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AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
Is
She or
Isn't She?
Bellamy, Edward. Miss Ludington's sister. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1885. 8vo. [2] ff., 260 pp.
deception, false mediums, seances, and contrition.
Binding: Publisher's brown cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt and black in an “Arts and Crafts” inspired design.
Click the images for enlargements. • BAL 954; Wright, III, 461. Binding with light rubbing at edges and some light discolorations to covers; ex–social club library with call number on endpaper, pressure- and rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Clean; in fact a nice book. (26572)
A Missionary's Melodrama Boyce, John (a.k.a., “Paul Peppergrass”). Mary Lee, or the Yankee in Ireland. Baltimore: Kelly & Piet; Boston: P. Donahoe, 1864. 8vo. Frontis., engr. title-page, 391pp.
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an Irish-born Catholic priest who arrived in the U.S. in 1845 as a missionary.
This edition illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and added tittle-page by “Harley.”
• Not in Wright, but see II, 329 for the second edition of 1860. Publisher's green cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding cocked, edges and extremities rubbed, top and bottom of spine with slight loss of cloth. Scattered very light foxing. (26908)
Letters to a
Sister
in Stockholm — A Swedish Feminist
AmericaBremer, Fredrika. The homes of the New World; impressions of America. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. 12mo (20.2 cm, 7.9"). 2 vols. I: xii, 651, [1 (blank)] pp. II: 654,2 (adv.) pp.
Click the image to the left The first London edition appeared in three volumes, but the present edition in two, as stated on the title-page.
• Howes B-745. Publisher’s charcoal blind-stamped cloth, spines with gilt-stamped title; cloth showing mild wear overall, with spine gilt attractively oxidized. Front free endpapers with pencilled owner’s inscription dated 1869. Pages slightly age-toned, with scattered small spots of staining. Quite a nice set.
Hands
Off
Our
Guano!Briceño, Mariano de. Memoir justificatory of the conduct of the government of Venezuela on the Isla de Aves question, presented to his excellency the secretary of state of the United States.... Washington City: F.H. Sage, printer, 1858. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). 22 pp., [1 (blank)] f.
• Not in Palau. Original yellow printed wrappers, removed from a nonce volume with stab holes in the inner margins; inside wrappers with a short closed tear and a little shallow chipping, light soiling and a few stray marks. Fold mark down the center and traces of soiling on the top edges.
“Genuine Specimens of Native Literature”Maya & English Presentations — With Notes Brinton, Daniel Garrison, ed. The Maya chronicles. Philadelphia: D.G. Brinton, 1882. 8vo (24 cm, 9.4"). [2], 279, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. First printing in the U.S. of any pre-Columbian text in the original Maya. This is no. I in the “Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature” series, opening with a description of the Maya and including selections from the books of Chilam Balam of Mani, Tizimin, and Chumayel, along with the chronicle of Chac Xulub Chen. Each Mayan text is accompanied by an English translation and the editor's notes.
• Not in Pilling, Proof-sheets; not in Newberry Library, Indian Linguistics in the Edward E. Ayer Collection. Publisher's brown textured cloth framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding slightly cocked, corners and spine extremities a little rubbed, spine a bit sunned. Ex–social club library: call number on front fly-leaf, half-title and title-page rubber-stamped. No other markings. (26511)
Explaining
Haiti to the U.S. in 1837 Brown, Jonathan. The history and present condition of St. Domingo. Philadelphia: William Marshall and Co., 1837. 12mo (18.5 cm; 7.25"). 2 vols. I: iv, 307 pp. II: 289 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. Binding: Publisher's brown ribbon-embossed cloth with original paper spine labels.
• Sabin 8530; Palau 36231; Library Company, Afro-Americana (rev. ed.), 1701. On binding: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823--50, Fs 1. Publisher's cloth, light spotting on covers with spine label of one volume chipped and the other faded; discoloration to head of spine head, vol. I, and strips of black cloth tape at head of spine and onto boards of vol. II. Ex–social club library: each volume with a 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Title-page and front free endpaper of vol. I neatly joined/reinforced with old paper tape; a firm, decent set. (26410)
A Volume EXTRA ILLUSTRATED & Then Some! Brown University. Celebration of the one hundreth anniversary of the founding of Brown University, September 6th, 1864. Providence: Sidney S. Rider & Bro., 1865. 4to (26.5 cm; 10.25"). [4] ff., 178 pp., [1] f. 
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A full list of contents is available by clicking here.
Complete
Barrett Browning
— Miller's
“Blue-&-Gold Edition”
Browning,
Elizabeth Barrett. Poems
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning from the last London edition, corrected by the
author [with] Essays on the Greek Christian poets and the English poets.
New York: James Miller, 1866. 12mo (14.4 cm, 5.6"). 5 vols. I: Frontis., 384
pp. II: 408 pp. III: [8], 400 pp. IV: 242, [2 (adv.)] pp. V: 233, [3 (adv.)]
pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's bright blue cloth (Krupp's style Wav3), covers blind-stamped, spines with gilt-stamped title in decorative gilt frame. All edges gilt.
• On binding cloth, see: Krupp, Bookcloth, 43. Bindings as above, minor wear to extremities, front cover of vol. V and spine of vol. I with small spots of discoloration. Each front free endpaper with inked gift inscription (“Lizzie C. Alvord From Mother,” dated 1868). Pages clean. A beautiful, very gift-worthy set. (26864)
Chocolate
in the U.S.
before Hershey
— Presentation
Copy
Bugbee, James
M., & Walter Baker & Company
. Cocoa and chocolate. A short history of their production and use,
with full and particular account of their properties, and of the various methods
of preparing them for food. Dorchester, Mass.: Walter Baker & Co., 1886.
12mo (17.5 cm; 7"). Frontis., ix, 165 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. First edition.
Provenance: Presentation copy from the Baker Company (in ink on front fly-leaf, “Presented by Messrs. Walter Baker & Co., 1887").
• Not in Cagle & Stafford; not in Brown, Culinary Americana; not in Bitting. Publisher's chocolate brown cloth. Ex–social club library: paper label on spine, call number on endpaper, rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings. A remarkably clean, bright, tasty copy. (27361)
Bunyan
Illustrated by
the
Brothers
Rhead — Large
Format
Bunyan,
John. The life and death of Mr. Badman
presented to the world in a familiar dialogue between Mr Wiseman and Mr Attentive.
New York: R.H. Russell [colophon: Edinburgh: T. & A. Constable], 1900. Folio
(33.5 cm, 13.25"). xix, [1], 143, [1] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's quarter lavender cloth over sage-green printed paper–covered sides, light rubbing; spine sunned, front cover with old spot. A few smudges to page margins, only; otherwise quite clean. (26920)
Little
Lord FauntleroyBurnett, Frances Hodgson. Little lord Fauntleroy. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1890. 8vo., xi, [1 (blank)], 269, [1] pp.; 14 integral plts. (incl. frontis.), illus. 
Binding: Publisher's red pictorial cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black, brown, and gilt.
• Good++: Some soiling to binding; light to moderate foxing internally. (8539)
He Tried. Burrows, Julius C. Civil rights. Speech of Hon. Julius C. Burrows, of Michigan, in the House of Representatives, February 5, 1875. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875. 12mo. 10 pp.
• Impassioned speech calling for integrated public schooling rather than the establishment of separate schools for blacks, delivered during the House's deliberation over the civil-rights bill and based on Constitutional law.
• Very good. Removed from a nonce volume. (936)
For other ABOLITION items, click here.
Japan during theYears of Seclusion, for an American Audience Busk, Mary Margaret, & Philipp Franz von Siebold. Manners and customs of the Japanese, in the nineteenth century. From the accounts of recent Dutch residents in Japan, and from the German work of Dr. Ph. Fr. von Siebold. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841. 12mo (15.7 cm, 6.2"). Add. engr. t.-p., [2], 298 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's olive-brown vermiform embossed cloth of Krupp's style Mis1, spine with gilt-stamped series and individual title.
• American Imprints 41-3339; Cordier, Bibliotheca Japonica, 475–76. Binding as above, cocked and front board slightly warped, sides with light discolorations; spine faded and head with strip of dark cloth tape extending onto sides. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate and call number on front pastedown, first three leaves pressure-stamped, no other markings. First half of volume with pages faintly waterstained in upper portions and cockled; a sound book and as good a “read” as it was for the club members. (26428)
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