Search Results: Titles starting with N from WILLIAM ALLISON BOOKS

An interesting group of publications listing persons and entities in the town of Johnson. These lists have both historic and genealogy research potential. They are also imprints from different printers working in Providence Rhode Island. OCLC shows no holdings.
1). A List of Persons, Corporations, Companies and Estates, as Assessed in the Town Tax. … Town of Johnson, on the First Day of April 1857. Providence, Rhode Island: Sayles, Miller & Simons, Steam Printers. 1857. Tan printed wraps. 18 [2] pp. Cover title: Johnson's Tax-Book. 1857. Covers stained. Edge bends. Interior edge bumps, light stains.

2). A List of Persons, Corporations, Companies and Estates, as Assessed in the Town Tax. … Town of Johnson … 1860. Providence, Rhode Island: Publication information missing. 1860. Tan printed wraps. 29 [1] pp. Johnson's Tax-Book. 1860. [Half Title] Wrappers missing. Title page torn with only a small fragment remaining. Water stains throughout.
3). A List of Persons, Corporations, Companies and… Read More

[African Americans] Negroes in the United States. Washington: Government printing Office. 1916. Second edition. Green printed wraps. 31 cm. Illustrated. Maps. Charts. 207 pp. Other title: United States Bureau of the Census. Bulletin 129. Covers chipped and stained. Interior very good.
OCLC shows only two holdings in Texas (Univ. North Texas & Texas Tech Univ.) Scarce today. Originally published in 1915 and reprinted the following year. Prepared in the Division of revisions and results under the general supervision of Dr. Joseph A. Hill, expert special agent. The statistical tables were planned and arranged by ... Charles E. Hall, William Jennifer, and Robert A. Pelham. Much useful information.

[Cartography] [Boston] George W Boynton. New Map of Boston Comprising the Whole City with the New Boundaries of the Wards. Engraved expressly for the Boston Almanac for 1861. Boston: [Brown & Taggard Pub.] 1860. Map 24 x 27 cm, on sheet 25 x 28 cm. Inset: Plan of East Boston on a reduced scale. Includes table entitled "reference," listing places of interest. Map has been folded and shows water stains. Good.
OCLC shows five holdings for this map (Harvard; Salem State; Boston Pub. Lib.; British Lib. [2]). Shows routes of the Metropolitan Railroad and Broadway Railroad. Engraved by G.W. Boynton. The Almanac is also scarce, OCLC showing five holdings (AAS; Historic New England; Valdosta St.; Hamilton Col. & San Francisco Maritime Park). The map shows the city before part of the Receiving Basin was filled to create Commonwealth Avenue and Back Bay neighborhood. An interesting and uncommon map.

[New Mexico] C. S. Hammond & Co. New Mexico. New York: C.S. Hammond & Co. 1904 Color map 21 x 28 cm on sheet 25.5 x 33.5 cm. In tan paper folder 7 x 14 cm. Cover title: New State Map. Based on Official Government Surveys and Other Reliable Data. Very good with no splits.
OCLC shows no holdings of this vest pocket map. There are two holdings for the map (Cal. Hist. Soc. & UC-Davis). Other title: Hammond's 8 x 11 Map of New Mexico. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.

Clay, John. New World Notes. Being an Account of Journeyings and Sojournings in America and Canada. Kelso, Scotland: J. & J. H. Rutherford. 1875. Green cloth. First edition. One plate. 17.5 cm. 200 pp. + 4 pp. ads. [2]. Glue residue on front end papers, and on lower spine, corners bumped, spine rubbing, else very good.
Rare Book Hub shows no auction or catalog sales. Adams, Rampaging Herd 477: "Scarce." Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, Unlisted Range Rarity. Reese, Six Score 19 note. Howes 471 "aa." Graff 750. OCLC shows nineteen copies. "Clay represents a banker's view of the range cattle industry better than any other writer. A Scot, he traveled widely in the American West and Canada, observing closely and accurately. He played an important part in financing several large companies and was instrumental in the reorganization of the failed Swan Land and Cattle Co. … He wrote several other books [in addition to My Life on the Range] about his ranching experiences, the scarcest of which is… Read More

[California] [Photography]
Nine Photographs of San Francisco Views and Street Scenes. [San Francisco?] [No photographer identified] [Circa 1910s?] Nine black and white photographs. 9 x 15 cm. Titles in the negatives. Very good.
OCLC does not show any holdings of these images. Images show a number of views and street scenes of San Francisco. From the automobiles they appear to be circa 1910s? Image titles: "A Corner in Chinatown, San Francisco;" "View Overlooking San Francisco from Twin Peaks;" "San Francisco Bay Showing Fleet at Anchor;" "San Francisco, California;" "San Francisco Skyscrapers;" "Market Street, San Francisco California;" "Street Scene San Francisco California;" "The Water Front San Francisco California;' & "Fairmont Hotel San Francisco." Probably produced for the tourist trade.

Rowe, Harry. No Cure No Pay; or, The Pharmacopolist. A Musical Farce. York: Printed for the author, by Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, and sold by Richardson. 1797. Disbound. Portrait. 18 cm. 62 pp. Discoloration. Edge chips, corners clipped. Good.
OCLC shows 3 holding for this edition (Cambridge U.; U. York & Rice U.) With notes by a friend. Without the music. Pp. 58-62 contain the notes by Dr. Hunter. The initial leaf contains a note by Harry Rowe and a mounted illustration.
Harry Rowe (1726–1799) was an English showman and puppeteer. "In 1797 also appeared, in Rowe's name, 'No Cure No Pay; or the Pharmacopolist, a musical farce,' York, 8vo, in which some amusing sarcasm is levelled against empirics, with diplomas both sham and genuine, who are represented by Drs. Wax, Potion, and Motion, and the journeyman Marrowbone. Prefixed is an engraved portrait of Rowe, which is reproduced in Chambers's 'Book of Days.'" – Dictionary of National Biography. Another view states that the play titled No Cure, No… Read More

Unexplored Northwest Texas in 1854
[Texas] Parker, W[illiam] B[rown]. Notes Taken During the Expedition Commanded by Capt. R.B. Marcy through Unexplored Texas in the Summer and Fall of 1854. By W.B. Parker, Attached to the Expedition. Philadelphia: Hayes & Zell. 1855. First edition. Original brown ribbed cloth with publishers' logo stamped in blind on covers, title in gilt on spine. [i-v] vi-xii, [9] 10-242 [1] 2-6 ads [4] pp. Cover with wear and bumps. Scattered stains and spots. Very good.
Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 135n. Graff 3195. Howes P91. Plains & Rockies IV:279. Raines, p. 162. Streeter Sale 397. Tate, The Indians of Texas: An Annotated Research Bibliography 2176. Vandale 129. William Brown Parker, a friend of Marcy's, was a New York City businessman and editor who wanted to see the West. Parker writes in an engaging style and provides information not found in other accounts of the important Marcy-Neighbors exploration of the Big Wichita and the headwaters of the Brazos to find sites in… Read More

[Mexico] Noticioso General. Mexico City, Mexico. Imprenta de D. Celestino de la Torre. December 7, 1821. 25 cm. 4 pp. Very good copy, possibly trimmed at the top, a few small tears.
Early Mexican newspaper printing. OCLC lists 2 holdings (National Lib. Australia, & UT-Austin). The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 11, p. 686 says "The 'Noticioso General' (1815-1822), the largest newspaper in the colony, published official documents and news of all kinds. At first it was published every fortnight, but afterwards it appeared on Monday, Wednesday and Friday." Notice from the Archbishop of Mexico, Don Pedro Jose de Fonte stating that due to recent political events (the Mexican Declaration of Independence on September 27, 1812) and because Mexico has been separated from Spain, the publication of "Bula de la Santa Cruzada" has been suspended, however clerical services will be delivered normally. A section on silver mining. Various general announcements. This newspaper was printed from 1815 to 1823.