Vellum, 28 x 15 inches, very good, usual folds, for a lot of land described as being on 7th and Delaware near Poplar Lane (northern Philadelphia we think), between John and Ann Elkinton and William S. Ward. Elkinton was a bit of a somebody in Philadelphia: He attended Pennsylvania University.....
Philadelphia: John C. Clark, 1849. Paperback. Recent plain dark blue wraps, original lighter blue rear wrap still present. 21 pp. plus a few blanks at end. The lots in question were probably in the South Philadelphia neighborhood of Passyunk or just south, say around E. Passyunk Ave. & Morris. OCLC.....
11 inches tall, pillowed red velvet, spine worn, contents good, with 29 cabinet sized photos (5.5 x 4 inches) with studios mainly in Eastern PA: Philadelphia, Stroudsburg, Lewistown, Allentown, Easton, with a couple from other places or states. Walton is the only family name we saw, on two of them.....
Sugarloaf Township, PA: 1894. 12 x 8 inches, single sheet. B. Stauffer agrees to care for and raise a baby that their son fathered, with the mother agreeing to sign away all rights, etc. to the baby. It is unclear to us whether the signer is male or female --.....
Boston: Graves & Steinbarger, 1899. Large color map, when opened measures 22.5 x 33 inches; the double-page map shows Ephrata and West Earl with insets of Brownstown, Talmage and Farmersville, the versos showing the borough of Ephrata on one side, Akron and Lincoln on the other.
Boston: Graves & Steinbarger, 1899. Large color map, when opened measures 22.5 x 33 inches; the double-page map shows Upper Leacock and Leacock with insets of Intercourse, Gordonville, Monterey, Mechanicsburg, Bareville, Leola, and the versos showing Caenarvon, Adamstown and Churchtown P.O. on one side and West Cocalico, Reinholds Station, Schoeneck.....
Boston: Graves & Steinbarger, 1899. Large color map, when opened measures 22.5 x 33 inches; the double-page map shows Upper Leacock and Leacock with insets of Intercourse, Gordonville, Monterey, Mechanicsburg, Bareville, Leola, and the versos showing Caenarvon, Adamstown and Churchtown P.O. on one side and West Cocalico, Reinholds Station, Schoeneck.....
Boston: Graves & Steinbarger, 1899. Large color map, when opened measures 22.5 x 33 inches; the double-page map shows Upper Leacock and Leacock with insets of Intercourse, Gordonville, Monterey, Mechanicsburg, Bareville, Leola, and the versos showing Caenarvon, Adamstown and Churchtown P.O. on one side and West Cocalico, Reinholds Station, Schoeneck.....
Boston: Graves & Steinbarger, 1899. Large color map, when opened measures 22.5 x 33 inches; the double-page map shows Strasburg and Paradise with insets of Refton, Kinzer and Williamstown; verso sides show Strasburg, Pardise and Leaman Place on one side, Brecknock with inset of Bowmansville on the other. Very good.....
Boston: Graves & Steinbarger, 1899. Large color map, when opened measures 22.5 x 33 inches; the double-page map shows Upper Leacock and Leacock with insets of Intercourse, Gordonville, Monterey, Mechanicsburg, Bareville, Leola. Very good with light wear and soil, slight age toning.
Boston: Graves & Steinbarger, 1899. Large color map, when opened measures 22.5 x 33 inches; the double-page map shows Strasburg and Paradise with insets of Refton, Kinzer and Williamstown. Has little rectangular brown stains to the middle of left and right edges else nice and bright.
Boston: Graves & Steinbarger, 1899. 22.5 x 16 inches, single sheet, linen backed, very good, light wear and tanning, two brown rectangular offsets to right edge.
Boston: Graves & Steinbarger, 1899. 22.5 x 16 inches, single sheet, linen backed, very good, light wear and tanning, two brown rectangular offsets to right edge.
Williamsport, PA: The Sun Printing and Binding Co., 1916. First Edition. Wraps. Quarto, 11 x 8.5 inches, softcover, good to very good, general light wear and surface soil to covers, a few small stains, contents very good; the last blank page has about a dozen autographs with cheeky messages --.....
(Harrisburg): Wm. Stanley Ray, State Printer of Pennsylvania, 1897. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, green cloth, very good, light general wear. 149 pp, many plates.
Chicago: Gravure Illustration Company, 1901. First Edition. Wraps. Large quarto, 13.75 x 11 inches, lacking the original green cloth portfolio, replaced with plain recent black paper folder with cloth title cut and mounted from original portfolio. The books themselves, all nine, are in very good or better condition. Each with.....
Lancaster & Harrisburg: Various, 1810-1817. Hardcover. Bound in brown buckram, title stamped in gilt on cover along with "Senator Edward Martin" in gilt -- Martin, who later became Governor, was an avid collector of Pennsylvania related material. About 125-150 pages in all. The 1817 AG's report has old brown pen.....
Mostly measuring 9 x 4 inches folded (a few smaller), includes two Pennsylvania Hotels brochure/maps from the 1940s-50s, both measuring approx. 24 x 18 inches. Some fold out with views of rooms and other amenities and others have maps. All in very good condition. The Hotel Keystone is cut like.....
Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1970. Hardcover. Small quarto, 11.25 x 8.75 inches, publisher's green cloth, very good, a little musty and spotty. 426 pp, folding map.
Philadelphia: Daniel H. Mahony, C. 1895. First Printing. Wraps. Tall 8vo, 9.25 x 6 inches, softcover in publisher's pictorial mustard yellow wraps, good, light general wear and soil to covers, minor wear and paper loss to spine ends, some tanning to text, and scant signs of dampstain tidemarks to lower.....
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey and John Bioren, 1803. Hardcover. 8.75 x 5.5 inches, old calf, fair with significant rubbing and wear to binding, boards barely attached, contents mainly very good, some wear, loss and browning to title page and next couple leaves and occasionally to lower outer corner of text pages.....
Philadelphia: John Bioren, 1810. Wraps. Vol. I only. 8vo, disbound, and now in plain recent black wraps with spine label, contents good or better, some foxing and tanning throughout. Has laws from 1700 to 1781. 539 pp, index.
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey and John Bioren, 1803. Hardcover. 8.75 x 5.5 inches, old calf, fair with significant rubbing and wear to binding, boards barely attached, contents mainly very good, light toning. 521 pp including errata. Contains laws and acts from 1771 to 1784.
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey and John Bioren, 1803. Hardcover. 8.75 x 5.5 inches, old calf, fair with significant rubbing and wear to binding, boards barely attached, contents mainly very good, light toning. 457 pp including errata. Contains laws and acts from 1785 to 1790. Ownership signature of a David Sample from.....
Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Bailey, Lancaster, for Mathew Carey and John Bioren, 1803. Hardcover. 8.75 x 5.5 inches, old calf, worn with both boards detached, spine worn, too, bulk of contents very good, clean and unmarked. Contains the Constitution of Pennsylvania and various acts passed by the legislature between 1791.....