AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
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an unillustrated, PDF-format list of (additional)
Ultimately, a
Sad Story . . .
Colburn, Zerah. A memoir of Zerah Colburn; written by himself. Containing an account of the first discovery of his remarkable powers; his travels in America and residence in Europe; a history of the various plans devised for his patronage; his return to this country, and the causes which led him to his present profession; with his peculiar methods of calculation. Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1833. 12mo. 204 pp. (lacking frontis.).
• Sabin 14257. Full brown cloth. Much of spine cloth chipped away, including title and shelving labels. Covers worn, detached, and blind-stamped by the Mercantile Library (now-defunct). Cloth peeling at back cover. Title-page and several other pages rubber-stamped. Library charge pocket on rear pastedown. Paper with waterstains and spots of foxing; outer paper edges somewhat unevenly highlighted by hand with ink, thus framing each page of text on three sides. Pages 159/160 with one corner folded over. Without the frontispiece portrait. Fascinating early account of the perils of childhood celebrity. (7639)
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Books for the BUSTED
"THE
PATRIOTIC
DEAD" [Collins, William T., & Hanson E. Weaver]. Broadside.
Begins: "Headquarters Grand Army of the Republic, Adjutant General's Office, 411 F Street" Washington, 1870. 12mo (20.3 cm, 8"). [1] f. 
Single-click the image, for an enlargement.• One leaf, printed on one side and creased from folding into six parts. Top left and bottom right corners torn. Tear to lower margin resulting in the loss of one or two words of text. (6336)
Mr. Cook'sCommonplace Book
Cook, Benjamin H. Manuscript on paper, in English. [Rhode Island]: 1852–66. 4to (20.7 cm, 8.1"). 25, [51] pp. (28 blank).
Click the interior image for an enlargement. 
Present at the back of the volume is
a
list of “disabled men in Burillville [Rhode Island] July 1863”; a later, handwritten card with some information on Benjamin Cook and some of the pieces in this volume is laid in.
• Contemporary half sheep and marbled paper–covered sides; binding rubbed and worn, spine head pulled. Back (inside) hinge cracked. Leaves excised at both front and back of volume. Some light spotting and staining. (20849)
FIRST Edition In English Cortés, Hernán. The despatches of Hernando Cortés,the conqueror of Mexico, addressed to the emperor Charles V, written during the conquest, and containing a narrative of its events. New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1843. 12mo. xii, 431 pp.; ill.
• Sabin 16964. Publisher's quarter cloth over marbled paper boards, lightly abraded; light foxing to interior. Private bookplate. Good+ copy. (20502)
San Francisco Cookery in a
High-Flying Era Craig, John C., ed. The recipe book of
Lillie Hitchcock Coit. Introduction by Carol Hart Field. Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1998. 8vo. [2 (blank)], frontis., 5–65, [5 (3 blank)] pp. 
The recipes collected by Mrs. Coit reflect the “cosmopolitan character of San Francisco” during the 1870's and 1880's and show “the influence of the French, Spanish, Mexican, and English traditions in the cookery of the period.”
Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and one additional illustration.
• Paperback. Fine. (5461)
By Fr. “Double Leaf/Fixed Star”Cuoq, Jean-André. Études philologiques sur quelques langues
sauvages de l’Amérique. Par N.O. Montréal: Dawson Brothers, 1866. 8vo (24.5 cm, 9.6"). 160 pp.
Click the middle or right image for an enlargement. Father Cuoq (1821–98) was an extremely accomplished linguist as evidenced by his becoming fluent in both Algonquin and Iroquois; Field (Indian Bibliography, p. 93) writes glowingly of his mastery of these languages. His life as a missionary of the Order of Sulpitians, notably among the Nipissing at Lake of Two Mountains, certainly aided in his scholarly achievement.
• Pilling, Algonquian, 100-101; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 952; Field 391; Newberry Library, Indian Linguistics in the Edward E. Ayer Collection, Algonkin-14; Sabin 17980. Not in Banks; not in Evans, Masinanhikan. Original printed green wrappers, spine reinforced some time ago, edges chipped. Half-title with pencilled annotations. First text page rubber-stamped by a now-defunct institution; pages otherwise clean.
Algonquin Dictionary — First EditionCuoq, Jean André. Lexique de la langue Algonquine. Montreal: J.
Chapleau & Fils, 1886. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). xii, 446, [2 (1 blank)] pp.
Click any image where the hand appears on• Newberry Library, Indian Linguistics in the Edward E. Ayer Collection, Algonkin 19; Pilling, Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages, 101; not in Vancil, Cordell Collection. 20th-century maroon cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title and publication information; boards very slightly sprung, with some discoloration along back joint. Pages age-toned (especially first and last few leaves) and embrittled, with occasional edge nicks. Several signatures towards back of volume unopened.
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A Boy & His DogGO to SeaCupples, George. The deserted ship. A story of the Atlantic. Being adventures in the early life of Cupples Howe, mariner. Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1881. 8vo. Frontis., 258 pp. 
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black and gilt; binding cocked, with cloth rubbed over corners and spine extremities, back cover showing spots of discoloration. Sewing starting to loosen. One page (not the title) stamped by a now-defunct institution, and with an inked numeral. (13861)
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