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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895. Birch, Reginald B. Hardcover. [6], 191, [17] p.: tissue-guarded frontispiece, 11 leaves of illustrations from drawings by Reginald B. Birch; 22 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; dark blue, white, and gilt-stamped cover illustration. No dust jacket. Publisher's advertisements on half... More
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
Washington, D.C. Gales & Seaton, 1822. Paperback. "April 5, 1822. Printed by order of the House of Representatives." 7, [1] p.; 23 cm. Disbound from a volume containing pamphlets relating to government land offices. At head of title: [106]. Last page blank. Shoemaker, 10973. The letter from John Caldwell Calhoun... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. Hardcover. 167, [1], 6 p.: frontispiece and 17 full-page illustrations included in pagination, and many in-text illustrations; 23 cm. Green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; dark green and gilt-stamped cover illustration. Blind-rolled border on back board with blind-stamped publisher's emblem in center... More
Philadelphia, Pa. William W. Woodward, 1797. Paperback. This is the last section of Volume 3, only; text begins with p. 673. (Volume 3 is paginated continuously with volume 2 and begins with page 367.) [4], 673-787, [13] p.; 23 cm. In original plain grey paper wrappers with "Carpenters' Debates" in... More
![Notes and Diagrams, illustrative of the Directions of the Forces acting at and near the surface of the Earth, in different parts of the Brunswick Tornado of June 19th 1835 by A.D. Bache [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 5 New Series, Article XXVI]. Alexander Dallas Bache.](/pictures/thumb/005028.JPG?v=1474668393)
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![Southern Literary Messenger Oct. 1839 vol. 5, no. 10 [Slavery]. Park Benjamin, Henry Ruffner, George Combe.](/pictures/thumb/004058.JPG?v=1472082330)
![Henry Meyer: An Early Pennsylvania German Poet [in The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society Vol. 19 1955]. Albert F. Buffington.](/pictures/thumb/006756.JPG?v=1545435088)
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![The American Senator, or A Copious and Impartial Report of the Debates in the Congress of the United States: including all Treaties, Addresses, Proclamations, &c. which occur during the Present Session, being the second of the Fourth Congress [vol. 3 pp. 673-787]. Thomas Carpenter.](/pictures/thumb/001204.jpg?v=1472082197)