Two Lists Relating to the Blumberg Thefts
Posted by the RBMS Security Committee.
Books Still Missing
California State Library
McLeod. History of Wiskonsan. 1846.
Benjamin Drake. Cincinnati in 1826. Cincinnati: Morgan, Lodge & Fisher, 1827.
Washington State University
Nicholas Cox. The Gentleman's Recreation in four parts: viz, Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing. 4th ed. London: F. Colins for N. Cox, 1697. Bookplates of Samuel Houston McFarland.
Adelbert von Chamisso . Reise um die Welt, mit der romanzoffischen entdeckungs expedition in jen jaren 1815-18. Leipzig: Weidmann, 1836.
Sarah (Stickney) Ellis . The Daughters of England: their position in society, character and responsibilities. London: Fisher, 1842.
Miriam Southwell Farley. The Problem of Japanese trade expansion in the post-war situation. New York: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1939.
Oliver Goldsmith. Goldsmith's History of Greece, abridged. New Edition. Bordeaux: P. Beaume, 1806. 2 v in 1.
William Henry Gray. Astoria, or, Historical Society of Oregon. [1880?]. Spine title: Monument to Marcus Whitman--Astoria, 1880.
Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Satyrae, cum veteris scholiastae & variorum commentariis. Lug. Bat: Franciscum Hackium, 1648.
John Milton. Paradise Lost. 4th ed adorned with sculptures. London: M. Flesher for R. Bentley, 1688.
Vicente Rocafuerte. Memoria politico-instructive, enviada desde Filadelfia en agosto de 1821, a los gefes independentes del Anahuac, llamodo por los Espanoles Nueva Espana. Philadelphia: Juan F. Hurtel, 1821.
Antonio de Solis y Rivadeneyra. Histoire de la conqueste du Mexique. 2 vols. 2nd ed. Paris: Compagnie des Libraires, 1714.
John Kirk Townsend. Excursion to the Oregon. [1846?]. Caption title. 32 p.
Vida privada, politica y militar de Alejandro I. Emperador y autocrata de todas la Rusias. Madrid: E. Aguado, 1826.
Tommaso de Vio. Summula Caietana reuerendissimi domini Thome de Vio Caietani cardinalis. 1537.
U. S. Congress, Speeches on the passage of the bill for the removal of the Indians, delivered in the Congress of the U.S., April and May, 1830.
Cincinnati Museum/Cincinnati Historical Society Library
Chamberlan Family. A Loving Record of how we kept the Golden wedding at home.
George White. Historical Collections of Georgia.
Library of Michigan
Antonio de Solis y Rivandeneya. The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards (1725).
D. G. Crotty. Four Years Campaigning in the Army of the Potomac (1874).
Chief Simon Pokagon. The Red Man's Greeting. (Printed on birchbark).
Whittier College
Whittier High School. Cardinal and White (yearbook for 1930).
John G. Whittier. Mogg Meggone (1836).
John G. Whittier. Justice and Expediency (1833).
University of California--Riverside
Paul M. Angle, ed. Pioneers: Narratives of Noah Harris Letts and Thomas Allen Banning, 1825-1865. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1972.
Lula Parker Betenson. Butch Cassidy, My Brother. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1975.
Harriet E. Bishop. Dakota War Whoop: or, Indian Massacre and War in Minnesota. St. Paul: Merrill, 1863.
Walter Bliss. Twainiana Notes from the Annotations of Walter Bliss. Hartford: Hobby Shop, [1930].
Frances Hodgson Burnett. Little Lord Fauntleroy. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1886.
Alonzo P. Connolly. A Thrilling Narrative of the Minnesota Massacre and the Sioux War of 1862-63. Chicago: A. P. Connolly, 1896.
John Halkett. Historical Notes respecting the Indians of North America. Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1825.
William E. Lass. Minnesota: A Bicentennial History. New York: Norton, 1977.
Rufus Porter. Aerial Navigation: The Practicability of Traveling Pleasantly and Safely from New York to California in Three Days. San Francisco: L. R. Kennedy, 1935.
H. M. T. Powell. The Santa Fe Trail to California, 1849-1852. Ed. Douglas S. Watson. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1931.
Cadwalader Ringgold. A Series of Charts: with Sailing Directions, embracing Surveys of the Farallones. 4th ed. Washington: J. T. Powers, 1852.
Garcilaso de la Vega. The Royal Commentaries of Peru, in Two Parts. London: M. Flesher for C. Wilkinon, 1688.
Village and Cottage Architecture: Select Examples of Country and Suburban Residence. London: Blackie & Son, 1868.
Catholic Church. [Libri pontificalis secundum ritum ad vsum sancte Romane ecclesie]. Venetis: heredes Luceantonij Junte, 1543. 261 numbered lvs. T.p. wanting; information from colophon. Printed in red and black, double columns. In 18th-century black leather, blind stamped, rebacked.
Mildred De Stanley. The Salton Sea, Yesterday and Today. Los Angeles: Triumph, 1967.
Leon Diguet. Territorio de la Baja California: resena geografica y estadistica. Paris; Mexico: Viuda de C. Bouret, 1912.
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas. Historia general de las Indias occidentales. Amberes: Verdussen, 1728. 4 vols. (Missing v. 4 only).
William H. Knight. Hand-Book Almanac for the Pacific States . San Francisco: Bancroft, 1862.
Garcilaso de la Vega. The Royal Commetaries of Peru, in Two Parts. London: M. Flesher for C. Wilkinson, 1688.
Anne Terry White. The False Treaty: The Removal of the Cherokees from Georgia. New York: Scholastic, 1970.
Burton Jesse Hendrick. The Lees of Virginia. Boston: Little, Brown, 1935.
University of Notre Dame
Washington Academy of Sciences. Proceedings , 1899-1911. 13 vols.
U.S. Dept. Of the Treasury . Statement of the Arts and Manufactures of the United States of America for the year 1810. Philadelphia: Cornman, 1814. (P. lxiv incorrectly numbered xiv.)
Garcilaso de la Vega. Histoire de la conquete de la Floride . Paris: Nyon, 1711. 2 vols in 1.
William Robertson . The History of America. 5th ed. London: Printed for A. Strahan [etc], 1788. 3 vols.
Michigan. Some of the Acts of the Territory of Michigan, with the Titles and a Digest of all the Acts of the Said Territory now in Force. March 20th, 1816. Detroit: T. Mettez, 1816. 138, [4] p.
Northwest Territory. Laws Passed in the Territory of the United States North-west of the River Ohio, from the Commencement of the Government to the 31st of December, 1791. Published by Authority. Philadelphia: F. Childs and J. Swaine, 1792. 68, [2] p.
Randall House, 835 Laguna St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Joel Palmer. Journal of Travels over the Rocky Mountains to the Mouth of the Columbia River, made during the Years 1845 to 1846, containing Minute Descriptions of the Valleys of Williamette, Umpqua, and Clamet.... Cincinnati: J. A. & U. P. James, 1847. Original printed wrappers. First edition, first issue, with "The Company own" in l. 4, p. 121, with "sandy plain" in l. 7, p. 31, but with "stereo-typed by James & Co., Cincinnati" on copyright page. Tipped in correction slip after p. 188.
John K. King, Used & Rare Books, 901 W. Lafayette Blvd., Detroit, MI 48226
Harbound pamplet (title unknown) in a library type binding or marbled boards about Alexender Hamilton, printed in the early 1800's. Should bear distinctive rubber stamp of firm in front--owl surrounded by firm's name and location.
Joseph J. Felcone, Bookseller, P.O. Box 366, Princeton, NJ 08540
Utah. Acts, Resolutions, and Memorials Passed by the First Annual, and Special Sessions, of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, Begun and Held at Great Salt Lake ... 1851. G. S. L. City, Utah: Brigham H. Young, 1852. 8, 48, 37-258 p. Modern full calf (brown).
Brown Silver Mining Co. First Annual report of President and Directors of the Brown Silver Mining Co. Of Colorado, for the Year ending March 2d, 1868. Philadelphia, 1868. 16 p. Wrappers. Vertical crease, rear wrapper chipped.
University of Southern California.
Louisa M. Alcott. Little Men. 1871.
Samuel Clemens. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 1885.
Nathaniel Hawthorne. The House of Seven Gables. 1851.
Nathaniel Hawthorne. Pansie: A Fragment. 1864.
Herman Melville. Omoo: A Narrative. 1847.
James Whitcomb Riley. The Old Swimmin'-hole. 1883.
Henry David Thoreau. Walden. 1854.
The following bookplates are from societies known to have existed at Bowdoin College, Columbia University, Yale University, Kenyon College, Middlebury College, Gettysburg College, Emory & Henry College, and Wake Forest University.
Calliopean Society
Peucinian Society
Philomathian Society
Erodelphian Society
Illinois State University
Baillie's Institution
NB: Illinois State University bought the Baillie's Institution (Glasgow) library in the early 1970's. Any book containing the Baille's Institution bookplate may belong to ISU.
Books returned to libraries by the FBI that they don't think are theirs
Cincinnati Museum/Cincinnati Historical Society Library
Mary Henderson Eastman. Chiclora.
Anne Newport Royall. Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in the U.S.
Oregon State Library
Esther Griffin White. Indiana Bookplates. Richmond: Nicholson, 1910.
Abraham Rademaker. Rhynlands Fraaiste Gezichten. Amsterdam: Scheny, 1732.
Duke University
Hermann Bokum. Narrative of a Visit to the Nunneries of Marienstein and Wolf's Creek, Ohio. Cincinnati: 1850.
Susie Barstow Skelding. Flowers from Hill and Dale: Poems Arranged and Illustrated. New York: Federick A. Stokes & Brother, 1889.
George Sandys . Sandys' Travells, Containing An History of the Original and Present State of the Turkish Empire. 6th ed. London: Rob. Clavel, Tho. Passinger, Will. Cadman, Will. Whitwood, Tho. Sawbridge, and Will. Birch, 1670.
J. Winston Coleman, Jr. Lexington's Slave Dealers and Their Southern Trade. Lexington: Rpt. From the Filson Club History Quarterly, January, 1938.
Neville B. Craig, ed. The Olden Time: A Monthly Publication devoted to the Preservation of Documents, and other Authentic Information in Relation to the Early Explorations, and the Settlement and Improvement of the Country around the Head of the Ohio. Vols 1-2. Pittsburgh: Wright & Charlton,1846 & 1848.
Tench Coxe. An Enquiry into the Principles on which a Commercial System for the United States of America Should Be Founded; to which Are Added some Political Observations connected with the Subject. Philadelphia: Robert Aitken, 1787.
Convention Hand Book of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. May 20-23,1913. Baltimore.
Stanford University
W. D. Root. Sandusky in 1855: City Guide and Business Directory. Sandusky: Bill, Cooke & Co., 1855.
A. E. Jones. Extracts from the History of Cincinnati and the Territory of Ohio. Cincinnati: Cohen & Co., 1888.
Thomas Thorpe, Booksellers, London. Catalogue: Books of Rare Occurrence. Part 2. London: W. Hildyard, 1818. Bound with several other Thorpe catalogues, 1819 and 1822.
Bennett and Marshall, Booksellers, Los Angeles. Four Centuries of Americana, 1556-1954. Los Angeles, 1954.
T. F. Robley. History of Bourbon County, Kansas, to the Close of 1865. Fort Scott, 1894. Perforation stamp of University of Oklahoma Library, p. 117.
Northern Pacific Railroad. [Collection of pamphlets from their Land Dept: land grants, prospectuses, etc.] Bookplate of U. Of Minnesota; bound in red buckram with leather spine label: "NPRR Archives, vol. IX, Land Dept., et misc. Pamphlets, circulars, etc.
Illinois Central Railroad Company. [Collection of land prospectuses]. Shelf mark: F545 | I26.
University of Delaware.
Cyril Davenport. Beautiful Books. London: Methuen, 1929.
John Hay Library, Brown University.
Mary Haweis. Beautiful Homes. NY: Scribner & Welford, 1882.
Absolom Chappell. Miscellanies of Georgia. Atlanta: James F. Meegan, 1874. At bottom of one page is the number 30842.
Architectural Reviewer. V. 1, no. 2 (June, 1897). "Joseph Worcester" appears under spine title.
University of Southern California.
An Abridgment of the New Robinson Crusco. New York, 1811.
Francois Le Jay. De la dignite des rois. Tours, 1589.
Danel Gabriel Rosetti. Hand and Soul. London, 1900.
Rowlandson. The Tour of Dr. Syntax. London, [s.n., s.d.]. 3 vols.
Miguel Venegas. A Natural and Civil History of California. London, 1759. 2 vols.
Hermann Venema. Commentatius ad Psalmos. Leeuwarden, 1766.
Edward Ward. The History of the Grand Rebellion. London, 1713. 3 vols.
Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
Charles C. Jones, Jr. The Dead Towns of Georgia. Savannah: Morning News Steam Printing House, 1878. Number 678582 stamped in book; pencilled markings reading "Gomer Williams 11-17-47."
University of South Dakota.
Judith Gudger Krueger. The Forest Avenue Historical District, Vermillion, SD, 1873-1980. 1982.
Francois Perrin du Lac. Reise in die beyden Louisianen unter die wilden van Oklerschaften am Missouri, Bdurch die Vereinigten Staaten und die Provinzen am Ohio.... 1807.
American Academy of Immortals, otherwise the Society of Philistines. 1896.
South Dakotan , 1899-1900. (Periodical).
Dudly S. Jennings. Nine Years of Democratic Rule in Mississippi: Being Notes upon the Political History of the State, from the Beginning of the Year 1838.... [n.d.]
Walter Gilman Berg. Buildings and Structures of American Railroads. 1900.
William Marsh Rice University.
Charles Jared Ingersoll. Inchiquin, the Jesuits' Letters during a Late Residence in the United States of America: Being a Fragment of a Private Correespondence, accidentally Discovered in Europe. New York: I. Riley, 1810. "Jared P. K[?] Kirkland" inscribed on flyleaf; "U. Of Minn. Education L" on partially intact pocket inside back cover.