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1858027327New York: Harper and Brothers 1858. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown cloth decorated in blind lettered in gilt on spine. Professionally rebound with original cloth laid over new brown cloth lacking only approx. 1/2" at base of spine where the new cloth almost identical in color to the old shows new endsheets new head- and tail-bands. viii9-432 pp. Firm binding clean interior a bit toned by age. Well preserved copy with sympathetic restoration will prove durable for years to come. Presents as solid Near Fine with note to rebinding. Concerned with the Wyoming Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania proximate to Scranton Wilkes-Barre Hazleton etc. NOT the state of Wyoming. Scarce. Harper and Brothers Hardcover
1842003606Libanon Lebanon Pa.: Jos. Hartman 1842. Hardcover. Very Good . xii 184 p. 1 leaf with a woodcut illustration; 18 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Partially illegible former owner's inscription on front free endpaper verso and facing blank page dated 1852. A few ink marginal notations in the same hand. A veterinary manual for horses entirely German by a Lancaster County horse doctor. In Very Good Condition: ends of spine and corners rubbed; some page corners creased; a few marginal notations; some browning; otherwise clean and tight. Jos. Hartman hardcover
1847005104Philadelphia: s.n. 1847. Pamphlet. Very Good. 16 p.; 22 cm. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "22" in ink at upper right-hand corner of first page. Caption title. At head of title: "Supreme Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania. July 1847 No. 40." William M. Kennedy claimed that his property running from Maiden St. to the adjacent wharf in the Kensington District of the Northern Liberties at the time not part of the city of Philadelphia included half of the street and the wharf itself. Elihu Duplessis Tarr d. 1851 and John Meredith Read 1797-1874 represented Samuel Tucker Bodine 1810-1879 and the commissioners and residents of Kensington offering the history of the property back to the orignal 1689 grant to Michael Neilson and through its ownership by William Masters and his descendants to show that both the street and the wharf had been public property. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: disbound; light foxing primarily on first page; otherwise clean. s.n. unknown
18110082971811. Near Fine -. 1 handwritten vellum deed 45 x 83 cm. dated 2 April 1811. Rudolph Stauffer and his wife Beata Reiner Stauffer sell to John Price storekeeper 103 acres in Coventry Township Chester Co. Pa. for 1800 pounds "lawful money of Pennsylvania." Recorded 3 Feb. 1812 by recorder Charles Kenny. Signed by witnesses George Prise and David Kinehart justice of the peace for Chester County John Hiester Jr. recorder Charles Kenny and Rudolph Stauffer and Beata Stauffer Rudolph's name is in German script while Beata's is not. In Near Fine- Condition: light soiling and discoloration; otherwise clean and bright. An attractive early 19th-century vellum deed. unknown
1876004112Philadelphia: Pomeroy Whitman and Company 1876. Very Good . 1 double-leaf print from the 1876 Atlas of York County Pa. Signed "Ray Del." Contains an aerial view of the ironworks with inset illustrations showing sections of the house front department and the machine shop as well as several close-ups of machinery. Also shows a steam locomotive on the train tracks running in front of the ironworks. The ironworks was located on W. North Street in York. The company was founded in 1840 by Elisha Geiger and Samuel Bechtol; other partners during the 19th century included Alexander Small Edward G. Smyser and Smyser's sons. "E.G. Smyser" appears over the central door in the print with "Variety Iron Works" above that. In 1877 it opened an office in Baltimore where much of the ornamental ironwork was sold. The company also produced iron castings for J.W. Fiske Co. in New York City beginning in 1869. The company continued to operate until 1941. As of 2013 the central building was being used by the York Academy Revinoal Charter School. In Very Good Condition: slight staining along edges not impacting the image; solid and otherwise clean. Pomeroy, Whitman and Company unknown
1813002389Philadelphia: Conrad Zentler und George M. Mentz 1813. Hardcover. Very Good -. Title continued: "Welchem noch ein tägliches Gebetbüchlein für Schwangere Gebärende und Unfruchtbare das den 5ten und 6ten Theil dieses Handbuchs ausmacht beygefügt ist." Zweyte verbesserte Amerikanische Auflage. 8 566 132 2 p.: frontispiece portrait of the author and 4 additional leaves of copperplates; 18 cm. Full leather original boards with modern rebacking; lacking clasps. Woodcut headpieces. "Tägliches Gebet-Büchlein für Schwangere Gebärende und Sechswöchnerinnen" has separate title page and pagination. Shaw & Shoemaker 29857; Bötte & Tannhof German Printing 1990. This work of daily devotions and hymns by the Lutheran theologian Johann Friedrich Starck was very popular among German immigrants to Pennsylvania. In Very Good- Condition: sensitively rebacked; lacking clasps; foxing throughout; otherwise clean and tight. Conrad Zentler und George M. Mentz hardcover
1857136Two Maine Bank Notes from the Atlantic Bank. One showing women Textile Workers 1857. Edges worn creasing and cancelled with a hole in each bill. A rare pair of Maine bank notes. books
187815973Harrisburg: Board of Commissioners. Very Good. 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean black cloth has gilt title on spine. Map illustrated frontispiece. Table illustrations. Pennsylvania Geology ; Map & Tables; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 279 pages . Board of Commissioners hardcover
1887070719New York: J. S. Oglivie Publishing Co. 1887. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Green cloth lettered and with front cover coat of arms in gilt. Mild rubbing to corners and spine extremities a few minor surface marks to cloth text block edges tanned by age. Front hinge mended rear hinge intact. Elaborate ownership inscription inked on front flyleaf otherwise unmarked. 1st ed. xxv7246 pp. The scarce original edition later expanded and published as "Fifty Years in Wall Street.". J. S. Oglivie Publishing Co. Hardcover
1900701504E.F. Turner and Co. 1900. E.F. Turner's Ninth Annual Directory of the City of Yonkers for the Years 1900-1901. Containing a General Directory of the Citizens Together with a Map of the City Also Street and Business Directory and an Appendix of Important Information. Wonderful antique city reference for Yonkers NY. Includes a full phonebook-style directory of the city's residents as well as ads and listings for local businesses. Front colored endpaper very brittle and chipped tear along inside edge along spine. Some wear to covers a few signatures are slightly loose overall a solid copy. 6 x 9 inches with 597 pages. Hard Cover. Good. Illus. by Illustrated. E.F. Turner and Co. Hardcover
189751694NY: James Pott and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards soiled and toned foxing to endpapers . edges and pages. 1897. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Cream boards with embossed front cover design. 39pp 24 pp plates. Illuminated pages and black and white lithographs. A solid copy of this New York City church history featuring illuminated pages and lithographs from Tiffany and Company. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . James Pott and Company hardcover
183011687New York: Bath. 1830. Hardcover. Very Good-. Full leather boards with wear to extremities. Light foxing. ; The workings of justices in New York State; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 411 pages . Bath hardcover
1822002513New Haven: Published by the author 1822. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo contemporary quarter sheep top board and front flyleaf detached. <br/><br/> Howes D612. Sabin 21559 . The frontispiece is a folding map of the state of New York. Published by the author hardcover
1871P5477Albany N.Y.: J. Munsell 1871. This antique hardcover limited-edition book is bound in brown cloth boards with a paste-down spine label with black lettering. Covers are worn cover edges and corners show heavy wear some soil; endpapers browned with some markings; most inner pages clean. This edition was "annotated" by the previous owner with notes and pasted-in information throughout - all concerning the edition illustrations and information containted within. This book was limited to 50 copies; it is illustrated throughout with full-page steel engraving plates. Additionally this copy was the former property of author William Stone. Stone's bookplate appears on the front inner board and pasted down to the front endpaper is a letter to Stone from the book's author Jeptha Simms dated Sept. 26 1881. Simms is writing Stone to tell him of a new book he's working on another history of New York and offering to get one of Stone's books into the hands of some people in Fort Plain. The letter appears to have torn at one of the folds and a previous owner has repaired it with tape. 297 pages including index; approx. 6"x9". Signed by Author. Limited. Hard Cover. Collectible-Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Steel Engravings. J. Munsell Hardcover
1890016816Newark: Medical Society of New Jersey L. J. Hardham Printer 1890. Good condition. SEE PHOTOS. Bound in the original printed wraps. Chips to the spine ends. Spine cracking but the binding remains intact with threads still holding. No owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. Softcover. 6" wide by 9" tall. Besides the minutes from the 124th annual meeting this volume includes a 120 page-long MEDICAL HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY including detailed biographical sketches of the county's early physicians. There are also essays on ENDOMETRITIS by E. L. B. Godfrey; TYPHOID FEVER - WHAT IT IS AND HOW IS IT COMMUNICATED by J. D. Osborne; THE PASTEUR TREATMENT by Paul Gibier. First Edition. Softcover. Good condition. 402pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Medical Society of New Jersey (L. J. Hardham, Printer) Paperback
1814004067Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts in the State of New-York Albany 1814. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact. Ex-library minimal markings. Rebound ex-library copy library binding. Green gilt stamped cloth iv 262 pp. folding plate Diorascope and Dioragraph drawing aids for mechanical perspective Jacob Green's Address and Catalogue article on Apocinum Cannabinum "equal if not superior in many respects to . . . opium" article on Chimney Fire-Places Count Rumford on lamps. Some foxing on covers library notations on Preface page no other library markings title page discolored along fore-edge and bottom edge. Otherwise a quite clean tight copy. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 10 oz. Category: Gardens; New York State History; Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 004067. . Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts, in the State of New-York hardcover
1857010632New York: J. Disturnell 1857. Book. Good-VG. Buckram. Second Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Original edition rebound in light green buckram gilt stamped title on spine panel. 172 pp. 32 pp. at rear of excursions appendices advertisements. Identified as 2nd Edition based on statement in Appendix. Ex-library copy stamped endpapers several stamps on early leaves from Mercantile Library and Free Library of Philadelphia. Title page slightly dampstained with small area of darkening along fore-edge of several early leaves. Approx. 1/2" notch of paper loss along top edge of Contents leaf. Otherwise nicely intact interior though evidently slightly trimmed. Graded as Good-VG due less to defects than to rebound/trimmed status. Exceptionally scarce early guide in fact one of the earliest promotional publications that led to the emergence of Niagara Falls as the premiere natural tourist attraction it later became. J. Disturnell Hardcover
189849548Albany NY: State of New York. Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn hinges cracked corners . bumped. 1898. Hardcover. Annual report covering the year 1897 by the Fisheries Game and Forest Commissioners of New York State. Numerous photographs and illustrations maps one color folding map of catchment basins of some New York State rivers has hole in center. Green decorated cloth boards. Includes sections about maple sugaring game fish fish hatcheries fishways wood-ducks snipe forestry forest reservoirs and other topics. Some beautiful color plates of fish species. Nine color plates by Sherman F. Denton of Cisco White Bass Silver Chub Female Common Whitefish Rocky Mountain Trout Steelhead Golden Shiner Alewife and Male Common Whitefish. Five color plates by J. H. Ridgway of birds: Kingfisher Great Blue Heron Male Woodduck Female Woodduck and Wilson's Snipe. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 455 pages . State of New York hardcover
185461500<p>NY: G. P. Putnam and Company. Fair with no dust jacket; Boards heavily worn lower half of backstrip missing pages toned page 61-62 removed lower corners of pages 63-64 and . pages 47-48 removed. 1854. Hardcover. Brown cloth binding 504 illustrations including a color plate of Minton tiles. Well-illustrated survey of the art works housewares fabrics machinery and scientific items displayed at the 1853-54 New York City Industry of All Nations world's fair. The fair was America's first patterned after the successful 1851 Crystal Palace exhibition in London. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall .</p> G. P. Putnam and Company hardcover
185932929Boston: Fields Osgood & Co. Successors to Ticknor and Fields 1859. Clean contents with darkening to covers with some staining inked name and marks to upper front cover. Scarce. 32929. Octavo single issue printed wrappers. Features the first publication of the classic tale "The Wondersmith." This story is considered an early robot story. A toyshop owner plans to massacre thousands on the Christmas holiday by supernaturally animated small toy soldiers dolls and animals with small poisoned blades. This story influenced other writers and can be seen today in popular film such as Chuckie and others. Jessica Amanda Salmonson writes in her introduction to O'Brien's works ".O'Brien is the most important figure after Poe and before Lovecraft in modern horror literature. Fields, Osgood, & Co., Successors to Ticknor and Fields unknown
1849005100West Chester Pa: J. Hodgson printer 1849. Pamphlet. Very Good -. 8 p.: tables; 22 cm. Lacking wrapper. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "18" in ink at upper right-hand corner of title page. Caption title. Publication information from library records. Robert Emmet Monaghan 1822-1895 was a Pennsylvania lawyer and represented Chester County in the state legislature. His mechanical vote counter was patented on March 14 1848. This pamphlet reports on the demonstration of the machine given to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1849. Ink notations on p. 3 correct the description of the levers indicating Yea and Nay votes. In Very Good- Condition: first leaf and last leaf are detached but present; light foxing on p. 8; otherwise clean. J. Hodgson, printer unknown
1880041949Richmond: William Ellis Jones Steam Book and Job Printer 1880. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo. vi 356 pages. Hardcover bound in original brown publisher's cloth. The binding is worn and shaken and the inner hinges are cracked and holding by the cords. The book would benefit from being recased. The text is generally clean. INSCRIBED by the author on the front pastedown: "Hon. B. Johnson Barbour / With Compliments of / Rob. T. Craighill / May 23rd 1882." Contains essays on George Washington Patrick Henry Thomas Jefferson John Marshall and John Randolph of Roanoke. Rare. <br/> <br/> William Ellis Jones, Steam Book and Job Printer hardcover
1894035156Paterson NJ: Self-Published 1894. Book. Good. Original Wraps. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gray wraps lettered in black. Original edition limited to 100 copies NOT a modern facsimile. This copy shows approx. 25% loss along spine panel which has been reinforced with clear tape both covers chipped with loss along edges. xvii197 pp. Contents fully intact. Extremely scarce. Self-Published Paperback
189717249Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. Good. 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Red and green cloth decorated with gilt. Spine ends starting. Green cloth has some chipping. Original owners inscription on endpaper H. W. Harrison dated 5/7/1897. Interior of text is tight clean & intact. Double page Frontispiece of the University of Pennsylvania: profusely Illustrated with full page photographs. Pennsylvania Education. ; B/W Photographs & Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 126 pages . J. B. Lippincott hardcover
1897037796Philadelphia PA: J. B. Lippincott Co. 1897. Book. Good. Original Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark blue and dark red cloth lettered and with UPenn insignia in gilt oblong format. Front cover shows dampstaining to cloth along mid and lower joint extending up to about 1 1/2" on front cover cloth with some darkening along bottom edge as well some flecking to upper front cover cloth around title lettering. Corners rubbed with minor exposure to bottom corners. Cloth has split and been mended along upper front joint and mid/lower rear joint. 126 pp. illus. w/ many full page b&w photographs hinged double frontis. plate presenting aerial view of campus. Presents as Good due to noted cosmetic issues with interior VG or better. Very scarce. J. B. Lippincott Co. Hardcover