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San Francisco News Letter California AdvertiserVol 37 Number 50, June 4, 1887. Author: Published every Saturday by the Proprietor, Frederick Marriot Title: San Francisco News Letter California AdvertiserVol 37 Number 50, June 4, 1887 Publication: San Francisco News Letter California Advertiser. Description: “San Francisco News Letter California Advertiser” Vol 37 Number 50, June 4, 1887, Published every Saturday by the Proprietor, Frederick Marriott, First Publication July, 20, 1856, Publication devoted to the leading interests of California and the Pacific Coast. Society, Finance, Science, Fashion and Town Crier reviews, voices and advertising. Softcover colored paper cover stock printed both sides, Binding Saddle Staple, 9 X 12.25, 22 pages, Some water staining on front cover with slight color bleeding on 1st couple pages (no impact on readability), no markings, {refer to photo of item}. Frederick Marriott was an Anglo-American publisher and early promoter of aviation, creator of the Avitor Hermes Jr. The first unmanned aircraft to fly by its own power in the United States. His early years were influenced by his father William Marriott, a law agent and editor of the Taunton Courier. Subject: Ephemera, Western Americana. We carry all types of books including Fiction, Childrens and Illustrated Books, Vintage Paperbacks, Western Americana, and many other categories. This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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San Francisco News Letter California AdvertiserVol 37 Number 50, June 4, 1887. Author: Published every Saturday by the Proprietor, Frederick Marriot Title: San Francisco News Letter California AdvertiserVol 37 Number 50, June 4, 1887 Publication: San Francisco News Letter California Advertiser. Description: “San Francisco News Letter California Advertiser” Vol 37 Number 50, June 4, 1887, Published every Saturday by the Proprietor, Frederick Marriott, First Publication July, 20, 1856, Publication devoted to the leading interests of California and the Pacific Coast. Society, Finance, Science, Fashion and Town Crier reviews, voices and advertising. Softcover colored paper cover stock printed both sides, Binding Saddle Staple, 9 X 12.25, 22 pages, Some water staining on front cover with slight color bleeding on 1st couple pages (no impact on readability), no markings, {refer to photo of item}. Frederick Marriott was an Anglo-American publisher and early promoter of aviation, creator of the Avitor Hermes Jr. The first unmanned aircraft to fly by its own power in the United States. His early years were influenced by his father William Marriott, a law agent and editor of the Taunton Courier. Subject: Ephemera, Western Americana. We carry all types of books including Fiction, Childrens and Illustrated Books, Vintage Paperbacks, Western Americana, and many other categories. This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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“The California Text-Book Containing A Grammar of the Spanish Language in English; of the English in Spanish; Conversational Dialogues in Both Languages, and a Full Description of California”. (6 x 4 inches) 2 [v]-viii, 258 pages, original quarter blind tooled red roan with wear to lower spine (lower left hinge on front cover split, but holding), gilt title at head of spine, publishers name in gilt at foot of spine, original cloth boards showing evidence of old moisture splash or spill, minor foxing on preliminary and last leaves; contents clean, intact and unaffected. Old library label beneath old inked inscription “Placed in Library because of California history contained in the (the last word is un-readable)” on front pastedown. A fine unsophisticated example. The Norris catalogue refers to it as The first text-book published in San Francisco. ” An observation attributed to Cowan refers to it as “… The first educational work published in California after American rule. ” The last 12 pages are titled “Geography, History, and Present Condition of California. Marvin and Hitchcock were San Francisco’s first booksellers. This item is in the category “Books & Magazines\Antiquarian & Collectible”. The seller is “ponzolen” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Binding: Old Cloth Over Boards – Roan Backstrip
• Place of Publication: San Francisco, California
• Publisher: Marvin & Hitchcock
• Subject: \
• Modified Item: No
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Year Printed: 1852
• Language: Spanish & English
• Special Attributes: 1st Edition
• Region: North America
• Topic: Historical
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Character Family: Early Education

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OFFERED HERE is a VERY RARE slice of Americana, from 1872. Miriam Coffin, Or, the Whale Fisherman, A Tale. Said to be the first novel to deal with whaling in Nantucket, and he is also famous for claiming Herman Melville did not write his stage works. The title page reads, New Edition, Two Volumes in One, published by H. Bound in period cloth, 8×5 inches. Some restoration to the spine cloth. There are NO COPIES OF AN 1835 EDITION. IT IS NOT OBTAINABLE, AND THE 1872 EDITION IS MEGA-RARE AS WELL. An owner name in pencil, George H. Carey or something similar, Pittsfield, Mass. He is now best known as the first person to assert in print that William Shakespeare was not the true author of the plays published under his name. His novel Miriam Coffin influenced Herman Melville, though Melville was also highly critical of Hart. Herman Melville scathingly described Hart’s book in his review as “an abortion” which deserves to be burnt in a fire of asafetida, & by the hand that wrote it. Hart was a lawyer by profession, who also served as a colonel in the National Guard and as a school principal. During this period he wrote a number of textbooks on geography. He was a longtime resident of New York and friend of several literary figures, occasionally working as a journalist. He later served as an American consul to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where he died. Hart became widely known with his novel Miriam Coffin; or, The Whale-Fisherman (1835). This was the first novel to deal with whaling in Nantucket, a subject later made famous by Herman Melville in Moby-Dick. Hart’s work was the most important fictional influence on Melville’s novel. Hart wrote the book to encourage congressional support for the whaling industry. He interviewed local people to obtain an accurate account of their lives and the workings of the industry. Unlike Melville, Hart concentrates on the community in Nantucket, and places less emphasis on the whalers. It describes the corrupt financial dealings of Miriam, a whaler’s wife, whose unproductive market speculations are contrasted with the heroic and productive labors of her husband, fighting nature and dangerous savage peoples to bring home useful raw materials. Hart’s views on Shakespeare were published in The Romance of Yachting (1848), a narrative of his travels to places that give him occasion for musings on a variety of topics. Pondering the fact that Shakespeare erroneously identifies a sea coast in landlocked Bohemia in The Winter’s Tale, Hart argues that the mixture of ignorance and scholarship in Shakespeare’s work suggests that the plays were collaborative productions, and that Shakespeare merely adapted the writings of more educated playwrights in order to make them commercially viable for the popular theater. Hart described Shakespeare as a “mere factotum of the theatre” and a “vulgar and unlettered man”. He believed that adding obscene jokes to the plays of other writers was Shakespeare’s main contribution. Unlike later such theorists, Hart did not suggest that there was a conspiracy to hide the identity of the true authors, merely that evidence of their identities had been lost by the time the plays were published. Hart asserts that Shakespeare had been “dead for one hundred years and utterly forgotten” when in 1709 old playscripts were discovered and published under his name by Nicholas Rowe and Thomas Betterton. The error occurred because Shakespeare, as a shareholder in The King’s Men, owned the manuscripts used by the theater. He speculates that only The Merry Wives of Windsor was Shakespeare’s own work and suggests that Ben Jonson wrote most of Hamlet, Shakespeare himself contributing only the grave-digging scene. Hart’s views were published a number of years before Delia Bacon outlined her theory that Francis Bacon led a group of writers who used Shakespeare as a frontman. In 1886 it was alleged by George O. Seilhamer in The Times of Philadelphia that Hart had derived his ideas from a lecture by Bacon. Seilhamer describes Hart as “an old New York schoolmaster with a fondness for yachting and a schoolmaster’s eagerness for literary reputation”, claiming that he “was the first to enunciate a distorted version of Delia Bacon’s theory, ” writing with the diction of a schoolmaster and the brutality of a sailor. However, Hart’s views bear very little resemblance to Delia Bacon’s. Hart himself never attributes any of Shakespeare’s work to Francis Bacon, but does repeat the mainstream view that Bacon was one of seven authors who contributed to the play The Misfortunes of Arthur. Hart’s views on Shakespeare were largely dismissed, since apparently he was unaware that Rowe’s 1709 edition of Shakespeare was not the first publication of the works. Many of Shakespeare’s plays and all his poems were published during his lifetime: the complete plays being published only seven years after his death in the First Folio. This item is in the category “Books & Magazines\Antiquarian & Collectible”. The seller is “antiquebookcentral” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Year Printed: 1872
• Modified Item: No
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Topic: Classics 1872 WHALING PUBLISHED SAN FRANCISCO
• Binding: Hardcover
• Region: North America
• Illustrator: NOT ILLUSTRATED
• Author: COLONEL JOSEPH HART
• Subject: Literature & Fiction
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Language: English
• Character Family: 1872 WHALING WHALE FISHERMAN SAN FRANCISCO
• Publisher: H.R. COLEMAN
• Place of Publication: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
• Special Attributes: Collector’s Edition

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Framed Map of San Francisco 1852 Published for History of the World – Henry Bill. Original print of San Francisco 1862. The map was published for the THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD BY HENRY BILL NEW YORK. Directly under the image it says, entered according to act of congress in the year 1852 by Henry Bill in the clerk’s office of the district court for the district of Conneticut. This followed by a signature. The sky appears to be pale blue green. Condition: Creasing (horizontal and vertical) THE PRINT IS VERY CREASED especially in the lower right hand corner. It measures approximately 17 inches wide by 10 inches tall. The item “Framed Map of San Francisco 1852 Published for History of the World Henry Bill” is in sale since Friday, January 29, 2021. This item is in the category “Antiques\Maps, Atlases & Globes\North America Maps”. The seller is “pahav-13″ and is located in Burlingame, California. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Year: 1856
• Type: City Map
• Original/Reproduction: Antique Original
• Date Range: 1800-1899
• US State: California
• City: San Francisco

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This original 1856 map shows San Francisco at its birth, in the age of the Gold Rush, when it was still a rural backwater. This iconic map has been widely printed for mass distribution and the original itself rarely shows up as most didn’t survive over the years. It was originally folded up and contained in the as part of a book, The History of the World, Vol. 2., printed by Henry Bill. It is clearly dated “1856”. It shows the city as a small settlement on sandy hills, along with sailing ships in the Bay. There is a key along the bottom portion identifying various landmarks. A unique piece of history for anyone interested in early Americana, California history and American history and would look really great framed and matted. Unlike other surviving pieces, this one has only one small tear, in the margin, which would disappear under a mat. She has done miraculous work on damaged lithographs for me in the past. However, it would look just great as is once framed. The item “GENUINE 1856 MAP OF San Francisco, PUBLISHED BY H. BILL SAME YEAR” is in sale since Saturday, April 3, 2021. This item is in the category “Antiques\Maps, Atlases & Globes\North America Maps”. The seller is “runningman” and is located in San Francisco, California. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman islands, Liechtenstein, Sri lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Viet nam, Uruguay.

• Cartographer/Publisher: Henry Bill
• Printing Technique: N/A
• Original/Reproduction: Original print
• Format: originally part of a book
• Type: vintage antique map
• Year: 1856
• US State: California
• City: San Francisco
• Date Range: 1856
• Country/Region: San Francisco, CA

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