AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
Beyond Borscht — War-Time Edition 
Maddox, Gaynor, ed. Russian cook book for American homes. New York: Russian War Relief, Inc., (copyright 1943). 8vo. 95, [1] pp.
• Brown, Culinary Americana, 3223. Publisher's color-printed wrappers, showing minor shelf wear, with unobtrusive creases. Half-title and title-page partially separated from spiral binding; pages clean. (22203)
Noble Orders — American
Ones Included HereMaigne, W. Dictionnaire encyclopédique des ordres de chevalerie civils et militaires créés chez les différents peuples depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'a nos jours. Paris: Adolphe Delahays, 1861. 12mo (17.2 cm, 6.8"). xvi, 240 pp., fold. table/plt.
• Vicaire, Manuel de l'amateur de livres du XIXème, I, 772. Uncut, mostly unopened copy. Publisher's wrappers, printed in black and red; expectable chipping and with soiling. Some pages lightly spotted; mostly, clean. A decent copy of this (rather fragile!) work.
Catechism in Micmac —1759, Updated Maillard, Antoine Simon, abbé, & Pacifique de Valigny, père. Le catéchisme micmac. Ristigouche, P.Q. (Québec): Frères mineurs capucins, 1913. 12mo. 306 pp., [1] f., 32 pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Click the interior image for an enlargement. Quite scarce. We find only one copy reported as owned by any U.S. library.
• Publisher's red cloth, all edges gilt. Very good condition. (14554)
Food for the Spirit — Food for the Body?
A KANSAS CITY MANUSCRIPT
Marshall, H.E. Autograph Manuscript Signed, in English, on paper. Kansas City, ca. 1891. Small 4to, pp. 3–14, 17–80, 83–100 [i.e., 96 pp].
Handwritten recipes include soups (from consommé to black bean to salmon bisque), fish (salmon croquettes to oyster omelet), chicken (chicken pudding!), sauces, breads, salads, cakes and pies, and miscellaneous concoctions like cement for china. Some food recipes are identified as to source (Mrs. Rorer, Mrs. Holmes, etc.).
Names appearing in the church notes, peeping out from under the clippings, are T.M. James, H.S. Mills, and Mrs. James Wilson Marshall — with Heath, Wilson, Smith, Ferguson, Hawley, and Ridgeway additionally appearing as surnames only.
• Stationer's blank book, all pages ruled in blue with a red left-margin line. All leaves loose, covers present, spine perished and replaced with cloth tape. Some chipping of the inner and outer margins of some leaves. A delicate volume: A miracle that it has survived!
English Humor — American Edition & Content Martin, Theodore, & William Edmondstoune Aytoun. The book of ballads. Edited by Bon Gaultier. A new edition, with several new ballads. With illustrations. New York: Redfield, 1854. 8vo. 216 pp.; illus.
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Illustrated with nine in-text wood engravings, all caricatures by Richardson-Cox.
There is a separate section of “American Ballads.”
• Publisher's brown cloth, spine with gilt title and decorations, front cover with a gilt image of a tall knight on a tiny running horse. Spine slightly cocked and its gilt darkened; spots of foxing on endpapers and several others. (23542)
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“Carry-to-Church” Hymnal/PsalterMason, Lowell, ed. Church psalmody: A collection of psalms and hymns, adapted to public worship. Boston: T.R. Marvin, 1844. 12mo (16.3 cm, 6.4"). 576 pp.
Binding: Contemporary black morocco, covers gilt-stamped with arabesque and foliate motifs, spine gilt extra, board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls. Front cover gilt-stamped “C.A. Babcock.” All edges gilt.
• Binding as above, corners bumped, a few spots of light rubbing to gilt, edges, and extremities. Edge gilt, though rubbed, still glimmering. Front free endpaper with pencilled monogram. Pages clean. Once, somebody’s treasure — “C.A. Babcock’s,” to be specific.
Holy History & Christ’s Life, for 
the “Lake of Two Mountains”Mathevet, Jean-Claude. Ka titc Jezos Tebeniminang Ondaje Aking Enansinaikatek Masinaigan Ki Ojitogoban Kaiat Pejik Kanactageng Daje Mekatewikonaietc J. Cl.
Mathevet Enawindibanen. Vie de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ par J. Cl. Mathevet, Ancien missionnaire du Lac des Deux-Montagnes. Deuxième édition, revue avec soin. Montréal: J.M. Valois, Libraire-Éditeur, 1892.
12mo (15.7 cm, 6.2"). xi, 384 pp.
• Cf. Banks, 147; cf. Pilling, Algonquian, 345, for first (1861) ed. Not in Evans. Publisher’s cloth, with binder's title “Vie de Jésus en Algonquin”; cloth a bit wrinkled over spine and showing slight rubbing over corners, with signs of a now-absent shelf label on spine. Pages age-toned and a bit brittle as of the era, with sewing starting to loosen for some signatures. Back free endpaper with portion of upper margin torn and affixed to back pastedown.
Don't Give up the Ship! McCarty, W[illiam]. Songs, odes, and other poems, on national subjects; compiled from various sources.... Part second—naval. Philadelphia: Wm. McCarty, 1842. 12mo [signed in 6s] (15.6 cm, 6.1"). 467, [1 (blank)] pp. (vol. 2 only).
• Sabin 42997 (with other two volumes). Recently rebound in navy leather over blue cloth, leather edges blind-tooled, spine with gilt-stamped leather title label. Title-page and eight others stamped by now-defunct library. Page edges slightly embrittled, with a few short marginal edge tears. Small repair to dedication leaf. Evocative.
For Books for the BUSTED A ChicagoPre-Fire IssueMcClellan, George Brinton. Report of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan upon the organization of the army of the Potomac and its campaigns in Virginia and Maryland from July 26, 1861, to November 7, 1862. Re-printed entire from the copy transmitted by the Secretary of War to the House of Representatives. Chicago: Times Steam Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1864. 8vo (22 cm, 8.7"). 145, [1 (blank)] pp.
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Christian “Pearls” Set in Blue & Silver McClure, James B., ed. Pearls from many seas. Chicago: Rhodes & McClure Publishing Co., 1904. 8vo. Frontis., 528, [14] pp.; illus.
• Publisher's dark blue cloth, front cover and spine stamped in silver; corners and spine extremities slightly rubbed. Front hinge (inside) cracked and back hinge tender; endpapers partially adhered to pastedowns. (22222)
“What Is Dis, A Chin-Chin to a Show Down?” McHugh, Hugh. Out for the coin. New York: G.W. Dillingham Co., 1903. 8vo. 107, [1], xx (adv.) pp.; 6 plts.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. Binding: Publisher's tan cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in black and white; designed by Thomas Watson Ball and with his “B” cipher. The cover depicts a richly dressed man at a tickertape machine. Top edge gilt.
• Bound as above; black stamping showing light wear: a solid, clean copy. (22208)
McKenney & Hall — Limited-Edition Facsimile McKenney, Thomas Loraine; & James Hall. History of the Indian tribes of North America, with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs, embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits from the Indian gallery in the Department of War at Washington. Kent, Ohio : Volair Ltd., 1978. Royal 8vo (26.2 cm; 10.375"). 2 vols. I: xxviii, 470 pp. 68 plts. II: vii, 534 pp., 53 plts., 2 maps.
Click the interior images for enlargements. A leaflet accompanying the set tells us: “These volumes are an official publication of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York. We would like to extend our appreciation to David D. Ryus, Alan Ternes, and Louis Bilka for their contributions to this work. Editor: Barry L. Kessel and project editor: Philip R. St.Clair.”
• Publisher's full tan calf, round spines, raised bands, gilt tooling in replication of an 1830s binding. Silk place marker in each volume. All edges gilt. With original prospectus and some advertising matter laid in, and in a brown cloth open-back slipcase. Both books and slipcase in excellent condition. (22188)
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