Search Results: Titles starting with V from William Reese Company

Boston: Printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1732.. [2],iv,[2],220pp. Very narrow octavo. Contemporary blind ruled calf over wooden boards. Boards worn, corners bumped, lower rear board partially exposed; spine ends exposed. Amateur reinforcement to front hinge. Several contemporary inscriptions on front and rear pastedowns and endpapers, and occasionally throughout. Half- inch closed tear to margin of leaf Q4, occasional foxing and even tanning throughout. Good. The second edition, after the first of the previous year, of the earliest guide to outline the routes of transit in the North American colonies from the Kennebec to Jamestown, Virginia. The first part of the work is comprised of tables of currency conversion and interest. The text then lists "Counties and Towns in New England" and "Courts in the Provinces and Colonies," including court term schedules. A section follows which lists roads and routes, with mileages, from Boston to Kennebec, Brunswick, Londonderry, Yarmouth, Northtown… Read More

Washington: J. & G.S. Gideon, 1842. Broadside on silk, 19 x 15 inches. Light wear at edges, some light soiling. Small tear minutely affecting a few letters of text. Very good. In a cloth folder. An elegant silk broadside printing the text of Henry Clay's farewell speech, resigning his position in Congress. Clay (1777-1852) represented Kentucky in the Senate for many years, first elected in 1806. His lengthy and important political career included Secretary of State and Speaker of the House, and several presidential bids. He was key in formulating the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850, issues relative to slavery and statehood. Though he states that he is retiring from the Senate "forever," Clay would return to serve a final term from 1849 until his death in 1852

[N.p., 1902].. 24pp., including photographic illustrations. Lacking folded map present in the only other recorded copy. Oblong 12mo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Faint vertical crease throughout, small tear to top edge of front wrapper and several pages, not touching text or images. A handful of contemporary pencil annotations or corrections. Very good overall. A very rare prospectus for the Valencia Copper Mining Company, operating in far northwestern California at the turn of the century. Although incorporated in Arizona Territory, the company's lands actually consisted of 558 acres along the New River in Trinity County, California. The promotional provides illustrations and text to describe the company's clearly unprecedented odds for success, with large deposits of uncommonly rich copper ore and a seemingly unending supply of wood, coal, and water for fueling the operation. Despite repeated assurances that "MINING STOCK IS A GOOD INVESTMENT" and declaring that "Wage earners investing from… Read More

New York, 1868. 336pp. Original cloth. Cloth worn, sunned and bit bubbled. Internally very good. The author was much involved in politics and journalism throughout Iowa in the 1850s and '60s. Many pungent and forceful opinions are expressed.

New Haven and New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1983. 228pp. Cloth. Fine in dust jacket. Presentation inscription from author on half-title. Fictional narrative based on the Arkansas River expedition proposed by Jefferson in 1807.

New York, 1816.. 317 [erroneously numbered 139] pp. plus index. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, gilt leather label. Calf rubbed, spine extremities bit worn. Bookplate to front pastedown. Minor soiling. Else a very good copy. A useful compendium of trade secrets covering most fields of interest, including advice on engraving, cements, colored stones, paper, gilding, the confectionery business, removing stains, the art of making snuff, etc. Contains recipes for making different kinds of varnish, glue, ink, and vinegars, with various essays on rural and domestic economy, as well as chapters on the "Secrets Relative to Wine," the distillation of spirits, and homebrewing. SABIN 98401. LOWENSTEIN 75. RINK 177. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 39655.

New York, 1809. 380pp. plus 10pp. (of 20pp.) of index. Lacks final ten pages of index. Contemporary calf. Rubbed, spine extremities worn. Uniformly tanned. Good. A useful compendium of trade secrets covering most fields of interest. Includes advice on engraving, cements, colored stones, paper, gilding, the confectionery business, removing stains, the art of making snuff, etc. Contains recipes for making different kinds of varnish, glue, ink, and vinegars, with various essays on rural and domestic economy, as well as a chapter on the "Secrets Relative to Wine." SABIN 98401. RINK 163. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 19085

Bridgeport, Ct, 1880. [4]pp. plus fourteen pages of similar, related ephemera. Old fold lines. A few small tears at edges. Minor soiling to a few of the ephemera items. Good. An interesting group of ephemera printed by the architectural firm Palliser, Palliser & Co., around 1880. Publications featured include AMERICAN COTTAGES; CARPENTER'S AND JOINER'S POCKET COMPANION; BICKNELL'S VILLAGE BUILDER, and many other similar publications, including several others by Bicknell

[Londo, 1848. 17,[1]pp. Folio. Modern half morocco and red cloth, spine gilt. Cloth bubbling. A bit of light soiling. Near fine. The late 1840s saw a major push for the colonization of Vancouver Island. This series of thirteen letters includes a document issued by the British Crown establishing the right of the Hudson's Bay Company to colonize the island. The report describes Vancouver Island and the prospects for colonization. One of the reports is by James Douglas, a fur trader and Hudson's Bay Company official who in 1851 succeeded Richard Blanshard as governor of Vancouver Island. Considered the "father of British Columbia," Douglas became the first governor of the colony of British Columbia in 1858. The Hudson's Bay company controlled the development of Vancouver Island until 1866, when it was annexed to British Columbia. STREETER SALE 3399. GAGNON 3460 TPL 2908. LOWTHER 7

London, 1865. xxi,[3],574pp. plus advertisements and two partially colored folding maps. Frontis. Illus. Original patterned cloth, spine gilt. Cloth frayed at extremities, some insect damage at front joint and fore-edge. Internally very nice and clean. Includes an account of the author's voyage from England to Vancouver Island via the Isthmus of Panama, with material on California, Victoria, the gold rush in British Columbia, and the Indians, mines, politics, and society of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, as well as information for prospective emigrants. TPL 4423. SABIN 43253. LOWTHER 255

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1946. xvi, 302pp. Original publisher's cloth, dust jacket with a couple of sizable chips at top edge. Internally clean and fresh. Very good. Later edition of Dobie's first book, sketches of cowboy life in the Texas Panhandle, Colorado, and New Mexico, based in part on the life of John Young. HOWES D376 (ref). BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 44 (ref). REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 250 (note).

[Cape Cod, and other various locations, Primarily 1818-1860].. About 170 individual items, mainly a ledger, a letter book, a log book, manuscript letters, original photographs, and a portable writing desk, with some miscellaneous family papers. Various levels of wear to bound volumes, intermittent dampstaining to letters, front cover of portable writing desk detached. Overall good to very good condition. A substantial archive of material from the seafaring life of Captain Benjamin Dyer of Massachusetts, documenting his naval activities over several decades. The letters and log books in this collection record Dyer's actions transporting American troops and supplies to Mexico during the Mexican- American War, voyages that took him to several American ports as well as to Australia and Europe, his observations on slavery and dueling in the American South, yellow fever in New York, and much more. The archive also includes scores of letters to Dyer from his family, giving insight into the life of family… Read More

Jackson, Ms, 1831-1871.. Twenty-six volumes, publication details and pagination provided in the listing below. Mostly uniform 20th-century buckram, gilt leather labels. A few labels chipped, minor shelf wear. Small ink library stamp to titlepages, some with embossed blindstamp, some with contemporary ink ownership inscription. Minor foxing, some tanning. Good. An interesting collection of mid-19th-century Mississippi state laws from the period between 1831 and 1870. These session laws deal with issues relevant to a growing state in the American south, including slavery, Mississippi River development, and later, legal matters related to Reconstruction, among a multitude of other concerns. A complete list of the imprints is as follows: 1) LAWS OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, PASSED AT THE FIFTEENTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.... Jackson: Peter Isler, 1831. 172,xviii pp. 2) LAWS OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, PASSED AT THE SIXTEENTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.... Jackson: Peter Isler, 1833.… Read More

Vich, Spain: En la Imprenta de Felipe Tolosa, [1818].. 35pp. plus folding table. Recent half vellum and marbled boards. Wear to extremities, light tidelines (not affecting text), mild foxing and tanning. Very good. Untrimmed. Uncommon work detailing the violent end of the Capuchin Franciscan mission in Spanish Guiana (now the Guayana region in eastern Venezuela). In early 1817 during the war for Venezuelan independence, Simón Bolívar entered Guayana, one the main centers of royalist opposition to the first Venezuelan republic. The Capuchins were sympathetic to the royalists and played an important role in encouraging the indigenous people of the mission to fight for Spain against the revolutionaries. In attacks between February and June of 1817, revolutionary troops killed a total of thirty Capuchin friars. Fray Nicolas de Vich was one of the few priests who managed to escape and tell his story in this funeral oration he preached in Spain celebrating the lives of his brothers. The folding table… Read More

Toledo: Isaac D. Smead & Co., 1889. [2],154pp. including sixteen chromolithographic plates and several other illustrations. Portrait. Original green cloth. Minute shelf wear. An occasional ink stamp of "Smead, Willis & Co" on a text page or plate (but not affecting the image), else very clean internally. Near fine. A full consideration of the heating and ventilation system designed by Isaac D. Smead, showing colored diagrams of the systems, and illustrations of the various buildings in which the design had been implemented. The numerous chromolithographic plates, printed in rich and varying color, show Smead's designs in riveting detail. This copy contains sixteen chromolithographic plates - two more than we have seen in other copies. A nice intersection of technical expertise and American color plate book production. Scarce. ROMAINE, p.363

Mexico: Imprenta de Santiago Perez, 1837. vii,162pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Corners slightly worn. Bookplate of noted collector Luis Garcia Pimentel on front pastedown. Internally clean. Very good. Memoir of the Texas Revolution and the decisive Battle of San Jacinto, written by Gen. Santa Anna's secretary, including his official report of the campaign. The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, saw the swift defeat of Mexican forces by the Texian army, resulting in the conclusion of the war and Texan independence. "In reliability as a contemporary Mexican source on the Texas revolution ranks with Filisola's MEMORIAS; it is highly critical of Santa Anna" - Howes. This copy bears the bookplate of Mexican historian and bibliographer Luis Garcia Pimentel. HOWES C155, "b." BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 138

Mainz, 1846.. 3pp. Folio. Crease at top of first page, slight stain at top not affecting text, else very good. An important promotional for the Society for the Protection of German Emigrants to Texas. Signed by the president of the Society, Prince Carl of Castell, it describes the colony, the number of emigrants who have gone to Texas, and adds numerous other details about the ways of getting there, costs, etc. A fine, important piece.

Bethel, Vt, January 25, 1837.. Printed form, approximately 8 x 7½ inches, completed in manuscript. Docketed in manuscript on verso. Old folds. Old stains along the left edge of the sheet, small hole at each end of lower horizontal sheet. About very good. A share in the Vermont Texas Land Company, organized in September 1836. The share is made out to Whitman Howard of Braintree, Vermont in Orange County, and signed by N. Williams, George Lyman, and Julius Converse. Lyman and Converse were both justices of the peace in Windsor County in the 1840s, and Converse went on to be governor of Vermont from 1872 to 1874. Beginning in 1820 the government of Mexico opened Texas to settlement by foreigners, provided they agreed to abide by the law and be morally upright citizens. This opened the way for many American settlers. Texas declared itself a free republic in March 1836, and shortly thereafter the Vermont Texas Land Company was organized. We can find no record of the company, though it would seem to still… Read More

[Camp Paraíso and vicinity, Panama, 1939-1940].. Six partially printed pages filled in manuscript, plus thirty album leaves with 120 mounted photos, most 4 x 5 inches. Oblong quarto. Contemporary limp brown suede photo album with illustration of the Panama Canal and the United States shield and eagle on the front cover. Some light soiling and wear to covers and album leaves. Images mostly clean and crisp with occasional slight mirroring or small stains. Very good. A personal photo album of mostly original images, compiled by a soldier serving in the United States 5th Infantry stationed at the Panama Canal at the outbreak of World War II. The Canal Zone would become vital to the American war effort and was one of the most important strategic locations in the hemisphere. In 1939, Camp Paraiso (which had been abandoned a few years earlier) was reinstated as a military base, and the 5th Infantry constructed barracks, a post office, a movie theater, and other structures that contributed to its becoming… Read More

[Tokyo and surroundings, ca. 1960].. 186 mounted photographs and postcards on [32] leaves, plus eleven loose photographs and five printed flyers. Images vary from 2 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches to 10 x 7 1/2 inches. Quarto photograph album. Original green velvet with origami crane stitched in gilt on front board, a.e.g. Boards lightly rubbed and stained. Album leaves almost entirely loose from binding, several photographs loosely laid in. The images themselves very crisp and clean. An album of charming vernacular photographs assembled by a young African-American soldier on a United States Army base near Tokyo in the period between the Korean and Vietnam wars. The majority of the photos are impromptu portraits or scenes from camp life, depicting the soldier and his diverse group of White, Asian-American, and African- American comrades. Many of the soldiers are identified by a surname written in ink on the photograph, and a number of the images show soldiers of different races associating together. In addition… Read More