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.
New Jersey
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 with raised bands. Each act has a 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.....
[A COLLECTION OF UNRECORDED EDINBURGH PRINTINGS OF FIVE BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY ACTS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN COLONIES AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, INCLUDING THE SUGAR ACT, THE REPEAL OF THE STAMP ACT, AND THE PROHIBITORY ACT].
Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Kincaid His Majesty's Printer, 1764–1776. Five separately printed acts, pagination given below. Folio. Dbd. Numbering in ink to head of titlepage of first four of the five acts. Ink inscription cropped at head of A2 of the final act. Some soiling. Overall very good. A collection.....
A CONNECTED VIEW OF THE WHOLE INTERNAL NAVIGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL; PRESENT AND PROSPECTIVE. WITH MAPS.
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.....
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.....
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: Printed at the University Press for Hurst, Robinson, & Company, 1823. Two volumes. xvi,333,[1]; xii,384pp., including fourteen maps. Lacks half titles. Early calf, boards tooled in blind, spines gilt extra, leather labels. Light shelf wear. Small modern sticker on front pastedowns. Internally bright and clean. Very good plus. First.....
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.....
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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.....
THE DIARY OF FRANCISCO DE MIRANDA TOUR OF THE UNITED STATES, 1783 – 1784.
New York: [The Hispanic Society of America], 1928. xxxvi,206pp., plus twenty-four plates (including frontispiece map). Original blue cloth, spine gilt. Near fine. Partially unopened. The diary of Venezuelan military leader and revolutionary Francisco de Miranda, “the Precursor of Spanish-American Independence,” kept during his tour of the United States from 1783.....
THE DIARY OF FRANCISCO DE MIRANDA TOUR OF THE UNITED STATES, 1783 – 1784.
New York: [The Hispanic Society of America], 1928. xxxvi,206pp. plus twenty-four illustrated plates (including frontispiece map). Original blue cloth, spine gilt. Light shelf wear, corners a bit worn. Closed tear to front free endpaper, not affecting the inscription. Clean internally. Very good. Partially unopened. Inscribed by Robertson on the front.....
JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC: WITH NOTES ON CANADA & THE UNITED STATES; AND RETURN TO GREAT BRITAIN, IN 1844.
London: Printed for private circulation, 1845. [8],96pp. Half title. Original green cloth, stamped in blind. Corners bumped, extremities rubbed. Presentation inscription on front fly leaf. Inner hinges cracked. Lightly foxed. About very good. Scarce, privately printed account of an Englishman's trip to the Eastern United States and Canada. He gives.....
NOTES, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, CONCERNING ELIZABETH-TOWN, ITS EMINENT MEN, CHURCHES AND MINISTERS.
Elizabethtown. 1844. 166pp. Frontis. Contemporary half calf and cloth. Calf rubbed, some foxing. A good, sound copy. Presentation inscription from the author to Rev. D.R. Austin, whose help in the composition of several pages devoted to Rev. David Austin receives an appreciative mention in the footnote on page 124. The.....