AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
Not-Always-Pretty
Lives Recounted
— but a Pretty Book!
Earle, Alice Morse. Child life in colonial days. New
York: Macmillan & Co., 1899. 8vo. Frontis., xxi, [1], 418, [2 (adv.)] pp.; 55 plts., illus.
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt, white, and yellow; slightly cocked, with edges and extremities a bit rubbed. Occasional small pencilled marks of emphasis. In fact, quite a nice copy. (15620)
First
& Most Famous
Anti-TOM
Novel
Eastman,
Mary Henderson. Aunt Phillis's cabin; or, Southern life
as it is. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852. 12mo (17.9 cm, 7").
Frontis., add. engr. t.-p., [2], [11]–280 pp.
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• Library Company, Afro-Americana, 3386; Sabin 21683; Wright, II, 831. Contemporary quarter sheep and marbled paper-covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding rubbed and worn overall, head of spine chipped and abraded. Hinges (inside) starting, reinforced some time ago with paper. Ex-social club library: Front free endpaper with early inked numeral, title-page pressure-stamped, added engraved title-page and three other pages lightly rubber-stamped. Pages age-toned, with spots of staining throughout; a few light/faded pencilled annotations to the preface and no other markings. (26385)
CRANBERRIESEastwood, B. A complete manual for the cultivation of the cranberry, with a description of the best varieties. New York: C.M. Saxton, Barker, & Co., 1860. 8vo. Engr. t.-p., 120 pp; 9 plts. 
• Publisher's embossed cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; corners and spine extremities showing minor wear, with gilt oxidized. Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription; some page edges with small blotches. 
Binding very handsome in its subtle way. Impossible! to get a good image of! (12986)
Verses for Morning & EveningGerman Americans (Eckartshausen, Karl von). Witschel, Johann Heinrich W. Gott ist die reinste Liebe, oder Morgen- und Abend-Opfer, in Gebeten, Betrachtungen und Gesängen. Ein Gemeinschaftliches Gebet-Buch, Bestehend in Auszügen aus Witschels und Eckartshausen Gebätbüchern. Reading: Carl M'Williams & Co. (pr. by Carl A. Brudman), 1822. 12mo (17.8 cm, 7"). 300 pp. 
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• Shoemaker 8591; First Century of German Language Printing in the U.S., 2565. Contemporary sheep framed in blind, spine with blind-ruled raised bands, abraded but solid. One clasp lacking, one present and working. Moderate foxing; one sectional title with pencilled annotations. Clearly a volume that saw both use and reasonable care. Plain, and pleasing.
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Missions around
the World, Illustrated Edwards, Bela Bates. The missionary gazetteer; comprising a geographical and statistical account of the various stations of the American and foreign Protestant missionary societies of all denominations, with their progress in evangelization and civilization. Boston: William Hyde & Co., 1832. 12mo (19.4 cm, 7.6"). Frontis., [4], [ix]–431, [1] pp. (pp. 137/38 bound in out of order); 24 plts.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. The volume is illustrated with a total of25 wood-engraved plates and a wood-engraved title-page vignette depicting architectural views, native dress, dwellings, and religious sites.
• American Imprints 12263; Sabin 21891. Late 19th-century half roan with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities showing moderate shelf wear (refurbished) . Front pastedown with old seminary bookplate, frontispiece and title-page with faded rubber-stamps of the same, one preliminary leaf with inked numeral in lower margin. Most plates with offsetting, pages with scattered light spotting; otherwise clean and unmarked. In fact, a nice copy of an interesting missionary and in part ethnographical work. (25507)
GOOD
“Traditional”
AMERICAN
History
Elliott, Charles W. The New England history, from the discovery of the continent by the Northmen, A.D. 986, to the period when the colonies declared their independence, A.D. 1776. New York: Charles Scribner, 1857. 8vo. 2 vols. I: Frontis., 479, [1] pp. II: Frontis., 492 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Sabin 22260. Publisher's brown cloth, covers framed in blind, spines with gilt-stamped title and banner motif; lightly worn and moreso at corners, spines each with relatively unobtrusive strip of cloth tape at head. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplates, front free endpapers excised, rubber-stamp on title-pages and a few others, no other markings. (26890)
TellingSpanish
Americans about América
Everett, Alexander Hill. América: O examen general de la situacion política de las diferentes potencias del continente occidental, con conjeturas sobre su suerte futura. Northampton: Simeon Butler, 1828. 8vo (22.2 cm, 8.75"). [4], 296 (i.e., 294) pp. (pagination skips from 274 to 276, text complete).
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• Sabin 23225; not in Shoemaker. Period-style quarter tan cloth with paper-covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Title-page and a few others rubber-stamped by a now-defunct institution; title-page with inner margin repaired. Mild to moderate foxing throughout.
A Politician's Prose & Poetry — Presentation Copy Everhart, James B. Miscellanies. West Chester, PA: Edward F. James, 1862. 8vo. Frontis., [6], ii, 300 pp.
Provenance: Inscribed by the author: “To B.F. Pyle, Esq. [?] from his friend the author.”
• Publisher's textured violet cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; faded, especially over spine, tear to cloth along front joint with corners and extremities a bit rubbed. Front fly-leaf with inked inscription as above. Endpapers, frontispiece (“The Rhine”), and title-page lightly foxed. In fact a clean, nice copy. (23195)
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