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Book ID: 28791 Constitution and By-Laws of the American Jewish Publication...

[AMERICAN JUDAICA].

Constitution and By-Laws of the American Jewish Publication Society. (Founded on the 9th of Heshvan, 5606). Adopted at Philadelphia, on Sunday, November 30, 1845, Kislev 1, 5606.

Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 5606 [1845]. First edition, first printing; there was a second printing dated 1846. Singerman, Judaica Americana, 881; not found in Rosenbach. A seminal document of the American Jewish Publication Society, a pioneering organization dedicated to the advancement of Jewish culture and religion in America, founded in Philadelphia.....

Price: $500.00

[AMERICANA: ARIZONA]. Mowry, Sylvester.

The Geography and Resources of Arizona and Sonora: An Address Before the American Geographical and Statistical Society . . . A New Edition, with an Appendix.

San Francisco and New York: A. Roman & Co., 1863. Second edition, enlarged. Sabin 51211; Wagner-Camp 336n; Howes M-869. An early work on Arizona by speculator, miner and promoter Sylvester Mowry (1830-71), which was first published in Washington in 1859 as an effort to persuade Congress into designating Arizona a......

Price: $450.00

CANOVAI, STANISLAO.

Elogio d'Amerigo Vespucci che ha Riportato il Premio Dalla Nobile Accademia Etrusca de Cortona . . . Con una Dissertazione Guistificativa di Questo Celebre Navigatore.

Firenze: Nella Stamp. De Pietro Allegrini, 1788. First edition. Sabin 10704; Palou 42410. A treatise by Florentine historian and mathematician, Stanislao Canovai (1740-1811), that attempts to restore the reputation of Amerigo Vespucci as the founder of the new world, which was named for him, but he was not generally credited.....

Price: $750.00

INMAN, HENRY, COLONEL.

The Old Santa Fé Trail: The Story of a Great Highway.

New York [&] London: The Macmillan Co., 1897. First edition. Howes I-57. A nostalgic portrait of the original Santa Fe Trail as it developed from eastern Kansas to New Mexico, with an introduction by W. F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," and wistful illustrations by Frederick Remington and Thompson Willing. Henry Inman.....

Price: $275.00

[MURPHY & HARNED, COMPILERS & PUBLISHERS].

Puget Sound Business Directory, and Guide to Washington Territory, 1872, Comprising a Correct History of Washington Territory, and a Condensed but Comprehensive Account of Her Agricultural, Commercial and Manufacturing Interests, Climatology, Mineralogy, Inhabitants, Natural Advantages and Industries, Together with a Complete and Thorough Directory of Olympia, Steilacoom. Seattle, Port Madison . . . And Every Town and Hamlet on Puget Sound. First Year of Publication.

Olympia: Murphy & Harned, (1872). First edition. Streeter 3258; Graff 2936; Howes M910. The first business directory to Puget Sound, printed in Olympia by R. H. Hewitt's Excelsior Job Printing. The directory is divided into two parts. The first contains a general sketch of Washington Territory, with descriptions of the.....

Price: $2,750.00

WEBSTER, DANIEL.

Lithographed portrait of Daniel Webster after the oil portrait by Chester Harding.

Boston: Published by D. C. Johnston, 1831. A famous portrait by Chester Harding (1792-1866) of American statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852), "drawn on stone by D. C. Johnston" and printed by Pendleton's Lithography, Boston.

Price: $200.00

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