1906Best.-Nr. 4138Hackensack N.J.: The Riverside Press 1906. Very good. Printed handbill 9 x 6 inches. Minor wear and toning to edges. An unrecorded handbill emblematic of an intriguing practice by mortgage holders in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Mortgage burning services and celebrations were particularly popular in African-American churches and involved just what they imply: upon the completion of payment of a given mortgage the debtor would burn the promissory note to signal its fulfillment. As related in the present handbill a mortgage burning would often result in a neighborhood party "Come and Rejoice with Us on the Occasion. This Mortgage Is of About 20 Years Standing." The present celebration involved two days of sermons addresses music and food most notably a lecture by Right Reverend Alexander Walters. The handbill includes the names of other preachers and the trustees involved in the event. No copies in OCLC. The Riverside Press unknown books
1951Best.-Nr. 4588Newark N.J.: Holmes Printing Service 1951. Good. 20pp. Folio. Original orange printed wrappers stapled. Wrappers stained and spotted. Some staining and spotting to text. An informative pamphlet celebrating the second anniversary of the service of Reverend James Coleman pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in Morristown New Jersey. The text recounts Reverend Coleman's time at the church and includes numerous photographs of Coleman his family and several members of the church. The program lists the events celebrating Coleman's pastorship and the text is supplemented with dozens of well wishes and advertisements for local businesses. Holmes Printing Service unknown
1951Best.-Nr. 4588Newark N.J.: Holmes Printing Service 1951. Good. 20pp. Folio. Original orange printed wrappers stapled. Wrappers stained and spotted. Some staining and spotting to text. An informative pamphlet celebrating the second anniversary of the service of Reverend James Coleman pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in Morristown New Jersey. The text recounts Reverend Coleman's time at the church and includes numerous photographs of Coleman his family and several members of the church. The program lists the events celebrating Coleman's pastorship and the text is supplemented with dozens of well wishes and advertisements for local businesses. Holmes Printing Service unknown books
1881Best.-Nr. 62284Baltimore MD; Worcester MA; New York NY & Raleigh NC: Printed by John Cox; American Jersey Cattle Club; J.H. Walker Lizzie Pullen Belvin 1881-1890. Four parts in one sammelband volume. Tall 8vo. 27 leaves included two inserted dittoed TLS manuscript index card & genealogy table engraved genealogy table original printed front wrapper; 104 pp. woodcut-engraved plates original printed wrappers w/ laid-in manuscript note sized by Lizzie Belvin; 14 38 2 pp. including table original printed softcovers some foxing & soiling to outer fore-edge. Contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards raised bands on spine gilt lettering bound as instructed by MS pencil note on first leaf with “100 blank leaves to go in back of book bound with covers” some minor scuffing edgewear rubbing still VG exemplar from the library of Charles Hinton Belvin Sr. 1845-1908 and Lizzie Lee Pullen Belvin 1854-1907 noted farmers and breeders of Jersey cattle in Raleigh NC where Charles Belvin was longtime founder and president of the National Bank of Raleigh. First editions of these works in this Jersey Cattle sammelband organized and bound for Jersey Cattle breeder and specialists Charles & Lizzie Belvin of Raleigh NC in the 1880’s. Samuel Moor Shoemaker’s Jersey Cattle herd was one of the most significant breeding operations for productive Jersey dairy cattle in 19th-Century Maryland as Jerseys produced milk components at a far lower cost had greater nutritional value had greater fertility and fewer calving problems as well as much better temperament. Included are two dittoed TLS from the American Jersey Cattle Club to Charles Belvin concerning the registration of prize cow “Miss May” subsequently bred with “Thoroughbred Jersey Bull ‘Bismarck of Torrington’ owned by Dr. Jas. McKee and W.C. Stronach” with certification from 1882 included.Lizzie Belvin was apparently actively involved in caring for the Jersey’s and included here are bound-in manuscript note indicating “On the 2nd of Feb. 1884 a swelling was observed on the neck of May. After using some ointment it was found next day to be better.” Although discovered having convulsions the next day they used treatment of kerosene on the neck and even while 6 months with calf was producing milk within a few days. The other dated 1890 and laid-in notes that “I was fixing to give the medicine to calf in her. I read a little further & send you the book read on page 92 in here I have marked -- give the eggs in a pint of hot milk now and tonight. . . Lizzie.” Worldcat locates 1 copy of 1st work Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center; 2 copies of 2nd AAS State Lib. of Mass. & 1 copy of 3rd UNC - Chapel Hill. Printed by John Cox; American Jersey Cattle Club; J.H. Walker, Lizzie Pullen Belvin, paperback
Best.-Nr. 3731462Govt. Print. Office May 15 1861. 8½ x 11 inches. Vignette of the American eagle. Paper losses primarily confined to margins although at places affecting one printed word and one handwritten word; usual folds; fair condition. The 1862-dated discharge paper for Edwin A. Collins b.1819 a forty-three year-old shoemaker-turned-musician and native of Salem County New Jersey. Collins was one of eleven musicians all privates who comprised the band for the 5th New Jersey Volunteers. The band was directed by Harry G. Frankenfield. Frankenfield had founded the Salem New Jersey Cornet Band 1860 and by October of 1861 he had raised the Regiment’s band in Trenton. The musical ensemble mustered out in August of 1862. John Hayward Collins’s discharge is autographed by Samuel Henry “Old Paddy” Starr seen here as a Colonel of the 5th Regiment. Starr was a vulgar and highly-volatile old-guard dragoon. A strict disciplinarian he was known among his subordinates as “Old Nose Bag.” If a soldier transgressed Starr had the offender tied and straddled to a fence with his face strapped into a horse’s nose bag. Faded Hoofbeats – Samuel H. “Old Paddy” Starr 6th US Cavalry online Collins was mustered out at Harrison Landing Virginia “Given at Camp near Alexandria” Virginia by Lieutenant S. Lee Perkins and autographed by Perkins and he is described as having light complexion black eyes and black hair. On the verso of Collins’s discharge it is recorded that received $40.66 in pay on October 31 1862. Details of Collins’s civilian life before and after the War have eluded us. We do not find him recorded in state or federal census records. unknown
Best.-Nr. 63-7112Elizabeth New Jersey: American Type Founders 1936. 4to. Stapled Wraps 63 pp. Black & White Photos & Illustrations. Good with portion of one page cut out else Very Good with wear minor staining creases to covers. Scarce First Edition. Elizabeth, New Jersey: American Type Founders, [1936]. paperback
1940Best.-Nr. 17376Jersey City NJ: Central Railroad of New Jersey. Very Good. 1940. 1st Thus. Softcover. Edges are rubbed with some chipping to the corners of the front cover; rear cover is missing. Printed in blueprint fashion white on blue. Line diagrams of all the engines with complete data builder size specs etc. . Also includes pages listing all stock by engine number and use. Number of pages is an estimate as they are not numbered. Most are printed on one side. Binding is two brass clips. Appears to be an original CRR publication. Some of the pages are fading but all are legible. An amazing amount of information. ; Oblong 32mo 4" - 5" tall; ~125 pages . Central Railroad of New Jersey paperback
1824Best.-Nr. 698111824. A Scarce 1824 New Jersey Layman's Guide Layman's Guide. New Jersey. The Law Instructor: Or Farmer's & Mechanic's Guide: Containing a Commentary on the Act Entitled "An Act Constituting Courts for the Trial of Small Causes" With its Supplements Together with Concise and Correct Precedents or Statements of Demands in Various Actions; Agreements Acquittances Articles of Co-Partnership Bills of Sale Bonds Deeds Mortgages Indentures License of Debtors Leases Releases Pleas Wills and Codicils &c. &c. &c.: Laid Down in So Plain and Simple a Manner that All Persons However Unskilled Can Draw any Instrument of Writing Without the Assistance of an Attorney. Bridgeton NJ: Printed and Published by Simeon Siegfried 1824. 100 pp. Octavo 7" x 4-1/4". Later library buckram gilt title to spine gilt institution name to foot of spine endpapers renewed. Negligible light rubbing to extremities light browning and foxing to text early owner initials to front endleaf early owner inscription "Robt. A. Thorp's Property 1825" to head of title page small library stamps to verso. $250. Only edition. With an appendix titled "A Collection of Useful Information Necessary to be Known by the Inhabitants of the State of New Jersey" pp. 83-96 which discusses such matters as gun ownership fences game laws paupers and the sale of alcoholic beverages. This book may have been owned by Robert A. Thorpe d.1835 a resident of Perth Amboy who might have found this layman's guide useful in his capacity as a local business owner. OCLC locates 8 copies 3 in law libraries Harvard University of Virginia Yale. Felcone New Jersey Books 1801-1860 830. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 8218. unknown
1824Best.-Nr. 698111824. A Scarce 1824 New Jersey Layman's Guide Layman's Guide. New Jersey. The Law Instructor: Or Farmer's & Mechanic's Guide: Containing a Commentary on the Act Entitled "An Act Constituting Courts for the Trial of Small Causes" With its Supplements Together with Concise and Correct Precedents or Statements of Demands in Various Actions; Agreements Acquittances Articles of Co-Partnership Bills of Sale Bonds Deeds Mortgages Indentures License of Debtors Leases Releases Pleas Wills and Codicils &c. &c. &c.: Laid Down in So Plain and Simple a Manner that All Persons However Unskilled Can Draw any Instrument of Writing Without the Assistance of an Attorney. Bridgeton NJ: Printed and Published by Simeon Siegfried 1824. 100 pp. Octavo 7" x 4-1/4". Later library buckram gilt title to spine gilt institution name to foot of spine endpapers renewed. Negligible light rubbing to extremities light browning and foxing to text early owner initials to front endleaf early owner inscription "Robt. A. Thorp's Property 1825" to head of title page small library stamps to verso. $250. Only edition. With an appendix titled "A Collection of Useful Information Necessary to be Known by the Inhabitants of the State of New Jersey" pp. 83-96 which discusses such matters as gun ownership fences game laws paupers and the sale of alcoholic beverages. This book may have been owned by Robert A. Thorpe d.1835 a resident of Perth Amboy who might have found this layman's guide useful in his capacity as a local business owner. OCLC locates 8 copies 3 in law libraries Harvard University of Virginia Yale. Felcone New Jersey Books 1801-1860 830. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 8218. unknown books
1849Best.-Nr. 54401849. NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society. Vol. III 1848-1849 -Vol. X 1865-1866. Newark 1849-1867. Bound in two half calf volumes. Very tight but one spine covering partially torn away. 32 numbers; just two volumes short of the complete first series of this periodical. The 11th volume began the second series. unknown books
1881Best.-Nr. 68681881. NEW JERSEY. LAWS. The Grants Concessions and Original Constitutions of the Province of New Jersey the Acts passed during the Proprietary Governments and other Material Transactions . By Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer. Philadelphia: W. Bradford i.e. Somerville 1881. 4 763 p. Original cloth red and black leather spine labels labels chipped. Reprint of the 1758 edition with a brief editorial note by A. Van Doren Honeyman. The original reprint of "Leaming and Spicer" the classic compilation of the foundation documents of New Jersey from 1664 to 1702 and the only printed source of the session laws from 1668 to 1701. Thanks to Honeyman's antiquarian bent the reprint is page-for-page with the original edition and in pseudo-facsimile so a page citation to the original is also a correct citation to the reprint. A scarce book. unknown books
2013Best.-Nr. 227562Gottingen: Steidl 2013. Rilegato tela con tavola applicata al piatto anteriore original full cloth with inlay to front cover. Perfetto Mint. 27 fotografie in bianco e nero di Henry Wessel. Cm 295 x 295. pp. 60. Perfetto Mint. Prima edizione First Edition. Nel 2012 Wessel ha messo insieme Incidents un libro di 27 fotografie inedite. Decisivo e succinto ogni incidente è disposto con l'immediatezza estetica di un'istantanea. Come ha dichiarato Wessel in una recente intervista: "Possiamo riconoscere e nominare ciò che è stato descritto ma non ciò che è appena accaduto non ciò che sta accadendo non ciò che sta per accadere. Una volta che si accetta l'idea che tutte le fotografie sono finzioni analogie per le cose che rappresentano allora si è più ricettivi al significato che viene suggerito da quella analogia da quella finzione. Per essere più specifici le fotografie riguardano qualcosa che non esisterebbe senza la fotografia". Steidl, hardcover
1947Best.-Nr. C618221947. Very Good. Black and white crayon/ charcoal self portrait drawing 28 cms by 21. Faint foxing to background else very good indeed. The drawing shows the artist himself holding a palette and leaning forward to paint a picture possibly a nude which is boldly signed BLAMPIED. No date probably post war. unknown
Best.-Nr. SKU1717778ICC. paperback. New. 11x8x0. New Book Ships with Tracking ICC paperback
2023Best.-Nr. Gyan-9789333376488Facsimile Publisher 2023. Hardcover. New. 25.13 x 18.78 x 8.82 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
2023Best.-Nr. Gyan-9789333376488Facsimile Publisher 2023. Hardcover. New. 25.13 x 18.78 x 8.82 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
Best.-Nr. ria9780849370960_inpHardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Explores the relationship between government accountability and public participation. This work discusses two assumptions: greater accountability leads to better performance; the more the public is involved with measuring government per hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 1007292 Vols. 4to leather spine & tips illustrated 888 xii pp. Binding scuffed and worn at extremities. Hinges of volume one tender back hinge cracked on volume two front hinge just a bit tender a bit of staining to top cover of volume two old address label on endpapers contents show slight aging but generally bright and clean. Sound set of a rather scarce New Jersey title. In addition to considerable biographical information this set includes a large number of individual portraits. Lewis Publishing Co. hardcover
1834Best.-Nr. D8076Trenton: Daniel Fenton 1834. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary calf gilt-stamped lettering in black leather spine label; 8vo 2 volumes bound in 1; pp. xii 339 1 plus colored folding map; iv 266. Boards scuffed; 3-inch tape repair to verso of map; foxing throughout; ownership signature on FFEP. The second history of New Jersey and the first gazetteer with the uncommon map. Felone New Jersey Books 726 727; Sabin 28001 27996. Daniel Fenton hardcover
1899Best.-Nr. 1007292 Vols. 4to leather spine & tips illustrated 888 xii pp. Binding scuffed and worn at extremities. Hinges of volume one tender back hinge cracked on volume two front hinge just a bit tender a bit of staining to top cover of volume two old address label on endpapers contents show slight aging but generally bright and clean. Sound set of a rather scarce New Jersey title. In addition to considerable biographical information this set includes a large number of individual portraits. Lewis Publishing Co. hardcover books
1834Best.-Nr. D8076Trenton: Daniel Fenton 1834. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary calf gilt-stamped lettering in black leather spine label; 8vo 2 volumes bound in 1; pp. xii 339 1 plus colored folding map; iv 266. Boards scuffed; 3-inch tape repair to verso of map; foxing throughout; ownership signature on FFEP. The second history of New Jersey and the first gazetteer with the uncommon map. Felone New Jersey Books 726 727; Sabin 28001 27996. Daniel Fenton hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 9932NEW JERSEY. Manual of the Legislature. State of New Jersey. Ninety-Seventh Session . 1873. Morristown 1873. 100 p. 2 ports. 2 dbl.pg. plates. Wallet-style leather binding. Extremities worn bur a very good tight copy with the gold-stamped flap solidly attached. Compiled by Francis L. Lundy. The second year of the New Jersey legislative manual begun by Lundy in 1872. The early years of the manual are very difficult to find particularly the issues from the 1870s. unknown books
1844Best.-Nr. 35201844. NEW JERSEY. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION 1844. Journal of the Proceedings of the Convention to Form a Constitution for the Government of the State of New Jersey. Trenton: Franklin S. Mills 1844. 297 p. Contemporary wrappers. Much of paper covering spine gone else a remarkably clean fresh copy. The official journal of the floor proceedings of the convention called to form New Jersey's second constitution. This is the only account of the floor proceedings published at the time of the convention with the exception of newspaper coverage. See Felcone New Jersey Books 2nd edn. 1202 for additional details. unknown books
1799Best.-Nr. 147241799. NEW JERSEY. LAWS. Acts of the Twenty-Third General Assembly of the State of New-Jersey at a Session Begun at Trenton on the Twenty-Third Day of October One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-Eight . Being the Second Sitting. Trenton: Gershom Craft 1799. Fol. 2 425-510 p. but lacking X2-Y2 the last three leaves. Stitched and untrimmed as issued. Stain and some soil on title page. Signature of "A Bell" on title. Laws passed 23 January-21 February 1799. Evans 35894; Felcone Printing in New Jersey 1025 this copy; ESTC W25908. unknown books
1856Best.-Nr. 83481856. NEW JERSEY. NORMAL SCHOOL STATE. First 2nd 3rd 5th-7th 9th 10th 12th 15th 16th 21st 23rd Annual Report of the Board of Trustees . Trenton etc. 1856 -1877. Chiefly wrappers two removed. Plates. Most with library stamp on front wrapper. The 13 numbers With much information on teaching methodology curriculum financial data etc. Present-day Trenton State College. unknown books
