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"The History of Miss Villars" Pamphlet
Circa 1793
A printed pamphlet with wallpaper covers relating to the tribulations of Miss Villars, a young "woman of business" with "no inclination to marry" in patriarchal post revolutionary America.
It is inscribed on the inside of the cover: "Presented to Thomas Dewick by his Instructor _m Marcy".
There are also two cabinet cards of a Rebecca and John Minnekin of Fall River, MA.
Condition: cover is chipped, pages have tear in center, otherwise good.
Dimensions: 3.875 by 5.875-inches.
Price: $85
576-22
Barnstable: Three Centuries of a Cape Cod Town
By Donald G. Trayser
Book Description: F.B. & F.P. Goss, Hyannis, Massachusetts, 1939. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. NO Dust Jacket Condition: green cloth cover needs slight cleaning, but nothing more; interior nice. Sketches By Vernon Coleman (illustrator). Text fine, no markings. Illustrated with line drawings, black-and-white photos. 500 pages + photos. Nice little book with a lot of interesting details. Worth owning as a reading copy or simply an inexpensive rememberance.
Price: $78
ACD
The History of Cape Cod
By Freeman
Volumes 1 and II
1965 copied from the original 1860 and 1862 volumes. Numbered copy 113 , and inscribed by owner on inner flap (needs a book plate). Parnassas Imprints in Slipcase; Long inscription from owner on inner flap ; otherwise near excellent. Very minor shelf wear to slip case only; excellent copy. Well worth owning.
Price: $250
ACD
HISTORY OF ASHBURNHAM MASSACHUSETTS FROM THE GRANT OF DORCHESTER CANADA TO THE PRESENT TIME 1734-1886 WITH A GENEALOGICAL REGISTER OF ASHBURNHAM FAMILIES
By Ezra S. Stearns
Published by the Town, Ashburnham, Mass. 1887, 1887. First Edition. Large 8vo, 6" x 9 1/2". Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering, a massive 1022 pages, with 15 engraved portraits with tissue guards & 14 other ilustrations. (Reprints usually have poor quality illustrations, or, more often, omit them entirely). Brown leather with marbled end papers. A true collector;s copy with no apologies less some very minor shelf wear and small tear to bottom of spine as seen in pictures. Internals immaculate. If you could only own one copy, let this be the one.
Price: $600
ACD
Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening.
Collected from designs and observations now in the posession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally made. The whole tending to establish fixed principles in the art of laying out ground
REPTON, Humphry (1752-1818)
First Edition, London; 1794
An excellent example Humphry Repton's standard on Landscape Gardening. Similar Examples can currently be found offered at $35,000 and $27,500, with no others currently found. The interior of this book is complete with the 19 overslips, and is rarely found in this condition, or this complete. Excellent addition to any advanced library as is, or for those who accept of prefer restoration, there will never be a better candidate.
Book Description: London: printed by W. Bulmer & Co., sold by J. & J. Boydell and G. Nicol, [1794]. Oblong folio. (10 1/4 x 14 inches). 10 hand-coloured aquatints engravings (1 folding, 3 double-page), each with one or more overslips, and 6 aquatint plates printed in black with a single tint added (4 with one or more overslips), 2 wood-engraved illustrations, 1 wood-engraved tailpiece. First edition of the first of Repton's three great works on landscape gardening. Humphry Repton was the main successor to Lancelot 'Capability' Brown as an improver of grounds for the English gentry in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. He was particularly noted for his 'Red Books'. These were produced for each individual client and were made up from a manuscript description of his proposed improvements bound with Repton's own watercolour drawings of the grounds, with his proposed alterations displayed on an overlay. The present work is made up to a large degree of extracts from the 'Red Books' of 57 houses, which Repton had been called upon to 'improve'. A list of these houses, their location and their owners is given in a valuable two-page list towards the front of this volume. The work is broken down into various chapters: 'Concerning Buildings', 'Concerning Water', 'Concerning Approaches', etc. In each chapter Repton selects the relevant section from each 'Red Book' that is helpful to the point he is trying to make. In addition to the specific ideas that he is trying to convey, Repton also enters the fray on behalf of 'Capability' Brown.
Prospective buyers are encouraged to visit www.abebooks.com for comparable volumes.
Please write to Rob Morin at ram@aaawt.com for further details.
Price: $22,500
ACD
Oregon Trail Book
Parkman, 1892
Book Description: Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1892. Decorated Cloth. Book Condition: Very Good. Frederic Remington (illustrator). First Illustrated Edition. Octavo. First Printing, list of illustrations is not present. [BAL: 15484] 411 pp. Tissue protected tinted frontis, several plates and other black and white illustrations. With preface to the illustrated edition by the author. Original gold cloth decorated with gold gilt sun, gold gilt bow and arrow and blue and pink drawings on upper cover. Gold gilt printing on upper cover. Spine has gold gilt decoration and printing. The head and tail of the spine are very moderately worn and frayed. The boards are just slightly soiled. Top edge is gold gilt. The front free endpaper is detached, and the rear hinge has separated, but the binding is tight and strong. Slick text paper.
Price: $1,500
ACD
George Allen
The Only Son
By Miss Mary Anna Fox
Hardcover with illustrations
1847
Hard cover, blind stamped, with four engraved illustrations, 132 pages, published by Charles Fox, Boston, 1847, flyleaf inscribed "Augusta", spine chipped otherwise very good. 6 ½-inches x 4-inches.
Price: $68
110-344
Infantry Tactics by Brigadier General Silas Casey, Vol. I
1862
Green cloth cover, front and back with blind stamped eagle, spine with gold lettering, lightly inscribed in pencil "A. W. Eames / Aug 1866 / Leicester Mass."
Condition: flyleaf diagram has tear in one fold and foxing on front and back cover pages otherwise very good, volume I only.
Dimensions: 5.25 by 3.75-inches.
Price: $175
110-329
Book of 500 Curious Puzzles
Circa 1859
Dick & Fitzgerald Publishers, NYC, 1859, hardcover; very good, edges of cover worn, soiled, corners dented, last two advertising pages have pencil notations on outside margin, no foxing, tears, or stains.
Price: $465
913-16
1854 Book Signed By Union General Hiram Berdan
Inventor, crack rifleman, creator of two Civil War Sharp Shooter regiments
Hiram S. Berdan Autograph, Commander of Berdan's Sharpshooters - Copy of The Works of Washington Irving, Volume IX, 1854, signed on inside of end paper "H. Berdan." The inside cover page has a Francis Marion Crawford bookplate; Marion Crawford was a very popular American author who married Hiram Berdan's daughter Elizabeth in 1884. Hiram S. Berdan (1824 - 1893) was a millionaire who formed a unit of expert marksmen that became famous as "Berdan's Sharpshooters" during the Civil War. Berdan's autograph is uncommon.
Price: $395
110-289
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