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MEMORIA HISTÓRICA SOBRE LAS OPERACIONES E INCIDENCIAS DE LA DIVISION LIBERTADORA, A LAS ÓRDENES DEL GEN. D. JUAN ANTONIO ALVAREZ DE ARENALES, EN SU SEGUNDA COMPAÑA A LA SIERRA DEL PERU EN 1821.
Arenales, José Ildefonso Álvarez de:
Buenos Aires: Imprenta de la Gaceta Mercantil, 1832.
xv,[2],142,[2],[145]-247,[5]pp. plus lithographic frontispiece portrait, one folding table, and two folding maps. [bound with:] Angelis, Pedro de: BIOGRAFIA DEL SEÑOR.. more
Price: $1,000.00
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FORTY YEARS OF PIONEER LIFE. MEMOIR OF JOHN MASON PECK D.D. EDITED FROM HIS JOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCE....
Babcock, Rufus [ed]:
Philadelphia. [1864].
360pp. Portrait. Original cloth. Spine faded, titelepage and frontispiece foxed, else very good. Biography of Peck with excerpted accounts from.. more
Price: $125.00
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A MEMOIR OF REV. JOSEPH BADGER; CONTAINING AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AND SELECTIONS FROM HIS PRIVATE JOURNAL AND CORRESPONDENCE.
Badger, Joseph:
Hudson, Oh.: Sawyer, Ingersoll and Company, 1851.
185pp. Portrait frontispiece plus [2]pp. ads. Original cloth. Spine ends frayed. Frontispiece partially detached. Scattered foxing. Joints and corners worn... more
Price: $500.00
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JOSEPH REED: A HISTORICAL ESSAY.
Bancroft, George:
New York. 1867.
64pp. Library buckram. Contents tanned, else very good. A very unflattering review of the life of Reed, lawyer and politician.. more
Price: $65.00
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THE FATHER OF TEXAS.
Barker, Eugene C.:
New York. [1935].
vii,248pp. Frontis, illus. Cloth. Very good. A biography of Stephen F. Austin, "for young people." Illustrated by W.R. Lohse. .. more
Price: $20.00
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VITA R.P. IOSEPHI ANCHIETAE SOCIETATIS IESU SACERDOTIS IN BRASILIA DEFUNCTI.
Berettari, Sabastiano:
Cologne: Johann Kinckius, 1617.
427,[2]pp. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, morocco spine label gilt. Binding moderately soiled, remnants of two leather ties. Slight age-toning, a few.. more
Price: $2,750.00
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GEORGE BELLOWS.
Boswell, Peyton, Jr.:
New York. [1942].
112pp., including eight color plates and seventy-five halftones. Quarto. Original red cloth, gilt. Near fine in an edgeworn and soiled.. more
Price: $20.00
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A SHORT VIEW OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LIEUTENANT- GENERAL VILLETTES, LATE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER OF THE FORCES IN JAMAICA...WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAING A FEW ORIGINAL LETTERS AND ANECDOTES OF THE LATE MADAME ELIZABETH DE FRANCE.
Bowdler, Thomas:
Bath. 1815.
[3],159pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original paper boards, printed spine label. Chipping to spine, rubbing to spine label, faint offsetting to titlepage... more
Price: $225.00
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A BLIND MAN'S OFFERING.
Bowen, B.B.:
Boston. 1877.
432pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original cloth. Wear at extremities. Internally very clean. A very good copy. A charming and interesting self-published.. more
Price: $30.00
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MEMORY PICTURES. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Braly, John Hyde:
[Los Angeles. 1912].
[3],263pp., plus portrait and numerous plates. Original pictorial half cloth and paper boards, spine gilt. A bit of shelf-wear. Formerly.. more
Price: $300.00
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IROQUOIS PAST AND PRESENT.
Brush, Edward Hale:
[Buffalo. 1901].
3-96pp. including numerous illustrations. Frontis. Original pictorial wrappers. Spine worn and chipped at head and toe. Very good. An account.. more
Price: $125.00
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THE BIRTHPLACE OF SIR WALTER RALEGH.
Brushfield, T.N.:
[Np. 1889].
20pp. Frontis. plus 3 plates. Folding chart. Dbd., else very good. Monograph on the history of Ralegh's birthplace, Hayes Barton... more
Price: $50.00
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SPECIMENS OF NEWSPAPER LITERATURE: WITH PERSONAL MEMOIRS, ANECDOTES, AND REMINISCENCES.
Buckingham, Joseph T.:
Boston. 1850.
Two volumes. xii,348;356pp. Portrait in each volume. Original blindstamped cloth. Rear hinge of vol. 1 broken, and rear board warped,.. more
Price: $60.00
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CHARLES W. QUANTRELL [sic]. A TRUE HISTORY OF HIS GUERRILLA WARFARE....
Burch, J.P.:
Vega, Tx. 1923.
266pp. Portrait, illus. Original cloth. Very good. As Adams suggests, one loses confidence in a biographer who does not spell.. more
Price: $25.00
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KIT CARSON. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF CHRISTOPHER CARSON, THE CELEBRATED ROCKY MOUNTAIN HUNTER, TRAPPER, AND GUIDE. TOGETHER WITH HIS HUNTING EXPLOITS, THRILLING ADVENTURES, AND HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPES AMONG THE INDIANS. ALSO, HIS SERVICES RENDERED THE UNIT
Burdett, Charles:
Philadelphia: G.G. Evans, 1860.
374pp. plus 22pp. ads and six plates (including frontispiece). Original cloth, spine gilt. Cloth uniformly sunned, spine ends frayed, corners.. more
Price: $375.00
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MEMOIRS OF STEPHEN BURROUGHS. [with:] ...VOLUME II.
Burroughs, Stephen:
Hanover, N.H.: Benjamin True, 1798, and Boston: Caleb Bingham, 1804.
Two volumes. [2],vi-vii,[8]-298; 202pp. Portrait on newsprint pasted to verso of second volume titlepage. First volume: Octavo. Modern calf. Second.. more
Price: $7,500.00
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JUDAH P. BENJAMIN.
Butler, Pierce:
Philadelphia. [1907].
459pp. Portrait. Original blue cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g. Worn at spine ends and corners, else near fine. The first full-length.. more
Price: $150.00
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MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND CAMPAIGNS OF THE HON. NATHANAEL GREENE....
Caldwell, Charles:
Philadelphia: Robert Desilver, 1819.
xxiii,[1],452pp. plus two folding facsimiles. Portrait. Contemporary calf, maroon gilt morocco label. Minor nick at head of spine, small old.. more
Price: $850.00
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KIT CARSON'S OWN STORY OF HIS LIFE. AS DICTATED TO COL. AND MRS. D.C. PETERS ABOUT 1856-57....
Carson, Kit:
Taos. 1926.
138pp. including frontispiece and plates. Later wrappers. Very good. The first publication of this dictated autobiography, which Peters used as.. more
Price: $75.00
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WHY NOT THE BEST?
Carter, Jimmy:
Nashville: Broadman Press, 1975.
154pp. Illus. Cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by Carter, "J. Carter," on front free endpaper. .. more
Price: $100.00
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LA VIE DU R.P. PIERRE JOSEPH MARIE CHAUMONOT, DE LA COMPAGNIE DE JESUS, MISSIONAIRE DANS LA NOUVELLE FRANCE, ECRITE PAR LUI-MEME PAR ORDRE DE SON SUPERIEUR, L'AN 1688.
Chaumonot, Pierre Joseph Marie:
New York. 1858.
108pp. Contemporary three quarter morocco and cloth. A few small scuffs to corners and spine extremities. Else tight and very.. more
Price: $275.00
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PEACE, WAR, AND ADVENTURE, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF....
Chesterton, George L.:
London. 1853.
Two volumes. xi,[1],282; viii,325pp. plus ads. Original cloth, expertly rebacked, original backstrips laid down. Some loss at top of backstrip.. more
Price: $575.00
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ISAAC T. HOPPER: A TRUE LIFE.
Child, L. Maria:
Boston. 1853.
xvi,493pp. Portrait. 12mo. Original cloth. Worn at extremities with chipping to head and toe of spine, bookplate removed, front hinge.. more
Price: $25.00
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THREE STARS FOR THE COLONEL.
Clark, James A.:
New York. [1954].
270pp. Cloth. Fine. In soiled dust jacket. The important biography of Ernest O. Thompson, a pioneer in petroleum science, by.. more
Price: $15.00
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LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF SAILOR LIFE, AS EXEMPLIFIED IN FIFTEEN YEARS' EXPERIENCE, INCLUDING THE MORE THRILLING EVENTS OF THE U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION, AND REMINISCENCES OF AN EVENTFUL LIFE ON THE 'MOUNTAIN WAVE.'
Clark, Joseph G.:
Boston. 1847.
324pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Pencil marginalia and sketches on titlepage, dedication leaf, and final blank... more
Price: $450.00
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IN THE FORECASTLE; OR, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS A SAILOR.
Cleveland, Richard J.:
New York: Manhattan Publishing Company, [nd, ca. 1877].
407pp. Frontis. Original cloth. Title neatly repaired. Expertly rebacked. A good copy. A much later edition of the author's A.. more
Price: $75.00
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AN EULOGY, ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF DR. ASHBEL SMITH DELIVERED...IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS, JUNE 15, 1886. [wrapper title].
Clopton, A.G., Dr.:
Jefferson, Tx: Iron News Print, 1886.
15,[1]pp. Original green printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn at extremities. Trimmed a bit close at foredge, affecting a single letter.. more
Price: $600.00
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LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Cobbett, William:
London. 1834.
142,12pp. Frontispiece. Original cloth-backed boards. Front board detached. A bit tanned. Else very good. Cobbett was a supporter of Jackson,.. more
Price: $300.00
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TRUE TALES OF THE PLAINS.
Cody, William F.:
New York: Empire Book Company, 1908.
[4],259pp. plus frontispiece portrait of author, fifteen plates, and small text illustrstations at the beginning of each of the thirty-three.. more
Price: $250.00
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THE LIVES AND SERVICES OF MAJOR GENERAL JOHN THOMAS, COLONEL THOMAS KNOWLTON, COLONEL ALEXANDER SCAMMELL, MAJOR GENERAL HENRY DEARBORN.
Coffin, Charles, comp:
New York. 1845.
222pp. Original cloth. Cloth worn at extremities and spotted. Internally quite good, with the pencil signature of "Gen. Gorham Coffin".. more
Price: $150.00
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MEMOIRS OF MRS. COGHLAN, (DAUGHTER OF THE LATE MAJOR MONCRIEFFE,) WRITTEN BY HERSELF...INTERSPERSED WITH ANECDOTES OF THE LATE AMERICAN AND PRESENT FRENCH WAR; WITH REMARKS, MORAL AND POLITICAL.
Coghlan, Mrs.:
New York. 1795.
184pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, leather label. Calf worn, chipped at top of spine. Front free endsheet excised. Some light foxing,.. more
Price: $500.00
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THE LIFE OF ROBERT FULTON, BY HIS FRIEND...COMPRISING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE INVENTION, PROGRESS, AND ESTABLISHMENT OF STEAM-BOATS; OF IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND NAVIGATION OF CANALS....
Colden, Cadwallader:
New York. 1817.
vi,371pp. plus folding table. Portrait. Modern cloth with onlay of original front and rear printed paper from original boards. Foxed,.. more
Price: $225.00
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"UNCLE DICK" WOOTTON THE PIONEER FRONTIERSMAN OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION AN ACCOUNT OF THE ADVENTURES AND THRILLING EXPERIENCES OF THE MOST NOTED AMERICAN HUNTER, TRAPPER, GUIDE, SCOUT, AND INDIAN FIGHTER NOW LIVING.
Conard, Howard L.:
Chicago. 1890.
473,[1]pp. including plates. Large, thick octavo. Original gilt pictorial cloth. Hinges cracked but holding, bit tanned. Armorial bookplate. Else just.. more
Price: $650.00
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THE LIFE, LETTERS AND SPEECHES OF KAH-GE-GA-GAH-BOWH.
Copway, George:
New York: S.W. Benedict, 1850.
224pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original blindstamped cloth, gilt, expertly recased. Good. Later American edition, after the first edition with a different.. more
Price: $450.00
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LAST OF THE GREAT OUTLAWS. THE STORY OF COLE YOUNGER.
Croy, Homer:
New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, [1956].
x,242pp. plus photographs. Original beige cloth. Fine. In dust jacket. A revisionist biography of Cole Younger and his role in.. more
Price: $40.00
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES OF SARAH J. CUMMINS.
Cummins, Sarah J.:
[Walla Walla. nd, after 1914].
61pp. Portrait. Printed wrappers. A fine copy. Reprint of the 1914 original. The author went part of the way overland.. more
Price: $90.00
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BIG DAN. THE STORY OF A COLORFUL RAILROADER.
Cunningham, Frank:
Salt Lake City. 1946.
350pp. plus plates. Portrait. Gilt cloth. Very good in badly torn dust jacket. Ink gift inscription to Herbert and Garnet.. more
Price: $14.00
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FOLLOWING THE GUIDON.
Custer, Elizabeth B.:
New York. 1890.
xx,341pp., including in-text illustrations, plus frontispiece and plates. Publisher's decorative cloth. Cloth lightly worn. Contemporary ink gift inscription and later.. more
Price: $100.00
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AMERICA IS GOOD TO A COUNTRY BOY.
Cutler, Leland W.:
Stanford, Ca. 1954.
271pp. Quarto. Cloth and boards. Fine in soiled and slightly chipped dust jacket. The memoirs of a country boy made.. more
Price: $15.00
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A MEMORIAL OF LIEUT. COLONEL JOHN T. THORNTON, OF THE THIRD VIRGINIA CAVALRY, C.S.A.
Dabney, Robert L.:
Richmond. 1864.
22,[1]pp. 12mo. Modern half morocco, spine gilt. Old stamp on titlepage, closed tear. Tanned, else internally good. Colonel Thornton was.. more
Price: $1,500.00
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SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD A BIOGRAPHY....
Dall, William Healey:
Philadelphia & London. 1915.
xvi,462pp. plus plates. Frontis. Gilt cloth. Slight edge wear, some light foxing of plates, else about fine, partially unopened. Baird.. more
Price: $85.00
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MEMORIALS OF JOHN BARTRAM AND HUMPHREY MARSHALL. WITH NOTICES OF THEIR BOTANICAL CONTEMPORARIES.
Darlington, William:
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1849.
585pp. plus four plates. Half title. Original blindstamped cloth, expertly rebacked. Ownership inscription of Benjamin Silliman, Jr. on half title... more
Price: $425.00
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MEMORIALS OF JOHN BARTRAM AND HUMPHREY MARSHALL. WITH NOTICES OF THEIR BOTANICAL CONTEMPORARIES.
Darlington, William:
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1849.
585pp. plus four plates. Half title. Original brown blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Corners bumped and lightly worn, head of spine.. more
Price: $400.00
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PERSONAL AND MILITARY HISTORY OF PHILIP KEARNY, MAJOR- GENERAL UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS.
De Peyster, John Watts:
New York. 1869.
512pp. plus plates. Mounted photographic frontis. Gilt pictorial cloth. Edgeworn, else very good. The frontispiece shows the author in civilian.. more
Price: $275.00
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PAWNEE BILL (MAJOR GORDON W. LILLIE) HIS EXPERIENCE AND ADVENTURES ON THE WESTERN PLAINS OR FROM THE SADDLE OF A "COWBOY AND RANGER" TO THE CHAIR OF A "BANK PRESIDENT."
De Wolff, J.H.:
[Np]: Published by Pawnee Bill's Historic Wild West Company, 1902.
108pp. including plates. Frontispiece portrait. Original color pictorial boards. Spine and edges flecked or chipped, corners worn. Printed on bad.. more
Price: $150.00
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BENEDICT ARNOLD SON OF THE HAVENS.
Decker, Malcolm (Peter):
New York. 1961.
xiii,534pp. Illus. Red buckram, t.e.g. Very good. Inscribed by the author to Yale librarian, James T. Babb. A reprint of.. more
Price: $70.00
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THE STAFF CORRESPONDENT.
Diehl, Charles Sanford:
San Antonio. 1931.
297pp. plus plates. Frontispiece portrait. Original cloth backed boards, paper spine label (bit chipped). Very good. In badly chipped dust.. more
Price: $450.00
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THE VALLEY AND THE SHADOW. COMPRISING THE EXPERIENCES OF A BLIND EX-EDITOR. A LITERARY BIOGRAPHY....
Dixon, J.M.:
New York. 1868.
336pp. Original cloth. Cloth worn, sunned and bit bubbled. Internally very good. The author was much involved in politics and.. more
Price: $40.00
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REMINISCENCES OF FORTS SUMNER AND MOULTRIE IN 1860-'61.
Doubleday, Abner:
New York. 1876.
[3]-184pp. plus 8pp. ads. Frontis. Original gilt cloth. Extremities a bit rubbed. Dampstain to upper outside corner of first 50.. more
Price: $200.00
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HISTORY OF COSMOPOLITE: OR THE WRITINGS OF LORENZO DOW: CONTAINING HIS EXPERIENCE AND TRAVELS, IN EUROPE AND AMERICA, UP TO NEAR HIS FIFTIETH YEAR. ALSO, HIS POLEMIC WRITINGS. TO WHICH IS ADDED, THE "JOURNEY OF LIFE" BY PEGGY DOW.
Dow, Lorenzo:
Cincinnati: H.M. Rulison, Queen City Publishing House, 1857.
720pp. Modern cloth. Text waterstained. A sound copy. Sixth edition. A compilation of Dow's journals and theological writings, including a.. more
Price: $45.00
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