New York. 1825. 359pp. plus frontispiece portrait. Contemporary tree calf, morocco label, spine gilt. Light wear to boards, front hinge cracking, corners worn. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Contemporary writing on flyleaves and pastedowns in pencil and ink. Light scattered foxing and toning. Good. The first lengthy biography of Jackson.....

Cumberland, Md. Printed for the Author, by J.M. Buchanan, 1826. 123,[1]pp. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter roan and marbled boards, spine gilt. Boards lightly rubbed and shelfworn. Early ownership signature on front free endpaper. Light tanning, scattered foxing, old light dampstain in lower third of final five leaves of text. About very.....

[Chicago: The Chicago Shimpo, Inc., 1957]. 3-106pp. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers printed in blue, black, and white. Minor toning and edge wear, couple small abrasions on front wrapper. Text a bit toned but clean. Very good. A business and residential directory for Japanese Americans living in Chicago during the late.....

Washington. 1802. 11pp. Stitched as issued. Trimmed close, affecting the cents line on a table of accounts. Good. Jefferson transmitts to the Congress reports on the Indian trade establishments run by the government. Tables of accounts of the Georgia factories appear, as well as a letter from Kaskaskias about the.....

Washington, D.C: H.L & J.B McQueen, 1931. 63pp. Original boards, printed paper dust jacket. Final leaf pasted to rear pastedown, modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Internally clean. Very good. One of 350 copies printed in a limited edition. Jillson was the State Geologist and member of a number of learned.....

[Nuremberg. 1689]. Engraved map, 7 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches. Near fine. Matted and laid into a folding cloth box. The extremely rare German edition of Father Louis Hennepin's landmark map of North America, from his DESCRIPTION DE LA LOUISIANE...., based upon the explorations of Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques.....

Paris: Chez Estienne Robinot... 1713. xxxiv,386pp. Modern red morocco, raised bands, a.e.g., gilt inner dentelles. Bit tanned. A very good copy. Lacks the folding map. One of the premiere accounts of La Salle's tragic final voyage, compiled from the diary of his close subordinate. The party embarked in 1684, ostensibly.....

Cincinnati. [ 1909]. 496pp. Portrait. Illus. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Some edge wear. Very good. Drake founded the Ohio Medical College and was a primary force behind the development of medicine in the state. He wrote a number of important publications regarding his profession, Cincinnati and its environs.

[Washington. Dec. 10, 1855]. 9pp. 12mo. Dbd. Internally clean. Very good. While serving as commanding officer of Fort Riley, K.T. in 1855, William Montgomery abused his position as the highest ranking military officer in the area in his attempt to establish a civilian settlement just outside the post. As leader.....

Boston: Printed by Alfred Mudge & Son, 1854. 24,4pp. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Faint vertical crease. A few singular spots of foxing. Near fine. Third edition, with additions. "The Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company was one of a number of organizations formed in the New England states to foster settlement.....

London. 1825. Two volumes. xiii,[3],458; vi,248,156pp. plus folding map, and fifteen plates after Samuel Seymour. Original boards, front cover of first volume detached but present, rebacked in cloth at an early date, original printed paper labels (worn) and endpapers preserved. Some light scattered foxing and tanning, occasional minor marginal dampstain.....

Cincinnati: Robert Clarke and Co., 1875. 368pp. including 22pp. of advertisements and two single-page maps. Illustrations throughout. Frontispiece. Small octavo. Original red cloth, stamped in gilt and black. A bit rubbed, spine ends and corners worn. Clean internally. Very good. This work, written by a Cincinnati native and advertising salesman.....

[Covington, Ky. 1864]. Broadside, 10 x 12 inches. Printed almost entirely within ornamental border. Minor staining in blank margins, some minor creases. Overall very good. An advertisement for a lottery to be drawn in Covington, Kentucky. The scheme for the lottery is based on what the producers call the "Royal.....