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1835377678Mexico 1835. 1. plus integral blank. Signed in print by Estrada. Folio. Unbound. 1. plus integral blank. Signed in print by Estrada. Folio. A broadside decree issued by Migual Barragan giving city status to Pueblo de Nuestra Se ora la Reina de Los Angeles and naming it the provisional capital rather than Monterey. The Mexican congress declares: "The town of Los Angeles of Alta California is elevated to the rank of city and it will be from now on the capital of this territory." However representatives from Monterey would block moving the capital. <br /> <br /> "This decree was largely due to the efforts of Carlos Antonio Carrillo the deputy from California to the Mexican Congress and the author of the Exposicion of 1831" Streeter. Streeter's copy sold for $200 to Dawson's in 1968. Eberstadt 133-187; Streeter sale 2476; Rocq 4223 unknown
1838021038London: T. McLean D.& P. Colnaghi and John F. Lewis 1838. 1838. Book. Illus. by John F. Lewis. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio approx. 55 x 36.5cm. Complete with all Lithographic plates as called for; tinted frontispiece tinted title-vignette further 27 tinted views on 25 leaves all by Lewis after Coke Smyth. A very clean bright copy. Finely bound in modern brown morocco to style with gilt lettering to the spine and gilt bands to the top and bottom of the spine. Contents clean and tight new light brown endpapers in keeping with the new binding two blank leaves to the front and rear all pages have been professionally cleaned and restored by a paper conservator minimal and unobtrusive water staining remains to some pages and plates mostly confined to the margins and blank areas most plates unaffected new archival paper guards to all plates no inscriptions. A fine complete copy beautifully rebound. References -. Abbey Travel II 394; Atabey 722; Blackmer 1015; Contominas 413; RIBA 1886. T. McLean, D.& P. Colnaghi and John F. Lewis [1838]. Hardcover
1900169765Circa1900. Large illustrated map of Beijing showing the city in the period following the invasion of the military forces of the Eight National Alliance old folds scale not given. Some scattered light foxing particularly at edges short closed tear at fold lower edge neat non acidic tape repair short section upper edge wear along folds and a couple of small unobtrusive holes with minor image loss. Blocks of text in traditional Chinese right and left upper sections stating each nation's occupied zone Japanese text title accompanies the English title along the upper section of the map. 63.7 x 56.9cm. Very good overall. A rare and significant large Japanese woodblock map of Peking Beijing issued just after the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion. Centred on the Forbidden City the map depicts Peking following the multinational suppression of the Boxer Rebellion or Yihetuan Movement of 1900. The map was issued to illustrate the areas of occupation associated with each of the powers in the Eight Nation Alliance. <br> <br>The map gives measurements of the city walls detailed names of streets and buildings and the boundaries of the inner and outer city including the forbidden city are shown with demarcation lines in pink yellow and blue. The hand coloured eight national flags of the occupation powers are featured at the right and left. <br> <br>This map is essentially a later edition of 京城内外首善全圖 a map of Beijing issued by the Qing for administrative purposes in the mid-19th century. The Japanese seized the wood blocks during the suppression of the Rebellion and subsequently pulled new impressions overprinting them additional details including flags and demarcations of areas of the city held by members of the Alliance. Versions are known in French German Japanese and as with the present example English. An attractive map of great historical interest. . unknown
188525162Riverhead New York 1885. Hardcover. Very good condition. The original manuscript title to a very large tract of land near Brookhaven Long Island acquired by John A. Bowman from the individual proprietors and conveyed here by Bowman in its entirety to the Long Island Improvement Company Ltd. <br /> <br /> The Long Island Improvement Company was formed by Austin Corbin then president of the L. I. Rail Road and others in 1881. Corbin sought the land in order to develop expensive summer residences on Long Island; Bowman was acting as Corbin's agent in the acquisition of this valuable property. Austin Corbin 1827 – 1896 was an American railroad executive plantation owner resort operator banker and robber baron. In Iowa as a bank president he engaged in mortgage scams. Later through theft and corruption he consolidated the individual rail lines into the profitable Long Island Rail Road. He was widely despised in his day: Puck Sept 1882 printed a caricature in which Corbin appears at a Louis XIV styled party where he carouses with Jay Gould and other robber barons. <br /> <br /> The Abstract a bound sml. folio volume records that Bowman paid $5 per acre for most of the parcels in 1882 then conveyed January of 1883 the incalculably valuable entire tract to the LI Improvement Co for $1. The Abstract volume concludes with the Suffolk County embossed seal and is signed by the Clerk at Riverhead 1st June 1885. It includes the ownership history of each parcel as well as a history of the town of Brookhaven from its founding.<br /> <br /> The Abstract volume is accompanied by the original hand colored manuscript map on architectural vellum of the entire tract with silk ribbon binding showing the 25 property owner names and parcel sizes. Surveys were conducted by Justus Roe. The map is titled "Map of Property of the Long Island Improvement Company Limited at Medford LI". The scale is 300 feet to the inch. The northern boundary of the tract shows the Brewster Terry Property and Horse Block Road; the western edge defined by Tunnel and Progues Road and the Austin Roe and Daniel Gerard property; the southern boundary with Georgianna Rider property and Canaan and Medford Roads; the eastern boundary with the Robinson property and Lime Road. The Long Island RR can be seen running from east to west at approximately one third of the way through the tract at the north side. The map signed in ink at the lower right corner E. H. H. Forder.<br /> <br /> The Abstract bound in full gilt tan leather 9 x 14 3/4" attorney's name stamped in gilt at lower corner James Armstrong Attny 115 B'Way N. Y. Boards slightly rubbed; front board detached but present. Pages very bright and clean. The map 67 x 44" a few short splits at folds but very bright and clean in very good condition.<br /> <br /> A remarkable record of Long Island land speculation in the late 1880s. hardcover
18822111902160200908Ikaho bussan 1882. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Ikaho bussan paperback
188647038Lincoln: Journal Company State Printers 1886. 1886. NEBRASKA RAILROAD. First edition. 8vo. Original orange printed wrappers 16 pp. folding map: Map of Nebraska 1886. 59 x 99 cm. 23 1/4" x 41" 12 miles to one inch. The map was the project of the Burlington Route for selling land. Very detailed and routes outlined in bright red. Broken Bow was to be the new center of life in Nebraska. The map is in fine condition some splitting at the bottom two inches of the spine due to the folded size of the map and a tiny closed tear and a few minor nicks to the rear cover fore-edge overall a near fine copy. Journal Company, State Printers, 1886. unknown
183523580MÉXICO: Impreso por Ignacio Cumplido 1835. Primera edición.- 4º.- Plena piel jaspeada de época lomera con filetes y florones dorados.- 2 tomos en 1 volumen.- I: 32 páginas.- II: 56 páginas.- III: 44 páginas. El Apéndice de documentos no indica lugar ni año. El primer documento lleva la fecha de México 24 de febrero de 1835 y el último es de 23 de mayo del mismo año. Procedencia: Ejemplar de Joaquín Gómez de la Cortina Marqués de Morante. Palau 111572 para la segunda edición y 74785 Impreso por Ignacio Cumplido unknown
1840018232London: Printed and Published By J. Barfield 1840. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Fourth Edition. Folio 30 x 46cm. "Revised Collated and Considerably Enlarged by John Satchell Esq." Seventy-four double-page engraved genealogical tables and geographical maps all with original hand colouring contemporary . half black morocco gilt with green cloth boards. Binding good with some general wear and rubbing leather chipped with loss to the base of the spine joints rubbed but still strong corners worn. All edges gilt./ Contents clean and tight contemporary ink stain effecting the fore-edges of the first few pages but not affecting text or maps most noticeable to the front end papers with also have a pencil inscription dated 30 November 1935. All maps and charts in very good condition. Notwitstanding wear to the binding a very good copy. Printed and Published By J. Barfield Hardcover
18462090502128300687Not Available 1846. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1850List2416Great Britain 1850. Broadside measuring 9 ⅞ x 15 ⅜ inches. Some chipping and wear to edge ink number written in corner two small section of loss due to improper mounting very good overall. Coat of arms of the United Kingdom above printed text. Very Good. A scarce broadside relating to British postal rates across the Panama Route through the Chagres River which supplied mail to California and Oregon beginning in 1848 before eventually being replaced by the Overland route in 1860. The service was characterized by long delay times as steamships on either side of the isthmus were often not coordinated causing major delays in the delivery. Several different steamship companies operated privately some carrying express mail. The letters were transported by canoe or pack animal across the isthmus. Postmaster General Cave Johnson began establishing post offices in California in 1848. Johnson also oversaw the transition to the prepaid delivery system. The broadside here of which we find no other records does state that postage must be prepaid and that the route can be accessed by writing “via New York†on the letters. A scarce postal history item relating to the expansion of mail services to California. We find no other records of this institutionally or in the trade. unknown
1844GD012817okBC1S5Manchester: Wetmore & Wallace 1844. Manchester: Wetmore & Wallace Rare Americana 1844 First Printing. 8vo. 16 pages with folding map at rear of wrappers. The folding map titled :Plan and Profile of the Route Surveyed for the Northern Railroad from Concord to Lebanon N.H." measuring approxinately 28" long and 9" wide. The map is in extremely nice condition. The spine shows some wear but remains a very nice copy. A signature of S.Chase" appears on the front wrapper. There is an institional rubber stamp on the margin of page 3. Vermont Historical Society Montpelier Vermont. This report printed by Wetmore & Wallace Printers in Manchester New Hampshire presents the findings of an engineer's survey for the Northern Railroad route. It covers the planned railroad connections between Concord Franklin and complete with Lebanon along the Connecticut River. Published in 1844 this document provides historical insight into the development of New Hampshire early railroad infrastructure and the engineering challenges faced in the region at that time. Scarce copy last auction records 1930. First Printing. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Manchester: Wetmore & Wallace
1823ST20595London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1823. Seventh Edition. 237 x 145. 9 3/8 x 5 3/4". 3 p.l. vii 1 viii 1 6-236 pp. <br/> Publisher's blue paper boards and brown paper backstrip original printed paper label EDGES UNTRIMMED AND MOSTLY UNOPENED. A Large Paper Copy. Just the faintest evidence of foxing at very beginning and very end corners with slight wear as always superficial chafing to covers but AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY the binding remarkably clean and with no significant signs of use and the wide-margined text unusually fresh and nearly as white as snow.<br/> <br/> In its original boards untrimmed and partly unopened this is a wonderful contemporary copy of an important later edition of the magnum opus of a man whose name came to be synonymous with road improvement. DNB tells us that Scottish-born John Loudon McAdam 1756-1836 was "the first systematic builder and administrator of roads in Britain since Roman times" and his impact was so great that his name lives on to the present day in connection with paved surfaces. The use of "macadam" or "macadamized" to mean a good road surface began in the 1820s and continued through the invention of the automobile when dusty roads began to be improved with tar. At first "tar" was combined with "macadam" producing the term "tarmacadam" when referring to these improved roads; eventually this became shortened to "tarmac" which still is broadly understood to refer to road surfaces and more specifically to airport runways. Our author first published "Remarks on the Present System of Road Making" in 1816 to deliver his suggestions for an improved paving method following his extensive survey of the roads of Britain. His system--in which roads were built with a cambered surface for drainage using layers of consistent sizes of stones and gravel--soon caught on both within Britain and abroad. The present seventh edition features a variety of new material much of which deals with McAdam's efforts to encourage legislation for improving roads; this includes a new preface and advertisement as well as the "Minutes of Evidence" given by witnesses regarding turnpike improvement from March to May 1819 and the report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on McAdam's system from June 1823. As evidenced by its appearance in multiple printings McAdam's "Remarks" was a widely used book but our remarkably well-preserved copy in its publisher's boards--obviously and decidedly--was not. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown unknown
1806009589London: Printed for Richard Phillips Sold By Souter No. 1 Pater-noster-row. 1806. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 4to. A very good "large paper" copy with uncut edges leaf size approximately 285mm x 225mm with a few additional items bound in. Pp. xiv 2 530 ii ii. 16 hand-tinted aquatints of which several folding map plus an additional contemporary hand-coloured map of Ireland as frontispiece. Contents: frontispiece quarto format map - engraved for the Poem of Erin. The folding plate of Dublin shown as the frontispiece in the "Directions for Placing the Plates" has been bound in opposite the first page of text title page dedication prefacecontents errata directions for placing the engravings main body of the text additional page on St. Patrick from "Guide to Knowledge" bound in at rear before the Publisher's adverts cutting from the Times 1842 entitled "Robert Emmet and the Gaoler of Kilmainham" pasted to rear paste-down. Original paper-covered boards with recent pebbled cloth spine to match original with the original paper title-label applied to the spine binding in very good condition. Contents very good the uncut edges are a little worn in places and a couple of a small near-contemporary oval stamps of the "Baptist College Bristol" to the front end paper no other marks. Paper in very good condition without any obvious staining minimal foxing almost completly confined to the tissue guards maps and plates all very good clean and crisp short repaired tear to the edge of page 318 not nearly affecting the text. A very good to fine copy. Printed for Richard Phillips, Sold By Souter, No. 1, Pater-noster-row. Hardcover
189840873N.P.: Sentinel and Gazette Steam Press 1851. 1898. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" in light peach wrappers though missing the front wrapper. 15 pp. Illustrations. Map. Although it eventually became a transcontinental railroad the railroad that became the Milwaukee Road began as the Milwaukee and Waukesha Railroad whose goal was to link the developing Lake Michigan port city of Milwaukee Wisconsin with the Mississippi River. The company incorporated in 1847 but changed its name to the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad in 1850 before construction began. A report to the Board of Directors explaining that the railroad is not completed to Waukesha as was expected and offering reasons for the delay in its completion. "Considering our small beginning only a little over one year ago - that we have relied solely on the resources of the people of Wisconsin for the means of prosecuting this enterprise - without seeking foreign aid - with only the small contributions of each of our thousand Stockholders and the credits based on the securities of our city and citizens we have in that time completed the grade of our Road for twenty and a half miles laid the Track and brought into actual use the half of that distance - and will have the whole completed and in successful operation by the middle of February next." Information on estimated and actual costs of the First Division extending the road from Milwaukee to Waukesha. It appears that actual costs far exceeded estimates "but that has been the result of peculiar circumstances under which the work has been performed and by the adoption of a rail of greater weight than that estimated." It was determined that the contractors to whom jobs had been given at lower costs were inexperienced and inefficient resulting in their work having to be re-done. Furthermore the delay was caused by some stockholders not promptly paying the small installment of only 5% every three months thus leaving a deficit. Also a bank in a marsh sunk and had to be built back up. Th cost of constructing the first twenty and 1/2 miles is only $9495 per mile. Report ends with the reassurance that the Road will be complete by February and if weather permits perhaps even earlier. 8 1/4" x 21 1/2" map of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail-Road. Map is neatly torn in half at one fold and has 1 1/2 - 2" closed tears to tops of a couple folds. Front wrapper missing along with 3" split to toe of spine and with light wear to the extremities. Sentinel and Gazette Steam Press, 1851]. unknown
1883178272Paris.: Service hydrographique et océanographique de la marine. 1883 but1894. Engraved hydrographical chart on watermarked double sheet 99 x 63 cm soundings in metres lighthouses picked out in yellow and red inset map of the port and town of Tenedos central fold a few very slight edge tears to the generous margins light spotting and surface soiling but in very good condition. Fine and impressive large naval chart of this strategically important strait then still under the control of the Ottoman Empire. <br> <br>From a private collection; "Lord John Fitzroy Royal Yacht Squadron" in manuscript on the verso. . Service hydrographique et océanographique de la marine unknown
1853176118Paris.: Ministère d'Etampes et de Géographies. 1853. Engraved map with outline hand colour 67.2 x 75.1 cm sectioned and linen-backed two large vignettes: a view of Constantinople; and costumed Turks and European soldiers facing off across a stream the linen browned with some loss but not affecting the map with the fine nineteenth century label of Charles Delarue & Hivert on the verso. Fine map with beautiful vignettes by Adrien Toussaint Lallemand 1793 - c.1856 geographer and engraver at the Depôt de la Guerre. Lallemand was appointed at a precociously young age and later set up in business on his own the quality of his work assuring him of the continued business of the Depôt. <br> <br>Highly attractive map of the Ottoman Empire published at the outset time of the Crimean War 1853-1856. <br> <br>This item is held off-site. Please note there may be a few days delay while it is brought into our shop for viewing or mailing to you. Thank you for your understanding. . Ministère d'Etampes et de Géographies unknown
18282111902160201307Itamoto's seal is also unknown 1828. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Itamoto's seal is also unknown paperback
1850177528London.: The London Printing and Publishing Company. circa1850s. Lithographed map with original outline hand colour 25.8 x 33.5 cm three vignette illustrations decorative border central fold in very good condition presented in a window mount. Attractive decorative map with three vignettes by Rapkin: Yedo; a State barge in sail with penants flying--the paired oarsmen depicted through 10 small windows below deck; and Koreans in traditional costume; the map after the great mapmaker and publisher John Tallis. <br> <br>From the estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker with his pencilled catalogue mark on the verso. . The London Printing and Publishing Company. unknown
1875320963Standing Rock 1875. unbound. Partly printed military document signed 6th Infantry seven months before Little Big Horn 16.75 x 10.75 inches Standing Rock Nov. 1 1875 "A Statement Of Forage and Straw Issued to and Consumed by the Public Animals under my direction at Standing Rock Dakota Territory during the month of October 1875" for transient animals from Fort Rice signed by Captain and Commander of Post James S. Poland an officer who served under Major Reno at the Little Big Horn and was erroneously reported as "Killed In Action" when severely wounded in the back. At the time this document was signed Poland was ordered to cease his sale of rifles and ammunition to Indians at the Standing Rock Reservation as the recipients were closely connected with Sitting Bull's band. One month later the Commissioner of Indian Affairs called for the use of troops against those Indians. Also signed by Lieutenant William Badger a close friend of Custer who survived the Black Hills Campaign. His son Tom who filled out the body of this document became General Custer's personal secretary in 1876 and was killed at Little Big Horn. Also included: a Xerox of a rare photograph of the 7th cavalry 6th infantry in uniform with accoutrements all identified including Custer Badger and Poland. Partial tearing along one of the folds; otherwise near fine condition.<br/> <br/> unknown
1898214719Paris.: Erhard Frères. 1898. Lithographed folding colour map 44.5 x 49.5 cms; 54.6 x 76.3 cms sheet towns and cities items of production and trade routes highlighted in red original folds in very good clean condition. Detailed map prepared for the Lyon Chamber of Commerce Mission to China under the direction of a young Henri Brenier 1867-1962 with the purpose of advancing French colonial expansion and shoring up the interests of the dominant Lyon silk trade. <br> <br>The map shows the principal centres of population production waterways roads telegraph lines and railroads togther with the centres of production and distribution for coal iron tin gold and silver opium tea rice sugar peanuts cinnamon wool medicinal plants and leather. The trade mission was organized following the Treaty of Shimonoseki and the end of the Sino-Japanese War: the Chamber of Commerce of Lyon understood that end of this war would signal a profound economic development and change. . Erhard Frères hardcover
1855466Chicago: ICRR 1855. Broadside sheet. 280 x 195 mm. 11 x 8 /12 inches. Printed on blue paper folded brown stain in center portion of the sheet otherwise quite a good sound copy. Rare ICRR broadside containing instructions to their agents regarding freight accounts and passenger business with emphasis on recording and submitting Monthly Reports on all activities at their stations. It is signed by R. B. Mason General Sup't and though undated is from the early 1850's. Col. Roswell B. Mason was associated with the Illinois Central Rail Road from its inception overseeing construction of the line from 1852 to 1856 until he resigned in 1869 to become Mayor of Chicago. He was mayor during the fire of 1871 and used his power to declare martial law in its immediate aftermath. It is known that Abraham Lincoln served as counsel for Illinois Central in the early 1850s earning a fee of $5000 that occasion a law suit for nonpayment. Rare: this broadside in not among the Illinois Central Rail Road publications of the 1850s listed in OCLC. Not in Checklist of Ante-Fire Imprints 1851-1871. Not in Byrd Cecil B. Bibliography of Illinois Imprints 1814-1858 although three similar broadsides issued by Roswell Mason as General Superintendent are cited published in 1852 2 and 1855 1 all of which are in single copies at the Chicago Historical Society. (ICRR unknown
