Report for 1857 (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Like New. In unused condition, may show some slight shelf wear, but otherwise unread. This title was digitally scanned from a rare, out of print edition, and will have some visual artifacts from that process.

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. First Edition. Octavo, [2], 147pp, [3]. Publisher's pebbled brown cloth, ruled in blind, title stamped in gilt on the cover. Yellow endpapers. Touch of wear to cloth at the head of the spine. Some faint transference from plates to adjacent leaf. Solid text block. Free of ownership marks or notations. This work includes a lithograph with a fold-out "View of Lake," and 46 additional plates. The "Index to Plates" calls for 48 plates and a fold-out "View of Lake," but two are lacking (O.C. Betts and Peter Neff), as is true with all catalogued examples. (Sabin 89822) An outstanding example of this scarce work on early Cincinnati. A revised and enlarged edition of this report was issued in 1862, printed by Bradley & Webb of Cincinnati. (Sabin 89825) Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, founded in 1845, was designed by landscape architect Howard Daniels and later refined by Adolph Strauch. It is the resting place for many of Cincinnati's prominent industrial, political, and cultural figures, including Salmon P. Chase (Chief Justice of the United States), Civil War General Joseph Hooker, Procter & Gamble cofounders James Gamble and William Procter, the Nicholas Longworth family, and members of the Taft family. The first edition of The Cincinnati Cemetery of Spring Grove, a Report for 1857, with lithographed plates. (illustrator).…

Cloth. Zustand: Very good. First Edition, Thus. Octavo, [2], 438pp, [4]. Publisher's brown embossed cloth, title in gilt on spine. Issued as Senate Miscellaneous Document No. 272 of the 35th Congress, first session. Library plate affixed to the front pastedown. Occasional toning and foxing throughout. Presentation copy from Vice President Hannibal Hamlin to the New Sharon, ME Town Library, signed on a presentation plate affixed to the front free endpaper. (Sabin 85052) A scarce work signed by future Vice President Hannibal Hamlin. The volume records the Institution's work during 1857. It includes the annual report of Professor Joseph Henry, an American physicist and the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Joseph Le Conte contributes lectures on coal and Spencer F. Baird reports on the museum collections. The volume also documents the Board's investigation of Samuel F. B. Morse's charges against Professor Henry. Presentation copy of the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for 1857, from Vice President Hannibal Hamlin. (illustrator). Signed.…