AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
 For
a separate guide page to ALL OUR AMERICANA SHELVES/CATALOGUES
— click here. See
also, simply — LISTS.
|
American
Primer —
American Woodcuts
(A
B C D
/ A SPELLER!).
M'Carty's American primer. Being a selection of words
the most easy of pronunciation. Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis (stereotyped
by J. Howe), (copyright 1828). 12mo (14.3 cm, 5.6"). 36 pp.; illus.
12 half-page wood engravings of animals and birds done by Gilbert.
• Shoemaker 33941; Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books, 714. Publisher's printed light blue paper wrappers, split and chipped along spine, otherwise crisp and clean. Pages with light age-toning and offsetting. (24569)
This
entry is repeated in the “Ma–Mc” section
New York Banking — In Essence *&* at Point of Crisis (A
Portrait of a Time, a DISCIPLINE, & a “Panic”). Gibbons,
James Sloan. The banks of New-York, their dealers, the Clearing House,
and the panic of 1857. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1858. 12mo (20.2 cm, 8").
Frontis., x, [2], [9]–399, [1], 4 (adv.) pp.; 29 plts., 1 fold. chart.
Click the images for enlargements. 
30 wood-engraved plates by Henry Herrick: expressive depictions of bank employees, customers, and their interactions. Gibbons, a financier by trade and a Quaker abolitionist, provides an excellent “picture of the banks of New York as they are” (p. v) — often by way of “you are there” conversations, including, on p. 95, a vigorous, decision-making interchange as to backing
a house “too important . . . to be allowed to go down.”
• Sabin 27289; not in Goldsmiths'-Kress. Publisher's blind-stamped textured cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title and pictorial vignette; binding cocked, extremities rubbed, spine sunned. Ex–social club library: call numbers on endpaper, front free endpaper excised, pressure-stamp on title-page, two other pages rubber-stamped, no other markings. Some plates with small areas of staining to margins. (26638)
This entry is repeated in the
Into the Woods Abbott, Henry. Camps and trails. New York: Pr. for the author, 1918. 12mo (15.1 cm, 5.9"). 64 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. The work is illustrated with a number of mounted black-and-white photographs.
Each book in the series was published by the author as a very limited edition and distributed to his friends as a Christmas gift; the present copy is inscribed by Abbott: “Wishing you peacetime Christmas cheer.”
This is the original first, 1918 edition, not a modern reprint.
• Publisher's bark-patterned paper–covered boards, front cover with printed title; extremities chipped (most notably spine head). Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription as above; pages clean. (26848)
Engravings by
the “Bewick of America” Anderson, Alexander. Collection of wood engravings. [1855 – ca. 1890]. 32 images. Variously sized, 8.8 x 5.8 cm to 21.8 x 14.7 cm.
Click the image for an enlargement. 
Altogether, an excellent survey of Anderson's career and a collection worthy of study.
Provenance: Ex-lots sold at Libby & SotheyParke Berent auctions; acquired by Seven Gables Booksore; residue of the stock of Seven Gables Bookshop (1930–79), via the son of Michael Papantonio (2009).
• Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson, 1583, 1600, 1763, 1958, 2 examples from 2054. Varying degrees of age-toning and foxing, some items with pencilled annotations; the gathering in good to excellent condition. (25685)
HEALTHFUL St. Augustine, 1829 Anderson, Andrew. [begins:] St. Augustine, November, 1829. Sir, The nature of the present communication will present the best apology I can offer for asking your attention to its object....” [St. Augustine ?]: no publisher/printer, 1829. 4to. [2] pp. with integral blank.
Click the image for an enlargement. The format suggests this was printed for mailing to hospitals, medical societies, doctors, and newspapers. Whether it was printed in Florida is a bit problematic. There were presses in Florida, even one in St. Augustine in 1829, but the publication has no printer's slug anywhere. The typography is very good, perhaps indicating printing in Philadelphia, New York, or Boston, but that remains for a type historian to determine.
Apparently
very scarce: NO other copies traced through the standard sources including
OCLC and the OPACs of the State Library of Florida, the University of Florida
Library, and Florida State University Library.
An
interesting American medical publication, an interesting early American tourist
item, and definitely a good piece of Floridiana.
• Not in Servies, Bibliography of Florida; but see I,1430 for a version that appeared in a newspaper. Not in Shoemaker. Old folds suggesting this was once folded to fit in a pocket. Waterstaining. Two small tears repaired with archival tissue. (23078)
A
Very High-Minded
Cookbook
Andrews, Julia
C. Breakfast, dinner and tea: Viewed classically, poetically, and
practically. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1859. 8vo (19.4 cm, 7.6"). xi,
[1], 351, [1] pp.
Click
the images for enlargement.
The
index here is its own trip. (26504)
Inscribed
by
the Author
Angney, Lydia F. California and other poems. Gilroy, CA: Pr. for the author by A.C. Eaton, 1900. 8vo. 96 pp.
“Californianum”
— this copy with a laid-in slip of paper reading,
“Christmas Greeting to Frank & Annie, from Aunt Lydia.”
Lydia Francis Witham Angney authored two volumes of poetry, both published
in Gilroy, the home of the annual Garlic Festival, and endured a long widowhood
following the death of her husband W. Z. Angney. W.Z. served in the Mexican
War and played a major role in the U.S. occupation of New Mexico and in the
territorial government, then moved on to California, settling in Gilroy to raise
tree fruit in his orchards, but being sent to the state senate and called on
by the governor for other civic duties. He died in January 1878.
Click
the interior image for an enlargement.
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; light shelf wear to corners and spine extremities. (22223)
Ah, Sweet Cynicism Antrim, Minna Thomas. Phases mazes and crazes of
love. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1904. 12mo. 150 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. elegantly
illustrated in green and black by Clara Elsene Park. Antrim was
the author of Don'ts for Girls: A Manual of Mistakes, Naked Truth
and Veiled Allusions, and A Mimic's Calendar.
Binding: Publisher's color-printed paper–covered boards, cloth joints; unusual for the way that the sewing decoratively knotted through the spine.
• Light signs of wear to hinges and extremities, overall clean
and attractive. Pages slightly age-toned. A witty little thing, in construction as well as sentiments.
(26752)
Wildcats,
Bears,
Rabbits,
Otters,
Skunks,
Buffalo,
& “Wapite”Audubon,
John James, & John Bachman.
The quadrupeds of North America. New-York: V.G. Audubon, 1854. Royal 8vo
(27.5 cm; 10.75"). 3 vols. I: viii, 383, [1 (blank)] pp., 50 plts. II: [2] ff.,
334 pp., 49 plts. III: v, [1], 348 pp., [1] f., 51 plts.
155 fine handcolored lithographed plates by W. E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly after J.J. and J.W. Audubon, lithographed by J.T. Bowen. 
A lovely set. (23904)
For more SETS, click here.
“My
Style of
Drawing
Birds”
Audubon, John James. My style of drawing birds by John James Audubon.... Ardsley, NY: Pub. By the Overland Press for the Haydn Foundation, 1979. Tall 8vo. 26 pp., [2] ff., illus., facsims. 
• New. Attractive.
“The Victoria Album”(Augusta's Album).
Luckenback, Augusta, collector. Manuscript on paper, in English. Philadelphia, Easton, Bethlehem, and elsewhere. ca. 1853. 8vo (23.5 cm, 9.25"). [84 ff. (12 inscribed)]; 8 plts.
The front cover vignette has been reproduced, in gilt, opposite the frontispiece portrait.
Provenance: The inscription on the front fly-leaf reads “Miss Augusta E. Luckenback [/] presented to her by her dear sister Em [/] Feb.y 11th/53.”
Binding: Publisher’s red morocco, spine gilt extra, front and back covers with gilt-stamped vignettes of Queen Victoria, front vignette surrounded by gilt-stamped floral border. All edges gilt.
• Binding as above, edges and spine rubbed, still bright and attractive. Mild foxing to some leaves and plates.
For
more MANUSCRIPTS, click
here.
Fanny & Friends forAMERICANS Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park: A novel. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. 2 vols. I: 200 pp. (lacking 4 pp. of prelim. adv.). II: 204 pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Uncommon: Only 10 U.S. institutions report holding copies; one guesses that most have had them for quite some time.
• Checklist American Imprints 11021. Recent quarter red calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels. Four pages of preliminary advertising lacking (only). Moderate to heavy foxing without apparent weakening to paper or harm to reading; pages clean otherwise. (20926)
For more SETS, click here.
Much
Varia — An
Ad for aPapermaker!
(Aye!
We have Almanack[s])! Abell, Truman.
New-England farmer's almanack, with an emphemeris, for the year ... 1828. ...
Fitted to the latitude and longitude of the town of Windsor, Vt. but will serve,
without sensible variation, for all the adjacent states. Alstead, N. H.: Newton
& Tufts; Windsor, Vt.: Simeon Ide, [1827]. 12mo. [24] ff.
Click
the image for an enlargement.
• Drake 13641; Shoemaker 29925. Uncut copy; later stitching and later oversewing; dog-earing and a bit tattered. Title-page and p. [48] age-darkened. Occasional mild staining. (10027)
For a few more ALMANACS, illustrated,
click here.For
an unillustrated, PDF-format catalogue of 
UncommonAMERICAN
Tragedy
Bailey, John J. Waldimar. A tragedy, in five acts.
New York: [Pr. by J. Van Norden?], 1834. 8vo (24 cm, 9.4"). 124, [2], 6 pp. 
• Sabin 2736. Publisher's textured cloth, front with gilt-stamped title, greatly faded with extremities rubbed and worn, spine with paper shelving label and some loss of cloth. Title-page and some others lightly stamped by a now-defunct institution. Two short edge tears, some corners slightly crumpled.
Defending“Perfect
Freedom of Discussion”
Bailey, Samuel.
Essays on the formation and publication of opinions and on other subjects. Philadelphia:
R.W. Pomeroy (pr. by A. Waldie), 1831. 12mo (19.9 cm, 7.9"). [2 (adv.)], 240
pp.
• American Imprints 5858. Uncut copy. Publisher's quarter red cloth and plain paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label; binding rubbed/soiled, spine sunned/discolored, spine extremities chipped. Ex–social club library: traces of now-absent label at head of spine, bookplate on front pastedown, call number in a 19th-century hand on pastedown and front free endpaper. No other markings. Pages generally clean, with text block firm. (26284)
Women's
Lives . . .Baird, Robert. Transplanted flowers, or memoirs of Mrs. Rumpff, daughter of John Jacob Astor, Esq. and the Duchess de Broglie, daughter of Madame de Stael. New York: John S. Taylor, 1847. 12mo. Frontis., 159, [1] pp.
• Publisher's blind-stamped textured cloth, spine gilt-stamped; binding lightly worn, with spine gilt rubbed and dimmed. Front pastedown with bookplate of J.E. Vanderhoef, front free endpaper with early inked inscription of Susan A. Baker. Some foxing to endpapers and a few scattered spots to pages; internally mostly clean. (8958)
Washington in aBeautiful Striped BindingBancroft, Aaron. The life of George Washington, commander in chief of the American army, through the Revolutionary War; and the first president of the United States. Boston: Phillips & Sampson, 1847. 12mo (19.9 cm, 7.8"). 223, [1], 218, [6 (adv.)] pp.; 4 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's green-blue vertically striped ribbed cloth (predominantly seen in the 1840s, never common). Covers with gilt-stamped foliate and drawer pull frame, spine gilt extra with American eagle and portrait of Washington. All edges gilt.
• For early eds.: Sabin 3097; Howes B86. On striped bindings, see: Krupp, Making a Case for Cloth, p. [11]. Binding as above, very lightly rubbed, most notably at corners. Front free endpaper with old, closed cuts/slashes and early inked presentation inscription. Plates browned; some signatures foxed, most pages clean. 
A lovely copy. (26759)
The Andrade Set inQuarter Red Morocco Barcía, Andrés González de. Ensayo cronologico, para la historia general de la Florida. Madrid: Imprenta de los Hijos de Doña Catalina Piñuela, 1829. 12mo. 2 vols. I: [2] ff., 508 pp., fold. table. II: [2] ff., 512 pp.
Click the page-images for enlargements. virtually
all of America north of Mexico from 1512 to 1722 and details
the activities of the Spanish, French, and English, covering not just wars but
offering much on the indigenous populations, New World diseases, and so on.
The present edition forms volumes 8 and 9 of the series Historia de la conquista del Nuevo Mundo.
Provenance: Bookplate of the great 19th-century Mexican collector J. M. Andrade on the front pastedown of each volume.
• This edition not in Sabin. 19th-century quarter red morocco with red textured cloth sides. Spine with raised bands and very good gilt tooling including center devices in spine compartments. Interiors clean. A very good set. (25271)
A Century “Pre”–Nordhoff & Hall — Mutiny on theBounty, First U.S. Edition Barrow, John, Sir. A description of Pitcairn's Island and its inhabitants. With an authentic account of the mutiny of the ship Bounty, and of the subsequent fortunes of the mutineers. New York: J. & J. Harper, 1832. 12mo (14.6 cm, 5.75"). [6 (adv.)], [2], [ix]–303, [1] pp.; 2 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. The volume is illustrated withtwo steel-engraved plates, one view of Tahiti and one of Pitcairn's Island.
• American Imprints 11221; Hill, Pacific Voyages, 70. Publisher's speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; edges and extremities rubbed, spine darkened, spine leather with fine cracks, spine head covered with dark cloth tape extending onto sides. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate on front pastedown, inked numerals on front free endpaper, title-page pressure-stamped. Pages with scattered spots of staining; last page with series title pencilled across — quite decoratively! (26390)
 TO
Part II . . . |