(Barber, Joseph)

War Letters of a Disbanded Volunteer. Embracing His Experiences as Honest Old Abe's Bosom Friend and Unofficial Adviser.

New York, Frederic A. Brady, 1864. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 312pp. Blind stamped black boards with gilt stamped decoration to front cover. Covers and frontispiece detached but present, backstrip missing, owner's name, bookplate and pencil notations on front pastedown, bookplate of Military Historical Society of Massachusetts on rear pastedown, text is mildly age-toned, edges darkened, but text is otherwise quite sound and clean. Humorous account written phonetically in the local vernacular. Poor/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001799

Catalogue: American History, Americana, Military

Keywords: "Civil War" Lincoln

A.S. Barnes & Co.

Barnes' Centenary History , One Hundred Years of American Independence

New York & Chicago, A.S. Barnes & Co. 1876. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original Wraps. Original printed wrappers, not bound. Part 9, pages 393-456. ND but 1876. Allegorical representation of U.S. on its centennial on front cover, back cover lists other centennial publications by publisher, engravings throughout. Covers are torn and chipped at edges and lightly soiled. Some pages still unopened, some crudely opened. Not commonly found in this unbound state.

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Book number: 000660

Catalogue: American History, Americana

Keywords: 100 Years Centennial

George Washington Bicentennial Committee

George Washington: The Story of His Life

Philadelphia, Ketterlinus Litho. Mfg. Co. 1932. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Soft cover. Unpaginated, 24pp. 24mo. Illustrated wraps, stapled spine. Seven color illustrations. Light wear and soiling to covers, binding tight and contents clean. Published for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000291

Catalogue: Illustrated, American History, Americana

Keywords: "Bicentennial Commission"

Hill, Henry Wayland (Secretary of the Tercentenary Commission)

The Champlain Tercentenary; Report of the New York Lake Champlain Tercentenary Commission

Albany, J.B. Lyon Company, 1911. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. 534pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine, New York State Seal embossed in white and gilt to front cover, numerous illustrations, one fold-out map and one fold-out illustration. Slight wrinkle to front cover and spine, faint damp stain to margins of first 40 pages, otherwise contents are clean and binding is tight, circular ink stain to top page edges, stamp of Hon. Loren H. White, Senator 31st District on front free endpaper. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001527

Catalogue: American History, Americana

Keywords: "New York" Vermont Quebec

Reynolds, Charles B.

Standard Guide WAshington Arlington Mt. Vernon (The Nation's Capital)

New York, Fox & Company, 1903. Audio Book (Cassette). 162pp +approx. 50 pp ads, large folding map. Covers and spine chipped and worn, contents slightly wavy, folding map in nearly original conditional, tho' small fold tears neatly reinforced with archival tape. Good.

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Book number: 004426

Catalogue: Americana, Travel and Geography, American History

Keywords: Tourism Guidebook "District of Columbia" DC

The National Historical Society

The Journal of American History, Vol. 17, No. 1- Jan-Feb.-Mar 1923; No.2-April-May-June (2 Volumes)

Greenfield, Indiana, National Historical Society Publishers, 1923. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft cover. 192pp. numbered consecutively, decorative wraps. Edges chipped and torn, contents are age-toned but sound. First Quarter deals with a broad miscellany of American historical topics: frontier, voyages, Indians; Second Quarter features a number of articles on New York City. Good.

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Book number: 000664

Catalogue: American History, Americana

Keywords: New Amsterdam Croton King's College Aaron Burr John Campbell

Whipple, Charles H. (Compiler)

Genealogy of the Whipple-Wright Wager Ward-Pell Mclean-Burnet Families Together with Records of Allied Families

Los Angeles, Press of Commercial Printing House, 1917. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Signed by Compiler. 117pp. Marroon cloth, gilt lettering. Light dampness stains to boards, endpapers lightly stained and text has a few wavy pages, but is otherwise very clean. Front endpaper is INSCRIBED and SIGNED : "To my cousin William E. Hill with the affectionate regards of Charles H. Whipple". 7 sheets of genealogical charts bound-in and photos of family members. The original publication, not a recent reprint. Very Good.

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Book number: 001213

Catalogue: American History, Americana

Keywords: "Family Trees" Genealogy