Abacus Books, ABAA/ILAB
Richard Chant
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Exhibitor Phone: (303) 817-7349
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Antiquarian and Collectible Books in Many Fields, Ephemera & Vintage Photography
Featured items that Abacus Books plans to bring to RMBPF 2022.
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The Story of Estes Park and a Guide Book
Mills, Enos A.
Denver, CO 19057
Description
Hardcover. Octavo. 105 [1] + [6]. The six pages being advertisements. Folding map in rear. Green cloth over boards with white stamped title and design to front. B/W photographs throughout. Book in very good condition with some shelf wear to covers and a little rubbing.
Map is intact and in very good condition. Enos A. Mills is known as "The Father of Rocky Mountain National Park" for his efforts to conserve the area which became a reality with the signing of the Rocky Mountain National Park act in 1915.
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, Conservation
Price $650.00
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The Life of Sam Houston: The Hunter, Patriot and Statesman of Texas
Lester, Charles Edwards
Philadelphia. John E. Potter & Company, 1867
Hard cover. Octavo. [xi] pp 13-402, (12). Mustard/green cloth stamped in black and gold. Frontispiece of Houston and five additional b/w plates. Howes 271 (iii).
Samuel Houston was an American general and statesman who played a pivotal role in the Texas Revolution and served as the first and third president of the Republic of Texas.
Charles Edwards Lester or C. Edwards Lester (1815–1890) was an American author, diplomat, Presbyterian Minister and Abolitionist who in 1840 addressed antislavery meetings in Massachusetts and was elected a delegate to the London antislavery conference of that year. - wikipedia
Price $400.00
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Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt. President of the United States: Delivered at the Capitol Washington, D.C. March 4, 1933Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1933
Description
Stapled paper wraps with title printed on cover. 9pp. Some stains to front cover and small tear to corner of back cover.
The text of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Inaugural Address upon commencing his first term as President of the United States.
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his first inaugural address on March 4, 1933, the nation was reeling from the Great Depression. The address is most remembered for FDR's statement that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself," but it is also a declaration of war against economic hardship, a call to Americans to work together to face "the dark hour," and a notice of his intention to reorganize and redirect government action.
Price $375.00
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Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804-1806: Printed From tne Original Manuscripts in the Library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of it's Committee on Historical Documents Together With Manuscript Material of Lewis and Clark from other sources, including Note Books, Letters, Maps, etc., and the Journals of Charles Floyd and Joseph Whitehouse
New York. Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904-1905
Description
Number 79 of 200 copies printed on Van Gelder Hand-made paper. Fifteen large quarto volumes including the Atlas of 54 maps. Green cloth with gilt. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates and reproductions of documents and maps. Page edges untrimmed. Some unopened pages. A handful of pages with scholarly annotation in pencil focused on the names of members of the expedition. Two hand written gift inscriptions to the front free and paper of volume 1. Light shelf wear to covers. All bindings fully intact. Howes L320.
In 1893, Reuben Gold Thwaites, second director of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, came across the manuscript of Sgt. Charles Floyd's journal in the Society's collection. Inspired by what he read there, Thwaites began to study the various accounts of the Lewis and Clark expedition. "Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition", which incorporates the journals of Lewis, Clark, Floyd, and Whitehouse, is the first true publication of the journals, as distinguished from histories of the expedition and is still considered my most to be the definitive illustrated edition.
Price $8000.00
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself. His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to this Time
Hartford, Conn. Park Publishing Co. 1882
Description
Hard cover. Octavo. [xx] 13-518pp. 17 plates and frontispiece, which is bound at the back of the book. Professionally rebound retaining original boards and most of title on backstrip. Some small loss to a few page edges.
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass's third autobiography, published in 1881. Because of the emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War, Douglass gave more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery in this volume than he could in his two previous autobiographies (which would have put him and his family in danger). It is the only one of Douglass's autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American presidents such as Lincoln and Garfield, his account of the ill-fated "Freedman's Bank", and his service as the United States Marshall of the District of Columbia.
Price $650.00
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