London: Printed by Tho. Cotes for Iohn Bellamie, 1635. [8],83,[5]pp. lacks folding map and leaf G1, both of which are supplied in expert facsimile. Small quarto. Antique-style full calf, stamped in blind, spine gilt with raised bands, leather label. Titlepage somewhat soiled. Trimmed a trifle close, shaving a few headlines...

Sioux City: Perkins Bros. Co., [ca. 1926?]. Double-sided broadsheet, 22 x 8 inches. One very short closed edge tear, else fine. A scarce poster advertising the re-release of Thomas H. Ince's famed western, "Custer's Last Fight." Originally released in 1912 and directed by Francis Ford, the older brother of John...

Great Lakes, Il. [U.S. Navy], 1943. Panoramic photograph, 19 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches. Black and white photograph mounted on slightly larger beige cardstock. Small vertical cracks to image, caption faded, some wear and rubbing to mount. Very good. A sharp photograph of one of the first companies of African-American...

Albany. June 28, 1780. [3]pp. Quarto. Old fold lines. A few slight separations and small edge tears. Light soiling and foxing. Good. In a blue half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt. A friendly letter written by Dr. Malachi Treat, Physician General of the Northern Department of the Continental...

[New-Buda, Iowa]. Jan. 24, 1851. 22pp. Folio. Loose sheets. Some dust soiling. Overall good. An eloquent and impassioned appeal for Hungarian freedom from centuries of Austrian tyranny, here prepared by the leader of a community of Hungarian exiles living in Iowa. In a paragraph on the last page, Kossuth appoints...

Washington. 1848. 416pp. plus forty plates (fourteen of botanical specimens) and three plans. Large folding map. Original brown cloth, paper label on spine. Worn at spine ends, label rubbed, corners slightly bumped. Upper outer corner of front free endpaper torn. A few fox marks, but on the whole a very...

Wellsburg, Va. Jacob & Smith, 1859. 280pp. including one full-page illustrations, plus four plates (including frontispiece). Original blindstamped rust cloth. Minor edge wear, small nick near spine head, dust soiled. Minimal foxing along fore edge. Very good. A scarce biography that records not only much of Patrick Gass's recollections and...

Leipzig: Otto Wigand, 1843. iv,258pp. Contemporary half calf and pebbled cloth boards, new endpapers and pastedowns. Minor edge wear, spine a bit chipped. Old German library stamps on titlepage (one of them faint and another removed) and pages 143 and 229, and stamps obscured with paper in blank margin of...

[Virginia City, Mt.]: Montana Post Print, [ 1864]. 7 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches. Light edge wear, a few creases. 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...

London: R. Taylor, 1826. Two parts bound in one volume. [4],xvi,707,[1]pp. plus a frontispiece portrait in each part. Half title. Folio. Contemporary three-quarter green vellum and marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, gilt morocco label. Moderate edge wear and some rubbing and light soiling to the boards, short vertical tear...

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley... 1831. Two volumes bound in one. xxi,[3],392pp. plus fourteen plates and three maps (two folding); vii,[1],[393]-742pp. plus nine plates. No errata slip in second volume. Half titles. Quarto. 19th-century polished calf boards with gilt tooled border, handsomely rebacked, spine elaborately gilt, gilt morocco label.....

Boston. 1827. 176pp. Modern blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Institutional ink and blind stamps on titlepage. Initial leaves lightly dampstained at lower corner. Light tanning. Good plus. "The Fairy was a vessel of eighty-two tons and was bound for Gottenburg with a cargo of coffee, fustic, rice, sugar, and...

Saco, Me. William S. Noyes & Co., 1874. iv,[1],180,25,69,40,66pp. Early 20th-century buckram, gilt leather labels. Cloth somewhat soiled, labels chipped, front hinge loosening. Paper shelf label on spine, institutional ink stamp on titlepage. Nine interior leaves detached and chipped. Moderate tanning. Good. A scarce trial account of an 1874 Maine...