The Young Lady's Friend by A Lady; [Mrs. John Farrar]; [Eliza Ware Farrar] - 1836

Boston: W. B. Clarke. Fair with no dust jacket; Library stamps and markings, boards heavily . worn, Vols. I and III waterstained, some chipping to spines. Reading . copies only.. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth bindings with printed paper spine labels. Top edges gilt. Each volume contains over 500 pages. Howes S1186. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Andrews' Printer, (38 Chatham St. ). Very Good; Some light creasing and toning. Faint penciled name (A. M. . Catton? ) on top border.. N.D.. Ephemera. Circa 1858 handbill. Printed song lyrics with decorative border. Printed on 9.5 x 6 inch sheet on verso only. New lyrics to the old nursery rhyme with references to Queen Victoria, Battle of Sebastopol, Napoleon, and the prohibition law passed in the State of Maine. Last verse reads: “Mayor Wood has put the rumsellers through, The Maine Law’s a sad evil, We cannot get our toddy now; Pop goes the weazle. ”A nearly identical version of this ditty, with the “z” in weazel replaced with an “s”, can be found in Beadle’s Dime Song Book, A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs (1857). According to Grosvenor Library Bulletin: An Indexed Catalogue of Books in the Department of Local History and Genealogy (Mar. 1900) : Volume 1, Mayor Wood refers to New York City Mayor Fernando Wood,… Read More

New Haven, CT: Press of the Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, light foxing to photographic . plates.. 1914. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Brown pebbled cloth with front title in gilt. 80 pages + 1 page ad. Black and white frontispiece map, black and white maps and illustrations, and black and white photographs. Facts, historical incidents, and data gleaned from original manuscripts, pamphlets, and records of the early history of the area's original white settlers, Revolutionary War patriots, Civil War soldiers, and historical essays by local residents. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall .

NY: Freeman Hunt & Co.. Good with no dust jacket; Boards stained and worn, endpapers foxed and scattered foxing in text.. 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. 209pp + 6pp of publisher's ads. Original brown blindstamped cloth titled in gilt on spine. 6x4 inches. Sabin 33849. Travel essays about towns up and down New York's Hudson River, including Poughkeepsie, Peekskill, Tarrytown, Troy, Fort Edward, Albany, West Point, and Saratoga Springs. Penciled owner name (Eliza Warren, Saratoga Springs) on front free endpaper and title page. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company. Good with no dust jacket; 2 inch tear to map, library stamps and markings, . pages toned, some stains to pages, wear to spine extremities, rear hinge . cracked. Describes geography, settlement, land availability, and other . attributes of the Territory of Minnesota.. 1857. Hardcover. Handcolored folding frontispiece map by J. H. Colton of Minnesota measuring 13 x 15 inches. Original brown cloth stamped in blind and in gilt. Howes P 84, Sabin 58723.; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 159 pages .

Boston: W. B. Clarke. Fair with no dust jacket; Library stamps and markings, boards heavily . worn, Vols. I and III waterstained, some chipping to spines. Reading . copies only.. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth bindings with printed paper spine labels. Top edges gilt. Each volume contains over 500 pages. Howes S1186. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Andrews' Printer, (38 Chatham St. ). Very Good; Some light creasing and toning. Faint penciled name (A. M. . Catton? ) on top border.. N.D.. Ephemera. Circa 1858 handbill. Printed song lyrics with decorative border. Printed on 9.5 x 6 inch sheet on verso only. New lyrics to the old nursery rhyme with references to Queen Victoria, Battle of Sebastopol, Napoleon, and the prohibition law passed in the State of Maine. Last verse reads: “Mayor Wood has put the rumsellers through, The Maine Law’s a sad evil, We cannot get our toddy now; Pop goes the weazle. ”A nearly identical version of this ditty, with the “z” in weazel replaced with an “s”, can be found in Beadle’s Dime Song Book, A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs (1857). According to Grosvenor Library Bulletin: An Indexed Catalogue of Books in the Department of Local History and Genealogy (Mar. 1900) : Volume 1, Mayor Wood refers to New York City Mayor Fernando Wood,… Read More

New Haven, CT: Press of the Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, light foxing to photographic . plates.. 1914. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Brown pebbled cloth with front title in gilt. 80 pages + 1 page ad. Black and white frontispiece map, black and white maps and illustrations, and black and white photographs. Facts, historical incidents, and data gleaned from original manuscripts, pamphlets, and records of the early history of the area's original white settlers, Revolutionary War patriots, Civil War soldiers, and historical essays by local residents. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall .

NY: Freeman Hunt & Co.. Good with no dust jacket; Boards stained and worn, endpapers foxed and scattered foxing in text.. 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. 209pp + 6pp of publisher's ads. Original brown blindstamped cloth titled in gilt on spine. 6x4 inches. Sabin 33849. Travel essays about towns up and down New York's Hudson River, including Poughkeepsie, Peekskill, Tarrytown, Troy, Fort Edward, Albany, West Point, and Saratoga Springs. Penciled owner name (Eliza Warren, Saratoga Springs) on front free endpaper and title page. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company. Good with no dust jacket; 2 inch tear to map, library stamps and markings, . pages toned, some stains to pages, wear to spine extremities, rear hinge . cracked. Describes geography, settlement, land availability, and other . attributes of the Territory of Minnesota.. 1857. Hardcover. Handcolored folding frontispiece map by J. H. Colton of Minnesota measuring 13 x 15 inches. Original brown cloth stamped in blind and in gilt. Howes P 84, Sabin 58723.; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 159 pages .