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Item #2332380 Cayuga County Historical Society Collections, Twelve Volumes in Five [New York]....

Cayuga County Historical Society; Adams, D.W.; Clark, John S.; Hawley, Charles; Shea, John Gilmary; Seward, Wm. H. [William Henry]; Snow, Benjamin B.; Baker, Charles M.; Dunning, David M.; Alward, Dennis R.; Howland, Emily; Wheeler, Cyrenus; Osborne, David M.; Hayden, William; Thomas, J.J.; Bostwick, Henry H.; Bronson, Deborah; Hunt, S. Benton; Ogden, W.A.; Baker, C.M.; Snow, B.B.; O'Brien, John W.; Seward, Janet W.

Cayuga County Historical Society Collections, Twelve Volumes in Five [New York]

Auburn: Daily Advertiser Book and Commercial Printing House. / Cayuga County Historical Society, 1878. Rathbun, Frank R. Limited Edition. Half-Leather.

Limited editions, each part one of 250 copies, some numbered on limitation pages, others unnumbered. Library labels on spines, library call numbers and ink name on endpapers, edges a bit.....

Price: $425.00

Item #2332081 The Friend: A Series of Essays, to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in...

Coleridge, S.T. [Samuel Taylor]

The Friend: A Series of Essays, to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed.

Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1831. First American Edition. Hard Cover.

First American edition, from the three-volume second London edition of 1818, complete in one volume. Boards and page edges stained, a handful of pages foxed, corners rubbed.

viii, 510 pp. 8vo. Cloth spine over paper-covered boards, paper spine label. This and.....

Price: $125.00

Item #2293126 The Boston Almanac for the Year 1865. No. 30. George Coolidge

Coolidge, George

The Boston Almanac for the Year 1865. No. 30.

Boston / New York: George Coolidge / American News Co., 1865. Hard Cover.

Includes fold-out map. 1 inch closed tear to binding edge of map.

[xx], 278, [4] pp. Fold-out map of Boston precedes text, ads on front and end matter, contents include: street lists detailing merchants, chronicle of events.....

Price: $125.00

Item #1894401 Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours. Devoted to Light and Entertaining Literature. Vol....

Leslie, Frank

Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours. Devoted to Light and Entertaining Literature. Vol. XXXVI. [Volume 36]

New York: Frank Leslie's Publishing House, 1884. Half-Leather.

Corners rubbed, binding repaired. This volume was probably specially bound for the original owner - Jennie M. Haddock in gilt lettering at spine base.

476 pp. Half leather - black spine & corners over boards, gilt titles & rules, marbled endpapers. A......

Price: $75.00

Item #2332262 Little Corporal Magazine, November, 1868, Vol. 7, No. 5; January, 1869, Vol. 8; No....

Little Corporal Magazine

Little Corporal Magazine, November, 1868, Vol. 7, No. 5; January, 1869, Vol. 8; No. 1; July, 1869, Vol. 9; No. 1; January, 1870, Vol. 10; No. 1; Appleton's Journal; Saturday, January 1, 1870, Vol. III, No. 40

Chicago, Illinois: [Little Corporal Magazine], 1868. Half-Leather.

First two pages cut with some remains still attached, some pencil marks, some pages soiled.

66-96; 96; 96; 96; 28 pp. Five periodicals bound in half-leather with marbled boards: Little Corporal Magazine, November, 1868, Vol. 7, No. 5; January, 1869, Vol. 8; No.....

Price: $75.00

Item #2332034 An Astronomical Diary: or Almanack for the Year of Christian Aera 1791. Being the...

Low, Nathanael

An Astronomical Diary: or Almanack for the Year of Christian Aera 1791. Being the Third Year after Bissextile, or Leap Year. And the Fifteenth of the Independence of America, which began July 4th, 1776.

Boston: T. & J. Fleet, 1791. Soft Cover.

Drake 3443, Evans 22623. Edges worn with loss, stained and foxed throughout, colloquial sewn repair along spine.

[24 pp.] Self wrappers. "Dr. Nathanael Low (1740-1808), a physician and astronomer born in Massachusetts, published Low’s Almanac, one of the publications upon which citizens.....

Price: $75.00

Item #2332357 St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks. Volume XL. Part I. -...

Mabie, Hamilton Wright; Cox, Palmer; Baum, L. Frank; Kemble, E.W.; Wells, Carolyn; Dole, Nathan Haskell; et al

St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks. Volume XL. Part I. - November, 1912, to April, 1913. [with] Part II. - May to October, 1913.

New York: The Century Co. / The De Vinne Press, 1903. Rackham, Arthur; Vedder, Elihu; Kemble, E.W.; Taber, I.W.; Birch, Reginald; Smith, Jessie Willcox; et al. Hard Cover.

Bindings loose, but all pages present. Corners rubbed.

viii, 576; viii, [577]-1152 pp. Includes twelve monthly issues bound in two volumes, comprising.....

Price: $150.00

Item #2336355 21 Discontinuous Volumes of National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). National...

National Fire Protection Association

21 Discontinuous Volumes of National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

Boston, Massachusetts: National Fire Protection Association, 1974. Stapled Binding.

No large chips, no stickers, no tears, no writing.

21 discontinuous volumes of National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Volumes include A Study of Church Fires (No. FR 74-3, 1974); Refinery Tank Farms (FR 68-2, 1968); Occupancy Fire Record: Petroleum Bulk Plants.....

Price: $50.00

Item #2335144 The Princeton Bric-a-Brac 1937 (Vol. LXI) [Volume 61

[No Author]

The Princeton Bric-a-Brac 1937 (Vol. LXI) [Volume 61]

Princeton / New York: Princeton University Press / The Schilling Press, 1936. Orr, Louis. Large Hardcover.

U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, which he sent to his grandmother with a TLS to his grandmother laid in, which mentions where he is featured in the book (these were purchased from.....

Price: $225.00

Item #2324149 The Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory: for the Year 1857: Containing...

[No Author]

The Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory: for the Year 1857: Containing Treatises on Rural Architecture, Laying Out and Managing Fruit, Flower and Kitchen Gardens, with Practical Suggestions on Various Subjects Connected with Rural Pursuits. Also, Brief Hints of the Rearing and Management of Poultry, List of Fruits Recommended by the American Pomological Society. Lists of Nurserymen and Agricultural Implement Makers in the United States and Canada. Illustrated with 80 Engravings, Representing Farm Houses, Cottages, Fruits, Flowers, Ornamental Trees, Shrubbery, Design for Laying Out a Garden, Etc. [with] The Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory, for the Year 1858; Containing Treatises on Manures for the Orchard and Garden, Garden Furniture, Profitable Fruit Culture, Birds Useful and Injurious to the Farmer and Horticulturist, Cultivation of Grapes, Rural Architecture, Etc., Etc., together with Lists of Nurserymen and Agricultural Implement Makers in the United States and Canada [with] The Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory, for the Year 1859; Containing Treatises on Underdraining Orchards and Gardens, British Breeds of Cattle, Cultivation of Ruta Bagas, Ducks, Geese, and Swans, Culture of Fruit Trees in Pots under Glass, Fruit Culture at the West, Etc., Etc., together with a List of Fruits Recommended by the Am. Pomological Society, at its Session Held in New York, 1858. [with] The Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory, for the Year 1860; Containing Treatises on Planting and Management of Fruit Trees; Dwarf Pears, Apples, Plums, and Cherries; Ornamental Deciduous Trees; Planting Evergreens; Cultivation of the American Black Raspberry; Insects Injurious and Beneficial to the Farmer and Fruit-Grower; Management and Varieties of Pigeons, Etc., of Practical Value to the Farmer, the Fruit-Grower, and the Gardener. [with] The Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory, for the Year 1861; Containing Treatises on the Farmer's Kitchen Garden; Shade and Ornamental Trees; Management of Window Plants; Cultivation of Everlasting Flowers; Ornamental Hedges; Sulphur for Mildew on the Grape; Designs for Farm Houses, Cottages, Suburban Residences, Barns, Etc.; Ornamental Fountains; Construction of Gates; Calendar of Operations; Cultivation of the Pear, with Many Other Articles of Interest and Practical Value to the Farmer, the Fruit-Grower, and the Horticulturist.

Rochester, N.Y. Joseph Harris / Office of the Genesee Farmer / Dewey & Dutton, Printers, Daily American Office, 1857. Half-Leather.

On the front endpaper is the name Thomas T. Newby in pencil. Newby was an Indiana Quaker and vocal abolitionist. Boards rubbed, leather drying, joints weakening, several pages appear to.....

Price: $350.00

Item #2291999 Peterson's Magazine 1880, Volumes LXXVII and LXXVIII [Vols. 77 & 78]. Peterson's...

Peterson's Magazine

Peterson's Magazine 1880, Volumes LXXVII and LXXVIII [Vols. 77 & 78]

. Peterson's Magazine, 1880. Half-Leather.

Edges a bit rubbed with minor loss from fore edge of front board.

iv, 478, iv, 476 pp. 8vo. Calf spine and corners over cloth boards. Includes all twelve 1880 issues, comprising volumes LXXVII and LXXVIII. Numerous engravings and color fashion plates throughout, including several.....

Price: $150.00

Item #2324674 The Craftsman. Volume First [I/1] For 1829-'30 [1830]. E. J. Roberts, Elijah

Roberts, E.J. [Elijah]

The Craftsman. Volume First [I/1] For 1829-'30 [1830]

Rochester: 'Published at Rochester, Monroe Co., N.Y. by E.J. Roberts', 1830. Large Hardcover.

Lacks one issue (number 24). Small section excised from p. 3/4, loss from margin with minor loss of text from p. 93/94, boards rubbed, pages foxed throughout with a few stains.

Small folio, contemporary leather spine and.....

Price: $750.00

Item #2332077 Pamphlets for the People Vol. I. [& II.]: On the Means of Conveying Information to...

Roebuck, J.A. [John Arthur]; Chapman, H.S.; Falconer, Thomas; Place, Francis; Allen, William; Hammersley, Robert

Pamphlets for the People Vol. I. [& II.]: On the Means of Conveying Information to the People, with an Appendix; A Letter to the Electors of Bath, on the Municipal Corporation Reform Bill, with a Postscript on the Conduct of Sir Robert Peel and Others, on the Discussion of the Question; The Stamped Press of London and Its Morality; The Dorchester Labourers; On the Qualification Clause of the Corporation Bill; The Amusements of the Aristocracy and the People; The American Ballot-Box, &c.; Persecution Preached by the Parsons of the State Church in Ireland; Uselessness of the Guards in London; Trades' Unions: Their Advantages to the Working Classes; Fallacies of the House of Commons on the Ballot in America; The Taxes on Knowledge; The Morning Advertiser and Mr Wakley; Of What Use is the House of Lords? Persecution of the Unstamped Press; Orange Societies; The Evils of a House of Lords; Mr Spring Rice and the Taxes on Knowledge, with a Postscript; Matchless Constitution; The Crisis! What Ought the Ministers to Do?; A Rotten Borough for Sale; Mr Bulwer's Sham Motion for the Repeal of the Tax on Knowledge; Administration of the Law by the Lords; Mr Ormsby Grove and the Landlords' Argument in Favour of War; The Peers and the People - Municipal Reform - Corn Laws - Taxes on Knowledge; Wholesale Obstructiveness of the Lords, &c.; The Conduct of Ministers Respecting the Lords' Amendments; Local Courts in Boroughs; A Short Review of a Long Session; Mr Grove Price and the Constitution; New Method of Disfranchising Electors, &c.; A Letter to the Duke of Cumberland; A Letter to the Future Municipal Electors of Bath; Borough Courts; Liberal Construction of the Reform Act at Leeds; Hand Loom Weavers and Factory Workers: A Letter to James Turner, Cotton Spinner; Commemoration of the Reformation; Mr Rintoul the 'We' of the Spectator; The 'Great Unstamped' Acknowledged to be Invinicible; Parties in the House of Commons: Dissensions among the Tories; O'Connell and English Agitation; Consolation and Compensation to Borough Town Clerks: Royal Prerogative; General Evans's Rule of Promotion in the Auxiliary Army of Spain; Conduct of the Authorities towards the Unstamped Press; A Church, What? A State Church, What?; Legal Wisdom - The Revising Barristers; Sobriety of the Working Class - The Gin Palace Fallacy; Democracy in America; Character and Sufferings of the Irish Clergy; The London Review and the Irish Church Question; The 'We' of the Herald; The Times; The Newspaper Stamp Return, &c.; Whigs and Radicals - Lord John Russell; A Letter to Dr Chalmers, on the Subject of a Grant of Public Money to the Scotch Church; Poor Laws; Progress of Democracy; The London Review of the Periodical Press; The Orange Exposure; Preliminary Reforms: Being a Summary of the Principles Advocated in These Pamphlets; A Letter to Daniel O'Connell, Esq. M.P., on Peerage Reform; A Letter from Geo. Sinclair, Esq., M.P., to Mr Roebuck, with Reply and Remarks; The English in America; Injustice to Prisoners; The Municipal Elections; The Whole Art and Mystery of Peerage Scheming; Cheap Law: Hints Addressed to the Young Men of Great Britain, on the Progress of Political Opinion; Should Politics Influence Municipal Elections?; A Repeal of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers; The Birmingham Political Union and the House of Lords; More 'Justices' Justice'; Stopping Supplies; Lord Glenelg and the New Australian Colony; England, a Step-Mother to Her Soldiers; Signs of the Times; Toryphobia; Despotism of the French King: Opinions of Republicanism in France; Whig Appointments to Office: Lord Aylmer, Ex-Governor of Canada; Note on 'The Globe'; The Orange Plot; The People Are Not to Blame: Libellous Fallacy of the Edinburgh Review; Decay of Whigism - Public Opinion in Bath - The Recent Dinner; The Whig Creed - Lord John Russell and the Bristol Dinner; Factory Workers and Hand-Loom Weavers: Ten Hours Bill; Prospects of the Coming Session: Views of the Radical Party; Mr N. Goldsmid and Mr John...

London: Charles Ely / John Longley / C. and W. Reynell, 1835. Hard Cover.

Twentieth century hardcover binding and end sheets, library marks on spine and rear endpaper, ink library stamp on a few pages, some pages moderately foxed, one pamphlet's page bound in the incorrect order (still complete), a......

Price: $750.00

Item #2264588 The American Hebrew: Jews in the Pageant of American Freedom, September 10, 1926,...

The American Hebrew Publishing Co.

The American Hebrew: Jews in the Pageant of American Freedom, September 10, 1926, New Year's Number, Forty-Seventh Year, Volume 119. No. 18.

New York: The American Hebrew Publishing Co., 1926. Kober, Leo. Large Hardcover.

Magazine rebound in violet cloth, with original color printed wrappers bound in, and new marbled endpapers.

465-592 pp. An issue of the weekly magazine which was originally founded in 1879, and continues to exist today, though it is.....

Price: $75.00

Item #2205712 The Genesee Farmer, 1851. Vol. XII. No. 1. - 12. The Genesee Farmer

The Genesee Farmer

The Genesee Farmer, 1851. Vol. XII. No. 1. - 12.

Rochester, N.Y. The Genesee Farmer, 1851. Soft Cover.

Front and end matter, fore-edge margin, and a few text pages foxed.

[9]-292, [2] pp. Shoestring-bound sammelband of twelve issues of The Genesee Farmer, reinforced with wood. An important mid-19th century agricultural periodical published in Rochester, New York. Collected articles on farming.....

Price: $95.00

Item #2260273 The Illustrated London News. Vol. LVI., Jan. to June 1870 [Volume 56, Nos....

The Illustrated London News

The Illustrated London News. Vol. LVI., Jan. to June 1870 [Volume 56, Nos. 1574-1600]

London: George C. Leighton, 1870. Half-Leather.

Lacks fold-out panoramic view of Oxford. Boards a bit rubbed with minor leather loss, front and end matter lightly foxed.

iv, 668 pp. Folio. Twenty-seven issues of The Illustrated London News, bound in one half-leather volume. Green leather spine and corners, gilt titles and.....

Price: $300.00

Item #2200982 The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the...

W. Otridge and Son

The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1791

London: W. Otridge and Son; R. Faulder; J. Cuthell; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; J. Nunn; R. Lea; Lackington, Allen, and Co.; E. Jeffery, 1810. Hard Cover.

Most of spine leather absent. Formerly the property of Lenox Library (bookplate dated Feb. 1874 on front paste-down). Front board detached, cover wear, page.....

Price: $50.00

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