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AFTER 1820
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AFTER 1820
Gaboriau & Corelli — Mystery & Romance
Gaboriau, Emile. File no. 113; or, the secret of the plundered safe. Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co, [ca. 1918]. 8vo. [2], [5]-190, 29, [7 (adv.)] pp.
• Publisher's cloth, front cover and spine stamped in green, white, and gilt with arabesque designs; binding cocked, otherwise showing next to no wear. Owner's name, partially erased, inked on the front free endpaper. (12602)
Evocative
OverviewGallatin, Albert. Indexes to documents relative to North Carolina during the colonial existence of said state, now on file in the offices of the Board of Trade and State Paper Offices in London. Transmitted in 1827: by Mr. Gallatin, then the American minister in London. Raleigh: Pr. by T. Loring at the office of “The Independent,” 1843. 8vo (22.2 cm, 8.75"). [2], 120 pp. 
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• Sabin 55624. Original printed paper front wrapper (only, and detached; back wrapper lacking); wrapper torn, with inked inscription in upper margin. Wrapper, title-page, and next four leaves gnawed by a rodent with loss to printed border of wrapper and a letter or two on the title-page — main text not affected. Pages creased, with some instances of light spotting.
Acts
on the Cusp of Secession
Georgia.
Laws, statutes, etc. Acts of the General Assembly of the state of Georgia,
passed in Milledgeville, at the annual session in November and December, 1860.
Milledgeville: Bougton, Nisbett & Barnes, 1861. 8vo. 267, [1] pp. 
• De Renne, II, 630; Parrish & Willingham 2777. Recent blue-gray boards. Old library stamps in some margins. A clean, tight copy.
In Italian & English — New York Theater
Giacometti, Paolo. Elizabeth, Queen of England, an historical play in five acts. Written expressly...for Madame Ristori, and her dramatic company, under the management of J. Grau. New York: John A. Gray & Green, 1867. 8vo. 40 pp.
• Fair in printed paper wrappers, front cover lacking, sewing starting to go.
What You Saw Depended on
Where You Stood
Giddings, [Joshua R.]. [drop-title] Privilege of the representative -- Privilege of the people. Speech of Mr. Giddings, of Ohio, on the trial of Preston S. Brooks, for an assault on Senator Sumner. Before the House of Representatives, July 11, 1856. [Washington, D.C.: Buell & Blanchard, 1856]. 8vo. 8 pp. 
• Removed from a nonce volume; respined with archival tissue. (576)
Powell’s
“Henry Mountains”Gilbert, Grove Karl. Report on the geology of the Henry Mountains. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1877. Folio (30 cm, 11.8"). x, 160 pp.; 22 plts., 5 maps (1 col.).
• The report is illustrated with
numerous plates and in-text illustrations depicting views of geographic features and cross-sections, as well as with five maps, one color-printed.
• Publisher’s cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title attractively oxidized and with now-repaired tear in cloth; cloth rubbed at extremities and split along portions of the front joint (with joint remaining solid). Front pastedown institutionally rubber-stamped (no other markings), front free endpaper with affixed label as described above, front fly-leaf with lower corner once folded in (now flattened). Pages clean.
“Where the
plantain growshot wind blows” Gilbert, James Stanley. Panama patchwork. Poems by James Stanley Gilbert. Illustrated. No place: no publisher, [1906]. 8vo. Frontis. port., x, 166 pp.; 20 plts. (incl. frontis.).
• Publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth. Lightly toned. Small abrasion on two pages, not affecting text. A very good copy. (23652)
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Verse for Volunteers — 8 Demonstration/Portrait PlatesGodfrey, 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.
A
PRB&M “FEATURED BOOK” —
First Edition ofMargaret Fuller’s First PublicationGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von, & Johann Peter Eckermann. Specimens of foreign standard literature... vol. IV. containing conversations with Goethe, from the German of Eckermann. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, & Co., 1839. 12mo (20.3 cm, 8"). xxvi, [2], 414, [2 (blank)] pp.
Click the title-page for an enlargement. • NSTC 2F18403; Sabin 71523 (series described in note). Later pebbled cloth, spine with printed paper label; cloth slightly worn over extremities and just starting to split over front joint, spine label darkened and with upper portion chipped. Spots of faint to mild foxing.
Offering Land inTEXAS Gómez Farías, Valentín. Broadsheet, begins: “El Vice-Presidente ... en ejercicio del Supremo Poder Ejecutivo, usando la facultad que le concede la ley de 6 de Abril 1830, y penetrado de la necesidad de socorrer a la multitud de personas ...” Mexico City: no publisher/printer, 4 February 1834. Folio (29.5 cm; 11.75"). [2] pp., without integral blank leaf.
Click the image for an enlargement. Rare: We locate only the copies in the Texas State Land Office, Yale, and Texas A&M.
• Streeter, Texas, 812. Very good condition. (21744)
Ah, Southern Cooking! “Gone with the wind” cook book: a gift with your purchase of Pebeco toothpaste. “Inspired by the picture, Gone with the wind.” Bloomfield, N.J.: Lehn & Fink Products Corp., 1939. Small 8vo. 48 pp.; illus.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. Cooks and servers shown in the chapter-heading drawings are black, except in one instance, and it is perhaps worth noting that their caricatures are never ugly ones; white hands (a mother and child's?) execute the taffy pull.
• Original illustrated paper wrappers; front cover with a color picture of Scarlett O'Hara at Tara (from the film). Light offsetting on title-page, perhaps from a slip of paper (now absent) laid in. One leaf with light fold-mark at corner. Penciled check-marks in margin of six pages; no other markings. Actually, this is in extremely good condition. (23702)
Hand-ColoredFloral Frontispiece Goodrich, Samuel G., ed. The token, or affection's gift, a Christmas and New-Year's present. Hartford: S. Andrus & Son, [ca. 1846]. 12mo. Frontis., 312 pp.; 4 plts.
Binding: Publisher's red cloth, covers and spine gilt-stamped with avian and foliate designs; all edges gilt.
• Faxon 786. Spine and edges moderately rubbed with front hinge cracked; spots of staining to bottom part of front cover. Front free endpaper with portion torn away, back free endpaper lacking; waterstaining in varying degrees to lower outer corners after p. 120. One signature extruded. (12944)
Pure
& Impure Hearts — Ten QuaintEmblematic
Plates
[Gossner, Johannes?]. The heart of man either a temple of God or a habitation of Satan. Represented in ten emblematical figures...translated from the fifth German Augsburg edition. Reading (PA): Henry B. Sage, 1822. 12mo (17.7 cm, 7"). 48 pp.; 10 plts.
in
English of this popular emblem book, originally printed
in German as Herz des Menschen. The preface commences by stating
that the work was “published in the year 1732”; but Gossner,
the influential German evangelical cited by OCLC as this item’s
author, was not born until 1773.
Of the ten engraved plates, eight depict various states of grace or lack thereof (the hearts of sinners are inhabited by loathsome beasts, while those of repentant sinners contain symbols of the Holy Ghost and of the crucified Christ); the remaining plates contrast the deathbed scenes of sinful and righteous individuals.
• Shoemaker 8988. 19th-century
quarter goat with paper-covered sides, limp and showing some water damage
with much wear and abrading. Hinges (inside) cracked; covers not coming
off, though one signature is separated. Pages age-toned and foxed with
signs of exposure to water. Used!
One of the Special CopiesGoudy, Frederic W. The story of the Village Type by its designer.... New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1933. 8vo (23.4 cm, 9.25"). [6], 13, [15] pp.
• Publisher’s quarter tan cloth over black paper–covered
sides, front cover with black- and red-printed paper label, in original glassine
dustwrapper; clean and unworn. An
elegant book.
"STUMPING"
for Temperance
Gough, John B. Platform echoes. Or, living
truths for head and heart. Hartford (CT): A.D. Worthington & Co., 1886.
8vo. 639, [1] pp.; 17 plts., illus.
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Graves, Henry Clinton. History of the class of 1856 of Amherst college 1852–1896. Boston: C.H. Simonds & Co., 1896. 8vo. [6], 4–59, [6] pp.
• Publisher's cloth, issued without dust jacket. Dust soiling and one spot of discoloration on the binding. Very good condition.
An
Abolition Sermon (1836)Green, Beriah. Things for Northern men to do: a discourse delivered Lord's Day evening, July 17, 1836, in the Presbyterian Church, Whitesboro’, N.Y. New York: Pub. by request, 1836. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.4"). 22, [2 (blank)] pp.
The author, a pastor and educator, was one of the most determined abolition activists in the United States; the DAB notes that while his dedication to the cause led to the closing of many doors in his career, his sermons on the subject “attracted wide attention,” contributing greatly to the catalyzing of American Christian opposition to slavery.
• On Green, see: Dictionary of American Biography, VII, 539–40. Sabin 28512. Recent wrappers. Foxing throughout.
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