Charleston: W. Riley, 1841. 38pp. Dbd. Light foxing and soiling. Very good. Memorial pamphlet for Henry William de Saussure (1763-1839), second Director of the U.S. Mint and a leader of the Federalist Party during the early founding years of the nation.
Charleston. 1832. 24pp. Modern green cloth. Title page (with upper and lower margins trimmed, obliterating first two words of title) mounted on blank leaf. Leaves tanned, with some scattered foxing. Else good. "The jurist opens with a premise that men of the bench should quite properly remain aloof from politics.....
Washington: Printed and Sold at the Office of Jonathan Elliott, Jan. 9, 1832. 47pp. Dbd. Scattered foxing. Good. Henry Clay proposed a resolution to abolish the duties on goods imported from foreign countries that do not compete with the United States. Hayne wants a gradual reduction on tariffs.
New York. 1840. 185pp. Original half cloth and boards. Front hinge worn, covers stained, foxed. Good. A series of mock letters by this southern character, written mainly to James Gordon Bennett, recounting the author's adventures in the South, probably mostly spurious.
Charleston, S.C. 1852. 249pp., with several in-text woodcut illustrations. 12mo. Later half morocco and patterned cloth boards, spine gilt lettered. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Light tanning and foxing. Very good. Second, enlarged edition of this interesting and uncommon gardening work, focusing particularly on the southern United States.....
Philadelphia. 1839. vi,[7]-252pp. plus illus. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter roan and cloth. Corners and spine rubbed. Very light scattered foxing. Good. A later edition, after the first of 1809, about which Howes comments, "no copy known." "General Horry furnished the facts, Parson Weems the rhetoric; so much of it that Horry.....
Philadelphia. 1831. 252pp. 12mo. Original boards covered in blue pebbled cloth, manuscript titling. Front hinge cracked and separating, repair tape to preliminaries. Mild foxing. About good. Later edition, not listed in Howes, who states of the original: "General Horry furnished the facts, Parson Weems the rhetoric; so much of it.....
Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, 1848. 252pp. plus advertisements. 12mo. Original full calf, leather label. Spine heavily chipped, edges and corners scuffed. Contemporary ownership signature on front flyleaf. Hinges tender. Mild foxing and soiling. Good. A later edition of the biography of Francis "Swamp Fox" Marion, compiled from information supplied by Gen.....
Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, 1837. 252pp., plus advertisements. 12mo. Original calf. Boards rubbed and cracking, spine rebacked. Ownership signatures on front pastedown and flyleaf. Lacking rear flyleaf. Dampstained, soiled and foxed. Fair. A later edition of the biography of Francis "Swamp Fox" Marion, compiled from information supplied by Gen. Peter Horry.....
Philadelphia: M. Carey & Son, 1824. 251pp. plus six plates. 12mo. Contemporary calf, leather label, spine gilt. Boards rubbed and hinges repaired with leather strips at spine. Front hinge cracked, corners bumped. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown, 19th-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Very light scattered foxing, toning throughout. Good.....
Philadelphia: M. Carey & Sons, 1822. 251pp. plus six handcolored plates. 12mo. Modern calf, spine gilt, leather label, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Contemporary ownership signature and bookplate on front flyleaf. Light to moderate foxing and toning. Very good. Self-styled eighth edition. The plates have what.....
London: Printed and Sold by Luke Hinde, 1754. 114pp. plus [2]pp. of publisher's advertisements. Later black leather, boards tooled in blind, spine gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed. Early ownership inscription on title page. Very occasional light foxing to text. Trimmed, with some loss to ownership inscription and some of the printed.....
Washington. December 10, 1832. Broadside, 23 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, printed on silk in six columns within an ornamental border. Silk slightly frayed at head and foot; occasional foxing, almost entirely in margins. Very good. Framed. This proclamation is President Jackson's famous response to the nullification ordinance recently passed.....
London. 1807. 22,499,[7]pp. plus engraved titlepage, nine tinted plates, and a plan of Philadelphia. Quarto. 20th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, gilt, t.e.g. Corners bumped, extremities rubbed. A few leaves with some light, even toning, some offsetting from plates. Internally clean. Very good. Janson lived in America from 1793 to.....
London: Printed and sold by R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 1782. Letterpress title and index leaf, otherwise engraved throughout. Twenty-three engraved maps on thirty-one sheets (eighteen folding, eleven double-page), all handcolored in outline. Antique-style half speckled calf and marbled boards, spine with raised bands, bands and ornaments tooled in gilt.....
Charleston. 1890. 276,clxxxvi pp. plus maps and plates. Large octavo. Original three-quarter calf and stamped cloth, spine gilt. Light wear to spine ends and corners. Internally clean. Very good. Johnson supervised the defense of Charleston and Fort Sumter during the Confederate rule there. "A meritorious collection of data, with useful.....
Charleston: C.C. Sebring, 1825. 37pp. plus small slip with Postscript and Errata bound after titlepage. Modern three-quarter morocco and cloth, gilt. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Small dampstain in gutter of titlepage and first text leaf, small ink signature on titlepage, contemporary ownership inscription on rear blank, minor foxing. Very.....
Paris. L’An VII de la République [1799]. Eight volumes. Three folding maps, nine folding tables. Uniformly bound to style in three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Unobtrusive old blindstamps on each titlepage. Scattered foxing. U.S. map has a very narrow strip of loss (1/16 inch) along the center fold, replaced with.....
Greenville: Shannon & Co., 1897. [4],viii,iii,[1],364pp., plus seven plates. Modern half calf and red cloth boards, spine gilt. T.e.g. Marbled endpapers. Inscription on front flyleaf. Internally very clean. Near fine. First edition. A historical account of upper South Carolina, particularly Spartanburg County, during colonial and revolutionary times. Includes biographical sketches.....
Richmond: West and Johnston, 1863. 251pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, spine with raised bands. Some light foxing and tanning. Overall a good plus copy. A very scarce Confederate work of military law. A comprehensive and original treatment of military trials and law, drawing from an earlier American work.....
Philadelphia. 1824. [2],511,[1],xlvii pp. Modern buckram. Perforation stamp to titlepage. Library of Congress duplicate stamp on verso of titlepage. Some foxing. Good. A son's attempt to defend the memory of his father. "Intended to expose and to frustrate the attempts of William Johnson...to defame the late General Henry Lee" (excerpt.....
Columbia, S.C. Printed for the Author by S.J. M'Morris... 1830. [2],130pp. Contemporary calf backed plain boards. Head of spine chipped. Scattered foxing, private blindstamp on front flyleaf. A good copy. An interesting French grammar printed in South Carolina. The author was an honorary member of the Clariosophic Society of South.....
Charleston: Printed and Published for the Author, by J. Hoff, 1809. [10],[7]-340pp. Half title. Original paper backed boards, manuscript title on spine. Head of spine slightly chipped. Usual scattered foxing, slight dampstaining in upper margin of first few leaves. Lower forecorner of titlepage torn off, not affecting text. Final free.....
[N.p. likely Augusta. 1836]. 6,[2]pp. Folded sheets, stitched. Minor foxing and toning. Very good. Untrimmed. A rare Maine slip-bill document resolving that the citizens from Maine and other states should not interfere with the issue of slavery in slave-holding states. The legislature writes: "Any interference, therefore, of a State or.....
Columbia, S.C. Evans & Cogswell, 1864. 278pp. Original cloth-backed printed boards. Boards detached and soiled. Old stamp on titlepage and a few other leaves. Else good and generally clean. In a red folding cloth case. A scarce Confederate military manual, comprised of translations from two classic European works on warfare.....
