Detroit. 1952. Broadside, 14 x 11 inches. Minor dust-soiling, rubbing, and toning. Very good. A delightful pictorial broadside advertising a Methodist church concert in Detroit on Sep. 12, 1952. Photographs include portraits of the choir director, Marvin Dupre, the narrator, Rev. Poole, and twenty-seven members of the co-ed Dupre Victorian...
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New York. 1944. 31,[1]pp. Original printed card covers. Last few leaves opened roughly. Near fine. Part of the series of "Public Affairs Pamphlets," this title discusses the Detroit Race Riots of 1943 and how to avoid similar disturbances - forty-four people died in the riot, hundreds were injured, and hundreds...
Frankfort, Ky. Printed for the author... 1842. 152pp. 12mo. Original half calf and paper boards, printed paper label. Mild chipping to spine ends, boards foxed and lightly soiled. Small leather bookplate of Frank Cutter Deering on front pastedown, otherwise clean internally. Very good. In a blue half leather slipcase. Atherton...
Montreal. 1878/1880. Two volumes bound in one. [6],301,[1]; viii,422pp. Printed in double columns. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. Boards rubbed and edgeworn, chipped at spine ends, joints cracked but boards holding. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Contemporary printer's label on front pastedown. Clean internally. Good. Baraga's...
Detroit. 1846. [3]-268,[2]pp. 12mo. Original sheep. Rubbed. Lacks original titlepage, supplied in expert facsimile. Else very good. Consists of sermons in the Chippewa (Ojibwa) language, preached by the pioneering missionary, Father Frederic Baraga. Baraga had a long and productive career, including thirty-three years among the Chippewas. The index is a....
Cincinnati. 1858. 224pp. 12mo. Original blindstamped cloth. Binding rubbed and worn, chipped at head of spine. Hinges cracked. Titlepage and p.3 chipped at foredge, with no loss of text. Dampstained and tanned. A fair copy. Second American edition of this volume of sermons in the Chippewa (Ojibwa) language, preached by...
[N.p. after 1831]. Pencil sketch on cardstock, 8 x 10 inches. Lower margin titled in pencil, "Grand Rapids in 1831." Initialed lower right, "A.E.C.," and inscribed lower left, "Drawn by Rev. J. Booth." Minor stain along left margin, partially extending into sketch, and lower right corner, just touching bottom right...
Cleveland. 1860. 68pp. 12mo. Original half muslin and printed paper boards. Hinges tender. Boards a bit soiled, worn at spine ends. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. A few fox marks, but generally clean and fresh internally. A very good copy. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label. A...
Fostoria, Oh. The Gray Printing Company, 1896. 70pp. 12mo. Original printed boards, cloth spine. Head and toe of spine bit worn. Leaves a bit tanned. Very good. According to Ernest J. Wessen, this reprint is rarer than the first edition of 1860 published in Cleveland. Brayton was stolen near his...
Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1872. Colored folding map, 33 x 22 1/2 inches. Folded into original pebbled cloth. Front board detached. Bisected and mounted on linen, as issued. Old bookplate and withdrawal stamp on front pastedown, short closed tear along linen fold of upper outer section, not affecting map itself. A...
Yverdon. 1784. xxxvi,436pp. Half title. Contemporary speckled stiff paper wrappers, backed with modern paper. Wrappers soiled and edgeworn. Repair in foredge of half title. An occasional bit of light foxing and soiling, but generally clean internally and with wide margins. About very good. Presumably the second French edition, following a....
New York. 1843. 36pp., plus [12]pp. of publisher's advertisements. Dbd. Lightly foxed. Very good. Campaign biography of Lewis Cass, second governor of Michigan and Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War, published preceding the 1844 presidential elections. Cass would lose the Democratic nomination in 1844, and though he succeeded in gaining it...
Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1753. [2],viii,288,[10]pp. plus six folding engraved maps, one folding plate, and folding table. Quarto. Contemporary calf, leather label, raised bands, spine with handsome gilt sun, moon, and star ornaments. Some slight rubbing along outer hinges. Minor scattered foxing. Overall a fine, fresh copy. A highly detailed...
Milwaukee: Silas Chapman, 1879. Wall map, 36 x 32 inches, full period hand-color. Backed with modern linen, trimmed in maroon cloth, and on contemporary rollers. Three small age spots in western part of state, faint streaking in margin areas. A lovely map, brightly colored, in very good condition. An attractive...
Paris. 1744. Three volumes. [8],xxvi,lxi,[3],664; [4],xv,[1],582,56; [4],xix,[1],xiv,543pp. plus twenty-eight maps (most folding) and ninety-six plates. Half title in each volume. Titlepages printed in red and black. Quarto. Contemporary mottled calf, spines richly gilt, raised bands, gilt leather labels. Hinges expertly repaired. Map of Nouvelle France in first volume repaired on.....
Harbor Springs, Mi. Holy Childhood Indian School Print, 1898. 32pp. Original quarter cloth backed, paper covered boards. Fine. A prayer book in the Chippewa language, printed by Chippewa and Ottowa mission children at the Franciscan mission at Harbor Springs. The children of this mission produced a large quantity of printed...
[Harbor Springs, Mi.? ca. 1880]. 8pp. 12mo. Original plain wrappers, stitched. Minor soiling. Very good plus. Chippewa language alphabet primer and syllabary, likely printed at the Franciscan Mission in Harbor Springs, where Chippewa and Ottawa children printed numerous prayer books, pamphlets, and monthly periodicals at the turn of the 20th century.
Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1930. 376pp. including illustrations and maps. Frontispiece map. Blue cloth, t.e.g. Head and toe of spine slightly rubbed, else very good, pages untrimmed and partly unopened. The role of the stagecoach and tavern in the settling of the region between Lake Michigan and the.....
New York: J.H. Colton, 1853. Folding map, 36 1/4 x 43 1/2 inches, with period hand-coloring. Original roan binding (6 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches), the covers elaborately blocked in blind, the upper cover titled in gilt "Map of / the Western / States / J.H. Colton," rebacked in cloth;...
New York. 1819. 228,lix,[7],lxi-lxiii pp. plus three folding maps (including frontispiece map, which is partially colored). Original blue boards with paper spine. Hinges cracked, spine slightly chipped. Front board and first gathering separated. Light foxing. Good. Untrimmed and in unsophisticated condition. Darby was an expert surveyor and geographer. He gives...
Ann Arbor: Chase's Steam Printing House, 1869. 331pp. plus advertisements. Original cloth. Bit frayed at extremities, rear board slightly bowed. Some light scattered foxing, minor marginal dampstain to a few early leaves. Good. An interesting travel account, particularly in view of the imprint. The author was the assistant librarian at...
Mount Pleasant, Mi. [ 1976]. 97,[2]pp. Gilt-stamped cloth. Very fine. One of 487 copies printed by John Cumming. Dr. Delavan took the Panama route to the California gold fields in 1849 and became a member of a company that planned to sell stock and promote their cooperative project of dam...
Detroit: Thomas Smith Printing Co., 1893. 445,78pp. Contemporary black cloth, spine gilt, boards blind stamped. Spine chipped, corners lightly worn. Ex-library, with ink stamp on titlepage and paper shelfmark on spine. Light tanning, otherwise clean. Good. An 1893 edition of the Detroit city charter, published together with collected laws passed...
Detroit: Rawson, Dunklee & Co., 1848. 238pp. Modern grey cloth, gilt leather labels. Front endpapers detached. Ex-library, with blind and ink stamps on titlepage. Scattered foxing, otherwise very good. The publication of a special committee enjoined by the Common Council of Detroit in 1848 to issue an updated version of...
New York: Charles Scribner, 1865. 191,[1]pp., plus seven plates and folding map. 16mo. Pink publisher's cloth, gilt and blind stamped. Cloth faded, spine extremities and corners lightly worn. News clipping laid onto front pastedown. Light tanning, occasional foxing. About very good. This comprehensive guide book to the Great Lakes and...
