Search Results: Titles starting with G from William Reese Company

New York, 1860. 226pp. Illustrated with ninety-nine lithographs of carriages, one tinted plate advertising Henry Austin (the architect), and numerous black and white engravings. Double frontis. Oblong octavo. Original cloth, stamped in blind. Inner hinges expertly repaired. A few light spots on the front free endpapers. Near fine. A handsomely produced catalogue of carriages and a commercial guide to New Haven and vicinity. Half of the pages are devoted to illustrating the line of carriages offered by G. & D. Cook, one of the leading makers at the time, when New Haven was the Detroit of the carriage industry. Other pages advertise all manner of Connecticut manufactures, mainly in New Haven, including billiard tables, tools, flour mills, harnesses, clothing, guns, etc., as well as a variety of business establishments in New Haven, New York, and Hartford. "Excellent tinted lithographic plates of every American carriage of the day" - Romaine. A wonderful and rare trade catalogue, with ninety-nine fine… Read More

[New Haven: T.J. Staffor, 1859. 13,[1]pp.,17-88 leaves (paginated on rectos only, including two leaves of advertisements),89-97,[1]pp. Oblong octavo. Frontis. Original brown publisher's cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Cloth lightly faded, extremities worn. Spine very weak. Front inner hinge cracked. Minor wear and soiling to text, missing pp.15-16 (but no evidence of removal). Still good. Handsomely illustrated catalogue of carriage- maker G. & D. Cook & Co. of New Haven, displaying eighty lithographed images of different carriages, with a brief history and description of New Haven. G. & D. Cook & Co. was founded in the 1850s and collapsed in 1861 under the economic pressures of the Civil War. They reformed as a joint stock company, but that also failed. During the Civil War the company manufactured an early form of bullet-proof vest for Union soldiers at the front lines. Only two copies of this work turn up in OCLC, at the University of Illinois and the Henry Ford

New York: Printed and sold by Hugh Gaine, 1786. 199,[5]pp. plus fifteen unprinted interleaves. 12mo. Contemporary calf. Calf scuffed and worn, perishing at spine and extremities. Toning in margins of outer leaves, else internally clean and bright. Contemporary ink ownership inscription of John Pintard on titlepage, additional contemporary ink and pencil inscriptions in blank preliminaries and several interleaves. Very good. John Pintard's copy of GAINE'S UNIVERSAL REGISTER and almanac for 1787, published by the prominent printer Hugh Gaine. Pintard (1759-1844) was a prominent New York merchant and philanthropist, noted for his early efforts in the preservation of historical manuscripts and his roles in founding the New- York Historical Society, General Theological Seminary, and the American Bible Society. Pintard's personal library formed the cornerstone of the archive of the New-York Historical Society, where his portrait by Trumbull now hangs. Gaine's register includes printings of the Articles of… Read More

[Atlanta: Budden & Son, ca. 1890].. 68pp., including numerous in-text and full- page illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers slightly tanned, some damage to upper left corner of front wrapper, faint circular stamp on rear wrapper. Soft vertical crease. Internally clean. Very good. A very rare promotional booklet for Gainesville, Georgia, printed towards the end of the 19th century. Originally called "Mule Camp Springs," Gainesville began as a trading post in the early 1800s. By 1821 it was renamed Gainesville (after General Edmund P. Gaines), and was made county seat of the recently organized Hall County. The town remained small until around 1850, when it began to gather steam as a resort destination for its nearby sulphur springs. After the interruption of the Civil War, Gainesville began to grow significantly as infrastructure was rebuilt and the Richmond-Danville railroad connected it to other markets throughout the South. This heavily illustrated promotional praises Gainesville's… Read More

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1843. [8],267pp., plus [20]pp. of ads. 16mo. Original brown embossed cloth, spine gilt. Cloth faded, with a couple of small stains. Edges and corners lightly rubbed. Mild toning, light scattered foxing. Good plus. First edition. A quaint collection of scenes from daily life in the northeast and Canada as well as sketches of several prominent military encounters. HOWES S458.

New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co., [and] J.S. Redfield, 1844.. 193,[1]pp. including frontispiece and eight full-page illustrations. 12mo. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Cloth expertly repaired at extremities. Lacks the front free endpaper, pencil notes on rear free endpaper. Text lightly tanned, a few instances of soiling. Very good. The rare first edition of this seminally important work of 19th-century gambling and reform, by the most famous gambler of the era, Jonathan H. Green. "A reformed gambler's adventures among brother card- sharps, counterfeiters, etc., along the lower Mississippi, from Kentucky to Louisiana" - Howes. This is among the earliest of several works by Green, the most important early writer on gambling in America. This book is the most famous of his works and reveals various forms of card-sharking and cheating. The final page contains a notice from the LUTHERAN OBSERVER commending Green for being "engaged in developing the heartless cruelties of gambling, and… Read More

Canton, Oh, [1912].. [6],306,[2]pp., including illustrations. Portrait. Gilt pictorial cloth. Spine sunned, some fraying at extremities. Dampstain in lower inner corner of front board extending to margin of couple of pages of text, else quite clean internally. Small ownership stamp on rear pastedown. Very good overall. A classic work on the topic. The author states of gambling: "its fascination is insidious and terrible, and its power is all the more to be dreaded in that it appeals to a latent instinct in nearly every human breast." In this volume he attempts to educate the gullible as to the tools of the trade and the scams to avoid, though at the same time he also educates those who might wish to take advantage of others. Chapters include "Social Card Playing: The Kindergarten to the Gambling Hell," "The Race Track: A National Vice" and "New York: Paradise of Gamblers," among many others. The illustrations are marvelous, and including a wide variety of gaming tools and machines, cautionary… Read More

Philadelphia, 1857. 312pp. plus 10pp. publisher's advertisements and six plates. Original brown publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Cloth lightly faded, tail of spine scuffed. Mild foxing to plates, else very clean. Very good plus. One of the classics in American gambling literature, written by Jonathan H. Green (1813-87), renowned professional gambler and later reformer. Green is the most important figure in the early literature of American gambling, a gambler who became a crusader against illegal gambling, and wrote many works devoted to exposing crime, cheating, and vice. "A reformed gambler's adventures among brother card-sharps, counterfeiters, etc., along the lower Mississippi, from Kentucky to Louisiana" - Howes. This is probably the third edition of Green's work originally published in 1844 as GAMBLING UNMASKED.... Green's works are some of the most elusive and important devoted to early American gambling. HOWES G365

Philadelphia, 1847.. [2],312pp. plus frontispiece and five plates. 12mo. Original brown embossed cloth, spine gilt. Scattered fading, spine and edges chipped, front hinge tender. Bookplate and ownership stamp on front and rear pastedowns, penciled notations on fly leaves. Foxing and toning, lower margin stained on some pages. About good. The second edition, after the first of 1844. "A reformed gambler's adventures among brother card-sharps, counterfeiters, etc., along the lower Mississippi, from Kentucky to Louisiana" - Howes. One of several works by Green, the most important early writer on gambling in America. This book is the most famous of his works and reveals various forms of card-sharking and cheating. HOWES G365.

New York: White, Stokes & Allen, 1887.. iv,84pp. Original color pictorial boards, backed in original blue cloth. Contemporary pencil ownership inscription, "The Honble. Mrs. C.M. Ramsay 618 Fifth Ave," on front free endpaper. Cloth and boards moderately worn and scuffed. Internally clean and bright. A very good copy. The rare first edition of one of the earliest books devoted to the subject of draw poker, with an attractive chromolithographic illustration of a royal flush on the front cover. "Nor is the love that [draw poker] engenders confined to any social class or classes. Rich and poor, high and low, good and bad, male and female yield to the fascinations of Poker. Among its votaries are to be found statesmen, priests, financiers, littérateurs, artists, tradesmen and artisans" (pp.3-4). OCLC records eight copies. Scarce.

New York: Wm. H. Murphy, 1875.. 72pp. 12mo. Original green cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Cloth lightly rubbed, corners and spine ends worn, hinges a bit tender. Light, even tanning, very short closed tear in upper margin of titlepage and first leaf. A handful of pencil annotations, the occasional small stain, otherwise quite clean internally. A very good copy. The first edition of this mathematical analysis of poker, often cited as the first American book devoted entirely to the game. This book of advice, authored by the certainly fictional "professor of mathematics" Henry T. Winterblossom and framed as a tool to protect poor fools from losing their money at the table, was published the same year as John Blackbridge's THE COMPLETE POKER PLAYER, which instead attempted to legitimize poker and situate it among more accepted risk-based professions. While priority between the two works has not been definitively established, a February 1875 NEW YORK TIMES article referencing Winterblossom's book… Read More

London: Printed for the Author; and sold by C. Rivington, 1735. Two volumes. viii,[480]; [546]pp., plus frontispiece and two plates. Contemporary calf, rebacked preserving the original leather labels. Bookplate on front pastedown and verso of frontispiece. Bright and clean internally. Very good. The first octavo edition of Miller's very popular dictionary, which first appeared (in folio format) in 1731. This constitutes an abridgment of the first volume of the folio edition. The author states that he learned that the price of the folio edition was too high for some who were engaged in the practical art of gardening, and he hopes they will find this less expensive version useful. Philip Miller (1691-1771) was appointed gardener to the Society of Apothecaries in London and made the name of the Chelsea Physic Garden famous throughout European botanical circles. ESTC T61256. HENREY 1117.

Philadelphia: J.L. Sibole & Co, 1877. Unpaginated. 4 colored lithographs, 8 tinted lithographs, 4 uncolored engravings. Quarto. Original gilt pictorial cloth, expertly rebacked, a.e.g. Edges refurbished. Internally a very good copy. An attractive melding of words and images, this volume contains poetry, tinged with spiritual or religious themes, with lovely illustrations featuring lilies as a motif. Lida Clarkson, a talented illustrator, produced the art and text for this volume, and is responsible for several other works of a similar nature. "Very beautiful colored plates of lilies" - Bennett. BENNETT, p.24.

Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1808. 122pp. plus six plates (including frontispiece). 16mo. Contemporary half roan and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities worn, boards rubbed. Light scattered foxing. Contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper; later ink signature on front pastedown. Very good. First American edition of the poems composed by John Gay for William, Duke of Cumberland. Complete with the charming frontispiece and five wood-engraved plates. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 15090. ROSENBACH CHILDREN'S 365

[Lisbon], March 1811.. Nos. 52, 53, 55, 56. Four issues, [4]pp. each on folded quarto sheets, string-tied. Ex-lib. with deaccession stamps and shelf number, else very good. Typical Portuguese newsletter of the Napoleonic era, with news from Turkey, Germany, France, Great Britain and Spain.

New York: the Grolier Club, 1926. 12,[2]pp. plus [30]pp. of facsimiles. Original cloth backed boards. Very good. Nicely printed facsimiles of this excessively rare publication from the Revolution.

Carlisle: Printed by Alexander & Phillip, 1806. 348pp. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Tanned, contemporary ownership markings on titlepage. Old ex-lib. rubberstamp on titlepage and another leaf. Upper forecorner of pp.329-330 torn and repaired, with loss of a few words. Good. An interesting collection of poetry and articles, both literary and historical, including a description of Pittsburgh "and the state of society at that place" during the 1780s. The author was the father of Henry M. Brackenridge and wrote a number of notable early American literary works, most famously MODERN CHIVALRY. "Apparently privately printed" - Sabin. Shaw & Shoemaker locate only seven copies of this scarce early Pennsylvania book. HOWES B689. SABIN 7188. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 10028. BAL 1313. STREETER SALE 990.

Pari, 1791. 750pp. 181 issues paginated continuously. About a dozen two-page supplements, unpaginated, are also bound in. Large folio. Contemporary three-quarter calf and paper boards, spine gilt. Spine worn and rubbed, boards rubbed and bumped. Corners worn. Internally very good. A good run of this important Paris newspaper, issued almost daily (a few holidays excepted). This run covers the first half of 1791, a crucial period in the development of the French Revolution. While all manner of news is reported, including bulletins from French colonies in America, most of the paper is devoted to domestic politics, with detailed reports of debates, meetings, speeches, votes, etc. Most issues are four pages, with some longer issues. A primary source for events of the Revolution, culminating in the attempted flight of the royal family in June 1791.

Syracuse: Printed at the Journal Offic, 1872. 417pp. including folding map and advertisements (some printed on gold or blue paper). Original stamped, pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Very slight wear to spine ends, corners bumped. Touch of early foxing, but a very good copy. An information-laden directory for two upstate New York counties, compiled by Child, who seemingly had a monopoly on Empire State county directories. Includes scores of advertisements, a lengthy business directory, and descriptions of the various towns in the region

Chicag: Hazlitt & Reed, Printers, 1867. 166,[2]pp. including one plate. Frontis. Original cloth, spine neatly rebacked with binder's cloth tape. A very good, clean copy. Includes descriptions of the Valley and its counties, with many illustrated advertisements for local businesses, mostly from South Bend, but some from other places in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio (pp.88-166). Full of interesting local historical sketches about settlement, businesses, etc. With a full-page illustration of the Studebaker Brothers' carriage and wagon factory in South Bend, and a frontispiece depicting the residence of Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House. HOWES T427. CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE 1263. DECKER 32:382.