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A note on OCLC
As is now the norm, OCLC counts are tentative, at best, as we recognize that searches using different qualifiers will often turn up different results. Searches are now further complicated by the vast numbers of digital, microfilm, and even print-on-demand copies, which have polluted the database considerably, making it difficult, without numerous phone calls or emails, to determine the actual number of tangible copies. Hence, even though the counts herein have been recently checked, most all should be taken as a measure of approximation.
1. Jaevnt Humor. Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1913.
$40
Small 8vo, pp. [8], 203, [5]; text in Danish, tan paper wrappers printed in black and red; wrappers toned, one-inch closed tear to spine, owner's signature, residue on inside of wrappers suggesting old bookplates, text clean and sound.
A collection of short stories. Jeppe was a member of the Jutland Movement and composed stories on his native land, particularly the struggles of the poor.
OCLC notes a few copies in Europe but only Minnesota, Wisconsin and Claremont in the US.
2. Bound volume of seventeen 18th- and 19th-century American sermons.. New England: various publishers, 1791-1806.
$500
8vo, contemporary full sheep, rubbed, but good and sound.
1) [Robbins, Ephraim.] A friendly letter to the Rev. Mr. Cumings, containing several queries upon certain observations in his sermon on natural religion. Newburyport, 1796.
2) Dow, Daniel. Familiar letters, to the Rev. John Sherman, once pastor of a church in Mansfield, in particular reference to his late anti-Trinitarian treatise. Second edition. Worcester, 1806.
3) Trustees of the Missionary Society of Connecticut. A summary of Christian doctrine and practice: designed especially for the use of people in the new settlements of the United States of America. Hartford, 1804.
4) Alexander, Caleb. An essay on the real deity of Jesus Christ… Boston, 1791.
5) M'Farland, Asa. A sermon delivered at Hanover, before the Franklin Lodge of free and accepted masons… Hanover, 1797.
6) Harris, Walter. A sermon delivered at Hopkinton, on the festival of St. John, the Baptist, A.L. 5803. Before the officers and brethren of Blazing-Star Lodge. Concord, 1803.
7) Cleveland, John. A sermon delivered at the dedication of the North-Meeting House in Wrentham. Wrentham, 1802.
8) Chapin, Stephen. The first discourse delivered at Hillsborough, N.H. June 30, A.D. 1805, after his ordination. Amherst, 1806.
9) Wilder, John. The importance of being prepared for the coming of the Lord to judgment, illustrated in a discourse… Providence, [1805].
10) Goffe, Joseph. Spirits in prison: a discourse delivered at Upton… Worcester, 1803.
11) Crane, John. Impenitent sinners have natural power … two sermons delivered at Oxford. Worcester, 1804.
12) Barton, Titus Theodore. A farewell sermon delivered at Tewksbury. Salem, 1803.
13) Worcester, Samuel. The importance of a faithful declaration of divine truth illustrated and improved: a valedictory sermon, delivered at Fitchburg. Salem, 1803.
14) Emmons, Nathaniel. A discourse … at a public meeting of a number of singers who were improving themselves in church musick. Providence, 1806.
15) Emmons, Nathaniel. A discourse … in commemoration of American independence. Wrentham, 1802.
16) Emmons, Nathaniel. The dander of embracing that notion of moral virtue … a discourse, delivered on the annual Thanksgiving in Massachusetts, November 29, 1804. Providence, [?1805].
17) Emmons, Nathaniel. A sermon … at the funeral of Mrs. Lydia Fisk, late consort of the Rev. Elisha Fisk. Dedham, 1805.
3. Pen-and-ink drawing, unsigned. N.p., [Florence, Italy?], n.d.: [ca. 1880s].
$800
Approx. 8" x 12½", very slight toning, else fine.
A lovely example of Alexander's illustrative technique showing a family of eight around a dinner table - a husband and wife, a grandmother, and five children, plus another woman (possibly a governess) and an infant child standing in the background. The dinner is being served by two Black servants. This illustration was purchased in the late 1970s by me as part of a larger collection of Ruskin/Alexander materials and extracted at the time as being superfluous to the collection.
Francesca Alexander (1837-1917) was an American expatriot illustrator and an intimate friend of John Ruskin to whom she was introduced in 1882. He became interested in her work, "especially her simple, spiritual illustrations, and purchased two manuscripts from her for £600. The first was published in 1883 as The Story of Ida with its author listed simply as 'Francesca.' The volume went into several editions in both the United States and Great Britain. Ruskin published her most celebrated work, Roadside Songs, in 1885" (Wikipedia).
4. [Amaranth Press.] Animals of the Nile. San Francisco: Amaranth Press, 1978.
$45
Edition limited to 50 numbered copies (this, no. 5), signed by Gentry; folio calendar for 1979, consisting of a title leaf and 12 leaves, one for each month of the year, tabular-bound; each month with an illustration of a Nile animal by Linnea Gentry; generally fine throughout. "The material in this calendar has been adapted from original Egyptian antiquities as identified in their captions."
5. Essai sur une manière de representer les quantités imaginaires dans les constructions géométriques ... 2e édition précédée d'une préface par M. J. Hoüel et suivie d'un appendice contenant des extraits des Annales de Gergonne, relatifs à la question des imaginaires. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1874.
$125
8vo, pp. xix, [5], 126; facsimile of the 1806 title page; numerous diagrams in the text; contemporary quarter red cloth over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; spine a bit sunned, ex-U. of Minnesota with old bookplate and perforated stamp in title page, front free endpaper loose but present, blank flyleaves toned; a good copy.
Argand (1768-1822) was an amateur Swiss mathematician. In 1806, while managing a bookstore in Paris, he published the idea of geometrical interpretation of complex numbers, known as the Argand diagram, and is known for the first rigorous proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.
6. [Atlas.] Fisher's maps of the Superior-Quetico canoe country. Superior National Forest in Minnesota. Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario. Virginia, Minnesota: published and lithographed by W. A. Fisher Company, 1952.
$125
Large folio (approx. 22" x 17"), pp. [32]. original pictorial wrappers, the front wrapper neatly reattached, central vertical fold; all else very good. With 16 full-page color maps.
7. [Auction Catalogue.] Bibliothèque Fournier. Professeur Alfred et Dr. Edmond Fournier. Livres anciens et du XVIIIe siècle, livres de médecine, romantiques en éditions originales, livres illustrés de la période romantique, livres modernes en éditions de luxe, éditions originales d'auteurs modernes et contemporains, albums de caricatures, bibliographie. Paris: L. Carteret, 1926.
$35
Large 8vo, pp. [4], 274, [6]; 3 plates, facsimiles in the text; original tan printed wrappers, large chip from the bottom lower corner, front wrapper amateurishly reattached with tape, spine largely perished; all else good and sound.
8. [Auction Catalogue.] Bibliotheca historica or a catalogue of 5000 volumes of books and manuscripts relating chiefly to the history and literature of North and South America, among which is included the larger proportion of the extraordinary library of the late Henry Stevens, senior, of Barnet, Vt., founder and first president of the Vermont Historical & Antiquarian Society; the whole comprising ... a collection of ancient and modern books, rich and rare, useful and common ... including many titles never before recorded in an American catalogue. Edited with introduction and notes by Henry Stevens, G.M.B., F.S.A. ... To be sold by auction by Messrs. Leonard & co. ... in Boston ... the 5th ... 8th ... April 1870. Boston: H. O. Houghton and Company, Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1870.
$50
8vo, pp. xv, [1], 234, [2]; original printed gray front wrapper (loose, but present), rear wrapper wanting, spine chipped at the top; all else good and sound.
Includes a 13-page "Explanatory" by Stevens. Auction catalogue of some 2,545 titles. The sale actually took place April 12-15, 1870.
McKay, American Book Auction Catalogues, 3540.
9. Un an. Texte de A.-G. Leroux. Photographies de Roger Schall, Maurice Jarnoux, Raymond Mejat, De Morgoli & reporters d'agences. Gravure de Elie Bertillot. Paris: Editions Raymond Schall, [1946].
$45
First edition, 4to, pp. [8], 13-195, [43]; illustrated throughout, largely from photographs, captions printed in red; original black cloth stamped in gilt and blue; slight warping of the boards, but generally good and sound.
The year in question is 1945 and the liberation of France.
10. Exploration of the Nile tributaries of Abyssinia. The sources, supply, and overflow of the Nile. the country, peoples, customs, etc. Interspersed with many highly exciting adventures of the author, among elephants, lions, buffaloes, hippopotami, rhinoceros, etc. Accompanied by expert native sword hunters ... With a supplementary sketch relative to the captivity and release of English subjects and the career of the late Emperor Theodore. By Rev. W. L. Gage. Hartford: O. D. Case & Co., 1868.
$100
8vo, pp. [iii]-xx, [2], [23]-624; wood-engraved frontispiece, folding map and full-page map both printed in color, and 20 wood engravings on 15 plates; light dampstaining throughout at lower margin, 1975 gift inscription on recto of frontispiece, the whole slightly trimmed and in a modern brown library cloth binding lettered in gilt on spine.
11. Priručna gramatika hrvatskoga književnog jezika. Zagreb: Skolska Knjiga, 1979.
$30
First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 527, [1]; text in Croatian; blue cloth with silver detail; touch of sunning to spine, little bit of foxing on endpapers, near fine.
The first modern grammar of Literary Croatian. It was banned during the Soviet Era as nationalistic.
12. Jerusalem revisited. London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., 1855.
$150
Large 8vo, pp. viii, [4], 202; engraved title page, frontispiece and 20 plates (one folding), 18 text illustrations; full black polished calf, gilt decorated spine in six compartments, red morocco label in one, marbled endpapers and edges; joints just starting, later gift inscription: "Presented to the Supreme Council 33 degrees A.: A.: S.: R.:, N. M. J. by William F. E. Gunley of Chicago, 33 degrees Chicago, Illinois, August 7, 1939." With the Council's stamp and an earlier bookplate on endpapers; very good.
William Henry Bartlett was a prolific illustrator, mostly of landscapes, and a well-travelled author. His writing was workmanlike and served mainly to frame his illustrations, which were popular during his time. He died of a brief illness in the process of producing this book, and it was published posthumously.
13. коми-пермяцко-русский словарь / Komi-permiatsko-russkoi slovar [Permian Komi-Russian dictionary]. Moscow: Russkiy yazyk, 1985.
$50
8vo, pp. 620, [2]; text in Permian Komi with Russian definitions, two columns per page; brown cloth gilt; a touch of rubbing to the spine, else fine.
Permian Komi is a Uralic language of central Russia with an estimated 63,000 speakers.
14. Serbocroatian-English dictionary. [Philadelphia]: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971.
$40
8vo, pp. lv, [1], 807, [1]; text in two columns; brown cloth gilt; some pen marks and soiling on edges, textblock clean and sound.
15. [Bible Selections in Hmong.] Cov zaj nyeem hauv cov txoos teev ntuj hnub chiv. Bangkok: Franciscus Morvan Episcopus Caiennensis, 1989.
$35
Large 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 453, [1]; text in Hmong, red cloth, gilt title on spine; inscription removed with white-out on free endpaper, signature overwriting it, highlighting on final leaf, text otherwise clean, very good.
University of Wisconsin only in OCLC.
16. In darkest England and the way out. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1890.
$50
First American edition, 8vo, pp. [16], [9]-285, [1], xxxi, [1]; original black cloth; gilt lettering on spine; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with their shelf sticker at base of spine and a bookplate marked withdrawn; all else very good and sound.
The book contains a bi-fold colored lithographic frontispiece depicting swarms of helpless citizens tossing about in the sea, seeking refuge on the shores. These individuals are destitute in a world of poverty, avarice, godlessness, and other sins that the Salvation Army seeks to amend.
On poverty and destitution in England and the Salvation Army's plan of deliverance. Ostensibly, by the founder of the Salvation Army, but ghost authored by W. T. Stead. Printing and the Mind of Man 373: "General Booth ... [developed] from an obscure mission hall in the East End of London, a world-wide organization ... which has earned virtually universal respect and affection."
17. Wills Gott mitt ehren: gedenkboek uitgegeven ter gelegenheid van het 50-jarig bestaan van het Willem Lodewijk Gymnasium te Groningen. Groningen: Dijstra, 1959.
$30
8vo, pp. 209, [3]; text in Dutch; portrait frontispiece, plates; creme cloth with title in brown and gilt on spine; vignette of the Gymnasium on upper cover; near fine.
A commemorative book published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Willem Lodewijk Gymnasium in Groningen.
6 copies in the Netherlands, Redeemer U only in the US.
18. Gramatika Hrvatskosrpskoga Jezika. Zagreb: Skolska Knjiga, 1968.
$30
8vo, pp. 280; text in Croatian; green printed boards backed in green cloth; text a little toned but clean and sound, boards slightly bowed, very good.
A grammar of Croatian.
19. [Bunker Hill.] The stranger's guide; or explanations of the locations, objects, etc., as seen from the Bunker Hill Monument. Charlestown: J. B. Goodnow, 1859.
$40
16mo (approx. 5" x 3½"), pp. 15, [1]; printed paper wrappers with an illustration of the monument on upper cover and the Boston Museum on lower; wrappers rubbed and a little soiled, crease on upper cover, shallow tide stain on fore-edge, not touching text, good and sound.
20. The very end and other stories. London: The Scholartis Press, 1929.
$40
First trade edition limited to 1960 copies, 8vo, pp. [8], 178, [6]; original green paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, top edge stained black; endpapers and fore-edge spotted, textblock clean and sound, very good.
The first appearance in print of four of the six included stories. This copy "inscribed" by Burdett "To the late Queen Anne, from Osbert Burdett when Tuesday was a 'Saturday'. Ruislip 1930."
21. ხელოვნების ლექსიკონები მინიმუმი გერმანულ-რუსულ-ქართული / Xelovnegi lek'sikoni-minimumi germanul-rusul-k'artuli = Lexikon-Minimum für Künste Deutsch-Russisch-Georgisch = Slovar'-minimum po iskusstvu Nemecko-Russko-Gruzinskii [cover title]. Tbilisi: Ganatleba, 1969.
$30
8vo, pp. 129, [3]; text in three columns, alphabetical by the German; orange cloth, title in three languages on upper cover; boards bumped and sunned, with small tide stain on upper edge, leaves toning but clean and sound with a few bumped corners; good.
A small tri-lingual dictionary for Georgian, Russian, and German.
One copy in Hungary only.
22. [California.] The financial economy of the United States illustrated, and some of the causes which retard the progress of California demonstrated: with a relevant appendix. San Francisco: A. Roman & Co. [and] New York, 1867.
$275
First edition, and apparently a second issue with additions in the table of contents, and an added 72 pages at the back titled "A Searching Analysis of the Action of Paper Money upon the Trade and Prosperity of the United States," dated January, 1868; 12mo, pp. x, xia-xvia, [1], xii-xiv, [1], 16-357, 2-71, [1]; errata slip printed on blue paper tipped in after title; original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; ex-Minnesota Historical with shelf sticker at base of spine, and institutional bookplate marked withdrawn; good and sound.
This issue not in Cowan but see Cowan, p. 206 citing the first issue and calling for a portrait, not present here; Sabin 21493.
23. [Cambridge Cant.] Gradus ad Cantabrigiam; or, a dictionary of terms, academical and colloquial, or cant, which are used at the University of Cambridge.... London: W. J. and J. Richardson, 1803.
$1,250
First edition, small 8vo, pp. [8], 139, [1] errata; 6 folding lithograph plates; original green floral wrappers, paper label on the upper cover; front cover neatly reattached and one plate neatly reinserted, the spine rubbed and worn; all else good or better.
Alphabetically arranged throughout. Uncommon. Coleman notes Christopher Stray's Slang in the Nineteenth Century (Bristol, 2002) where it is speculated that the author may have been William Paley, son of the moral philosopher of the same name.
See Coleman, II, pp. 245-51; Vancil, p. 100; Burke, p. 134: "Contemporary expressions, with scholarly etymological 'notes and quotes' which ramble on delightfully."
24. Thebes the glory of a great past. New York: Lincoln McVeagh, The Dial Press, 1926.
$125
4to, pp. 362, [2]; 259 illustrations throughout, a number full-page; original pictorial blue cloth stamped in red, white and gilt; a near fine, tight and bright copy. Issued as part of the Queen Elizabeth Egyptological Foundation series, Brussels.
25. [Caxton Club.] An alphabet stone cut by Eric Gill. Chicago: 1963.
$75
"Reproduced for the Caxton Club of Chicago from the original Eric Gill stone in the Newberry Library," single sheet reproducing the stone approx. 20½" x 24½" and contained in a printed tan sleeve with text by James Wells on Gill and his alphabet stone.
26. Richard Bentley & Son. Reprinted from 'Le Livre' of October 1885 with some additional notes. [Edinburgh: printed by R. & R. Clark, for private distribution only, July, 1886].
$50
Edition limited to 250 copies, 8vo, pp. [8], 39, [1]; title and half-title page within decorative borders and printed in red and black, 3 steel-engraved plates (tissue guards browned), 4 illustrations in the text, printer's mark on verso of final leaf; contemporary and likely original quarter brown cloth over marbled boards; spine ends chipped away, not affecting any lettering on the spine; ex-U. of Minnesota with their small release stamp at the bottom of the fourth leaf; all else very good and clean.
Four separate texts on the publisher and the man, 2 in French and 2 in English.
27. [Chicago River.] Atlas containing maps of the Chicago River, Illinois and its branches showing result of improvement by the U.S. Government under direction of Major W. L. Marshall, Corps of Engineers U.S.A. 1896 to 1899 G. A. M. Lilgencrantz, Asst. Engineer. Chicago: 1899.
$1,500
Large oblong atlas approx. 22¾" x 28¾" consisting of a title leaf, index map (a fine street map that follows the Chicago River from Belmont Ave. in the north to 39th Street in the south and shows good detail along Lake Michigan's shoreline), and 28 maps colored in outline by stencil; some small miscreases in the margins, several sheets with small archival repairs, and the whole with evidence of its once having been bound (stab holes evident in the gutter); all else very good or better in original half red cloth over marbled boards, red morocco label lettered in gilt on the upper cover. Ex-Franklin Institute with bookplate and a perforated stamp in the blank margin of the title page.
Showing the details of the Chicago River and the adjacent roads, rail lines, canals, and buildings. Issued to accompany the report made by Marshall, not present here. Lithographed by A.B. Graham Photo Lith. of Washington, D.C.
28. [Childhood Development.] Ontwikkelingsphasen van het kind. Utrecht: W. De Haan N. V., 1946.
$35
First edition, 8vo, pp. 199, [1]; text in Dutch, text illustrations; navy cloth gilt; boards a touch soiled, pages toned but clean, very good.
A book on early childhood development that was translated into eight languages.
29. [Chronological Tables.] Tablice synchronistyczne do dziejow Powszechnych i Polski. Warszawa: Panstwowe Zaklady Wydawnictw Szkolnych, 1969.
$30
Five folded broadsides, 24" x 17"; text in Polish, charts in nine columns, listing historic events for Poland, USSR, America, Africa, capitalist Europe and socialist Europe, etc., starting from ancient history and with the final broadside covering 1945-1959; paper is brittle with some closed tears at folds, otherwise fine in the original printed envelope.
30. [Coffee.] Boletin de estadistica organo de la Federacion Nacional de Cafeteros. Volumen V, Numero 25. Bogota: Federacion nacional de Cafeteros, 1944.
$35
8vo, pp. 187, [1]; text illustrations, graphs and charts; 3 folding charts, 3 folding maps; paper wrappers printed in black and green; covers toned, top edge spotted, very good. Industry report from the coffee makers' federation.
31. Spirit of the Times. A chronicle of the turf, field sports, aquatics, agriculture, and the stage. Vol. 92, no. 20. New York: Saturday, December 23, 1876.
$150
16" x 11½", pp. [497]-536 (i.e. 40 pages); 3-4 columns per page; light wear and cracking along spine, last page stained, the whole a little toned.
Illustrated ads, illustrations of race horses, portraits from the French and English stage, the art of rowing, Christmas greeting from a devoted yachtsman, portraits of American riflemen, and the first appearance of the of Wilkie Collins's famous short story, "The Captain's Last Love."
32. [Colorado Mining Claim Survey & Certificate.] Claim of Robert O. Old upon the Philadelphia Lode and Mill Site. Central City, Colorado: December 8, 1873.
$400
Six-page pro-forma folio document (approx. 18¼" x 13¾" ) bound with red ribbon, being "General Land Office 931, Mineral Certificate no. 461," describing and outlining the parameters of the site in a lengthy one-and-a-half-page manuscript description, with a large wood-engraved illustration at the top, and a half-page hand-drawn plat "of the claim of Robert O. Old upon the Philadelphia Lode, Lincoln Mining District, Clear Creek, Colorado" and a second half-page hand-drawn plat "of the Mill Site and Water Power of Robert O. Old, Empire Mining District, Clear Creek County..." Last leaf with the red seal of the General Land Office and proxy signature of Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States. Previous folds, else very good.
33. [Communes.] Alternativa livsformer i sjuttiotalets Sverige. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, 1983.
$35
8vo, pp. 186; text in Swedish with 1-page English summary; original printed wrappers; full-page map of Skogsnas; light rubbing to covers, corner bumped, very good and clean.
Four communal groups with spiritual-therapeutic and ecological orientations are described in depth.
34. [Cuba.] Plan piloto de la Habana. Directivas generales, diseños preliminares, soluciones tipo. [New York: Wittenborn Art Books, 1959].
$250
Edition limited to 300 copies; large oblong folio (approx. 19" x 24" overall); pp. 53, [1]; numerous illustrations, maps (some in color), plans (some in color); original spiral-bound blue cloth lettered in orange on upper cover; wanting the English translation in rear cover pocket, else very good and clean.
Proposals of a city plan for Havana. Paul Lester Wiener, Jose Luis Sert, Paul Schulz; Seelye, Stevenson, Value & Knecht consulting engineers. "Compaginacion y tipografia por Constantine Michaelides."
35. [Off the Grand Banks.]. N.p., n.d. [Canada: ca. 1930s?].
$450
Acrylic painting on board, approx. 20" x 16", perhaps once framed as there is very minor loss at the side edges; all else very good. Title supplied.
Cuthbertson (1898-1969) was a Canadian marine painter. Along with Paul Caron, Cuthbertson illustrated Blodwen Davies’ book about the Saguenay River, Saguenay, (Toronto, 1930), and he wrote and illustrated Freshwater, a history of the Great Lakes, published by MacMillan, in 1931. He became a prominent marine painter, exhibiting in major centers in Canada and the United States, and his works are found in the collection of the National Archives of Canada, the Canada Steamship Lines Maritime Collection and various North American marine museums.
36. Co się właściwie dzieje w Europie?. Lublin: Nakladem Towarzystwa Naukowego K. U. L. , 1946.
$50
8vo, pp. 126, [2]; text in Polish; 11 maps in the text; gray printed wrappers; unopened and untrimmed, edges suntouched, else fine. A meditation on Poland and its place in post-war Europe, particularly in terms of its ethnic makeup.
Czekanowski was a Polish ethnographer and linguist, and a founder in the field of computational linguistics.
37. [Dari-Russian Dictionary.] Дари-русский словарь / Dari-Russkii Slovar. Moscow: Russkii Jazyk, 1986.
$30
8vo, pp. 752; text in two columns, red cloth gilt; crease on upper cover, last two leaves folded, very good.
38. [Davis, Richard Harding.] Washington et Lafayette spectacle en deux tableaux composé pour le comité du fonds Lafayette et joué au Century Theatre de New-York le 4 mars 1915. Traduit par Émile Legouis. Paris: Imprimerie Chaix, 1915.
$45
16mo, pp. 15, [1]; original printed gray wrappers; some toning else near fine. The Epilogue was written by Richard Harding Davis.
BAL 4569: "First located book appearance of "Your Great-Grandfather and My Great-Grandfather." For first book appearance in the original English see For France, 1917.
39. Soliloquy of Prof. John W. Webster after the disappearance of Dr. Geo. Parkman up to the time of his execution. [Boston?: publisher not identified, 1850].
$350
Folio broadside (12¾" x 8½"), the text in triple column beneath the running head, the whole within a decorative border; the text cut in strips and mounted on a later sheet, the last 8 stanzas and portions of the border in facsimile from the Brown University copy.
Verse in fifty-four stanzas; first lines: "An awful discontent, is resting on my mind." John W. Webster was executed on Aug. 30, 1850, for the murder of George Parkman. Maine poet Mary G. Doe, daughter of Jeremiah Doe and Sarah Garland Doe, lived from 1801 to 1870.
Not in McDade. OCLC locates seven copies: NY Historical, Mass. Historical, Harvard, AAS, Peabody-Essex, Brown, and Yale.
40. [Doves Press.] London: a paper read at a meeting of the Art Workers Guild ... March 6, 1891.. [London: presented to the subscribers of the Doves Press by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker, 1906].
$300
Edition limited to 305 copies, this one of 300 on handmade paper, small 4to, pp. 7, [1]; colophon leaf printed in red and black; original limp vellum; fine.
Tomkinson 8; Tidcombe DP9.
41. [Drake, Joseph Rodman.] The life and works of Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820). A memoir and complete text of his poems & prose including much never before printed. Boston: printed for the author by the Merrymount Press, 1935.
$150
Edition limited to 750 copies printed by Daniel Berkeley Updike, The Merrymount Press; 8vo, pp. xviii, [2], 424, [2]; frontispiece portrait and 16 plates; original light brown cloth, printed paper label on spine; evidence of bookplate removed, else very good and sound.
This copy with a lengthy presentation by Pleadwell to Margaret Millicent Hunt Heaton "who will find a kinship in this book ... and derive some moments of pleasure from a perusal of its pages," signed in full and dated Honolulu, Christmas, 1839.
42. [Dylan, Bob.] Bob Dylan: on a couch and fifty cents a day. [New York]: MKB Press, [2021].
$50
First edition, 8vo, pp. 277, [5]; illustrated throughout; fine copy in original pictorial wrappers.
Signed and dated by the author in August, 2021. When Peter was a teenager, his parents, Eve and Mac McKenzie, gave food and shelter to Bob Dylan during the spring and summer of 1961, when Dylan was just getting started. This is Pete's memoir of his time with Dylan during those heady months, and beyond.
43. U.S. Engineer's report on the St. Louis Bridge reviewed. St. Louis: Democrat Lithographing and Printing Company, 1873.
$275
8vo, pp. 42; original printed brown wrappers; vertical crease, else fine.
Wikipedia notes that "Eads designed and built the first road and rail bridge to cross the Mississippi River at St. Louis. The Eads Bridge, constructed from 1867 through 1874, was the first bridge of a significant size with steel as its primary material, and it was the longest arch bridge in the world when completed. Eads was the first bridge builder to employ the cantilever method which allowed steam boat traffic to continue using the river during construction. The bridge is still in use today, carrying both automobile and light rail traffic over the river. The Eads Bridge is the only bridge to be named for its engineer."
44. [Egypt.] Memphis I. With a chapter by J. H. Walker. London: School of Archaeology in Egypt ... and Bernard Quaritch, 1909.
$100
First edition, folio, pp. vii, [1], 26, [2]; 54 plates from photographs, drawings, and inscriptions; very good copy in original quarter red cloth over gray printed paper-covered boards. Laid in is a quarto bifolium from the publishers regarding the text. A total of six volumes were published on Memphis, 1909-1913.
45. One-and-one-half-page autograph manuscript to Samuel Lewis, Constable of Reading, Massachusetts in the north precinct, per order of the selectmen. Reading: 1726.
$350
On recto and verso of a sheet of paper approx. 7½" x 6"; previous folds, very good.
Town Clerk Peter Emerson directs Constable Samuel Lewis to gather freeholders and other inhabitants for a meeting: "you are Required forth with to warne all the free wholders and other in habitance qualified as the Law Dyrects in your precints, to meete at the South meeting hous in Reading ... to know the Minde of the towne whether they will petition to the Generall Court for a number of our naibours at the North Ende of Malden to be set of[f] to our township and whether the towne will cuse a Commitey to manidge that afare and whether ...the towne will chuse a Commitey to look after our Rights of herbidg in the Six Hundred acrs in Lyn..."
Docketed on the verso by Samuel Lewis with "his X mark" noting that "I have warnd ye Inhabitants in my precint to meet at time & place according to warrent."
46. [English-Macedonian Dictionary.] Англиско-Македонски речник / Anglisko-Makedonski Rechnik. Skopje : Prosvetno delo.
$30
8vo, pp. 422, [2]; text in two columns; red printed boards backed in red cloth; minor soiling, owner's signature on endpaper, very good.
47. [Ephemera.] The Youth's Companion calendar for 1901. Boston: Perry Mason Company, [1900].
$50
Large chromolithograph die-cut calendar approx. 25" x 8", with a large female portrait over the 12 months of the year, the verso with imprint and an advertising plug for the Youth's Companion; 2 previous folds; very good.
48. The oak shade, or records of a village literary association. Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazzard, 1855.
$100
First edition, 8vo, pp. 214; black roan-backed marbled boards, speckled edges; joints restored, board edges worn, spine ends chipped level with text block, mild spotting; good copy.
Scarce. A collection of short fiction from an anonymous association.
Wright II, 875.
49. Древние российские стихотворения : собранные Киршею Даниловым / Drevnie rossiiskie stikhotvoreniia: sobrannye Kirsheiu Danilovym. Moscow: Nauka, 1977.
$30
8vo, pp. 487, [1]; text in Russian; full green cloth gilt, glossary of antiquated terms in back, addendum tipped in; corners bumped, text clean and sound, very good.
The collected folklore of Kirsha Danilov. First published in 1804, it was one of the first authentic collections of folk songs in Europe.
50. [Falkland Islands.] A map of the Falklands Islands in the latitude of 51o, 22' south, longitude 64o, 30' west from the latest observations. [London]: J. Lodge, sculp., 1770.
$100
Engraved map approx. 8" x 10½", 8 elevations at the top and 1 more at the bottom; previous folds, 3 tiny holes in the right blank margin; good, or better.
Extracted from the Gentleman's Magazine, October, 1770.
51. Fall River Line between Boston and New York via Fall River and Newport. Cars leave the station of the Old Colony and Newport R. R. ... for the new and splendid steamers Providence or Bristol ... Dodsworth's Band will play every afternoon.... Boston: James Fisk, Jr., managing director, Narragansett Steamship Company; George Shiverick, passenger and freight agent, no. 3 Old State House, n.d., [ca. late 1860s].
$2,250
Broadside on card (approx. 22¾" x 15½"), printed in red, green, and black, with a large image of the steamship Bristol at the top. Small chip out of the top margin (just nicking the printed green border), verso soiled and with a short old tape repair; overall very good and attractive.
Rare. Not found in OCLC.
52. One-page autograph letter signed to Commander John Dahlgren, officer in charge of ordnance manufacturing at the Washington Navy Yard. Gosport, Virginia, U. S. Navy Yard: 12 June, 1854.
$750
4to, approx. 100 words; previous folds, else fine.
Farragut (1801-1870), inspector of ordnance at Gosport, writes to complain of poor workmanship.
"The sights sent down for the Constellation’s 10 in. Guns, do not fit the Guns, & there is no way of fastening to the Gun except at the lower end. I will have to have new ones made like those of the 8 in. Why did you not make them all alike? I will also suggest that the chock for resting the muzzle of the Boat Gun on to shift it to the Field Carriage, is not sufficiently high. 6 or 8 inches higher would not be too much."
David Farragut was only nine years old when he was appointed a midshipman and shipped on the Essex with his guardian David Porter bound for the Pacific during the War of 1812. He somehow survived the bloody battle during which the Essex was severely beaten by HMS Cherub and Phoebe off Valparaiso, and, after several years with the Mediterranean squadron, rejoined Porter in the Caribbean in the early 1820’s as executive officer of Seagull aiding the Navy’s suppression of the West Indian pirates. He commanded Decatur during the Mexican War, but clashed with his commander, M. C. Perry, and returned home with a cloud over his head. Assigned to draft gunnery regulations, he became one of the Navy’s ordnance experts.
In 1854 Farragut was ordered to the West Coast to establish a Navy Yard at Mare Island. He returned to the Atlantic in 1858 as commander of the new sloop-of-war Brooklyn. When Civil War erupted Farragut sailed in Hartford for New Orleans where he decisively defeated the Confederate Fleet. For this victory he was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral, the first ever in the United States Navy. In August 1864 he once again commanded the Gulf Fleet and once again soundly defeated the Confederate Navy this time at Mobile Bay. It was during this battle that he uttered his now famous line "Damn the torpedoes!"
Subsequent to the battle Abraham Lincoln signed a bill promoting Farragut to the rank of Vice Admiral. In 1866 Congress created the grade of Admiral and bestowed upon him that rank. The next year he was sent on a tour of Europe with the Franklin as his flagship where he was everywhere met with highest honors. He passed away quietly in 1870, a much-loved naval hero.
53. The vocabulary of East Anglia; an attempt to record the vulgar tongue of the twin sister counties, Norfolk and Suffolk, as it existed in the last twenty years of the eighteenth century, and still exists; with proof of its antiquity from etymology and authority. London: printed by and for J. B. Nichols and Son, 1830.
$450
First edition, 12mo, 2 vols., pp. xlviii, 125; [1], 126-435: engraved portrait of the author; a nice copy in later full brown cloth, gilt-paneled spine laid out in 5 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2.
Published posthumously, the work contains a preface by George Turner, a memoir of the author, a 3-page list of subscribers, and a series of three introductory essays by Forby, including those on the progress of popular language, and East Anglican pronunciation and grammar. A supplementary volume edited by the Rev. W. T. Spurdens was issued in 1858.
Vancil, p. 92.
54. [Fourth of July.] Celebration of the Fourth of July during 18-- [manuscript drop title]. [c. early 1900s?].
$175
Manuscript story on lined paper, 10½" x 7", pp. [12]; text on rectos only, an ink illustration on bottom of each page, stapled at top, blank cover leaf toned, the rest clean and near fine.
A simple and childish story, notable mainly for the equally childish and entertaining illustrations. It describes speeches and picnics, naughty boys starting wars with bees, and a grumpy farmer holding his son back to fish and harvest the oats.
55. De Danskes land. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1943.
$150
Folio, 3 vols, grayscale photographic plates throughout, 7 color folding maps; half blue morocco over patterned paper boards; spines a little rubbed, plants pressed in paper laid in; very good.
Achton Friis was a Danish illustrator, painter and writer, who participated in the Denmark Exhibition to Northern Greenland in 1906-1908. His work De Danskes Land provides a comprehensive description of the regions, people, and nature of Denmark.
56. The Bassett Lowke story. [London]: New Cavendish Books, [1984].
$45
First edition, 4to, pp. 352; over 800 illustrations throughout; fine copy in the dust jacket. Bassett Lowke, founded in 1899, was a noted model making company, noted for model railroads but also model ships, airplanes, architectural models, etc.
57. The Liberator. Vol. XXX, no. 22. Boston: Friday, June 1, 1860.
$275
24½" x 18", pp. [85]-88 (i.e. 4 pages); 6 columns per page; folds in eighths, some toning, mild waterstain at the top of all pages.
Ownership signature at the top of A. W. Weston, almost certainly Anne Warren Weston (1812-1890), the noted Massachusetts abolitionist.
This issue publishes the results of the Chicago convention at which Abraham Lincoln was nominated as the Republican candidate for President.
Includes speeches made at the annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, including those of J. R. W. Sloan, William Lloyd Garrison, Miss Mary Grew, the Rev. George F. Noyes, and J. Elizabeth Jones; also, a long letter to the editor on marriage and divorce, three-and-a-half-column review of the speech of William Seward by Beriah Green; obituary of Theodore Parker, accounts of two slave ships captured, and the usual ads.
58. Fifty years of Nile exploration, and some of its results. As contained in The Geographical Journal, vol. XXXIII, no. 2 for February, 1909. [London: Royal Geographical Society, 1909].
$75
8vo, pp. [117]-240 [i.e. 122 pages]; portrait frontispiece, 2 maps (1 full-page); large folding color map at the back, worn, and with neat repairs on verso. Bound in slightly later half maroon calf, gilt-lettered direct on spine; very good and sound.
Also contains articles on The Panama Canal, by Vaughan Cornish (with 4 illustrations from photographs); Survey Work on the Frontier between Bolivia and Brazil, by Major P. H. Fawcett; The Italian Earthquake of December 28, 1908, by R. D. Oldham (with a map); The Meteorology of the 'Discovery'; Lake Kioga (Ibrahim) Exploratory Survey 1907-1908, by Lieut. C. E. Fishbourne; and, Swallow-Holes in Chalk, by Col. W. Pitt. Plus book reviews and the Monthly Record of expeditions and explorations.
59. A Hebrew and English lexicon of the Old Testament, including Biblical Chaldee ... Translated from the Latin by Edward Robinson ... A new edition, with corrections and large additions. Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1844.
$100
Second American edition, thick 8vo, pp. viii, 1144; contemporary and likely original quarter tan roan over marbled boards, gilt-paneled spine laid out in 5 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1; the spine a little sunned, else very good and sound.
Gesenius (1786-1842) was a prominent German orientalist, professor of languages and Biblical studies at Halle. To him belongs "the credit of having freed Semitic philology from the trammels of theological and religious prepossession, and of inaugurating the strictly scientific and comparative method" (EB-11).
Vancil, p. 97.
60. William T. Givens family correspondence. Morgan County, Illinois: 1832-1884.
$600
William Thomas Givens was born in 1806 in Roane, Tennessee. He married Lydia Margaret Burch and had three children. He was a Captain in the Black Hawk War as part of the 3rd Regiment of the Illinois militia. He died April 20, 1879 in Waverly, Illinois.
1) One-and-a-half-page "Regimental Orders," dated March 10, 1832, approx. 9" x 8"; previous folds, lightly foxed; notice of William T. Givens promotion to Captain "of the Company lately commanded by Hardin Weatherford, these are therefore to command all officers and privates under his command strictly to obey all orders given by him, and he is hereby required to observe all orders given him by superior officers. He will take rank from the 5th day of May under this certificate which is to be in force until a commission can be procured..." Signed and docketed by Col. Abram B. Dewitt.
2) Two-and-one-quarter-page deed dated November 7, 1838 conveying land in Springfield, Illinois from Thomas and Mary Burch of Knox County, Kentucky to William T. Givens and recorded at Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois, March 15, 1849, approx. 12.5" x 7.75", 2 wax seals attached, docketed on verso of integral leaf; previous folds, lightly toned. Bargain and sale deed to William and Lydia Givens, Knox County, Kentucky. Signed by Thos. C. Burch and Mary Burch and countersigned by James Ballinger, Clerk.
3) Lengthy three-page autograph letter signed from Robert. H. & Lucinda Givens to "Dear brother & sister," dated November 6, 1843, approx. 12" x 7.75", integral address panel to "Capt. William T. Givens, Illinois, Morgan County, Apple Creek post office." Previous folds, paper toned; very good. "My health is still bad though better than it has bin. We have a nother heir since I wrote to you a son we call him Charles Robert he was born the 17th of May. I have to say to you that Father is no more, he departed this life the 17th of June at sun down in his right mind perfectly resigned to dye ... he was sick a long time he had some lingering disease of the stomach and bowels ... Have made fine crops except cotton is not as good as it was last season. I will make a bout ten bales 120 + wheat bushels 300 barrells of corn and have made 4000 brick ... Cotten is worth from six to eight cents at Memphis corn can't be sold for one dollar per barrell wheat fifty cents bacon five to six cents pork will be worth from two to three cents property of every disscription is here except Negroes & fine saddle horses ... Ten or twelve fine horses sold in Jackson this sommer & fall for a fair price. I would have riten to you on the subject but was looking for you every day the country is over stocked with common horses ... Negroes are a rising here and else where and it is though that property will rise. I have eight head of horses mules and a jack year old last spring and a good waggon and six steer and plenty to live on and am out of debt. I should like for you to move to this country ... There is a great opening for a man to make money at Memphis ... Jesse is living in Arkansas and doing better than he has bin. Doct. Evans is still lives near Memphis please write me a bout the Hutson debt as Parker is bound for one half of it to me ... Uncle Sam has found the Temperance pledge and is an Elder in the Church..."
4) Three-page autograph letter signed from J. Chilton Burch dated City of Jefferson, January 9, 1844 to "Dear Grandma," approx. 10" x 8" with address panel on verso of integral leaf to Mrs. Ann Burch, Franklin P.O., Morgan County, Illinois, with a Jefferson City, MO roundstamp, previous folds with several short breaks but no loss; good and legible. Burch writes to his grandmother that his father is building a bank in Springfield, MO, for which he will get $4,889. He writes that Brother Franklin is attending medical lectures at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, and that he (Chilton) has been studying law. Other family members are also reported on.
5) Lengthy three-page autograph letter signed from Mary J. Wright, wife of William A. Wright, to her brother William Thomas Givens Sr. of Morgan County, Illinois, Rusk County, State of Texas, March 13, 1852, approx. 12" x 7.75" Previous folds, minor breaks and tears, one word partially lost. "Dear Brother, Mr. Wright died the 6th day of last August. The doctors said it was called pressure on the brain. He was only sick one day and a half. My little daughter died the 25th of last June; her death caused by the whooping cough. ... Times are hard, provisions are high and money is scarce. Corn is worth from 80 cents to one dollar per bushel. Bacon is 15 cents. Land is worth from $1.50 to $2.00 in the woods and improved land from $3.50 to $5.00 per acre. Brother Jesse Givens lives in Texas. He moved in January. He said he was going out on Brazos River. We have settled on Sabine River - 4 miles from it. Jesse is gathering property ... The Givens connection is scattered all through Texas. Brother Jesse had old Peter with him and he looked as young as ever. We have a settlement of old Mississippians here. We have old Mr. Carson Wilson for a neighbor and he is a good one too. Elick Hutchings is living in Texas and all your old acquaintances, and doing well. I want you to come to Texas as soon as you can and I want you to move. I have no doubt but what you will like this country. It is the prettiest country that I ever saw in my life ... We planted corn the 14th of February and are fixing to plant cotton. Grass is ankle high in the woods ... We have bought 100 acres of first rate land in the woods. We paid $1.50 per acre ... We got here the 25th of December, 1850 and we cleared 100 acres and got it planted by the 10th of March. We did not make much owing to the drouth, but I believe that was a general thing, so far as I can learn. Old settlers that have been here 8 or 10 years say they generally raise from 1800 to 2000 pounds of cotton to the acre and from 35 to 40 bushels of corn to the acre, and I think that will do tolerable well. Mr. Nelson and Mr. Cox said you was living on a poor place and why will you live on those poor hills when there is good land not far from you? And they also said you was a good old Methodist. Well, Texas will suit you in that respect for there are some good old shouting ones here. I have got all the children going to school. Steam boats are running our river finely ... Direct your letters to Cotton Plant Post, Rusk County, Texas. Give my love to all the family and accept a good portion for yourself. Write without fail as soon as you get this. Your sister until death, Mary J. Wright."
6) Lengthy three-page autograph letter signed from Mary J. Wright to her brother William T. Givens in Waverly, Morgan County, Illinois, dated State of Texas, Rusk County, June 29, 1852, approx. 12" X 7.5", on blue paper; some staining, previous folds with a number of small breaks, but the sense remains clear. "Dear brother, I received yours of May 18, 1852 which affords me much pleasure to hear from you all ... We are all well at present and hope that when these few lines come to hand they may find you and your family enjoying the same help of God ... Crops are very fine here. They are as fine as I ever saw in any country ... and we have very fine cotton waist high, and I think if you was to see our country now you would certainly move here. You said you had an idea of going to look at Western Texas. I would be glad you would go. If you do go, I want you to come to my house, for I want to go with you, although I am well satisfied to live here for this is a good country and if seasons continue as they have, we will make 2500 bushels of corn and about 15 bales (cotton). We have some of our hands hired out now and they will all be hired out next Christmas. You wrote to me to give you my children's education. I have them all going to school except two. We have three fine schools in our neighborhood and one of them is a female school. I am sending my oldest daughter to it. You wanted to know the names of my children. I give them to you: Massa, Loueaser (dead), John G., Lenora, Ransom B., Mary A., Blackburn, Robert G., Sarah Jane (dead), and Ruth. I have commenced at the oldest and give their names in rotation. Loueaser married a man by the name of Edward H. Miller, and she died when her child was 7 month old, and its name is John. He was a fine child when we left Mississippi ... Dr. Evans said he received your letter you wrote him last winter and answered it but never heard from you again. If you ever intend to come to Texas, come this fall for there are powerful crops raising this year ... I can engage corn at 25 cents per bushel but I would advise you to come and look before you move. Solomon Awalt lives 12 miles from us. He is still preaching. There is a son of Clark Spencer's here and he is a splendid preacher. His name is Ben. We have good preaching here every Sunday and we have all denominations - Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Camolites. Tell Lydia I would like to see her and tell her to write to me ... Write soon and often."
7) Very lengthy four-page autograph letter signed (approx. 2200 words) by Thomas W. Shaw to his cousin, Miss Jennie Givens in Waverly, Illinois, dated Dallas, Texas, May 21, 1884, approx. 10" x 8", previous folds with a few short breaks, but sense remains clear. Thomas W. Shaw of Dallas writes his cousin giving news of many relatives. "The name of Givens is very dear to me, because my mother was a Givens." He mentions Aunt Winnie, Uncle Harry, and that Johnnie has married a Miss Jennie Neil, "a very homely girl." Also news of Uncle Robert, Cousin Sally Smith, Cousin Jimmie, John Givens, Charlie Givens, and on and on. He closes "My love to all the relatives. Accept a large share for yourself. I still have the photo you gave me of your self. It has begun to fade some. Hoping you will not consign this to your waste basket but favor me with an early reply."
61. [Golden Cockerel Press.] Roses of Sharon. Poems chosen from the flower of ancient Hebrew literature, with an introduction ... 12 wood-engravings by Mary Groom. [London]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1937.
$125
Edition limited to 125 copies, 8vo, pp. [3]-58, [2]; unbound, unopened sheets, out of series and with 11 (of 12) wood engravings by Mary Groom, lacking the frontispiece; all else near fine.
Pertelote 127.
62. [Golden Cockerel Press.] Shelley at Oxford. The early correspondence of P. B. Shelley with his friend T. J. Hogg together with letters of Mary Shelley and T. L. Peacock and a hitherto unpublished prose fragment by Shelley. Edited by Walter Sidney Scott. [London]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1944.
$225
Edition limited to 500 copies, 8vo, pp. 78, [2]; frontispiece; unbound, unopened sheets, out of series and without the 3 plates after drawings by Leisman & Easton; near fine copy. The third book of a trilogy, edited by Walter Sidney Scott and published by the Golden Cockerel Press, of which the first was The Athenians and the second Harriet and Mary.
Accompanied by: Supplement of reproductions limited to fifty copies to accompany the first fifty copies of the book..., an 8-page gathering reproducing a contemporary engraving, and 6 pages of facsimile, including one of Mary Shelley.
Cockalorum 163.
63. [Grabhorn Press.] Catalogue of an exhibition of the typographic work of Jane Grabhorn in the Albert M. Bender Room of the Stanford University Libraries. March 4 to April 7, 1956. Stanford: Stanford University, 1956.
$150
Edition limited to 500 copies, 8vo, pp. 27, [1]; original printed wrappers; device of the Colt Press on upper wrapper and title page; upper joint starting, textblock starting to separate from wrappers, light spotting to first and last leaves; good.
This copy inscribed by Jane Grabhorn to Jackson Burke of Merganthaler Linotype, once associated with Stanford University Press, with Burke's bookplate on pastedown, and 2 one-page typed letters laid in, the first from Jeannette M. Hitchcock, Emeritus Chief of Special Collections at Stanford, to Burke, and the second a copy of the letter from him to her, discussing the catalog and a prospective exhibit for Burke's collection of Jumbo Press material.
Grabhorn Press Bibliography no. 575.
64. The Boston Packet, James Shepherd, Master. Instructions Issued by Vice-Admiral Graves...in Obedience to which [Lieutenant lined through and corrected in manuscript to Captain] Bromedge Siezed the Ship ... Given under my hand, on board His Majesty's Ship Preston, at Boston ... September, 1775. [but actually London: William Strahan: 1780?].
$1,250
Folio broadsheet (17½" x 11"); 3 horizontal folds, the paper a bit dusty, else very good. With its original separately printed title leaf, folded into a wrap-around sleeve.
In January 1776, Captain Bromedge wrote to Vice Admiral Schuldham regarding his boarding of the ship Boston Packet, and his suspicion that they were carrying stores to the enemy. "I am informed by the crew of the Boston Packet that the Master declared repeatedly on the Passage that, could he make Cape Codd, he would go in there and land his cargo, or could he make Cape Ann, he did not fear meeting with some of his Friends, to carry him into Beverly or Salem" (see Naval Documents of the American Revolution, Vol III, p. 1005 for the full text of his letter).
Regarding this, and similar allegations, Vice Admiral Graves issued the orders printed here, specifically pertaining to the Boston Packet: "You are to seize and detain all Ships and Vessels belonging to the Inhabitants of the four New England Provinces, and to send them to Boston..." On the verso is printed Rear Admiral Schuldham's confirmation of Graves' order, "the probability of these stores being smuggled away to the Enemy...makes me think it highly proper that they should be detained."
In effect, this is a Letter of Marque, issued during the Revolutionary War, but pertaining only to a particular class of merchant ships, and to two vessels in particular, one of which was the Boston Packet.
Rare. OCLC shows only the John Carter Brown holding a copy. With manuscript additions dating the document September 1775, and addressing it to Captain Bromadge. ESTC also locates a copy at the BL.
65. [Green Bay.] Map of Green Bay exhibiting the various "Ship Channels" compiled from various maps. To accompany the Report of Capt. T. J. Cram T. E., on the proposed boundary between Michigan and Wiskonsan. Washington, D.C.: W. J. Stone, sc., 1840.
$100
Approx. 8¾" x 9¾", previous folds in thirds; very good.
66. A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue... Edited with a biographical and critical sketch and an extensive commentary by Eric Partridge.. New York: Barnes & Noble, [1963].
$45
Third (1st American) edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [2], 396; textblock a little edge toned, else near fine in original black cloth-backed boards, very good toned dust jacket.
67. [Guadeloupe.] Partie occidentale de l'isle de la Guadeloupe, appellée la Basse Terre. [With:] Partie orientale de l'isle de la Guadeloupe, appellée la Grande-Terre. [Paris: Jean-Baptiste Croisey, n.d., [1764].
$375
Two engraved maps hand-colored in outline, each approx. 12¾" x 17¾" overall (image size 8¾" x 14"); previous central folds, all else very good.
Map nos. 87 and 88 extracted from Bellin's Le petit atlas maritime, 1764. Relief shown by hachures, depths shown by soundings, oriented with north to the left.
68. Latviešu-krievu vārdnīca skolām / латышско-русский словарь для школ [Latvian-Russian dictionary]. Riga: Liesma, 1974.
$30
Third edition, 8vo, pp. 319, [1]; 14,000 entries in two columns, Latvian into Russian; gray cloth; corners bumped, paper just starting to tone, near fine.
69. [Harbor Regulations - Port of Amsterdam.] Regulation and ordinance concerning the harbour-duty, by merchant ships and vessels in the harbour of the Nieuwe Diep. Ministry of the Marine, [1817].
$600
8" x 5", pp. 18, [2]; self-wrappers, stitched, as issued; in a contemporary parchment chemise. Some wear to the first leaf causing minor holes (no text lost), early ownership signature on the verso of the last leaf of Martin Page.
These regulations, "enacted by Royal Decree," and clearly meant for British and American eyes, consist of 34 articles giving instructions for entering the busy port of Nieuwe Diep, serving Amsterdam. They specify such things as to how vessels should identify themselves, where and how they should tie up, priority of vessels in finding berths, prohibitive activities (such as heating pitch or other combustibles), rules for keeping watch, procedures for dealing with ships on fire, quarantine regulations, and penalties for failing to follow instructions.
Signed in type: "Secretary at the Ministry of the Marine, Stratenus." This would be Adam Anthony Stratenus (1779-1836) who was Secretary General of the Ministry of the Navy.
Very rare English version of the port of Nieuwe Diep's harbor regulations. Not found in OCLC.
70. Bagdad, Babylon, Ninive. Med 354 bilder samt 5 kartor. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, 1917.
$125
First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 806, [2]; portrait frontispiece, 5 maps (including 1 folding map printed in color at the back), numerous illustrations from photographs and drawings throughout, many full-page; spine slightly dull, rear hinge starting; all else very good in original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine.
"During the First World War Hedin travelled the West and East Fronts (1914-15) and wrote two heavy volumes on his experiences, which were presented from a decisively German perspective. Hedin’s informants and comrades in the field were German officers and troops. His unlimited admiration for the German Kaiser Wilhelm II was met with ridicule in Swedish and British publications and mirror a general inclination of his, never abandoned, to put his faith in strong leaders, preferably German and certainly male. His tour of the Middle East (1916) again resulted in two heavy volumes (this among them) in which hail for the German war-efforts played an important part, though coupled with Hedin’s unmistaken gift for describing the historical, cultural and natural landscape he travelled through" (Sven Hedin Foundation).
71. Kriget mot Ryssland minnen fran fronten i oster Mars - Augusti 1915. Med over 400 bilder samt 11 kartor. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, [1915].
$150
First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 964, [4]; 11 maps, numerous illustrations from photographs and drawings throughout, many full-page, some double-page; very good in original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine.
"During the First World War Hedin travelled the West and East Fronts (1914-15) and wrote two heavy volumes on his experiences (this being one of them), which were presented from a decisively German perspective. Hedin’s informants and comrades in the field were German officers and troops. His unlimited admiration for the German Kaiser Wilhelm II was met with ridicule in Swedish and British publications and mirror a general inclination of his, never abandoned, to put his faith in strong leaders, preferably German and certainly male. His tour of the Middle East (1916) again resulted in two heavy volumes in which hail for the German war-efforts played an important part, though coupled with Hedin’s unmistaken gift for describing the historical, cultural and natural landscape he travelled through" (Sven Hedin Foundation).
72. Menneskets avstamning fra ape til menneske. [Oslo]: J. W. Cappelens Forlag, [1942].
$40
Second edition, 8vo, pp. 155, [1]; text in Norwegian; 10 leaves of composite plates, text illustrations; contemporary half black calf over paste paper boards; touch of rubbing to extremities, else fine.
Anatol Heintz was a Norwegian paleontologist, who was imprisoned by Nazi collaborators in WWII.
OCLC notes only 2 copies in Denmark.
73. The language of Charles Sealsfield: a study in atypical usage. St. Louis, MO: Washington University, 1941.
$30
8vo, pp. xi, [1], 154, [4]; gray printed paper wrappers; spin chipped and sunned, wrapper chipped on fore-edge, lower wrapper with some folds, very text clean and sound.
74. Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones piscium, qui ex itinere per africam borealem et asiam occidentalem. Frederici Guilelmi Hemprich et Christiani Godofredi Ehrenberg. Medicinae et chirurgale doctorum, studio novi aut illustrati redierunt. Percensuit et regis iussu et impensis. Edidit Dr. C. G. Ehrenberg. Decas prima [all published]. Berlin: ex Officina Academia, 1828.
$850
Folio, printed gray paper-covered portfolio with blues ties; 10 colored lithographic plates; upper tie shortened and frayed; plates near fine.
One in a series of at least 10 portfolios depicting the natural history North-East Africa and the Red Sea Basin (others include insects, animals, botany, birds, etc.). In this portfolio of fish we have10 plates depicting 26 aquatic specimens, including sharks, rays, and a beautiful swordfish.
Wilhelm Hemprich (1796-1825) and Christian Ehrenberg (1795-1876) were German naturalists who spent five years abroad studying the natural history of Egypt and the region surrounding the Red Sea. After Hemprich died in Eritrea in 1825, Ehrenberg returned to Berlin where he published their research under both of their names. The plates in this volume showcase some of the ichthyology discovered within the region.
75. Minder fra min skolemestertid 1844-1873. Kristiania: H. Aschehoug & Co., 1910.
$30
Small 8vo, pp. [8], 180; vignette title page; text in Norwegian; red cloth gilt, patterned endpapers, marbled edges, very good in a soiled and foxed pictorial dust jacket.
Hertzberg was a Norwegian educator and politician. This is the second of two memoirs he wrote about his career.
76. The history and description of fossil fuel, the collieries, and coal trade of Great Britain. By the author of the "Treatise on Manufacturers in Metal," ... in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia. London: 1835.
$125
8vo, pp. xvi, 485, [1]; tables and 42 illustrations in the text; contemporary half black morocco, upper cover neatly reattached, some scuffing; ex-Minnesota Historical with bookplate marked withdrawn; all else very good.
77. Facsimiles of the autographs of distinguished persons. Collected by Emily S. Holt. London: 1860].
$2,000
4to manuscript, approx. 108 leaves, full dark green pebble-grain morocco with elaborate gilt borders on covers enclosing the word "Autographs" on the upper cover, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1; lightly rubbed; very good. Bookplate of Emily Sarah Holt.
Hundreds of holograph signatures on the rectos of 108 leaves, beginning with those of the 14th century (Richard II and Charles VI of France) through to the 18th century (Alexander II of Russia, and Harriet Beecher Stowe). Mrs. Holt throughout has made careful and reasonably accurate imitations of the handwriting of centuries of famous people, identifying every example in a minuscule Gothic hand. Primarily royalty and heads of state, but also popes, cardinals, bishops, poets, scientists, authors, military figures, etc. from Great Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Prussia, Denmark, and even the United States.
Emily Sarah Holt (1836-1893) was an English novelist who wrote over 50 novels, primarily for children.
78. The Christian's pocket-companion. Being a choice collection of devotional hymns, for the use of Christians, in public worship and private devotion: without distinction of denomination. Enfield, [MA]: John Howe, 1826.
$250
First edition, 24mo, pp. 144; original calf backed paper covered boards; lower board warped and paper chipped, tide stain to corner of first few leaves; good and sound.
American Imprints 24903; not in Sabin.
79. украінсько-російський словник / Ukrainsko-rossiiskyi slovnyk [Ukranian-Russian dictionary]. Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 1965.
$30
8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 1064; olive cloth, gilt and black title on spine and cover; addendum tipped in; tiny tear on top of spine and mark on spine title; paper toned but clean and sound, very good.
80. [India.] A handbook for travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon including the provinces of Bengal, Bombay, Madras, the United Provinces of Agra and Lucknow, the Panjab, Eastern Bengal and Assam, the Northwest Frontier Province, Baluchistan, and the central provinces, and the native states of Rajputana, Central India, Kashmir, Hyderabad, Mysore, etc.. London: John Murray, Abelmarle Street; Calcutta: Thacker, Spine & Co., 1909.
$250
Seventh edition, 12mo, pp. cxvi, 528, 12 ("Murray's Indian Handbook Advertiser containing useful information for travellers about railways, steamboat companies, hotels, etc."); blue printed endpapers with advertisements; 81 maps and plans, many in color and many folding; large folding map of India in rear cover pocket (occasional small breaks at the intersections of the folds); original red cloth, gilt stamped spine and upper cover; spine a little sunned, light wear at extremities; very good and sound.
81. [India.] The coming struggle for India being an account of the encroachments of Russia in central Asia, and of the difficulties sure to arise therefrom to England. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1885.
$125
First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 214; folding color map bound in as frontispiece; original green cloth stamped in red and gilt; previous owner's name on front pastedown; near fine.
82. [Iowa.] A. T. Andreas' illustrated historical atlas of the State of Iowa. [Chicago: The Lakeside Press], 1875.
$950
First edition, folio, pp. [4], v-viii, 7-557, [27], pagination errors throughout; hundreds of lithographic plates, monochrome and colored; later green cloth; gilt tilting; faded marbled edges; masonic bookplate on front pastedown; half-title with tears in the fore-margin (no loss), title page miscreased and remargined on verso, with some loss to the border and imprint, and with vertical tear (mended) but with some loss to the index on verso; p. 87 full horizontal tear, but no loss; some additional minor tears; light damp-staining; otherwise good and sound.
First 250 pages reserved for full-page illustrations: colored maps depicting Iowa's counties, cities, and geographic makeup; pictorial illustrations of townscapes, landmarks, farmlands, commerce centers; portraits of local politicians, judges, and other public servants. The remaining pages contain biographies, county histories, and census information. An ambitious printing project and an invaluable resource in the study of Iowa's early history as a U.S. State.
Dozens of pagination errors, including skipped leaves, repeat numbers, and folios rearranged after printing, but no evidence of missing or excised leaves.
Alfred T. Andreas (1839-1900) compiled and published many similar volumes throughout his career, including An illustrated historical atlas of the State of Minnesota (1874) and Illustrated historical atlas of the State of Indiana (1876).
83. American tramp and underworld slang: words and phrases used by hoboes, tramps, migratory workers and those on the fringes of society, with their uses and origins. With a number of tramp songs. Edited, with essays on the slang and the songs, by Godfrey Irwin. With a terminal essay on American slang in its relation to English thieves' slang by Eric Partridge. London: Eric Partridge Ltd. at the Scholartis Press, [1931].
$125
First British edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. 263, [1], [2] ads; very good in original orange cloth, spine darkened, fore-edge spotted, owner's stamp on title page. Laid in is a typescript "Australian crime glossary" with 8 entries, and a review copy slip from the Scholartis Press made out to The Daily Mail. The first edition of this book was actually published by Sears in New York a year earlier.
84. центральная группа говоров якутского языка. Фонетика / Centralnaya gruppa govorov Yakutskogo yazyka. Fonetika. Novosibirsk : Nauka, 1993.
$30
8vo, pp. 348, [4]; text in Russian; full red cloth; spine cocked and soiled, text clean and sound; good.
On the central group of dialects of the Yakut language.
85. Den Danske lyrik; For 1800, 1800-1870, efter 1870. Copenhagen: Hans Reitzel, 1966-1967.
$50
Three volumes, large 8vos; text in Danish; red cloth, gilt title on spine; owner's signature on pastedown, else fine.
An anthology of Danish poetry.
86. The American atlas 1776. London: Times Newspapers Limited in association with the Royal Geographic Society and David Paradine Developments Limited, 1976.
$1,250
Limited to 200 copies (this, no. 16), large folio, pp. [8] plus 30 hand-colored maps, all but 1 either folding or double-page; original half blue morocco over blue marbled paper-covered boards, blue morocco label lettered in gilt on upper cover; publisher's slipcase; very light wear else near fine throughout.
Originally published in London, and printed and sold by R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 1776.
87. Dziesmas. Riga: Liesma, [1982].
$30
Small 4to, pp. 149, [3]; 27 leaves of facsimile text with modern Latvian transliteration and explanatory text, brief summaries in Russian, English and German; full pattered brown cloth, brown printed dust jacket; light and shallow dampstain on top edge, light rubbing to jacket, very good.
Jekabs of Kikula was an otherwise anonymous serf who wrote a number of petitions on his and his fellow serfs' behalf. He is credited as the first Latvian poet.
88. Het middeleeuwsche Gezang dies est laetitiae gedrukt met in zand gegoten letters. Haarlem: Joh. Enschede en Zonen, [1927].
$85
16mo (approx. 5¾" x 4½"), pp. [16]; unopened; explanatory text in Dutch, French, English and German, hymn in Latin, creme paper wrappers printed in red and black; fine.
Printed as a New Year's gift from the publisher, from type cast in sand to show that early printers may have made use of types cast by this method.
No copies in the US in OCLC. Two copies (at least one a surrogate) at the BL.
89. Handsome mezzotint portrait of Samuel Johnson by James Watson after Joshua Reynolds.. London: [printed for Robt. Sayer, map and printseller No. 53 Fleet Street, 10 July 1770].
$1,500
Slightly trimmed to one-quarter inch outside plate marks, to 17⅝" x 12¾, (approx. 17½" x 12½" by sight); a proof before letters, but which is somewhat toned and laid down on a heavier sheet, and recently professionally framed in 18th-century style (i.e. no mat) using all archival materials & UV plexiglass. Several small abrasions (most rather minute); overall appearance is very good.
Not found in The Adams Library of Johnson and Johnsoniana, nor does Boswell include it in his "List of Eighteen" engravings of Johnson, as detailed in The Life. That said, this is the third copy we've handled in the past 25 years, although this is the first proof.
This mezzotint is taken from the portrait painted by Reynolds in 1769, of which Johnson said to his step-daughter, Lucy Porter, "I found that my portrait had been much visited and admired. Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place, and I was pleased by the dignity conferred by such a testimony of your regard."
90. Basin of the North Atlantic Ocean. Edinburgh: engraved and printed by W. & A. K. Johnston, 1861.
$100
Large chart of the North Atlantic Ocean approx. 19¼" x 24¼", lightly hand-colored in outline. Central fold; all else very good.
Extracted from The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, exhibiting, in a series of entirely original and authentic maps, the present condition of geographical discovery and research in the several countries, empires, and states of the world by Alexander Keith Johnston ... With a special index to each map. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1861." This atlas was one of the best world atlases published in England in the second half of the 19th century" (Rumsey).
91. D. Iunii Iuvenalis Aquinatis Satyræ, cum scholiis veterum, & commentariis integris, selectis & conquisitis fere omnium eruditorum; ut Is. Grangæi … & aliorum. Cum indice locÐpletissimo omnium vocabulorum. Quaecunque hujus præfationis contenta sequens pagina indicabit. Accedit Auli Persii Flacci Satirarum liber. Editio novissima, auctior & emendatior ex ipsius auctoris codice: cura & opera Merici Casauboni Is. f. Accessit & Græcorum, ubi opus erat, interpretatio.. Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leyden]: Petrum Vander Aa, 1695.
$400
4to, 2 pts. in 1, pp. [32], 980, [68]; [16], 214, [16]; engraved title page dated 1696, title pages printed in red and black, engraved portrait of Flaccus, 6 engraved plates, woodcut ornaments and initials; contemporary full vellum, gilt supralibros on upper cover, spine lettered in ink; soiled, turn-ins sprung, mild waterstaining occasionally entering the fore-margins; a good, sound copy.
Ex-Yale University Library. Edited by H.C. Hennin The first part is a re-issue, with new title pages, of the edition published Utrecht: R. a Zyll, 1685.
Samuel Johnson owned a copy of this edition. See item 196 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. Persius is cited by Johnson about 40 times in his 1755 Dictionary, the citations from the Dryden translation of 1693.
Brunet III, 931; Dibdin, Greek & Latin Classics (4th ed.), II, 155.
92. [Karen Textiles.] Manuscript record of Paku Karen textile patterns. [Burma: ca 1860s?].
$400
One-page manuscript, 17.5" x 11" with six horizontal textile patterns divided by 5 narrower patterns, completed in pencil with accompanying ink annotations; old folds, neat repairs to one tear and another shallow closed tear along a fold touching some of the pattern, very good.
Each pattern is annotated in pen with what appears to be comments on interpretation. For example, "Ahrayas + en or + au truth Etrusian." "H March alphabet" etc. The manuscript header reads "Nau Pwaku's turban - Paku Karen," followed by two notes: "East end or foot of the tree" and "Daylight or morning of the Word." Three patterns are numbered, with a header note listing these as "(1) IO, or yo, or ya. (2) V^ nei which is Joshua or Jesus. (3) Po sou or ox - Saviour."
The patterns themselves are likely for the embroidered ends of Karen turbans, examples of which we found displaying similar thick bands of pattern interspersed with thinner ones. The annotations are largely incoherent to us, and since what does make sense seems to make direct reference to western culture or Christianity, we can't say what relation they might have to the patterns, or what relation the creator of this manuscript might have had with Nau Pwaku, ostensibly the owner of the turban from which this pattern was taken. The pen annotations suggest a mid 19th century date, perhaps slightly later, and an old pencil note reads: "est. 1856".
93. вибрані п’єси / Vybrany p'yesi [Selected Plays]. Kiev: Dyipro, 1970.
$30
8vo, pp. 307, [5]; text in Ukrainian; portrait vignette and six plates; printed boards backed in tan cloth, green title on spine; a touch of soiling to boards and toning to paper, very good and clean. Ownership signature of George Smalley on endpaper. Part of the шкільна бібліотека series for schools.
Ivan Karpenko-Kary was a popular and prolific actor and playwright. He is credited with moving Ukrainian theater away from melodrama and operatic forms on towards psychological and character-based work.
94. Travels in the interior of North America, with the particulars of and [sic] expedition to the lakes, and the source of St. Peter's river. London: printed for G. B. Whittaker, 1828.
$950
2 volumes, pp. xiii, [3], 458; [iii]-vi, 248, 156 (appendices); engraved folding map of the northern U.S., 8 engraved plates; 3 folding tables printed on 2 sides; original paper-covered boards, rebacked in gray paper, original printed paper labels laid down on spines; ex-James J. Hill Library with his bookplate and perforated stamps in the bottom margins of the title pages, slight offsetting of the frontispieces, a old few tape repairs to frontispiece in volume II, and one interior page.
First edition under this title. First published in Philadelphia in 1824 under the title Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, and in 1825 in London. See Howes K-20; Sabin 37137; Field 949; Graff 2280; Streeter 1785; Wagner-Camp 26b:1; Pilling, Algonquin, p. 276.
"Almost a cyclopedia of material, relating to the Indians of the explored territory. Nothing escaped the attention of the gentlemen who accompanied the expedition; and their statements regarding the customs, character, and numbers of the Sioux and Chippeway tribes, are among the most valuable we have of those people" (Field).
Surprisingly uncommon edition: one copy in Germany, plus Duke, Tulsa, and Wisconsin only in OCLC.
95. Illustrierte Mineralogie. Esslingen und Munchen: J. F. Schreiber, [c 1890].
$150
4to, pp. [8], 74, [4]; text in double column; 23 of 24 composite chromolithograph plates (plate 22 lacking); recent marbled paper boards backed in library buckram; very good..
In 1858, Johann Gottlob Kurr published Das Mineralreich in Bildern, a very popular book that beautifully illustrated minerals on 25 color plates. After Kurr's death, Kenngott appropriated authorship and the result were ... four issues that contain essentially the same text. Variations on the title pages differentiate the various issues. Schuh's bibliography identifies 4 issues. This copy does not clearly conform to any of them but is closest to Issue B, with the line "von Dr. A. Kenngott" on two lines rather than the one called for. (See Schuh, The Mineralogical Record online at mineralogicalrecord.com).
"This stunningly illustrated book is the work of distinguished German mineralogist Gustav Adolph Kenngott (1818-1897). Particularly interested in crystallography, Kenngott was the first to describe enstatite, a rare green mineral which can be cut as a gemstone. This volume is a distillation of his work intended for 'the visual instruction of the young in school and with family'” (Smithsonian).
Part of the Naturgeschichte des Tier-, Pflanzen- und Mineralreichs, erster Teil series.
96. [Knights Templar.] Commemorative ribbon for the Knights Templar triennial conclave 1889, Great North-West contingent. Minnesota: Knights Templar, 1889.
$30
Silk ribbon printed in gilt, removed from top clasp, light soiling mostly to top edge, very good.
A souvenir of the Templar's triennial meeting in Washington DC. This ribbon lists delegations from Winnipeg, Manitoba; Crookston, Minnesota; Grand Forks, Fargo, and Jamestown, North Dakota; and Helena and Butte, Montana.
97. Ziemie zachodnie w granicach macierzy: Drogi integracji. Poznan: Woydawnictwo Poznanskie, 1966.
$30
8vo, pp. 408, [2]; text in Polish; photoreproductive plates, three folding maps; gray cloth printed in gray, blue and red, pictorial dust jacket; jacket rubbed and edgeworn, pages a little toned, near fine.
On the region's destruction and suppression during WWII, and it's improvement under Soviet control.
98. The great Tzotzil dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantan. City of Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975.
$75
4to, pp. xii, [2], 597, [1]; lexicon in double column; 6 tables, 4 figures, and 5 folding maps; very good in original blue printed wrappers. Issued as no. 19 in the Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology series.
99. [Livingstone, David.] Memorial bulletin of the American Geographical Society, April 23, 1874. The life and services of Dr. David Livingstone ... Remarks of Chief-Justice Daly, Major H. C. Dane. Address of Rev. Wm. Adams, D.D., Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Dr. I. I. Hayes, Rev. Noah Hunt Schenck, D.D.. New York: printed for the Society, 1874.
$500
8vo, pp. 47, [1]; original glazed white wrappers printed in black; small pressure stamp of the N.E. Genealogical Society on front wrapper, wrappers soiled; all else very good.
"Session 1873-4. no. vii." Inscribed on the front wrapper, "Presented by C. C. Coffin" - i.e. Charles Carleton Coffin (1823-1896), the famed Civil War correspondent and author.
AAS, Boston Athenaeum, Columbia, Duke, Wheaton, and one copy in Germany only in OCLC.
100. The last journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa. From eighteen hundred and sixty-five to his death. Continued by a narrative of his last moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants Chuma and Susi, by Horace Waller.... New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875.
$200
First American edition, 8vo, pp. 541, [1], 6 (ads); portrait frontispiece, double-page color map, large folding color map in back cover pocket, 20 wood-engraved plates, 25 wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; lightly rubbed, but a near fine copy.