AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
ONLY TWO Libraries Report Ownership
The infant's annual, with forty engravings. New York: E. Kearny, [1843]. 12mo. Frontis., 28, [2], 5–29, [1 (blank)] pp.; 10 plts.
40 engravings touted.
Click the image for an enlargement. American Imprints locates only the copy at the Library of Congress, and OCLC adds only NYPL!
Provenance: Front free endpaper with inked inscription reading “Presented to Matilda C. Brown, by her teacher Dec. 25th, [18]46 Elizabeth Shannon [/] Dansville, NY.” The back free endpaper bears a lighter pencilled inscription reading “A reward for good scholarship and correct deportment.”
• Checklist of American Imprints 43-2678. Publisher's green cloth, title gilt-stamped on front cover and spine; binding cocked, cloth with spots of discoloration, corners rubbed, spine gilt dimmed. All edges gilt. Endpapers with inscriptions as above. Foxed. Sewing loosening, with pages starting to loosen. (23780)
Mystery — Scandal? In memoriam Elliott Speer, 1898–1934. East Northfield, Mass.: 1935. Small 8vo. 36 pp.; illus.
He was shot to death in his study on 14 September by a still unknown gunman using a shotgun! The Northfield Schools Bulletin. Vol. XXIII, January 1935, no. 1.
Craig Walley's relatively recent Murder at Mount Hermon: The Unsolved Killing of Headmaster Elliott Speer has resurrected interest in the mystery.
• Original wrappers. Fine. (17126)
Rules of the Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
Mount Herman Lodge. Constitution, by-laws and order of business of Mount Herman Lodge, no. 38, I. O. O. F. of northern New York. Albany: E. H. Bender, 1858. 16mo. 32 pp.
Rare: Not in OCLC, not in NSTC.
Binding/Provenance: Contemporary sheep, covers with decorative gilt borders and the gilt-stamped name “H. Schutter” on the front cover.
• Binding rubbed and abraded; light crease-marks down center of pages and front and back covers. Lacks free endpapers and fly-leaves, four ruled leaves excised, some dog-ears. Penciled signatures on pastedowns. Waterstains throughout. 
One senses that Mr. Schutter was an active Odd Fellow! (23617)
“Cupid Befriend Me!” Ingraham, Joseph Holt. American lounger. Or, tales, sketches, and legends gathered in sundry journeyings by the author of “Lafitte,” &c. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1839. 12mo. [10], 15-41, [5], 59-273 pp.
a story about General Washington entering a leaping contest and another involving the love affair between an illegitimate son of Charles I and a young maiden from a Native American tribe in Maine. 
Russia & the U.S. — Navigation & CommerceJackson, Andrew (President, 1829–1837). [drop-title] Treaty between the United States and the Emperor of Russia. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copies of a treaty of navigation and commerce between the United States and his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias. May 14, 1834. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. [Washington]: Gales & Seaton, printers, 1834. 8vo (22.7 cm, 8.9"). 10 pp.
• Uncommon. Contains Jackson’s transmittal letter and a copy of the treaty (printed in double columns), concluded at St. Petersburg on 6/18 December 1832, and the ratifications which were exchanged in the city on 11 May 1833. The text is provided in English and French.
Click the image for an enlargement. This is the first printing of the first treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States and Russia; the only prior convention between the two nations was the convention of 1824 concerning the Pacific Northwest. This treaty establishes
and confirms reciprocal trade, and commercial and navigation rights to vessels of both countries, and also applies the same rights to thekingdom of Poland.
Government document: 23d Congress, 1st Session. Doc. No. 415. Ho. of Reps. Executive.
• Recent paper wrappers. Title-page with inked numeral in upper margin. Light spotting.
LAW for the Common Man of Pottstown Jacob, Giles. Pocket law dictionary, containing an explanation of the law terms most generally used; selected chiefly from Jacob's law dictionary. Also, a translation, of a number of quotations from the Latin, French, &c. Commonly met with in English authors. Pottstown, [Pa.]: S. Royer, 1828. 16mo (12.2 cm, 5"). 36 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Signed on the front flyleaf by “Thomas M. Rush,” and dated “January 4, 1832.”
Very rare. A search of OCLC and NUC-1956 fails to find any holdings for this item, but we are informed that there is a copy at the Pennsylvania State University library.
• Not in Shoemaker. Later 19th-century leather over marbled paper boards. Just a bit of bug-spotting on binding; small loss of leather at head of spine; traces of rubbing. Interior clean. A very good copy, small and slim enough to fit easily into a pocket.
One doesn't typically think of a workaday little law book as “charming,” but this one is. (21298)
The Months in Verse Jerningham, Matilda. Random rhymes from January to December. By Mrs. Jerningham. Baltimore: The Authoress (Pr. by Sherwood & Co.), 1873. 8vo. viii, 192 pp.
• Publisher's light-blue cloth, spine and front cover with gilt title, and front with black-stamped tree branch. Binding has small spots of discoloration, small ink stain on front, and patches of soiling and rubbing; spine with small chips at base, minor loss of cloth at tips. (23494)
For the INGALIKJetté, Jules. Canotlé Rannaga Kelékak. Délochét Roka. Winnipeg: Free Press no-rodeneletekteyar, 1904. 8vo (14.4 cm, 5.6"). 54 pp.
The Ingalik inhabited the middle part of the Yukon River Valley, Alaska.
Click the image to the right• Cf. Wickersham, 1050, for another title by Jetté with the same imprint. Not in Evans; not in Banks. Original stiff cloth wrappers. Pages very slightly age-toned, otherwise fine.
FIRST
Edition of
This LONG-Popular
PublicationJohnson, Helen Louise. The enterprising housekeeper. Philadelphia: Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of PA, 1898. 8vo. [6], [9]-78 pp. (lacking pp. 57/58, 71/72). 
• Brown, Culinary Americana, 4028. Publisher's printed paper wrappers, moderately soiled and lightly creased, front cover design with scrape, with pencil marks to back wrapper and inside wrappers. Pages age-toned; first few leaves with small areas of waterstaining to the outer margins, and markings and small holes where pencilling has been erased in upper margins. A very few recipes with pencilled notations. A used copy with two leaves missing, but solid and reasonably clean internally. (13786)
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Marriage
Counsel
[Johnson, John]. The advantages and disadvantages
of the marriage state: An allegory.
Springfield:
G. & C. Merriam, 1837 (date from t-p.; cover reading 1842).
16mo (10.7 cm, 4.2"). 60 pp.
• Brief parable advising young men on that momentous decision, the
choice of a wife. The allegory is based on the necessity of selecting an appropriate
traveling companion for the journey from Babylon to Canaan, with poor potential
mates identified by their lack of knowledge of the way, their inclination to
dawdle in unhealthful locales, and their inability to lighten a weary traveler's
heart. Moral of the story: Choose the lady with the map.
The much-reprinted allegory, which originally appeared some time prior to 1757, is followed here by two brief essays on marriage. The first comes from "James’ Family Monitor" and the second from Taylor’s "Marriage Ring."
Provenance: Merriam Co. archive, with publisher’s shelf label on the cover and ink-stamp on the verso of the title-page.
• Cloth spine over printed paper–covered boards, edges a bit abraded and spine fraying at top; shelf labels as above. Pencilled ownership inscription on front fly-leaf; small tear and dog-ears to two blank fly-leaves. Light waterstaining and foxing.
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