Search Results: Titles starting with C from Howard S. Mott, Inc

[CHAPBOOKS, LATE 18TH AND EARLY 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH & SCOTTISH]. A sammelband of 15 chapbooks (in 16), each a 12mo, bound in 19th century plain red boards (corners rubbed), brown morocco back, lettered in gold, "Olio of Wonders." Other than some browning of the earlier chapbooks, the condition is uniformly nearly fine.
1. A Garland
of New Songs. Paddy Carey. Battle
of the Nile. Nancy's Journal. The Galley Slave. 8pp., woodcut vignette on title. Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, n.d. [ca. 1810-1820?].
2. A Garland
of New Songs. Daft Watty's Ramble to Carlisle. I was the Boy for bewitching 'em. Mary once had Lovers two. The little Farthing Rush-Light. Paddy O'Leary. 8pp., woodcut vignette on title. Newcastle upon Tyne [ca. 1802].
OCLC
locates 8 copies in this country (Cornell; Yale; Northwestern; Univ. Ky; Johns Hopkins; Washington Univ.; Princeton; Univ. of Utah), and four others; two in Australia, one in Canada, and one… Read More

CANADIAN CARRIERS' ADDRESS ON SILK WITH ANTI-AMERICAN SENTIMENTS
[CARRIERS' ADDRESS, CANADIAN]. Carrier Boys' Address for the Year A. D. 1857. Folio, double-column broadside on white silk, 14 3/4 x 12 1/4", text within very elaborate printer's decrative arched border, small cut of a railroad train between the first and second lines of the title. N.p. [Canada: 1856].
As is seldom the case, there is no newspaper named, but this is quite possibly an English-language Quebec newspaper. As a family we have been personally collecting, buying and selling printing on silk and satin for at least 60 years, and have handled many American silk carriers' addresses. That said, this is the first we have seen which is clearly Canadian. The elaborate border is headed at the top, "We Wish You All a Happy New Year," and the 1 5/8" base is a salute to Queen Victoria, "Vivat Regina." Indications this is Canadian are clear, with lines such as "But 'tis soothing and cheery,/ To the tired and weary,/ From Quebec to… Read More

DEMONIC POSSESSION
SHARP, Granville. The Case of Saul, shewing that his disorder was a real spiritual possession, and proving…that actual possession of spirits were generally acknowledged by the ancient writers among the Heathens as well as among the Jews and Christians. First Printed in the Year 1777, as an Appendix to a Tract on the Law of Nature and Principles of Action in Men. To which is added, A Short Tract, wherein the influence of Demons are further illustrated to remarks on 1 Timothy iv. 1-3. 8vo (in 4s), disbound, half-title, title, pp. iv, 187, xv (index). London: Printed by W. Calvert for Vernor and Hood [&5 others], 1807.
With the half-title. First Complete Edition of a work on demonic possession containing the conclusion and two "appendages" not printed in A Tract on the Law of Nature and Principles of Action in Men (1777). Remarks on 1 Timothy as separate title. Minor foxing, mostly front and back.

LEWIS'S "TO THE READER" EXPLAINS HIS AFRICAN SLAVE CHARACTER, HIS "MISANTHROPIC NEGRO"
LEWIS, M[atthew] G[regory] "Monk". The Castle Spectre: A Drama. In Five Acts. First Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane, on Thursday, December 14, 1797. By M. G. Lewis, M. P. Author of The Monk, &c.
8vo, disbound, pp. 103, [1] ad. London: Printed for J. Bell, 1798.
First Edition. An extraordinary commercial success, although not a universal favorite of the critics. To the critics who objected to his use of black slaves in a Gothic story, he defended himself by saying that if he could "have produced the same effect by making my heroine blue, blue I should have made her." "As far as Lewis's search for novelty and striking effects is concerned, it is interesting to highlight the character of Hassan, an African servant...Hassan is in Ormond's service because the earl has cruelly snatched him from his family, and, hating the white race that he considers responsible for his sufferences, the black slave… Read More

THE CATALOGUE OF NATION'S FINEST PRIVATE COLLECTION OF OLD MASTER ART

[HUNTER, John, businessman and art collector (1778-1852). HENRY H. LEEDS & MINER, AUCTIONEERS. Catalogue of The late Mr. John Hunter's Extensive Collection of Ancient and Modern Pictures Removed from his Gallery and Residence at Hunter's Island, Westchester Co., N.Y. To be Sold at Auction by Henry H. Leeds & Miner at their "Dusseldorf Galleries," No. 548 Broadway (Next door to Tiffany & Co., Co.'s), on the Evenings of Wednesday 17th, Thursday 18th and Friday 19th January, 1866, at 7 o'clock each evening. They may be viewed on and after Tuesday, January 2, at the Galleries as above. Catalogues can be obtained...[wrapper-title]. 8vo, original wrappers printed in gold, pp. 70. New York: John Polhemus, Printer, 109 Nassau Street [1866].
John Hunter was a Columbia graduate who took over his father's auction and commission business, becoming an American "merchant prince. Hunter's art collection was considered… Read More

1858 SAN FRANCISCO ATLANTIC CABLE LETTERSHEET, WITH AN IMAGE OF "GRIZZLY ADAMS"
[ATLANTIC CABLE].
The Celebration in San Francisco, in Commemoration of the Successful Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, Monday, September 27th, 1858. Folio wood engraved double sheet, 16 5/8 x 10 3/4" (405 x 250mm) on bluish-gray paper. San Francisco: Street & Butler, Printers, Engravers, and Publishers, 145 Clay Street, 1858.
A pictorial lettersheet describing San Francisco's massive Atlantic Cable celebration in picture, and approximately 1600 words of small text. The larger variant of two recorded. "A milestone in the history of California communications is recorded in the lively illustrations, including a vignette of Rube Aldrich arriving from St. Jo., Missouri, in an ox-drawn covered wagon labeled, 'Give us a Pacific Railroad-Don't wait for the wagon.'"-Clifford 23. Illustrated by four large images surrounded by a border of 35 smaller images, four of the latter are corner stars, one is of… Read More

ONE OF 30 COPIES
[BRUSH, Charles Francis]. Charles Francis Brush. 12mo, original flexible black morocco, portrait frontispiece, pp. [19] printed on verso only, a.e.g. New York: James T. White & Co., 1930.
Only Edition. "Special Edition." Number 12 of 30 copies only of a biography of an American scientist and inventor (1849-1929), a pioneer in the commercial development of electricity, taken from the National Cyclopedia of American Biography. Ownership signature of great American mechanical engineer, Ambrose Swasey (see DAB): "Ambrose Swasey/Cleveland Ohio." With the large Swasey ex-libris depicting the "36 inch Lick Telescope," the observatory having been built by him. OCLC locates three copies (Burndy Library; Huntington; Columbus Metropolitan Library). No sale records located by us.

PRESENTED TO A NOTED SCHOLAR, JOHN JACOB ASTOR, BY THE PUBLISHERCHAUCER, [Geoffrey]. Chaucer's Legende of Goode Women. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, Glossarial and Critical, by Hiram Corson. 12mo, original decorated cloth (uniformly & pleasantly faded), paper label (faded), pp. xxxviii, 145. Philadelphia: Frederick Leypoldt.
New York: F. W. Christern.
London: Trübner & Co., 1864.
First Edition, second issue, with cancel title dated 1864; printed on thick paper. The first issue has integral title, and is dated 1863. Number 30 of "Only 100 Copies printed in this paper," as stated by a thin slip of paper printed in red pasted under the copyright notice on verso of title-page. Presentation copy, inscribed in pencil by the publisher to John Jacob Astor's grandson, the noted American scholar, writer, and philologist Charles Astor Bristed (1820-1874), for whom see… Read More

"ANOTHER MULE JOB": THE FIRST AMERICAN SURVEY OF THE ISTHMUS OF CHIRIQUI: THE MANUSCRIPT TOPOGRAPHICAL REPORT OF THE CHIRIQUI COMMISSION EXPEDITION (1860), THE RESULT OF A LAND SPECULATION SCHEME OF AN AREA WHICH LINCOLN WOULD SOON PROMOTE AS A HOME FOR COLONIZED FREE NEGROES FROM WASHINGTON, D.C.: FIVE SCROLLS TOTALING OVER 80 FEET IN LENGTH
[CHIRIQUI COMMISSION EXPEDITION, PANAMA ]. [MORTON, Lt. James St. Clair (1829-1864) U.S. Army Topographical Engineer]. Long, legible AMs by Lt. Morton, heavily corrected, being a preliminary report of his topographical survey for the Chiriqui Commission for the purpose of establishing coaling stations for the U. S. Navy. 5 scrolls of sheets joined end-to-end totaling over 70 feet in length, the equivalent of approx. 80pp. Foolscap, and over 22,000 words in substance. N.p., [1860? or Jan. 1861?].

A wonderfully descriptive and important mid-19th century manuscript of exploration concerned with American national security. Being a new country, the United States… Read More

[CHRISTMAS]. SANDYS, William. Christmastide: Its History, Festivities, and Carols. [Illustrated]. 8vo, original blind stamped blue cloth (minor wear at corners and spine extremities), spine elaborately gilt, pp. [8], 327, [1], [24] ads + 8 lithographed plates (including frontispiece). London: John Russell Smith [1852].
First Edition. In addition to the tinted lithographed plates there are 17 in-text vignettes, as well as words and music for 12 Christmas carols. With 1856 ownership signature of G[ulian] C[rommelin] Verplanck (1786-1870), Columbia College graduate, well-known New York lawyer, enemy of De Witt Clinton, legislator, author, editor of Shakespeare and professor. Excellent copy.

[SCOTLAND, STEAMBOATS, CAMBELTOWN, KINTYRE]. Sir, You are requested to attend a General Meeting of the Owners of the Duke of Lancaster Steam-Boat…relative to the propriety of getting a new Steam-Boast built…Your most obedient Servant, John Colville, Jun. Campbeltown, 14th May, 1835. 12mo circular letter, 1p., with integral address-leaf addressed to Daniel McTaggart Esq., Campbeltown, docketed by John Colville, Jun.
Captain Colville was the local seafarer who was dispatched to buy the Duke of Lancaster in Liverpool in 1826. He became agent of the Cameltown Steamboat Company, the oldest steamship company on the Clyde, while McTaggart, Esq., of Kilkivan, was the first chairman of a reorganized company. The meeting resulted in the second steamer, Saint Kiaran, being built in Greenock. Folded, else fine.

FAUCHET, Claude, and others. Collection complete des tableaux historiques de la revolution Française. [Text by Claude Fauchet, Constitutional Bishop of Calvados, Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas, Pierre-Louis Ginguené and François-Xavier Pagès]. 3 vols., folio, early 19th century 1/4 red morocco over red boards (some rubbing), small leather corners, spine elaborately gilt, "Boileau" stamped in gold at bottom of each spine, 3 engraved frontispieces, 66 portraits & 154 plates (all with original tissue guards), uncut. Paris: chez Auber imprimé par Didot anié, et terminé par Charles, 1804. With half-titles. A scarce, large uncut copy, presumably from the library of Sir John Peter Boileau, 1st Baronet, FRS, DL, JP (1794-1869), archaeologist (see ODNB & Hazllitt, A Roll of Honor, p. 22). First published in monthly parts, 1791-1796, and commercially… Read More

READ, Daniel, author of The American Sinning Book. [DOOLITTLE, Amos, engraver]. The Columbian Harmonist, No. 1, containing First. A Plain and Concise Introduction to Psalmody fitly calculated for the use of Singing Schools. Second. A Choice Collection of New Psalm Tunes of American Composition. Oblong 8vo, original flexible marbled boards (a goodly portion of the marble paper is no longer), pp. 39, [1] Index, [4] blank leaves (with manuscript music on 5 pages), the last blank leaf pasted down, stitched. New Haven: Printed for & Sold by the Editor, Sold also by the Principal Book-sellers in the United States [1793-1794].
First Edition, second issue with variant imprint. Read (1757-1836), together with William Billing "was the most significant American composer of psalmody during the 18th and early 19th centuries."-Richard Crawford in
Grove. Other parts would follow in later years. "Engraved for the Editor by A. Doolittle 1793" at foot of the index. Advertised as just published 10… Read More

WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST, WHO INCLUDES AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR OF A CONFEDERATE OFFICER
ALBAUGH, William A., III. Confederate Edged Weapons. Illustrated by Carl J. Pugliese. Lg. 4to, original cloth, pp. 198. New York: Harper [1960].
First Edition; with dust jacket. Describes and illustrates with line drawings the swords, pikes, bayonets and bowie knives used by the Confederate Army. This copy bears a fine inscription by the book's artist on half-title, flanked by a very attractive 4" tall watercolor of a bearded Confederate officer, hat in hand, leaning on his sword. Inscribed: "To Clayton Knight who gave unselfishly of his valuable time, advice and most helpful criticism and constant encouragement for which I'll always be grateful. With warm regards Carl Publiese." Clayton Knight (1891-1969) was a well known aviation author and illustrator. The illustrated jacket has some small edge tears, and is not price clipped. 70169

THE RARE FIRST ISSUE, IN FIRST ISSUE DUST-JACKETKENNEDY, Margaret. The Constant Nymph. 12mo, original red cloth, pp. 336. London: Heinemann, 1924.
First Edition, first issue, one of "possibly as few as 12 copies issued to reviewers, with ads on verso of half-title."-Sotheby's (2012). In first issue creme colored dust-jacket listing eleven titles in "New and Recent Fiction" from Galsworthy's The White Monkey to Arthur Mason's The Cook and the Captain Bold. We have seen this title bibliographically described a couple of different ways, but as for this copy, it is bibliographically identical to the copy catalogued by Howard S. Mott in List #161 (1958), #100, as "First Issue. With ads on verso of half-title and with the title page uncancelled", as here. The author's second novel, a surprise best-seller, is the first novel of what can be called a "Bohemian" genre, and for its time, shockingly sexual in its description of… Read More

[DICKENS, Charles]. Court of Common Sense. 4to broadside, 10 x 7 1/2", mounted on a sheet from an album. [London:] Tuck & Co. Printers, Little St. Thomas Apostle [1837].
A humorous reference to Sam Weller in Dickens' Pickwick Papers (1837), who mixed up "V" and "W" in his speech. The broadside describes Weller's trial: "Yesterday a gentleman of a silky appearance, and prepossessing manners, was placed at the bar, charged with clipping, cutting, maiming, and otherwise disfiguring the lawful language of His Majesty's subjects, so as to render it quite unintelligible to all plain-spoken Englishmen...The first witness for the prosecution was the letter V; who stated that on several public occasions, but more particularly at Wardmotes and Vestries, the defendant had most shamelessly mangled and ill used him...The only witness for the defendant, was a Mr. Bos [i.e. "Boz," Charles Dickens], who said he had known the defendant some… Read More

CREOLES "SLANDEROUSLY MISPREPRESENTED"[ROUQUETTE, Abbe Adrien E.] Critical Dialogue between Aboo and Caboo on a New Book; or a Grandissime Ascension. Edited by E. Junius. 8vo, original printed brown wrappers, lettered in black, pp. 24. Mingo City [i.e. New Orleans]: Great Publishing House of Sam Slick Allspice, 12 Veracity Street, 1880.
First Edition. Written anonymously by the author of La Nouvelle Atala ou, La fille de l'Esprit: Legende Indienne, par Chahta de la Louisiane (1879), wherein is contained Lafcadio Hearn's first book appearance. This is a vicious response to George Washington Cable's, The Grandissimes by a Louisiana Creole writer, poet and Catholic missionary to the Choctaw Indians. Cable's
Old Creole Days was received coolly in New Orleans, but "The backlash commenced, months later, with the publication of Cable's next book, The Grandissimes. Serialized in Scribner's Monthly beginning in the November 1879 edition and running for the following eleven issues. The novel, subtitled… Read More

THE FIRST AMERICAN ATTEMPT AT NATIONAL STANDARDIZED RULES OF CROQUET
[CROQUET]. Croquet: the Rules governing the game, as adopted by the National American Croquet Association, October 4, 1882. 12mo, original printed wrappers, pp. 11, stapled. [New York: 1882].
Fine copy of the First Edition of the first standard American rules of the game; one of two variants, priority unknown. With a page-and-a-half description of the game, followed by 53 rules. The National Croquet Association was founded in 1879, but it wasn't until October 4, 1882, that representatives of twenty-five American croquet clubs met on the grounds of the New York Croquet Club and adopted a standard set of rules for the popular nine-wicket game. The association was active until the 1890s when the popularity of lawn tennis surged, and interest in croquet, viewed as a gambling game, diminished. "The necessity for a uniform Code of Rules governing Croquet Players throughout the country, has, for a long time been apparent.… Read More