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1852. 32d Congress, 1st Session. Senate. Rep. Com. No. 272. "The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the message of the President of the United States, of the 15th June, 1852, communicating a report from the Secretary of State, together with a letter from Senor Don Calderon de la Barca, minister of Spain to the United States, claiming indemnity for losses sustained by certain Spanish subjects by the unlawful violence of a mob in New Orleans, consequent on hearing of the execution of certain persons who unlawfully invaded the island of Cuba in August, 1851, with the recommendation of the President contained in said message, that the indemnity should be granted,..." 6 pp. Including a Message from the President (Millard Fillmore); a short paragraph from Danl. Webster, Secretary of State to the President: "The Secretary of State accordingly suggests that Congress be recommended to make provision for the reparation desired"; and correspondence from the Minister to… Read More

New York: Lovell, Coryell & Company 212 pp. Also included is "The Conquest of Spain" with 138 pp. Brown faux leather covers with gilt inlay on front and gilt lettering on spine. Cover corners are bumped, corners and edges are rubbed, moderate scuffing to cover faces, spine ends are bent and fraying. Small tear to top spine. Front hinge broken, back hinge loose but intact. Spine is loose with many breaks in interior. Pages are browning. Book in VG- condition.. Hard Cover. Very Good-. Size: 5" x 7 1/2". Travels.

Manchester, England: Union and Emancipation Society, 1864. DELIVERED AT PUBLIC MEETINGS IN MANCHESTER, GLASGOW, EDINBURGH, LIVERPOOL, AND LONDON; AND AT THE FAREWELL BREAKFASTS IN LONDON, MANCHESTER, AND LIVERPOOL. Beecher's speeches delivered in Great Britain and published together in one volume. Speeches during the Civil War period regarding the Union, Slavery and the state of affairs in the United States. 175 pp. including Appendix: The Rev. Mr. Beecher at Lancashire Independent College. Front cover missing, therefore the title page is mildly soiled with some small chips to the bottom edge. 5" tear from base of spine hinge. Most of spine paper missing but publication intact. Covers are Good-. Many pages uncut. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good. Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) was a prominent, theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th Century. . Wraps. Good. Size: Approx. 5 1/4" x 8 1/2".… Read More

Washington: U.S. National Museum, 1891. Report of the National Museum, 1889. From the Smithsonian annual report board of regents report, June 30, 1889. "It is not, perhaps, generally realized how extensive and how rapid are the changes that are taking place in almost the entire fauna of the world through the agency of man." Plate images of the West Indian Seal, the California Sea Elephant, the European Bison, the Great Auk, the Tilefish, and others. Frederic A. Lucas was the assistant curator of the Department of Comparative Anatomy. pp. 609-649. Disbound, but secured by string ties. Document is clean and in Very Good condition.. Paperbound. Very Good. Illus. by Plates, Maps. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Animals.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1981. Edited, with an introduction, notes, and bibliography by Michael Patrick Hearn. More than 300 line drawings, photographs, and engravings, including 175 original illustrations by E. W. Kemble. 378 pp. including Appendix, bibliography, and index. Book is Fine. DJ 1" tear at top corner of flap and 1/4" tear on top edge, otherwise DJ is Very Good+.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good-. Illus. by E. W. Kemble. Size: Approx. 8" x 11". Literature.

Springfield, Mass: Bill, Nichols and Company, 1869. By the age of 25, Gough was unemployed, homeless, and a confirmed drunkard. In 1842 he attended a temperance meeting in Worcester, Massachusetts where he took a pledge to totally abstain from liquor. He began to tell his story to eager audiences and soon embarked on a career of lecturing against the evils of drink.During his career, Gough delivered some 9,600 lectures to more than nine million people in America, Canada, England, Scotland, and Ireland. He became the most sought-after temperance lecturer in the country. When he died in 1886, the New York Times wrote that he "was probably better known in this country and in Great Britain than any other public speaker." Mr. Gough was one of this country’s most influential social reformers who helped to solve one of America’s most pressing problems. 552 pp. Covers are rubbed as are all edges, but solid and intact. Corners rubbed, 2 of them to boards. Overall covers are Good. Front… Read More

New York: Grossman NY, 1966. VG in G+jacket 1st Cloth 4to Yes 160 Text from Stevenson's speeches and writings,photos by Capa, John Fell Stevenson, and Inge Morath,preface by Walter Lippmann. Pictorial endpapers, light blemish bottom edge of front cover, closed tears on dj,red ink line on fore edge, else VG/G+.. Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Illus. by Photos. Size: Approx. 8 3/4" x 11 1/4". Biography.

Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow, and Company, 1865. First Three Reports. ANNUAL OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES FOR 1863-64. "The Annual now presented is intended to cover the whole period from the organization of the Academy in April, 1863, to January 1st, 1865. Wolcott Gibbs. Louis Agassiz." Contents include: Address of Hon. Henry Wilson, delivered at the opening of the First session of the Academy, April 22, 1863; Constitution and By-Laws of the Academy, Organization of the Academy; Committees of the Academy; List of Members and Eulogy on J.S. Hubbard. 112 pp. ANNUAL OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES FOR 1865. Contents include: Act of Congress establishing a National Academy of Sciences( with names of members and "Approved March 3, 1863. Abraham Lincoln, President"; List of Members; Constitution; Foreign Associates; List of Memoires; Biographical Notice of Joseph G. Totten. 130 pp. and ANNUAL OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES FOR 1866. Contents include many of the same… Read More

New York: American Museum Natural History, 1916. In the Foreword written by Henry Fairfield Osborn, " The life and writing of Joel Asaph Allen have exerted so great an influence on the progress of ornithology and mammalogy in America that all who have the interests of these branches of science at heart, both in this country and abroad, will welcome this biographical and bibliographical volume. It is issued as an expression of the appreciation of Doctor Allen's life work by the Trustees of The American Museum of Natural History and devoted colleagues on its Scientific Staff. The biographical sketch was especially desired in connection with the Bibliography because it sets forth so clearly the broad groundwork of travel, of field observation and of field record which has established a model of all modern American work on the birds and the mammals..." 215 pp. most uncut at top edge. Side edge untrimmed. Tears and chips mainly at front cover's side edge. Covers soiled with fading at… Read More

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Edwards Brothers Inc, 1964. "During a visit in 1925 to the Field Museum-Oxford University Joint Expedition to Kish, Iraq, I decided to concentrate my researches on the Anthropogeography of Southwestern Asia, particularly from the Suez Canal to the Caucasus Mountains. At that time Dr. L. H. Dudley Buxton, my tutor at Oxford, proposed this thirty-eight year project, which is now nearing completion. This list of 594 titles includes and supplements my "Bibliografia"... Subject matter includes: Asia-Physical Anthropology; Africa-Physical Anthropology; Europe-Prehistory, Archaeology and Physical Anthropology; North America-Grave on Martha's Vineyard; Canoe from Marathon, Florida; Central America-Mexico-The Prehistory of Morelos and the Physical Anthropology of the Tepoztecos of Tepoztlan, Morelos; Caribbean-Anthropogeography of Trinidad and Tobago; and South America-Notes on the Macushi Indians of the Rupunumi Savanna, British Guiana. Includes the complete list of… Read More

Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1920. Presented to the Academy at the Annual Meeting, 1919. Biographical Memoirs. Part of Volume IX.. "In an address before the American Association of Anatomists...Dr. Minot was "by common consent the leading American anatomist." pp. 263-285. Some soiling to covers. 1/2" tear at spine base. Overall covers are Good+ to Very Good-. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. Frontis. portrait of Minot. Edward Morse was an American Zoologist, academic, author, and museum curator. Charles Sedgwick Minot, at the Harvard Medical School, invented the automatic rotary microtome.. Paper Cover. Very Good. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/4". Biography.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1879. 2 articles extracted from the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol.XV. Issued October 1, 1879. pp.25-51. Article 1:Characters of some new Species of Compositoe in the Mexican Collection made by C.C. Parry and Edward Palmer, chiefly in the Province of San Luis Potosi, in 1878. Article 2: Some New North American Genera, Species, etc. Paper covers slightly soiled otherwise covers are Very Good+. String-tied. Interior is clean, tight and VG+. Wraps. Very Good+. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 3/4". Botany.

Baltimore,MD: John Hopkins Press, 1917. Laid in 5 1/4 x 2 1/2" sheet "Presented with the Compliments of Dr. Walter C. Burket and The John Crerar Library." Writings of Dr. Welch of The John Hopkins University. 47 pp. Olive green covers with gilt lettering on front. Covers soiled. Spine darkened, can't make out lettering. Otherwise the exterior is Very Good. ex-mus. stamp & numbers on title p. otherwise interior is tight, clean and in Very Good+ condition.. Cloth. Good. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Medicine.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. The Western Frontier Library. Very Good."Covers the activities of the Fifth Cavalry before joining Crook's force, including the fight on the War Bonnet, which succeeded in turning a large group of Cheyennes back to the Red Cloud Agency and prevented their joining Sitting Bull. It was on the War Bonnet that King witnessed Buffalo Bill Cody's famous fight with Yellow Hand, which he recounts in detail. 165 pp. including two pages of other Western Frontier Library Books. CAMPAIGNING WITH CROOK is Number 25. Book is Very Good +. Interior is tight,clean and VG+ to Near Fine. Dust Jacket's front top flap corner clipped. Date stamped on back flap. Rubbing at edges. No tears. Overall Good. . Second Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/Good. Illus. by Drawings. Size: Approx. 5 " x 7 1/2". American History.

New York: The Christian Herald, 1895. Collection of short stories by famous American authors. Contents include: A True Story by Mark Twain; The Celestial Railroad by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving; The Lightning-Rod Man by Herman Melville. 344 pp. Red decorative covers with gilt design and title on front and spine. Cover corners are bumped and edges rubbed. Cover faces have rubbing and discoloration. Spine tips bent. Front hinge broken. Some light foxing to endpapers. Interior is tight and clean. Book in VG- condition.. Hard Cover. Very Good-. Size: Approx. 4 " x 6". Famous Authors.

1880. Proceedings at the Dinner Commemorative of the Centennial Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Society Held at the St. George Hotel, Philadelphia, March 15, 1880. Speechs the Address by the President, Frederick Fraley; The alliance of Universities and the learned Societies by Prest. D. C. Gilman of John Hopkins University; Our Friends who have passed away by Dr. W. A. Hammond, New York City; The Study of Languages; by Prest. Wm. C. Cattell, Lafayette College, Easton PA; The Society's Name by Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, Philadelphia; The need of an elevated and permanent civil service by A. Loudon Snowden, Superintendent U.S. Mint; The tendencies of scientific culture by Dr. John L. LeConte, Philadelphia; Daily and Periodical Literature by Mr. W. V. McKean, Philadelphia; and The Spirit of the Philosophical Society by Prof. J. P. Lesley, Philadelphia. 84 pp. Includes all present at the Dinner, the Menu and "Regular Toasts". Paper covers soiled/sunned?. Front cover water stain ring at… Read More

1845. Transmitting REPORT OF CHEMICAL ANALYSES OF SUGAR, MOLASSES, &C , AND OF RESEARCHES ON HYDROMETERS, MADE UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF PROFESSOR A. D. BACHE, by Professor R. S. McCulloh. 28th Congress, 2d Session. Ho. of Reps. Treas. Dept. Doc. No. 146. Contents: Different kinds of sugar defined; Qualitative and quantitative analysis of sugars, sirups, and molasses and particularly those derived from the cane; Analysis of several specimens of molasses by the circular polarization of light; Remarks upon molasses and other saccharine substances; Drawback to be allowed on foreign sugars refined in the United States; Hydrometers; Method of manufacture to be observed by instrument-makers in the construction of standard decimal hydrometers; Hydrometers in different countries: Britain, Prussia, Holland, Switzerland, and America; New analytical discussion of the observations of M. Despretz; Different proofs of spirits; nd Experiments of comparison of several of the hydrometers used for spirits. 106… Read More

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1894. Author's revised edition. red cloth cover with gilt lettering and moorish design. gilt along top edge. spine sunned/soiled. Back cover's cream cloth mildly soiled. Bookplate on free endp. with owner's name and date: 1934. Otherwise interior is clean, tight and VG+. top edge gilt. decorative covers with gilt.. Hard Cover. Very Good to Very Good-. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4". Famous Author.

American Philosophical Society, 1943. Reprinted from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 86, No.2, 1943. "Today we recognize in the Middle West two large patterns-The Woodland and the Mississippi-each with its subdivisions. Throughout the area, wherever stratification exists, we find an early Woodland which is characterized by small villages with scanty refuse piles; by crude, heavy, grit-or crushed-rock-tempered ceramics..." pp.299-303. one diagram of "Early Woodland(?)-Not Well Defined". previous owner's name on front cover: John H. Bailey. Otherwise exterior is Very Good. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good+.. Paper Cover. Very Good-. Illus. by Diagram. Size: Approx. 8 " x 10 1/2". Archaeology.

1915. Reprinted from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. LIV, No. 218, August, 1915. " Stratigraphers do not agree as to the conditions under which the black bituminous shales so often met with in American Paleozoic marine deposits were laid down. Among the more striking of such formations may be mentioned the Quebec, Martinsburg, Collingwood, Utica, Maquoketa, Genesee-Portage, Ohio, Chattanooga, and Caney, formations ranging from the Ordovician to the Pennsylvanian. To aid in the interpretation of such black shales, the writer presents herewith the main results set forth by Professor J. F. Pompeckj, of the University of Tubingen, in a publication that wll not be of wide distribution in America. The following is a decided condensation and in part a free translation of his exhaustive paper, which is replete with bibliographic references." pp.259-269. ex-mus. stamp on front cover. slight fading to covers, otherwise VG+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+.. Wraps. Very Good.… Read More