PALMETTO COUNTRY by Kennedy, Stetson - 1942

Worcester, Mass.: Isaiah Thomas Printer. Very Good+. 1785. Second Edition. Hardcover. Convened at Hartford at the Anniversary Election, May 8th 1783 by Ezra Stiles, President of Yale College. Second Edition Corrected. Original clean marbled boards, brown leather spine decorated with gilt. Text tight, clean & intact. A few pages with a hint of foxing. Facsimile title page. 8 additional pages of other publications. Ex-Lib, Boston Public Library ink stamp. Prior owners book plate. Connecticut Election Sermon. New England ; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 172 pages .

Boston: G. Alex Emery. Very Good. 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Originally published in soft covers, rebound in marbled boards with leather corners & spine including the original covers. Early Boston imprint. Text tight, clean & intact. Eight islands, 10 miles southeast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Illustrated with 12 full page engravings. Outer covers with spine end wear, have protected the original text well. Interior VG+. New England; Engraved Illustrations; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 35 pages .

1964. 1964 Osgood, Ernest Staples THE FIELD NOTES OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM CLARK 1803- 1805 New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964 35pp, index, annotated transcription of the journal and illustrated with facsimile photographs of the original field notes Signed by Ernest Staples Osgood on blank epage opposite tpage Folio Green and black cloth stamped in gold, gold facsimile signature of William Clark on front cover Fine bright, looks unread hardcover in fine bright d/j.

Wheaton, Illinois: Morton Publishing Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean green cloth with black title on front cover. Text tight, clean & intact. Portrait frontispiece. Signed "Compliments Claude Albert Fuller 8/1/56." VG dust jacket with a few tiny edge chips. Claude's early days, his practice of law, romance, family life, politics, ten years in congress and success make a wonderful story. Arkansas Congressman. Genealogy; B/W Photograph ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 146 pages; Signed by Biographee .

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1862. First American Edition. Hardcover. good. 8vo, xii, [4], 574+ [2] ads. Illustrated with engravings; 3 maps on one folding sheet. Blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine darkened, fraying to spine ends, corners rubbed, front hinge partially cracked. Embossed library stamp on a few pages, bookplate on front pastedown; otherwise unmarked. Provenance: From the collection of Burton scholar and bibliographer James Casada. Written a few years after Burton's celebrated account of his journey to Mecca and Medina, this book describes the explorer's 1860 visit to Salt Lake City. Burton, who met Brigham Young on the trip, applied his characteristic ethnographic eye to Mormon ways, and his work offers a detailed and sympathetic portrait. The appendix contains a number of Mormon documents and a Mormon chronology. Wagner-Camp 370:2; Howes B1033; Flake 1029.

New York: John Holt; At the Exchange. Good+. 1907. Flexible leather. No Copy of the First Charter of 10 November 1766 is known to exist. March 20, 1770 a second charter was granted in the name of King George the Third by William Franklin, Governor of the Province of New Jersey. A copy of this second or oldest charter printed in the year when granted, is here reproduced in facsimile. Edward L. Stevenson, Rutgers College, March 20, 1907. Flexible red leather with chipped edges. Front cover detached. Text tight, clean without foxing & intact. Marbled endpapers. Prior owners book plate. This rare copy of the Charter of Queen's College (Rutgers) is a candidate for rebinding. New Jersey ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 8 pages .

Philadelphia: Barker Moore & Mein Medicine Co.. Very Good+. ca. 1910. Softcover. No date: Ca: 1910. Clean soft pictorial covers with cloth spine. Text tight, clean & intact. . Pages lightly age toned. B/W drawing illustrations. Humor based on ethnic, racial or sexual stereotypes. Comic book filled with cartoons, stories & jokes - all have one of Barker's products as the punch line. Humor; B&W Drawing; Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Unpaginated pages .

Richmond, CA: Dietz Press, 1955. First edition. Hard cover. Published Richmond: Dietz Press, 1955, first printing. Thick 8vo., xv+934 pp., illustrated with 32 plates. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Slight spotting to the cloth, mild foxing to edges and pastedowns, name on pastedown. Very good, clean, tight, unworn.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. limited to 500, in two volumes 1851 [Number 5, Rare America Series] and 1852 [Number 6, Rare American Series], 8vo, [9x6in]; Vol. I - [2], xviii, [1], 142, [6], [2], Vol. II - [2], xviii, [1], 143, [6], [3], 24 black/white and blue toned illustrations and map, Introduction and Retrospective by Carl Wheat; Dark blue cloth backstrip with gray-blue paper boards, dark blue lettering and line designs on front, spine paper label with black lettering for both volumes, top edge trimmed and others untrimmed; Light tan dust jackets with black lettering narrative about the Rare America Series on front; Vol. I & II boards age toned along edges, darken age toning to front and rear end papers of both volumes, bookplate of Frank Howard Abbott, Jr. on front end paper in both volumes with some offset, tipped in illustration of miners in a saloon on pale blue paper with Grabhorn address; Dust jackets age toned and fragile with chips and… Read More

Small quarto (11 x 8 1/4 inches) Published in the Interest of the Firemen's Relief Fund, December 1900. 116 pages of half tone black and white photos of early Los Angeles, portraits, and advertisements for Los Angeles businesses of the period.

Descriptive text includes a short history of the Los Angeles Fire Department: "In May, 1875, Engine Company No. 2 was organized."

Good condition: original red cloth binding, showing mild age toning, title on front cover, floral patterned end papers.

Many photos of early Los Angeles fire stations, with horse drawn equipment.

Portraits include: the mayor, the Fire Commissioners back to 1871, Chiefs, Captains, Lieutenants, Engine Drivers, Engineers, Hosemen, and Ladder men.

Advertisements include breweries, hardware supplies, saloons, blacksmiths, and stables among many others.