London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1775. [12],464pp. plus folding frontispiece map. Half title. Quarto. Contemporary half green calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands. Boards rubbed and shelfworn, spine sunned. Offsetting from map to half title, occasional pencil annotations, but quite bright and clean.....

San Francisco. 1875. 43pp. Original front wrapper bound into later half morocco. Very good. A propagandistic appeal by the unsuccessful bidders for a fur seal contract, for the repeal of the so-called monopoly of the Alaska Commercial Company. Claims to present only the "facts" and calls on the people and.....

New York: Printed for the Publisher, [ 1815]. 166pp., including in-text illustrations, lacking leaf with pp.95-96. Frontispiece. 12mo. Original cloth-backed printed paper boards. Boards soiled, rubbed, and scuffed; worn around the edges. Text tanned and foxed. Lacking the leaf with pages 95-96, which was apparently never bound into this copy.....

Madrid: En la Oficina de Antonio Fernandez, 1778. 196pp. Small quarto. Modern calf, ruled in gilt, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt leather labels. One raised band scraped of its leather, bookplate on front pastedown (see below). Faint contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Very good plus. A compilation of material.....

Boston: Printed for and Sold by A. Barclay, [1768]. [24]pp. Stitched. First and last pages rubbed, making it difficult to read. Minor chipping and tearing to margins, not affecting text. Tape repair on the second page. Text tanned. Overall, a fair copy. One of several editions of Ames' popular almanac.....

New London: Printed and Sold by T. Green, [1768]. [24]pp. Stitched. Last page soiled, otherwise a very good copy. One of several editions of Ames' popular almanac for 1768. Dr. Nathaniel Ames started his highly regarded almanac in 1726, and it was continued by his son after he died in.....

[Washington. 1823]. [55]-108pp. Modern blue pebbled cloth, gilt label. Light tanning and foxing. Very good. The document accompanies President Monroe's Message of 1823, which consists of letters and reports concerning attacks of the Arikara Indians on General Ashley's trading party, and of the Blackfoot Indians on the Missouri Fur Company's.....

Chicago: Chas. Scott & Co., 1857. 147pp. Publisher's olive green blindstamped cloth, spine and front board gilt. Moderate wear, rubbing, and some soiling to binding, corners bumped and worn. A few corners dogeared. Foxing, tanning, and light soiling throughout. Ownership inscription in pencil on front free endpaper. Good. Armstrong served.....

London. 1809. 316,[4]pp. Contemporary mottled calf, expertly rebacked with antique calf spine, leather label. Some light foxing (mostly affecting index leaves). Overall very good. The one volume edition, issued one year after the original three volume edition in 12mo. Ashe was a slippery character. According to Clark, "his entire career.....

St. Augustine. August 23, 1841. [2]pp., on the first and third pages of a folded folio sheet, with postmarked address leaf with wax seal on fourth page. Old folds, light stains, some minor splitting. Very good. A brief, interesting letter from a Florida preacher to a future New York congressman.....

New York: Casper C. Childs, 1850. 35pp. Illus. Dbd. Some light tanning. Small stains to first three leaves. Minor paper loss to top of last page, not affecting text. Very good. English translation, from the original Spanish, of Velasquez' supposed memoir, actually a concoction dreamed up to draw attention to.....

London. 1838. viii,456pp. plus twelve lithographed plates and folding map. Original blue cloth, boards blind-stamped, spine gilt lettered. Slightly cocked, spine and edges sunned, corners bumped. 20th- century bookplate on front pastedown. Scattered foxing. About very good. A scarce account of Sir George Back's 1836 expedition to complete a survey.....

Philadelphia. 1836. [4, ads],456pp. plus folding map. Original half blue cloth and calf boards, original calf labelon spine. Noticeable edge wear, front hinge almost detached. Minor foxing. Good. Untrimmed. Back went in search of Sir John Ross, travelling through north central Canada to the Great Slave Lake, and up the.....