[Various locations, including Massachusetts, Florida, Alabama, and New York. May 1861 to March 1888]. Twenty-one autograph letters, signed, and manuscript documents, totaling approximately fifty-one pages. Old folds, many with slight tears and slight separations along folds and at cross folds. Overall, in good plus condition. An interesting collection of manuscript.....

Boston. 1854. 86pp. plus [12]pp. of advertisements. Early 20-century buckram, leather label. Cloth somewhat dust soiled, spine label slightly chipped. Remnants of paper shelf label on spine, institutional ink stamp on titlepage. An occasional fox mark. Lacking original pictorial wrappers. Good. Burns was an educated African American who fled from.....

Londres. 1755. xxiv,336pp. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt tooled, leather label, edges painted red. Boards a lightly rubbed, corners and edges somewhat worn, two small chips to spine extremities. Light tanning, scattered foxing. About very good. An important survey of the state of the British colonies, quickly translated into.....

Richmond: Printed by Thomas Nicholson, 1801. [10],[3]-588,16pp. Contemporary calf, spine rather crudely silked. Significant chipping to spine and corners. Front free endpaper excised. Titlepage with two one inch horizontal tears from gutter margin. Leaves tanned and foxed. Fair. An early Virginia volume of case reports for the Federal period, covering.....

Petersburg: J.W. Campbell, 1813. 310pp. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Joints cracked, head and foot of spine heavily chipped, corners bumped and worn. Light tanning and foxing, lower edge of pp.175/176 torn away minutely affecting text. About good. General history of Virginia before American Independence. Also published the same.....

[N.p., likely Chicago. 1882-1944]. 190pp. Folio. Contemporary black pebbled cloth boards with later red leather corners and backstrip, gilt title on front board. Endpapers renewed. Minor rubbing and soiling to boards. Light thumb-soiling to text. Very good. An extensive and informative company ledger listing the assets, properties, profits, losses, and.....

Paris. 1825. 125 leaves, including fifty-one double-page handcolored engraved maps with textual gloss, four double-page handcolored letterpress tables, one double-page engraved plate, title-leaf, dedication leaf, and additional leaves of letterpress text. Large folio. Modern half morocco and boards, vellum tipped corners. Minor soiling, some light foxing, a few repairs, very.....

Philadelphia: Published by M. Carey, 1814. 3 preliminary leaves and 58 sheets of maps (50 double-page). Maps outlined in color. Tall folio. Antique style half calf and marbled boards. Titlepage with significant repaired damage, about 20% in upper fore-edge corner supplied in facsimile. Two preliminary text leaves also with paper.....

Madisonville, Tn. 1835. 286,[1]pp., plus twenty-four leaves of illustrations. Original half calf and boards. Joints cracked, rear board nearly detached. Boards rubbed, edges worn. Tanning and foxing. Good. A detailed and exuberant exposé of Freemasonry, with extensive details of facts and rituals, and numerous, highly entertaining illustrations of Masonic ritual.....

Philadelphia. 1856. 448pp. plus two folding maps. Original publishers cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, spine gilt. Minor edge wear and light soiling to cloth. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown, light to moderate foxing, frontispiece folding map detached but present, with one fold separation. Very good. The rare companion volume.....

Louisville, Ky. 1852. 255,35pp. Antique-style half calf. Folding frontispiece map. Scattered foxing and light staining. Darker persistent stain in bottom portion of second half of text. Good. A detailed history from colonial times to date of publication, with much on the government, institutions, and resources. The map depicts Louisville and.....

Baltimore: Robert Geddes, 1826. 145pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Ink library stamp on titlepage, embossed blindstamp on titlepage and next two leaves, some toning. Very good. This is the first separate printing, often confused with the several reprints, of forty-three papers which originally appeared in the Baltimore CHRONICLE.....

Nashville. 1850. 215pp. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt leather label. Front hinge cracked, spine and edges somewhat worn. Contemporary and slightly later presentation inscriptions on front free endpaper, later bookplate on front pastedown. Tanning, faint scattered foxing. Good plus. A scarce series of essays on the subject of baptism and.....