Peace War and Adventure - an autobiographical memoir by CHESTERTON George Laval - 1853

St. Louis / Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Co, 1909. First Edition . Half Leather. Near Fine. 12 3/8" Tall. Plates. 561 pp. Volume 1 only of a two volume biographical supplement to the history, in a larger format. A massive volume, finely bound in original half leather with leather spine and tips over watered paper, with similar watered endpapers. Fine full page portrait plates, well engraved, tissue guards. Gilt bright, minute losses of gilding, leather binding professionally refreshed and quite attractive. Hinges sound No names or marks. Contents immaculate and fresh. Very scarce, only a few copies in institutional collections.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 7 13/16" Tall. Photographs and Drawings. Xi, 300 Pp + 4 Pp Ad For "How The Other Half Lives" At Rear. Original Violet Cloth, Lettered In Gilt, With Additional Purple Lettering And Design. A Worn But Solid Example Of An Important Book, Presenting The Author's Observations Of Slum Life In New York City, Following His Earlier 1890 Book. Cloth With Light Wear, Fraying At Top Of Spine And Near Bottom Of Spine And Along 3/4" Of Front Spine Edge (Archivally Repaired), Fraying At Two Front Tips, Thin Vertical Strip Of Cloth Worn Or Torn Away Near Center Of Spine. Gilt Lettering Still Bright, Purple Lettering Strong. All Illustrations And Photographs Present, All Pages Solidly Attached, Binding And Hinges Are Solid. No Names Or Marks Or Bookplates. Slums, With The Accompanying Loss Of Life, And Genetic Dead Ends, Are The Natural By-Product Of The Urban Manifestation Of Feudal Capitalism, Which Is Essentially A Marriage Agency For… Read More

First edition, hardcover, New York, 1865. Condition is Very Good: primary condition issue is presence of a modern professional reproduction of the folding map. There is mild to moderate foxing seen on the plates, very little in the text. Some occasional old corner folds. No writing, vandalism or other issues. Binding is sound. Paginates: blanks(2), map, (i)-(viii), (9)-82, blanks(2), 8 unpaginated plates. Original blind stamped boards. Back board shows considerably more wear than the front. The new map is on laid paper similar to that used in the book. An extremely scarce book. None for sale. Last seen at auction 1908. Sabin 461. WorldCat locates 18 physical copies. Please see images of the book you will receive. Notes: Author not identified however occasionally attributed to C. H. Burt. His name can be seen on some of the plates. I have more info on this if you are interested. Feel free to inquire. More notes: the quality of the reproduced map was limited by the mediocre source material.

Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1847. Hardcover. Good. With author's autograph letter signed and dated 1854 tipped in. Two volumes. Boards in publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering on spines; ornate decorative blind-stamping on spines and front covers. Top of each spine is chipped; fore-corners exposed. Previous owner's blind-stamp on title pages and address label on front pastedowns. Newsprint portrait of author affixed to ffep of Vol. I. Frontispiece portrait of Joseph Reed with tissue guard in Vol. I. 8vo. pp. xxiii, [2], 26-437, plus [2] ads; [9], x-xv, [2],18-507. [Howes, R137] Biography of Joseph Reed (1741-1785), Founding Father of the United States, aide-de-camp to George Washington, member of the Continental Congress, and third President of Pennsylvania, written by his grandson, William Bradford Reed (1806-1876). An interesting if slightly worn copy of this scarce biography of a Founding Father, with the author's 1854 handwritten letter which touches on the death… Read More

Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas JeffersonPrinted by David Carlisle for Thomas & Andrews [et al], Boston, 1801. Eighth American Edition. In original calfskin morocco label, gilt. 364pp. folding map, and folding table - lacking the frontis. portrait of Jefferson. The map by Samuel Lewis is dated 1794. It is the same map as that issued with the Philadelphia 1794 edition. Condition: The map is torn and so is the fold-out table (please see the photos) This edition is lacking the engraved frontis. portrait of Jefferson that usually accompanies the Eighth Edition. About the Notes: Notes on the State of Virginia, by Thomas Jefferson, is at once a compendium of information about the state and a sweeping commentary on natural history, society, politics, education, religion, slavery, liberty, and law. Many consider it the most important American book written before 1800. Jefferson originally composed the work in 1781 in answer to queries posed by a French diplomat, and then revised and expanded it into… Read More

Gardner, Mass.: Lithotype, 1888. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. 1st, pebbled brown cloth w/ bevelled edges, good plus; spine sunned, hinges starting esp. in the rear, 2 owner's names on first blank page. 320 pp. + an extraordinary number of plates, mostly photographic portraits; a few are photos of buildings, and there are a few steel-engraved portraits (these have onionskin interleaves). Invaluable for genealogical research.

1882 1ed Gerrish Army Life Civil War Memoir Gettysburg 20th Maine Union Antietam
Theodore Gerrish's 'Army Life' is a post-Civil War memoir of the author's experiences during the Civil War. As a member of the 20th Maine, Gerrish and the rest of the Army of the Potomac were part of some of the most iconic battles of the Civil War including Antietam, Chancellorsville, Spottsylvania, and of course the Battle of Gettysburg.
Item number: #11297
Price: $499
GERRISH, Theodore
Army life : a private's reminiscences of the Civil War
New York : Portland : Hoyt, Fogg & Donham, 1882. First edition.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[3], 372, [2]
· References: Nevins I 93
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Provenance: Stamp – W.S. Bridges
o Pvt. W.S. Bridges served during the US Civil War in the Confederate Army with the 50th Alabama Infantry, Company G.
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
· Size: ~8in X 5.5in (19.5cm x 13cm)
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Syracuse, NY: Printed At the Journal Office. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, edges soiled.. 1871. Hardcover. Original brown blindstamped cloth. Illustrated ads throughout. Folding frontispiece map of Columbia County. Histories of the towns and villages in Columbia County, nestled between the Hudson River and Massachusetts and Connecticut borders. No other copies listed for sale in the trade at the time of listing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 337 pages .

1864 1ed Color-Guard LOUISIANA Civil War Account Hosmer Slavery Camp Life CSA
James Kendall Hosmer was a Civil War-era American historian who is remembered for books on American politics and the development in the American south. One of his best works was 'The Color-Guard' which, according to Nevins, is
"an excellent and even-tempered memoir of Army life in Louisiana'.
In it, Hosmer describes Confederate and Union camp life, descriptions and observations of the carnage of war, the role of the negro in various troops, and various strategies used in combat.

Item number: #18448
Price: $499
HOSMER, James K
The color-guard: being a corporal's notes of military service in the Nineteenth army corps
Boston: Walker, Wise, and Co., 1864. First edition.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
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xii, 9-244
· References: Nevins I, 107; Sabin 33105
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
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Tan cloth
· Size: ~7.25in X 4.75in (18.5cm x 12cm)
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Includes 9 leaves of plates from photographs and 2 folding maps/charts.Laid in is prospectus for several publications by the publisher of Wagner's book.