Paris. 1693. Six volumes. Quarto. Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Light wear to hinges and spines, corners rubbed. Bookplates on front pastedowns. Light scattered foxing. A very good set. This massive compilation is the first major collection of French treaties, beginning in 1435 and running to 1692, including.....

London printed, Boston reprinted: Green & Russell, 1756. 23pp. Lacks half title. Dbd. Negligible soiling. Very good. Second edition, after the first of the previous year. Account of the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 which destroyed most of the city, followed by fire and tsunami. The author estimates that near.....

[Maine and various places in Europe. 1907, 1913, 1920]. A total of 248 original photographic prints. Oblong octavo albums. Original black morocco, spines gilt, titles as transcribed below. Albums with some shelf wear; European album slightly cocked, lower portion of front joint splitting. The photographs are clean and in excellent.....

Boston. 1799. 240pp. including a six-page list of books for sale by J. Nancrede, the publisher. Frontis. Later paper boards, printed paper label (worn). Spine chipped, front board neatly detached. Foxing, offsetting on titlepage from frontispiece. Else very good. Second American edition, published the same year as the first. The.....

London. 1801. [2],x,106pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards. A very good copy. Reprinted from the first edition of 1779. Howes and Sabin list the first edition and a reprint of 1804, but not the present 1801 reprint. This work makes a case for British seizures of munition-laden Dutch ships.....

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1745. [2],xlvii,106pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, leather label. First and last pages heavily soiled and with contemporary inscriptions; negligible foxing and soiling, else very good. First issue. Outlines measures to be taken, particularly in North America, for protection against France, "now at enmity.....

Cologne. 1574. [48],655,[30]pp. Early 19th-century paper boards, gilt leather label. Paper worn away on boards, some wear and rubbing. Ownership inscription and notations on front endpapers. Light dampstain along bottom edge of text. Very good. An important edition of Martyr, the foremost chronicler of the New World in its earliest.....

Providence: John Carter Brown Library, [ 2001]. xvii,[3],354,[2]pp. including numerous facsimiles. Oblong folio. Original black cloth. As new. In original pictorial dust jacket. Remarkably, the first comprehensive "carto- bibliography" of New England from 1530 to 1800. Lists approximately eight hundred maps, over half of which are illustrated. Many entries with.....

Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1852. Chromolithographic title with large vignette; handcolored frontispiece of heights of principal mountains and lengths of principal rivers; contents list printed in red, black, and gold; seventy-three handcolored lithographic maps, charts, and city plans (one double-page). Folio. Publisher's three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, spine.....

Paris. 1898. xi,[1],209,[4]pp. Portrait. Tall octavo. Original gilt green cloth. Ex-lib. with perforation stamp on titlepage and withdrawal stamp on verso, else very good. The second English language edition, after the French original of 1827, translated and edited by Robert B. Douglas. More fought on the side of the American.....

Genova: Luis Pellas, [ 1839]. [6],415,[1]pp. plus five plates. Extra engraved titlepage. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine. Internally bright and clean. Very good. Self-styled second edition. A history of Mexico, with much on Mexican Indians, their customs and practices, in a series of letters. "By the prologue.....

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. 442pp. including 214 wood-engravings (many full-page). Original decorative cloth, stamped in black and gold. Colored pencil inscription on flyleaf. A near fine copy. First American edition (after the Paris and London editions of 1876). A well-illustrated and thorough account of the author's travels.....