Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, [ 1820]. Colored engraving, 12 x 15 1/4 inches to the plate mark on an approximately 14 1/2 x 18-inch sheet. Framed. Scattered light foxing in margins, light toning. Very good. An important and scarce early American color print, based on a painting by Joshua Shaw, a....
[Dallas: Don Gilbert, 1948]. 356pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs printed in the text. Original red cloth, spine and covers printed in black. Noticeable wear to covers, mild fraying along joints and at spine tail, corners worn, front hinge tender. Clean internally. About very good. A rare and highly-informative city guide...
Concord, N.H. White & Fisher, 1835. 276pp., plus woodcut frontispiece and one plate. 12mo. Original green muslin, gilt red morocco spine label. Expertly rebacked, retaining most of the original backstrip. Muslin a bit rubbed and shelfworn, corners worn. Some light staining to titlepage and the early part of the text...
Easton, Pa. Free Press, [ 1876]. 39pp., printed in two columns. Three mounted albumen prints of working dogs, with printed captions. Small quarto. Original three-quarter green roan and marbled boards, gilt label on front cover. Minor rubbing, bookplate on front pastedown. Title slightly soiled with minor offsetting. Very good. A...
[Easton, Pa.]: Easton Free Press, [1875]. 34pp., printed in two columns. Seven mounted albumen photographs on six leaves, two full-page engraved plates, and in-text woodcut vignettes. Small quarto. Original half morocco and marbled boards, gilt morocco label on front board. Light shelfwear, a bit rubbed at extremities, bookplate on front...
[Washington, Ms. 1839]. Broadside, 15 1/2 x 13 inches. Separated at vertical center fold. Slight chipping at edges. Light tanning and dampstaining. Good. A prospectus for Jefferson College, providing course information and names of professors, most notably Jacob Ammen, who was a West Pointer, teacher of military engineering, and eventually...
[ 1856-1857]. 48pp. typescript, typed on recto. Large quarto. Wrappers, bradbound, title typed on front wrapper. Wrappers a bit sunned, but overall very good. Typed transcription of Fickes' diary from the middle of the 19th century. Fickes was a married woman with three young sons when she started her diary...
Dublin. 1749. xvi,152pp. Lacks the map. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Upper foredge corner of first five leaves carefully repaired, text unaffected. Some internal soiling. Overall still very good. Later Dublin edition, after the first and second London editions. "The first part contains a synopsis of twenty-three English voyages...
Mobile: S.H. Goetzel & Co., 1863. [2],ii,220,104,47,97-108,xiv,[2]pp. plus thirty-eight engraved plates. 16mo. Original half cloth and paper boards, gilt spine label. Hinges cracked, spine ends and edges worn, boards rubbed, corners bumped. Shelf label at foot of spine, early 20th-century bookplate on front pastedown. Some foxing and toning. Good, in.....
Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown, 1828. xii,325pp. Half title. Original publisher's half brown cloth and paper covered boards, printed paper label. Label rubbed and chipped, boards lightly rubbed and edgeworn, binding refreshed in 1890 per a pencil note on the rear pastedown. Later ink inscription on front pastedown and titlepage, occasional...
[Brooklyn, N.Y. Printed by P.J. Collison & Co., 1914]. 59pp. plus sixteen photographic plates. Titlepage with title in a box in the upper left and vignette of a bear chasing a man at the lower right; on verso of titlepage: "Press of P.J. Collison & Co. Brooklyn- New York." Half.....
Washington City: Way and Gideon, 1826. 24pp. Dbd., with first couple leaves detached. Some foxing, unevenly trimmed and close to top edge. Good. An exceedingly rare pamphlet from early Louisiana statehood. The canal in the Territory of Orleans connecting Bayou St. John with the Old Basin was called the Carondelet...
[Mexico City. March 21, 1826]. [2]pp. plus seven full-page tables (two folding). Dbd. Internally clean. Very good. "A rare and important decree, setting up a new system for the defense of the frontiers. The tables show the make-up of the forces of the presidial companies at Tucson, Tubac, Altar, Bahia...
San Francisco. 1871. 48pp. plus folding colored map. Original printed wrappers. Text block stitched together and loosely laid into wrappers, and apparently never bound in. Wrappers a bit soiled and worn. Map with a long closed tear, expertly repaired, with two instances of minute loss. One text leaf torn in...
[Cincinnati]: Published by Oliver Farnsworth; Morgan, Lodge and Co. Printers, October, 1819. 155,[1]pp. plus folding engraved map. Contemporary tree calf, gilt leather spine label, spine ruled in gilt. Moderate wear to extremities. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Six-inch diagonal tear to map repaired on verso, with no loss...
[N.p., but probably Houston, Tx. N.d., likely late 1922]. [2],60pp. Original printed wrappers. Moderate soiling, light rubbing, spine head a bit chipped, spine ends a trifle stained. Minor dust-soiling to titlepage, otherwise clean internally. Very good. A presentation copy of this rare hunting trip diary, inscribed by the author on.....
[Washington. 1866]. 6pp. Folio, gathered signatures. Light toning. Very good. The treaty was concluded at Forty Sully, Dakota Territory, by Gen. H.H. Sibley and Newton Edmunds, ratified on March 5, 1866, and proclaimed by President Johnson on March 17. Agreeing to a cessation of violence between the tribe and the...
[Washington. 1860]. 7pp. Folio, stitched as issued. Outer leaves lightly soiled, internally very clean. Very good. Concluded on October 1, 1859, at the Sac and Fox Agency, Kansas Territory, by Alfred B. Greenwood. The treaty provided for the cession of 153,000 acres of Kansas lands to satiate the land hunger due to westward migration.
[Washington. 1866]. 6pp. Folio, gathering signatures. Minor toning and wear. Very good. Concluded by Newton Edmunds and Gen. H.H. Sibley at Fort Sully, Dakota Territory, ratified March 5, 1866, and proclaimed by President Johnson on March 17. This treaty saw the O'Gallala Sioux tribe agreeing to peace with the government...
[Mostly Kumamoto. November 1945 to May 1946]. 128 photographs, most either 3 x 4 1/2 inches or 1 1/2 x 2 inches, with six ephemeral paper items. Photos slightly curled, with some minor wear, a handful of photographs with slight loss to margins or image area. Overall very good. An...
London. 1823. iv,[2],xxvii,[5],285,[2],297,[3]pp. plus folding map and twenty-five lithographic plates. Quarto. Contemporary calf, ruled in gilt and blind, spine elaborately gilt, a.e.g. Expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Minor shelfwear, modern bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing on map and plates, with some offsetting to facing pages, but text.....
New York: V.G. Audubon, 1849-1854. Three large octavo volumes. 155 handcolored lithographed plates by W.E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly after J.J. and John Wodehouse Audubon. Contemporary three-quarter black morocco and cloth, spines gilt. Third volume expertly rebacked, with original backstrip laid down. Minor wear to extremities, front hinge of second.....
[London. ca. 1777]. 82,[2]pp. Dbd. Light old stain on titlepage and next seven leaves. Very good, untrimmed and unopened. In a half morocco clamshell case. A work important in Canadian constitutional history and for the beginnings of the British regime in Canada. The text includes: "New Commission of the Governor...
[N.p., but likely Pennsylvania. N.d., but ca. 1681-1684]. 367pp. Folio. Remnants of cloth spine, still holding well by cords. Boards no longer present, but marbled endpapers (chipped) remain. A handful of leaves with minor chips or repairs at the fore-edge or corner, costing little text. Good. In a modern quarter.....
[New York State]. May 14, 1716. [3]pp. Folio. Old fold lines. Central folds reinforced with later lined paper, some manuscript pencil notes. Minor soiling and wear. About very good. In a half morocco box. An early deed for land granted to the commander of Fort Hunter, which had been built...
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