Search Results: Titles starting with M from James Arsenault & Company

Windsor, [Vermont], Saturday Eve., March 2nd, 1867. Broadside, 17.25" x 5.75". Ticket, 1.5" x 3". CONDITION: Broadside good, two tiny punctures, a few tiny chips at margins, no losses to the text; ticket good. A broadside advertising Mack & Arnold's minstrel show at the Windsor, Vermont town hall, with an original ticket to the show. The public is advised that "this Troupe is not composed of one or two legitimate performers and several amateurs but that each and every member is an Etheopian Artist of eminence in his speciality." Managed by George Tillinghast, the troupe included "ten star performers" (including a Frank White who plays "Sam Peril" "who stands on his head") as well as "two thespians" and three "raw recruits" (which include one Lu Arnold). Overseen by musical director J.R. Frebergeister, members of the group played banjo, violin, guitar, with some singing in operatic and comic fashion. The "Programme" spells out the first and second parts of the act and its players, which include… Read More

New York: Holiday House, 1992. Hardcover in . Sm. 4to (9.5" x 8.25"), half dark blue cloth over light blue paper. Color illus. CONDITION: Fine in fine jacket. Stated first edition, inscribed by author at title page: "For Mom and Dick, Magical Travelers! Love, Steven 4/3/92.

Augusta, Maine, 1920. Hardcover. 8vo (10.25" x 7.5"), blindstamped green cloth, gilt title on upper cover. xiii, 338 pp., numerous b&w illus, ports., 1 color illus. Early ink owner inscription on flyleaf. A Maine Centennial addressing various aspects of Maine history..CONDITION: Very good, lightly bumped corners, slightly toned leaves, sound binding.

Portland: Hoyt and Fogg, 1873. Hardcover. 16mo (6.75" x 4.75"), blindstamped brown cloth, gilt spine title. [9], 512 pp., folding hand-colored map, 17"x 15". CONDITION: Good, inner hinges cracked, wear at extremities, very good map. An 1873 directory to the state of Maine, its governmental structure, rules, and personnel, with a foldout map of the state by Colton. Printed on the verso of the map are eighteen railroad and steamship schedules.

Augusta, Maine: Maine Development Commission, [ca 1930's]. 9" x 8", stiff pictorial color wrappers. 61 pp., [3],numerous b&w illus. An evocative souvenir guide to Maine, profusely illustrated with b&w photographic images and historical text covering mostly coast and lake regions. CONDITION: Very good, bright and clean.

Augusta, Maine: Maine Development Commission, [ca 1930's]. 9.25" " x 7", stiff pictorial color wrappers. [60] pp., numerous b&w illus. A profusely illustrated souvenir guide to Maine, with b&w photographic images of recreational activities available on the coast, mountains, and lakes; also sections about history, industry, agriculture, and villages.CONDITION: Very good, bright and clean.

San Francisco: Camera Craft Publishing Company, 1951. Hardcover. 8vo, green paper over boards, title, author stamped in black on spine and cover. 118 pp., numerous b&w illus. CONDITION: Very good, some rubbing at extremities.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. Hardcover. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt-stamped cover and spine. [viii]-xiii, 443 pp., [2] pp. ads. Illustrated throughout [with] 2 letters, 4 pp. of manuscript on 2 leaves, 9" x 6"; portrait of Riis clipped from a magazine affixed to half-title. The autobiography of social reformer Jacob Riis, along with two letters from Riis to influential Ellis Island immigration doctor Victor Safford. First published in 1901, this is a 1902 printing. Riis's autobiography begins with his youth in Denmark (including his initially one-sided bond with his beloved wife Elizabeth), and his many struggles and ventures after emigrating to New York as a young man. A fiercely successful immigrant, Riis came to prominence in 1890 with the publication of How the Other Half Lives, his exposé of life in the immigrant slums of New York, illustrated with reproductions of his own photographs. His motivation to document these people and their living conditions prompted him to become a pioneer… Read More

New York: Rizzoli, 1981. 4to, brown paper coverd boards and spine. viii, 263 pp., 24 color and numerous b&w illus. Very good in good dust jacket.

Litchfield, Connecticut: Re-printed by Thomas Collier, in the Court-House, [1790]. Hardcover. 16mo (6.25" x 3.5"), full brown calf, gilt-stamped lettering piece at spine, vii, [2], pp., 10-210, early inscription of one "Cyrus Edson" in ink; initials "E.E" handsomely penned in ink on ffep and title; and ink-stamp of one "Dr. Ezra Edson, Manchester, VM" on ffep. CONDITION: Good, rubbed, two gatherings a bit loose but holding. Moral tales first published anonymously in 1771 by Scottish author MacKenzie. The early owner of this volume, Dr. Ezra Edson, was a botanical physican in Manchester, VT. who advocated the Thomsonian method in the 1830s, named for medical reformer Dr. Samuel Thomson. The signature of Cyrus Edson is likely that of Ezra's father. REFERNCES: Early American imprints 23528; Weinstock, Samuel. "Thomson's Botanic System: Alternative Medicine in Early Nineteenth Century Vermont," 1988.

Paris: A. Quantin, Imprimeur-Éditeur 7, Rue Saint-Benoit, 7, 1884. Small 4to (10.125" x 6.875"), beige cloth with marbled paper boards, brown leather lettering-piece at spine stamped in gold. 150, [1] pp. 5 original etchings, 6 gravures, numerous additional illus., facsimile letter. An important early study of Manet, illustrated with two original Manet etchings, "L'Odalisque Couchee" and "La Convelescente," as well as three etchings by M. H. Guérard after Manet, and six gravures. Both Manet etchings are nice, strong impressions. Inscribed to etcher and poster artist Ernest Haskell on the ffep as follows: "To Ernest Haskell from Mrs Evan Shipman." (Evan Shipman was a poet and writer mainly remembered as a close friend of Ernest Hemingway). CONDITION: Good, cloth soiled, spine browned, contents clean.

Manitou, Colo.: the Manitou Cliff Dwellings Co., [ca.1920]. Color brochure. 1 sheet, 14" x 6.25", folding to 3.5" x 6.25", 4 panels printed on both sides, pictorial outer panels, 6 pink-tinted illus. Reconstructed ruins are promoted in this brochure of the Manitou Cliff-Dwellings "In the beautiful Phantom Cliff Canon, between Manitou and the Garden of the Gods." Also described as "A trip that is different -- entirely unlike anything else in the Pikes Peak Region." The sightseeing trip includes also the Tewa House, the "picturesque" Pueblo Indians and the Manitou Sky- Drive Line. In 1905, more than one hundred rooms of ruins were removed from private lands and replaced in exact replication of the Mesa Verde originals. The museum, hewn from solid rock contains relics of pottery. An attractive and informative brochure with photomechanical images of ancient homes and cultural attractions. CONDITION: Very good, light rubbing.

Manitou Springs, Colorado: Manitou Springs Daily Journal, September 1, 1888. 64mo brochure (3.25" x 5"), pictorial wrappers, ad on inside of front wrapper. Accordion fold contents in 6 two-sided panels (3" x 4.5"), with illustrations on one side and text on other, text at inside back cover. CONDITION: Very good, light wear, small crease to wrapper spine. A handsomely produced brochure illustrating the Manitou Grand Caverns, with pictures of the following caves and formations: "the Narrows," "Grant Monument," "The Interior Cascades," "The Dairy and Churn," "The Organ," "The Seven Columns," "The Card Rack" and "In Grand Concert Hall." The text, apparently a reprint of a 1 September 1888 Manitou Springs Daily Journal article, tells the story of the caves' discovery and provides lavish descriptions of these "dazzling wonders and gorgeous cuts and figures of Dame Nature...hidden and treasured in the bowels of the earth." George Washington Snider (1851-1921), a stone-cutter from Ohio, explored and… Read More

Camp Harrison, Georgia, Nov. 12 1861. 8vo, ruled sheet. 1.5 pp. A Confederate surgeon's letter illuminating medical aspects of the Civil War. Tazewell Howard, newly arrived assistant surgeon to George Paul Harrison's training camp outside Savannah, Georgia, describes his new appointment and attempts to use his connections to secure a higher paying post. He reports a certain dissatisfaction with his lot at the moment: My Regt left yesterday morning for Savannah-I was left behind to attend to about one hundred sick left behind in Hospital & Tents. I was anxious to go with my Regiment-It is the finest Regiment in the Brigade Although the camp is "one of the nicest places I ever saw" and his associate surgeon is "a good Physician and a gentle man," he wishes to be appointed "1st Surgeon of some Regiment or Hospital[...]I was in the mexican war nearly two years and in Philadelphia and New York nearly five years. I think, I can do full justice to the position." The addressee of his letter, J. M.… Read More

In the field, Port Gibson, Mississippi, May 1863. 4to (8" x 12"), lightly lined sheets fastened together at top. 33 pp. of manuscript. A compelling brigade battlefield report composed in the immediate wake of the Battle of Port Gibson (Mississippi, 1 May '63), an assault that set the stage for Grant's pivotal siege of Vicksburg; the eight reports of Army of the Tennessee regiments and batteries chronicle extensive combat; the capture of Confederate colors; the taking of hundreds of rebel prisoners and guns; casualties, and more. Likely transcribed by a regimental brigade clerk, this fascinating document comprises highly detailed reports submitted by regimental and battery commanders with a prefatory brigade report by Brig. Gen. George F. McGinnis (1826-1910), Commander of the 1st Brig., 12th Div., 13th Army Corps of the Army of the Tennessee. Included here are the official reports for each of the following regimental battery commands: the 11th, 24th, 34th and 46th Indiana; the 2nd and 16th Ohio;… Read More

Dunedin, New Zealand: J. Wilkie & Co., litho. [ca. 1880]. Lithograph, 30 x 33 cm, plus margins, mounted on original linen. CONDITION: Good, old folds, separation along central vertical fold in lower margin, with a bit of loss, light general foxing, minor losses and tears at edges. An apparently unrecorded map of the Solomon, Santa Cruz and New Hebrides Islands, which constituted the "field" of the Melanesian Mission spearheaded by English Bishop John Patteson, who met his end in the region at the hands of native people. This map encompasses three clusters of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, all of which were of interest to the Melanesian Mission-an Anglican missionary agency established in 1854 on the recommendation of bishop of New Zealand, George Selwyn. Beginning with Vulava, twenty-six islands are listed and numbered at the bottom-left. Three arrows-located in the margins-point outside of the map proper to the Norfolk Islands, Fiji, and Sydney; compass lines appear in the center of the map.… Read More

Boston: Gustavus A. Hyde, 1850. Tappan & Bradford's Lith. Lithograph, 18.75" x 26" plus margins. A map depicting Framingham Centre, Massachusetts, situated around the base of Bare Hill, near the Concord River. Numerous houses and commercial buildings are shown and identified, and the footprint of each is carefully outlined. Also shown are the town common, Edgell Grove Cemetery, and the Framingham Branch Rail Road. The relief of Bare Hill is shown by hachure, and two forests are depicted on its slopes. Little seems to be known about the surveyor and publisher Gustavus Hyde. OCLC records just on other map by him, a plan of building lots in Newtonville, also executed in 1850. Lodowick Harrington Bradford (1820-1885) was born in Boston and operated an engraving business there from 1845 to 1848, following which he joined engraver Eben Tappan to create the firm Tappan & Bradford, engravers and lithographers. After Tappan's death in 1854, Bradford continued as an engraver and lithographer under the name… Read More

New York: E. Robinson, 82 & 84 Nassau St., 1887. Hand-colored lithograph, 18.25" x 28.5" plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into black leather 12mo covers (6.75" x 5.25"). Early ownership inscription of "F. G.Himpler" and small manuscript map of portion of street on verso of two panels. Printed text from unidentified source regarding Lake Hopatacong cottagers affixed to front paste-down. CONDITION: Spine perished, front cover detached, map good, with some separation along folds. A scarce and appealing map of Lake Hopatcong showing the development, both current and proposed, around this vacation destination for New York city-dwellers. Depicting the lake along the border between Morris and Sussex Counties, this detailed, multi-colored map shows hotels, steamboat landings, elevations of hills, roads, coves, canals, marshes, municipal buildings, brooks, parks, and numerous privately-owned lots, many with dwellings, along a forty-five mile shoreline. The names of numerous landowners and… Read More

Saint Paul, Minn.: Lith. by H. M. Smith Ptg. Co., 1888. Chromolithographic map on banknote paper, with touches of hand coloring, 25" x 28.5" plus margins. A rare and early map of the city of Pierre, published eight years after it was founded, and one year before it became the capital of the newly formed state of South Dakota. Founded in 1880, during the Great Dakota Boom of 1878-1887, Pierre began as a ferry landing on the banks of the Missouri River, near the Dakota Central Railroad terminal. At the time this map was published a political battle was being fought by those advocating for Pierre as the state capitol and those favoring other cities, such as Mitchell (which was closer to the center of population,) Huron, and others. Being closer to the geographical center of the state and located on the Missouri River, Pierre won by a large margin in a state-wide vote. This map identifies the original plat of Pierre on the waterfront as well as sections of railway property along the rail line, two… Read More

Sedalia, Mo.: Morey & Crawford Real Estate and Loan Agents; Printed by J. West Goodwin, Printer and Engraver, [1887?]. Map printed partly in color, 30.5" x 24". An unrecorded real estate promotion map for the town of Sedalia, Missouri and vicinity, located at the junction of the Missouri Pacific R.R. and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway, and situated roughly half way between St. Louis and Kansas City. This attractive map depicts Sedalia highlighted in several colors, which correspond to the original town, various additions, and a park. Numerous plats-both inside and outside the town-are identified by landowner. The prospective line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (labeled M.K.&T Ry)-"now in process of construction"-is shown cutting diagonally across the region from the northwest corner to the southeast, while the Missouri Pacific Railway runs horizontally through the town. The city cemetery-located in the town's northeast corner-has within it a separate "Colored Cemetery." The… Read More