Search Results: Titles starting with E from William Reese Company

Hartford, 1822. 369pp. Contemporary calf. Hinges cracked, front board loosening. Binding worn. Later pencil notations on titlepage and front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Good. Chronologically, this is the tenth Greek New Testament issued in America, but it is the first to use the standard 1550 Stephanus text, and it became widely used in America. "Wilson's New testament had an enormous circulation, and is still [in 1883] in use by very many, Probably no edition was more commonly used by the mass of clergymen and students from 1823 to 1840" - Hall, CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT IN AMERICA. SHOEMAKER 8035.

Berlin: Paul Gottschalk, 1927.. 89pp. plus 130 facsimiles. Folio. Original half vellum and brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Covers slightly bowed, boards a bit stained. Light foxing. Very good. In a plain dust jacket. From an edition limited to 172 copies, 150 of which were offered for sale. A very important guide for understanding the early diplomacy and exploration of the Americas. The four Bulls issued by Pope Alexander VI in 1493, as well as the Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal of 1494, set the course for the early division of exploration of the New World and Asia. As a result of the "lines of demarcation" drawn between the two nations, Portugal was given rights to most of Asia but was confined to Brazil in the Americas, while Spain was given free rein in nearly all of North and South America. Gottschalk provides historical introductions to each of the documents, and reproduces the four Bulls and the Treaty in full-size facsimiles. Also included are facsimiles of three early maps… Read More

[Vladivostok, 1900. Twenty-four photographs (3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches each), each print matted on heavy paper of commercial photograph album. Early 20th-century German photograph album with textured paper boards and spine. Front board decoratively embossed with image of a flower and the words, "Moderne Lichtbildere." Top and bottom of spine, edges of boards, and outer joints moderately worn. Mounts separating, but very good. Images very clean overall and in very good condition. An album of twenty-four original photographs taken in Vladivostok in June 1900. The snapshot- size images are each matted one per page in a German-made photograph album, and each image is inscribed in a contemporary hand in German. The photographs include views of the port, Russian naval ships and numerous other vessels, the city center, the post office, street scenes, buildings and houses (including a German brewery), and pictures of everyday life. Due to its location in the Russian Far East on the coast of the Sea of Japan and… Read More

Columbus, Oh, 1842. 192pp. Original half cloth. Hinges cracked. Stained and foxed. Near good. Champlin was no more than twenty-one years old when he published this autobiography. He had already been licensed as a "public exhorter" in the Methodist Church, and his work is full of religious admonitions and warnings against evil companions. He traveled over parts of east and middle Tennessee on preaching tours; and he made a trip to Boston, going across Virginia to Norfolk and then by water, returning through the Erie Canal and across Ohio and Kentucky. As would be expected, Champlin's comments on people are better than his descriptions of places. The chief value of the book is its reflection of the treatment and experiences of a blind traveler. HOWES C282. KAPLAN 997.

London: Joseph Downing, 1714.. 55,[1]pp. plus two folding copper-engraved plans. Early 20th-century blue cloth, leather label. Light soiling. Internally clean, the folding plates fine. Very good. One of a series of sermons preached before the members of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, notable for its remarkable plates of a proposed college in Barbados. George Stanhope, Dean of Canterbury, lays forth the main purpose of the Society: "The very Being and Design of this Society tends to the more perfect Accomplishment of...converting our Traffick and Navigation, into Means of establishing the Christian Faith, among those yet barbarous People, with whom we deal abroad." The Society's missionaries focused their work on North America and the West Indies. One instrument by which the Society produced "a large Increase of Knowledge in the Natives of those very Countries" was "by settling a College in one of these Plantations, which may nurse up, and send forth, Numbers of able… Read More

Washington, 1916. 96pp. Maps. Illus. Cloth. Some pencil underscoring, contemporary inscription in pencil dated 1925 on titlepage, else very good. Includes material on the Pottawattamie Indians and the Mormons. HOWES B4. FLAKE 241.

[Liberty, Mo.: Irving Gilmer, 1924. 94,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Some chipping to spine. Faint stain to titlepage, else internally clean. About very good. Originally published in the 1880s, Thorp's letters recount life in early Missouri at the start of the 19th century, including discussions of Indians, slavery, and life in the wilderness. "Comprises personal experiences in Missouri from 1809 through the Mormon exodus" - Eberstadt. EBERSTADT 130:394. HOWES T231.

Oaklan, 1891. x,[9-]406pp. plus frontispiece and three plates. Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Light soiling and wear, corners bumped. Internally clean. Very good. The author arrived in California in 1845, employed by Captain Sutter and by American Consul Thomas O. Larkin in Monterey. Swasey also took part in Fremont's march to Los Angeles. A classic collection of early California pioneer biographies combined with a reliable firsthand source of events in San Francisco before the Gold Rush: "It should be borne in mind by the reader that the immigrants, previous to the discovery of gold, were composed of a class of men who were in the full vigor of early manhood, imbued with a spirit of adventure in its highest sense, and backed by intelligence and supreme self-reliance." "The book has always been considered an authority" - ZAMORANO 80. "[Swasey] wrote easily, and his work forms a reliable picture of the men and events of the early days, more especially of San Francisco" - Cowan. HOWES S1167,… Read More

Norfolk, Ne, 1916.. 244pp. Illus. Cloth. Edgeworn, else very good. Without dust jacket. Includes much material on the overland stage, early Nebraska, Indian troubles, etc., as well as an account of the author's overland journey from St. Joseph to Oregon City in 1852. HOWES L162. GRAFF 2427. SMITH 5779.

[Olanthe, 1913. 100pp. plus illustrations and photographs. Titlepage photograph. Original printed boards. Slightly rubbed, spine reinforced with buckram. Even browning. Good. A history of Kansas' settlement, filled with personal pioneer tails. An installment in Green's Historical Series. EBERSTADT 105:163. RITTENHOUSE 251.

New York, 1936. viii,411pp. plus maps and plates. Frontis. Gilt cloth. Very good. Lacks the dust jacket. Much material on the fur trade and western exploration, including Lewis and Clark, the Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812, etc. RITTENHOUSE 238 (note).

Maywood, Ne.: Boyd Perki, 1930. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Fine. Reprinted largely after the 1894 and 1911 editions, though here Perkin has taken the liberty to insert numerous poems of his own composition throughout the EARLY HISTORY.... Still, an interesting history of the early Nebraskan frontier

St. Augustine, Fl.: Florida Historical Society, 1857. 31,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers; front cover detached, spine chipped. Internally clean. Good. Fairbanks wrote much on early Florida history, here lecturing on its earliest explorations and encounters between Spaniards and natives. The Historical Society of Florida was only organized in 1856, and the names of its officers and members, as well as its constitution and by-laws, appear at the end of the text. From the quality of the printing and the relative commonness of this pamphlet, it seems likely it was actually printed elsewhere, possibly New York. HOWES F7. SABIN 23668. SERVIES 4195

Spokane, 1905. 95pp. Cloth. Very good. Without dust jacket. The author's account of his experiences in Oregon from 1850 to 1860. DECKER 23:114.

[N.p., likely London, 1821. Pen lithograph, printed on thick grey drawing paper, approximately 10 3/4 x 15 inches. Contemporary ink annotation at foot of sheet reading, "Rev'd. Mr. Rackett." Minor surface soiling to margins, a few tiny marginal repairs to verso. Very good. Untrimmed. A substantial, attractive, and rare illustration depicting an American bison. This exceedingly rare print was produced by pen lithography, a form of early-19th century lithographic printmaking achieved by drawing with lithographic ink on a limestone block. The name in the lower right edge of the sheet, "Revd. Mr Rackett," indicates that the print was very likely made by the Reverend Thomas Rackett (1755-1840). An English clergyman antiquary, Rackett's interests ranged widely, including botany, mineralogy, music, numismatics, and art. He served as executor of the estate of David Garrick and his wife, Eva Marie Garrick, and was a fellow of the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Linnean Society.… Read More

Chicago: Chicago Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1933.. 141pp. Original red cloth, spine gilt. Light wear to spine extremities. Author's presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Very good plus. Includes McMurtrie's text on the history of printing in Tennessee and a bibliography listing 316 Tennessee incunables. This copy with a presentation inscription from McMurtrie to a Charlie Gawer.

New Orlean, 1929. 151pp. Quarto. Original half cloth and paste paper boards, spine gilt lettered. Light edge wear, front hinge loosening. Internally clean. Very good. Untrimmed. One of four hundred ten copies printed. A standard work on printing in colonial New Orleans by the prolific bibliographer Douglas McMurtrie.

Seattl: Published & Printed by Frank McCaffrey, 1931. 220pp. plus two facsimiles tipped in. Folio. Original blindstamped cloth, gilt morocco label. Near fine. From an edition limited to 300 copies. Another indispensable work from the indefatigable McMurtrie, covering the first eighteen years of Wisconsin printing. Includes a section on newspapers and periodicals, and a helpful "Biographical Index" by Albert H. Allen. The present copy contains a signed, tipped-in note from printer McCaffrey discussing the origin of the project.

Chicago: Chicago Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1933. 141pp. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Small stain in lower outer corner of front cover. Very good. Includes McMurtrie's text on the history of printing in Tennessee and a bibliography listing 316 Tennessee incunables.

[Np, but possibly Atchinson, Ks.: Haskell Printing Company, 1886. 238pp. Original green pebbled cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Minute stain on spine. Internally clean. Near fine. A missionary history of Kansas. OCLC 3784453