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REASONS!). Godfrey,
John A. Rhymed tactics, by “Gov.” New York: D.
Van Nostrand, 1862. 16mo (14.9 cm, 5.9"). Frontis., 144 pp.; 8 plts.
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Held in most of the expectable libraries but currently uncommon in commerce.
• Sabin 70769. Recent black moiré cloth, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Title-page and several others rubber-stamped by a now-defunct institution. Pages clean.
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Shakespeare
Riots in
Old
New York
Account
of the terrific and fatal riot at the New-York Astor Place Opera House,
on the night of May 10th, 1849; with the quarrels of Forrest and Macready, including
all the causes which led to that awful tragedy! Wherein an infuriated mob was
quelled by the public authorities and military, with its mournful termination
in the sudden death or mutilation of more than fifty citizens, with full and
authentic particulars. New York: H. M. Ranney, 1849. 8vo. 32 pp.
Hard to believe, but true.
Illustrated with a frontispiece image (repeated on back wrapper) showing the mob scene in front of the Astor Place Opera House, engraved by W.N. Dunnel. Includes eyewitness testimonies and lists of the killed and wounded.
Provenance: Rubber-stamped “Property of E.A. Cruikshank” on the title-page and on the inside of the back wrapper.
• Sewn, in original printed wrappers; edge chipping, back wrapper separated, small dark spot on front wrapper. Some dog-earing and ragged lower edges. Good+. (24589)
Engravings bythe “Bewick of America” Anderson, Alexander. Collection of wood engravings. [1855 – ca. 1890]. 32 images. Variously sized, 8.8 x 5.8 cm to 21.8 x 14.7 cm.
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Altogether, an excellent survey of Anderson's career and a collection worthy of study.
Provenance: Ex-lots sold at Libby & SotheyParke Berent auctions; acquired by Seven Gables Booksore; residue of the stock of Seven Gables Bookshop (1930–79), via the son of Michael Papantonio (2009).
• Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson, 1583, 1600, 1763, 1958, 2 examples from 2054. Varying degrees of age-toning and foxing, some items with pencilled annotations; the gathering in good to excellent condition. (25685)
HEALTHFUL St. Augustine, 1829 Anderson, Andrew. [begins:] St. Augustine, November, 1829. Sir, The nature of the present communication will present the best apology I can offer for asking your attention to its object....” [St. Augustine ?]: no publisher/printer, 1829. 4to. [2] pp. with integral blank.
Click the image for an enlargement. The format suggests this was printed for mailing to hospitals, medical societies, doctors, and newspapers. Whether it was printed in Florida is a bit problematic. There were presses in Florida, even one in St. Augustine in 1829, but the publication has no printer's slug anywhere. The typography is very good, perhaps indicating printing in Philadelphia, New York, or Boston, but that remains for a type historian to determine.
Apparently
very scarce: NO other copies traced through the standard sources including
OCLC and the OPACs of the State Library of Florida, the University of Florida
Library, and Florida State University Library.
An
interesting American medical publication, an interesting early American tourist
item, and definitely a good piece of Floridiana.
• Not in Servies, Bibliography of Florida; but see I,1430 for a version that appeared in a newspaper. Not in Shoemaker. Old folds suggesting this was once folded to fit in a pocket. Waterstaining. Two small tears repaired with archival tissue. (23078)
Inscribed bythe Author Angney, Lydia F. California and other poems. Gilroy, CA: Pr. for the author by A.C. Eaton, 1900. 8vo. 96 pp.
“Californianum”
— this copy with a laid-in slip of paper reading, “Christmas Greeting
to Frank & Annie, from Aunt Lydia.”
Lydia Francis Witham Angney authored two volumes of poetry, both published
in Gilroy, the home of the annual Garlic Festival, and endured a long widowhood
following the death of her husband W. Z. Angney. W.Z. served in the Mexican
War and played a major role in the U.S. occupation of New Mexico and in the
territorial government, then moved on to California, settling in Gilroy to raise
tree fruit in his orchards, but being sent to the state senate and called on
by the governor for other civic duties. He died in January 1878.
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• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; light shelf wear to corners and spine extremities. (22223)
Wildcats,
Bears,
Rabbits,
Otters,
Skunks,
Buffalo,
& “Wapite”Audubon,
John James, & John Bachman.
The quadrupeds of North America. New-York: V.G. Audubon, 1854. Royal 8vo
(27.5 cm; 10.75"). 3 vols. I: viii, 383, [1 (blank)] pp., 50 plts. II: [2] ff.,
334 pp., 49 plts. III: v, [1], 348 pp., [1] f., 51 plts.
155 fine handcolored lithographed plates by W. E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly after J.J. and J.W. Audubon, lithographed by J.T. Bowen. 
A lovely set. (23904)
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“My
Style of
Drawing
Birds”
Audubon, John James. My style of drawing birds by John James Audubon.... Ardsley, NY: Pub. By the Overland Press for the Haydn Foundation, 1979. Tall 8vo. 26 pp., [2] ff., illus., facsims. 
• New. Attractive.
“The Victoria Album”(Augusta's Album).
Luckenback, Augusta, collector. Manuscript on paper, in English. Philadelphia, Easton, Bethlehem, and elsewhere. ca. 1853. 8vo (23.5 cm, 9.25"). [84 ff. (12 inscribed)]; 8 plts.
The front cover vignette has been reproduced, in gilt, opposite the frontispiece portrait.
Provenance: The inscription on the front fly-leaf reads “Miss Augusta E. Luckenback [/] presented to her by her dear sister Em [/] Feb.y 11th/53.”
Binding: Publisher’s red morocco, spine gilt extra, front and back covers with gilt-stamped vignettes of Queen Victoria, front vignette surrounded by gilt-stamped floral border. All edges gilt.
• Binding as above, edges and spine rubbed, still bright and attractive. Mild foxing to some leaves and plates.
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Fanny & Friends forAMERICANS Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park: A novel. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. 2 vols. I: 200 pp. (lacking 4 pp. of prelim. adv.). II: 204 pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Uncommon: Only 10 U.S. institutions report holding copies; one guesses that most have had them for quite some time.
• Checklist American Imprints 11021. Recent quarter red calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels. Four pages of preliminary advertising lacking (only). Moderate to heavy foxing without apparent weakening to paper or harm to reading; pages clean otherwise. (20926)
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Much
Varia — An
Ad for aPapermaker!
(Aye!
We have Almanack[s])! Abell, Truman.
New-England farmer's almanack, with an emphemeris, for the year ... 1828. ...
Fitted to the latitude and longitude of the town of Windsor, Vt. but will serve,
without sensible variation, for all the adjacent states. Alstead, N. H.: Newton
& Tufts; Windsor, Vt.: Simeon Ide, [1827]. 12mo. [24] ff.
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the image for an enlargement.
• Drake 13641; Shoemaker 29925. Uncut copy; later stitching and later oversewing; dog-earing and a bit tattered. Title-page and p. [48] age-darkened. Occasional mild staining. (10027)
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UncommonAMERICAN
Tragedy
Bailey, John J. Waldimar. A tragedy, in five acts.
New York: [Pr. by J. Van Norden?], 1834. 8vo (24 cm, 9.4"). 124, [2], 6 pp. 
• Sabin 2736. Publisher's textured cloth, front with gilt-stamped title, greatly faded with extremities rubbed and worn, spine with paper shelving label and some loss of cloth. Title-page and some others lightly stamped by a now-defunct institution. Two short edge tears, some corners slightly crumpled.
Women's
Lives . . .Baird, Robert. Transplanted flowers, or memoirs of Mrs. Rumpff, daughter of John Jacob Astor, Esq. and the Duchess de Broglie, daughter of Madame de Stael. New York: John S. Taylor, 1847. 12mo. Frontis., 159, [1] pp.
• Publisher's blind-stamped textured cloth, spine gilt-stamped; binding lightly worn, with spine gilt rubbed and dimmed. Front pastedown with bookplate of J.E. Vanderhoef, front free endpaper with early inked inscription of Susan A. Baker. Some foxing to endpapers and a few scattered spots to pages; internally mostly clean. (8958)
The Andrade Set inQuarter Red Morocco Barcía, Andrés González de. Ensayo cronologico, para la historia general de la Florida. Madrid: Imprenta de los Hijos de Doña Catalina Piñuela, 1829. 12mo. 2 vols. I: [2] ff., 508 pp., fold. table. II: [2] ff., 512 pp.
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all of America north of Mexico from 1512 to 1722 and details
the activities of the Spanish, French, and English, covering not just wars but
offering much on the indigenous populations, New World diseases, and so on.
The present edition forms volumes 8 and 9 of the series Historia de la conquista del Nuevo Mundo.
Provenance: Bookplate of the great 19th-century Mexican collector J. M. Andrade on the front pastedown of each volume.
• This edition not in Sabin. 19th-century quarter red morocco with red textured cloth sides. Spine with raised bands and very good gilt tooling including center devices in spine compartments. Interiors clean. A very good set. (25271)
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