Americana from Pazzo Books

1879. Near Fine Condition. Nice group of billheads each with an illustration and dated 1879, 1882 and 1884. Each partially printed and the rest filled in and with stamps. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; Inventory No: 048577.

Boston: J. Belknap and A. Young, 1791. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary leather with neat repairs at the corners and spine ends, old scirbbes to front blank, foxing and age toning, heavy in spots but not affecting legibility. The two volumes bound in one, 1791 and 1792. 137pp; 138pp. Evans 24003 & 25039 … Read more about this item

Boston: Manning and Loring, 1797. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Condition. An early Boston abridgment of Cook's voyages in contemporary mottled calf, boards reattached inexpertly with brown cloth tape - repair failing and boards largely detached. Light scattered browning, chipping, generally very good internally. Complete with 8 plates, 4 in each volume. Vol. 1: vii, [2],… Read more about this item

1805. Very Good Condition. A receipt and an import document. The first a receipt for purchases at Darius Brewers in Dorchester in 1830, and an import document from the Port of New Haven comprising three connected import receipts all for claret imported from Bordeaux in 1805. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine &… Read more about this item

Chicago and Port Byron, NY: T.E. Dougherty, 1920. Near Fine Condition. 43 1/2" x 12" advertisement for mince meat - slight rubbing and creasing, recently backed with linen. Undated ca. first quarter of the 20th century. A finely preserved large advertisement for the once ubiquitous pastry filling. T.E. Dougherty Company was active from 1885-1943 with mince meat as… Read more about this item

1890. Broadside. Very Good Condition. Tourism broadside for Las Vegas, NM printed on the back of Clark & Forsythe Cafe Restaurant stationary advertising "Kimble Bros. & Co. Guatemala Cigars and a variety of Rye whiskys. With what looks like the second half of a manuscript letter regarding prices for a food order (poultry, butter). "Please pack well with… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Rudolf en Gerard Wetstein, 1721. First Edition. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Very Good Condition. Rebound in imitation wooden boards, endpapers refreshed. A few light stains, marks, but generally a fresh, wide margined copy. Lacking the 8 maps but otherwise complete. This Dutch translation of Oldmixon's 1708 work The British Empire in America is noteworthy for the section… Read more about this item

New York: Columbia, 1944. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition. Original green cloth, corners slight bumped, slight rubbing to boards. Inscribed and signed by Aptheker. A few lines underlined in red pencil early on, otherwise clean internally. 409pp The first in depth study of slave revolts, it shattered the current dogma that slaves were passive… Read more about this item

New York: Columbia, 1943. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Original pale green wraps, edges chipped on rear cover. The PhD thesis that was published the next year as a book. Very scarce in this form. Apparently unchanged or nearly so, the book was also 409pp The first in depth study of slave revolts, it shattered the… Read more about this item

Boston: A. WIlliams, 1872. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition. Large ca. 26" x 19" folding color map on thin paper folding inside original green boards. Depicts the area around Boston just before the fire of 1872. Small splits at a few folds, generally bright and a nice example. 5 copies in OCLC. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1.… Read more about this item

Berline: Konigl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1858. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Original wraps, largely unopened. Interesting early study of New Mexican pueblo languages with glossaries in English with vocabulary in Tesuque and Zuni and discussions on Santo Domingo and other pueblo languages. Other sections on Haida, Nootka, Ahtna, Comanche, Pima. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped… Read more about this item

Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Condition. Original full calf, worn at edges and hinges , slight bowing to covers. Internally with dampstains to upper corner, heavy browning to half title and final pages, and pervasive but mostly mild staining throughout not affecting legibility. Nearly very good, overall. viii, 472pp. Though largely… Read more about this item

Albany: Websters and Skinners, 1826. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Very Good Condition. Original leather backed plain boards. Modest foxing and spotting; a nice, unsophisticated copy. Usually considered the first American book on Zoology, it is mostly European animals with a few from the Americas. Eaton hoped that it "might serve as a pioneer for a full system".… Read more about this item

Broadsides. Very Good Condition. 2 broadsides and a physician circular for M'Munn's (sometimes Mc Munn's) products. His opium elixir was advertised as having "all the valuable medicinal properties of Opium, to the exclusions of those which are deleterious and useless. ca. 8" x 13" with testimonials at the bottom. Developed in the 1830s and marketed aggressively starting in… Read more about this item

Hardcover (Half Leather). Good Condition. Large grocery ledger for the Lenox, MA grocers Hogan & O'Brien covering the years 1890 and 1891. . 15.5" x 9.5" bound in half leather, worn but sound. Organized by customer. A nice example. 772 numbered pages, all used. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine… Read more about this item

Senate of the State of California, 1957. Soft Cover. Very Good. Original wraps, light wear. "Compliments of Senator Richard Richards, Los Angeles County" on front cover and, laid in, an attestation card for delegates or employees of the Los Angeles County District Council of Carpenters swearing "on my most SACRED WORD AND HONOR that I am not now,… Read more about this item

Puebla: Miguel de Ortega y Bonilla, 1712. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Good Condition. Contemporary vellum with the remains of ties, marca de fuego on top edge, long section with a wormtrail in the top margin and another where a wormtrail obscures some of the first line of text (ca. 30 pages). Otherwise a very clean copy, notes to… Read more about this item

Leiden: Elzevir, 1626. Second Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. Contemporary vellum worn and darkened but intact, with engraved title and 9 plates but lacking the author portrait frontis. Modest browning, heavier in spots, light dampstain in bottom corner of first 35 or so pages and the plates in that section, just about very good overall and with… Read more about this item

boston, 1807. Nice billhead with a woodcut illustration of ware, signed by John Ballard (old Smtih & Parker croseed out, Ballard had only recently bought the business from Smith & Parker). John Rowe (a prominent early Boston family) listed as the purchaser of 8 yards of carpeting for $9.33. ca. 8" x 6.5" Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1.… Read more about this item

1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Seven books from Sante's library, four with her fingerprint ex-libris stamp on the title page, all with various wear, "Boss" Tweed with a separated textblock. Various previous owner marks, a few with old Strand prices (where Sante worked), one with a NYC YMCA discard stamp. A nice group of NYC histories from… Read more about this item