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ORIGINAL ART BAKING Reliable Flour Company
c. 1910. Two individual 20 x 12.5 cm. hand drawn mock-ups illustrations presumably for pamphlet cover art; done in pencil. One 20 x 12.5 cm. color printers proof of pamphlet cover art and Nine identical pamphlets - Reliable Measuring Cup - an offshoot of the Reliable Flour Company a Boston based business. <br/><br/> unknown books
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San Francisco Local History. Robinson G. H Letter Carrier No. 56
U. S. MAIL OFFICIAL POSTAL GUIDE. Published by the Authority of the Postoffice Department at Washington Under the Supervision of the Postoffice of San Francisco. 1893
San Francisco: Cooperative Printing Co. Publishers 408 Sacramento 1892. 1st Edition thus. Not in Rocq though see 12628 for one the year prior. Blue paper covers printed in black & dark blue. Rear cover with advert for Lohengin beer "The Most Popular Beer Today". Booklet now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. General wear & soiling to wrappers. "Compliments of" inscription at top of front cover from "Letter Carrier No. 56". Last leaf with hole in center affecting text. With a nod to the imperfect last leaf an otherwise VG copy. 96 pp. Tipped-in advert leaf printed on pink paper after p. 4. Adverts throughout. Contains a b/w half-tone photographic image of all local post office branches. 10" x 6-1/2" <br/><br/>Contains information on stations rates regulations arrival times foreign mail lists of offices in California Arizona and Oregon with the publication's stated objective being "to furnish accurate and reliable information upon all matters relating to the Postal Service. . it is believed that a publication of this kind will recommend itself to the business community of San Francisco and the Pacific Coast and that its usefulness and reliability will make it invaluable to all who use the mails." <br /> <br />Research suggests this "annual" only published for 4 years ending with the 1894 "Souvenir" edition. All issues rare recorded by OCLC in only a handful of copies with this 1893 showing just 2 holdings. <br /> <br />As the publisher stated an "invaluable" resource for information regarding San Francisco of the early 1890s. Cooperative Printing Co., Publishers, 408 Sacramento unknown books
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Bookbinding History
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BOOKBINDING. An Exhibition Organized by the Grolier Club
New York: The Grolier Club 1990. 1st Edition. Maroon wrappers printed in white. A Fine copy. Unpaginated. Useful "Index to Binders" at rear with short bio for each individual. Profusely illustrated with much in color. Square 8vo 8" x 8" <br/><br/> The Grolier Club unknown books
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Early Printed; History
Antiquitatum Variarum Autores. Quorum catalogum sequens continet pagella
Lugduni: apud Seb. Gryphium 1552. Hardcover. Good. 16mo. pp. 887. Old leather with attractive decorative endpapers. Contents shaken with a few leaves loose. Uncommon pocket edition of this ancient history miscellany. <br/><br/> apud Seb. Gryphium hardcover books
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20th C. US. Dairy Industry History U. S.
SCRAPBOOK Of MILK & CREAM BOTTLE CAPS / TOPS
n. p. 1938. Album two-toned green & white faux leather internal string tie. Color pictorial onlay to front cover chipped at bottom. Album shows wear & soiling with mounting paper age-toned & brittle showing a bit of edge-chipping. Penciled to front cover inside: "Sept 1938". Tops used though generally in Very Good condition. 55 leaves of mounting paper of which 24 have a total of 262 circular printed paper / foil milk bottle tops mounted 9 - 15 per page all mounted on leaf recto. Album: 14" x 10-5/8". Tops: various sizes & colors 2-7/8" - 4-1/8" <br/><br/>A no-doubt unique collection of milk bottle tops / caps from the late 1930s generally from the North East U.S. e.g. Sheffield Farms Maplehurst; R. G. Miller & Sons Hartford CT; New London & Mohegan Dairies Inc. New London CT. That said we find others from as far afield as A. R. Beavers & Sons North Tazewell VA & Superior Dairies Inc St. Augustine FL. <br /> <br />It been opined that this was a collection from the printer of these tops though that factoid while plausible is unproven. hardcover books
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Los Angeles Local History
INTERIOR VIEW - F. M. REICH JEWELRY STORE.; "The FAIR 226 S. SPRING L.A." penciled verso annotation
Los Angeles n. d. Ca 1910. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Slight bow to mount with some edgewear not for the most part affecting the image bump to lower right corner. Yellowing to image which has a small chip to right side primarily in margin. Some unobtrusive staining & spotting to verso. Overall Very Good. Single b/w albumen photograph with dark brown mount. Verso blank. Landscape orientation: 10-1/4" x 13-3/4" <br/><br/>NB. We were able to locate an early 20th C. advert "Land of Sunshine" v. 12 for this firm which at that time listed its address as 235 S. Spring Street. <br /> <br />Research suggests the firm was relatively short-lived as we found no listings for it in LA Business Directories for 1905 & 1915 with the 1910 directory giving an address for the firm of 235 S. Spring Street. unknown books
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California History. Boynton George W. fl. 1831 1884 Engraver. Leavitt Dudley 1772 1851 Publisher
Mining Regions of California" as published in. Leavitt's FARMER'S ALMANACK And Miscellaneous Year Book for the Year of Our Lord 1853 . Containing a New Map of California
Boston: Edward Livermore 5 Cornhill 1852. 1st printing of this issue Wheat Maps of the Gold Rush 212. Cf Drake 4698 for the 1797 first edition. Printed self-wrappers stitched with hanging cord to top left corner of text. Publisher advert to rear wrapper. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Expected age-toning & foxing. Two small semi-circular pieces from top edge of front wrapper. 3 stab holes along spine. Some slightly dog-earred leaves at bottom. Overall a respectable all-original VG copy of this rare survivor. 48 pp including wrappers untrimmed. CA descriptive text p. 39 providing details on local gold rush municipalities: San Francisco "principal port of entry" Sacramento City "near the celebrated Sutter's Fort where the first discoveries of gold in California were made" Stockton "third city of note in the state . it is the great depot for all the southern mines" Vallejo "capital of the state" Benicia "navy station and arsenal here" San Jose "a very beautiful and desirable place of residence" Mayrsville "a place of growing importance" & Mariposa City "it was near this place that the first vein mine was opened and machinery put up for crushing the ore.". Front wrapper with pastoral oval woodcut. Other cuts throughout text. Map p. 38 depicting San Luis Obispo to the south to Shasta in the north; the CA coast with San Francisco in the center to the west and east to Calveras 42.5W from Washington. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/>Leavitt begain publishing his almanack in 1797 and in this issue's introductory remarks he states "Within a few past years the tide of emigration has been so great from the New England States to the shores of the Pacific that at the present time there is scarcely a family in our midst but what is represented by some one or more of its members or relatives in the golden region. We have judged it not inappropriate to insert in this number of the Almanac a new correct and reliable map of California drawn and engraved expressly for this work showing the principal cities and towns distances between which may be found by the scale on the map and trust it may be of service to many." <br /> <br />A map infrequently seen on the commercial market with the last auction appearance per ABPC coming in 1996 with RBH recording just one prior occurence: 1959. Edward Livermore, 5 Cornhill unknown books
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Lyceum of Natural History New York NY. John James Audubon 1785 1851 N. Y.
Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New-York. Volume 1
New York: Printed for the Lyceum by J. Seymour and sold by WIlder & Campbell 1825. Hardcover. Good. This volume only. illustrations index 410p. plus 29 plates all but three in black and white. Contemporary 1/4 leather black with marbled boards. End papers heavily foxed. Mostly moderate browning foxing and soiling on text and plates. Former owner's name "Wm. S. Sullivant" -- perhaps the Ohio bryologist in light pencil on title-page Includes two contributions by John J. Audubon "Notes on the Hirundo Fulva" at pages 163-166 and "Facts and Observations on the Permanent Residence of the Swallow in the United States" at pages 166-168. <br/><br/> Printed for the Lyceum, by J. Seymour, and sold by WIlder & Campbell hardcover books
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American Museum of Natural History New York
Results of the Puritan-American Museum of Natural History Expedition to Western Mexico 1957. Vol. 1 Nos. 1-20 1958-1964
New York 1957. Hardcover. Good. Large 8vo. Later black buckram. Ex lib. These were issued as whole numbers of American Museum Novitiates Nos. 1894 1895 1899 1903 1940 1969 1973 1992 1995 2013 2053 2084 2112 2136 2144 2153 2202 and as issues of the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Vol. 118 article 7; Vol. 119 article 2; and Vol. 123 article 5. <br/><br/> hardcover books
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Mary Ellen Miller
The Murals of Bonampak
Princeton: Princeton University Press 1986. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. A near fine first edition in a near fine dust jacket. Russet cloth boards. White end papers. From the private library of Larry Southwick collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge no other markings. Binding sound square and sturdy. Foxing top edge interior pages clean and bright. Sunning to spine edge of dust jacket. 176 pp. followed by 63 pp. plates many in color. Also illustrated with 53 figures and drawings. Quarto 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall. Princeton University Press hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 271 ISBN : 0691040338 9780691040332
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Beecher Henry Ward
Star Papers; or Experiences of Life and Art SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY
New York: J.C. Derby 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 359 pp in publishers's blind-stamped cloth. Spine faded and chipped at head and foot corners rubbed through. Binding tight text clean. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "Miss Esther Church with the kind regard of the Author H.W. Beecher." Esther Church later Esther Church Conant appears briefly in the Beecher Family Papers held at Yale so was presumably an acquaintance. Beecher 1813-1877 was an outspoken preacher and social reformer and also a talented writer. This book contains a selection of his weekly columns in The New York Independent a widely read Congregational newspaper in which he "promoted his genial vision of a new Romantic Christianity; focused on God's love for humankind; and stressed to an urban audience the regenerative power of Nature" ANB. The essays collected here deal primarily with rural lif and the natural world though there is also a short section titled "Letters from Europe" that discusses art in the great museums of England and France. J.C. Derby hardcover books
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Homes of American Authors; Comprising Anecdotical Personal and Descriptive Sketches by Various Writers. Illustrated with Views of their Residences from Original Drawings and a Fac-Simile of the Manuscript of Each Author
New York: G.P. Putnam 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. viii 366 pp with 19 steel-engraved plates portraits and views of the authors' homes 14 wood-engraved vignettes of which 7 are printed in color and 16 facsimiles. A handsome copy in publisher's full morocco with stamped decoration and raised bands all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Some scuffing to the leather occasional light foxing; else very clean and sound. Includes chapters on Audubon Paulding Irving Bancroft Bryant Dana Prescott Sedgwick Cooper Everett Emerson Simms Longfellow Hawthorne Webster Kennedy and Lowell. The chapter on Emerson also includes some discussion of Thoreau who "lives in the berry-pasture upon a bank over Walden Pond and in a little house of his own building." BAL 1345; Bennett p. 58. G.P. Putnam hardcover books
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General Laws of the Seventh Legislature of the State of Texas
Austin: John Marshall & Co. State Printers 1858. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. pp 284 ix index in original sewn wrappers. Rear wrapper and final page of index detached but present some light staining to front wrapper and lower corner of first 40 pp not affecting text otherwise quite clean. Stitching loosening but holdng. Includes "An Act to Establish the University of Texas approved on February 11 1858 which set aside $100000 in United States bonds toward construction of the state's first publicly funded university. Also acts relating to the incorporation and relief of several different railroads; creating the counties of Archer Mason Menard Zapata Hardin Hamilton Kimble and Buchanan; and "An Act to permit free persons of African descent to select their own master and become slaves" approved on January 27 1858. Similar acts allowing for voluntary enslavement were passed in Florida and Tennessee the same year. Also noteworthy is a 43-page act supplementing and amending the Texas Penal Code that had been established in 1856 which provides an extensive list of criminal offenses and their statutory punishments including those for unlawful i.e mixed race marriage and a number of slavery-related offense. These are divided into those committed by whites inciting insurrection illegal transportation of slaves stealing or enticing a slave harboring runaways conducting business with slaves undue cruelty to and torture of slaves and those committed by slaves or free persons of color. Winkler 1071. John Marshall & Co., State Printers unknown books
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Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon. Foot of Washington St. Philadelphia
Philadelphia: Ives pr. & stationer 1862. Folding trade card 2.5 x 3.75 inches with views of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and the attached hospital on the front and back and text inside. Light soiling; very good. The Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon was "staffed by volunteers and provided relief for Union troops on their way to or returning from battlefields in the South. Its services included warm meals temporary housing medical services and washing facilities. From its opening on May 27 1861 to its closing on December 1 1865 over 800000 men were assisted in this saloon and served over 1025000 meals" Smithsonian. This card was made specifically for the 50th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers who spent December 20th 1862 to January 7th 1863 in Philadelphia before departing by sea for duty in the Port Hudson Campaign in Louisiana. The unit's regimental historian later noted that the regiment "received every attention and the most generous hospitality" at both the Union Saloon and the nearby Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and concluded that "words can hardly express the kindness lavished upon the soldiers by the people of this patriotic city during the war." The interior of the card welcomes the regiment includes a roster of the field staff and line officers present in Philadelphia and provides a list of places of interest that soldiers might wish to visit while in the city. Ives pr. & stationer unknown books
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A Rudimentary Manual of Architecture Being A History and Explanation of the Principal Styles of European Architecture Ancient M
Mitchell Thomas
London: Longmans Green 1870. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG`. 8vo pub brown cloth blind rules gilt tites spine coated endpapers xiv 304p illustrated. Slightest wear to spine ends nd corners some light fozxing largely confined to prelims and rears solidly bound. uncommon Mitchell title. Longmans, Green hardcover books
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Berquin M. Arnaud 1747 1791
Recueil Dramatique; or Choix De Petites Pieces De Theatre De Berquin; Avec Une Liste Alphabetique Des Idiotismes Qui S'y Trouvent: a l'Usage Des Etadians De La Langue Francaise
Philadelphia: Henry Perkins 1838. First Edition. Publisher's Binding. VG-. Scarce American publication derived from Berquin's "L'Ami Enfans' constituting an instructional manual for young people using French drama especially Moliere to elucidate moral and historical principle. 12mo 330 pages in original publisher's binding pebbled cloth and gilt-ruled leather spine. Some loss at spine head still firmly bound. Internal spotting here and there but overall a solid unsophisticated original binding. "From the publisher" pencilled on ffe. 20thC bookplate pastedown. OCLC lists only 3 copies. Henry Perkins unknown books
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Methodist Episcopal Church
The Youth's Instructer and Guardian Volume 3 Numbers 7-12
Np: Published for Methodist Episcopal Church printer not identified 1825. First Editions. Half Leather. Good. Six monthly issues July 1825 to December 1825 Volume 3 Numbers 7 - 12 pp 217 - 428 429-432 contents issued by the Methodist Episcopal Church bound in one volume 12mo half-leather over marbelized paper-covered boards. Worn but firmlly bound with scattered foxing. Contemporary bookplate of the Sunday School Library of the Methodist Episcopal Church with very specfic instructions to borrowers about how to read and care for books in their loaned possession. Published for Methodist Episcopal Church (printer not identified) unknown books
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Methodist Episcopal Church
Youth's Instructer and Sabbath School and Bible Class Assistant Volume 2 Numbers 7-12
Np: Published for Methodist Episcopal Church printer not identified 1830. First Editions. Half Leather. Good. Six monthly issues October 1830 to March 1831 Volume 2 Numbers 7 - 12 pages 217 - 432 issued by the Methodist Episcopal Church bound in one volume 12mo half-leather over marbelized paper-covered boards. Worn but firmlly bound with scattered foxing. Contemporary bookplate of the Sunday School Library of the Methodist Episcopal Church with very specfic instructions to borrowers about how to read and care for books in their loaned possession. Published for Methodist Episcopal Church (printer not identified) unknown books
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Frost J. L. L. D. ed
Heroes of the Revolution: Comprising Lives of Officers
NY: Saxton and Miles 1844. First Edition. Publishers Cloth. VG-. First eedition 12mo 240p publisher's brown ribbed cloth blind pressed front and rear gilt to spine. Moderate foxing throughout yet firmly bound. Saxton and Miles unknown books
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More Hannah
Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education with a View of the Principls and Conduct Prevalent Among Women of Rank and Fortune
Hartford: John Babcock 1801. First Edition Thus. Calf Backstrip Marble. Boards. VG. 2 volumes printed in one 12mo original or contemporary mottled calf edgeworn and some loss spine tips solidly bound. 288 pages internals toned but unfoxed. Previous owner inscription at ffe dated 1810. John Babcock unknown books
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Quaife Milo Milton edited by
The Early Day of Rock Island and Davenport: The Narratives of J. W. Spencer and J. M. D. Burrows
Chicago: The Lakeside Press/ R. R. Donnelley & Sons 1942. First Edition. Red Cloth. Near Fine . Top right corner front cover slightly bumped. Gilt Lakeside Press emblem stamped onto front cover. Text clean binding tight. The Lakeside Press/ R. R. Donnelley & Sons unknown books
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Natural History Wallace David Rains
Idle Weeds; The Life of a Sandstone Ridge
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books 1980. First edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. 8vo in dustwrapper. First edition of the author's marvelous second book. 183 pp. Illustrations by Jennifer Dewey. A fine clothbound copy in dustwrapper. Sierra Club Books unknown books
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Connecticut Architectural History Wight Charles Albert
Some Old Time Meeting Houses of the Connecticut Valley
Chicopee Falls: Minister of the Congregational Church 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardbound 8vo. 145 pp. Illustrated with full-page black and white photographs. Connecticut Valley architectural history. Some age spotting to random pages. A very good copy. Minister of the Congregational Church hardcover books
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American History Lester C. Edwards
Our First Hundred Years: The Life of the republic of the United States of America Illustrated in its Four Great Periods: Colonization Consolidation Development Achievement Two Volumes Combined in One Book
New York: United States Publishing Company 1876. First edition thus. Cloth. Very Good. Large thick clothbound 8vo. Two books in one volume. 482 and 480 pp respectively plus 83 pp index at rear of volume. Some expected light handling wear but overall in very good condition in rich green cloth covers illustrated in gilt. A large and heavy volume. United States Publishing Company unknown books
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Natural History Carr Archie
The Windward Road; Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores
New York: Alfred Knopf 1956. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. Clothbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 258 pp plus index. Winner of the Burroughs Medal. One of the great works of American Natural History. A lovely near fine copy in decorated red cloth binding in a near fine unclipped dustwrapper with design by Edward Sorel. Book is illustrated with photographs and maps. Quite scarce in the first edition and in such lovely condition. Alfred Knopf unknown books
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Connecticut History Simkin Colin with illustrations by Morten C. Hansen
The Story of the Charter Oak Signed by Morton C. Hansen
Hartford: Charter Oak Fire Insurance Company 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Brown cloth spine over boards. Housed in original slipcase and publisher's box. 27 pp history of the famed Charter Oak tree in Hartford Connecticut. One of fifteen hundred numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator. All elements in near fine or better condition. Charter Oak Fire Insurance Company hardcover books
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Innes Stephen editor; Institute of Early American History and Culture Williamsburg Virginia
Work and Labor in Early America
Chapel Hill North Carolina: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press 1988. Softcover. VG former owner's name on false title page otherwise clean unmarked sound. Tan illustrated wraps 297 pp. Several tables and maps. Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 131391 ISBN : 0807842362 9780807842362
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Sa'di. Georg Gentius translator
ROSARIUM POLITICUM SIVE AMOENUM SORTIS HUMANAE THEATRUM DE PERSICO IN LATINUM VERSUN & NOTIS ILLUSTRATUM
s. n. 1655. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. Recent full calf. 24 372 pp. 6 A12-P12 Q6. All edges gilt. 12 engraved plates. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light bleedthrough to versos of plates some light soiling at fore-edges. Most of rear board discolored with some discoloration to the rear joint as well. Except as noted very good. The 1651 edition of the work was the first printed edition of Gulistan and was bilingual. [s. n.] hardcover books
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North of Ireland Family History Society
North Irish Roots: Vol. 7 No. 1
Belfast Northern Ireland: North of Ireland Family History Society 1996. Softcover. VG some writing on page 1 a few minor wear marks. Light blue wraps staple-bound 56 pp some BW illustrations. "The Cromies of Portsmouth" "Murphy's Law: Bonnon Bonham Bonnane Bannon - Caverine" "Names being researched" and other articles. North of Ireland Family History Society unknown books
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Albany NY: Albany Institute of History and Art May 12 to June 13 1965
The Paintings Graphics and Sculpture of Al Blaustein
1965. Softcover. VG small label on top of front cover. Gold wraps. 8 pp. 8 bw plates. Contains a foreword by George Cole a short biography and a catalogue of the exhibition with prices $45-$1850 of 11 oil paintings 4 sculptures 7 drawings and 27 etchings. unknown books
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Albany Institute of History & Art
New York Furniture Before 1840
Albany NY: Albany Institute of History & Art 1962. Softcover. VG slight shelf wear. Tan illustrated wraps 63pp bw illustrations throughout. Exhibition catalogue of furnishings of the descendeants of the Dutch settlers of New York. Albany Institute of History & Art unknown books
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Cleveland OH: Cleveland Museum of Natural History Jan. 9 to Mar. 14 1999 five other dates
The Collector as Bookbinder: The Piscatorial Bindings of S. A. Neff Jr.
1999. Softcover. VG. Color wraps. 68 pp. 49 color plates. Binder's statement essays by Elisabeth R. Agro S. A. Neff Jr. Angling Artisan: Caught by Trout Piscatorial Books and Fine Binding Stanley I. Grand Angling Bound: The Bindings of S. A. Neff Jr. and exhibition listing. unknown books
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Las Vegas NV: University of Nevada Museum of Natural History Feb. 16 to Mar. 5 1988 one other date
Rita Deanin Abbey: 35 Year Retrospective
1988. Softcover. VG sticker/some wear on cover. White wraps. 64 pp. 10 bw 31 color plates. unknown books
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Pennsylvania Labor History Society
A call. to preserve Labor History in Pennsylvania
Hazelton PA: the Society 1974. Six-panel brochure unfolding into a leaflet announcing the Society's first general membership meeting lightly edgeworn else very good condition. the Society unknown books
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Pacific Northwest Labor History Association A. Philip Randolph
Black Unionists in Labor History
Seattle: the Association 198-. 1p. flyer on A. Philip Randolph published as part of a series of flyers on the labor movement 8.5x11 inches very good condition. the Association unknown books
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Four Advertising Cards with Miniature Plat Maps for Kansas City Missouri Housing Developments
Kansas City: T.J. Green & Co. Undated likely early 20th century. Four cards measuring approximately 2.5 x 4.5 inches each advertising a differrent residential development in Kansas City: Eaton Place Forest Park Melba Park and Chesterfield Each card has brief promotional text "fine residence lots" "magnificent view every lot 2 to 3 feet above grade close to good school stores and churches" prices ranging from $175 to $425 and directions on one side and a map showing the streets and numbered lots on the other. Three cards near fine one Melba Park very good with a spot of abrasion on the map side. The T.J. Green Company was established in 1881. By 1886 a book on the city's commercial development The Commerce of Kansas City praised them as "among the most prominent and reliable firms" involved in developing the areas of the city beyond the central business district that would meet the needs of a rapidly growing population. "Their system is to purchase acre tracts that are in good locations and as near as possible to city itself then to subdivide them into town lots and so dispose of them on the open market. This is really developing the city or in other words it is constantly creating new additions and suburbs. That these transactions have proved most profitable under the experienced management of this firm is shown in the daily increasing value of this class of property and in the fact that not a single client who has acted on their advice has failed to make a very handsome return on his investment." Evidently the company's success continued; the four tracts offered on these cards are listed as the company's 52nd 53rd 56th and 57th "additions." We find no examples of these or other T.J. Green advertising cards in OCLC. T.J. Green & Co unknown books
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Holyoake George Jacob
The History of the Last Trial by Jury for Atheism in England: A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney General and the British Clergy
London: James Watson 1851. Hardcover. Good. Second thousand. 100 pp in publisher's purple cloth with blind-stamped decoration. Significant chipping to the spine cloth small water stain on front board paper cracked over front hinge but hinge secure. Foxing to title page only otherwise interally clean binding tight. "George Jacob Holyoake was mainly self-educated and a vigorous campaigner for secularism and freethought during the 19th century. He wrote 160 books and pamphlets and edited several magazines including The Movement and The Reasoner. Holyoake was the last person in England to be imprisoned on a charge of atheism for saying at a public lecture in Cheltenham in 1842 at a time of economic hardship: "If I could have my way I would place the deity on half pay as the Government of this country did its subaltern officers" Humanists UK. James Watson hardcover books
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Hearn Lafcadio
Some Chinese Ghosts
Boston: Roberts Brothers 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 185 pp in original red cloth with floral patterned endpapers. Boards dust-soiled cloth frayed along joints and at spine ends. Binding sound text clean with the exception of a small spot on the title page. Original owner's signature dated 1887 on front flyleaf. Small label of bookseller Geo. F. Wharton of New Orleans on front pastedown. One of Hearn's earliest books a retelling of ancient Chinese legends that he describes in the preface as selected for their "weird beauty." BAL 7916. Roberts Brothers hardcover books
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Mazzei Filippo
Recherches historiques et politiques sur les États-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale où l'on traite des établissemens des treize Colonies de leurs rapports et de leurs dissentions avec la Grande-Bretagne de leurs gouvernemens avant & après la révolution etc. Par un Citoyen de Virginie. Avec quatre lettres d'un Bourgeois de New-Heaven sur l'unité de la législation
Paris: Chez Frouelle 1788. First Edition. Complete set of four parts bound in three volumes. 8vo pp. 383; 259; 292; 366. In a soiled and partly damaged contemporary full leather binding and with old staining from damp and mildew nothing active no bad odors to varying degrees in all three volumes. Fair to good overall. No beauty but complete and fully legible. "Italian by birth Mazzei emigrated to the United States to introduce the culture of grapes olives and other Mediterranean fruits. He established an experimental farm at Colle next door to Monticello and soon became acquainted with Jefferson Patrick Henry and other leaders of the American Revolution. During the war he travelled to Tuscany as official representative of the state of Virginia. In 1875 he returned permanently to Europe where he published his history of the United States based partly on material furnished him by Jefferson" Howell Catalogue 1972. Sabin 47206 Howes M-456. Chez Frouelle unknown books
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Constitution of the State of Colorado Adopted in Convention March 14 1876; Also the Address of the Convention to the People of Colorado. Election Saturday July 41876
Denver: Tribune Book and Job Printing House 1876. Softcover. Near fine. 65 pp in original printed wrappers. A few chips finger smudge on front wrap internally fine. First edition of the Constitution that brought Colorado into the Union as the hundredth state. Eberstadt notes that "the address to the voters is a long one ending with the query: "Who is there among you that would not rather be a citizen of an independent State than a mere settler upon the public lands of the Territory governed by satraps appointed and removed at pleasure.". Tribune Book and Job Printing House unknown books
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Soyer Alexis
Soyer's Culinary Campaign
London: G. Routledge & Co. 1857. Hardcover. Rebound embossed red boards illustration in gilt. Good. 597 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Rebound. Book plate on front free end paper - "Margaret Allen Hall Memorial - The Finer Arts of Home Making Battle Creek College Presented by: Lenna F. Cooper". <br /> <br />Alexis Soyer was a chef and entrepreneur originally from France whose life was filled with some pretty extraordinary twists and turns. Soyer cooked in the French noble kitchens on the eve of the uprising then found his way to England cooked and designed kitchens and kitchen appliances wrote cookbooks and reorganized the cooking facilities in Crimea during the Crimean War; this book being the culmination of those endeavors. <br /> <br />Jump to America in the early 1900's and we find Lenna F. Cooper a dietitian who worked under Ella Kellogg at Battle Creek's Sanitarium was the dean of home economics at Battle Creek College and in 1930 became the food service director of Michigan State University also becoming the chief dietitian at Montefiore Hospital in New York City. Cooper wrote the book The New Cookery with her fellow Battle Creek Sanitarium dietitian Margaret Allen Hall. Inscription on verso of front cover in pen - "Presented by Lenna F. Cooper." <br/><br/> G. Routledge & Co. hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1313
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Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion 1868
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
Harper's Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion 1868. Original Engraving. The dramatic engraved image from the July 1863 issue of Harpers Weekly. On two leaves which were adjacent.Fought July 1 - 3 1863 Gettysburg is generally considered to have been the turning point of the Civil War. It was also the battle with largest number of casualties. Each leaf is about 15 1/4" x 10 1/2". Harper's Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 292949
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Farm Lands Marathon County The Clover County of Wisconsin Hardwood Timber Lands
Wausau WI: G.D. Jones Land Co 1914. Large folding brochure printed in black and green with plat map on one side and extensive text on the other. 9"x 5" when folded; unfolds to 18" x 20". Fair to good condition only: rumpled and has staining small amount of text obscured by old paper residue split at one fold some archival tape repairs. The map covers the whole of Marathon County divided into townships with numbered tracts showing numerous waterways and railroad lines as well as the locations of mills and schools. A box at the upper left lists the 18 towns in which the company holds land and large text at the upper right assures the reader that "all parts of the county are connected by good roads." Text on the verso is divided into sections on railroads settlement and population growth factories and markets schools and churches cities and villages county buildings climate soil crops and dairying and stock raising. Prospective buyers are assured that they can pay for their land simply by selling the timber they cut to clear it and in the winter when not farming they can find employment in the nearby lumber camps and saw mills for good wages. There are also reassurances for those who fear bad weather. "There has never been a winter when the grass or winter grain was killed. No resident of Marathon County has ever been lost in a blizzard and no Marathon County man has ever been compelled to sell his stock because of lack of water or grass." The land company's founder Granville D. Jones was an entrepreneurial Wausau resident who also founded the Wausau Telephone Company and was involved in the local bank insurance compny and other businesses. Two copies located in OCLC both at the Wisconsin Historical Society. G.D. Jones Land Co unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 21481
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PENNSYLVANIA
Report on the Halsey Estate Coal and Iron Mines Situate in Sergeant Township McKean County Pennsylvania
Philadelphia: R. Rae & Co 1856. 19 pp in original pink printed wrappers with two folding maps "Map of the Halsey Estate" and "Map Showing the Connections of the McKean Coal Field with the Great Markets of Central and Western New York and Lakes Erie & Ontario" and a profile "Cross Section of the Coal Iron and Limestone Strata upon the Halsey Estate" each of which is hand-colored. Front wrapper has a clean slice from a sharp object rear wrapper has four similar cuts and some small contemporary doodles. Title page--with text identical to that on the front wrapper--is lacking. Good. A rare promotional piece for a resource-rich 5000-acre estate in north central Pennsylvania. The text lauds the land's natural beauty fertile soil abundant timber and even the unsurpassed "purity and salubrity of its air but the primary focus its coal-producing potential and suitability for investment. Many pages are devoted to the reports of various geologists all pointing to the conclusion that "there is no coal field in Pennsylvania more deserving of attention than this one its proximity to the lakes its location above the water and its horizontal position admits of it being mined with the greatest facility and at the most reasonable expense and if the shales and cannel coal in the interior of the basin should confirm the theories of geologists respecting the existence of a large amount of lubricating oils and volatile matter contained in them the value of this coal basin is beyond all computation." A final section focuses on markets for coal and relevant transportation networks and reminds the reader that "where coal is there wealth attends." One copy located in OCLC State Library of Pennsylvania. R. Rae & Co unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 20832
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NEBRASKA
Pictorial Kearney Nebraska
Kearny NE: John A. Stryker. Undated ca. 1920. 48 pp 6 x 9 inches oblong in original string-tied wrappers with oval cut-out window on front cover revealing color landscape below. Light soiling and edgewear to wraps lower corner of last three leaves clipped; very good. Scarce promotional view book containing one page of text highlighting the various features of this "thriving city of 10000 cultured happy industrious people" which offers a range of shopping and recreation activities inexpensive power and a climate that is somehow both "mild and bracing." The rest of the book is entirely half-tone views of businesses street scenes parks residences farms and ranches churches schools and other public institutions. John Stryker the publisher was a local photographer and penmanship instructor and most of the images are credited either to him or another Kearney photographer Alfred T. Anderson. Two copies located in OCLC Columbia U. Oklahoma. John A. Stryker unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 19881
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Denmark Culture History Historiography
Fra Saxo til Poul Helgesen Udvalg Af Danske Historikere Fra Middelalderen Svend Aagesen Saxo Ryd Klosters Aarbog Om Klosterkronike Jens Grands Flugt Klagedigtet 1329 Sjaellandske Kronike Poul Helgesen Udgivet Af Prof. Dr. Phil. Knud Fabricius
Denmark: Aarhus 1928. 226 pages 2 pages of the 'Gyldendals Bibliotek 1928 - 30' publisher's listings at back. Illustration of an early Danish manuscript at front; Danish text throughout. Previous owner name of Hans Hizberg on the front endpaper. Volume approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" size; bound in marbled paper covered boards light tan leather spine and corners spine decorated in blind and with contrasting dark brown and gilt title labels marbled endpapers to match top of text block tinted deep red. A little edge tips wear to the binding; text block clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Leather. Very Good. Aarhus books
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Thomson HC. H. C.
The Chitral Campaign a Narrative of Events in Chitral Swat and Bajour
London: William Heinemann 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xviii 312 pp publisher's catalogue with frontispiece many illustrations from photgraphs one map and three plans. Re-cased with new endpapers. Mild spine slant moderate wear and soilding to boards light foxing--mostly concentrated around illustrations--owner's name on title page and page 1. Chitral a remote mountainous region in the north of modern-day Pakistan was the subject of a power struggle between Czarist Russia and the British Empire. In early 1895 the British fort at Chitral was attacked and beseiged by Pashtun chief Umra Khan who sought official recognition. Relief troops were sent from Gilgit to the East and then in a second wave--described in this book--from India proper. The author joined this relief force as press correspondent. William Heinemann hardcover books
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Investigation by the Board of Regents of the University of Texas concerning the Conduct of Certain Members of the Faculty Bulletin of the University of Texas 1916: No. 59
Austin: University of Texas 1916. Softcover. Good. 172 pp. Original wrappers present but heavily chipped front wrapper detached. Binding sound text unmarked. Old dampstin to lower outer corner of last 65 pp. Relatively scarce report resulting from Texas Governor James E. Ferguson's efforts to have several people he disliked for various reasons removed from the University of Texas Faculty and replaced with political cronies. The University declined to follow Ferguson's recommendations and in retaliation he vetoed the appropriations bill that funded the University. Ultimately Ferguson's attempt to interfere in University affairs resulted in his impeachment. University of Texas unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 21463
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WELLCOME Institute in the History of Medicine BURGESS Renate.
Portraits of Doctors & Scientists in the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine.
London:: Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine 1973. 1973. Series: Museum Catalogue III Portraits of Doctors & Scientists. 4to. xxiv 459 1 pp. Frontis. port. plates index. Navy gilt-stamped cloth dust jacket. Near fine. Garrison & Morton 6610.1 Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, 1973. hardcover books
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History of Music Project. United States
A San Francisco songster 1849 - 1939
San Francisco: Works Progress Administration Northern California 1939. Paperback. ix 208p. stiff wraps original black tape spine lacking label front cover browned and creased paper toned else good condition first edition mimeographed 8.5x11 inches. History of Music in San Francisco series vol. 2. March 1939. Works Progress Administration, Northern California paperback books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 259654
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