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Williamsburg: Printed by William Rind. Printer to the Colony, 1772. . 2 volumes: [2] and 8 pp. and [2] and 51 pp. Folio in 2s, paper-covered boards, narrow leather backstrip; worn; contemporary ownership signature of Brightberry Brown on front pastedown; free endpapers lacking Berg 200 and 208; Evans 12265 and 12591. Acts in this format are extremely rare and are referred to as Òfugitive sheetsÓ or sessional laws they were printed up at the end of each session. Some of them were later collected into a codeÑone had been printed in 1769 and there was not another one done until 1785. Once collected into a code, many of the sessionals were discarded.Despite the wording of the title, there was never an index to the first publication which deals with the raising of public money to recompense tobacco farmers for crops burnt or lost at inspection warehousesÑa sum of £30,000 was authorized. The second title is the second issue of the 51 pp. edition with… Leer más

Woodstock, Virginia: Printed at the Tenth Legion Offices, 1861. . 16mo, buff wrappers, front detached; chipping and some dog-earing to covers and text; faint ownership signature of Wm. Bargelt on front cover No other copy located.The Muhlenburg Rifles was founded in 1859, but no previous by-laws have been found. This type of publication, bye-laws of militia regiments of the Civil War era, are extremely rare (a similar Virginia example that has survived is in the Boston Atheneum and is for the Rockingham Rifles of Harrisonburg, simply dated 1861 which Crandall included in her Confederate Imprints. It should be noted that she included several Southern imprints printed in 1861 with the notation "possibly printed before the secession."The By-Laws are largely concerned with behavior, the collection of fines, and schedules for parades and drills. Upon secession in April 1861 the Rifles reported for duty at Harper's Ferry and were assigned to the 10th Regiment, Virginia… Leer más

New York: 597 Fifth Avenue, 1916. . 5 large blue prints, varying sizes but medium is 33 1/2 x 21 5/8 and one smaller one, 22 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches. Some small segments missing, not affecting the images in any critical way; a few tears, all sheets have been de-acidified and are mounted to Japanese tissue 1. Elevations, front, back, and sides.2. Floor plans of basement, first and second floors3. Outside trim for veranda and side porch doors and door detail4. Details of typical double hung windows and outside trim5. Typical F.S.D. for Dining and Living Room--includes mantel details and chair rail, etc.6. Plumbing section.The house was designed for Roy Alexander Weagant, a Canadian radio engineer, working at this period for Marconi in New York. It was built in the part of Douglaston known as Douglas Manor in the Little Neck section of Queens.The central section of the house has a mansard roof and pillared veranda. There are two wings, that on the left… Leer más

Columbia: Printed at the Telescope Press, 1822. . 8vo in half-sheets, full contemporary calf, front cover stained; expertly rebacked, contemporary signature of J. H. Randolph and later signature in ballpoint; pages browned throughout Turnbull, Vol. II, p. 89; Sabin 87690 Preceded by the 1814 Digest by the same author which is not listed by Sabin.Relatively early for South Carolina and a book which is scarce in trade

Philadelphia: T. Williams, 1861. . Lithograph printed in four colors, 22 x 27 inches on a sheet measuring 23 7/8 x 29 1/2. Central large image and five smaller, all beneath the Stars and Stripes surmounted by the American Eagle. Recently de-acidified and backed with japanese tissue; some minor staining lightened; blind-stamp of the publisher at bottom right. Please see Marzio, Peter, The Democratic Art page 290, plate 28 (Peters Collection in the National Museum of History & Technology, Smithsonian Institution).The lithographer was Thomas S. Sinclair, a Scotsmen who trained in Edinburgh. He published another Queen hand-colored lithograph in 1861 entitled Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon of Philadelphia. See Peters, America on Stone, p. 368. He was one of the earliest color lithographers in this country.We have located three other copies: one each in the Otis Archives at the National Museum of Medicine and Health; the Library Company; and the Pennsylvania Historical… Leer más

Philadelphia: The Company, 1835. . Single sheet, hand-colored, 18 x 22 1/4 inches (folded to 5 1/4x 3 1/4 inches) 16mo, full straight-grained scarlet morocco, gilt title on front and ornate gilt rules on both covers; expert repairs in folds and one other 3-inch repair, barely discernible One copy, mounted to canvas, located at Dartmouth. Not an reissue of the 1831 map, but re-engraved with 3 inserts for: Louisville, Nashville and Frankfort and Lexington.A contemporary owner, Olmsted Baker, made several notations in pencil on the verso of the map, including "Visited the Hermitage March 9m 1836", we have been unable to find a connection between Andrew Jackson and Mr. Baker.

S.l.:: s.n.,, 1882-1900.. . Single sheet of gray paper, printed on one side only, 9 3/8 5 7/8 inches, small chip out of left-hand margin and small loss to one corner; unevenly printed with a surprising number of different fonts and sizes. Unrecorded imprint.It is possible that this notice with, the place and date left blank. was for a traveling religious tableau and lecture to be undertaken, perhaps in the North, to raise money for African missionaries, for there seems to be a thread of African-related work suggested in the choice of the men included.After describing the tableaux depicting various elements in the Life of Moses, there is scheduled a homage made to two recently dead Baptist Preachers: Edenborough G. Corprew who died in Portsmouth, Virginia and Solomon Cosby, a Danville, Virginia native who died in Abeokuta, West Africa, aged 31. Both men died in 1881.Also mentioned in the broadside is John Jasper (1812–1901), another prominent Virginia Baptist Preacher, best remembered for… Leer más

London: D. Browne, 1721. . Single sheet, 23 3/8 x 19 1/8 inches (measurement of plate marks); contemporary hand-coloring, has been folded into 16 panels which has resulted in some offset of the contemporary coloring onto other parts of the map; some minor foxing From Senex's 1721 General Atlas. On laid paper with old library markings on the verso, but no release stamp and no attribution as to which libraryÑbeen in the possession of this company for over 30 years.

London:: Printed for J. Baker at the Black Boy in Pater-Noster Row, ,.. Not illustrated, Parts I & II of three. 8vo, modern gray plain wrappers, title and final leaf of Part I darkened by previous binding. FIRST EDITIONS. Part I is the edition having a title vignette composed of flowers and leaves and with no sun, no priority established.The White Staff is the symbol of office of the Lord High Treasurer and in this instance, refers to Robert Harley (Earl of Oxford), the Tory politician who had successfully negotiated in 1713 with the French, the Treaty of Utrecht, which ended the War of the Spanish Succession. Defoe’s release from prison in 1703 had been due to Harley’s intervention and as a result, the author was paid to write complimentary pamphlets about the government. Harley lost Queen Anne's patronage just before she died and was forced into retirement; the Secret History was intended to gain the public’s support, however, as it appeared anonymously, and most considered that it had… Leer más

New York: Derrydale Press, 1930. . Hand-colored engraving, platemark 13 5/8 x 19 1/2 inches SIGNED IN PENCIL, lower left. One of a set of four, in an edition of 175.

[San Francisco:: The Railroad] A. H. Printing Co., ., Cincinnati, O.,.. Illustrated with halftones; [ii] and 76 pp. 8vo, limp, tan full simulated leather, title in gilt on front cover, together with stamped presentation statement; spine expertly rebacked; very small piece lacking from top outer corner. Institutionally common, scarce in trade. This is the original edition, NOT a print-on-demand book.Philadelphia-born Hiram Sellers Kneedler (1859/60–1941 was a Newspaper editor and publisher who owned various newspapers in Iowa, including the The Times in Cherokee and The Boone Republican and who wrote several travel books for the railroads. In 1913 he uprooted his family, and drove them all in his 1913 Studebaker to California where he stayed for about 10 years doing various jobs including working on newspapers and becoming Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce for San Bernardino, California. He then returned to Eldora, Iowa and brought The Ledger. At some point he moved back to California and he… Leer más

New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. . 8vo, green cloth, stamped in yellow and red, corners a trifle bumped, t.e.black; rear inner hinge cracked but firm; half-morocco slipcase with cloth chemise FIRST EDITION of the author's first book; first state of the text in the first state of the binding with the ear of corn pointing up; ownership signature of Elizabeth F. M. HuntLAID INÑLemperly's bookplate signed by the author and an A.L.s, 1 1/2 pp. 1100 North Pennsylvania Street, July 5, 1900:"I very gladly sign your label which I enclose, and also allow me to congratulate you on the very artistic design [E. D. French 1900]."About the first edition of 'The Gentleman from Indiana': I do not know where a copy is obtainable yet there should be no difficulty about it, since it was a large edition, 5,000. I fancy Mr. J. L. Thompson (of Doubleday, Page & Co...N.Y. City) would know just where to find one...| Thanking you for your interest,… Leer más

New York:: [The Auhor],.. Single sheet printed on both sides, 7 5 3/8 inches; tiny piece lacking from one corner. Pencil notes by [?]Train on one side. . On one side of the handbill is a letter from the lawyer of the owners of the Woodhull Claflin Weekly, (two sisters, Victoria Woodhill and Tennessee Claflin) to Train, informing him that “The Bondsmen for my clients…utterly refuse that “The Train Ligue” should be sold on their premises…and you therefore will have to change the agency….”The second side outlines the contents of No. 1 and No.2 of the Ligue, both entitled “Woodhull & Claflin in the Bastille” and each having different additional articles. This handbill goes to the center of one of the most publicized and notorious scandals of the late 19th century. The Woodhull Claflin Weekly had, just a month earlier, published an account of the extra marital affair between Henry Ward Beecher, one of America’s best known clergymen (and the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe)… Leer más

London: Charles Buckton and Sold by F. Wingrave, 1792. . 4to in twos, contemporary calf, expertly rebacked with part of original spine laid down; new endpapers; ex-library with only very discrete rubberstamps on the Dedication page; some early repairs to marginal tears 

Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. . 2 volumes. 8vo, purple cloth-backed original pale green boards, soiled; brown leather labels, chipped; endpapers darkened, minimal foxing; throughout; front inner hinge of Vol. I cracked, but firm; title of Vol. I waterstained FIRST EDITION. BAL 11040 (this binding not described), this set without the advertisements in Volume II.First separate work by this energetic man of letters who was by turns, a lawyer, a politician serving in the Maryland House of Delegates and as a Congressman for three terms. He was Fillmore's Secretary of the Navy and organized Perry's expedition to Japan and Kane's second Arctic voyage. He was a Union supporter despite his mother coming from a prominent Virginia family--he wrote a chapter of Thackeray's Virginians, and was a friend of Irving and Cooper

Hamburg: Friedrich Perthes, 1825. . 8vo, modern paper-covered blue boards; original leather label on spine; some foxing, some waterstaining; a tight good copy First German edition, originally published in Edinburgh in 1823.Important whaling voyage. Four plates of snow crystals

London: Printed for J. Wright...by John Dean, 1800. . 4to, full contemporary calf boards, expertly rebacked and with new endpapers; minor worming in margins of first several signatures Sabin 19984

Hartford: Belknap and Hamersley, 1849. . 12mo in half-sheets, dark-brown cloth, corners abraded, top and bottom of spine lacking 1/8 inch Sabin 15074; Cowan p. 149

London:: Printed for R. Baldwin at the Rose in Pater-Noster-Row,.. Tailpiece decorations at the end of most chapters; viii and 88 pp. 12mo, full contemporary calf, very worn; spine largely lacking but both front and rear hinges holding. Book ticket of M. Wright [of] Lichfield (U.K.) on front pastedown and ownership signature of Mary Wright, dated July 1768 above the ticket. Modern gift presentation on front free endpaper and early ownership signature on title of another Lichfield woman. OCLC lists 3 copies of this edition: British Library (2 copies) and Michigan State. Extremely popular work, both in Britain and in the United States, first published in 1753, it went into eighteen editions by 1831—nine of them being American. A scarce book in any of the early editions.Kenrick chose as his template for this courtesy book the first part of an anonymous 1695 work The whole duty of a woman, or, A guide to the female sex: from the age of sixteen, to sixty &c.. . .With the whole art of cookery,… Leer más

[Salem?]: T. C. Cushing, 1801. . pp. [1-3], 4Ð20, [2 blank leaves], [20], 21Ð27 [28Ð30Ñblank]). 12mo, contemporary marbled wrappers Not in Sabin, OCLC nor in NUC; American Imprints 1293ÑEssex Institute only. The Laws together with membership lists were printed at various times, copies for the following years have been found, usually in one copy only: 1784; 1790; 1807 and 1838.Pages 3Ð9 contain the laws of this benevolent society; pages 9Ð20 list the 249 past and present members of the societyÑthose that are deceased are marked with an asterisk and those who left the society are marked with a dagger. Pages [21]Ð27 contain "The Several Acts of the General Court Relating to the Society"