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1830009907Np: Published for Methodist Episcopal Church printer not identified 1830. First Editions. Half Leather. Good. Six monthly issues October 1830 to March 1831 Volume 2 Numbers 7 - 12 pages 217 - 432 issued by the Methodist Episcopal Church bound in one volume 12mo half-leather over marbelized paper-covered boards. Worn but firmlly bound with scattered foxing. Contemporary bookplate of the Sunday School Library of the Methodist Episcopal Church with very specfic instructions to borrowers about how to read and care for books in their loaned possession. Published for Methodist Episcopal Church (printer not identified) unknown books
1889120470Washington: GPO 1889. 631p. tables original black cloth binding spotted and worn with repaired tear on the spine front end papers removed spine lettering nearly eroded. GPO unknown books
18898500Washington: GPO 1889. 631p. tables original black cloth binding spine lettering dulled. GPO unknown books
188956297Washington: GPO 1889. 631p. tables original black cloth binding rubbed and worn and frayed on edges. GPO unknown books
1881240561NY: Wurtele and Co 1881. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 26 issues of this weekly in original black cloth. Rebacked with original spine laid on. Endpapers have pencilled arithmetic exercises from a previous owner. Very Good binding. Wurtele and Co unknown books
183712235Washington: Thomas Allen printers 1837. 8vo. 150 pp. <br><br>Concerning the claim of the petitioners William B. Stokes Richard C. Stockton Lucius W. Stockton and Daniel Moore for compensation for services performed as contractors hired to carry the mail. Government document: 25th Congress 1st Session. Doc. No. 52. Ho. of Reps. Removed from a nonce volume; six holes in inner margin touching only a few letters or numbers without affecting sense. First and last several pages lightly foxed. First page with ink numeral in upper right corner. Thomas Allen, printers unknown books
1852036636NY: J.H. Colton 1852. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. pp: 351 18 ads for Colton's maps charts and books; large engraved folding map tipped in at front as issued. Blind-stamped purple cloth spine tanned as usual. Upper portion of rear joint wormed; still a clean tight copy of this desirable book. 7.5" x 5" Howes U.S.iana C967. Sabin 18069. Decker 38:95. J.H. Colton unknown books
18462556West Point NY 1846. Cream paper creased. Good. 25.5 x 19 cm. Margaret Stebbins Scammon writes her brother from West Point where her husband E. Parker Scammon is an officer with the United Army Corps of Topographic Engineers. Parker would later command the 23rd Ohio Regiment during the Civil War. <br /> <br />Good Friday Morn. 1846 <br /> <br />My Dearest brother <br /> <br />Parker fully intended to cover this envelope to you but as he was about doing it the Quartermaster must needs send for him to come to the Library for some important briefings: and so he begs me to write for him and apologize to the best of my ability for the non-appearance of your beer. You must have thought him very neglectful and tho' it is rather an awkward task I will tell you the whole truth. If you will have patience to wait till the end of this month it shall then be forthcoming. He expected to order it on the 1st but our cook took it into his head to go back to the city to live and as we had at his own request kept back the quarter part of his wages for 18 months you must know our last month's pay went with a rush and as we are so involved on every side we wont borrow and therefore all parties ourselves included must wait till after another visit from the Paymaster for our good beer. I have thus most frankly stated to you the case and I hope you will excuse it. We remember that we are still considerably in your debt so that it is with great pleasure that P. will attend to your order just so soon as circumstances will permit. I think the value of the empty half barrels returned is $1.50 each and they quite well have them as money. They are returned at any time and credited to sender. <br /> <br />We are looking forward to your visit in June or July with impatience. Do not disappoint us. <br /> <br />Your very aft sister <br /> <br />Margaret <br /> <br /> <br />The letter is addressed to Margaret's brother - Mr. John B. Stebbins Care of Homer Foote & Co. Springfield Mass. We know the merchant her brother worked for Homer Foote had become a very wealthy retailer in Springfield and assume that John B. was successful as well. <br />Letter has some foxing and tears in areas where there is creasing. Red West Point stamp is faint along with the number 5. <br/><br/> unknown books
189119970Washington D.C.: Department of the Interior 1891. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 15 pp 7.75 x 10 inches; stapled self-wrappers. Old creases from folding light handling wear; very good. Issued in advance of the full 1890 census report on the Alaska territory "in view of the extraordinary interest now being manifested in everything that relates to this remote and comparatively unknown country" this bulletin provides details on the "four principal sources of wealth" in Alaska: fur fish minerals and timber. The author a Russian-born soldier historian and newspaper editor was director of the 1890 Census for Alaska. Here after discussing the resources prominent in different parts of the territory he bemoans the fact that the land is being stripped of its bounty by outsiders with little care or compensation for the native population and other local residents: "The spectacle of so vast a tract of country being thus drained continually for twenty-three years without receiving anything to speak of in return can not probably be equaled in any other part of the United States and perhaps of the world." The solution he says is increased immigration and settlement by those who wish to develop Alaska's industrial potential but this "would appear to be still in the distant future." Wickersham 8626. Department of the Interior paperback books
189120634Tacoma: F.T. Houghton 1891. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 14 pp 1 membership application. Original printed wrappers are chipped and detached; text is clean. Explains the need for a state historical society as "Washington was thirty-six years a territory and now nearly two years a State; having thus reached a period when its early pioneers and its traditions will soon pass away and remain unrecorded unless they and other matters illustrative of the State's early history.are preserved beforer the actors are gone." The organization's founding President was Elwood Evans and Vice- President tas Edward Eldridge. The initial by-laws established five standing committees: Ways and Means Publications Library Memorials and Building. Annual dues were two dollars. Smith 4315. OCLC records only one copy in Washington at the state library. F.T. Houghton paperback books
184920650Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. x 13-386 in publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Losses to spine ends corners rubbed through slightly shaken but still a better than average copy of this title which is often found in poor condition. Hill 1910: The ships made port in Rio de Janierio Valparaiso Callao Paita the Marquesas Honolulu Monterey Mazatlan Manzanillo Acapulco and Gayamas. Extensive visits were made in Rio Lima California the Gulf of California and Mexico. Woods was traveling in central Mexico when the Mexican War began and he escaped via Vera Cruz. The intelligence gathered by Wood in Mexico was instrumental to the U.S. seizure of California by Commodore Sloat in that war. Carey and Hart hardcover books
185117144Washington 1851. 8vo. 5 i.e. 3 1 pp. <br><br>March 3 1851. Submitted and ordered to be printed. Mr. Butler submitted the following . " regarding the President's ability to use the militia to suppress insurrection. Government document: Senate document United States. Congress. Senate; 31st Congress 2nd session no. 320. This was in response to hostility to and open rebellion against the recent enactment of the Fugitive Slave Law. Removed from a nonce volume. Last leaf with corner nicked. unknown books
189120643Salt Lake City: Charles Ellis 1891. Softcover. Good. "Second edition of five thousand." 32 pp in original printed wrappers but with losses at the spine old stab holes from having been bound into boards. Good. A survey and pro-Mormon analysis of various events in the history of the Mormon Church by a non-Mormon former clergyman who moved to Utah in 1889. Flake 3153. Charles Ellis paperback books
186221231Philadelphia: Ives pr. & stationer 1862. Folding trade card 2.5 x 3.75 inches with views of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and the attached hospital on the front and back and text inside. Light soiling; very good. The Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon was "staffed by volunteers and provided relief for Union troops on their way to or returning from battlefields in the South. Its services included warm meals temporary housing medical services and washing facilities. From its opening on May 27 1861 to its closing on December 1 1865 over 800000 men were assisted in this saloon and served over 1025000 meals" Smithsonian. This card was made specifically for the 50th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers who spent December 20th 1862 to January 7th 1863 in Philadelphia before departing by sea for duty in the Port Hudson Campaign in Louisiana. The unit's regimental historian later noted that the regiment "received every attention and the most generous hospitality" at both the Union Saloon and the nearby Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and concluded that "words can hardly express the kindness lavished upon the soldiers by the people of this patriotic city during the war." The interior of the card welcomes the regiment includes a roster of the field staff and line officers present in Philadelphia and provides a list of places of interest that soldiers might wish to visit while in the city. Ives pr. & stationer unknown books
186728015Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1867. First edition. Removed. A very good copy with nicks to the corners of the fore edge. 9 pp. 8vo. 40th Congress 2d Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No. 31. Includes two letters one on the asserted right of the Central Branch of the Union Pacific to construct their road along the 100th meridian and receive a subsidy and a second letter to the San Francisco and St. Jose Railroad Company rejecting their claim to acceptance of their road. [Government Printing Office] unknown books
185429574St. Paul: February 23 1854. 4to 43 lines approx. 330 words; previous folds else fine and with the original mailing envelope bearing an 1854 St. Paul postmark. Homes warns that St. Paul is no place to live: "I shall not give them much encouragement if they come here and must come on their own responsibilities. I know Jonas would not like it here and would soon get homesick and as it costs considerable to get here. I don't wish to be responsible for the uncertainty of their liking the country. I would not stay here were it not for making money. This country has many failings which are great detriments to it. Timber is very scarce and in some parts the soil is not good. A large portion of the land about this place is land that won't wear long. I think the best portion of this country is on Lake Superior. Some from this place are moving there now." <br/><br/> February 23 unknown books
1898157671898. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Privately printed no place of publication given. 12mo. 108 pp 16 photographic plates. One of 500 copies signed by the author this one also inscribed by the dedicatee Robert D. McGonagle who is the second of the titular "Two Men." Original textured brown boards stamped in gilt. Minimal external wear but some light foxing. Narrative of western travel primarily California but also Mexico Arizona and Nevada. hardcover books
1865006220Morrisania NY: Press of J.M. Bradstreet 1865. #56 of only 100 copies printed and SIGNED by Henry B. Dawson. SCARCE in collectible condition. Rebound in black cloth with grey end pages and without the original wrappers. Cloth is untitled with light rubbing armorial bookplate of Thornton Walbridge front paste down. The original book is Near Fine light foxing to endpages faint crease rear end page. "The following Tract concerning a very important event in the War of the American Revolution was written by WILLIAM GRAVES EFQ. the eldeft brother Admiral THOMAS GRAVES and privately circulated for the purpofe of defending the latter from the ferious charges which were brought againft him fubfequent to the furrender by LORD CORNWALLIS at Yorktown". 39 pp. Revolutionary War. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. Press of J.M. Bradstreet Hardcover books
183148475Boston: Stephen Foster 1831. First edition of the author's first book of poetry 16mo pp. vi 7-52; without the errata slip not present in all copies; a nice copy in original muslin-backed drab boards the cloth a little nicked and brooken along the spine. Snelling 1804-1848 was the son of Josiah Snelling commandant of the fort that bears his name at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers in St. Paul. William lived at Fort Snelling for seven years 1820-27 where he became familiar with the Indians their language and habits. After returning east he wrote many newspaper and magazine articles and several books which drew on his experiences with the Indians and this poem a satirical commentary on the state of American poetry and poets "that rocked the small literary world of Boston for a time. But the onslaughts of his political and literary foes combined with personal misfortunes gradually drove him to dispair and he took refuge in drink. To the great delight of his ill-wishers he spent four months in the House of Correction but he emerged broken rather than in health or in spirit. He continued as an independent journalist and in 1847 became the editor of the Boston Herald which he conducted with great vigor for one year before he died in Chelsea at the age of forty-four burned out. Snelling is best remembered as . the author of Truth which is one of the best verse satires ever written in America" DAB. BAL 18413. <br/><br/> Stephen Foster hardcover 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
186636651Washington: publisher not identified 1866. Folio 31.4 cm; 12.375". 6 2 pp. <br><br>Printed version of the treaty between the United States government and the Sans Arc Lakota signed by Newton Edmunds governor of the Dakota Territory Edward B. Taylor superintendent of Indian affairs for the northern superintendency Gen. H.H. Sibley Wah-mun-dee-o-pee-doo-tah The War Eagle with the Red Tail Cha-tau-'hne Yellow Hawk Shon-kah-we-te-ko The Fool Dog and others at Fort Sully Dakota Territory on 20 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 gentle chipping along edges; light pencilling on upper margin of title-page bottom corner of same chipped away. publisher not identified unknown books
1855204791855. Softcover. Very good. Folio 7 pp printed on blue paper in two unsewn unbound gatherings. Minor handling wear; near fine. The Rogue River Indians were not a single tribe but a conglomeration of several groups living in the Rogue River Valley of southwestern Oregon. This treaty was concluded by Indian Service Superintendent Joel Palmer on November 15 1854. According to Eberstadt it allowed the United States "to settle other Indian tribes on the Table Rock Reserve. In return the Rogue River Indians were to receive twelve horses one beef two yokes of oxen coats pants and shirts. The Indians both won and lost their shirts at the same time." Goodspeed states that "this treaty the Rogue River Indians relinquished their title to certain lands in the neighborhood of the Cascades." The Native American signatories to the treaty are listed as Jo-aps-er-ka-har Sam To-qua-he-ar and Jim Ana-cha-a-rah "headmen of the Rogue River tribe of Indians. unknown books
187126024Washington: Government Printing Office 1871. Original Congressional sheep hinges starting gum label at spine base. 912pp. 41st Congress 3d Session. SED36. Very Good. Government Printing Office unknown books
18173325Washington 1817. Unbound. Very Good. 21cm; 4 pages. In 1797 the governor-general of Louisiana and East Florida the Baron Carondelet had granted to Elisha Winters Gabriel Winters John Price William Russell and Joseph Stillwell various grants of lands in the lower Arkansas region. In 1816-17 the House Committee on Public Lands investigated the various claims. The present document is a translation into English of the origianl grant that had been signed by Carondolet at New Orleans in 1797. unknown books
18901467Taunton MA: White Warner & Co. c. 1890s. Cards. Illustrated card stock. Very good. 13.5 x 10.5 cm. Illustrated stove trade card. "New Cyclone Ranges are THE BEST Medium priced ranges in the Market. Fitted with WHITE'S reliable Patent Grate Alaska Knobs &c. Thousands in use and Giving Satisfaction." Black and white stove illustration one one side with color illustration of african-american male's face embedded in a flower on verso. <br/><br/> White, Warner & Co. unknown books
