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1980010684New York: Abrams 1980. 278pp The beautiful book is illustrated with 261 illustrations sketches drawings photographs along with 94 plates in full color including some fold-out pages and the original Sendak Little Red Riding Hood popup which is in fine working condition along with a facsimile of the earliets dummy for "Where The Wild Things Are." Text clean with no marks. 1st Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Abrams Hardcover
1985mon0003101649Broadfoot Publishing 1985-04. Hardcover. Like New. 1.7000 8.6000 5.8000. 20 books in total. Series 1 Volumes 1 - 14 Serial No. 1 - 20. In fine condition. Broadfoot Publishing hardcover
179734640Philadelphia: Ross 1797. 561 26 Constitution and Amendments thereto iv Table of Contents Index of 24 leaves. Bound in attractive modern calf and marbled boards with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Occasional light toning and mild foxing Very Good.<br/><br/> This is a complete offering of Ross's printing of the Acts of all three Sessions of the Fifth Congress including the Alien & Sedition Acts and establishment of the Marine Corps plus a treaty with the Cherokees. <br/>Evans 32951 34688 36479. Sabin 15501-15503. Ross unknown books
1897286765Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1897. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. The House of Representatives 54th Congress 2nd Session Documents number 151 through 249. Some of the issues dealt by the Congress include "Investigation of Coal and Gold Resources of Alaska" with a color folding map 'Annual Reports' from ten railway companies and a "List of Judgments Court of Claims." The Panic of 1893 caused by collapsing wheat prices and a coup in Buenos Aires was first signaled by the bankruptcy of the overextended Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. Blaming the largely Democratic Congress and President voters vented their frustrations in the ballot box. The historic midterm elections just before the 54th Congress saw the Republicans gain 130 seats securing the first of a series of GOP-controlled Congresses. Lacking House Documents No. 158 164 192 202 218 230. With 18 folding maps and surveys some color some quite large with significant loss to the final two maps. Minor fore edge dampstaining to the final five House documents. Half brown morocco over marbled paper with gilt lettering on the spine. Very Good. . Very Good binding. Government Printing Office unknown books
186636650Washington: publisher not identified 1866. Folio 29.6 cm; 11.625". 6 2 pp. <br><br>Printed version of the treaty between the United States government and the Oglala Lakota signed in print by Newton Edmunds governor of the Dakota Territory Edward B. Taylor superintendent of Indian affairs for the northern superintendency Gen. H.H. Sibley Tan-tan-ka-has-ka Chief Long Bull Ma-lo-wa-ta-khe The Charging Bear Pa-ha-to-ne-je The Man that Stands on a Hill and others at Fort Sully Dakota Territory on 28 October 1865.<br>Â Â Â Â The treaty states that the United States will pay each family thirty dollars annually for twenty years for their decisions to "withdraw from the route overland already established" ceasing all warfare with other groups and to settle future disputes by using the president as an arbitrator. The government promises that it will provide protection from "annoyance or molestation on the part of whites or Indians" should members of the group settle permanently to engage in agricultural pursuits and offers further incentives for their doing so.<br>Â Â Â Â It was ratified 5 March 1866 and later proclaimed by President Johnson on March 17. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Eberstadt 130. Folded sheets light age-toning gently chipped along edges; light pencilling on upper margin of title-page. publisher not identified unknown books
180012055Philadelphia: no publisher/printer 1800. Small 8vo. 41 3 blank pp. <br><br>Concerns service in Georgia during the period 1790-94 in the wars with the Creek and Cherokee Indians. Gives an excellent review of the events and personalities. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Evans 38774; Eberstadt Cat. 114 item 326. Removed from a nonce volume. Very good condition. no publisher/printer unknown books
1901001512New York: McClure Phillips & Co. 1901. Very Good condition. Tight and unmarked. Spine tanned a little but with lettering still distinct. Previous owner's name and "1902" on the front free endpaper. Original beige cloth handsomely decorated in black green and red. White's second novel published the same year as THE CLAIM JUMPERS. This is the scarce first printing with MCMI on the title page and no mention of additional printings. Merle Johnson's American First Editions Blanck 1942 p. 523. FPAA v.5 p. 355. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Original binding/No dust jacket. 8vo. viii 344pp. McClure, Phillips & Co. Hardcover
191319987Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1913. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green cloth gilt lettering on spine gilt border and publisher's medallion gilt on cover t.e.g. fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with tissue-protected frontispiece drawing of Chicago in 1853. Includes: Introduction; William Bross - extracted from "What I remember of early Chicago" a lecture delivered Jan. 23 1876; Charles Cleaver - extracts from articles which appeared first in the Chicago tribune; Joseph Jefferson Chicagoan - reprinted from "The autobiography of Joseph Jefferson"; and Chicago's first railroad systems - reprinted from Andraes's "History of Chicago." . Head and heel of spine show very slight shelf-wear very modest fading to gilt on spine else pristine unmarked tight square and clean. NEAR FINE. . The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 11. B&W Illustrations. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxxiii 137 pp . R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press hardcover
1995018762Storrs-Mansfield CT / Parsippany New Jersey: Martino Fine Books / About Books 1995. 6 separate volumes complete 5 volumes bound in 6 books WITH LARGE FOLD-OUT MAPS -- just like the first edition. SEE PHOTOS. Each of the 6 books in this 1995 large format edition measures 9.25" wide by 12.25" tall. This is NOT the later smaller format 3-volume reprint in which the maps are reduced in size. Unlike later reduced-size editions the maps in this 1995 six-volume edition measure as large as 21" by 33" when unfolded. SEE PHOTOS. As original co-publisher we are pleased to offer the few remaining sets of the 1995 large-format 6-volume edition recently rediscovered in our warehouse. They are BRAND NEW in perfect condition. STILL SEALED in the publisher's clear plastic SHRINKWRAP and the PUBLISHER'S CARDBOARD SHIPPING BOX. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright clean square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. No date but 1995 First Martino/About Books printing "strictly limited to 350". Reprint of the original 1957-1963 six separate volumes: xiv 264; xiii 281; xiii 349; xiii 260; xix 222; iv 223-487pp. MAPPING THE TRANSMISSISSIPPI WEST is a monumental and exceptionally thorough work that is unlikely to be surpassed. The set is illustrated with a total of 376 maps including several that fold out. In this standard carto-bibliography are full descriptions of some 1300 maps from the year 1540 to about 1880. Wheat discusses each map showing the origins of its date and weighing its significance and accuracy. He also identifies the atlases and books in which the maps can be found. Norman Thrower: "Scholars and others who are interested in the American west have found Wheat's work indispensable." Ristow 382: "A comprehensive cartobibliography with many fine reproductions." The 6 volumes are uniformly bound in the original gilt-stamped green cloth. SEE PHOTOS. Oversize Hardcover. All 6 volumes measure 9.25" wide by 12.25" tall. This heavy set will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments. But for media mail you pay only our standard charge for 1 volume and we ship the other 5 volumes at no extra cost. First Martino/About Books printing. Oversize Hardcover. New/in publisher's shrinkwrap. Illus. by We ship all 6 volumes for cost of 1. 6 volumes: 9.25" wide by 12.25" tall. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Martino Fine Books / About Books Hardcover
2005007683Farmington Hills Michigan U.S.A.: Macmillan Library Reference 2005. Complete 6 Volume set. 5 Volumes plus Supplement. Nice set. Minimum markings. Tight clean and complete. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. Macmillan Library Reference Hardcover
1869008935New Haven: Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor Printers 1869. Book. Very Good Plus. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RARE in current commerce a copy last seen at auction 1969 RBH. 151 pages 4 portraits one folded map. Contains pp. 46-48 Indian Names in Connecticut by J. Hammond Trumbull. Very Good Plus light soiling and rubbing to cloth some toning at end papers and associated with plates a period newspaper clipping laid in at p.85 perhaps as a bookmark. Folding Map of Norwich West Farms 1663-1725 is Fine. Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America vol. 7 p. 32 calls for 3 portraits this copy has 4. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Printers Hardcover
1930008761Chicago: Everyday Mechanics Publications Inc. 1930. Magazine. Near Fine. Magazine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE> Three issues from Vol. 2 Nos. 5 6. and 8 including the November issue featuring a space ship on the front cover and article on space flight by Hugo Gernsback the "Father of the Pulp". Near Fine. some light soiling to covers. Everyday Mechanics was published by Gernsback starting in 1929 and changed to Everyday Science and Mechanics as of the October 1931 issue. Everyday Mechanics Publications, Inc. Paperback
1845008913Charleston SC: Babcock & Co. 1845. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE Confederate States of Americas Association Copy bearing the small bookplate and 2 signatures of William Cabell Rives May 4 1793 - April 25 1868 a member of the First Families of Virginia who served in the U.S. House and Senate and two separate terms as U.S. Minister to France. He later served in the Provisional Confederate Congress from 1861 to 1862 and the Second Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865. Very Good professionally rebacked with spine laid over with some loss of gilt decorations and gilt lettering dulled prior owner bookplate and inscriptions front and rear end pages tipped in photograph of a George Washington statue at rear end pages some marginal pencil notations by the latter owner and an extended biographical manuscript inscription about Rives taken from p. 37 of "The Plantation South" at 2nd. front end page. Moderate toning large fold-out map of Virginia Near Fine with small tear at right edge. A fascinating copy of a SCARCE Virginia history. Babcock & Co. Hardcover
1868009115Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1868. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original gilt lettered cloth with large folding "Map of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers and their Tributaries explored by Capt. W.F. Raynolds Topl. Engres. and 1st Lieut. H.E. Maynadier 10th Inft. Assistant." 178 pages. 40th Congress 1st Session Senate Ex. Doc. 77. Very Good 1/4" loss of cloth at head of spine and 3/8" chip to cloth near head stamped "Edwardsville High School" three times front end pages numbers in ink top edge of title page end papers foxed with interior pages clean and bright. Large folding map is complete but torn unevenly from book leaving a triangular section attached. Map has 2 small holes at center crease and tears at some creases. A brief original report of Raynold's 1859 exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers was published in 1860 with this main report delayed by the Civil War. The map features post-Civil War developments including Fort Casper and Camp Marshall Jackson's Hole and other new forts and roads. Howes R88. Government Printing Office Hardcover
1860009376Louisville KY: Printed by Bradley & Gilbert 1860. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. SCARCE while OCLC locates 23 copies in institutions no copies foumd in current commerce and only the earlier 1858 edition found at auction and that not since 1963. From the collection of noted Mammoth Cave historian and author Harold Meloy his small name label front paste down. Bound in contemporary quarter black leather over marbled boards without the original wrappers Very Good moderate toning throughout. vi 7-61 pages. "Doctors had written about the cave before but with Charles W. Wright M.D. of the Kentucky School of Medicinein Louisville a new era of Mammoth Cave medical authors began.Wright was present in Mammoth Cave during the first descent of a deep pit known as the Maelstrom and he was one of the first explorers of Diamond Caverns. His book The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky was published in 1858 and again in 1859. In 1860 he revised and enlarged it. As A Guide Manual to the Mammoth Cave the 1860 edition became the standard reference book about the cave until it was replaced nine years later by Dr. Binkerd's book. Even after Binkerd's book was replaced by Dr. Forwood's book Wright's Guide Manual was still in demand. It was republished in 1870 and again in 1875." MEDICS AT MAMMOTH CAVE by Harold Meloy Journal of Spelean History Vol. 5 No. 4 Fall 1972. Printed by Bradley & Gilbert Hardcover
1950102794Washington: GPO 1950. Revised September 1950. Paperback. About very good with minors wear to exterior. Hand-written Washington DC street address in red ink to front wrapper verso. Small quarto in offwhite printed wraps; x 456 pages illustrations. Foot-notes partly bibliographical. Presentation copy. Signed by numerous contributors & editors: Signed by Richard Bambach on front cover and again by him "with compliments" on title page. Signed by all five Board of Editors beneath their printed names also on title page: Hirschfelder Kramish Parker Smith and Glasstone; by Los Alamos Scientifc Laboratory's then Director Norris E. Bradbury on title page verso statement of operations Univ. of Calif.; by Director of Civilian Mobilization Office Director Paul J. Larsen on top pf his printed statement toprelim; by contributor R. Reine three times after his printed name to Acknowledgment page; and lastly initialed three or four times by members of the Board of Editors at end of acknowledgments page over their printed names. A unique and very special presentation copy. Atomic bomb. Radiation. Nuclear Weapons. Effets des rayonnements. Guerre nucléaire. Atomic bomb. Biophysics. GPO paperback
1946016315Pasadena: California Institute of Technology 1946. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Photographs and Diagrams. 165 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt With "Restricted" On Cover Copyright Page With Natiojnal Defense / Espionage Act Statement Prohibiting Unauthorized Distribution. Photographs Throughout. Description And Analysis Of Methods Used To Analyze Record And Document Field Testing Of Rockets Primarily At The Goldstone Range. A Bright Clean Unworn Unmarked Example. <br/> <br/> California Institute of Technology hardcover
1931104443John Day. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1931. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First Edition. 1931. Book is in Very Good Plus condition. Dust Jacket has some wear and chipping else Very Good. 254 pages. Small owners stamp on title page. John Day publisher. Illustrated by H. M. Stoops. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 254 pages . John Day hardcover
185116424Albany N. Y.: State of New York. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1851-63. First Edition. Hardcover. 13 Annual Reports beautifully bound into 4 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. Reports published in1851-1863 for the years 1850-1862. Illustrated with canal plans tables charts maps & descriptions. 1850 No. 26 : 118pp w /index 1851 No. 33 : 120 pp w/ index & fold-out map 1852No. 23 : 192pp w /index 1853 No. 65 : 199pp w /index 1854 No. 32 : 302pp w /index & 3 fold-outs 1map 1855 No. 100 : 320pp w /index & 2 fold-outs 1856 No. 145 : 301pp w /index 1857 No. 20 : 237pp w /index 1858 No.40 : 304pp w /index 1859 No 51 : 150pp w /index 1860 No 57 : 160pp w /index 1861 No. 9 162pp w /index & fold-out map 1862 No. 6 : 134pp & 24 fold-outs 1 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; 2543 pages . State of New York hardcover
59935aafMilano Edouardo Sonzogno, 1877, lg. in-4to, IV + page 321 up to 640., richly illustrated with woodcuts, H.-Leather, orig. illustr. wrappers bound in. Very fine copy.
108815aafà Paris, Chez Hyacinthe Langlois, Libraire Editeur pour la Géographie, Rue de Bussy, N° 16. 1828, 61 x 78 cm, carte géographique gravée, frontières des pays en couleurs, carte montée sur toile, bel exemplaire, carte avec marges (les marges de la de la toile. 67.5x86 cm.
18386275Paris, Charpentier, 1838. 2 volumes in-8 de XXIV-419p. + [4]-439p., pleine percaline verte, dos lisses, pièces de titre et tomaison vertes, filets à froid encadrant les plats. Rousseurs. Exemplaire du prince Napoléon avec son cachet. Un "N" couronné doré au dos de chacun des volumes, et tampon répété sur les faux titres, un "N" surmonté d'une tête d'aigle.
1808004451Washington D.C.: R.C. Weightman 1808. Hardcover. Near Fine. 123 1 p.; 21 cm. Modern binding: black cloth spine with gilt-tooled spine title; flax paper dyed brown with aniline dye over acid-free boards. "April 12 1808. Printed by order of the Senate." Includes communications by B.H. Latrobe and Robert Fulton on the subject of canals. Howes G27. Albert Gallatin was Secretary of the Treasury from 1801 to 1813. He advocated an ambitious program to improve the nation's transportation infrastructure for which he was unable to muster enough support at the federal level. As had been traditionally done such improvements were instead accomplished piecemeal during the 19th century by local governments and by private road and canal companies. In Near Fine Condition: pages are browning but clean and tight. R.C. Weightman hardcover
1939GE-284DallasTexas: Regional Press 1939. Classic rare text presents the story of the great East Texas oil boom which began around 1929 beginning with the famous oil sand discovery in Rusk County. Contains detailed events surrounding the oil boom from trading and profiting to chaotic times of hot-oil running and martial law to regulatory organizations and economics. 253 pgs. Special deluxe registered edition Numbered 439- and Signed by Ruel McDaniels on the presentation page. Prior owner's nameplate pastedown on front endpaper; small stamp to top of title pg. number stamped on lower edge of presentation pg. and rear endpaper. Small label removal remnant on rear endpaper. Decorative gilt spine and front cover. Very minimal shelfwear. Scarce. . Limited/Numbered First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Professional Library. Regional Press Hardcover
