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1871réf. 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
1935réf. 803291935. California Legislative Assembly. Constitution of the United States Declaration of Rights Declaration of Independence Articles of Confederation Constitution of the State of California Act for Admission of California into the Union Constitutional History of California. The California Legislature 1957. Sacramento: California Legislative Assembly 1957. xxv 452 pp. Morocco-stamped cloth gilt title to front board. Light rubbing gilding rubbed away from parts of title "Caspar W. Weinberger" gilt-stamped to lower outside corner of front board. $50. This book was issued to Weinberger 1917-2006 when he was a member of the California State Assembly from the 21st District 1953-1959. A prominent Republican politician and statesman was President Reagan's secretary of defense from 1981 to 1987. unknown books
1956réf. 85109Winchester Virginia 1956. Quarto 31cm; blue cloth-covered boards with illustration stamped in gilt on front cover; 123pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and colorful illustrations throughout. Spine-tanned with shelf-soil and light dampstains light foxing to covers and interior and rubbing to spine and board edges; Good. Includes photographs of congregation members and correspondence. Advertisement compliments throughout include Winchester's Wisecraver's Print Shop Front Royal's The Locust PinCompany Inc. and Strasburg's L.F. Stickley's Service Center. 85109. unknown books
1805réf. 727211805. Compilation of Pennsylvania Acts Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Passed at a Session Which Was Begun and Held at the Borough of Lancaster On Tuesday the Fourth Day of December In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Four And of the Independence of the United States of America the Twenty-Ninth. Marked Vol. VII at foot of p. 3 issued as part of the Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 1804-1806. Published by Authority. Octoraro PA: Published by Francis Bailey 1805. 291 x pp. Octavo 8" x 5". Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine edges rouged endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities a few scratches to calf with light wear to foot of spine recent bookseller's note in ink to front pastedown. Light to moderate toning to interior heavier to some signatures occasional light foxing light soiling in a few places illegible ink annotation to foot of title page small tear to top-edge of leaf 2A4 pp. 201-202. $250. Only edition. Topics covered include real property gambling and an act to raise "a sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars for the use and benefit of the minister wardens and vestry of the African Episcopal church of St. Thomas in the city of Philadelphia." St. Thomas still stands in Philadelphia today. Shaw & Shoemaker American Bibliography 9115. unknown books
1852réf. 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
1902réf. 175041902. State Assembly of New York. January 7 1902. 10" x 7" inches. Two-sided. At the time that this description is being written no copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time. This bulletin reads "Introduced by Mr. Burke - read once and referred to the committee on labor and industries. When wages are to be paid. -- Every corporation or joint stock association or person carrying on the business thereof by lease or otherwise shall pay weekly to each employee the wages earned by him to a day not more than six days prior to the date of such payment." This law took effect immediately and was intended to ensure prompt and regular payment of workers in the State of New York. In very good condition. unknown books
1859réf. 35091859. NEW JERSEY. Report of the Committee on Elections of the House of Assembly in the Matter of the Contested Election between Patrick Magennis and Joel M. Johnson of the County of Passaic. Read February 22 1859 . Trenton 1859. 12 p. Wrappers. Contested Passaic County election. unknown books
1820réf. 119541820. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Extracts from the Minutes of the General Assembly . A.D. 1820. Philadelphia: Thomas and William Bradford 1820. 3 298-380 p. Stitched as issued untrimmed. Very light foxing heavier on title else near fine. Lists of attending representatives financial records names of donors &c. unknown books
1832réf. 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
1954réf. vot767Columbia: South Carolina Archives Department 1954. Royal octavo softbound stiff cream wrappers 182 pp. Very Good with light edgewear. South Carolina Archives Department, 1954. paperback books
1808réf. vas5353Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin 1808. Octavo original sheep xiv 116 Index 696 pp. Good; front joint tender light foxing. Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1808. unknown books
1821réf. vass5354Hartford: S. G. Goodrich & Huntington & Hopkins 1821. Octavo original sheep calf labels xv 1 erata 512 pp. Very Good; light wear; sporadic foxing. S. G. Goodrich & Huntington & Hopkins, 1821. unknown books
1816réf. vas544Chillicothe: Printed by Nashee & Denny for John Bailhache 1816. Octavo full sheep leather hardcover calf label 434 pp 13 pp 3 pp 24 pp. Poor; covers nearly detached final leaf supplied in facsimile. Printed by Nashee & Denny, for John Bailhache, 1816. hardcover books
1955réf. 00491scsNashville Tennessee: Broadman Press 1955. Octavo illus. boards hardcover 64 pp. Very Good with light edgewear to covers and former-owner signature. Illus. with b&w photos. Broadman Press, 1955. hardcover books
1867réf. 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
1870réf. 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
1944réf. 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
1932réf. 205181932. African American Religion Silver gelatin photograph of twenty-two African American congregates at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. 1932. Approx. 4.5" x 6.5". Photograph shows twenty-two congregates of varying ages twenty-one adults and one child dressed in "Sunday best" sitting and standing in two rows in front of a church sanctuary. Caption written on photograph reads "Ward #1 Mt. Zion Baptist Church 1932". Baptist Protestantism has been the predominant religion among African Americans from the Civil War until today however the Great Depression marked a particularly difficult time period for Baptist churches across the United States. In 1932 Protestant church attendance was at an all time low in part due to the church's inability to dispense charity to the needy and due to a general loss of faith in the face of financial hardship. African American Baptist Mt. Zion congregations are also known for their roles in the Civil Rights Movement. The churchgoers pictured were among a select few who remained steadfast practitioners of Baptist Protestantism during a difficult time in U.S. history. Very good condition. unknown books
1766réf. 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
1866réf. 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
1927réf. 105893New York: D. Appleton and Company 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Edition. Very good with owners inscription on front fly faint tape shadows on corners of end papers a small faint dampstain on top corner of some pages and lacking dustjacket. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1847réf. 8644Springfield IL: George R. Weber Public Printer 1847. 15th Assembly 1st Session. Broadside 21 cm x 14 cm printed on one side in black ink. Near fine. A brief report for the Illinois Legislature on those seeking expenses due to the 'Hancock difficulties' of 1846. It states that due to the "advanced stage" of the legislative session there is not ample time to investigate the claims of money owed and destroyed property and for the time the "agents for said claimants have leave to withdraw their accounts at pleasure." The briefness of this item as well as its matter-of-fact style masks the horrors of the events that it eludes to: the Martyrdom and the forced exile of the Mormons from Nauvoo. Flake/Draper 4189. We locate four institutional holdings. Rare. [George R. Weber, Public Printer] unknown books
1812réf. 57676New York: Whiting and Watson no. 96 Broadway 1812. First edition 8vo pp. 3 4-56; uncut; original printed brown wrappers; ex-N.Y. State Library with small inoffensive rubberstamp on the wrapper; very good. Wrapper dated 1813. American Imprints 26519; Sabin 65218. Whiting and Watson, no. 96 Broadway unknown books
1930réf. 010051New York: BAHA'I PUBLISHING COMMITTEE 1930. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good numbers in white base of spine inked numbers and blindstamp of the State of West Virginia Dept. of Archives and History at title page. No other markings internally. Hinges starting front and rear yet holding nicely. A SCARCE publication. xv 377 pp. With illustrations photographs map and color frontispiece with tissue guard. BAHA'I PUBLISHING COMMITTEE Hardcover books
1929réf. 10117Boston Massachusetts: The Sisterhood; Printed by The Alpine Press Inc 1929. Octavo 20.5 x 13.75 cm. viii 257 iii pages. Table of contents. Committee from page iii. Stated "Revised Edition". A charitable cookbook emanating from the locus of Conservative Judaism in Boston with approximately eight hundred recipes the majority of them attributed. Representative among them: Potato Ball Soup Sweet and Sour Cabbage Soup Cold Beet Soup Gefilte Fish Marinat Sour Fish Pickled Herring Chopped Liver Sardine Entrée with walnuts and celery Stewed Tongue Chinese Chicken Chow Mein Cheese Blintzes Sweet Potatoes and Apples Boiled Asparagus Carrot Zimis i.e. tsimmes Squash Pie Potato Kugel Noodle Pudding Banana Macaroon Mousse Prune Frozen Cream Cheese Cake Paravah Cake Pound Cake Hazelnut Torte Mon Kichles i.e. kichlach Plum Jam Apple Butter. A concluding section groups holiday recipes for Passover Purim Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Eve and Hanukah. Clean and bright. In publisher's beige cloth lettered in black; some very light soil to boards otherwise near fine. OCLC locates twelve copies; edition not in Brown; none of the editions in Bitting or Cagle. [The Sisterhood; Printed by] The Alpine Press, Inc hardcover books
