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Philadelphia: Abraham Small, 1819. First American edition. Rebacked in style with tan paper spine over original blue-gray paper covered boards. A very good copy, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, small marginal tear to map expertly repaired.. XX, [21]-482 pp. + adv. [2 pp]. Illus. with a map and color engraving (both folding). 8vo. "Illustrated by a Map of North and South America, and the West India Islands; and an Engraving, Representing the Comparative Altitudes of the Mountains of those Regions." Richard Henry Bonnycastle (1791-1847), an officer of the British army, "compiled his work with considerable care from the writings of Humboldt, and from the standard early Spanish books upon the American colonies. His volumes present a very useful summary of the condition of old Spanish America at the time when the several colonies began their career as independent states," (Larned, p. 443). This first American edition in one volume was preceded in 1818 by the English two volume edition. Sabin 6333. Palau…
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[Florida Travel Brochure] Lake View Hotel, Leesburg, Florida. E.C. Worrell, Proprietor - M.F. Wistar, Manager
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[Florida]: [Lake View Hotel], 1909. The present issue is undated, but it does state in the text that electricity was added in the summer of 1909. Near Fine Stapled Wraps. Near Fine.
Gray stapled wrappers printed white, with large oval cut into front wrapper to reveal a photo of the hotel. [32] pp., including 6 pp. of text, the remainder containing halftones from photographs, 1 per page. 5.75 by 7.75 inches (14.9 by19.8 cm). Near fine with only a spot on the "G" of Leesburg and a hint of age-toning as flaws.. Scarce promotional brochure made up primarily of pictures, ranging from orange groves to alligators, with much hunting and fishing in between. The text is conversational and extolls the virtues of the hotel, staff and the owner. ("The servants are all trained Northern Help, polite and courteous)
OCLC locates one later copy of a similar brochure located in the State Library of Florida, with the title indicating "7th season, 1912-1913." [entry 19890821]
The hotel was built around 1885 by Edward H. Mote and General Davis Tillson. Leesburg is part of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford Metropolitan area in Central East Coast Florida
Gray stapled wrappers printed white, with large oval cut into front wrapper to reveal a photo of the hotel. [32] pp., including 6 pp. of text, the remainder containing halftones from photographs, 1 per page. 5.75 by 7.75 inches (14.9 by19.8 cm). Near fine with only a spot on the "G" of Leesburg and a hint of age-toning as flaws.. Scarce promotional brochure made up primarily of pictures, ranging from orange groves to alligators, with much hunting and fishing in between. The text is conversational and extolls the virtues of the hotel, staff and the owner. ("The servants are all trained Northern Help, polite and courteous)
OCLC locates one later copy of a similar brochure located in the State Library of Florida, with the title indicating "7th season, 1912-1913." [entry 19890821]
The hotel was built around 1885 by Edward H. Mote and General Davis Tillson. Leesburg is part of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford Metropolitan area in Central East Coast Florida
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Spanish America; or a Descriptive, Historical, and Geographical Account of the Dominions of Spain in the Western Hemisphere, Continental & Insular
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[MINIATURE] USEFUL INFORMATION FOR BUSINESS MEN, MECHANICS AND ENGINEERS.
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Pittsburgh, PA: Jones & Laughlins Steel , 1878. The RARE Third Edition, 1878. A true miniature, 4.1275 cm x 6.35 cm, bound in flexible leather tooled in gilt front cover, tooled in blind rear, all edges gilt, no slipcase present. Very Good, rubbing to covers, especially at joints, faint pencil notations end pages. (1), 279 pp., Index paginated a-k, ( 3 pp. ads) (16 blank note pages), (1). With illustrations. A book intended for use and small enough to fit into a pocket. Earliest holdings noted at Worldcat are the 1888 eighth edition, that edition held by only 3 libraries. . Third Edition. Flexible Leather. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4.1275 cm x 6.35 Cm. Miniature.
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Original Ladies Day - Book of Poems Clipped from Newspapers
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Newburyport, MA: No Publisher, 1819. Original hand-made book, front cover reads "Day-Book B" in contemporary embossed calf, 13" x 8 1/2", containing 32 pp. with both sides covered with pasted-in poems clipped from newspapers of the time, approx. 6-8 per page. Most are likely from the Newburyport Daily Herald, as there is a partial page from that newspaper laid in. The final page verso with a long poem handwritten titled "The Birds of Passage" by Mrs Hemans ( Felicia Dorothea Hemans). The names Betsy and Johnson handwritten but separated on rear paste down. Good, calf chipped bottom 2" of spine, pages brittle with edge chips and tears, two pages with top right corner poems torn out, soiling and staining, the bookplate of noted Celtic and folklore scholar Edgar M. Slotkin front paste down. A unique piece of Americana. . Calf. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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The James Way; A book showing how to build and equip a practical up to date Dairy Barn . Catalogue 17, 1914
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Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin: The James Manufacturing Co., 1915. RARE. paginated 5-255, with numerous black and white photographs and blue and white building plans. Original paper covered boards, printed paper label with cow front cover, Near Fine, 1/4" loss of paper at head of spine, small rub tail of spine, light soiling and slight bow to boards. Great product pictures, a classic dairy catalogue. . 17th Edition . Pictorial Paper Covered Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Travels through the Interior Parts of America, In a Series of Letters. By an Officer: Thomas Anburey
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2 volumes. xii+414 pages with frontispiece folding map with hand-colored routes and five plates with four folding; [4]+492 pages with tables and one folding plate. octavos (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound contemporary tree calf with black and red labels to spine in gilt lettering. Second edition. In the last half of the eighteenth century, England and Europe were hungry for information concerning america. One of the books which had combinations of personal and borrowed observation and reflection. one of the best know is Lieutenant Thomas Anburey's Travels through the Interior Parts of America printed for William Lane in 1789. It was reckoned a valuable source on the Borgoyne campaign, in which the author served and on America, through which he traveled. Anburey's Travels are for the most part lifted from earlier publications. The work was lifted in large chunks from the accounts and descriptions of more than a dozen earlier travels, histoires and geographies. Anburey was doing only what other did-and… Read More
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Request for Membership Dues for the Association of Banks for the..
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1859. Boston, February 17, 1858. 8-1/2" x 5" bifolium. Boston, February 17, 1858. 8-1/2" x 5" bifolium. A Group of New England Banks Unite to Suppress Counterfeiting [Counterfeiting]. [Request for Membership Dues for the Association of Banks for the Suppression of Counterfeiting]. Boston, February 17, 1858. 8-1/2" x 5" bifolium, text to recto of first leaf, post mark and manuscript address to verso of second leaf. Vertical and horizontal fold lines, faint stains to verso of second leaf, otherwise fine. $450. * This form, which includes a receipt, was addressed to the Pittsfield Bank of Pittsfield, New Hampshire. It reads (in part): "To the cashier of the _____ Bank: Sir: At a meeting of the Board of Managers (...) it was Voted, 'That an assessment, at the rate of five dollars on each one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) of Capital Stock, be laid upon the Banks for the ensuing year,' and the Treasurer, in conformity to the above vote, attaches hereto a blank receipt, that you will please fill up,…
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The Western Tourist and Emigrant's Guide : through the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and Wisconsin, and the territories of Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska ; being an accurate and concise description of each state and territory ; and containing the routes and distances on the great lines of travel ; accompanied with a large and minute map
by COLTON, J.H.
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1854 HUGE MAP Colton's Western Tourist Emigrant's Guide Americana CaliforniaJ.H. Colton founded an American mapmaking company in the early 1830s which became an international leader in the map publishing industry until 1890. Colton created railroad maps, immigrant guides, elaborate atlases, and more all printed using engraved steel plates, which produced higher quality prints than maps made with less costly wax engravings, which were often separately hand water colored. and were recognized for their decorative borders.
J.H. Colton's 'Western Tourist and Emigrant's Guide'is an important 19th-century geographical book with an enormous folding map of the American 'west' including Ohio, Missouri, Indiana and Wisconsin. According to Howes, this work includes descriptions and material on California, Oregon, and Texas, with overland routes and westward expansion.
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Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne: a pensioner of the navy of the revolution.
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1828 American Revolution NAVY 1st ed Andrew Sherburne Memoirs Prison Jersey Ship"Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne" is the narrative of the author's service in the Continental Navy in 1779 at the age of 14, and his being taken prisoner by the British only to later be released after falling ill. Andrew Sherburne went on to become a Baptist Minister and includes many Christian themes throughout his tale of imprisonment during the American Revolution at Mill prison in Plymouth England. Sherburne includes information on voyages made during the revolution, treatment as a prisoner of war, suffering on the Jersey prison ship, and being discharged at the peace of 1783.
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SHERBURNE, Andrew
Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne: a pensioner of the navy of the revolution.
Utica: W. Williams, 1828. First Edition.
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The Prairie Traveler. A Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions, with Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes
by Randolph Barnes Marcy (1812-1887) and Richard Francis Burton
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xiv+340 pages with woodcut frontispiece, text illustrations and folding map. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Edited (with notes) by Richard F. Burton. Housed in a custom enclosure. (Wagner-Camp 335:4; Cowan p.414; Graff 2677; Howes M279; Penzer p.69-70; Sabin 44515) First edition.Randolph B. Marcy was a career soldier (he graduated from West Point in 1832) at a time when the career would be likely to involve exploration. In the 1840s, part of his role was the escorting of emigrant wagon trains through Oklahoma and Texas, and mapping their routes. In 1857, he was involved in the expedition against the Mormons in Utah, leading his men in a forced march through the Rocky Mountains in winter. In 1852, he was commander of an expedition to find the headwaters of the Red River. All this experience meant that he was the ideal author for a book on how to survive in the wilderness. As he says in his preface: A quarter of a century's… Read More
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Biographia americana; or, A historical and critical account of the lives, actions, and writings of the most distinguished persons in North America
by FRENCH, Benjamin Franklin
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1825 Biographia Americana Founding Fathers Washington Franklin Jefferson Adams"Biographia Americana" is a rare, 19th-century reference containing biographical sketches of all of the most important early American figures and founding fathers. Written and collected by Benjamin Franklin French, this book contains descriptions on figures such as:
· Samuel Adams
· John Adams
· Aaron Burr
· David Brainerd
· Henry Clay
· Jonathan Edwards
· Benjamin Franklin
· Marquis LaFayette
· Alexander Hamilton
· Thomas Jefferson
· Andrew Johnson
· John Jay
· George Washington
· Cotton Mather
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Biographia americana; or, A historical and critical account of the lives, actions, and writings of the most distinguished persons in North America
New York: Published by D. Mallory, 1825. 1st edition
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Attempt on Roosevelt Life
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
by John B. Wyeth
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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DOLLY MADISON: WOMEN OF COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY TIMES
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book is in G condition with light rubbing to edges, cocked spine, bumping & fraying to spine ends, pencil marking to FFE, owner's name to title page, a couple of small tears to title page else still a bright and solid copy. SA 6/21
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Grant Wood and Marvin Cone : Artists of an Era
by Hazel E. Brown
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Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Flat signed and dated by author on FFEP and Inscribed by author to a friend on half-title page. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine except for author's inscription and signature. Spine straight and tight. Jacket shows light rubbing, light chipping at spine head, and light reading wear to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xi + 150 pages. illus. A reflection of the relationships of two artists -- Grant Wood (1891-1942) and Marvin Cone (1891-1965) -- with the community of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A loving biography by a woman who knew them both. Laid-in are two letters to the editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette; one from Woods' sister, and another from a friend of Woods and the author.
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BOSTON ~ 150 VIEWS: One Hundred and Fifty Glimpses of Boston and Historical Surroundings
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Union News Company , New York and Boston, circa 1910, Very Good Stapled Softcover, 50 pages, 10" x 7", 150 photographs of Boston points of interest, landmarks, buildings, bridges, street views and more.
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Samuel The Seeker
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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Readin' 'Ritin' 'Rithmetic: Northern San Luis Obispo County Area One-Room Schools; Memories, Photos
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El Paso de Robles Area Pioneer Museum. Very Good. 2004. No Edition Stated. Softcover. 1929117094 . Light edgewear, corners of book have light curl, small indentation to front cover; b/w photos; 172 pages .
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The DOs and DON'Ts of Yesterday: Little Book of Early American Know-How
by Eric Sloane
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Illustrated with pen/ink images Sloane is known for. (2) books,a yellow and an orange (18x12cm) with gilt title on covers and spines. Paper title on dark red slipcase with signature of author. Slipcase has very minor wear to bottom fore edge.
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