Detroit. 1952. Broadside, 14 x 11 inches. Minor dust-soiling, rubbing, and toning. Very good. A delightful pictorial broadside advertising a Methodist church concert in Detroit on September 12, 1952. Photographs include portraits of the choir director, Marvin Dupre; the narrator, Rev. Poole; and twenty- seven members of the co-ed Dupre.....
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Washington, D.C. American Automobile Association, 1940. 640pp. including maps, illustrations and advertisements. Large folding map affixed to rear wrapper. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Wrappers soiled and beginning to pull away from the text block, spine cracked. Good, lacking the second folding map. Gives descriptions and points of interest for fourteen northeastern.....
Washington, D.C. American Automobile Association, 1941. 656pp. including maps, illustrations and advertisements, plus two large folding maps. Printed stiff pictorial wrappers. Wrappers soiled and faded, a note in ink on the front wrapper. One leaf detached. Very good. Descriptions and points of interest for fourteen Northeastern states, the District of.....
Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826. 192pp. plus ten folding maps. 20th-century green cloth, red morocco gilt label. Boards lightly soiled. Ex-Easton (PA) Public Library with their blindstamp on the titlepage and a faded ink number on the copyright page. Light to moderate scattered foxing to the text; the.....
Frankfort, Ky. Printed for the author... 1842. 152pp. 12mo. Original half calf and paper boards, printed paper label. Mild chipping to spine ends, boards foxed and lightly soiled. Small leather bookplate of Frank Cutter Deering on front pastedown, bookplate of C.R. Sanders to rear pastedown, otherwise clean internally. Very good.....
Fostoria, Oh. The Gray Printing Company, 1896. 70pp. 12mo. Original printed boards, cloth spine. Head and toe of spine bit worn. Leaves a bit tanned. Very good. According to Ernest J. Wessen, this reprint is rarer than the first edition of 1860 published in Cleveland. Brayton was stolen near his.....
Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1872. Colored folding map, 33 x 22 1/2 inches. Folded into original pebbled cloth. Front board detached. Bisected and mounted on linen, as issued. Old bookplate and withdrawal stamp on front pastedown, short closed tear along linen fold of upper outer section, not affecting map itself. A.....
Yverdon. 1784. xxxvi,436pp. Half title. Contemporary speckled stiff paper wrappers, backed with modern paper. Wrappers soiled and edgeworn. Repair in fore-edge of half title. An occasional bit of light foxing and soiling, but generally clean internally and with wide margins. About very good. Presumably the second French edition, following a......
New York. 1843. 36pp., plus [12]pp. of publisher's advertisements. Dbd. Lightly foxed. Very good. Campaign biography of Lewis Cass, second governor of Michigan and Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War, published preceding the 1844 presidential elections. Cass would lose the Democratic nomination in 1844, and though he succeeded in gaining it.....
Paris: Chez Pierre-François Giffart, 1744. Six volumes. [6],viii,454; [2],501; [2],465; [2],388; [2],456; [2],434,[4]pp., plus twenty- eight maps, and ninety-six plates on forty- four sheets. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, raised bands, spines gilt, leather labels, marbled endpapers, all edges red. Slight wear at joints, spine ends, and corners. 19th-century bookplate on.....
Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1930. 376pp. including illustrations and maps. Frontispiece map. Blue cloth, t.e.g. Head and toe of spine slightly rubbed, else very good, pages untrimmed and partly unopened. The role of the stagecoach and tavern in the settling of the region between Lake Michigan and the.....
New York. 1819. 228,lix,[7],lxi-lxiii pp. plus three folding maps (including frontispiece map, which is partially colored). Original blue boards with paper spine. Hinges cracked, spine slightly chipped. Front board and first gathering separated. Light foxing. Good. Untrimmed and in unsophisticated condition. Darby was an expert surveyor and geographer. He gives.....
Ann Arbor: Chase's Steam Printing House, 1869. 331pp. plus advertisements. Original cloth. Bit frayed at extremities, rear board slightly bowed. Some light scattered foxing, minor marginal dampstain to a few early leaves. Good. An interesting travel account, particularly in view of the imprint. The author was the assistant librarian at.....
Mount Pleasant, Mi. [ 1976]. 97,[2]pp. Gilt-stamped cloth. Very fine. One of 487 copies printed by John Cumming. Dr. Delavan took the Panama route to the California gold fields in 1849 and became a member of a company that planned to sell stock and promote their cooperative project of dam.....
New York: Charles Scribner, 1865. 191,[1]pp., plus seven plates and folding map. 16mo. Pink publisher's cloth, gilt and blind stamped. Cloth faded, spine extremities and corners lightly worn. News clipping laid onto front pastedown. Light tanning, occasional foxing. About very good. This comprehensive guide book to the Great Lakes and.....
Detroit. 1899. [4],202pp. plus frontispiece portrait and three plates. Half morocco and pictorial boards. Boards lightly worn and faded, some scuffing, corners worn. Internally clean. About very good. Autobiography of a career soldier, spanning the 19th century. "The Florida, the Mexican War and the Great Rebellion, together with sketches of.....
Indianapolis; Kansas City: Bowen-Merrill Company, 1896-1897. 1186pp. with numerous in-text illustrations. Quarto. Two volumes. Original red publisher's cloth, boards gilt stamped, spine gilt. Corners bumped, edges worn, hinges starting, spine extremities somewhat frayed. Small bookplates on front and rear pastedowns. Minor dust soiling to edges of text block. Good plus.....
[Marquette, Mi.? 1851-1852]. Twelve volumes. [40]; [32]; [32]; [36]; [34]; [36]; [38]; [32]; [34]; [40]; [40]; [32]pp. Approximately 54,000 words in total. Oblong octavo. Plain paper wrappers, handstitched, manuscript title on front wrappers. Faint old vertical fold to center of each volume; occasional light soiling and chipping and even tanning.....
Amsterdam: Jean Frederic Bernard, 1737. Two volumes. [40],540,[15]; [4],xxiii,[1],373,[3]pp., plus sixteen copper- engraved plates and three folding copper- engraved maps. Half titles. Quarto. 19th-century three- quarter calf and marbled boards, raised bands, spines gilt. Light scuffing to spines, moderate edge wear. Minor scattered foxing, small marginal repair to frontispiece in.....
Washington. 1853. Forty-three maps, plans and plates, mostly folding, with two views printed on one leaf. Quarto. Original gilt cloth. Spine nearly perished, edgeworn, a number of the maps dampstained, but good. A vast collection of maps and illustrations issued to accompany the President's Message of 1853-54. The Message was.....
Washington. 1854. Forty-five maps, charts and plans, mostly folding. Quarto. Original gilt cloth. Edge wear, chipping at head and toe of spine, ex-lib. with bookplate and stamps, dampstained, some splitting at folds. Good. A vast collection of maps and charts to illustrate various governmental reports contained in the President's Message.....
Pittsburgh: Published by H. Patterson & Lambdin, 1820. 46,[2],47-274pp. including sixteen maps. 12mo. Contemporary half sheep and paper- covered boards, spine gilt. Worn at spine ends and corners, three small worm holes in spine, boards rubbed and paper scuffed. Modern bookplate on front pastedown, two ownership stamps on endpapers. Bottom.....
Washington. 1810. 61pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Tanned. Very good. Lists proposed post roads in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Maryland, Delaware, Louisiana, Virginia, Kentucky, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi.
Madison, Wi. 1970. xv,[1],275pp. plus illustrations. Cloth, spine gilt. Near fine. In dust jacket. A scholarly examination of the various primary and secondary records regarding the activities of the pioneering French Jesuit missionary, explorer, and trader.
London: Richard Bentley, 1835. Two volumes. [12],336; [8]340pp. Original paper boards, printed spine labels. Hinges and spines cracked, spine extremities and labels chipped, light edge and corner wear. Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper of first volume. Light dust soiling at edges, with an occasional fox mark. Good, in.....
