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[Washington: 1841]. 8vo pamphlet, pp. 12; unsewn and unopened as issued, light penciling and a few creases, very good and clean. The primary argument in Cushing's letter is for the balance of power between the executive and legislative. President Tyler had recently vetoed the establishment of the National Bank, and... More about To my constituents [drop title
Brattleborough: William Fessenden, 1811. Fourth edition, 12mo, pp. 211; original quarter sheep over marbled boards, boards worn, joints starting, occasional spotting in textblock, upper endpaper loose, fair. Sabin 15176 for the first edition of 1800. The text was published previously in the Philadelphia Monthly Magazine, 1798. More about Biographical memoirs of the illustrious Gen. George Washington, late president of the United...
Philadelphia: published at the Assay Office of the Mint, 1842. First edition, 4to, pp. [4], iv, [1], 6-220; inserted half-title printed in silver on glazed paper and 16 composite plates printed on glazed paper; original brown cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover; small snag at the top of... More about A manual of gold and silver coins of all nations, struck within the past century, showing their...
Boston: John Boyles, 1772. 12mo, pp. 271, [1], [12]; bound with (continuing pagination): The churches quarrel espoused: or, a reply ; A platform of church-discipline; gathered out of the word of God, and agreed upon by the elders and messengers of the church ; and A confession of faith, owned... More about A vindication of the government of New-England churches. Drawn from antiquity
Astor Place, New York: American Bible Society's Press, 1863. First edition, without the 36-page appendix which was added in 1870; 8vo, pp. 168; full-page wood engraving of the Bible House, Astor Place; original stiff printed wrappers backed in brown cloth; front wrap loose, but present, and the wrappers rubbed; all... More about Catalogue of books contained in the library of the American Bible Society, embracing editions of...
Libanon [PA]: Jos. Hartman, 1842. 12mo, pp. xii, 184; woocut frontispiece; half calf over blue paper boards, boards scuffed and bumped, text foxed, good and sound. With the ownership stamps of John B. Schmeyer on flyleaf. A manual of horse care. OCLC finds none in the US, 2 in Germany. More about Wohlerfahrner Pferde-Arzt : enthaltend Mittel für die Heilung aller bekannten und...
Hartford: printed by Hudson and Goodwin, for Oliver D. and I. Cooke, 1799. First American edition, 12mo, pp. xxiv, 211, [1] ads; contemporary full calf, boards scuffed with morocco label on spine partially perished, light stain in gutter of last few leaves, else clean and sound. Mary Pilkington was primarily... More about A mirror for the female sex. Historical beauties for young ladies. Intended to lead the female...
[Philadelphia: 1842.]. First separate edition, 8vo, , pp. 20; self-wrappers; dampstain pervades the top outer corner throughout, otherwise very good. Originally printed in the American Journal of Science and Arts, vol. 43, no. 2. Inscribed at the top of the title page: "Professor Kingsly, with the author's respects." More about Reply to Dr. Hare's further objections to the Whirlwind Theory of Storms; with some evidence of...
London and New York: John Lane; The Bodley Head, 1898. First edition, small 8vo, pp. ix, [3], 83, [1]; full maroon crushed levant, gilt title on spine, gilt board edges and gilt-decorated dentelles, t.e.g.; fine in a sun toned paper chemise. Likely a copy owned by Alfred Eddy, an associate... More about The hope of the world and other poems
Saint Paul: Midnight Paper Sales, 2018. Edition limited to 40 copies (actually 41), large oblong folio, 36 leaves, 16 color illustrations mounted on handmade paper, with text printed on verso, and interleaved with protective translucent blank sheets; printed colophon sheet mounted to final leaf of handmade paper; bound in suminagashi... More about My mighty journey: a waterfall's story. Words by John Coy and pictures by Gaylord Schanilec
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 25-274; illustrations throughout text, 8 folding charts depicting a vertical section of the Atlantic, depth chart, paths of hurricanes, sea drifts and whales, winds and routes, and the gulf stream, and 1 folding table of a pilot's sheet; original... More about The physical geography of the sea
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Washington, D.C. copyright 1871; Strobridge & Co., lith., Cincinnati, n.d., [ca. late 1870s]. Large folio (approx. 27½" x 13½"), containing a very large folding color lithograph chart 27" x 21' 9" on 22 coated panels and backed, as issued, in linen. Original calf-backed brown cloth boards stamped in gilt; minor... More about Adams synchronological chart of map of history [cover title]. Chronological chart of ancient,...
Boston: Dayton and Wentworth, 1855. 8vo, pp. [i]-6, [25]-334 (complete); frontispiece engraved by George B. Ellis after a painting by H. W. Buss, text illustrations; original brown cloth stamped in blind and black; light soiling and rubbing to boards, title leaf tipped in; title page and frontispiece foxed with some... More about The Yankee enterprise, or the two millionaires; and other thrilling tales
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1861. 8vo, pp. 96; contemporary purple cloth; ex library, with call label, stamps, and residue on endpapers, lower free endpaper torn and chipped, covers sunned; fair. Inscribed by Shields to James T. Chamberlain on flyleaf. Philosophia ultima was "in effect a manifesto for a.... More about Philosophia ultima
Philadelphia: Sorin & Ball; London: Wiley & Putnam, 1845. First edition, 8vo, 2 vols., pp. 369; 404, frontises, 8 engraved plates, 1 full-page map of Rio de Janeiro, and several illustrations in the text; original gilt publisher's cloth; boards sunned and soiled, corners bumped, text foxed with some offsetting from... More about Sketches of residence and travels in Brazil, embracing historical and geographical notices of the...
Paris: Librairie philosophique de Ladrange, 1843. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 509, [1]; [4], 448; folding tables at pp. 365-68 and again at p. 387 in volume I; uncut and unopened in original tan printed wrappers; small cracks and chips at spine extremities; very good and sound... More about Anthropologie spéculative générale, comprenant: 1. La psychologie expérimentale... 2....
New York: George W. & John A. Wood, 1860. 8vo, pp. 173, [13], [16]; original brown cloth gilt; lower cover sunned, light foxing at edges, very good. Contemporary signature of Francis Anthony Morton(?), C. E, on title page with his annotations throughout, mostly comments on the statistical tables. Ostensibly an... More about Southern wealth and Northern profits as exhibited in statistical facts and official figures:...
Genéve: J.J. Paschoud, An XI - 1803. First edition, 4to, pp. [4], xv, [1], 284, [4]; 17 engraved plates at the back, all composite; contemporary quarter vellum, paste-paper boards, later black leather label lettered in gilt on spine; vellum a little cracked at the spine extremities, edges rubbed and worn... More about Histoire des conferves d'eau douce, contenant leurs différens modes de reproduction, et la...
Waldport, Oregon: Untide Press, 1944-45. First edition limited to 500 copies printed by Everson himself, 8vo, pp. [34]; erratum slip tipped in at p. [15]; printed in black and red throughout; original printed wrappers a bit toned along the edges, corners worn; very good. Printed while Everson was at the... More about Poems MCMXLII
Philadelphia: Geo. S. Appleton; New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1851. First edition, square 12mo, pp. 100, [12] ads; 24 full-page woodcuts (including the half title) in the style of William Croome; original brown blindstamped cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; top of spine chipped, the binding... More about City characters; or, familiar scenes in town. Illustrated by twenty-four designs
[Philadelphia]: published by "the Religious Tract Society of Philadelphia," and sold at their depository, no. 8, South Front-Street. Wm. Bradford, agent, 1819. First American edition, 12mo, pp. 12; removed from binding; wrappers perished; light foxing; very good. Early ownership inscription at the top of the first leaf, "Miss Hunkle." A.... More about The seaman's spy-glass; or, God's ways and works discovered at sea
Cambridge: Sever, Francis and Company, 1870. Oblong quarto, pp. [4] (printed as if 8 pages); plus 4 sheets of blank charts; text in two columns, original printed paper wrappers; edges chipped and large portion of lower wrapper perished, good. Count Zaba (Napoleon Feliks Zaba) was a Polish refuge of the... More about Blank centuries for monographs of history. Noted according to Zaba's method for oganizing the momory
Stuttgart: Verlag Müller und Schindler, [1980]. Edition limited to 950 copies of which this is no. 51, 2 volumes, 4to; 2 leaves of black and white plates printed on rectos and versos in Vol. I, Vol. II color facsimiles; Vol. I in original red paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine, Vol. II... More about Weltchronik. Der stricker Karl der Grosse. Faksimile der handschrift Ms. germ. fol. 623 der...
Dublin: Cuala Press, 1924. Edition limited to 500 copies, 8vo, pp. [8], 41, [3]; title page and colophon printed in red and black; original holland-backed boards, title printed in black on the upper cover, printed paper label on spine; a very good, unopened copy. Contains "Leda and the Swan," and... More about The cat and the moon and certain poems
Philadelphia: July 15-30, 1894. Pocket diary 3½" x 6", 73 pages written in ink in a neat hand; 2 small pen & ink drawings at the beginning and the end of the diary; leather cover with some wear at extremities but the binding is sound. Together with seven cabinet-size photographs... More about A tale of five mariners bold or the log book of the Hattie B. by "Bertie Dumbkins"
