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Folio manuscript collection.  Mostly 250 x 200 mm., [10 x 8 inches]. Letterhead Sheets. 29 pp. total. Folds, light browning, small tears at folds.  Archive comprised of 16 pp. with the American Exchange Bank,  and 12 pp. relating to the Albany City Bank, Frankfort Bank, Herkimer County Bank, Bank of Central New York, Agricultural Bank, Onondaga County Bank, Mohawk Valley Bank, and H.J. Miner's Bank.  There is also a  1 p. letter from Berry P. Churchill to J.A. Rasbach, Little Falls, February 18, 1856. Collection of hand written banking documents with apparent relevance to the Remington Arms Company on letterheads of various historical banks in Upstate New York State.  Most are addressed to J.A. Rasbach who was John Adam Rasbach (1805-1892), an attorney and cashier of the American Exchange Bank in Ilion, New York.  Herkimer County history notes that: "In 1852 Ilion became an incorporated village. The person whom history credits as most entitled to be remembered because of this move was John… Read More

New York: J. Dickson, Printer, 1864. Broadside in 4to.  310 x 235 mm., [12 x 9 ¼ inches].  Caption, and ten stanzas of verse in two columns, within an ornamental border.  Sheet somewhat dust-soiled with a few minor stains, surface wear along folds, one corner slightly chipped, &c. Still, entirely sound, and with good margins. The Battle of Cedar Creek was fought in the Shenandoah Valley on October 19, 1864. Surprised by the Confederate forces under the command of Jubal Early, the Union troops were nearly routed. Riding to the battlefield from Winchester, twenty miles away, Gen. Philip Sheridan rallied the troops and carried the day. This action occasioned the slightly more famous poem by Thomas Buchanan Read. Private Maynard's poem centers more narrowly on the actions of the 28th Iowa. The regiment was organized in 1862 and mustered out in 1865, having fought campaigns in Mississippi, Louisiana and Virginia, losing 271 men in the process.  "At dawn, October 19, 1864, the Confederate Army of… Read More

Milano: Paolo Antonio Tosi, 1838.  Second edition of this standard work on the early romances and chivalric poetry written by Italian writers during the 15th and 16th centuries.  It includes descriptions of 820 editions, with an extensive index of authors and titles included.  This is the one of the earliest annotated bibliographies listing the editions with notes of the works of Ludovico Ariosto, cited 241 printed editions.  He also describes with annotations editions of the works of , Matteo Maria Boiardo (20 editions), Luigi Pulci (31 editions), Pietro Aretino, Lodovico Dolci, Torquato Tasso and dozens more.  The concludes with a useful index and a list of bibliographies used in his research. Gaetano Melzi (1786-1851) began his career as a bookseller, describing incunabula and early Italian books and offering them to libraries and private collectors.  He was instrumental in building the Biblioteca Braidense and the private library of the English Collector Frank Hall Standish.   His skill… Read More

Firenze: Presso Domenico Ciardetti, 1805. Two volumes. 4to. 260 x 185 mm. (10 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches). xii, 531 pp.; xii, 551 pp. Late nineteenth century calf spine and tips, over marbled paper boards; some rubbing to joints and a few scrapes to corner pieces, but sound and attractive. With the bookplate of Anthony Hobson.  First edition of Moreni's first major work, still a standard book on the bibliography of Tuscany. Based on a collection of books and manuscripts that Moreni collected, this bibliographical study of the history and literature of Florence and Tuscany includes over 7,500 entries, many with significant annotations. The contents are still useful today and scholars of Florence in particular find it filled with interesting and informative notes that are not found elsewhere. Written with the help of Domenico Maria Manni, Moreni's mentor, this work is an exemplar of the level of erudition and scholarship achieved by late 18th and early 19th century Italian bibliographers.  Domenico Moreni… Read More

Biblioteca Comulane. 8vo.  240 x 165 mm., [9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches].  78 pp.  Fully illustrated with color plates.  Pictorial wrappers. Printed exhibition catalogue of books, manuscripts, and drawings from the collections of the Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati of Siena, exhibited to celebrate the visit of the Madison Council of the Library of Congress in 2011.  Rich in content and images.

In Venezia ed in Milano: Michel' Antonio Panza, 1741. Second edition revised and augmented.  4to.  16, 266 pp.  Contemporary limp vellum showing some wear, with a minor repair to the lower part of the spine; some light foxing to the text. Biblioteca Italiana, the first catalogue of its kind published as a guide for collectors, was originally published by Haym in 1726 in London for the benefit of English collectors and librarians.  It was highly successful and was reprinted in Italy several times.  It is based on the work of Giusto Fontanini, the noted Italian librarian, collector, and author, who wrote and compiled a catalogue describing books from the collection of Cardinal Imperiali that was published in 1711.   Haym arranged his catalogue by subject for easy use and quick reference and includes descriptions of over 3500 titles.  His work is introduced by an essay on Italian printing by Fontanini dated 1706 and is notable for its geographical table of contents and an extensive index.  It… Read More

Genoa: Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova, 2016. 8vo.  240 x 165 mm., [9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches].  79 pp.; 175 pp. Both catalogues illustrated throughout with color images.  Pictorial wrappers.  Very good copies. Part I is a history of the library at the University of Genoa with descriptions of its various collections, especially as associated with travel and voyages and the New World.  Part II is a history of the Archivio di Genova, with seven articles on its origins and development over eight centuries.  This is followed by a catalogue of an exhibition, featuring 74 items,  describing the hightlights from the collection.

Roma: Appresso il Bernabo e Lazzarini, 1747. 4to.  263 x 198 mm. (10 1/4 x 8 inches).  xii, 476 pp. Title-page in red and black, with an engraved bignette portraying the hall of the Capponi Library; decorative woodcut initial letter throughout.  Uncut copy printed on strong paper; some scattered foxing and a few spots most prominently on the half-title.  Contemporary paste-paper boards, title and date in ink on the spine.  Expert paper repair to joints and hinges, boards toned by dust.  With faults a very good, large copy on thick paper. First edition.  A large copy of this seminal catalogue of 5,000 books and manuscripts documenting the history of Italian literature, especially during the 13th - 16th centuries.  There are numerous editions of Petrach, Dante, and Boccaccio as well  a signficatant number of edition of tales chivalry and early French romances.  The collection is also deep in first and early editions of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso and many of the late 16th century writers. … Read More

Boston and Cambridge: H. O. Houghton and Company and the Riverside Press, 1870. 8vo.  220 x 1540 mm., [8 ¾ x 6 inches].  xvi, 234 pp.  Wrappers detached from text block, spine chipped, edges cracked.  Housed in a clamshell box. With deaccession stamp of the University of Vermont. Useful as a reference copy only; priced in pencil with a few buyer's names included.  Complete catalogue of this important sale of American, which contains many 16th and 17th century early printed books relating to the New World.  The catalogue include Henry Stevens's descriptions of 2545 lot, many with informative annotations.  The "Explanatory" or preface to the catalogue provides a very good overview of the contents of the collection and the reason for its sale.  Of the sale McKay writes, "In April, 1870 came the Henry Stevens sale, with its interesting preface by Henry Stevens, Jr. . . George L. Mckay, American Book Auction Catalogues, 1540.

London, 1874. 8vo.  220 x 140 mm., [8 ½ x 5 ½ inches].  [2], vi, 182pp; pp. 682-733 (West Indies); 2,630 & 1,768 items.  Publisher's terracotta colored cloth; some light wear and discoloration to cloth on lower part of the boards and spine, edges bumped; paper stock toned with age.  With the ownership inscription of Lewis S. Hayden on front free endpaper and check marks in the margins suggesting purchases or holdings.  Sound copy. One A. R. Smith's early Americana priced catalogues directed to private collectors and libraries in the American market.  The "Index to Principal Matters", which appears at the front of the catalogue, is organized geographically from Alabama to the Yucatan.  The collection includes English, Continental and American imprints that range from the 15th to the mid-19th century.  Some of the descriptions have short annotations, especially the early printed books.Alfred Russell Smith was the son of the bookseller and bibliographer John Russell Smith who established his… Read More

8vo. 186x 119 mm., [7 ¼ x 4 ½ inches].  [1]-14, [1], 15-19, 21-24, [1], 25-29, [1], 30-36, [1], 37-90; folios 74 and 83-90 blank except for page numbers and 4 lines on fol. 85 verso; plus 18 blank leaves at the end followed by [1] leaves containg 3 index pages, and 1 final blank leaf.  Manuscript section tiles in outline capitals on separate leaves, included in foliation.  Complete (the gap between folios 19 and 21 is a foliation error). Ruled borders throughout.  Text in brown ink in a flowing cursive hand, varying lines, numerous insertions, and deletions.                                                                       The manuscript on wove paper is illustrated with 20 pen-and-ink drawings, of which 7 full-page, on rectos with verso blank (the first five not included in the foliation), and 13 half-page or smaller, plus 2 small ornaments.  Bound in black straight-grain morocco, covers gilt paneled, central panel with arabesque tooling at corners,… Read More

New York, 1852. 8vo.  225 x 150 mm., [8 ¾ x 6 inches].  [2], 235, [1] pp., [viii], 48 pp. Original leather-backed boards; leather spine rubbed and dry, with the text block light foxed throughout.   Amazing collection of books for sale in the early 1850's, when the explosive growth in American publishing was taking off.  Private collectors and libraries were building collections of books for mechanics halls, local libraries, and schools all over the country and the demand for printed material was growing with it.  This catalogue issued by Putnam, one of the first after establishing his own firm in 1848 after leaving Wiley and Putnam, is one of the largest of its kind issued to date.  Incorporating both newly published, imported, and antiquarian books, the catalogue covers all fields of literature, history, travel, the arts and science, and law.  It also includes children's books in all these fields.  The index which covers over forty pages, is organized by subject is an extremely useful… Read More

Boston: Higgins, Bradley & Dayton, 1858. 8vo. 200 x 120 mm. (8 x 5 inches). xxv, 9-345 pp., plus 17 pp. directory of leather companies; (same collation as Sabin and the copy at the University of Delaware). Original brown cloth, title in gilt on spine; cloth boards discolored otherwise a sound and attractive copy. First and only edition. Encyclopedic work on the leather and shoe trade that includes detailed historical information of the manufacture of boots and shoes. Richardson text also acts as a guide or manual to techniques of the trade and offer opinions on the machinery required for fine finished products. He includes information on both English and French styles of shoes and provides patterns for manufacture. Reviewed at the time by G. S. Hillard and called "an interesting and instructive book." Sabin 71096. Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature, II p. 1801. (302).

Bennington (VT): Printed by J. I. C. & A. S. C. Cook, 1843. 8vo. 180 x 10 mm., (7 x 4 1/4 inches). 304 pp. Full contemporary calf, a bit rubbed at spine but sound and attractive; some light foxing throughout. Ownership stamp of A. Robertson on front fly leaf and the signature of Frank Streeter of Glens Falls, New York on rear pastedown. Quite a nice copy of the first edition of Robertson's Book of Health. The author, writing for a rural populations adopts the medical approach of Samuel Thomson, which emphasized the use of local botanical specimens and herbs to manage most medical issues. The book begins with a critique of modern medical practices, an interesting insight into diagnosis and prescriptions of mid-19th century medicine in America. He then describes in some detail remedies for hundreds of medical conditions using the Thomsonian theory. Cordasco 401133. "Take charge of your own bodies." OCLC cites six copies in American libraries.

Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Morning Leader, 1865. Large Folio. 610 x 500 mm. ( 24 x 20 inches). 4 pp. Illustrated on page 2 with a Funeral Monument in Memory of Abraham Lincoln. Folded with minor breaks at folds, otherwise very good copy. Volume XIX, No. 102, of the Cleveland Morning Leader, issued on Friday morning April 28, 1865. This edition was the first in Northern Ohio to announce the capture and killing of John Wilkes Booth.  The newspaper carries an extensive report on the tracking, locating and killing of the assassin and the firing of the tobacco barn at the Garrett Farm in Port Royal, Virginia where he was shot and subsequently died on the morning of April 27th. This announcement on the 28th of April of Booth's death occurred the same day that Lincoln's Funeral Cortege arrived in Cleveland and Lincoln's casket was on view until midnight of April 29th, when it moved on to Columbus and then on to Springfield, Illinois. The newspaper contains reports on the condition of Edwin Stanton,… Read More

(North Haven?, Maine?), 1864. 4to. broadside.  255 x 167 mm. [10 x 6 ¾ inches].  12 stanzas of verse in two columns, with woodcut engraving of large sailing ship set beneath the title. American Navy Civil War verse broadside from North Haven Island, Maine,written by Harrison Beverage.  The broadside lists many names of sailors from North Haven and ships that they served on. The names included are Hanson Carver, the Brown's - Eben & John, the Alexanders - James, Ezekiel & Zena. They served on board the School Ship Sabine, The Ohio a ship of the line, The steamship Colorado, the Rhode Island and on board the Monitor Menadnoc with a couple of them getting wounded in battle. The piece also tells about the battle at Fort Fisher and Commodore Porter. Rare.

New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1907. 8vo.  210 x 135 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches].  [16], 382 pp.  Illustrated with frontispiece and 20 photographic reproductions.  Bound in publisher's green cloth, with color printed pastoral scene pasted to the upper board, gilt title on spine; binding showing light wear to tips and spine, some soiling to the cloth, spine faded with some discoloration.  With faults a nice copy. First edition.   A study of the Brownings' travels to Italy in 1838, 1844,  and there nine year stay in country from 1846 and 1855 and the influence  these experiences had on their writing.  Included are detail on the people and places they visited and the impact of political and societal changes that were taking place in Italy during the middle years of the century.  Clarke's work is considered a significant contribuiton to of the poetry and prose of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Helen Archibald Clarke (1860-1926) was the editor of the works of Robert and… Read More

New York: Walker & Company, 2000. 8vo.  215 x 150 mm., [8 1/2 x 6 inches]. [xii], 194 pp.  Illustrated with 19 black and white images in the text.  Original brown boards, dust jacket; near fine copy. First American edition.  "Ross King has brought a novelist's eye and ear to his telling of the story of Filippo Brunelleschi's stone masterpiece rising course by course over the rooftops of Florence.  It is a compelling story of one of the greatest structural engineering achievements of the Renaissance."  -  Henry Petroski .

Washington, Governement Printing Office: Department of the Interior Bureau of Education, 1883. 8vo. 230 x 145 mm., [9 x 5 1/2 inches].  5 pp.  Drop title, self wrappers; lightly soiled at edges. Academic prize of 5,000 Lira for the best dissertation on the use of the scientific method and the its present day practice by all the departments of science in Europe and the United States.  Maurizio Bufalini (d. 1787-1875) was a prominent member of the Royal Institute for Higher Practical Studies in Florence and a medical doctor whose research into the diagnosis and treatment of disease was his life's work.  This prize was a result of his observation that the use of the scientific method was not being utilized and he initiated a twenty year study to gather data on the practices of doctors in hospitals and private practice. See Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani  v. 14 for a information on his life and career.

London: Chapman and Hall, Ld, 1905. 8vo.  195 x 130 mm., [7 3/4 x 5 inches].  235 pp.  Illustrated with a folding map of Southern Italy and a few illustrations in the text.  Original green publisher's cloth,  title and decoration in gilt on cover; title and author on spine; spine somewhat faded, otherwise a nice copy in sound condition. "New and Cheaper Edition/Illustrated", originally published by Chapman and Hall in 1901.  Beginning in Naples, Gissings account records his travels south to the toe of Italy and across the Strait of Messina on his way to Palermo.  Organized in eighteen chapters, Gissing text brims with an enthusiasm for the countryside and the ancient architecture of the place.  He is especially taken with the stark landscape that is juxtaposed with the blue water and sky of the Mediterranean and Ionian Seas.   But, as only the English are capable, Gissing evocative text is accented with the paternalistic view, which characterizes many of the Italians he met as clumsy,… Read More