AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
“In Search of ” — A Brave & Sad Account
Kane, Elisha Kent. Arctic explorations: The second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, ’54, ’55. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856. 8vo (23.5 cm, 9.25"). 2 vols. I: Frontis., add. engr. t.-p., 464 pp.; 1 fold. map. , 11 plts., illus. II: Frontis., add. engr. t.p., 467, [1] pp.; 1 fold. map, 1 map, 7 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. As described by the title-pages, the volumes are “Illustrated by upwards of three hundred engravings, from sketches by the author. The steel plates executed [by J. Hamilton and others] under the superintendence of J.M. Butler, the wood engravings by Van Ingen & Snyder.” The plates total 20 altogether, including frontispieces.
A
BROADSIDE Biography of his
Father-in-LawKeim,
D[aniel] M[ay]. Broadside. Begins:
“Thomas Shewell. By Major D.M. Keim.” No place, no date [Philadelphia,
ca. 1865–67]. Folio (34.5 cm, 13.75"). [1] p.
Rare: We fail to trace this via NUC Pre-1956, OCLC, RLIN, and the OPACS of the Library Company, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Library of Congress.
• Shallow tears in margin, folded once. Light age-toning. Very good.
A
U.S. Navy Classic —
21 "Elegant" Engravings
[Kimball, Horace]. American
naval battles: Being a complete history of the battles fought by the Navy of
the United States from its establishment in 1794, to the present time...with
twenty-one elegant engravings, representing battles, &c. Boston: J. J. Smith,
1831. 8vo. Engr. title, 278, [1] pp., 19 illus., 2 plts.
•
Second edition; first published in 1816 under the title The Naval Temple,
and with "authorship" ascribed to Barber Badger. Why this unchanged
second edition is ascribed to Kimball is a mystery. One of the earliest, and
certainly to that time the most lavishly illustrated, histories of the Navy,
it covers Tripoli, 1812, and more, with the text being heavily composed of officers'
reports and other official, eyewitness accounts. All but two of the engravings
are full-page text illustrations, not plates. and they are chiefly wood engravings,
only one being on copper. The two plates—illustrations produced separately
and inserted into the printed gatherings, and not counted in the pagination—consist
of one of each type of engraving.
• Sabin 1165. Original sheep, worn, dry, rubbed, joints partially open; loss of spine leather top and bottom. Expectable foxing. The illustrations still please, and the text informs.
COLORADO!King, Alfred Castner. Mountain idylls and other poems. Chicago/New York/Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Co., (copyright 1901).
8vo. Frontis., [8], [7]-120 pp.; 1 fold. plt., 15 plts. 
16 plates of Colorado mountain scenery, including one oversized, folding panoramic view.
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover stamped in black, white, and silver, spine with title stamped in silver; binding fresh and clean save for barely noticeable rubbing to corners and spine extremities. A beautiful copy. (16666)
Commemorating
the
First
Anniversary of His DeathKing,
Martin Luther, Jr. Letter from Birmingham jail. Stamford: The Overbrook
Press, [1968]. Small quarto. [8 (4 blank)], 17, [3 (2 blank)] pp.
• Stiff printed wrappers, center bit of top edge a trifle bumped. Near fine. (23499)
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THE KINSEY REPORT Kinsey, Alfred. C.; Wardell B. Pomeroy; & Clyde E. Martin. Sexual behavior in the human male. Philadelphia & London: W. B. Saunders Co., 1948. 8vo. xv, [1], 804 pp.
• Very good, in publisher's cloth. Front free endpaper torn out. Preliminary pages with a few light creases in fore-margins probably created from paper clips being fastened to them at one time. (10711)
From
Romulus Augustulus to Louis PhilippeKoch, Christopher William. History of the revolutions in Europe.... Middletown [Ct.]: Edwin Hunt, 1833. 2 vols. in 1. 12mo (19.5 cm, 7.625"). I: 280 (i.e., 276) pp.; 4 plts. II: 393, [1 (blank)] pp., [1 (blank)] f.; 8 plts. 
24 wood-engraved illustrations on 12 plates, some of which are signed “JWB” and one of which is signed “B.”
• Contemporary publisher’s mottled sheep; spine gilt extra. Fine abrasions or chipping to leather, especially to head and foot of spine. Offsetting from turn-ins; lightly foxed throughout. A closed tear without loss in pp. 327–28. All edges marbled.
French–Cree Dictionary with GrammarLacombe, Albert. Dictionnaire de la langue des Cris. Montreal: C.O. Beauchemin & Valois, 1874. [bound with his] Grammaire de la langue des Cris. Montreal: C.O. Beauchemin & Valois, 1874. 8vo (24 cm, 9.5"). 2 pts. in 1 vol. [7] ff., [v]–xx, 711 (i.e., 709), [3 (1 blank)] pp.; fold. map; [1] f., iii, [1 (blank)], 190 pp.; fold. chart.
Click the images for enlargements. Several bibliographies, including Pilling's Proof-sheets and Ayer, treat this as two distinct works. Indeed, the dictionary and the grammar do each have their own distinct title-pages, pagination, and signature markings. They were issued together, however, though sometimes separated for sale. The publisher’s original paper wrappers are bound into this volume.
• Pilling, Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages, 283; Newberry Library, Indian Linguistics in the Edward E. Ayer Collection, Cree-93 & Cree-9; Pilling, Proof-Sheets of a Bibliography of the Languages of the North American Indians, 2155 & 2156. Not in Vancil, Cordell Collection. Recent black moiré cloth, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Wrappers (bound in) dust-soiled and with edge chips; front wrapper partially adhered to half-title and back wrapper with Grammaire half-title affixed. Map partially adhered to an additional half-title. Page edges untrimmed; pages very slightly age-toned, else clean. Pagination jumps from 708 to 711 in pt. 1, but as the word listing goes from sagamité to sagamo it seems certain that the text is complete.
“The Anti-Christian Spirit, the Deleterious Nature, & the DemoralizingConsequences of WAR” Ladd, William. The essays of Philanthropos on peace & war ... revised and corrected by the author. Exeter, NH: John T. Burnham, 1827. 12mo (15.1 cm, 5.9"). 173, [3] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Inscribed by the author. Title-page with inked inscription reading “Mrs. March with the respects of the Author.”
• Sabin 38526; Shoemaker 29442. Contemporary green straight-grain roan, covers framed in gilt rolls, rebacked with green calf, spine gilt extra; sides and edges rubbed, with areas of light discoloration. Title-page and final leaf institutionally pressure-stamped, first preface page rubber-stamped. Title-page with inscription as above. Occasional light spotting, most pages clean. (24333)
Churchlady CookeryLadies' Aid Society of the First Reformed Church of Yonkers, NY. Tried ... and true cook book. Yonkers, NY: Gazette Press, 1896. Small 8vo. 143, [1] pp. 
• Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Publisher's quarter cloth with printed paper wrappers; wrappers showing only very minor wear, pages a bit age-toned but otherwise clean. (16647)
American
Gift Book
— TwoILLUMINATED
Leaves
The
ladies' wreath. A souvenir for all seasons. Boston: Phillips,
Sampson & Co., [ca. 1855]. 8vo (19 cm, 7.5"). [2 illuminated] ff., 288 pp.;
4 plts.
Binding: Publisher's red morocco, covers and spine gilt extra in foliate designs with cherubim at play. All edges gilt.
• Faxon 457a. Binding as above, front joint just starting
at top and bottom, edges and extremities showing very slight wear, gilt slightest
bit rubbed in spots; overall bright and handsome. Light age-toning and spotting
throughout.
In
remarkably good condition, unusually bright. (20886)
Progressive Charity Lesley, Susan I. [cover title] Suggestions to ward visitors. A paper read by Susan I. Lesley, before the visitors of the Seventh Ward. October 27th, 1879. Philadelphia: McCalla & Stavely, printers, 1879. 8vo. 24 pp.
Click the image to the right Provenance: Inscribed by the author to William C. Gannett, at top margin of p. [1]. Gannett spent three years in the 1860s working among freedmen in the South; he was afterwards to become a Unitarian minister and pastor of the church where Susan B. Anthony worshipped.
• Original dark blue wrappers. A couple of tiny tears at top edge of front cover. Very good. (20940)
NO Woman Ought to Be Without THIS BOOKLadies' National Magazine Leslie, Eliza. Miss Leslie's new receipts for cooking. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, (copyright 1874). 8vo. 520, 6 (adv.), [2] pp. (lacking 259–62) .
Click the interior image for an enlargement. • Bitting 285; Lowenstein, American Cookery Books, 637 (for first ed.); see Cagle & Stafford for earlier editions. Publisher's brown cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; binding slightly cocked, front joint cracked and reinforced with tape, cloth rubbed at edges and extremities, sides with spots of faint discoloration. Pp. 259–62 excised (being from the “household helps” section, not the cookery). One pencilled annotation. A very few light spots, otherwise clean. Not a great copy, but plenty of great reading and browsing. (23548)
Over
400
SMALL-PRINT Pages
[Lester, Charles Edwards]. The life of Sam Houston. (The only authentic memoir of him ever published). New York: J.C. Derby, 1855. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., 402, [6 (adv.)] pp.; 10 plts.
• Howes L271. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth, worn and spotted; spine gilt-stamped with title and American eagle, much faded, head pulled. A very few pencil marks and some pages dog-eared; occasional spots of foxing.
A Philadelphia Surveyor’s
Practice in a “Growth Era”Levering, John H. Manuscript on paper, in English. [Philadelphia, PA], 1885–88. Folio (35.8 cm, 14"); 400 (205 used) pp.
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