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1864016813Trenton New Jersey: Printed by David Naar "True American" Office 1864. Near Fine condition. Clean and tight. Three tiny chips near the spine. A very attractive copy remarkably well preserved especially considering the age published 1864 and fragility of its thin paper binding. SEE PHOTOS. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Includes Ricord's report to Joel Parker Governor of New Jersey on the condition of the state's public schools. A substantial appendix lists reports by the various town superintendents in each of 21 counties from Atlantic to Warren. Since this report was published while the Civil War was still being fought the section on "Schools for Colored Children" may be of some interest: "There is no section of the law nor any decision of the courts that deprives colored children of the advantages of public school instruction it shall be the duty of the trustees of the several school districts to apply the money apportioned to the establishing and maintaining of free schools in which shall be taught all the children the law makes no distinction between children of one nationality or race and children of another " A fold-out chart SEE PHOTO lists 27 key education statistics for each of the state's 21 counties. For example one column records the "Number of colored children who have attended school" in each county and a statewide total 3029. There are also figures by county for the number of students and teachers; average daily attendance; average teacher salaries for males vs. females; etc. Bound in the original tan printed wraps. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine condition. 175pp. Printed by David Naar, "True American" Office Paperback
1901035729New York: Macmillan and Co. 1901. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. Signed by Authors. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gray cloth lettered/illus. in black. Light shelf wear minor soiling to cover cloth text block edges a bit toned by age. Firm binding clean interior. xiii443 pp. illus. w/ b&w photographic plates drawings in text. 14th ptg.: Nov. 1908. Notably well preserved presentation copy showing a pastedown 4" x 3.5" mounted on front fixed endpaper inscribed "Faithfully yours / Jacob A. Riis / Christmas 1909." Mounted on the adjacent front flyleaf is the calling card of the recipient Mr. William W. J. Warren inscribed as follows: "Christmas 1909. -- / Mr. Riss sic called today -- / he gave me his autograph / for front cover of book." Also signed by a later owner William Duncan along top edge of front flyleaf. Warren is mentioned on p. 435 of Riis's text as W. W. J. Warren "faithful in good and in evil report" among the author's concluding acknowledgments where a second calling card stained by rust from a paper clip no long present is laid in pp. 435-440 are slightly indented from the clip and pp. 434 440 and 441 show a light rust impression. According to his obituary in American Stationer & Office Manager Vol. 88 Warren 1844-1921 was president of Stewart Warren & Co. a stationery manufacturing firm located at 129 Lafayette St. in New York a personal friend of Henry Ward Beecher and lived in the Richmond Hill section of Brooklyn as the next-door neighbor of Riis until the latter moved to Barre MA where he died in 1914. Original illustrated edition of an influential autobiography by the pioneering documentarian photographer and social reformer whose "How the Other Half Lives" was a landmark expose of living conditions in the Lower East Side tenements that led to reforms and provided Riis with an international reputation. Macmillan and Co. Hardcover
180221311Paris: Chez Les Freres Levrault 1802. First edition. Hardcover. Maroon library cloth Very good. Pages 322 - 329 with a full page plate bearing ten figures illustrations for the construction D'une oreille de Charrue -- Jefferson's new design for a plough-ear which he tested in Monticello. This article appeared in "Annales du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle" -- Tome Primiere with 32 engraved plates 2 folding one colored. Jefferson wrote to A. Thouin a major contributor to the Society: "I have made a small alteration in the form of the toe of the Mould-board which while it preserves the principle untouched enables us to shorten the ploughshare six to eight inches which is preferred by the agriculturists here to the first form." He sent Thorin a small box containing the model and calls himself "not to be adept but only a zealous amateur in the objects of the society." Ex-library Harvard College bookplate. Chez Les Freres Levrault hardcover
Signed, without inscription, by John Kenneth Galbraith [1908-2006] upon first blank leaf. xx, [5], 2-206 pages. Index. Includes a new introduction which comments on the crash of 1987. First published in 1955, this work is a "skilled chronicle and analysis of the causes of that most memorable year in our economic history, 1929. A trenchant and timely re-examination of the most spectatular boom-and-bust period in American history." - back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
In-8, cartonnage marbré à la Bradel, pièce de titre de maroquin bordeaux (rel. moderne Laurenchet), (4), 70 p. Edition originale. "Projet visionnaire comprenant deux mémoires de Martin de La Bastide, publiés après les démarches infructueuses de sa part auprès de la cour d'Espagne en 1780 pour la réalisation d'un canal à travers l'isthme de Panama ou de Darien. La Bastide plaide en faveur des énormes avantages que 'l'Europe commerçante' pourrait tirer de l'ouverture d'un passage entre les deux mers, et fait un exposé méthodique du tracé géographique pour la jonction des mers, des moyens à employer pour y parvenir. Il analyse l'utilité pour le commerce des colonies espagnoles et pour 'le commerce universel'. A la fin du premier mémoire, La Bastide transcrit une note de Laborde dans laquelle ce dernier lui reconnaît la priorité sur ce projet. Le second mémoire s'intitule: 'Réflexions sur les rapports de la communication de la mer du Nord à la mer du sud, par le lac de Nicaragua, avec l'établissement permis aux anglois par leur dernier traité avec l'Espagne'. Ce traité donnait aux anglais la liberté de s'établir et de naviguer depuis la baie de Nootka jusqu'au cap Mendocino" (Vente Zoummeroff, n°95). (France Littéraire, IV. 324. Polak, 4909. Sabin, 38408). Sans la carte qui ne figure qu’à un petit nombre d’exemplaires. Bon exemplaire, bien relié, frais.
[4], 5-398 pp. "The latest in the series of books about our times which this political pilgrim began with Insanity Fair in 1938, this is the story of a journey of discovery, geographical, social and political, in America. Readers know it is Douglas Reed's theory that the war which started in 1914 still goes on, embroiling all the Western world in a grand design for the reshaping of the globe, the final failure or success of which will determine the ultimate shape of the Twentieth Century." - dust jacket. Book unmarked with respectful wear to publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt. Slight lean to spine. Front free endpaper neatly removed. Above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound vintage copy of this fascinating study. 20 x 14cm. Singerman 845. Book
1901011656Boston MA: Little Brown and Company 1901. Beaconsfield edition limited to one thousand numbered sets this being number 147 for all volumes except volume 1 which is number 152. Twelve volume set complete uniform volumes. Each volume has 450-500 pages with a frontis several engraved and several illustrations. Brown cloth author's name gilt-stamped on front boards top edges gilt gilt spine titles. All volumes clean. "A vindication of natural society on the sublime and beautiful present state of the nation etc." A beautiful set. . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Little, Brown and Company Hardcover
183554579New York: Harper and Brothers 1835. first edition. Hardcover. Good . 5 x 8 in. xviv 26 - 224 pp 9 pp. of printed testimonials. Publisher's pebbled brown cloth with gilt spine title. Frontis plate of Washington with tissue guard. Inscribed by Reynolds to Joseph Ingraham dated 1836 on the second blank. Reynolds was purportedly a student of Glass' and also a proponent of the hollow earth theory with Symmes. Reynolds mounted an expedition to the South Pole and when his crew mutinied on the return he was set ashore in Chile. He was the author of "Mocha Dick" an account of a white whale that was an influence on Melville published in the Knickerbocker in 1836. Condition of the book is GOOD ; cloth is split along the lower front spine fold but the joint there is only very mildly tender. Bumping and wear to corners small loss and chips to spine head. Binding solid. Endpapers foxed title pg and text foxed but less so - all text is perfectly readable. PO's small bookplate on front pastedown. Very scarce title. Included is a letter form a rare book dealer from 1977 charging the buyer $200.00. Am. Hist. RGR. Case. Harper and Brothers hardcover
186516425Albany N. Y.: State of New York. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1865-78. First Edition. Hardcover. 14 Annual Reports beautifully bound into 5 blue cloth volumes with gilt lettering on the spines. Text interior is clean & tight with a few small tears where fold-out attaches to text and a few tape repairs to fold-outs. Some edge wear to a few maps. Reports published in1865-1877 for the years 1863-1876. Illustrated with canal plans tables charts maps & descriptions. 1864 No. 10 : 139pp w /index & 1 fold-out 1865 No. 9 : 189 pp w/ index & 3 fold-outs 1 map 1866 No. 7 : 181pp w /index & 7 fold-outs 3maps 1867 No. 9 : 176pp w /index & 6 fold-outs 3maps 1868 No. 4 : 144pp w /index & 2 fold-out maps 1869 No. 4 : 174pp w /index & 4 fold-outs 2 maps 1870 No. 6 : 278pp w /index 1871 No. 29 : 232pp w /index & 2 fold-outs 1 map 1872 No. 6 : 222pp w /index 1873 No 6 : 255pp w /index & 3 fold-outs 1 map 1874 No 6 : 347pp w /index & 11 fold-outs 10 Maps housed in a built-in custom case 1875 No. 6 263 p w /index & 2 fold-out maps 1876 No. 45 : 228pp w /index & 1 fold-out map 1877 No.12 : 199pp w/ index & 1 fold-out map. Originally from the Harry Rinker research library relating to the American canal era. New York Canals: Erie Champlain Black River Genesee Chenango Oswego Cayuga & Seneca Chemung Crooked Lake Oneida Baldwinsville; Charts maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 3027 pages . State of New York hardcover
18221399Annapolis: Printed by J. Hughes 1822. First edition. Modern quarter Morocco and cloth over boards. Octavo. 92 pages. Very good with foxing to title page and a few following. Spine is titled in gilt. Comes in a custom marbled paper slipcase. Two fold-out tables. Scarce report on the affairs of the Potomac Company in 1821 as investigated by a joint commission appointed by Maryland and Virginia. Here Maryland Governor Samuel Stevens formally transmits this report to the Maryland Legislature on January 1 1823.<br /> <br /> The Potomac Company was formed in the late 18th century with the object of reengineering the Potomac River to create a navigable link from the Ohio country to the port at Georgetown George Washington was an investor and served as the Company's first president. <br /> <br /> By 1821 the Virginia-Maryland joint commission found that the Potomac Company had "incurred heavy debts which their present resources can never enable them to discharge nor is it reasonable to expect in such circumstances that they can ever effect the objects of their incorporation."<br /> <br /> Further the commission found that the Potomac Company's sluice navigation system which was heavily dependent on "floods and freshets" was impractical and that only a still-water canal with locks could provide a navigable route that could be used consistently enough to be profitable. <br /> <br /> In the wake of this report the Potomac Company announced that it could not fulfill its charter. The project was subsequently taken up by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company chartered in 1825.<br /> <br /> OCLC locates 10 copies. Printed by J. Hughes unknown
191956738Fort Snelling Minnesota: US Army General Hospital No. 29 1919. 4to 14 weekly issues from vol. 1 no. 1 April 26 1919 to vol. 1. no. 14 July 24 1919 comprising the complete run of the magazine. Each number with 18 or 22 pages photographs and illustrations throughout original printed paper wrappers paper brittle and toned with some shallow chips to edges but no significant loss the occasional library stamp a very good set. The Reveille was established as a magazine for the military hospital at Fort Snelling. In its inaugural issue it makes the following statement: "Reveille makes its bow to the people of the Twin Cities and to all well-wishers everywhere. Its success means much for Fort Snelling and for its great Hospital . Through its pages all the progresses made along all lines will be duly reported." Includes general news and essays alongside news about personnel some of it serious but most clearly submitted as jokes by fellow service members "Mystery. How many sisters has Brown got They seem to come and they seem to go." cartoons sports and a section for nurses. The final issue of the magazine was July 24th and the hospital was discontinued in August 1st. A 15th volume was issued after the fact with the title Centennial Memorial of Fort Snelling. Duluth Public Library only in OCLC to which we can add MHS. US Army General Hospital No. 29 unknown
18537324Saint Paul: Printed at the Pioneer Office 1853. First edition 8vo various paginations; original printed tan wrappers with paper on spine partially perished else fine. This pamphlet also contains "Second Annual Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools of the Territory of Minnesota" with a separately paged "Appendix to the Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools Containing the School Law with the Amendments of 1852 and Forms for the Use of School Districts;" an "Auditor's Report;" "Report of the Board of building Commissioners of the Territory of Minnesota;" "Report of the Adjutant General;" and a "Treasurer's Report." Martin 54. Printed at the Pioneer Office unknown
200766240Minneapolis: Form and Content Gallery 2007. Large portfolio approx. 15¼" x 11¼" containing 14 original artworks chiefly in color by Robyn S Awend; Howard Oransky; Christine Baeumler; Jil Evans; Jim Dryden; Camille J Gage; Leah Golberstein; Fred Hagstrom; Joyce Lyon; Lynda Monick-Isenberg; Faye Passow; David Rich; John Saurer; Jeff Wetzig; and Jody Williams. Form Content Gallery is a cooperative artists' gallery in downtown Minneapolis. Intimate Immensity was an exhibition featuring a limited edition of new prints by gallery artists and invited guests inspired by Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space. This a is the first publication by the gallery. Form and Content Gallery unknown
186319599Saint Paul: A. Bailey 1863. First edition; 8vo pp. 2 ads 170; contemporary brown morocco over comb-marbled boards; some fading and scuffing but generally very good. From the Preface: "We present to our patrons a new City Directory satisfied that it is as nearly correct as a thorough and systematic canvass could make it. In the Business Directory all business firms we think are correctly represented classified according to the business pursuits and arranged in alphabetic order. The Appendix shows the different Associations Public Buildings Libraries Ward Boundaries Streets . Municipal Organizations etc. In the Spring of 1864 we propose to publish another Directory which we presume will receive the same liberal support." Bailey joined forces with one Groff to publish the 1864 edition after which no more were published in St. Paul. Prior to his coming to Saint Paul Bailey published directories in Quincy Illinois in 1861; and in 1862 he published one for Burlington Iowa. Subsequently he published directories for Winona Minnesota; La Crosse Wisconsin; Milwaukee; Mansfield Ohio; and Cleveland. Martin Minnesota Imprints 521; not in Sabin or Howes. Minnesota Historical is the only non-microfilm copy found in OCLC. <br/><br/> A. Bailey hardcover books
186319599Saint Paul: A. Bailey 1863. First edition; 8vo pp. 2 ads 170; contemporary brown morocco over comb-marbled boards; some fading and scuffing but generally very good. From the Preface: "We present to our patrons a new City Directory satisfied that it is as nearly correct as a thorough and systematic canvass could make it. In the Business Directory all business firms we think are correctly represented classified according to the business pursuits and arranged in alphabetic order. The Appendix shows the different Associations Public Buildings Libraries Ward Boundaries Streets . Municipal Organizations etc. In the Spring of 1864 we propose to publish another Directory which we presume will receive the same liberal support." Bailey joined forces with one Groff to publish the 1864 edition after which no more were published in St. Paul. Prior to his coming to Saint Paul Bailey published directories in Quincy Illinois in 1861; and in 1862 he published one for Burlington Iowa. Subsequently he published directories for Winona Minnesota; La Crosse Wisconsin; Milwaukee; Mansfield Ohio; and Cleveland. Martin Minnesota Imprints 521; not in Sabin or Howes. Minnesota Historical is the only non-microfilm copy found in OCLC. A. Bailey unknown
200630699Minneapolis: Mnenomic Press 2006. Edition limited to 40 copies this no. 19 numbered and signed by Harriet Bart; very tall folio approx. 23" x 6½" accordion fold 6 panels printed on rectos only containing 22 visual poems by 15 poets; very fine in original gray printed wrappers with original printed wrap-around band. Designed and printed in collaboration with Phillip Gallo at the Hermetic Press Minneapolis. "The Rondo Library Miscellany was commissioned as a work of public art. These twenty two visual poems are etched into a 20 foot long glass wall in the Rondo Community Outreach Library in Saint Paul Minnesota." <br/><br/> Mnenomic Press unknown books
182812269London: Hunt and Clarke 1828. First edition in English of the author's La decouverte des sources du Mississippi 1824 2 volumes 8vo pp. lxxvi 472-473; ii 545; portrait frontis. 2 engraved folding plans large folding map of the length of the Mississippi and 3 engraved plates for Indian ornaments; ex-library copy with usual markings covers and spine scuffed joints rubbed and cracked speckled edges; good or better in contemporary tan mottled calf black morocco labels on spines. Volume I contains an account of the author's travels in England Germany France and Italy. Sabin 4605 erroneously calling for only 1 plan: "The author accompanied Major Long in his second expedition who remarks: An Italian whom we met at Fort St. Anthony i.e. Fort Snelling attached himself to the expedition and accompanied us to Pembina. He has recently published a book which we notice merely on account of the fictions and misrepresentations which it contains. The Revue encyclopedique 1826 criticized the work severely and doubted the discovery. The author replied in a Lettre sur la decouverte d'un manuscript mexicain which was printed.in the English edition of his Pilgrimage." Howes B-338; Clark II 182; Wagner-Camp 26a.2; Pilling Algonquin p. 42; Field 111: Volume II is almost entirely devoted to the author's travels among the Northwestern Indians of whom he gives some novel particulars. The narrations of what he witnessed are tinged with the peculiar glow of the author's temperament. Beltrami must have moved in a gigantic world if he saw external objects through the same media with which he viewed his own person and accomplishments." <br/><br/> Hunt and Clarke unknown books
182812269London: Hunt and Clarke 1828. First edition in English of the author's La decouverte des sources du Mississippi 1824 2 volumes 8vo pp. lxxvi 472-473; ii 545; portrait frontis. 2 engraved folding plans large folding map of the length of the Mississippi and 3 engraved plates for Indian ornaments; ex-library copy with usual markings covers and spine scuffed joints rubbed and cracked upper board loose speckled edges; fair in contemporary tan mottled calf black morocco labels on spines. Volume I contains an account of the author's travels in England Germany France and Italy. Sabin 4605 erroneously calling for only 1 plan: "The author accompanied Major Long in his second expedition who remarks: An Italian whom we met at Fort St. Anthony i.e. Fort Snelling attached himself to the expedition and accompanied us to Pembina. He has recently published a book which we notice merely on account of the fictions and misrepresentations which it contains. The Revue encyclopedique 1826 criticized the work severely and doubted the discovery. The author replied in a Lettre sur la decouverte d'un manuscript mexicain which was printed.in the English edition of his Pilgrimage." Howes B-338; Clark II 182; Wagner-Camp 26a.2; Pilling Algonquin p. 42; Field 111: Volume II is almost entirely devoted to the author's travels among the Northwestern Indians of whom he gives some novel particulars. The narrations of what he witnessed are tinged with the peculiar glow of the author's temperament. Beltrami must have moved in a gigantic world if he saw external objects through the same media with which he viewed his own person and accomplishments." Hunt and Clarke unknown
196931546Washington D.C. 1969. 8vo 10-p. program string bound inside larger illustrated wrappers inscribed on the front "To Harvey T. Reid for a most valued friend counselor. and companion of riding trails and good dining - and for Agnes - with greetings & best wishes Warren E. Burger Washington August 21 1969." <br/><br/> unknown books
196931546Washington D.C. 1969. 8vo 10-p. program string bound inside larger illustrated wrappers inscribed on the front "To Harvey T. Reid for a most valued friend counselor. and companion of riding trails and good dining - and for Agnes - with greetings & best wishes Warren E. Burger Washington August 21 1969. unknown
198167158Minneapolis: Walker Art Center 1981. Broadside approx. 22" x 13" in frame; signed by Burroughs. Depicts Burroughs holding a handgun with a shooting target at the lower right showing 6 bullet holes. Fine. A poster announcing a benefit reading for the Walker Art Center's Writers reading series. Photograph of Burroughs by Alan Pogue. Only Kansas 2 copies in OCLC. Walker Art Center unknown
18797175Saint Paul: West Publishing Co 1879. First edition 8vo pp. 48; original gray printed wrappers; a rare presentation copy inscribed "M. Hensen Esq. Hastings compl. of I.D." on the upper wrapper; some soiling else very good. See BAL II p. 478: "In 1878 Donnelly ran for Congress as a Greenback-Democrat from Minnesota and was defeated in the election by William D. Washburn. Donnelly challenged the election on the basis of influence peddling and the buying of votes and demanded a hearing by the House of Representatives which found in favor of Washburn." <br/><br/> West Publishing Co unknown books
201769940New York: various publishing companies 2017. All small folio approx. 12" x 9"; some illustrated some in color all generally very good to fine in original pictorial wrappers. Includes: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan; The Times They Are a-Changin; Another Side of Bob Dylan; Bringing It All Back Home; Highway 61 Revisited; Blond on Blond; John Wesley Harding; Nashville Skyline; Self Portrait; Blood on the Tracks; New Morning; Planet Waves; The Basement Tapes; Desire; Street Legal; Slow Train Coming; Saved; Shot of Love; Infidels; Empire Burlesque; Knocked Out Loaded; Down in the Groove; Oh Mercy; Under the Red Sky; Good As I Been to You; World Gone Wrong; Time Out of Mind; Love and Theft; Modern Times; Together Through Life; Christmas in the Heart; Tempest; Shadows in the Night; and Fallen Angels. Not included are the three most recent studio albums: Triplicate Rough and Rowdy Ways and Shadow Kingdon. Also not included is the sound track for Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid; nor the song book for the inauguaral Bob Dylan as there was none issued. various publishing companies unknown
192138202Saint Paul: Minnesota Historical Society 1921. First edition limited to 200 numbered copies of which this is no. 51 signed by the author in volumes 1-3; the fourth published posthumously is signed by the editor Solon J. Buck; 4 volumes large 8vo; frontispieces plates and maps some folding; original three-quarter blind-tooled maroon calf over tan boards gilt spine; volume 1 spine fading at top and bottom; minor shelf wear; volume 1 front endpaper gutter stained; Edward Chenery Gale's bookplate and inscription in volume 3; a fine set. <br/><br/> Minnesota Historical Society hardcover books
192129796St. Paul: Minnesota Hist. Soc 1921. First edition limited to 200 copies signed by the author in vols. 1-3; vol. 4 published posthumously is signed by Buck; 4 vols. 8vo plates and maps some folding; original half maroon calf t.e.g.; a fine set. Arguably the best history of the state very highly regarded. This limited edition contains illustrations not included in the trade edition 1922-30. <br/><br/> Minnesota Hist. Soc unknown books
