Search Results: Titles starting with F from William Reese Company

Santa Fe, 1945. [xiv],317pp. plus illus. Original cloth. Some slight wear to spine ends. With a card signed by the author once taped to titlepage (now laid in). From an edition limited to 500 copies. "A scholarly and dependable book which can be safely used as a source for material on Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Jim Miller, and other New Mexico gunmen. The author is a thorough historian of that state" - Adams SIX-GUNS. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 1214 ("scarce"). ADAMS HERD 1262. HOWES K37, "aa."

Santa Fe, 1946. [xiv],317pp. plus illus. Original cloth. Some slight wear to spine ends and corners. Second printing. "A scholarly and dependable book which can be safely used as a source for material on Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Jim Miller, and other New Mexico gunmen. The author is a thorough historian of that state" - Adams SIX-GUNS (referring to the first printing).

Boston: Published by Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committe, 1927. [3]-127pp. Stiff printed wrappers. Spine bit chipped, top margin of wrappers bit sunned, else very good. A defense of Sacco and Vanzetti by Dos Passos. "Sacco and Vanzetti are not the only men who have been framed, but they have become symbols. All over the world people are hopefully, heartbrokenly watching the Sacco-Vanzetti Case as a focus in the unending fight for human rights of oppressed individuals and masses against oppressing individuals and masses."

Washington, 1953. Card, 2 1/2 x 4 inches, plus typed letter. Fine. Card with the facsimile signature of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, together with a letter from his Press Secretary, James Hagerty, explaining that he cannot at this time obtain a genuine autographed card for Ashley Cole, but hopes the facsimile will suffice for the present

[N, 1893. [8]pp. Folded signatures. Bit dust soiled, else very good, untrimmed. Facsimile of the first Latin edition of the letter in which Columbus announces his discovery of the New World.

Washington, 1844. 72pp. Engraved portrait frontis. Facsimiles. Library cloth, library blind stamp on titlepage, else a sound copy. Facsimiles of Washington's letters on agriculture and plantations

London: Printed for J. Johnson and J. Almo, 1780. 117pp. Modern speckled calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, spine gilt, a.e.g. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Titlepage a bit dusty, text lightly tanned. Very good. Fourth edition, published the same year as the first, and printed in the same press run as the third edition. Tooke was one of the strongest domestic critics of the North administration. This is a virulent attack on British policy in pursuing the American war and on ministerial corruption in general. Contains much material relating to military expenditures in North America, including financial burdens resulting from alliance with Indians. Adams locates six copies of this fourth edition. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 80-86d. SABIN 96174.

London, 1780. 117pp. Modern three-quarter morocco and cloth. Titlepage bit tanned. Very good, with bookplate of William L. Clements. Second edition. Tooke was one of the strongest domestic critics of the North administration. This is a virulent attack on British policy in pursuing the American war and on ministerial corruption in general. Contains much material relating to military expenditures in North America, including financial burdens resulting from alliance with Indians. Adams locates seven copies of this edition. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 80-86b. SABIN 96174. KRESS B331

Philadelphia, 1805. 61pp. plus [1]p. of errata. Modern marbled wrappers. Old ink pagination numbers on upper corner of recto of leaves, from its previous position in a sammelband. Contemporary manuscript note on titlepage attributing authorship to Turner Camac. Very good. Lacks the map. One of the earliest American works entirely devoted to canals. The author strongly advocates the advancement of navigable communication between the states in the Northeast, South, and Midwest, with emphasis on Pennsylvania, but citing New York, Virginia, Louisiana, Ohio, etc. He lists the advantages for trade in manufactured and agricultural goods. Howes notes that this work is also ascribed to Turner Camac, and the NUC says it was "principally extracted" from Camac's INLAND NAVIGATION IN IRELAND and adapted by William Blodgett for American waterways. HOWES B539. SABIN 5959. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 5959. RINK 4004

[Lynchburg, Va.: J.P. Bell Company Incorporated, ca. 1910].. 44pp. including illustrations, plus two postcards. Oblong octavo. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor wear. Near fine. A rare promotional booklet for Marion County, Florida around the turn of the 20th century, primarily focused on attracting farmers. The county's slogan, "Good as the Best for Fruit and Vegetables/ Better than the Rest for 'Hog and Hominy'", adorns the first page. The final page drives home the point, stressing that "This county contains good land within its boundaries....Her resources are unlimited; the industrious farmer can succeed." The pamphlet itself is mostly made up of photographic illustrations, with occasional text about the climate, schools, and other amenities in the region. The illustrations show homes, farms, street scenes, flora, golf clubs and other recreations, and more. An insert at the end comprises two postcards to be detached and mailed to the Marion County Board of Trade for further… Read More

Philadelphia, 1838. 24pp. Contemporary plain wrapper, stitched. Wraps dust soiled, some light foxing, else very good. A survey of the city since the colonial period to the present, in considering the placement of new public buildings. SABIN 61649

Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke & Sons, 1823. vi,[2],120,iv,[4],216,80pp. Contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt, gilt red morocco label. Boards rubbed and edgeworn, two x two inch triangular-shaped portion of calf missing from front board. Early ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Text tanned and foxed. Good. "First American from the second London edition." Effectively three books in one, the first is an examination of puerperal fever, a devastating infection that affected women within days of childbirth, and was a common cause of death in childbirth up to the 1930s. The second book focuses on scarlet fever, pulmonary consumption, and measles, three common but deadly illnesses of the time, as well as discussing the positive effects of sulphurus water in healing them. The final book examines copaiba (copaiva in the book) balsam, a medecine made from sap of the copaifera species of trees. Used to cure diseases such as bronchitis, hemarrhoids and UTIs, it was and is a popular all-natural medicine… Read More

Cincinnati: Printed by R.P. Brooks, 1839.. 43pp. Original plain blue wrappers. Wrappers detached, else very good. In a half morocco and cloth slipcase. First edition, second issue. In 1838, Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs ordered: "The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the State, if necessary." The author, John Portineus Greene (a brother-in-law of Brigham Young), was appointed to gather documentary evidence of the ensuing repression, some of which he witnessed personally, and which he published circa July 1839. "This gives the story of the expulsion from the Mormon point of view. The expulsion created such a wave of condemnation against the Governor and authorities of the state of Missouri that two years later the General Assembly of the state published DOCUMENT CONTAINING THE CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, &c. IN RELATION TO THE DISTURBANCES WITH THE MORMONS.... Greene's FACTS gives much material from the rare Assembly Document of 1841. Both are essential to the… Read More

Leipzig, 1845.. iv,258,[2]pp. Contemporary brown cloth, rebacked with backstrip in similar brown cloth, modern paper label. Marginal wear to old boards, new endpapers. Text lightly tanned, with a few old stains. Good. Third edition, after the first of 1843, and the first with this title. "One of the earliest German accounts of Texas, this is also an important source work on the events of the Texas Revolution" - Jenkins. Ehrenberg emigrated from Germany to New Orleans, and joined the Louisiana Greys to fight in aid of Texas in 1835. He took part in the siege of Bexar, the battle of Coleto in March 1836, and the Fannin massacre, from which he escaped. Later he took part in the Gold Rush and the early settlement of California. "By the leading surveyor, map maker and explorer of the early Southwest" - Howes. HOWES E83. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 54. STREETER TEXAS 1454b. RAINES p.75. GRAFF 1226. SABIN 22071. CLARK III:36.

New-Have: A. Morse, 1792. 33pp. Early 20th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Spine heavily chipped and worn, front hinge cracked, corners worn. Bookplates on front pastedown. First and last page lightly but evenly tanned. Minor foxing and toning else. About very good. Ordination sermon given by Jonathan Edwards, Jr. (1745-1801), a Congregational minister in New Haven. Edwards was the son and namesake of the famed Connecticut theologian. Rather scarce. EVANS 24291. ESTC W20285. TRUMBULL 654.

New-Have: Thomas and Samuel Gree, 1783. 27pp. Half title. Modern half calf and cloth, spine gilt. Bookplates on front pastedown. Minor toning and foxing. Very good. Untrimmed. Ordination sermon given by Jonathan Edwards, Jr. (1745-1801), a Congregational minister in New Haven. Edwards was the son and namesake of the famed Connecticut theologian. Rather scarce. EVANS 17919. ESTC W20286. TRUMBULL 647.

New Have: James Parker, 1759. v,84,[1]pp. Small quarto. 20th-century red half morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Light soiling and wear to text. Good plus. Sermon delivered at the controversial ordination of James Dana, whose orthodoxy had been questioned. Todd and others were declared "disorderly" for their conduct. Only a handful of copies in ESTC. EVANS 8504. ESTC W12195. TRUMBULL 1500.

Boston: Printed by J. Draper, 1738.. [2],33pp. Modern half calf and cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt. Spine ends lightly worn. Bookplate on front pastedown, personal ink stamps of John Carter Brown on first text leaf and final blank verso. Titlepage with some loss at bottom corner, slightly affecting border, leaf A4 with some marginal loss and short closed tear. Patch of dampstaining at fore-edge, scattered foxing. Still a very good copy. A scarce funeral sermon by Samuel Mather, son of Cotton Mather, occasioned by the death of Caroline, the wife of George II. He was pastor of the North Church in Boston when he delivered this sermon, which is based on 2 Samuel 1:25, "How the mighty have fallen." With the bookplate of John Carter Brown, deaccessioned from the John Carter Brown Library as a duplicate. ESTC W20298. EVANS 4276. HOLMES, MINOR MATHERS 70. SABIN 46796.

New York, 1955. Cloth backed boards. Fine. A good roundup of contributions by various western authors, with illustrations after Charles M. Russell

New York, 1861. 31pp. Original printed wrappers. Wraps soiled and bit chipped. Internally good. Also prints a letter by Holt written in May of 1861. Both articles concern the Civil War. SABIN 32650.