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Condition: Very Good
Description: 263pp.incl.index; HB half-bound tan&leather w/gilt, deckle edges; rubbed w/some stain; lt.wear on edges; bookplate,ft.pastedwn.; clean,tight pgs. Full title: "Hamilton's Itinerarium, Being a Narrative of a Journey from Annapolis, Maryland through Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire from May to September, 1744" #331 of 487 copies printed for private distribution signed&inscribed by publisher, Wm.K.Bixby. illus.&map.
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
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Description: Book has cover wear, spine has been professionally reattached. Inscribed and dated by the publisher, all plates and the folded map are present.
Seller: Uncommon Books, Glastonbury, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto. Pp. xxviii, 263 [1]. Number 134 of an edition of 487 copies printed for private distribution, INITIALED BY W. K. BIXBY, PUBLISHER AND OWNER OF THE MANUSCRIPT. Printed at the DeVinne Press. Illustrated with plates, including a facsimile of a page of the Ms. Internally fine in half calf and cloth boards, scuffed at edges. Owner's penciled signature, with note "from the Author."
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
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Description: Very Good Leather 8vo Issued w/o DJ 263 pages 3/4 leather, light wear atspine end and edges but generally clean. #193 of 487. Saturday, September 12, 2020 Untrimmed, Inscribed by Publisher (to the Wednesday Club) on inside front cover and signed by him on limitation page.Lightly soiled on edges of text block because of untrimmed pages.
Seller: Prairie Archives, Springfield, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, hardcover, signed by publisher and limited no. 93/487, has very slight pulls to spine ends, some light scuffing to leather spine panel, and a touch of wear to corners, otherwise a solid, clean VG+ copy in Fair slipcase which is missing top panel, has approx. 2" tear either side of base of opening, light edgewear, rubbing, and a few shallow scrapes.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited to 487 copies. tan card slipcase present but top and bottom panels separating. Inscribed by Bixby on the front fee endpaper, small stain opposite; hinges strong and secure, lettering a little dulled.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Half calf with brown cloth boards, 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, light rubbing to binding, inscribed by the printer/publisher on the ffep, printed on Holland paper, frontispiece portrait of Hamilton, folding map. xxvii., 263 clean pp., interspersed with unnumbered facsimile leaves of Hamilton's journal, in English. One of 487 copies printed, this copy unnumbered. The first appearance in print of this fascinating travelogue, printed from the original manuscript purchased by Bixby from a London bookshop.This copy belonged to Arthur Hungerford Pollen (1866-1937), an English journalist and writer on naval affairs who designed the Argo Clock, the first electronically powered mechanical analogue computer for use as a naval fire-control system.The publisher, William K. Bixby (who signed this copy), made a fortune in the railroad industry. He became a great patron of the arts in St. Louis, was an avid collector of rare books and manuscripts, was elected member of the American Antiquarian Society, was president of the Missouri Historical Society, was head of the Fine Arts Commission for the 1904 World's Fair, &c., &c., and was prominent for his charitable contributions.Not in either of Roberts' reference works on Revival or Whitefield, although Hamilton mentions his dislike of Whitefield and the "New Lights."Howes H125.Dr. Alexander Hamilton (1712-1756), b. in or near Edinburgh, Scotland; d. Annapolis, Maryland. His father, Dr. William Hamilton, was professor of divinity and principal of the University of Edinburgh; Alexander was raised as a member of the Scottish gentry. He emigrated to Maryland colony to practice medicine at Annapolis. He was a prominent member of society and established The Tuesday Club in 1745.His Itinerariam is a valuable source of American colonial customs, and historian Leo Lemay called it "the best single portrait of men and manners, or rural and urban life, of the wide range of society and scenery in colonial America"; and Eleain Breslaw notes it's record of "the relatively primitive social milieu of the New World. He faced unfamiliar and challenging social institutions: the labor system that relied on black slaves, extraordinarily fluid social statuses, distasteful business methods, unpleasant conversational quirks, as well as variant habits of dress, food, and drink."The editor, Hart, notes, "Among the numerous journals and narratives of travel during the Colonial period, few are so lively and so full of good-humored comment on peoiple and customs as the Itinerarium of Dr. Hamilton, which now for the first time has become known." and says he is a lover of nature, mildly interested in government, always interested in science, and comments on medicine and medical men. His greatest interest was in men and manners, "and a special merit of the Itinerarium is the light shed upon the social life of the time by an intelligent observer admitted to the best society of the places that he visited, and at the same time taking note of the life of the plain people among whom he passed.The Indians especially attracted his attention and he met all sorts from the naked wretches fishing for oysters on Long Island Sound, to 'King George,' the owner of 20,000 or 30,0000 acres near Stonington."
Seller: Haaswurth Books, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarter-leather. Very Good. Numbered. Privately Printed. Signed By Publisher. 8vo - over 7_" - 9_" tall. 296 p. illus. Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart. 'Four hundred and eighty-seven copies of this work have been printed for private distribution only.' This is number 219. Signed 'John F. Lee with regards of W.K. Bixby, St. Louis, 11/5/07' on F.f.e.p. with John Fitzgerald Lee's bookplate on front pastedown. Printed at the De Vinne Press. Dr. Alexander Hamilton (1715-1756), Scottish-born physician, who practiced in Maryland after 1738. This is a diary of his horseback journey through the Middle colonies as far as Boston. It provides and excellent account of contemporary society and manners, and it is among the best colonial record of domestic travel that we have. This is its first publication. Some wear to leather along edges and mild soiling to cloth. Many pages uncut. [Loc.Rare]
Seller: ReREAD Books & Bindery, Little Rock, AR, U.S.A.
Price: US$138.00 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of 487 copies. A journey undertaken by an Annapolis doctor, Dr. Alexander Hamilton in 1744; including 5 days on a sloop bound for Albany, New York, with descriptions of the Hudson Highlands, including Dunder Barrack, Anthony's Nose, Hay Ruck, Doepper's Island, Butter Mountain, Dancing Hall and Poughcapsy. Many frank and funny contemporary observations of the social life of the colonies and the customs and manners of the inhabitants of the major cities, especially the Dutch; observations also of Native Americans. 4to, frontis, folding map, xxvii, 263pp unopened, b&w illus, Index. Three quarter tan leather and cloth covers, with gilt title at spine. Sml split at base of spine, o/w very good. Internally, very good, pages bright and clean, pages unopened. In a tan stamped slipcase, with top panel loose, and rubbed at edges.
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: St. Louis, MO: William K. Bixby, 1907. First Edition, Limited to 487 copies of which this is no. 212. Quarto; publisher's three-quarter calf over cloth, gilt-lettered spine, housed in original paper-covered slipcase; xxvii,[1],263pp.; frontispiece, large folding map, and thirty (30) leaves of plates, chiefly facsimiles. Slipcase rather scuffed and toned, else a Near Fine copy. Signed by Bixby on colophon, accompanied by a more extensive signed inscription on front free endpaper to an I.H. Lionberger. Laid in typescript note also addressed to Lionberger accompanying this volume with the assurance that "No part of this has ever been printed, and no copies will be offered for sale."
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Hamilton's Itinerarium: Being a Narrative of a Journey from Annapolis, Maryland Through Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire from May to September, 1744 Hamilton, Alexander; Hart, Albert Bushnell (Ed.) This is the limited edition, copy no. 320 of 487 signed by William K. Bixby the founder of the Bibliophile Society of Boston, in his initials on the colophon, hand letter press on hand made laid paper bound in a 1/2 gilt calf and boards, with the fold out map and facsimile manuscripts, note a damp stain old one at base of spine, in the original slipccase, lackign the top portion, a chip to one corner of the calf skin 3/4 else good plus, the text is in fine excellent condition.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Number 299 of 487 numbered and initialed copies were printed. Frontispiece portrait, folding map, facsimiles and plates. xxvii, 263, [1] pp. 1 vols. 4to. Inscribed to Son-in-law. Inscribed on the endpapers "Rev. Albert Jordan with Regards of W. K. Bixby, St. Louis 11/13/07." The Reverend Jordan was his son-in-law and this copy from his family at Bolton's Landing, NY. Howes H 125; Bixby "Privately Printed Books" p. 7 Original half calf. Some light rubbing and light offsetting, mostly of endpapers, else a very good copy of this important narrative Frontispiece portrait, folding map, facsimiles and plates. xxvii, 263, [1] pp. 1 vols. 4to First edition. Number 299 of 487 numbered and initialed copies were printed.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.