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. Fore-edge 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.....
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.....
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.....
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. Modern bookplate to rear pastedown. Very good. First edition of this account.....
Hartford: Published by Henry Benton, 1829. 283,[3]pp. Frontis. Original calf, spine gilt. Boards quite rubbed, head of spine repaired, front hinge loosening and beginning to peel from text block towards the bottom. Text tanned and rather heavily foxed and stained, second half of text pages somewhat crinkled, rear endpaper coming.....
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.....
Paris: Chez Pierre-François Giffart, 1744. Six volumes. [6],viii,454; [2],501; [2],465; [2],388; [2],456; [2],434,[4]pp., plus twenty- eight maps, and ninety-six plates on forty- four sheets. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, raised bands, spines gilt, leather labels, marbled endpapers, all edges red. Slight wear at joints, spine ends, and corners. 19th-century bookplate on.....
[New Orleans: Printed at the Office of the Jeffersonian, 1846]. 11pp. plus three large folding plates. Contemporary cloth, spine expertly repaired. Minor foxing. Modern bookplate to rear pastedown. Very good. An instructive work regarding American military fortifications in Florida during the latter years of the Seminole wars, most notable for.....
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-known.....
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 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 year.....
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.....
[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.....
Havana: Esteban José de Boloña, [1815]. [1],9pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. Stitching mostly perished. Light fold lines, minimal foxing, ink marginal notations, contemporary ink inscription after the text. Very good. An early Cuban imprint printed by Esteban José de Boloña, the first printer in Cuba after the 1776 ban on printing.....
[Southern Georgia or northern Florida. N.d., ca. 1842-1843]. Three ink and wash drawings, as described below. Fine. A charming group of ink and wash drawings by talented artist and United States Navy Lieut. John B. Dale. Only one of the drawings is titled, but they all show scenes along a......
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1849. 585pp. plus four plates. Half title. Original blindstamped cloth, expertly rebacked. Ownership inscription of Benjamin Silliman, Jr. on half title. An early duplicate released from Yale's Sheffield Library, with canceled bookplate. Good. In a cloth case, leather label. An interesting overview of early American botany.....
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835. Two volumes. 290;302pp. 12mo. Uniform original green cloth, gilt- lettered spines. Spines gently sunned, some minor spotting on spine and front cover of second volume. Internally clean. Very good. The first American edition of the Gentleman of Elvas narrative. "Compiled from Herrera, Garcilaso de.....
New York: George P. Putnam, 1851. 457pp., plus folding frontispiece map. 12mo. Original green cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Front hinge weakening, bookplate on rear pastedown. An occasional bit of scattered foxing, most prevalent on the titlepage and map. Very good. Revised second edition, following the first of 1835.....
Leyden: Pieter van der Aa, [ 1707?]. [28]pp., printed in double columns (with the actual printed foliations, totaling 50, referring to the columns). Folding map and three in-text illustrations. Folio. Modern three-quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt. Faint stain in upper outer corner of most text leaves. Closed tear.....
