![A Record of the Opera in Philadelphia by W.G. Armstrong [provenance: Fry family]. W. G. Armstrong](/pictures/thumb/004736.JPG?v=1472082381)
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1884. Hardcover. 274 p.; 26 cm. Dark brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; bevelled board edges. Top page edges gilt. Dark brown endpapers. Program from a lecture at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on Jan. 12, 1920, tipped on to front free endpaper. The lecture was... More about A Record of the Opera in Philadelphia by W.G. Armstrong [provenance: Fry family
Philadelphia, Pa. Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1853. First Edition. Hard Cover. First edition. 316, 20 p.; 18 cm. Contemporary black morocco spine with gilt-tooled spine title and blind-tooled spine decoration. Black cloth over boards. All page edges marbled. Part of the series Lippincott's Cabinet Histories of the States. Added engraved... More about The History of Kentucky, From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
Boston: Rowe and Hooper, 1816. Hardcover. Title continued: "who was captured at sea by the British, in May, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and was confined first, at Melville island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England, and last, at Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the... More about A Journal, of a Young Man of Massachusetts, Late a Surgeon on Board an American Privateer
Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. [1], 408-417, [3] p., 2 leaves of engraved plates (containing 7 illustrations); 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. This article by Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was read before the Society on April 2, 1836. Bache was the great-grandson of Benjamin... More about Notes and Diagrams, illustrative of the Directions of the Forces acting at and near the surface...
Philadelphia: Philadelphia City Planning Commission, 1963. Paperback. 31, [1] p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback, stapled; orange cover printed with a map of the city of Philadelphia in white and cover title in black. The executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission was Edmund N. Bacon. Illustrations include: a chart... More about Philadelphia City Planning Commission 1962 Annual Report
Boston: T. Bedlington, 1826. Hard Cover. 2 volumes: each with a frontispiece and an added engraved title page; 15 cm. Contemporary full calf with five spine compartments between double gilt rules; black spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title Life of Washington. Title page of vol. 1 is dated... More about The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Army, Through the Revolutionary...
New Haven, Conn. J.W. Barber, 1832. Hardcover. Although the title page gives 1831 as the date of publication, this edition includes material added in 1832. 120 p.: hand-colored frontispiece map and 7 leaves of hand-colored plates; 19 cm. Modern calf with gilt-tooled spine and cover titles; yellow endpapers. Includes in-text... More about History and Antiquities of New Haven, (Conn.) From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time:...
London / New York: George Virtue, 1856. Hardcover. 3 volumes: vol. 1: 576 p., frontispiece, engraved title page, 1 hand-colored map (folded), 1 facsimile (folded), 19 additional leaves of plates; vol. 2: 577-698, 448 p., 24 leaves of plates; vol. 3: 449-720, 304 p., 20 leaves of plates; 26 cm... More about The History of the United States of America [3 volumes, but bound without 2nd half of published...
Garden City: Blue Ribbon Books, 1947. Hardcover. 160 p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Orange cloth with orange-and-black spine title and cover illustration. No dust jacket. The entertaining history of the Los Angeles Farmers Market told by Fred Beck, who, with Roger Dahljelm, created that Los Angeles landmark in 1934. A copywriter... More about Second Carrot From the End by Fred Beck; Foreword by H. Allen Smith; Illustrations by Emax
Washington, D.C. National Tribune Co., 1902. Paperback. xv, [1], 206 p.: full-page and in-text illustrations, map; 19 cm. Brown wrappers; stapled. Pagination includes back wrapper. Articles about Washington, D.C., during the Civil War by Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan, Marcus Benjamin, John Gross Barnard, Richard Wainwright, Thomas McCurdy Vincent, William Van Zandt... More about Washington During War Time: A Series of Papers showing the Military, Political, and Social Phases...
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Richmond, Va. T.W. White, printer, 1839. Paperback. [1], 638-708 p.; 27 cm. Lacking wrapper. Small "Withdrawn" stamp at head of first page. Pages are untrimmed. Disbound from a larger volume. Contents include: Seclusaval, or The Sequel to the Tale of Judith Bensaddi by Henry Ruffner -- International Law of Copy-Right... More about Southern Literary Messenger Oct. 1839 vol. 5, no. 10 [Slavery
Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Library, 1962. Hardcover. xii, 74 p., [8] p. of illustrations; 24 cm. Dark blue cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title; decorated paper over boards. Original glassine dust jacket. Grey endpapers. Contains 6 essays reprinted from The Princeton University Library Chronicle, with a foreword by William S.... More about A Vanished Society: Essays in American History
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Hardcover. xii, [2], 334 p.: illustrations, music; 24 cm. Beige cloth spine with red stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by John William Costa. "Edward A. Berlin's King of Ragtime redefines the Scott Joplin biography. Author of the widely acclaimed Ragtime: A Musical... More about King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Hardcover. [2], xiv, 314, [2] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Beige cover with gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Carol Devine Carson. Stated First Edition. Callie House (1861-1928), born into slavery, sought reparations for African-Americans for their time as slaves. She founded the... More about My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1864. Hardcover. Title continued: "To Which are added Statistics of the Principal Manufacturing Centres, and Descriptions of Remarkable Manufactories at the Present Time." Imprint includes London: Sampson Low, Son & Co. Vol. 2 only. [2], 11-826 p., tissue-guarded frontispiece: portraits, tables; 24 cm. Rebacked with... More about A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860: Exhibiting the Origin and Growth of the...
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1901. Hardcover. 261 p., frontispiece; 29 cm. Original green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; blind-ruled border on both boards. Bulletin 26, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, J.W. Powell, director. Contains the texts and translations of 17 myths and 16 tales collected in 1890 and... More about Kathlamet Texts
Albany, N.Y. G.J. Loomis & Co., 1819. Hardcover. 300 p.; 15 cm. Contemporary tree calf; gilt-tooled spine title "Bradley on Revivals" and decoration. Early American Imprints, ser. 2 (Shaw & Shoemaker), 47417. The author, Joshua Bradley (1799-1855), was ordained in 1801; he served as the the minister of the First... More about Accounts of Religious Revivals in Many Parts of the United States from 1815 to 1818: Collected...
Rutherford, N.J. Associated University Presses; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1988. Hardcover. 266 p.: illustrations, tables; 29 cm. Black cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. A "comprehensive survey of all the known potteries in central and southern New Jersey" from the 17th to the 19th centuries -- dust jacket... More about The Early Makers of Handcrafted Earthenware and Stoneware in Central and Southern New Jersey
Philadelphia: National Publishing Co., 1866. Hardcover. 512, [2] p., double frontispiece and 32 leaves of plates; 23 cm. Modern binding in bonded leather with gilt-tooled spine label. Original marbled endpapers with modern hinge repair. Advertisement by the National Publishing Co. on page following text for agents to sell the company's... More about The Camp, the Battle Field, and the Hospital; or, Lights and Shadows of the Great Rebellion:...
Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1862. Hardcover. Imprint also includes Applegate & Co., Cincinnati. 458, [8] p.: frontispiece portrait and 12 additional leaves of plates; 19 cm. Publisher's dark green wave-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title "Parson Brownlow's book." Blind-ruled borders on both boards. Tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author engraved... More about Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession: With a Narrative of Personal Adventures...
Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2003. Paperback. 95, [1] p.: color illustrations; 24 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. A well-illustrated look at the Palazzo Margherita, which has been the site of the American Embassy to Italy for over 60 years. The Introduction is by the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Mel Sembler, who... More about Palazzo Margherita: Site of the Embasy of the United States of America to the Italian Republic
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1866. Hardcover. x, [1], 10-296, 3-8 p.; 24 cm. Publisher's dark green pebble-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title "Buchanan's Administration." Blind-ruled border on each board. Pale yellow endpapers. Publisher's advertisements on 6 pages following text. In pencil on front free endpaper: Patterson. Bookplate on... More about Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion
Norristown, Pa. E.L. Acker, 1859. Hardcover. "with an account of the Indians, the Swedes, and other early settlers, and the local events of the Revolution; besides notices of the Progress in Population, Improvements, and Manufactures; prepared chiefly from original materials." 124, iii, [1] p.; 25 cm. Original dark brown bead-grain... More about History of Montgomery County within the Schuylkill Valley: Containing Sketches of all the...
Allentown, Pa. Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, 1955. Hardcover. [8], 178, [2] p., 1 leaf with a portrait: in-text and full-page illustrations, map; 23 cm. Off-white cloth with red spine and cover titles, and red cover illustration. Title page has decorative red border. Decorated inital letters in red. Contents: Henry Meyer... More about Henry Meyer: An Early Pennsylvania German Poet [in The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society Vol....
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Philadelphia: James B. Longacre, 1839. Paperback. 19, [1] p.; 22 cm. Without the portrait of the subject. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "9" in ink at upper right-hand corner of first page. This is from vol. 4 of The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans. The biographical... More about Nicholas Biddle [from The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans