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Somerset [Pa.]: Friedrich Goeb, 1813. [4],527,66,[2],169,[2]pp. Large, thick quarto. Contemporary calf with clasps. Minor wear to extremities. Contemporary notations in German on first two preliminary leaves. Some light scattered foxing and toning. A near fine copy. A lovely copy of this highly important German-American bible, notable for being the first.....
St. Louis: Wiebusch und Sohn, 1860-1863. Four volumes bound in one. [2],208; 200 (of 208); [4],208 (lacks pp.137-144); [2],200pp. Vol. 17 lacks issue 26. Vol. 18 lacks issue 18. Folio. Half morocco and marbled boards. Spine and corners heavily worn, front cover detached. Titlepage of first volume torn; second and.....
Leipzig. 1845. iv,258,[2]pp. Contemporary brown cloth, rebacked with backstrip in similar brown cloth, modern paper label. Marginal wear to old boards, new endpapers. Text lightly tanned, with a few old stains. Good. Third edition, after the first of 1843, and the first with this title. "One of the earliest German.....
[San Francisco]: Britton & Rey, 1854. Lithograph, 23 1/4 x 30 inches. Expertly backed with modern wove paper. A few repaired edge tears. Very minor dust-soiling in margins. Central image untouched. Overall, a striking example of a rare view of Honolulu. A superb early view of Honolulu, by the leading.....
New York: National Committee on American Japanese Relations, 1922. 96pp. Original printed teal wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled, library stamp on front wrapper, front joint separating. Internally quite bright and clean. Very good. A detailed and thorough defense of Japanese immigration in the early 20th century. In response to growing.....
Liverpool & Philadelphia. 1850-1852. Five items, detailed below. Overall very good. A small but important collection of documents recording the immigration of Western Europeans to Philadelphia, California, Canada, and other North American locales aboard the ship CITY OF GLASGOW in 1852. Starting in the 1820s, Philadelphia became a leading port.....
[New-Buda, Iowa]. January 24, 1851. 22pp. Folio. Loose sheets. Some dust soiling. Overall good. An eloquent and impassioned appeal for Hungarian freedom from centuries of Austrian tyranny, here prepared by the leader of a community of Hungarian exiles living in Iowa. In a paragraph on the last page, Kossuth appoints.....
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[N.p., but likely California. ca. 1960]. Panoramic silver gelatin photograph, 8 x 19¾ inches. Moderate edge wear, creasing, and soiling, small edge chips and a few short tears. Long hook-shaped closed vertical tear at middle of image. Good. A sobering panoramic photograph featuring the attendees of a Japanese-American funeral in.....
Liverpool. 1855. viii,120pp. plus folding map, thirty plates, and woodcuts in text after Frederick H. Piercy. Large quarto. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Map slightly trimmed, costing the top borderline in the map. Portraits of Willard Richards and John Taylor neatly excised from their old plate.....
Frankfurt. 1756. [8],120pp., including woodcut head and tailpiece. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands and morocco label. Internally clean with only a few small, scattered stains. Very good plus. A mid-18th-century account of German colonists in Pennsylvania, by compatriot and traveller Gottlieb Mittelberger, reprinted in.....
New York: American Art Union, 1851 [i.e. 1853]. Engraved print, 11 x 12 inches; matted to 15 x 16 inches. Small crease at bottom edge, else fine. Engraving by Charles Burt, after William Sidney Mount's famous painting of New England horse trading. This work is typical of Mount's style, capturing.....
[London & New York. 1861]. [40]pp. of pencil text in a longer notebook of ruled paper. Approximately 2800 words. 12mo. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Front board and first several leaves detached (but present), binding worn and rubbed, manuscript paper label affixed to front cover. Light tanning and occasional.....
Frankfurt. 1683. [273]-304pp. Gathered signatures, unbound. Lightly tanned. Very good. In a half morocco slipcase. A variant printing of the second German edition of the founding tract of Pennsylvania, William Penn's SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Penn's description of the new province was first published in London in.....
Philadelphia: Robert Aitken, [ 1775]. Twelve issues and one supplement, a complete run of the first year. 625,[5]pp., including title signature and the supplement, plus fifteen plates (plate of Charlestown lacking half). Without a leaf numbered 285-286, but the text uninterrupted and evidently complete (apparently a mis-pagination at the time.....
[N.p., but likely Pennsylvania. N.d., but ca. 1681-1684]. 367pp. Folio. Remnants of cloth spine, still holding firm by cords. Boards no longer present, but marbled endpapers (chipped) remain. A handful of leaves with minor chips or repairs at the fore-edge or corner, costing little text. Good. In a modern red.....
New York: D. Appleton & Company, [1878]. iv,88,v-xvi pp. plus frontispiece map. Profusely illustrated. This copy without pp. 35-36 and 45-46, but with pp. 37-38 and 43-44 repeated, as issued. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers a bit spotted and soiled, edges and corners worn. Internally quite clean. Very good. An effusively.....
Rotterdam. 1665. Engraved titlepage, title-leaf, [32],583,[13]pp. plus three folding plates. Forty-four copper plate engravings. Quarto. Old vellum. Vellum dust soiled, small portion of spine lacking. Occasional light foxing or toning. Bottom margin of one folding plate trimmed, slightly affecting explanation. Another folding plate neatly detached. Overall a very nice copy.....
[Various places, including Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia, & Washington, D.C. 1797-1809]. Forty-four engravings. All engraved images except one are circular, with a diameter of approximately 2 1/4 inches; the engraving of William Bradford is oval and approximately 3 x 2 1/2 inches. Each image is printed on a slightly larger.....
![Item #WRCAM57321 AN APPEAL TO JUSTICE THE INJUSTICE OF THE PROPOSED INITIATIVE MEASURE. [with:]...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM57321.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1647287727)
Stockton and San Francisco: Japanese Association of America, [ca. 1920]. Two pamphlets: 6; 15pp. First pamphlet is a single folded sheet with three panels of text on each side of the sheet; second is staple-bound. Both measuring approximately 8 3/4 x 4 inches. Light general wear. Both near fine. An.....
Cassel: Theodor Fischer, [ca. 1852]. Sixteen color lithographed mapsheets, each 15 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches, plus [2]pp. explanatory text. Large oblong folio. Original printed paper- covered boards, cloth backstrip. Minor rubbing and edge wear, light staining. Internally clean. Very good plus. A rare and unusual atlas for the eastern.....
Leipzig. 1867. Two volumes bound in one. [12],233,[1]; [6],236,[1]pp. Contemporary three-quarter cloth, spine gilt. Minor shelf wear. Very minor foxing. Two leaves trimmed closely and reinforced at edges, not affecting text. Very good. An authentic account of early German Texas, although cast as a novel set in the German colony.....
Mainz. 1846. 3pp. Folio. Crease at top of first page, slight stain at top not affecting text, else very good. An important promotional for the Society for the Protection of German Emigrants to Texas. Signed by the president of the Society, Prince Carl of Castell, it describes the colony, the.....
Antwerp. 1845. Printed broadside, completed in manuscript, with blank integral leaf. Old fold, else a fine copy. An emigrant contract between the Society for the Protection of German Emigrants to Texas and a German emigrant sailing from the port of Antwerp in the fall of 1845. The document bears the.....
Halle. 1741-1752. Nine volumes in all. First volume (thick quarto) in contemporary three-quarter speckled vellum and boards, seven volumes in later plain wrappers, and one volume in modern brown cloth. Good. Without the folding plate and two maps sometimes found in the first volume. A virtually complete collection of these.....
Pesten [i.e. Budapest]: Kiadjak Lauffer es Stolp, 1860. [10],191,[3]pp. including in-text illustrations, plus eight plates (including frontispiece) and folding map. Original pictorial paper-covered boards, sympathetically rebacked in later cloth, spine gilt. Boards lightly soiled and rubbed, edges and corners worn. Barany family bookplate on front pastedown and their ink stamp.....
