Americana & Travel New Arrivals
[N.p. ca. 1836]. Partially-printed document, completed in manuscript, sewn horizontally to another sheet, the whole measuring 10 x 7 3/4 inches. Old folds, scattered foxing and spotting, mild edge wear. Very good. A wonderful but sobering relic from a time before the abolition of slavery, when ordinary people sought to... More
Mostly at sea from New York, with stops in Calcutta, Saint Helena, Ascension Island, and Cornwall, England. July 4, 1795 - July 2, 1796. [246]pp. Square folio. Original crude burlap covers, stab-sewn with thick string. A bit toned and foxed, occasional ink or tobacco burns. Very good. A remarkable artifact... More
Finian, N.C. [near present-day Wilmington]. Feb. 10, 1774. [7]pp. Original mailing folds, slight toning, mild occasional foxing, small ink burn hole in final leaf, not affecting any text. Very good. In a chemise and slipcase. Accompanied by a 19th-century pencil drawing of Hooper's residence. An important and politically-charged letter from... More
Philadelphia. 1785. 12pp. Titlepage vignette. Loose leaves. Minor soiling. About very good. The Anson Phelps Stokes copy, with his bookplate on a pastedown of the chemise. One of the first publications of the American Episcopal Church. A charming children's instructional, providing guidance on living a Christian life, and including standard... More
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by John Dunlap and David C. Claypoole, Oct. 6, 1789. [4]pp., text in four columns. Folio. Single folded sheet. Mild toning, a few fox marks, a couple of expert repairs. Very good. An early, contemporary newspaper printing of the proposed Bill of Rights sent out to... More
[Woodbury, Ct. 1858]. Printed broadside, 18 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches. Old folds, some foxing and toning, mild staining, a few short fold separations. Very good. A striking broadside advertising an Independence Day celebration in Woodbury, Ct. in 1858. The event included a picnic, a 33- gun salute, prayers, music... More
[Charlestown, Ma. Printed by Samuel Ethridge, 1800]. 6,[2],[7]-22,[2],16,30pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Some light foxing. Very good. A rare work, printing two eulogies to George Washington, along with Washington's Farewell Address. The first six pages comprise the order of ceremonies for mourning President Washington, to... More
Richmond: Printed by Dixon, Davis, and Nicholson, [ 1789]. 49,[1]pp. Folio. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Some light soiling. Very good. The rare session laws for the Virginia state legislature in 1788, including many implementing the federal government. Virginia ratified the new constitution in the summer of... More
Camp Aldie, Va. Nov. 16, 1862. [3]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Quarto. Old fold lines, slight separation at some folds. Later magazine clipping tipped onto final leaf. Quite clean. Very good. Letter written by adventuress and military heroine Princess Agnes Salm-Salm. Agnes LeClerc Joy arrived in Washington, D.C. in... More
Paris: chez Esnauts et Rapilly, [ca. 1780]. Engraved portrait, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches. Light soiling. Very good. A rare French portrait of Maj. Robert Rogers, showing him in his military uniform with musket. This portrait is copied from the best known image of Rogers, produced in London in... More
Philadelphia: Carey, Stewart, and Co., 1791. [4],176pp. 12mo. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Neat contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage, later initials on fore-edge. Light tanning, occasional foxing; very light dampstaining at lower corner. Very good. The 1791 edition of THE CONSTITUTIONS..., the very scarce first... More
Philadelphia. 1847. 316pp. plus folding map. Portrait. Contemporary half sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt. Rubbed. Moderate to heavy foxing. A good, sound copy. "Contains Lundy's journal kept on his second and third journeys to Texas, 1833-34 and 1834- 35, in search of suitable places for the colonization of freed... More
Utica: Published by William Williams, 1828. Folding pocket map, 19 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches, with period outline color, on a 19 3/4 x 28 1/4-inch sheet with nine columns of text entitled "Stage, Canal and Steam-Boat Register" at right and three columns of descriptive text entitled "Erie Canal" at... More
New York. 1851. Folding pocket map, 20 x 25 1/2 inches, with period outline color. Bound into original 16mo. gilt-stamped red cloth boards. Very good. A brightly colored early map of New York State with decorative motifs and borders. With two tables: "Stations and Distances on Railroads in, and Running... More
New York: Published by J. Disturnell, 1848. Folding pocket map, 19 x 23 1/2 inches, engraved on steel by Sherman & Smith, with full period color. Bound into original 16mo. brown cloth boards, stamped in blind and gilt. Very good. This is a finely engraved and detailed general map of... More
Boston. [ 1857]. Folding color map, 32 x 24 inches. 16mo. Original printed wrappers. Spine split and repaired with old tape. Map color bright and clean. Very good. A rare early map of Minnesota. Like other Minnesota maps of this period, the present map is most valuable for showing nascent... More
Paris. 1817. Two volumes. [4],xxxii,403,[3]; [4],394,[2]pp. plus added frontispiece portrait of the author and four manuscript illustrations. Pp.305-320 misbound after pp.321-336. Slightly later three-quarter calf, spines gilt. Extremities rubbed. Light foxing and toning. About very good. A discussion of the politics of the revolutions in South America, including the Spanish... More
Watertown, N.Y. Printed by Knowlton & Rice, 1840. 55pp. plus advertisements and index. 12mo. Original printed wrappers (chipped), rebacked, wraps mounted on modern stiff paper. Foxed, some pencil and ink notes, else good. The first Watertown directory, with an account of early settlement, a list of the town officers, institutions... More
Liverpool & London: Engraved by George Philip & Son, 1867. Folding map, 35 x 38 inches, partially colored, backed on linen. Original cloth folder, gilt-stamped cover. Front board detached, spine perished. Map with some slight foxing. Overall very good. A large, handsomely detailed map of New Brunswick, showing parts of... More
[Virginia City, Mt.]: Montana Post Print, [ 1864]. 7 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches. Slight wear. Very good. A very early example of Montana printing, and a record of early mining in the region. According to McMurtrie, the first printing press in Montana is believed to be that brought by... More
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1846. 46pp., plus large folding map, 25 x 34 1/4 inches, with full period color. 16mo. Original blindstamped and gilt blue morocco, with original clasp. Morocco a bit rubbed and edgeworn. Map with two closed tears in left edge, where bound in, with no loss; small... More
Milwaukee: Silas Chapman, 1856. Colored folding map, 28 x 22 inches. Bound into original 16mo. brown cloth folder, gilt-lettered cover. Folder slightly worn and faded. Minute soiling along fold lines. Colors on map generally bright and clean. Overall very good. A variant state of this important Minnesota map, without priority... More
Milwaukee: Dyer & Pasmore, 1856. Large colored folding map, 29 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches. Neatly ex-lib., with small, unobtrusive stamp on verso of map, and old shelf label on spine. Overall a very good copy, with a single straight closed tear without loss, laid into original 16mo. green cloth... More
New York: H.H. Lloyd, 1866. Map on two sheets that form one map. Rich full period color, 36 1/2 x 50 1/2 inches. Folding into gilt-stamped dark green cloth covers. Very good. First edition. This is an exceedingly detailed wall map in pocket format, that shows the environs of New... More
Philadelphia: Published by A. Finley, [ 1828]. Folding pocket map, 13 3/4 x 19 1/4 inches, with full period color. Bound into contemporary 16mo. gilt-stamped limp brown leather boards. Boards rubbed and lightly stained. Sales label for Finley's company, listing several newly published maps, affixed to front pastedown. Small separations... More
![[EXCEPTIONAL DAILY LOG BOOK FOR THE FINAL VOYAGE OF THE SHIP Washington, AN AMERICAN MERCHANT VESSEL IN THE FEDERAL-ERA TRADING IN INDIA AND ON ITS WAY TO GERMANY BEFORE WRECKING OFF THE COAST OF ENGLAND]. Trade Voyage Log Book, Samuel Hubbart.](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM54712.jpg?v=1543961492)
![[AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM WILLIAM HOOPER TO HIS UNCLE, JAMES MURRAY IN BOSTON, REGARDING MANAGEMENT OF MURRAY'S POINT REPOSE PLANTATION, INCLUDING SLAVES, AND WITH IMPORTANT CONTENT ON HOOPER'S INCREASING OPPOSITION TO BRITISH RULE IN AMERICA]. William Hooper.](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM54710.jpg?v=1543961491)
![LE MAJOR ROBERT ROGER [sic] COMMANDANT EN CHEF LES TROUPES INDIENNES AU SERVICE DES AMÉRICAINS [caption title]. Robert Rogers.](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM46804.jpg?v=1542986274)
![THE LIFE, TRAVELS AND OPINIONS OF BENJAMIN LUNDY, INCLUDING THE JOURNEYS TO TEXAS AND MEXICO; WITH A SKETCH OF COTEMPORARY [sic] EVENTS, AND A NOTICE OF THE REVOLUTION IN HAYTI. Thomas Earle.](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM10022.jpg?v=1542128772)
