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AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION
Verse into TYPE. The APHA Poetry Portfolio
American Printing History Association 2006. 8vo. 17 poems printed by 15 American fine press printers. Foreword by Henry Lyman. Contents loose as issued in blue cloth clamshell box. Contributor's copy with printed note from Jerry Kelly laid-in this being the former copy of Ronald Gordon of The Oliphant Press responsible for the printing of Mary Karr's 'A Blessing from my Sixteen Years' Son." The other designers/printers are: Mindy Beloff Michael and Winifred Bixler Carolee Campbell Ed Colker Sandy Connors Barbara Henry Jerry Kelly Kay Michael Kramer David Pankow Michael Peich Robin Price Michael Russem Gaylord Schanilec and Jack Stauffacher. <br/><br/> American Printing History Association hardcover books
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FERRANTI; NIMROD; COMPUTER HISTORY
Faster than Thought. The Ferranti Nimrod Digital Computer
Hollinwood/Lancs: Ferranti Ltd 1951. First edition. Very Good. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE MANUAL FOR ONE OF THE FIRST VIDEO GAMES. VERY POSSIBLY THE FIRST COMPUTER GAME MANUAL. Although they were "keen to be involved" in the 1951 Festival of Britain electrical engineering firm and computing pioneer Ferranti was still without an exhibit by late 1950. John Bennet an employee of the firm stepped up and suggested the construction of a machine that could play Nim a matchstick game in which players compete to force a final move.

<br /> <br /> The Nimrod is considered to be the first or second computer game ever constructed depending on how one defines the term and is certainly the first to be constructed and played outside of North America. It was inspired by the Nimatron an "electro-mechanical machine exhibited at the 1940 World's Fair in New York City" that also played Nim Donovan which isn't typically considered a computer and followed only Toronto's Bertie the Brain built in 1950 which played tic-tac-toe. <br /> <br /> The manual which includes a technical description of the computer appears to be the first of its kind as we can locate no records of any user manuals or pamphlets for the Nimatron or Bertie the Brain both of which were also presented and played at public festivals. <br /> <br /> The game was tremendously well received both at Festival of Britain and at the Berlin Industrial Show in the same year. It is reported that it drew politicians and academics notably including Alan Turing who is rumored to have been one of the few to beat it!<br /> <br /> Sources: Donovan T. 2010. Replay: The history of video games. East Sussex England: Yellow Ant.<br /> <br /> Hollinwood/Lancs: Ferranti Ltd 1951. Small octavo approx. 4x7 in. original green wrappers stapled at spine custom box. A little toning at extremities very minor crease at top of few pages. An extremely well-preserved copy. RARE. Ferranti, Ltd unknown books
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Do You Remember Luna. 100 Years of Pioneer History
Luna Ward Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1983. Hardcover. Very good. 11 x 9.75 inches 301 pp extensively illustrated. Minor damage to lower corner of front board spine lettering rubbed. Internally sound and clean. History people and reminiscences of Luna New Mexico with an emphasis on the Mormon population published in conjunction with the town's centennial celebration. Luna Ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hardcover books
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First-hand Account of the Aftermath of the Ohio River Flood of 1937 Which Left a Million People Homeless
Very good. Three-page manuscript letter approximately 800 words from Dr. G.A. Hinnen of Cincinnati Ohio to his parents. Dated March 22 1937 and written on letterhead of the National Association for the Elimination of Home Work of which the Hinnen was on the Advisory Committee. Writing more than a month after the devastating flood that stretched from Pittsburgh to Cairo Illinois and left 385 people dead Hinnen expresses gratitude that Cincinnati where 100000 lost their homes suffered less than many other cities. "Considering the horrors of it and its enormous extent not a case of typhoid.and but two deaths by drowning -- a truly remarkable record when you figure the river at a depth of 80 feet when 12 is the norm. Here at Cinti the river was 1 1/2 miles in width. At Louisville I understand it was 15 miles." After describing the utter devastation of most of the small towns around Louisville he returns to conditions in Cincinnati writing that that the city's "greatest hardship was lack of water. When the pumping plant finally submerged at 75 feet we were in a quandry. For two weeks not a trickle out of any faucet. So we hauled water. You have heard and read about bread lines but little did we expect to participate in a water line. Norwood St. Bernard Wyoming Ohio Columbus Chicago Indianapolis Dayton Hamilton all came to our rescue most valiantly. The Penn RR brought in 40000 gal. from Chicago. Water was paddled in the streets from concrete mixers tanks and whatnot. They would ring bells and people dashed out madly with any available receptacle.All business was suspended. Drug stores and food shops were the only stores allowed to be open. Where electricity was available you were allowed but a single small light to a house and on the radio fire police and emergency orders were constantly being transmitted. No autos allowed below Court St. While not actually martial law it practically amounts to it. No street lights at night. I never saw such desolation." A well-written and compelling account of life in Cincinnati in the aftermath of disaster. unknown books
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BETHUNE Maximillian De; Translated from the FRENCH by the Author of the Female Quixote Mrs. Charlotte Lennox
Memoirs of Maximillian de Bethune Duke of Sully Prime Minister to Henry the Great. To Which is Added The Tryal of Ravaillac for the Murder of Henry the Great. In Five Volumes. A New Edition
London: Printed for J. Rivington and Sons J. Dodsley S. Crowder G. Robinson T. Cadell and T. Evans 1788. Five volumes bound in contemporary dark brown calf gilt backs armorial bookplates of Sir Harford Jones and later bookplates of Sidney . With two frontispiece portraits Volume I the Duke of Sully and Henry the IV. Fold out map Vol. I Near Fine old dampstains at corners. The books Very Good the boards well rubbed and showing their age yet solidly bound and sturdy. Old dampstaining all volumes mostly to edges and margins gilt at spines dulled free of foxing and toning a set that shows its history while maintaining its dignity. . New Edition. Calf. Very Good -/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed for J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, S. Crowder, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, and T. Evans Hardcover books
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Whitelocke Bulstrode; Morton Charles; Reeve Henry
A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654. In Two Volumes
London: Longman Brown Green & Longmans 1855. Two volumes handsomely bound in contemporary half red polished calf over marbled boards the backs intricately tooled in gilt marbled end papers top edges gilt the bookplates of the Right Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Wyoming serving from 1909 to 192 and Albert Rowe Merrill. Very Good Plus light rubbing at edges and corners original cloth spine affixed front paste down of Vol. I partially covered by bookplate. Internally clean and bright . New Edition. Half Polished Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Hardcover books
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Kennedy John F.; Introduction by Henry R. Luce
Why England Slept
New York: Wilfred Funk Inc. 1940. First Edition First Printing of John F. Kennedy's first book. Near Fine slight browning to end pages topstain a bit lightened at spine end in a Very Good dust jacket front flap bottom corner clipped yet still showing Price $ with part of the 2 present see scan light edgewear rear wrappers soiled. Uncommon in the first edition first printing. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Wilfred Funk, Inc. Hardcover books
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Nevins Allan
The American States During and After the Revolution
New York: Macmillan Co. 1924. SCARCE in collectible condition Very Good Plus from the collection of noted historian John K. Alexander his signature front end page small tears to cloth at spine ends contents are clean tight and unmarked. One of Professor Nevins' most highly regarded works. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Macmillan Co. Hardcover books
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LABOR HISTORY CALIFORNIA JACK LONDON LABOR TEMPLE ASSOCIATION OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY
Certificate for one share of stock in the Labor Temple Association of Santa Clara County 1908
N.p. San Jose: by the Association 1908. Single sheet 21.5cm x 26.5cm; printed on both sides with blank portions accomplished in manuscript. Signed in ink by John F. Mecklen Secretary and E.F. White President; this certificate No. 1565 was issued to one L.R. Nash a San Jose metalworker. Light edgewear and faint vertical folds else Near Fine. <br/><br/>The San Jose Labor Temple was established around 1903 under the joint auspices of the San Jose Building Trades and Central Labor Councils. Jack London had a prominent role in the founding of the Labor Temple and reputedly wrote substantial portions of both The Call of the Wild and The Sea Wolf in then-President Harry Ryan's office. by the Association unknown books
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San Francisco / California History. Faust Henry W. Publisher
FAUST'S MAP Of CITY And COUNTY Of SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA
San Francisco: Published by H. W. Faust 1892. 12th Edition. Map mounted at some past juncture and then housed in a simple black wooden frame. Original printed buff wrappers attached to rear of framed map. Usual bit of age-toning. Modest wear & soiling. Very Good. Relief shown by hachures. Depicts drainage rancho and tract names block numbers radial distances from Ferry Building railroads and street railways selected public buildings etc. Adverts in margins. Printed in sepia. Map:. <br/><br/>OCLC records 5 holding instituions. Published by H. W. Faust unknown books
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Bennett Leonora
Historical Sketch and Guide to the Alamo
San Antonio TX 1902. Softcover. Very Good. 131 pp with frontispiece illustrations in original wrappers. Light handling two small chips to rear cover; text clean. Nicely illustrated little survey of the early history of Texas the Missions and the Alamo. paperback books
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Hawthorne Nathaniel; Schoolcraft Henry; Cushing Caleb; Whitter John Greenleaf et al.
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review New Series Vol. XVIII
New York 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo pp. iv 480. Bound volume containing six monthly issues January-June 1846 with index frontis engraving of a statue of Thomas Jefferson and four engraved portraits by T. Doney. Edited by Thomas Prentice Kettell. Contemporary quarter-leather and marbled boards. Spine and corners scuffed chipping to upper of two spine labels soiling to title page scattered foxing. Bookplate of book collector William Mitchell Van Winkle on front pastedown.The United States Magazine and Democratic Review was published from 1837 to 1859 by John L. O'Sullivan.It was a highly regarded journal meant to champion Jacksonian Democracy a movement usually been disparaged in the more conservative North American Review. The magazine featured political essays extolling the virtues of Jacksonian democracy and criticizing what Democrats regarded as the aristocratic pretensions of their opponents. The journal supported Martin Van Buren in the 1840 presidential election who lost and James K. Polk in the 1844 election who won. The Democratic Review was also perhaps even primarily a literary magazine promoting the development of American literature. Some of its regular contributors were Nathaniel Hawthorne and John Greenleaf Whittier with occasional contributions by William Cullen Bryant and James Fenimore Cooper" Wiki. This volume includes several poems by Whittier; Notes on the Iroquois by Schoolcraft; three articles on Game of North America by Frank Forester; "Papers of an Old Dartmoor Prisoner" edited by Hawthorne and much other interesting content. hardcover books
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California Local Culinary History
PASTRY CHEF SILVER GELATIN CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH. Mr. Louis Aeckerle. Arroyo Grande. San Louis Obispo Co. California
San Luis Obispo n. d. Ca 1880s. Photograph clear & sharp with one little nick to right edge. Very Good. Black & white photograph showing chef standing to the left of a small table with knife in hand and wisk on the table in front of a small cake on cake platter. Photograph: 5-1/2" x 3-7/8". Mount: 6-1/2" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/> unknown books
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New York Geological and Natural History Survey
NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK. PART III MINERALOGY AND PART IV GEOLOGY
Albany 1843. Five volumes. Later brown cloth matching leather labels. Very good. The New York Natural History and Geological Survey was one of the most ambitious scientific projects of the antebellum United States. Begun in 1836 the Survey published the NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK in thirty volumes between 1842 and 1894 in six sections: Zoology five volumes Botany two volumes Mineralogy one volume Geology four volumes Agriculture five volumes and Paleontology thirteen volumes. The present set comprises the entire Mineralogy and Geology sections uniformly bound. <br> <br> The mineralogy section was compiled by Lewis C. Beck and describes all minerals found in the state. The ambitious geology survey was divided into four volumes arranged geographically covering the state from east to west. Each section had a different editor and respective volumes were under the direction of William W. Mather Ebenezer Emmons Lardner Vanuxem and James Hall. Numerous plates and illustrations adorned the volumes most notably forty-two folding handcolored lithographed plates in Mather's volume. At the time of publication these were the most extensive geological surveys published in the United States and they served as models for the great United States surveys such as the Railroad Surveys in the next decade. MEISEL II pp.615-16. hardcover books
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New York Natural History and Geological Survey
NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK
Albany 1894. Thirty volumes described below. Original cloth gilt-stamped in the earlier volumes in the series several volumes rebacked with original backstrips laid down. Several volumes with minor nicks or tears in cloth but overall a very good set of a work seldom found in decent condition. A complete set of one of the great monuments of American science and natural history illustration of the 19th century. It is virtually impossible to assemble all of the volumes in this set as they were issued across more than half a century and are generally found in poor condition because the bindings were not adequate for the weight of the heavy text blocks. Many of the volumes were issued in two states with the plates either colored or uncolored. In this set all possible plates some 539 are colored. <br> <br> The New York Natural History and Geological Survey was established by the state legislature in 1836 under the direction of James Ellsworth DeKay. By far the most ambitious scientific project undertaken in the United States up to that time it was designed to be issued in six sections: Zoology Botany Mineralogy Geology Agriculture and Paleontology. After six years of preparation volumes began to appear in 1842. The first four parts a total of twelve volumes were issued in 1842-44 and the five volumes of the Agriculture section between 1846 and 1854. The final section Paleontology began publication in 1846 but under its editor James Hall it took on a life of its own. Hall managed to turn it into a long career in his position as state paleontologist ultimately issuing thirteen volumes where only one had been planned originally. Without Hall's genius as a lobbyist for additional state funds the entire project would have been wrapped up in the 1850s. Instead he was still in office at age eighty-three when the final volumes were published. <br> <br> NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK is notable for its vast array of color plates and in later volumes its use of other innovative forms of natural history illustration. In all it contains several thousand plates colored and uncolored making it a project on the same scale as the Pacific Railroad Survey. The present set contains 539 handcolored lithographs. The set is much less well known because far fewer volumes were produced than the U.S. government publications but it clearly was the model on which the great U.S. surveys of the 1850s were based. Some sections of the set are particularly desirable and more difficult to obtain while others were produced in very small editions. An essential work for any collection of early American science or American illustration especially color plates. A synopsis of the set with notes on illustration and rarity is given below. A detailed collation of the set is given in Meisel. <br> <br> Part I. ZOOLOGY OF NEW YORK: OR THE NEW YORK FAUNA; COMPRISING DETAILED NOTICES OF ALL THE ANIMALS HITHERTO OBSERVED WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK. This series was edited by James Ellsworth DeKay. <br> <br> Vol. I. Mammalia. Albany. 1842. Thirty-three plates. These plates are usually found uncolored as here. A colored issue does exist but is extremely rare. <br> <br> Vol. II. Birds. Albany. 1842. 141 handcolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. III. Reptiles and Amphibians. Albany. 1842. 102 plates. These plates are usually found uncolored as here. The extremely rare colored issue of this volume is probably the hardest segment or issue to find of the NATURAL HISTORY. <br> <br> Vol. IV. Reptiles and Amphibians. Albany. 1842. The text volume for the preceding. <br> <br> Vol. V. Mollusca and Crustacea. Albany. 1844. Fifty-three handcolored plates. <br> <br> Part II. A FLORA OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COMPRISING FULL DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE INDIGENOUS AND NATURALIZED PLANTS HITHERTO DISCOVERED IN THE STATE. Albany. 1843. Two volumes. 161 handcolored plates. This section was edited by the noted botanist John Torrey. Not surprisingly the beautiful colored lithographs of flowers have made this one of the most sought after sections of the NATURAL HISTORY. <br> <br> Part III. MINERALOGY OF NEW YORK; COMPRISING DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MINERALS HITHERTO FOUND IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND NOTICES OF THEIR USES IN THE ARTS AND AGRICULTURE. Albany. 1842. Eight uncolored plates. This section was edited by Lewis C. Beck. <br> <br> Part IV. GEOLOGY OF NEW YORK. Prepared by various authors. <br> <br> Vol. I. Mather William W.: Part I.first geological district. Albany. 1842. Forty-two handcolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. II. Emmons Ebenezer: Part II.second geological district. Albany. 1842. Fifteen uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. III. Vanuxem Lardner: Part III.third geological district. Albany. 1842. No plates only illustrations in text. <br> <br> Vol. IV. Hall James: Part IV.fourth geological district. Albany. 1843. Nineteen uncolored plates. <br> <br> Part V. AGRICULTURE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; COMPRISING AN ACCOUNT OF THE CLASSIFICATION COMPOSITION AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE SOILS AND ROCKS AND THE NATURAL WATERS OF THE DIFFERENT GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS. This section was edited by Ebenezer Emmons. <br> <br> Vol. I. Part I. Albany. 1846. Twenty-one uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. II. Analysis of Soils Plants and Cereals. Albany. 1849. Forty-two uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. III. Fruits. Albany. 1851. Text only. <br> <br> Vol. IV called "Atlas" to Volume III. Fruits. Albany. 1851. Ninety-five handcolored plates. This volume is also highly sought after for its plates of fruits from upper New York State prefiguring the many fruit illustrations which began to be produced in Rochester in the mid1850s. <br> <br> Vol. V. Injurious Species of Insects. Albany. 1854. Forty-seven handcolored plates. <br> <br> Part VI. PALAEONTOLOGY OF NEW YORK. This section was edited throughout by James Hall. <br> <br> Vol. I. Organic Remains lower division. Albany. 1846. 100 uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. II. Organic Remains middle division. Albany. 1852. 104 uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. III. Part I. Organic Remains.lower Helderberg group. Albany. 1859. No plates. <br> <br> Vol. III. Part II. Atlas for above. Albany. 1861. 143 uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. IV. Fossil Brachiopoda. Albany. 1867. Sixty-three uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. V Part 1 Vol. 1. Lamellibranchiata. Albany. 1884. No plates. <br> <br> Vol. V Part 1 Vol. 2. Lamellibranchiata. Albany. 1885. Ninety-six plates. <br> <br> Vol. V Part 2 Vol. 1. Gasteropoda. Albany. 1879. No plates. <br> <br> Vol. V Part 2 Vol. 2. Gasteropoda. Albany. 1879. 120 uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. VI. Corals and Bryoza. Albany. 1887. Sixty-seven uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. VII. Trilobites. Albany. 1888. Sixty- four uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. VIII Part 1. Paleozoic Branchiopoda. Albany. 1892. Forty-four uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. VIII Part 2. Paleozoic Branchiopoda. Albany. 1894. Eighty-four plates. The final eight volumes of this series are much harder to find than the first four having been issued much later and in smaller editions. The final two volumes comprising Volume VIII are extremely rare. MEISEL II pp.613-18. ANB 6:356 De Kay 9:861 Hall. REESE STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 73. BLUM PICTURING NATURE 199-209. hardcover books
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Ancient History
SKETCHES OF THE DOMESTIC MANNERS AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE ROMANS
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea 1822. 2viii230pp. Original boards with paper label. Dampstained lightly mildewed and slightly warped. Paper spine chipped. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Some foxing and dampstaining to text. Fair in original binding. Reprinted from the British edition. SHOEMAKER 10288. Carey & Lea hardcover books
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NEW Cambridge Modern History
Vol. XI-Material Progress and World Wide Problems 1870-1998
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1962. hardcover. near fine/very good. Edited by F.H. Hinsley. 743 pages tall thick 8vo blue cloth d.w. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1962. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Cambridge University Press unknown books
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Viardot Louis
Essai sur L'Histoire des Arabes et des Mores D'Espagne
Paris: Paulin 1833. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Two volumes bound in one in quarter green leather. Foxing early on but otherwise quite clean internally. 311pp; 251pp and 4 pages of ads. Inscribed by the author "a mon ami Albert Stapfer". Philipp Albert Stapfer politician and proponent of Kant was a contemporary of Viardot. Size: Octavo 8vo. 2-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045117. <br/><br/> Paulin hardcover books
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NATURAL HISTORY Huxley Thomas Henry
The Oceanic Hydrozoa; a description of the Calycophoridae and Physophoridae observed during the voyage of the H.M.S. "Rattlesnake" in the years 1846-1850. With a general Introduction
London: Printed for the Ray Society 1859. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. Folio pp. viii-x 143 blank ff 24 blank; dull green library linen boards with gilt lettering on spine; boards lightly soiled and rubbed; call numbers stamped to heel of spine; library bookplate to pastedown with "Discard" stamp; four-inch tear to fore-edge of half-title leaf; embossed library stamp and pencil annotations to title leaf; embossed library stamp to p. 1; library tickets and pockets to rear endpapers; cellotape repair to top edge of last plate; else a sound ex-library copy. Illustrated with twelve uncolored lithograph plates and accompanying letterpress descriptive text. Cloth. While serving as ship's surgeon aboard the H.M.S. Rattlesnake Huxley 1825-1895 collected and studied specimens of hydrozoas in the waters off Australia New Guinea and Palermo Italy. Through careful dissections and close observation of physical relationships Huxley succeeded in bringing more detailed order to the knowledge of these minute organisms. Printed for the Ray Society unknown books
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Wheatley Richard
Manuscript Journal of Richard Wheatley Boston Massachusetts 1805-1807 including manuscript poems by his daughter Ellen W. Pease 1835-1839
12mo Includes the following: 14 pp. Richard Wheatley's Journal dated 13 Sept 1805 - 26 Nov 1807; 10 pp. Richard Wheatley's business ledger; and 12 pp. of Ellen W. Pease's manuscript poetry and verse dated February 5 1835 - February 24 1839 plus blanks. The last leaf is missing. Bound in contemporary vellum worn rubbed scuffed text block nearly detached from binding written in ink some fading though largely legible else good.Manuscript journal of Richard Wheatley b. c. 1770-80 d. c. 1840 describing his travels including a trip to Savannah and elsewhere in Georgia. The journal commences with Wheatley's return home after an eight week "passage." He takes a stage from New York to his home in Boston making several stops along the way. Upon returning to Boston he visits a number of places including Canton the home of his future wife Hannah Dunbar. <p>Wheatley who appears to have been in the textile business begins another trip traveling by steam packet to New York before boarding a brig for Savannah. Here he meets fellow business men and inspects cargos upon arrival from Liverpool. </p> <p>The journal contains a four page description of his travels within Georgia. He meets a Mr. Macky <i>"a Scotchman who told me he could walk thru the streets of this town </i>Savannah<i> from the first of July to the end of September without meeting a white man and if he appeared to meet one he looked like as if he had come out of the Hospital."</i> Wheatley then set out by stagecoach for Augusta Georgia where he met with some businessmen purchased a horse and rode to Briar Creek where he dined then on to Louisville and to Milledgeville a place that is <i>"to be the capital of the state of Georgia. 12 months ago there was no house in it but a log house."</i> </p> <p>After further travels in Georgia Wheatley made his way back to Savannah. Here he became sick and complained: <i>"This country is troubled with almost all kind of troublesome insects. such as sand flies tick Myscatoco sic and several kinds of insects that breed in rotton sic food several stories being told of Mrs. Wilson such as that no sick person ever got well in her house." </i> Wheatley was then an unfortunate guest at Mrs. Wilson's house. </p> <p>Wheatley departed Savannah upon his recovery aboard the Brig <i>Mount Vernon</i> bound for Providence Rhode Island. While traveling he witnessed an eclipse which he describes before returning to Boston. </p> <p>Wheatley later makes a journey to Maine here he mentions visiting a horse fair at Brunswick on a trip from Boston to Bath Maine. He made a number of stops at Hallowell Freeport "Kennebunk" as well as others. At Augusta he relates hearing the news of a man who killed his wife seven children and then himself. Wheatley conducts his travels to further his textile business and interests. There is not much detail on his business the journal only mentioning the names of people he met with. </p> <p>Almost every Sunday that Wheatley is in Boston he attends "Stilman's Meeting-House" which would appear to be the Revolutionary War Baptist preacher Samuel Stillman's 1737-1807 church. Stillman's Boston church was a place where the likes of John Adams and John Hancock could be found listening to Stillman's preaching. It was also Stillman's Church at about this time 1805 that gave birth to the First African Church now Peoples Baptist Church of Roxbury. In 1807 Wheatley mentions attending the funeral for "Docter Stilman." sic </p> <p>Near the end of the journal Wheatley mentions renting a house from an "Ezra Davis" for "$400 per annum" and then getting married to "Hannah Dunbar" of Canton MA and returning with her to Boston. </p> <p>Ellen W. Pease the author of the poetry and verse has written under her name that she was born 22 April 1808. Also under her name are the names Mary D. Pease born June 9 Windwell Pease born April 19 and Gamaliel Pease born May. While there are no years for the birth of Mary D. Windwell and Gamaliel Pease the names of Windwell and Gamaliel Pease are unique enough that a check of the genealogical databases of Ancestry.com shows that George Pease of Suffield CT had married Ellen Wheatley. George immigrated to Ohio in 1825 and along with other Pease family members they were considered some of the pioneers of the Miami Valley. The couple moved to Miami OH where George had a sizable farm. The couple had at least four children Mary D. Windwell Gamaliel and Ellen. George Pease's family had been in Enfield CT since at least the 1680's and before that in Salem MA since the 1650's. </p> <p>Ellen Wheatley is statedin <i>Centennial Portrait and Biographical Record of The City of Dayton and of Montgomery County Ohio</i> 1897 to be the daughter of Richard Wheatley and Hannah Dunbar of Washington Township Ohio. It would appear that Richard Wheatley immigrated to Ohio as well and went into business with Thomas Basson Isaac Cowder and William Black and formed The Ohio Manufacturing Company in 1816 where they manufactured yarn and cloth from cotton and wool at Woodbourn in Montgomery County Ohio. The company purchased the original plots numbered 26 and 33-34 in the town plan. After the Panic of 1819 the Ohio Manufacturing Company bought out some of its competitors in town and acquired the mill dam raceway and all the machinery and unfinished and finished stock of the Farmers and Mechanics Manufacturing Company of Centerville Ohio. He appears to have been somewhat successful for a time. </p> <p>Ellen's poetry is of a morbid nature with such titles as: <i>"Lines on the Death of a lovely Child"</i> and <i>"Epitaph."</i> In another poem Ellen welcomes death so that she can sleep with her loved one: </p> <p> <i>"I come I come if in that tide</i> </p> <p> <i>Thou sleepest tonight I'll sleep there too</i> </p> <p> <i>In death's cold wedlock by thy side</i> </p> <p> <i>Oh! I would ask no happier bed</i> </p> <p> <i>Than the chill wave my love lies under</i> </p> <p> <i>Sweeter to rest together dead</i> </p> <p> <i>Far sweeter than to live asunder."</i> </p> <p>Ellen Wheatley welcomed death and it came; she died the same year as some of poems were written still grieving over her lost children. </p> hardcover books
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Macvey Napier edited by his son
SELECTION FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE LATE MACVEY NAPIER ESQ
London: Macmillan and Co 1879. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Scarce. Green cloth binding with light edge wear to extremities. Slightly heavier wear at corners and head and tail of spine. no markings in text. Very Good binding. Macmillan and Co unknown books
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History Project compilers foreword by Barney Frank
Improper Bostonians; lesbian and gay history from the Puritans to playland
Boston: Beacon Press 1998. Hardcover. xi 212p. 8.25x10 inches foreword afterword photos very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Beacon Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 110999 ISBN : 0807079480 9780807079485
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Watson Robert
The History of the Reign of Philip the Second King of Spain. In Three Volumes. The Third Edition
London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand and J. Balfour and W. Creech Edinburgh 1779. Three volumes bound in contemporary full calf red morocco labels Very Good prior owner names leather rubbed at edges and corners old marginal staining Vol. II not affecting text which is clean and bright throughout. Hinges of Vol. I just starting yet holding nicely. A rather uncommon title. Third Edition. Full Calf. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, in the Strand, and J. Balfour, and W. Creech, Edinburgh Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 008630
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Hume Martin
Queens of Old Spain
London: E. Grant Richards 1906. Very Good in half blue calf over blue buckram boards top edge gilt handmade paper end pages binding stamp signed London Times Book Club light rubbing at tips foxing to edges and moderate foxing a few pages errata slip tipped in at start of Book I. Illustrated. The armorial bookplate of Muncaster Castle front paste down. A handsome copy. . First Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. E. Grant Richards Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 008243
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de Tocqueville Alexis
Souvenirs de Alexis de tocqueville publies par le comte de Tocqueville
Paris: Calmann-Levy Editeurs 1893. Very Good in contemporary quarter red morocco over marbled boards marbled end pages boards showing rubbing at spine and tips small crease top corner front end page text with slight even browning. Text is tight clean and unmarked. Engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Text is in French. . First Edition. Quarter- Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Calmann-Levy, Editeurs Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 007790
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MANUSCRIPT PHARMACY Excelsior Diary <br />
San Francisco CA. Cardboard covers. Maroon cloth covered boards wallet-style diary title in gilt. Very good. Repurposed 1895 Diary. 17.5 x 9 cm. Written in pen Harry Lapidaire Pharmacist My Father on Tues. Jan. 1895. Remedies and recipes handwritten in pencil throughout. Entries include: Poison Oak Antiseptic Solution Sore Nipples Syphilis Bug Poison Tooth Ache Drops etc. One-quarter used. The Excelsior District is located along Mission Street east of San Jose Ave. Front free end paper ripped out boards lightly rubbed interior crisp and clean all edges marbled. <br/><br/> hardcover books
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Wilson James 1760 1814
A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean performed in the years 1796 1797 1798 in the ship Duff commanded by Captain James Wilson compiled from thejournals of the officers and the missionaries; and illustrated with maps charts and views dra
a1-42 binders direction8 subscribers4c-4204 additional subscribers pages with 7 maps 5 folding and 6 plates. Quarto 11 3/4" x 9 1/2" with new spine in six compartment with red label in gilt over original decorative blind stamped calf boards. Ferguson 329; Sabin 104.633 First edition first printing.<br /><br />Captain James Wilson 1760–1814 brought the first British missionaries to Tahiti on ship Duff in 1797. Wilson was a deeply religious man. The missionaries he brought were from the London Missionary Society. There were thirty men six women and three children. Wilson on the Duff also explored and visited many islands in the Pacific some of which had never had any recorded visit by a European. Among these the most important are Mangareva in the Gambier Islands and Pukarua in the Tuamotus. Duff Paid a visit as a missionary ship to Tahiti during 1796 as a result Missionary Society has first been established in Tahiti. Three years after the establishment the directors of the Society appointed a committee to consider a suitable memorial for presentation to Wilson for his services in helping to establish the first mission in the South Seas.<br /><br />Wilson fought with the British army during the American War of independence and then served nine years with the East India company. While in India he was captured by Hyder Ali and after a daring bid for escape was imprisoned in the black hole of Seringapatam. After his release he continued service as a captain and despite illness and further dangerous missions accumulated sufficientr esources to retire. throughout it all Wilson remained fast in his irreligious opinions. While living in England with his niece however he was converted to an evangelical faith. he felt called to volunteer for missionary service after reading the Evangelical Magazine. Haweis did not know Wilson before receiving a letter volunteering his services in the Pacific. his skills and newfound devotion seemed perfectly suited to the situation and Haweis saw him as "God's man." the Duff arrived at Tahiti on march 5 1797. the settlement at Tahiti of twenty of the missionaries five of them with wives and two children gives further examples of the role of the missionary captain. A pattern of intercourse had already been established by other voyagers according to which the captain of a vessel would take the leading role in meetings. It is therefore not surprising that the focus of the chapter describing the arrival is on meetings between significant island figures and Captain Wilson. For example Manemane a "high priest" Frommo'orea sought Wilson as a tayo or friend not Jefferson the president of the missionaries.<br /><br />The official account of the first mission appeared in 1799 under the lengthy title A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean performed in the years 1796 1797 1798 in the ship Duff commanded by Captain James Wilson compiled from thejournals of the officers and the missionaries; and illustrated with maps charts and views drawn by Mr William Wilson.it was placed firmly within the tradition of the voyages ofdiscovery by an introduction compiledby samuel Greatheed that described previous european contacts with the islands and anappendix "including details never before published of the natural and civil state of otaheite." the main narrative was taken from Wilson's journal with additions from his son and a journal kept by the missionaries during the period when the Duff was away from Tahiti at Tonga. Wilson dominated the events recorded in the narrative.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Some offset toning from maps occasional foxing water mark to upper margin on some leaves two leaves miss-bound at back re-backed with contemporary blind stamped calf boards. S Gosnell for T Chapman hardcover books
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Pidou de Saint Olon Francois 1640 1720
Present State of the Empire of Morocco; With a faithful account of the manners religion and government of that people
xxiv21612 pages with frontispiece folding map and eight engraved costume plates. Duodecimo 6 ¼" x 3 ½" early full calf later spine label. First Edition in English. First published in French the prior year which was published without the plates.<br /><br />François Pidou de Saint Olon was a French diplomat under Louis XIV. In 1682 he was nominated as the first French resident envoy to the Republic of Genoa following the Bombardment of Genoa. He was then sent as an envoy to Madrid. In 1689 François Pidou was appointed ambassador to the court of Sultan Moulay Ismail for the signing of a commercial treaty and to release prisoners now slaves of Barbary corsairs of Salé for 233 including 29 bedridden Moroccan prisoners held by the French. His mission was not successful however he continued to stay more than three weeks more in Morocco. The book gains particular interest through its author's position as ambassador giving him access not always voluntary to areas of Moroccan society previously unrecorded by travelers. There are detailed descriptions of Moroccan dress and the book is beautifully illustrated with eight engraved plates of Moroccan men and women in traditional costume.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />With the fine copper engraved frontispiece of the overall state of Morocco which is quite rare and is often found missing in most copies. Joints cracking spine chipped at edges; foxing else very good. R. Bently hardcover books
Bookseller reference : E0561
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Lafitau Joseph Francois 1681 1746
Histoire des découvertes et conquestes des Portugais dans le Nouveau monde
2 volumes. 8xxiv616471 pages with 4 maps ad view one folding and 3 plates one folding; 2693892 pages with 1 map and 6 plates. Quarto 10 1/4" x 10 1/4" bound in half leather with raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. Borba de Moraes page I:453; European Americana 733/146; Sabin 38591 First edition.<br /><br />Joseph-François Lafitau was a French Jesuit missionary ethnologist and naturalist. He is best known for his use of the comparative method in the field of scientific anthropology the discovery of ginseng and his writings on the Iroquois. Lafitau was the first of the Jesuit missionaries in Canada to have a scientific point of view. Lafitau is considered the first of the modern ethnographers and a precursor of scientific ethnology for his work on the Iroquois. He developed a model of studying peoples that involved describing existing cultures on their own terms—not in comparison to European society. He distinguished generic and specific traits transforming the "generic savage" into specific tribal groups. He explained that "only from specific identities can genetic relations be inferred."5 Furthermore he was the first to declare "contemporary primitive cultures throw light upon the culture of ancient people and vice versa. Lafitau is remembered for applying the comparative method with a greater level of competency than any of his contemporaries. Through original field observations he was able to critique the works of earlier writers on Primitive peoples. By using the Comparative Method Lafitau rejected all theories of social and cultural change and instead used his study to demonstrate the similarities in customs practices and usages of the Native North Americans with diverse peoples from different continents and centuries. He consistently relied on the doctrine of degeneration: all men originally shared one religion with one God but over time as people migrated to separate margins of the earth where they then lost touch with the values and traditions of this one true religion and culture. Therefore Lafitau believed in the "psychic unity of mankind" and the doctrine of primitive monotheism. His major work written in French was first published in 1724 in Paris. It is entitled <i>Customs of the American Indians Compared with the Customs of Primitive Times</i> <i>Moeurs des Sauvages Amériquains Comparées aux Moeurs des Premiers Temps</i> and is 1100 pages in total. In 1974 William Fenton and Elizabeth Moore made the first translation into English available. Lafitau published two other works. One <i>Histoire de Jean de Brienne Roy de Jérusalem et Empereur de Constantinople</i> Paris 1727 was released before he returned to Canada; it is little known and seldom seen. A two-volume <i>Histoire des découvertes et conquestes des Portugais dons le Nouveau Monde . . .</i> 1733 appeared after he came home to France. Frequently found in libraries it is not just a compilation of original sources but an attempt to make available to French readers a story of exploration and adventure otherwise denied to them; in the chronicles he sees a long development of customs hitherto unnoticed such as he had reported in the <i>Mœurs</i>; from them understood only he says in the original languages of the people who practice them he builds his "system" or philosophy of history and once more he is concerned too with the relation between custom and natural history or ecology.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Beautifully rebound in half leather. Faint dampening to second volume; early owner's signatures on title pages inked stamps of St Charles Borromeo Seminary on front paste-downs and first title page lacks frontispiece else a very good to fine set.<br /> Chez Saugrain pere, quai des Augustins, au coin de la rue Chez Saugrain pere, quai des Augustins, au coin de la rue Pavee, a la hardcover books
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Belcher Edward 1799 1877
The Last of the Arctic Voyages being a Narrative of the Expedition in H.M.S. Assistance Under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher DB in Search of Sir John Franklin During the Years 1852-53-35 with Notes on the Natural History
xx383 pages with hand colored frontispiece 3 maps in pockets plates many colored; vii41923 ad pages with color frontispiece and plates some colored. Small quarto 10 1/2" x 6 3/4" bound in original publisher's pictorial brown cloth with blind-stamped cover with gilt pictorial in gilt. Notes on the Natural History by John Richardson. Abbey Travel 645; Arctic Bibliography 1241; Books on Ice 5.8a; Hill 106; Sabin 4389; TPL 3409 First edition.<br /><br />Belcher's five-ship 1852-54 expedition in search of Franklin would be the last official British attempt. On the HMS Assistance Belcher successfully navigated through the Wellington Channel but beset by ice was unable to return to Lancaster Sound and was forced to abandon the ship. This account of the expedition also includes several essays on the natural history of the region by Richardson Owen Bell Salter and Reeve.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Minor wear re-backed with parts of original back-strips laid down; minor foxing short separations at folds to the largest map; inked stamps on title pages Edinger bookplates else a good set internally very good. Lovell Reeve hardcover books
Bookseller reference : E0558
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Wheat Carl Irving 1892 1966
Mapping the Transmississippi West 1540–1861
<b>From the Spanish discovery to the opening of the Civil War</b><br /><br />5 volumes in 6. Volume One: The Spanish Entrada to the Louisiana Purchase 1540-1804 xiv264 pages with color frontispiece map and 275 maps many folding and index; Volume Two: From Lewis and Clark to Fremont 1804-1845 xiii281 pages with colored frontispiece map 143 additional maps some folding and index. Volume Three: From the Mexican War to the Boundary Surveys 1846-1854 xiii349 pages with colored frontispiece map 322 additional maps and index; Volume Four: From the Pacific Railroad Surveys to the Onset of the Civil War 1855-1860 xiii260 pages with color frontispiece map an additional 127 maps some folding and index; Volume Five From the Civil War to the Geological Survey Part One: xviii222 pages with color frontispiece map and an additional 152 maps; Volume Five From the Civil War to the Geological Survey Part Two: 223-487 pages with 124 maps and index. Folio 14 1/2" x 10 1/2" bound in quarter green leather with gilt lettering to spines. volume I printed by the Grabhorn Press; volumes II-V printed by Taylor & Taylor and James Printing based on the designs of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. First edition limited to 1000 copies.<br /><br />Carl Wheat's Mapping of the Trans-Mississippi West is a comprehensive and readable cartographic history of the American West. The first three volumes of the work are by necessity bulky and out sized to accommodate the many maps contained with their covers. These beautifully printed books present a truly graphic picture of the exploration and peopling of the vast unknown land west of the Mississippi. The author does not merely present a catalog of significant maps of each era but tells the exciting story of many facets of history that resulted in their making-of the hard journeys the hazardous exploits the motivation the mysticism the misunderstandings and the strange blend of fact imagination false geographic concept and political necessity which were consummated in the engraver's work. These volumes will provide exciting text for the casual reader and have become eminent source book for the student and scholar.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />A near fine set. Institute of Historical Cartography hardcover books
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Frezier Amedee Francois 1682 1773
A Voyage to the South-Sea And along the Coasts of Chili and Peru in the Years 1712 1713 and 1714 Particularly Describing the Genius and Constitution of the Inhabitants as well Indians as Spaniards: Their Customs and Manners Their Natural History
3559index pages 36 of 37 maps and copper cuts of the coasts harbor cities plants and other curiosities comprising: 14 plates 3 folding 22 maps charts or plans 14 folding. title page printed in red and black. Printed from the author's original plates inserted in the Paris edition. Lacks the frontispiece map. Royal octavo 9 3/4" x 7 3/4" bound in leather with raised spine bands and red label with gilt lettering. Postscript by Dr Edmund Halley and an account of the settlement commerce and riches of the Jesuits in Paraguay. Palau 94965 Sabin 25926 Nissen ZBI 1433 Hill p117 First English edition.<br /><br />Frézier was educated in Paris and served as lieutenant of infantry from 1702 til 1707 when he entered the engineer corps. In 1712 the government sent him to examine the condition of the Spanish colonies in America. After visiting the principal points in Peru Chili and Brazil he returned to Marseilles. He pointed out several mistakes in the "Relation" of Father Feuille and this led to a bitter controversy between the two travelers. Frézier introduced the large Chili strawberry into France. First published in France in 1714. The first edition into English is preferable to the French original "because it contains Halley's. postscript which corrects certain geographical errors made by Frézier" Hill. "The first part of this book gives an interesting account of the voyage from France around Cape Horn. The second part relates to the voyage along the coasts of Chile and Peru describing the chief towns and cities. Frézier a man of observation brought back information of considerable geographical and scientific value. Much data is included about the native inhabitants.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br /> Rebacked with original spine label laid down; lacking frontispiece map and binder's leaf free endpapers renewed intermittent foxing else a very nice copy. Jonah Bowyer hardcover books
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Beechey Frederick William 1796 1856
Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: preformed in his Majesty's Ship Blossom . in the Years 1825 26 27 28
2 volumes. xxi472 pages with three maps two folding and one double page figures and 13 plates; iv452 pages with 10 plates some folding tables and appendices. Octavo 9 1/2" x 5 1/2" Bound in contemporary half leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. Ferguson 1418; Hill I p. 19; Howes B309; Lada-Mocarski 95; Sabin 4347. Second edition published after quarto edition of the same year.<br /><br />Frederick William Beechey 17 February 1796 – 29 November 1856 was an English naval officer and geographer. He was the son of Sir William Beechey RA and was born in London. 1806 he entered the Royal Navy and saw active service during the wars with France and America. In 1818 he served under Lieutenant afterwards Sir John Franklin in David Buchan's Arctic expedition of which at a later period he published a narrative. In the following year he accompanied Lieutenant W. E. Parry in HMS Hecla. In 1821 he took part in the survey of the Mediterranean coast of Africa under the direction of Captain afterwards Admiral William Henry Smyth. He and his brother Henry William Beechey made an overland survey of this coast and published a full account of their work in 1828 under the title of Proceedings of the Expedition to Explore the Northern Coast of Africa from Tripoly Eastward in 1821-1822. In 1825 Beechey was appointed to command the HMS Blossom. His task was to explore the Bering Strait in concert with Franklin and Parry operating from the east. In the summer of 1826 he passed the strait and a barge from his ship reached 71°23'31" N. and 156°21'30" W. near Point Barrow which he named a point only 146 miles west of that reached by Franklin's expedition from the Mackenzie river. The whole voyage lasted more than three years and in the course of it Beechey discovered several islands in the Pacific and an excellent harbor near Cape Prince of Wales. In July 1826 he named the three islands in the Bering Strait. Two were the Diomede Islands that Vitus Bering had named in 1728: "Ratmanoff Island" Big Diomede and "Krusenstern Island" Little Diomede. Beechey called the uninhabited third islet "Fairway Rock" which is still its contemporary name. One of his crew Petty Officer John Bechervaise gave a detailed account of the voyage in his Thirty Six Years if a Seafaring Life by an Old Quartermaster published privately in 1839. In 1831 there appeared his Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions 1825-1828. In 1835 and the following year Captain Beechey was employed on the coast survey of South America and from 1837 to 1847 carried on the same work along the Irish coasts. He was appointed in 1850 to preside over the Marine Department of the Board of Trade. In 1854 he was made rear-admiral and in the following year was elected president of the Royal Geographical Society. Beechey Island where Sir John Franklin wintered is named after him.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Name neatly excised from head corner of titles small inconspicuous stamp to last pages. Inner hinges beginning marble to boards rubbed some stains to map. some toning to some plates some plates not bound in order to the printer but are all accounted for corners gently bumped else about a very good set. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley hardcover books
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Beaumont Pablo de la Purisima Concepcion c1710 c1780
Crónica de Michoacán
Description:<br /><br />3 volumes. xxix-574 pages with 4 folding maps; 466 pages with folding coats of arms 6 folding native illustrations and map; 469 pages with 2 coats of arms one folding and 6 folding native illustrations. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 7" bound in three quarter blue leather with raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine. Introduction by Rafael Lopez. From the library of George Foster. Publicaciones del Archivo General de la Nacion volume XVII XVIII and XIX.<br /><br />There are only meager biographical data about Pablo de la PurÃsima Concepción Beaumont whose work is a major source on Michoacán. Despite its title "Chronicle of the Holy Apostles St Peter and St Paul of Michoacán" Beaumont's work in fact spans a much greater area including much of western Mexico northward to New Mexico and tending toward a general history. It provides details to 1565. Beaumont divided his total work into tow major parts the firs or Aparato intended to be introductory to the second or the Crónica proper. the first seems complete but the second was never finished. The Aparato takes up fully a third of the extant Beaumont work although nominally introductory. It deals with the discovery of America and the conquest of Mexico to the year 1521. It was twice published before appearance of the total work. Far more valuable is the Crónica. It consists of two books and one chapter of book 3. Beaumont drew on a wide variety of sources. He tell us us that he gathered a large quantity of manuscripts from various Franciscan archives as well as listing 30 standard writers in printed sources. He gives full copies of some of his documents of which several have since disappeared. He speaks of obtaining a native painting possibly from which his illustrations came. These paintings show incidents of the first visits of Spaniards to Michoacán there reception by Tarascans labors of the Franciscans coats of arms of principal cities of Michoacán. It is usually through that Beaumont composed his work around 1777. That is the last date in the later copies of the original manuscript. Unfortunately his original manuscript is lost. It was copied in Mexico City around 1792 to for volumes 7-11 of a 32 volume Collection of Memories on New Spain ordered by Viceroy Conde de Revilla Gigedo and compiled by Manuel de la Vega. Three partially complete sets of these Vega Memorias are known; from one or another of them come other recopied manuscript copies as well as the printed versions. Editions of the work have a somewhat unfortunate publishing history. In 1826 Bustamante published an incomplete and useless edition of the Aparato attributing it to Vega who had owned the manuscript Bustamante used. In 1873-74 a five volume edition of both Aparato and Crónica appeared in Mexico; it lacks the Indian drawings and was based on a secondary manuscript copy made b y J F Ramirez that then belonged to Alfredo Chavero. A three volume version was published by the National Archives of Mexico in 1932 based on their copy of the 1792 collection of Memorias; it contains the Indian drawings and an introduction by Rafael Lopez. The text seems slightly corrupt but it may be near the original as Beaumont said his Spanish was defective owing to his Parisian rearing.<br /><br /> George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Some underlining in pencil through out by Foster. Foster's date of acquire on front paste down early owner's name on front end paper. some light soiling and rubbing to extremities else a very good set. Talleres Graficos de la Nacion hardcover books
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Ribadeneyra Barrientos Antonio Joachin de 1710 1773
Manual compendio de el regio Patronato Indiano: Para su mas facil uso en las materias conduncentes à la practica
24531 pages with engraved allegorical frontispiece and index. Small folio 11 1/2" x 8 1/2" bound in original full leather with raised spine bands and decorative gilt lettering. Palau 266572. Sabin 70785 First edition.<br /><br />Full of original documents respecting the establishment of the Church in the Indies and the protection of the Indians together with all the bulls referred to from that of Alexander VI to the time of publication. With the additional 24 preliminary leaves not in all printings.<br /><br />The ancestors of Rivadeneira on both sides had served the Crown for centuries in the Reconquista in high positions of Church and State and in the conquests of Mexico and the Darién. Among his relatives is the Marquis de Moncada lieutenant colonel of the Puebla Regiment. Rivadeneira received a bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Law from the University of Mexico. He obtained a scholarship at the Colegio Mayor de Todos Santos on November 11 1731 served in various positions competed for the Chair of Institutes and remained in residence until 1746. The Audiencia de México approved him to practice as a lawyer in 1733. While still in Todos Santos Rivadeneira began serving in various positions. He was an advisor to the mayors of the city and town of Carrión in Valle Atrisco. The interim viceroy-archbishop Juan de Bizarrón appointed him a lawyer for the poor of the Courtroom of the Audiencia in 1739 with similar capacity in the Tribunal del Santo Oficio the city of Puebla and the Agustino Convent of Mexico. In 1744 Rivadeneira became fiscal agent of the room of the Crime. He served as an advisor to the viceroy Duke of the Conquest and was commissioned to settle a dispute over land by his successor the Count of Fuenclara. In 1746 Rivadeneira decided to go to Spain for family businesses and to secure a position. For a payment of 13000 pesos he obtained the appointment as supernumerary judge of the Audiencia de Guadalajara by decree of January 30 and title of February 20 1748. Without occupying this position he obtained the criminal prosecution of the Audiencia de Mexico on December 22 of 1753. He obtained a license to sail to New Spain with the servants José Ostos of Écija; Diego Ibiricu from Cádiz; Antonio de la Cruz from Zacatecas and Manuel Tagle a "free black". Rivadeneira returned to New Spain in 1755 in the same vessel in which the new viceroy Marquis de las Amarillas went and assumed his post on October 30 1755. As a prosecutor he opposed the activities of the Tribunal de Acordada. Assigned to the civil prosecutor's office to replace Luis de Mosquera and Aranda by consultation of April 28 and title of June 21 1760 the following year by consultation of May 14 and title of August 15 was appointed to replace the deceased Francisco López Adán as judge of the Audiencia. He served until his death. While he was an oidor he was denounced for possessing forbidden books. While in Spain in 1752 Rivadeneira published <i>El Pasatiempo for the use of Ex.mo Señor Carvajal and Lancaster a history of the world from creation to Fernando VI</i> in three volumes. This long didactic and religious poem was an effort to obtain a position and Beristain perhaps not knowing of the payment of 13000 pesos by Rivadeneira considered his first appointment of audience due to the sponsorship of José de Carvajal. As a prosecutor in 1755 Rivadeneira wrote the <i>Handbook compendium of the Indian Board of Trustees</i> which traced the royal patronage to the Book of Genesis an achievement for which the Crown gave him 4000 pesos. He also wrote the <i>Defense of Royal Jurisdiction</i> in 1763 <i>the remarkable newspaper of His Excellency Marquise de las Amarillas</i> and the draft of the protest sent to Spain by the City Council of Mexico City in 1771 on a claim of appointments for Americans.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Missing some of spine label small crack along the heal font hinge spine ends chipped light rubbing to extremities with the corners rubbed through internally very nice over all a very good copy. Antonio MarÃn hardcover books
Bookseller reference : CA0114
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Robles Vito Alessio 1879 1957
Coahuila y Texas en la Epoca Colonial
xii751 pages with color frontispiece maps some foldout plates some in color diagrams and illustrations. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 7" bound in original wrappers. Inscribed by the author. Howes 382 Limited to 1000 copies.Vito Alessio Robles was born on August 14th of 1879 in Saltillo Coahuila son of Dominic Alessio and Cristina Robles. There he studied at the Ateneo Fuente. He graduated as an engineer at the Military College of Mexico City. In 1910 a lieutenant colonel in the Federal Army under the command of Colonel Samuel Garcia Cuellar fought Madero in the Battle of Casas Grandes Chihuahua. Before he had taken up arms against the Yaquis. Under Madero he served as Inspector General of Police Public Works and deputy military attache in Rome. n 1913 he returned to Italy as a result of the fall of Madero. Under the Victoriano Huerta presidency he was arrested and detained and imprisoned. Following this he joined the Constitutionalist ranks first operated in San Luis Potosi under the command of General Alberto Carrera Torres and then was sent north with Francisco Villa. At the onset of division of the revolutionary leaders in the Convention of Aguascalientes he remained with the convention and was a delegate and became secretary. He held the governorship of the Federal District during the presidency of Roque Gonzalez Garza allowing its inhabitants to bear arms. After 1920 he held a deputation by the Federal District and a senate of Coahuila . In 1925 and 1926 had moved in diplomatic circles as a minister of Mexico in Sweden. As Chairman of the National Anti Party fought against Plutarco Elias Calles and Alvaro Obregon. He ran for governor of Coahuila in 1929 and in that same year he was banished from the country finding acceptance in Austin Texas where he devoted himself to historical research. Vito Alessio Robles also excelled as a great journalist was director of the Heraldo de Mexico and The Democrat and contributor to El Universal Excelsior and La Prensa among others under the pseudonyms "Tobias O. Soler" and "Pingüino Macho". Condition:Still has the original onion skin wrapper. Inscribed on half title slight stain to head and tail of spine else a very good to fine copy. Editorial Cultura paperback books
Bookseller reference : CA0116
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Ashe Thomas 1770 1835
Travels in America Performed in 1806 for the Purpose of Exploring the Rivers Alleghany Monongahela Ohio and Mississippi and Ascertaining the Produce and Condition of their Banks and Vicinity
ix366 pages. Duodecimo 7 1/4" x 4 1/4" in the original leather binding with black label in gilt to spine. Howes:354 First printed in 1806 in London in three volumes. Second printing.<br /><br />Thomas Ashe 1770-1835 was born in Dublin Ireland and was a soldier and memoirist. Much of his life was checkered with intrigue and fraud. His Memoirs and Confessions 1815 is an autobiographical account of 'criminal and delinquent' escapades beginning with the seduction of a girl in France. In America he edited the National Intelligencer and was arrested when attempting to steal treasures from churches in Latin America. His Travels in America first appeared in 1806. The narrative chronicles Ashe's travels by flatboat down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in 1806 and is one of the first travelogues written by a foreigner to comment specifically on the American inhabitants of the region. A unrestrained hatred of Americans can be found throughout the work. While the account is interesting and highly readable it was to create quite a stir and added to the wave of anti-British sentiment that would ultimately lead to the War of 1812. Printed Newburyport [Mass.] Reprinted for W. Sawyer and Co. by E.M. Blunt hardcover books
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Ulloa Antonio de 1716 1795
MeÌmoires philosophiques historiques physiques concernant la deÌcouverte de l'AmeÌrique : ses anciens habitans leurs mœurs leurs usages leur connexion avec les nouveaux habitans leur religion ancienne & moderne les produits des
2 volumes: 576xv pages; 499xv pages. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 1/2" bound in 3/4 period leather. Translated from the first German edition 1781 which includes a chapter entitled: "Observations and additions to by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider". Translated with additional notes and reviews by Jean Baptiste Lefebvre Villebrune. First Spanish edition published in 1772 Madrid. Sabin 36805 First French edition.<br /><br />Antonio de Ulloa 12 January 1716 – 3 July 1795 was a Spanish general explorer author astronomer colonial administrator and the first Spanish governor of Louisiana. He was born in Seville the son of an economist. Ulloa entered the navy in 1733. In 1735 he was appointed with fellow Spaniard Jorge Juan a member of the French Geodesic Mission a scientific expedition which the French Academy of Sciences was sending to Ecuador to measure a degree of meridian arc at the equator led by Pierre Bouguer. He remained there from 1736 to 1744 during which time the two Spaniards discovered the element platinum. In 1745 having finished their scientific labors Ulloa and Jorge Juan prepared to return to Spain agreeing to travel on different ships in order to minimize the danger of losing the important fruits of their labors. The ship upon which Ulloa was traveling was captured by the British and he was taken as a prisoner to England. In that country through his scientific attainments he gained the friendship of the men of science and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. In a short time through the influence of the president of this society he was released and was able to return to Spain. He published an account of the people and the countries they have met 1748 which was translated into English as A Voyage to South America. He became prominent as a scientist and was appointed to serve on various important scientific commissions. He is to be credited with the establishment of the first museum of natural history the first metallurgical laboratory in Spain and the observatory of Cadiz. In 1758 he returned to South America as governor of Huancavelica in Peru and the general manager of the quicksilver mines there. He held this position until 1764. He arrived on 5 March 1766 in New Orleans to serve as the first Spanish governor of West Louisiana. The French colonists refused to recognize Spanish rule and de Ulloa was expelled from Louisiana by a Creole uprising during the Louisiana Rebellion of 1768. For the remainder of his life he served as a naval officer. In 1779 he became lieutenant-general of the naval forces. As a result of his scientific work in Peru he published Madrid 1784 Relación histórica del viaje á la América Meridional which contains a full accurate and clear description of the greater part of South America geographically and of its inhabitants and natural history. In collaboration with the Jorge Juan mentioned above he also wrote Noticias secretas de América giving valuable information regarding the early religious orders in Spanish America.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Sever worming to spines exterior hinges cracked point chipped library stamps to title pages else a good copy of a scarce item. Chez Buisson hardcover books
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Cambridge Richard Owen 1717a1802
An Account of the War in India between the English and the French on the Coast of Coromandel from the Year 1750 to the Year 1760. Together with A Relation of the late Remarkable Events on the Malabar Coast and Expeditions to Golconda and Surat; with the Operations of the Fleet. Illustrated with Maps Plans &c. The whole compiled from Original Papers.
xxxiii270215148xix1 pages 14 of 18 engraved plates maps many folding and index. Quarto 10 1/4" x 8 1/4" in original leather binding. First edition.<br /><br />Richard Owen Cambridge was a British poet. He was educated at Eton and at St John's College Oxford. Leaving the university without taking a degree he took up residence at Lincolns Inn in 1737. Four years later he married and went to live at his country seat of Whitminster Gloucestershire. In 1751 he removed to Twickenham where he enjoyed the society of many notable persons. Horace Walpole in his letters makes many jesting allusions to Cambridge in the character of news-monger. His chief work is the <i>Scribleriad</i> 1751 a mock epic poem the hero of which is the Martinus Scriblerus of Alexander Pope John Arbuthnot and Jonathan Swift. The poem is preceded by a dissertation on the mock heroic in which he avows Cervantes as his master. The satire shows considerable learning and was eagerly read by literary people; but it never became popular and the allusions always obscure have little interest for the present-day reader. He made a valuable contribution to history in his <i>Account of the War in India on the Coast of Coromandel from the year 1750 to 1760</i> 1761. He had intended to write a history of the rise and progress of British power in India but this enterprise went no further than this one work as he found that Robert Orme who had promised him the use of his papers contemplated the execution of a similar plan. The Works of Richard Owen Cambridge includes several pieces never before published. It contains an <i>Account of his Life and Character</i>by his Son George Owen Cambridge 1803 the Scribleriad some narrative and satirical poems and about twenty papers originally published in Edward Moore's paper The <i>World</i>. His poems are included in Alexander Chalmers' English Poets 1816.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Previous owner's name in neatly written dated 1806 on front end paper with his book plate on front past down with his library stamp. Lacks rear free end paper. Front hinge separated back hinge cracked. Lacks the Mongol on horse back plate map of Maratta County view of the attack on Geriah and view of Surat. Front worn spine ends and corners reinforced and repaired new spine label else about very good. Printed for T Jefferys hardcover books
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John W. Beach
CAPE HENLOPEN LIGHTHOUSE
Dover DE: Henlopen Publishing Company 1970. #723 Limited Signed First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed by Beach on Title Page. 92pp. Edgewear to top and bottom of dust jacket with light discoloration on spine. Binding is very lightly soiled with faint foxing through first few pages of text. ; dust jacket is protected in a mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Henlopen Publishing Company unknown books
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Sir Henry Chauncy
The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire with the Original of Counties Hundreds or Wapentakes Boroughs Corporations Towns Parishes Villages and Hamlets; the Foundation and Origin of Monasteries Churches Advowsons Tythes Rectories Impropriat
London: Printed for Ben. Griffin in the Old Baily &c 1700. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Illustrated with many copper-plate engravings of the great houses and manors as well as maps; an old note states that this copy "wants plate 27 page 262 North View of the Town of Nortford." Contemporary paneled calf rebacked leather spine with six raised bands. Very Good binding. Printed for Ben. Griffin in the Old Baily &c unknown books
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Bengtson Hermann ed et al; Translated By John Conway
THE GREEKS AND THE PERSIANS: From the Sixth to the Fourth Centuries
New York: Delacorte Press 1968. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/near Very Good dust jacket. No pencil or ink markings in text. Boards clean. Very small bump on spine near top. Corners very lightly bumped. Dustjacket lightly soiled. Small tears and chips at top and bottom of front and rear dustjacket covers at folds with very small pieces missing. Chip on dustjacket spine at front dustjacket cover about 1 inch down from top. Small closed tears at top and bottom of dustjacket spine. Small closed tears at top and bottom of front and rear dustjacket covers. DJ protected with Mylar Cover. Very Good binding / near Very Good dust jacket. Delacorte Press unknown books
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Nepean Evan 1751 1822
Autograph Document Signed April 1st 1803 to Samuel Hood Esq. Commodore and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels at Barbados and the Leeward Islands
folio two pages of a four page bi-folium old folds in very good clean legible condition. Retained copy of orders marked "Most Secret" sent by Nepean Secretary to the Board of Admiralty to Samuel Hood Commander of forces on Barbados which read as follows: By the Commissioners for executing the Office Of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland &c. " In pursuance of the King's pleasure signified to us by the Rt. Honble Lord Hobart one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; You are hereby required and directed to make such a disposition of the Force under your command as you may judge most adviseable with a view to the obstructing the arrival of any reinforcement of Troops at the French Islands within the limits of your Station and in the want of any attempt for that purpose you are to intimate to the officers in Command of such reinforcement that although he cannot be permitted to Land his Troops in any of the said Islands he is at liberty to proceed to any other station that he may judge most convenient. If notwithstanding such communication the officer in command of the French Armament should manifest an intention of proceeding to any of the said Islands he must be informed that Force will be resorted to to prevent his carrying such an intention into effect and if he should persist in his design you are in such case to take such measures as may be most effectual for detaining and bringing the said armament into some part of the British Islands there to remain until you shall receive Instructions for your farther proceedings. By Command of their Lordships Evan Nepean" <br /> books
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Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza Italy; Andrea Corsini.
Catalogo Degli Strumenti del Museo di Storia della Scienza. Con 89 illustrazioni e 16 tavole fuori testo.
Firenze:: Leo S. Olschki 1954. 1954. 248 x 174 mm. 8vo. vii 394 pp. 16 plates index; plate extremities yellowed. Printed wrappers; extremities slightly worn and browned. Ownership signature of Martha Teach Gnudi. Very good. Leo S. Olschki, 1954. unknown books
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Robertson William Parish 1794a1850
A Visit to Mexico by the West India Islands Yucatan and United States with Observations and Adventures along the Way
2 volumes xxii332 pages with folding frontispiece and folding map; ii478 pages. Small Octavo 7 3/4" x 5 1/4". Bound in original embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. The map is titled Mexico and Texas and shows the Republic of Texas including a large sectin of today's New Mexico Kansas and southern Colorado northward to the Arkansas River and westward to the Rio Grade. Sabin 72016 1st American edition. 2 volumes. xxii332 pages with fold out frontispiece and foldout map; ii478 pages with appendix. Small Octavo 7 3/4" x 5 1/4". Bound in original decorative blind stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. The map is titled Mexico and Texas and shows the Republic of Texas including a large section of today's New Mexico Kansas and southern Colorado northward to the Arkansas River and westward to the Rio Grade. Sabin 72016 First American edition. Robertson was appointed Mexican commissioner in 1848. He journeyed with his daughter from Southampton to Bermuda on the Avon and then to the Yucatan Peninsular on the Forth. Written in the form of a journal the book includes both details of everyday life on board ship and dramatic events such as shipwreck. Both father and daughter contributed to the book which gives an interesting perspective on Robertson's sojourn in Mexico. The book provides information on the country's mines politics and mores as well as anecdotes of the Yucatan and West Indies. Condition: Front inner hinge of volume one cracked through spine ends and corners chipped and rubbed previous owner's name on front end papers. A good copy. Simpkin, Marshall & Co hardcover 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
Franklin N.H.: Published by Peobody & Daniell 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 by owner with hanging cord to top left corner of text. Publisher advert to rear wrapper. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Expected age-toning extremity wear & foxing. Trimmed lower corner of text-block. 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. Published by Peobody & Daniell unknown books
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Michelet Jules; Introduction and Notes by Paul Viallaneix
Journal Tome I 1828-1848; Tome II 1849-1860
Paris: Gallimard 1959. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY EDITOR Paul Viallaneix at the half-title of Vol. II- "A. J. Seznec ami de Michelet. homage amicale de l'editeur du JOURNAL Paul Viallaneix". Jean J. Seznec 1905-1983 was a French historian and Renaissance scholar. Jules Michelet 1798-1874 is best known for his monumental Histoire de France 1833-67. and for being the first historian to use and define the term Renaissance. Tome I Published 1959 Tome II 1962. Two volumes bound in blue cloth gilt backs Near Fine tidy marginal check marks rear end page Vol. I with neat annotations in ink and pencil. Uncommon in hardcover and SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY EDITOR. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY EDITOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. Gallimard hardcover books
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Recueil des Testamens Politiques du Cardinal de Richelieu du duc de Lorraine de M. Colbert et de M. de Louvois divisé en 4 volumes.
Amsterdam: Zacharie Chatelain 1749. Four volumes bound in contemporary calf the backs with gilt floral decorations marbled end papers red edges bearing the bookplate of M. de Sampigny lieutenant-general in the Sénéchaussée d'Auvergne. Near Fine small rubs at corners the pages clean and bright without even a hint of toning or foxing. A quite lovely set. . First Edition. Calf. Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Zacharie Chatelain, hardcover books
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Anonymous Lawson John Parker
Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland and the Raids Forays and Conflicts. Four Volumes
Edinburgh Dublin and London: A. Fullarton 1853. SCARCE. vii440; viii 464; 436; iv 416. with 23 of the 25 leaves of plates present. Vol. I published 1853 Vol. II 1851 Vols. III and IV 1852. Four volumes in contemporary half calf over pebbled brown morocco gilt backs with red morocco labels the bookplates of George D. Gregory. Hinges starting to open yet holding nicely boards rubbed interiors clean. Only auction record found for this set in any edition at RBH was 1915. John Parker Lawson was an ecclesiastical historian who was also a Deacon in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Later Edition. Half Calf. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. A. Fullarton Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 008705
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Wraxall Sir Nathaniel William; Edited with Notes and Additional Chapters from the Author's Unpublished MS. by Henry S. Wheatle
The Historical and the Posthumous Memoirs of Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall 1772 - 1784. In Five Volumes
New York and London: Scribner and Welford / Bickers and Son 1884. Five volumes in publisher's original decorative paper covered boards gilt crest front covers and gilt lettering back dark blue end papers four engraved portraits each volume except Vol. II with three. Bookplate of Mary Rivers with added name in ink of R.G. Russell. A Very Good set small tears at spine ends moderate toning associated with frontis engravings. Wraxall's Memoirs was a scandalous success on its initial publication in 1815. The first edition sold out in a month and a libel suit cost Wraxall a jail term and a fine. Even so the facts appear to have been mostly true and the book makes for fine reading to this day. A heavy set that will require additional shipping charges for priority and international mail. Please inquire as to cost before ordering. . Later Edition. Decorative Paper Covered Board. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Scribner and Welford / Bickers and Son Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 008385
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