New York. 1844. 168pp. printed in double-column format. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers stained and soiled, spine chipped. Internally, largely clean and very good. In a folding, cloth backed, paper chemise. The first American edition, abridged. Featherstonhaugh, a geologist of some repute, left Baltimore in August 1834, travelling through the Virginia.....

Paris. 1785. [4],xvi,234pp. plus folding map. Half title. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt extra, leather label, patterned endpapers. Extremities rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf. Internally clean. Very good plus. The first French edition of Filson's pioneering history of the settlements in Kentucky, issued the year after.....

Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1826. Title leaf, Index leaf, plus fifteen hand- colored folding maps (thirteen double-page maps, with the maps of Florida and the West Indies printed on single sheets) all tipped to stubs. Folio. Original three-quarter red calf and marbled boards, original red calf label on front board lettered.....

New York. 1838. Two volumes. Contemporary three quarter morocco and cloth. Bit rubbed, some scattered foxing. Very good. Flagg travelled through Illinois and Missouri. He dispatched this work along the way, and it appeared in the Louisville JOURNAL. He affords an excellent account of his trip down the Ohio River.....

Edinburgh. 1822. viii,330pp. Modern red three quarter calf and cloth, raised bands, leather label. Front board detached. Scattered foxing. Good, untrimmed. Flint travelled from Scotland to New York City, then went to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and points west, including a trip down the Ohio in 1818. He also visited Kentucky, and.....

Cincinnati. 1833. 240pp. 20th-century calf, original gilt leather label. Light wear to extremities. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Light foxing and soiling. A good, solid copy. The first edition of this modest classic. Flint collects from various primary sources and documents accounts of depredations, heroism, and much general nastiness in the.....

London: James Ridgway, 1822. xi,[1],[9]-76pp. Early 20th-century three-quarter blue morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Minor shelfwear. A few light fox marks. Very good. A particularly large and attractive copy of an early and important account of life in Illinois. Flower describes life in Birkbeck's British settlement in Illinois, called Albion.....

[ Washington. 1838]. 132pp. plus nineteen folding maps. Stitched self-wrappers. Text is clean and maps are crisp. Very good, untrimmed and partially unopened. In a cloth box. House Executive Document No. 451. The 1783 peace treaty attempted to make clear the boundary between the new United States and Great Britain.....

St. Louis: Chambers & Knapp, 1849. 31pp. Dbd. Minor soiling and wear. Very good. Scarce Freemason imprint from the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Missouri. In addition to the proceedings, the work includes a "List of, and returns from, Chapters under the jurisdiction of the Grand Chapter of Missouri, October.....

London: Printed for S. Bladon, 1756. 68pp. Dbd. Very good. "Remonstrance, addressed to London merchants, against imprisoning of British traders on the Ohio" - Howes. We believe this to be the first edition, first issue, differentiated by having the price, "one-shilling," printed on the bottom of the titlepage. The second.....

Washington. 1812. 16pp. Dbd. Stab holes in left margin. Very good, untrimmed and unopened. This report from Treasury Secretary Gallatin outlines the costs of building the national Road from Cumberland, Maryland into the state of Ohio. Gallatin relates that a certain ten-mile stretch will cost about $125,000, and asserts that.....

Washington. 1880. 14pp. Self-wrappers, stitched. Very good. A political campaign address made during Garfield's pre- presidential career.

Washington. 1853. Forty-three maps, plans and plates, mostly folding, with two views printed on one leaf. Quarto. Original gilt cloth. Spine nearly perished, edgeworn, a number of the maps dampstained, but good. A vast collection of maps and illustrations issued to accompany the President's Message of 1853-54. The Message was.....