[Salem, Mass.]: Salem Observer Press, [1842]. Broadside, 19" x 16 1/2". Caption title and three columns of text and tables within an attractive ornamental border. Old tidelines to upper corners, some foxing, snag at lower left of ornamental border (repaired on verso). Tipped onto a backing board at upper corners... More about FIRE DEPARTMENT. Regulations Adopted by the Firewards of Salem. 1842
New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First edition. 4to. 17, 119 pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title-page, 6 full-page lithographs with some tidemarks, 7 fullpage engravings, and 99 woodcut illustrations in the text. Blue publisher's cloth, gilt on front board and spine, slightly faded. Cloth rubbed through on spine... More about HINTS ON PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE, Containing among other Illustrations, Views and Plans of the...
Boston, [MA]: J. N. Bradley & Co. 16 State Street, 1841. First edition. 19 cm. 87pp. Blue paper covered boards, black cloth spine, some splitting along joints. Stamp of Lowell Historical Society on front pastedown. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 2924; MCDADE 561. Accused of killing her husband with arsenic she was acquitted. More about A REVIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE LAST TEN YEARS IN THE LIFE OF MRS. HANNAH KINNEY:...
Richmond, [Va.]: Printed by Thomas W. White, Opposite the Bell-Tavern, 1827. First edition. 8vo. 188 pp. Later 3/4 red morocco, marbled boards. Library bookplate front pastedown. Very good. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 29021. KRESS C.1888. Late in his life Giles was a strong advocate of states' rights and "championed the well-known resolutions... More about MR CLAY'S SPEECH UPON THE TARIFF: or The "American System," So Called; or The Anglican...
Norman, (OK): University of Oklahoma Press, (c1956-1959). First edition, the first two volumes issued in 1956, the third volume issued separately in 1959. 8vo. 3 volumes: xix, 320; xv, 292; xviii, 406 pp. Volume One: The Formative Years, 1527-1783, from the Spanish Explorations through the American Revolution; Volume Two: The... More about Travels in the Old South, a Bibliography
Winchester [VA]: Printed at the Office of the Republican, for the author, 1836-7. Second edition. Two volumes. 8vo. Vol. I: xx, 165pp., 458pp., 35pp. analysis; vol. II: xxviii, 506pp., 34pp. analysis, 17pp. appendix. Recent rebind, leather spine, marbled boards, retaining original spine labels. Persistent foxing. Pencil notes on pastedowns and... More about COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF VIRGINIA, COMPRISING THE SUBSTANCE OF A COURSE OF LECTURES DELIVERED...
(Detroit, MI: Gale Research), 1994. First separate edition, an offprint from the DLB, 1/20 copies bound for private distribution. 4to. (2), 327-341, (3) pp. Illustrated from photographs, portraits. The final three pages print "one of Wyllie's entries for a proposed 'ideal Sabin,'" a detailed description of the various issues and... More about JOHN COOK WYLLIE. From the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 140
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Boston: Oliver Everett; Paris: Jules Renouard, 1823; 1826. First edition. 8vo. 21 cm. 125pp. Bound with the first French edition (Paris: Jules Renouard, 1826); 125 pp. Later full leather, darkening to spine, gilt rules and gilt stamping on spine label. Some foxing to endpapers of American edition and foxing to... More about NEW IDEAS ON POPULATION: with Remark on the Theories of Malthus and Godwin. [And] Nouvelles Idees...
Philadelphia: Published by John Conrad & Co., J. Maxwell, printer, 1816. First edition. 8vo. 23 cm. vii, [9]-190pp. 2 plates and diagrams within text. Recently rebound in cloth backed boards. Ex-lib with usual stamping, previous owner's pencil notes. An early work on street lighting by this polymath. RINK 2907. More about SOME INFORMATION CONCERNING GAS LIGHTS
Germantown, [Pa.]: Christoph Saur, 1774. First American edition in German. 12mo. 17cm. [280] pp. Contemporary calf, rubbed. A very good copy with some browning. Manuscript notes on front endleaf with some bleed through. KARPINSKI, pp. 55. EVANS 13275. First American edition (in English) was published in Boston in 1742. More about DER GESCHWINDE RECHNER ORDER: des Handlers nutzlichr Gehulfe; in Kauffung und Verkauffung
Hartford, [Ct.]: Prited by Peter B. Gleason and Co., 1818. First edition. 12mo. 18 cm. 200 pp. Errata slip laid down on rear pastedown. Contemporary calf with gilt stamped leather label, rubbed. Blank front endpapers loose. AUSTIN 873. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 44240. American remedies occupy pp. [151]-188, herbal remedies with botanical... More about THE HOUSE SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN; Designed to Assist Heads of Families, Travellers, and Sea-Faring...
Lancaster, [Pa.]: Johann Bor, 1831. First edition. 12mo. 118 pp. Index. Period calf, spine chipped and worn. Part of blank front endpaper torn away, old dampstaining to gutters, extending into a few early pages of the text. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 7494. More about GESUNDHEITS-SHATZKAMMER; oder kurze, deutliche und richtige Anweisung zur Erhaltung der Gesundheit
New York: John Furman, 1800. First edition. 18 cm. [13], xiv-xvi, [1], 18-180pp. Contemporary leather binding spine worn at head, front board reattached, joint cracked on rear board. Period owner's inscription. Highly specific and thorough guide to international currency conversion to the dollar. The second half of the text, with... More about A SYSTEM OF EXCHANGE WITH ALMOST ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. To which is added, The India Directory...
Hudson, NY: Printed by Ashbel Stoddard. No. 137, Corner of Warren and Third Streets, 1809. 12mo. 17 cm. 367pp., (4). Four illustrations. Contemporary brown calf with leather label. Boards bowed, front flyleaf lacking, persistent browning to text, an amateurish attempt to color illustrations at some point has left slightly darkened... More about THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN AND LADY'S MONITOR, AND ENGLISH TEACHER'S ASSISTANT: being a collection of...
Greensboro, NC: (Jos. J. Stone & Co., Printers & Binders, 1907). First edition. Oblong 8vo (14 x 18 cm.). (34) pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates picturing college buildings and grounds. Nice promotional for the college, covering all aspects of matriculation and campus life; laid in is an unused application form... More about THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE Normal and Industrial College, a Woman's College for North Carolina...
Raleigh, NC: 1898. Large format photograph, 7 x 9 1/4 inches, mounted on larger card stock, 11 x 14 inches, picturing 10 older women faculty and staff members, one older man, and 44 female students, all posed in four rows in front of a campus building set among tall trees;... More about STUDENTS AND FACULTY AT St. Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C., as pictured in a group photograph,...
(Wilmington, NC: Commercial Printing Co., c1908). First edition. 12mo (16 cm.). 68 pp. Illustrated from photographs, two plates. Pirate related fiction set in the waters near Wilmington. Thornton 6479. Powell 270: "Story of buried treasure on an island near Wilmington in the 17th century by Captain Kidd and a 19th... More about MONEY ISLAND
Raleigh, NC: Standard Steam Book and Job Print, 1970. First edition. 8vo. 32 pp. Detailed review of most aspects of resources, commercial activities, education, etc. Inscribed at the head of the front wrapper "C.S. Mixter / from the author." Thornton 14722. Text block browned, old semi-circle stain through text at... More about NORTH CAROLINA: Her Past, Present, and Future. An address delivered before the faculty and...
Chapel Hill, (NC): University of North Carolina, 1930. First edition. 16mo (14 cm.). (14) pp. Description of a plan, "sponsored by the University of North Carolina, to assemble at Chapel Hill in a fire-proof library, every accessible scrap of paper bearing upon any phase of the history and development of... More about REDISCOVERING THE OLD SOUTH [cover and drop-title
Chapel Hill, NC: 1857. Engraved card, 2 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches. Printed on cream glazed card stock.All six of the managers were members of the junior class and all made it through the Civil War years alive. Some darkening around the edges, but very good. (10304). More about "UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA/ Commencement Ball. / Complimentary to / The Graduating Class,...
(Washington, DC: National Council for Protection of Roadside Beauty and American Nature Assn.), nd [ca. 1930]. First edition. 8vo. 34 pp. Illustrated from photographs. Includes a statement on the issue by O. Max Gardner as Governor; laid in is a handbill (8 x 5 1/2 inches), issued by the publishers... More about THE ROADSIDES OF NORTH CAROLINA: Report of a Study of the Problem of Roadside Improvement along...
(Thomasville, NC: City of Thomasville), nd [1930]. First edition (?), a promotional for the city. Eight-panel brochure folded to narrow 8vo. Illustrated from photographs, map; ads for local businesses. A prospectus emphasizing the town's rapid growth after 1900, its central location in the state, its climate, and the infrastructure in... More about THOMASVILLE, North Carolina, City of Industry and Progress [cover title
[High Point NC?]: The company, nd [ca. 1915]. Small handbill, 5 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches, printing the by laws and the names of the company's six directors. "All conversations limited to five minutes, provided anyone is waiting for the line. Anyone, not a stockholder in any line, talking to... More about BY LAWS OF / Rich Fork Telephone Co. [drop title
NP: np, nd [1915, from OCLC]. Small 4to (23 cm.). (24) pp. [including title page]. Illustrated from photographs, plates. Pictured are residences, churches, hotels and inns, and residents and visitors participating in a wide variety of outdoor sports and activities; the text emphasizes the sporting activities, especially golf, hunting, and... More about SOUTHERN PINES, North Carolina: The Land of Sunshine
NP: np, (1907). Only edition of this promotional. Oblong 8vo (14 x 20 cm.). (56) pp. [including title page]. Illustrated from photographs, plates. Elaborate promotional, emphasizing the mild climate, easy-going lifestyle not present in other southern "resort" towns, and sports, and picturing representative homes, hotels, churches, businesses, and public buildings... More about DOWN IN DIXIE, Southern Pines, N.C. [cover and drop-title
