‎Histoire‎

‎Committee History of Synod‎

‎A history of the Lutheran Church in South Carolina‎

‎South Carolina Synod of the Lutheran Church in America. Hardcover. Good. B06XY8K7LV Blue cloth boards have minor wear. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. xiii 966 pages published 1971. Ships from our bookstore in West Columbia S.C. South Carolina Synod of the Lutheran Church in America hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : SKU1031778

‎The Love of Truth Mark the Boy‎

‎Germantown PA: Germantown Print Works. Textile. Good. An appealing illustrated broadside on cloth bearing a very early appearance of the famous "I cannot tell a lie" cherry tree story. Collins Threads of History says it was printed by the Germantown Print Works in Pennsylvania ca. 1806. The story itself which was invented by Washington's biographer Mason Locke Weems first appeared in print that same year in the fifth edition of Weems' Life of Washington. Aspiring to present George Washington as an ideal role model for young Americans Weems embellished and invented biographical details to help demonstrate the founding father's honesty and other virtues. Measures approximately 11 x 11.75 inches. Typical staining some fraying at the right edge but entire printed border often found compromised is present. A nice example. [Germantown Print Works] unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 20532

‎Aviation History‎

‎AIRCRAFT YEAR BOOK. 1925‎

‎New York City: Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America Inc 1925. 1st edition thus. Greenish linen cloth binding with black stamped lettering. Spine a bit darkened. Light extremity wear. PO blindstamp to lower corner of preliminary blanks. A VG copy. ix 3 316 pp including Index. Profusely illustrated with drawings schematics & from photographs. 8vo. <br/><br/> Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America Inc hardcover books‎

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‎Kneeland Abner‎

‎A Review of the Trial Conviction and Final Imprisonment in the Common Jail of the County of Suffolk of Abner Kneeland for the Alleged Crime of Blasphemy‎

‎Boston: George A. Chapman 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo 132 pp in original plain brown cloth. Some chips in cloth at spine front board just holding on moderate foxing throughout. Small label "Coll. Immac. Conc. S.J." on front pastedown. A scarce account by the last man jailed in the United States for blashemy. Abner Kneeland 1774-1844 was a former Universalist minister who became a popular freethinker and reformer in the 1830s. He lectured widely and founded and edited the Boston Investigator a weekly social-reform journal that advocated public schools equality regardless of race or sex a better life for working people and the abolition of slavery and imprisonment for debt. After stating in print that he did not believe in God Kneeland was indicted for blasphemy in 1833 under a Massachusetts law enacted in 1782. He nedured multiple trials resulting in hung juries but was finally convicted in 1838 and--despite vocal support from Ralph Waldo Emerson William Ellery Channing William Lloyd Garrison Bronson Alcott and other leading reformers--jailed for two months. Here he offers an account of his prosecution as well as a vigorous defense of free thought. Sabin 38091. George A. Chapman hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 18533

‎Companion to the Almanac or Yearbook of General Information 16 volumes‎

‎London: Charles Knight. 1st Edition. Quarter Calf. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Continuous run of Knight's Companion to the Almanac from 1828 to 1858 with one index volume as well covering up to 1843. Chock-a-block with interesting information on virtually all aspects of economic business and social affairs in Britain during reign of William IV up until the mid-Victorian era. While rich in statistical and demographic information these volumes are much much more with articles that describe and analyze with rigor the issues and developments of the day. Many plates and illustrations of significant architectural and engineering projects scattered throughout. Thus this can serve as both an invaluable primary source reference for the period as well as an entertaining resource for the more casual student of English history. All volumes have been professionally recased and bound with handsome light brown calf spines preserving Victorian marbled boards and calf spine tips. All volumes are tight and clean inside. Modern marbled endpapers. Other than wear to old calf corners this would be a fine set. <br/><br/> Charles Knight unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 001171

‎Sporschil Johann‎

‎Die Schweizer-Chronik. Von der Stiftung des Rutlibundes bis zum ewigen Frieden mit Frankreich‎

‎Leipzig: Kayser'sche Buchhandlung; Franz Beyer 2840. Half Calf. Marbled boards. Near Fine. Opiz G. 652 iv pp. 25 steel engraved plates. 9 x 6.5 inches or 24 by 16 cm. Plates generally depict famous battle milestones in the development of Switzerland and scenes depicted framed with small cameos of other scenes all rendered with intricate detail. Some scuffing to calf on spine and wear to corner triangles. Calf over attractive marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Book tight. Plates clean. Tissue protectors well preserved. Slight browning where verso pages not touched by tissue. A very attractive copy. Near fine. <br/><br/> Kayser'sche Buchhandlung; Franz Beyer hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 001018

‎Mack Smith Denis;Smith Denis MacK‎

‎Mazzini‎

‎Cumberland Rhode Island U.S.A.: Yale Univ Pr 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New Jacket. <br/><br/> Yale Univ Pr hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 000940 ISBN : 0300058845 9780300058840

‎Schama Simon‎

‎The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age‎

‎Westminister Maryland U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc 1987. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Second printing. Slightest evidence of use on cloth spine. Otherwise fine. <br/><br/> Alfred a Knopf Inc hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 000950 ISBN : 0394510755 9780394510750

‎RIDLER Jasper.‎

‎Maximilian and Jaurez.‎

‎NY: Ticknor & Fields. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0899199895 . First printing. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Ticknor & Fields hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 5903 ISBN : 0899199895 9780899199894

‎Hafen LeRoy R.; Hafen Ann W.‎

‎The Far West and Rockies Historical Series 1820-1875‎

‎Glendale CA: Arthur H. Clark. 15 volume set complete in original green cloth. Volumes I and II are second printings the rest are first printings. A very near fine set with a few occasional scuff marks and some dark staining to the front board on Volume V only. All volumes very clean internally with no markings and sound bindings. Some pages unopened. A widely acclaimed work of scholarship the set contains a wealth of valuable source material on the opening of the Rocky Mountain West including journals and narratives of overland travel and the gold rush material on railroad surveys and Indian affairs accounts of the Utah Campaign of 1857-58 and the Powder River campaign of 1865 reports from Fremont's fourth expedition the diaries of pioneering photographer William Henry Jackson and two volumes of the letters and papers of journalist and mountain man Rufus B. Sage with an annotated reprint of his Scenes in the Rocky Mountains. Volume 15 contains an index to the entire set. Clark & Brunet 118. Arthur H. Clark hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 20067

‎Gerlach Don R.‎

‎Philip Schuyler and the Growth of New York 1733-1804‎

‎Albany NY: University of the State of New York 1968. Softcover. Very Good. Stapled pamphet pp iv 49 pp illustrated. Light shelf wear; text clean. A short biography spanning Schuyler's early life and career as a provincial politician colonial landowner and merchant; his imporant role as a general and leader in the Revolutionary War and his influence in New York and nationally as a U.S. Senator. University of the State of New York paperback books‎

Référence libraire : 2391

‎Weever John‎

‎Ancient Funerall Monuments Within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine Ireland and the Islands Adjacent with the Dissolved Monasteries Therein Contained: their Founders and What Eminent Persons Have Beene in the Same Interred.‎

‎London: Thomas Harper 1631. Hardcover. Good. First edition. 4to. xvi 871 14 index pp extra engraved title page by Thomas Cecil eighteen woodcut illustrations six full-page. Foliation can be supplied upon request. Text is printed within a ruled frame with headpieces tailpieces and floriated initials. Contemporary full polished calf with hand-tooled decorative borders in blind to both boards six raised bands red morocco label with gilt lettering on backstrip edges speckled red. A good copy internally bright and crisp with light scattered foxing lacks the portrait of John Weever but has the extra engraved title-page and original index the original title-page appears to have been carefully cut along the margins and mounted on what was formerly the ffep the engraved title-page is similarly mounted on a blank leaf from the book that has been detached and slipped in covers are rubbed and scuffed joints are shaken and split though still attached .Notwithstanding these defects the contents are clean intact and very good. In addition to being a discourse on its subject this work is a compilation with commentary on epitaphs arms and inscriptions on tombs monuments church windows et al. The work focuses on the dioceses of Canterbury London Norwich and Rochester. Lowndes and DNB both citing Wharton's Anglia Sacra note that John Weever 1576-1632-poet anthologist and antiquary-made extensive errors in the interpretation of numbers and in transcription. However both note the work's great utility to historians and biographers. Writing in 1899 Sidney Lee who wrote the Weever entry in DNB points out that " .almost all sepulchral inscriptions in Weever are now obliterated" and that "despite its defects Weever's book is invaluable." This copy conforms to the collation and pagination in ESTC S118104 and the Melvyl/UCR record. Recorded copies are often defective lacking either preliminary blanks engraved title-page the frontis portrait or the index. STC 2nd 25223. Lowndes p. 2867-68. NCBEL 1:1158; NUC 653 p. 270. Thomas Harper hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 19968

‎DAKOTAS AGRICULTURE‎

‎Black Rust and Hot Winds are Licked. No more bankrupt farmers even if the Black Rust does come---‎

‎Minneapolis: Thompson Yards Inc 1916. Broadside 20.75 x 9.75 inches. Old folding creases a few short closed tears at margins; very good. Minneapolis-based company Thompson Yards tells farmers that diversification in agriculture is the road to wealth -- urging them to buy silos on credit on the grounds that they can't go wrong if they raise cattle while growing alfalfa and a variety of grain crops. In the 1880s and 1890s the Dakotas had been widely promoted by land agents as ideal for growing wheat and many had settled there convinced their fortunes would be made by the crop. But Dakota farmers had suffered greatly when their wheat crops were devastated by disease "black rust" or excessive heat. While this broadside may read as an advertiser's hype which it is it was not entirely wrong - in the first decades of the twentieth centuries Dakota farmers had success growing oats corn barley rye flax sugar beets sunflowers potatoes and other crops. With demand high from the Allies during the start of World War I such crops did briefly lead to wealth. But farmers also borrowed heavily as they rushed to expand and many could not repay their debts when demand declined after the war and drought conditions returned. Thompson Yards, Inc unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 20860

‎BOSTON A Citizen‎

‎An Appeal to the Good Sense of the Legislature and the Community in Favor of a New Bridge to South Boston‎

‎Boston: True and Greene 1825. First Edition. 22 pp complete with original wrappers but with the stitching perished so gatherings are loose. Pink staining to front wrapper edgewear otherwise very good. Scarce pamphlet criticizing monopolies in general and more specifically the factions who opposed a new toll-free bridge in Boston because it would be detrimental to the interests of those holding a charter and collecting tolls for the existing Charles River bridge. Moser's Daniel Webster bibliography attributes this eloquently written pamphlet to Massachusetts State Senator David Henshaw 1791-1852. We have not been able to confirm this but it seems reasonable given that he was one of the leaders of the Democratic Party in Boston belonged to a group of real estate investors who would benefit from population growth spurred by the proposed new bridge and "represented the growing group of Bostonians who were shut out from the traditionally privileged class" Haines and Sherwood Supreme Court in American Government and Politics p. 32. Daniel Webster was one of the attorney representing the interests of the Charles River Bridge Company which was incorporated in 1785. Ultimately in a landmark decision in favor of free enterprise Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge 1837 the Unites States Supreme Court ruled that the charter of the Charles River Bridge Company did not exclude the state of Massachusetts from chartering another bridge nearby. Sabin 6597. True and Greene unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 20637

‎Kansas History. Morris Capt. Charles A.‎

‎ALBUMEN CARTE - De - VISITE CDV PHOTOGRAPH Of CAPT. C. A. MORRIS' RESIDENCE Ft Scott. Kan‎

‎n. p. n. d. Ca 1870s / 1880s. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. General signs of use overall Very Good. Recto with supplemental penciled note under image identification note: "First Grand Prize of the South Western Gift Association / Value $5000.00 flourish". Image oriented horizontally. 2-1/2" x 3-15/16" <br/><br/>Morris setted in Fort Scott Kansas in November 1865 residing there in 1874 when he accepted a position of Registrar of the U. S. Land Office in Larned Kansas. While in Fort Scott he served as county treasurer and later as Kansas State Adjutant-General. unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 48527

‎French History Sammelband Diamond Necklace Affair‎

‎DIAMOND NECKLACE AFFAIR: Bound volume containing 23 pamphlets‎

‎Paris 1786. Hardcover. Good. 4to 249x195 mm contemporary tree sheep recased endpapers renewed front joint chipped and repaired at top. 23 pamphlets bound together. Condition of contents generally very good or better through the first 14 pamphlets. Last nine with marginal dampstaining and occasional traces of mold. Overall an impressive sammelband of historical importance. The publications relate to the scandal at the court of Louis XVI in which the self-styled Comtesse de Valois manipulated the Cardinal de Rohan into purchasing a diamond necklace for Queen Marie Antoinette which the Comtesse and her husband then broke up and sold. Complete list of contents available upon request. <br/><br/> hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : LD17850

‎NORTH DAKOTA POLITICS‎

‎Weekly Press Service Furnished by the Republican State Press Bureau. Fargo. N.D. May 4 1908‎

‎Broadside 21 x 11 inches printed in four columns with two cartoon illustrations. Horizontal folding creases archival tape repair to one long tear on the back all else very good. If you'd like a peek into the intricacies of North Dakota Republican Party politics leading up to the 1908 election look no further. In brief the conservative wing of the Republican Party known as the "Stalwarts" supported local political boss and Republican National Committeeman Alexander McKenzie whose "McKenzie Machine" had dominated politics in the state for more than a decade. A faction of progressive "insurgents" wanted McKenzie ousted from power. This Pro-McKenzie broadside reports on the recent activities of both factions and provides a table showing the affiliation Stalwart Insurgent or Undecided of delegates elected to attend the upcoming State Republican Convention by county. Despite the seeming domination of Stalwarts McKenzie was forced to retire later in 1908 and by 1910 the insurgents had secured control of all important state offices and both houses of the North Dakota legislature. unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 20845

‎Nicholas A. Basbanes‎

‎Every Book Its Reader‎

‎HarperCollins 2005. Book. As New. Cloth in Box. Signed by Authors. Limited/Numbered. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited /Number 1/250 copies signed by the author in slipcase.Beautiful copy.First signed limited edition. HarperCollins Hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 004671 ISBN : 0060593237 9780060593230

‎Bolton Herbert Eugene‎

‎Rim of Christendom: A Biography of Eusebio Francisco Kino Pacific Coast Pioneer‎

‎<p>First edition Large octavo. 54 b/w illustrations facsimiles 8 maps some folding. Original gilt stamped dark green cloth. No dust jacket. Very good. 644 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Printed by Norwood Press Linotype Inc.</p><p>Howes B587.</p> The Macmillan Company hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 2222257

‎Campbell John and Kent John‎

‎Biographia Nautica: or Memoirs of Those Illustrious Seamen to whose Intrepidity and Conduct the English are Indebted‎

‎5 volumes: 520 pages with frontispiece tables and six plates; 492 pages with tables 479 pages 587 pages 504 pages with nine plates. Octavo 8" x 5" bound in leather with raised spine bands and black labels with gilt lettering to spine. Complied by John Kent principally from Campbell's Lives of the Admirals Hill page 358 First Dublin edition. First published in London in 1776-1777.<br /><br />A London man of letters Campbell was quite successful with his numerous works of an historical and biographical nature. He collect a large and valuable library. He first published his Lives of the Admirals in four volumes in the years 1742 to 1744. There were several later editions. From 1744 to 1748 he compiled and published what became known as Campbell's enlarged edition of John Harris's Complete collection of voyages and travels originally published in 1702-1705. Campbell also made numerous important contributions to the Biographia Britannica under the signatures E and X including his own noble Scottish ancestors the Campbells. A memoir of him was inserted by Andrew Kippis in this same work. Campbell was an expert on the histories of Spain Portugal France and the British and the Dutch. In 1765he was appointed the royal agent for the province of Georgia and held that office until his death. There are many interesting references to him in James Boswell's Life of Johnson. John Kent published only tow editions of his compilation; this one and one published in London in 1776-1777.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br /> New spines with original leather boards. Volume one closed page edge tears with occasional page edges chipped only affecting margins. volume two damp stain to title gutter some occasional foxing. Some pages stained else a good to very good set Printed for J Williams hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : BOOKS003309

‎Senn Edward L.‎

‎"Deadwood Dick" and "Calamity Jane." A Thorough Sifting of Facts from Fiction‎

‎Deadwood SD: Edward L. Senn 1939. Softcover. Fine. Pamphlet 4 x 7 inches 15 pp in original self-wrappers. Fine copy. Adams Six-Guns 1976: "The author makes an effort to debunk some of the unreliable statement of earlier writers." Edward L. Senn paperback books‎

Référence libraire : 20438

‎SALVATION ARMY‎

‎What Others Think of the Salvation Army Colony at Amity Prowers Count Colorado. Being a Few Letters from Neighbors Friends and Visitors‎

‎1904. 31 pp with illustrations from photographs in original wrappers. Spine covered with archival tape line in ink on the margin of one page otherwise clean and sound. In 1898 the Salvation Army undertook a project intended to relocate urban working poor people to rural areas and enable them to become productive farmers. The idea for the project came from Salvation Army founder William Booth who described the concept in his book In Darkest England and the Way Out 1890. General Booth's daughter Emma and son-in-law Fredrick St. George de Lautour Booth-Tucker took charge of the Salvation Army in the United States in 1896 and they took it upon themselves to put General Booth's plan into action. The plan was characterized by Frederick Booth-Tucker as an experiment in "domiculture" or the cultivation of families on family farms. The Booth-Tuckers appointed Col. Thomas Holland as the National Colonization Secretary and together they chose sites in California Colorado and Ohio for the colonies. Source: Schemp Fort Amity An Experiment in Domiculture 2011. The Amity colony was settled by thirty families from Chicago and Iowa each of whom received ten acres of land livestock and tools. By 1903 the colony had 450 residents. In 1904 when this collection of testimonials was produced--presumably as both a fundraising tool and a response to naysayers--the project still seemed like it might succeed. That it did not closing in 1909 was apparently not due to any failure in selecting worthy colonists but because the Salvation Army officials had purchased land that was so alkaline that sustainable farming was impossible. Three copies located in OCLC. unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 20638

‎Jackson Sheldon editor‎

‎Rocky Mountain Presbyterian for 1880. Presbyterian Home Missions for 1881‎

‎Cincinnati: Elm Street Printing Company 1881. Softcover. Good. Single issue of this periodical which was in the midst of undergoing a name change to better reflect its broad content dated December 1881. pp 401-428 including index for the entire year. Includes much content on the state of missions and living conditions among the Indians of Alaska. Also reports on missionary efforts in Iowa Nebraska and Dakota Territory and among the Mexicans of California as well as account of individual missionaries' experiences in British Columbia and at a Blackfoot Medicine Camp and two and a half pages of ads for books and periodicals railroads photographers a seminary life insurance etc. Stain to one corner affecting entire issue otherwise very good. Sheldon Jackson 1834-1909 himself established more than one hundred missions and churches mostly in the Western United States. He is best remembered for his extensive work in Alaska. Elm Street Printing Company paperback books‎

Référence libraire : 20779

‎BELLONE Enrico.‎

‎World on Paper: Studies on the Second Scientific Revolution.‎

‎Cambridge: MIT Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0262021471 . Translated from the Italian by Mirella and Riccardo Giacconi. Foreword by Stillman Drake. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . MIT Press hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 4854 ISBN : 0262021471 9780262021470

‎INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE TAXATION Rockwell Reuben‎

‎Small Archive of Letters from a Federal Tax Assessor to a Subordinate 1870-71‎

‎The Internal Revenue Service was created in 1862 when an income tax was enacted to help fund the Civil War. The Revenue Act of 1870 allowed the income tax to expire but taxes on certain luxury goods remained in place and a small staff of men was charged with collecting them. Here Reuben Rockwell Tax Assessor for the 4th District based out of Colebrook Connecticut writes to George Pierpont a tax collector under his supervision based in Watertown. On August 15 1870 he requests a report on "the quantity of leaf tobacco also stems scraps clippings &c." purchased and sold by "all cigar manufacturers in this district between January 1 1869 and the present adding that in future this information should be provided monthly. In another letter Rockwell instructs Pierpont to provide forms for all distillers to record their "numbers and capacity" and wonders "why there should be so much difference in the distillers about running their stills. Some in Oct made 9 boilings in 24 hours while others with about the same sized stills made but 4. I suppose some make better brandy than others." On the question of tax exemption of "bequests made to institutions of literary educational or charitable character" Rockwell writes that a "bequest made by Isaac Skinner to the Congregational Society of Harwinton and the American Missionary Association might possibly be construed to be of that kind although I don't think a Congregational Society would be included and the Missionary Society may not be. I don't know its particular object. Please write me tomorrow your views." Together an interesting peek into the daily work of some of the first employees of the IRS. Seven signed manuscript letters on United States Internal Revenue letterhead each on is on a single sheet ranging in length from approximately 50 to 100 words. Old folding creases minor spotting; very good. The Internal Revenue Service was created in 1862 when an income tax was enacted to help fund the Civil War. The Revenue Act of 1870 allowed the income tax to expire but taxes on certain luxury goods remained in place and a small staff of men was charged with collecting them. Here Reuben Rockwell Tax Assessor for the 4th District based out of Colebrook Connecticut writes to George Pierpont a tax collector under his supervision based in Watertown. On August 15 1870 he requests a report on "the quantity of leaf tobacco also stems scraps clippings &c." purchased and sold by "all cigar manufacturers in this district between January 1 1869 and the present adding that in future this information should be provided monthly. In another letter Rockwell instructs Pierpont to provide forms for all distillers to record their "numbers and capacity" and wonders "why there should be so much difference in the distillers about running their stills. Some in Oct made 9 boilings in 24 hours while others with about the same sized stills made but 4. I suppose some make better brandy than others." On the question of tax exemption of "bequests made to institutions of literary educational or charitable character" Rockwell writes that a "bequest made by Isaac Skinner to the Congregational Society of Harwinton and the American Missionary Association might possibly be construed to be of that kind although I don't think a Congregational Society would be included and the Missionary Society may not be. I don't know its particular object. Please write me tomorrow your views." Together an interesting peek into the daily work of some of the first employees of the IRS. unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 20048