Berea's First Century: 1855-1955
Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1955. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj American History. AME1409271. Very Good. More
Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1955. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj American History. AME1409271. Very Good. More
Washington: Robert Armstrong, 1853. Hardcover. Ex. Doc. No.1. Franklin Pierce (1804 - 1869) was the 14th president to the U.S., serving in the mid-1850s. He believed that the abolition of slavery threatened the unity of the nation and enforced acts such as the Fugitive Slave Act, which favored slave owners. When Lincoln took office after Pierce, the South succeeded and Civil War erupted. Many scholars rank Pierce amongst the worst (and also least memorable) of U.S. presidents both for his support of the South and inability to hold the nation together [Wikipedia]. Despite the title, this book does not include direct statements from the president. Rather it includes reports submitted to him on the state of the country such as: war reports from the secretary of war (Jefferson Davis) regarding Indian hostilities in Oregon and Mexican-American relations; reports on the extension of the U.S. Capitol Building; reports of the commanding general of the army detailing location of troops, numbers of officers, medics, etc., budgets, and more; Surgeon General's report on the medical department of the army; report of the Chief Engineer on forts, military schools, defense systems, budgets, and a statement on the occupation of parents of students attending West Point Military Academy (1842 - 1853); and many reports on repairs to harbors, proposed dredging projects, river surveys, and other river related construction with budget estimates and drawings. Very good minus in dark purple embossed boards with dull gilt title on spine. Boards are slightly bowed. The spine is faded and there are a few water spots to the cloth. The interior is foxed and browned along the edges of pages, but text still bright. The pages are rippled and water stained along the bottom edge. The binding remains tight. Contains diagrams and charts, as well as reports by and to Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of War. 591 pages. American History. AME/4053. Very Good Minus. More
Providence: Knowles and Vose, 1842. Paperback. Good in red paper wrappers. Disbound. Edgewear to wrappers. Minor edge wear to first and last few pages. Minor damp stain to inside margin. Inscription to a Col. Stone from a P. N. Engs to top edge of title page. Else is clean and bright. Rhode Island. American History. AME210291. Good. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925. Hardcover. Very good in maroon cloth covered boards with glt title to front board and to spine. Minor fading to spine and to gilt. A few small spots of discoloration to spine. Interior is clean and bright with frontispiece and tissue guard. American Biographical History. BIO209051. Very Good. More
Cambridge: Harvard Law Review, 1898. Paperback. Good in green wraps paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper. Minor chpping to edges of wrappers. 25 pages. 8vo. Advance sheets of the Harvard Law Review, January, 1899. American History. AME311201. Good. More
New York: Derby and Miller, 1864. Hardcover. Campaign biographies from the 1864 election. These were originally issued in paper wrappers. Bound in three quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards with gilt title, authors, and date to spine. Raised bands and gilt rules to spine. Binding is signed by Tickeman and Co. Minor rubbing to boards and minor wear to edges, bands, and corners. Top edge gilt with marbled endpapers. Foxing to interior, mostly to first few pages and to margins. Bookplate of Judd Stewart with the motto "Verdad es Verde" and a portrait of Lincoln to front pastedown. Penned gift inscription from Stewart to front endpaper. Includes advertisements but not the original wrappers. Attractive and well preserved. 136 plus 8 pages of ads to rear and 2 pages of ads to front. PRES/062322. Very Good. More
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. Originally printed in 1862. Dark brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Ownership marking in pen to front free endpaper, and minor staining from glue to gutters of first and last few pages - else clean. 240 pages. AFAMER/070920. Very Good. More
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1920. Hardcover. SCARCE. 8vo. Linnen backed beige paper covered boards with gilt title to front board and black title to beige title label on spine. Minor rubbing to exterior and minor bumping to edges. Slight toning to spine. Interior is clean and bright. 326 pages. American History. AME309101. Very Good. More
Washington: Congressional Globe Office, 1850. Paperback. Very good in white wrappers with black title to front wrapper. Very light and occasional browning and foxing. Otherwise text is clean. 12 pages. American History. AME2/5082. Very Good. More
New Bedford: Benjamin Lindsey, 1852. Paperback. 8vo. Five city documents bound with number 5 first. Very good in off-white paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper. Minor browning though text remains bright. last 36 pages are nearly detached. Massachusetts. AME2/2132. Very Good. More
Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, (1970). Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards with silver title to front board and to spine. Slight browning end pages. Else is pristine. Blue and white dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Index, 182 pages. American History. AMER/032213. Near Fine / Very Good. More
New York: Collins and Hannay, 1825. Hardcover. First Edition. Scarce. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793 –1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River. In this earlier work, Schoolcraft describes a trip with General Cass, via the Wabash and Ohio Rivers to Illinois and Missouri, returning by the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers to Peoria and Chicago [Howes S193]. He writes extensively about the Native American tribes of the region. Bound in three quarter red leather with giilt titling and with marbled paper boards. Leather is scuffed, rubbed, and bumped. Marbled paper covers are scuffed as well. Indication that there was library label to spine and label removed from rear free endpaper. No other ex-library signs. Text pages are browned with scattered foxing, not affecting legibility. With two fold out maps, one of the area traveled and the other a color plate with a geological sketch of the lead mines. Both have a section separated along one of the folds. Both detached sections are laid in. There are also plates of Mt. Joliet, Fossil footprints, and Rock Fort. A prevous owner, Edward W. West stamped the title page and the back of the maps with his name. Not quite very good but a nice copy. Octavo. 459 pages. TRAVEL/051021. Very Good -. More
New York: T.B. Sidebotham, 1879. Paperback. Reprinted from the New York Freeman's Journal, this pamphlet addresses the discovery of Mississippi River and an apparent attempt at a hoax set up by Pierre Margry, who was unable to adequately prove that Norman Robert Cavelier (La Salle) was the true discoverer of the river. Bound in tan paper wrappers with black title to front cover. Chipping to edges of wrappers, with several large chips to rear wrapper. Browning to edges of wrappers and minor staining to rear wrapper. Previous owners stamp to front cover and top margins of first few pages. Clean interior otherwise. 24 pages. AMER/021919. Very Good. More
Boston: Richardson and Lord, 1824. Hardcover. Scarce travel classic written by Henry Knight [1789-1835] using the pseudonym of Arthur Singleton. Includes Knight's letters from Philadelphia, Washington City, Virginia, Kentucky, New Orleans, and the Gulf of Mexico with Knight's detailed and interesting observations of each city or region. Attractively bound in three quarter navy blue leather over marbled paper covered boards with gilt title and raised bands to spine. Wear and rubbing to hinges, bands, and edges of boards. Rubbing to marbled paper covers. Exlibrary with book stamp of Headlee's Book Exchange to title page and verso. Bookplate to front pastedown featuring an unidentified family crest. Occasional spots of foxing to interior and handwritten note in pencil regarding pseudonym on title page, but clean and bright overall. Marbled endpapers and top edge gilt. 159 pages. AMER/010720. Very Good. More
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. PRESENTATION COPY; "To Gassie: Best wishes to a fellow colleague interested in scholarship - Dick." Green cloth covered boards with purple and green title to the spine. Clean and bright interior. Beige illustrated dust jacket with green and brown title to front panel and spine. A few light red markings on back panel. Index, 307 pages. American history. AMHIS/071907. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. More
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. Originally printed in 1850. Dark brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Ownership marking in pen to front free endpaper, and minor staining from glue to gutters of first and last few pages - else clean. 119 pages. AFAMER/070920. Very Good. More
Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Company, 1892. Paperback. Very good in light brown papers wraps with black title to front wrapper. Minor edgewear to wrappers. Minor yellowing to pages. Includes a fold-out letter. 81 pages. Massachusetts.MA2/5023. Very Good. More
New York: The Grolier Club, 2017. Softcover. This is a catalogue for an exhibition held at the Grolier Club in 2017-2018. The fascinating exhibition explored the many ways that the major figures of America's 19th century literature knew and interacted with each other. The exhibition drew from many important letters, manuscripts, and ephemera from Tane's extraordinary collection of materials from the major authors of that time, including Poe, Twain, Emerson, and Whitman. A softcover with pictorial covers taken from contemporary prints of authors of the United States. In fine condition. Octavo. 133 pages. LIT/011024. Fine. More
Philadelphia: Published by the author, 1836. Scarce second edition of this important compilation of facts and figures "useful to the American traveler", e.g. population figures, distances between major cities via stagecoach, canal or steamboat, and principal objects of curiosity in or around larger towns, and much more. With brief notices of the several states, cities, principal towns, canals and railroads. Henry Schenck Tanner ( 1786–1858 ), cartographer and statistical geographer, was born in New York City, the son of John Tanner, a ship master, and Ann Schenck. His father died when he was six, and the family was then headed by his older brother Benjamin Tanner , who had been trained and had begun a career as an engraver. In 1800 Benjamin moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, then the preeminent center of publishing and graphic arts, where Henry later apprenticed with him. Benjamin built up an active and varied engraving business. Bound in original brown cloth covers with paper title label to front. Covers are soiled, rubbed, and bumped. Title label is chipped and stained. Spine is rebacked with later brown cloth. There is a large hand colored folding map of the eastern United States in the rear of the book, stretching west of the Mississippi to include parts of Arkansas and Missouri. The map identifies capitals, important towns, villages, public houses, turnpike and common roads, and railroads. There are 18 insets surrounding the map, showing city plans, the surroundings of various cities, and a map of the Hudson River. The map has scattered stains and closed tears along some of the folds. The small traveler's guide features four double-page plans of the major American cities: Baltimore, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. There are also seven small plates, including two of Niagara Falls and one of West Point. Two ownership signatures in ink on front free endpaper. The pages are generally clean with some spotting, primarily in the margins. Very good condition. Measures 3 x 6 inches. 144 pages. Howes T-24. AMERH/012224. More
Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, (2000). Hardcover. 8vo. Purple paper covered boards with silver title to spine. Pristine interior. Purple illustrated dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. Index, 414 pages. AMER/031912. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. More
Paris: G. Masson, Bibliothèque de La Nature, n.d. [circa 1886]. Hardcover. In his preface, the author says that travel to the United States from Paris was now easy and wonders why his fellow citizens don't sail there to see that beautiful country. He notes that the United States does not have monuments of art, or historic sites, but reminds his readers that it is a very young country. The country does display its extraordinary energy and extreme hard work. The traveler will see there the results of their intelligence and see the grand works that they have accomplished. Albert Tissandier (1839 – 1906) was a French architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist. He was the brother of adventurer Gaston Tissandier with whom he collaborated in writing the magazine La Nature, a French language scientific journal aimed at the popularization of science. Tissandier was also a passionate writer and traveller. In 1886, he started a long trip around the world in America, subsequently traveling to the East Indies, Ceylon and many other Asian locales, sending his magnificent illustrations back to Paris so they could appear in La Nature [Wikipedia]. This account in French of his travels in the U.S. naturally focuses on what he finds most interesting - engineering achievements such as the Brooklyn Bridge; natural wonders like the canyons of the west and Niagara Falls; and important developments in transportation and manufacturing. His text is accompanied by his wonderful illustrations. There are eight two-page plates, 82 engravings, and two maps. One of the maps shows Tissandier's route across the United States. Bound in half red leather with marbled paper boards. Spine with raised bands, gilt titling and ornaments. Leather is rubbed with wear along edges and paper boards have some chipping and bumping. Interior pages are clean and bright with a bit of foxing to first and last few pages. Very good condition. Measures 6.25 x 10 inches. 298 pages plus page listing plates and maps. TRAVEL/092121. Very Good. More
Carbondale, IL: Illinois State Historical Society, 1977. Hard Cover. Signed. Near Fine in a Near Fine pink marbled dustjacket. Minor fading to spine of dust jacket. Signed by both authors on the front flyleaf. American Biographical History. BIO1/1282. Near Fine / Near Fine. More
Washington: Thomas Allen, 1841. Paperback. Good in blue paper wraps with black title to front wrapper. Chipping and creasing to edges which were reenforced at one point. Staining to exterior. Chipping and creasing to edges of pages. Text is bright. 77 pages. American History. AME101110. Good. More
Washington: Peter Force, 1843 Published by Authority. Paperback. Good in blue paper wraps with black title to front wrapper. Chipping and creasing to edges. Spine was reenforced at one point. Staining to exterior. Chipping and creasing to edges of pages. Minor foxing throughout though text remains bright. Binding strong. American History. AME408281. Good +. More