Search Results: Authors starting with H from William Reese Company

[Augsbourg: F.X. Habermann, ca. 1780].. Four engravings, each approximately 19 x 15 1/2 inches. Moderate edge wear and creasing. Minor dampstaining on first engraving. One print with two-inch piece torn from upper right corner. Light vertical fold line through center. Good. Archivally matted, protected with mylar sheet. A charming set of four views of Martinique. The first three images show Fort Royal from several approaches, including a detailed view over the fort into the harbor which best displays the fort's layout. The fourth view, of Port de la Trinité, shows the settlement in the distance with several ships of the line, including a British vessel, in the foreground. Habermann (1721-96) was a prolific artist who produced several engravings of American scenes for a series he called "Collection des Prospects," which appears in the upper left corner of each of the present images. They were often executed with exaggerated perspectives, and produced in Paris, London, and Augsbourg. The images were… Read More

Philadelphia, 1857. 507pp. plus twenty-nine plates and ads. Modern three-quarter polished calf and boards, gilt-lettered spine. Some internal soiling. Overall, very good. "Habersham was an American naval officer who later became a tea and coffee merchant. He was descended from a family of early English settlers in Georgia who became prominent rice plantation owners and merchants. This expedition, under the orders of Commander Cadwalader Ringgold, sailed in June of 1853 for the Orient via the Cape of Good Hope and Batavia. The 'Vincennes' served as flag-ship to four other vessels. The ships returned, via San Francisco and Cape Horn, to the New York Navy-yard in the summer of 1856" - Hill. One of the plates shows a nude bathing scene in Japan. One of the few records of this important American exploring expedition. HILL 739. SABIN 29466.

Philadelphia, 1873. 507pp. plus engraved plates and advertisements. Frontis. Engraved title. Original cloth stamped in blind, spine gilt extra. Light rubbing to extremities, some fading to spine. Overall very good. Later printing with variant title, after the first of 1857. "The author was an American naval officer who later became a tea and coffee merchant. He was descended from a family of early English settlers in Georgia who became prominent rice plantation owners and merchants. This expedition, under the orders of Commander Cadwalader Ringgold, sailed in June of 1853 for the Orient via the Cape of Good Hope and Batavia. The 'Vincennes' served as flag-ship to four other vessels. The ships returned, via San Francisco and Cape Horn, to the New York Navy- yard in the summer of 1856" - Hill. HILL 739 (ref). SABIN 29466 (ref)

Philadelphia, 1858. 507pp. plus twenty-nine plates (including frontis.), and [4]pp. of advertisements. Original cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine ends a bit frayed. An occasional light fox mark. Overall, very good. Second printing, after the first of the year before. "Habersham was an American naval officer who later became a tea and coffee merchant. He was descended from a family of early English settlers in Georgia who became prominent rice plantation owners and merchants. This expedition, under the orders of Commander Cadwalader Ringgold, sailed in June of 1853 for the Orient via the Cape of Good Hope and Batavia. The VICENNES served as flag-ship to four other vessels. The ships returned, via San Francisco and Cape Horn, to the New York Navy-yard in the summer of 1856" - Hill. One of the plates shows a nude bathing scene in Japan. HILL 740. SABIN 29466 (ref)

New York: R.R. Bowker Co, 1945. viii,[2],140pp. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Minor browning. Near fine. In pictorial dust jacket. A statistical analysis of best sellers, based on the archives of THE BOOKMAN and THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY. Some of the years include categorical breakdowns, others include only fiction. Each year includes a brief summation of significant cultural events. A useful book about books

Denver, 1973. 359pp. Illustrations. Frontis. Title vignette. Cloth, pictorial onlay. Very fine. In board slipcase. The deluxe edition, limited to 200 copies, signed on the limitation page by Hafen, and numbered 184. Revised edition of an important biography of Thomas Fitzpatrick, "Broken Hand," who entered the fur trade in 1823 with the famous Ashley expedition.

Cleveland, 1926.. 361pp. including illustrations and folding map. Frontis. Original green cloth, t.e.g. Spine slightly sunned, light shelf wear, bookplate on front pastedown. Very good. An Arthur Clark Co. publication, and the first book of Hafen's published by the company. EBERSTADT 106:264. RITTENHOUSE 267. HOWES H11.

Glendale, Ca.: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1954-1961.. Fifteen volumes. Plates. Maps. Frontispiece in all but the fifteenth volume. Green cloth, gilt. Fine. One of the great collections of source material, lavishly printed by the Arthur H. Clark Company. The series includes Hafen's THE OLD SPANISH TRAIL... and HANDCARTS TO ZION...; an annotated reprint of Rufus Sage's valuable account; Heap's CENTRAL ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC; and documentary collections of narratives and material relating to the 1849 gold rush, overland travellers from 1839 to 1842, the Utah war of 1857-58, relations with the Plains Indians before the Civil War, Fremont's fourth expedition, the Powder River campaigns of 1865, and Colorado reports of the Civil War period. In addition, there is an index to the whole. Indispensable. CLARK & BRUNET 104. PAHER 744. KURUTZ 300 ("Journals of '49ers" volume).

New York, 1941. xxiv,698pp. Illus. Maps (some in color). Gilt cloth. About fine. History of occupation, exploration and settlement.

Glendale, Ca: The Arthur H. Clark Compan, 1973. 334,[1]pp. including illustrations. Frontis. Green cloth, gilt. Near fine. In dust jacket. Co-published with Fred A. Rosenstock, The Old West Publishing Company, of Denver, Colorado. Along with being a prolific writer, LeRoy Hafen was director of the State Historical Society of Colorado for thirty years. "The innocent and ebullient story of a historian and his poetess wife, as told by themselves, captures the joy of happy, productive living" - Paher. CLARK & BRUNET 128. PAHER 750

Glendale, Ca: The Arthur H. Clark Compan, 1938. 429pp. including illustrations. Frontis. Blue cloth, t.e.g. Corners and front fore-edge slightly bumped. Very good. Covers the development of Fort Laramie from its establishment as a fur trade post through its days as a military post. CLARK & BRUNET 105. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 888.

Cambridge, Ma: The Riverside Press, 1900.. [2],v,176,[2]pp. 12mo. Original cloth, front board stamped in black, spine gilt. Cloth faded and soiled, rear joint starting, ex-library with shelf label, accession number and stamp of Goshen Public Library on front pastedown and occasionally throughout, bookplate residue on rear pastedown. Very light scattered foxing. Good. Later edition, following the first of 1900. "A seriously neglected book, this appealing account of life on an Alabama plantation in a time of makeshifts and shortages ought to be available in a new edition" - IN TALL COTTON. The author tells of her experiences on an Alabama plantation during the Civil War, and how she and the other women made clothes, dyes, and other materials during the blockade. In one chapter she describes the various substitutes that were tried for coffee and tea, including her discovery of roasted okra seeds. A brief and interesting look at life during the Civil War from the perspective of southern woman. This 1900… Read More

Philadelphia, 1810. 311pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf. Front hinge cracked, attached by cords. Spine a bit worn. Gently tanned. Else good. First printed in Leeds, England in 1778. An early American book on the art of dyeing cloth, one of the basic works of American arts and crafts from this early period. Includes instructions on how to prepare and use dyes, with sections on individual color preparations, materials used, etc. RINK 1845. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 20271.

New York, 1819. 83pp. Dbd. Foxed. Good. Lengthy and coherent constitutional argument in favor of abolishing the council and supporting a constitutional amendment which would allow the governor to make all appointments. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 48130. SABIN 29546.

Waukegan, Il.: Published by E.G. Howe, 1852.. 112pp. plus errata leaf and folding frontispiece view of Waukegan. 16mo. Original printed yellow wrappers. Light soiling, minor scattered foxing and staining. Graff bookplate on inside front wrapper. Very good. The Graff copy of the rare first edition of the earliest history of an Illinois county published in book form. This work was authored by noteworthy early Illinois figure Elijah Haines, who moved to Lake County from New York in 1838 (the year before the county was officially established) and later surveyed and incorporated a village there called Hainesville in 1846. He became a lawyer in 1851 and moved to the county seat of Waukegan, writing this pamphlet shortly afterwards. Haines went on to publish several works on midwestern laws, and served in the Illinois House of Representatives for eight separate terms as an anti-slavery and then anti-Radical Reconstruction Republican. He also spent several years as Speaker of the House for Illinois. The… Read More

Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie de l'Etat, 1946. 27pp. Original printed red wrappers. Wrappers edgeworn with tears. Wrappers and text quite water-stained. A fair copy. This constitution, enacted on November 22, 1946, is a much toned-down version of the original draft supported by new President Dumarsais Estime, which described Haiti as socialist, restored bans on foreign land ownership, prohibited foreigners from doing business, and legitimized trade unions. Under protests from the United States, Britain, France, the Vatican and the business community, the present much more conservative document was promulgated.

Pari: De l'Imprimerie National, 1791. [1],74pp. in French. Dbd. Small pair of worm holes penetrating volume, joining in rear half, barely affecting text. Overall very good. Administrative orders for the colony of Saint- Domingue (later Haiti), passed by the National Assembly on June 15, 1791, two months before the outbreak of the Haitian Rebellion. SABIN 34844

Port-au-Prince, May 13, 1796.. 4 x 9 1/2 inches, completed in manuscript, docketed on verso. Minor toning and edge wear. Very good. A rare pay order for supplies made out to Baron Jean-Charles de Montalembert on behalf of the invading British occupation force in Haiti. The document is signed by John Wigglesworth, agent to the Commander of the British forces in Haiti and later Britain's envoy to the leader of the Haitian Revolution, Touissant Louverture. By early the next century, Louverture would become, ever so briefly, chief of the first free Black Republic in Haiti. The payee, Montalembert, has docketed the verso, with an additional docket in French transferring the funds to Dutilh & Wachsmuth, a Philadelphia mercantile house. Saint Domingo, the French part of Haiti, was a highly prosperous sugar, coffee, and cotton slave-estate island whose produce was described as exceeding that of the whole of the British Leeward and surrounding islands. In 1789 it was said to consist of 10,000 white… Read More

Port-au-Prince, 1796. 4 x 9 1/2 inches, completed in manuscript, docketed on verso. Minor toning and corner wear. Very good. A rare pay order for supplies bought from William Dickson by the invading British occupation force in Haiti. The document is signed by John Wigglesworth, agent to the Commander of the British forces in Haiti and later Britain's envoy to the leader of the Haitian Revolution, Touissant Louverture. By early the next century, Louverture would become, ever so briefly, chief of the first free Black Republic in Haiti. The payee, Dickson, has docketed the verso to pay "Mg. de Klegand," with an additional docket in French by de Klegand to pay Dutilh & Wachsmuth, a Philadelphia mercantile house. St. Domingo, the French part of Haiti, was a highly prosperous sugar, coffee, and cotton slave-estate island whose produce was described as exceeding that of the whole of the British Leeward and surrounding islands. In 1789 it was said to consist of 10,000 white people, 24,000 free mixed-race… Read More

Port-au-Prince, 1796. 3 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches, completed in manuscript, docketed on verso. Minor toning. Very good. A rare pay order for supplies intended for the British occupation force in Haiti, made out to M. Juré Ainé. The document is signed by John Wigglesworth, agent to the Commander of the British forces in Haiti and later Britain's envoy to the leader of the Haitian Revolution, Touissant Louverture. By early the next century, Louverture would become, ever so briefly, chief of the first free Black Republic in Haiti. The payee, Jure, has docketed the verso in French, with an additional docket in French transferring payment to Dutilh & Wachsmuth, a Philadelphia mercantile house. St. Domingo, the French part of Haiti, was a highly prosperous sugar, coffee, and cotton slave-estate island whose produce was described as exceeding that of the whole of the British Leeward and surrounding islands. In 1789 it was said to consist of 10,000 white people, 24,000 free mixed-race people, and 455,000 negro… Read More