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Pianta di cm 20,5 x 17 alla battuta, più i margini, incisa in rame da Giuseppe Maria Terreni. La carta mostra i territori da Manhattan a Middletown, da Perth Amboy a Long Island, con i porti e gli altri insediamenti esistenti. Ottimo esemplare, assai fresco.
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1799WRCAM29108New York & Albany: Childs & Swaine/Loring Andrews 1799. Four volumes bound in one. xiii31222; 2302; xli11264; 6178pp. plus plates. Quarto. Contemporary calf ornate gilt spine gilt maroon morocco label. Internally bright and clean. Very good. A fine run of the first four parts of this pioneering society's publication including numerous useful articles on the arts and agriculture. <br> <br> 1 Part I. The first volume of this eminent record of the advancement of arts and agriculture with a folding table useful for determining the flowering of certain fruits and the oration of Dr. S.L. Mitchill delivered before the Society. <br> <br> 2 Part II. With a lengthy treatise by Robert Livingston regarding his experiments with the feed clover lucerne. <br> <br> 3 Part III. Contains Noah Webster's interesting treatise on raising potatoes. <br> <br> 4 Part IV. Includes two important treatises by Livingston on the improvement of the steam engine and the making of paper. <br> <br> Each part contains numerous other articles on agriculture and related sciences in America. Together this collection of important papers marks one of the earliest efforts of New York to advance its mostly agrarian economy especially since many tracts of land granted as rewards during the Revolution were now becoming stable farm land. All issues of the TRANSACTIONS. are relatively rare and certainly more so as collected here. EVANS 24605 27400 34221 35935. RINK 20. Childs & Swaine/Loring Andrews unknown books
179423252New York: Childs and Swaine 1794. 4to. Folding table frontis 230 2- Table of Contents pp. Bound in contemporary plain wrappers spotted tattered. Stitched. Scattered foxing to a small number of leaves and several leaves with a slight horizontal crease. Otherwise a clean and bright text widely margined Very Good. <br/> offered with TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY INSTITUTED IN THE STATE OF NEW- YORK FOR THE PROMOTION OF AGRICULTURE ARTS AND MANUFACTURES. PART III. Albany: Loring and Andrews. 1798. xli 1 blank 126 3 pp. Broken stitching hence loose. Chipping at blank margins Good.<br/><br/> The second and third of four Parts published by this learned Society. Each Part -- issuing in 1792 1794 1798 and 1799-- is a separate imprint. Part II begins with a folding Table of 'Meteorological Phenomena Observed in the Cupola of the Exchange at the Lower Part of Broad-Street in the City of New-York'. It prints the Address to the Society of its President Robert Livingston who deplores the fact that Americans "are habitually led to form exalted ideas of Britain and degrading ones of America." He rebuts this false notion. Also printed is Livingston's 'Experiments and Observations on Lucerne' an essay on 'The Manner of Taking Porpoises at the East End of Long-Island' and several other reports.<br/> Part III includes Addresses by James Kent and Samuel Mitchell and a number of essays. <br/>Evans 27400 34221. NAIP 028160 9 w005741 8. Not in Rink. Childs and Swaine unknown books
pp. 454 + Plus 5 woodcut and lithograph full page plates showing various tumors. Tall 8vo. Original full brown embossed publisher's cloth binding. Gilt lettered spine. Crisp copy. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 1
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18078028AB1807. Albany Barber 1807. 215 : 135 cm. 236 3 pages with 6 1 folded engraved plates. Contemporary half calf. First edition. Rink 20. The first agricultural association in the state of New York was the "Society the Promotion of Agriculture Arts and Manufactures" organized in New York C in 1791. It was succeeded by this society in 1804 and this is the first vol of their transactions. Butter butter churns protractors cleaning casks weights and measures manure the introduction of Spanish sheep cultivation hemp Indian corn smut in wheat disease in flax culture of the grape etc. with handsome plates. Here are a number of contributions by Chancellor Rober R. Livingston several on merino sheep with a folding plate as well as a description and plate of "A Floating Battery on a new construction by the l Abraham Bloodgood." The rotating battery involved substantially the principa that would be used in the turret in Erickson's Civil War Monitor. - Binding rubbed. - Exlibris Alexander Crofts. unknown
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50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Lake St. Tower - focal point of the entire Chicago & North Western Railway is the six-track terminal throat; Off the Beaten Track - Round Trip Tickets are Honoured over this interesting mountain branch of the Northern Pacific; Passenger Agent - Making friends by satisfying passengers is his job - satisfied passengers ship freight too; Mother Hubbard Locomotives - Wide fire boxes of anthracite-burning locos crowded the cab forward; Keeping the Line Open - The railroads, more than any other private enterprise, strive to maintain service and give relief in major disasters; Now and Then - Cripple Creek Short Line in Colorado; Cross Roads of the North - Rouses Point, New York, first served by Champlain & Ogdensburg Raiway, now part of Rutland system; A Streamliner is Born - Dixie Flagler is one of three new high speed trains, pioneers in fast Chicago-Miami service; Wabash Railway at Chicago - best time of year for photographing Wabash locomotives is now - best place is Landers Yard - many locomotive photos; Illinois Central 4-6-0. Small date stamp atop front cover. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: 12 Hours with 6009 - watch this NYC engine as it is readied for the run, then ride the cab for the 403 fleeting miles - great photos and write-up; Burlington Route relocates 13.4 miles of line as Federal Government constructs new dam on the Big Horn River in Wyoming - article and photos; To Alaska Someday - The Great Pacific Eastern - a structly rural steam and diesel road in British Columbia - excellent photos, maps and article; Photo Section includes wonderful shot of sunbeams inside the concourse of Grand Central Station, New York, centerfold photo of a Union Pacific freight climbing Sherman Hill, west of Cheyenne, Wyoming - a 4-8-8-4 'Big Boy'; Millions for Signals - "Either slow down your streamliners or intall more signals", says Interstate Commerce Commission - long article with photos; The Morristown & Erie Railroad - article and photos; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
197227456New York: Sotheby Parke-Bernet. As New. 1972. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Prices realized recorded in ink next to many of the lots. Price list stapled to inside back cover. -- with a bonus offer-- . Sotheby Parke-Bernet paperback
75-0576New York NY: New Amsterdam Books 1990. First Edition. 4to. Hard Cover with dust Jacket. Blue cloth binding. 124 pp. Very Good.Black and white plates. This is a book for readers who are interested in the art and the social history of the Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts of that period are a primary source of information about the way in which men and women went about the everyday business of living–working on the land engaging in trade and commerce devoting themselves to crafts and manufactures or carrying on the range of activities that we now regard as the professions.Many of the scenes reproduced in this superbly illustrated account are simply works of art in their own right; others are taken from manuscripts that are famous for the very high quality of their illumination. Patricia Basing provides a rich commentary full of interesting observations that relates each picture its historical context explores the connections between the illustrations and text and gives an account of the general background of manuscript production in medieval times.About the Author: Patricia Basing is a curator in The British Library's department of manuscripts. New York, NY: New Amsterdam Books, 1990. hardcover
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In 8° oblungo (cm. 26,5 x 19). Album di immagini fotografiche della città di New York. Brossura editoriale con l'immagine della città. Firma di possesso datata 1906 sul margine del frontespizio. Copia in buono stato.
19289256New York : Edison Company, 1928. Mit 50 sehr schönen, ganzseitigen Abb. nach Zeichnungen von z.B. J.W. Golinkin, Harley D. Nichols und Earl Horter. 4°., Org.-Pappb. / hardcover
In folio, pp. 214. Tela editoriale. Fotografie nel testo in nero.
75-7437New York: The Jewish Museum 1963. 4to. Soft Cover ca. 40 pp. B&W and Color Plates Very Good. with Sunning Staining Creasing Abrasions Spotting. New York: The Jewish Museum, 1963 paperback
20111024912011 Ed. Gallmeister - 2011 - In-8 broché illustré en N&B - 301 p.
