Search Results: Titles starting with B from Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC

Magnificent Pictorial Banquet menu with a map showing the proposed Panama Canal, with elaborate naval fittings, harbor view and sailing ships in honor of Ferdinand de Lesseps. Measures 13 ⅝ x 9 ¾ inches, printed in three colors on card stock, corners bumped, otherwise in fine, clean condition. Includes the multiple course menu.
Ferdinand Marie, Comte de Lesseps (9 November 1805 – 7 December 1894) was a French diplomat and later developer of the Suez Canal, which in 1869 joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas, substantially reducing sailing distances and times between Europe and East Asia.
He attempted to repeat this success with an effort to build a Panama Canal at sea level during the 1880s, but the project was devastated by epidemics of malaria and yellow fever in the area, as well as beset by financial problems, and the planned Lesseps Panama Canal was never completed. Eventually, the project was bought out by the United States, which solved the medical problems and changed the design to a… Read More

, octavo, 80 page pamphlet, ex-library, handstamp on front wrapper, roughly removed from bound pamphlet volume, retains front wrap, text block loose, edges of front wrap, and preliminary leaves chipped, as is rear leaf, a good working copy.

quarto, 293 pages, both manuscript and typescript notes and minutes, several inlaid items, bound in a commercially manufactured ledger, binding worn, rubbed, and scuffed, back-strip missing, text in very good, clean, and legible condition. Many of the typed pages are mounted on pages of the ledger.
Minutes describe the workings and activities of the privately funded and incorporated Community Service Bureau of Belleville, a social and family welfare association founded on December 18, 1928, in Belleville, Essex County, New Jersey. Belleville is just outside of Newark. The volume chronicles the work of the Bureau during the Depression Years and the beginnings of World War II providing relief, visiting nurses and health and medical care to residents of Belleville.

Brooklyn: Published by Lain and Company, 1875. Hardcover. Good. stout octavo, 14 pp., ads, lacks map, iv, [4], 987, v, 108, 36, [4 pp., ads], 18, [4 pp., ads], rebound in later linen backed boards, ex-library, hand stamps on title page, shelf label on spine, covers somewhat soiled, else a good copy. Numerous full page advertisements for Brooklyn businesses throughout the volume, one in color.

Brooklyn: Published by Lain and Company, 1878. Hardcover. Good. stout octavo, lacks map,12 pp., ads, x, [2], 1084, 20, 36, [2], re-bound in later linen backed boards, red leather spine label, ex-library, hand stamps on title-page, shelf label on spine, covers somewhat soiled, numerous full page advertisements for Brooklyn based businesses, a good copy.

Brooklyn: Published by J. Lain and Company, 1863. Hardcover. Good. octavo, 518, [4], 36, 30 pp., lacks map, rebound in later linen, backed boards, red leather spine label, ex-library, hand-stamps on title-page, shelf label on spine, otherwise in good clean condition.

Brooklyn: Published by Lain and Company, 1876. Hardcover. Good. stout octavo, 12 pp ads, lacking map, iv, 1015, v, 98, 36, 4 pp. ads, 16, 4 pp., ads, re-bound in later linen backed boards, red leather spine label, ex-library, hand stamps on title page, shelf label on spine, covers somewhat dust soiled, else a good copy.

[New York?]: B'nai B'rith, 1908. No Binding. Near Fine. octavo, 16 pp., issued with out wrappers, a very good, very clean copy. A front-page Editorial concerns 19 year-old Jeremiah Averbuch, who was killed at the home of the Chicago Chief of Police, allegedly during an Anarchist attempt to assassinate the official. The young man's sister protested that he was an honest young man, about to move to Iowa, who had gone to the Chief's house merely to obtain a ""certificate of good character"" which he could use in seeking new employment in the Midwest. B'nai B'rith dated to the 1840s, but it was not until 1913 that the Jewish fraternal organization established an Anti-Defamation League to protest anti-Semitism in various areas of American life. B'nai B'rith did not assert that such prejudice was behind this case, quoting in detail the account by the Chief of Police, but rather feared that such incidents would fuel pending… Read More

Large archive consisting of: 138 letters (189 pp.), 28 volumes of business ledgers, accounts, and memorandum books (5,500 pp.), plus approximately 1,068 pieces of paper and manuscript ephemera, including checks, letterhead business receipts, newspaper clippings, brochures, circulars, used envelopes, post cards, etc., as well as essays and verse. Letters date from 1857 to 1939, with the bulk of the correspondence and ephemera dated between the years of 1870 and 1910. The letters tend to be mostly business and financial correspondence, with many written on company letterhead. There are also letters that discuss personal or family matters.Charles L. Clark (1850-aft. 1930)
Charles L. Clark was born in Nov 1850, at Old Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut. In 1870, Charles is found working as a clerk in a store at Old Saybrook. By the time the 1880 Census was taken he is found located at Essex, Middlesex County, Connecticut, listed as a merchant. Clark married Marie Louise Kirtland in 1873, she… Read More