Persimmon Hill: Vols. 1 - Vols. 18 (72 Vols.) by Editor: Krakel, Dean

Washington, D.C.: R.C. Weightman, 1808. Hardcover. Near Fine. 123, [1] p.; 21 cm. Modern binding: black cloth spine with gilt-tooled spine title; flax paper dyed brown with aniline dye over acid-free boards. "April 12, 1808. Printed by order of the Senate." Includes communications by B.H. Latrobe and Robert Fulton on the subject of canals. Howes, G27. Albert Gallatin was Secretary of the Treasury from 1801 to 1813. He advocated an ambitious program to improve the nation's transportation infrastructure for which he was unable to muster enough support at the federal level. As had been traditionally done, such improvements were instead accomplished piecemeal during the 19th century by local governments, and by private road and canal companies. In Near Fine Condition: pages are browning but clean and tight.

1934 1st ed Herbert Hoover SIGNED Challenge to Liberty on Franklin Roosevelt
"Children are our greatest natural resource."
― Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover was the 31st President of the United States known for his business plans during the Great Depression. Shortly following his presidency and retirement from politics, he published 'The Challenge to Liberty' which was a harsh, critical work of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, calling much of Roosevelt's plans 'fascist'! According to Polenberg,
"Hoover raised an important issue when he claimed that big government would attempt to protect itself from criticism by blocking the free flow of information and therefore represented an insidious threat to freedom of speech and the press."
This 1934 first edition is signed by author and former president Herbert Hoover!
Item number: #13579
Price: $599
HOOVER, Herbert
The Challenge to Liberty
New York, London, C. Scribner's Sons, 1934. First edition.
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1815 1ed War of 1812 Cobbett Letters America England George IV Napoleon Navy
William Cobbett's "Letters on the Late War" is a book of correspondence on the War of 1812. Cobbett's letters, many of which were to George IV (prince regent), describe the state of America, the effects of the war on America, the rise of Napoleon in France, decrees from Ferdinand VII of King of Spain, reports on various naval engagements.
Item number: #19807
Price: $550
COBBETT, William
Letters on the late war between the United States and Great Britain
New York: J. Belden ..., Van Winkle and Wiley, printers, 1815. First edition.

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o vii, [1], [9]-407, [1]
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1869 HUGE Illustrated London News Ulysses Grant President Suez Canal Electricity

A rare, mid-19th-century issue of 'The Illustrated London News' – an enormous tome!

This series of issues from 1869 covers a wide variety of important topics; however, the entirety of topics included is too vast to include here. Nonetheless, some of the most important and interesting topics include:
· Ladies' fashion in Paris
· Atlantic Ocean ship race
· Ulysses S Grant proclamations during inauguration as President
· Early construction on the Suez Canal
· The Great Electric Induction Coil at the Polytechnic Institution
· Celebrations and Fireworks at Crystal Palace honoring Queen Victoria

Item number: #22645
Price: $599

Periodical

The Illustrated London News, vol LVI

London: printed by George C Leighton, 1870.

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Second edition, full leather, Troy, New York, 1797. Includes the occasionally missing frontis. Condition is Good or better: original full leather boards in above average condition with modest general wear. Only the bottom front corners show slightly more than minimal wear. The other corners, edges, spine and hinges are sound. Binding is sound. Leather label on spine still legible although that is not well seen on images. Interior is likewise in good condition. Only writing is old faded ink signature on back free blank. No other writing; mild to moderate foxing throughout. The laid cotton paper pages are still supple and easily read. The title page has a 3 inch closed tear expertly repaired (see image). There are some minor edge tears seen throughout but none affecting text. Paginates: blanks(2), frontis, (i)-180, blank(1). I suspect one rear blank leaf is missing, otherwise paginates complete as issued. Please see images of the book you will receive. Feel free to inquire. Notes: First edition is 1797,… Read More

London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1777. Near Fine. [2], 311-312 p.; 31 cm. (folio). Disbound. Title page reads "Anno Regni Georgii III. . . . At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth Day of November, Anno Domini 1774, in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third . . . And from thence continued, by several Prorogations, to the Thirty-first Day of October, 1776; Being the Third Session of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain." Woodcut royal coat of arms above the imprint. Woodcut headpiece and historiated initial at the beginning of the act. "Whereas a Rebellion and War have been openly and traiterously levied and carried on in certain of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America, and Acts of Treason and Piracy have been committed on the High Seas, and upon the Ships and Goods of His Majesty's Subjects, and many Persons have been seised and taken, who are expressly charged or strongly suspected of… Read More

NY: Morrisania, 1886. First edition, limited to 250 copies signed by the author. Published NY: Morrisania, 1886. 4to., 7 3/4" x 11", vi+281pp. illustrated frontis engraved plate of author, 2 folding maps, tables, ALS laid in. Quarter bound leather and marbled boards, peach endpapers. Backstrip lacking, leather and edges worn. Internally very good, pages clean, bright, unmaked. Folding maps in very good condition, each with a minor tear in the margin attaching to the book. Scarce, and scarce to find that is not ex-library. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884. First Edition. Near Fine. [9.25x6.5in]; viii, index to Miscellaneous Documents, 1046 pp., index to the Jeannette Inquiry document, facsimile of last page of De Long journal, witness statements, excerpts of De Long, Ambler and Collins journals, letters and extracts from letters, telegrams, and notes, and statements from counsel; Rebound dark brown cloth covers with original spine label of gilt lettering on red leather and additional gilt lettering on black label, all edges trimmed; Minimal shelf wear , top text block age darken, minor age toning to edges of text, book plate of Steve Fossett on front end paper. [Howgego III D4]. The Jeannette expedition (1879-81) was led by Lieutenant-Commander George Washington De Long (1844-81). The purpose was to find a route through the Bering Strait, that was warmed by the Pacific Kiro Shio current to an open polar sea. The 'Jeannette' became icebound, northwest 350 Km and sunk in May 1881 some 400 Km from the… Read More

Bound volume (modern gilt-lettered blue cloth & marbled paper) containing 14 octavo pamphlets
Bound without wraps, one pamphlet lacking title page & stained throughout, (Smith/ Oratory), one pamphlet closely trimmed briefly touching some text (Clayton/ Speech Central American Treaty, 1856), scattered foxing & toning, generally very good
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The Nassau Rake: Edited and Published by the Sophomore Class of the College of New Jersey Princeton, June, 1856, 83, [1] pp.
The Nassau Rake: Edited and Published by the Sophomore Class of the College of New Jersey Princeton, June, 1857, 112 pp.
Memorabilia Sophomorum Edited and Published by the Freshman Class of the College of New Jersey, Princeton, New Jersey, June, 1856, 55 pp.
DAVIS, Thomas T. Address and Poem Delivered Before the Associate Chapters of the Sigma Phi Fraternity, At Their General Convention Held in Williamstown, Mass August 16, 1853 Williamstown: Published by the Alpha of Massachusetts, 1854, 37 pp.… Read More

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1948. First edition. Octavo. Original boards and dust jacket (not price-clipped). One-inch closed tear to foot of front jacket and small sticker stain to head of rear jacket panel, minor edgewear and toning to the dust jacket, else a fine first edition in a very good-plus dust jacket.. Exceptional first edition of Richard Weaver's (1910-1963) seminal work on the decline of the West and the consequences of its movement away from philosophical realism in favor of moral and intellectual relativism. Weaver was an American professor of English and rhetoric at the University of Chicago and a conservative intellectual in the Southern tradition. Weaver earned his degree in English in 1932 from the University of Kentucky and thereafter pursued his master's degree in English at Vanderbilt University, where John Crowe Ransom supervised his thesis, The Revolt Against Humanism-a critique of the humanism of Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More. He would later pursue a Ph.D.… Read More