Baltimore. 1837. 468pp. 12mo. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Old stamp on titlepage and a couple other pages, minor scattered foxing. Very good. The directory covers towns from Pittsburgh west (especially along the Ohio River) as far as St. Louis. Besides Lyford's essays on the towns of the West.....

New York. 1902. 54pp. Portrait frontispiece plus plates. Original gilt pictorial calf, rebacked with cloth. Edges bit chipped. Some damp staining and wear to covers. Old cancelled library bookplate. Overall good. Presentation copy, inscribed on verso of front free endpaper: "To J.W. Blythe Esq / with Compliments of / Charles.....

Lexington. 1816. 534pp. plus errata. Contemporary calf, gilt morocco label. Calf crackled, quite rubbed and worn. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper. Text tanned, foxed and stained. A solid copy in contemporary binding. Thomson views this book highly: "It is the original authority from which later writers borrowed freely...all.....

Philadelphia. 1832. 360pp. Half title. Contemporary paper boards, linen spine, printed paper label. Light wear and fraying to front hinge, corners bumped and rubbed. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Foxing. Very good. Untrimmed. Another issue of the first edition, using the same sheets as the rare Maysville issue. A miscellany.....

Cincinnati. 1839. 315pp. including frontispiece and full-page illustrations. Contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered with later leather. Lightly and evenly dampstained throughout. Good. A later issue, "revised and corrected, with engravings," after the rare Maysville issue of 1832. A miscellany of tales of the opening of the dark and bloody ground.....

Cincinnati: Printed for the Author... 1838. 267pp. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Light wear, front hinge neatly repaired. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Very good plus. In a black cloth slipcase. McDonald, who took part in many of the events he details herein, personally knew the.....

Columbus, Ohio. June 3, 1892. 1p. Single horizontal fold. Minor soiling and faint offsetting. Very good. Typed letter, signed by William McKinley as Governor of Ohio, requesting that officials abroad assist Professor Charles B. Martin in gaining access to museums and libraries during his travels. Martin was a faculty member.....

London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1805. 96pp. plus folding frontispiece map, 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches. Modern half morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Very good. An abridgement of the second English edition, translated from the original French, of this classic travel narrative, by one of the great early naturalists.....

London. 1839. Two volumes. xvi,473; xi,372pp. Half title in second volume. Lithograph frontispiece in each volume. Original cloth. Sunned, extremities worn, hinges repaired, tears to frontispiece in first volume expertly repaired with no loss. Some scattered foxing, bookplates. A sound set. The first and best edition of this work, in.....

[Washington. 1802]. 53pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. Old stab holes in left margin. Minor edge wear and foxing. Overall very good. An important collection of laws predating any publication of Indiana Territory laws in the West. The laws concern taxes on land, by county, and in the Indian territory as well.....

[Mostly Cincinnati. 1886-1926]. Thirty-six plat maps, ranging from 8 1/2 x 11 inches to 21 x 24 inches, and six assorted real estate documents. Some edge wear, mild tears with minimal loss to a few examples, a couple maps tattered with minor insect damage, one map separated along fold lines.....

[Cleveland: Printed by the Fowler and Slater Co., 1922-1924]. 161 black-and-white glossy Kodak prints, each 5 x 7 inches. Each photograph with an inventory number and often a date in white printed in the negative, and with further manuscript notes in black ink in the lower margin or on the.....

Columbus: E. Glover, Book and Job Printer, 1852. [2],iv,288pp. plus double-page advertisement tipped in at rear. Illus. Original calf backed printed boards. Covers bit scuffed, calf rather dried. Endpapers soiled, some light scattered foxing. Good. A rare Ohio directory, including listings of railroads, banks, benevolent associations, advertisements, and the like.....