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

Quarto, bound in cloth, boards detached, very worn and chipped, spine lacking, first signature (unused index) loose, as is first page. Volume comprises 239 mss copied letters on 263 pre-numbered pages, all dated between January 26th, 1858 to October 25th, 1865. Blotter paper and four soiled sheets still present, chipped. Text in very good legible condition. Samuel C. Morton was a Philadelphia based merchant. He was the son of John Morton, Jr. and his wife Margaret Canby. Born in 1808 in Wilmington, Delaware, Samuel upon arriving in Philadelphia, served an apprenticeship with Bunker & Straw, flour merchants, on the river front, near Walnut Street. He afterward became one of the proprietors of the store, the firm being named "Samuel C. Morton & Co." He was a merchant in the West Indian trade, exporting flour and importing sugar and molasses. His parents families were intertwined by marriage with a number of old prominent Philadelphia families, such as the Biddle, Clement, Coates, Drinker, Lea, Paxson… Read More

octavo, 35, [1, blank leaf] page pamphlet, ex-library, handstamp on title page, text foxed, lacking wrappers, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else good. American Imprints 11973, 4 locations

octavo, 39 page pamphlet, ex-library, handstamps on titlepage, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else a good copy.

No Binding. Near Fine. folio, 99 orders, 137 pages, in very good, clean and legible condition. Splendid series of naval orders issued by the French Naval Minister of War Antoine de Sartine (1729-1801) in the period leading up to and during the commencement of French Naval participation in the American Revolution. These were official copies sent to "intendants de marine" - in this instance J. Mistral at Le Havre. They bear his original signature as well as a secretarial signature of Sartine. The sole originals would of course have been retained by the ministry at Fontainebleau. Sartine had previously been Lieutenant General of the Police of Paris and was known for his organizational skills. His organizational skills are clearly evident in these orders. As such he was particularly well equipped to place the Navy on a sound footing for war. Notably, he removed authority from bureaucrats and functionaries and placed it in the hands of competent naval officers. The orders cover a wide variety… Read More

six letters, 44 pages, accompanied by original mailing envelopes, some occasional wear and staining to paper, else in good, legible condition.
George Bourne, the son of Frederick G. Bourne, multi-millionaire founder of Singer Sewing machines and "Commodore" of the New York Yacht Club, was a 22 year-old senior at Yale when he first met the beautiful Helen Cole Whitney, 20 year old daughter of Charles Elmore Whitney of Boston, heir to the Hollingsworth & Whitney Paper Company. She lived, for much of the year, at "Hedge Lee," the Whitney "country place" on Martha's Vineyard, an enormous Italianate waterfront villa, where the Whitney's summered with their staff of butlers, coachmen and grooms.
Bourne's first letter to Whitney, speaks of her "getting full of health and enjoying the U. S. air", which suggests she may have just returned from a residence abroad, undoubtedly in Europe. He had just spent a "wonderful" summer on the St. Lawrence River, "doing about everything except… Read More

Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto, 223 manuscript pages, plus blanks, bound in half red leather, marbled paper covered boards, back-strip loose, but present, worn at corners and edges, text written in ink, in very good clean and legible hand. This curious work contains a one page preface that states: "In writing this account of four tourists' six months sojourn abroad, I am greatly indebted to the work called "Europe its Scenes and Society," by Daniel C. Eddy. Some of the expressions herein are about the same as in that; the sentences having been written from memory mostly. Hoping it may find its place in the current literature of the day, I leave it in the hands of the publisher, Lizzie Hoyt Henry, Herbert Hall, July 12th, 1888." This work purports to be an account of four month's travel by four persons, the Marstons, they are: Mr. Fred Marston, his wife, and their daughter Florence, of Beverly, Massachusetts, the fourth was presumably Miss Henry. However, it is quite probable that… Read More

rare ambrotype of a Native American, likely a member of a western tribe he stands with an elaborate headdress and hair pipe breastplate, circa mid-1850s. Plains Indians began wearing the hair pipe breastplate after 1850 and were extremely popular later in the 19th century. The image is dark, in a contemporary gutta percha case, case with several repaired cracks, else good.

first and only edition, octavo, folding plate, (map and plan), Map showing the Apalachicola Bay and River and a plan of the proposed town of Colinton (the Forbes purchase area), viii, [9] – 226, 1 leaf, [publishers advt.], bound in contemporary ¼ sheep and marbled paper covered boards, map somewhat foxed, 4 inch tear from right hand gutter edge of map, separation at fold intersection, small tear along fold at bottom edge, portion of spine missing at base, outer hinges opening, else very good.
James Grant Forbes' Sketches is not primarily a travel account, but rather a guide to East Florida at the time it was ceded to the United States. It appears to have been designed to attract settlers or investors to the "Forbes Purchase," an area of about 1,200,000 acres on the Apalachicola Bay and River mouth. A map of this region is included, together with a plan of the projected town of Colinton on the Apalachicola River eighteen miles from the Bay. The author claims to have based his sketches on… Read More

18 letters, 28 manuscript pages, mainly quarto and folio, some old tape repairs at fold joints, generally in good legible condition, despite the idiosyncratic handwriting of Francis and several of the correspondents in the collection.
Family Letters of Dr. John Wakefield Francis, leading High Society Doctor of New York City, guardian of Julia Ward Howe and future "King of the Lobby" Sam Ward and "Literati" physician of Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville - 1825- 1856
John Wakefield Francis was born in New York City, the son of a German immigrant. His father's death at an early age forced Francis to apprentice himself to George Long, a printer. After tutoring by two Irish clergymen he was able to enter Columbia College in 1807, with advanced standing. Upon his graduation in 1809 he at once began the study of medicine under David Hosack. Entering the new College of Physicians and Surgeons he became its first graduate in 1811 and entered into partnership with Hosack, which continued until 1820. Appointed… Read More

New York: Printed For the Purchasers, 1823. No Binding. Very Good. 16mo, 8 pages, title-leaf with decorative woodcut, pagination incorrect, paper tanned, text pinned together, otherwise very good. The text carries four songs with Masonic themes. Unrecorded. Not in American Imprints, not in OCLC, etc.

octavo, 27 page pamphlet, text printed in double columns, lacking wrappers, removed from bound pamphlet volume, else a good copy.

octavo, 42 page pamphlet, front wrapper present, rear wrap missing, ex-library, handstamp on front wrapper, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, presentation inscription from Shea to Rev. Samuel Seabury, on p. 3, some light chipping to edges of front wrapper, else very good.

octavo, 19 page pamphlet, ex-library, handstamps on titlepage, roughly removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else good.

octavo, 43 page pamphlet, retains plain front wrapper, ex-library, handstamp and other markings on front wrap, else good.

[n.p., 1877] octavo, 66 page pamphlet, original printed wraps, ex-library, ink markings on front wrapper, removed from bound pamphlet volume, some chipping to edges and extremities of wrappers, else good.

octavo, 75 page pamphlet, ex-library, hand-stamps on title-page, titlepage loose but present, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, text foxed, else good. Concerns election fraud which occurred in the Presidential election of 1838. American Imprints 41-2125, 5 locations

octavo, 23, [1] pp., removed from bound volume of pamphlets, light toning to text, else very good. American Imprints 39585, AAS copy bears a note attributing the Statement to Onslow Peters.

octavo, map, 48 page pamphlet, original wraps, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else a good copy.
In May 1863 General Joseph Hooker convened a court martial to hear charges that General Revere had abandoned the field without cause at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Revere had moved his troops, without orders, about three miles to the rear, as they were short of ammunition and without rations. General Sickles relieved Revere of command for doing this. Dismissed from the service, Revere here defends his conduct and his honor; President Lincoln revoked his dismissal in 1864, and allowed Revere to resign. Dornbusch 2350. Sabin 70181. Not in Nevins.

octavo, 75 page pamphlet, ex-library, hand-stamps on title-page, titlepage loose but present, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, text foxed, else good. Concerns election fraud which occurred in the Presidential election of 1838. American Imprints 41-2125, 5 locations

octavo, 20 page pamphlet, removed from pamphlet volume, retains front wrapper, lacking rear wrap, ex-library, handstamp on front wrapper, else a good copy.