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![Text Box: United Fruit Co.: A Short History of the Banana and a few recipes for its use by Hill, Janet McKenzie Hill ca. 1903 Boston, MA: United Fruit Co. Booklet provides history of bananas; nutritional value; Recipes by Janet McKenzie Hill, Editor, Boston Cooking School Magazine include fried bananas, sliced bananas and stewed cherries, hashed lamb and bananas, lamb croquettes with baked bananas, compote of bananas with orange syrup, baked bananas, banana and prune jelly, banana jelly, banana sponge, many more. Map of United Fruit Company's Steamship Lines to West Indies and Central and South America. 31 pp. 12.3 x 18.4 cm. Paper booklet, printed in color, cover lightly soiled, fair. (7785) $16.00. Cookbooks.
Ramah Navahos, The; Tl'Ohchiniji Dine Keedahatiinii Baa Hane'; Navaho Historical Series No. 1 By the Son of Former Many Beads Hastin Biyo' Lani Yee Biye with Young, Robert W. 1949 Phoenix, AZ: Department of the Interior United States Indian Service. Booklet is in Navaho (Navajo) and English. Account by Son of Many Beads of tales of People that lived in former times, and about the white people who came and moved in around Fort Defiance. War upon the Navahos by Mexicans and Mountain Top People (Apaches), and Utes and Zuni. Friendship of Navahos with Chiracahuas. First view of white men called "Mormons"... one the Bishop Joseph Tietjen. Writer's father spent a lot of time with Mormons, and Tietjen gave him land, and Tietjen and his Mormons moved to Big Cottonwood Spring (Bluewater, NM). Visit to Washington. More meetings. 17 pp. 14 x 21 cm. Paper booklet, chips in cover front and back, fair. (7786) $35.00 History/Native Americans/Mormons.
Seasons, The by James Thomson 1826 Boston, MA: : Bedlington, No. 31, Washington-Street. Poetry: Spring, Inscribed to the Countess of Hertford. Summer, with invocation. Address to Mr. Dodlington. Autumn. Addressed to Mr. Onslow. Winter. Address to the Earl of Wilmington. Four copper plates, believed to be etched by Durand Maverick & Co. 154 pp. 9 x 15 cm. Calf on board, worn, penciled name on ffep. Some foxing of text block. Good. (7789) $57.00. Poetry.
Niagara Falls: Williams' Scenic and Historic Niagara Falls; River, Rapids, Whirlpool and Frontier written and compiled by a Native, the son of natives and the grandson of pioneers, Edward T. Williams, City Treasurer of Niagara Falls, NY. Williams, Edward T. 1925 Niagara Falls, NY: Edward T. Williams. More than 150 engravings of ancient and modern Niagara Frontier scenes; early paintings and drawings of Falls; Photo of Observation Pavilion, Niagara Winter sport, Ice mounds in front of American Falls in February 1896; Ice Formation at Prospect Point, February 17, 1904; Present stone locks of the Erie Canal at Lockport, NY; Devil's Hole Massacre Tablet photo taken in 1902, 139 years after massacre of British by Seneca Indians; Tunnel of the Niagara Falls Power Co.; Pictures of notables, including President Millard Fillmore, Jacob F. Schoelikopf, Thomas V. Welch, W. Caryl Ely, Photos of Niagara Falls Power Co.; Romantic Story of the Electric Furnace and Carborundum; Acheson Graphite Co.; The Black "Mystery Box" --the storage battery for your car. 168 pp. 15 x 23 cm. Paper booklet with cloth spine; first 8 pages damp stained; good. (7784) $37.00. Travel
Salem Fire Relief, The; Reprint of a Serial published in the Salem Evening News by Perry, Montanye 1915 Salem, MA: Milo A. Newhall, Printers. 77 pp. 13.8 x 19.8 cm. This edition is the account of the Fire at Salem, Massachusetts in 1914 which left many thousands homeless. Brown cloth on board, very good. On front title page is signature, "F.C. Roberts, 1915".No dj. Very good. (1764) $22.00. History
Added September 12, 2008:
La Guerre D'Amérique: Récit d'un Soldat du Sud [in French] (The American {Civil} War: Narrative of a Southern Soldier); Tome Premier [Volume One ONLY] par Fontane, Marius ca. 1866 Paris, France: Adrien Le Clere ET Ce, Éditeurs, Rue Cassette, 29. Volume One of a two volume set. Small foldout map ( "Carte du Théâtre de la Guerre d'Amérique") at rear of first volume. Narrative by Marius Fontane (1838-1914). Entrée de Charleston. L'exploitation des forêts de la Caroline du Sud. Toinot le planteur. Les case des nègres. Premier coup de fusil (6 avril 1861). Jefferson Davis, président des États confédérés. L'arsenal de Norfolk (6 mars 1862). Marche des Nordistes vers Richmond. 304 pp. + map. 11.5 x 17 cm. Quarter leather with marbled paper boards; covered with plastic film. Fold-out map has small tears in folds. Good. (1735) $75.00. Civil War/History
Entertaining Story, The; of King Brondé, His Lily and his Rosebud by Anna M. Diaz (Abby Morton) with Illustrations by W.L. Sheppard 1869 Boston, MA: Ticknor and Fields. Author is 19th century woman writer and lecturer who was a teacher at the Transcendentalist utopian experiment, Brook Farm, and a founder of New Thought. American fantasy about a King who lived long ago, and three princesses. 144 pp. 13 x 17 cm. Red cloth on board with gilt decoration. Edges frayed, inside hinges cracked, fair.(1918) $70.00. Children's/Fiction
Artist-Life: Or Sketches of American Painters by Henry Theodore Tuckerman, First Edition. 1847 New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company. Biographies of 23 American artists: Benjamin West, Copley, Stuart, Trumbull, Allston, Malbone, Vanderlyn, Morse, Durand, W.E. West, Sully, Inman, Cole, Leslie, Weir, Chapman, Edmonds, Freeman, Leutze, Huntington, Deas, Flagg and G.L. Brown. 237 pp. + adv. 12 x 20 cm. Brown cloth on board, edges frayed, some foxing. Back free endpaper after advertisements removed. Inscription on front free endpaper: "Charles Martin with the author's best regards. Nw York, June 23, 1851." Good. (1724) $95.00. Biography
Village Pencillings: Picnic Tales No. 1 Lewis Benton by Isaac F. Shepard. Illustrated. 1842 Boston, MA: William S. Damrell. Temperance tale for young readers. Young Lewis Benton is an admirable lad, headed for the Ministry. His father dies, leaves family penniless. John urges Lewis to try a glass of liquor. Lewis takes a drink and starts the long slide downward. Tale of despair and hope. 112 pp. 11.5 x 17.2 cm. Blindstamped cloth on board with gilt title. Edges frayed. Pencil notations on endpapers. There are a few small tears in pages. Good. (1835) $49.00. Fiction/Temperance
Six Months in a Convent, Or, the Narrative of Rebecca Theresa Reed, who was under the influence of the Roman Catholics for about two years, and an inmate of the Ursuline Convent on Mount Benedict, Charlestown, Mass. 1835 Boston, MA: Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf. It is hard to imagine the intensity of suspicion, fear and hatred that existed in Boston when these pages first appeared. Rebecca Theresa Reed, a Protestant girl enrolled in the Ursuline Convent and began her "studies" there in 1831, then became a postulant with eventual goal of becoming a Roman Catholic nun. This little book contains small-print "Preliminary Suggestions for Candid Readers", or Introduction (48 pages) describing the situation that led to a riot by Protestant working men and the destruction of the convent by fire on August 11, 1834. It includes text of letters from Judge Fay, and description of reaction to early reading of Miss Reed's narrative of her treatment in the Convent. Miss Reed relates the daily routine in the Convent, the strict silence, the 4 a.m. awakening, the prayers--- all which appeared very foreign to Boston readers, and it all added to the underlying suspicion of the Roman Catholics and unease about jobs being taken by new Irish Catholic immigrants. This little book concludes with a "Letter to Irish Catholics" which notes that most of them cannot read, even though they have been under the tutelage of Catholic priests in Ireland for a thousand years. This little book probably added to the mystery, suspicion and fear of Roman Catholics in Boston. Anti-Catholic. 192 pp. 10.5 x 15.5 cm. Blindstamped cloth on board with gilt title on spine. 3 cm of spine torn, corners bumped, pages unevenly cut. Inscription on ffep "Joseph Higgins". Good. (1869) $40.00. Religious/History/Anti-Catholic
Slave Ships and Slaving by George Francis Dow, with an Introduction by Capt. Ernest H. Pentecost, R.N.R. First Edition. 1927 Salem, MA: Marine Research Society. This is a detailed, fascinating story of the men who sailed the ships that brought slaves from Africa to the New World and elsewhere, of the cruelty, the disease suffered by both Negroes and crew, and the way that people thought about this trade up until it was outlawed. Many illustrations. Abolitionists and press gangs. The Guinea Coast. Sir John Hawkins, Slave Trader. Voyage of the Ship Hannibal of London, 1693. The Slaving Voyage of the Albio-Frigate of London. The Liverpool and Bristol Slavers. Mutinies aboard Slave Ships in the early days. The Ship Doctor's Narrative tells how African leaders gladly collected presents for providing slavers with a steady supply of negroes. Kidnapping supplies the thousands of negroes annually sold off on the African coasts. Common sailors on some ships are allowed to have intercourse with black women. Africans are far more violently affected by seasickness than Europeans and it frequently ends in death. The Guinea voyage and the sailor. The Brig Ruby, African Slaver. Captain Crow, the Last Slaver out of Liverpool. Factory Life on the Guinea Coast. Slave Smuggling a Century ago. Slaving Voyages by Rhode Island Vessels-- Newport and Bristol, RI were well-known slaving ports. Six Months on a Slaver in 1860. The Last Voyage of an American Slaver. 350 pp. 18 x 26 cm. Blue cloth on board. Part of cover, front and back is faded and mottled. Text block clean and tight. Very good. (2903) $58.00. Nautical/History/Slaving
Very Little Tales for Very Little Children in Single Syllables of Four and Five Letters, Second Series, First American from the Fifth London Edition 1845 Philadelphia, PA: Geo. S. Appleton, 148 Chesnut St. Tales printed in very large type: The New Born Lamb; The Bad Boy, &c.; Old Sly Sam (or Old Sam Sly); Poor Fan. 253 pp. 10 x 12.7 cm. Blindstamped cloth on board, edges frayed. Front free endpaper torn, wrinkled. Fair. (7787) $50.00. Children's
Georgy Lee; or the Boy Who Became a Great Artist: and The Shadow in the House, First Edition. By Mrs. O.A.S. Beale, Illustrated. 1859 New York, NY: Published by Carlton & Porter. Georgy in Trouble; Aunt Amy; Georgy's Great Sorrow; Georgy's Dark Days; Georgy and His New Friends. 140 pp. + adv. 10 x 15 cm. Blindstamped black cloth on board, spine torn. Pencil notes on ffep. On end free paper penned notations from S.S. library, Walton. Fair. (7788) $22.00. Children's
Social Pictorial Satire; Reminiscences and Appreciations of English Illustrators of the Past Generation, with illustrations; First Edition By Du Maurier, George1898 New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Frontispiece portrait of George Du Maurier, from an unpublished photograph. John Leech, with portrait. Charles Keene portrait. Many excellent illustrations from Punch. 100 pp. + adv. 12 x 18.7 cm. Decorated green cloth on board, minor wear, very good. No dj. (2663) $16.00. Biography/Art/Humor](image366.gif)