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8vo, cloth, gilt lettering on spine, illustrated, 445 pp. Spine title faded, mormal aging and browning; otherwise very good. This is a rather early work on the subject, and contains 85 illustrations. #

Thick 8vo, cloth, spine title label, illustrated, 704 [15] pp. Spine sunned, some aging and browning; otherwise very good. This is a well-organized work that presents likely possibilities for numerous medical issues. If you want to know what causes a headache, Dr. Cabot will take you through cases from malaria to syphilis to consider the possibilities.

Pamphlet 8vo original pink printed wrappers (wrapper title), 10 pp. Slight fading to wrapper margins, normal modest aging; near fine. Despite the very cumbersome title, this is a very rare pamphlet dealing with the sale and disposition of land in Southern California. The work contends that legitimate settlers were cheated out of their homes by frauds that were committed by a few men who “have sought to acquire vast tracts of land illegally and wickedly for speculative purposes.” This represents a significant part of the land problems, which plagued the settlement of Los Angeles.

Magazine, 11" x 14", illustrated, 162 pp. Mailing label on top cover, not affecting image, some wear and tear at extremities and spine, slight aging, image of Campanella generally bright and clean. Nice story and photos of Campanella as the gifted catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers. This issue of Life includes numerous color advertisements and stories on Sidney Lumet, The Canopy of Air, and the Italian elections.

New York: L. Nichols & Co., 1801. Third American Edition. Small 8vo, rebound in maroon clored cloth with leather spine label, and new endpapers, illustrated frontispiece, 359 pp. Contents with signicant foxing, and some staining, pages 9 & 10 with tear running through margin, last page chipped in top and right margins, but not affecting text; internally about good, but a tight copy. Donald Campbell (1751-1804) was a former military officer and well known traveller. On route to India he was shipwrecked in the Indian Ocean, and for a short time was a prisoner of Hyder Ali. He first published a book on his travels in 1795, which was very popular at the time, and several other editions were published.

8vo, rebound modern paper board with paper spine label, new endpapers, illustrated, 156 pp. Lacks original endpapers, slight wear and fading to binding, normal browning and aging, some foxing; otherwise very good.
A rather scarce title, despite the fact that it was produced in a number of editions. The OCLC locates only one copy of this edition. Mathew Carey (1760-1839) appears to have published this spelling book for a number of years. Carey was one of Philadelphia's most successful publishers, who put out a newspaper for a couple of years, as well as many books and pamphlets. He was even wounded in a duel with a rival newspaper publisher in 1786. This little book has numerous illustrations to help with the lessons, and we are told in the preface this work has been improved, and that the lessons have been extracted from The New English Spelling Book, which was highly respected at the time. OCLC. ANB.

8vo, blue linen lettered in gilt, Illustrated with black and white photographs, 43 pp. Spine a bit yellowed, edges a little rubbed, slight aging; otherwise very good. This is a limited edition, number 351 (of 400), and is signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Carpenter (1877-1949) was born in Wiles-Barr, Pennsylvania, and would become prominent industrialist. As an executive for DuPont helped turn the company into a modern scientific company, and diversify from gunpowder and explosives. He was also an avid hunter and big game hunter, and a member of the Boone and Crockett Club. As a director of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences he went on many trips to Africa to collect big game animals for the museum's dioramas. This work is essentially a sequel to Game Trails from Alaska to Africa, which was published a couple of years earlier. In this volume, Carpenter gives details about hunting trips in 1939 and 1940 to Alaska and Idaho. This title contains some great black and white… Read More

8vo, blue linen lettered in gilt, Illustrated with black and white photographs, 180 pp. Spine a bit yellowed, light edge wear, slight aging; otherwise very good.This copy is inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Carpenter (1877-1949) was born in Wiles-Barr, Pennsylvania, and would become prominent industrialist. As an executive for DuPont helped turn the company into a modern scientific company, and diversify from gunpowder and explosives. He was also an avid hunter and big game hunter, and a member of the Boone and Crockett Club. As a director of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences he went on many trips to Africa to collect big game animals for the museum's dioramas. Game Trails from Alaska to Africa covers Carpenter's hunting trips from 1933 to 1938. He discussion includes hunting, Pronghorn in Wyoming, Mountain Lion in Arizona, and Jaguar in Mexico. He also provides considerable detail about the places he hunted. Article by Theodore J. Holsten, Boone & Crockett Club.

Approx.20 items. A few are on printed letterhead, most wholly manuscript. A few signed by Carrington, most from Carrington are likely secretarial, one item is on blue paper, one item is a mostly printed document. Some staining and other wear, a few tears at folds, generally good to very good. Revealing glimpse into the Civil War service of Henry B. Carrington, to gain later fame in the post-war "Indian Fighting Army."
Henry B. Carrington 1824-1912) was an army officer and author, was born in Wallingford, Connecticut. According to American National Biography Online (ANB), while Carrington had a strong interest in the military, poor health prevented him from entering West Point. Instead, he entered Yale College in 1840, and graduated in 1845. Carrington moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1848 and took up the practice of law. He enjoyed success in his legal career and also played an important role in founding the Republican party in Ohio. Friendship with prominent Republicans, notably Governors, brought him a… Read More

12mo modern wrappers, xvi, vii, [9], 252 pp. Title page darkened, pages are somewhat toned and foxed, some corners a bit rounded. Carver was born in 1710 in Weymouth Massachusetts. As a child he moved to Canterbury Connecticut, and in 1746 married Abigail Robbins. He enlisted in the military during the French and Indian War, and was wounded at the siege of Fort William Henry. After the war, with support from Major Robert Rodgers, of Rodgers Rangers fame, he started his journey to the West in 1766. He went by the Great Lakes route, and traveled to Green Bay Wisconsin and entered what is now Minnesota. Carver also spent some time on the Mississippi River. When he returned home he became disappointed that he couldn’t publish a book on his travels he left for England where he picked up a second wife, even though he was still married to the first. He did manage to publish in 1778 the first edition of the present work. Apparently the published work is a good deal different than the original manuscript,… Read More

8vo original cloth, paper spine label, illustrated, 376 pp. Staining to covers, front joint starting to split; foxing to contents, short stub tears to maps neatly repaired, ink name and bookplate to front free endpaper. Otherwise very good. This work is a reprint of the second issue of the third edition of Carver’s "Travels though the Interior Parts of North America", first published in 1778. Howes states this is the best American edition, and adds that Carver penetrated farther into the West than any other English explorer before the Revolutionary War. He was seeking a transcontinental waterway, and while he didn’t add a lot to the geography of the region, his work inspired a lot of interest by subsequent explorers like Lewis and Clark. Contains two folding maps, four plates, including one of a tobacco plant done by Nathaniel Currier.

8vo period calf, nicely rebacked with modern calf, original spine label retained. 508 pp illustrated with 2 copper engravings, and a folding copper-engraved map. Some aging and wear to covers, and map has short stub tear neatly repaired. Ownership signature of Frances O’Callaghan to the top of title page. Internally near fine condition. Account of exploration into the interior of North American by an Englishman seeking a transcontinental waterway. He went further West than any English explorer before the Revolutionary War, and while he may not have contributed significantly to geographic knowledge, according to Howes his book stimulated the interest concerning routes to the Pacific by others like Lewis & Clark. Carl Wheat in his work Mapping the Transmississippi West credits Carver as being the first to use the name “Oregon” or “River of the West”, the river people believed to exist in the west beyond the great mountains, and one that emptied into the Pacific. This represented a sought after… Read More

2 vols. (viii, 264, viii, 266 pp.) 8vo (9 ¼ x 6) period calf & cloth, spines decorated in gilt, morocco lettering pieces. Illustrated with 309 engravings on 177 plates, and three engraved maps. With armorial bookplate. Some rubbing to spine & extremities. Top 1” of front cover of volume II faded. A few fox marks within, otherwise very good, and internally near fine. Catlin (1796-1872) was considered one of the most influential artists and anthropologists of the 19th century when it came to the American Indian. His interest in the subject may have begun with listening to tales from his mother who was captured by Indians as a child. After years of painting portraits of the well-to-do in Washington, Catlin set out west to pursue his real interest. He visited 48 Indian Tribes on his tour of the West, and executed some 600 paintings. The engravings in this work were taken from the original paintings, and were supervised by Catlin himself. The text and illustrations portray all aspects of Indian life,… Read More

Folio, leather spine and tips, with paper board covers, paper label with hind written title on front cover, 379 pp. Top cover almost detached and front endpaper loose, library label on front pastedown, a good deal of edge and extremity wear, foxing throughout. The sixth census has population presented by county and principal town, showing wealth and resources, as well as population. There are excellent summary tables on economic and business statistics, according to type of industry, crops grown, etc. Southern populations are divided into free white, free black, and slave.

Folio, rebound in maroon library cloth, 66 engraved plates, including the frontispiece and two folding maps, [4], 682, [10] pp. Page edges with chipping, tearing and finger soiling, library stamp on title and last page, normal aging and foxing, some faint dampstains to some plates; otherwise very good. This is a substantial volume that provides a detailed history of London, and the surrounding area, beginning with its founding throufgh the year 1770, and includes coverage of law, architecture, and social and cultural history. This work is also packed with plates and maps, including illustrations of the fire of London in 1666, a new and complete map of London for the year 1770, the British Museum, the Bank of England, and St. Paul's Cathedral.

Pamphlet, 8vo, original brownish pink wrappers, 28 pp. Spine split, wrappers with a few chips and tears normal aging and browning, overall very good. Seth Chandler (1806-1889) was a Universalist minister that appears to have been born in New Hampshire. In 1834 he became pastor of the church in Shirley Massachusetts and would go on to write a history of the town. DUUB.

8vo, publisher's cloth, paper label on spine, [4], 167 pp. Hinges very weak, piece missing from top portion of spine, small slight stain in the bottom margin; label faded; still a respectable copy. Channing (1780-1842) was born in Newport, Rhode Island, and would become a noted Unitarian minister and author. He was considered an important force in the development of "American Unitarianism", and his religious writings were very popular. Channing would become a critic of slavery after a trip to Richmond when he was a young man, but it was after a trip to the West Indies that this work was published in 1835. The book argues the "ethical Indefensibility" of slavery, and despite a moderate tone, it seems to have upset conservative northerners, as well as, southern whites. However, he would continue his opposition to slavery in several other antislavery tracts over the next several years. ANB.

Lithographed folding pocket map, hand colored in outline, 55 x 77 cm (21" x 30 1/4"), cloth covers (5 1/2" x 3 1/2"), paper cover label. Cloth covers and paper label worn, with some stains, some splits at folds, including a long split extending in from right margin, some minor margin chips, normal aging; otherwise about very good. Silas Chapman (1813-1899) was born in Massachusetts, and would become a prominent midwestern map publisher. His firm was very active during the 1850-1870 period publishing many wall and pocket maps of midwestern locations. This map is a colorful sample of an early map of Wisconsin, which was originally published in 1853. The map was published about seven years after Wisconsin became a state, and it essentially features about two thirds of what is currently Wisconsin. On this map the most northern county is Polk. The Northern part of the sate is not shown. geographicus website.

24mo (5 1/4" x 3 3/4"), original printed green board case with title on top cover, and advertisement on the rear cover, large color folded map (31 1/2" x 29 1/2"). Fair amount of wear to covers, spine chipped a little, extremities showing, and covers somewhat loose, however, case is still reasonably firm; map has a couple of minor fold tears, some aging, but is bright and colorful and in nice condition. Silas Chapman (1813-1899) was born in Massachusetts, and would become a prominent Midwestern map publisher. His firm was very active during the 1850-1870 period publishing many wall and pocket maps of Midwestern locations. This map is a colorful sample of the work, providing a detailed view of Wisconsin in 1869. While there is a little aging, and a couple of minor fold splits, this map is in very good shape, and probably didn't take too much abuse over the past 145 years. geographicus website.

8vo, simulated reptilian boards, beveled edges, lettered in gilt, [4], 26 pp. Slight edgewear and rubbing, some browning and aging; otherwise very good plus. A very nice copy. This title serves as a dairy of Chard's one-month trip from Chicago to California. Chard describes many of his stops along the way, including Portland, Oregon, San Francisco (mentions a trip to Chinatown in San Francisco), Santa Cruz, and San Diego.