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Sir Walter Ralegh and His Colony in America.
 [122597] (---) Increase N. Tarbox.
Boston: The Prince Society, 1884. Octavo, 329 pages. First Edition. Limited: 1/250 copies. Illustrated. Binding is black cloth, hardbound. Some pages with edge tears or edge chips, and some stains scattered throughout contents. Previous paper mends to three pages. About good condition. A strong sturdy copy. Including: The Character of Queen Elizabeth in his favor, March 25, 1584, with letters, discourses, and narratives of the voyages made to America at his charges, and descriptions of the country, commodities, and inhabitants. Roanoke Island in North Carolina. [Decker 040-283; Howes T-35]. $35
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All About Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields. A Grand Illustrated Lecture and Musical Entertainment.
[142383] (ALASKA - GOLD MINING) [Sears, Roebuck & Co.].
[Chicago]: [Sears, Roebuck & Co.], [1898]. Broadside, 21 x 14 inches. Printed on pale pink paper. Illustrated with a cut of a miner who is seen panning for gold. Small tear to tail margin, else an excellent copy. OCLC, one copy. A broadside announcement for a lecture and entertainment. From the text: “The Lecture will be illustrated throughout with 50 Magnificent Views, projected from the Magic Lantern. The views will include the Map of Alaska, Most Important Coast Towns, Dawson City, the Yukon River, the Steamboats, the Indians, the Miners, Sluice and Hydraulic Mining, the Cold Mills, Working at Night, a Dog Train with Sleds, Etc.” One would speculate that Sears was eager to use the public’s fascination with Alaska to peddle their magic lanterns and views. $350
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Hutchins Improved : Being an Almanack and Ephemeris ... for the Year of Our Lord 1801 ...
[142258] (AMERICAN ALMANACS) John Nathan Hutchins.
New-York: Printed and sold by Ming and Young, (successors to Hugh Gaine) , [1800]. 12mo, [36] pages. Collated and complete. Original self-wraps. Stitched, untrimmed, save for tail margins of all leaves which have been trimmed with some loss to signature letters or printed border. Inter-textual illustration of “Man of Signs” which is not found in Reilly. Provenance: [in ms.:] “Philip Arcularius Almanac” and additional ms. inscriptions. Drake 6122. Evans 37669. This interesting almanac has engaging articles on a military officer noted for a ravenous appetite for raw flesh; an anti-Semitic parable entitled “A Jewish Tradition”; a very humorous gag joke on protecting oneself from musketoes [i.e. mosquitos] which ends with a numerous run of “Ha! Ha! Ha!” exclamations; a very nice multi-stanza poem entitled “Petition of the Maids of New-York” which speaks discreetly of their youthful lustful ways (but of their disdain for the widows who attack their men); a page with cuts of horses teeth to estimate the age of a horse; one page with a contemporary ms. entry “chimney swept” showing the utilitarian function of the almanac as an impromptu notebook. $350
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Hutchins Improved : Being an Almanack and Ephemeris ... for the Year of Our Lord 1799 ...
[142259] (AMERICAN ALMANACS) John Nathan Hutchins.
New-York: Printed and Sold by H. Gaine, at his Printing-Office, at the Bible, [1798]. 12mo, [36] pages. Collated and complete. First state of gathering E. Original self-wraps. Stitched, untrimmed. Some stains, browning, good. Inter-textual illustration of “Man of Signs”. Provenance: [in ms.:] “Philip Arcularius Almanac” and additional ms. inscriptions. Drake 6083. Evans 33920. This almanac contains a plethora of period news, gossip, advice, and humor. Evans notes: “Hutchins died in 1782, and the calculator of the present almanac is Andrew Beers. The eclipse predictions (slightly lengthened), the astronomical and horological notes on the calendar pages (with a few omissions), and the calculations for the rising and setting of the moon, are identical with those in his Beers's almanac for 1799, published at Hartford. The other calculations vary to a degree reflecting the difference in meridian between Hartford and New York. An advertisement for Beers's surveying business appears on p. [34].” $350
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A Brief and Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States.
[142423] (ANDREW JACKSON - PRESIDENTIAL MEMOIRS) [By a Free Man] .
Boston: Stimpson & Clapp, 1831. 12mo, Frontispiece portrait engraving + iv, [5] 6-216 pages. First Edition. Fore and bottom edges uncut, with frontispiece, title page and various pages throughout with smaller dimensions than their neighbors, as issued. Original boards with muslin spine. Boards mildly rubbed and worn; spine sunned with original title label present, but lettering worn off. Small library label remnant to upper cover; scattered foxing. Howes S-737. Sabin 85424 Attributed to William Joseph Snelling, (1804-1848), a period biography of President Andrew Jackson published during his first term. $125
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[Troy Budget Extra.] Bank of the United States. Speech of the Hon. John W. Edmonds, in the Senate of the State of New York ... 1832 ... On Mr. Deitz’s Resolution against Rechartering the U. States Bank. [Cover title]
[142197] (BANKING - NEW YORK - JACKSONIAN POLITICS) [John W. Edmonds].
[Albany]: [s.n.], 1832. Octavo, 12 pages. Self-wraps, stitched. OCLC, five copies. Not to be confused with OCLC 18310152. First leaf with some stains and light browning, normal creases, stitching loosened, else very good. Contemporary inscription of a R. Fowler [sic?] to top of front cover. $75
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 Echoes of the Past about California: An Account of the First Emigrant Train to California, Fremont and the Conquest of California, the Discovery of Gold, and Early Reminiscences. [Cover title]
[141753] (CALIFORNIA) General John Bidwell.
Chico: Chico Advertiser, [1914]. 12mo, 91 pages. Printed green wraps, stapled binding. Illustrated. Light chipping to spine, pages browned as usual, else near fine. Cf. Wagner 88. - “John Bidwell was a young itinerant school teacher and part-time surveyor in Idaho and Iowa who found his way to western Missouri in 1841. There he joined a group of other young adventurers in an attempt to cross overland to the Mexican Province of Alta California. They broke their own trail west, crossing from Salt Lake to Carson River, and then over the Sierra Nevada and down to the Stanislaus River, thus becoming the first party of American immigrants to make such a crossing...” Howes-B432 Eberstadt-113:532. $125
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Hardtack and Coffee or the Unwritten Story of Army Life. Including Chapters on enlisting, life in tents and log huts, Jonahs and beats, offences and punishments, raw recruits, foraging, corps and corps badges, the wagon trains, the army mul
[140155] (CIVIL WAR - CAMP LIFE) John Davis Billings.
Boston: G.M. Smith & Co., 1887. Thick octavo, vi, 406 pages. First edition. First printing. Bound in publisher's pictorial cloth. Illustrated with six color plates and over two hundred sketches by Charles W. Reed. A very good copy with mild wear to head and heel of spine; slight bubbling to binding's cloth. Billings' wit and astute observations made this book a bestseller in its day by showing what the ordinary soldier experienced in day-to-day camp life during the Civil War. Billings enlisted in the Army of the Potomac and wrote of his experiences as he survived the hardships and humor of war. Reprinted many times, a handsome copy of the first appearance of this Civil War classic. $250
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Panorama of the Battles of Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain, Fought Between the Union and Confederate Forces ... Open Daily ...
[142174] (CIVIL WAR - PHILADELPHIA - TENNESSEE - POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT) [Philadelphia Panorama Company].
[Chicago]: [W.J. Jefferson, Printer], [n.d., ca. 1883?]. Octavo, 16 pages. First Edition. Original publisher’s printed wraps. Illustrated with one map drawing of battle scene. Light soil, mild cover stains; very good. OCLC, three holdings. Panoramas experienced a revival as a means of popular entertainment during the 1880’s. European artists came to America to create paintings of scenes of the American Civil War, and this panorama was likely produced as a twenty year commemorative for this battle. This pamphlet provides biographical details for the following artists, many German: Eugene Bracht, Karl Roechling, George Koch, Paul Voorgang, Conrad Lessing, Max Roman and Karl Becker. This pamphlet also describes the history of the battle and the image details of the panorama for viewers. Very scarce. $200
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Please Post in a Conspicuous Place! No Fee Whatever Unless Successful! … Pensions! Read! Read! Glorious News! Glorious News! New Pension Law! … Good News for Widows! Good News for Mothers and Fathers! [beginning lines]
[142131] (CIVIL WAR - WASHINGTON, D.C. - SCHEMES - PENSIONS) [J.B. Cralle & Co.].
[Washington, D.C.]: [D.C. J.B. Cralle & Co.], [1890?]. Broadside, 17¼ x 11½ inches. Normal fold line, three short edge-tears, else fine. Not on OCLC. OCLC 15867440 for a similar effort by this outfit. A large and boldly printed announcement soliciting the business of soldiers, sailors, widows and wives of Civil War veterans to file pension claims with this agency. The agency claims that between $6 to $12 a month was available to those veterans “…now suffering from any mental or physical disability, no matter when, where or how the same was incurred or contracted, provided the same be not due to vicius [sic] habits ….” The main type face is quite modern, and one can see the beginning transitions from a mid to late 19th century aesthetic and presentation. $250
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