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1946réf. 4326Denver: The Smith-Brooks Printing Company 1946. 42pp Oblong quarto 25 cm x 30.5 cm Gray printed wrappers with a photograph of the Upper Colorado on the front panel. Better than very good. 20 tinted plates 16.5 cm x 20 on white leaves with the facing page prints a paragraph description of the view. All images are sights that one could see riding the D&RGW through Colorado. Double-page plate at the center 21 cm 51 cm 'Colorado's Highest Mountains.' Double-page pictorial map at the end. The Smith-Brooks Printing Company unknown books
1954réf. UWES00mfOlin Industries 1954. Very Good. Olin Industries/Western Ammunition. Western Ammunition Handbook. New Haven: Olin Industries 1954. 135pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Paperback with rear flap. Book condition: Very good. Rubbed edges. Transparent trajectory chart enclosed in rear flap. Olin Industries paperback books
1936réf. 169316Chicago IL: Walter M. Hill 1936. First edition. Hardcover. 64 pages. A collection of poems by Chicago author Alfred Hamill writing under the pseudonym Hugh Western. A clean and tight near fine copy with a small gift inscription on the front free endpaper in a very good dust jacket with some minor wear and a tear to the top of the spine and rear panel that has been repaired with tape. Signed by Hamill/Western on the title page. Walter M. Hill unknown books
1993réf. UTURGRE00LAWBarnes and Noble 1993. Very Good. Turnbull Herbert Western. The Great Mathematicians: Thales Pythagoras Archimedes Kepler Descartes Pascal Hamilton. New York: Barnes and Noble 1993. 141pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped corners. Barnes and Noble paperback books
réf. UWINWES00EFWestern. Very Good. Winchester-Western Division. Western Ammunition Handbook. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation. New Haven Connecticut: Western ND. 135pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Illustrated staple wraps with rear flap. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed and bumped edges. Trajectory chart is unused and intact. Western paperback books
1968réf. 53467Los Angeles: Southern California Jewish Historical Society 1968-92. Ninety-three original issues in the original wrappers comprising an unbroken run but for a single issue from the debut issue in October 1968 to January 1992. Octavo; original printed card wrappers; most issues 96pp. Beginning with Vol. XVI the name changes to "Western States Jewish History." A few issues have old rubber-band adhesions to the covers; otherwise they are pristine most appearing unread. Missing is Vol. XX no 3 April 1989. Publisher's prospectus laid in to Vol. I no 1. An attractive long run of this well-edited scholarly journal providing a rich vein of original historical research on Jewish communities west of the Missisisippi. Will occupy approximately 36" of shelf space. Southern California Jewish Historical Society unknown books
réf. 164883Los Angeles California: Western Publishing & Novelty Co. 19.5 x 24 cm title leaf 20 plates original overlapping tan and green patterned wrappers printed in black and gold string tied. First edition. An album of views of Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove published circa the 1920-1930s. Handwritten date "Fourth of July 1937" at upper fore-edge corner of the inside front wrapper. A very good or better copy. #164883 Western Publishing & Novelty Co.] unknown books
1937réf. 164909Los Angeles Calif.: Western Publishing and Novelty Company 1937. 13.5 x 20.3 cm pp. 1-32 not paginated 35 illustrations original pictorial wrappers stapled. First edition. Text on inside front cover commences: "Yosemite National Park a region replete with majestic domes titanic chasms alluring waterfalls and the earth's oldest and tallest trees ranks high among the wonders of the world." At lower right corner of rear cover: "Copyright 1937 by Curt Teich & Co. Inc. Chicago U. S. A." An album of color photographs reprinted several times. Eighteen of these photographs were published in a souvenir folder as Scenic Gems of Yosemite National Park 1937. Cover rubbed at edges a very good copy. #164909 Western Publishing and Novelty Company unknown books
1927réf. 31092London: C.W. Daniel Co 1927. First Thus. Octavo. Green buckram hardcover; dustjacket; xv 494pp. Half-title toned perhaps from a laid-in clipping; scattered foxing to foredge of text block else a tght near fine copy in attractive VG or better dustwrapper. Collects three previously published works: The Ego and Physical Force 1925; The Ego and Spiritual Truth 1926; and The Self-Seeker and His Search 1926. Best-known work by Isbyam 1887-1949 a British civil engineer and philosopher. The work is said to touch "on themes particularly Relativity that were not explored until the 1980s and 1990s" see finding aid to Western's papers at IISH. Western was chairman of the London Branch of the Association of Scientific Workers and a prominent Labour Party figure; he committed suicide in 1949. C.W. Daniel Co unknown books
1965réf. 26097Ibadan: Ministry of Information ca. 1965. First Edition. Oblong octavo 16.5x23.5cm.; original grey pictorial staplebound wrappers; unpaged; illus. A bit dust-soiled some wear from handling else Very Good and sound. Second volume in a series of three publications on progress in Western Nigeria. Ministry of Information unknown books
réf. 16797Western Union International INC. Stock Certificate 1967 - Series: N3669 1967 - Series: N3669. Beautifully engraved certificate from the Western Union Telegraph Company. This historic document was printed by the American Banknote Company and has an ornate orange border around it with a vignette of two allegorical women flying on clouds. This item has the printed signatures of the Company's President and Secretary. The service that in the mid-1800s displaced pony-borne messengers has itself been supplanted over the last half-century by cheap long-distance telephone service faxes and e-mail. In the late 1870s Western Union led by William H. Vanderbilt attempted to wrest control of the major telephone patents and the new telephone industry away from the Bell Telephone Company. But due to new Bell leadership and a subsequent hostile takeover attempt of Western Union by Jay Gould Western Union discontinued its fight and Bell Telephone prevailed. Throughout the remainder of the nineteenth century the telegraph became one of the most important factors in the development of social and commercial life of America. In spite of improvements to the telegraph however -- the telephone eventually replaced the telegraph as the leaders of the communication revolution for most Americans. unknown books
1862réf. 35981St. Louis: R.P. Studley and Co. 1862. Original printed wrappers stitched and disbound. 75 1- errata pp. Clean text. Small hole in rear wrapper affects several letters else Very Good. A thorough report on the medical activities of St. Louis area hospitals during the War. OCLC collates only 64 pages; ours apparently like the Bartlett copy prints pages 65 until the errata the 'Report of the Western Sanitary Commission July 1st 1862' with detailed tables accounting for the distribution of articles by the Commission to the various area hospitals. Bartlett 5750. OCLC 14833658 2- Boston Pub. Lib. Natl Lib. Medicine as of May 2019. R.P. Studley and Co. unknown books
1829réf. 35388Norwich CT 1829. Folio 9-1/4" x 15-1/4". Printed broadsheet completed in ink manuscript. Signed and sealed with paper and wax seals by Joseph and Mary Perkins; witnessed by Thomas Jackson Jnr. and Mary W. Perkins as witnesses. Signed on verso by Erastus Coit as Justice of the Peace and by Harvey R. Garland as Recorder received on June 4 1832 and recorded July 15 1832. Light age toning old folds a few very light ink stains on verso. Minimal edgewear with a few pinholes at fold corners. Very Good. In 1800 the State of Connecticut granted to her citizens who were sufferers by fire caused by the British during the Revolutionary War a half million acres of land lying within the State of Ohio which was to be taken off the west part of the "Western Connecticut Reserve" now embraced in the counties of Huron and Erie. By an 1803 Act of Ohio the sufferers were incorporated as "The proprietors of the half million acres of land lying south of Lake Erie called 'Sufferers' Land'." The Act required management of the Company by a Board of Directors. The Board was to locate and survey the granted land and to partition it among the different claimants. This part of the Western Reserve was inhabited by Indians who engaged in warfare with the settlers. On July 4 1805 a treaty between the United States and the Wyandot Ottawa Chippewa Munsee and Delaware Shawanee and Pattawatamy nations was signed whereby those Indian nations in consideration of $18916.68 released their claims to all the lands owned by the company. The parties of this deed are likely related to Gen. Simon Perkins also from New London County Connecticut. He was a surveyor of the Connecticut Western Reserve the first postmaster of the Reserve a founder of the Western Reserve Bank of Warren a Brigadier General in the War of 1812 defending northwestern Ohio and one of the largest land owners in the state of Ohio. The extended Perkins family lived and owned property in Connecticut and the Reserve. Erastus Coit was a well known merchant a Norwich justice of the peace and served as Connecticut's State Representative of Norwich in 1818 and 1820. unknown books
1905réf. 33875Nevada California Colorado Arizona Montana 1905. Documents of many different sizes approx. 3-1/2" x 7" to 13" x 21". Light dust occasional scattered spotting. A few items have folds with some splits no loss. Very Good. The documents concern mining companies in Nevada and California plus a few from Colorado Arizona and Montana. Several companies in the Nevada Territory and California had claims in the Comstock Lode. CALIFORNIA: 1 Certification of filing Articles of Incorporation of the Imperial Gold Mining Company of San Francisco with starting capital of $100000. Preprinted form completed in neat ink manuscript with names of officers Henry C. Blake W.F. Bogart J.B. Treadwell A.J. Shrader D.L. and signatures of Thomas Beck Secretary of State and Wm. A. Beck Deputy dated 1/9/1878 with large gilt seal measures 16" x 21"; 2 Hussy Mine Report typed dated 6/12/1880 4pp held with metal clasps at head. Describes Nevada County California mine including location tunnels gold yield and quality. This may be typed version of 11 page manuscript described at OCLC 79446888; 3 M.M. Sexton T.C. Stallo & O.M. Broms Manuscript Notice of Mining Claim for the "Rissell opposite the Store at Temperance Flat for the purpose of erecting a wheel and machinery for a Quartz Mill" signed at Millerton on 8/1/57 and docketed on verso. 4 Thomas Price's Assay Office and Chemical Laboratory Memorandum of gold bullion deposit dated 4/24/1879; 5 Chemical Laboratory Assay Offices Bullion Rooms & Ore Floors - with Thomas Price as Analytical Chemist Assayer and Bullion Melter memorandum of bullion deposit dated 7/24/1882; 6 Wells Fargo & Co.'s Express receipt dated 7/29/1880 $3900 in gold bars addressed to "W.F. & Co. San Fran. for assay;" 7 Palmer & Day's Assay Office receipt dated 3/13/1862 for 73.21 oz. of gold dust; 8 Selby Smelting & Lead Co. three memoranda of gold bullion deposit dated 5/1/1882 for 406 oz. 9/29/1890 for 7.02 oz. & 82.85 oz.; 9 Mountaineer Gold Mining Co. payment receipt dated 9/7/1868 for $125.00 to C.W. Hendel for one year service as Secretary; 10 T.P. Crandall of Crandall & McKillican Provisions Mining Supplies Etc. 8/13/1888 draft payable to Buckeye Mill Co. $147.06 with signature endorsements on verso; 11 Kellogg & Humbert's Assay Office 9/28/1858 gold bullion deposit no. 5282; 12 Rufus Butterfield San Francisco 10/26/1852 receipt for $134.63 on goods shipped from New York on "Ships 'Racer'" "Milch of the Mare" and "Gray Hound." NEVADA: 13 Gould & Curry Silver Mining Company 7 receipts for gold & silver ore dated 1863-1864 in two different styles and 2 receipts for labor payments from 1862 and 1864 $2000 for "working one " and $175 for "labor on Moor Ranch;" 14 Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. dated June 1911 Sheet No. 6 employee nos. 201-239; 15 Manhattan Silver Mining Company of Nevada payment receipt dated 7/8/1875 in the amount of $140; 16 Van Wyck & Co. Assay Office receipt for 2229.5 ounces of bouillon dated 7/14/1864 deposited by Savage M. Co.; 17 Savage Mining Company voucher dated 2/3/1892 for $32.50 paid to Wells Fargo & Co. for expressage of 1780.5 lbs. of amalgam from Nevada Mill to U.S. Mint in Carson City; 18 Savage Gold & Silver Mining Company receipt dated 1864 for supplies bought of White's Canon Mill preprinted with both companies' names; 19 U.S. Mint at Carson City memorandum of silver and gold bullion deposit dated 11/6/1890; 20 Mexican Mill manuscript statement of F.S. Bars manufactured in payment of H & N deposit written on preprinted undated form of the U.S. Mint at Carson Cashier's Office; 21 White & Murphy Gold and Silver Mining Company receipt dated 2/28/1864 for "merchandise." MONTANA: 22 North Butte Mining Company Check to Jas. McMillen $23.50 written on First National Bank of Butte. ARIZONA: 23 Bank of Bisbee two drafts dated 7/11/1905 Nos. A7069 payable to Jose Estrada for $6.75 in Mexican Silver Dollars and A7070 payable to Pedro Rivera for $10.00 in Mexican Silver Dollars with endorsements and perforated rubber and paper stamps on verso. COLORADO: 24 The Eagle Ore Company original and carbon of receipt of 15520 pounds of gold & silver valued at $270.18. Gould & Curry Silver Mining was organized in June 1860; Manhattan Silver Mining Company of Nevada was established in 1863; and the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. was organized in November 1906. The U.S. Mint at Carson City was created in 1863 and operated from 1870-1885 and from 1889-1893 when its doors finally closed. It was established specifically to facilitate the minting of silver coins from silver in the Comstock Lode although it also minted some gold coins. Charles Hendel 1831-1920 came to California in 1853 and began mining for gold in Sierra County later serving as the county's surveyor as a U.S. Deputy Surveyor and as Plumas County Surveyor. He owned a large interest in the Alturas Tailing Mine and the Lucky Gold Hill Mine. Guide to the Charles William Hendel Collection 1853-1918 662-701 California State Library. unknown books
1805réf. 33731Fairfield County 1805. Broadsheet 12-1/2" x 15-1/2". Printed document completed in ink manuscript. Old folds with some repaired splits and one 6" unrepaired split. Some small chips along a few splits with minimal loss. Light tanning scattered spotting. Good. The original grant for this land was to Nehemiah Phippeny who lost title for nonpayment of taxes. The land was sold to Lothrop Lewis of Fairfield Connecticut on May 27 1805. On the verso are hand written transfers of the same piece of property: from Lothrop Lewis to William Hawley of Woodbury January 21 1806; from Hawley to Nehemiah Dibble of Stamford February 7 1806; from Dibble to Zalmon & Seymour Wildman of Danbury October 20 1806. There is also a voided transaction crossed out from Hawley to William Lamson of Waterbury January 31 1806. In 1800 the State of Connecticut granted to her citizens who were sufferers by fire caused by the British during the Revolutionary War a half million acres of land lying within the State of Ohio which was to be taken off the west part of the "Western Connecticut Reserve" now embraced in the counties of Huron and Erie. By an 1803 Act of Ohio the sufferers were incorporated as "The proprietors of the half million acres of land lying south of Lake Erie called 'Sufferers' Land'." The Act required management of the Company by a Board of Directors. The Board was to locate and survey the granted land and to partition it among the different claimants. This part of the Western Reserve was inhabited by Indians who engaged in warfare with the settlers. On July 4 1805 a treaty between the United States and the Wyandot Ottawa Chippewa Munsee and Delaware Shawanee and Pattawatamy nations was signed whereby those Indian nations in consideration of $18916.68 released their claims to all the lands owned by the company. unknown books
1799réf. 33509Hartford 1799. Printed folio broadside 7-3/8" x 12-1/4" completed in manuscript and docketed in manuscript on verso. Old folds light foxing else Very Good. An evidently unrecorded document on Connecticut claims to the Western Reserve not located on ESTC OCLC or NAIP as of March 2017. "A general meeting of the agents of said proprietors held at Hartford on the 17th May 1797" established a schedule of taxes. But Frances Bradley of Fairfield failed to pay. Thus on January 15 1798 her property was sold for the amount of unpaid taxes to Walter Terry of Fairfield. Lothrop Lewis of Fairfield the tax collector here officially transfers the property to Terry. His deed dated March 30 1799 is acknowledged on April 5 1799. Lothrop Lewis whose name is printed also signs in ink; witnesses were Lewis Sturges and Samuel Rowland. In 1786 Connecticut relinquished claims to land west of Pennsylvania except for the Western Reserve a portion of what is now south of Lake Erie in northeast Ohio. Connecticut assigned some of the Reserve to its citizens as compensation for losses suffered during the Revolution; and sold the rest to a consortium of Connecticut men including Moses Cleaveland who had formed the Connecticut Land Company. Their speculations were not successful there being no effective local government in the Reserve capable of unraveling the tangle of land titles. Thus taxes imposed were frequently not collected. To force payment of the tax on January 15 1798 Lothrop Lewis conducted the sales. Carpenter: ORIGIN AND LOCATION OF THE FIRELANDS OF THE WESTERN RESERVE Ohio Archeological and Historical Quarterly Volume 44 April 1935 page180. Lothrop a/k/a Lathrop Lewis 1759-1817 born in Fairfield was its tax collector for many years. Lewis Burr Sturges 1763-1844 born in Fairfield graduated from Yale was clerk of the Probate Court from 1787 to 1791 a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1794 to 1803; and a Federalist Congressman from 1805 to 1816. He spent his later years in Ohio. Samuel Rowland 1769-1837 was born in Fairfield admitted to the bar in 1794 was a lawyer and town clerk for 42 years and turnpike surveyor to the New York State line. Perry: THE OLD BURYING GROUND OF FAIRFIELD CONN. A MEMORIAL OF MANY OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF FAIRFIELD. 1882 p.164. unknown books
1858réf. 31868Springfield IL 1858. Broadside 10-1/2" x 13-1/2". Printed in four columns. Lightly foxed old folds Very Good. This evidently unrecorded broadside recounts the proceedings of a Convention. held at the State Capitol in Springfield to determine the feasibility of a regional program to advance the cultivation of sorghum or Chinese sugar cane. Notice of the Convention was reported in the Sangamo Journal / Illinois State Journal for 30 December 1857: "It is confidently believed that the Chinese Sugar Cane is well 'adapted to our soil and climate' and that it can be successfully and profitably cultivated and manufactured into molasses and sugar." The Agricultural Committee submitted information from growers and processors in Kentucky Pennsylvania Ohio and Indiana. The Mechanical Committee could not produce an acceptable proposal for a processing machine and the Convention adjourned with a recommendation that Illinois delegates gather more information for a future convention. Efforts to stimulate the growth of northern sugar cane continued through the succeeding decades. As of October 2019 not located on OCLC or the online sites of AAS NYPL Newberry Harvard Yale U MI. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker Graff. unknown books
1831réf. 29035Nelson Ohio 1831. Broadside 7.5" x 34.5" three leaves joined end to end with wax. Manuscript petition written on unlined paper bold calligraphic heading followed by small neat handwriting. Signed by sixty-one petitioners from the Township of Nelson. A dampstain runs through the right edge of the petition light scattered foxing. Very Good. This is a petition for the Court to provide the village of Garrettsville Ohio with a justice of the peace. Garrettsville was founded in 1804 by Col. John Garrett III and was officially incorporated in 1864. The citizens complain that the township of Nelson had only two justices neither of which was easily accessible to Garrettsville leaving Garrettsville "entirely destitute." The petition is followed by the signatures of sixty-one residents. The Court refused the request. Among the signers is Elisha Garrett son of Garrettsville's founder; Lyman W. Trask 1809-1863 a physician and editor of the Western Pearl a short-lived literary newspaper of the 1830s; Edwin Atwood who built the Garrettsville Grist-mill with Leman Ferry and the first church with John Garrett; and Abraham Dyson a blacksmith and War of 1812 veteran. Other names include: Willis Hall Robert H. Scott Richard A. Denison Hiram Austin Warren Waste John M. Tilden E.L. Jones Martin McClintock Samuel Fuller Ferriss Couch Henry Gillmore Mylowe Eggleston Joseph Gillmore John Zubull Anson Booth Joseph A. Chapman John Noah by his mark and many more. Brown: HISTORY OF PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO. 1885. unknown books
1857réf. 28827Washington 1857. 572pp disbound. Contents clean. Very Good. Material on the Utah expedition with Stewart Van Vliet's report of his interview with Brigham Young who said "that the Mormons had been persecuted murdered and robbed in Missouri and Illinois both by the mob and State authorities and that now the United States were about to pursue the same course; and that therefore he and the people of Utah had determined to resist all persecution at the commencement and that the troops now on the March for Utah should not enter the Great Salt Lake Valley." Reports on turmoil in Kansas include Governor Walker's Message on election day September 1857. Appendix H is Francis Bryan's Report concerning operations of a party assigned to explore the route from Fort Riley to Bridger's Pass. "Being the report of the Secretary of War the volume contains sizable quantities of material about the West." Graff. Wagner-Camp 286. Graff 4416. unknown books
1880réf. 279471880. Seven photographs: from Virginia City Denver and San Francisco of men and women. The bottom margins and the verso identify the studio. Very Good. unknown books
1847réf. 27881Ontario 1847. 47 1 blank pp plus two folding maps as issued: 'Map and Profile of the Great Western Railway Canada West' 48 1/2 cm x 32 cm; 'Map of the Route of the Great Western Railway Shewing its Connection with other Public Works' 35 1/2 cm x 29 cm. Versos with expertly repaired closed tears short margin tear else Very Good. The railroad is "on the precise ground that will enable it to control the trade and travel of such a vast portion of the Canadas and the prosperous American States." TPL 2850. Sabin 28478n. unknown books
1883réf. 513221883. Western Australian Statutes 1883 Australia. The Statutes Of Western Australia. By Authority. Melbourne: M'Carron Bird & Co. 1883. 2 volumes. Quarto 10-1/2" x 8-1/2". Contemporary calf rebacked lettering pieces to spine. Moderate rubbing with some wear to extremities internally clean. Ex-library with shelf location labels to spines small property stamps to title pages. $500. Contents digested alphabetically. Topics include Aborigines administration of justice admiralty lands aliens hawking immigrants industrial schools intestates' estates jetties and bridges juries joint stock companies justices of the peace wild horses and wrecks. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:91. unknown books
1865réf. 22266Hiram OH 1865. 4 pp folded. Very Good. The Western Reserve Eclectic Institute was founded by Amos Sutton Hayden of the Disciples of Christ Church in 1850. The original focus of the institution was to train people for Christian ministry. The school was rechartered under the current name of Hiram College in 1867. President James Garfield was a student instructor and principal of the institution while it was still the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute. He left for the War in 1861. unknown books
1848réf. 10520Hudson Ohio: Ohio Observer Office 1848. 28pp stitched original printed wrappers. Light wear and fox about Very Good. Trustees faculty students course of instruction rules and regulations academic departments. Much material on the medical and theological departments. FIRST EDITION. Ohio Observer Office unknown books
1870réf. 16151Chicago 1870. 4" x 7" broadsheet. Lightly worn Good. Verso shows the "Direct Connections" made at Dixon with the Illinois Central RR; at Cedar Rapids; at Council Bluffs with the Council Bluffs & St. Joseph RR; at Omaha with the Union Pacific RR; at Cheyenne with the Denver Pacific RR; and at other places to Reno Sacramento and San Francisco. An unusual and ephemeral western rail travel item. Not in Graff Ante-Fire Imprints Eberstadt Decker Soliday Sabin BRE. unknown books
