Search Results: Authors starting with S from Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)

Richmond [Virginia]: Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, 1863. [1]p. Bifolium. Approx. 8 x 5 inches. Toning and mild offsetting; Very Good. Confederate General Order issued in Gettysburg's aftermath. In their retreat South, across the Potomac, Confederate force suffered 5,000 casualties, including 3500 captured troops. The Order concern the conscription of troops, personnel management, medical disability, and the compensation of surgeons:  "I. When conscripts have been sent to camps of instruction, or to regiments in the field, after being pronounced...fit for military service, they can thereafter be discharged only in accordance with the regulations..."  ;  "II. In case there is reason to believe that any conscripts to camps of instruction are disqualified, the commandant will order a medical examination, and forward a report, fully setting forth the grounds of disability..."  ;  "IV The compensation of surgeons employed under the act of congress...will be $5 per day..." Adjutant and… Read More

Richmond [Virginia]: Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, 1862. [1]p. Bifolium. 7¾ x 5 inches. Faint toning and foxing; Very Good. Illustrated in Parrish & Willingham (2429), this Confederate General Order was issued during the Battle of Fredericksburg. The battle was fought in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia and is considered the most one-sided Confederate victory of the war. Union Army casualties were more than double those of the Confederacy. Adjutant and Inspector General Samuel Cooper's orders are particularly aimed at protecting Confederate States' civilians and enforcing military discipline:  "I. Encampments of troops near towns and villages must be avoided...";  "III. Private property is invariably to be respected, and must not be taken or used, except when indispensable for the public service...";  "IV. The reckless destruction of fencing, wood and other property of the citizens...cannot be too strongly condemned." Etc. Cooper "remained throughout the war the highest ranking… Read More

[Elizabethtown, Pa.: Pub. by S.G. Bishop, c.1910-1914]. 16 Half tone postcards, from photographs. Approx. 3½ x 5¼ inches. In original mailing envelope postmarked August 26, 1914. Fine with crisp corners. Set of 16 postcards, reproduced from photographs, showing exterior and interior views of the Masonic Homes complex in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The retirement and nursing home is known today as Masonic Villages of Pennsylvania. The postcards depict the front view of the main building, a Greek-revival memorial, an large outdoor pavilion, and various support buildings and facilities. Four interior views show the combination large dining hall/Grand Lodge Hall, men's and women' sitting rooms, and an Assembly Hall. Three postcards show the groundbreaking, cornerstone laying, and dedication of the Masonic Homes which occurred in 1910, 1911, and 1913, respectively.

[Philadelphia:] Sold by H.C. Yates, 127 Chesnut-st., January, 1825. 2½ x 6¼ inches. Folds and creasing; foxing; good. The Union Canal Company was formed in 1811 with the merger of the Schuylkill & Susquehanna Navigation Company and Delaware and the Schuylkill Canal company. Numerous lottery schemes were held to finance the company throughout the early nineteenth century.

Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, 1861. 34pp. 8vo, printed wrappers with light soil; very good. An 1860 edition is known; this 1861 issue with the same pagination of the former, apparently only held by AAS.

Boston: I. Sack, c. 1930s. Two trade catalogs, 40pp and 16pp, with price lists. Very good. American antiques dealer Israel Sack, Inc. was founded in Boston in 1903 as a furniture repair business. As their antiques business thrived, they started to sell reproductions of antique fittings and hardware used to restore (or authentically reproduce) period furniture. The catalogs illustrated metal drawer pulls, escutcheons, hinges, door locks, door knockers, ornaments, and castors; wooden finials and pendants; and iron hinges; lighting fixtures; carved wooden chair legs and furniture feet, mirror and clock pictures, and numerous patterns of wooden inlay. Two price lists show the firm's re-location in the 1930s from Boston to New York City. A "50% Discount" ink annotation suggest the effects of the Great Depression on their trade.

Washington, D.C. January 15, 1867. Quarto. 8-pages. Very good. A lengthy 8-page letter by Robert Safford Hale (1822-1881) that is exclusively filled with genealogical and family information. Author of Thomas Hale the Glover of Newbury, Mass., (1635) and his Descendants. (1877), Hale "published in addition an important argument as counsel and a report as agent of the United States, before the British and American Mixed Commission, and possibly some speeches in Congress. Mr. Hale, son of the late Hon. Harry Hale, of Chelsea, Vt., was born in that town September 24. 1822; graduated at the University of Vermont, 1842; read law and settled at Elizabethtown. Essex county, New York, for the practice of his profession: was Judge of Essex County Court, 185,6-64; Regent of the University of New York, 1859; elected to the 39th and 45d Congresses." (Davis, Vermont Bibliography, p112) 9han9

Salt Lake City, [ca. 1903]. [32]pp. First Edition. In red printed wraps. 4½ x 6 inches. Illustrated with half-tones from photographs. Slight discoloration to front wrap on left side; a very good clean and attractive copy. Flake 1465 provides the publication date of 1903; "A tourist brochure given out at Temple Square, Salt Lake City." Subtitled: "Complements of Bureau of Information and Church Literature." Illustrations within show prominent buildings and iconic images associated with the Mormon faith as well as civic and prominent public buildings notable within Salt Lake City.

Salt Lake City, Utah: The Deseret News, [nd., ca. 1900s]. 4¼ x 2½ inches. Photo-Illustrated Card. Printed on semi-gloss card stock. Fine condition. Illustrated with a view of the Temple Block in Salt Lake City, an ephemeral item, a giveaway card, that demonstrates the endeavors of the Mormon faith in the early 20th century to bring new members within its fold. The obverse of the card lists 13 Articles of Faith.

Lancaster. Wednesday, August 5, [c. 1801-1820]. [2]pp. 4to. Bifolium with integral address leaf; red postal cancellation. Laid paper, small paper losses; expert tissue mends. Intimate letter between two friends, "Sally" of Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Miss L. Clifton of No. 3 Eleventh Street in Philadelphia. Sally briefly describes the town of Lancaster and a garden there: "A dull, dreary, rainy, disagreeable day. What shall I do to kill time? No Fanny here to cheer my drooping spirits, no intimate friend to sympathise with me in all my afflictions. We were so unlucky as to get seats in the Monday's stage. I was just playing an interesting game at gammon with a gentleman when the stage stopt; I had almost one a pair of gloves 10/6 penny. What a disappointment! but you know they are indispensably necessary or, we should not know how to value the numerous blessings we are continually receiving: so I ran upstairs slipt on my wig, and after receiving the most affectionate adieus from all my attendants and… Read More

Pittsburgh: Printed at the Daily Advocate Office, 1839. 12pp. 12mo. Pamphlet; removed; without wrappers; scattered foxing; Very Good. Speech by attorney and Western University of Pennsylvania alumnus, Samuel W. Black (1816-1862), to the school's Tilghman Literary Society. Black subsequently became a judge and was a soldier in the Mexican-American and U.S. Civil wars. Black served as the seventh governor of Nebraska Territory. The text has period annotations noting Black as "a wild young man himself" and to "Dr. Robt. Bruce," the first chancellor (president) of the Western University of Pennsylvania, now known as the University of Pittsburgh ("Pitt"). "The University's buildings, along with most of its records and files, were destroyed in a widespread 1845 fire that wiped out 20 square blocks of the most valuable part of Pittsburgh." (Wikipedia) OCLC recording two physical copies (AAS and UPitt.).

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., (1955). First edition. Publisher's cloth; dust jacket. Near Fine condition. Inscribed and signed by the author in the year of book's publication. A profile of this educator, orator, author and activist. Spencer writes of Booker T. Washington, the establishment of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, and Washington's creed that Black Americans needed to make a gradualistic approach to equality by, in part, becoming self-reliant by learning practical vocational skills.

Hartford: Cooke and Co., 1831. Twelvemo.  Lithographic frontispiece, 283pp. Publisher's quarter muslin cloth spine with printed boards and spine label. Ownership inscription of Newell Greeley. Soil to binding and light exterior wear; internally, one creased leaf; general foxing. First edition, first printing. Woodruff's journal of this travelogue and expedition to distribute food and clothing to the Greeks. Woodruff offers thorough descriptions and observations of his tour destinations, delving into their historical and cultural aspects, emphasizing landmarks, architecture, and local customs. The frontispiece shows the United States Frigate Java, and a view of Mt. Etna. Preliminary text includes a 1-page preface regarding the nature of the expedition. Another page lists the members of the Greek Committee of the City of New York, including such notables as Charles Wilkes, Arthur Tappan, and Theodore Dwight. Quite scarce to commerce with the last copy at auction being in 2022 (approx. $850) and… Read More

Examiner Buildings, Frederick: Printed by David Scheley and Thomas Haller, 1849. 16 pages. 8½ x 5½ inches. Pamphlet; removed; heavy abrasion to left side of title page; last blank page detaching, without original wrappers. Complete text; Fair. Rare address delivered in Frederick, Maryland at St. John's College, a Catholic Jesuit school, before its debating society. St. John's is one of America's oldest institutions of advanced learning. The subject of Sappington's address is "Our Country and its early Settlement." The address ends with a list of members of The Tullipheboian Society, the literary and debating Association of St. John's Literary Institution. OCLC, Georgetown and LCP only.

Los Angeles: Published by the Trustees, (1993). 111pp + [6] leaves of plates. Sm. 8vo. Softcover. As New. First printing, thus. Collection of 35 letters addressed to astronomers at the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California. Supplement to A Chain of Flowers, Vol. IV, No. 7, Guide Leaflet No. 5.

New York: Da Capo Press, Inc. (1980). 274 pages. First edition, thus. Illustrated from photographs. Softcover. Light wear to outer edge of front wrap. Near fine. Lovely copy of this authoritative biography on blues guitar legend and performer B.B. King. Inscribed by B.B. King in 1988 to an avid collector of African American history. With a blurb and praise written by photographer and novelist Gordon Parks on the back cover. First published by Doubleday, all editions are difficult to obtain in desirable condition and they are rarely found autographed by B.B. King.

[Canada: Self-Published, 2013]. 35pp. First edition[?] Hardbound with dust jacket. Illustrated. Bright clean copy in fine to as new condition. "The story of a man from Deep Creek, Virginia and how he became a man of New York City, and a father to be adored. This is every daughter's story of unraveling her loving father." (sub-title)

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1989). 501pp. Illustrated. Hardcover in dust jacket. Tiny bump to upper right corner, else a fine copy. First edition, so stated. Signed on the title page, and signed again, after a lengthy inscription, on the half-title: "For Rob, My guardian angel, my earnest champion, who made this book happen, who believed in me before anyone else and goes on believing. In gratitude, admiration and love, Chris. June 22, 1989." A comprehensive biography on the enigmatic Paul Bowles, author and man of letters.

[Likely Boston. After 1924.] Photograph, tinted. 14½ x 19¾ inches. Unique? An outstanding example in fine condition. Excellent circa 1920s photograph of the Boston Symphony Orchestra advertising Buescher True Tone Saxophones: "In late 1924, the first bassoonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Abdon Laus, who performed the saxophone solos in the BSO's concerts when required, began to put together the Boston Saxophone Orchestra, drawn from professional and good amateur players in the city [...] [T]he ensemble rehearsed assiduously, and also grew in size, with one concert comprising 85 players.¹" During the mid 1910s to the late 1920s, interest in the sax grew dramatically in popularity in the United States. This 'saxophone craze' resulted in numerous saxophone ensembles being formed as dance or jazz groups. Many did not have the classical roots as did the Boston Saxophone Orchestra. Thus, one aim of the Boston Saxophone Orchestra was to "counter the populist tendencies associated with the… Read More

Iola, WI: Krause Publications, (1997).197 pages. Well-illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover in dustwrapper. A fine copy. First edition of this straightforward guide to Greek coins as works of art.