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Second Annual Report of the Directors of the Grand Junction Rail Road and Depot Company.
Printed by William Wheildon of Charlestown. 1849 Boards
Cr8vo quarter cloth and paper over boards. 24pp. In remarkably good condition. Near fine. Describes the building of a depot in East Boston, a 6 ½ mile rail link between the 2 company depots and four rail companies around Boston. A financial statement follows, including a comparison of the Wealth of inhabitants of Boston between 1800 and 1848, then that Boston was wealthier than New York over the same period, and continues with a summary of planned railroad development for the following years (in 1851, 13 states of the Union will be connected by railroad; 2,537 miles of railroad at a cost of 40,000 dollars per mile; etc); the potential of Boston in world trade and potential for import/export with Liverpool, UK.
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Souvenir of Cleveland, Ohio. Souvenir Album.
Portland. Chisholm Bothers
14 panel fold out collection of photographs in blue boards with gilt titling and blindstamped decoration. Most of the panels contain several photographic vignettes on a common theme, eg Churches, civic buildings, parks etc of Cleveland. The era seems to be about 1910, with horse drawn trolleys, telephone cabling but no electricity cabling, a paddle steamer but no cars. Some rubbing to boards, near Vg, internally Vg.
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Municipal Activities. 1930. Cincinnati.
City of Cincinnati. 1930
Octavo, green wrappers with black titling in a yellow panel to top cover. 107pp. Covers are mildly darkened to margins, else a clean copy that is Vg. The yearly report of the municipal activities of the City of Cincinnati, including reports from each of the civic departments. These include reports on the budget, police, fire, hospital, utilities, highways, planning and university. There is also a report on the Sinking Fund.
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The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. Volume XXVII, Number 2. 1971.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.: Published by the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania.
Octavo, blue wrappers. Light fading to head of wrapper, else tight and Vg. Articles on seventeenth century birth records in the Delaware Valley; the Zeller family; Pennsylvania box-holders in the safe deposit company of New York; petitions and passes; marriage notices from the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post.
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Akela's Yarn Book.
London.: The Boy Scouts Association.
Undated (?1950) Crown octavo, green cloth. 64pp. Hinge broken at title page and p62. Boards grubby. A volume of story synopses to help Cub Scout Leaders tell stories.
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35.00 USD
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Westerly Tax Book 1901.
Westerly, RI. George H Utter, Printer. 1901
Octavo, pamphlet in beige wrappers with black titling to top cover. 36pp. Covers tanned, rear cover chipped. A Vg copy. A listing of residents, their assets and tax responsibilities for the city of Westerly, RI, followed by a list of non-resident bank stockholders and signed off by the tax assessors for the city.
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The Shakespeare Head Press Booklets. [The Six booklets bound together.]
Stratford-Upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press. 1906
Duodecimo [5 x 4 inch] dark blue/green boards, with paper title on spine Booklet I: Ancient Carols (second edition) Booklet II: Festive Songs for Christmas (second edition) Booklet III: Shakespeares Songs Booklet IV: The Nutbrown Maid Booklet V: More Ancient Carols Booklet VI: A Lovers Complaint & The Phoenix and the Turtle Untrimmed edges. Vg. A very uncommon title from The Shakespeare Head Press. Once reported that only a single copy existed, that is plainly an error, but this is nevertheless a very rare volume indeed.
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180.00 USD
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The Case Stated Between the Church of Rome and The Church of England. Wherein is shewed, that the doubt, and the danger is in the former, and the certainty and safety in the latter communion.
London: George Strahan. 1718
The Case Stated Between the Church of Rome and The Church of England. Wherein is shewed, that the doubt, and the danger is in the former, and the certainty and safety in the latter communion. And the case Further Stated between the church of Rome and The Church of England, wherein the chief point, about the Supremacy is fully discussed. The Fifth edition. Octavo, full calf. Lightly worn to spine, else vg.
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Essays by Members of the Birmingham Speculative Club.
London: Williams and Norgate. 1870
First edition. Octavo, 295pp. Bound in a modern green buckram. Contains seven essays written by members of the club. The essays are entitled "Hold fast your colonies"; The relation of universities to practical life"; "Some thoughts on pauperism"; "The natural history of law"; "The future of Women"; 'Euthanasia"; "Method and medicine". The subjects are, for the most part, ones with which we still struggle today.
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70.00 USD
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The Midlands Historical Collector.
Leicester.: Chapman, Browne, Bible and Crown. 1855
1855 and 1856 two volumes. Crown octavo, half newer blue buckram and original marbled boards. Boards lightly rubbed. Title page of second volume has an oily stain. A record of local history and antiquities, folk-lore, heraldry and genealogy for the counties of Northampton, Lincoln and Nottingham and some of Leicester. Comprises the bound copies of Volumes I and II (29 issues) of the Midland Counties Historical Collector.
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100.00 USD
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Chicago's Rapid Transit. Volume I: Rolling Stock 1892-1947 and Volume II: Rolling Stock 1947-1976.
Chicago. Central Electric Railfans' Association (CERA). 1973 0915348152 Cloth Very Good
1973 Volume I and 1976 Volume II. First edition. Oblong quarto (8.75in x 11.25in) tan cloth (Volume I) and moss green cloth (Volume II). Volume I: vii, 248pp, over 400 photographs, including 8pp in color. Volume II: 256pp, illustrated copiously throughout with photographs, car designs and system maps. Both volumes are bright and clean and Vg+ in dustwrappers that are lightly worn and are Vg. Volume I is Bulletin 113 of CERA and Volume II is Bulletin 115 of CERA.
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Snow White and Rose Red. To Which Are Added the Stories of The Dancing Shoes and Hans In Luck.
Philadelphia. Henry Altemus Company. 1904
Duodecimo (6.75in x 5.25in) oatmeal cloth with top board showing gilt titling and decoration to 40% of cloth nearest to spine and pictorial cloth of floral bords and two young girls watching a bearded fairy who has his beard caught in a log. 48pp. 32 illustrations. Cloth is somewhat worn to spine and edges. Two names to endpaper. Closed tear to one page. Endpapers partially toned. An attractive copy. Published as one of Altemus' Banbury Cross Series.
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75.00 USD
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Guide to Wood Species.
Arlington, Virginia. Architectural Woodwork Institute. 1977
Comb bound quarto with light card covers. 13pp text, followed by 24 plates depicting the appearance of sawn wood planks with short text description. A clean copy in Vg condition.
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20.00 USD
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The Treaty of Peace with Great Britain.
Cincinnati, Ohio.: The Fleuron Press. 1976
Limited/Numbered. Private Press. Printed for Private Distribution. Octavo, black cloth backstrip and burnt orange boards in matching slipcase. Fine in fine slipcase. Red decorative woodcuts. A limited edition of 195 copies produced for friends of the Fleuron press, of which this copy is numbered 180. The treaty negotiated predominantly by Benjamin Franklin.
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25.00 USD
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The Thirteen Colonies Resist The Hated Stamp Tax. October 19, 1765.
Cincinnati, Ohio.: Privately Printed for The Fleuron Press. 1975
Limited/Numbered. Private Press. Printed for Private Distribution. Octavo, black cloth backstrip and brown boards in matching slipcase. Fine in fine slipcase. A limited edition of 195 copies produced for friends of the Fleuron Press, of which this copy is numbered 59. The British imposition of the Stamp Tax was one of the acts that inflamed the colonists to eventually separate and become independent.
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The Unanimous Declaration Of The Thirteen United States Of America.
Cincinnati, Ohio.: Privately Printed for The Fleuron Press. 1954
Limited/Numbered. Private Press. Printed for Private Distribution. Octavo, brown cloth backstrip and patterned boards. A limited edition of 210 copies produced for friends of the Fleuron Press, of which this copy is numbered 74pp. Bump to spine, else near fine.
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30.00 USD
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. Volume XXXVIII (New Series Volume XVI). May 1889 to November 1889.
New York. The Century Co. 1889 Half-Leather
Octavo (9.75in x 7.5in half leather and marbled boards with four raised bands and gilt titling to spine. viii, 960pp. All edges sprinkled red. Warmly mellowed to spine. A very attractive copy that is bright, clean and Vg+. Frederic Remington writes On the Indian Reservations and Maurice Thompson contributes a piece in dialect concerning the relationship between a black man and white man. The volume contains many items of topical interest to the period.
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The Sinner. Translated from the Pali of Brahamajaharak.
Cincinnati, Ohio.: Privately Printed by The Fleuron Press. 1963
Limited/Numbered. Privately Printed. Octavo, brown cloth backstrip and black cloth covered boards with gilt titling to spine. A limited edition of 140 copies, of which this copy is numbered 52. Fine in a near fine slipcase. An amusing short story concerning truth.
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The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. Volume XXVI, Number 3. 1970.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.: Published by the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania.
Octavo, blue wrappers. Small water stain to top of front wrapper and endpaper, else tight and Vg. Articles on 1725 list of Wittgenstein emigrants; pension applications in Centre County; petitions and passes; post revolutionary arrivals in Philadelphia.
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14.00 USD
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The False Heir and Other Choice Stories for the Young.
Edinburgh. William P Nimmo. 1872
Duodecimo, green cloth with black scrolled ornamentation and pictorial overlay to top board and gilt titling to spine. [x], 120pp, 8pp adverts. Pencil name to endpaper. Light shelfwear to spine. Owners stamp to half-title. Hinge cracked at p112 and 120, else a bright near Vg copy.
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50.00 USD
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A Sampler of Colonial Design.
Arno Press and The Early American Society. 1977
Quarto, white pictorial card wrappers. 31pp. Vg+. Houses and interior features, including wall cabinets, dressers and hardware.
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9.00 USD
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The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. Volume XXIII, Number 4. 1964.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.: Published by the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania.
Octavo, blue wrappers. Some staining to cover and fore-edge of frontispiece, else tight and Vg. Articles on John Holmes, Philadelphia papermaker, The ship 'Lyon' of Liverpool 1682, Emigrants from Zweibrucken, Records of the Callendar, Irvine and Duncan families.
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The Mirror. A Periodical Paper, Published at Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780, In 2 volumes.
Boston. Belknap and Hall. 1792 First US Edition Full-Leather
First US edition. Duodecimo (6.75in x 4.25in) full leather with title labels to spines. Volume I: 316pp; Volume II: 316pp. The top board of Volume I is detached and lacks the front endpaper and the rear board is missing. Leather to the top board and spine of Volume I is in poor condition. Lacks two leaves of the contents pages of Volume I. Volume II is in much better condition and has been rebacked and is an attractive copy.
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Star of the Sea School Yearbook 2003.
Honolulu, Hawaii. 2003 Limited
Quarto (10.5in x 8in) blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and top board. 64pp. An edition of 250 copies. Name to endpaper. A clean and bright copy with light shelfwear that is Vg+.
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The Quarterly Review. Vol. LXII, published in June & October 1838.
London.: John Murray. 1838
Octavo, full leather with gilt decoration and black leather title label to spine. 573pp. Recently rebound in brown leather and with new endpapers to a quality that represents a good apprentice piece. Text block is in Vg condition. A collection of long articles, contemporary to the period, for example a biography of Earl Howe (Admiral of the British navy), William Wilberforce (social reformer, anti-slavery), New South Wales (Australia), Artists in Britain, Bull feasts and Bull fighting in Spain, etc, etc.
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25.00 USD
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Steuben Crystal in Private Collections.
New York.: Steuben Glass. 1985
Quarto, blue cloth with gilt titling to top board and spine in publishers acetate dustwrapper. Unpaginated. Name (Joanne Orr 1985) inscribed to endpaper. Tight, bright and fine in a Vg clear acetate dustwrapper, as issued. Each page illustrates a piece of Steuben crystal from the collection of a crowned or elected world leader.
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14.00 USD
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Letters of Peter Brinckerhoff Thorne. 1917-1939.
Privately Printed. Whitethorne, Rye, N Y. 1942. Octavo, blue cloth backstrip and blue boards with titling to spine. 120pp. Colored frontispiece and four monochrome plates. Spine is faded and boards are somewhat dusty. Toning to a few pages and rear endpapers and final pages have a waterstain. Previous owners name and date (Robert D Orr, April 1942) to the endpaper. Significantly the previous owner was Robert D Orr who became Governor of Indiana (1981-1989) and US Ambassador to Singapore (1989-1994).
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75.00 USD
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The Art of Steuben.
New York.: , 1974
Quarto, gray wrappers with raised white titling to top wrapper and spine. Spine is faded, else Vg. Limited edition with no stated limitation. 36 plates with facing description of the item shown followed by details of the artists and engravers. Loosely inserted is a Special Christmas Supplement for 1973.
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The Aldine. A Typographic Art Journal. Volume VI. 1873.
New York. Printed and Published by James Sutton and Co. 1873
Folio, green cloth with blind stamped rules and gilt lettering to top board. 247pp. On good quality paper and with superb crisp engravings and illustrations throughout. Lacks spine backstrip. Front endpaper almost detached. Boards are worn. Contents are Vg.
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Hanover College Alumni Directory. 1987.
South Bend, Indiana.: Carleton Graphics. 1987
Octavo, red cloth with gilt titling to top board and spine. Xx + 287pp. Very bright, tight and fine plus. Removed from shrink wrap in order to write this description. Unopened.
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The Nathan Emory Coffin Collection.
Des Moines Art Center. 1981
A portfolio in a brown wallet, consisting of a 20pp introduction and selection of items in the collection, with 11 individual descritpions and illustrations of works in the collection. These individual sheets include works by Klee, Robin, Bacon, Giacometti and Pissaro. Name to front cover of the portfolio, else in Vg+ condition. The name to the cover is that of Josie Orr, and is dated July, 1982. Josie Orr was First Lady of Indiana, 1981-1989.
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Christie's Review of the Year 1967/1968.
London. Newman Neame. 1968 Cloth Very Good
Octavo (9.75in x 7.75in) dark blue cloth with gilt titling to top board and spine. 303pp. A tight and bright copy in Vg+ condition in a diuswarpper that has light shelfwear and is Vg. Copiously illustrated with fine art and the rarest antiques.
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The Gardens of Williamsburg.
Wiiliamsburg, Virginia.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. The Presidents Report. 1969
Quarto, green cloth with white titling to spine and top board and flower in vignette to top board. 48pp. Some brown spots to fore-edge else tight and Vg+.
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20.00 USD
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The Economist 1843-1943.
London. Oxford University Press. 1953
Third impression. Duodecimo, blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. 178pp. some discoloration to the cloth at the heel of spine. Endpapers foxed. A water-stain to bottom edge. Stamp to endpaper states "British Embassy Library", but with no other indication of institutional ownership.
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10.00 USD
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Half Hours in the Wide West Over Mountains, Rivers and Prairies.
London. Wm Isbister Ltd. 1883
Duodecimo, blue calf prize binding with gilt decoration and gilt titling to red leather to spine and gilt crest and squared gilt ruling to both boards. All edges marbled. xii, 345pp. 100 engravings. Boards are rubbed to fold of spine an heel of spine. Prize plate to pastedown, dated 1886. Front hinge cracked.
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30.00 USD
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2nd Bru-Sin Art Exhibition 1991.
National Museum Art Gallery, Singapore. 1991
Quarto, wrappers. 111pp. Some light and partial toning to wrappers, else bright, tight and Vg+. Exhibition of the work of artists from Brunei and Singapore. Each artist represented has a double page spread with a photo, biography and color plate of their work.
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40.00 USD
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The Journal of the British Archeological Association. New Series, Vol III - 1897.
London.: Printed for the British Archeological Association. 1897
Octavo, half red leather and red marbled boards. Xxii+ 328pp. 75 illustrations. Heavy marbled endpapers. Academic and learned articles concerning the monuments and buildings of the early and Middle Ages in Britain. Leather is rubbed to corners and scuffed over ribs of spine, with small loss at the head of spine. Label to pastedown and label and stamp to verso of title page indicates that this book was part of a library holding and was transferred. A similar stamp appears on the last page.
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