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Best.-Nr. a63222NY 1916 Dau's Blue Books Inc. Containing the names and addressesof twenty thousand prominent residents and much other valuable social information. Octavo 298pp. hardcover. Good rear hinge cracked slight water wrinkling on lower corner throughout light water stains on lower cover corner. hardcover
1811Best.-Nr. 319359Trenton: Printed by James J. Wilson 1811. 350 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Old sheep. Book label of Newark Library Society. Owner signature of Samuel H. Conger on title page. Spine worn joints cracked staining to textblock. Good plus. 350 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Standard early nineteenth century compendium of New Jersey state statutes. Samuel H. Conger was a Newark politician antiquary and librarian of the New Jersey Historical Society from 1852 until his death in 1872. S&S 23528; Felcone New Jersey Books 1801-1860 966 Printed by James J. Wilson unknown
1821Best.-Nr. 210929Trenton New Jersey: Printed for the State by Joseph Justice 1821. Revised and Published uder the Authority of The Legislature. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary Sheep. back hinge off front started. Signed by William Perrine. Revised and Published uder the Authority of The Legislature. 1 vols. 8vo. Felcone NewJersey Books 990. Shaw &Shoemaker 6219 Printed for the State by Joseph Justice unknown
1822Best.-Nr. 346865Newark NJ 1822. Approx. 165pp. Small 4to. Contemporary calf-backed marbled paper boards worn. Inscribed in ink on the upper cover "Aaron Ogden's Book" and similarly inscribed on the rear pastedown. Approx. 165pp. Small 4to. The initial entries from the summer of 1804 are largely recording his costs of boarding followed by an accounting cabinet making done for Caleb Bruen a cabinetmaker and distiller in Newark. This included the building of picture frames trunk boxes a portable desk a bedstead dining table etc. The proceeding pages include accountings of items made for various people with costs including a long list of items for Elihu Britten. The notations which follow are largely a detailed record of personal accounts for food and sundries but occasionally noting items made including coffins or repaired. Of interest are a number of entries concerning term laborers who evidently contract with him for a year's labor in exchange for a lump sum from which he deducts their expenses which he records in detail and keeping track of their "black time." The ledger has been microfilmed by the Winterthur Museum and Library Mic. 848 and their finding aid provides a detailed record of names and furniture related references: http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/mic0848.htm. unknown
1936Best.-Nr. E30412New Jersey Telephone Company 1936. Wraps. Very Good. Staple bound in stiff wrappers printed in black. 48 pp. 10 page business listings directory featuring local adverts final page with rates and a 1936 calendar Ads printed on front and rear inside and outer covers. A relatively firm copy usual embrowning and brittleness to the pages. Front cover has "Masonic Lodge Roon 63W" and the names of four towns written in black ink. The directory covers the following central/ western New Jersey towns: Califon Chester Clinton Flemington Frenchtown Hampton High Bridge Lamberville Lebanon Long Valley Milford Peapack Somerville Uhlerstown PA Upper Black Eddy PA. Washington. New Jersey Telephone Company unknown
1892Best.-Nr. 339741Paterson NJ 1892. Approx. 9 x 2-1/2 inches plus red tassle at the bottom pinned as issed to a printed sheet headed "Souvenir. John Best & Co. Paterson N.J. Manufacturers of Illuminated Pure Silk Book Markers Badges Woven Pictures etc.". The bookmark fine some splits to folds of mounting sheet just developing. Approx. 9 x 2-1/2 inches plus red tassle at the bottom pinned as issed to a printed sheet headed "Souvenir. John Best & Co. Paterson N.J. Manufacturers of Illuminated Pure Silk Book Markers Badges Woven Pictures etc." Stevengraph With a Portrait of Alexander Hamilton. unknown
Best.-Nr. 1964558 Original photographs most measuring 6-1/2 x 4 inches for the large ones and 3 x 2-1/2 inches for the small. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 8-1/2 x 6 inches. Contemporary black binder. 58 Original photographs most measuring 6-1/2 x 4 inches for the large ones and 3 x 2-1/2 inches for the small. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 8-1/2 x 6 inches. Most of the photos are of Bayhead when there wasn't much but woods Parker's Neck Bayhead Metedeconk River Paulsen's Neck. Unique. unknown
Best.-Nr. 196461 vols. Obong 8vo. Original reversed calf. 1 vols. Obong 8vo. Photo of man in Bayhead Yacht Club cap much canoeing and sailing Tom's River Barnegar Light clown basebal game etc. unknown
Best.-Nr. a15742c. 1900. Original photos 3x4 inches slipped not glued into prepared slots in 3/4 leather album 2 photos per page. Nice line decoration around each photo. 48 photos all of Ocean City and family living there. Photos and mounting pages Fine. Many pages of the album unused. Album VG. . hardcover
1795Best.-Nr. 264603Monmouth N.J.: At the Press of the Author at Mount-Pleasant . 1795. Third edition "New edition Revised and Corrected by the Author; Including a considerable number of Pieces never before Published. v-xv 1 455 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary full sheep spine with gilt fillets and black morocco lettering-piece blind roll-tooled edges. Covers rubbed and worn at extremities light foxing to text early manuscript notes to rear endsheets. Contemporary engraved bookplate of Peter Wynkoop. Third edition "New edition Revised and Corrected by the Author; Including a considerable number of Pieces never before Published". v-xv 1 455 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The third collected edition of the poetry of the New Jersey patriotic poet and printer Philip Freneau the first edition printed by him on his press in New Jersey. Earlier editions of his collected poetry were printed in Philadelphia in 1786 and 1788. This edition is remarkable for its poor presswork - "A vile piece of printing" Stoddard. The bookplate of Peter Wynkoop 1755-1835 has as its central shield device a Hollander a smaller servant and a wine cask with female bacchantes bearing jugs at each side surmounted by a helme and eagle. Felcone 762; Evans 28712; Stoddard 498; BAL 6445; ESTC W28921 At the Press of the Author, at Mount-Pleasant .. unknown
1872Best.-Nr. E34570Jersey City NJ: John H. Lyon 1872. Hardcover. Very Good. Original 1872 publication bound in modern black leather boards with spine lettered gilt. 264 pp. Presentation copy inscribed in pencil on the first blank "Compliments of G.M. Patterson to ___ ____/ April 22 1873". George W. Patterson was the New Jersey legislator representing the First District of Monmouth County. Binding is fine and fresh; the original publication has some edge repair and chipping to the margins of pp. 3-8. Transcription of the records of the first representative government in what was then the Provinces of East and West New Jersey that first assembled in Perth Amboy in 1703. The Crown formally united for governmental purposes the two provinces under the name "Nova Cesara or New Jersey". The colonial Royal Government would last for 73 years until the colony joined with the other twelve colonies to declare independence in July 1776. This the lower house consisted of twenty-four members until 1772 when it was expanded by six members. John H. Lyon hardcover
1908Best.-Nr. 254687New York: Columbia University 1908. First edition. 712 pp. Bound in three quarters crimson morocco and cloth sides gilt spine. Minor rubbing else fine. First edition. 712 pp. Columbia University hardcover
1874Best.-Nr. E1106Elizabeth NJ: Daily Herald for the City of Elizabeth 1874. First. Full Leather. First ediiton. Full leather with spine label in black leather stamped in gilt; 185 pps. with index to the ordinances. Occasional old notations in margins. Leather is well rubbed and scuffed and with chipping to the spine label. Text is tight. Daily Herald for the City of Elizabeth hardcover
1834Best.-Nr. 254688Trenton: Published by Daniel Fenton. James C. Clark Printer Philadelphia 1834. First edition. xii 339; iv 266 pp. Without map as usual. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in half green morocco and green cloth gilt spine. Very Good. First edition. xii 339; iv 266 pp. Without map as usual. 1 vols. 4to. Felcone New Jersey Books 726-27 Published by Daniel Fenton. James C. Clark, Printer, Philadelphia unknown
1985Best.-Nr. D8099Perth Amboy NJ: Board of Proprietors 1985. Reprint. Cloth. Fine/Not Issued. Cloth 280 pps. with index; with introductory essay by George J. Miller. Quite scarce in its own right a reprint of the rare limited edition of 1949. A fine fresh copy in maroon buckram cloth with spine lettering gilt. Complete in itself Volume One of what would eventually be expanded to a series of four volumes. Board of Proprietors hardcover
1955Best.-Nr. GE16456New Jersey Bell Telephone 1955. Softcover. Very Good. Thick oversized volume in printed stoff wraps. 444 pp. individual listings 420 pp. of classified business "yellow pages" listings and advertising. The March 1955 issue. Copvers VG interior clean and complete. New Jersey Bell Telephone paperback
1943Best.-Nr. 96143Newark NJ: Work Projects Administration New Jersey 1943. 1943. Good. - Small quarto 10-1/2 inches high by 8 inches wide softcover bound in printed tan wrappers backed with black cloth tape. The binding is bumped & chipped with pieces out. The rear cover is lightly foxed with a piece out of the bottom corner. The cloth tape is frayed at the head & tail of the spine. xxiii & 490 mechanically reproduced pages. Good. First edition. The bibliography was sponsored by Princeton University and cosponsored by the Library of Congress. Newark, NJ: Work Projects Administration, New Jersey, (1943). paperback
Best.-Nr. 1024749266.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1024817008.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1830Best.-Nr. 2497311830. Includes: 1.Record of Auction sakle vendue held March 3 1835 by order of Benjamin Paul and Isaac Peckworth executors with the amounts each item sold for and the names of the buyers. 2. An Inventory of his possessions with their values. 3. Receipts settling debts of the Estate $1.25 for one day reaping; $0.75 for one day's shoveling dung etc. 4. Execuors' finacial accounts. 5. Six Deeds dating from 1812 to the 1830s. unknown books
1864Best.-Nr. 2497321864. 1 vols. 8vo. Yellow pictorial covers some staining. 1 vols. 8vo. The account lists the items sold the names of the purchasers and the amount paid with payment records and executor's notes in the back. $61.00 for a wagon and 10¢ for a picture. unknown
1830Best.-Nr. 2497311830. Includes: 1.Record of Auction sakle vendue held March 3 1835 by order of Benjamin Paul and Isaac Peckworth executors with the amounts each item sold for and the names of the buyers. 2. An Inventory of his possessions with their values. 3. Receipts settling debts of the Estate $1.25 for one day reaping; $0.75 for one day's shoveling dung etc. 4. Execuors' finacial accounts. 5. Six Deeds dating from 1812 to the 1830s. unknown
1882Best.-Nr. 12191882. JERSEY CITY. Echoes of the Aesthetic Society of Jersey City. New York 1882. xv 255 p. Frontis. Cloth. A fair copy only heavily worn binding breaking marginal chipping. Thus Scarce collection of poems and essays published as a souvenir volume by this female literary society of Jersey City. unknown books
1880Best.-Nr. 119771880. JERSEY CITY. Wonderful late 19th century stiff paper stencil for "J. E. Burgess Teas & Coffees. 60 Montgomery St. Jersey City." Undated but probably late 1880s 18.5 x 19 cm. One very tiny defect in one letter of the address else very fine. A lovely stencil for a tea or coffee box label. unknown books
1855Best.-Nr. 119721855. JERSEY CITY. Woodcut of the Jersey City waterfront ca. 1855. 5.5 x 10.5 cm. on a 12 x 17 cm. sheet. Foxing else very good. Most likely a proof impression and very possibly by Nathaniel Orr. Depicted are three paddle-wheel steamers sailboats and the huge N.J.R.R. building on the shore surrounded by factories and smokestacks. Similar engravings served as frontispieces of the annual New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company catalogues of the 1850s. unknown books