AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
Is
She or
Isn't She?
Bellamy, Edward. Miss Ludington's sister. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1885. 8vo. [2] ff., 260 pp.
deception, false mediums, seances, and contrition.
Binding: Publisher's brown cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt and black in an “Arts and Crafts” inspired design.
Click the images for enlargements. • BAL 954; Wright, III, 461. Binding with light rubbing at edges and some light discolorations to covers; ex–social club library with call number on endpaper, pressure- and rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Clean; in fact a nice book. (26572)
Water as
CURE-ALLBourne, George Melksham. The home doctor: a guide to health. By Dr. Bourne, of San Francisco. San Francisco: San Francisco News Company, 1878. Small 8vo. Frontis. port., xx, 505, [1] pp.; illus. 
Click the interior image for an enlargement. • Publisher's brown buckram, stamped in gilt on the spine, in blind on covers. Paper edges marbled. Clean, free of chips or tears. A very fine copy. (24465)
U.S. Cavalry, including the
“Buffalo Soldiers” Brackett, Albert G. History of the United States cavalry; from the formation of the federal government to the 1st of June, 1863; to which is added a list of all the cavalry regiments, with the names of their commanders, which have been in the United States service since the breaking out of the rebellion. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. 12mo. 337, [1 (blank)], 2 (ads) pp.; illus.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Sabin 7195. Publisher's brown cloth, with crossed sabers on the front cover; cloth discolored, and breaking across back joint. Ex–social club library: call number in a neat 19th-century hand on endpaper and fly-leaf, rubber-stamp on title- and a few other pages. No other markings. Endpapers with old waterstaining, this continuing faintly on first few leaves in some inner margins; a few early margins with short tears. Withal, a good copy. (26282)
Certo “Perfect Every Time”
Jams & Jellies [Bradley, Alice]. How to make jams jellies marmalades with one minute's boiling. Rochester, NY: Douglas-Pectin Corporation, © 1927. 12mo. [24] pp.; col. illus.
This offers a number of “family at home” illustrations that are both quaint and charming.
• Brown, Culinary Americana, 2284 (1924 ed.). Publisher's printed paper wrappers, in pastels both strong and sweet; front wrapper with owner's name pencilled in upper portion. A clean, fresh copy. (26050)
Maritime Derring-Do —
Romance for Boys?Brady, Cyrus Townsend. The Quiberon touch. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1901. 8vo. Frontis., viii, 410, [14 (adv.)] pp. 
• Publisher's blue cloth, front cover and spine stamped in white, green, and gilt; binding slightly cocked, with light rubbing to extremities. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate ("Fifth Form English Library"); front free endpaper with small bookseller's ticket and pencilled owner's name. A clean, handsome copy. (16721)
Letters to a
Sister
in Stockholm — A Swedish FeministAmericaBremer, Fredrika. The homes of the New World; impressions of America. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. 12mo (20.2 cm, 7.9"). 2 vols. I: xii, 651, [1 (blank)] pp. II: 654,2 (adv.) pp.
Click the image to the left The first London edition appeared in three volumes, but the present edition in two, as stated on the title-page.
• Howes B-745. Publisher’s charcoal blind-stamped cloth, spines with gilt-stamped title; cloth showing mild wear overall, with spine gilt attractively oxidized. Front free endpapers with pencilled owner’s inscription dated 1869. Pages slightly age-toned, with scattered small spots of staining. Quite a nice set.
Hands
Off
Our
Guano!Briceño, Mariano de. Memoir justificatory of the conduct of the government of Venezuela on the Isla de Aves question, presented to his excellency the secretary of state of the United States.... Washington City: F.H. Sage, printer, 1858. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). 22 pp., [1 (blank)] f.
• Not in Palau. Original yellow printed wrappers, removed from a nonce volume with stab holes in the inner margins; inside wrappers with a short closed tear and a little shallow chipping, light soiling and a few stray marks. Fold mark down the center and traces of soiling on the top edges.
Hawthorne's College Chum & Main Maecenas Bridge, Horatio; Nathaniel Hawthorne (ed.). Journal of an African cruiser; comprising sketches of the Canaries, the Cape de Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and other places of interest on the west coast of Africa. New York & London: Wiley & Putnam, 1845. 8vo (18.5 cm; 7.25"). viii, [v]-vi, 179, [1 (blank)] pp., [2 (ads)] ff., xii (ads) pp., [8 (ads)] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. Hawthorne had encouraged Bridge, who joined the navy after a family disaster, to keep a journal, and he moreover volunteered to edit it, confident in its success for he saw the public's clear interest in sea-based literature as evidenced by the highly favorable reception of Two Years before the Mast (1840), Typee (1846), and Omoo (1847).
Published as the inaugural volume in Wiley & Putnam's Library of American Books.
First edition, printing A (ads not noted).
• BAL 7597. Contemporary sheep, joints open, leather dry and a bit abraded. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other library markings. Occasional stains (spills?) but remarkably little foxing. (26369)
“Genuine Specimens of Native Literature”Maya & English Presentations — With Notes Brinton, Daniel Garrison, ed. The Maya chronicles. Philadelphia: D.G. Brinton, 1882. 8vo (24 cm, 9.4"). [2], 279, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. First printing in the U.S. of any pre-Columbian text in the original Maya. This is no. I in the “Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature” series, opening with a description of the Maya and including selections from the books of Chilam Balam of Mani, Tizimin, and Chumayel, along with the chronicle of Chac Xulub Chen. Each Mayan text is accompanied by an English translation and the editor's notes.
• Not in Pilling, Proof-sheets; not in Newberry Library, Indian Linguistics in the Edward E. Ayer Collection. Publisher's brown textured cloth framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding slightly cocked, corners and spine extremities a little rubbed, spine a bit sunned. Ex–social club library: call number on front fly-leaf, half-title and title-page rubber-stamped. No other markings. (26511)
You Will Find
NO Prettier Copy! Brooks, Elbridge S. The true story of the United States of America told for young people. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Co., © 1897. 4to. Frontis., [2], 246 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's tan cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in black, white, and red.
• Spine very slightly sunned, otherwise a lovely copy. Pages clean. (26919)
Explaining
Haiti to the U.S. in 1837 Brown, Jonathan. The history and present condition of St. Domingo. Philadelphia: William Marshall and Co., 1837. 12mo (18.5 cm; 7.25"). 2 vols. I: iv, 307 pp. II: 289 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. Binding: Publisher's brown ribbon-embossed cloth with original paper spine labels.
• Sabin 8530; Palau 36231; Library Company, Afro-Americana (rev. ed.), 1701. On binding: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823--50, Fs 1. Publisher's cloth, light spotting on covers with spine label of one volume chipped and the other faded; discoloration to head of spine head, vol. I, and strips of black cloth tape at head of spine and onto boards of vol. II. Ex–social club library: each volume with a 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Title-page and front free endpaper of vol. I neatly joined/reinforced with old paper tape; a firm, decent set. (26410)
A Volume EXTRA ILLUSTRATED & Then Some! Brown University. Celebration of the one hundreth anniversary of the founding of Brown University, September 6th, 1864. Providence: Sidney S. Rider & Bro., 1865. 4to (26.5 cm; 10.25"). [4] ff., 178 pp., [1] f. 
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A full list of contents is available by clicking here.
Complete
Barrett Browning
— Miller's
“Blue-&-Gold Edition”
Browning,
Elizabeth Barrett. Poems by Elizabeth
Barrett Browning from the last London edition, corrected by the author [with]
Essays on the Greek Christian poets and the English poets. New York: James Miller,
1866. 12mo (14.4 cm, 5.6"). 5 vols. I: Frontis., 384 pp. II: 408 pp. III: [8],
400 pp. IV: 242, [2 (adv.)] pp. V: 233, [3 (adv.)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's bright blue cloth (Krupp's style Wav3), covers blind-stamped, spines with gilt-stamped title in decorative gilt frame. All edges gilt.
• On binding cloth, see: Krupp, Bookcloth, 43. Bindings as above, minor wear to extremities, front cover of vol. V and spine of vol. I with small spots of discoloration. Each front free endpaper with inked gift inscription (“Lizzie C. Alvord From Mother,” dated 1868). Pages clean. A beautiful, very gift-worthy set. (26864)
REWARDING
in aBright
“CHROMO”
COVER
Bullard, Asa.
A teacher's reward. Boston: Taggard & Thompson, © 1865. 16mo (11 cm,
4.4"). Frontis., add. engr. t.-p., [2], 7–48, [2 (blank)] pp.; illus.
18 wood-engraved illustrations by various hands; the frontispiece is signed John Andrew. The series compiler, the Rev. Asa Bullard, was particularly known as a children's minister.
Click the images for enlargements. The front free endpaper bears an inked Christmas gift inscription dated 1868.
• Publisher's color-printed paper–covered boards, spine sunned, extremities and back cover rubbed, front cover still bright. Pages slightly age-toned, with outer edges darkened. A beautiful copy. (26641)
A Young Man's Fancies Bunce, Oliver Bell. The adventures of Timias Terrystone. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1885. 12mo. 305, [7 (adv.)] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. Binding: Publisher's olive-green cloth, front cover and spine stamped with title and floral decorations in maroon, dark blue, and gilt.
• Wright, III, 773. Binding slightly cocked, extremities rubbed, back cover with small spots of discoloration, spine head lightly discolored. Ex–social club library: call number on endpaper, title-page rubber-stamped, no other markings. A few leaves with small spots of staining (tea drops?), otherwise clean. An entertaining read in a pretty, if not pristine, binding. (26886)
Bunyan
Illustrated by
the
Brothers
Rhead — Large
Format
Bunyan,
John. The life and death of Mr. Badman
presented to the world in a familiar dialogue between Mr Wiseman and Mr Attentive.
New York: R.H. Russell [colophon: Edinburgh: T. & A. Constable], 1900. Folio
(33.5 cm, 13.25"). xix, [1], 143, [1] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's quarter lavender cloth over sage-green printed paper–covered sides, light rubbing; spine sunned, front cover with old spot. A few smudges to page margins, only; otherwise quite clean. (26920)
Little
Lord FauntleroyBurnett, Frances Hodgson. Little lord Fauntleroy. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1890. 8vo., xi, [1 (blank)], 269, [1] pp.; 14 integral plts. (incl. frontis.), illus. 
Binding: Publisher's red pictorial cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black, brown, and gilt.
• Good++: Some soiling to binding; light to moderate foxing internally. (8539)
He Tried. Burrows, Julius C. Civil rights. Speech of Hon. Julius C. Burrows, of Michigan, in the House of Representatives, February 5, 1875. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875. 12mo. 10 pp.
• Impassioned speech calling for integrated public schooling rather than the establishment of separate schools for blacks, delivered during the House's deliberation over the civil-rights bill and based on Constitutional law.
• Very good. Removed from a nonce volume. (936)
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Japan during theYears of Seclusion, for an American Audience Busk, Mary Margaret, & Philipp Franz von Siebold. Manners and customs of the Japanese, in the nineteenth century. From the accounts of recent Dutch residents in Japan, and from the German work of Dr. Ph. Fr. von Siebold. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841. 12mo (15.7 cm, 6.2"). Add. engr. t.-p., [2], 298 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's olive-brown vermiform embossed cloth of Krupp's style Mis1, spine with gilt-stamped series and individual title.
• American Imprints 41-3339; Cordier, Bibliotheca Japonica, 475–76. Binding as above, cocked and front board slightly warped, sides with light discolorations; spine faded and head with strip of dark cloth tape extending onto sides. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate and call number on front pastedown, first three leaves pressure-stamped, no other markings. First half of volume with pages faintly waterstained in upper portions and cockled; a sound book and as good a “read” as it was for the club members. (26428)
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