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1871ref. 6771NY: D. Appleton & Co. Very Good. 1871. Hardcover. Clean marbled boards dark green leather corners & spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. Text tight clean & intact. Illustrated with fold out maps & drawings. Ex-Lib with ink stamp markings. Leather edges lightly scuffed. Board edges rubbed. Medical; Ex-Lib; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 664 pages . D. Appleton & Co. hardcover
1905ref. 15762New York: Hart & Von ARX Printer. Very Good. 1905. First Edition. Soft Cover. Ca: 1905. Clean soft pictorial cover. Text's interior is tight clean & intact. Illustrated with sepia photographs and floor plans. Spine ends lightly rubbed. ; Sepia Photographs & Drawings; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; Unpaginated pages . Hart & Von ARX, Printer paperback
1957ref. 11379New York: Harry M. Stevens. Very Good. 1957. First Edition. Softcover. Clean soft pictorial covers. Tight clean & intact. Giants & St. Louis. Photo of Bill Rigney Manager of the New York Giants. Illustrated advertisements. Penciled score card August 21 57 with game results. ; B&W illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 18 pages . Harry M. Stevens paperback
1911ref. 001885State of New York Albany 1911. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Very Good/None Issued. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact. Olive gilt stamped cloth over boards illustrated with b & w half-tones from photos two color fold-out maps 224 pages. Corners and spine ends bumped with a little wear 1" tear in margin of title page. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 10 oz. Category: Animals & Birds; Books; Fishing & Hunting. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001885. . State of New York hardcover
1952ref. 16151New York: University of the State of New York. Very Good. 1952-61. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean blue buckram cloth has gilt title on spine. Text interior is tight clean intact. Illustrated with b/w photographs and 9 maps. Soft cover bulletins bound in a hard cover. 1 Traces of Early Man in the North east 1957. 2 Typology and Nomenclature for New York Projectile 1961. 3 Recent Discoveries Suggesting an Early Woodland Burial Cult in the Northeast 1955. 4 The Eastern Dispersal of the Adena With Dragoo 1960. 5 Introduction to Hudson Valley Prehistory 1958. 6 The Chance Horizon An Early Stage of Mohawk Iroquois Cultural Development 1952. 7 An Early Owasco Sequence in Eastern New York 1953. Prior owners book-plate. New York ; B/W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . University of the State of New York hardcover
1880ref. 15976Harrisburg: Board of Commissioners. Very Good. 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Two Volumes. Clean black cloth has gilt title on spine. Map illustrated frontispiece. Color & B/W plates. Atlas containing a colored Geological map of the County; Local map of the Gap Nickle Mine; Map and section of the East Bank of the Suaquehanna River; Other Geological Sections across the County; and two Geological Colored maps of York & Adams Counties. VG map folder with ties. Pennsylvania Geology ; Plates & Maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 341 pages . Board of Commissioners hardcover
1918ref. 15195New York: Lance Company. Very Good. 1918. Hardcover. Ca: 1918. Lance E-Z Wear Shoe Catalogue. Text tight clean & intact. B/W illustrations. Accompaning this catalogue is the E-Z measurement form for shoe size. A company letter & envelope also. Catalogue; B/W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 32 pages . Lance Company hardcover
1852ref. 16791Harrisburg: Theo Fenn & Co. Very Good. 1852. First Edition. Soft covers. Blue soft covers with a white spine. Vol. # 1 1111pp. Vol. #2 768pp. Commenced at Harrisburg Tuesday the sixth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two and of the Commonwealth the Seventy-Sixth. Pennsylvania Govenment Canals Railroads Hospitals Prisons Orphans Finances Elections ; Thick Large 8vo; 1879 pages . Theo Fenn & Co. paperback
1994ref. 11425.5Baltimore: Church Home & Hospital 1994. First Edition. Full cloth. Quarto. x 115 pages. Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Black and White Photographs. Recollections of 13 men and women who devoted their lives to one of Maryland's oldest medical institutions--the Church Home & Hospital facilities located at Fayette Street and Broadway in Baltimore. It was in one of the buildings now owned by the corporation that Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7 1849. Bound in dark green cloth over boards with spine and upper board stamped in silver foil. Shallow wrinkle to edge of cloth at head of spine jacket has a closed 1.25" edge tear with associated creases at top of rear panel a shallow chip at same location a short edge tear at bottom edge of front panel and a few other light extremity rubs. . Jacket in Mylar protector. Church Home & Hospital unknown
1794ref. 17563Philadelphia: Printed By the Author. Good. 1794. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Original 1794 text in a modern library binding: clean blue cloth with color faded edges & gilt lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers & top edge gilt with deckle page edges. Hinges & text tight and intact. Few lightly foxed pages & some age toning. Top corner of page 164 repaired with archival tape. In his pamphlet the author accuses blacks of causing the epidemic and of taking advantage of victims while acting as nurses. The work was reprinted four times widely distributed and contributed to fears and hostility in the city. Chart illustrations. Medical Yellow Fever Arican-American; Ex-Libris; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 164 pages . Printed By the Author. hardcover
1891ref. 17556New York: Anson D. F. Randolph. Good. 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean green buckram cloth with gilt title on spine. viii 202pp . Top margin of pages have a damp stain which does not interfere with the text. Also an ink stain on contents page. X-lib with a embossed seal. New York; B/W Drawing illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 202 pages . Anson D. F. Randolph hardcover
1887ref. 17532Harrisburg: Edwin K. Meyers State Printer. Good. 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth with rubbed gilt lettering on spine. Faded at edges with a few pin holes in gutter. Hinges & text are tight clean & intact. Illustrated with various tables and a fold out population statement. Pages 237-313 are an Appendix of agricultural experiments. Pages 331-405 are devoted to Mecanic Arts with an engraving of the Mechanic Buildings floor plans curriculum & 55pp of lesson plan drawings. Pennsylvania Education. ; Francis Jordan; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 405 pages . Edwin K. Meyers, State Printer hardcover
1881ref. 17535New York: Privately Issued. Good. 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean green cloth with gilt title on spine. Illustrated with two frontis engravings of Major William Roe Van Voorhis and Rachel Vail his wife on heavy card stock; and tinted views of the Homesteads of John Brinckerhoff Swartwoutville Dutchess County N. Y. ; the Residence of Elias W. Van Voorhis Van Wyck Ave. Jamaica L. I. And the Homestead of Major William Roe Van Voorhis Fishkill Dutchess County N. Y. Also a Facsimile of an Indenture document & Centennial Commemoration 1776-1876 of the Baptists of Missouri Certificate celebrating 100 years of Jewell Colllege& a Map of the purchase of Johannes Coerten Van Voorhees in 1730. Condition: Spine ends and front corners are rubbed. Front internal hinge is cracked with covers firmly attached. Page edges are slightly age toned. Baptists of Missouri Certificate mended with document tape. Rear endpaper has a vertical crease. Genealogy ; Drawings Engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 239 pages . Privately Issued hardcover
1832ref. 17543Harrisburg Pa.: Henry Welsh. Good. 1832. Hardcover. Clean back buckram cloth with gilt title on spine. Read December 1832. Seal of Pennsylvania Railroad Company Library imprinted on title page. Page edges lightly age toned. Page 2 & 3 have a crease. Library pocket inside rear cover. Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad. Canals ; Ex-Library; B&W Drawing & Map; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 40 pages . Henry Welsh hardcover
ref. 0710O0ZXXM1Hardcover. Good. Shepard and Gill 1873. First ed. with map and advert in back. Almost very good decorative cloth little used slightly faded with edgewear in no dustjacket. First ed. first printing. Bound nicely. Sixteenmo just under 7 inches tall in gilt stamped brown cloth. 365 pages plus 1 page ad for San Francisco's Occidental Hotel. Paher 1123 citing Flake 4878. Union Pacific route including a stop in Salt Lake City. The often missing Map of the Yo-Semite Valley is present at front: very good with hint only of foxing pea-sized brown spot/. hardcover
ref. 602461"5 3/4" x 2". Enclosed in the original dark blue leatherette folding snap case which is lined in white moiré silk stamped in gold on the front cover "City of Atlantic City William T. Somers Mayor." Case size when closed: 6 3/4" x 3 1/4". Provenance: from the estate of noted JFK collector Robert L. White.
1864ref. 006558D. Appleton & Company New York 1864. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good/None Issued. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is a Livingston family copy with the bookplate of John Henry Livingston on the front pastedown gift inscription on the front free endpaper reads: "John H. Livingston from Uncle Robert". Green gilt stamped pebbled cloth over boards frontis with tissue of a bust of Edward Livingston Introduction by George Bancroft XXIV 448 pages Index; Edward Livingston was both a Senator and a US Representative as well as Secretary Of State and Minister to France. Corners and spine ends are bumped with wear gilt on spine is faded cloth is bubbled in spots cover soiled foxing on frontis and frontis tissue; interior is very good with no writing or marks no foxing and the binding is sound. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 2 oz. Category: New York State History; United States History; Autobiography/Biography/Memoirs; Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 006558. . D. Appleton & Company hardcover
1884ref. 005709The Consistory Jamaica L. I. 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/None Issued. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original brown gilt stamped cloth over boards frontis of the first church building of 1716 207 1 illustrated in b & w including portraits of pastors and prominent church members Appendix by the Pastor at the tome the book was written Rev. DeHart List of Pastors Elders and Deacons and Members Occupants of Pews 1884; Annual Statistical Report Index; includes an unnumbered page listing contributions to local history by the author. Corners and spine ends bumped covers soiled some stains covers bowed a little some light foxing on end papers and some of the plates a few small pencil marks next to names in the lists but otherwise clean binding sound. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 10 oz. Category: Religion; New York State History; Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 005709. . The Consistory hardcover
1877ref. 001974Joel Munsell Albany 1877. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Jacket. Size: Octavo standard book size. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Older rebinding with spine label of gilt and green green cloth cloth over boards frontispiece with tissue of the Cohoes Falls viii 327 pages Index. Signature loose in middle half-title separated but present notation from a bookshop on bottom title page a few pages in introduction starting to separate pages moderately toned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 14 oz. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001974. . Joel Munsell hardcover
1837ref. 000546G. & C. Carvill & Co New York 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor/None Issued. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quarter leather with pictorial cover 528 pages 4 pages advertisements; back cover also contains text advertising. This book shows its age: covers are worn and scuffed spine has crack running down 3/4 of its length archival tape repairs to spine book has evidently gotten wet at one time but does not smell musty; foxing and water stains on interior but pages are easily readable. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 15 oz. Category: History; Books; Genealogy & Local History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 000546. . G. & C. Carvill & Co hardcover
1905ref. 17484Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition Autograph Edition #813 of 1000 signed by the Author. Clean green cloth embellished with gilt borders armorial crests and spine titles. Cloth dust jacket Deckle page edges . Top edge gilt. Portrait frontispieces. Illustrated with over 100 portraits of distinguished men. Volume #1: xxxiv 299pp. Vol. #2: xxi 631pp. Original owner's inscription. Chronological record of the commercial industrial and educational advancement of the Keystone State. Pennsylvania; B/W Portraits; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1230 pages; Signed by Author . John C. Winston Co. hardcover
1853ref. 17413Albany N. Y.: Weed Parsons & Co. Good. 1853. First Edition. Softcover. Green soft covers with light edge wear. Interior of text is tight clean & intact. Illustrated with charts. Front cover has hand written words: "Hudson River 1952". Rear cover has a a piece of front top corner missing. A proposal to connect the Erie Canal with the Hudson river. Chief Engineer: Willliam McAlpine and Octave Blanc; Isaac Colman and William Perkins Resident Engineers. Canal New York. ; Chart Illustrarion; 8vo; 64 pages . Weed, Parsons & Co paperback
1897ref. 17249Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. Good. 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Red and green cloth decorated with gilt. Spine ends starting. Green cloth has some chipping. Original owners inscription on endpaper H. W. Harrison dated 5/7/1897. Interior of text is tight clean & intact. Double page Frontispiece of the University of Pennsylvania: profusely Illustrated with full page photographs. Pennsylvania Education. ; B/W Photographs & Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 126 pages . J. B. Lippincott hardcover
1912ref. 17220Philadelphia: Elvino V. Smith. Good. 1912. Hardcover. A very large folding map 56" x 43" mounted in a light blue lightly faded hardcover cloth folder with gilt lettering on front. Map in nice condition except for a few tears along the folds. Folder has paper tears along interior hinges. Condition--Folder: G Map: VG. Pennsylvania ; Fold out Map; Thin 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . Elvino V. Smith hardcover
1904ref. 17218Philadelphia: J. L. Smith. Good. 1904. First Edition Thus; Second Printing. Hardcover. U. S. Geological Survey surveyed in 1894 edition of 1902 printed in 1904. This is a 30 1/2" x 38 1/2" USGS map that J. L. Smith of Philadelphia sometime after issue sectioned 4 sections x 6 sections and mounted on linen to create a folding pocket map. It is mounted in a 10 x 5.5 inch dark brown embossed and gilded hardcover folder that bears the title "Smith's Map of Philadelphia and Vicinity". The map covers the area north and west well past Norristown and south into Delaware as well as a good part of New Jersey beyond Camden. It shows the local road network and was made for local travel. The inside cover has original owner's signature. Cover graded G due to rubbing along the spine edges & corners. The map is in VG condition. ; Fold out cloth Map; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall . J. L. Smith hardcover
