NEW JERSEY OFFICIAL AAA ROAD MAP....
1923. 16-panel map. Some foxing, soiled. Minor tears at top of map. Good. Map of New Jersey, includes extracts from the traffic laws of the state and a ferry schedule.
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NORTHEASTERN TOUR BOOK [cover title].
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.....
NORTHEASTERN TOUR BOOK [cover title].
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.....
ANNO REGNI GEORGII III. REGIS MAGNÆ BRITANNIÆ, FRANCIÆ, & HIBERNIÆ, DECIMO SEXTO. AT THE PARLIAMENT BEGUN AND HOLDEN AT WESTMINSTER, THE TWENTY-NINTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, ANNO DOMINI 1774...AND FROM THENCE CONTINUED, BY SEVERAL PROROGATIONS, TO THE TWENTY-SIXTH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1775; BEING THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FOURTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN.
London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1776. 210,215-250,253-330,333-370,373-442,445- 470,473-614,617-654,657-678,681-828pp. Folio. Modern calf, spine gilt, raised bands. Each act has separate general titlepage; pagination and register are continuous. Slight shelf wear, occasional tanning, lacking one general titlepage and several blanks (see below). Very good. An impressive collection of the.....
RAILROAD, CANAL & COUNTY MAP OF PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY & ADJOINING STATES.
Philadelphia. 1864. Folding pocket map, 26 x 36 inches, with some period color. Bound into original 16mo. pebbled brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Minor repairs, else very nice. The watershed of the Allegheny River in the "Oil District," Venago County, is marked in red. A reduced version of.....
SHERMAN'S HISTORICAL RAID. THE MEMOIRS IN THE LIGHT OF THE RECORD. A REVIEW BASED UPON COMPILATIONS FROM THE FILES OF THE WAR OFFICE.
Cincinnati: Wilstach, Baldwin, & Co., 1875. [4],276,[4]pp. plus four-page facsimile of Sherman's terms with Johnston. Original blue cloth, gilt, boards and spine tooled in blind and black, rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Moderate shelf wear. Interior a bit tanned, occasional very minor foxing. Contemporary presentation inscription on front free.....
[AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM WILLIAM BRADFORD, JR. TO JOSEPH CLARK, LEAVING CLARK IN CHARGE WHILE BRADFORD IS AWAY].
[N.p., but Valley Forge, Pa.]: January 10, 1778. [1]p. plus integral address leaf. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor soiling, heavier on address leaf. Small paper loss on address leaf from wax seal. Very good. In a folio-sized blue half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine.....
GOOD ORDER ESTABLISHED IN PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY....
Cleveland. 1902. 80pp. Half title. Paper boards. Chipped at toe of spine, remnants of small circular label to front board. Very good. Reprinted from the original edition of 1685, the present edition limited to 250 copies, numbered, with an introduction and notes by Frederick J. Shepard. The original was the.....
THE APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC ANSWERED, IN BEHALF OF THE NON-EPISCOPAL CHURCHES IN AMERICA; CONTAINING REMARKS ON WHAT DR. THOMAS BRADBURY CHANDLER HAS ADVANCED....WHEREIN THE REASONS FOR AN AMERICAN EPISCOPATE ARE SHEWN TO BE INSUFFICIENT, AND THE OBJECTIONS AGAINST IT IN FULL FORCE.
Boston: Printed by Kneeland and Adams, 1768. 205,[1]pp. Half title. Modern blue cloth, spine gilt. Light, even tanning. Very good. Inscribed on the half title, almost certainly from Chauncy: "To the Hon. William Smith Jun. Esq. in New York." William Smith, Jr. was a prominent New York lawyer and son.....
[COLLECTION OF SCRAPBOOKS CONTAINING OVER 1000 TRADE CARDS, ADVERTISEMENTS, AND OTHER EPHEMERAL CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC ITEMS, ALMOST ALL PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE 19th CENTURY].
[Various places. ca. 1875-1905]. Approximately 1100 pieces, both loose and in four albums. Most pieces pasted into albums. Albums are quarto and folio in size. Largest album lacking spine and front board, spine deteriorated on second album, leaves loose in both. Some light wear to leaves in all four albums.....
A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS; AT THEIR ANNIVERSARY MEETING IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MARY-LE-BOW, ON FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20, 1756.
London. 1756. 71pp. Quarto. Stitched as issued. Minimal wear. Near fine. Includes an abstract of the Proceedings of the Society which contains accounts of the missionary work in the American colonies - New England, Newfoundland, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Africa and Barbados.
TRAVELS THROUGH PART OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN 1818 AND 1819.
Glasgow. 1823. In two volumes. xvi,333,[1]; xii,384pp. Lacks half titles. Contemporary calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Minor wear to spines. Small modern sticker to front pastedowns. Internally bright and clean. Very good plus. With varied commentary, ranging from Everett's founding of THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW at Harvard to THE LEGEND.....
THE PROVINCE OF NEW JERSEY, DIVIDED INTO EAST AND WEST, COMMONLY CALLED THE JERSEYS.
London: Wm. Faden, December 1, 1777. Copper-engraved map on two joined sheets, 32 x 24 inches in total, with original outline color. A bit of light wear around the edges. In very good condition. Matted. This elegant composition depicts New Jersey in finely engraved detail at a large scale of.....
POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED, EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL KEPT BY THE AUTHOR WHILE HE FOLLOWED THE SEA, AND DURING A JOURNEY FROM NEW-BRUNSWICK, IN NEW-JERSEY, TO MONTREAL AND QUEBEC.
Cincinnati. 1824. 160pp. Contemporary calf, red leather label (chipped). Some minor scuffing to extremities. Foxed. A good copy. Second edition, after the first of the previous year. "Guest, a revolutionary soldier, came to Cincinnati in 1817 and gives some account of his residence there. His voyages were to the Georgia.....
A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE PROVINCES OF VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, NEW- YORK, NEW-JERSEY, AND PENNSYLVANIA, BY THE ENGLISH. TO WHICH IS ANNEXED A MAP OF MARYLAND, ACCORDING TO THE BOUNDS MENTIONED IN THE CHARTER, AND ALSO OF THE ADJACENT COUNTRY, ANNO 1630.
London [i.e. Greenwich, Ct.]. 1735 [i.e. 1922]. [2],20pp. plus color folding map. Vellum backed paper covered boards. Neat ownership signature on front pastedown. Near Fine. In worn paperboard slipcase with spine mostly perished. Printed presentation sheet tipped in. Facsimile of this rare narrative of 16th- and 17th-century settlement along the.....
THIRTY DAYS IN NEW JERSEY NINETY YEARS AGO: AN ESSAY REVEALING NEW FACTS IN CONNECTION WITH WASHINGTON AND HIS ARMY IN 1776 AND 1777.
Trenton. 1867. 72pp. Original sheep, ruled and stamped in gilt. Spine and edges rubbed. Very good. One of four works by Charles Chauncey Haven on the Revolutionary War's Trenton-Princeton campaign of December 1776 to January 1777. Sabin calls for a plate and map, but in error; New Jersey bibliographical maven.....
MYSTERY DEVELOPED; OR, RUSSELL COLVIN, (SUPPOSED TO BE MURDERED,) IN FULL LIFE: AND STEPHEN AND JESSE BOORN, (HIS CONVICTED MURDERERS,) RESCUED FROM IGNOMINIOUS DEATH BY WONDERFUL DISCOVERIES....
Hartford: Published by William S. Marsh, 1820. 48pp. Original printed green wrappers, rear wrapper lacking. Front wrapper re-sewn to text at an early date, with a small hole just touching a couple of words, a three-inch closed tear near the bottom, and minor edge chipping. Moderate staining to text, last.....
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THE PROVINCES OF NEW YORK, AND NEW JERSEY; WITH PART OF PENSILVANIA [sic], AND THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. DRAWN BY MAJOR HOLLAND, SURVEYOR GENERAL, OF THE NORTHERN DISTRICT IN AMERICA. CORRECTED AND IMPROVED, FROM THE ORIGINAL MATERIALS, BY GOVERN.R POWNALL, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, 1776.
London: Printed for Robt. Sayer and John Bennett, August 17, 1776. Engraved map consisting of eight folio sheets backed on linen (54 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches), with contemporary color outlining and shading of some boundaries and geographic features. Slightly soiled, occasional minor stains, a few old repairs (no loss.....
THE AMERICAN ATLAS: OR, A GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE WHOLE CONTINENT OF AMERICA; WHEREIN ARE DELINEATED AT LARGE ITS SEVERAL REGIONS, COUNTRIES, STATES, AND ISLANDS; AND CHIEFLY THE BRITISH COLONIES....
London: Printed and sold by R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 1782. Letterpress title and index leaf, otherwise engraved throughout. Twenty-three engraved maps on thirty-one sheets (eighteen folding, eleven double-page), all handcolored in outline. Antique-style half speckled calf and marbled boards, spine with raised bands, bands and ornaments tooled in gilt.....
BREF OM DE FORENTA STATERNA, FORFATTADE UNDER EN RESA TILL AMERIKA, AREN 1818, 1819, 1820....
Stockholm: Eckstein, 1824. Two volumes bound in one. [4],ix,[1],108,113- 242,[4, Errata]; [2],ii,v-viii,[243]-496pp. plus engraved additional titles, and one folding letterpress table. Incorrect pagination in first volume (pp.109-112 skipped, as called for), and the preliminaries of the second volume (numbered ii,v-viii, as issued). 20th-century red library buckram, gilt. Ex- library with.....
ADVENTURES OF AN ANGLER IN CANADA, NOVA SCOTIA AND THE UNITED STATES.
London. 1848. xii,322pp. plus engraved portrait frontispiece. Half title. Illus. Original brown blind- embossed cloth, modern rebacking, modern paper label. Minor shelf wear. 20th-century bookplate on front pastedown, long gift inscription on front free endpaper with amusing angling illustration, slightly over- opened at the titlepage, light toning. Very good. A.....
MAP OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITH PART OF THE STATES OF PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY &c. COMPILED, CORRECTED AND PUBLISHED FROM THE MOST RECENT AUTHORITIES AND ACCURATE SURVEYS....
New York. 1824. Folding map, 51 x 51 inches, Backed on linen as issued. Significant foxing. Original portfolio of boards with roan spine, expertly rebacked. In a cloth clamshell box, leather label. Styled "second edition." Handsome large- scale early map of New York State and part of Pennsylvania and New.....
AMERICAN IMPRINTS INVENTORY.
[Various places]. 1937-1942. Twenty-three volumes. Folio. Uniformly bound in green buckram, spines lettered in gilt; some with original wrappers bound in. Very good. A collection of the useful state imprint bibliographies, spearheaded by Douglas McMurtrie and published by the WPA Historical Records Survey Program. States covered include Tennessee, Ohio, Nevada.....
A NEW AND EXACT MAP OF THE DOMINIONS OF THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN ON YE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA CONTAINING NEWFOUNDLAND, NEW SCOTLAND, NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PENSILVANIA [sic] MARYLAND, VIRGINIA AND CAROLINA. ACCORDING TO THE NEWEST AND MOST EXACT OBSERVATIONS BY HERMAN MOLL GEOGRAPHER.
London: Printed and Sold by Tho: Bowles next ye Chapter House in St. Pauls Church-yard, John Bowles, at the Black Horse in Cornhill and by I. King at ye Globe in ye Poultrey [sic] near Stocks Market, [1731]. Copper-engraved map, with period outline color, on two joined sheets. Overall size.....
A NEW AND EXACT MAP OF THE DOMINIONS OF THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN ON YE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA CONTAINING NEWFOUNDLAND, NEW SCOTLAND, NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PENSILVANIA [sic] MARYLAND, VIRGINIA AND CAROLINA. ACCORDING TO THE NEWEST AND MOST EXACT OBSERVATIONS BY HERMAN MOLL GEOGRAPHER.
London: Printed and Sold by Tho: Bowles next ye Chapter House in St. Pauls Church-yard, John Bowles, at the Black Horse in Cornhill and by I. King at ye Globe in ye Poultrey [sic] near Stocks Market, 1715 [but ca. 1730]. Copper-engraved map, with period outline hand- coloring, on two.....