Box 5 Folder 13
The Independent Gazetteer; or, Chronicle of Freedom . No. 75. Philadelphia: E. Oswald & D Humphreys. April 5, 1783. 4pp.
Very rare war-date Philadelphia paper, containing much speculation on the possibility of a treaty with Britrain; features (on p.4) a long advertisement of financier Haym Salomon, a verse "Hymn for National Peace", world news and two anonymous addresses "To the Officers of the Army" (pp.2-3).
Box 5 Folder 14
The Public Ledger . Vol. LIX, no 19. Philadelphia. 4pp., large folio.
Extensive coverage of "The Crime Without a Name," the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. (printed before news of Lincoln's death was received.)
Box 5 Folder 15
The Pacific Weekly News for the Steamer Oregon . Vol. 1, no.5. San Francisco, Alta California, September 29, 1849. 4pp., folio.
An issue if this short-lived Gold Rush newspaper, containing speeches by Thomas Hart Benton and Calhoun regarding the issue of slavery; estimate of San Francisco's population (including Chinese); extolling the city as "the New York of the Pacific," lists of mining supplies for sale, etc.
Box 5 Folder 16
The Pacific News. Union of Californians for the sake of California . Vol. 1, no. 26. San Francisco, Alta California, 23 October 1849. 4pp., large folio.
Political news about the elections pending; noting (p.2) that "The Constitution of the State of California has been formed, signed. sealed and delivered, and is now in press ... "
Box 5 Folder 17
The Pacific News. Union of Californians for the sake of California . Vol. 1, no. 36. San Francisco, 15 November 1849. 4pp., small folio.
First page explains small format due to paper shortages; reports on recent elections (results not yet final) and the ratification of the new constitution, with detailed preliminary vote tallies.
Box 5 Folder 18
The Pacific News. Union of Californians for the sake of California . Vol. 1, no. 51. San Francisco, 20 December 1849. 4pp., small folio.
Reports on the newly elected state government; news of the Free Soil party and its bearing on California's admission as a state, etc.
Box 5 Folder 19
Washington Weekly Chronicle, Vol. 1, no. 51. Washington D.C., 29 April 1865. 6pp. large folio.
Six columns, large masthead, large wood-engraved portrait of "Booth, The Assassin." Black leading between columns. Virtually the entire issue is devoted to coverage of the Lincoln assassination and the identification and pursuit of the conspirators. In lower left of first page is a two-column reprint of the official report on Booth's death, on 27 April .
Box 5 Folder 20
The London Chronicle: Or, Universal Evening Post . VoI.VI, No. 134. November 5-8, 1757. London: J. Wilkie: 1757. 8pp., small folio., November 5-8, 1757
Printed in three columns. Extensive reportage on the war in Europe and the colonies.
Box 5 Folder 21
The London Chronicle: Or, Universal Evening Post . Vol. VI, No. 441, October 23-25, 1759. J. Wilkie, 1759. 8pp., small folio., October 23-25, 1759
Printed in three columns. Extensive reportage on the war in Europe and the colonies. On p.2 is a notice of the French abandonment of forts including Pittsburg and the impending British move to occupy that strategic fort.
Box 5 Folder 22
The London Chronicle: Or, Universal Evening Post . Vol. VI, No. 446, November 3-6, 1759. : J. Wilkie, 1759. 8pp., small folio., November 3-6, 1759
Printed in three columns. Extensive reportage on the war in Europe and the colonies. On p.l is a report on the siege and fall of Quebec, especially the death of Maj. General James Wolfe in that final assault.
Box 5 Folder 23
The London Chronicle: Or, Universal Evening Post . Vol VI, No. 438, October 16-18, 1759. J. Wilkie, 1759. 8pp., small folio., October 16-18, 1759
Printed in three columns. Extensive reportage on the war in Europe and the colonies, beginning on page 1 with letters of General Wolfe and William Pitt, with 6 columns devoted to Wolfe's final account of the battle, plus a return of killed and wounded.
Box 1 Folder 20
Prescott, Mary Everlena.A Complete and Comprehensive Treatise in the Art of Mixing Tints of Colors for Landscape, Flower, Sea Views, and Pottery Painting in Oil and Watercolors . N.p., undated [Albany. N.Y., ca. 1915 ?]. 24mo. 20pp. Original printed wrappers., undated, ca. 1915
Detailed listing of various pigments and mixtures to obtain a wide range of effects in painting. Ephemeral manual, probably sold in art supply shops.
Box 1 Folder 35
[Goadby, Robert].King of the Beggars.,. or, The Curious Adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew . New York: Ornum [Norman L. Munro] Company, undated [ca. 1870]. 12mo. Colored pictorial wrappers., undated
Specifying that this is No. 23 of the "Ten cent Popular Novels," distributed by "The Albany News Co., Albany, N.Y." Dime-novel reprint of the vastly popular 1749 memoirs of a noted swindler and con-man (1693-1770 ?) whose "exploits are heightened in the coloring by his ingenious biographer." Lowndes 371.
Box 1 Folder 35
[Hume, Fergus, 1859-1932 attrib].Captain Hawk, or, How He Tricked 'em . New York: Norman L. Munro, undated [ca. 1890]. 12mo. Colored pictorial wrappers, specifying that this is No.2 of the "Black Highwayman Novels," distributed by "The Albany News Co., Albany, N.Y." A fine copy, minimal wear. Rare, dime-novel reprint of a highwayman novel by the author of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab., 1859-1932, undated
Box 1 Folder 35
[Hume, Fergus, attrib].Hawk in London, or, the Race to Tyburn . New York: Norman L. Munro, undated [ca. 1890]. 12mo. Colored pictorial wrappers., undated
This is No. 21 of the "Black Highwayman Novels," distributed by "The Albany News Co., Albany, N.Y." A fine copy, with only minimal wear. Rare, dime-novel reprint.
Box 1 Folder 36
Thomas, Robert B. The Farmer's Almanack ...for.. 1795 . Boston: Joseph Belknap and Thomas Hall [1794]. 8vo. Titlepage woodcut. Stabbed and sewn as issued, uncut.
Contains an unusual "Chronological Table of Discovery of Arts and Sciences, remarkable Events and Inventions since the Deluge."
Box 1 Folder 37
The Constitution of the State of Massachusetts, and that of the United States; The Declaration of Independence, with President Washington's Farewell Address . Boston: Printed for the State, by Manning & Loring, 1805. 12mo, 119pp.
Contemporary calf-backed wooden boards. First edition
Box 1 Folder 38
Russell, W. Clark (1844-1911). John Holdsworth, Chief Mate . New York: George Munro, 1884. 12mo, publisher's decorative paper wrappers printed in red and black.
Comprising No. 209 of Munro's extensive "Seaside Library" (listed inside front cover). Pirated yellowback edition of one of Russell's most popular maritime adventures novels, first published in 1874.
Box 1 Folder 39
Salinger, J. D. Nine Stories . [Boston: Little Brown] 1954. 12mo, color geometric wrappers by W.D. Miller.
Signet paperback. First paperback edition.
Box 1 Folder 40
Benstock, Bernard.Poems for James Joyce . Dublin: Malton Press, undated [1982]. 12mo, glazed wrappers., undated
Box 2 Folder 1
Salmon, William. The Family-Dictionary; or, Household Companion. Containing, In an Alphabetical Method, I. Directions for Cookery, in Dressing Flesh, Fowl, Fish, Herbs, Roots, &c. Seasoning, making Sauces, Bills of Fare, Art of Carving, &c. Pastry. II. Making all sorts of Pastry, and Things Made of Meal .. III. Making of Conserves .... Preserves .. IV. The Making of all Kinds of Potable Liquor ... V.... Rare Perfumes, Sweet Balls, Pomanders .. VI. The Virtues and Uses of the most usual Herbs and Plants ... VII. The Preparations of Several Choice Medicines, Physical, and Chirurgical. Spirits, Tinctures, Elixirs. Curing most Diseases incident to Men, Women, and Children … Third Edition, Enlarged . London: H. Rhodes, 1705. 8vo.
Printed in two columns in various italic, roman and gothic faces. Contemporary sheep, rubbed, rebacked. First edition of Salmon's compendium (first published 1695) to include an alphabetical index of subjects treated. "A widely read domestic manual. . .included sections on medicinal and surgical remedies in addition to ...cookery and cosmetics"
Box 2 Folder 2
Whitman, Walt. Printed proof of his poem "As one by one withdraw the lofty actors..," [Camden?, ca. 1885]. 1 page, 6 x 6 in., printed on proof paper. Whitman's poetic tribute to the Civil War combatants and the passing of many key figures (Lee, Grant, etc.).
Box 2 Folder 10
Einstein, Albert. Zur Einheitlichen Feldtheorie. [offprint from Prussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften ]. Berlin, 1929. 8vo, uncut. Publisher's printed tan wrappers. First edition, author's offprint.
Momentous paper announcing Einstein's new approach to a unified field theory, with the field equations for his unified field theory, one of Einstein's last breakthrough scientific works.
Box 2 Folder 13
Butler, Joseph. Stichtelyke Rymen van D. R. Camphuysen, om te oft Tenor . Amsterdam: Paulus Matthyz, 1652. 4to, 3 parts in one volume.
Full-page engraved portrait of Camphuysen in part 1, extensive woodcut music throughout, large woodcut capitals. Contemporary vellum boards.
Box 3 Folder 1
Daniel, James Walter. Out from Under Caesar's Frown, or, The Belle of the Dismal . Printed for the author, Columbia, South Carolina, 1892. 8vo, 284pp., engraved frontispiece, original bright blue cloth blocked in green and black. In fine condition.
Unusual novel by a Southern Restoration-period author.
Box 3 Folder 2
Crawford, Francis Marion. Marzio's Crucifix, London: MacMillan, 1897. 8vo, 250pp.
Original bright red cloth blocked in black and gilt-lettered spine. in superb condition.
Box 3 Folder 3
Deacon, William Frederick. Warreniana, With Notes, Critical and Explanatory, by the Editor of a Quarterly Review . London: Longmans, 1824. First edition. 208pp., uncut. Original paper-backed boards, spine chipped, with handwritten label.
Rare collection of parodies of Walter Scott, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt and others including one entitled "The Child's Pilgrimage" a parody of Byron.
Box 3 Folder 4
Cather, Willa. Willa Cather. A Biographical Sketch. An English Opinion. An American Opinion. A Letter from Willa Cather and An Abridged Bibliography . [New York]: Knopf, [1927]. 8vo, 23pp., stapled wrappers .
Rare promotional pamphlet issued in conjunction with publication of Death Comes for the Archbishop.
Box 3 Folder 5
Byron, George Lord. The Life, Writings. Opinions. and Times of…Lord Byron...and lives of some of the most eminent and eccentric characters and courtiers of the present polished and enlightened and age and court of King George the Fourth . London: Matthew Iley, 1825. Volume 1 8vo, portrait frontispiece in each volume. Half red-brown calf and marbled paper boards, by Foyle. First Edition.
An uncommon pastiche containing many anecdotes (some of doubtful veracity), published after the poet's death. Includes first printing of Byron's satire on the Congress of Vienna. Sometimes attributed to Iley, the publisher.
Box 4 Folder 1-2
Byron, George Lord. The Life, Writings. Opinions. and Times of…Lord Byron...and lives of some of the most eminent and eccentric characters and courtiers of the present polished and enlightened and age and court of King George the Fourth . London: Matthew Iley, 1825. Volumes 2 & 3 ., 8vo, portrait frontispiece in each volume. Half red-brown calf and marbled paper boards, by Foyle. First Edition.
An uncommon pastiche containing many anecdotes (some of doubtful veracity), published after the poet's death. Includes first printing of Byron's satire on the Congress of Vienna. Sometimes attributed to Iley, the publisher.
Box 4 Folder 3
Biubin, Ivan Yakovlevich, illustrator. [Pushkin, Alexander. The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of his Son, the Glorious and Mighty Knight Prince Guidon Saltanovich, and of the Fair Princess, Moscow, 1905].
Oblong 4ro, multicolored pictorial boards, 255 x 325 mm, 10 x 12 3/4. inches, illustrated cover, titlepage, 20pp" many illustrations highlight in gold ink, Neat reinforcement of spine, One of this illustrator's most highly regarded illustrated books.
Box 5 Folder 12
Novel Pastimes and Merry Tales, Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Raymond C. La Charité and Virginia A. La Charité, 1972
Box 5 Folder 27
Gouraud, Julie. The Two Children of Santa Domingo, From the French of Mademoiselle Julie Gouraud . London: Sampson, Low et al, 1875. 12mo., 178pp., plus 4pp.
Advertisements for "The Rose Library / Popular Literature of All Countries." Original decorative lithographed covers and spine in red, black and green (very slight rubbing). In exceptionally fresh condition for a fragile item.
Box 6 Folder 2
De Bry, Theodore and Jacques Le Moyne. Engraved print captioned "Mulierum, quarum mariti vel in bello caesi, aut morbo sublati postulata a Rege," plate xviii from de Bry's Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae, Frankfurt: T. de Bry, 1592. Folio.
the large engraving colored in a contemporary hand.
Box 6 Folder 7
"Shelly, A. Fishe."Ostrea or the Loves of the Oysters. A Lay . New York, T. Crowen, 1857. First Edition.
Extended humorous verses extolling the bivalve by James Watson Gerard (1823-1900), a New York lawyer and diplomat. Printed in a small edition for a few friends. 8vo, 72pp. Publisher's decorated blue cloth, gilt design on upper cover (rubbed).
Box 6 Folder 11
Brinton, Anna Cox. A Pre-Raphaelite Aeneid of Virgil in the Collection of Mrs.Edward Laurence Doheny of Los Angeles. Being an Essay in Honor of the William Morris Centenary 1934 ... Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie, March1934. 8vo, 40pp., title-page border, paper-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, original protective box. First edition, No. 85 of 150 copies, signed by Brinton, Ritchie and Estelle Doheny., 1934
Beautifully printed on fine paper, uncut. Printed presentation slip inserted at front.
Box 6 Folder 18
Washington D.C. [Ingraham, Edward D.]. A Sketch of the Events which preceded the Capture of Washington by the British ... Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1849. 8vo, 66pp., uncut, on pale blue paper, with large folding map.
Original green half morocco and marbled paperboards.
Box 7 Folder 10
The Trial of Thomas Paine, for a Libel, Contained in the Second Part of Rights of Man. Boston: Isaiah Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1793. 12mo.
Contemporary calf-backed paper boards (covers detached). Signature on title and end leaves of John Lyon Jr. First American edition of this detailed account of the trial in which Paine's Rights of Man was banned and Paine sentenced to death.
Box 7 Folder 13
Weil, Oscar. Letters and Papers . San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1923. Folio, original buckram-backed paper boards, printed labels on upper cover and spine, top edge trimmed others uncut.
Limited Edition, no.382 of 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press on fine-quality hand-made paper. Titlepage design by H. Von Schmidt, frontispiece portrait by Dorothea Lange. This copy formerly owned by Otto Kinkeldey (noted American musicologist) signed by him on front endpaper. Oscar Weil was a well-known musicologist who spent much of his life in San Francisco and died in 1921.
Box 10
Hotten, John Camden. A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words used at the present day preceded by a history of cant and vulgar language from the time of Henry VIII; shewing its connection with the gipsey tongue; with glossaries of two secret languages By a London Antiquary. London: Hotten, 1859.
First edition, small 8vo, pp. 160. Original forest green cloth, J.C.H. blind-stamp monogram on both covers, glazed endpapers." (—Partridge,Slang).
Box 10
Hotten, John, ed. The book of vagabonds and beggars; with a vocabulary of their language. Edited by Martin Luther in the year 1528. Now first translated into English, with introduction and notes, by John Camden Hotten. London: John Camden Hotten, 1860.
First edition in English, 8vo, pp. xxxvii, [3], 64. Original calf-backed red paper boards (chip from bottom of spine). Compiled originally by Martin Luther in 1528; Hotten's translation is prefaced by an historical introduction and scholarly notes. Rare, not in the Cordell Collection (David E. Vancil, Catalog of Dictionaries, Word Books, and Philological texts, 1440-1900, 1993).
Box 10
Catlin, George. Last Rambles Amongst the Indians of the Rocky Mountains and the Andes. London: Sampson Low, et al. 1868. 12mo. 361 pp. Original purple cloth, gilt-stamped spine.
Box 10
Fremont, J. C. Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains . . . and 1842 . .. Washington 1845. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. With separate detailed folding map.
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Note on Poems and Reviews by Swinburne, 1966
Box 7 Folder 17
The Town and Country Magazine
, 1774
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Thomas and Sally: or, The Sailor's Return
, 1759
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The Forest King; or, The Wild Hunter of the Adaca
, 1878
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The Committee: or The Faithful Irishman by Sir Robert Howard, 1789
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An Oration on the Death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by John A. Heraud, 1834
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A Posthumous Publication of Some of the Writings of the Late Rev. John Stevens
, 1799
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The New Lady's Magazine; or, Polite, Entertaining, and Fashionable Companion for the Fair Sex
, March1788
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American Notes by Charles Dickens, 1868
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The Color Guard a Military Allegory
, 1873
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The Town and Country Magazine; or University Repository
, May 1777
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The Town and Country Magazine; or University Repository
, October 1769
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The Masque of Queenes by Ben Jonson, London: The King's Printers, 1930
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Catalogue of Valuable School Books, to which the attention of persons interested in the cause of education is respectfully solicited. Philadelphia, Thomas Cowperthwait & Co, and for sale by the principal booksellers in the United States, (24 pp),, ca. 1825
Contents include descriptions of works of John Frost, Charles Henry Alden, William Russell, Pinnock's edition of Goldsmith's History of England, Guy on Astronomy, Bridge's Algebra.