Rare books from R & A Petrilla

New Orleans: Selbstverlage, 1897. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. pp: (iv), 136, folding table at back. Spine neatly repaired, some edge wear to covers. Text in German. 9.25" x 6" The author of this history of the German society in New Orleans, Louisiana, has been described by scholars as the leader and "standard-bearer of culture for the German community of New Orleans.

Athens, GA: Athens Book Co, 1923. Second Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. 215pp; 10 plates from photographs. 7.5" x 5.5" Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free-endpaper: "Presented to / Senator Peter Horbeck / by the author / Frank Attolda / Athens, Ga. March 24, 1924." The author served as 2nd Lieutenant in the 328th Infantry, 82nd Division, in World War I.

1986. Original edition. Framed. Very Good. Broadside, printed in black and white. Large photo of Hampton in tux, posed over his vibraphone. Laid into a black, plastic frame, glazed. Image, 22" x 17". Frame, 25" x 18.5" Inscribed in blue ink, upper left: "Good-Luck / To Andy Scotty / Lionel / Hampton.

Albany: Printed by Hoffman and White, 1833. Third Edition, Revised. Full Leather. Very Good. 400pp; folding frontispiece and folding map of the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers. Old sheep, expertly rebacked with gilt spine rules and the original red leather label; endbands rolled in period style. 8.5" x 5.25" [Howes, USiana P589. Sabin 65484. Field, Indian Bibliography 1245. Flake, Mormon Bibliography, 6755: "Derisive reference to the Book of Mormon." Decker 35:566.].

NY: J.H. Colton, 1852. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. pp: 351, (18) ads for Colton's maps, charts and books; large, engraved, folding map tipped in at back as issued. Blind-stamped green cloth, spine ends and tips rubbed. Gilt-stamped on the cover is the name, A. Sheldon Clark. 7.5" x 5" Endpaper signature of Edwin C. Bush, Pittsburgh, Pa, 1853. Did Bush emigrate to Wisconsin, using this book? In 1864, an Edwin C. Bush was elected a director of the Missouri & Western Union Telegraph Company as reported in the October 14 issue of the Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gazette. [Howes, U.S.iana C967. Sabin 18069. Decker 38:95].

NY: J.H. Colton, 1852. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. pp: 351, (18) ads for Colton's maps, charts and books; large, engraved, folding map tipped in at front as issued. Blind-stamped purple cloth, spine tanned as usual. Upper portion of rear joint wormed; still a clean, tight copy of this desirable book. 7.5" x 5" [Howes, U.S.iana C967. Sabin 18069. Decker 38:95.].

Paris: A&W Galignani, 1835. First French Edition. Calf-backed marbled boards. Very Good. pp: vi, 326. Text block tight with occasional foxing. Recased and rebacked in calf, cream endpapers. 8" x 5.25" First published at London in 1835, this first French edition extended the title from "Journal" to "Journal of a Residence in America." [Howes, U.S.iana B1051 (Final Edition B1046). Robinson, Wayward Women.].

Tours: A. Mame et Cie, 1853. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good. 188pp; 8 full-color, chromolithographed plates. Text in the original French. This is the tale of a Frenchman and two boys who journey from Le Havre to California in search of gold. We are told of their hard work at the gold mines, the joys and travails of mining life, and their sundry adventures. Bound in elaborate, pictorial black cloth, stamped in gilt and colors on both covers and on spine; inner rear hinge repaired, otherwise near fine condition. 7.75" x 4.75" This is Dan Volkmann's copy with his Golden Bear bookplate. Volkmann spent 39 years collecting a complete first-edition set of Californiana books called the Zamorano 80--a feat accomplished by only three other collectors. [Gumuchian 1159. Sabin 12350. Decker 35:683.].

NY: D. Appleton, 1891. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: (ix) hotel ads, viii, 270, (11) railway and publisher's ads; complete with 37 plates after photographs, and three colored, folding maps in rear pocket. Bound in pictorial red cloth, stamped in black and gilt; some mottling of spine cloth, otherwise near fine condition. 7" x 4.75

1925. Original photograph album. Very Good. Oblong, string-tied album of black cardstock leaves, 11" x 13", photographs mounted on 35pp, blanks at the rear. Bound in black, flexible boards with an embossed sailing ship and gilt lettering (Photo-Album) on the cover. Pasted in are 116 albumen and silver gelatin prints, ranging from small candids to 8 ½" x 10 ½" group portraits, a few fading, overall sharp and clean. Laid into the album are a Japanese news article, a small head-shot of an older gentleman, and a watercolor portrait (10" x 8 ¼") of a man's face. Most of the photographs in this album. circa 1895-1925, were taken in Mie-Ken (or "Mie prefecture"), part of the Kansai region on the main island of Honshu. The group and individual portraits reflect new social and economic developments and cultural norms that emerged during this period. Subjects are shown in either traditional Japanese garments or in Western dress. Group shots often depict people wearing both styles within the same picture.… Read More

New York: J.H. Colton & Co, 1855. 1855 edition. Original Cloth. Good. Full-color engraved map, colored by hand, scrollwork border on all sides, opens to 25" x 29"; repairable separations at the intersections of several folds. Folds into red cloth case with embossed all-over design on both covers, gilt lettering on front. 5.5" x 3.75" [OCLC locates three holdings of this edition: Grinnell Col, U Iowa, Stanford U. Decker 23:225--1870 edition.].

Bismark, Dakota: Tribune Printers & Binders, 1888. First Edition. Original Cloth. Fine. 85pp. Bound in maroon cloth, blind-ruled borders, gilt cover lettering. Major sections of this report are: Report of the Commissioner of Immigration: Report of Territorial Statistician; Dakota Weather Service; Agricultural Products; Land Entries (settlers and homesteaders); The Railroads. 9.5" x 6.25" "It was ... understood to be the paramount duty of the commissioner to instruct those not already residents of Dakota on questions relating to the growth and development of the territory; to urge upon investors and home-seekers the opportunities here offered, and to endeavor, in every laudable way to find occupants for the 24,000,000 acres of rich agricultural and grazing lands; laborers and capitalists who shall develop our mines and industries, and merchants and tradesmen who should build up our cities and commerce ...." (McClure's report). [OCLC locates three holdings: Minot State U, Alexander Mitchell Libr,… Read More

London: Aeneis tabvlis Incidit Johannes Pine, 1737. First edition thus. Tooled morocco. Very Good. Two volumes, octavo. pp: (32), 264, (2) + (24), 191, (15). All text and illustrations engraved exquisitely on copper by John Pine. Impressive lists of subscribers in both volumes. Bound in full black morocco by Zaehnsdorf, elaborately gilt-tooled spines, four corners of upper and lower boards, turn-ins, gilt-patterned endpapers, top edges gilt. Internally fine. Front joints of both volumes just started at top. 9" x 5.25". An impressive set. Notes from OCLC: "First edition, first issue, from the Cambridge octavo of 1701. (See references below.)./ Illustrations and text printed from engraved copper plates./ "Figvrarvm Explicatio": Vol. II, p. [193-205]." Ours is the first edition, second issue, with "potest" in the medallion on page 108 of Volume II. [PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 620: "This edition of Horace was printed wholly from copper plates engraved by John Pine. The text was first set in type, and… Read More

London: Printed for Newbery and Carnan, 1770. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Set of 10 volumes, octavo; complete with 240 copper plates and vignettes in the text. Bound in contemporary calf, green and red spine labels, gilt rules, decorations and lettering. Edges of several boards lightly rubbed. 7" x 4" This is quite an elaborate county-by-county treatment of the 18th-century English and Welsh countryside with its small towns, castles, monuments, Roman ruins, cathedrals, &c., with handsome copper-engraved plates of views and buildings.

1872. Original archive. Hardcover. Good. This archive includes a bound volume and several leaves of a handwritten, personal diary in the form of a ship's logbook kept by US Navy officer Robert W. McCleery, starting at New York on September 30, 1871 and ending in November, 1872. Also present: a photographic carte-de-visite of McCleery, a couple of Civil War-era telegrams, a family letter, several pieces of paper ephemera found tipped-in or laid into the log, and various handwritten lists of equipment and instructional notes for a running a steamship. Total: (3) + (8) + (6) + (91) pages of entries. Dates on the loose leaves range from Nov. 20 1871 to Jan. 9, 1872. The logbook covers nearly the full year of voyaging from January through November, 1872. Robert W. McCleery died in 1863, a casualty of the Civil War. The logbook was continued by his son, Robert McCleery. Robert W. does not clearly state his position aboard the "Ossipee." Internal evidence reveals that he executes the duties of a… Read More