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The Dutch and Quaker Colonies In America
by John Fiske
This is Volume 1 (I haven't seen Volume 2 online yet). Fiske tells a delightful and informative series of stories and provides authoritative historical framework, for the development of New York. Volume 1 deals almost entirely with Dutch lore. Highly recommended for anyone with interest in New York.
Byways and Boulevards In and About Historic Philadelphia
by Francis Burke and Gummere, Henry Volkmar Brandt
Pennsylvania Books & Ephemera
Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold
by Mark Schultz
New York: Dutton, 2014. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. 8vo., 311 pp. The true story of Olympic wrestling gold medal-winning brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz and their fatal relationship with the eccentric John du Pont, an heir to the duPont chemicals fortune. Made into a well regarded film starring Steve Carrell.
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$50.00
Report to the Legislature of Pennsylvania containing a description of the Swatara Mining District..
by (Pennsylvania Coal Mining) Strong, Henry K
Harrisburg: Boas & Coplan, 1839. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. 8.25 x 5.25 inches, contemporary ruddy brown leather with single gilt rule at the borders of the boards, very good, light rubbing and wear, a few small spots to binding, contents very good, light foxing, slight musty smoky odor (came from the home of a smoker -- can probably be aired out); ownership signature in pencil of W. Minor Roberts, 1839 -- he was the chief engineer and builder of the Cumberland Valley Railroad and is written...
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$150.00
The Picture-Bible of Ludwig Denig A Pennyslvania German Emblem Book
by Yoder, Don (Editor)
New York: Hudson Hills, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Very good in near fine slipcase. 2 vols. 180 pages in text, Vol. I, and with illustrations in the text. Vol. II, plate volume in facsimile of Denig's bible -- sixty full-page, ink and watercolor plates, dated 1784, portrays biblical scenes and religious emblems and is accompanied by explanatory notes written in the everyday German of colonial Pennsylvania. Backstrip feet rubbed, otherwise fine.
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$25.00
The First American Library: A Short Account of the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1731-1931
Pennsylvania: Library Co. of Philadelphia. Very Good. 1936. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Large paperback, illustrated throughout, including a frontis portrait of founder Benjamin Franklin, has a couple of damp-marks on the front cover and tiny corner-creases to several of the pages, the binding is tight and the contents are fine ; 72 pages .
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$29.00
Charitable Institutions of Pennsylvania Which Received State Aid in 1897 and 1898, Embracing Their History and the Amount of State Appropriations Which They Receive: Vol. II (This volume only)
by Pedrick, Alexander K
Pennsylvania: Wm. Stanley Ray, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume two only! Hardcover with 1/2 leather boards, 1898, octavo, 860pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with edgewear and rubbing to leather spine and corners, spine head shows mild loss, binding tight, signature to front endpaper, otherwise text clean and unmarked with handsome gilt to edges of text block, rear inner hinge cracking. No DJ but in protective mylar wrap.
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$23.00
THE REGISTER OF PENNSYLVANIA DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF FACTS AND DOCUMENTS Vol. II, July 19, 1828 - December 27, 1828
by Hazard, Samuel editor
Philadelphia: W. F. Geddes. Very Good. 1828. Hardcover. Clean brown leather, red spine label with gilt lettering. Spine ends neatly reinforced: covers firmly attached. Light corner wear & light endpaper foxing. Text tight, clean & intact. Devoted to the preservation of facts, documents & useful information. Dams, Canals, Elections, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, etc. Pennsylvania; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 386 pages .
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$50.00
Travels in Philadelphia
by Morley, Christopher
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1921. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Frank H. Taylor. Hardcover/ no DJ, VG+ to Near Fine condition; 6.75 x 5"", 264 pages. First Edition, circa 1920, Stated 2nd Printing- March, 1921. Green cloth binding tight, clean & square w/ only a trace of rubbing. NO bumps, chips, fray, sun discolor or scuffs. Gilt door illus. on front & all gold lettering bright, crisp & totally intact. Front endpaper toned. Very narrow split at title page, but text block & binding...
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$32.95
MAX ROSENTHAL'S ETCHING OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, "FROM A PAINTING BY C.W. PEALE." SIGNED "MAX ROSENTHAL" OUTSIDE THE BORDER IN NEAT PENCIL SCRIPT
by [Washington, George] Max Rosenthal
Philadelphia, 1890. Etching 5" x 7," on card stock. "Portrait of George Washington, bust, directed to the right, looking at the viewer, wearing jacket closed, neckerchief and frill, hair tied into a queue. . . [S]ignature of the artist in pencil below the platemark and on the bottom right on the sheet" [British Museum copy]. Fine. Born to a Jewish family in Poland in 1833, Rosenthal at the age of twelve "was sent to Paris to study art and escape conscription in the Imperial Russian Army, which...
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$500.00
Pennsylvania Songs and Legends.
by Korson, George (ed.)
hardback. Near Fine. 2nd printing. Johns Hopkins U.P. 1960. Fine.
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$30.00
Unveiling of Tablet At the Hebron Moravian Cemetery; Lebanon, Pennsylvania: Sunday Oct 6, 1929
by Richards, H. M. M. & Lebanon: Lebanon County Hitorical Society
Lebanon, PA: Lebanon County Hitorical Society. Good. 1929. Paperback. Lebanon County Historical Society Vol X, No. 1; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 63 pages; Vol X, No. 1. Paperback in title lettered wraps and saddle stapled binding. The whole devoted to the Hebron Moravian Cemetery, a paper on its history, a program reproducing the prayers, invocations and speeches at the Ceremony as well as a record of those interred. Illustrated with b&w photos. Covers worn at edges with some surface...
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$20.00
History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania
by Linn, John Blair
Unigraphic, Evansville, IN, 1975. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition. Rpt 1883 edition Includes the 1962 index. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Pennsylvania; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 23474. .
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$75.00
Points of Interest in Philadelphia and Fairmount Park
American Souvenir Co, 1899. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 48 unnumbered pages. B/W photographic images. Oblong format, 8 x 10 inches. First edition (first printing). Very good in illustrated light gray wrappers (paperback). Covers are separated. Covers with edge chips.
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$20.00
Burning Down the House: Move and the Tragedy of Philadelphia
by Anderson, John,Hevenor, Hilary
W. W. Norton & Company, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 409 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white from photographs. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Spotting to page block, endpapers and jacket verso. Examines why Philadelphia authorities took extraordinarily disproportionate action against a group called MOVE by dropping military explosives on a residential neighborhood in May 1985.
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$12.50
Annual Report of the Auditor General of the State of Pennsylvania and of the Tabulations and Deductions from the Reports of the Rail Road, Canal, & Telegraph Companies for the Year 1874
by Allen, Harrison; B. F. Meyers
Harrisburg: B. F. Meyers, 1875. First printing. Hardcover. Good. First edition, 1875. Cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine, 827 pp., clean unmarked text, Good copy, small abrasion on the front pastedown as if from bookplate removal, soiling and age-toning to the pages and the page-edges, soiling and some discoloration to the covers, rubbing and wear to the edges of the covers including some fraying or loss at the tips, no dust jacket.
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$37.12
History of the Johnstown Flood
by Johnson, Willis Fletcher
Edgewood Publishing Co., 1889. Good green cloth hardcover, 1889, illustrated 459 pages, some wear and soiling. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket.
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$35.00
George Logan of Philadelphia
by TOLLES, Frederick B
NY/London: Oxford University Press, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good first edition hardcover with similar dustwrapper, the book and dustwrapper are both rubbed at spine ends and corners, the dustwrapper has light chippng to top edge.
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$20.00
A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE MALIGNANT FEVER, LATELY PREVALELENT IN PHILADELPHIA: WITH A STATEMENT OF THE PROCEEDINGS THAT TOOK PLACE ON THE ON THE SUBJECT IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
by Carey, Mathew (1760-1839)
Philadelphia: Printed By the Author.. Good+. 1794. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Original 1794 text in a modern library binding: clean blue cloth with color faded edges & gilt lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers & top edge gilt, with deckle page edges. Hinges & text tight and intact. Few lightly foxed pages & some age toning. Top corner of page 164 repaired with archival tape. In his pamphlet the author accuses blacks of causing the epidemic and of taking advantage of victims while...
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$325.00
George Logan of Philadelphia
by Frederick B. Tolles
Oxford University Press. Hardcover in jacket. Book is sound and clean with light shelfwear; jacket has some small edge chips and tears. Heavy book: priority or international shipping may be extra. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1953.
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$4.90
Pattern for Liberty; the Story of Old Philadelphia
by Johnson, Gerald W. (Gerald White) (1890-1980)
New York, McGraw-Hill, 1952. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 146 pages; Description: 146 p. Illus. 22 x 29 cm. Subjects: Philadelphia (Pa. ) --History. Philadelphia (Pa. ) --Pictorial works.
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$12.00
Archaeological Investigation of Fort Ligonier 1960-1965
by Grimm, Jacob L
Pittsburgh, PA: Caregie Museum. Very Good. 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Fort Lignor is in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and was built in 1758. By 1800, no trace remained. In 1947 it was decided that the fort should be reconstructed, and this is the resulting archaelogical investigation that began the process. There are site maps and a number of photos of artifacts recovered. Contains an appendix in the rear: "Animal remains from archaeological excavations at Fort Ligonier, by John E....
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$44.95
REPORT OF THE CANAL COMMISSIONERS. READ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 9 1836 (Report No 12)
by Moses Sullivan, Et Al
Harrisburg, Pa.: Printed By Samuel D. Patterson. Good+. 1836-37. First Edition. Hardcover. Original publication is rebound in clean black buckram cloth with gilt title on spine. Illustrated with documents and fold outs. Two fold-outs are tape reinforced at creases. Otherwise, Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Ex-library with pocket inside rear cover. Very light foxing on a few pages. Canals, Pennsylvania; Ex-Library; 141 pages .
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$80.00
Book Publishing at B. Franklin's College
by Soule, Phelps
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Book Clinic, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson and blue cloth with front cover paper label. Very good. 30 pages. Illustrated. Ex-library. A Keepsake publication to commemorate Soule's direction of the University of Pennsylvania Press on the eve of his retirement. Limited edition, copy 135 of 250. Nicked at backstrip head.
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$25.00
Deed for Sale of Lot in McConnellsburg, Pa., where School Burned Down
1923. Near Fine. 1 printed and typewritten deed (36 x 22 cm.), 4 pages, folded. Printed by Henry Hall Printing, Indiana, Pa. On 31 Jan. 1923, the School District of McConnellsburg, Pa., sold to the Hon. S. W. Kirk of McConnellsburg for $1,510 2 lots in McConnellsburg on the west side of Second St. (#54 and #55 in the general plan of the borough). The lots were acquired by the school district in 1881 from F. B. Sipes and used by the school district until the building was destroyed by a fire in March...
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$26.00
Eldorado Found: The Central Pennsylvania Highlands, a Tourist's Sruvey
by Shoemaker, Henry W
Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1993. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. Gilt stamped black cloth boards, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked.
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$40.00
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania: Vital Records, Genealogical and Historical Miscellany. Vol. 1
by Rice, Phillip A., et al, eds
SW Pennsylvania Genealogical Services, Laughlintown, PA, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition. Moderate water damage to covers, text unaffected. Uncommon . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Pennsylvania; Genealogy & Local History. ISBN: 0944128149. ISBN/EAN: 9780944128145. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 24097. . 9780944128145
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$125.00
