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1827rif. 298092Richmond: Thomas Ritchie 1827. First Edition. Very Good binding. 8vo.; quarter-calf over green paper-covered boards with a morocco label; consisting of three of the Acts of the Virginia General Assembly for the years 1825 1826 and 1827 bound together; 125 pages including the Index; 155 pages including the Index; 142 pages including the Index; contains much on Rivers; Turnpikes; the James River Company; and other pressing issues of the day which at times consumed the early Republic; the latter two years particularly contain material relating to the vexing issue of slavery. Very Good binding. Thomas Ritchie unknown books
1866rif. 340581Providence: Providence Press Company 1866. Hardcover. Good. First edition. 36 4 827 2 pp. With two steel engraved frontispiece plates portraits. 25 cm. In contemporary black half leather and marbled paper boards marbled endpapers. A good copy with wear to the joints spine ends and board edges else very good. The text pages are clean and tight with some light staining. Providence Press Company hardcover books
1826rif. 76687Columbus Ohio: Geo. Nashee State Printer. Very Good. 1826. First Edition; First Printing. Leather. This book is hard-bound in a binding of contemporary leather with blind-tooling to the cover edges and with a gilt stamped black leather label on the spine. The covers show some light rubbing to the upper corners and spine-ends with the lower corners "chewed." The covers show some lgiht scuffing and toning. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and legible but with scattered foxing and toning/offsetting throughout. This book contains 3 separate title-pages "Acts of a General Nature Passed at the First Session of the Twenty-Fourth Generall Assembly" - " Acts of a General Nature Passed at the First Session of the Twenty-Fifth Generall Assembly" - And - Acts of a Local Nature Passed at the First Session of the Twenty-Fifth General Assembly of the State of Ohio Begun and Held in the Town of Columbus Dec. 4 1826 and the Twenty-Fifth Year of Said State. Vol XXV. Published By Authority; Printed By Geo. Nashee State Printer. Columbus Ohio. 1827. . Geo. Nashee, State Printer hardcover books
1858rif. 57010Charleston: Harper & Calvo Printers 1858. Paperback. Good. 40p. Partial wrapper lacking back cover. 23cm. Soft crease. Old paper and glue remnants along left side of front cover some lettering slightly obscured. Blank bottom corner of one leaf torn off. Cattered minor foxing. Contents sound and clean. First published in 1857. The author of this report and a minority of one was James Johnston Pettigrew 1828-1863. The question being considered was apparently whether South Carolina should revive the slave trade. Pettigrew argued against its revival although he was not against slavery. Pettigrew later served with distinction in the Confederate army rising to the rank of Brigadier General. He was killed in 1863 during the Confederate retreat from Gettysburg. Harper & Calvo, Printers paperback books
1844rif. 1352931Providence: Knowles and Vose 1844. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; viii 594 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in full brown calf with red leather label to spine. Leather much scuffed with numerous small stains. Joints and hinges starting to crack. Minor chipping at head of spine. Annotations to front free-end page. Text block lightly age-toned and foxed. A few scattered ink annotations. Includes "An Act to Secure and Appropriate the Touro Jewish Synagogue Fund" at pp. 476-477. This act recognized the trust established by Abraham Touro to maintain the structure and grounds of what would become known as Touro Synagogue one of the oldest synagogues in the United States. 1352931. Special Collections - Downstairs. Knowles and Vose hardcover books
rif. 294896Richmond: Thomas Ritchie. 8vo.; in half-calf over marbled boards; spine has perished and binding held together with old library tape; the Acts of Assembly are from 1824; 1825; 1826; 1827; 1828; Part II of 1829; the Acts of 1824 are lacking the Index to Part II. With the signature of Peter Poythress Batte of Peterburg; contains much on Rivers; Turnpikes; the James River Company.~~Not pretty to look at but contains a wealth of information about the laws of the Commonwealth in the early days of the Republic. Thomas Ritchie unknown books
1870rif. 70526Topeka Kansas: S. S. Prouty Public Printer. Printed at the "Commonwealth" State Printing House 1870. 22 cm. 164pp. Front wrapper with chipping along edges old cello tape repairs on spine as well as cover old library label on left bottom corner; rear wrapper lacking. Stamp of Bureau of Railway Economics. S. S. Prouty, Public Printer. Printed at the "Commonwealth" State Printing House unknown books
1852rif. 194391852. Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia for 1852 documents slave-state governance in antebellum Virginia providing evidence of the legal system through which racial control fiscal administration corporate authorization and transportation development operated before the Civil War. The statute titled "An Act to suppress Gambling by Negroes and white persons together" identifies interracial association as a matter of state regulation showing how Virginia law extended racial discipline beyond labor and movement into informal social contact. The volume supports research into African American legal history slavery-era governance Southern economic development and the relationship between racial restriction and state-directed modernization. Richmond: William F. Ritchie Public Printer 1852. First edition. 8vo. Half legal calf over marbled boards with spine label; 3 4-403 pages including index. The volume compiles the year's legislative acts including statutes on taxation fiscal policy corporate charters navigation companies steamship enterprises transportation infrastructure and social regulation. The gambling statute involving Black and white participants provides especially direct evidence of racial boundary-making in everyday law while the numerous provisions for navigation steamship and internal improvement companies demonstrate the process by which Virginia promoted commercial expansion and regional economic integration through legislative authorization. Crack at front board gutter with board still holding; moderate wear to leather and marbled boards; interior generally clean with expected toning. Overall very good. A substantial antebellum Virginia legal volume linking the mechanics of state government to the racial and economic priorities of a slaveholding society. unknown books
1808rif. List2316Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin 1808. Letterpress broadside measuring 13 x 7 ¾ inches. Some slight toning near fine overall. Fine. A broadside announcing the candidates for the United States House of Representatives a list which includes Noah Webster. Webster received 212 votes in the preliminary election in May enough to get him a spot on the ballot but lost in the general election in a generally difficult time for Federalist politicians. Webster experienced a religious conversion during this period after being a not particularly devout Congregationalist earlier in his life and embraced the church completely perhaps due to the death of his infant son in 1806. Webster would run again for U.S. Representative in 1810 1812 and 1816 losing each time and eventually abandoned politics his last office held being in the Connecticut House of Representatives ending in 1807 shortly before his first campaign for national office. We find no record of this broadside in OCLC or other ephemera relating to Webster's political career in Connecticut in the trade. The collected acts from this session were published in octavo format but we find no other record of this broadside printing. Hudson and Goodwin unknown books
1937rif. 49883London: British Youth Peace Assembly 1937. Very Good-. London: British Youth Peace Assembly n.d. ca. 1937. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm; publisher's cream pictorial staplebound wrappers; 48pp. Wrappers soiled and chipped at extremities upper cover starting to separate though contents remain clean and sound. Good or better overall. Signed by the first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru 1889-1964 on title page. Detailed statistical report compiled by the BYPA in collaboration with the Federation of Indian Students' Societies. Chapters cover Health Nutrition and Medical Services Bengal vs. England death rate per 1000 in 1936 was 22.1 to 12; Education; Irrigation and Waterways; the Court System; and Police and Crime. Nehru took office as the first Prime Minister of India a decade after the pamphlet was published a post he held from 1947 until his death in 1964. British Youth Peace Assembly unknown books
1836rif. 43732Providence: Printed by William Simons Jr. 1836. Stitched self wrappers. A very good uncut unopened and untrimmed copy signed on front and rear wrappers edges worn light dampstain on lower fore-margin contents lightly soiled. 112 pp. 8vo. Signed in ink by Henry Bowen as "Sec'ry" on the rear under "True copy-witness." Henry Bowen 1785-1867 son of Jabez Bowen Jr was R.I. Secretary of State from 1819 to 1849. William Simons Jr. was appointed state printer during the May 1836 session of the General Assembly. Noted on the front cover: "Town Clerk Glocester." Rare. Not in American Imprints or Sabin. OCLC locates only one copy of this document at the American Antiquarian Society but without any notation of a signature OCLC: 83805212. [Printed by William Simons, Jr.] unknown books
1867rif. BK0152Barbados: Office of "The Official Gazette" No. 14 Broad Street 1867. 30 pp. with unnumbered index 42 pp. Half leather over cloth boards. Ink ownership inscription "W. Brandford Griffith / 1869" on a preliminary blank. Scattered foxing and light toning. A locally printed manual for the Barbados House of Assembly with the ownership inscription of William Brandford Griffith then both a member of the Assembly and the island's auditor-general. Griffith served in the Assembly from 1861 to 1874 and was appointed auditor-general in 1863; he subsequently held several other colonial offices before becoming governor of the Gold Coast in 1885. The rules numbered through 271 and accompanied by an extensive alphabetical index set out the conduct of the Assembly's public business. The index includes procedures for issuing election writs and returning the names of elected members to the governor and council together with the course to be followed when writs had not been executed. Although published well after emancipation these rules governed an Assembly whose electorate remained restricted by property qualifications. Free men of color had gained voting rights subject to those qualifications in 1831 and Samuel Jackman Prescod entered the Assembly in 1843. Planters and merchants nevertheless continued to dominate both the Assembly and the Legislative Council during the period in which Griffith served. OCLC records the 1867 edition OCLC 823344433 but we have been unable to identify a current institutional holding. . Office of "The Official Gazette," No. 14, Broad Street unknown books
1871rif. 49789Philadelphia: Altemus & Co 1871. Very Good-. Philadelphia: Altemus & Co. ca. 1871. Thick quarto photo album 25cm; full custom embossed brown goat with steel and faux pearl decorative elements owner's name Smith M. Weed to upper cover in gilt steel clasps one missing all edges gilt; title page printed in gilt followed by 25ll. stiff card stock to which are mounted a hundred and ninety-eight 198 cartes de visite some captioned in ink many signed by the subject and others still identified as "dead" in pencil. Leather rubbed and worn at corners with loss at spine head all but two of the photographic windows filled; overall About Very Good images all in bright and near fine condition. Photo album of the New York lawyer and politician Smith M. Weed 1833-1920 who served on the New York State Assembly from 1865 to 1867 in 1871 and from 1873 to 1874. This album probably dates from 1871 one of the years Smith served on the Assembly that coincided with John T. Hoffman the first man pictured here serving as governor of New York. It is perhaps significant that Weed does not identify Hoffman by name but simply lists him as the Governor of New York--Hoffman was implicated as being part of the Tammany Hall Tweed Ring against which Weed was an outspoken critic. His report in favor of repealing the Erie Classification Act came within a vote of breaking up the Tweed and Erie Rings for which he was "regarded as an enemy of the then party-controlling influence. He was brutally assaulted by the notorious James Irving then a power with the 'Ring'" Life Sketches of Government Officers of Members of the Legislature of the State of New York 1873. Perhaps needless to say but still disappointing that Irving's signed CDV is not among those present here. As well as members of the Legislature there are also CDVs of men in its orbit including the Canal Commissioner two prison inspectors the governor's private secretary the head doorkeeper and the assistant doorkeeper and three reporters for the New York Sun the Associate Press and the Argus. An interesting photographic record of New York state politics in the era of the Tweed Ring. Altemus & Co unknown books
1898rif. 39131Johannesburg South Africa: Printed by M. J. Wood & Co. for The Council of The Congregation 1898. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Large octavo. 36pp. Original decorative wrappers. In the 1880s Johannesburg was the largest city in the Transvaal and the principal center of Jewish life in South Africa. On Jan. 29 1888 the Witwatersrand Gold-Fields' Jewish association bought two building-plots on President street for a synagogue and at the same time changed its name to "Witwatersrand Hebrew Congregation." The Rev. Mark L. Harris of Kimberley who preached at the laying of the foundation-stone Nov. 9 1888 was elected rabbi retaining that post till March 31 1898. He was succeeded by the Rev. W. Wolf reader and Dr. Joseph Herman Hertz rabbi. Illustrated with numerous b/w photographic reproductions this booklet was published to commemorate the 10 year-anniversary of the Witwatersrand Old Hebrew Congregation. Minor and sporadic creasing along edges of wrappers. Faint creasing mark at center of pages. Wrappers in overall good interior in good to very good condition. Printed by M. J. Wood & Co. for The Council of The Congregation unknown books
rif. 36315Philadelphia: Collins Printer 705 Jayne Street 5619. 15 1 blank pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers blindstamp and 'withdrawn' rubberstamp in blank upper portion of front wrapper. Else Very Good. Mickve Israel Hope of Israel one of the oldest Philadelphia synagogues was founded in the 1740s by Sephardic Jews. Known as the 'Synagogue of the American Revolution' its early members included Haym Solomon and the Gratz family. Benjamin Franklin contributed to its first building fund. This was its third building constructed on 7th Street north of Arch. Isaac Leeser presided over the congregation from 1829 to 1850; Sabato Morais succeeded him. Morais was its Rabbi for 46 years. The list of corner-stone and door-post purchasers included A.S. Wolf who purchased the North door-post of the north door for fifteen dollars in honor of H. Polock. Other luminaries of Philadelphia Jewry participated in the ceremonies. Wolf was treasurer and Gabay of the Congregation. Articles deposited in the cornerstone are listed including newspapers coins and tokens dated 1859 "A gold quarter dollar of California mintage being deposited by Clarence A. Hart aged 9 years." The Committee of Arrangement consisted of Edwd. S. Mawson Joseph L. Moss and Isaac J. Phillips. Rabbi Morais's discourse is printed. Morais an abolitionist and founder of the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York counsels "If there be pride in us if the vanity of exhibiting a more sightly structure than others possess impelled us to designate this place as our future Synagogue.let us then bury first such unholy feelings in the bosom of the earth." Also printed is a prayer in Hebrew composed by Morais. Singerman 1593. OCLC 21968693 7 U PA JTS Yeshiva U NYPL Hebrew Union Natl Lib. Israel FL Atl U as of April 2023. Collins, Printer, 705 Jayne Street unknown books
1764rif. 37800New York: Hugh Gaine 1764. First edition. Original full sheep five raided bands red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Boards very worn front board detached repaired owner's bookplate Historical Society stamp on title and a few leaves first two blanks and first three leaves browned and ragged at the edges two small holes from erasure of name on title leaf one just nicking the V in Votes old but expert repairs to edges of first dozen leaves worming to the margins of about a dozen middle leaves affecting a few words on one leaf only last leaf ragged with a few worm holes affecting a few letters last two blanks lacking portions of lower corner and ragged occasional light dampstaining mostly marginal otherwise leaves clean and impressions sharp. Good. iv 840 2. Signed in type by the editor Abraham Lott Junr. Signed in manuscript "Bound by Rob. McAlpine" at the conclusion of the preface. Contains the added leaf with the "Act of Parliament for reversing the Attainder of Jacob Leisler Jacob Milbourne and Abraham Governeur who were executed for not delivering the Fort at New York to Richard Ingoldsby 1690" Sabin. Evans states that this leaf is “often lacking.” Page numbers 665-666 omitted from pagination. Evans 9756. Sabin 53719. ESTC W6332. Marke p. 80. Larned 161. Hugh Gaine hardcover books
1944rif. 211521944. Japanese American incarceration photographs dating from World War II document civilian life and military presence at several internment and assembly centers established after the forced removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Following Executive Order 9066 in 1942 more than 120000 people of Japanese ancestry were confined in temporary assembly centers and longer term relocation camps administered by the War Relocation Authority. The photographs record daily activities of men women and children within these camps and illustrate the physical environment of the barracks settlements created to house incarcerated civilians during the war. Archive contains six original silver gelatin photographs measuring approximately 2.5 × 2.75 inches to 3.5 × 5.75 inches. The images depict Japanese American families and individuals at Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming Camp Amache in Granada Colorado and Pomona Assembly Center in California. Several photographs show families gathered in front of barracks style housing units typical of the camps. One image from Amache shows a family of six standing on the steps of their assigned unit with the wooden barracks structure visible behind them. Another photograph from Pomona shows two United States soldiers seated on a storage trunk outside a camp building likely serving as patrol or security personnel. One image from Heart Mountain shows a military medic standing beside an ambulance truck while gesturing toward camp structures in the distance. Other photographs include a group portrait of Japanese American young men standing in front of a brick building possibly a school building within the camp and a separate image of the same individual standing beside a lake. Another photograph shows a young Japanese American girl playing on a see saw while families watch a sports game in the background with camp buildings visible beyond the field. Pomona Assembly Center served as one of the temporary detention facilities established in 1942 before incarcerated families were transferred to permanent camps such as Heart Mountain. Heart Mountain became the fourth largest relocation center eventually housing nearly fourteen thousand people while Amache in Colorado confined more than seven thousand internees the majority of whom were American citizens by birth. Living quarters in these camps consisted of small rooms within hastily constructed wooden barracks assigned to individual families. The photographs preserve small moments of social life and recreation within these confined communities illustrating how families attempted to maintain routines despite the conditions of incarceration. Photographs remain clear and well preserved with light age wear consistent with vernacular prints. Very good condition overall and a revealing visual record of Japanese American life within wartime relocation centers. unknown books
1766rif. 363001New York: Printed by Hugh Gaine at his Book-Store and Printing Office at the Bible & Crown in Hanover-Square 1766. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Two volume set. Thick folios. Contemporary full calf. Binding is worn with the boards nearly detached small bookplate on the front pastedowns else a good sound set. Volume one prints the proceedings from April 1691-September 1743; volume two from November 1743-December 1765. This edition includes: "the act for reversing the attainder of Jacob Leisler and others" on the last leaf of volume one. An invaluable resource for the early political social and economic history of New York. ESTC W6332; Evans 9756 10418. Printed by Hugh Gaine, at his Book-Store and Printing Office, at the Bible & Crown, in Hanover-Square hardcover books
1832rif. 339004New Haven: Palladium and Republican Office 1832. First edition of Rules for 1832. Broadside 1 page. Printed recto only. Text is printed in two columns within elemental border; printed area including ornamental border. circa 11-1/4 by 1- 7/16 inches. Paper is moderately foxed folded twice with light wear along folds bit of creasing at corners else a very good copy of a scarce broadside. First edition of Rules for 1832. Broadside 1 page. Printed recto only. Text is printed in two columns within elemental border; printed area including ornamental border. circa 11-1/4 by 1- 7/16 inches. OCLC lists no worldwide holdings. Not in American Imprints; not in OCLC Palladium and Republican Office unknown books
1768rif. 37724Boston: Printed by William M'Alpine 1768. Rare Presbyterian Catechism A very rare Boston catechism this issue not in Evans Bristol or Shipton & Mooney. The so-called "Shorter Catechism" was codified in 1647 by the Westminster Assembly and remains to this day part of the doctrinal standards of many Presbyterian churches. It was first printed in America at Cambridge in 1665 and frequently reprinted though many of these are represented by a single surviving copy. We locate only two copy in institutional holdings one at the American Antiquarian Society and the other at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The AAS copy of a variant of this issue Evans 11115 lacks pages 29-34. Sewn into contemporary plain paper wrappers manuscript paper label. Contemporary ink inscriptions on titlepage the word "Catechism" beside title and verso of terminal leaf signatures of Eunice Barnard and Hepzibah Flagg. Wrappers worn. Titlepage creased and slightly chipped near gutter affecting a few words of text. Fore-edge of second leaf frayed with loss of several words on pp.3-4. Wear and mild foxing and soiling throughout. Good. In a half morocco and cloth box. ESTC W24488. EVANS 11115 variant. hardcover books
rif. 144688hardcover. Began the 9th Day of April 1691; and Ended the 27th of September 1743. Vol. I. Published by Order of the General Assembly. title vignette. iv 840 2pp. folio contemporay calf; expertly rebacked in modern calf with leather labels; first few and last few leaves heavily foxed in margins; some light browning to text; binding moderately rubbed edges of corners worn small rubberstamp of a former owner on margin of t.p. N.Y.: Hugh Gaine 1764. "The largest issue of Gaine's press and the first piece of government printing he secured. The pp. 2 is `An Act of reversing the Attainder of Jacob Leisler and others' and is often lacking. The work was edited and the index made by Abraham Lott Junr." Ford The Journals of Hugh Gaine I p. 113 This work is complete in itself vol. II was published in 1766. Evans 9756. unknown books
1790rif. 52510New York: John Fenno no. 41 Broad-Street near the Exchange 1790. First edtion. Softcover. Fine. Two leaves folio 16.25 by 10 in. Edges slightly trimmed; a touch of mild foxing else a fine crisp copy. Housed in linen clamshell box with gilt paper label at spine and previous owner's dediction pasted to inside cover. The first known published appearance of Jewish support for the newly elected president of the United States George Washington. One week after Washinton's inauguration Levi Sheftall on behalf of the newly reorganized Savannah Hebrew Congregation wrote him an elegant and effusive letter of congratulation. This letter along with Washington's reply was published for the first time by the United States Gazette: "Sir We have long been anxious of congratulating you on your appointment. and of testifying our unbounded confidence in your integrity and unblemished virtue. Your unexampled liberality and extensive philanthropy have dispelled that cloud of bigotry and superstition which has long as a veil shaded religion -- unrivetted the fetters of enthusiasm -- enfranchised us with all the privileges and immunities of free citizens and initiated us into the grand mass of legislative mechanism. May the great Author of worlds grant you all happiness and a continuance of guardianship to that freedom which under the auspices of heaven your magnanimity and wisdom have given these States." Washington's reply is undated but addressed "To the Hebrew Congregation of the City of Savannah." After accepting their congratulations he extends this hope: "May the same wonder-working Deity who long since delivering the Hebrews from their Egyptian Oppressors planted them in the promised land -- whose providential agency has lately been conspicuous in established these United States as an independent nation -- still continue to water them with the dews of Heaven and to make the inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and spiritual blessings of that people whose God is Jehovah. George Washington." Provenance: old entry of . Hopkins at top margin first leaf trimmed. Six weeks later References: Enc. Jud. first ed. 1972 vol. 16; Evans Amer. Bibl. vol. 8; From the Ends of the Earth Judaica Treasures of the Library of Congress. John Fenno, no. 41 Broad-Street, near the Exchange unknown books
