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1948ref. 319400Bombay: Conservator of Forests 1948. 8 pp. signed by the Conservator of Forests Southern Circle and extensively annotated by his office. 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Original self-wrappers in envelope the whole housed in a modern blue cloth clamshell box with a custom-printed title page laid in. Somewhat worn soiled. 8 pp. signed by the Conservator of Forests Southern Circle and extensively annotated by his office. 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. A rare piece of ephemera; licenses such as this dictated the range that could be hunted as well as the species Bison Sambhar and Cheetah and the number of animals and their sex bulls or stags only. Conservator of Forests unknown books
ref. 47600Berlin: 1848: Vereins Buchdruckerei. Broadside 27cm x 20cm ca 10-3/4" x 8". Printed in blackletter on white wove stock. Slightly toned with old vertical and horizontal fold-lines; creased at margins; Very Good. Satirical broadside in the form of a fictional speech by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV in which he ironically expresses support for the demands made by liberal parliamentarians at the May 18th Parliamentary Assembly in Frankfurt-am-Main. These included expanded rights for the underprivileged classes including most importantly universal male suffrage; attenuation of executive power; the election of a permanent German parliament and monetary reforms including a unified German currency. The great wave of liberal revolt that washed over the European Continent in 1848 proved short-lived; by 1851 most of the newly-established liberal régimes had been quashed by reactionary movements with radical leaders either imprisoned murdered or driven into exile. Out of this crucible would arise the Franco-Prussian War and the militant Marxist nihilist and anarchist movements of later in the century. A highly evocative document of the first wave of German radical revolt. Rare; OCLC and KVK note three locations only all in Germany. Vereins Buchdruckerei unknown books
1847ref. 4980Troy: Published and Sold by L. Willard 1847. First Edition. 1 - 44 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers uncut and unopened; some chipping at margins sporadic foxing. First Edition. 1 - 44 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contains: The Condemned: A Chapter from Our City Prison: A Tale of Truth and Horror. Wright I 2444 Published and Sold by L. Willard unknown books
1873ref. 10250Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co 1873. First edition. Frontispiece and 12 plates. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Original tan pictorial boards black calf spine. Bottom half of spine perished some cover wear internally fine. 1873 Christmas gift inscription on title. First edition. Frontispiece and 12 plates. 1 vols. Oblong folio. An account of the adventures of a group of friends vacationing at Mt. Desert Maine recounted in humorous verse and equally humorous drawings evidently by two members of the party. Summer romances the hazards of the communal dining table days of genteel ennui and other activities with the first names of the participants indicated as a partial aid to social historians a few of them are named in pencil on the title page are described in double columns of rollicking verse narrative and accompanying plates. A charming period piece and a not insignificant bit of amusing Americana. J.R. Osgood & Co unknown books
1739ref. 12979London: Printed for T. Cooper 1739. 30 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A very good copy with some minor browning to a few pages. Former owner's inscription in margin of title page. Modern half blue morocco gilt over marbled boards. 30 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed for T. Cooper unknown books
1887ref. 9506Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles Éditiuon Jouast 1887. One of 15 numbered copies this begin No. 15 printed on Japan Vellum and printed with an extra suite of the vignettes. Avec Notes et un Glossaire par D. Jouaust et une Preface de Louis Ulbach 15 etched vignette headpieces by Ad. Lalauze. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Three quarter citron morocco and marbled paper boards green leather spine label raised bands gilt spine compartments with green morocco onlays. One of 15 numbered copies this begin No. 15 printed on Japan Vellum and printed with an extra suite of the vignettes. Avec Notes et un Glossaire par D. Jouaust et une Preface de Louis Ulbach 15 etched vignette headpieces by Ad. Lalauze. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Librairie des Bibliophiles, Éditiuon Jouast unknown books
1859ref. 1262761859. New York: Harper and Brothers 1859. Sm. 8vo 8 9-381 2 adspp. With a frontispiece and 7 plates by Frank Bellew. Original pebbled brown cloth covers blind-stamped with oval design within a rectangle. A little faded and worn generally a very good copy of a fragile book printed on cheap paper in a cheap cloth binding. § First and only edition excluding modern reprints of a rare and moving plea on behalf of unhoused children in New York echoing Dickens and others of the period. 1859 is often referred to as the golden year of the 19th century book -- Darwin's Origin Dickens's Tale of Two Cities Eliot's Adam Bede Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyam Tennyson's Idylls of the King Mill's On Liberty Smiles's Self Help Goncharov's Oblamov etc. This book almost unknown and held in only 6 libraries per OCLC deserves to be better known. Not in Blanck or anywhere else we can cite except for Hamilton Early American Book Illustrators # 1491. unknown books
1800ref. 1237031800. Newark: Charles E. Graham & Co. n.d. c. 1910. Large slim 4to illustrated with sixteen full-page chromolithographs. Weathered brown boards with color print pasted on cover and brown lettering. A bit worn one torn leaf repaired with scotch tape. Two stains on the upper cover not obtrusive. Seemingly very scarce. § A rare ABC not in Cotsen no copy recorded in databases online two copies noted at auction both failed to sell at high estimates. Divided into two parts the first part untitled the second part titled "Object Lessons ABC". Text on the versos of the chromolithographs. unknown books
1738ref. 1106401738. Londres i.e. Amsterdam : Aux dépens de la Compagnie 1738. 12mo 4 179pp. Title- printed in red and black. Ink signature "Carteret Harvey" on A1. 19th-century blue cloth red label red edges very good. § OCLC: 12073708: "Miscellany comprising a grotesque fairy tale a philosophical epistle and a series of letters addressed from hell to the world above. The whole is redolent of political and philosophical overtones intended as a criticism of the Regency and the morality of the age. L'amour magot is a fable about the dangers of romantic love in an inexperienced young heroine. The 'lettres infernales' are written by inhabitants of hell. One letter is written from a bookseller addressed to his colleagues on earth in which he discusses hell's booktrade." OCLC locates in all about 18 copies but doubtless there are more. No one hazards a guess at the authorship. A pencil note in the book states: "Anon see Bulletin du bibliophile 16 série p. 372. Comte d'I.". unknown books
1865ref. 69031New York: Bromley & Co 1865. Second edition. 19 cm. 251 pp. Illus. Original dark blue green blindstamped cloth title stamped in gilt on spine. Some wear to spine ends foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown. Wright II 1542 for the first edition of 1864. Hamilton p. 87 for Bur. Lusk 998. Sabin and BAL disavow possible authorship by Seba Smith or Charles A. Davis both of whom lived a few years past the end of the war. Sabin 84179. This is the edition of 1864 published by Bromley and Feeks with a printed slip pasted over the date and Feeks' name in the imprint providing the date 1865 and the statement "second edition." The anonymous author ridicules Lincoln's war policies. Bromley & Co unknown books
1858ref. 69335NP Allegheny County PA 1858. Broadside 49 x 23 cm. Text in two columns with caption title in large bold type. Old fold lines a few tiny holes and some toning previous owner's pencil margin notes. The text reads in part: "From necessity Fellow Citizens we are compelled to talk to you through the medium of Hand-Bills and Circulars the Newspaper Press of the County having been bought by the Railroads and Bondholders." The anonymous author warns fellow taxpayers their hard earned money is being plundered to finance the debts of "worthless and defaulting Rail Road Companies -- viz: The Steubenville Allegeheny Valley and Chartiers." The appeal challenges taxpayers to use their votes to elect a Commissioner and Treasurer who "will not suffer the tax to be levied or assessed." Statistics related to the debts for the cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny as well as the county totalling $5500000 are given. Noted are roads "repudiated" in 1856 and 1857 and an estimate for ones that "will repudiate in 1858" helping to date this piece. "Will you cast your Suffrages for a Ticket pledged to enforce the collection of these Taxes. or will you rather use the power of the ballot box. to compel the Robbers who have been plundering you to surrender their ill-gotten Gains. The 1850s were an era of increasing infrastructure investments in railroads at least partially financed through taxes and bonds. The Pennsylvania Railroad chartered by the state legislature in 1846 ran its first excursion train to Pittsburgh in 1851. The Ohio & Pennsylvania Railroad chartered two years later began to use a station at Allegheny City in 1851. The two lines were connected by a bridge across the Allegheny River in 1858. The pencil notes on this copy posit a question: "What would City Property be worth without Public improvements." see: William Kenneth Schusler's essay part of his doctoral dissertation "The Railroad Comes to Pittsburgh". unknown books
1863ref. 66742New York NY: P.W. Derham Printer and Stationer 15 Nassua Street Corner of Pine 1863. Folio broadside 48 x 29.5 cm. text in two columns beneath the title in display type. Old folds with slight damage; some foxing. Professionally rebacked. This broadside printed ca. 1863-4 offers a political analysis of the options for reconciliation with the Confederacy and a denunciation of the statements of Gov. Horatio Seymour. Printed by P.W. Derham a stationer from New York whose other surviving works include an 1862-4 broadside reprint of a pre-secession speech by Alexander H. Stephens Vice President of the Confederacy in which Stephens argues for preserving the Union Hummel 542: notes this is a "forged speech for the political campaign; 1864". The author of the broadside presents four scenarios for reconciliation with the South and examines the Confederate response to each by quoting several Southern newspapers including the Richmond Dispatch the Atlanta Intelligencer the Richmond Enquirer and the Charleston Mercury among others. The author proposes several solutions including applying for foreign intervention surrendering and appealing to the South to rejoin the Union and recognizing the independence of the Confederacy though invariably Confederate viewpoints making each option impossible are presented. For example the author proposes to "Hold out the olive branch confess our error in having resented the bombardment of Fort Sumter propose Peace and Union and with becoming dignity await the answer which the South cannot fail to give its faithful ally the Democratic Party" but then notes "that answer we have already." The author goes on to provide several quotes in which zealous Southern newspaper writers declare that they can never rejoin the Union again under any circumstances. The author also quotes several statements from Horatio Seymour who was running for re-election as governor of the state of New York implying he was a Southern sympathizer. Ultimately the author of the broadside in satirical style is unable to reach any convincing conclusion for the best method of attaining "Peace and Union" but represents an early rejection of the Peace Democrat or Copperhead positions which were to become so frequent 1862-64. Two listings found on OCLC: Lib. of Congress; NY Hist. Society. The New York Historical Society notes that the printer P.W. Derham was listed in New York City directories as at this address from 1863-1877 and that this broadside's purpose was "opposing the Democratic Party platform and the reelection of New York Democratic governor Horatio Seymour." Seymour 1810-1886 who had been elected governor of New York in 1852 and again in 1862 was running for re-election in 1864. He supported the Crittenden Compromise of 1860 in an effort to keep the South from seceding but supported the Civil War once it commenced. According to his biography in the DAB he continued to oppose some of Pres. Lincoln's policies during the war and "insisted that the extra-constitutional powers assumed by the Lincoln administration were the most serious problem arising from the Civil War." For his actions in re-establishing order after the New York Draft Riots Horace Greeley characterized Seymour as a temporizing "Copperhead." Seymour lost his bid for re-election. P.W. Derham, Printer and Stationer, 15 Nassua Street, Corner of Pine unknown books
ref. 1133London: The Religious Tract Society. Hardcover. Very Good -. Hardcover. SCARCE. 12mo. Very good-. Colorful embossed and illustrated grey cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and black title to spine. Rubbing and wear to boards. Minor discoloration to rear board. Minor browning to end pages and to title page. Full colored illustrated frontis. 64 pp. CHILD/6252. The Religious Tract Society hardcover books
1900ref. 4792London: HMSO ca 1900. First Edition. Original publisher's gilt stamped linen cloth. Very good; front hinge weak. 8vo 4 5 - 30 2 pp. 4 full page lithographic plates one color. The explanation and use of a range finder to determine distances over ground in order to site-in weapons. There is an addenda to the text citing examples of how to use the device. HMSO hardcover books
1714ref. 7280London: For Richard Wilkin 1714. Octavo 19 x 12.5 cm. 16 218 13 pages. FIRST EDITION. “Mary Kettilby’s collection of cookery recipes and medicinal and home remedies from a tasty “green-pease soop without meat” to gooseberry wine. Households that could not afford French cooks or French cooking came to form a growing audience for books by women that contained unpretentious recipes cut to suit a less costly cloth for pickling and collaring rather than ragouts. Where Hannah Woolley had led plenty of female cooks with their eye on the profitable middle market followed with books like Mary Kettilby’s collection of recipes 1714 and Eliza Smith’s Compleat Housewife 1734” Colquhoun Taste: The Story of Britain through its Cookery 2015. Kettilby’s book purported to be a collective effort: the preface stating that ‘a Number of very Curious and Delicate House-wives Club’d to furnish out this Collection’. Maclean however pages 79-82 doubts this and notes that evidence from later editions indicate Kettilby to be the main author. Apart from the Preface there is no introduction of any sort: the recipes follow immediately after the chapter headings. The book is clearly divided into chapters of recipes for food and for remedies but within the chapters there is no definite structure. For example the first chapter begins with six recipes for soups followed by recipes for collared beef ‘French-Cutlets’ collared mutton stewed pigeons broiled pigeons dressed turbot and then patties ‘for a Dish of Fish’. The recipes are given either as goals as ‘To make Hogs-Puddings’ or as titles sometimes with descriptions as ‘A very good Tansy’. Quantities are given in whichever units are convenient as ‘a Gallon of grated Bread’ ‘three Pounds of Currants’ or ‘nine Eggs’. Often quantities rely on the cook’s judgment as ‘as much Sugar as will make it very sweet’. Temperatures and timings are given when necessary as ‘a cool Oven: Half an Hour bakes it’. Later binding in 19th century style. Half-calf gilt-decorated spine marbled endpapers. The front paste-down contains the bookplates of two significant culinary collections: Thomas Scruggs & Margaret Cook and Marian Hatch. The Hatch bookplate was designed and engraved by British engraver Alfred J. Downey. With the bookseller's ticket of Philip C. Duschnes to the rear pastedown. Ink ownership mark to half-title "1718 Eliseab; and inscription on final page of text "illeg. near New College Oxford". OCLC locates eighteen copies; Bitting page 258; Cagle 789; Maclean pages 79-82; Oxford page 54; Wellcome II page 389. For Richard Wilkin hardcover books
1887ref. 5556Hartford : Calhoun Print Co. ca. 1887. Unique. Very good with remnants of the print glued to the rear surface of the board. Folio. A carved woodblock for printing an advertising broadside. The block meas. appx. 20 x 24 inches. The original hand carved woodblock for printing an illustrated advertising broadside for F H Burnett's book Little Lord Fauntleroy. The author and title of the book are cut in large block type design across the bottom margin below a central field of two large figures in the foyer of a mansion a similar illus. is used on the front cover of the original book. The surface of the carved block is excellent. The two central figures are carved in great detail. The block is identified by the use of a small carved seal on a blank portion of the printing surface identifying it as originating with Calhoun Print Hartford. Calhoun Print Co. unknown books
1712ref. 17916London: John Morphew 1712. First edn. 8vo pp. viii 265 139. Bound in recent calf backed boards by Grey Parrot with some scattered soiling and foxing a very good copy. Not in Halkett & Laing. Under the reign of Queen Anne England went to war to wrest the Spanish dominions from Philip of Spain and give them to Austrain Archduke Charles. This caused a split between the British Whigs who supported the war and the Torries who were less interested. Eventually the Peace of Utrecht was signed in 1713 stipulating for the permanent separation of the Crowns of France and Spain. John Morphew unknown books
1790ref. 24683Dublin: Byrne 1790. First Irish Edition. 8vo pp. 160. Front hinge loose. Bound in rubbed and some worn leather backed paper boards paper lacking from front cover with some library stamps inside. A good copy for all that. Entirely printed in red. An English edition appeared the same year. See Tourneux Bibliographie de l'histoire de Paris pendant la revolution Francaise 3.13483; ESTC T108411 for the UK Edition; not in Martin-Waller or Saricks. The original French edition of this pretended to be the official list of pensioners published by the government. It was more likely issued to embarrass the ruling class portraying them as a group of loafers living off the work of the population burdened with taxes. It's appearance in England is an indication of the British Jacobean interest in the French goings on. The existence of a Dublin printing is especially strange given that the Irish working population spoke mostly Gaelic and this nasty work is not really aimed at the ruling class who were the subject of its satire. The British library Catalogue offers a possible attribution to Jean-Baptiste Martin Louis La Reynie de la Bruyere q.v. Querard 4.558-559. Byrne unknown books
1827ref. 7229Paris: Hector Bossange 1827. First Edition. Three volumes in full red morocco. Very Good. Three volumes. 12mo. Pp. viii 1 2-284; 1 2-310; 1 2-312. Half titles present. Marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. In later full polished calf decoratively bordered in gilt spine with gilt rules lettering and flourishes. Inner dentelles. Contemporary owner initials on free endpapers. Spines a tad faded negligible rubbing to covers. Interior quite fresh. First edition of Cooper's early novel of the sea following The Pilot involving a Rhode Island setting and importantly characters of African background. His first novel to be published overseas this printed exceptionally well by Lachevardiere perhaps owing to Cooper's presence in overseeing the effort. Predates the London edition. Scarce: Last offered at auction in 1996 Swann. A charming well preserved set. BAL 3837. Hector Bossange unknown books
1814ref. 66436London: printed by Dove St. John's Square for William Anderson 186 Piccadilly nearly opposite Albany 1814. First edition 12mo pp. 120; uncut; errata slip tipped in at back; original salmon paper-covered boards pink paper shelfback red paper label on spine; joints just starting spine toned text clean; very good. Early ownership signature of Earl Percy on front free endpaper. printed by Dove, St. John's Square, for William Anderson, 186, Piccadilly, nearly opposite Albany unknown books
1828ref. 55274Providence: H. H. Brown printer 1828. First edition 8vo pp. 12; self-wrappers stitched as issued; uncut; a few spots on the title; very good. Warns of the dangers of the "monied aristocracy" and urges voters "to give your undivided support to.the Landowner's Prox by whatever name it may be called" and to support the State's current system of indirect taxation on imported goods luxury items profits levying license fees &c. as a way to lessen the direct tax upon land. American Imprints 31893; Bartlett p. 8; Sabin 70529. H. H. Brown, printer unknown books
1863ref. 55434Boston: Taggard & Thompson 29 Cornhill wrapper imprint: Thompson Bigelow & Brown 1863. First edition square 12mo pp. 32; original stiff pictorial yellow wrappers artlessly rebacked with brown paper; 8 full-page illustrations engraved and signed by W. Roberts plus several small vignettes; front hinge cracked causing loosening to the binding library stamp on verso of the fron wrapper. The illustrations such as Grandpa Jolliboy Longbeard the Goat Sambo the Contraband concerning a freed slave etc. each with its accompanying story. Taggard & Thompson, 29 Cornhill [wrapper imprint: Thompson, Bigelow & Brown] unknown books
1866ref. 55097New York: Historical Publishing Company 1866. First edition 8vo pp. 19 3; printed self-wrappers; light soiling to wrappers old creases good and sound. A satirical poem about the war correspondent Will Russell describing him as a gluttonous and overcultured coward who goes to Bull Run to observe the battle and immediately flees straight back to Washingto DC as soon as he senses danger. Sabin 49807. Historical Publishing Company unknown books
1866ref. 53898Chicago: Tomlinson Brothers 1866. Small 8vo; pp. 2 x 11-377 3; frontispiece and four additional wood-engraved plates; original green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine; front hinge cracked small tear to the cloth on the bottom of the spine binding a bit skewed; good or better. An uncommon Chicago Ante-Fire imprint. Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints 1226 refers to an 1867 edition only. Tomlinson Brothers unknown books
1708ref. 51699London: printed and sold by J. Morphew 1708. Folio pp. 12; removed from binding; small withdrawn stamp at the base of A2 light soiling short tear at the top gutter; all else very good. Foxon C-541. Not found in CBEL or NCBEL. Apparently rare: ESTC locates only 3 copies: British Library Guildhall Library and the National Library of Scotland. OCLC adds Minnesota this copy and the only copy in America and the National Library of Sweden. COPAC finds three more: Manchester York and Leicester. printed and sold by J. Morphew unknown books
