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Washington DC: Government of West Pakistan, 1866. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A nice piece of Americana, the first edition of eulogies for Judge Collomer, a respected congressman, Postmaster General, and Senator from Vermont in the 1840s through the Civil War. Bound in the original stiff brown boards with gilt ornate title on the front, but a worn spine with small pieces missing. Inside, clean and tight. A record of the Eulogies by his esteemed colleagues. .
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Addresses on the Death of Jacob Collamer (1791- 1865)
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Chronology and Documentary Handbook of the State of Iowa
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Dobbs Ferry Oceana 1978. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine beige cloth, bright gilt title on front and on unfaded spine, no edgewear. Inside, as new..
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Craftsbury Vermont, Chronicle of the Bicentennial 1989
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Craftsbury, Vermont: The Craftsbury Bicentennial Committee, 1990. Book. Illus. by profuse photos of Craftsbury and its celebratory year. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A fine copy with yellow card covers, as new inside with no prior owner marks. Surprisingly, there is no quality history of this town, named after one of its founders, Col. Ebenezer Craft. Its first Town Clerk was his Harvard educated son, Samuel Craft. He remained Clerk while he became a Congressman in Washington. Plenty of history in this 93 page commemoration of a full year, 1989. The endpapers are a 1986 map of Craftsbury with businesses and owners of residences noted. .
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Earl Percy Dines Abroad, a Boswellian Episode
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. Book. Illus. by ten full page portraits, and illustrations including two page battle plan of Charleston Island at Boston, 17 June 1775. Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original red cloth with slight edge wear along the bottom and at the top of the spine. As new inside, with fine illustrations and high quality paper with deckle edges. This is an odd volume, an imaginary dinner in London in 1778, with historically accurate conversation by those present , including James Boswell, about the events in Boston, where Governor Percy was doing his best against the American "Provincials". Hugh Percy was Duke of Northumberland (1742- 1817). Number 440 of the limited edition of only 550..
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Geological Survey Of The State Of Iowa, 1870, Vol I only (of 2)
by White, Charles A.
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Des Moines: Mills & Co, 1870. Book. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Very good original green cloth, clean and tight with bright gilt title on spine, and slight edgewear at the corners. Lithographs sketched in Iowa in 1868 and 1869, with numerous other illustrations, graphs and foldout elevations. Illustrated by 8 lithographs, fold charts. 1st edition. Pages viii, 391. Inside, hinges fine, pages clean and tight with slight foxing only on the frontispiece..
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The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart
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New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879. Book. Illus. by Photos and steel engravings of tn Stuart portraits, including the Athaeneum Washington. Near Fine. 3/4 Leather. 2nd Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quite a remarkable copy, in 3/4 deep red morocco, gilt double lines along the edges, raised bands on the spine, gilt art deco flowers in the blocks between the raised bands and brown marbled boardswith matching marbled endpapers. Slight wear at two corners. Top edge gilt. In addition to the biography, there is a listing of about 1000 portraits executed by Stuart including their whereabouts as of 1879. Very clean and tight inside, nearly as new. No prior owner marks, no stains or age toning. There is no attribution for this fine binding which I suspect was a publisher's special, limited copy. .
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Life in America, 2 volumes
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1951. Book. Illus. by profuse paintings, engravings and photos . Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A cultural, artistic history of our country with profuse illustrations , compiled from the collections of the etropolitan Museum of Art and other sources by the author, who was Editor of Pubications at the Museum at that time. Original red cloth with no edge wear to both volumes. bright titles on the spine and insides are clean and tight. No smudges, browning or prior owner marks. Volume one does not have a dust jacket. Volume two has a good dj, worn, with a piece missing from the top of the spine. A tear is repaired on the verso. A very readable, optomistic history from just after WW Two. The publisher's flimsy slipcase is in remarkably good condition with edge wear. Pages 573 and 503.
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McElroy's Philadelphia Directory for 1850
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Philadelphia: Edward C & John Biddle, 1850. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The 13th annual edition "Containing the names of the Inhabitants, Their Occupations, Places of Business, and Dwelling Houses, also a List of the Streets, Lanes Alleys and City Offices, public Institutions, Banks, etc." Bound in black cloth with original rare paper covers pasted on the front and back boards, protected by a mylar, clear dustjacket. Bright gilt title on the rebacked spine. Inside, very clean and tight, antique paper is aged, but no foxing and no prior owner names. Advertisements at the rear..
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Northwest Passage, limited 2 volume edition
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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1937. Book. Illus. by endpaper maps and volume 2 frontispiece of Major Robert Rogers . Fine. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The two volume special edition, preceeding the first trade edition, signed and numbered, this copy 890 of 1050. This copy appears unread, as some of the pages are uncut. Pristine inside and out, bright gilt titles on the spines and no edgewear. No prior owner marks. The dust jackets are near fine, a bit darkened on the spines. The original protective box is very good plus, with some edge wear but the paper labels on the sides undamaged. Volume two has historical documents not found in the trade edition, including commentary of Major Rogeers' jouranl, and a record of his Court Martial. Still a fine historical novel..
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The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1
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New Haven: Yale Univ Press, 1961. Book. Illus. by 7 Nice Illustrations Including Foldout and Colored Frontispiece. Very Good. Hardcover. Third Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. January 6, 1706 through December 31, 1734. One of a splendidly thorough series. Very clean and tight, inside and out. Dustjacket is protected in mylar sleeve, and has some soiling and several small pieces missing on the spine..
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Retrospect of Western Travel
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London: Saunders and Otley , 1838. Book. Very Good. 3/4 Leather. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Three-quarter brown calf with marbled boards and matching brown-beige endpapers. Professional repairs to the corners, and volumes one and two have been rebacked. New spine labekls. Solid hinges and inside, very clean pages with no stains, no foxing. I see browning on one page where it appears a clipping left a slight browning scar. Top edges gilt. "Martineau, political economist, philosopher and journalist, was also a serious traveler. Her two-year visit to America (1834 - 1836) was a study tour." (Wayward Women, Jane Robinson). Sabin 44939 .
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Selectae e Veteri, Catonis Disticha Moralia, Lilii Monetta Paedagogica
by Bache, Benjamin Franklin (compiler) with J. Davidson
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Philadelphia: Benjamin Franklin Bache, 1789. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. What a story this book has. The publisher is the grandson of Benjamin Franklin, who took this lad of 7 to Paris in 1776 on his diplomatic missionl. A classics education was arranged for the boy, but the last two years of their 9 year stay, now 16 he was apprenticed to the most famous printer in Paris for 2 years. Young Benjamin franklin Bache graduated from Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1787, winning prizes for translations in Latin along the way. He then took over the family printing business, under the watchful eye of his failing grandfather. At age 20 this is one of the first books he published, a school text for Latin beginners, listing himself as publisher. His famed grandfather died the next year, and he then inherited the business. e died of yellow fever only 9 years later. Original leahter boards with a new leather spine. Endpapers have been added to…
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The Snake, a Noble and Various River
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Washington, D.C.: Potomac Corral, 1969. Book. Illus. by map and photos, drawings. Near Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Numbrt 236 of 250 copies of this limited edition, in pale blue cloth with Title and a skeleton of a cow's head on the front. As new inside, clean and tight with a photo of the former military officer/author. A concise and robust history of the expansion to the West, often via the Snake River to the Columbia and the Pacific. .
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The State of California, a Medico-Geographical Account
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San Francisco: John J. Newbegin, 1939. Book. Illus. by endpaper map of California, and photo image of the German original. Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original light orange cloth with paper label of a sailing ship on the front board and a paper title on the spine. Number 206 of only 250 copies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. Very clean and tight inside and out. Dr. Praslow arrived from Germany and describes the early growth of San Francisco, medical problems, the gold rush, and California geography. A thorough preface by Frederick Cordes. Spine is sunned. .
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Study in Power, John D. Rockefeller Industrialist and Philanthropist, 2 vol.
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New Yirj: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Book. Illus. by 30 black/white illustrations. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine, unread copy, clean and tight inside and out. No edgewear. No dust jackets, as issued, but a slipcase with some wear at the bottom edge, overall solid and very good. A fine, critical biography of the man who became the first American philanthropist, and also a study of Standard Oil, the University of Chicago, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Pages x, 501 and xiii, 441.
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Winthrop Chandler, Art in America, April 1947 Quarterly Magazine issue
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Springfield, Mass: Art in America, 1947. Book. Illus. by Photos of Winthrop Chandler Painting. Very Good. Printer Wrapper. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The entire issue of this April 1947 illustrated art magazine is devoted to Connecticut painter, with a folding geneaological chart, and critical review of the portraits and landscapes, most reproduced here in photos, attributed to Chandler. His sister was married to Col. Ebenezer Crafts, the founder of Craftsbury, Vermont. A portrait of her with her two daughters, and a second of the Colonel and his son, is included herein. A very scarce publication, and still the definitive study of Chandler..
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photo album, Antique French
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not stated: none listed, 1880. Book. Illus. by no photos in this album. Very Good. Full-Leather. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A splendid Victorian photo album, French or possibly French Canadian with a portrait of two women on the front board, with four white stones mounted on a full leather binding. The metal clasp is intact. Gilt edges are goeffered, a flower design stamped into the gilt page edges. Just waiting for you to add your own photos. .
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photo album, Antique American
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not stated: none listed, 1880. Book. Illus. by early American photos, circa 1870s. Very Good. Full-Leather. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Brown full morocco leather binding, with raised bands flanked by gilt lines and double gilt lines on the covers. Gilt geoffered page edges (meaning a design has been pressed into the gilt page edges). Bright gilt dentilles on the inside of the boards. Two antique brass clasps hold the book shut. A bit scuffed along some edges, but over all VERY GOOD PLUS. 50 photos portraits of men, women and children, dressed in dress that appears of the American Civil War era (1870s or earlieer). Quite a rare, early album with all 50 photos intact. .
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