![Item #WRCAM37115 THE COMIC BLACKSTONE...PART I - OF THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS [engraved title]....](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM37115.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1593711541)
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846. 94pp. including 5pp. of publisher's advertisements, plus engraved frontispiece and titlepage after George Cruikshank. Dbd. 12mo. Small bookseller's stamp in lower margin of engraved titlepage. Foxed, else very good. First American edition of the first part of the brilliant legal satire by Gilbert Abbott à.....
London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1953. xxi,427,[1]pp. Colored frontispiece plus thirty-two fine collotype plates. Large quarto. Original buckram, t.e.g. Very good. In worn dust jacket. Number 80 from an edition limited to 400 copies. The most comprehensive work in its field, carefully describing over 600 books, panoramas, periodicals.....
Copenhagen. 1815. xxxvi,[2],126pp. Extra engraved titlepage plus engraved frontispiece. Later old plain boards. Clean, very good copy. Contains a eulogy for Captain Verner Hans Fredrik Abrahamson (1744-1812) and his son, Ludvig August Abrahamson. The latter spent the years 1783-1810 in the United States. Includes brief biographies of the two men.....
Washington. 1824. 11pp. Dbd. Foxing, else good. Uncut and untrimmed. As per a resolution by the House of Representatives, light houses were to be built on and around the Florida coast to ensure the safety of American merchants and vessels. To that end Secretary of State John Quincy Adams was.....
Washington, D.C. Dec. 4, 1827. Broadside, 19 x 24 inches. Minor edge wear, light scattered foxing. Some small perforations along fold, a few small holes, affecting lettering in sub-headline and text block. Overall good. Expertly matted, and protected with a mylar sheet. A broadside printing of John Quincy Adams' message.....
[Philadelphia. 1798]. 11pp. Dbd. Some scattered foxing and tanning. Good. Lists a number of ships which were captured by the British, including details of events leading to their captivity.
Providence & New York. 1980. Two volumes. xxx,536; [8],[537]-1102pp. Original cloth. Fine. A fundamentally important and exhaustive reference on British pamphlets of the American Revolution era, with collations and notes on first and subsequent editions. With useful appendices on disputes and exchanges, and indices.
New York. 1873. 36,81pp. Contemporary black leather, cover stamped in gilt, expertly rebacked in matching calf. Bookplate on front pastedown, library ink stamp on verso of titlepage, with discard mark. Internally clean and very good. The books of Proverbs and Ezekiel translated into the Zulu language by the American Board.....
New York: Showden & Prall, 1847. 94pp. Original half morocco and marbled boards, printed title label on front board. Spine perished, boards and front endleaves detached. Tanned, scattered foxing. Good. The earliest Mpongwe imprint for use among missionaries in Africa, compiled by those working at the Gabun Mission operated by.....
Lisbon: Miguel Rodrigues, 1764. [2],17,[1]pp. Folio. Dbd. Except for the lightest fore-edge dampstaining, a near fine copy. A rare work, describing the trial and verdicts in the case of nineteen men accused of the 1762 murder of Portugal's local auditor/councilor, Joao Vieira de Andrade, in the Cape Verde Islands off.....
San Francisco. 1875. 43pp. Original front wrapper bound into later half morocco. Very good. A propagandistic appeal by the unsuccessful bidders for a fur seal contract, for the repeal of the so-called monopoly of the Alaska Commercial Company. Claims to present only the "facts" and calls on the people and.....
New York. 1980-1997. Six volumes. Thick quarto. Cloth. As new. The complete set of this essential reference, finally completed after more than two decades of toil by the staff of the John Carter Brown Library, led by John Alden and Dennis Landis. This is the starting point for researching any.....
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and T. Cadell, London, 1830. Two volumes. vii,[1],iii,[1],339; [2],iii,[1],327pp. Frontispiece in first volume. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, black gilt morocco labels. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown of second volume, removed in first. Internally bright and clean. Near fine, in an attractive contemporary binding. An.....
Washington. 1816. 7pp. Dbd. Foxed, else good, unopened. Narrates the seizure of this U.S. vessel by the Dey of Algiers in 1812. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.
[Philadelphia. 1797]. 22pp. Dbd. Scattered browning and foxing. Good. This document was intended to accompany the President's Message of Jan. 19, 1797, not present here. Recounts events leading up to negotiations for a treaty with Algiers, and lists expenditures involved. The U.S. was still in the embarrassing position of paying.....
Boston: Haskell & Post, 1886. Two volumes. [1],vii,152; [1],[3],[153]- 308pp., plus 130 plates including frontispieces. Half titles. Folio. Contemporary three- quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands, a.e.g. Boards and morocco scuffed. Dampstain in lower margin of rear eight leaves in first volume, not affecting images or text.....
Mexico City. 1856. 480,[4]pp. Several errors in pagination. Small quarto. Contemporary red half sheep and boards, spine gilt. Boards and extremities rubbed. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Light toning and minor foxing. Very good. An extremely valuable compilation which gives detailed data, including route, scenery, and other key information, about.....
[New Haven: Sherman Converse, 1823]. 23pp. Printed self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Review of the reports for the years 1818 through 1823, gathered from the Christian Spectator. The Society attempted to alleviate the problem of slavery and degradation of free blacks by establishing a colony for them outside the United States.....
Baltimore: Warner & Hanna, 1806. 49pp. Errata slip laid down in lower margin of last leaf. Dbd. Light uniform browning, old library stamp at head of titlepage. Very good. This petition, one of many from various merchant organizations, lobbies the President of the United States and Congress to defend American.....
![Item #WRCAM41212 CRUISE OF BROOKLYN 1870 TO 1873 LOG [manuscript title]. American Naval Log Book](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM41212.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1677876726)
[Primarily at sea, especially in the Mediterranean]. 1870-1873. [68]pp., plus a 1½ x 3-inch contact-print and a few notes. Approximately 9500 words. Red pebbled cloth with decorative red paper boards. Boards rubbed, tears in paper. Binding loose, text block separating from boards. Text clean. Four leaves cut from back of.....
[Various places]. January 1 - November 20, 1866. 117pp. Approximately 17,500 words written in neat pencil and sepia ink. Small quarto. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked with modern linen, new endpapers. Contemporary lithographic print of the ship La Oriental pasted on p.84, with text composed around print. A few pages dampstained.....
[On board the U.S.S. Trenton, European Station]. [ca. 1878-1881]. Two pamphlets. 12; 16pp. 12mo. Fastened with bronze tack. Slight staining, else good. A curious little pair of imprints, printed on a U.S. Navy shipboard press sometime not long after the Civil War. The first, the INSPECTION... pamphlet, describes what an.....
Paris: P.G. Simon, 1779. 8pp. Quarto. 20th-century marbled wrappers. Minor wear to wrappers. Minor foxing in text. Very good. In a red morocco and cloth folder. Scarce account of French motivations for joining with the rebellious American colonies and going to war against Great Britain during the American Revolution, published.....
Paris. 1780. 2pp. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Fine. This pronouncement on American privateers was issued by the King in August 1780. Both American and French privateers were heavily engaged in the Revolution; this act seeks to ensure the distribution of prizes is equitable. Not in Wroth, ACTS OF.....
[Lisbon. Dec. 8, 1778]. [4]pp. Self-wrappers. Light foxing, minor edge wear. Very good. An interesting issue of this long-running Portuguese newspaper, containing information relevant to the progress of the Revolutionary War. Included is word of Admiral Byron's capture of the French ship, Valor, en route to Boston to reinforce D'Estaing's.....
