Old Bookshelf: American History
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New York's Part in History
New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1915. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 391pp. Green cloth, gilt lettering, top edges gilt. Wear to extremities, splitting to front hinge, contents are clean. FIRST EDITION. A concise history with illustrations and maps. Good/No Jacket.
-- Boeknummer: 001523
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5]
Catalogus: American History
Trefwoorden: Hamilton Seward Clinton "New Amsterdam" Schuyler Albany Ticonderoga
Birthday of the State of Connecticut. Celebration of the Two Hunred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Adoption of the First Constitution of the State of Connecticut
Hartford, CT, The Connecticut Historical Society, 1889. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 98pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering. Slight rubbing to corners and spine ends, text is mildly toned, binding is tight and gilt is very bright. In very well-preserved condition. Very Good/No Jacket.
Boeknummer: 002640
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25]
Catalogus: American History, Regional
Trefwoorden: Governor Mayors
The Home of Washington at Mount Vernon, Embracing a Full and Accurate Description, as Well as of the Birthplace, Genealogy,, Character, Marriage, and Last Illness of Washington
Washington, Thomas McGill, 1860. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 70pp. Black cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. Wear to edges and spine, gilt is partially faded but mostly intact, contents age-toned and there is some print offsetting to blank leaves, some splitting to front endpapers, lacks frontispiece, owner's name and date, Nov. '60 on front free endpaper. Curiously, the title on covers reads "Tomb of Washington", and title page reads "The Home of Washington", but the text and illustrations are clearly about the tomb. Good/No Jacket.
Boeknummer: 001681
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 32.75]
Catalogus: American History, Biography
Trefwoorden: "George Washington" President
The Seven Ages of Washington (Signed By Harry Ogden)
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 263pp + ads. Blue boards, rebacked with buckram, paper spine label, top edges gilt. Some separation at hinges, pages toned, occasional pencil notes. SIGNED "H.A. Ogden" on front free endpaper. Harry Ogden was a well-known illustrator, specializing in military and historical themes. Fair/No Jacket.
Boeknummer: 001634
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.25]
Catalogus: American History, Biography, Signed
Trefwoorden: "Harry Ogden" Military President
Helper's Impending Crisis Dissected
Philadelphia, J.T. LLoyd, 1860. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 14 ads, [4], 223, 30 ads. Blind-stamped black binding, gilt lettering to spine. Covers and spine worn and chipped, joints splitting but holding, endpapers heavily foxed, text occasionally spotted, owner's name on front pastedown, binding is tight. Wolfe's debunking of Samuel Helper's "The Impending Crisis of the South", in which Helper was critical of the negative economic impact slavery had on the South. Good/No Jacket.
Boeknummer: 001654
USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 70.25]
Trefwoorden: Slavery "Black Republican Party"
The American Civil War; An English View
Charlottesville, The University Press of Virginia, 1964. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 230pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine. Book is in clean, unworn condition. Dust jacket spine is slightly sunned, 2 small edge tears. Near Fine/Very Good.
Boeknummer: 003811
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75]
Catalogus: American History, Military, U.S. Civil War
Trefwoorden: Grant Lincoln Davis Lee Confederacy Union