Genealogy

Rochester, NY. Very Good+. 1918. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Handsome original Limited & Signed First Edition #200 of 300 copies printed for private distribution. [ (x) 169pp]. 1/2 black leather corners & spine with gilt lettering over clean black cloth. Very light foxing on first & last few pages. Pictorial frontispiece. Fold out chart illustration. Supplemented by an account of the Vaughans of South Wales together with copies of official papers relating to the Vaughans of New Hampshire. Also includes a 19 pp illustrated phamphlet published in 1918 "THE MEMORIAL SUNDIAL AT ANNAPOLIS". This was dedicated to George Vaughan for his part in taking Annapolis Royal from the French in 1710. New England, Genealogy, Wales ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 169 pages .

New York: Privately Printed. Very Good-. 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth with a few cover stains. Text tight & intact. Map & photo illustrations. Paper spine label scuffed. Prior owners inscription. Genealogical table of descent. Index of names. Genealogy ; B&W Photo ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 158 pages .

Atlanta Georgia: Stein Printing Company, 1933. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/None Present. VG/1st edition. A solid copy of the 1933 first edition of John Ben Pate's self published county history. Maroon cloth over boards with gold gilt lettering on front and smaller black lettering down the spine. Some fading on spine and some light rubbing. Corners are still fairly sharp, no breaks in the cloth. Previous owner's name on the top of the front pastedown. Hinges have no breaks-front or back. Pages are clean and all are present. 198 pages, 12 chapters with 2 appendices. Great picture frontis with tissue paper between picture and title page. Several pages of old pictures of residents and buildings and at least one map. Truly a find, comes to you in an archival acid free document bag for storage.

Boston: N. E. Historical-Geneological Society. Very Good. 1860. Second Edition. Hardcover. 2nd edition, first published 1855. Original black cloth with gilt title on spine. Two volumes in one. Deckle page edges (i-viii) 1094pp. Portrait frontispiece. Illustrated with portraits, color map and a large fold-out map at rear of text. The manuscripts given to the society are extremely valuable. They consists of his entire collection of material from which he compiled the Watertown Family Memorials. Pages 496 & 497 are stained from laid-in newsprint. Spine ends lightly rubbed. Watertown, Mass. Genealogy; Maps; Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 1094 pages .

Milledgeville Ga.: Mary Vinson Memorial Library, 1999. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/None Issued. F/0/1st ed. As new copy of scarce and important cemetery records for Baldwin County Georgia. no soiling or marking inside or out, tight, square, with sharp corners. Red buckram covers with title in gold gilt on front and spine. 272pp. Milledgeville is located in Baldwin County, and is the home of several first for Georgia: First State Capital, first state penitentiary, first state mental asylum (at one time the largest in the world). Many prisoners and inmates are buried in Milledgeville, along with slaves and former slaves (Milledgeville was second in the state for slave sales, after the Georgia Coast). This volume has made a true effort to locate black cemeteries, along with the other "lost or found" cemeteries of the county. Included in the back third of the book is an Every-Person Index to the 103 Cemeteries and courthouse Markers. There are Indices for Military Graves: Revolutionary,… Read More

New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. Very Good+. 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean green buckram cloth with bright gilt title on spine. Decorated endpaper. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact.. (viii) 511pp. Town of Windham Map and the Abbe Country Map, Eastern Massachusetts showing many traveled highways. John Abbe of Salem and Wenham. Second to Ninth generations . Portrait photographs of family members. A few lightly foxed pages. Genealogy; B/W Photograph; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 511 pages .

New Haven, Conn.: Staford Printing Co.. Very Good. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean black embossed cloth with bright gilt title on front cover. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with photographs of Thomas Edward and Eber Bartlett. Index of Christian and Surnames. Original Armorial Coat of Arms and the present Coat of Arms. Genealogy (Bartlett) ; Portrait Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 112 pages .

Baltimore: Gateway Press Inc, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. 115 pages, indexed. First edition Hardcover in blue cloth with title in gilt on front cover and spine. Binding has light scuff on rear cover. Text is clean. Contains some illustrations from photos.

Macon, Georgia: J.W. Burke Company, 1934. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. VG/1st ed./Signed. A nice looking solid copy with a little wear. Hard to come by. Some molting to the cloth covering the spine, and a small hole in spine on the back side. Gilt lettering on front cover is bright, a bit darker on the spine. Signed and inscribed by the author to the previous owner," Presented to Mrs. Lula Hitch Chapmore by the author Mrs. J. L. Walker 1939". Binding is very firm, hinges and gutters are whole and good, pages are a higher quality slick paper. The first five or six pages have light foxing, after that there's no foxing. 547pp., with several intentional blank pages for notes, lots of maps, lots of illustrations, information about civic and church organizations. Church cemetery records, list of Confederate graves. Prominent families from very early listed, with a short bio.. A chapter on the Negroes of Ware County. This volume covers a lot of ground and appears well… Read More

Privately Printed, 1976. Softcover. Good. Detailed history of Shackelford County, Texas - a West Texas ranching community. Includes histories of businesses, churches, ranches, schools, many family histories and much more. Illustrated with historical photographs. Rare. No copies in WorldCat database and no copies listed in commerce at the time of this posting. 72 pp. 11 1/4" x 9". Tight, unmarked copy with moderate shelf wear and rubbing. Small oil stain to back panel. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

County Farm & Village Directory: Lancaster County, Nebraska 1916-1917. Winter, W. J.. Editorial: W. J. winter Farm Directory Co., Springfield, IL impossible to find hardbound,

Baltimore MD: Butternut and Blue, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. VG+/1st ed./Signed. The only flaw to this copy is that there is no dust jacket. Otherwise, the gilt on the front panel and spine is all present and bright. No wear to cloth or boards at the heel of both covers. Sharp corners. Now housed in an acid free document bag for storage. Mailed boxed, and I can have it in the mail tomorrow.

1907 edition of the St. John Genealogy, copy #216 of 500. Blue cloth with gold stamping on spine, rub mark on back cover. Previous owner made a protective dust jacket of plain white paper and glassine.Title page is orange and black. Fifteen B&W photographs of members of the St. John family and other family material. Protective tissue on front illustration and about five of the interior portraits. Pages are age-tanned, with stains and some writing.

H.E. Howard Inc., 1999. Fine / As New. NODJ. Signed - #812/1000. Bottom front corner very slightly bumped, else pristine. Photo is of the copy at Barbed Wire Books. Beautiful book.

Walsworth Publishing Co, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Extensively detailed history of Odell, Gage County, Nebraska, 1881-1981. Histories of businesses, churches, schools, families and much more. Densely illustrated with historical photographs. Rare in commerce. 192 pp. 11 1/4" x 8 3/4". Tight copy with minimal shelf wear and light wrinkling to head and tail of spine panel. Ownership signatures to title page. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.