London. 1739. [4],60pp. Half title. Dbd. Minor foxing in outer leaves, else very good. Discusses the Treaty of El Pardo, which is printed in full. It was at the convention described herein that Britain and Spain agreed to avoid war, to meet in conference to settle their respective pretensions to.....
London. 1932. x,303,[1]pp. plus plates. Frontis. Quarto. Gilt publisher's cloth, t.e.g. Some scattered foxing, spine sunned. Very good. Presentation inscription from the author.
New York & London. 1928. [8],236pp. plus plates. Cloth backed boards, printed paper label. Corners bumped, else fine. The authors were daughter and grandson of Tyler. Includes accounts of voyages and travels in Europe, as well as life in New England.
Hague. 1728-1745. Eighteen parts bound in nineteen volumes. 16mo. Modern half cloth and marbled boards, leather labels. A good set. Rousset's compilation of state papers and treaties is one of the most important sources for European diplomacy from after the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 through the early 1740s. Several.....
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London: John Murray, 1824. [4],vii,216,213-571. Half title. Large quarto. Modern three- quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt, spine gilt, leather labels. Contemporary inscription on titlepage (see below), occasional annotations in ink and pencil. Old tideline to preliminary leaves, tideline and foxing to last fifty leaves. Otherwise, internally clean. About very.....
Zurich: J. Honeggerschen Lithographischen Anstalt, 1845. 175pp. of text, fifty-five lithographed plates (with several figures per plate in some cases), and lithographed title. Folio. Later three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, edges sprinkled brown. Slight edge wear, light foxing. Near fine. The third, enlarged and augmented edition of this interesting work.....
[London]. 1620, 1624. [27]; [4],60pp. plus extra illustration tipped in at p.54. Small quarto. Later diced Russia, rebacked, gilt leather labels. Extremities rubbed. Some soiling to rear board. Bookplate of Frank Cutter Deering on front pastedown. Later notations on front fly leaf, contemporary ink notation crossed out on titlepage. Minor.....
[London]. 1620. [27]pp. Small quarto. Modern three-quarter red morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Minor toning. Very good. "[This work] purports to describe the report of the Spanish ambassador, Gondomar, to the council of state in Madrid on his return from his first embassy to England in 1618. The ambassador recounts.....
Edinburgh. 1829. viii,47pp. Dbd. Two faint institutional stamps and one small ink number on titlepage, light toning. Good. An interesting murder trial account involving a husband-and-wife poisoning team on a steamboat near Glasgow in the early-19th century. From the Introduction: "The case which forms the subject of the present publication.....
London. 1756. [4],111pp. Half title. Modern cloth, leather label. Some faint traces of foxing, else a fine, crisp copy, untrimmed. From a series of letters written by Shebbeare relatively early in his career as a political writer, comprising a strong attack on the British Ministry and their conduct of the.....
Utica. 1828. 262pp. Contemporary calf, red gilt morocco label. Hinges worn, chipped at head of spine. Minor foxing, two leaves with old tape repairs. Contemporary and modern scribblings on rear free endpaper and pastedown. Tanned and foxed. A good copy, with duplicate stamp of the Huntington Library on rear pastedown.....
Richmond. 1819. Two volumes. [14],247pp. plus one folding plate, two folding maps, and frontispiece portrait; xi,282pp. plus frontispiece coat of arms. Contemporary mismatched tree calf, first volume neatly rebacked, spines gilt, leather labels. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf. Light toning and foxing of text in each volume. Very.....
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Vienna: Johann Singriener for Lukas Alantse, [ 1520]. [8],151,[32]pp.; [56] leaves. Contemporary green-stained vellum. Some light wear and soiling, ties lacking. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good, in unsophisticated original condition. A contemporary sammelband containing a pair of works by two important early geographers. Solinus (ca. 250 A.D.) was a......
Washington. 1832. 346,[1]pp. Printed self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Tanning to first 24pp., some minor foxing, else bright and clean internally. This British report, the most up-to-date description of steam engines at the time, was widely circulated. It was a primary document in the beginning of American railroad construction.
New York. 1838. Two volumes. 268; 275pp. Folding map. Textual illus. Cloth. Several ink signatures, one on a titlepage, scattered foxing, else very good. Stephens travelled through the Mediterranean region for his health. This work is a sequel to his INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL IN EGYPT.... The map traces his route.....
London: Henry Stevens, Son, and Stiles, 1908. vii,62pp. Dbd. Internally clean. Good. A thorough examination of the Lewis map and Ptolemy's GEOGRAPHY..., by the noted bookseller, Henry Stevens. An excellent reference.
London. 1892. 317pp. Small quarto. Contemporary three-quarter polished calf. Head of backstrip chipped, calf a bit scuffed, else a fine copy. One of 100 copies, specially printed on large paper, numbered and signed by the printers, R. & R. Clark. Stevenson travelled overland from New York to San Francisco in.....
New Orleans: Bloomfield & Steel, 1861. 30pp. plus ninety colored maps, lacking pp.7- 10 and one or more maps. Dbd. Moderately worn, heavier along fore-edge through first four leaves. Loss of about five words on titlepage, minor spotting on titlepage. Scattered foxing, some leaves loose. Good. In a half morocco.....
Boston. 1814. iv,[5]-107pp. Portrait. 12mo. Original printed boards. Boards foxed, chipped at spine. Ex-lib. with shelf-label on front cover, bookplate, neat blindstamp on title. Occasional trace of foxing or spotting, but aside from the library marks a lovely copy, in original state and untrimmed. Enclosed in a protective jacket and.....
London. 1839. Twenty-seven plates plus 2pp. of explanatory text. Tall folio. Original gilt cloth. Cloth frayed at corners, spine perished. Some plates slightly foxed, else internally very good. Handsome lithographic renderings of scenes, buildings, and antiquities of Scotland, mostly in Edinburgh and the lowlands, after sketches made by Swarbreck during.....
[Np. nd, ca. 1861]. [2],86pp. plus 26 plates, 2 maps, and advertisements. Frontis. Engraved title. Contemporary three quarter calf and boards, spine gilt. Extremities rubbed, corner of front board cracked, neat bookplate, foxed. Good. A detailed description of the attractions, industries and manufactures of Norrkoping, a port town in Sweden.....
Aberystwyth. 1972. vii,[1],77pp. Spiral bound mimeographed typescript. Very good. Collection of letters and documents by Welshmen serving in the Union Army. Documents were translated from the original Welsh.
Barcelona: La viuda Piferrer, [1788]. 96pp. Contemporary Spanish dyed calf, spine gilt. Very light dampstaining and foxing in margins, a few minor instances of soiling. A very good copy. The scarce first Spanish edition of John Thayer's account of his conversion to Roman Catholicism after originally training to be a......
Impressa en la ciudad Imperial de Augusta [i.e. Trier]: con facultad de la Sacra Magestad del Emperador, 1626. [16]pp. Small folio. Dbd. Contemporary manuscript docketing on p.[16] and contemporary ink underscoring on p.[7]. Some loss, repaired in silk, from chipping at gutter and from worming in several leaves, the latter.....
London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1796. Two volumes. xv,[1],471; xii,475pp. Contemporary tree calf. Joints mended. Scattered foxing. A good set. The greater portion of the text refers to the author's travels and observations of society in Russia, with side trips to Denmark, Lapland and Sweden.
