Colonial American documents including The Declaration of Independence from the Chew Family Papers.
New York: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1982. 8vo, pp. 54; folding frontispiece, illus.; fine in original blue paper covered boards gilt. More
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Colton's map of the United States the Canadas &c. showing the rail roads, canals, stage roads, with distances from place to place
New York: J. H. Colton, 1854. Large folding pocket map of the United States and southern Canada east of 99 degrees west longitude, approx. 27" x 31" , nicely hand colored in outline and within an agricultural motif border, with insets of New England, the United States (coast to coast)... More
The Columbian family and pulpit Bible; being a corrected and improved American edition of the popular English Family Bible; with concise notes and annotations, theological, historical, chronological, critical, practical, moral, and explanatory...
Boston: Joseph Teal, printed by J.H.A. Frost, 1822. First American edition, large folio, text in double column, unpaginated, 4 p.l., [604] leaves; A-Z-2 in 12 alphabets, A13-1-B13-2; 2 engraved frontispieces and an engraved title page (these rather waterstained in the margins), plus 34 engraved plates, 3 engraved maps, 1 engaved... More
Commercial advertiser directory, for Saint Anthony and Minneapolis; to which is added a business directory, 1859-1860. H.E. Chamberlain, publisher
St. Anthony & Minneapolis: Croffut & Clark, 1859. First edition of the first directory of Minneapolis, 8vo, pp. [6], [15]-162, [2]; numerous advertisements throughout; later black cloth, with the insertion of 5 postcard photographs (one with the stamp of Edward Bromley) on the endpapers and paste-downs, a number of early... More
COMMERCIAL TARIFFS and regulations, resources, and trade, of the several states of Europe and America, together with commercial treaties between England and foreign countries. Part the fifteenth: United States of America
London: Charles Whiting, 1846. 2 volumes, small folio, pp. x, 960 (continuous pagination); orig. green cloth; joints split, covers nearly loose on vol. I; ex-MHS. With long sections on the manufactures, agriculture, fisheries, whale fishery, m ining, climate, population, etc. of the U.S.A. More
Compendium of history and biography of Carver and Hennepin Counties, Minnesota. Maj. R.I. Holcombe, historical editor. William H. Bingham, general editor. With special articles by Chas. M. Loring, Thomas B. Walker, George H. Christian, George H. Warren, and others.
Chicago: Henry Taylor & Co., 1915. First edition, small folio, pp. [iii]-viii, 342; text in double column; 7 plates; one signature extended, several pages toward the back with occasional annotation in the margins, good and sound in publisher's half morocco, gilt-lettered spine. More
Complete run of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society. Volumes I thru XVII in 18 volumes.
St. Paul & Philadelphia, 1860-1920. Volume I, 1902 (being a republication of the original "Annals," (all scarce in original editions, 1850-56); Vol. II, 1889 (a republication of Major Stephen H. Long's Voyage in a Six-Oared Skiff to the Falls of St. Anthony in 1817, with Introductory Note by Edward D.... More
Complete run of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society. Volumes I thru XVII in 18 volumes
St. Paul & Philadelphia, 1860-1920: 1902-1920. Volume I, 1902 (being a republication of the original "Annals," (all scarce in original editions, 1850-56); Vol. II, 1889 (a republication of Major Stephen H. Long's Voyage in a Six-Oared Skiff to the Falls of St. Anthony in 1817, with Introductory Note by Edward... More
Complimentary dinner to Charles O'Connor Hennessy, President of the 1926 International Conference at Copenhagen, Denmark, to promote land value taxation and free trade; and to Anna George deMille, daughter of Henry George. At the Hotel Belmont, Thursday evening, October 28, 1926.
n.p. 1926. 8vo, pp. [4]; blue cloth on boards with red label stamp, slightly worn. Not in OCLC. Bound with Comments on some current criticisms of land-value taxation reprinted from The taxation of unearned incomes by Harry Gunnison Brown. [Columbia, Mo.: Lucas Brothers, [ca. 1925]]. More
Condition of the Indian tribes. Report of the joint special committee, appointed under joint resolution of March 3, 1865 with an appendix
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867. 8vo, pp. 532; charts, tables throughout; original cloth, gilt-lettered spine; upper cover damp stained, spine toned, corners a bit bumped; first and last few leaves heavily foxed, else interior fine. "Lurid details of Chivington's sickening massacre of unoffending Indians at Sand Creek, Colorado" (Howes C665)... More
Constitution and canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of Minnesota. Printed by order of the Council.
Red Wing: Red Wing Printing Co., 1882. 8vo, pp. 14; orig. pink printed wrappers; slight fading at extremities, old library rubber-stamp on cover, else very good. Unusually nice copy. More
Constitution for the State of Arizona as adopted by the Constitutional Convention, Friday, October 2nd, 1891. And address to the people of the territory.
Phoenix: Herald Book & Job Print, 1891. First edition, 8vo, pp. 28; orig. green printed wrappers; about fine. With a contemporary presentation in an unidentified hand at the top of the front wrapper: "To the Hon. Ralph Carunn, Flagstaff, Arizona." This document was rejected by Congress in 1891, and expressed... More
Constitution of Minnesota.
[Washington, D.C., G.P.O.]: 1858. First Federal printing of the Minnesota Constitution, issued as Rep. Com. No. 21, 35th Congress, 1st Session, 8vo, 56pp., removed. Includes an abstract of the votes polled for and against the Constitution, hotly debated in the legislature, but here overwhelmingly approved by the voting population, 30,055... More
Constitution of the United States of America, the Constitutions of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of 1790, and 1838, and rules for the government of the House of Representatives of the said Commonwealth.
Harrisburgh: Boas & Coplan, 1839. First edition of the revised Pennsylvania Constitution of 1838, 8vo, 19-[20], 28 & [20]pp. (Sabin 60020 calling for just 28pp.), this copy adding the U.S. Constitution, and lists of members of the Pennsylvania Senate, House, Standing Committees, etc.; institutional bookplate marked withdrawn, old library sticker... More
The Constitution of the United States of America.
Windham, Ct. Hawthorn House, n.d., [1938]. 12mo, printed in a limited edition of an unspecified number, pp. viii, 50, [2]; 2 postage stamps mounted as chapter vignettes; fine copy in orig. gray cloth, gilt label on spine. Ransom, Selective Checklists, p. 37. More
The Democratic National Convention, 1936
Philadelphia: 1936. Large folio, pp. 394; chiefly illustrations and color advertisements, photographic portrait plaits of members of the Roosevelt presidential cabinet, with tissue guards; original white pictorial wrappers; some wear from handling, else very good and sound. More
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Description of the educational exhibit of cocoa and chocolate... [Together with:] Educational exhibit. Cocoa and chocolate prepared by Walter Baker & Co.
Dorchester, MA: Walter Baker & Co., Ltd., 1913. Oblong 8vo, pp. 39, [1], followed by 6 high-quality chromolithograph plates of Walter Baker products; 5 other full-page illustrations; fine in original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover. The educational exhibit consists of what presumably is a salesman's wooden lacquered case (approx... More
Detroit Young Men's Society. Twenty-seventh annual report of the Board of Managers. April, 1860
Detroit: Daily Free Press Printing House, 1860. 8vo, pp. 29; original printed wrappers (lightly soiled), some signs of edge wear, otherwise a very good copy. Annual report for the now long defunct Society, listing the presidents and officers of the board and addressing topics such as real estate, finances, lectures... More
Directory of libraries of the Chicago area including historical sketches of the four local library organizations.
Chicago: Chicago Library Club, 1933. 8vo; pp. 160; very good copy in original orange paper wrappers, pencil annotations throughout. More
Doan's directory of the United States. Latest edition. Wonders of America
Buffalo: Foster-Milburn Co., n.d., [ca. 1922]. 20.4 cm, pp. 32; illustrated; pages browning, else near fine in original pictorial wrappers. Directory for 1923. More
Documents concerning German-Polish relations and the outbreak of hostilities between Great Britain and Germany on September 3, 1939. Presented by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Parliament by command of His Majesty.
London: H.M.S.O., 1939. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxviii, 195; some soiling else near fine in orig. blue printed wrappers. Issued as Miscellaneous Document No. 9 (1939). More
The dolphin: a journal of the making of books.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. First edition, limited to 2000, 4to, vol. 2, pp. 5-329, [21]; original black cloth, gold lettering on spine faded, small piece of front paste-down torn away near fore-edge not affecting cloth; else near fine. Includes articles by Beatrice Warde, Lawrence Wroth, Elmer Adler, D.B.... More
Duluth album [cover title]
[Duluth: C.F. Johnson, Bookseller, 1888]. Oblong 8vo, [11] leaves of mounted black and white plates; original red decorative cloth stamped in black and gilt, unadorned spine, gray decorative endpapers. General shelf wear, fore- and bottom edge faded from damp, lacking front free endpaper, four of the plates loose but present... More
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Eighth annual report of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes [half-title]
Washington, D. C. G. P. O., [1901-02]. Thick 8vo, pp. [5]-893; 21 plates from photographs, 13 folding maps (11 printed in color), folding facsimile, last 5 leaves (latter part of index) defective with approx. 1/5 nibbled away, and lacking the title-page; freshly bound in recent full red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. More
Einfaltige Unterhaltungen mit Gott
Philadelphia: Conrad Zentler, 1817. First edition, thin 8vo, pp. 180, frontispiece and vignette title, text browned, some wear at extremities, else a near fine copy in full contemporary calf, red morocco label on spine. Devotional literature and meditations for the German American. American Imprints 40736. More
