Old Bookshelf: American History
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Letter from the Register of the Treasury, Transmitting Statements in Relation to the Trade of the United States with the West Indies and the British American Colonies, For the For Years Preceding the 1st October, 1818.
Washington, Gales & Seaton (Printers), 1820. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft cover. 8pp, folding chart of importations. Age-toned, foxed and lightly soiled. Good.
-- Boeknummer: 002780
USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75]
Trefwoorden: Navigation Imports Commerce
How We Elected Lncoln
New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1916. 1st Edition, 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. Alice B. Woodward. 95pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to front board. Cover is in unworn condition, contents are age-toned, slight offsetting to endpapers. Dust jacket is worn and soiled, separated along spine, now protected in mylar cover, and no large pieces missing. Good/Poor.
Boeknummer: 004542
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 32.25]
Trefwoorden: President "Civil War" Nomination Reelection 1864
History of the City of Altoona and Blair County, Including Sketches of the Shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
Altoona, PA, Harry Slep's Mirror Printing House, 1880. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 262pp. FIRST EDITION. Brown cloth, gilt lettering, all edges gilt. Spine and rear board missing, front board loose but holding. The interior is completely intact, age-toned and very clean, text block is holding tightly, owner's name and a bookplate of a private library are on front pastedown. Engraved illustrations. This is a first edition, not a recent reprint. Fair.
Boeknummer: 002830
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 46]
Catalogus: American History, Travel and Geography
Trefwoorden: Trains "Rail cars"
Sketches of America. A Narrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Through the Eastern and Western States of America; Contained in Eight Reports Addressed to the Thirty -Nine English Families
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees,Orme, and Brown, 1818. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No Binding. iiv, errata, 462pp. FIRST EDITION. Disbound, foxing, endpapers missing, text is complete and binding is holding well. Could be rebound. Unflattering picture of the western frontier" (Howes F-65) Poor.
Boeknummer: 004040
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 32.25]
Trefwoorden: "New England" "New York" Illinois Virginia Pennsylvania Territories Slavery
The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America (2 Volume Set)
Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. xxvii, 256 ; xxvi, 374pp. Red cloth, gilt lettering. top edges gilt. Both volumes in clean, sound condition, slight darkening to spines, former owner's bookplate on front pastedowns. Illustrated. Very Good.
Boeknummer: 003902
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.5]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: Colonial Stuyvesant Penn Leisler
The True George Washington (Signed by Harry Ogden)
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1896. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 319pp. Covers soiled chipped (mainly spine), cracking of endpaper at hinges, contents age-toned, owners' bookplate and label on front pastedown and some offsetting opposite from bookplate. Front free endpaper is SIGNED in pencil "H.A. Ogden" (Harry Ogden, well-known illustrator of historical and military subjects). Fair/No Jacket.
Boeknummer: 001637
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 14]
Catalogus: American History, Biography, Military
Trefwoorden: President Autograph Ogden
Franklin Before the Privy Council, White Hall Chapel, London, 1774, on Behalf of the Province of Massachusetts, to Advocate the Removal of Hutchinson and Oliver.
Philade;phia, John M. Butler, 1860. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 134pp. Blind stamped cloth, engraved frontispiece. Edgewear and chipping to head and tail of spine and light splitting along spine but binding is tight and sound. Contents are age-toned, endpapers are foxed and there is occasional foxing in text, but still a nice copy. Howes F-372. Good/No Jacket.
Boeknummer: 002482
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 32.25]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: Colonies Colonial
The Will of Benjamin Franklin 1757
Philade;phia, The Franklin Institute, 1949. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft cover. 9pp + facsimile foldout of will. Stapled wraps. Cover partially faded, contents are clean and sound. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Very Good.
Boeknummer: 002720
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25]
Catalogus: American History, Biography
Trefwoorden: "Ben Franklin" Inheritance "James Franklin" "Jane Mecom"
The Book of the Colonies; Comprising the History of the Colonies Composing the United States, From the Discovery in the Tenth Century Until the Commencement of the Revolutionary War
Hartford, W.J. Hamersley, 1852. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. viii, 280pp. Brown cloth, stamped with scroll design, gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Very light cornerwear and tiny insect borings to rear joint, spine partly sunned, foxing to first title page and very slight thereafter, some gutters exposed but binding is holding, owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper. Black and white line drawings throughout. Good.
Boeknummer: 002517
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: "New England" Indians :William Penn" "Roger Williams"
Judge Magazine ; October 7 1893
New York, The Judge Publishing Co. 1893. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Soft cover. Victor, Gillam, Milton. 16pp. Stapled wraps. Light edgewear chipping, partial separation to binding, light wear and tearing to horizontal fold (archival tape reinforced), faint small stains to upper margin, cover and text are otherwise clean and unmarked. 3 full page color cartoons, one of President Cleveland, one of his nominee for Ambassador to Italy and one of "The Society Treadmill" : "the weary round of a fashionable woman." Good/5/16.
Boeknummer: 001870
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.5]
Catalogus: American History, Periodical, Ephemera
Trefwoorden: Satire Magazine
Report of the Commissioners of the Israel Putnam Camp Ground to His Excellency the Governor, January 15, 1903,
Hartford, Conn. The Hartford Printing Company, 1903. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 93pp. Black embossed cloth, gilt lettering. Book is in very good, nearly unworn condition, contents are age-toned and clean, neatly written inscription on front free endpaper. Illustrated with photos and line drawings. Very Good/No Jacket.
Boeknummer: 003883
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.5]
Catalogus: American History, Military, Reference
Trefwoorden: Connecticut General "Putnam Park" Redding
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
New York, Penguin Press, 2022. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 9780593297346. Signed by Author(s). 597pp. Book and dust jacket are in near fine, unworn condition. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Boeknummer: 004741
USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75]
Catalogus: American History, Government and Politics
Trefwoorden: Trump Politics "January 6" Election Impeachment 9780593297346
Franklin in France. From Original Documents, Most of Which are Now Published for the First Time.
Boston, Chatto and Windus, 1887. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. xvi, 478pp. Brown cloth, gilt portrait medallion to front board, gilt lettering to spine. top edge gilt, frontispiece portrait with tissue-guard. Subtle staining to lower front board and upper rear board, paper abrasion to front endpaper gutter, text is clean, binding is tight and many pages still unopened, faint foxing to endpapers. A well-preserved copy. Very Good/No Jacket.
Boeknummer: 002611
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23]
Catalogus: American History, Biography
Trefwoorden: "Benjamin Franklin" Paris Passy
Travels in North America, in the Years 1827 and 1828. (2 Volume Set)
Philade;phia, Carey, Lea & Carey, 1829. First American Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 322, 339pp. Later binding blue paper over boards, tan buckram backing, paper spine labels, uncut edges, armorial bookplate on pastedowns of both volumes, Slight mottling to spine of volume II, contents foxed, some cracking to front gutter volume II, bindowner's name on front free endpaper, bindings of both volumes are tight, corner tear to contents page (end of Vol.I) with slight loss of text, tiny hole in front endpaper of Vol.II. A critical account of 19th century American society. Good.
Boeknummer: 003911
USD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 114.75]
Trefwoorden: "New England" Mississippi Slavery Charleston
This Way to Unity
New York, Oxford Book Company, 1945. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Signed By Editor. 462pp. Blue cloth, orange lettering. Covers are clean and unbldmished, text has one marginal notation and is otherwise clean. Dust jacket is crisp and clean , spine and rear panel mildly toned. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Herbert Askwith on front free endpaper. Near Fine/Very Good.
Boeknummer: 002569
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23]
Trefwoorden: Anthology Editorials
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