The James Way; A Book Showing How To Build And Equip A Practical Up To Date Dairy Barn . Catalogue 17, 1914 -

[ Greenwich Ma. ]: John Howe, 1803. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. First Edition. [Printed Greenwich Ma.: John Howe, 1803]. 12mo. 12p. Side stitched pamphlet. Moderate wear; pages are age darkened. First two leaves unopened. Loosely inserted into later tan paper wraps. Contains three poems 1.) "On the Death of Mr. Ranslure Clark who Died of the Putred fever Oct. 26, 1802. in the eighteenth year of his age." 2.) On the Death of Daniel Clark who died Feb. 4th 1803. In the Ninth year of his age." 3.) On the Death of Mary Weld Clark who died of the Meazles May, 19th 1803. AEt. Sixteen Months." Also contains: "An ADRESS to Christian Parents in affliction. By the Rev. Joseph Blodget." See "Publications of the Howes of Enfield and Greenwich" in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society Vol. 60, p. 217-223. [Shaw & Shoemaker 4590; Stoddard, Books Unrecorded in Wegelin, 158].

1822. [N.p.: S.n., 1822]. 12-1/2 x 10. [N.p.: S.n., 1822]. 12-1/2 x 10" Verse Account of a Murder-Suicide in Pennsylvania [Broadside]. [Murder-Suicide]. [Pennsylvania]. [Koppelberger, Johannes]. Ein Neues Lied von der Mord-Geschichte des Joseph Miller, Welcher im Januar 1822, Einer Sonntags Nacht Seine Schwangere Frau unde Zwei Kinder auf eine Grausame Art Ermordete, Und sich Selbst Erhing, Welches Alles, Wie man Glaubt, Aus Armuth Geschah...[Running Title]. [N.p.: S.n., 1822]. 12-1/2" x 10" broadside. Text in three columns printed within woodcut border and separated by black rules. Moderate toning and light foxing, fraying and a few chips to edges, tear to bottom edge with negligible loss to text. $650. * This sixteen-stanza "New Song of the Murder-Story of Joseph Miller" is attributed to Johannes Koppelberger. It tells the sad story of a murder-suicide committed by Miller, a German-American. The verses say he eloped from Poland with the daughter of a nobleman in 1817. The couple made their way to… Read More

Bowling Green, Ohio: C.S. Van Tassel, 1896. First edition. In original pink card covers with corded string. Published Bowling Green, Ohio: C.S. Van Tassel, 1896. 4to., 9 1/4" x 11 7/8", 136pp., illustrated with numerous b/w photos, portraits, capsule biographies. Slight chipping loss to the cover at corners, sun bleaching to most of the pink shading on front cover and a band of fade across the top or rear, light soil to both covers, else very good. Internally clean and sound. Very scarce in original covers. Only eleven copies in World Cat. . 1st. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

xii+[13]-372 pages with folding frontispiece colored map, tables, 15 maps (12 folding) and index. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 4 1/2") bound in full leather with spine label. (Clark, Old South 3:10; Graff 141; Howes B45; Sabin 2594) Second edition. The first edition of 1000 copies was published in 1832.
Second edition, based largely on Peck's Guide for Emigrants, published in Boston in 1831, including chapters on Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida, and also including a history of steam-boating in the West. Sabin first attributed the work to Robert Bache.
Condition: Some staining to pages as well as intermittent foxing. Previous owner's name to front end paper, recased with end paper renewed else very good.

1929. Richmond, Va., 1929. 9" x 12" pictorial broadside. Richmond, Va., 1929. 9" x 12" pictorial broadside. A Curious Example of "Lost Cause" Propaganda [Broadside]. Boisseau, Sterling. Handy History of Secession and Self-Government (States' Rights) in the United States of America. Richmond, VA: Sterling Boisseau, 1929. 9" x 12" pictorial broadside on glossy paper, text on image of outstretched hand below headline, images of the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial in background. Light edgewear, three vertical fold lines with short tears at ends, a few other tiny tears to edges. $450. * A curious example of "Lost Cause" propaganda. Boisseau shows, through an example on each finger, that opposition to the Confederacy was hypocritical because Americans and the Federal government have supported it in all other cases, from "Secession and Self-government of the Colonies 1775-83" to the "Secession and Self-government of Poland and other countries after the World War 1914-1918." The caption to the… Read More

1964. 1964 Osgood, Ernest Staples THE FIELD NOTES OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM CLARK 1803- 1805 New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964 35pp, index, annotated transcription of the journal and illustrated with facsimile photographs of the original field notes Signed by Ernest Staples Osgood on blank epage opposite tpage Folio Green and black cloth stamped in gold, gold facsimile signature of William Clark on front cover Fine bright, looks unread hardcover in fine bright d/j.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1862. First American Edition. Hardcover. good. 8vo, xii, [4], 574+ [2] ads. Illustrated with engravings; 3 maps on one folding sheet. Blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine darkened, fraying to spine ends, corners rubbed, front hinge partially cracked. Embossed library stamp on a few pages, bookplate on front pastedown; otherwise unmarked. Provenance: From the collection of Burton scholar and bibliographer James Casada. Written a few years after Burton's celebrated account of his journey to Mecca and Medina, this book describes the explorer's 1860 visit to Salt Lake City. Burton, who met Brigham Young on the trip, applied his characteristic ethnographic eye to Mormon ways, and his work offers a detailed and sympathetic portrait. The appendix contains a number of Mormon documents and a Mormon chronology. Wagner-Camp 370:2; Howes B1033; Flake 1029.

London: Printed by W.Wilson for George Sawbridge, 1660. Hardcover. Very Good. Floral headpieces & historiated intial coloured read + 2nd work with added text illustrations as well as the above decorations.. Two Works in One small quarto 183x140mm rebound in full brown levant on 4 raised bands with 2 black spine labels gilt and gilt date to foot of spine. Newer edpapers, small bookplate of Alan John Jarvis, [iv]+20pp; [vi]+126+[4]pp Table. Long ownership inscription on back of titlepage (John Thomas 1751) with name repeated at end of 1st work, John Davies on back of 2nd titlepage with a few ink notes by both owners in margins of later pages. Paper browned throughout, edges frayed and cropped at top at end of book.

1785 1st ed Colonial America TAX Law Boston Sullivan Appeal to Impartial Public
James Sullivan's "Appeal to the Impartial Public" is a short pamphlet-like work written on local tax disputes in early Massachusetts. Sullivan sought to plea with Christians, Jews, and Catholics in the Boston area in hopes of gaining more defense against tax changes.
Item number: #15070
Price: $599
SULLIVAN, James
An appeal to the impartial public : by the Society of Christian Independents, congregating in Glocester.
Boston : Printed by Benjamin Edes & Son, 1785. First edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o 38
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References: Sabin 27591; Evans 19028
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Language: English
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Binding: Pamphlet; tight & secure
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Size: ~9in X 6in (23cm x 15cm)
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1921 Yosemite National Park Ansel Hall SIGNED Indians Geology Illustrated Map

Ansel F. Hall's "Handbook of Yosemite National Park" is a compendium of 17 articles on the Yosemite region by the leading scientific authorities and naturalists covering various topics. The Handbook includes information on Indians, policy of the Park Service, geology, birds, mammals, reptiles, flowers, fishes, and much more.

This 1921 edition includes the author's inscription and features 27 black and white illustrations throughout as well as a folding map!
Item number: #13457
Price: $499
HALL, Ansel F
Handbook of Yosemite National Park ... Articles ... Edited by A.F. Hall, etc.
New York; London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. First Edition.
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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o xiii, [1], 347, [1]
o 28 illustrations
27 black and white photos
1 folding map
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Provenance: Author's Inscription – Ansel F. Hall, 1922
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
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