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19064138Hackensack N.J.: The Riverside Press 1906. Very good. Printed handbill 9 x 6 inches. Minor wear and toning to edges. An unrecorded handbill emblematic of an intriguing practice by mortgage holders in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Mortgage burning services and celebrations were particularly popular in African-American churches and involved just what they imply: upon the completion of payment of a given mortgage the debtor would burn the promissory note to signal its fulfillment. As related in the present handbill a mortgage burning would often result in a neighborhood party "Come and Rejoice with Us on the Occasion. This Mortgage Is of About 20 Years Standing." The present celebration involved two days of sermons addresses music and food most notably a lecture by Right Reverend Alexander Walters. The handbill includes the names of other preachers and the trustees involved in the event. No copies in OCLC. The Riverside Press unknown
19514588Newark N.J.: Holmes Printing Service 1951. Good. 20pp. Folio. Original orange printed wrappers stapled. Wrappers stained and spotted. Some staining and spotting to text. An informative pamphlet celebrating the second anniversary of the service of Reverend James Coleman pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in Morristown New Jersey. The text recounts Reverend Coleman's time at the church and includes numerous photographs of Coleman his family and several members of the church. The program lists the events celebrating Coleman's pastorship and the text is supplemented with dozens of well wishes and advertisements for local businesses. Holmes Printing Service unknown
188162284Baltimore MD; Worcester MA; New York NY & Raleigh NC: Printed by John Cox; American Jersey Cattle Club; J.H. Walker Lizzie Pullen Belvin 1881-1890. Four parts in one sammelband volume. Tall 8vo. 27 leaves included two inserted dittoed TLS manuscript index card & genealogy table engraved genealogy table original printed front wrapper; 104 pp. woodcut-engraved plates original printed wrappers w/ laid-in manuscript note sized by Lizzie Belvin; 14 38 2 pp. including table original printed softcovers some foxing & soiling to outer fore-edge. Contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards raised bands on spine gilt lettering bound as instructed by MS pencil note on first leaf with “100 blank leaves to go in back of book bound with covers†some minor scuffing edgewear rubbing still VG exemplar from the library of Charles Hinton Belvin Sr. 1845-1908 and Lizzie Lee Pullen Belvin 1854-1907 noted farmers and breeders of Jersey cattle in Raleigh NC where Charles Belvin was longtime founder and president of the National Bank of Raleigh. First editions of these works in this Jersey Cattle sammelband organized and bound for Jersey Cattle breeder and specialists Charles & Lizzie Belvin of Raleigh NC in the 1880’s. Samuel Moor Shoemaker’s Jersey Cattle herd was one of the most significant breeding operations for productive Jersey dairy cattle in 19th-Century Maryland as Jerseys produced milk components at a far lower cost had greater nutritional value had greater fertility and fewer calving problems as well as much better temperament. Included are two dittoed TLS from the American Jersey Cattle Club to Charles Belvin concerning the registration of prize cow “Miss May†subsequently bred with “Thoroughbred Jersey Bull ‘Bismarck of Torrington’ owned by Dr. Jas. McKee and W.C. Stronach†with certification from 1882 included.Lizzie Belvin was apparently actively involved in caring for the Jersey’s and included here are bound-in manuscript note indicating “On the 2nd of Feb. 1884 a swelling was observed on the neck of May. After using some ointment it was found next day to be better.†Although discovered having convulsions the next day they used treatment of kerosene on the neck and even while 6 months with calf was producing milk within a few days. The other dated 1890 and laid-in notes that “I was fixing to give the medicine to calf in her. I read a little further & send you the book read on page 92 in here I have marked -- give the eggs in a pint of hot milk now and tonight. . . Lizzie.†Worldcat locates 1 copy of 1st work Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center; 2 copies of 2nd AAS State Lib. of Mass. & 1 copy of 3rd UNC - Chapel Hill. Printed by John Cox; American Jersey Cattle Club; J.H. Walker, Lizzie Pullen Belvin, paperback
196548531Lewiston Maine: Inter-Continental Inc 1965. First edition. Very good. Rare program for Muhammad Ali's legendary rematch against Sonny Liston signed as "Muhammad Ali" shortly before the bout only a year after he took the name - and additionally signed by three other heavyweight champs present at Ali's training camp: Joe Louis Jim Braddock and Jersey Joe Walcott. Ali's swift and crushing defeat of Sonny Liston in the first round of their second title fight in May of 1965 remains not only one of the most iconic moments of Ali's storied career and of boxing history - but also in all of sports. An almost 2-1 underdog Ali's knockout after less than two minutes was famously captured in photographer Neil Leifer's legendary image of Ali towering over the fallen Liston. It remains one of the greatest sports photographs ever taken. <br /> <br /> The fight's status today however is belied in many ways by the humble circumstances of its original context. Postponed due to Ali's hernia surgery it was then rescheduled in the small industrial Maine town of Lewiston - partially because it was the one of the few arenas procurable on short notice but also because major venues were reluctant to be associated with Ali who was increasingly seen as a draft dodger. The fight was sparsely attended: by most accounts only about 2500 of the roughly 4500 seats in the Lewiston high school hockey rink were filled that night. Thus surviving examples of this program are scarce. <br /> <br /> Prior to the bout Ali had holed up at the Schine Inn in Chicopee MA to train talk to the media and receive well-wishers. On May 20 1965 five days before the fight he hosted three fellow champions: the "Brown Bomber" Joe Louis Jim Braddock and Jersey Joe Walcott who would also be the referee for the match where all four of these signatures were gathered the original owner noting as much above the signatures of Louis Braddock and Walcott. <br /> <br /> The program also reflects the confusion controversy and outright resistance surrounding Ali's recent name change. At the start of the fight itself the boxer was booed by the Lewiston crown when the ring announcer introduced him as "Muhammad Ali." Ali is referred to throughout the program as both Cassius Clay and Muhammad Ali and sometimes both at once. Ali had taken the name only the previous years after an address by Elijah Muhammad conferred him with the honorific meaning "most high one worthy of praise". <br /> <br /> This signature therefore represents one of the verifiably earliest "Muhammad Ali" autographs - and on the program and at the training camp for one of his most famous matches. A rare document linking Ali not only to the great Black boxers who immediately preceded him but capturing him at the very cusp of his popular transformation from heavyweight champion to civil rights leader anti-war activist and ultimately legendary humanitarian. A totemic object from the career of one of the 20th century's most famous important and influential figures. 11'' x 8.5''. Original black-and-white pictorial wrappers with red and blue elements saddle-stapled. Illustrated in black and white. 8 leaves. Signed by Ali in blue ink to verso of first leaf over his image. Additionally signed by Joe Louis James Braddock and Jersey Joe Walcott to blank verso of third leaf below the holograph caption likely original owner's: "The Schine Inn / May 20 1965." Wrapper with a bit of toning tiny area of discoloration to lower staple; careful narrow glue repair to upper spine very close inspection only. Leaves with a touch of toning. Else clean and sound. Inter-Continental Inc unknown
19007193Asbury Park, Pennypacker Press, o. J. [um 1900]. Farb. ill. Broschur, Quer-4°, 32 unpag. S., mit 44 s/w Aufnahmen; -etwas abgegriffen, fleckig u. mit Randläsuren, Rücken mit Einrissen, Seiten durchgehend mit blasser Wasserspur u. teilweise mit Knickspuren/ soft board, large 8vo, 32 np pp, 44 b/w illustrations; -cover worn, some wrinkles.
190869006Barbour Flax Spinning Company Paterson NJ 1908. Hardcover. Used - Good. No date 1908 - text. 60 pages of ink notes in 100pp lined blank book. 7 x 4.5" cloth spine paper boards. Wholesale prices for patent linen thread sewing machine draper gilling lace & crochet Irish silk flourishing carpet welt closing tailor shoemaker threads seaming & roping parcelling drug netting twines specifications & prices for creel brownell &c. Trifle rubbed VG. Barbour Flax Spinning Company, Paterson, NJ hardcover
187246897Jersey City: John H. Lyon 1872. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 5245pp. Small ink name on verso of front free endpaper minor spot of loss at the head of the spine else very good in publisher's brown cloth. <br/><br/> John H. Lyon hardcover
18643721N.p. but most likely Newark N.J. 1864. Good plus. Letterpress broadside printed in two columns 16.5 x 10 inches. Old folds small chip to top outer margin two tiny holes affecting just a few letters. A very rare Unionist broadside supporting the re-election of Abraham Lincoln in the critical presidential contest of 1864. The present broadside was authored in early June 1864 by New Jersey Republican Party stalwart Horace N. Congar an editor diplomat and politician who was at that time serving as U.S. consul to Hong Kong. In this rather stirring broadside which Congar writes from his position in Hong Kong he lauds "the thousands of earnest faithful men who are giving freely of their blood and treasure to the suppression of this infamous rebellion" and "the noble daring the undaunted courage and the determined valour of our brave soldiers of Freedom" and urges that "in November New Jersey will stand in the unbroken rank of States giving their verdict for the Party of Union." He also spends considerable space discussing the clear role of "the social moral and political evil" of slavery as the precipitating event of the Civil War. Congar writes that "the evil it has wrought was as natural as the poisoned breath of the Upas tree." Stated clearly Congar writes "I heartily rejoice at the destruction of slavery" and looks forward to the time when "I shall tread my native land with a newer life if within its boundless domain there shall not be heard the clanking chain or the cry of the suffering and the oppressed."<br /> <br /> "Horace Newton Congar 1817-1893 was a radical republican politician during the midnineteenth century and served on both the state and national levels. Mr. Congar had a great love for his party and hope for its success which is reflected in his writing . Horace Newton Congar was born in Newark on July 31 1817. He married Isabell Reeves and had two children; a daughter Ella and a son Horace Junior. Horace Congar taught school for a while and he studied law in his leisure time. He was admitted to the New Jersey State Bar in 1847 and later Cornelius Boice of Plainfield and Lewis Grove of Newark were his law partners. Congar was a friend of the abolitionist cause and he was one of the founders of the antislavery Free Soil Party in New Jersey. The party slogan ‘Free Soil Free Speech Free Labor and Free Men’ basically described the party platform. Congar later became a delegate from New Jersey to the Republican National Convention in 1848 which was held in Buffalo. He supported the nomination of Van Buren for president and Adams for vice-president" - New Jersey Historical Society.<br /> <br /> A rare and unusual Lincoln campaign broadside with just two physical copies in OCLC at AAS and Middlebury College. unknown
1840SCA-50London, T. Baker, 1840. In-8 relié demi-veau fauve à coins, dos orné, fer doré d’une bibliotheque australienne sur le premier plat de reliure. (Cachets de cette même bibliothèque sur les premiers et derniers feuillets, annotation datée 1865, à l’encre en tête de la page de titre, quelques soulignements et annotations dans le texte. Coins usés, cuir du dos séparé du volume).
199833115New Jersey 1998. Very Good. New Jersey 1998. Green plastic three-ring binder with collaged covers and spine. 114 plastic sheaths filled to completion with all dragon-themed mythological summaries Chinese restaurant menus poetry artwork astrology dragon boat racing Stevie Nicks tributes debates about Christian metal band Stryper Puff the Magic Dragon etc.; principally printed from the internet along with some typed and manuscript material and original art. Light edgewear; a few scuffs. Very Good. <br /> <br /> An impressive and incredibly touching gift from a woman to her goddaughter assembled and given in the wake of the death of the goddaughter's husband. In the introductory typed letter the godmother counsels that alcohol is not the answer to her pain advises her to visit a "wise Indian man" she knows and hopes that the Dragon Book she has assembled will be of some comfort. A fascinating mix of pre-Wikipedia early internet material culture. The bulk of the material is printed internet articles: draconian.com still active and more or less in its same form gives a wide-ranging dragon background and articles from Emergency Librarian People Magazine the South Florida Business Journal and many many others are included painting a full picture of dragons in mythology and popular culture. <br /> <br /> The compiler has also included two excised Yellow Pages pages and highlighted the "Dragon" entries several pages of Stevie Nicks internet fanpages a few hand-written student reports original color drawings and dozens of poems printed and typed all dragon themed of course. A heartfelt collection highlighting mid to late 90s internet culture and the comfort fantasy can offer well before the nerd wall was broken in the early 2000s. . unknown
190817338London: Gordon Hotels Publicity Department 1908. Paperback. Very good condition. With an index of countries including Australian cities Brisbane Mount Victoria and Sydney with b&w photographs of the Belle Vue Hotel "opposite Parliament House"; the Hotel Imperial Mount Victoria: "the nearest and best route to the Jenolan Caves is from Mount Victoria"; and the Hotel Australia in Sydney. With many advertisements for railway companies includes a L. & N. W. Railway map; steam ship companies and destinations: "New Zealand Britain's Most Prosperous Colony"; "Boulogne Sur Mer France the Favourite Seaside Resort; Atlantic City New Jersey America's greatest all the Year Health and Pleasure Resort". With a twenty page section "Where to Shop in London" with many b&w photographs of shop facades and interiors; with a full page for Messrs. Liberty & Co. Regent Street: "the firm has largely aided the revival of the British Silk Industry". Sml 8vo 272pp profusely illustrated in b&w teg. Color lithographic illustrated wraps. Front cover with title in deep yellow on off white banner with vignettes of steam ship train and destination cities. Rear cover with ad for "P & O" conveying his Majesty's mails. Passenger services to Egypt India China Japan and Australasia" and full color illustration of sail boat and steam ship in tropical harbor. Gordon Hotels Publicity Department paperback
190031629London, Edinburg & New York, T. Nelson & Sons éditeurs, sans date 1900 In-16, percaline éditeur, 22 pp. & 12 compositions en couleurs hors-texte, carte de Jersey. Texte en anglais. Bon exemplaire.
8868P., Daumont, (1759).
19922Non signé F. , (circa 1850), provenant de la collection de l'éditeur Charpentier. Dessin à la mine de plomb (310 x 210 mm) d'une grande précision avec des rehauts de blanc.
199641940AB1996. Jersey Le Haule Books 1996. 23.4cm x 16.2cm. xii 83 1 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Titlepage signed by Jackie de Gruchy. This book celebrates the work of great uncle and niece of artist and poet. Together they portray the life of their Island home through words and pictures. Most poems are redolent of bygone days with a whole section devoted to the Occupation and subsequent Liberation. The poems evoke the changing seasons and the joys and sadness of everyday life. Both author and artist shared a love of the horse and we meet many plodding through the pages enjoying the slower pace of country life. paperback
190952792Boston: The Bullard Co. Inc. 1909. Large folding accordion-style folded map printed in red & black sized 41 x 38 in. which when entirely folded into covers measures 5.5 x 11.25 in. Original burgundy-coloured boards small lozenge map of New York & Pennsylvania on front cover some edgewear rubbing minor tidemark to upper fore-edge of 1 corner still VG- copy. Second edition revised of this scarce and well documented map showing good roads for automobile travel railroads canals new Erie Barge Canal Steamship lines ferries lighthouses electric railway lines and more. First published in 1908 and then again in 1910 MacNair drew from US government surveys State surveys and other original commercial sources. Worldcat locates 2 copies. The Bullard Co., Inc., hardcover
193013913New Jersey: Private 1930. First Edition Thus. Leather bound. Very good. Original album with photos ledgers scoring records and articles from various New Jersey Rifle Clubs of the 1930s including The Ridgewood Rifle Club The Jersey Rifle Association and The Garden State Rifle League. Folio 28pp 468pp. Three-quarter morocco four raised bands title in gilt on spine. Newspaper clippings of shooting competition records and wins affixed to leaves 28 unpaginated; 1-37pp of ledger. Hundreds of additional leaves with handwritten notes specifically records of car part sales to various New Jersey automotive garages. Additional items laid-in include an 8x10 photograph of the Ridgewood Rifle Club members three used card stock targets and a series of official reports from matches and game associations. Solid text block wear to covers and spine splitting to hinges. A unique piece of ephemera. Although the original compiler of this album is unknown certain names frequently appear throughout including Charlie Vanderbush and Bill Troeger. Private unknown
1833JC9374Newark: Published at the Request of the Session by Uzal J. Tuttle & Co. 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Cloth-backed marbled paper over boards; 8vo; pp. 32. Binding broken and text block loose; text block water-damaged with slight wave and faint staining throughout. Sold as is. <br/><br/> Published at the Request of the Session, [by] Uzal J. Tuttle & Co. hardcover
177635769Burlington: Printed by Isaac Collins Printer to the King for the Province of New Jersey 1776. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. 2 viii 493 pages 6 page index 6 pages Ordinance Chancery Fees 4 pages "A Table for the Publick Acts in Force" 4 pages "A Table of the Publick Acts Disallowed Expired Obsolete and Repealed." 3 pages "A Table of the Private Acts" 15 pages index to the Principal Matters 1. Binding is professionally recased. New brownish marbled paper covered boards with leather spine and joints. Spine has 6 raised bands gilt lines and gilt stamped title on red morocco leather label. New front and rear paste downs and front and rear end sheets. Last blank end sheet chipped. Small period ink inscription written above "Slaves" in the section "Index to the Principal Matters." Colonial imprint published on the eve of the American Revolution. <br /> <br /> Evans 14911; Sabin 53046. Printed by Isaac Collins, Printer to the King, for the Province of New Jersey hardcover
1776100869<p>Folio contemporary sheep rejoined and crudely rehinged viii 493 1 6 6 4 4 1 15 pp. Binding is very worn especially at the extremities despite hinge repairs back cover is detached and top cover a bit loose browning and aging marginal dampstaining affecting appendices early ownership signatures including Belmont Perry and Thomas Hendry on title and elsewhere bookplate on front pastedown. Samuel Allison 1739-1791 was a Burlington attorney who had an interest in both politics and the law. In 1762 he was commissioned as one of the surrogates for West Jersey and was put to work compiling a new edition of provincial laws which is the current volume and covers the period from 1702 to 1776. Allison was a Quaker who opposed slavery and secession from the British Empire. He worked throughout his life to end slavery and became a spokesperson for a sizeable Quaker community in New Jersey. The present work includes coverage of relief of the poor raising money for public buildings preventing the waste of timber and the regulation of slaves. There are several manuscript corrections to the text in this copy which according to Felcone appear to be the rule for all copies. New Jersey in the American Revolution. Felcone 158. Evans 14911. Sabin 53046.</p> Isaac Collins,
1776015742Burlington NJ: Isaac Collins 1776. First Edition. Hardcover. Light to moderate foxing typical for American paper of this period. Near Fine in an attractive binding. Folio 8-3/4" x 13-1/8" bound by Brentano's in twentieth century 3/4 polished calf leather with a gilt-decorated and lettered spine top edge gilt marbled endpapers; viii 493 1 6 4 4 3 1 15 1 pages appears to lack a 6-page appendix. Covers the period from 1702 to 14 January 1776 with an appendix three alphabetical tables and an index. With numerous acts described including those on regulating slaves taverns fire arms the militia gambling and horse races as well as acts dividing and forming counties. A wonderful compendium of colonial laws right up to the colonies' declaration of independence from England. Early calligraphic owner name of Joseph Stokes on the front endpaper and the bottom of the last page of the preface. <br/><br/> Isaac Collins hardcover
187342435New Brunswick N.J.: Fredonian Printing House 36 Dennis-street 1873. First edition. Top and bottom edges chipped remnants of mounting paper just touching the top of two letters two small internal holes affecting a few letters; folds minor smudging overall still about very good. 1 sheet. 17 3/4 x 12 inches. Orphans' Courts which were predominant in Delaware Maryland New Jersey and Pennsylvania dealt with probate matters as well as having jurisdiction of orphans. Both of this lots to be auctioned were on the road leading from Plainsboro to Dayton. There was a machinery manufacturer in Jamesburg N.J. part of Middlesex county named "Snedeker & Voorhees." Fredonian Printing House, 36 Dennis-street unknown
181532792Trenton: Printed by James J. Wilson 1815. Contemporary plain drab wrappers chipped stitched. 72pp. Light toning foxing and mild wear. Good. "John G. Duryee Owner" inscribed on title page.<br /> Felcone Collection 1053. AI 35442 1- Rutgers. OCLC locates five copies as of March 2016. Printed by James J. Wilson unknown
1895224944<p>First edition. Oblong 4to. 16 halftone photographs. No text as issued. Each photo is on a separate page. Original stiff tan pictorial wrappers stamped in black. No signatures or bookplates.</p> John M. Rogers, Press paperback
184840142Trenton New Jersey 1848. 2-1/2 pages entirely in ink manuscript on pale blue stationery 8" x 10." At head of letter: a printed presidential sticker 1" x 2-1/2": "For President Zachary Taylor. For Vice President Millard Fillmore." Very Good.<br /> <br /> The Letter reflects Whigs' uncertainty about the direction of their Party. The most prominent Whigs Webster and Clay had failed to win the Presidency. Zachary Taylor a heroic general whose political opinions were a mystery seemed a better choice.<br /> "I have received the letter which you addressed to me on behalf of the Whig Executive Committee of the two Houses of Congress desiring information of the state of public opinion in this state in regard to the candidate for the Presidency & other political topics which now interest the Whig Party. I have shown it to my associates upon the Whig Central Committee of this state and conferred with them upon the subjects of your inquiry.<br /> "In regard to the Presidential candidate there is much division of opinion among the Whigs of New Jersey. Many of the most active and intelligent among them in every section of the state think that our candidate should be one whom we have never yet presented to the people. . . The minds of these persons are strongly turned towards Gen. Taylor.<br /> "Others equally active and intelligent and equally devoted to the Whig Party think otherwise and their entire hopes and affections centre in Mr. Clay whose nomination they ardently desire and with whom they feel assured of triumph. The minds of others rest on Gen. Scott tho this class is by no means as numerous as either of the others.<br /> "We confess ourselves unable to decide. . . Our State Convention to appoint delegates to the National Whig Convention will meet on 24th inst. and we await such further intelligence as the representations of the different counties in that body will bring us. . . The views which I have expressed are those of a majority of our Committee."<br /> Wilson's correspondent was Congressman Hugh White of New York State elected as a Whig to Congress 1845-1851. unknown
