The Probate Manual, being a complete guided for executors, administrators and guardians, under the laws of Illinois, with practical Forms.
by HAINES, Elijah Middlebrook
Chicago: Keen & Lee, 1856. Book. 8vo, orig. printed wrappers. Pp. 147. Early heavily inked ownership signatures on front wrapper, soiling and stains; a good, sound copy. Sole edition. Haines (1882-1889,) lawyer, Illinois state representative, and author, published numerous works on legal and historical subjects. Byrd 2452 (DLC, ICHi, IHi);OCLC adds others..
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How They Lived in Hampton: A Study of Practical Christianity Applied to the Manufacture of Woolens.
by HALE, Edward Everett
Boston: J. Stilman Smith & Co. Book. (1888.) 8vo, orig. pictorial terra-cotta cloth. Pp. 281. Minor wear, near fine. First edition. Hale's exposition of cooperative capitalism in a New England mill town, with chapters on the plan, the store, the school, the public library, children's work, hours of work, temperance, the savings bank, communism, etc..
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Yankee Notions; or the American Joe Miller. By Sam Slick, Junr. [pseud.]
by [?HALIBURTON, Thomas Chandler.]
London:: Ball, Arnold & Co., etc., 1839. Book. 12mo, 3/4 calf, marbled boards. Pp. 72. Boards rubbed, lacking front endpaper, occasional stain; a sound copy. A rare English collection of Yankee jokes and anecdotes, mostly culled from American newspapers. Sometimes attributed to Thomas Chandler Haliburton, creator of Sam Slick, but perhaps just capitalizing on his popularity, at any rate with a preface certainly in his style. There seems to have been no American publication of this work. Not... Read More
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Joanna of Naples. By the Author of "Miriam."
by HALL, Louisa Jane (Park).]
Boston: Hilliard Gray and Company, 1838. Book. 8vo, orig. boards, cloth spine, printed label. Pp. 213. Foxed, label chipped; a very good sound copy. First edition. An historical novel, set in the 14th century. Wright I 1107..
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The Law Without the Advice of an Attorney. Or, Every Man His Own Counsellor. Containing the Laws of Pennsylvania Relative to Bonds, Promissory Notes, Deeds, Mortgages...Bridges, Fences, Strays, Swine, Water Courses, Hunting &c.
by HANCOCK, Benjamin Franklin
Norristown, PA: David Stower, 1831. Book. 8vo, contemp half-roan, plain paper boards. Pp. 136. Binding rubbed, foxed, tear to blank margin of one leaf; a very good copy. First edition of an appealing Pennsylvania layman's legal guide. Though well-represented on OCLC, the book is not recorded in American Imprints..
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Colonel George Hanger, to all Sportsmen, and Particularly to Farmers, and Game Keepers.
by HANGER, George
London: For The author, 1814. Book. 8vo, orig. plain boards, patterned cloth spine, printed label. Pp. 226. Hinges cracked, worn along spine, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. By the coarse and eccentric Revoltionary War aide to Sir Henry Clinton, later companion to the prince regent, coal merchant, adventurer - see DNB. A boisterous catch-all compendium of hints on guns and shooting, dogs, game, horses, vermin-trapping, etc., dedicated to Thomas Coke, the distinguished experimental farmer at Holkham. Scarce. BLC..... Read More
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An Essay for Composing a Harmony Between the Psalms., and Other Parts of the Scripture; But Especially the New Testament.
by HARLEY, Edward
London: J. Downing, 1732. Book. 8vo, contemp. full calf, broken, covers detached. Pp.lxxxiv, [4], 158, [34], a.e.g. Armorial bookplate of John Grubb. Second edition. A broken copy, but one made interesting by a long presentation inscription from Harley to John Grubb: "Mr Grub is desired to accept this book from the author who has the pleasure to reflect that he was in some degrees serviceable to his Mother who in the year 1685 upon the repeal of the Edict of... Read More
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A Manual of the Pension Laws Of the United States of America,
by HARMON, J.
Book. embracing all the laws under which pensions, bounties, and bounty lands are now granted...To which is added, A digest of the most important decisions of the authorities in relation to various matter s pertaining to pensions. By an examiner. Washington, D.C.: W. H. & O. H. Morrison, 1862. 8vo, original cloth. Pp. x, 216. With accompanying material as below. Nice copy, with the following 6 small broadsides and pamphlets tipped or loosely laid in: B'side, "M. J. Higgins... Read More
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Ballet Panorama. An Illustrated Chronicle of Three Centuries. With 158 Illustrations from Prints, Drawings and Photographs.
by Haskell, Arnold L.
London: B.T.Batsford, n.d. (1947-8) Book. 8vo, orig cloth w/ DJ. Pp. 120, illus. in b&w with a color frontis. Third Edition. A very good copy in a torn DJ..
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The Panama Canal.
by Haskin, Frederic. J.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1915. Book. 8vo, orig cloth w/ DJ. Pp. x, 386, illus. with full-page photos, textual diagrams and a folding color frontis. A very good, bright copy in somewhat chipped DJ..
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The Battles of the Crimea; With Other Poems on the Most Interesting Incidents of the Campaign, from well authenticated sources.
by HAYWARD, Caroline (Mrs. Alfred.)
Port Hope, Canada West: J. C. Annesley [Printed at the "British Ensign" Office], 1855. Book. 12mo, orig. printed stiff wrappers. Pp. 67; vi, (1). Moderately rubbed, fine within. Sole edition. Patriotic descriptive verse, by a resident of Port Hope, collected for charity from appearances "in the British Ensign and other Colonial papers." Includes poems on the battles of Balaklava, Inkerman and Alma, also "To the Surgeons with the Army in the East," "The Queen's Message to the Wounded," "The Graves... Read More
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An Appeal to the People of Rhode Island, in Behalf of the Constitution and the Laws.
by Hazard, Thomas Robinson.
Book. Np [Providence:] 1857. 8vo, original marbled boards, cloth spine. Pp.162, [2]. Sm folded litho facsimile tipped in. Near fine. A typically confrontational attack on the state's Supreme Court, its unchecked powers and ill-defined jurisdiction, by the energetic reformer and spiritualist (see DAB). Sabin 31109..
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The Traveller's Dream and Other Poems.
by Hazeltine, Silas Wood.
Boston: For the author, 1860. Book. 8vo, orig cloth. Pp. xiii, 52, [2]. Spine chipped, edges worn, internally a nice copy..
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The Aryan Household. Its Structure and Its Development.
by Hearn, William Edward.
London:: Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1891. Book. Thick 8vo, cloth. Pp. 495. Binding a little stained, but a good, sound copy..
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The Cherries of New York
by HEDRICK, Ulysses Prentice.
Albany: J.P. Lyon, 1915. Book. First edition. Thick. 4to, orig. green cloth, gilt lettering. Pp. xii, 371. Frontis plus 56 full-page color plates. Slight rubbing to extremities; internally fine..
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Records of Woman: With Other Poems. The Third Edition
by Hemans, Felicia
Edinburgh:: William Blackwood, 1830. Book. 8vo, full crimson polished calf, black morocco label, boards elaborately tooled in gilt with geometric panels separated by recessed borders, within a tooled frame, ruled with chain-link and other ornaments, flat spine with vertical ornAmentation. Pp. 320; a.e..g. With the printed binder's ticket "Feaston, Binder, &c., Tavistock." Armorial bookplate of Alfred Bull, and inscribed "A token of regard from Marian Bridgman to her friend Eliza Duncan December 6th, 1832." Rubbed at extremities, corners bumped, a... Read More
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Henderson's Picturesque Gardens and Ornamental Gardening Illustrated.
by Henderson, Charles.
New York,: Peter Henderson & Co. Book. nd (1908). Oblong 8vo, ornamental wrappers, side-stapled under cloth spine. Pp. 168. Illustrated with halftone photos. A little dog-eared and marginally worn, a few marginal archival tape repairs; a very good copy. A scarce, cheaply produced but wide-ranging guide to ornamenting public and private grounds, issued by the succeeding generation of one of America's chief horticultural establishments; with brief, profusely illustrated chapters on statuary and fountains, lawns and elaborate bedding, topiary; aquatic, Japanese,... Read More
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Henderson's Hand-Book of the Grasses of Great Britain and America.
by Henderson, John.
Northport, L.I.: Journal Publishing Company, 1875. Book. 8vo, orig cloth; pp. 238. Near fine..
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Practical Floriculture...
by Henderson, Peter.
New York: Orange Judd, (1869). Book. 8vo, pp. 249, illus. Ex-lib in library buckram; internally near fine..
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The Birthday in Fairy-Land. Story For Children.
by HIGGINSON, Thomas Wentworth.
Book. Boston: Wm. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1850. 12mo, stitched self wraps ( lacking printed wrappers?) Pp. 23. Sm. blank corner piece of title missing, lightly browned. First edition of this juvenile fantasy, in which a little girl in a dream is transported to fairyland where she attends a fairy princess' birthday celebration and learns in effect that there's no place like home. It was written for Higginson's niece and published for the children of the Pleasant Street Church,... Read More
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Oldport Days. With Ten Heliotype Illustrations, from Views taken at Newport, R.I., expressly for this work.
by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.
Boston: James R, Osgood and Company, 1873. Book. 8vo, orig gilt cloth; pp. 268. First edition. BAL 8282. Very good - fine..
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The Actor: Or, A Treatise on the Art of Playing. A new work, written by the author of the former, and adapted to the present state of the theatres.
by HILL, "Sir" John.
Book. Containing impartial observations on the performance, manner, perfections and defects of Mr. Garrick, Mrs. Cibber, Mr. Barry...in their several capital parts. London: for R. Griffiths, 1755. 12mo, early ful l calf, gilt. Pp. 284, [20] + 2 ll. ads. Hinges just starting, top of spine chipped, a fine copy within. First edition of an important book. Hill entirely reworked his earlier translation of de Saint-Albine's La Comedien (1747) into this expanded overview of the state of English acting,... Read More
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The Veterinary Surgeon; of, Farriery Taught on a New and Easy Plan; Being a treatise on all the diseases and accidents to which the horse is liable.
by HINDS, John
Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1836. Book. 12mo, early calf, morocco label. Pp. xiv, 274. Folding frontis. and 3 folding plates; illus. Front cover nearly detached, rubbed; very good within. An English work, edited with "considerable additions and improvements, particularly adapted to this country," by Philadelphia veterinary surgeon Thomas Moore Smith. Imprints 3803..
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On the Mission in Missouri. 1857-1888.
by Hogan, Rt. Rev. John.
Kansas city, MO: John A. Heilmann, 1892. Book. 8vo, orig cloth. Pp. 211. Slightly warped; cracked at gutter, otherwise a decent copy. First Edition. Howes 573..
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The Memories of Dean Hole.
by HOLE, Samuel Reynolds.
Book. London: Edward Arnold, 1892. Thick 8vo, 3/4 morocco, marbled boards; spine with raised bands, gilt compartments (extremities rubbed). Pp. xii, 377. Photogravure portrait and text illustrations by Leech & Thackerey. Some light waterstaining and spotting throughout. First edition, by the great rosarian and sporting enthusiast. An uncommon book to begin with, this copy enhanced by the addition of 92 engraved and 8 colored extra illustrations, including portraits, views, sporting scenes, and garden plans..
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