Washington. Dec. 7, 1824. Broadside, 23 1/2 x 19 inches. Folded horizontally, with several old vertical folds. Slight wear and a few separations along folds, one chip at head, not affecting text. A couple of patches of light staining. Very good. The rare first printing of James Monroe's final State.....
Paris. 1898. xi,[1],209,[4]pp. Portrait frontis. Half title. Original blue cloth, gilt- lettered spine, gilt vignette on front cover. Internally clean. Very good, partially unopened. The second English language edition, after the French original of 1827, translated and edited by Robert B. Douglas. More fought on the side of the American.....
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1897. xi,[1],209,[7]pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original blue cloth, gilt pictorial cover, gilt-stamped spine, t.e.g. Textblock detached from boards, spine wrinkled. Internally clean and very good, untrimmed. One of twenty copies printed on Japan vellum. The first English edition, after the French original of 1827, translated and edited by.....
Genova: Luis Pellas, [ 1839]. [6],415,[1]pp. plus five plates. Extra engraved titlepage. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine. Internally bright and clean. Very good. Self-styled second edition. A history of Mexico, with much on Mexican Indians, their customs and practices, in a series of letters. "By the prologue.....
Liverpool Printed; New York Reprinted. 1808. 64pp. Dbd. Titlepage and last few leaves dust soiled and foxed or stained, else quite good. Concerns the Napoleonic Wars and related politics of the day.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. 442pp. including 214 wood-engravings (many full-page). Original decorative cloth, stamped in black and gold. Colored pencil inscription on flyleaf. A near fine copy. First American edition (after the Paris and London editions of 1876). A well-illustrated and thorough account of the author's travels.....
The Hague. 1665. 30,[2]pp. Small quarto. Modern half calf and marbled boards, vellum corners. Trimmed close, else very good. A variant edition, not in EUROPEAN AMERICANA. "This memorial was written for the purpose of convincing the King of France that in the war with England, England was the aggressor, and.....
Pithiviers, France. 1825. [64]pp. Folio. Contemporary blue paper wrappers. Contemporary notation on cover, some chipping to wrappers. First leaf with a closed tear. Some contemporary pencil notations, otherwise quite clean internally. Very good. Division of property belonging to chevalier Jean Rene Augustin Neufcarres among his heirs and assigns. This extensive.....
London. 1730. xx,280pp., leaf of errata. 19th century paneled calf. Some wear to hinges but cords sound, bookplate, else very nice. Kennett was the author of the first English bibliography of the New World, the BIBLIOTHECAE AMERICANAE PRIMORDIA, published in 1713. He had many American connections and interests, and this.....
[Amsterdam? 1608]. 8pp. Small quarto. Later paper boards. Very good. A long and ingenious "echo" poem criticizing the Truce of negotiations in the war with Spain. The proponents of the West India Company, which was not yet formed, were against the truce because its terms prohibited Dutch ventures in the.....
New York. 1819. vi,[2],431,[1],xlvii pp. plus frontispiece and four plates (one folding). Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down, edges stained yellow. Boards rubbed. Later ownership inscriptions on front endpapers, scattered notations on some leaves, frontispiece with pencil embellishment. Light foxing. Very.....
Copenhagen: Godiche, 1775. [8],xxxii,318,[81]pp. plus two folding plates. Illustrations in text. Quarto. Original drab paper boards, printed paper label. Spine cracked and chipped. Minor foxing to first and last few leaves. Most of second half of text unopened; untrimmed. Just about very good. A scholarly edition of Gunnlaugi's Saga, "A.....
New York: William Helburn, [ca. 1895]. Titlepage and forty plates. Folio. Contemporary cloth, gilt morocco label. Some soiling and wear to cloth and label. Front free endpaper lacking; fly leaf detached but present. Ex-lib., with ink stamps on front pastedown and fly leaf. Publisher's label on front pastedown. Very clean.....
London. [ca. 1915]. [316]pp. plus 52 colored plates. Quarto. Gilt pictorial cloth. Some light foxing, else near fine with tissue guards intact. Study and illustrations of the architecture.
[Blytheville, Ar. Franklin Press, 1944?]. 64pp. Original printed green wrappers. Wrappers faded and starting to detach from text block, upper right corner of front wrapper and lower right corner of rear wrapper chipped. Internally quite clean. Very good overall. Signed by Oglesby on the titlepage. Rare survival of an account.....
London. November 20, 1787. [3]pp., on a folded folio sheet, docketed on the blank fourth page. Old folds, minor toning. Near fine. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. A politically-charged letter from Thomas Paine to his friend, William Petty, former Earl of Shelburne, who.....
London. 1813. viii,660pp. plus plates (some folding). Folding frontispiece map. Engraved title. Thick octavo. Original paper boards, printed paper spine label (chipped). Spine considerably chipped, front board detached but cords sound. Occasional fox marks, else internally very good, untrimmed. "The fifth edition, with considerable additions." "This work is the result.....
Lima: Francisco Sobrino, 1730. [72]pp. 1,644 [i.e. 1,614] columns, plus fifteen (of twenty-six) portraits. Lacks frontis. Folio. Later calf, spine gilt, leather label. Boards rubbed, large piece of leather missing from front cover. Spine heavily worn and cracked, missing bottom portion. Ex-lib. with bookplate on front pastedown. Heavy worming throughout.....
[The Mediterranean]. January to May, 1827. [20]pp. Folio. Contemporary paper wrappers, stitched. Light wear and soiling to covers. Internally clean. Very good. A detailed record of consumable requirements of the U.S.S. North Carolina's four major departments during part of her time with the Mediterranean squadron. The North Carolina was laid.....
Charleston: Steam-Power Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1861. viii,430pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt morocco label. Boards edgeworn. Early discreet library stamps (properly deaccessioned), remnants of library pocket on rear pastedown. Author's name supplied in ink on titlepage, with two dates written in ink.....
Philadelphia. [ 1798]. 131pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Minor foxing. Very good. The correspondence and reports relative to the XYZ Affair and the strained relations between the U.S. and the French in 1797. Includes reports of ambassadors John Marshall, C.C. Pinckney.....
Utrecht: A. Stubbe, 1786. 27pp. Frontis. Plain cream wrappers, stitched as issued. Wear and light soiling to wrappers, lower portion of wrapper starting to separate at spine. Remains of label in lower margin of titlepage (not affecting text), tideline to upper gutter of titlepage and frontispiece (just touching edge of.....
Evansville. 1879. 176pp. Original gilt cloth. Cloth soiled, bit frayed at extremities, small tear in backstrip, front hinge broken. A few pencil notes, but internally very good. First and only edition, not in Smith. "The largest party of tourists who ever made the rounds in a body under one management".....
London [i.e. Brussels]. 1781. [4],6,[2],vii,82pp. Half title. 20th-century half morocco and boards, spine gilt. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Some minor toning and soiling. Very good. Pownall's work was originally published in 1780 as A MEMORIAL MOST HUMBLY ADDRESSED TO THE SOVEREIGNS OF EUROPE, and was quickly translated into French.....
London. 1780. [2],viii,127pp. Modern paper boards, printed paper label. Minor shelf wear. Minor scattered foxing. Very good. In a red half morocco and cloth folder. First edition. By 1780, Pownall, long considered sympathetic to the position of the American colonists, was finishing a lengthy career in Parliament. His work discusses.....
