Eaton: B. F. Morgan, 1875. 7-192pp. Original quarter maroon cloth-backed paper-covered boards. Boards faded, slightly worn, pencil signature on front pastedown. Occasional pencil notations. Otherwise, very good. With a history of Edward Preble, namesake of the county.
Cleveland. 1879. [27]-203,[5]pp. including illustrations and advertisements. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers soiled and stained, chipped at corners, worn at spine. Closed tear in front wrapper and first leaf, front wrapper torn along upper half of spine. Lightly tanned. Good. An interesting promotional pamphlet for Cleveland's trade and industries, produced by.....
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1872. viii,131pp. Three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, with original printed wrappers bound in. Binder's ticket on front free endpaper. Typescript sheet, signed by previous owner bound in. Internally clean. Very good. An 1872 reprint of the first journal of the Historical and Philosophical.....
[N.p. ca. 1853]. 8 x 7 1/2 inches. Mounted on heavy card, 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Light creasing, faint spotting. Very good. A lovely pen and ink illustration of a river scene, captioned "Cincinnati, Ohio" and marked in the upper left corner: "Plate 6, Page 34." Clearly intended.....
Columbus, Oh. 1902. Large folding map, 28 3/4 x 32 1/2 inches. Mounted on linen, bound into contemporary cloth boards. A few small closed tears at folds. Some small, unobtrusive pencil notes in lower right corner. Very good. Large colored map showing railroad lines in Ohio at the turn of.....
Columbus: S. Medary, printer to the Convention, 1851. Two volumes. 751; 897pp. plus folding table in first volume. Thick octavos. 20th-century cloth, gilt leather labels. Some wear and soiling to bindings. Library ink stamps and light soiling on titlepages. Otherwise internally clean. About very good. Two thick volumes containing the.....
Columbus. 1849. [4],iv,408pp. Half title. Large octavo. Antique style half calf and marbled boards. Old library stamp on titlepage. Very good. Periodical published by Samuel Medary, issued here in one complete volume with a titlepage, calling for a convention to revise and amend the Ohio state constitution. Medary, a leading.....
Cincinnati: L'Hommedieu & Co., 1846. 68,4,xix pp., plus three plates. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, t.e.g. Bookplate and bookseller's label on front pastedown. Some toning. Very good. The charter and by-laws for the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, with reports and transactions from its meeting during the first three.....
Cincinnati. 1833-36. Vol. 1, No. 2 through Vol. 5, No. 11. (twenty-six numbers in all, some gaps). Various bindings, i.e. some with original wrappers, others disbound. Overall in good condition throughout. A nice run of this rare western periodical; publication evidently ceased after Volume 1, number 4 of the new.....
Mt. Sterling, Ky. [1891]. 32pp. Original printed wrappers bound into modern three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Minor edge wear. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Some wear and staining to wrappers, two soft vertical creases. Good. A scarce biographical account and family history involving residents of the Ohio River Valley.....
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1872. [2],117pp. plus thirteen original albumen photographs. Frontis. Quarto. Contemporary three quarter black morocco and brown cloth, ornate gilt spine, a.e.g. Minor wear to extremities, heavier along hinges. Slight tanning and occasional foxing. Very good. One of 100 copies intended for special presentation, after the.....
Lexington; Cincinnati. 1831. 22; 48pp. Dbd. Minor foxing and toning. Very good. Two scarce Midwestern imprints on the Presbyterian missions in the West, from the convention held at Cincinnati in November 1831. "Difficulties having arisen in many parts of the Presbyterian Church, and particularly in the Synods of 'Ohio, Cincinnati.....
Philadelphia. 1831. 32pp. Dbd. Minor foxing and toning. Very good. The official defense of the Board of Missions of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, after their actions to amalgamate the Board of Missions with the American Home Missionary Society led to controversy among the Midwestern presbyteries.
Albany. 1833. 400pp. Lacks the folding plate and folding map. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Light foxing. Very good. Styled "Third edition Revised" on the titlepage. An examination of relics and artifacts, and conjectures by the author as to the origin of their creators, including material on the languages.....
Columbus, Oh. 1857. 54pp. 12mo. Contemporary wrappers. Faint browning. Very good. Later edition, after the first of the previous year, of one of the earliest treatises on this unconventional method of breaking horses. The work proved popular and appeared in a number of editions, including pirated or forged issues under.....
New York: Leavitt and Allen, [ 1854]. 310pp. plus thirty-two plates (including engraved titlepage). Large octavo. Original publisher's morocco, stamped in blind and gilt, a.e.g. Corners bumped and rubbed. Faint dampstaining to lower edge of text, else internally clean. Very good. First edition of a comprehensive tour of 19th-century America.....
Cincinnati, Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co., 1862. Twenty lithographs. 12 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches each (one with margins trimmed to 12 3/4 x 16). Original oblong quarto cloth portfolio, rebacked in modern brown cloth, facsimile printed paper label on front board, new string ties. Stab holes from original binding into.....
Washington: Printed by J. & G.S. Gideon, 1848. 14pp. Dbd. Good. Impassioned speech berating the president for ever entering into the war.
Philadelphia. 1837. iv,384pp. Contemporary sheep, leather label. Spine extremities frayed. Edges rubbed. Front hinge cracked, but holding. Occasional fox mark. Else just about very good. Second edition, after the rare first edition of the previous year. Includes tables of principle stage routes, counties and distance charts. With brief descriptions of.....
Chillicothe: Ely, Allen & Looker, 1850. 239pp. plus frontispiece. Original brown publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Corners rubbed, head of spine lightly chipped. Light foxing to first few leaves and plate. Very good. First edition. Safford is still considered the leading authority on Harman Blennerhassett in the wake.....
Philadelphia: Printed by Jane Aitken, 1812. xix,[1],[26],273pp. With the extended list of subscribers not found in all copies. Half title. Original plain paper boards, rebacked with paper spine in an antique style. Boards a bit soiled and edgeworn. Old institutional ink stamp on titlepage. Scattered foxing. About very good, untrimmed.....
Washington: C. Alexander, 1845. 24pp. Recent half calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Old institutional blindstamp on titlepage, titlepage reinforced in gutter margin in several places. Minor foxing. About very good. Second, enlarged, edition, after the Pittsburg first of the same year. Report by John.....
Canandaigua. March 27, 1812. [3]pp., docketed and addressed on verso. Folio, on a folded sheet. Old fold lines. Slight loss from wax seal. Light toning and soiling. Very good. Letter written by Maj. William Shepard to Justin Ely regarding some of Ely's real estate transactions and holdings in the Western.....
Utica. 1828. 262pp. Contemporary calf, red gilt morocco label. Hinges worn, chipped at head of spine. Minor foxing, two leaves with old tape repairs. Contemporary and modern scribblings on rear free endpaper and pastedown. Tanned and foxed. A good copy, with duplicate stamp of the Huntington Library on rear pastedown.....
Edinburgh. 1835. [4],iv,v,[1],473pp. Modern three-quarter red morocco and paper boards, spine gilt. Minor wear. Internally clean. Untrimmed. Very good. The author, a Scottish farmer from East Lothian, crossed Lake Michigan directly from Canada to Detroit on his way to Chicago, then a hamlet of 150 wooden houses. "Four chapters of.....
