New York: The Heritage Reprints, [1939]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pictorial paper over boards, dust jacket. xxxvi, 378pp. Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Very good. Jacket lightly edgeworn and a bit rubbed; faint floral mustiness. Tight, handsome (to cite front jacket panel) "Reprint of the Beautiful Edition Originally Made for the Members..... More
Springfield: Illinois State Journal Co., 1926. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy bevel-edged cloth with gilt spine lettering. 137pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, tissue-guarded full-page plates, marbled endpapers. very good. Lightest of mild edgewear only, with small homely discolored patch to rear board; faint floral mustiness. Tight and attractive first edition of this long-established..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1947. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. xiii, 208pp. Frontispiece, numerous figures and mathematical equations. Very good. Mild edgewear and spine ever-so-lightly sunned; faint floral mustiness. A tight, nice first edition. Front flyleaf and rear pastedown each bear purple name/address inkstamp of Georges..... More
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, [1905]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with Black lettering and black and blue pictorial stamping. 155pp, (5pp ads). Tissue-guarded frontispiece, full-page plates. Very good overall. Bit of dampstaining to bottom of some page edges near rear; faint floral mustiness. A tight and decent first..... More
Newark, NJ: Whitehead & Hoag, [1911]. William H. Taft was the first U.S. President to address the Illinois General Assembly -- the Illinois Senate and House of Representatives combined -- and he did so on February 11, 1911; Herbert Hoover was the second in 1931, Jimmy Carter the third in..... More
The first Illinois-born governor of that state served as a county judge from 1894 to 1897, then won the governorship on the Republican ticket in 1901, serving as 22nd governor until 1905 and not seeking reelection; in 1919 he was elected to Congress and served until 1933; his father, Richard..... More
The Woman's Missionary Society, more formally the Woman's Baptist Home Missionary Society, was formed in Chicago in 1877 in order to train and send women to missions both at home and abroad; later it joined with other similar societies to form the American Baptist Home Mission Societies. Printed card, heavy..... More
New York: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., 1860. Folio (23¼" X 15", image area 18" X 14¼"). Hand colored. Very good. Some age toning and minor soiling (mainly about edges). Well-colored world map, from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World..... More
New York: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., 1860. Folio (12¼" X 15¼", image area 10½" X 13½"). Hand colored. Very good. Slightly age toned, with mild soiling (mainly about edges). A nice example of this well-colored multi-province Canadian map, from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of..... More
Hardcover. Folio (14½" X 11"). Grey cloth, front board bearing large ornate "ALBUM" in gilt and extensive black and gilt decorations, with small color plate at lower right. (31pp), (55pp blank). Very good overall. Binding rather edgeworn and rubbed, but tight and sound; text leaves heavy, age toned thick stock..... More
Madison: Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, 1972. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff blue wrappers. 14pp. Illustrations. Fine. Superb essay by the late great Lincoln artist and Lincoln photography authority. "Historical Bulletin No. 27," the annual address sponsored by this noted organization. First edition. More
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, [1967]. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with silver lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 394pp. Fine/near fine. Handsome, super tight second edition of this 1961 study -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a Typed Note Signed from Thomas, 1p, heavy stock 5½"..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, [2004]. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 233pp. Decorative endpapers. Near fine/fine. Lovely and tight first U.S. edition of the sixth title in the popular "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series" set in Botswana. More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1966. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. v, 391pp. Very good. Tight and nice first softbound edition of this 1956 study first published by Duke University Press. More
This noted civil engineer rose up from the bottom rung of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, joining as a young man and eventually becoming vice president and general manager; in 1893 the ailing railroad named someone else as president, at which time he wisely resigned and became president..... More
New York: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., 1860. Folio (15¼" X 12¼", image area 13" X 11"). Hand colored. Very good. Some age toning and faint soiling. Delicately colored example of this world map, from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the..... More
New York: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., 1864. Folio (15¼" X 12¼", image area 14" X 11½"). Hand colored. Very good. Mild age toning and bit of soiling. Really well colored map of these Midwest side-by-siders, from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries..... More
New York: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., 1863. Folio (15¼" X 12¼", image area 14¼" X 11 3/4"). Hand colored. Very good. Light age toning, bit of faint soiling. Wonderfully richly and nicely colored map of these two side-by-side southern states, published the same year that this breakaway state achieved statehood..... More
New York: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., 1861. Folio (15¼" X 12¼", image area 13½" X 11"). Hand colored. Very good. Light age toning and faint soiling. Nice, well-colored example of this detailed city plan, drawn and engraved by W.H. Gamble, from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing..... More
New York: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., 1860. Folio (15¼" X 12¼", image area 13" X 11"). Hand colored. Very good. Light age toning, faint soiling. A nice, bright example of this detailed city plan, from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of..... More
This mysterious railroad executive about whom little is known was affiliated with the Oregon & Transcontinental and a couple of Indiana rail lines, but is most often remembered as president of the St. Paul and Northern Pacific Railway, which in 1896 morphed into Northern Pacific Railway. Bold "Yours Truly /..... More
New York: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., 1860. Folio (15¼" X 12¼", image area 13¼" X 10 3/4"). Hand colored. Very good. Mild age toning and touch of soiling. Bold and nice map of this tri-state U.S. region, from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the..... More
New York: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., 1860. Folio (12¼" X 15¼", image area 10½" X 13½"). Hand colored. Near fine. Light age toning and faint soiling. Nice, bold map of this continent, from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World..... More
New York: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., 1860. Folio (15¼" X 12¼", image area 13¼" X 10½"). Hand colored. Very good. Mild age toning and faint soiling. Bold and nice map of these five countries, from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of..... More
N.p. Schumacher, n.y. Hardcover. Folio (17½" X 13 3/4"). Blue cloth red and white lettering and large front board color plate, heavy gauge metal-hinged plastic handle. (Ca. 200pp). Extensive color wallpaper pages and smaller color swatches. Very good overall. Boards are edgeworn and rubbed, the front board color plate half..... More