Putnam’s Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science, and Art. Vol I. January to June 1853
Putnam, G. P., & Co. 23x15 cm. Original 1/2 black leather with marbled boards. Excellent condition with light rubbing at extremities. 703, [1] pp. This is the first six issues of this popular magazine which featured contemporary fiction. Mott II 423: ". Although Putnam's made itself a folitical force, it was in the field of belles-lettres that it achieved its highest mark. The most famous writers who contributed to it with any frequency were Longfellow, Lowell, Thoreau, Melville, and Cooper." Mott devotes a chapter of 13 pages to this publication. Lomazow 607a: "An important magazine designed to combine a serious review with a literary magazine." Chielens p.328: "William Makepeace Thackeray though Putnam's Monthly Magaziner 'much the best Mag. in the world." Sloane p.110, Nourie pp.413-418.- $175
- $175
The “Red Book” Guide to the Oranges – Bloomfield, Montclair, Belleville, Nutley, Maplewood, Verona and Caldwell
Interstate Map Company Map is 51x36 cm., folder is 15x7 cm. Original red printed stiff wrappers, mild wear. Internally very good. 96 pp., uncolored folding map. Street listing for towns in Essex County in north central New Jersey. Also contains small uncolored maps of Verona, Essex Fells, Caldwell, and Cedar Grove.- $125
- $125
A Complete Guide to Queens with Large Indexed Map
Geographia Map Company 45x57 cm., folds to 15x7.5 cm. Stiff red printed wrappers, somewhat worn. 224 pp. text, detached but present. The map, "Queens, Produced under the direction of Alexander Gross, F.R.G.S." is uncolored except for mass transit (Subway, bus, elevated) lines which are in red. The text consists largely of a street index, though there is also information on transit lines, public buildings and other amenities. The site which later became LaGuardia Airport is identified as Glen L. Curtis North Shore Airport.- $75
- $75
Gerrit Smith and the Vigilant Association of the City of New York
Miller, Charles D. 14.5x9.5 cm. Printed wrappers. Very good condition with two vertical creases. 29 pp. The text is a discussion of Gerrit Smith and his beliefs and actions as a leading abolitionist. There is a section regarding John Smith and Smith's admiration for him. There is also a mention of Smith's contributions to Underground Railroads which states that he would "not have any slave seek his freedom at the expense of killing his master." AAS 375009.- $225
- $225
Curtis’ Bay; Its Superior Advantages and Admirable Location as the Only Existing and Available Deep Water Harbor Contiguous to the City of Baltimore, in Connection with Its Rapidly Increasing Local Manufactures, the Development of Its Coal Traffic .
Patapsco Land Company 23x15 cm. Original cloth with title gilt on front and one discreet rubber stamp on verso of title page. 100 pp., folding map in back cover. Excellent condition, with library numbering at bottom of spine. The uncolored map shows the area around Baltimore, including parts of Baltimore, Howard and Anne Arundel Counties, showing the position of the proposed Curtis Bay port in what is now the southern portion of the City of Baltimore, but at the time was in the separate town of Pennington. This was a plan which looked to turn Curtis Bay in Baltimore into a major deep water port and railroad nexus. OCLC 7580640.- $250
- $250
Symon Schermerhoorn’s Ride. February 8/9 1690. Writ from facts and traditions as set down in ye old records of ye Massacre of Skinnechtady
[Sweny, Henry Roy] 24x15 cm. A beautiful copy in contemporary full red morocco with gilt tooling. Lightly rubbed at ends of spine. TEG. 30 leaves, printed on rectos only. Illustrated with reproduction woodcuts and facsimile of an old record. Decorated title. Marbled endpapers. One of 225 copies, though not numbered. "Writ from facts and traditions as set down in ye olde records of ye Massacre of Skinnechtady, and in commemoration of Symon Schermerhoorn's ride to save ye inhabitants of Albany from ye French and Indians." Deals with Schermerhoorn's ride following the massacre and destruction at Schenectady on February 8, 1690. Privately printed by J. B. Lyon Co.- $125
- $125
History of Philadelphia
Miss Leslie 8x6 cm. 60 cards (complete) housed in a green cardboard box (two edges spllt) with printed instructions pasted down on the top. Each card has the name of a person, place or general information relating to the history of Philadelphia, with several cards for each such subject. Each card has text related to that subject and with the title having a hand-colored background. The versos of the cards are blank. The paste-down indicates that this game was first published in 1831 and revised and republished in 1872. It is very rare, particularly with a complete set of cards and generally intact box.- $500
- $500
Map of the United States
Sumner, H. F. 37x52.6 cm. Small map, varnished and backed with original linen. Original wooden rods, bottom rod reattached. Varnish is fairly dark. 4x2 cm. hole at top of Missouri Territory in what now is eastern Montana. Smaller chip out of the bottom border and a small part of the Gulf of Mexico. Extends west to the Rockies. Very similar to the Humphrey Phelps 1832 map of the U.S., but without the George Washington cartouche.- $850
- $850
The History of Virgil A. Stewart, and His Adventure in Capturing and Exposing the Great “Western Land Pirate” and His Gang in Connection with the evidence’
Howard, H. R. 19x11 cm. Black cloth, likely later, front hinge weak. Light soiling through much of the book, particularly towards the front. 273, 36 pp. Lacks pp. 27-32 of ads, though these pages were apparently either never published or not included in all copies. The Murrell Gang were notorious thugs, murderers, gamblers and organizers of slave uprisings. It is thought that Stewart fabricated some of the details here to enhance his own image after Murrell's capture. Howes H700, Sabin 33250.- $325
- $325
Gentleman’s New Pocket Farrier, Comprising a General Description of the Noble and Useful Animal the Horse – Eighth Edition, with Additions
Mason, Richard 19x12 cm. Original full calf, excellent condition, two light areas of waterstaining limited to a few pages each. 8, 419 pp., 5 plates, including the frontispiece. Eighth edition of one of the more popular works of the period on farriery which had first been published in Richmond in 1828. Published by Gregg & Elliot. American Imprints 41-3411, OCLC 14629192 (12 loc.)- $250
- $250
The Harmony Society, at Economy, Penn’a. Founded by George Rapp, A. D. 1805. With an Appendix
Williams, Aaron 17.5x12 cm. Original black cloth, very good condition with light wear at ends of spine and corners. 182 pp. This is the best account of America's most successful Utopian experiment. A Lutheran offshoot governed in a communistic theocracy by Rapp, the Society embraced celibacy in 1807, making long-term growth of the movement impossible in practical terms. Williams joined the Society in 1865. The Society is generally credited with being one of the most successful American utopian experiments. Streeter 4278, Howes W445, Adams (Radical Literature) p.40.- $750
- $750
A Description of East Florida, with a Journal kept by John Bartram of Philadelphia, Botanist to His Majesty for the Floridas . The Third Edition
Stork, William 25x20 cm. Contemporary full leather, very well worn, rear board detached, red morocco label laid in. Title page and first two text leaves are torn with loss at top right corners. Several pages have marginal notes, likely by John Morgan, though many of these have been trimmed with significant loss of content. [4], viii, 40, [2], xii, 36 pp., 1 (of 3) maps. The map of the Bay of Espiritu Santo (i.e. Tampa Bay) is present. The maps of East Florida and St. Augustine are lacking. This copy belonged to John Morgan of Morganza, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. There are several ownership signatures throughout, one of which is dated 1790. Morgan identifies himself as an Ensign in the 1st US Regiment. There is also an undated ownership signature of John Weaver of Cannonsburgh (sic) indicating that he purchased the book from John Morgan. John Morgan's father, George Morgan, was a key player in the saga of Aaron Burr, having been the first to inform Thomas Jefferson of Burr's conspiracy to overthrow the federal government. American Philosophical Society: "Like many natural histories, Stork's tract is part promotional, part natural historical. A knowledge of flora and fauna was essential for successful -- and profitable -- settlement, and writers and land owners stood to profit personally from an increase in interest. Adding to a promising description of Saint Augustine, and chapters on the climate, soil, and animal and plant life, Stork included bullish tracts on the potential in Florida for the cultivation of rice, cotton, silk, sugar, indigo, and other profitable crops." Howes S1042, Servies 480, Vail 600.- $2,500
- $2,500
Report on the Chemical Analysis of the White Sulphur of the Artesian Well of Lafayette, ind. with Remarks upon the Nature of Artesian Wells
Wetherill, Charles M. 22x14.5 cm. Original printed wrappers, fine condition. 32 pp., including 2 diagrams and a statistical table. Second edition. In the first edition of 158, p. 2 was blank, here it is filled with "Additional Notes."- $175
- $175
Cincinnati in 1841: Its Early Annals and Future Prospects
Cist, Charles 20x12 cm. Original cloth, chipping to top and bottom of spine. 300, [88] pp. 9 plates (3 of which are in the advertising section). 88 pages of advertising. Engravings by Doolittle & Munson. This was a popular early history and guide to Cincinnati. Howes C412.- $125
- $125
An Act to Enable His Majesty to Authorize the Exportation of the Machinery Necessary for Erecting a Mint in the United States of America
31x19 cm. 4 pp. law removed from a larger volume. Light crease at bottom right corner. This law, enacted shortly after the War of 1812, demonstrates that trade between the two countries had clearly resumed and that Great Britain was authorizing the exportation of the equipment for minting coinage. Atlas of Nassau County, Long Island
69x49 cm. Original 1/2 leather with printed cloth, well worn, leather largely perished, joints gone. Leather tabs disintegrated. 37 double-page linen-backed maps. Water stain at top corners of roughly half the maps, noticeable but not heavy. The staining is heavier towards the back of the book. This was the first atlas of Nassau County after it was separated from Queens County in 1898 and recognized on Jamuary 1, 1899. Maps have outline color. Major land owners identified. The maps are comprised of 10 maps of townships, an index map, 25 maps of villages, and one page of strips which connect various maps. The village maps are particularly interesting as they show details of such areas as Oyster Bay, Hempstead, Rockville Centre, Roslyn, Glen Cove, Lawrence, Oceanside, Seaford, Freeport, Valley Stream and many other vilages. A rare atlas of Long Island before its major development in the 20th century. LeGear L2463. An Apology for the True Christian Divinity: Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People Called Quakers. Third Stereotype Edition, from the Eighth London Edition
22x14 cm. Full calf with morocco spine label. Excellent condition. 8, xii, 587 pp. Details many of the precepts and underpinnings of the Quaker religion. Printed by Samuel Wood and Sons, for the Trustees of Obadiah Brown's Benevolent Fund. American Imprints 28053, AAS 247217. Colton’s Map of the State of Georgia
96x64 cm. Folding map with original cloth folder, detached. Modern archival lining which results in the map now being flat, not folded. Some damage along folds repaired with very small areas of loss from chipping. First edition. Bright full color by county. Very scarce large-scale map of a southern state published immediately after the Civil War. This map was not published in any atlas, unlike many smaller Colton maps of this period. Account of Leslie’s Retreat at the North Bridge, in Salem, on Sunday, Feb’y 26, 1775
23x15 cm. Later orange wrappers with title panel from original wrappers laid down. Back wrapper torn with loss of bottom outside corner. Spine splitting and fraying. 47 pp. A note from the author to an unidentified correspondent is tipped in. The note reads: "This account more particularly refers to the opening scene of the Revolution after the arrival of Gen. Gage. It is not contended that it takes precedence in point of time to the Boston Massacre or the Boston Tea Party or any other event that was not immediately connected with the Revolution." A scarce account of an encounter between American and British soldiers 2 months before Lexington and Concord. OCLC 7308136. Battles for the Union and the Union Forces Engaged Therein Together with a Record of Casualties
18x10 cm. Tall chromolithographic stiff covers with tab for closing. Excellent condition. [48] pp., folding map (36x37 cm.) of the Illinois Central System with a large inset map of St. Louis. The text contains a listing of the battles of the Civil War with details of the number of casualties on both sides and generals killed or wounded at each battle. Each page has regimental insignia at the corners. This was published for distribution at the 21st Annual Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at St. Louis, September 27, 1887. Report of the Secretary of War on the Several Pacific Railroad Explorations
24x15 cm. Later library boards. Light soiling to title page, crude repair to first leaf. 43 pp. This report is an overview of the various routes being considered by the Railroad Surveys. It was issued as the first section of the octavo edition of the Pacific Railroad Surveys. House document 129. Howes P3, Wagner-Camp 261:1. Preliminary Field Report of the United States Geological Survey of Colorado and New Mexico, Conducted Under the Authority of Hon. J. D. Cox, Secretary of the Interior
23x15 cm. Original black cloth, lightly worn, generally excellent condition. 155 pp. While focusing primarily on the geology of Colorado and New Mexico Territories, there is also information on climate, agriculture and other characteristics. Includes reports by two of Hayden's assistants, Persifor Frazer, Jr. and Cyrus Thomas.