Search Results: Authors starting with D from Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC

octavo, 22 pages, original printed wrappers, wrappers soiled, some scattered foxing to text, else a good copy. A condescending male speech to the well educated young women at Ipswich by a Newburyport Minister. American Imprints 24087, five locations.

octavo, 39 page pamphlet, ex-library, handstamps on titlepage, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else a good copy.

quarto, 300 pp., bound in contemporary ½ black leather, cloth covered boards, letters dated 5 June 1875 to 14 December 1876. The volume contains approximately 175 letters written to 15 or so individuals, including family and business associates. The letters mainly concern business, but some of them are personal, for example, when Davis writes his brothers the letters discuss both business and personal news.The front board has white paper label with the authors name and dates of letters in ink; gold tooled spine lettering reads "Letters." The spine is worn at tips, as are the edges and corners of boards, with some scuffing and rubbing, otherwise good. Letter copies are on tissue paper. The book also includes several items tucked in: 3 letters (7 pp), with envelopes dated 25-27 July 1904, 1 receipt dated 1867 from Arnold, Constable & Co., of New York City, and 2 used envelopes without letters. The letters are written to Daniel H. B. Davis from his wife, while she was at the "Tahawus House" in the… Read More

folio, one page, plus stamp less address leaf, letter is worn, and damp stained, old tape repairs to second (blank) leaf of letter sheet, some splitting along folds, else in good condition.
Davis writes to General Blake in his capacity as Superintendent of Indian Affairs, concerning the fishing rights to Shad Island, as well as other unnamed islands, which had apparently been ceded to Native Americans that year. However, Davis promises future legal action in the dispute to recover what he considers his rights to possession of these islands.
"Dear Sir,
Yours of the 23d Inst. inclosing the agreement of Mr. Treat and others by which the right to fish on Shad Island is surrendered to the Indians, for this year, has been duly recd – I am so far satisfied with this arrangement, that I shall take no further measures to recover possession of this or the other Islands, until after the next Session of the General Court. I expect, however, that early application will be made to the next Legislature, and… Read More

Quarto, 4 pages, plus original mailing envelope, in very good, clean, and legible condition.
1853 Politicking at the Pennsylvania Capitol Awaiting the Presidential Inauguration of Franklin Pierce.
The politically well-connected writer, apparently seeking a federal appointment as Postmaster or some other position appointed by the Postmaster General of the United States, was lobbying friends in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to support his candidacy. The newly-elected President Franklin Pierce was about to sworn into office the following week but Denlinger had given up on the idea of personally visiting Washington because "Report says that the city is already full to overflowing and that the meanest accommodations cannot be had for less than from three to five dollars per day. It is even said that lodgings can hardly be obtained even in a stable. So you see what folly it would be for such a modest man as I am to be caught in such a crowd." Many of the people he was lobbying in Harrisburg, in… Read More

[N.p. 1910] Large manuscript map, measuring 40 x 103 ¾ inches, pen and ink, with pencil additions on drafting linen, some minor soiling to edges, else in very good, clean condition.
Large scale manuscript map which delineates the territory from Skagway, portions of British Columbia, the Yukon and Klondike Country as far north as the Porcupine River. The map shows the rivers, creeks, settlements, rail roads, N.W.M.P. barracks, timber berths and reserves.

small quarto, one page, formerly folded, in very clean, legible condition, fine. Jean Baptiste Charles Henri Hector, comte d’Estaing, French general and admiral who fought in the American War for Independence. He began his service as a soldier in the Seven Years War, spending time as a prisoner of war of the British. Following the entry of France into the Revolutionary War in 1778, he led a fleet to aid the American rebels, and participated in failed Franco-American attacks on Rhode Island and the Siege of Savannah. He returned to France in 1780. D’Estaing was subsequently executed in the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. The letter reads:
“On ne peut être, Monsieur, plus flatté que je le suis des marques d’amitiés et de souvenir que vous avés la bonté de me donner; vous êtes assurément du nombre de ceux qu’on n’oublie point lorsqu’on s’eu l’honneur de les connaitre; la… Read More

Quarto, three pages, plus stamp less address leaf, formerly folded, postal markings, some staining and some minor damage caused when the letter was first opened, else very good.
Dimmick writes:
"The Improvement bill passed Senate and was returned to our house yesterday…They have made many amendments, cut down several sections and added others; we think we have a Majority in our house that will agree to concur in the amendments…if we take them up separately, I still think there will be no danger, but we are almost afraid to suffer it to go to Senate again, fearing it might meet with some unlucky accident, more on account of the failure of the Loan Office in our house than any thing else which has exasperated the minds of some of the members…I presume that more petitions have come in for a Loan Office than for nay other measure in many years, it was lost day before yesterday on second reading by three votes…it seemed to give a great shock for the moment…Senate are returned to pass it in their… Read More

No Binding. Very Good. folio, three pages, partially cross written, some splitting at fold joints, few words missing from rough seal opening on third page, some old tape repairs to third page as well, few additional notes on integral address leaf, else in good, readable condition. The famed British silversmith, James Willis Dixon, writes to his fiancé describing Andrew Jackson's White House, eight months after an assassination attempt against the President: "Most Affectionate Ann, . I have since been to the cities of Baltimore and Washington. The latter place being the Seat of Government. Shook hands with the President, General Jackson. Saw the President's House, and the "Capitol" building which we should call Houses of Parliament. The whole front of building is 352 feet long, has 3 large domes, a great part of which as well as President's House is composed of white marble and has noble marble pillars of various colors. A Building well worthy, the pride of an American and… Read More

Quarto, three pages, plus stamp less address leaf, in very good, clean, and legible condition.
Dixon writes to a constituent concerning the disposition of various political posts, patronage, and appointments, before turning to discussion of affairs in Congress:
"… I had the pleasure of receiving several communications from you since my return to Congress, - and have not been inattentive to your suggestions, but from the doubts that have over cast most of the subjects alluded to, I have not been able to reply in expressions sufficiently positive to be acceptable to a man of your decision. I may venter [sic] to speak now with more confident assurance – your friend Newton will be appointed to the office of Collector at New-Port. – Tillinghast will be appointed surveyor at E. Greenwich, and the office at your village will remain vacant for a few days, so that you may settled the point of succession. In relationship to the surveyorship at Wickford, the conflicting claims of candidates, the ample… Read More

Quarto, 622 manuscript pp., and 11 page index; comprising 178 copied letters on tissue paper, written to 127 different businesses, individuals, and government officials, dated 29 April 1884 to 30 December 1885; bound in half leather, cloth boards, back-strip lacking, edges and corners worn, boards scuffed and rubbed; lacks several pages, couple of pages torn, otherwise written in a good, legible hand, not faded.
The letter-copy book contains copies of letters to the owners, or managers of various shops and factories that Chief Inspector Dorn was responsible for inspecting in the state of Ohio. He either writes to let them know that their company complied with the new statutes, or that the company did not pass inspection. If the company failed the inspection, he lets them know what improvements must be made in order to bring the businesses up to standards set by an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, entitled: "Revised Statues of Ohio, for the better protection of health, comfort &… Read More

first edition, 12mo, portraits, 309 pp., original pictorial cloth, ex-library, handstamps on title-page, shelf label on spine, binding somewhat rubbed and shaken, else a good copy.
"Mrs. Sarah Meservey was last seen alive in Tenants Harbor, Maine, on December 22, 1877. Her strangely incurious neighbors did not look behind her blinds for five weeks; then her strangled body was finally found. Hart, a neighbor, was convicted, mainly because he talked too much before the body was found of how he dreamed she was strangled. Only a small piece this book is devoted to the trial; the remainder is the author's theory…" – McDade, Annals of Murder, 447