New York: D.W. Evans & Co., 1860. 320pp., plus 16pp. of ads. Original brown embossed cloth, spine gilt. Cloth faded and soiled, edges and corners rubbed. Ownership writing on pastedowns and flyleaves. Hinges tender. Scattered foxing and dampstaining. About good. Second edition of the biography of Virginia pioneer Lewis Wetzel.....
Frankfort, Ky. 1843. 15pp. Dbd., stapled. Some foxing, minor edge wear. Good only. A rare commencement address on the importance of agricultural science, delivered in Frankfort, Ky. in 1843. OCLC records just four physical copies.
London: Richard Bentley, 1835. [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 vol. 1. Light dust soiling at edges, with an occasional fox mark. Good, in original condition. Untrimmed.....
New York. 1861. 31pp. Original printed wrappers. Wraps soiled and bit chipped. Internally good. Also prints a letter by Holt written in May of 1861. Both articles concern the Civil War.
Louisville: J. Eliot & Co.'s Power Press, 1842. 32pp. Dbd. Titlepage lightly foxed. Three pages printed at poor angles, affecting a letter or two on each line on two of the pages, more severe on the third page. Good. A scarce report by this Baptist organization, dedicated to ameliorating the.....
[Kentucky; Tennessee; Georgia. 1862-1863]. 14 manuscript letters, most on small bifolia, two to four pages in length. Previously folded. Light wear at folds. light tanning; an occasional patch of soiling. Very good. A group of fourteen letters written home by Union Pvt. Henry D. Isbell of the 1st Ohio Light.....
[Lexington: Thomas Smith, 1824]. 24pp. (only, of 63pp.). Dbd. Light foxing. Small tear to bottom corner of last page of text. Very good. Alas, this is the first section only - a complete copy would be 63pp. An exchange of letters between Adair and Jackson regarding Jackson's charge of cowardice.....
Louisville: The Standard Printing Company, 1932. 62pp. Modern green cloth, spine gilt. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Very light foxing on flyleaves. Internally very clean. Near fine. First edition. Limited to 1,000 copies. A compilation of stories about American pioneer Daniel Boone. Includes pages from John Trumbull's 1786 book THE.....
Louisville. 1936. xiii,299pp. Original half red morocco and cloth, boards gilt ruled. Light edge and corner wear, head of spine slightly chipped. Internally clean. About very good. One of an edition of three hundred fifty copies. Jillson's short essay and bibliography on the first printers in Kentucky, John Bradford and.....
Washington, D.C: H.L & J.B McQueen, 1931. 63pp. Original boards, printed paper dust jacket. Final leaf pasted to rear pastedown, modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Internally clean. Very good. One of 350 copies printed in a limited edition. Jillson was the State Geologist and member of a number of learned.....
Louisville. 1939. [11],199pp. Original publisher's cloth, stamped in brown. Hinges somewhat loose, spine ends bumped. Light tanning, occasional foxing. About very good. One of three hundred fifty copies printed. A scarce work by Kentucky historian and bibliographer Willard Rouse Jillson, containing a personal selection of rare works on Kentucky from.....
Washington, D.C. Oct. 12, 1865. [1]pp., printed on a folded folio sheet. Light edge wear. Near fine. An important official printing of the presidential proclamation ending martial law in Kentucky in October 1865. Kentucky had not joined the Confederacy, so the proclamation of martial law there was a step President.....
Edinburgh. 1858. viii,77pp. 12mo. Original cloth. Head of spine lightly chipped, else very good. Kelland was a distinguished fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh. He travelled in Canada and the United States in the late summer and early fall of 1858. His itinerary included travel on the.....
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Frankfort. 1817-1840. Twenty-four volumes. Individual details and paginations provided below. Modern cloth, gilt leather labels. Ex-library, with blind and ink stamps on titlepages and front endpapers, and with paper shelf marks on spines. Minor soiling and shelf wear. Some tanning and light foxing in most volumes. Good. An impressive run.....
Frankfort: Kendall and Russells, 1822. [4],[663]-1302pp. Contemporary sheep, leather and paper labels. Spine perished, boards detached, corners worn. Light tanning and foxing. Internally good. In a clamshell box. A compilation of laws passed in the state of Kentucky from 1792 to 1822. Lacking the first volume.
Louisville: Stackhouse Print, 1872. Broadside, 20 x 5 1/4 inches. Minor foxing, several horizontal folds. Very good. A handsomely produced broadside advertising a lottery to raise money to pay for a magnificent Victorian building, recently purchased for $210,000, to house the Public Library of Kentucky, located in Louisville. The library.....
Frankfort, Ky. 1811. 168pp. Contemporary three quarter calf and paper boards, morocco label. Chipped at head of spine, boards heavily rubbed. Contemporary ownership signature and notes on endpapers. Tanned, scattered foxing. A good, solid copy. This legislation addresses issues of education, transportation, the navigation of rivers, the militia, and the.....
Newport, Ky. The Donaldson Litho. Co., [ca. early 1920s]. Chromolithographic poster, 27 3/4 x 20 inches. Horizontal center horizontal fold. Even toning, minor staining, several short closed edge tears. Overall good plus. A handsome sample stock poster advertising the Donaldson Fair along with the services of the notable Donaldson Lithographing.....
Frankfort. 1798-1816. Nineteen volumes. First eleven volumes in early 20th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, later eight bound to match in similar style. Library ink stamp on each titlepage, occasionally also an embossed stamp or second ink stamp, contemporary ownership inscription. Second volume trimmed closely, affecting some marginal.....
[Covington, Ky. 1864]. Broadside, 10 x 12 inches. Printed almost entirely within ornamental border. Minor staining in blank margins, some minor creases. Overall very good. An advertisement for a lottery to be drawn in Covington, Kentucky. The scheme for the lottery is based on what the producers call the "Royal.....
Frankfort: A.G. Hodges, 1855. 54pp. Original publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Corners bumped and lightly worn, light rubbing to cloth, inner hinge cracked. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Minor foxing and toning. Very good. Memorial volume published on the occasion of the re- interment of several soldiers in.....
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[New York? 1796?]. Engraved map, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Two small marginal chips, three tiny pinholes not affecting image. An occasional fox mark, faint offsetting. Very good. A 1796 map for the proposed town of Franklinville, Kentucky, which was printed for William Winterbotham's lengthy work on the history.....
Lexington, Ky. 1833 [i.e. 1834]. 14,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers, stitched as issued. Lightly tanned. Very good. Gives the names of the students in the medical school and their home states, most coming from the South and Midwest, and also those matriculated in the law program and in Morrison College.
Frankfort: Johnston and Buchanan; Kendall and Russells, 1815, 1817. xxiv,658; viii,644pp. Contemporary sheep, gilt leather labels. Boards worn and detached. Ex-library, with stamps on titlepage verso. Later ownership inscriptions on titlepage verso of volume one and p.1 of volume four. Light foxing and staining. Fair. Two volumes of reports on.....
Frankfort: Printed by Johnston and Pleasants, 1810. xxiii,[1],645pp. 20th-century buckram, gilt leather labels. Small tape repair to titlepage, embossed library stamp. Some foxing and soiling. Later notes pasted in margins. Good. An early Kentucky law book and imprint.
