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(CANADA.) [Fleet, William Henry, a.k.a. “Hon. Francis Thistleton.”]
How I
Came to Be Governor of the Island of Cacona.
Text illustrations. 220 pages.
Contemporary
1
/
2
calf, moderate wear, backstrip chipped; flyleaf chipped, lacks half-title;
early owner’s name on half-title.
Montreal, 1852
[150/250]
FIRST EDITION
.
“A satire upon Colonial Governors and their administrations, and upon the
Canadian Government in particular.”—Sabin 24689 (listing 1853 as the first edition).
Lande 1766; TPL 3246.
80
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(CATTLE.) Allen, Lewis F.
The American Herd Book, Containing Pedigrees
of Short Horn Cattle.
3 plates. 24, [9]-240, 16 pages. 8vo, contemporary
1
/
4
calf, moder-
ate wear, joints splitting; moderate foxing; early gift inscription on front free endpaper, later
bookplate on front pastedown.
Buffalo, NY, 1846
[500/750]
First edition; two later volumes were issued after 1849. McMurtrie, Additional Buffalo
Imprints 196 (2 copies known). Not in Severance’s Buffalo Imprints or Adams, Rampaging
Herd; no other copies known at auction.
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(CHILDREN’S BOOKS.)
Group of 3 illustrated works of American travels.
Various sizes, bindings, and conditions.
Vp, 1817-52
[200/300]
Champagnac. Le Jeune Voyaguer en Californie. 8 color plates, a few pages defaced. Paris,
[1852] * Nougaret. Beautès de l’Histoire des Etats-Unis de l’Amerique Septentrionale. 9
plates. Paris, 1817 * Taylor. Scenes in America. 4th edition. 28 plates, defective map. London,
[1828?]
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(CHILDREN’S BOOKS.)
Group of 9 illustrated children’s books.
Various
sizes, bindings, and conditions.
Vp, 1846-circa 1870
[150/250]
Aunt Mattie’s Series: The Shoulder of Mutton. Philadelphia, circa 1870 * Aunt Mavor’s
Series: Picture Alphabet & Other Tales. New York, circa 1870 * The Illustrated Primer. New
York, circa 1850 * Maja’s Alphabet. Philadelphia, 1852 * Marino Falieri, the Doge of
Venice, and Other Stories. Boston, 1855 * A Rapid Tour Around the World. Amherst, MA,
1846 * Sanders’ Union Pictorial Primer. New York, [1866] * The Tract Primer. New York,
circa 1850s * Uncle John’s Panorama, Charley’s Picture Alphabet. Incomplete, panels
detached. Philadelphia, 1854.
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(CIVIL WAR.) [Bixby, O.H.]
Incidents in Dixie: Being Ten Months in the
Military Prisons of Richmond, New Orleans and Salisbury.
12mo, original glazed
gilt-lettered wrappers, worn, front cover detached; lacking front free endpaper, minor
foxing.
Baltimore, MD, 1864
[150/250]
“
Temperate, interesting pamphlet based on a diary; has one of the few descriptions of New
Orleans Parish Prison”—Nevins page I:186. No other copies known at auction since 1975.
Sabin 34427.
WITH
—[Sophia A. Pool.] The Color-Bearer, Francis A. Clary. 16mo,
publisher’s cloth. With a note tipped in: “My sister wrote it . . . C.H. Pool.” New York, nd.
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