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réf. 86869Good. Handwritten Document for property on the South Side of Vine Street from the "Ministers Vestrymen and Church Wardens of the German Lutheran Congregation of Philadelphia to John Beutel Distiller. Lot was 38 x 100 feet. Rent was to be $76 yearly for a term of 15 years. Beutel was to surround the property with a good fence and if he dug a "necessary" well it was to be walled up with brick and conform to city regulations as to depth. Single sheet. Edges chipped folded three times minor loss along folds some soil and age-toning. Fragile. unknown books
1860réf. 69365Columbus: Richard Nevins State Printer. Good. 1860. Hardcover. 188 pages half leather and marbled boards. The spine has been repaired with cloth tape and the covers are soiled and rubbed hinges starting. The binding is rough but the contents are bright and complete. Good. . Richard Nevins, State Printer hardcover books
1826réf. 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
1891réf. 286218Richmond VA: Everett Waddey Company 1891. Half Leather. Very Good binding. The Acts of Assembly Concerning the James River Company the James River and Kanawha Company and the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad and Richmond and Alleghany Railway Companies. Acts passed by the General Assembly of Virginia concerning some railway and river companies of the Richmond area. Very scattered marginalia in ink. Previous owner’s name stamped on the front pastedown and stamped on the front board in gilt. Fully rebacked by a conservator using black Japanese tissue. Section of the original spine laid in. Half black leather over dark cloth covered boards. Overall in Very Good condition. Very Good binding. Everett Waddey Company unknown books
1844réf. 50466Frankfort KY: A. G. Hodges.State Printer. Good. 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition in Good condition heavily foxed throughout with detached front board faded signature to front board writing to front pastedown flyleaf and first two leaves writing also to final leaf and rear flyleaf. Calf over boards; Contains a record of acts laws and resolutions passed by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1843. Shaw 44-3558 locates 2; small 4to; i-ii 1-300 pages; GinsID899; ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY: PASSED AT DECEMBER SESSION 1843. Frankfort Hodges 1844. 300pp. Calf over small 4to boards joints weak. First edition. Contains a record of acts local and private laws and resolutions for 1843. Shaw 44-3558locates 2.; OP:175 . A. G. Hodges...State Printer hardcover 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
1825réf. 298101Richmond: Thomas Ritchie 1825. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Five years of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia bound together comprising those acts from 1824 through 1828. There was much legislative activity at this period regarding transportation canals turnpike companies and the like. And of course mundane day to day business. ~~Of note is the special act in 1826 allowing for “That Burwell Joe Fosset John Hemmings Madison and Eston Hemmings persons of colour emancipated by the last will and testament of Thomas Jefferson deceased shall be and they are hereby permitted to remain as free persons within this Commonwealth.” though they could be sold again into slavery if they committed a felony and didn’t leave the Commonwealth. ~~Taken together a remarkable picture of life in Virginia in the still early days of the Republic. Very Good binding. Thomas Ritchie unknown books
1825réf. 298172Richmond: Thomas Ritchie 1825. Very Good binding. In two parts being “Acts of a public and general nature” and “Acts of a local and private nature”. An early and interesting edition of Virginia statutes dealing with everything from the Western Lunatic Asylum to the establishment of the town of Snickersville in Loudoun County. And of course slavery. 114 pages including index. Bound in later legal buckram with maroon and black spine labels. Pages uniformly toned. Scarce with only 4 copies located in OCLC. Very Good binding. Thomas Ritchie 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
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
1908réf. 72650Atlanta: Georgia General Assembly 1908. Paperback. Good. Paperback. Stapled wraps. 8pp. Blueish green covers with title on the outer wrap. This act codified the use of Prisoners on "Chain-Gangs". No printer information found in this separately printed act. Paper has some creases and edge wear else good. Georgia General Assembly paperback books
1938réf. 82326Albany 1938. Paperback. Fair. Folded four-page pamphlet. 27cm. Browned and brittle. Two later horizontal folds. No. 303. A wide-ranging proposal which probably got no consideration. paperback 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
1808réf. 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
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
réf. 31012folio 3 pages plus stampless address leaf some weakness at folds and hole from seal opening with loss of a few words of text. 1828 Ohio Jacksonian Democratic Legislators fear "conspiracies and plots" by "Blue Light" ex-Federalist supporters of "King John the Second" John Quincy Adams. An important Ohio political letter from the tumultuous months before the presidential election when a new Democratic Party was still forming around the candidacy of Andrew Jackson and supporters of his opponent John Quincy Adams mostly remnants of the defunct Federalist Party simply called themselves "Anti-Jacksonians". The party lines were still so blurred that as this letter from two Jacksonian state legislators makes clear there was a great deal of mutual suspicion approaching paranoia about conspiracies and plots that grew out of confused loyalties. The text is particularly interesting because of the writers' use of two forgotten political slurs – "Blue Lights" referred to former Anglophile Federalists who had been accused for over a decade since the War of 1812 which they had adamantly opposed of having made friendly signals to British ships in order to warn the enemy of American blockade runners putting to sea from Connecticut. The other innuendo as the reference to John Quincy Adams as "King John the Second" reflecting the Jacksonian claim that he and his "Blue Light Federalists" sought to reunite America with England the new nation's former colonial master. Both Hamm the co-author and Cox the recipient were notable Jacksonians. Hamm was a doctor who had served as a Surgeon in the War of 1812 before being elected to the legislature; he became so powerful in the politics of his county as to win a diplomatic appointment through political patronage. After Jackson's election Hamm was appointed the third American envoy to Chile after its independence from Spain. Cox also an uncompromising Jacksonian Democrat was the son of a Revolutionary War General and pioneer publisher of the first newspaper in eastern Ohio which became the most influential Jacksonian paper in the state. His better-known son Samuel "Sunshine" Cox was a US Congressman during the Civil War and was later appointed US Ambassador to Ottoman Turkey by Democratic Grover Cleveland. The text: "Among many of our very best friends among whom we always class you we have neglected to write to you supposing that you would in the common course receive everything going on here worth knowing. You are aware of our great difficulties of getting along here among a pack of as thorough going and rude trained blue-lights as ever were permitted to run at large! However so it is we are yet alive and as much in the bargain! We had expected that among our friends who came on here that you would have been among the number. To those who came here they proved a great consolation; for believe us that you can form and we can describe no conceptions of the conspiracies and plots which are hourly carried on here to put down every body who will not sing hosannas to King John the 2d. As you know we have endeavoured with all our might to pursue a neutral attitude amidst these conflicting elements. How far we have succeeded time must tell. There are very many trials with which we are beset which it is impossible now to give you any thing like a correct understanding. We have written to but very few of our friends. This is no place for pleasure or amusement to representatives who are disposed to do their duty to those who sent them here. Among our difficulties you will know that we have with us one person that there is no harm in keeping a watchful eye over. A word is enough – but how it will yet end is very uncertain. We have made and are daily making sacrifices on your account and that of all our friends. Nothing that human impunity or industry can effect will be withheld on our part until the close but we are not at liberty to promise much on that particular subject for this and the reasons heretofore advanced. For while we keep a sharp look out we in our turns are well watched and perhaps more constantly watched than any two members in both branches of the General Assembly. The friends of John 2 are a majority in both branches and they exercise this authority in accordance with the mandates of Grimble King and Company. As to our local interests – school Lands – Sale of Section 16 – Taylors dam etc. I hope will prove somewhat satisfactory to the public. Write to Mr. J.C.Stockton Representative but not on the subject because he will tell. But write to him that the Blue Lights in Zanesville are boasting that they have got him – and any thing else which you may think will flatter him. We also think that a number of you had better write to him soon and continue it until the very close of the session! You know what we wish it done for and you must not neglect it. Your brother Saml. J. Cox also ought to write to him. Our success here upon that one point greatly depends on what we advise. Pay the postage on all your letters to here!!! Tell your brother Saml. To write immediately also to Mr.Stilwell on the same subject – by this means we may possiblymake such arrangements to insure success. In other words unless something is done this creature will come out for ________ By our division we shall be defeated. You have no idea of the duplicity of this man! Our enemies at home are writing to him and inflaming him against us and all our friends at home. We know that Mr. Stilwell can with what is necessary here – that is to unite with us in words missing.a candidate whom we many rely upon when words missing The mischief he does is through the Blue Lights; and at the same time by palming himself upon the credulous of our side. All we want is union among the Muskingum delegation here and then we may stand a better chance of success in the election of an Associate Judge…" 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
1895réf. 174883Nashville: The assembly 1895. Pamphlet. 29p. printed double-column smallpoint staplebound 8.5x5.5 inch self-wraps with plain printed cover title. Front cover and to some extent the back was exposed to severe dust-soil. We used an artist's erasure-shavings pad to remove the worst smuts. Paperstock very toned but not badly fragile. The initial vote count for the 1894 election indicated that Evans the Republican candidate had won but the Democractic-controlled legislature declared that voter fraud had occured and negated over 23000 votes allowing Turney to win. The assembly unknown books
1992réf. 180653Berkeley: The Graduate Minority Students' Project Graduate Assembly UC Berkeley 1992. Paperback. vi 110p. 8.5x11 inches foreword photos drawings tables figures essays contact info very good first edition oversized trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. The Graduate Minority Students' Project, Graduate Assembly, UC Berkeley paperback 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
1790réf. 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
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
1837réf. 199394Harrisburg: Printed by E. Guyer 1837. Hardcover. Fair Boards are heavily worn/scuffed/smudged; spine strip is chipped and heavily worn; covers are loosely attached; there is dampstaining at the front and back that shows in parts of the first 10 and last 10 pages; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; interior is toned with foxing and smudging; textblock is solid. Half-bound light brown leather and marbled boards with two mounted cards on the spine with gilt lettering; 821 249 pp. Printed by E. Guyer hardcover books
réf. 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
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
