Search Results: Authors starting with S from James Arsenault & Company

London: Virtue & Co., 1850. Hardcover. 4to, half red morocco with blue marbled paper over boards, raised bands, gilt spine, leather label at foot of spine reading "H. H. Baxter Memorial Library." No other library markings. 217 pp., 20 steel engraved plates including frontis., numerous inset wood-engravings, 2 maps (one double-page), [3] pp. ads. The 1850 edition of this work first published in 1843, with twenty steel engraved plates after W. H. Bartlett and Thomas Creswick. In a handsome half morocco binding. CONDITION: Very good, moderately rubbed, occasional light foxing and toning to plates, but generally clean and attractive.

Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1956. Hardcover. 4to, black cloth with title, author, and publisher gilt-stamped at spine and title gilt-stamped on upper cover. x, 132 pp., numerous b&w illus. CONDITION: Very good in good dust jacket.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1945. Hardcover in dj. 8vo (9" x 6"), gilt blue cloth. 96 pp., color illus. throughout. CONDITION: Very good, spine sunned, extremities faded, light offsetting to pastedowns; Fair dj, chips with loss at corners and spine, tears at edges, worn wrappers. Copy 849 of an edition of 850 copies, "this is the first occasion on which the designs of Mr. Henry Moore have appeared as direct illustrations to a text.

New York: Doubleday, 1990. Hardcover in dj. 4to (11" x 11"), pictorial blue covers. Color illus. CONDITION: Fine in near fine dj with light curling at top and bottom edges. Stated first edition.

Concord, New Hampshire: B. W. Sanborn, 1856. 8vo (9" x 5.5"), printed wrappers. 32 pp. Ownership inscription on title-page of Ellen L. Steele, Springfield, Vermont (Steele was engaged in the American Home Missionary Society in Vermont during the 1860s), and an inscription concerning geography on the front pastedown by an anonymous "Sleepy Jack." CONDITION: Good, back-wrapper detached and stained, light staining to front-wrapper; contents generally clean with occasional light staining. The second edition of this comprehensive geography instruction manual designed for use with the school atlases of the day, written by the noted instructor Dyer H. Sanborn who was active in academies and seminaries across New England. The text begins with directions to teachers addressing map drawing, recitation, lessons, and more, and proceeds with geographical definitions and simple divisions of geography into continents, oceans, hemispheres, etc. The following are explored and detailed: North America; the U.S.… Read More

Paris: H. Gache, Rue de la Victoire, 66, [1850?]. Oblong 8vo, original red cloth, blind-stamped ornaments and gilt-rule borders to covers, re-backed, original spine laid down. Illustrated title, 24 tinted lithographs. A rare collection of comic illustrations, a fair number of which involve the antics of children and animals. A couple's "repas Champêtre" is interrupted by a horse and rider flying over the stone wall behind them; a regiment of toddling girls in their walkers stands arrayed before the Napoleonic figure of a boy who announces "Le patrie en danger"; an artist paints a young woman's portrait, her mother remarking "N'est ce pas Mr. l'Artisse que ma Clarisse passerait bien pour une vierge?" The quality of the drawing and lithography is excellent. Artist Leo Scherer (1827-1876) is an obscure figure. He is listed in Benezit as a painter born in Ettelreid, Germany, the brother of artists Sebastien, Alois, and Joseph Scherer. OCLC records two other works by him, Alphabet Drolatique (1850) and… Read More

Livingston, Montana, Yellowstone National Park, and other locales, 1916-1918. Oblong 4to (7.5" x 11.25"), flexible brown leather with embossed landscape scene on front cover, cord ties at spine. 167 photographs (mostly silver prints, approx. 2.5" x 2" to 6" x 8"), 7 images hand-tinted, 2 photos laid-in; 2 photos dated 1916 in pencil in image, another photo inscribed in ink "Bayonet Practice, Camp Lewis, 1918." Front paste-down inscription in white ink reading: "Joseph F. Scherieble, Livingston, Mont." Scherieble's ownership label on front paste-down as well. Some images captioned in white ink on the mount; a few photos with white ink borders. An appealing album of 167 photos documenting the Livingston, Montana scene and Yellowstone National Park, as well as Wrangel Island, Alaska; Petersburg, Alaska; Seattle, and Tacoma, including photos taken at Camp Lewis, a World War I training camp in Tacoma. Compiled by Joseph F. Scherieble (1895-1953), this album mainly consists of photos he apparently took… Read More

Washington; Government Printing Office, 1887.; N.Y.: Moss Eng. Co. Hardcover. 4to (11.75" x 9"), black cloth, gilt title. Frontis. port., 75 pp., [3] pp. maps, numerous b&w plates. An account of the 1884 Greely Relief expedition, including the outfitting of the three ships, Bear, Thetic and Alert, correspondence, and full page engravings of islands, glaciers, sailing fleet, natives, and the rescue. CONDITION: One four leaf section detached, otherwise intact and good, rubbed, small loss of cloth to front cover, light toning on text pp., engravings clean and very appealing.

London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1821. Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 6"), later half red morocco, marbled paper. Untrimmed. Folding map (12" x 14"), [3], 4-102 pp. Bookplate of "H. O. Havemeyer Jr." at pastedown. CONDITION: Very good, moderately rubbed, contents clean; map with 4" separation at one fold, 1.5" separation at another, 3" split along plate mark, a few other small separations and one small hole at fold, tear a bottom of map stub mended with document repair tape. "Schoolcraft and one companion named Levi Pettibone left Potosi (in the lead-mining region of southeastern Missouri) on November 6, 1818, and returned on February 9, 1819, having traveled an estimated nine hundred miles. The settlers that Schoolcraft and Pettibone encountered were just beginning to build cabins and plant crops..." (Wagner-Camp). The map, published Jan. 15th, 1821, is entitled "Countries Bordering on the Mississippi and Missouri" and extends from Michigan Territory and the Northwest Territory in the north… Read More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1885. Hardcover. 8vo(9" x 6"), gilt gray cloth. 121 pp., with 20 folding maps. Bookplate from the "Post Library, Fort Brown, Texas. No. 1465." CONDITION: Good ex-library, worn cover, spine sunned, slightly cocked, library marks throughout, some maps with light tears at edges and separations at folds. Report on a United States military and geographical expedition through Alaska, traversing the Inland Passage, Chilkat Country, mountains and glaciers. Expedition members built a raft for travel on the lakes and then the rapids of Yukon River, ending 1303 miles later in the Aleutian Islands. Lieutenant Schwatka was chosen to command this expedition to survey Alaska and report on the native population after participating in the 1878 American Geographical Society search for lost Northwest Passage explorer Sir John Franklin.

London: Dean & Mundy, Threadneedle-Street, 1824. 16mo (16 cm), recent buff wrappers and flyleaves. Hand-colored folding frontis., [3], 6-38 pp. A concise edition of Walter Scott's tragic novel, St. Ronan's Well, set in a fictional Scottish village by that name. With a frontispiece consisting of four illustrations, captioned as follows: "Tyrrel's interview with Clara Mowbray", "Bulmer disguised as Tyrrel marrying Clara Mowbray", "The duel between Tyrrel & Bulmer," and "Affecting death of Clara Mowbray." The frontis. carries a copyright date of 1824.CONDITION: Offsetting from frontis. on title page, light foxing throughout, text and images sound and clean, sympathetic new covers, a very appealing item.

Boston: H. & F. F. Farwell Printing, [ca. 1860]. Broadside, 30 cm x 11 cm, text in one column below four-line heading. CONDITION: Good, old folds, minor loss to margin in lower right corner. A rare, jam-packed minstrel show playbill with blackface performances by Buckleys Serenaders in their Boston theater, brimming with 'comic' descriptions of three acts plus general information. Part I of this program includes melodies such as Darky Felicity and Farm Yard; Part II features variety acts such as the song and dance version of "Sally Come Up", and a violin solo by F. Buckley; Part III is a three-scene lampoon of the 1858 Swill Milk scandal but entitled "The African Cousin." Listed is a "Nigger-atis Personae" with characters such as Hannibal Done-Harry, a colored Xquisite Xtraordinaire, and Mary Milkin-Pump, a Swill-Milk Maid. The last scene features the "First appearance of that extraordinary and novel quadruped, the Milk-Pump Cow, though not accustomed to a barn, she might be deemed a wonder to… Read More

New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1916. Hardcover. 8vo (7.7" x 5.25"), green cloth, title and author in gold at spine and upper cover. [6], 192 pp. A volume of war poems by Scottish "Bard of the Yukon" Service, written after his stint as a Red Cross ambulance driver and stretcher-bearer in World War I, dedicated to his brother who died in action in 1916. CONDITION: Very good, slight wear at extremities, early owner inscription on front free endpaper, fresh interior.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1916. Hardcover. 24mo (5.75" x 4.25"), flexible red leather covers, gilt title, t.e.g. [10], 186 pp. CONDITION: Good, leather separating from board at bottom right corner of upper cover, likewise at top left corner of lower cover, 1.5" abrasion at top right corner of upper cover, interior clean and fresh.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, Limited, 1901. 8vo, three-quarter bound, navy blue leather on blue cloth, raised bands, six compartments, decorative gilt on spine and upper cover, t.e.g.,marbled endpapers, presentation bookplate on pastedown, ownership bookplate on . [1-4], 361 pp., b&w illus. throughout with 31 full-page drawings. Handsome copy in a prize-binding with stamped signature of binder B.H. Blackwell, Ltd, Oxford. Presented by St. Albans School in Washington D.C. to John Michael Kauffmann "for meritorious work in A Form, June 1st, 1935." John Michael Kauffmann's pictorial book plate features a woodland stream. CONDITION: VG with some rubbing at extremities, slight separation of paper at inner front hinge with no effect on firmness of binding, offsetting from leather to edges of endpapers; a tight, clean, handsome volume.

London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, [various dates, 1939-1944]. 3 vols. Hardcover. 12mo, full red morocco, raised bands, gilt-stamped title and ornaments in 5 compartments, gilt--ruled upper and lower covers, gilt-stamped inner dentelles, t.e.g.. Comedies: 1128 pp. [with] Tragedies: 1315 pp. [with] Histories: 1214 pp. A lovely decorative set of Shakespeare's works. CONDITION: Very good.

London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, [1926]. Large 4to, original quarter japon with white paper over boards, gilt title, etc. at spine and front cover. With 21 mounted color plates. Uncut pages. In later red cloth clamshell box. First edition. One of 520 copies signed by Rackham; this copy number 45. Nos. 1 to 260 were for sale in Great Britain and Ireland and Nos. 261 to 520 for sale in the U.S. REFERENCES: Latimore & Haskell, p. 61. CONDITION: Very good, slight toning to edges of covers, contents clean and attractive; dust jacket good, rubbed, short tears and small losses at edges, lightly soiled.

[Johnstown, Pa.?, ca. 1900]. Illustrated broadsheet, 12" x 9.875". CONDITION: Very good, small tape repair to verso. A broadsheet advertising anti-Catholic lectures, along with a public challenge to Catholic Priests, by an influential "escaped nun" and possible KKK ally whose sensational lectures fueled xenophobia and nativist politics at the turn of the 20th Century. This advertising brochure promotes lectures to be given in Johnstown, Pennsylvania by Margaret L. Shepherd (1859-1903), who posed as an escaped nun and stirred anti-Catholic nativist furor in the U.S., Canada, and Australia during the wave of Catholic immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries. These talks were likely given in the years immediately preceding Shepherd's death: the "Open Letter to the Roman Catholic Priests of Johnstown" on the reverse openly acknowledges attacks on her character and refers to the Spanish-American War: "The late war has taught Spain, Cuba, and the Philippines this lesson: To your… Read More

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1859. 8vo, printed gray wrappers. viii, 280 pp. CONDITION: Good, moderate stain to the front-cover, minor losses to head and foot of spine. An in-depth and exhaustive account of the actions and legal proceedings surrounding the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Case of 1858, an important event in abolitionist history. On 13 September 1858, a federal marshal in Oberlin, Ohio detained the runaway slave John Price from Kentucky in accordance with the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Seeking to skirt conflict with Oberlin locals-many of whom were abolitionists-the officer transported Price to Wellington, Ohio. Oberlin residents learned of the officer's actions and met the men in Wellington in an effort to free Price. After first attempting to liberate him peacefully, with the assistance of fellow abolitionists from Wellington, the party ultimately seized him by force-first returning him to Oberlin, and then escorting him to Canada. Tragically, however, Price died shortly after… Read More

London: Robert Dunthorne. at the sign of the Rembrandt Hear in Vigo Street. Vv., 1898. Printed at the Chiswick Press:--Charles Whittingham and Co. Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London. Hardcover. 8vo (8.5" x 6.75"), half blue cloth, pictorial paper over boards. 43 pp., [1], 3 b&w plates (one a fold-out), numerous b&w illus. CONDITION: Good, lightly rubbed spine, soiling and discoloration at covers, offsetting from newspaper between verso of fold-out plate and colophon, otherwise clean interior and sound binding. Stated third edition (in preface).