Morrisania, N.Y. 1870. 13pp., printed in double columns. Folio. Original printed front wrapper, bound into later three quarter green morocco and cloth, gilt morocco spine label. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Wrapper chipped and soiled. Foredge of each text leaf reinforced with tissue. Good. Field has very kind words for this.....
Philadelphia: Joseph Sabin, 1859. viii,[13]-202pp. 12mo. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt. Head of spine chipped. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Inscription from author on front flyleaf. Minor toning to edges. Very clean. Very good plus. A presentation copy ("To Dr. J.V. Ingham with the compliments of the.....
Jacksonville, Fl. 1895. 159pp., plus advertisements. Original pictorial wrappers bound into modern half morocco and cloth by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, spine gilt. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Light toning. Internally clean. Near fine. Second edition. Signed by Brown in the blank space above his title, Ordnance Sergeant U.S.A., which follows.....
Jacksonville, Fl. 1901. 113pp. Original wrappers bound into modern three-quarter morocco and cloth by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, spine gilt. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Internally clean. Near fine. Third edition. Signed by Brown in the blank space above his title, Ordnance Sergeant U.S.A., which follows the Preface. Includes an account.....
Washington. 1857. Two volumes. 775; 572pp. Original blindstamped cloth. Extremities moderately frayed, unobtrusive internal library marks, else very good. Extremely fine material on Indians of the West, from Canada to Mexico, with a wealth of information on Pacific Northwest Indian problems, and all manner of documents from the Commissioner of.....
Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1837. [4],8,302pp. Half title. 19th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Boards worn along joints and edges, bookplate on rear pastedown. Scattered foxing. About very good. The first complete edition of Cabeça de Vaca following the 1555 edition, and the first French translation of his description.....
Madrid. 1906. Two volumes.xxx,388,[5]; xii,428,[4]pp. Original paper printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled. Volume one with repair tape on spine, small tear on front wrapper. Later ownership stamp on front flyleaves. Text block cracked in volume one. Small section loose but attached on volume two. Good. Later edition of the famous.....
[Washington]. Jan. 25, 1839. 4pp. Dbd. Minor toning. Very good. Scarce document including extracts from Florida governor Richard K. Call regarding the conflicts of the Second Seminole War. Call was appointed governor in 1836 by Andrew Jackson, and proceeded to lead troops through several victorious battles against the Seminoles, including.....
London. 1747. viii,[4],330,[2]pp. Antique-style three-quarter calf. Leaf of advertisement trimmed and pasted to verso of front fly leaf. Minor foxing. Very good. An early English survey of Spanish discovery, conquest, and trade in America, with some material on California, New Mexico, Florida, Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, and South America in general.....
Cleveland: The Williams Publishing Co., 1892. 284pp. plus one double plate and errata page. Original maroon cloth stamped in black and gilt, spine faded. Contemporary ownership signature of Robert Lee Goodbred on front flyleaf. Mild toning to text, very good. First edition of this account of British rule in West.....
Washington. 1886. xi,[1],939pp. plus plates and two folding maps. Very thick octavo. Original cloth. Cloth bit sunned. Very good. This volume is almost entirely devoted to printing, here in its first publication, "The George Catlin Indian Gallery in the U.S. National Museum (Smithsonian Institution) with Memoir and Statistics" by Thomas.....
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley... 1761. Two volumes. viii,382; viii,380,[26]pp., plus folding map. Half title in each volume. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked with original richly gilt spines laid down, gilt morocco labels. Offsetting to the map, and from the map onto the titlepage of the first volume. Light.....
[New Orleans: Printed at the Office of the Jeffersonian, 1846]. 11pp. plus three large folding plates. Contemporary cloth, spine expertly repaired. Minor foxing. Very good. An instructive work regarding American military fortifications in Florida during the latter years of the Seminole wars, most notable for the three large folding plates.....
Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1941. vii,[1],192pp., plus three full-page illustrations and twenty-two maps (most folding). Folding frontispiece. Quarto. Modern three quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt leather spine labels, t.e.g. Front board slightly bowed. Bookplate on rear pastedown. A touch of light scattered foxing. Very good. The introductory material.....
Paris. 1837. [4],xvi,439; [4]504pp. plus folding map. Two volumes. Contemporary red half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Corners rubbed. Unopened. Near fine. Fourth edition, augmented and corrected. Chevalier, later a well known economist, went to America to study public works for the French government. He spent two years in.....
Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company, 1839. iv,467,[1]pp. Original cloth, stamped in blind, gilt title on spine. Spine ends a bit chipped, small gouge in front cover. Scattered foxing. Withal, just about very good. First American edition, translated from the third Paris edition of the previous year. Chevalier, later a well-.....
Jackson, Ms. 1880. xxiii,[1],545pp. plus plates and errata. Frontis. Recent half calf and marbled boards. Ownership and gift inscriptions on front endpapers. Occasional foxing. Very good. Good, detailed history of the state and region, with chapters on early exploration and settlement, native Indians, the controversy over West Florida, the influence.....
London: E. and C. Dilly, 1769. [8],122pp. plus frontispiece. Folding map in facsimile. Quarto. 20th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Hinges and corners rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Minor foxing and soiling. Contemporary notation on plate. Very good. Cluny details the commerce and produce of the colonies in.....
Amsterdam. 1783. [8],264pp. plus three folding tables. Contemporary patterned boards, manuscript paper spine label. Boards scuffed. Some browning. Overall quite nice, untrimmed. Small portion of folding map laid in, with map in its entirety supplied in facsimile and bound in. The second edition, following the first edition of the previous.....
Amsterdam. 1783. viii,264pp. plus folding map and three folding tables. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Near fine. The second edition, following the first edition of the previous year, of Mandrillon's work on the United States and.....
Augusta. 1838. 45pp. Original printed blue wrappers. Spine perished, wrappers worn, wrinkled and soiled. One signature tanned, titlepage and other leaves dust soiled. Good. Report of the second of three such commercial conventions held in Georgia during the period, attended by representatives from most of the southern states, who sought.....
Columbia. 1864. xxxv,[1],161pp. Original printed wrappers. Light soiling and wear to wrappers. Some toning and light foxing internally. Very good. Numerous important General Orders, prepared by the Headquarters of the Confederate Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Indexed, and with explanatory notes on various decisions taken by the Confederate.....
[Madrid. ca. 1600]. [4]pp. Folio. Later plain wrappers. Minute dust soiling. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth box. Four contracts between the sundry kings of Spain and certain conquistadors. "The agreements are with Rodrigo de Bastidas, of Santo Domingo, for the colonization of the Province and Port of.....
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1859. 432pp. Original green patterned cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Front hinge cracked. Slight foxing. Overall very good. From the library of Guy Littell, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Second issue, probably the same sheets as the first of 1857, with a cancel title and Cooke's.....
[London]: Printed for and sold by Olive Payne, 1741. [54],122pp. plus folding copper-engraved map. Antique-style paneled calf, gilt leather label. Some light soiling and foxing, faint dampstaining to a few leaves. Map with two tears to gutter margin, one repaired. A solid copy, about very good. The fourth issue of.....
