Bibliotheca Americana. John Carter Brown Library. Catalogue.
[New York]: Readex Microprint, [1965]. 25 leaves of fiche text reproducing 100 leaves of the original per leaf; housed in red buckram box with white pasted labels; very good. More
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The bill in equity between the Lonsdale Company, complainants, and Miles G. Moies, respondent. Council for complainants, William H. Potter, Esq. Samuel Ames, Esq. William Binney, Esq. Council for respondent, Thomas A. Jenkes, Esq.
Providence: Knowles, Anthony & Co., 1855. Thick 8vo, pp. 643, [5]; original printed front wrapper bound in; bound with: United States Circuit Court. Rhode-Island District. In Equity the Lonsdale Company vs. Miles G. Moies. Opening argument for complainant. A.D. 1855 [wrapper title]. pp. 31, [1]; bound with: In the Circuit..... More
The bill in equity, Charles T. James, vs. the Atlantic De Laine Company, et al. T. A. Jenckes, Esq., for complainant. R. W. Greene, Esq., A. Payne, Esq., Jas. H. Parsons, Esq., for respondents
Providence: Knowles, Anthony & Co., printers, 1861. 8vo, pp. 214; original printed front wrapper bound in contemporary quarter roan, gilt-lettered spine; spine rubbed and top of spine chipped; all else very good. With the ownership signature of John A. Garner, the attorney for Lyman B. Frieze, one of the respondents..... More
Biographical history with portraits of prominent men of the great West
Chicago: Manhattan Publishing Company, 1894. Large, thick 4to, pp. 720, [3]; steel-engraved portrait frontispiece, approximately 200 full-page portraits, tissue guards; modern brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; about fine. More
Bird's-Eye View of the Panama Canal and a map of Panama
Panama: I. L. Maduro, Jr. Six-fold brochure approx. 9¼" x 4½", unfolding to 17½" x 23½ with a large, attractive color map of the canal and Panama on one side, and 7 pages of text plus 4 illustrations on the other; "300" in small numerals in biro on the front..... More
The blackbird's nest: a tale
Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, 1812. 16mo, pp. 36; engraved title page, illustrations throughout; original stiff tan pictorial wrappers depicting on man on his horse, a shepherd tending his sheep in the background; fine. Shaw & Shoemaker 24883; Welch 104.1. More
THE BOHEMIAN FLATS. Compiled by the Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Minnesota, and Sponsored by the Hennepin County Historical Society.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, n.d. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. [10], 52, [1]; frontispiece illustration and 4 plates; near fine in a price-clipped dust jacket. The Bohemian Flats lay along the Mississippi just below the falls of St. Anthony, between Minneapolis and St. Paul, where settled many..... More
The Book of Common Prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies...According to the use of the Protestant Church in the United States of America
Philadelphia: S. Potter & Co., J. Maxwell, printer, 1821. 24mo, unpaginated, i.e. pp. [328]; 6 engraved sectional titles; text largely in double column; contemporary full straight-grain morocco, elaborately decorated in gilt with wide and ornate gilt-tooled borders on covers enclosing a central blindstamped panel in which is the name in..... More
The book of conversation; a guide for the tongue. Under the following important and useful heads: conversation, babbler, silent man, whitty man, droll, jester, disputer, opinionist ... flatterer, liar, boaster ... the tongue of women, language of love ... Translated from the French
Charleston, [South Carolina]: printed and published by S. Babcock & Co., 1837. First edition, 16mo, pp. xviii, [1], 20-251, [1]; engraved frontispiece; original brown cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover; top gutter corner of upper cover stained, light occasional foxing; generally good and sound. The preface identifies this..... More
The Boston almanac for the year 1864 ... Issued by George Coolidge, 8 Milk Street
Boston: sold also by H. Dexter, Hamilton & Co., 113 Nassau Street, N.Y., [1863]. 24mo (approx. 5¼" x 3¼"), pp. [4] ads, 282, [4] ads; ads also on free endpapers and pastedowns; folding map of the city of Boston, ads interspersed throughout, a number full-page; original green blindstamped cloth stamped..... More
Boston and surroundings.
Boston: Geo. H. Walker & Co., 1896. Large folding map printed in color approx. 41" x 26", folding down to a 16mo and contained in gray pictorial wrappers printed in blue; wrappers separated and map separated from wrappers, a number of short splits at the folds; good or better. 4..... More
Boston Notion. Volume 1. Number 43
Boston, Mass. Saturday Morning, July 25, 1840. 34" x 23¾", pp. [4]; 8 columns per page, removed from binding. Popular publications, English magaziniana, crime records, literary notices, marriages and deaths (with cuts), domestic news, select poetry, foreign news, including attempt to assasinate the Queen and Prince Albert, Liverpool markets report..... More
Boston Patriot. Vol. III, no. 17
Boston: Saturday, April 28, 1810. 19½" x 13½", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding, slightly split. Auction and estate sales, Lord Grenville's speech, Portland Resolves, marine journal, burning of American vessels, latest news from France and England, numerous ads, including those of Isaiah Thomas and Matthew Carey..... More
Boston Patriot. Vol. III, no. 18
Boston: Wednesday, May 2, 1810. 19½" x 13½", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding. Correspondence of the late President Adams, continued; letter to David Osgood signed Tammany; auction and estate sales, marine journal, numerous ads including one of Isaiah Thomas, some with cuts. More
Boston Patriot. Vol. IV, no. 44
Boston: Wednesday, January 30, 1811. 19½" x 13½", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding. Correspondence of the late President Adams, continued; stock prices, reports from the U.S. Congress, the Massachusetts Legislature, Florida affairs, fires, marriage notices, marine journal, numerous ads, some with cuts, and a one-and-a-third-column proposal..... More
BOSTON PRINTS and printmakers 1670-1775. A conference...
Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, [1973]. First edition, 8vo, xxv-[xxvi] & 294pp., 143 illustrations, fine copy in very good jacket. Volume 46 of the Society's publications. Review copy with slip laid in. More
THE BOSTON SOCIETY of Natural History, 1830-1930. Milestones [cover title].
Boston: Printed for the Society, 1930. First edition, 8vo, printed at the Merrymount Press, pp. xii, 117-[120]; ornamented title-p., 40 full-p. illus. (mostly portraits); original olive green cloth-backed rose paper-covered boards, gilt-titled spine and front cover, t.e.g., printed presentation plate at inside front cover; extremities worn, revealing boards at lower..... More
Boston Weekly Messenger. Vol. 2. Number 35
Boston: Nathan Hale, Thursday, January 31, 1822. 21¼" x 15", pp. [4]; 6 columns per page, removed from binding. Execution of Ketaukah and Kewabiskim, the Indians who were sentenced to death for a murder "For several weeks past they appeared very anxious to obtain presents of tobacco, pipes, &c. none..... More
Bound volume of 19 Harvard addresses
V.p., v.d. 1819-1866. 19 volumes in 1, contemporary three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine in 5 compartments, marbled endpapers; almost all original front wrappers bound in; ex-Minnesota Historical Society bookplate marked withdrawn; extremities rubbed, else very good. Manuscript table of contents bound in at the front. 1) Norton..... More
Brief of title to the Mantua farm, situate in Blockley Township in the country of Philadelphia: containing 227 acres, 77 perches. Late belonging to the Hon. Richard Peters, dec'd. And made up of the several tracts of parcels of land marked respectively...
Philadelphia: T. & G. Town, Printers, 1849. Small 4to, pp. 16, [4], folding plan of the property tipped in; plain paper wrappers, upper wrapper a little spotted and split, near fine. Included is a record of all passing title from 1684 to Peters' death in 1828, and the text of..... More
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Vol. 12. No. 7
Brooklyn: Monday, January 10, 1853. 21" x 15½", pp. [4]; 7 columns per page; previous folds in quarters; very good. Contains "My Scissors" by Francis Dana Gage. Known feminist and abolitionist, Frances Dana Barker Gage (b.1808-1884), was elected president in1851of the statewide women’s rights convention in Akron, Ohio. Many corporate..... More
Brown class day '97 [cover title]
[Providence (?): 1897.]. Lithographed throughout in blue; 16mo (approx. 6½" x 5½"), 8 leaves, gilt-embossed stiff card wrappers, string-tied. Adhesion marks on rear cover (likely once in an album), but otherwise fine throughout, with all tissue guards in place. Includes a program, opening exercises, a class hymn, and a list..... More
The Brunonian. Edited by students of Brown University. Nos. 1-4
Providence: H. M. Brown, printer, July - October, 1829. 8vo, pp. 128 (continuous pagination through all 4 issues), original brown printed wrappers preserved; generally fine in 20th century three-quarter brown calf over marbled boards, red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine. The periodical ran to 12 issues in all, ceasing in..... More
Buy a Broom, Love's Garland, and Highland Mary
Boston: [William Rutter] sold wholesale and retail, Cross-Street (near Mercantile Wharf), n.d., [ca. 1830?]. Broadside, approx. 8" x 7", the titles of the three poems at the top, and the verses arranged in double column beneath, the columns separated by type rules which enclose the imprint; moderate staining, else very..... More
By His Excellency Samuel Ward King, Governor, Captain General, and Commander-in-Chief of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. A Proclamation. Whereas I have this day received from His Excellency John Tyler ... a communication touching the political affairs of this State
[Providence: publisher not identified, 1842.]. Folio broadside (approx.19¾" x 11¾"), text in triple column, wood engraving of the R.I. State seal at the top of the first column; some wear and spotting, previous folds; all else very good. Contains President Tyler's letter to King detailing the position of the federal..... More
