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1856réf. 008138London: Richard Bentley 1856. In signed Riviere & Son binding of half red polished calf over red buckram boards the back ornately gilt with floral decorations marbled end papers all edges gilt bookplate of J. F. Holmes in sporting theme with horse rider and outdoor sporting devices. Very Good front board broken light wear at edges frontispiece portrait starting to separate. . First Edition. Half Polished Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Richard Bentley Hardcover books
1890réf. 2495London: Perry Davis & Son c. 1890. Cards. White printed cards. Near fine. 11.5 x 7.5 cm. British/European Branch trade card. Legend has it Perry Davis concocted his "all vegetable" patent medicine in 1839 after becoming ill himself - a combination of mostly alcohol. Card lists agency addresses: General Agency: 74 High Street Providence Rhode Island U.S.A. Western Branch: 7 College Buildings Walnut St. Cincinnati Ohio U.S.A. Canada Branch: 378 St. Paul Street Montreal D.E. European Branch 17 Southampton Row - Holbein London. W.C. Written on verso in ink: 1 Prim Pump 1 flue measure 1. 2. 4. gl Perry Davis & Son books
1858réf. 007841New Yo K: Harper & Brothers 1858. First American Edition of this important narrative of early travels in Siberia Mongolia and other parts of Central Asia published the same year as the First Edition of London. Very Good Minus wear to cloth at spine ends 3" tear to cloth top edge rear joint 1" tear at front joint prior owner name in pencil dated 1876 fold-out map with 4" edge tear and wrinkled from improper folding. In original black cloth gilt lettering at spine fold-out map 533 pp. 2 pp ads. . First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Brothers Hardcover books
1808réf. 1951280Impensis M. Carey 1808. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Ink note from previous owner on front endpaper 'The property of Otis Hutchins. purchased second hand. August 22d 1815. price 1.00 No. 77' edges of endpapers toned top corner of front free endpaper removed. 1808 Full-Leather. iv 256 pp. Original full leather red leather spine label gilt titles & rules. Books 1-4 of Tacitus's histories in the original Latin taken primarily from the Brotier's edition with portions from Barbou and Gronovius. Notes by Barbou taken from his 1793 edition. Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman statesman in the first century A.D. whose histories provide an authoritative account of various events within the Roman Empire with the unique insight of a politician living at the time. Impensis M. Carey hardcover books
1899réf. 47709New York: Little Brown & Co 1899. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; gilt-stamped blue cloth boards; top edge gilt; xvi320pp. Pencil ownership signature; bit of negligible rubbing to boards; a fresh tight Near Fine copy free of markings or significant wear. Little, Brown & Co unknown books
1870réf. 43875N.p. n.d. but ca. 1870s. Autograph letter on seven leaves of blue laid sheets 25x20.5cm. rectos only "Kent" blind-stamped at top left-hand corner of each leaf; occasional faint soil spots minor shallow creases and faint fold lines else Very Good or better. Extensive and rather rambling unsigned letter or lyceum address draft "To the President" though which President and of what is not stated in which the author quite possibly a public figure based on references to his "detractors" strongly argues against women's suffrage: "would we have our females eschewing their more gentle nature hardening the finer sensibilities of her mind by rushing to the ballot box And mingling in the excitement of an election thereby throwing off the garb of female modesty and timidity I think not." Though the first leaf has the appearance of a clean copy the author's hand begins to turn sloppy with a number of manuscript corrections in the later leaves. Due to a lack of contemporary references Mary Wollstonecraft is the only person explicitly mentioned we cannot place with certainty a date or author for the item though the hand ink and paper and reference to women tending to wounded soldiers during wartime indicate this was penned within a few years of the Civil War as the women's suffrage movement was beginning to gather steam in the 1870s. unknown books
1871réf. 47582Rome: Forzani et C. 1871. First Edition. Folio 33cm.; publisher's tan printed card wrappers; 18pp. Wrapper lightly soiled faint vertical creasing a few tiny chips to spine ele Very Good internally fresh and fine save the crease. Polemical attack on the state of the French university system written in March 1871 two months after the end of the disastrous for the French Franco-Prussian War. As Pasteur argues whereas in Germany universities proliferated across the country France "stymied by revolution was always occupied with the sterile search for a better form of government giving only distracted attention to her institutions of higher learning" p. 9 our translation. At the root of all this was the regime of Napoleon I who in the early years of the 19th century neglected the country's twenty-eight extant institutions of higher learning in favor of his Université de France a disastrously centralized state-run institution that he established in 1808. The University suffered greatly during the Restoration and with it the quality of education so that by 1868 only £8000 were being spent for "true academic purposes" across the country cf. W. Chandler Roberts et al "Journal of the Society for Arts Vol. 32 no. 1655 August 8 1884 p. 905 creating a lacuna of learned and innovative thinkers to match Germany's. Perhaps in order to combat this downward trend Pasteur later founded the Pasteur Institute in 1887 serving as its director until his death in 1895. This appears to be the only separate appearance of Pasteur's tract published abroad and distributed to various foreign leading scientific figures among these "Darwin's Bulldog" Thomas Henry Huxley who makes mention of this work in an address delivered in October of that same year. The essay appeared again in print in 1947 following an even more disastrous encounter with Germany in a collection titled "Pour l'Avenir de la Science Française." This publication quite scarce with four physical copies noted in OCLC as of February 2020. COPAC adds one copy at the LEC Library UK. Forzani et C. unknown books
1879réf. 47623Parisiis: Apud Isidorum Liseux 1879. First Thus. 12mo 15cm.; publisher's cream pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; xii89pp. Some light shelf wear and a few small soil spots tiny chips at spine ends else Very Good or better. Scarce extract from Sinistrari's larger work "De Delictis et Poenis" 1654 text entirely in Latin save for the publisher's tongue-in-cheek introduction in French. Liseux gained some notoriety a few years earlier when he published "De Daemonialitate et Incubus et Succubis" claiming to have discovered this heretofore unknown manuscript written in 1680 by the Franciscan priest Ludovico Maria Sinistrari 1622-1701. The work described the qualities of such beasts as vampires succubi and incubi though it has since been proposed that Liseux himself wrote the piece see J. Gordon Melton "The Vampire Book" 2010 p. 380. "De Daemonialitate" was eventually translated into English in 1879 and found its way into the hands of W.B. Yeats who borrowed Ezra Pound's copy and from it was inspired to compose the poem "The Black Centaur" first published in "The Tower" in 1928 Catherine E. Paul and Warwick Gould "W.B. Yeats and the Problem of Belief" "Yeats Annual" no. 21 p. 313. The present work is indeed authored by Sinistrari and remains here in its unalter ed Latin form presumably to avoid censure Liseux noting in his introduction that there's a reason he decided to publish this work sans illustration. Though the publisher's advertisement on the final leaf of text and rear cover only mention "De Daemonialitate" Liseux's catalog would go on to include the Kama Sutra and Ernest Dowson's "White Stains: Containing Also the Contemporary and Most Exhaustive Love's Cyclopaedia with Five Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley in His Most Erotic Vein. Apud Isidorum Liseux unknown books
1895réf. 44165New York December 8th 1895. Autograph letter signed on recto and verso of single cream laid sheet 22x14.5cm.; approx. 85 words; dated 26 West 61st N.Y. Dec 8th and simply addressed to "Parker" presumably Stanton's friend and fellow-suffragist Parker Pillsbury 1809-1898 who with Stanton had co-edited the women's rights newsletter "The Revolution" twenty years earlier. Faint mail folds small unobtrusive archival paper remnants to two corners from having been previously mounted else Near Fine and still quite fresh. Brief contemporary 1897 pencil note at bottom edge "Mrs. Stanton - born Nov. 12 1815 Now past 82 - C.E.R." though based on contents we would place this letter as having been written around 1895. Brief but significant missive addressed to Parker Pillsbury the American minister and women's suffrage advocate regarding a copy of Stanton's "Woman's Bible" she had just sent him. "I wonder if I could interest them a "Mrs. White" and one other sufficiently in the Woman's Bible to sell ten or twenty copies in there sic respective woman's clubs It is published at my expense hence I am trying to push its circulation." The controversial "Woman's Bible" a series of commentaries pertaining to the portions of the Bible relating to women was published in two parts in 1895 and 1898 and composed almost entirely by Stanton alone her committee of Bible revisors finding the project too controversial and harmful to the cause of women's suffrage. Clearly at the time of writing this letter the book was still meeting with resistance thus our placing the date at around 1895 Stanton turning to Pillsbury as a potential source of influential and wealthy patrons she inquires "Is Mrs. White still living & working Is that rich woman that Mr. illegible used to visit in Maine living". But by 1897 the book had become a best seller though many of the members of the women's suffrage movement would continue to distance themselves from it. This letter quite significant as a testimony to the aging Stanton organizer of the historical 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and her continuing indefatigable efforts and initial lack of support in getting this work circulated. See Tracy A. Thomas "Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundation of Family Law" 2016 pp. 15 & 223. unknown books
1894réf. 44281New York: D. Appleton and Company 1894. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 17.5cm; flexible dark brown cloth boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; ii45-666pp ads. Light wear to extremities hint of softening to corners with a faint diagonal tear to rear pastedown; contemporary owners ink signature to front endpaper Gertrude H. Souther / March 1895 with holograph pencil notes relative to the weight of two babies on rear endpaper; Very Good. Influential manual for mothers and nurses by Holt 1855-1924 an American author physician and pioneer in the field of pediatrics who helped shape the New York Babies Hospital into the leading pediatric facility of its time. The book was expanded from Holt's Catechism for Nurses 1893 a pamphlet prepared for nursery-maids during their four months training at the Babies Hospital. "The nurses studied the catechism and when they graduated took it with them. There followed requests for copies from their employers and the supply was soon exhausted. It was apparent there was a popular demand for something of the kind. The catechism was expanded and in 1894 The Care and Feeding of Children made its appearance.Probably no one would have been more surprised than Dr. Holt or his publishers had they been told that they were launching a volume that was to go through seventy-five printings and which was to be translated into Spanish Russian and Chinese.The book became the mainstay of many a worried mother and exerted no inconsiderable influence on the profession as well for the practitioners had to keep abreast of the pediatric knowledge which the mothers possessed" DUFFUS R.L. L. Emmett Holt. NY 1940 pp.116-117. Prior to the publication of The Care and Feeding of Children there was no standard text for pediatric care in print for laymen or medical professionals. A revolutionary volume written in clear simple language providing an orderly presentation of pediatric knowledge which empowered women to care for their children. A cornerstone work responsible for "lifting child sickness and care out of the neglect of the past" Dunn Peter M. "Dr. Emmett Holt 1855-1924 and the foundation of North American paediatrics." Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2000. Rare in the first edition; we find no copies for sale in trade May 2019 with the last copy at auction sold at the Streeter Sale. ATWATER 1743 citing the 1895 edition; STREETER 4159; Grolier American 100 97. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1879réf. 45074New York: The World 1879. First Edition. Octavo 18.25cm; red cloth with titling and decorations stamped in black and gilt on spine and front cover; vi8626pp ads. Faint crease to front endpaper mild dustiness to cloth else Near Fine. History of the Seventh New York Regiment's involvement during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 a conflict lasting 45 days before being put down by local and state militias. The World unknown books
1844réf. 44191Bath NY: R. L. Underwood & Co 1844. Second Edition. 18mo 15.5cm.; publisher's full sheep red gilt morocco spine label; viii9-288pp.; portrait frontispiece. Boards rather worn and joints cracked but holding old dampstain to rear cover very slightly bleeding into textblock some soil to early leaves else a Good or better copy overall. Account of the life of Jemima Wilkinson 1752-1819 the Rhode Island-born Quaker and Evangelist who claimed after a long illness to have died and been risen from the dead. Through her preaching she became known as the "Universal Friend" creating a Shaker-like sect that practiced celibacy and poverty on a massive property she named "Jerusalem." Some have argued that Wilkinson was an imposter who accrued vast wealth from her followers Howes describes her as "the first religious charlatan of her sex in America". Indeed the sect would not survive after her death. This work first published in 1821 attributed to David Hudson SABIN 33485 and HOWES H-761. See also "Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography" Vol. 6 p. 512. R. L. Underwood & Co unknown books
1833réf. 33029New-York: Printed by Order of the Convention by James Ormond 1833. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; disbound; 32pp. Textblock rather foxed and a bit dust-soiled stitching somewhat loose but still holding dampstaining along gutter slightly later 1845 repeated ownership signature of a Robert Garlington of South Carolina College to title page with his notes on verso and p. 3. Additional signature on p. 3 of E.A. Garlington 1853-1934 a United States General who served during the Indian Wars. Good or better. Scarce address delivered shortly after the founding of the General Trades' Union by Moore in August of the same year. The GTU is considered to be the first large trade union headed by the delegates of nine craft trades. Moore elected its first president would go on to be a U.S. Representative from New York from 1835 to 1839 and later in 1845 president of the National Trade Union. The present document is possibly the first publication issued by the Union the opening statement explinaing that "We have assembled on the present occasion for the purpose of publicly proclaiming the motives which induced us to organize a General Union of the various trades and arts in this city and its victinity" p. 7: "We in order to guard against the encroachments of aristocracy to preserve our natural and political rights to elevate our moral and intellectual condition to promote our pecuniary interests to narrow the line of distinction between the journeyman and employer.have deemed it expedient to form ourselves into a 'General Trades' Union'" p. 10. Printed by Order of the Convention [by] James Ormond unknown books
1880réf. 2455London: Williams' M. Proprietress c. 1880's. Cards. Cream cards red and black ink. Good. 11.5 x 7.75 cm. Folded cream cards. Small menu featuring prices for Breakfast Dinners and Apartments. Temperance Hotels followed the spread of the temperance movement in the late 1830's - providing a place for the traveling teetotaler. Here a person could eat and drink as well as transact business read the papers and enjoy social interaction. Cards foxed. Williams', M. Proprietress unknown books
1887réf. 2437Gloucester Massachusetts 1887. Cards. Cream card stock. Very good. 15 x 12.5 cm. Decorative folding menu with an elaborate array of dishes served on Sunday August 21 1887. Faux tortoise shell embellishment held to cover with wooden toothpick. Foxing to areas around embellishment. unknown books
1833réf. 49029Oppenheim N. Y. 1833. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning. Fold-lines. A couple small holes. Overall Very Good. One sheet of lined paper bifolium additonally folded in an envelope with 3 pages of mss ~ 100 lines ~ 1000 words. Writing quite legible. Franked on an outer panel. With preliminary typescript. Unfolded: 12-1/2" x 7-1/2" A detailed report of the Pittsfield Baptist preacher Augustus Beach's revival work on the eastern periphery of the Burned Over District in the Fulton County village of Oppenheim from its postmaster Ezekiel Belding. A nice manuscript item documenting the rise of the Millerites. unknown books
1899réf. 008375London: Macmillan and Co Limited 1899. In contemporary full blue calf signed by Bickers & Son five raised bands with four gilt floral decorations back marbled end papers top edge gilt. Very Good spine sunned evenly to gray small gift inscription front end page verso. Third Edition revised throughout and greatly enlarged. xxv 640 pp. Numerous illustrations. . Third Edition. Calendar. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Macmillan and Co, Limited Paperback books
1899réf. 008147London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. "Secret Memoirs of the Court of France during the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries" series. Two volumes handsomely bound in contemporary half dark blue pebbled morocco over light blue buckram boards the backs with five raised bands and intricat gilt blind tooling top edges gilt marbled end papers. Period Arts and Crafts bookplates of Geo. V. Pettigrew. Prior owner name in ink both vols. Very Good Plus light wear at joints and tips interior quite clean and bright. . First Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Leonard Smithers and Co. Hardcover books
1877réf. 008174Boston: Dana Estes and Charle E. Lauriat 1877. Published 1877-1882. Fully illustrated with wood and steel plates by A DeNeuville Leopold Flaming G Staal Viollat Philippoteaux Lienard and others. Three volumes in contemporary half calf over marbled boards the backs with red and black morocco labels and gilt tooled decorations marbled end papers and edges. The ownership signatures of Dr. T. A. Snider of Sacramento Cal. dated 1884 with his occasional marginal and end page notations in ink. Dr. Snider was a prominent physician in Sacramento for many years. Very Good rubs to calf some small rubs to marbled boards. This 3 volume set is heavy and will require additional postage for priority and international shipping. . First American Edition. Half Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Thick 8vo. Dana Estes and Charle E. Lauriat Hardcover books
1893réf. 008934New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1893. vii 566 pages with 219 illustrations in text. Dated 1884 copyright page 1893 title page. SCARCE in any edition in current commerce. Near Fine in original brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations top edge gilt from the collection of Joseph Hyde Pratt noted North Carolina geologist conservationist and state and local civic leader and later during WW I he was colonel in command of the First Battalion of the 105th Engineers and part of the famous Thirtieth "Old Hickory" Division the first to break the Hindenburg Line. His ownership signature and name stamp front end page. Slight wear at spine ends light soiling at end pages. . Revised American Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. G. P. Putnam's Sons Hardcover books
1834réf. 008945Boston / Raleigh: Charles Bowen / Turner and Hughes 1834. Presentation Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED at front paste down "Presented to Joseph Hyde Pratt 6/18/1926 Burnham S. Colburn" with the bookplate of Burnham Standish Colburn beneath the inscription. A great North Carolina Association Copy Burnham Colburn assisted in organizing the Biltmore Estate Company which developed Biltmore Forest. He was also a prominent banker in Asheville and a noted mineral collector instrumental in the founding of the Southern Appalachian Mineral Society Joseph Hyde Pratt was a noted North Carolina geologist conservationist state and civic leader and World War I hero. In the original patterned cloth binding gilt lettering and decoration back Very Good 1/4" loss of cloth at top edge of spine end papers toned moderate toning throughout. Howes J234. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED. First Edition. Patterned Cloth . Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation Copy. Charles Bowen / Turner and Hughes Hardcover books
1844réf. 008949New York: J. Tilden and Co. 1844. SCARCE with both folding maps at front and folding chart present and in Very Good condition. Bound in contemporary full calf gilt back marbled edges. Very Good Minus boards rubbed hinges starting yet holding well 1/8" loss of calf at head of spine moderate toning throughout prior owner name in ink. Large map at front hand colored small tears and creases light toning 2nd map with 1 small tear light toning folding chart at rear with chip to fore edge margin light toning and creasing. 462 pages illustrated title page with portrait frontis followed by 6 engraved plates. . Eighth Edition. Calf. Very Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. J. Tilden and Co. Hardcover books
1864réf. 008965Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons 1864. Two volumes bound in half calf over marbled boards by Henderson & Bisset. Top edges gilt x 328 384 pages. Very Good light rubbing to calf at edges and corners prior owner bookplate and inscription front end pages both volumes. SCARCE in the First Edition and in fine binding. The author is best known for his earlier work "The Book-Hunter". . First Edition. Half Calf. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. William Blackwood and Sons Hardcover books
1817réf. 008967Philadelphia: M. Carey & Son 1817. Volume I only of the First American Edition issued without the maps and plates. 340 pages. Bound in contemporary paper covered boards. Very Good Minus front board nearly detached with broken joint rear joint starting to open but hinge holding well boards soiled and rubbed at edges moderate toning and foxing throughout title and dedication pages uncut. Koster's classic work on the North of Brazil first published in England in 1816 with a 2nd edition following in 1817. This 1st American Edition published and printed by Carey July 16 1817. While the English editions are valued for their maps and prints this American edition much the scarcer. No copies in current commerce last auction record 1986. Shaw & Shoemaker; 41213. Sabin No. 38272. First American Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Very Good Minus. Tall 8vo. M. Carey & Son Hardcover books
1892réf. 1078New York: Joseph Sabin 1892. First Edition First Printing. Three quarter leather. Very good . A very good plus first edition small paper copy. One of 525 copies issued. These are the works published in Sabin's lifetime. Signed by Joseph Sabin with original signed receipt from Sabin. Mixed set: small paper copy and stiff wraps on vol 20 all bound into three quarter leather with marbled boards and gilt accents.Bound by The University of Chicago Press. Moderate wear to crown foot and corners on various volumes. Top edge gilt. One volume has bent pages from poor shipping practice book edges pressed into one another. Marbled endpapers. On laid paper.Text is clean and bright. Vols. 1-19 "Edition 525 copies 8vo . and 110 copies on large paper." Publication was suspended from 1892 to 1927 when it was resumed with the parts numbered continuously with the last issued in 1892 Suspended with pt. CXV/CXVI v. 20 pt. 1/2 1892; This set shipped at actual cost. Joseph Sabin hardcover books
