Softcover. Cherry Valley, NY, The Co-operative Press, Reprint, Circa 1900s, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 140 pages, soft cover. Covers are in good condition, despite a tear at the bottom of the spine. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. John Roseboom (1739-1805) was born in Albany, New York, the son of son of Hendrick Myndert Roseboom (1707-1803) and the great grandson of Henderick Roosenboom (d. 1703). He settled early on in Schenectady as a merchant. He was a member of the Committee of Safety, and a Lieutenant in the army of the Revolution. Most descendants listed here lived in New York. Clean copy. Record # 33929
Hardcover. Chicago, Stanton and Van Vliet Co, 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 403 pages + glossary with illustrations, photos and fold-out charts in b&w. Light wear and fraying to black covers with a few small holes through the cloth. Internally very good.
Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 439 pages. Contains numerous diagrams. Front hinge cracked at title-page. Previous owner's stamps on endpapers. Soiling, rubbing to covers. Edgewear. Chipping to spine. Darkened spine.
Hardcover. Rochester NY, Lawyers Co-Operative Publishing, Revised Ed., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1,389 pages. Completely revised by Shipley. An encyclopedia of rights and benefits for veterans.
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1st, 1863, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 446 pags. Illustrated with b/w charts and diagrams. Foxing to endpapers, title page, and several other pages. Previous owner's bookplate on front flyleaf. Page , especially edges are browned. Dark blue texturized cloth, toned on spine and around edges. Rubbing to covers and spine. Wear to top and bottom of spine. Bottom of the spine is nibbled, along with bottom right corners of front and back boards and bottom right corners of textblock.
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1864, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 419 pags. Illustrated with b/w charts and diagrams. Minor foxing to endpapers and title page. Previous owner's bookplate on front inside cover. Spotting and browning to page edges, water stain at bottom edge on last 100 pages of book. Dark blue/brown texturized cloth, toned, especially on spine and around edges. Rubbing to covers and spine. Edgewear, bottom of spine and bottom right corner of front cover are nibbled. Top corners bumped.
Hardcover. Washington, George W. Bowman, 1861, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 448 pages. Brown soiled cloth has embossed design. Hinge is cracked and very loose in back. Previous owner's bookplate front pastedown. Includes articles on roads and bridges, mollusca, archaeology, and the microscope.
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., GPO, 1st, 1864, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, The operations, expenditures, & conditions of the Institution for the year 1863. Slight wear, fraying to edges of faded spine.
Hardcover. Washington, Cornelius Wendell, 1857, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 467 pages. Black cloth, gilt, embossed design, hinge cracked, shelf worn. End papers foxed, minor tanning to pages throughout. Ex-lib. Contains articles on Meteorology, Nature, Art, Physics, etc.
Hardcover. Washington, William A. Harris, 1859, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 448 pages. Black cloth, embossed design, minor spotting. End papers heavily foxed, otherwise internally very good. Ex-lib. Contains articles on Astronomy, Insect Collecting, Atmospheric Electricity, etc.
Hardcover. Washington, Thomas H. Ford, 1860, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 450 pages. Black cloth, embossed design, hinge cracked at top and bottom, water damage to front cover. End papers foxed, minor tanning to pages throughout. Ex-lib. Contains articles on Meteorology, Agriculture, Astronomy, etc.
Hardcover. London, Norman W. Henley Publishing, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 589 pages, 250 b&w illustrations. Red cloth covers with white decoration (faded on front), lettering faded on spine. Censored notice tipped in at title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 54 pages. "A Book of Old Rhymes With New Dresses. The Music by the Earliest Masters." 11 full page color plates. All pages color illustrated and decorated by Crane. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Decorated endpapers. Pages are lightly age toned and there is some minor smudging and discoloration to endpapers. Reddish brown pictorial cloth with b/w illustration. Matching brown, black, and white pictorial dust jacket. Minor edgewear and some age soil.
Hardcover. Paris, Limited Editions Club, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 123 pages. Hardcover. Signed by illustrator on back page. #388 of limited editions (1500). Gilt top edge, title on spine (slightly faded), front and back cover boards. Cover boards bound in navy blue, embossed pattern. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Former owners book plates (2) on endpapers.
New York, American Telephone & Telegraph CO., 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft cover. 100 pages. Fade marks to rear cover. Soiling, yellowing to covers. Some foxing to inside pages. Articles on early switchboard operation, telephone cable lines, etc. B&W photos, illustrations.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lea & Blanchard, 1st US, 1839, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A satirical novel by Theodore Hook (1788-1841) an English writer of theater sketches and comic opera. 205 pages plus publisher's ads. Scarce. Vol. 1 only of 2 volume set. Brown boards with terra-cotta cloth spine, spine label soiled, chipped. Internally very good with light foxing.
Hardcover. New York, Meredith Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Edward Gorey. Some light rubbing to cover edges. Price clipped dust jacket with chips of paper missing at top of spine and along edges - dust jacket now protected with clear plastic protective cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Italy, Opera Della Primaziale Pisana, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages + numerous illustrations/plates in color and b/w, fold. map. ITALIAN TEXT. Covers show some wear/fading from age. Gilt title on spine and front cover. Bound in red fabric. Some foxing to edges/ but pages/illustrations clean, does not affect text. Still a quite tight binding.