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[New Haven, CT]: Walter & Steele, printers, 1811. Broadside. 57.5 x 45.5 cm. Listing 53 seniors, 74 juniors, 103 sophomores, 75 freshmen. Interestingly, out of 305 students, 30 were from South Carolina with another 20 from the rest of the south. Some tears at folds some minor loss not affecting reading. OCLC lists Harvard, NY Hist. Soc. Lib., and AAS, apparently not a copy at Yale.

(San Francisco, CA), 1885. First separate edition, an offprint from "Mining and Scientific Press." 12mo. 14 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Davidson (1825-1911) who worked with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey for 40 years, most of that time on the Pacific Coast, 1850-1855 and 1867-1885. Cover title: "Brief Sketch of the Public Services of George Davidson." OCLC locates four copies (California - Berkeley, UCLA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Alaska.) Very good. Original printed blue-gray wrappers, stapled. (6154).

(Cleburne, TX: A. H. Yeager, Publisher, T. L. Sanders, Printer, 1899. First edition. 12mo. 129 pp. Autobiographical account of a Confederate soldier from Washington County, Tennessee; Civil War experiences include his capture at Kennesaw Mountain in June, 1864, his incarceration as a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas, Illinois, his journey home, and, after reflecting on his childhood in east Tennessee, how he came to join an infantry company as the war began. Yeager (1842-1940) served with the 29th Tennessee Infantry until his capture; though not included here, his post-Civil War years were spent, first as a lawyer in Tennessee, then as a newspaperman and farmer in Johnson County, Texas. Not in Nevins, Dornbusch, Eicher, Nicholson, or Broadfoot. OCLC locates 23 copies, but only one in Tennessee (Knox County Public). Text pages a little toned, but a very good copy. Original printed wrappers (a little wear to the spine). (10020).

Albany, 1852. Paperwraps. Paper spine chipped; front cover partially detached. Included is the first appearance of Lewis H. Morgan's "Report on the Fabrics, Inventions, Implements & Utensils of the Iroquois." With numerous illus. & 20 plates (18 in color). Morgan is considered the "Father of American Anthropology"

Eleven partly printed documents, completed in manuscript, each approx. 16 x 20 cm. Lightly creased along horizontal fold, a few with short separations along the fold, else all in very good condition. The lots (in what is now called the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City) include Nos. 1-5, and 7 along Greenwich St. in the Third Ward, and Nos. 1-3 along Chambers St., Lot 4 on Chambers & Augustus Sts., and Lot 5 on Duane St., all in the Sixth Ward. The purchasers agreed to pay one fourth part of the value of the property on the day after the agreement was signed, with the balance due in installments over the following year and a half. Each agreement was signed by the purchaser and dated January 28, 1813. The buyers (some purchased more than one lot) were Andrew Hunt, Isaac Graham, John Van Orden, Jacob Berry, William Roe, E[lbert] Anderson Jr., Wm. Al Burtis, and Alexander Thomson. The purchase prices varied from $1850 - $4000 for the lots in Ward 6, and $3750 - $8,250 for those in Ward 3. The Minutes… Read More

NY: Printed by Francis Childs, Friday, 27 November 1795, vol. xi, no. 3368. Double-folio. (4) pp. Removed from a bound volume; several short separations along folds, otherwise very good. This issue only. Includes a letter on the political situation in France and reports of several public celebrations in the city. Otherwise, this issue is filled with advertisements, political notices, and, on the front page, ships sailing imminently.

[New York]: Lith. Stahl & Jaeger. 136-138 Mulberry St., N.Y., 1885. (the Huntington Library notes the two were partners from 1883 until 1908, but a business directory lists the name and street for 1911-12). The Tribune and Farmer advertised here is difficult to identify; OCLC records include similar titles in a sequence: New-York Tribune Farmer (1901-1912), Tribune Farmer (1913), The Rural New-Yorker (1878-1964, absorbed the Tribune Farmer in 1914). The typography suggests the 1880s or 1890s, perhaps later. Apparently the broadside is unrecorded on OCLC. An attractive advertisement, appropriate for exhibition. Folded, with several small tears at folds, verso of one with archival repair not affecting image or text. (7158).

NY: H. Wilson, 1850. 16mo. 189 pp. Illustrated, ads, folding map of the city. Original gilt-stamped black cloth (soiled, split along rear joint, one signature sprung). Good solid copy. The first in this series was issued in 1845. Sabin 54298.

NY: H. Wilson, 1849. 16mo. 179 pp. Illustrated, ads, folding map of the city. Original gilt-stamped black cloth (soiled and somewhat faded). Good solid copy. The first in this series was issued in 1845. Sabin 54298.

New York, 1850. Lithograph print of Madison Cottage, 31 x 49 cm., with wide margins. Depicts the cottage with its sign above a front entryway and an American flag flying from the roof, gentlemen arriving from a horse-drawn coach, another full of passengers just pulling up. "Corporal" Thompson took over an old farmhouse at what is now 5th Avenue and 23rd Street in 1839 and renamed it "Madison Cottage" after the former president; the house was the last stop for people traveling north out of the city or the first stop for those arriving from the north. It was razed in 1853. OCLC lists a single copy at Columbia Univ. with width of only 41 cm. Slightly foxed on edges, left lower corner crinkled with a few tears.

[Lowville, NY?]: The club, 1887. Printed invitation, folding card stock, 3 3/4 x 5 inches. "Music, Leonard's Silver Band Orchestra of Lowville. Tickets, $2.00!" Gilt-stamped decorated blue and cream self-wrapper. Very good.

Plat map of 435 lots. 43.5 x 25.5 cm. Old fold lines, some toning to paper. Text advertisement for Brown & MacConnell Sales Managers, Fair Harbor Development Co., Inc. 64 Smith Ave., Telephone 128-M, Bay Shore, N.Y., printed below the border of the map. "Fair Harbor began as a real estate enterprise between George Weeks and Selah Clock (also the founder of Lonleyville) in 1923 with the concept of making beach houses available to the 'working man' and indeed they attracted a strong clientele from south shore Long Island hamlets like Bay Shore and Islip. However with the Great Depression on the horizon the business concept became strained. Then the Hurricane of 1938 roared on over Fire Island leaving only eight houses standing in Fair Harbor and enterprise went bankrupt. The community rebounded however after World War II, attracting New York's City's metropolitan" [see: the brief history on the Fire Island website]. The estimated number of houses in the area now seem to match the original lots. No… Read More

Utica, (NY): The committee, 1862. Broadside, 9 5/8 x 7 5/8, printing 12 paragraphs of instructions encouraging the recruitment of a sufficient number of men to fill out a regiment, along with a table showing the number that might be required from each town and each ward within Utica; a draft is threatened should the campaign be unsuccessful. Three manuscript corrections within the text. Not recorded on OCLC. Unused (i.e., unsigned by the committee chairman and secretary, not addressed to a specific locale). A little staining, but very good.

Pasadena, CA: Trail's End Publishing Co, 1948. 8vo. 218, (1) pp. Illustrated, plates, title page facsimiles. Burgundy cloth, gilt spine title. Very good copy. First edition, 1/500 copies. Descriptive bibliography of books illustrated by Russell.

London: Rupert Hart Davis, Soho Square, 1959. First edition. 4to. 39 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine in light green dust jacket printed in red and black, darkened along spine and edges with some wear to corners and spine ends. Signed by author on title page.

Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1875. Previously published Augusta, Georgia, 1864. 4to. 6, (1) pp. Cover lithograph portrait of Lee (J.H. Bufford's Sons, Lith., Boston). Cover title: Gen. Robert E. Lee. OCLC locates two copies of this edition (Virginia Historical Society, Virginia). Disbound. Some offset to cover, spine covered with paper tape; still a good solid example.

New Orleans, (LA): A.E. Blackmar, 1865. Previously published Augusta, Georgia, 1864. 4to. 6, (1) pp. Cover lithograph portrait of Lee (Lithographed for C.O. Clayton by Endicott & Co., NY). Verso of final leaf blank. Cover title: Gen. Robert E. Lee Quick March. OCLC locates one copy of this edition (Library of Virginia). Disbound. Thoroughly browned, several old tidelines; still a good solid example.

Huntington, WV: Standard Publications, 1947. Second edition (originally published in 1928), with a publisher's epilogue not in the first. 8vo. 275, v pp. Illustrated, endpaper maps. Account of the author's 1919 hunting trip for sheep and other game in Alaska. Original turquoise cloth (rubbed); owner's name, else very good.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1928. First American edition, from British sheets, with a new title page. 8vo. xiv, (2), 368 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates. Mountaineer Robert L.M. Underhill's copy, with his ownership signature on the front endpaper, dated in the year of publication, his pencil notes concerning the book on a rear endpaper, and a number of his pencil markings to the text. Underhill (1889-1983) was an "American mountaineer best known for introducing modern Alpine style rope and belaying techniques to the U.S. climbing community in the late 1920s and early 1930s" (Wikipedia); he edited the journal "Appalachia" for the Appalachian Mountain Club, 1928-1934. Neate 939: "Accounts of his greatest climbs." Very good copy with a wonderful association. Original gilt-stamped decorated green cloth (a little flecked). (8795).

Philadelphia, [PA]: Published by Cowperthwait, Desilver & Butler, 1850. Map, 43.5 x 69 cm. Image size 40.5 x 67cm., enclosed in a double border of pink and green. States and territories hand colored. Two insets, one of the District of Columbia, and one of the Gold Region of California. Map also shows the various proposed railroad routes to the Pacific Ocean, and places Native American tribes within territories and western states. Small thumbnail size tear at center top edge, repaired on verso.