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Published by St. Martins Press-3PL, 2013
ISBN 10: 0312641869ISBN 13: 9780312641863
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
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Seller: The Jumping Frog, Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
No binding. Condition: Very Good. Property now part of Harpers Ferry National Park. 3 1/2 x 5 3/4". Original photograph, as found. Description from provenance, markings on photo or research. Dimensions given, if any, are approximate. Condition as shown. Defects not visible in scan[s] are described. Item is complete as issued unless otherwise stated. NO facsimiles, copies, reprints or reproductions unless specifically stated in description above. Pictures show actual item, never a stock image.
Seller: The Jumping Frog, Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
No binding. Condition: Very Good. Property now part of Harpers Ferry National Park. 3 1/2 x 5 3/4". Original photograph, as found. Description from provenance, markings on photo or research. Dimensions given, if any, are approximate. Condition as shown. Defects not visible in scan[s] are described. Item is complete as issued unless otherwise stated. NO facsimiles, copies, reprints or reproductions unless specifically stated in description above. Pictures show actual item, never a stock image.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. ships same or next day with tracking.
Published by Dietz Press, Richmond, VA, 1978
Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. King, Sidney (illustrator). First Edition. 4to, profusely illustrated in black & white by Sidney King, some light wear to the corners of the corners of the cover, otherwise a very clean, tight copy.
Published by The American Architect, 1923
Seller: Hammonds Antiques & Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical
Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Unbound, neatly trimmed & in mylar with a stiff backing board. Please note: This is NOT A BOOK, but from a vintage journal. ; Photographs; 9x12; 6 pp pages;
Published by New York: St. Martin's Press, 2013, 2013
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Hardcover. 8vo, green cloth. Frontis., [1], 260 pp., b&w illustrations. CONDITION: Very good, in good dust jacket creased along upper edge of front panel.
Published by Topsham Museum Society, 2005
Seller: *bibliosophy*, Exeter, United Kingdom
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2005, 60 pages stapled booklet in card covers | ex library copy has library inkstamps on front cover, otherwise little sign of use | professional booksellers based in the UK | we package with great care and usually dispatch within 24hrs, always within two working days | please request scans or further information on any of our listings, which are all in stock and ready to be dispatched.
Publication Date: 1854
Seller: AMBRA BOOKS (Aitchison & Cornish), Bristol, United Kingdom
Poster, size 17" x 23", folds. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include HEREFORDSHIRE [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---.
Publication Date: 1900
Seller: Globus Rare Books & Archives, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Photograph
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oblong Folio album ca. 26x32 cm (10 ¼ x 12 ½ in). 50 card stock leaves. With 100 mounted gelatin silver photos, all ca. 12x17 cm (4 ¾ x 6 ¾ in). Nineteen photos with period typewritten captions on paper labels, attached to the mounts. Period black patterned cloth album, a few photos with mild silvering, but overall a very good album with interesting strong photos. Attractive collection of lively original gelatin silver photos, illustrating travel likely by steamer up the West Coast starting in southern California, and then continuing to San Francisco, Portland and Victoria (BC) at the beginning of the 20th century. The album opens with a group portrait of five young guitar players, identified as "Stuck, Elliott, Zollinger, White, Hanes." Seven photos of Los Angeles and environs show Mission San Gabriel Arcangel with the street car tracks of the Pacific Electric Railway, Hotel Green (built in 1893) and an "ostrich farm" in Pasadena (Cawston Ostrich Farm, operated in 1896-1935), Deadmans Island near San Pedro (dredged away in 1928), a "lumber schooner Balboa" in San Pedro harbour, the waterfront in Long Beach, and oranges grown in Los Angeles. About forty photos including many excellent city views of San Francisco, apparently taken before the earthquake and fire of 1906, include a series of views of Market Street looking east and west, and other parts of the city downtown (two photos with a visible steel frame of a highrise under construction), photos of the Ferry Building (completed in 1898), Golden Gate Park (Band stand, Conservatory, Stow Lake, "Apple Sider Press" bronze statue, a statue of the 20th president of the United States James Garfield, Goeth-Schiller monument, Tea Garden and Japanese bridge, Dutch Windmill, tennis courts, driveways), Lands End Park (Sutro Heights, second building of the Cliff House, the ocean shore), &c. The photo of the second building of the Cliff House points to the fact that the album was compiled before the 1906 earthquake and fire. The building was completed in 1896 and survived the earthquake "will little damage, but burned to the ground on the evening of September 7, 1907" (Wikipedia). The photo doesn't reveal any visible damage to the building. There are also several views of Portland, showing Union Railway Station (built in 1896), city downtown streets with the Willamette River and what looks like Morrison Street Bridge (in the far right), Washington Park with the Chiming Fountain, &c. Two photos show a swing bridge in the open and close positions (likely, also in Portland). The other photos show railway tracks, a trestle bridge, a port with coastal steamers, &c. Two photos at the rear show the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria and the city's Government Street (with the Post Office building in the right). Overall a nice collection of well-preserved sound photos of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Victoria in the early 20th century. A list of captions: [A group portrait of five musicians:] Stuck, Elliott, Zollinger, White, Hanes; "San Gabriel Mission", Los Angeles Cal.; "Ostrich farm", Pasadena, Cal.; "Dead Mans Island," San Pedro, Cal.; "Lumber Schooner Balboa," San Pedro harbor, Cal.; "Green Hotel," Pasadena Cal.; "Oranges," Los Angeles, Cal.; "Long Beach," Cal.; "Ferry building", Frisco; "Market Street," Frisco (looking east); "Market Street," Frisco (looking west); "Small Lake," Golden Gate Park; "Driveway," G.G. Park; "Band Stand," Golden Gate Park; "Flower beds," Golden Gate park; "Conservatory," Golden Gate Park; "Driveway," G.G. Park (two different views); "Band Stand," Golden Gate Park.
No binding. Condition: Very Good. Manuscript Document, Contemporary Copy of Last Will and Testament, March 20, 1776, Fredericksburg, Virginia. 4 pp., 7 1/2 x 11 5/8 in. "I direct that after my decease my dear Wife Isabella (if she survive me) and my children do reside on my plantation in King George County adjoining to Mr James Hunter's Land which Plantation I purchased from General George Washington and that my Executors hereafter named out of my personal Estate purchase or hire negroes as they shall think best to work the said Plantation.""I further direct my Books Drugs surgical Instruments shop utensils and Furniture to be sold and also such Household Furniture Negroes or stocks of Cattle and Horses as may appear to my Executors hereafter named to be for the benefit of my Personal Estate."Written shortly after Hugh Mercer became the colonel of the 3rd Virginia Regiment of the Virginia Line, his last will and testament disposed of his real and personal property, including slaves among his wife Isabella Gordon Mercer and children, including one yet to be born.After playing a key role in the Battles of Trenton, in January 1777 at the Battle of Princeton, Mercer's horse was shot from under him, and he was mortally wounded. Vastly outnumbered and mistaken by the British for George Washington, he was ordered to surrender. Instead, he drew his sword, and was bayonetted seven times. He died nine days later. Historical BackgroundGeorge Washington's family moved to Ferry Farm, outside of Fredericksburg, in King George County, Virginia, in 1738, when he was six years old. His father died in 1743, while they lived there, and George Washington eventually inherited the farm and lived there with his mother and siblings until his early 20s. His mother lived there until 1772, when she moved to a house in Fredericksburg. After leasing the tillable and pasture lands of Ferry Farm for two years, George Washington sold it in April 1774 to Scottish physician and fellow French and Indian War veteran Hugh Mercer for £2,000 Virginia currency, due in five annual payments plus interest.Mercer was appointed colonel of what became the 3rd Virginia Regiment of the Virginia Line in January 1776. Both future President James Monroe and future Chief Justice John Marshall served as officers under his command. By June 1776, the Continental Congress had appointed him as a brigadier general in the Continental Army, and he left for New York to oversee the construction of Fort Lee on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River.Mercer played major roles in the First and Second Battles of Trenton on December 26, 1776, and January 2, 1777. While he was leading a vanguard of soldiers to Princeton on January 3, Mercer's horse was shot from under him. British soldiers mistook Mercer for Washington and ordered him to surrender. Instead, Mercer drew his saber and attacked though heavily outnumbered. The British troops bayonetted him seven times and left him for dead. General Washington rallied Mercer's men, pushed back the British regiment, and continued the attack on Princeton. Despite medical attention from Dr. Benjamin Rush and local Quakers, Mercer died nine days later from his wounds.In 1791, Painter John Trumbull used Mercer's son Hugh Tennent Weedon Mercer, who was five months old when his father died, as a model for the large painting, The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777, on which Trumbull worked for many years.Hugh Mercer (1726-1777) was born in Scotland as the son of a minister in the Church of Scotland. He studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen's Marischal College and graduated as a physician in 1744. He served as an assistant surgeon under Bonnie Prince Charlie and was present at the army's defeat at the Battle of Culloden in April 1746. He went into hiding and fled to America in 1747, settling in Pennsylvania, where he practiced medicine. During the French and Indian War, he joined a Pennsylvania regiment as. (See website for full description). Manuscript Document.