Mitchell's
New Map of Texas, Oregon and California with the Regions Adjoining. Philadelphia:
Augustus S. Mitchell, 1846.
16mo when folded,housed in original green cloth covers, stamped and embosssed in blind, lettered in gilt.
The THE French Convert: BEING A True Relation of the happy CONVERSION OF A Noble French Lady, FROM The Errors and Superstitions of Popery, to the Reformed Religion, by means of a Protestant Gardiner, Her Servant. Wherein is shewed Her Great and Unparallel'd Sufferings on the Account of her said Conversion; as also her wonderful Deliverance from two Assassines hired by a Popish Priest to Murther her: And of her Miraculous Preservation in a Wood for Two Years; and how she was at last Providentially found by her Husband, who (together with her Parents) was brought over by her Means to the Embracing of the True Religion, as were divers others also. The whole Relation being sent by a Protestant Minister, now a Prisoner in France, to a French Refugee in London. London, 1696.
This book is identical to the only other known copy which is at the Beinecke Library at Yale University. This volume is identical in binding, blind tooling, type of paper, typography (the upside down "commas" used as apostrophes, for instance), pagination, etc. The Yale copy is declared "A Boston Piracy" and dated 1708 by Yale, the date likely because of the inscription. These two copies, Yale's and the present one, are different from the Trinity College, Cambridge copy, and are clearly not the same edition.
The Tales of Peter Parley About America.Boston: S.G. Goodrich, 1827. Illustrated with 36 wood engravings on 32 plates by Alonso Hartwell, J.W. Barber, and others. 12mo, original quarter sheep and slate boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Housed in custom full green morocco clamshell box, with full cloth chemise. Covers rubbed and a little browned, corners worn, light to moderately heavy foxing throughout. Top of title page excised from 7/8 to one inch above the word “Tales”, resulting in loss of the word “The”. The following leaf containing the Preface, excised 1/4 inch from top with no loss of text. Both excisions seem to have been undertaken to remove an inked notation, scant traces of which remain, probably initals or a name.
A virtually complete collection of fine First Editions of their works. Boston, New York and elsewhere: Various publishers, 1916-1966. Various sizes, most bound in cloth, most in publisher's dust jackets. Generally in fine condition. First editions and limited editions. Many signed and inscribed copies.
The
Clergy-Man’s Recreation:
Shewing the Pleasure and Profit of the Art of Gardening. London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1717.
John Laurence was the Rector of Yelvertoft in Northamptonshire in England and his was the first real eighteenth century treatise on gardening in
England. The very practical nature of his works made them very popular,
includingto the colonists in America.
Senator Benton frees his slave, signed document
Act of emancipation, signed by the famous statesman Thomas Hart Benton and his wife Elizabeth, emancipating their 41-year old slave Sarah after approximately 14 years of "long and faithful services".
: American Notes For General Circulation.
Dickens travelled extensively in America and observed its people, society, landscape and government. He was entranced by America's beauty and repelled by the viciousness exhibited in the use of slavery.