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Hardcover. Fine. 6 Issues. ½-leather-backed black cloth, gold lettering on spine. Illustrated with drawings, charts and many foldout engravings. 8vo. New York: Griffith, Bates & Co. 1856. First Edition. Signed by Navy Chief Engineer Alban C. Stimers on the first page: Alban C. Stimers U.S. Navy New York Feb. 1857. Stimers worked with John Ericsson on the design and construction of the ironclad turret ship U.S.S. Monitor, and served on board the Monitor during her historic battle against the Confederate ironclad C.S.S. Virginia on March 9th 1862. In 1862-63 he worked with Ericsson again during the building of the Passaic Class ironclads. He accompanied these ships during operations against the Confederacy, most notably the bombardment of Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, on April 7, 1863. Some wear to binding; some light foxing. Together with a 2-page letter from William Borden to John P. Anthony, Esq. Treas. Providence Tool, dated September 10, 1861, New York Navy Yard, (Greenpoint). The letter… Read More

Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Paris (1956). First Edition. One of 75 special copies on Hollande Van Gelder. This copy is No. 53. Presentation copy inscribed by Sagan on the front endpaper, For . . . from Françoise Sagan. November 7, 1956. Many of the pages are uncut. Minor wear to cover, o/w Fine.

Rev. Samuel Hunt. The Uncertainty of Life. A Sermon Preached in Franklin September 18, 1855. First Edition of a sermon by this important abolitionist. Rev. Samuel Hunt was installed as pastor of First Congregational Church, Boston, on December 4, 1850. He resigned in July of 1864. He then joined the American Missionary Association and was instrumental in establishing schools among the freedmen in North Carolina. He became the secretary and then vice president of that association, working with Hon. Henry Wilson and helping helping him to write The Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America.An unusual item of North Carolina interest.Original wrappers. Boston: Printed by C.P. Moody (1855). Some edge wear and chipping, o/w a Very Nice Copy.

One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator. This copy #248.Illustrated with 112 illustrations by A. B. Frost.8vo. Original gilt decorated vellum; rough cut front edges; teg. D. Appleton and Company, New York 1895. New and Revised Edition. Large-Paper Edition. Fine.