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1862réf. 95814Tallahassee: Printed by Dyke & Carlisle 1862. Rare first edition documenting the acts and resolutions passed by the General Assembly of Florida in the first year of the American Civil War. Octavo disbound. In very good condition. Scarce and desirable. Among the 34 United States of America in February 1861 seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the country to form the Confederate States of America causing the outbreak of the most studied and written about episode in United States History: the American Civil War. The Confederacy grew to include eleven states all of them slave-holding. After the secession of South Carolina on December 20 1860 the "cotton states" of Mississippi Florida Alabama Georgia Louisiana and Texas followed suit seceding in January and February 1861 Printed by Dyke & Carlisle unknown books
1864réf. 694531864. A Curious 1864 Case Involving Murder and Insanity Editors of the Journal of Mental Science. Insanity and Crime: A Medico-Legal Commentary on the Case of George Victor Townley. London: John Churchill and Sons 1864. 47 1 pp. Octavo 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet with untrimmed edges bound into recent cloth printed paper title labels to front board and spine endpapers added. Moderate toning to text faint vertical crease through center small inkspots to a few leaves. $500. Only edition. In this unusual trial Townley was found sane and guilty of the murder of his fiancee but insane afterwards and thus incapable of execution. The discussion of this case in the interesting pamphlets examines among other related topics partial impulsive and "moral" insanity. OCLC locates 13 copies in North America 1 in a law library U.S. Supreme Court. unknown books
1852réf. 675821852. An Interesting View of the American Legal Community in 1852 Law Journal. Livingston John Editor. United States Monthly Law Magazine. New York: United States Monthly Magazine Office 1852. Volume 6 No. 1 July 1852 Volume 5 No. 1 January 1852 Volume 5 No. 2 February 1852 Volume 4 No. 4 1852. Title page and final two pages author notice and prospectus lacking from Volume 6 No. 1. Final two leaves prospectus and advertisements lacking from Volume 5 No. 2. Octavo 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Periodicals bound into nineteenth-century three-quarter morocco over marbled boards. Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities with wear to spine ends joints cracked a few cracks to text block. Light toning to text slightly heavier in places. $250. The United States Monthly Law Magazine was published from January 1850 to July 1852. It specialized in scholarly essays and jurist biographies but also offered book reviews review essays court reports of American and English cases and notices. Some of the more notable articles in our volume are an anonymous critique of the Field Codes of civil and criminal procedure Volume 5 No. 2 pp. 152-172 and a biographical sketch of Sam Houston Volume 4 No. 4 pp. 567-592. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 I:824. unknown books
1893réf. 23400New York 1893. Small broadsheet 5" x 7" printed on tan card stock single hole punch at top. Rubberstamp at head of title: 'American Engineer and Railroad Journal' a few letters partly affected by hole punch. Very Good. unknown books
1823réf. 152081823. Journal. The Law Advertiser. London: J.W. Paget 1823-1831. Reprint edition. No publisher. No date. 9 volumes. Hardcover. Cloth. 1-1/2 linear feet of shelf space. Very good. $150. Includes bankruptcy proceedings parliamentary proceedings as well as notices on the national debt charities stocks patents etc. unknown books
1886réf. 6692Philadelphia and Chicago: Farm Journal; copyright 1885 by Wilmer Atkinson; Electroplated printed and bound by J.F. Dickson & Co 1886. Duodecimo 13 x 8.5 cm. 64 pages. Illustrated. Table of contents is really a short index. Second printing. The 1885 original issue appears to have been 96 pages long and larger in dimensions 18 cm. tall. A home economics manual for the rural housewife drawn from the pages of Farm Journal. Interesting topics such as Taking Care of Things Down Cellar Up-Stairs Work Comforts and Conveniences Kindlings and School Lunches are included. Farm Journal was a Philadelphia-based rural farm paper which ran from 1877 to 1939. A few clippings laid-in and a bit of offsetting as a result. A bit of edge chipping to publisher's black and red printed wrapper otherwise very good or better. Scarce. OCLC records three copies of this 1886 issue with 64 pages and four copies of all other issues; not in Cagle. Farm Journal; copyright 1885 by Wilmer Atkinson; Electroplated, printed, and bound by J.F. Dickson & Co unknown books
1899réf. 3640Pittsburgh: Mercantile Journal and Pennsylvania Grocer 1899. 30.5 x 23.5 cm 24 pages. Illustrated advertisements throughout. Single issue of this periodical for Pittsburgh grocers featuring market prices news of retail associations and obituaries. In printed wrappers some creasing and chipping otherwise very good. Mercantile Journal and Pennsylvania Grocer unknown books
1851réf. WRCAM40376Primarily at sea 1851. 34pp. in a highly legible hand. Folio. Dbd. Lightly foxed. Several pages torn out. Doodles on blank versos of some leaves. Good. First-person narrative of a young man's sea voyage from Boston to Palermo and back. Though serving as a hand the young man seems to be of fairly good breeding and education having determined to teach himself the art of navigation while on board and often waxing poetic and sentimental. Departing on Oct. 21 1850 the author says the ship is "a very good looking vessel" and that the Captain and mates are "very fine men;" regarding the rest of the crew he says: "I have not been with them long enough to judge of their characters as yet." While his journal is filled with weather and wind and resetting the rigging it also has very contemplative passages: "At eight PM I went to the wheel it was a beautiful night the full moon shone in all her glory casting a mellow light on all around so light was the breeze that it scarce ruffled the surface of the Ocean our ship was gliding through the water with scarcely any perceptable sic motion ah who would not go to sea were it always thus. I have been thinking of home and friends this watch which I may never see again but I hope before many months are passed I shall return to my native land and grasp the hand of friends once more." He writes often of seeing friends and home again and of spending his future days more profitably than his past ones. On Nov. 18 he turns twenty and writes: "I must say that but a small portion of that time has been spent as it should have been but it is passed and cannot be recalled and I have only to try to do better in future and hope for success." The ship arrives at Palermo on Nov. 30 and the crew are let ashore on Dec. 8 having finally passed quarantine. The author writes at some length about Palermo and the sights seen including the King's gardens and the catacombs "where are the remains of some twenty thousand people of both sexes and all ages from the infant to the gray headed old man." But for all the sights of Palermo he is nevertheless eager to be underway again for home. One of the tasks the crew has been set to is the painting of the ship which the author finds quite enjoyable: "We have been painting the spars today which is hard work but I have a fancy for painting so I have got along very well." Impatient to be home he is not sorry when they set off from Palermo on Dec. 21: "I do not think I shall regret leaving here though I have nothing in particular to complain of respecting the town or the inhabitants." Light winds hamper their return journey and at times the ship is entirely becalmed. When they finally reach Gibraltar on Jan. 14 squalls are upon them and they have to anchor there for some days. While in port the author begins to be peevish with the Captain: ".the Capt. has found plenty of what I call humbuging sic or unnecessary work for us to do it seems strange to me that a man professing to be a gentleman should stoop to such low acts of meanness merely to show his authority and gratify a malicious spirit but so it is with some who wish to exercise a sort of tyranny over those who have not the power to defend themselves however we shall soon be on an even footing and can say and do as we please and then I shall express myself more freely." Things eventually settle out though with the Duchess arriving in Nantucket on Feb. 22 1851 ending the journal. An interesting and personal account of a trip to sea. unknown books
1839réf. WRCAM41144Boston 1839. 289-579pp. plus three plates. Later wrappers. In a folding cloth box leather label by James MacDonald. Volume 2 numbers 3 and 4 of the BOSTON JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY issued in August 1839. A survey of fish in Massachusetts' waters completed as part of a Zoological Survey of Massachusetts. hardcover books
1842réf. 30726London: Royal Asiatic Society 1842. First edition. Removed from a larger volume. Disbound else a very good copy with library stamp on edge of drawing. 172-199 pp. Illus. with one folded b/w drawing. 8vo. Khonds Kandhs were an aboriginal tribe of Orissa who provided protection for the Raja of Goomsur during the Goomsur Wars of 1835 to 1837. Royal Asiatic Society unknown books
1819réf. SS321-001Various: Various 1918-1955. Hardcover. Very Good. For an itemized list of the items in this lot please inquire. Condition Very Good to Good. The Courier-Journal newspaper began publication in Louisville Kentucky in 1868 - the last run of the Courier-Journal newspaper was Sunday February 28 2021; the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company printing facilities closed for good on March 4th 2021. The material offered here is dated 1918 through circa 1955 and includes technical material used by apprentices and compositors working in the composition and press rooms of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. Included are 6 volumes of the Typographic Technical Series For Apprentices Part VI Nos. 32-40 out of series Chicago IL: Published by the Committee on Education United Typothetae of America 1918. All copies with the bookplate "Property of Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. For EMPLOYES' sic Use Only Return to Superintendent's Office" in a handsome Art Nouveau design on the front paste-down. This educational material demonstrates that the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was unionized at least from the beginning of the twentieth-century and highlights the power and influence of typographers who were among the most educated economically mobile wage laborers in the United States and who were represented in every major urban center in the newspaper industry; the typographic unions won a 48-hour work week in 1897 and a standard wage scale throughout the newspaper industry; as an example of the power of the typographers unions in the 1930s the International Typographical Union introduced the 40-hour work week across the industry which spread to other unions and has sinse been codified across the labor sector by federal legislation; the typographers occupied an important if ambiguous place in the development of American labor history in as much as American labor was never successful in uniting all laborers together in one force but tended organize within industries. This grouping tends to focus on the tools of the trade including type specimens and catalogs of process inks issued in the 1920s and 1930s; Courier-Journal typographers left notes to themselves in these catalogs indicating material they felt needed representation in the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company's shops. Something of an outlier in this grouping is an accordion-fold volume of photographs of printing equipment available for use in the 1950s by the competing print shop The Standard Printing Company Incorporated of Louisville Kentucky. Most likely a salesman's dummy to show potential clients that The Standard Printing Company had the latest printing equipment and the most prestigious customers this undated circa 1955 without imprint accordion-fold photo-archive of printing equipment shows the most modern print shop of the 1950s. The earliest book printed by the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was issued in 1884. An interesting article by Chris Kenning in the Louisville Courier Journal March 11 2021 gave some valuable insights into the history of the newspaper the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company and the challenges to the newspaper business and printing in general in the United States with the advent of desktop computers and the rise of the internet. While the Kenning article did not touch much on the time period 1918-1955 there are still interesting stories to tell about the printing industry in America the place of printing in the American labor movement and printing technology in the first half of the twentieth century that can be told using the materials offered here as visual aids. With the sale of the Courier-Journal to the Gannett Co. Inc in 1986 the road to the shut down of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was opened. Now the Courier-Journal newspaper will be printed in Indianapolis IN. The current print circulation of the paper is now under 60000 while the Courier Journal's digital journalism garners 4.5 million monthly visitors to their website. Media consolidation has been made possible with the internet's ability to distribute news on a minute-by-minute basis making regional newspapers printed on paper a redundancy. The Cincinnati Enquirer the Lexington Herald-Leader the Bowling Green Daily News are all regional newspapers that will no longer be produced locally after having been produced in Louisville by the presses of the Courier-Journal. This consolidation of the newspaper industry means the loss of 102 Louisville jobs including printing press operators mailroom and transportation jobs that have been lost to the relocation of the press work to Indianapolis. Various hardcover books
1830réf. M11919Philadelphia:: L. Johnson 1830. 1830. "4th improved edition." 8vo. 385-90 381 pp. Foxed throughout not hindering legibility. Original red cloth spine paper title label; front cover detached but present ffe loose extremities worn spine chipped. Rear free endpaper early ownership signature. As is. RARE. The first volume of a pioneer American health journal published from 1829-33. It features a selection of fascinating perspectives on medicine including analyses of the effects on health of headwear wine and malt liquor consumption mealtimes and water drinking among other things as well as considerations of race and longevity quacks mothering and more. On tobacco: "'A Victim of the Weed' is desirous of knowing whether he can at once abandon his pipe and segars or must part company in a gradual manner. Our advice is to desist immediately and entirely from the use of tobacco in every form and in any quantity however small" 220. On race: "The differences in this respect are primitive in the different races; the mucous body or varnish which constitutes the layer between the true skin beneath and the outer covering or cuticle being white or nearly so in the European or Caucasian races; yellowish in the Mongul or African; and black in the African" 146. On the education of girls: "Under twelve years of age it should be an invariable rule that the hours of close application should never exceed those of amusement and exercise" 267. Contains nos. 1-24: September 9 1829 through August 25 1830. L. Johnson, 1830. hardcover books
1836réf. 47396London: Published by Effingham Wilson Junior 1836. 1st volume edition. Period publisher's brown half-calf with marbled boards & eps; spine gilt decorated; black leather title label. General wear. Weak joints. Leather book label of one "T. Atterton". About Very Good if not slightly better. vii 1 332 pp. Text double column. Nos 105 - 132. T.p. vignette 30 intratextual wood engravings. 8vo. 8-9/16" x 5-3/8" Wilson's literary weekly relatively short-lived begiining in July 1834 and ceasing publication with the 31 December 1836 issue contained herein. Published by Effingham Wilson, Junior hardcover books
1830réf. 260814Philadelphia 1830. hardcover. very good. Volume 1 in 24 parts published between September 9 1829 and August 25 1830. 384pp. 8vo full mottled calf gilt decorated spine; foxed hinges and edges worn. Philadelphia 1830. Very good. The first volume of this early American medical journal including accounts of spontaneous combustion evils of strong spirits the ill effects of coffee cautions for the season warm bathing personal cleanliness and much more. unknown books
1830réf. 7704Philadelphia 1830. hardcover. very good-. Volumes I and II volume I is complete in 24 numbers volume II is mostly complete but missing several issues. Thick 8vo 3/4 leather over marbled boards red leather spine label; foxed covers very worn. Philadelphia 1830. A very good - copy. Each number was issued fortnightly. unknown books
1807réf. CAT000099Paris: Capelle et Renand 1807. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. A mixed set 11 volumes published 1807-1817. Volumes 2-10 in full acid calf worn spines dry and chipped one board detached others loose volume 1 in later half vellum and volume 11 in original wraps worn and chipped. A complete run of this annual of food and drink associated poetry and song. Volume 4 with a portrait of Marc-Antoine-Madeleine Désaugiers who wrote most of the songs laid down and each volume with an engraved frontispiece. Size: 12mo duodecimo. 11-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Music. Inventory No: CAT000099. Capelle et Renand hardcover books
1883réf. 7738Medina Ohio: A.I. Root 1883. Volume I nos. 1-4 12; and volume II nos. 1-4 nine issues in alla complete set would be: Volume 1-2; April 1882 - December 1883 twenty-four issues in all. Slim periodical each issue bound on cord 25.5 x 17 cm. 8-24 pages each issue. Illustrated. A juvenile supplement or "Extra" to Gleanings in Bee Culture the newsletter of the famous apiarist A.I Root. Contents include simple advice on beekeeping entertaining stories moral guidance letters from readers and more. Some soiling and edgewear to front panel of first issue; tiny printed sticker with subscriber's name and address to each. Otherwise very good. Each issue with the same very attractive woodcut masthead. OCLC locates five complete sets indicated. A.I. Root unknown books
1876réf. 402106Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea 1876. First edition. Spine reinforced with tape library label and stamp on title/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner M.D. 8vo. 607 pp. Original flexible cloth. Includes: MORTON Thomas George 1835-1903. "A peculiar and painful affection of the fourth metatarso-phalangeal articulation". Pp. 37-45. First complete description of anterior metatarsalgia "Morton's disease". Garrison-Morton-Norman 4341. See Cordasco 70-2526. WARREN Jonathan Mason 1811-1867. "Operations for fissure of the hard and soft palate palatoplastie". Pp. 538-47. Warren devised the first operation for closure of complete clefts of the palate. Garrison-Morton-Norman 5745. Henry C. Lea hardcover books
1861réf. 184634London: Limited Liability Journal 1861. 15p. 5.5x8.5 inches very good first edition pamphlet in later pasted marbled paper wraps. Offprint of articles printed in the journal on the subject. Only two holdings listed in OCLC and those are microform. Limited Liability Journal unknown books
1886réf. 402112Philadelphia: Lea Brothers 1886. First edition. Spine reinforced with tape library label and stamps on endleaves/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner M.D. 8vo. Contemporary half leather. Contains: Charles FINLAY. "Yellow fever: its transmission by means of the Culex mosquito." Pp. 395-409. Lea Brothers hardcover books
1868réf. 008888Boston: J.E. Tilton and Company 1868. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. viii 384 pages of text. Hardcover binding; leather spine and corners with marbled paper-covered boards. Front board is detached and leather is moderately rubbed at the extremities. First and final several pages of text have a large stain on them but the vast majority of the text remains clean. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts. Previous owner's name "E. N. Badger" on front endpaper. Previous owner's bookplate affixed neatly to front endpaper. J.E. Tilton and Company Hardcover books
1832réf. 2818baCPhiladelphia PA: Henry H. Porter 1832. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. First presumed edition. Octavo 8vo. 80 pages of text. Hardcover; brown cloth spine lacking; blue-green paper covered boards nearly detached. Original orange printed paper front cover label intact. Minor foxing scattered throughout text. Medicine; influenza; rhinovirus. Measures 22.9cm height. Henry H. Porter Hardcover books
1885réf. 36110Chicago: The Jewelers' Journal Office 57 Washington Street 1885. 1st printing. Printed pink paper wrappers with cord 'hanger' to text upper left. Age toning to wrappers which show only light wear. A VG - Nr Fine copy of a rare item. 79 1 pp. Index inside front wrappers. Illustrated. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 6" A rare almanac focusing on the jewelers' trade. Not found on OCLC. The Jewelers' Journal Office, 57 Washington Street unknown books
1847réf. 11601London 1847. Contemporary half-calf with marbled boards. VG some rubbing to leather/pc msg from spine label/bit of foxing throughout/bpt. 171 pp. Illustrated with plates including 2 fold-out color. 8vo. A journal devoted to 'Researches into the Arts and Monuments of the Early and Middle Ages.' Misbound issue with Ppg 1- 84 coming after 85 - 171. hardcover books
1876réf. 27149New York: The Aldine Company 1876. 1st thus. Original brown publisher's pebbled cloth with gilt lettering. Bevelled edges. Overall VG edgewear. Ex-lib with usual markings some plates with discrete perforation. 382 pp. Chromolithograph title page. Illustrated with inserted plates & intratextual cuts. Folio. 16-1/2" x 11-1/2" Bound volume of 12 issues. The Aldine Company hardcover books
