AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
Illustrated Admiration 
Life of General Scott. [New York?: 1852?]. 8vo. 32 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Sabin 78417. Stitched originally, but this now perished and leaves separating; irregularly trimmed, in the case of two leaves to touch text; some foxing/staining, and chipping. (26006)
The Daring Aviator
Tells His Own Story Lindbergh, Charles A. “We” New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. 8vo. 318 pp.; frontis., 23 double-sided plts.
Illustrated with 23 double-sided plates and a frontispiece, offering 48 images.
Binding: Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and airplane vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title; airplane endpapers.
• Binding slightly shaken, spine gently sunned. Two leaves each with one tear from lower margin, not touching text. (25989)
Still Thoughtful — Still Thought-ProvokingLippman, Walter. The scholar in a troubled world. An address delivered as the Phi Beta Kappa oration at the commencement exercises of Columbia University May 31, 1932. New York: Press of the Wooly Whale, 1932. 8vo. [40] pp.
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• Metallic marbled paper-covered boards, front cover with printed paper label; clean and pleasant, in original glassine dustwrapper a little chipped at edges. (22940)
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A Great Philadelphia Library: Bibliotheca LoganianaOriginal Binding, Uncut Copy Loganian Library. Catalogue of the books belonging to the Loganian Library: To which is prefixed a short account of the institution, with the law for annexing the said library to that belonging to “The Library Company of Philadelphia,” and the rules regulating the manner of conducting the same. Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Co., 1837. 8vo (25.6 cm, 10.1"). Frontis., xvi, 450 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. uncut and largely unopened copy in original publisher's binding. Among the books catalogued here are numerous rare and valuable volumes, many of which at one time belonged to the Honourable James Logan (d. 1751), a close friend of William Penn; several thousand books counted as part of the collection have additional interest as having been donated by or purchased from the estate of William Mackenzie.
Logan had actually helped select the original titles ordered for the Philadelphia Library Company, and after his death in 1751, his impressive personal collection served as the basis of the Loganian Library, which was incorporated into the Library Company of Philadelphia's holdings in 1792. The acquisition of this personal collection was a landmark in the organization's existence, and a Library Company document refers to Logan's holdings as “the best collection of books in colonial America . . . an American Bodleian” (“At the Instance of Benjamin Franklin,” 8).
This volume includes a chart of descendants of the Logan family, in addition to n addition to the lengthy bibliography of the Loganian library organized by subject and the brief history of the Library Company mentioned in its title.
Evidence of readership: Uncut, this volume is also almost entirely unopened; however, the sections “Mathematics, Arithmetic, Mechanics, Optics, etc.” through “Belles Lettres” have been slit for access (pp. 176–201), and part of the index was also clearly consulted.
• American Imprints 46259. Publisher's quarter blue cloth and tan paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label; worn with discolorations, spine sunned with extremities chewed and label stained. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpapers, rubber-stamp on title-page and a few others, no other markings. Volume uncut and, as above, generally unopened. Endpapers lightly foxed, pages clean. (27104)
So, Then. 
Are You Loyal?
Loyal National League. The Sumter anniversary, 1863. Opinions of loyalists concerning the great questions of the times; expressed in the speeches and letters from prominent citizens of all sections and parties, on occasion of the inauguration of the Loyal National League, in mass meeting on Union Square, New York on the 11th of April, 1863, the anniversary of the attack on Fort Sumter. New York: Pr. by C. S. Westcott & Co., 1863. 8vo. 144 pp.
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