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Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1759. First American edition (and the fifth overall). A collectible copy from America's first Renaissance Man. The Society of Friends commissioned 4000 copies of this pamphlet, and they hired Benjamin Franklin's printing company to do the work, seventeen years before Franklin would edit and then sign the Declaration of Independence. In addition to Franklin's many civic, diplomatic, and scientific achievements, he was a successful entrepreneur in colonial America-his printing company made him rich. "By these Things it is evident, that Christ's Baptism and John's are distinct; and therefore as what God hath joined, no Man ought to put asunder; so what God hath put asunder, no Man ought to join..." (p 12). 4-3/4 by 7-1/4 inches. iv, 5-43, [1] pages. First American Edition. Text block tanned and foxed here and there. Generally very good and complete in a mid-20th century binding of half calf and brown cloth. Outer joints cracking, but sound. Previous owner's… Leer más

Philadelphia: Printed by T. & G. Palmer, 1811. First Edition. Good. Volume I contains "The Spanish Language", "La gramática inglesa", and "The English Reader." Volume II contains "The Analysis of the Parts of Speech", "Spanish Syntax Made Easy", "The Commercial Secretary", and "El lector español." This is a very early American guide to learning Spanish, based on a system for teaching French developed by Nicolas Dufief. The authors were Manuel de Torres, a Spaniard living in exile in Philadelphia because of his involvement in Latin American independence movements, and Louis Hargous, a Spanish and French teacher at Princeton. For more on Torres and his connection to Latin American independence movements, see Raúl Coronado's A World Not to Come, pp. 152ff. Two volumes: xxxii, 557, [1]; [ix], 530, [3] pages. Bound in contemporary sheep with red spine labels. Outer joints cracked; old dampstaining to many leaves; generally a good, solid set. This set has the ownership signature of Enos Chandler… Leer más

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1907. Hardcover. Very good. The author imagines a remarkable dinner party in the American colonies just before the American Revolution. Red cloth with spine label; frontispiece illustration; 77 pages. Typography by Bruce Rogers. One of 550 copies. First edition (first printing). A very good copy with some nicks to the edges.

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1932. 159, [1] pages. Printed front cover; blank rear cover. Stapled signatures; no separate covers, as issued. Transcripts of hearings on the falling price of silver (which would hit a record low of 25 cents per ounce by the end of the year, resulting in Roosevelt's nationalization of silver and a federal redeption of silver at 50 cents per ounce. Several people who testified at these hearings discussed the falling Chinese demand for silver as part of the international problem during the Great Depression. Very good. Staples a bit rusted.

[Washington, DC]: (n.p.), 1871. First Edition. Pamphlet. Near fine. A plea from a Cherokee leader, the son of the assassinated tribal leader and Cherokee Phoenix editor of the same name, to have Congress intervene in support of dropping criminal charges against him lodged in a dispute over tobacco taxes and Native sovereignty. In this statement to Congress, Boudinot protests his poor treatment as one of the first Native Americans to go into manufacturing (the production of tobacco products in present-day Oklahoma), and he makes one of his first pitches for Native citizenship, a cause he would pursue the rest of his life. "Your memorialist, however, with indescribably mortification represents that instead of receiving the plaudits, congratulations, and commendations of a country for having established the ability of an Indian to manufacture products for his own people, the doors of a penitentiary in a neighboring state are thrown wide to receive him..." He then expresses support for Native American… Leer más

[Washington, DC]: (n.p.), 1870. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. It is our desire to promote the settlement of these Indians upon farms, and secure their support from the labor of their own hands," wrote the members of the Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs. The group had been formed under President Ulysses S. Grant, who in an attempt to secure peace on the Plains authorized a group of Quakers to oversee Native American affairs in Kansas and the Indian Territory. This publication prints the Quakers' request for funds to help settle 10,000 members of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Sac, and Fox tribes in Indian territory and to begin the process of teaching them to farm. The logic behind the request was the considerable sum, estimated here at $200,000 per year, required just to ship food from the nearest rail line to the Native American settlements in the Indian Territory. Farming was the only alternative, the Committee of Friends said, "unless we are… Leer más

Philadelphia: T. S. Manning, Printer [for the Philadelphia Bar], 1830. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. A eulogy for Judge Bushrod Washington (1762-1829), who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1798 until his death. His uncle was George Washington, and Bushrod inherited Mount Vernon and the rest of President Washington's estate. Hopkinson provides a brief biography of Bushrod and includes a page or so about George Washington. He also describes in detail one case that Bushrod heard, a complex dispute over the ownership of a British ship seized by privateers during the Revolutionary War. Hopkinson (1770-1842) served in the US House of Representatives and as a federal court judge. His father, Francis Hopkinson, was a signor of the Declaration of Independence. [9], 10-32 pages. First edition (first printing). This was one of Hopkinson's own copies and was acquired from his descendants. it is bound in the original plain wrappers, sewn with cord. The word "chief" is crossed out in… Leer más

[Philadelphia?]: (n.p.), 1829. First Edition. Near fine. An appeal for religious faith over theology. "I have all my life avoided all knotty and disputed points of religion. I argue with nobody about the trinity or the unity of the Godhead; the mysteries of free knowledge and free will; or the profound doctrine of the atonement by the death of Christ... I profess not to understand them; and I know that much wiser and stronger men have come to no understanding about them, after centuries of learned and intolerant disputation, in which rivers of blood as well as of ink, have flowed in support of this savage and unchristian warfare... I consider religion to have nothing to do with the conflicts of theologians." Hopkinson (1770-1842) served in the US House of Representatives and as a federal court judge. His father, Francis Hopkinson, was a signor of the Declaration of Independence. A single sheet folded to make four pages. First edition. An attractive copy with mild foxing; unbound and untrimmed, as issued. Leer más

1895. Five views of Lake Worth Beach and Palm Beach in 1895. The images are: 1) Ferry at Lake Worth with the Royal Poinciana Hotel in the distance. Captioned in the negative, "L.W.B. 9.14.95"; 2) Lake Worth with the Royal Poinciana Hotel in the distance. Captioned in the negative, "L.W.B. 9.24.95"; 3) View of Lake Worth with a pier in the foreground, possibly taken from a boat. Captioned in the negative, "L.W.B. 10.9.95"; 4) Sail boat in front of the Royal Poinciana, captioned in the negative, "Lake Worth" (two versions, with different exposure times) 5) View of the Palm Beach Inn (?), later renamed The Breakers, under construction with the Royal Poinciana in the background (not dated, but the hotel opened in December 1895). The negatives these views were printed from are of somewhat unusual size, measuring roughly 4-3/4 by 7-3/4 inches. All but one view have a horizontal orientation. Given that this size does not seem to conform to the standard halfplate negative (usually 5-1/2 to 6-1/2 inches in… Leer más

Hagerstown, MD: Dixie Press, 1973. Hardcover. Very good. A genealogy plus the First Supplement, an index to the main text and the supplement, and an addenda with updates to 1972. [10], 253, [44 - photos], [2], 210, [2], 32, vii, [3], 6 pages. Shelfwear to covers; generally a very good, clean hardcover copy.

Charleston: Steam Power Press of Walker, Evans & Co, 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. A Southerner argues that a revived foreign slave trade was crucial to the Southern economy. Spratt believed that bringing newly enslaved people to the US from Africa would reduce the price of slaves in the United States, lower labor costs, and put enslavement of Africans within the economic reach of the average Southern man. His views were not widely adopted, in large part because existing enslavers did not want to see their property devalued. Indeed, Virginia joined the Confederacy with the condition that the ban on imported slaves would be continued (see Conrad, In the Hands of Strangers, p. 427-428). Sabin 89749. 31 pages. First edition. Very good in original string-tied self wrappers. Old address and postmark on the blank back cover; the postage stamp has been removed.

[Washington, D.C.?]: (n.p.), 1871. First Edition. Pamphlet. A four-part defense of the Freedmen's Bureau and its head, Major General Oliver O. Howard, spurred by a proposed amendment to cut the $5,000 budget for the hospital in Washington, D.C. and a speech accusing the agency of "plundering the public treasuring." The Freedmen's Bureau was a Reconstruction-era agency set up to assist the formerly enslaved citizens of the country following the Civil War. 8 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy; a single sheet, folded to make eight pages, as issued.

New Orleans: Headquarters, Department of the Gulf, 1862. Ephemera. Fine. An order from the Union Army in charge of New Orleans implementing new rules for enslaved people held in the jail. At the time of the Union occupation of New Orleans, slaves could be imprisoned for committing crimes, but their enslavers could also hire them out to the municipal work gang and they would be housed in the jail as inmates when they were not working (see Records of Correctional Institutions in the City Archives, New Orleans Public Library). The new orders printed here required enslavers to pre-pay the costs of imprisoning their slaves, "the slave to be released when the money is exhausted." Any enslaved person whose cost of maintenance is not paid within 10 days should "be discharged." The explanation turned the logic of slavery on itself, reflecting the weak hold enslavers had on their human property following the publication of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation and in light of the protections offered to… Leer más

Seattle and Portland: Lindsay Publishing Company, 1910. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. This is a romance set in Seattle and on Puget Sound, with some scenes in San Francisco. The plot follows two friends, both doctors, whose families intermarry in 1909. The author seems to be the wife of Dr. A. A. Lindsay, a physician operating out the the Savoy Hotel in Seattle who published many tracts on health. 150 pages; frontispiece portrait of the author, and one page of ads for other Lindsay Publishing books. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers; many pages roughly opened with tears along the bottom edge.

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1934. First Edition. Near fine. 33 pages. Statement of John Janney, Chairman of the Executive Board of the American Society of Practical Economists. Testimony before Congress on the possible effects of taking the US off the gold standard, which happened a few weeks later. This separate publication does not appear to be catalogued on OCLC. First edition (first printing). Near fine in self wrappers.

Waco, TX: (the author?), 1960. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. A speech delivered before the Open Forum, Austin, Texas, March 8, 1960. 14 pages. Reproduced from typescript. One of 200 signed and numbered copies. First edition (first printing). A very good copy (spine fold wearing). This is copy 53 of 200 signed by Daniel.

Tokyo: Hakubunkan, 1906. First Edition. Trade paperback. Good. A scarce and interesting look at a Japanese laborer's view of the possibilities of working in America at the height of Japanese immigration to this country. "Based on the author's 4-year personal experience in America, this book presents facts on labor conditions and wages by skilled versus unskilled, urban versus rural job categories and on the prospects for employment for Japanese workers."-A Buried Past, 120. Kawamura (who shares a name with a well-known Japanese banker) provides one of the most detailed guides to working in the United States published in the Meiji era, just before the Gentlemen's Agreement severely restricted Japanese immigration to the United States. He provides anecdotal and detailed information on dozens of professions and industries in the United States accessible to Japanese immigrants, from work in mines and railroads to farming (with separate entries for dozens of crops) to service jobs in cities. He seems… Leer más

Tokyo: Hakubunkan, 1906. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good/Very good. A scarce and interesting look at a Japanese laborer's view of the possibilities of working in America at the height of Japanese immigration to this country. "Based on the author's 4-year personal experience in America, this book presents facts on labor conditions and wages by skilled versus unskilled, urban versus rural job categories and on the prospects for employment for Japanese workers."-A Buried Past, 120. Kawamura (who shares a name with a well-known Japanese banker) provides one of the most detailed guides to working in the United States published in the Meiji era, just before the Gentlemen's Agreement severely restricted Japanese immigration to the United States. He provides anecdotal and detailed information on dozens of professions and industries in the United States accessible to Japanese immigrants, from work in mines and railroads to farming (with separate entries for dozens of crops) to service jobs in… Leer más

New York: Harper Collins, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. An attractive set of this collection of photographs of Hillerman's New Mexico, taken by his brother Barney. This set includes: 1) a "blad" for the book, a short excerpt issued by the publisher for promotional purposes. SIGNED by Tony on the title page. 2) A fine/fine first trade edition of the book, SIGNED by Tony. 3) A fine copy of the limited edition, bound in red cloth stamped in silver; housed in a near-fine slipcase. According to the blad, the limited edition was just 200 copies. Some copies of the limited edition were signed, but not all were (this is not). A nice set, housed in a custom clamshell box measuring roughly 14 by 10 by 4 inches.

Alcalá [Spain]: Imprenta de la Universidad, 1793. First Edition. Leather bound. Very good. A Spanish translation of the "best French chronicle of the Revolution [which is] particularly valuable on naval affairs"-Howes US-iana, L169 (also listing this edition). This edition does not have any maps, but consistent with its focus on naval action, it does include a large fold-out table of ships lost by each country. [viii], 161, [1], [2], 201, [errata] pages. Folding table. 6 by 8-1/2 inches. Translated from the French into Spanish. First edition (first printing). A very good copy bound in 19th-century tree calf with loss at the spine ends. Folding table with a four-inch tear at the attachment point, repaired on the verso with Japanese tissue. Volume I has a half-title; volume II does not, possibly as issued. The other copy I have seen also did not have a half-title in volume II.