London: Printed for A. Millar, 1745. [2],xlvii,106pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards. First and last pages heavily soiled, contemporary inscriptions. Negligible foxing and soiling. Else very good. First issue. Outlines measures to be taken, particularly in North America, for protection against France, "now at enmity, whose interest it is.....
Cologne. 1574. [48],655,[30]pp. Contemporary vellum, tooled in blind, contemporary manuscript on spine. Light wear and soiling to vellum. Several ownership inscriptions on front endpapers. Light toning and foxing. A few contemporary notations in text. Very good. An important edition of Martyr, the foremost chronicler of the New World in its.....
Cologne. 1574. [48],655,[30]pp. Early 19th-century paper boards, gilt leather label. Paper worn away on boards, some wear and rubbing. Ownership inscription and notations on front endpapers. Light dampstain along bottom edge of text. Very good. An important edition of Martyr, the foremost chronicler of the New World in its earliest.....
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[Germany. Originally 1512-1519, but this printing ca. 1777]. Twenty-six woodcut panels, from 15 x 9 inches to 15 x 15 1/4 inches, most sized closer to the latter. All mounted to old cardstock, some toning and edge wear, almost all with pinholes, some with the printed sequence number trimmed away.....
Providence: John Carter Brown Library, [ 2001]. xvii,[3],354,[2]pp. including numerous facsimiles. Oblong folio. Original black cloth. As new. In original pictorial dust jacket. Remarkably, the first comprehensive "carto-bibliography" of New England from 1530 to 1800. Lists approximately eight hundred maps, over half of which are illustrated. Many entries with additional.....
Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1852. Chromolithographic title with large vignette; handcolored frontispiece of heights of principal mountains and lengths of principal rivers; contents list printed in red, black, and gold; seventy-three handcolored lithographic maps, charts, and city plans (one double-page). Folio. Publisher's three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, spine.....
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, frontis 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.....
Copenhagen: Thiele, 1772. [6],282pp. Small quarto. Original blue paper boards; rebacked with later paper, portion of original spine laid down. Minor wear and soiling to boards, corners heavily worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage, a few contemporary notations to text. Minor toning to text. Very good. In a cloth clamshell.....
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.....
Hanover: Guilielmi Antonii, 1611. [1236]pp. Small quarto. Later stiff vellum, gilt. Ink stamp on titlepage. Heavily tanned throughout. Good. Third edition, enlarged. Ortelius, together with Mercator, was the most famous 16th-century cartographer. His geographical gazetteer was first published in 1587. This edition contains nearly 40,000 place names, arranged alphabetically, each.....
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.....
