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1766ref. 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
1866ref. 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
1787ref. 14187151787. Softcover. Octavo 24 pages. In Good condition. Spine is glued binding. In clear plastic envelope. Lacks cover of any kind. An extract consisting of pages 1-24 slight puckering to paper. Text in French. NOTE: Shelved in Net Desk work area . 1418715. FP New Rockville Stock. unknown books
1847ref. 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
1812ref. 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
1871ref. 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
1930ref. 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
1908ref. 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
1943ref. 72651Alger: Hatchette 1943. Paperback. Good. Paperback. Stapled illustrated wraps. color illustration and title on the front cover. Fragile paper. Vertical crease to the wraps from being folded. Front cover has a split on the joint. Toning and light foxing to the contents. All text in French. A good complete example. Hatchette paperback books
1844ref. 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
1938ref. 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
1858ref. 57010Charleston: Harper & Calvo Printers 1858. Paperback. Good. 40p. Partial wrapper lacking back cover. 23cm. Soft crease. Old paper and glue remnants along left side of front cover some lettering slightly obscured. Blank bottom corner of one leaf torn off. Cattered minor foxing. Contents sound and clean. First published in 1857. The author of this report and a minority of one was James Johnston Pettigrew 1828-1863. The question being considered was apparently whether South Carolina should revive the slave trade. Pettigrew argued against its revival although he was not against slavery. Pettigrew later served with distinction in the Confederate army rising to the rank of Brigadier General. He was killed in 1863 during the Confederate retreat from Gettysburg. Harper & Calvo, Printers paperback books
ref. 294896Richmond: Thomas Ritchie. 8vo.; in half-calf over marbled boards; spine has perished and binding held together with old library tape; the Acts of Assembly are from 1824; 1825; 1826; 1827; 1828; Part II of 1829; the Acts of 1824 are lacking the Index to Part II. With the signature of Peter Poythress Batte of Peterburg; contains much on Rivers; Turnpikes; the James River Company.~~Not pretty to look at but contains a wealth of information about the laws of the Commonwealth in the early days of the Republic. Thomas Ritchie unknown books
1768ref. 37724Boston: Printed by William M'Alpine 1768. Rare Presbyterian Catechism A very rare Boston catechism this issue not in Evans Bristol or Shipton & Mooney. The so-called "Shorter Catechism" was codified in 1647 by the Westminster Assembly and remains to this day part of the doctrinal standards of many Presbyterian churches. It was first printed in America at Cambridge in 1665 and frequently reprinted though many of these are represented by a single surviving copy. We locate only two copy in institutional holdings one at the American Antiquarian Society and the other at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The AAS copy of a variant of this issue Evans 11115 lacks pages 29-34. Sewn into contemporary plain paper wrappers manuscript paper label. Contemporary ink inscriptions on titlepage the word "Catechism" beside title and verso of terminal leaf signatures of Eunice Barnard and Hepzibah Flagg. Wrappers worn. Titlepage creased and slightly chipped near gutter affecting a few words of text. Fore-edge of second leaf frayed with loss of several words on pp.3-4. Wear and mild foxing and soiling throughout. Good. In a half morocco and cloth box. ESTC W24488. EVANS 11115 variant. hardcover books
1808ref. 298140Richmond: Samuel Pleasants Junior 1808. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Large 8vo.; in full sheep with a border in blind at the perimeter of the boards and with a morocco label and with a volume number in blind to the spine; there is loss at the top of the spine; vi 1 2-322 pages including the Index; lacking both the front and rear endpapers; one leaf 21/22 as a piece missing from the leading edge affecting an annotation.~~NOTE: This is Volume II only of a 2 Volume set; the Index to the Whole is at the rear. Very Good binding. Samuel Pleasants, Junior unknown books
1808ref. 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
1844ref. 1352931Providence: Knowles and Vose 1844. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; viii 594 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in full brown calf with red leather label to spine. Leather much scuffed with numerous small stains. Joints and hinges starting to crack. Minor chipping at head of spine. Annotations to front free-end page. Text block lightly age-toned and foxed. A few scattered ink annotations. Includes "An Act to Secure and Appropriate the Touro Jewish Synagogue Fund" at pp. 476-477. This act recognized the trust established by Abraham Touro to maintain the structure and grounds of what would become known as Touro Synagogue one of the oldest synagogues in the United States. 1352931. Special Collections - Downstairs. Knowles and Vose hardcover books
1992ref. 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
1825ref. 37614Columbus: Printed by P.H. Olmsted 1825. First edition. Removed. A very good copy with soiled spot on title small hole on one leaf affecting 2 words of text; bottom edge untrimmed. 16 pp. 8vo. Bill to provide for the support and better regulation of common schools. Scarce. Not at American Antiquarian Society. OCLC shows only seven copies under two accession numbers: Lib. Co. Philadelphia OCLC: 83023151 Lib. Congress and five in Ohio OCLC: 32392091. American Imprints 21734. Morgan: Bibliography of Ohio Imprints 1605. Printed by P.H. Olmsted unknown books
1836ref. 43732Providence: Printed by William Simons Jr. 1836. Stitched self wrappers. A very good uncut unopened and untrimmed copy signed on front and rear wrappers edges worn light dampstain on lower fore-margin contents lightly soiled. 112 pp. 8vo. Signed in ink by Henry Bowen as "Sec'ry" on the rear under "True copy-witness." Henry Bowen 1785-1867 son of Jabez Bowen Jr was R.I. Secretary of State from 1819 to 1849. William Simons Jr. was appointed state printer during the May 1836 session of the General Assembly. Noted on the front cover: "Town Clerk Glocester." Rare. Not in American Imprints or Sabin. OCLC locates only one copy of this document at the American Antiquarian Society but without any notation of a signature OCLC: 83805212. [Printed by William Simons, Jr.] unknown books
1764ref. 37800New York: Hugh Gaine 1764. First edition. Original full sheep five raided bands red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Boards very worn front board detached repaired owner's bookplate Historical Society stamp on title and a few leaves first two blanks and first three leaves browned and ragged at the edges two small holes from erasure of name on title leaf one just nicking the V in Votes old but expert repairs to edges of first dozen leaves worming to the margins of about a dozen middle leaves affecting a few words on one leaf only last leaf ragged with a few worm holes affecting a few letters last two blanks lacking portions of lower corner and ragged occasional light dampstaining mostly marginal otherwise leaves clean and impressions sharp. Good. iv 840 2. Signed in type by the editor Abraham Lott Junr. Signed in manuscript "Bound by Rob. McAlpine" at the conclusion of the preface. Contains the added leaf with the "Act of Parliament for reversing the Attainder of Jacob Leisler Jacob Milbourne and Abraham Governeur who were executed for not delivering the Fort at New York to Richard Ingoldsby 1690" Sabin. Evans states that this leaf is “often lacking.” Page numbers 665-666 omitted from pagination. Evans 9756. Sabin 53719. ESTC W6332. Marke p. 80. Larned 161. Hugh Gaine hardcover books
1814ref. 37315Washington D.C.: A. & G. Way Printers 1814. First edition. Disbound. Removed from a larger volume browned still quite good. 4 pp. 8vo. February 12 1814. Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. February 25 1814. Bill .reported and committed to a committee of the whole house on Monday next." Concerns the series of major quakes that hit New Madrid in what was later renamed the Missouri Territory. It was said the quake was so strong the Mississippi ran backward for a while. Signed in print by George Bullitt Speaker of the Missouri House; S. Hammond President of the Legislative Council; and by William Clark Governor. An early example of a request for disaster relief from the U.S. Government. Shaw & Shoemaker 33500. A. & G. Way, Printers unknown books
ref. 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
1956ref. 213598Harrisburg: PA House of Representatives 1956. Hardcover. VG-/VG:Small closed tears to the dust jacket. Some light staining to the free end pages. Warm inscription and signiture on the front free end page addressed to S. Edward Moore. Clean body pages and solid binding. A blue casebound book with the Pennsylvania seal in gilt on the front cover. Spiderweb-patterned onion skin paper dust jacket. The pages have deckled edges. 71 pages; illustrated in black-and-white. Inscribed and signed by Hiram G. Andrews. PA House of Representatives hardcover books
1837ref. 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
