Chicago: C.F. Gates, 1886. Softcover. Very good. 5.75 x 3 inches, 10 pp, accordion folded pamphlet. Some creasing; very good. The main body of this densely printed text reprints an article from "The Interior" by Kelsey, a Lake Forest University Professor. He argues for the need for mission work among..... Item #20879
Concord, NH: Daniel Cooledge, 1813. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition (first published 1809). 16mo, 143 pp, with wonderful wood-engraved sheep vignette on title page. Contemporary binding of calf-backed marbled boards with black spine label. Bookplate of Catholic priest and book collector Joseph M. Gleason on front pastedown. Five-digit number ink-stamped..... Item #21533
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona, 1934. University of Arizona Bulletin Volume V, No. 2, February 15, 1934. 142 pp, with folding map at rear. Mild tanning and shelfwear; very good. First English-language biography of Jesuit missionary Father Eusebio Kino (1645-1711(, who spent 24 years working in what is now Sonora..... Item #22297
Chicago, IL: Rand, McNally & Company, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 325 pp + advertisements, with frontispiece, illustrations, in original blue cloth with beveled edges. Light rubbing to extremities, gift inscription on front blank; otherwise unmarked and sound. Majors was one of the founders of the Pony Express. Late..... Item #23011
Paris: Chez Frouelle, 1788. First Edition. Complete set of four parts bound in three volumes. 8vo, pp. 383; 259; 292; 366. In a soiled and partly damaged contemporary full leather binding, and with old staining from damp and mildew (nothing active, no bad odors) to varying degrees in all three..... Item #21538
Santa Fe: El Palacio Press / Historical Society of New Mexico, 1926. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 40 pp, with 3 illustrations from photographs and a folding chart, in original illustrated wrappers. Light general handling wear; tight binding, text clean. Includes a short sketch of the life and character of..... Item #21713
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864. Hardcover. Good. Third edition, revised and enlarged (with mining content not found in the first edition). 251 pp, with frontis engraving of the Mowry Silver Mines. Original brown cloth boards are edgeworn, with corners rubbed through, chips at spine ends, and cloth partially split..... Item #2696
Broadside, 21 x 11 inches, printed in four columns, with two cartoon illustrations. Horizontal folding creases, archival tape repair to one long tear on the back, all else very good. If you'd like a peek into the intricacies of North Dakota Republican Party politics leading up to the 1908 election..... Item #20845
Album containing eleven 7"x 9" professional linen-backed photographs showing the process and results of installing new street lights along a main commercial thoroughfare in Hamilton, Ohio. Hamilton is the county seat of Butler County, about 20 miles north of Cincinnati. In the early twentieth century, “the town was a heavy..... Item #20798
Philadelphia: R. Rae & Co., 1856. Softcover. Very good. 19 pp, in original pink printed wrappers, with two folding maps ("Map of the Halsey Estate" and "Map Showing the Connections of the McKean Coal Field with the Great Markets of Central and Western New York, and Lakes Erie & Ontario")..... Item #20832
Philadelphia: Lilienfeld Bros. Steam Power Printers, [1902]. Softcover. Good. 36 pp, with 3 illustrations from photographs, many ads. Original stapled wrappers have chipping and internal tape repairs and are detached from text block; internals very good. Not found in OCLC. The Pannonia Beneficial Organization was founded in 1896 through the..... Item #19917
New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago: Historical Publishing Company, 1886. Hardcover. Very good. 9.25 x 12 inches, pp [iv] 33-292, in original blind-stamped black cloth with gilt lettering reading " Industries of Pennsylvania" on upper board. Light rubbing to corners; rear board is dampstained, but interior is untouched, clean and sound..... Item #20050
Washington DC: J. & G.S. Gideon, 1849. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 16 pp, in original self-wrappers. Some handling wear, light foxing. Preston proposed the creation of a single new state from all of the former Mexican territory. It was generally assumed that this would not be a slave state..... Item #1533
Philadelphia: Printed by Ormrod & Conrad for J. Ormrod, [1797]. Hardcover. Good+. Titile continues: Delivered before the Society in the First Presbyterian Church, in High-street, Philadelphia, on the 17th Dec. 1796. 8vo, 46 pp, in a later binding of 3/4 polished calf and marbled boards. Rubbing to corners and joints..... Item #20588
Erie, PA: Herald Printing and Publishing Company, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 512 pp, in original gray cloth binding, with faded gilt titles. Illustrated with portraits and somewhat amateurish line drawings. Boards edgeworn, previous owner's name on front free endpaper; front hinge just a bit wobbly, but binding sound, text..... Item #21726
Softcover. Near fine. 8vo, 23 pp, in stapled self-wrappers. No publication information given, c. 1890. Abrasion to one spot on front wrapper, with loss of a few letters, else fine. An original Oneida Community member offers (for posterity) an explanation and defense of Perfectionism and the community's other doctrines and..... Item #19057
Chicago: Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. xi, 315 pp, with index. Bound in publisher's red cloth. Light wear to boards and edges, spotting to fore edge; text clean, but with a slight odor, possibly of tobacco. Includes a historical introduction, and the narratives of..... Item #2579
New York & Washington, D.C. Telepost Company, n.d. (but ca. 1910). [20] pp, 6.5 x 8.25 inches (folding to 3.25 x 8.25 inches), in stapled wrappers printed in black and red, illustrated with photographic portraits. A little soiling at the creases, staining at the bottom edge of the front wrap;..... Item #19624
New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 236 pp, in original brown cloth with embossed floral decoration. Corners lighly bumped and rubbed, else fine. Contemporary private library label/bookplate of Samuel E. Howe on front pastedown; inscribed on the front free endpaper by Howe..... Item #21777
London: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. ix, 257 pp + illustrations from photographs. Original red cloth with gilt spine lettering; no dust jacket. Light sunning to spine, else fine. This precedes the American edition by two years. A native of England, Richard..... Item #2978
New York: Geo. A. Crofutt, 1873. Hardcover. Very Good. "Fifth Vol., Fourth Annual Revise." 224 pp, extensively illustrated with maps and plates, five folding and printed on both sides, with ads on the reverse. Original cloth, splitting along front joint, worn at corners. Map of Omaha detached and laid in..... Item #14933
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 454. Rebound in green buckram with gilt titles on spine. Old bookseller's description affixed to front free endpaper; pages a bit wavy from storage in a humid environment, but quite clean and sound. Very..... Item #14884
Berkeley: Universiry of California Press, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Two volumes, one in dust jacket; slipcase lacking. 9.5 x 12.25 inches, pp. xi, 270; v, 271-543, with bibliography, index, facsimile maps (12 folding). Voliume I has some light staining to the jacket..... Item #23043
New York: New York Historical Society, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Number 12 of a limited edition of 200 copies. Octavo, 121 pp, with appendix and index, frontis portrait of the author, and a facsimile page of the manuscript. Original maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, NYHS..... Item #19319
New Haven: Morehouse & Taylor, Printers, 1859. Wraps. Very good. 5-3/4 x 9" sewn printed wraps, pp. 72, wraps foxed and lightly soiled, spine with loss to the head and tail with lesser chipping along its length, but the binding sound and text clean A most-thoroughgoing census of all 150..... Item #20297
