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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
8vo., First Edition thus, with 11 plates on 8 and an illustration in the text; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The truly remarkable story of a unique vessel - a largely Free French Q-ship enrolled wholesale into the Royal Navy and eventually sunk in the Atlantic in December 1942. This account is based largely on facts provided by Pat O'Leary who survived the sinking to organise the 'Pat' escape routes from France. First published in France in the preceding year. An elegant copy. Enser, p.381; Law, 0861.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 8 plates on 6; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with gilt anchor, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as gift or for presentation. The first collected edition of Monsarrat's well-known trilogy. The three constituent volumes - 'HM Corvette' (1942), 'East Coast Corvette' (1943) and 'Corvette Command' (1944) - are here reproduced in their entirety (but with fewer plates). Taken in sequence they provide a near-continuous record of Monsarrat's early wartime service; furthermore they contain much of the inspiration and context, and in several cases actual incidents, which reappear in his masterpiece 'The Cruel Sea'. The first edition is now very scarce in any condition. Enser, p.120; Law 1010.
8vo., Second Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 8 plates on 6; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with anchor motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The collected edition of Monsarrat's well-known trilogy, first published in October 1945. The three constituent volumes - 'HM Corvette' (1942), 'East Coast Corvette' (1943) and 'Corvette Command' (1944) - are here reproduced in their entirety (but with fewer plates). Taken in sequence they provide a near-continuous record of Monsarrat's early wartime service; furthermore they contain much of the inspiration and context, and in several cases actual incidents, which reappear in his masterpiece 'The Cruel Sea'. This second edition carries a new Preface by the author giving an account of the works' genesis. Enser, p.120; Law 1010 (both recording the first edition).
1990Adhya-9780792308133Springer 1990. Paperback. New. Springer paperback
1990Adhya-9780792308133Springer 1990. Paperback. New. Springer paperback
187166Boston; Nov. 1 1871. 1871 9 pp. folio. This indenture was made the first day of November 1871 between the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company and Oliver Ames and Charles F. Choate. The Atlantic and Pacific was to be built from Missouri and Arkansas to the Pacific Coast. From the very beginning the Atlantic and Pacific was plagued with problems even though they had the same rights as other transcontinental railroads regarding bonds land grants etc. Ames and Choate noted bankers of railroads and other various schemes were to loan to the railroad in gold coin. The amount is left blank in this document and the document is not signed by the parties. They were to be repaid in gold coin with an annual interest rate of 6%. In addition to the indenture listed above another indenture was made with George Bigeldow and James Dixwell. 2 pp. with manuscript corrections and additions. Including a provision to enable the Atlantic and Pacific to mortgage the road. This document was written earlier and does not have nearly as many provisions as in the Ames and Choate indenture. Four years later the Atlantic and Pacific would lapse into receivership. Oliver Ames then the largest stockholder purchased 96697 acres of the road's Missouri lands. After reorganization the A & P had some life until the panic of 1893 and the spoils were then divided between the Santa Fe and Frisco. These two documents are important in understanding the financial development of this railroad. Atlantic and Pacific material is quite scarce. Oliver Ames was the brother of Oakes. This railroad was to have been a very important development for Arkansas and Missouri. These documents are housed in a very attractive folding box 9 x 7 3/4 inches with green cloth-covered boards and a green morocco spine label with gilt lettering. 3214013 OG2080. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boston; Nov. 1, 1871. hardcover
188135023Ottawa: Printed by MacLean Roger & Co. 1881. Original printed salmon wrappers stitched. 2 10 large folding map short closed tear 20 11 3 2 2 pp as issued. Vertical fold light edgewear. Very Good.<br/> offered with Booth C.J. President: THE CANADA ATLANTIC RAILWAY CO'Y. PROSPECTUS. Ottawa: 1889. 4 pp printed on rectos only. Caption title as issued. Pinned at upper blank corner and docketed in ink on final blank "Canada Atlantic RR Prospectus January 1889." Fine.<br/><br/> The map in excellent condition is titled "Canada Atlantic Railway Map December 1881" accomplished by "Geo. Bishop & Co. Lith. Montreal." It measures 18" x 35" with the route of the railway; extensions and other railways also notes; other boundaries in green. All the documents creating the Company set forth in the title of the pamphlet are printed each individually numbered. The Railway as the Prospectus states "extends from Ottawa in a south easterly direction a distance of 142 miles and connects with the Central Vermont Railroad at the village of Alburgh Springs Vt. U.S.A."<br/> "The Canada Atlantic Railway CAR was a small regional railway created in 1880 by lumber baron John Rodolphus Booth. Initially planned as part of the transportation network for his vast lumber holdings the railway quickly grew into a general-purpose railway serving passengers and communities along the route. Booth's first target was to gain access to Vermont in order to connect with the Central Vermont Railway CV and further exploit the US markets" "Canada Atlantic Railway" Ontario Railways accessed at Canada-Rail website May 2018.<br/> As of May 2018 we do not locate either of these documents-- or the map-- on OCLC. Printed by MacLean, Roger & Co. unknown books
197114271New York: Collectors Editions Ltd. Near Fine. 1971. Hardcover. Text volume Catalogue Raisonne. Alexanddre De Vesme with introduction and additions by Phyllis Dearborn Massar. English & French text. 230pp. An unaltered reprint of the chapter on Della Bella appearing in Alexandre De Vesme 1906. Plate volume 241pp. With over 1050 B/W images. New York Collectors edition. Both volumed bound in clean grey cloth. Bright gilt title on spine. Texts tight clean & intact. Art Catalogue ; B/W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 471 pages . Collectors Editions Ltd. hardcover
191144851H. P. Griffith. G/NONE. 1911. Hardcover. Hardback first edition of reminiscences signed by Civil War Captain Harrison Patillo Griffith 1837-1928 of Laurens County South Carolina. Furman-educated Griffith served with Company E 14th South Carolina Regiment and was badly wounded both at the Battle of the Wilderness and at Gettysburg. After the war he returned to Woodruff South Carolina ran a small store for a while and served as a school teacher. Later he was president of Limestone College. The author of "Life of Landrum" and "Life and Times of John Ezell" Griffith recounts in this surprisingly well-written volume his war experiences at Chancellorsville and his regard for Henry Timrod Charleston South Carolina poet among a number of other subjects. This copy is bound in textured red cloth with light soil and wear at extremities; gilt-lettering on spine is faded. Hinges sound uncracked; nonauthorial gift inscription in ink. SIGNED by Griffith in ink in a rather shaky hand on frontis photo page; tissue guard intact. Pages tight clean but bit "wavy" perhaps due to humidity or bindery error. Erasure of old price on first free endpaper. No DJ. ; . H. P. Griffith, hardcover
1996Adhya-9780792338338SPRINGER 1996. Hardcover. New. SPRINGER hardcover
1996Adhya-9780792338338SPRINGER 1996. Hardcover. New. SPRINGER hardcover
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Human Fly - Excellent photo-illustrated article on Jack Williams, a man who scales lofty buildings with no equipment other than his fingers and toes - article with great photos ; The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part II - Tragedy befalls French troops overwhelmed by the overwhelming force of Mustapha Kemal Pasha's rebel Kurds and Turks during the siege of Urfa; The Disappearance of Ivan Varlamoff - an epic fight in Uleaborg, Finland; Locked in a Freezing Chamber - a meat inspector's ordeal in South Africa; "UMRI" - the tragic story of a panther, once a police officer's pet, which becomes a terror of the district in India; The "White Man's Grave" - Filming The "Gold Coast" of Africa - article with great photos; The Friend of the Birds - photo-illustrated article on Jack Miner, Ontario's friend of the Canada Goose; My Jiu-Jitsu Combats - Captain S.L. McLaglen is a Jiu-Jitsu expert; A Treasure-Hunt in the Land of Thirst - Part III - an exciting trip to the "Mysterious Richtersveld" of Southern Africa - article with photos; Adrift in the Atlantic - Grenfell of Labrador sets down a remarkable experience related by a former engineer of his; A Man's Luck (conclusion) - the author met the girl of his dreams and tried to build a dream home for them in Alaska, but he keeps being jailed; A Film-Hunter in the Amazon - Part V - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interests of the movies - article with excellent photos; The "King of the Brushwood" - the brigand chief of Corsica; Roping a Bear - foolish youngster ropes a cinnamon bear; A Barbed Wire Frontier - people not allowed to pass between Hungary and Czechoslovakia; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3] 88, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
68 pages. A.J. Casson cover illustration of grass-cutting man mowing flowers while girl-watching. Contents: Great colour ad for Veedol motor oil inside front cover; Nice ad for International Trucks 2-ton trucks; Investors Syndicate ad features William H. Lotts, President of Overland Construction Company; Czar's Gold, by Robert Welles Ritchie; Roosevelt Acts - M. Grattan O'Leary reports on the "Prophet of Recovery" - including photo of President Roosevelt with Premier Bennett; A Sporting Gesture, by E. Phillips Oppenheim; Article on Sir Arthur Currie; Forgotten Money in Bank Accounts, by Grant Dexter; Ins and Outs of Sport - how different sports go in and out of favour; Arctic Air Trail - Flight Lieut. J.D.M. Gray and his plan to fly the "Sourdough", a Fairchild monoplane, across the Atlantic; False Colors, by Captain Dingle; Sleepy, by Beverley Owen; My Hat!, by Dora Sanders; The (Great) Depression, by Honorable E.C. Drury - Part 2 - Causes; Match Point, by John Holden; We Shouldn't Own Ships - O.F. MacKenzie argues that now that WWI is over the Canadian government need not own ships; A very lovely full-page colour ad for Campbell's Tomato Soup featuring a waving girl in a tomato-coloured dress and blue hat and jacket; Salesman of Music - Milton Blackstone and the Hart House Quartet which also includes Adaskin, de Kresz and Hambourg; Full-page Canada Dry ad shows boy and girl running; Europe Fears Treaty Revision; Nice Dominions Tire ad; New Guinea is Rich Gold Field; There are now 230 weekly comic strips; Great Wall is Useless Now; Modern Alarms Catch Burglars - electrical devices installed in banks make robbery practically impossible; Baseball has been changed by the Curve Ball and other Developments; Jerusalem now has Y.M.C.A.; Super-Markets Cause Concern - Large-scale grocery selling in cheap warehouses worries regular trade; Nice two-colour full-page ad for the new Chevrolet Standard Six and Master Six; The Future of Medicine; Vintage Dentyne chewing gum ad includes photo of Eskimo lady with healthy teeth; Lovely colour Shredded Wheat ad; Nice Champion Spark Plug ad features Eddie Miller in an Auburn 12 Speedster; Trans-Canada Long-Distance ad with contemporary prices per minute; Outdoor Weddings, by Helen G. Campbell; Lending Companies have Good Depression Record, by W.A. Higgins; Nice 2-colour ad for Northern Electric Electric range inside back cover; Nice ad for Kodak Verichrome Film on back cover. Address label upon front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
189529043Dover N. J: Dover Printing. Good with no dust jacket. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Genealogy; German Settlers; B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; xiii 667 pages; The Early Germans of New Jersey. Their History Churches and Genealogies. By Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers. With Maps and Illustrations. 3 maps 61 pls. Howes C274. Scarce Worldcat locates 3 copies. Publishers brown cloth boards worn and stained hinges frayed front end paper with marginal chipping contents fresh and clean vg. . Dover Printing hardcover
193740282Berlin: Freiheitsverlag G.m.b.H. 1937. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Quarto. 64pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over blind stiff wrappers. <br /> <br /> A collection of 45 photogravures documenting Mussolini's 5-day official visit to his friend and ally Adolf Hitler in Germany in late September 1937. Many of the photographs featured in this work were taken by Hitler's personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. Striding side by side the two dictators and partners of the Berlin-Rome Axis are seen touring Munich where they laid wreaths on various Nazi monuments. Among these was the Feldherrnhalle in Königsplatz which held the bodies of 16 Nazi heroes killed in the 1923 Munich Putsch. The next series of photographs were taken in the little village of Lalendorf where Hitler and Mussolini witnessed the most impressive military manoeuvres of post-WWI Germany. The following images show the two leaders visiting the mighty Krupp munitions works at Essen. <br /> <br /> Two photographs of Benito Mussolini attending a luncheon given by Göring and his wife at their famous hunting lodge Karinhall are placed between the largest series of pictures showing the two men during the grandiose Berlin celebrations in their honor. Indeed an estimated crowd of 650000 people attended the demonstration organized on the Maifeld the polo ground adjoining the Olympic Stadium. At the official tribune Mussolini delivered a speech where he spoke of the awakening of Germany through the Nazi revolution Bolshevism the common enemy and Germany’s friendly stand during the Ethiopian War. The speech ended with a stress on the 115 million Germans and Italians and the need for them to unite “in one single unshakable determination.â€<br /> <br /> Closed tear and soiling at back cover of dust-jacket. Moderate abrasion along fore-edge of DJ. Clear and minor water-staining along fore-edge of the first 32 pages not affecting lettering. Text in German gothic script. DJ in overall good- wrappers and interior in good to very good photographs in very good condition. Freiheitsverlag G.m.b.H. unknown
1937006950NY: Scribner. SIGNED first edition. Limited to 920 copies. Not numbered. Signed by author on limitation page. Brown was founder of the Museum of the City of New York. Published NY: Scribners 1937. Large folio 12 1/2" x 16 1/2" xiv319pp. profusely illustrated with b/w and tipped-in color plates - most full page the 15 color plates are all present. Cream cloth with gilt titles in green block deckle edges and top edge gilting. Mild soil to the cloth bookplate on pastedown else very good plus clean crisp attractive copy. . Very Good Plus. Hard. 1st. 1937. Scribner unknown
8vo., First Edition thus; handsomely bound in full navy morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With small institutional press-mark on Foreword. The second part of Monsarrat's well-known 'Corvette' trilogy, published simultaneously with the UK edition. Taken in sequence the trilogy provides a near-continuous record of Monsarrat's early wartime service; furthermore they contain much of the inspiration and context, and in several cases actual incidents, which reappear in his masterpiece 'The Cruel Sea'.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 34 plates on 16; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with RN Crown in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, blue marker ribbon, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Still the best biography of the Royal Navy's leading U-boat hunter of WWII. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE. Enser, p.383; Law, 0218.
1996Adhya-9783540611172Springer 1996. Paperback. New. Springer paperback
1996Adhya-9783540611172Springer 1996. Paperback. New. Springer paperback
182516457Albany N. Y.: State of New York. Very Good. 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in 2 volumes first editions. Rebound in clean green buckram cloth with bright gilt titles on both spines. Interior of texts are tight & intact. Hand written margin notes of a few pages. Light foxing throughout. Tissue protected illustrations. Volume #1 frontis a view of the Canal entrance into the Hudson; view Black Rock Village; view of the Rochester Aqueduct Bridge; View of Little Falls. Maps: Ontario & Oneida Lakes Swego Dock. Foldout Maps: Niagara River Oswego River Genesee River Gerundegut Embankment. 614pp. Volume #2 Frontispiece a large fold out map of the Champlain Canal. Official Documents Relating to the Erie and Champlain Canals Passed February 8 1825. 666pp. Very light foxing. Prior owners signature and date of rebinding. Canals; Views and Maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1280 pages . State of New York hardcover
150521605nantes 1505 un document, de 2 pages, manuscrit à l'encre brune d'une grande feuille sur papier vergé ligné et filigrané, format 23,5 centimètres de large par 26 centimètres de haut, copie delivrée par la SENECHAUSSEE DE NANTES, LE 27 OCTOBRE 1505,
1809001591Philadelphia Pa: David Hogan 1809. Paperback. Very Good -. Title page continued: "Containing The Speeches of the Attorney General and Jared Ingersoll Esq. on behalf of the Commonwealth and William Lewis Esq. on the part of the Defendant. And also the opinion of the Honorable William Tilghman Esq. Chief Justice of the State of Pennsylvania." iv 1 6-52 p.; 21 cm. Printed by T.T. Stiles. Disbound from a nonce volume. Early American Imprints 2nd series Shaw & Shoemaker 18494. This report is part of a lengthy and complicated matter involving a Revolutionary War privateer Gideon Olmstead who fought for over three decades for a larger share of a British ship taken during the war and Elizabeth Sergeant & Esther Waters the daughters and heirs of David Rittenhouse Pennsylvania's treasurer during the Revolution. Rittenhouse had been charged with protecting the prize money until the matter was resolved. However even after federal courts ruled in favor of Olmstead Pennsylvania refused to relinquish its claim to the money. In 1809 the United States Supreme Court in U.S. v. Peters 9 U.S. 5 Cranch 115 1809 in a nationalistic Marshall Court decision made it the first case to strike down a state statute. In response Gov. Snyder ordered the militia "to protect the daughters of Rittenhouse" who lived in adjoining houses at Arch and 7th Streets which they did for five weeks in March and April 1809. When the U.S. Marshal John Smith tried to serve the writ he was stopped by crossed bayonets. After he entered Sergeant's house through a rear window and arrested her Gov. Snyder finally paid the sum to the marshal striking a blow to the doctrine of state supremacy. This report relates to the unsuccessful attempt to force the marshall to release Elizabeth Sergeant Pennsylvania Chief Justice William Tilghman ruling that although he thought he had the power to discharge them if the federal court did not have jurisdiction he determined that in this case the federal court did have jurisdiction and so she should remain in custody of the U.S. marshall. A very scarce early 19th-century American legal report. In Very Good- Condition: disbound; scattered foxing and soiling first several leaves are the most heavily foxed; trimmed too closely at the foot of p. 39 with slight loss of text; old dampstain along upper edge of some leaves. David Hogan paperback
1996x-0306452170Plenum Pub Corp 1996. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 1018 pages. 10.50x7.25x2.25 inches. Plenum Pub Corp hardcover
