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1825051673Philadelphia PA: Printed for the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania 1825. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Full original tree calf gilt on dark red title label mounted on upper spine panel. Leather shows mild rubbing to joints with exposure and a bit of layering at corners a few surface scuffs. viii274 pp. with 5 errata supplied on p. viii. Interior foxing ranges light to moderate. Firm binding. Main title shows approx. 10% loss top corner where a former owner signature or inscription appears to have been torn away otherwise complete. Exceptionally scarce. Printed for the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Hardcover
1915008353Fort Atkinson Wisconsin: The James Manufacturing Co. 1915. RARE. paginated 5-255 with numerous black and white photographs and blue and white building plans. Original paper covered boards printed paper label with cow front cover Near Fine 1/4" loss of paper at head of spine small rub tail of spine light soiling and slight bow to boards. Great product pictures a classic dairy catalogue. . 17th Edition . Pictorial Paper Covered Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The James Manufacturing Co. Hardcover books
1867010573Middleboro Mass.: S. B. Pratt & Co. Stillman Baxter; publisher and printer 1867. Book. Very Good Minus. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Good MInus in original printed paper covered boards old tape mend covering cloth spine boards well rubbed front hinge open yet holding nicely lacking first advertisement front end page and p. 89-90 rear advertisement end page stains to pp. 65-71. 8vo pp. 160 148 92. Map and 2 Plates. Advertising matter interspersed. SABIN 63495 Uncommon in commerce RBH shows last at auction 1918. . S. B. Pratt & Co. (Stillman Baxter),; publisher and printer Hardcover
19332084New York: Weil McGinniss & Sloman 1933. First Edition. Wraps. Color illustrated wraps. Good. 97 pages. 35 x 28 cm.Volume I Number I - Quarterly magazine specifically produced for the drug and toiletry market. Large format and profusely illustrated. Compelling articles include Ephedra Congo Medicine and The Medicine Man; with an early article about "Dr. Seuss" and his early illustrating work for The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. The story goes something like this: After one of Geisel's cartoons that appeared in Judge Magazine mentioned FLIT a common bug spray at the time Geisel signed on with The Standard Oil Company and produced illustrations from May 31 1928 through 1941 which in turn helped him gain notoriety and landed him assignments with Life Liberty and Vanity Fair. Additionally a full two-page center spread color illustrated of Garbo in 1915 and again in 1933. This publication seems to be the first and last published. Covers chipped rubbed and soiled. Some pages toning to the interior. <br/><br/> Weil, McGinniss & Sloman paperback books
186315972Washington DC: War Department Government Printing Office 1863. Hardcover. Poor. Well-worn and used hard bound book of 370 numbered pages plus numerous fold-out sheets of music diagrams illustrations at the end. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper and 3rd page. Blind stamped decoration on front and back of brown cloth boards. Partial title and 1863 in black on spine. Board edges bumped and worn through at corners & spine. Board chipped at rear corner and cloth rubbed on rear board. Stains on foredges and on first and last few pages. Foxing on margins of pages. General soil but complete and tight. A rare original copy. Not available for international shipping. <br/><br/> War Department, Government Printing Office hardcover
1917007325St Paul MN: The St. Paul Daily News 1917. RARE. One of the best banner headlines of the First World War the headline an impressive 12" high.The front page only mounted in an old frame under glass 23" x 29" overall paper size 16" x 22" Very Good small hole in paper at center crease original folds original recipient's name and address in ink vertcally between R and ! frame rubbed newspaper uniformly browned. Subhead article "ARMED U.S. STEAMER IS SUNK". An excellent ephemeral piece of American and world history. This framed item will require extra shipping charges- please inquire before ordering. . First Printing. Newsprint. Very Good. The St. Paul Daily News Paperback books
18631002017<p>Four pages on one leaf. Light folds text slightly faded on first page normal aging and browning minor wear at folds. Overall in very good condition. This letter offers a graphic account of the Battle of Liberty Mills. The Bostwick brothers both served in the 2nd New York Cavalry for most of the war. George 1836-1913 was a private and his brother Orramell 1840-1922 was a sergeant. After the war both brothers returned to their home town of Stillwater Saratoga County New York. George wrote this letter while his brother was recovering from wounds he received at Culpeper Court House on September 13th and updates him in great detail of the regiment's recent actions at Liberty Mills. In part "It was hand to hand part of the time. A. Laugholm shot a captain in neck he drop dead as a stone. I was hit with a sabre but it did not mont to eney thing. It was a fight for dear life you can bet." Henry A Bostwick: Genealogy of the Bostwick Family; New York 1901.</p>
186124201San Francisco: Hutchings and Rosenfield 1861. 3-4-236 pp with 93 illustrations bound in publisher's blue cloth with decoration. Corners rubbed through cloth partially split along front joint some pale staining to boards small repair to title page but still very good overall. Front free endpaper inscribed "George F. Noyes San Francisco June 18th 1861." Noyes was an attorney who practiced law in California as early as 1852 and was a partner in the San Francisco firm Janes Noyes & Barber. <br /> <br /> First edition second printing of "the first book-length description of the state's natural attractions and the first work to describe the big trees and the Yosemite region in detail" Currey & Kruska 164. The second printing was made from the plates of the 1860 first and is unchanged other than the date. Born in England Hutchings came to California for the Gold Rush in 1849 lived for several years in the mining regions and eventually became one of the most dedicated and energetic promoters of California and particularly the Yosemite Valley. He commissioned illustrations for his Hutchings California Magazine published from 1856 to 1861 which "preserved a good deal of material depicting the life and scenes of California in the decade following the Gold Rush.especially with respect to Yosemite the Big Trees and other scenic wonders Farquhar 4. The illustrations and much of the text of the first edition of Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity were extracted from the magazine. Hutchings and his wife ran the Hutchings House hotel in Yosemite from 1864-1874 and from 1880 to 1884 Hutchings served as Guardian of the Park then owned by the State of California. Hutchings and Rosenfield unknown
179517611Philadelphia: Francis Childs 1795. Caption title as issued. 6" x 9 3/4". 2 pp. Minor edge wear bound in modern wrappers. Good or better. <br /> <br /> The Act establishes duties on imported printing-types sugars Malaga wine burgundy and champagne teas and other items. Approved January 29 1795 it is signed in type by President Washington Vice President and Senate President Adams and House Speaker Muhlenberg. <br /> Two states exist: Evans's copy notes the deposition statement; this one like the Bristol copy and as noted by Stark and Cole NYPL is without the statement. Very scarce each having only a few institutional locations. <br /> Evans 29699. Bristol B9375 2. Stark & Cole 1164. NAIP w014576 5. Francis Childs unknown
1970A52414Point Reyes CA: Drake Navigators Guild. 1970. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. This book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the plain blue cloth binding have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a light used / dusty smell to the text. According to Worldcat there are possibly 6-10 physical copies of this text in libraries. "He Akers also continued to develop his skills as a navigator and mariner. He developed a fascination with Drake and used his own nautical skills to reconstruct Drake's 1577–1580 circumnavigation of the globe during which Drake landed on the west coast of North America and founded a temporary colony of New Albion at a still undetermined spot possibly in Northern California. Like many in the Drake Navigators Guild Aker was a proponent of the theory that Drake landed at what is now called Drakes Bay in Marin County California north of San Francisco. To support his theory Aker spent many years analyzing the variation in the tides in the cove called Drakes Estero. Critics of the Drakes Estero theory have maintained that the geography of the cove does not match the descriptions in the journals of those on the voyage or the map made from voyage accounts by Jodocus Hondius. Aker maintained that the cove geography was cyclic over decades and in 2001 he correctly predicted the reemergence of a spit in the cove which he claimed closely matched the contemporary accounts of Drake's landing spot. He led a longtime effort to lobby the National Park Service to designate Drakes Bay as a National Historic Landmark. That effort came to fruition in 2012 with the establishment of the Drakes Bay Historic and Archaeological District National Historic Landmark. " from Wikipedia; B&W Illustrations & Charts; 461p. pages; Pictured 12/31/25 - New Year's Eve! . Drake Navigators Guild hardcover
1894055535New York and Lexington KY: The Printery 1894. Hardcover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 192 pages. Hardcover bound in slate blue cloth with cover lettering in gilt. The binding is rubbed and worn and the front cover is quite soiled. Corners bumped. A sound copy. The text is toned but clean. The frontis portrait of Jefferson Davis has a tear at the gutter. An early owner's gift inscription at the top of the title page reads "Bernon Allen. / From his Father Monday January 21st 1895". A couple of pages have edge tears. There is a little damping at the top edge and corner of the pages in issue No. 3 starting at page 33 and running about 20 pages. This does not affect the text. The portrait after page 112 John W. Ellis Governor of North Carolina has a fold at the bottom corner which was improperly trimmed during printing does not affect the image. Three is a tear in the center of the image of the double page illustration Panoramic View of New Orleans1862 on the leaf for pages 185-186. Contains all 12 issues. Each issue has a portrait for the front cover The issues also contain text illustrations and text maps as well as some full or double page illustrations. The first issue is dated 1893 and the final issues are dated 1894 but we assume the book was published in its entirety in 1894. <br/> <br/> The Printery hardcover
0006888San Francisco: The Bancroft Company 1893. First edition. Very Good. 12mo 64 pages 3/4 morocco scuffed marbled boards original pink wrappers bound in. Ex libris Cyrus H. McCormick son of the inventor; he was Chairman of International Harvester Corp. Scarce WorldCat cites only 9 copies. <br/><br/>Bennett was the Editor of "Bennett's Own" a weekly Hawaiian newspaper. He also authored the HONOLULU DIRECTORY and SKETCHES OF HAWAIIAN HISTORY. Forbes 4409 . The Bancroft Company hardcover
1978012839<p>College Station Texas: Texas A & M University Press 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Mild shelf wear to the boards. The dust jacket has tape-repaired tears at the spine ends and lower-edge and corner of the rear panel. Protected now in an archival Mylar sleeve. 106 pages with numerous illustrations in color and black and white. Author/Artist John Biggers signed the book to the previous owner on the half-title page. This collectible book documents the Texas Southern University TSU art department's first three decades and is considered a vital resource for scholars of Black art history. The TSU experience is defined by a legacy of using art to preserve African American history and connect the African Diaspora to the Houston community. The TSU art program was founded and shaped by two legendary artist-educators who established a philosophy rooted in African heritage: John Biggers a world-renowned muralist and educator who established the TSU Art Department in 1949 and Carroll Harris Simms a sculptor and ceramicist who co-founded the department. .</p> Texas A & M University Press hardcover
19355470Cranford N.J.: Allen Printing Co. 1935. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-/Good. M.J. Amato. Limited First Edition No. 128 of 130 copies; SIGNED by the author's wife on limitation plate; 8vo blue cloth; vg- boards bowed; edges of boards heavily worn; blue cloth; spine sunned; spine ends bumped crimped and worn; corners bumped and worn to boards; front pastedown wrinkled with small tear to top end of hinge; eps and pages toned in good dj toned; edges heavily chipped torn and worn; spine browned and chipped in two places; spine ends chipped off; long tears to panels along spine; rear panel almost detached from spine; non-acidic Filmoplast P used to close tears along edge where front flap and panel meet with a vg- custom cloth slipcase with gilt-stamped leather title piece panels rubbed and worn; shelfworn; one panel sunned; also included is a fair plastic dj used to cover paper dj heavily chipped; large sections missing; torn 160pp. Dustjacket points: front panel reads 'A Frontier Army Surgeon' is well-written entertaining containing a great deal of excellent and unusual material. It records in authentic fashion a fascinating period on the frontier' / Beverly Smith of the American Magazine; on the flap there are three more quotes from reviews the price $5.00 and the publisher's imprint. Howes B1078. <br/> <br/> Allen Printing Co. hardcover
184920817Covington KY: Self Published 1849. Soft cover. Fair. Published two years after an earlier printing which claims Maine and 1847 as the state and date of the hanging; though appearing to be an account of a true crime the existence of two identical accounts with different venues and dates seems to indicate a fiction by Calhoun; the reference book 'The Annals of Murder' by McDade entry 367 also indicates a fictitious account. 8vo sewn yellow paper covers; fair covers waterstained and soiled; edges of covers and several pages chipped torn and worn; sewn ends torn and worn; bottom corner of front cover almost completely torn off only attached by small piece; corners heavily creased and torn affects covers and pages; foxing to pages; bottom corners of pp7-16 torn off and missing some loss of text; pages toning; 32pp. If you collect true crime or rare crime fiction this will be the rarest book in your collection. <br/> <br/> Self Published paperback
18631002017Four pages on one leaf. Light folds text slightly faded on first page normal aging and browning minor wear at folds. Overall in very good condition. This letter offers a graphic account of the Battle of Liberty Mills. The Bostwick brothers both served in the 2nd New York Cavalry for most of the war. George 1836-1913 was a private and his brother Orramell 1840-1922 was a sergeant. After the war both brothers returned to their home town of Stillwater Saratoga County New York. George wrote this letter while his brother was recovering from wounds he received at Culpeper Court House on September 13th and updates him in great detail of the regiment's recent actions at Liberty Mills. In part "It was hand to hand part of the time. A. Laugholm shot a captain in neck he drop dead as a stone. I was hit with a sabre but it did not mont to eney thing. It was a fight for dear life you can bet." Henry A Bostwick: Genealogy of the Bostwick Family; New York 1901. books
1869W2370New York: F. J. Huntington & Co. 1869. The rare first printing of the second book in a trilogy of Civil War novels by John Esten Cooke. Sabin 16318. The book has been professionally rebacked with the original spine cloth retained. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book. F. J. Huntington & Co. Hardcover
1856008617Cincinnati Ohio: T. Wrightson & Co. 1856. SCARCE no copies currently found in commerce. Separate weekly issues Vol. 3 No.45 Jan. 3; Vol. 3 No. 46 Jan. 10; Vol. 3 No. 50 Feb. 7; Vol. 4 No.7 April 10; and Vol. 4 No. 27 Aug. 28 1856. All Very Good later stapled paper protectors over spines light soiling and toning. Each issue 20 pages including covers. With lithographed illustrations and advertisements. Includes articles discussing the practicality of the as-yet unbuilt Pacific Railroad navigation of the Colorado River and steam navigation in the Mississippi Valley iron sugar stock markets. . First Printing. Newsprint. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. T. Wrightson & Co. Paperback books
1850DEMO015143ILille France: L. Lefort 1850. Stated Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. steel-engraved frontispiece. 8vo 258 pages 20th century half sprinkled calf marbled boards original wrappers bound in place. <br/><br/>Needs to be read with de Smet's LETTERS AND SKETCHES . AMONG THE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS 1843 which contains several letters not included in this French text; but this French text "contains material not found in the English - Wagner-Camp-Becker 113a:5." Howes M288; Graff 3831; Monaghan 1332. Binding by "Reliure Francais". Issued in the Bibliotheque Historique et Morale this is actually the Third French Edition. Steel-engraved frontispiece. L. Lefort hardcover
1948009854Chicago: Privately Printed/ the Lakeside Press 1948. Book. Fine. Cloth. Limited and Numbered First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. An unnumbered copy of 100 copies "Presented with the compliments of the author". xvii 409 pages. Fine in original blue cloth gilt rules bordering covers and gilt lettering at spine top edge gilt. With 8 illustrations and 11 fold-out genealogical charts. SCARCE. Privately Printed/ the Lakeside Press Hardcover
179210204no place Dublin: no publisher Mills 1792. Fair. 1792. Softcover. i dedication to the Duke of Portland; B3 To the Public; 7-172pp.; 8vo; bound in later plain brown paper wrappers with title and imprint information in pencil front cover. Dampstain and tanning throughout more severe in the final few leaves but text is eminently readable. From the holdings of the late Ian Jackson. Francis Dobbs 1750-1811 was an influential member of the Irish Parliament barrister and writer on political and religious themes. Sir Jonah Barrington wrote of him: "His intellect was of an extraordinary nature; he seemed to posses two distinct minds - the one adapted to the duties of his profession; the other diverging from its natural center led him through wilds and ways rarely frequented by the human understanding - entangled him in a maze of contemplative deduction from revelation to futurity." . no publisher (Mills) (1792) paperback
1919003165Chicago and New York: The American Historical Society 1919. 5 Volumes complete set First Printing. SCARCE in such lovely condition. All five volumes are Very Good Plus to Near Fine with prior owner bookplates to front pastedown in all vols. prior owner name in pencil 1st 2 vols. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering and marbled edges of page block. This set is heavy and will require extra shipping charges. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The American Historical Society Hardcover books
19085190062Des Moines IA: Dyer Publishing Company 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. First Edition. Minimal exlibrary marks. Book has been rebound in cloth over boards which has light shelf wear fading at spine remnant of label at lower spine and bumped corners. Top corner torn from pages 1551-1553 present in book with no loss of text. Pages clean slightly tanned. Binding somewhat shaken but intact; hinges sound. Very comprehensive collection of Civil War records. Ex-Library; 12" tall; 1796 pages. Dyer Publishing Company hardcover
18680022997Cincinnati: Caxton Publishing House 1868. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/None Included. G/1st ed./0. A pretty well preserved copy. Leather embossed covers are firmly attached with title in gilt on spine all present and still pretty bright along with several decorations. Hinges on both front and rear are starting more so the back hinge. Hand sewn signatures are firmly secure and all pages are present. All illustrations are present-with the exception of the one on page 469--only half of that page is present--it's a page of engravings Colonels in the regiment. All the illustrations have foxing of varying amounts. Most of the tissue guards are present some are not and that has created some foxing to the text before or behind the illustration but the foxing does not obsure any print. A few other pages have a small amount of foxing started by a fingerprint. I found 2 pages missing a corner- pages 33 through 36. My favorite thing in this book is on page 363: a heart felt account of the career and command of Lieutenant-Colonel Clay who was captured and died in Marietta Georgia after having his arm amputated. In the margin in very small letters someone wrote "I was with him--DJ" Overall an solid copy of this book not Ex-Library that should supply many happy reading hours with this 931 page tome. And if I never sell it---that will be just fine. <br/> <br/> Caxton Publishing House hardcover
1793W1195Worcester Massachusetts: Leonard Worcester 1793. 346 84 pages. David Brainerd was a missionary among Native Americans in Stockbridge Massachusetts and near Easton Pennsylvania. In 1746 he published the first portion of his diaries about his experiences. After Brainerd died of tuberculosis at Edwards' home in 1748 Edwards edited and published the remaining portions of the diaries. This Worcester edition reprinted both. The book was recently and sympathetically rebound in full dark brown morocco with a red title patch new but not obtrusive endpapers and appropriate blind tooling. The first and last few leaves are browned and tender along the edges; the remaining pages are lightly tanned but quite supple. There is a triangle of faint waterstaining in the margins of many pages. Much nicer than it sounds--a better than acceptable copy of two important pieces of Americana Wright Howes E56 and B717. Early Printing. Hardcover. Collectible-Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Leonard Worcester Hardcover