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179639975Philadelphia: Francis Childs 1796. Folio. 12 pages including two large folding tables. Stitched untrimmed. Minor dusting Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Treasury Secretary Wolcott transmits to Congress a detailed State-by-State and District-by-District record of the salary fees commissions fines and penalties of each Customs Officer during the year 1795. Wolcott's predecessor Alexander Hamilton the first Secretary of the Treasury had resigned his office on 31 January 1795. The earliest noted expenditures thus occurred during Hamilton's stewardship of the Treasury.<br /> Evans 31455. ESTC W5480. Francis Childs unknown
185426321<p><strong>1854 1st ed ATLAS of Messages of President of US Franklin Pierce MAPS Florida</strong></p><p>Throughout the 19th-century "<em>Message from the President of the United States</em>" was a regularly published and highly desirable collection of messages from the United States President. The edition issued during the 33rd Congress was published along with an atlas tome – a volume which is considerably valuable in itself! This 1854 atlas contains dozens of folding maps including views of Arkansas Florida Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa. It also contains maps of harbors and lakes from around the American north and Midwest.</p><p>Item number: #26321</p><p>Price: $750</p><p>United States</p><p><strong><em>Message from the president of the United States</em></strong></p><p>New York: A.O.P. Nicholson 1854. First edition.</p><p><u>Details</u>:</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Part 3 atlas tome</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->42 maps of 45</p><p> <!--endif-->Wanting maps of California Michigan outlet of St. Clair River</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Provenance: Handwritten – <em>L. C. Grover</em></p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Hardcover; secure</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Brown cloth</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~12in X 9in 30cm x 22.5cm</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>26321</p><p>Photos available upon request.</p> A.O.P. Nicholson hardcover
1823320267Reading Penn.: Carl Bruchman fur Carl McWilliams 1823. Early printing of the Constitution in German. 156pp. 12mo. Period quarter calf and marbled boards. Foxing staining in rear. Early printing of the Constitution in German. 156pp. 12mo. Early German translation of the American Constitution together with the Constitution of Pennsylvania the Declaration of Independence and the farewell address of George Washington. Sabin 16126; Bötte 2609; Shaw and Shoemaker 12244 Carl Bruchman fur Carl McWilliams unknown books
179435253Philadelphia: Childs and Swaine 1794. 438 29 1 blank pp. Stitched untrimmed top edge uncut as issued. Remnant of original plain front wrapper rear wrapper present. Very Good or better.<br/><br/> This document includes several 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." <br/> Washington urges fairness in commerce with the Indians: "It ought to be conducted without fraud without extortion with constant and plentiful supplies." Also printed is Washington's Message of December 5 expressing annoyance at Citizen Genet whose utterances have tended "to involve us in war abroad and discord and anarchy at home." Subsequent presidential messages include additional material on the Genet Affair and difficulties with the Creeks and Cherokees "owing to the murder of several friendly Indians by some lawless white men." Also included is material on the Embargo; passage of the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution barring federal court jurisdiction of suits against a State by citizens of another State; a bit of discussion of the Bon Homme Richard; and a host of other matters. The Session closed in May 1794. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 27910. Childs and Swaine unknown books
185344417Washington DC 1853. <p>United States. Senate. 32nd Congress 2nd Session. H. R. 336 To accompany report no. 421. In the Senate of the United States. February 19 1853 . . . Amendment . . . 3pp. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1853. 297 x 205 mm. Unbound. Some dampstaining edges a bit frayed but very good. Docketed.</p> <p> First Edition of this rare ether controversy document with no copies listed in OCLC. In January 1853 responding to renewed debate over who deserved credit for inventing ether anesthesia the U. S. Senate appointed a select committee to determine whether W. T. G. Morton Charles Jackson or Horace Wells had the best claim to the discovery. On February 19 Senator Isaac P. Walker the committee's chairman submitted an amendment to army appropriations bill H. R. 336 confirming the U. S. government's right to use and benefit from the discovery and proposing an award of $100000 to "the discoverer." The final version of the amendment which we are offering here also proposed that the issue of priority be decided in federal court with Morton Jackson and the representatives of Horace Wells appearing as defendants to prove the merits of their respective cases. The Senate ended up rejecting the amendment leaving the question of priority unsettled for the time. Wolfe Tarnished Idol pp. 316-17; 330-335. </p> . unknown books
008610Danville Illinois: Freese Boener & Co. Printers No Date circa 1910-1920. A blank complimentary notebook rendered unique and charming by a series of anonymous Folk Art pencil drawings 14 in all of primarily African-American figures. Some drawings are captioned and seem to be telling a story- -Where Is the Boy Here I Am Testing a Melon The Suspected Man The Weather Prophet Brother Gardener Declines Elder Toots Denies Hank Was Watching and Going Over to Sims" the latter 2 featuring men with guns. The notebook reads "Complimenst of Hancock & Briner dealers in Dry Goods Gents' Pants Hats Caps Boots Shoes and General Merchandise. Veedersburg Ind. Freese Boener & Co. Printers Danville Ill." front cover and "We present you with this book and making 'Fair Dealing and Low Prices' our motto we earnestly solicit a share of your patronage. Call and see us. Hancock & Briner Veedersburg Ind.". 3 pages have numbers and figures one page with the names "Miss Susie Miss Kim Miss Claypool". Very Good light soiling. As another dealer has put it "vintage children's art especially of an African American child are more than scarce". Pamphlet. Very Good. 4 7/8" x 2 1/4" . Freese, Boener & Co. Printers Paperback books
19188521Portland Oregon: Samuel Van Dersal 1918. 1918 Edition. Softcover Stiff Boards. Good Condition. Samuel Van Dersal Portland Oregon 1918. 1918 Edition. Good Condition. Brand Book Stiff wrappers moderately soiled binding shaken. last page is detached last few pages almost detached. -- Overall good condition. Illustrated front cover with a cowboy on a horse at top right attempting to laso a steer; the laso spells Oregon and the loop is about to drop over the head of the steer at bottom left. . -- Advertising scattered throughout the text. -- A scarce book. Size: octavo tall. 360 pages. Item Type: Brand Book. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Farming & Rural Life; Ranching; United States Oregon; 1900-1920 ; Western Americana; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8521. Samuel Van Dersal hardcover
007309Brookline MA: David R Godine SCARCE a haunting and prophetic broadside Whitman's words written in 1871 following the Civil War as relevant today as then. 22" w x 30 1/2" h featuring a 20" w x 19/12" h photogravure printed by Joh. Enschede Zonen Haarlem Holland portraying Walt Whitman in profile enlarged reproduction of 1891 photograph of Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakin at head of text. Underneath the quote taken from Whitman's "Democratic Vistas": " We have frequently printed the word Democracy. Yet I cannot too often repeat that it is a word the real gist of which still sleeps quite unawaken'd notwithstanding the resonance and many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come from pen or tongue. It is a great word whose history I suppose remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted. It is in some sort younger brother of another great and often-used word NATURE whose history also waits unwritten. WALT WHITMAN". Printed on Cartridge Paper made by Schut Heelsum Holland and calligraphy by Bram De Does. No date circa 1972. Near Fine faint creases at edges. OCLC shows five library holdings all in the United States. First Printing. Broadside. Near Fine. 22" x 30 1/2". David R, Godine Paperback books
1959063519Lancaster Kutztown Collegeville PA: Pennsylvania Folklife Society 1959. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Partial run of Volumes 10 1959 through 42 1993 of Pennsylvania Folklife the influential periodical that began as the Pennsylvania Dutchman in 1949 and ceased publication in 1997. All volumes are custom-bound in dark blue cloth-effect boards lettered in gilt on spine panels two and occasionally three volumes bound in one thus 34 volumes bound in 16 approx. 130 issues total. Most volumes consist of four quarterly issues three in some years five in others during the '60s that included an unnumbered 5th "Folk Festival" issue. Lacks Vols. 9 1958 43-46 1994-97 for completion and of course Vols. 1-8 when still published as Pennsylvania Dutchman. The entire set is essentially Fine/as issued ideal for a reference library and historical society collections. Pennsylvania Folklife Society Hardcover
1938010268NY: New York Historical Society. First edition. Finely bound half-bound leather. Published NY: New York Historical Society 1938. 8vo. 7 1/2" x 10 1/2" xxvi246pp. "with 154 illustrations from photographs taken by the author in the years 1897-1901." Half-bound brown Morocco leather with raised bands gilt titles and spine decorations and brown linen cloth over boards marbled endpapers preliminaries on laid paper top edge gilting printed on bright coated paper. Presentation copy to the Veterans of the Seventh Regiment by the New York Historical Society with presentation bookplate on pastedown. At the turn of the 20th Century James Reuel Smith made bicycle excursions across New York City photographing and chronicling its springs and well. In 1938 three years after his death the New York Historical Society published this volume of his pictures and observations. Wear to the leather at the edges some rub at the spine mild creasing to a few page corners Veterans of the Seventh Regiment stamp on pastedown along with the same text handwritten boldly in marker else a near fine example of a scarce book. Clean and bright crisp attractive. . Very Good Plus. Half-Leather. 1st. 1938. New York Historical Society hardcover
1808elala1921City of Washington: A. & G.Way 1808. 1808. 8vo. pp. 88. contemporary calf covers rubbed & stained some browning. Sabin 12486. Shaw & Shoemaker 16415. BOUND WITH: .Letters From The Secretary Of State To Mr. Monroe On The Subject Of Impressment &c. Also Extracts From And Enclosures In The Letters Of Mr. Monroe To The Secretary Of State Prior To The Joint Mission Of Him And Mr. Pinkney. Part II.March 23 1808. 8vo. pp. 137. Washington City: A. & G.Way 1808. Sabin 43713 incorrect pagination. Shaw & Shoemaker 16452. BOUND WITH: .Letters From The Secretary Of State To Messrs. Monroe And Pinkney On Subjects Committed To Their Joint Negotiation; With Their Communications To The Secretary Of State. Part III.March 23 1808. 8vo. pp. 226. Washington City: A. & G.Way 1808. Shaw & Shoemaker 16453. Not in Sabin. BOUND WITH: .Letter From Mr. Monroe To The Secretary Of State Dated RichmondFebruary 25 1808. Part IV.March 23 1808. 8vo. pp. 47. Washington City: A. & G.Way 1808. Sabin 50013. Shaw & Shoemaker 16411. BOUND WITH: .Papers Relative To French Affairs Communicated By General Armstrong To Mr. Monroe.March 23 1808. 8vo. pp. 21. Washington City: A. & G.Way 1808. Sabin 58478 corrected title of 2025. Shaw & Shoemaker 16536. BOUND WITH: Report Of The Committee To Whom Was Referred The Correspondence Between Mr. Monroe And Mr. Canning And Between Mr. Madison And Mr. Rose Relative To The Attack On The Chesapeake.April 16 1808. 8vo. pp. 10. Washington City: Printed By R.C.Weightman 1808. Shaw & Shoemaker 16579. Not in Sabin. BOUND WITH: ERSKINE David Montague 1766-1855. Letter From Mr. Erskine the British Minister To The Secretary Of State On The Subject Of The British Orders in Council Of The Eleventh Of November 1807.April 2 1808. 8vo. pp. 7. City of Washington: A. & G.Way 1808. Sabin 22797. Shaw & Shoemaker 16409. BOUND WITH: CHAMPAGNY Jean Baptiste Nompère de. Letter From M. Champagny The French Minister For Exterior Relations To General Armstrong The Minister Of The United States At Paris.April 2 1808. 8vo. pp. 10. City of Washington: A. & G.Way 1808. Shaw & Shoemaker 16408. cfSabin 11823 pp. 7. A collection of eight pamphlets relating to international law and the violation of American neutrality during the Napoleonic Wars. The correspondence and reports relate specifically to the attack on the American frigate the Chesapeake off the coast of Virginia by a British ship of war the Leopard in June of 1807 and the impressment of members of its crew into the service of the British Navy. The Secretary of State writes: "Were it allowable that British subjects should be taken out of American vessels on the high seas it might at least be required that the proof of their allegiance should lie on the British side. This obvious and just rule is however reversed and every seaman on board though going from an American port and sailing under an American flag and sometimes even speaking an idiom proving him to not be a British subject is presumed to be such unless shewn to be an American citizen. It may safely be affirmed that this is an outrage and an indignity which has no precedent.". The United States attempted to protect its waters and nationals by passing the Embargo Act of 1807 which closed American ports and banned American ships from going to sea. Frequent interception of American ships to impress American citizens was a major cause of the War of 1812. Soft cover. City of Washington: A. & G.Way, 1808. Paperback
1865678Annapolis 1865. Folded sheets with original envelope. Near fine with original envelope. Incredible 6 page manuscript letter from a Civil War Chaplain posted at Annapolis discussing St. John's College Hospital Chapel visiting hospitals and the work of the U.S. Christian Commission in Annapolis during the war.<br /> <br /> Partial transcript: <br /> "At 2 P.M. I preached in St. Johns College Hospital Chapel & there visited some of the wards. In the evening we had preaching in the U.S.C.C. Chapel Tent which is my headquarters at College Green Barracks.Annapolis is or course a secesh town. The churches were nearly broken up by the war but now begin to look more flourishing. There is a large Episcopal Ch. here pastor of wh. is a Chaplain in hospital & a very nice sort of fellow."<br /> <br /> An unusually descriptive letter from a young man stationed at Annapolis and serving as a chaplain at the College Green Hospital Chapel. Van Wagenen survived the war but died in New York in 1866. unknown
199960557Welwyn Garden City 1999. Five volumes 1-3 are first editions limited to 250 copies 4-5 are second edition; folio punch bound; totaling about 1200 pages; pictorial paper wrappers; light foxing to edges and covers volume four with a small break in the binding very good overall or better. An attempt at a comprehensive compilation of the texts of Dylan's interviews and press conferences with subject index. University of Cambridge and Stanford in OCLC with Cambridge identifying the compiler as John Baldwin. unknown
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
185115464St. Louis: Jams R. Albach 1851. Second edition revised and enlarged thick 8vo pp. 818; bookplate of James J. Hill presentation from the son of the author inscribed "James J. Hill from Charles E. Perkins Oct. 25 1889"; full contemporary sheep morocco label on spine; top of spine chipped away joints tender perforated Hill Library stamp in title. Howes P231 showing this to be the fourth printing and noting that "Albach was the actual compiler" and Perkins the "competent editor." <br/><br/> Jams R. Albach unknown books
185115464St. Louis: Jams R. Albach 1851. Second edition revised and enlarged thick 8vo pp. 818; bookplate of James J. Hill presentation from the son of the author inscribed "James J. Hill from Charles E. Perkins Oct. 25 1889"; full contemporary sheep morocco label on spine; top of spine chipped away joints tender perforated Hill Library stamp in title. Howes P231 showing this to be the fourth printing and noting that "Albach was the actual compiler" and Perkins the "competent editor. Jams R. Albach unknown
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. <br/><br/> J.H. Colton & Co hardcover books
1801001788Philadelphia Pa: Joseph & James Crukshank 1801. Hard Cover. Very Good -. 108 p.; 14 cm. Original brown cloth spine with brown speckled paper over boards. Old paper label on spine with blue printed border and "232" in ink in the center. "118" written on front board. Front fixed endpaper bears oval bookplate of the Aimwell School Library. This was probably the school founded in 1796 in Philadelphia by three Quaker women. Originally called the Society for the Free Instruction of Female Children the name Aimwell School was adopted in 1807. The author's journeys included travelling up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Natchitoches and later riding across Texas. Its translation into English provided one of the earliest descriptions of Texas in that language. See Howes P-13; no American edition is noted. Not in Early American Imprints ser. II Shaw-Shoemaker. Very scarce. In Very Good- Condition: cover is rubbed; small loss of cloth on spine; corners are rubbed and bumped; occasional foxing; otherwise pages are clean and tight. Joseph & James Crukshank unknown
1787TS119aLondon: J. Dodsley in Pall Mall 1787. 1st Edition . Hardback. Fine. 8vo. Title-page Preface ii 366 bound with CHARACTERS 182pp 13pp contents. Contemporary full calf with gilt titles and year dates to the spine. Armorial bookplate of Esther Acklom.The 1784 and 1785 volumes. A dark impression and printed on crisp thick paper. A HISTORY OF EUROPE P1-192pp. CHRONICLE OF 1784 177-366pp. BOUND WITH CHARACTERS EXTRACTS FROM CAPTAIN COOK'S VOL 1 LAST VOYAGE IN THE YEARS 177617717781780. P1-26. ALSO P27 -182 Extracts from James Watt The Annual Register was an annual survey of the past year focusing on history politics and literature from the British perspective.INDEX. ALSO An invaluable account of American history of the time. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS.AN INTERESTING PREFACE EXPLAINS THAT THIS VOLUME WAS A RESULT OF SO MANY EVENTS OVER 1784-5 THAT THE VOLUME COVERS TWO YEARS <br/> <br/> J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall hardcover
1763TS119London: R. & J. Dodsley Pall Mall 1763. 1st Edition . Hardback. Fine. 8vo. Half-title tile-page Preface ii 307 v contents. Contemporary full calf with gitl year date to the spine. Armorial bookplate of the Spencer family ' Dieu Defend Le Droit'.The 1763 volume. At the rear bound in are four folding plates of maps engraved by Thomas Kitchen dated 1763 including 'A New Map of The British Dominions in North America within the limits of the Governments annexed thereto by the Late Treaty of Peace and settled by Proclamation October 7th 1763'. All the maps are fine dark impression and printed on crisp thick paper. The Annual Register was an annual survey of the past year focusing on history politics and literature from the British perspective. An invaluable account of American history of the time. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS. <br/> <br/> R. & J. Dodsley, Pall Mall hardcover
195617143Detroit: U. S. Lake Survey. 1956. Flexible covers. Very Good. Boards creased and darkened and with light rubbing to extremities. ; 8vo; Sheet 1700-1848 pages . U. S. Lake Survey unknown
1915053856Washington: Carnegie Institution 1915. First Edition . Printed Grey Wrappers. Near Fine. Photographs. 99 Pp. Printed On Glossy Paper High Quality Plates. First Printing The Scarce Hardcover Issue 1915. Near Fine Gilt Brilliant No Stains Inscribed By Author To The Friday Morning Club. <br/> <br/> Carnegie Institution unknown
120710aafA Rotterdam (à la sphère), M D CC XXXVIII., (1738), in-8vo, 4 ff. (titre - personnages - l’idée du sujet + 1 f. blanche) + 274 p. + 4 ff. (2 ff. d'errata: fautes a corr. - autres fautes + 2 ff. blanches), reliure plein veau, dos richement orné or, coiffe sup. avec manque, charnières part. fendus, sup. avec galerie de vers, avec galerie de vers, coins touchés, pages de gardes d’origine, tranches rouges.
18796329Paris, A. Quantin, 1879. 2 volumes in-12 de [6]-II-[2]-6 à 390-[2]p. et [4]-396p., demi-percaline verte, dos lisses, pièces de titre noires, têtes rouges (petit éclaircissement en queue du vol. 2).
191020035Century Co. New York NY 1910. 8vo. First Edition on laid paper with frontispiece original tissue guard present 63 plates and folding map on japon; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco back with raised bands ruled in gilt second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt gilt top hand-made endpapers ribbon marker uncut a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With small blind stamp on title. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR'S SISTER WITH HER LONG SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. AN ELEGANT COPY OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT RECORD. Century Co., New York NY, hardcover
