Boston. 1814. viii,31pp. Dbd. Some light foxing and tanning. Overall very good. This pamphlet relates to a controversy that ensued over the schoolbook abridgment of Adams' A SUMMARY HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND (1799), which Jedediah Morse had anticipated by producing his own school history. Adams, whose eyesight was failing, felt.....
Boston. 1814. viii,31; 4; 42pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. Lacks wrappers. Leaves a bit tanned. Pinhole to lower margin barely affecting a few letters. Else very good. An interesting set of tracts relating to a controversy that ensued over the schoolbook abridgment of Adams's A SUMMARY HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND (1799).....
Philadelphia: Printed by Kite & Walton, 1849. 44pp. Original plain rear wrapper, stitched (front wrapper missing). Spine perished, rear wrapper soiled. Ex-Historical Society of Pennsylvania, with their ink stamp on the second leaf and five-digit number on the titlepage. Light soiling and foxing, particularly to outer leaves, otherwise quite clean.....
[New York: Readers and Writers Club of America], 1937. 11,[1]pp. Original printed self-wrappers, stapled. Light wear, soiling, and uneven tanning to wrappers, some rust residue from staples. Soft vertical fold throughout with very short fold separations at bottom edge. Internally quite clean. Very good. Only the third known copy of.....
![Item #WRCAM62443 YOUR ST. LOUIS AND MINE [wrapper title]. African Americana, Nathan B. Young](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM62443_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1685732936)
[St. Louis: N.B. Young, 1937]. 80pp., including extensive photographic illustrations and printed advertisements. Original illustrated stiff wrappers. Wrappers tanned and a bit worn at edges and around staples. Later gift inscription from the author on first leaf. Internally clean. Near fine. An inscribed copy of this rare, thorough, and inventive.....
New York: Showden & Prall, 1847. 94pp. Original marbled boards, printed label on front board. Spine perished, boards and front endpapers detached. Tanned, scattered foxing. About good. The earliest Mpongwe-language grammar for use among missionaries in Africa, compiled by those working at the Gabun Mission operated by the American Board.....
![Item #WRCAM55212 PORTRAIT OF THE LATE PETRO ANDAYI MBIRIKA [manuscript title]. African...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM55212.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593711998)
Nairobi, Kenya. September 10, 1960. [37]pp., consisting of a manuscript narrative interspersed with seventy-four vernacular photographs (twelve 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches, the remaining sixty-two approximately 3 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches) all with extensive captions, and four mounted telegrams. Oblong quarto. Contemporary blue leatherette photograph album, string-tied. Minor.....
![Item #WRCAM55457 CITY OF NEW YORK HARLEM HOSPITAL H.H.S.N. 1959 [cover title]. African-American...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM55457.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712045)
[New York. 1959]. 64pp. Quarto. Red textured cloth over padded boards, front cover decoratively stamped in gilt. Minor edge wear. Occasional ink notations by original owner, else internally clean. Very good. Yearbook commemorating the graduation year for the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing's Class of 1959. This copy was owned.....
![Item #WRCAM55456 PROFECTUS 1956 [cover title]. African-American Nursing](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM55456.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712045)
[New York. 1956]. 80pp. Quarto. Contemporary black cloth over padded boards, front cover decoratively tooled and titled in gilt. Minor edge wear and rubbing. Contemporary ink ownership signature of "Joan Ryan '59'" on verso of front free endpaper (likely a future graduate of the same nursing program). Internally clean. Very.....
Montgomery, Al. Richards Film Services, Inc., 1918. Panoramic photograph, 16 x 61¼ inches. A few creases and moderate wear. 13½-inch closed horizontal tear into the image area from left edge, 2½-inch closed horizontal tear at right edge just touching image area. Overall good condition. A substantial and striking large-format panoramic.....
Sitka, Ak. The Alaskan Publishing Company, March 6, 1886. [4]pp. Folio newspaper. Tanned, some chipping and small closed tears to margins. Split entirely along a horizontal fold, repaired with tape. Good. A rare issue of this very early Alaskan newspaper, with considerable content related to Alaskan district government and political.....
Providence: Bennett Wheeler, 1782. [40]pp. 16mo. Self-wrappers, stab-stitched. Slight browning. Overall, very good. The present edition of the NORTH-AMERICAN CALENDAR... is most notable for its inclusion of the complete Articles of Confederation, which had passed into law upon Maryland's agreement to ratify on March 1, 1781. Published by Benjamin West.....
![Item #WRCAM57802 THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. Vol. X. No. 3. [with:] THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. Vol. X....](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM57802.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1666629104)
New York: Published by the American Missionary Association, March & April 1866. pp.49-72; 73-95 [pagination consecutive across issues]. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled and worn. Both issues quite clean internally except for minimal foxing and stain at top of gutter, not touching text. Very good. Two consecutive postwar.....
Philadelphia. 1824-1830. Seven volumes. Illustrated. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Hinges cracked; spine on volume seven heavily worn. Library label at foot of each spine. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Internally clean. Good plus. A complete run of this periodical published by the American Sunday School.....
Lahainaluna: Press of the High School, 1836. iv,132pp. printed in double columns. Modern three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Closed tear in upper inner corner of titlepage (not affecting text, and no paper loss), shallow chip in foredge of titlepage and following nine leaves. Moderate foxing, faint stain.....
[Fort Smith, Ar. Fort Smith Chamber of Commerce, ca. 1893]. 27,[1]pp., including illustrations from woodcuts and photographs. Original printed pink wrappers, new staples. Wrappers lightly worn and sunned, small chips at corners, a few spots of soiling. Internally quite clean with light even tanning. Very good. Well-illustrated promotional pamphlet prepared.....
Little Rock. 1870. vi,[2],16,xxv-lxxxii,54,cxxxvii-clxxvi pp. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards. Leather rubbed, worn along joints, some paper loss to boards. Scattered light foxing, otherwise quite clean internally. Bookplate of C.G. Littell on front pastedown. Very good. The Littell copy of Arkansas' unsurprisingly contentious Reconstruction Constitution. While it allowed.....
London: C. Taylor, [1785-1788]. Four volumes. vii,[1],214; 228; 188; 68; 132; 159,[1]pp., plus six engraved titlepages (one for each volume and two extra engraved titlepages for the two parts of volume III) and 229 plates (some folding, many of them in "red chalk style," eight handcolored). Uniformly bound in contemporary.....
Raleigh: William W. Holden, 1851. 23pp. Original printed wrappers. Light wear to wrappers, spine partially perished. Minor foxing. Very good. Published by the order of the Dialectic Society, presented June 4, 1851.
New Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, [ 1789]. 23pp. Dbd. Tanning and light foxing. Very good. A funeral oration given for a late 18th- century Yale tutor, delivered by Barnabas Bidwell, author and later Massachusetts attorney general and Congressional representative. With particular address to Newton's students, whom he warns not.....
Boston: Published by Crocker & Brewster, 1830. 372pp. plus five color plates of flowers (of six, lacking the frontispiece) and four uncolored plates. Contemporary calf, black morocco label, gilt. Worn along hinges, at spine ends, and extremities. Light foxing, light dampstain in upper portion of first one hundred pages and.....
Boston: Adams and Nourse, 1786. 71pp. plus folding plate. Quarto. Original marbled wrappers, formerly stitched but stitching now missing and leaves loose (though all present). Wrappers rubbed, small sticker attached to top of front wrapper. Light foxing throughout. Overall, about very good, in unsophisticated condition. The first separate printing of.....
Raleigh. 1854. 27pp. Original printed wrappers. Lightly foxed. Very good. Address delivered by former valedictorian Aaron V. Brown on the great progress of the expanding United States.
![Item #WRCAM42098 [VIEW OF SAINT MARY MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD]. John Buckler](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM42098.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593711630)
London. 1799. Colored aquatint engraving. Image size 15 1/2 x 22 3/4 inches, matted and framed to 24 x 32 inches. Minor toning, else fine. Matted and framed. A large aquatint engraving by British artist John Buckler (1770-1851), with a view of Mary Magdalen College as seen from across the.....
Boston: Joseph Bumstead, for Ebeneezer Larkin, 1793. 322,[18]pp. 12mo. Half calf and marbled boards, bound in antique style, spine gilt. Minor shelf wear. Several small chips and closed tears. Tanned, occasional foxing. Very good. Later American edition of a tract on oratory by the noted British politician James Burgh, originally.....
