Search Results: Authors starting with I from Bartlebys Books

[San Antonio, TX, 1890. Three original black and white watercolor wash images of Missions in the city of San Antonio, Texas. Each painting on a sheet of watercolor paper, 6 x 9 in., laid into a handmade folder. Painted image of a small group of pansies, in purple, yellow, and green, edged in gold, on front cover. Gold ribbon threaded through the upper and lower margin of both front and rear cover. The folder is separated along the spine edge, with some soiling and edgewear. The three watercolor paintings of the Alamo, San Jose Mission, and Concepcion are all very good, and labeled in manuscript. A pencil note on the verso of the front cover states that these paintings were done by "Dr. Ingelhart's wife, Austin, Tex." Likely these images are from the 1890s, as the artist is styled "wife" not "widow." Fannie Chambers Gooch (1849-1931) was a well-known author at the time of her marriage to Dr. David Thomas Iglehart. She had published "Face to Face with the Mexicans" in 1887, describing the six years she… Read More

Jacksonville, IL: Journal" print, 1856. Broadside, 43 x 35 cm., 32 lines of text, printed on blue paper, with blanks (unfilled) for filling in the dates and precinct. Old fold lines, with some splitting along folds. The form notes the coming election for Governor, sheriff, clerk, etc., including electors for President. In addition, voters were to cast ballots on the question of a subscription for $50,000 in bonds of the County to benefit the Capital Stock of several named railroad companies. The verso contains a manuscript abstract of the votes taken on this subscription: favorable 1753, unfavorable 1291, with a copy of the clerk's attestation, with the County Court of Morgan embossed stamp.

London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1793. Second edition, with considerable additions. 8vo.(2), xvi, 433, (19, index), (1, errata and directions to the binder), (2, ads) pp. Two folding maps, folding plan, folding table. Howes I-12: "Most complete information on the trans-Alleghany region available at the end of the 18th century." Sabin 34355. Streeter sale 1523. Coleman Bibliography of Kentucky 2212: "Imlay, a captain in the American army during the Revolution, was later commissioned 'to lay out lands in the back settlements,' and his work is considered one of the best authorities on the topography of the Western Country. Relates much to Kentucky and its early history." Jillson Rare Kentucky Books, pp. 10 & 13. Coleman Kentucky Rarities 73. Very good. Later light green cloth (sunned), leather spine label. (9233).

[Richmond, VA: np, 1861. Small broadside, 16 x 10 cm., text within a typographical border. A few small stains in the margins. An original campaign broadside for Jefferson Davis for Confederate President and Alexander Stephens for Vice-President. It also lists the Electoral Ticket for all the Virginia district representatives, and future Confederate General Roger A. Pryor who was running for the Confederate Congress. On the verso is a period signature of "C. F. Couch." Hummel 4664. Parrish & Willingham 6038. Jenkins 100:253.

(Richmond, VA): Senate Bill No. 155, Jan. 5, 1865. 8vo. 3 pp. 58 numbered lines to the bill which raises the pay and makes other adjustments for women working in a variety of areas: clerks, matrons and nurses in hospitals, seamstresses making military clothing, those "engaged in making or preparing cartridges of other munitions of war, and others. Parrish & Willingham 407. Original printed self-wrappers (Rebel Archives stamp at head of title, blank area at base of integral leaf clipped, uniform toning. Very good.

NP ["Richmond?" suggested on OCLC]: np, 1863. Printed broadside, 15 1/2 x 12 inches, the headline printed in bold capital letters. An anonymous essay on the text "What are direct taxes, within the meaning of the Constitution?" The author comes down decidedly on their being unconstitutional, citing Adam Smith, arguments from the Federalist Papers, 1790s congressional debates, early Supreme Court decisions, and Elliott's Debates, finally applying them to the present situation "Direct taxes must be apportioned according to the census. Whether the census of 1860 taken under authority of what was then the agent of the sovereign states, now forming this Confederacy, is a census within the meaning of the present Constitution, is a question we will not now discuss. But in any and every view, if direct taxes can be laid, they must be apportioned" and, since a census had yet to be taken in the Confederacy, direct taxes would be illegal. Parrish &Willingham 2065 (West Virginia only). Not in Crandall or Hummel.… Read More

Bardstown, (KY): Printed by John P. Edrington, 1819. Broadside, 15 1/2 x 13 inches, a partly printed document enclosed by an ornamental border, this copy completed in manuscript as a deed for a parcel of land in Springfield, Kentucky, sold by Edward Gerthen to David and Elizabeth Rodman and signed by Rodman. Printing in Bardstown apparently began in 1803 with the establishment of Francis Peniston's newspaper. Folded; some small breaks at corner folds, some old staining and foxing. Still a good example of an early Bardstown imprint.

Richmond, [VA]: James E. Goode, 1864. 14 cm. 15pp. Brown printed wrappers stitched. Parish & Willingham 8662.

[Richmond, VA]: House of Representatives, 1865. First edition. 8vo. (1) pp. In part: "If we then judged that the enemy intended to impoverish and oppress us, we now know they propose to subjugate, enslave, disgrace, and destroy us ... our cause is righteous and must prevail ... unawed by future dangers, we declare our determination to battle to the end, and not to lay down our arms until independence is secured. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" Parrish & Willingham 808. Some age toning, "Rebel Archives" stamp, but very good.

Charleston, SC: Evans & Cogswell, Printers to the Convention, 1860. First edition. 8vo. 13 pp. Sabin 87435. Parrish & Willingham 3761. Disbound pamphlet (lacking outer printed wrappers; text block uniformly browned); inscription or owner's name at the head of the title page almost entirely trimmed away in binding, a good copy only of this foundation document for the Confederacy.

(Selma, AL): From the Selma Daily Reporter, 1863. Broadside, 8 x 5 inches, on blue paper. Old folds, a little light foxing, but a very good example. First separate edition. Chapman (1791-1863), a native of Virginia, moved to Tennessee at an early age and on to Alabama in 1818, serving as a judge on various courts for more than 30 years; at the time of his death, both of his sons and his son-in-law, Gen. E.W. Pettus, were in Confederate service. Parrish & Willingham 8849 (Alabama Archives & History only). Hummel 139 (Alabama Archives & History). Not in Ellison or Owen. Not recorded on OCLC.

[Bourbon & Leesburg, Indiana, 1942. Seven manuscript journals kept in small top bound notebooks, each about 6 1/2 x 4 in., a total of approx. 1000 pages and 65,000 words. Bixler writes near daily entries between March 29, 1937 and April 15, 1942, a few paragraphs for each day describing his attempts at raising chickens and hogs, plowing, harvesting, cultivating a truck farm, etc., and faithfully recording the weather. He keeps an accurate record of his work life, but also notes local events, theorizes about where his life is headed, and how the impending war is affecting him. He writes in both pencil and ink, and all entries are legible and well written. Accompanying the notebooks are three of Bixler's drivers licenses, issued for 1937, 1938, and 1939. The first has a small photo of him, smiling and wearing a jaunty hat, attached to it. Also laid in is a business card from his later career as a Vice-President of H.D. Tousley Co., Inc. General Contractors, of Indianapolis, Indiana. Bixler is 19 years… Read More

Nashville, TN: The league, 1899. First edition of each of the pamphlets. 8vo, pamphlets ranging 12-48 pp. The first number prints the organization's prospectus and constitution; each of the others consist of essays by prominent Tennessee authors, discussing various issues relating to industry, mining, agriculture, business, or natural resources. Among the contributors are J.B. Killebrew and John Trotwood Moore. In addition to the numbered issues of the league series are five other similar pamphlets dealing with development in Tennessee, at least several of which were also issued by the league; one of those "Advantage and Opportunities of Tennessee as an Agricultural and Manufacturing State" is bound first and sets the stage for the others. Inscribed on the front endpaper by R.A. Halley, chairman of the executive committee of the Tennessee Industrial League. OCLC locates four complete sets of the eight pamphlets published as a series (Tennessee State Archives, Tennessee, Yale, Illinois). Several… Read More

[Savannah, GA: The author], 1958. First edition. 8vo. (28) pp. 14 full-page illustrations from photographs, with facing descriptions. "Birds, beasts, and legendary animals enlivening Savannah's architectural designs" (e.g., the Oglethorpe Monument Lion in Chippewa Square). Decorated blue wrappers, stapled. Georgia themed bookplate, some foxing, but very good.

Buffalo, NY: Matthews-Northrup Co, 1891. Promotional. Oblong 8vo. 29, (2) pp. [printed double column]. Illustrated from half-tones, plates, map ("Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West System and East Coast Lines and Connection," all in Florida). Florida as a place for agricultural pursuits. Not in Servies (but cf. 10054 for periodical references). Apparently unrecorded on OCLC. Original illustrated tan wrappers, stapled. Very good.

St. Augustine, FL: (Jacksonville, St. Augustine & Indian River Railway [printed Matthews-Northrup, Buffalo, N.Y.), 1893. First edition. Oblong 4to. (2, title leaf), (13, text, printed double-column), (38, illustrations from photographs, mostly full-page), (3, ads) pp., color frontispiece, map of the Jacksonville, St. Augustine & Indian River Railway (down the East Coast to Fort Worth). Promotional text with views of Florida along east coast. Original gilt-stamped decorated gray wrappers (spine taped, some insect damage in lower margin of several leaves, taking several letters and extending just into one image), stapled. Good copy only.

St. Augustine, FL: (Jacksonville, St. Augustine & Indian River Railway [printed Matthews-Northrup, Buffalo, N.Y.), 1893. First edition. Oblong 4to. (2, title leaf), (13, text, printed double-column), (38, illustrations from photographs, mostly full-page), (3, ads) pp., color frontispiece, map of the Jacksonville, St. Augustine & Indian River Railway (down the East Coast to Fort Worth). Promotional text with views of Florida along east coast. Original gilt-stamped decorated gray wrappers (rubbed, small old tideline in margin of title page, not affecting text), stapled. Very good.

Broadside, 11 3/4 x 8 inches, lacking its integral leaf. Decree declaring that the deputies of Lower & Upper California will be allowed in the Mexican Congress. OCLC locates three copies (Bancroft, Brigham Young, California-San Diego). Removed from a bound volume (some wear along left edge), but very good. (3736).

[Lenox?, Mass, 1815. Single sheet, 24.5 x 20 cm., partly printed, completed in manuscript. Old folds, heavily foxed. For $60.00 Gale sells one bark mill and grants to Elias Gould, of Henniker, County of Hillsborough, [NH], "the full and exclusive right and liberty of using the said Bark-Mill in the town and county aforesaid." Signed by Gale and witnessed (probably by his wife), dated in ink, September 11, 1815. See RINK 1394, for one copy of an 1818 broadside printed in Lenox, which takes note of a patent infringement for this patent; and for the grant of patent right, see RINK 1392, which is an 1813 notification that Gale has purchased exclusive right to C. Tobey's patent bark mill. Presumably, this is a somewhat different machine than our 1811 Gale patent. This broadside is not listed in Rink or Imprints.

Sioux Falls [SD]: Will A. Beach Printing Co, 1905. Black lettered tan paperwraps, stapled. 16 cm. 8 pp. of promotional text, plus a folding map, 31 x 46 cm. on a 43 x 53 cm. sheet. Map and counties outlined in red, Indian reservations shown. Title on the map: "South Dakota" by E. Frank Peterson, Lake Andes, S.D., publisher of the "Illustrated Historical Atlas of South Dakota." Printed for the Kingman Investment Company, Selby, South Dakota, "the oldest real estate dealers in Walworth county...." whose advertisement of farm lands, first mortgage loans and free homesteads appears in the border area of the map. Peterson's map was used by several real estate companies to promote settlement in the state. Date is inferred from the table of corn crop yield per acre for the year 1905. A few small separations at folds of map, else a nice copy; some wear and soiling to wrappers. One copy listed on OCLC: Yale [mentioning a folding leaf of plates, not present here].