Two page A.L.s. from J. S. Homes to his brother George E. Homes
St. Paul: February 23, 1854. 4to, 43 lines, approx. 330 words; previous folds, else fine, and with the original mailing envelope bearing an 1854 St. Paul postmark. Homes warns that St. Paul is no place to live: "I shall not give them much encouragement if they come here [and] must come on their own responsibilities. I know Jonas would not like it here and would soon get homesick and as it costs considerable to get here. I don't wish... Read More
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Trial of Mrs. Hannah Kinney for the alleged murder of her husband, George T. Kinney, by poison..
Boston: Times and Notion Office, 1840. 8vo, pp. 62; text in double column; wrappers wanting; title page spotted, light foxing, and with small paper repair at the top; otherwise very good. Argued "before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Judges Shaw, Putnam, and Wilde, present, sitting at Boston, from Dec. 21st to Dec. 26th, with the arguments of counsel, and the charge of the chief justice fully reported. The counsel for the prosecution, J.T. Austin ... and S.D. Parker; for... Read More
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China yearbook 1968-1969
Taipei: China Publishing Company, 1968. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], viii, 832; 2 folding color maps at the back, illustrated throughout, some in color; very good, sound copy in publisher's ivory cloth and dust jacket. "The China Yearbook is the only English-language reference work of its kind. Every effort has been made to present comprehensive yet brief accounts of Chinese history, culture, government, social institutions, economy and foreign reltions.
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Ibhayibheli Elingcwele = Bible in Zulu
[Cape Town]: The Bible Society of South Africa, 1991. Nineteenth impression; 7½" x 5½", pp. 1185, [3]; text in double column on India paper; 3 maps, illustrations in the text; original black cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; front free endpaper excised, else fine. Revised by a committee, under the direction of Otto Sarndal. Includes glossary.
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藏族简史 = Zang zu jian shi = [Short history of the Tibetan peoples]
Lhasa: Xi cang ren min chu ban she = Tibetan People's Press, 2006. Third edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 395, [1]; 19 color illustrations on rectos and versos of 3 plates, 7 folding maps (1 in color); fine copy in original gray-green laminate boards. Two copies in OCLC, both in China.
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Manuscript diary of a journey to New Zealand and other far-away places
N.p., n.d.: [at sea, on the road, 1893. 4to, pp. [82]; Liverpool stationer's label on paste-down, edges marbled, extremities a bit rubbed, else a very good copy in black limp morocco. Laid in are approx. 20 octavo manuscript leaves from an unknown American women's diary dated October 1887 - August 1891. A lively account of a voyage around the world, with some interesting details of travel in the United States, Australia, Tasmania, and Hawaii, but primarily covering New Zealand.... Read More
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The Ernest Satow album. Portraits of a British diplomat in young Japan / アーティスト・サトウ幕末維新のイギリス外交官
[Yokohama]: Yurindo, 2001. First edition, 4to, pp. 123, [1]; text in Japanese; text illustrations throughout; tan paper wrappers; touch of toning to edges, else fine in near fine dust jacket. A history of Satow using material deposited at the Yokohama Archives of History.
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Doan's directory of the United States. Latest edition. Wonders of America
Buffalo: Foster-Milburn Co., n.d., 1922. 20.4 cm, pp. 32; illustrated; pages browning, else near fine in original pictorial wrappers. Directory for 1923.
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An act to improve the public health, and establish a sanitary police in the city of New York [drop title]
[New York: no publisher given, 1858. First edition, 8vo, pp. 8; vertical crease, old library rubberstamp at the top of p. [1]; all else near fine. Following the passage of the act, George W. Morton wrote Remonstrance of the City Inspector against the proposed bill entitled "An act to improve the public health and establish a sanitary police in the City of New York" as an act of unnecessary legislation, the present laws being amply sufficient to meet every... Read More
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Books from the Whittington Press 1988, 1989, & 1990 [cover title]
Andoversford, Gloucestershire, 1988. Large 8vo, pp. 15, [1]; ; illustrations printed in tan throughout (wood engravings, line drawings, linocuts); original coral pictorial wrappers printed in tan and black; fine. Titles from the Press include "Matrix 8" and Caroline Martin's "Lap Games, and other songs for children." Integral order form bound in back.
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The ninth report of the American Peace Society, read at its annual meeting in New York, May 11, 1837 [wrapper title]
Boston: published by Whipple & Damrell, 1837. 8vo, pp. 32; original printe green wrappers; near fine. Includes a 6-page list of pofficers, directors, and members of the Society. Laid in is a 7" x 4¼" bifolium entitled [No. 1. - Second series.] Peace Societies: What They Have Done and What They Would Do. Vermont Historical, Princeton Theological, AAS and Wesleyan in OCLC. Not in American Imprints.
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Cloth dressing. Samuel H. Pike Respectfully informs the inhabitants of Alfred, Lyman, Waterborough and Sanford, and all others in the vicinity of his Mill, that he carries on the business of Cloth Dressing and Wool Carding in Wells..
Wells, [Maine], 183--. Broadside (approx. 11" x 13½"), paper toned, a few minor chips in the margins; all else very good. Samuel H. Pike (1779-1882) was a clothier and carder in Wells. "Those wishing to forward Cloth to him to dress, can leave it at the Store of A. & G. Conant, in Alfred, from whence it will be forwarded to him, and dressed with all possible despatch..." The last number in the date has purposely been left blank... Read More
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In the court for the trial of impeachments and correction of errors. The Aetna Fire Insurance Company of New-York ads. Whitman M. Tyler
Albany: printed by Packard an Van Benthuysen, 1836. 8vo, pp. 68, [4]; self-wrappers, stitched, as issued, very good. Bookplate of the New York State Historical Association on verso of last leaf, small ink accession number in the bottom margin of the title page; all else very good. Laid in is: In the court for the correction of errors. The Aetna Fire Insurance Company, plaintiffs in error, vs. Whitman Tyler, defendant in error. Points on the part of the plaintiffs... Read More
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A collection of twenty-four Masters and PhD theses in 31 volumes on Bob Dylan and his music
V.p.: v.d., 1997. All printed from photocopy, all approx. 11" x 8½", all in cloth-backed black or cream wrappers. All generally very good to fine.
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Beeswing manifold [watermarked]
New York: International Paper Company, 1940. Oblong 8vo, unpaginated; original blue pictorial wrappers (very lightly soiled), minor edge wear; provides 6 sheet of colored sample papers, fine. "McClellan Paper Company, Duluth, Minneapolis, St. Paul" printed on back wrapper.
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Italian portfolio. Con un testo di / With a text by Attilio Colombo
Milan: Edizioni l'Archivolto, 1996. Limited to 1500 copies, this is no. 1175, oblong 4to (129 x 269 mm.); grey and purple paper portfolio containing 13 folded loose leaves of photographic plates. Text in English and Italian. No. 2 of the Wunderkammer series. Portfolio has large tear at top right-hand fold, otherwise a very good copy of this exhibition catalogue from the gallery "Il Diaframma
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Strathmore impress
West Springfield, Massachusetts: Strathmore Paper Company, 1950. 4to, unpaginated; 12 mounted illustrated swatches of paper samples; original decorative wrappers, edges a bit sunned, minor tears to edges, very good; interior fine. One copy in OCLC, forming part of a larger collection at the University of Connecticut.
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An ecosystem approach to Southeast Asian economic integration. Regional meeting of economic planners on Southeast Asian economy in the 1970's
Bangkok, 1972. 4to, pp. 96; original orange printed wrappers (soiled), general light shelf wear, interior fine. "Under the auspices of the Ministerial Conference for Economic Development of Southeast Asia" - front cover.
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A series of eleven reports, addresses and circular letters, as below
Boston and Cambridge, 1837. All 8vo, all uncut; all very good to near fine condition except as noted. 1) A Circular Letter from the [M.P.S.], respectfully addressed to the various associations, presbyteries, assemblies and meetings of the ministers of religion..., Cambridge, 1816; pp. 16; self-wrappers; includes a 4-page Constitution of the Society, which had been founded the previous year by Thomas Dawes, William Phillips, Elisha Ticknor, Thomas Wallcut and Noah Worcester. Worcester is credited as the author of this... Read More
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Treatment of international questions by Parliaments in European countries, The United States, and Japan
London: printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, printed by Harrison an Sons, 1912. Folio, pp. 33, [1]; self-wrappers, stitched, as issued; light chipping, pressure stamp on first leaf; accession numbers at lower left corner of first page; all else very good. Contains 23 responses from 23 countries on the methods adopted "through official committees or otherwise," by the Parliament of the country in question.
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Columbian Centinel. Whole No. 2,523
Boston: Benjamin Russell, Saturday, June 4, 1808. 19¾" x 13¼", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding, early owner's name above masthead. Miniature almanack, foreign articles, Bonaparte's journey, anti-embargo resolutions, marriages, deaths, shipping list, Boston Theatre, Harvard College lottery, ship announcements (with cuts), public announcements, new publications, farms for sale, and usual ads.
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Catalogue of the private library of Samuel Gardner Drake, of Boston ... to be sold at by auction at the salesroom of Leonard & Co...
Boston: Alfred Mudge & Sons, 1876. 8vo, parts I and II (complete) in 1 vol., pp. x, [3]575 (continuous), engraved frontis portrait, 2 "special notice" slips printed on blue paper tipped in; very good in contemporary half pebble-grain morocco over marbled boards; ex-MHS. Over 10,000 lots from the famed bookseller's personal library, predominately Americana. With a mss. note on the flyleaf from the library of MHS relating his attempt to purchase the library en bloc.
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Souvenir of Newport. "The city by the sea" [cover title]
Newport: published by Walter Sherman for J. F. Murphy O.C. Depot, Boston, Mass. n.d., 1890. Square 12mo (approx. 5¾" x 5"), accordion fold with 16 photo-lithograph panels showing waterfronts, beaches, mansions, etc. map on rear pastedown; original decorative maroon cloth stamped in gilt and black; edges worn, spine partially cracked and chipped; internally fine.
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Quaker marriage contract between John Borden and Sarah Shearman
Portsmouth: December 8, 1784. Folio printed pro-forma document (approx. 16½" x 13"), filled in and signed by the principals and 34 witnesses; docketed on verso and recorded by Thos. Gould, Jun., Middletown, December 10, 1784; watermarked paper, archival repairs along two vertical folds, and a horizontal fold. Inch or smaller tears in two margins, not affecting text. The Bordens and Shearmans (Sherman) were among the early Quaker families who settled Portsmouth, Rhode Island. This marriage contract, taken at the... Read More
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Injíl I Muqaddas, ya'ní hamáre khudáwand aur munjí Yisú' Masíh ká nayá 'ahdnamá
London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1906. 12mo, pp. 374; 8 leaves of color plates; original terracotta cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, black glazed endpapers; edges scuffed and rubbed; front hinge cracked, Baptist Missionary Society Mission House Library bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper verso; textblock mostly very good. Darlow & Moule 5334: "The revised N.T. of 1900...received criticism from various quarters, and was submitted to further careful revision under the care of... Read More
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