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Baltimore. 1873.. 59pp. Frontis. Original printed wrappers. Very good. W.S. Goss and Udderzook conspired to make it appear that Goss was killed in a fire for insurance money. Later, in a fight over the take, Udderzook killed Goss for real. McDADE 1012. ... more information

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Jefferson, Oh.: Printed for the author, 1856.. 302pp. plus errata. Portrait. Original patterned cloth, spine richly gilt. Spine ends worn away, worn at corners, cloth splitting along hinges. Scattered foxing. Contemporary pencil ownership inscription on a front fly leaf. A good copy. In a cloth clamshell box, spine gilt. This copy contains the portrait, which Howes notes is not present in all copies. Udell has signed this copy below his portrait: "Your friend, John Udell." An important overland na... more information

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New York: Evelyn T. Underhill & Co., 1886.. 148pp. plus plates and a map of Nantucket. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. A few chips to edges of wrappers; a bit soiled. Internally clean. Very good. A charming and entertaining account of social life on late 19th-century Nantucket. Underhill was a New Yorker who later bought and sold cottages and property on the island. He wrote several books on Siasconset life in the 1880s, including A PICTURE BOOK OF YE PATCHWORK VILLAGE and 'SCONSET BY YE SEA. ... more information

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[Np. 1944].. 147pp. Frontis. Illus. Quarto. Pictorial cloth. Fine. In torn dust jacket. Number 7 in the Indian Handcraft series, nicely illustrated. ... more information

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Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon, 1892.. 116pp. Plain wrappers, stapled, inserted in Gaylord pamphlet binder. Good. The third printing of the first edition. FLAKE 1549. ... more information

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Philadelphia: Duross Bros., Printers, [1862?].. Broadside, approximately 14 x 8 1/2 inches. List printed in two columns. Chips along edges, a few tiny holes in text block. Creasing from early folds, wear, and a small circular stain about a 1/2-inch in diameter. Early ink "#" and two light-brown ink lines (about 2 1/2 inches) bracketing "SHAVING HOOPS" section. Good. Expertly matted, and protected with Mylar sheet. Interesting and decorative Civil War-era broadside price list for a Philad... more information

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New-Market. 1830.. 119pp. 12mo. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Some foxing, else very good. Arguments against the Unitarian principle that "there can be no difference shewn between three divine persons and three beings." ... more information

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[Washington. 1816].. 198pp. Dbd. Scattered tanning. Good. Contains the official Congressional printing of the commercial convention between the United States and England agreed to after the War of 1812. One of the provisions gives American merchant ships the right to conduct two-way trade with British settlements in India. Also included in this volume of Acts is the U.S. treaty with Algiers ratified in 1816. In an important article of that treaty Algeria, which had been a haven for pirates, agrees to releas... more information

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Philadelphia: Thomas Hunter Lith., 1882.. Title-leaf, 4pp. plus ten chromolithographed plates and nine other plates. Oblong folio. Original blindstamped cloth, gilt title on front cover, expertly rebacked with tasteful spine to match. Old stamp on verso of title-leaf and on last plate. Else just about very good. This work, issued under the auspices of the Quartermaster General, contains ten fine chromolithographed plates showing the different uniforms of the Army as dictated by regulations in 1882. It would... more information

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[Philadelphia: Childs and Swaine, 1791].. Broadside, 15 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches, under 11 3/4 x 7 3/4- inch mat. Three very light horizontal fold lines. Fine. In a gilt frame. A very rare printing of an early United States law providing for the funding of the national debt, signed in manuscript by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State. The document, which also carries the printed signatures of President George Washington, Vice President John Adams, and House Speaker Frederick Muhlenberg, was approved March 2, 1... more information

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[Philadelphia: Childs and Swaine, 1791].. Broadside, 15 x 9 1/4 inches. Docketed on verso in contemporary hands in two places. Signed in manuscript by Thomas Jefferson. Old folds, with neat expert repairs. Overall, about very good. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label. A very rare printing of an early United States law, signed in manuscript by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State. The document, which also carries the printed signatures of President George Washington, Vice President John Adams, and Hou... more information

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Philadelphia. 1795.. Broadside, 12 1/2 x 8 inches. Old fold lines; top edge chipped and soiled, else very good. Two Acts passed by the Third Congress, printed together on the same sheet. The first regards the distribution of the laws of the United States and says that "after the end of the next session of Congress, [the Secretary of State shall] cause to be printed and collated at the public expense, a compleat edition of the laws of the United States, comprising the constitution of the United States, ... more information

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Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1842.. 58pp. Dbd. Internally clean. Very good. A catalogue of alumni and previous university faculty listed by year, from 1769 to the date of printing. A good reference for the early history of Brown University. Scarce. ... more information

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Cambridge: Metcalf, Keith, and Nichols, 1842.. 92,32pp. Dbd. Internally bright and fresh. Very good. A complete list of Harvard graduates from 1642 to 1842, published in celebration of the university's two-hundreth graduating class. Listed notables include John Adams, Henry David Thoreau, and hosts of others. Also provided are various heads of the university and faculty members. Scarce. Not on OCLC. ... more information

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St. Louis. 1859.. 84pp. Paper wrappers. Wrappers tanned, minor chips to bottom margin. A near fine copy. An inauguration speech by Washington University's first Chancellor, Joseph Gibson Hoyt. In his speech Hoyt emphasizes the need for a well-rounded, liberal arts, education rooted in the classics and foreign languages. Hoyt's hope, and the emphasis of his speech, is that Washington University will serve as a bastion of education in the Western frontier. One of the earliest documents of higher educa... more information

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Uppsala. 1862.. Two volumes. [8],424;[8],621pp. Eight plates. Original cloth. Outer hinges cracking but sound, spines sunned. A good set. The author was the founder of a Swedish settlement in Wisconsin in 1841, one of the first movements in the tide of Scandinavian emigration to the upper Midwest. A minister, he also farmed but seems to have been disappointed with America. Besides the Swedish settlements, he discusses at length the Indians in Wisconsin. Later he moved to Chicago and lived there in the 1850s... more information

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Boston. 1856.. 356pp. Portrait. Original cloth. Spine sunned, plates tanned, some light scattered foxing. Good. The standard campaign biography. WAGNER-CAMP 282:1. HILL 1749. FLAKE 9259. ... more information

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[Washington. 1854].. 7pp. Self-wrappers. Good. A speech against the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which was passed the same month. LAMAR, pp.611-12. ... more information

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St. Paul. 1880.. 58pp. Frontispiece map. Original printed wrappers. Near fine. A quite thorough geological survey of Minnesota. ... more information

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Halle. 1741-1752.. Nine volumes in all, with the Tomo Chachi Mico plate appearing as the frontispiece in the first. First volume (thick quarto) in contemporary three-quarter speckled vellum and boards, seven volumes in later plain wrappers, and one volume in modern brown cloth. Tomo Chachi Mico plate in first volume trimmed close, worn on edges. Uniformly internally clean. Very good. The first volume lacks the two maps. A virtually complete collection of these vital sources for the early history of Georgia.... more information

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