the Indian Country in 1832 to the source of the Mississippi by Lieut. J. Allen U.S. Inf. reduced from the original drawn by Lieut. Drayton" stretching from Lake Pepin in the Mississippi River in the south to Lake Winnipeg in the north; map with 3" tear entering from the stub but without loss; recent tan niger-backed brown cloth gilt-lettered spine. At the head of the title: Schoolcraft and Allen---Expedition to North-West Indians. Field 1366; Sabin 77847; Streeter 1793. Gales & Seaton, print unknown
191648496Stillwater Minn: Easton & Masterman printers 1916. First edition 8vo pp. 1 508; frontispiece portrait of Gov. Alexander Ramsey 5 other portraits 1 plate showing 3 portraits including Christopher B. Heffelfinger - see below 4 plates of monuments 2 folding maps and 1 map in the text; original blue cloth gilt-lettered spine; cracking in the cloth in the top half of the upper joint; hinges cracked; all else very good and sound. This copy with an important inscription: "James Ford Bell Jr. from Grandmother Heffelfinger August 14 1916." James Ford Bell Jr. was the eldest son of the founder of General Mills and what is now the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota. James Jr. was known locally as the CEO of Red Owl Food Store chain and was also a noted conservationist. His "Grandmother Heffelfinger" was the wife of Christopher B. Heffelfinger one of the authors of this book who from 1861 through 1864 served in Company D of the famous First Minnesota Infantry Regiment rising in rank from sergeant to captain shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg. After serving the full term of his three-year enlistment Heffelfinger was mustered out at Fort Snelling in May 1864. After a brief appointment as a relief agent in the United States Sanitary Commission in 1864 he re-enlisted in April 1865 and was appointed a major in the First Minnesota Regiment of Heavy Artillery. Heffelfinger died in 1915 while this book was about to go to press although he did read through the manuscript and made suggestions "which have been adopted in the text as it now appears." Searles Taylor Heffelfinger and two others also deceased were the members of the "Coville Commission" who had charge of the preparation of this history. <br/><br/> Easton & Masterman, printers hardcover books
199450748Minneapolis: Pentagram Press 1994. Edition limited to 20 sets. Essentially a history of printing at Pentagram containing about 160 examples of their own printing over 20 years including chapbooks greeting cards invitations announcements letterheads bookmarks and broadsides. Contained in 3 cloth-covered clamshell boxes of different color and size all in cloth-covered box 9" x 11" x 14". The OCLC record showing 2 holdings at Brown and Yale notes "approximately" 185 examples are present but in our experience 160 seems to be the approximate number not including envelopes. <br/><br/> Pentagram Press hardcover books
218760Londres, et se trouve à Paris, Froullé, 1789 in-8, viij pp., 291 pp., veau brun, dos lisse cloisonné et fleuronné, pièce de titre cerise, encadrement de triple filet doré sur les plats, tranches mouchetées (reliure de l'époque).
