Americana Gallery
PRAECLARA FERDINADI CORTESII DE NOVA MARIS OCEANI HYSPANIA NARRATIO.... [bound with:] DE REBUS, ET INSULIS NOVITER REPERTIS....
[Cortés, Hernando, and Peter Martyr]: [Nuremberg: Fridericus Peypus], 1524. [4],49,[1],12 leaves, including two portraits, plus half of the folding.. more Price: $67,500.00 |
HISTORY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND ANECDOTES OF THE PRINCIPAL CHIEFS....
McKenney, Thomas L., and James Hall: Philadelphia: Caxton Press of Sherman & Co. for D. Rice & Co., 1872-1874. Two royal octavo text volumes, 10 7/16 x 7 1/4.. more Price: $120,000.00 |
DE NUPER SUB D. CAROLO REPERTIS INSULIS, SIMULQ[UE] INCOLARUM MORIBUS.
Martyr, Peter: Basel: [Adam Petri], 1521. 43pp. (pp. 20 and 21 misnumbered). Woodcut title border. Small.. more Price: $65,000.00 |
AN AFFECTING NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY & SUFFERINGS OF MRS. MARY SMITH, WHO, WITH HER HUSBAND AND THREE DAUGHTERS WERE TAKEN PRISONERS BY THE INDIANS IN AUGUST LAST (1814) AND...WAS FORTUNATELY RESCUED FROM THE MERCILESS HANDS OF SAVAGES BY A DETACHED PA
Smith, Mary: Providence: Printed for L. Scott, [1816?]. 24pp. Folding woodcut frontispiece with light contemporary coloring (now somewhat.. more Price: $15,000.00 |
NOVA FRANCIA: OR THE DESCRIPTION OF THAT PART OF NEW FRANCE, WHICH IS ONE CONTINENT WITH VIRGINIA. DESCRIBED IN THE THREE LATE VOYAGES AND PLANTATION MADE BY MONSIEUR DE MONTS, MONSIEUR DU PONT-GRAUÉ, AND MONSIEUR DE POUTRINCOURT, INTO THE COUNTRIES CALLE
Lescarbot, Marc: London: [Eliot's Court Press] for George Bishop, 1609. [16],307pp. plus folding engraved map (9 1/4 x 19 1/4.. more Price: $285,000.00 |
PLATES PREPARED BETWEEN THE YEARS 1849 AND 1859, TO ACCOMPANY A REPORT ON THE FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA.
Gray, Asa: Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1891 [but plates actually ca. 1849-1859]. Original printed front wrapper and one leaf of text. Plus.. more Price: $7,500.00 |
DISCOURS OF VOYAGES INTO YE EASTE & WEST INDIES.
Linschoten, Jan Huygen van: London: John Wolfe, 1598. [7],[1],197,[3],[197]-295,[3],307-447,[3],[451]-462pp. (various mispaginations). Including three small engraved maps on separate.. more Price: $275,000.00 |
[SUITE OF FOUR HIGHLY ACCOMPLISHED WATERCOLORS, PRODUCED BETWEEN 1829 AND 1834, WHICH SERVED AS THE MODELS FOR FOUR LITHOGRAPHS PUBLISHED IN CARL NEBEL'S VOYAGE PITTORESQUE ET ARCHÉOLOGIE, DANS LA PARTIE LA PLUS INTÉRESSANTE DU MEXIQUE].
[Nebel, Carl]: Mexico. [nd, but 1829-1834]. Four watercolors on paper. Watercolors of various sizes as indicated.. more Price: $67,500.00 |
[ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT AND PRINTED DOCUMENTS RELATING TO DR. PHILIP TURNER].
[Turner, Philip, and numerous others]: Various places, including Connecticut, New York, & Washington. 1751-1858. Approximately 570 documents. Various printed, manuscript, bound, and unbound documents... more Price: $150,000.00 |
HAKLUYTUS POSTUMUS OR PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES. CONTAYNING A HISTORY OF THE WORLD, IN SEA VOYAGES & LANDE-TRAUELLS, BY ENGLISHMEN & OTHERS...IN FIVE BOOKS....
Purchas, Samuel: London: William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1625-1626. Five volumes. Folio. Crushed blue morocco, gilt, by W. Pratt,.. more Price: $200,000.00 |