London. 1853. Two volumes. xxi,[1],313pp. plus folding table; viii,328pp. Half title and color frontispiece in first volume. Original gilt cloth. Extremities rubbed, spines darkened, neat bookplate in each volume. Very good. Alfred Bunn was a theatrical manager who, according to the DNB, "is best remembered on account of his literary.....
Vega, Tx. 1923. 266pp. Portrait, illus. Original cloth. Very good. As Adams suggests, one loses confidence in a biographer who does not spell his subject's name correctly.
Washington. 1915. 453pp. plus plates. Quarto. Original gilt cloth. Spine sunned. Otherwise a very good copy. Includes report of the chief of the Bureau, W.H. Holmes. Also a paper on the ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, by Matilda Coxe Stevenson, and a work on the folklore of the Guiana Indians.....
[London? ca. 1715]. Small folio broadsheet. [1]p. plus printed docket title on verso. Dbd. Early stab holes in left margin. Moderately soiled and foxed. Else very good. A petition to Parliament by Montagu Venables-Bertie, Earl of Abingdon, and Robert Shirley, Earl Ferrers, the guardians of the children of John Burke.....
Boston. 1854. 86pp. plus [12]pp. of advertisements. Early 20-century buckram, leather label. Cloth somewhat dust soiled, spine label slightly chipped. Remnants of paper shelf label on spine, institutional ink stamp on titlepage. An occasional fox mark. Lacking original pictorial wrappers. Good. Burns was an educated African American who fled from.....
San Francisco. 1886. 166pp. Original publisher's cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Light soiling and wear to extremities. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Internally clean. Very good. Biography of Mary Ann Bickerdyke, a Union hospital administrator during the Civil War, written and published for her benefit. "Every one who buys.....
London: Beadle and Company, [1862]. 94pp. Later half calf and cloth boards, spine gilt lettered. Titlepage handcolored. Light foxing at lower edge. About very good. London edition of KING BARNABY, No. 28 in Beadle's series of dime novels. A frontier story of wholesome settlers and dastardly natives in Québec.
London: Printed for R. Manby... 1757. 36,*37-38,37-76,*73-76,77-130,19pp. Folio. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards; rebacked, spine tooled in gilt. Boards rubbed, corners heavily worn; calf gone from bottom corners. Bookplate on verso of titlepage. Bright and clean internally. Very good. Byng was assigned to command a squadron of ten British.....
Dublin. 1842. 60pp. Early 20th-century buckram, gilt spine labels. Cloth somewhat dust soiled, spine labels slightly chipped. Paper shelf label on spine, institutional ink and blind stamps, ownership inscription on titlepage. Upper corner of final leaf torn away, not affecting text, titlepage slightly chipped. Light tanning and foxing. Good plus.....
Boonville, N.Y. The Willard Press, 1912. 217pp. Original illustrated cloth boards. Contemporary inscription on back flyleaf. Front hinge tender. Internally very clean. Very good plus. In a brown cloth slipcase. Second edition. A biography of Nat Foster, whose life as a hunter in the Adirondacks served as inspiration for James.....
Utica: Thomas J. Griffiths, 1897. 286pp., plus engraved plates. Original illustrated cloth boards. Ownership signature on titlepage. Lightly toned. Very good. In a brown cloth slipcase. First edition. A biography of Nat Foster, whose life as a hunter in the Adirondacks served as inspiration for James Fenimore Cooper's fictional character.....
Reading, Pa. 1816. [42]pp. Old plain wrappers (front detached), dbd. from larger volume. Rather tanned, couple of fox marks. Good. Not in Kress, and Goldsmith lists only a German language edition published in Reading the same year, with the same collation. The NUC lists both editions and no others, the.....
[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.....
Bethany: Printed and published by A. Campbell, 1829. 286,[2]pp. Dbd. Moderately foxed. Good. Monthly periodical issued by reform preacher Alexander Campbell (1788-1866). Campbell, a Scottish immigrant to the United States in 1809, was part of the Restoration Movement and founded Bethany College in West Virginia. He edited the CHRISTIAN BAPTIST.....
Buffaloe Creek, Brooke County, Va. Printed b[y] Solomon Sala, at the Buffaloe Printing-Office, 1824. 300,[4]pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Boards heavily worn, paper partially peeled away, corners worn. Contemporary and later ownership inscriptions on front endpapers. Moderately foxed. About very good. Second edition. Monthly.....
Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1796. viii,xvi,488,196,[16]pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf. Boards heavily rubbed, corners worn, front hinge cracked. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Lightly foxed. Good. The first American edition, after the first London edition of 1789. The four gospels, with lengthy expositories by Campbell on the material. The work is dedicated.....
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Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, [ca. 1840]. 35pp. including frontispiece; 16pp. Contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine stamped in blind. Extremities somewhat worn. Contemporary notations to endpapers. Moderately foxed. About very good. "Revised by the Committee of Publication." A tale of Christian conversion in Africa, and of the works.....
Boston: Printed and sold at No.53, Cornhill, by Lincoln & Edmands, 1807. iv,[5]-123,5pp. 24mo. Contemporary wastepaper wrappers printed with text from another work. Spine perished, wrappers rubbed, corners worn. Minor scattered foxing, most corners creased. Very good. A scarce early American children's book presented as a series of allegorical texts.....
Montreal. 1838-40. Five volumes (of six). 100,[30]; 6,[21]; 105,[10]; 161,[78]; [20],222,[130]pp. Quarto. Later cloth, red and black gilt morocco labels. Moderate soiling on covers, library labels at toe of spines. Uniform light toning. Perforated library stamps on titlepages, occasional additional library markings. First twenty pages of last volume in typescript.....
Quebec. 1860. 39pp. in French. Original green printed wrappers. Light chipping along spine; minor stains at foot of front wrapper, not affecting text. Overall very good. Second edition. General sketch of Canadian resources and institutions. Sabin cites only an 1857 edition published in Toronto. Description of Canada, her people, resources.....
Montreal: Lovell et Gibson, 1847. 94pp. plus four folding letterpress tables. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper detached, bottom corner chipped; older manuscript notation at top of cover, two older institutional ink stamps. Several institutional stamps in text, else quite clean. Good plus. Report by the superintendent of schools of Upper.....
[Quebec?]: Ordered by the Assembly to the printed, 1831. 56,61; 47,50pp. 20th-century red three-quarter calf and cloth, spine gilt. Bookplates on front pastedown. Some minor foxing and soiling. Very good. Two government reports, each printed in English and then French, regarding the exploration of Lower Canada. Scarce; not cited in.....
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Quebec: British American Land Company, 1842. Broadside with decorative borders, 12 x 7 3/4 inches. Slight edge wear, else near fine. This broadside was meant to entice prospective settlers in Lower Canada to purchase lands owned by the British American Land Company. The company was chartered in 1834 and bought.....
Philadelphia: [E.L. Carey & A Hart], 1830. 16pp. Dbd. Moderate foxing. A good copy. A rare catalogue of books imported from England offered by this important early 19th-century American publisher. Sections of the catalogue are devoted to works by several individual publishers and series including Jones's University Editions, Galignani, Pickering.....
Philadelphia. 1869. 66pp. Dbd. Slight trace of foxing, else very good. Prints eight letters by the noted economist and publisher.
