Philadelphia. 1865. 144pp. plus four hand-colored plates. 12mo. Publisher's brown embossed cloth, spine gilt. Some rubbing and edge wear. Minor foxing, a few leaves tanned, a couple corner tears. Good. The first American edition of this Ballantyne juvenile. The plates show Arctic explorers fighting a polar bear, a ship stuck.....
Edinburgh. 1848. [2],xii,[2],328pp. plus four engraved plates. Half title. Original publisher's green cloth, gilt. Moderate wear and some dampstaining. Internally clean. Good. The scarce second edition (published in the same year as the first) of this popular account of life in Hudson Bay and the Red River settlement, replete with.....
Madrid: Bernardino de Guzman, [1626]. [4]pp. In Spanish. Woodcut illustration of ship and boats landing near a castle on first page. Small folio. Dbd. Contemporary manuscript docketing on fourth page. Early folds. Large chip (approximately 2 3/4 x 2 inches) in lower outer corner of second leaf, touching a few.....
New York: John Bleecker, 1808. 104pp. Printed self-wrappers, stitched. Upper outer margins of three rear leaves eaten away, not affecting text. Outer leaves lightly soiled, scattered foxing in text. Early ink signatures on front and rear leaves. Good, untrimmed. Reprinted from the London edition. This work saw wide circulation in.....
New York. 1889. xv,450,17pp. Later buckram, gilt spine label. Cloth somewhat dust soiled and worn. A few interior leaves with closed tears from fore-edge or chipped at lower corner. Contemporary manuscript annotations throughout. Light tanning. Good. One of the great early collections of Americana, with an introduction by Henry Harrisse.....
Paris. 1743. [4],iv,250,[1]pp. plus three folding maps and sixteen folding plates. Half title. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt. Spine bit chipped, hinges cracked and boards hanging by cords, corners worn. Small faint stamp on titlepage. Good, internally clean. The author, a doctor, spent three years in French Guiana. This work.....
London. 1781. iv,viii,557,[1]pp., plus *471-*477, plus two maps (one folding), five folding tables, and two plates. Quarto. Contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Good. A strange ensemble, but the two articles in the collection of the greatest interest are "The Possibility of approaching the North Pole.....
Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson, 1796. xi,[1],150,[2]pp. Half title. 12mo. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked in matching style. Bumping and wear to tips of boards. 19th-century bookplate of Lawrence D. Knowles on front pastedown, with his ownership signatures on front free endpaper. Text uniformly age-toned. Very good. The first American printing.....
New York: G.F. Hopkins, for John Conrad & Co., 1802. [4],386,[1]pp. plus folding map. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Some light toning and minor foxing. Very good. "First American, from the London quarto edition." Sir John Barrow (1764-1848) was an important early-19th century British.....
London: Printed for J. Knox, 1765. Three volumes. [12],[2],271,[1]; [6],264; [4],280pp., plus four folding maps and five plates. Folding frontispiece maps in first and second volumes. Contemporary calf, raised bands, spines gilt, leather labels. Lightly worn at hinges and around edges. Bookplates on front pastedown and flyleaf of each volume.....
New York. 1832. 303pp. including advertisements. Two frontispiece plates. 16mo. Original printed cloth. Extremities worn, spine considerably chipped. Foxed. A good copy. From "Harper's Stereotype Edition" series, after the original British edition of 1831, entitled "The Eventful History of the Mutiny...." Barrow recounts the famous story of the mutiny against.....
London: John Murray, 1845. xvi,495pp. Half title. Contemporary black calf with gilt filet border by W.H. Dalton, with stamped signature on front pastedown. Joints rubbed, with upper board beginning to split at head of spine. Light wear to extremities. Front hinge cracked. Near fine internally. Overall, about very good. The.....
London: John Murray, 1846. xiv,530pp. plus two maps (one folding) and sixteen pages of advertisements. Frontispiece portrait. Original decorated blue cloth, spine gilt. Slightly cocked, cloth rubbed, corners bumped. Bookplate on front pastedown, light offsetting from frontispiece to titlepage, else internally clean, tight, and very good. First edition of this.....
[San Francisco]. 1888. 4;45pp. Dbd. Good. Washington A. Bartlett, a former governor of California, was dropped unceremoniously from the Navy amidst a veritable flurry of accusations in 1855. He appealed for restoration years later (since he was out of the country at the time of discharge), systematically proving each charge.....
New York. 1854. 493pp. including illustrations. Portrait. Original cloth. Cloth rubbed, worn at extremities, front hinge weak. Contemporary gift inscription on titlepage. One leaf nearly detached. Good. "An important travel account of the Hawaiian Islands written by an American. He visited all parts of the Archipelago and urged their annexation.....
New York: Burr Printing House, 1887. viii,167pp. Original green publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt on front cover. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Front inner hinge starting. Internally clean. Very good. Printed for private distribution. With descriptions of various locales in Mexico, as well as scenes from California, including San Francisco's.....
London: R. Francklin, 1731. 62pp. Dbd. End leaves slightly foxed and browned. Internally clean. Very good. A vigorous and hostile reply to Lord John Hervey's condemnation of Pulteney's character, partially in response to Pulteney's criticism of the national debt occasioned by the South Sea Scheme.
London: Printed by H. Haines, 1733. 71pp. Dbd. Occasional foxing, else very good. "An attack upon the proposed excise tax, and upon a pamphlet defending it, as well as a condemnation of the ministry for its use of the post office to disseminate propaganda favorable to the excise proposal" -.....
[London: George Baxter, 1841]. Two oil-colored "Baxter prints," 8 x 12 inches each (visible dimensions within the mat). Matted and in contemporary burnished wood frames. A bit of light spotting, mostly in the sky of the second print, else in fine condition. A remarkable pair of rare and interesting prints.....
New York: Reprinted for Joseph Sabin, 1868. [4],56pp. including facsimile titlepage. Small quarto. Later red three quarter morocco and cloth, gilt, spine gilt, t.e.g. Near fine. The Frank Cutter Deering copy, with his morocco bookplate. Originally published in 1693, this is an account of Frontenac's expedition against the Mohawks and.....
London. 1814. xx,363pp., plus folding map, handcolored in outline, and seventeen folding tables, with [14]pp. of printer's advertisements and printer's notice. Original plain wrappers, slightly chipped, paper spine label. Verso of folding map reinforced on center fold at gutter margin. Advertisements bound at rear, printer's notice laid it between titlepage.....
[Np. nd, ca. 1880s]. 23pp. Large octavo. Self-wrappers. Small nibble from top left corner not affecting text, else good. Traces one of the important Greenland Sagas and its literature.
Vienna: Im Selbstverlage des Verfassers, 1869. [8],202,[2]pp. plus seven woodcut plates and folding color map. Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, paper library label. Slightly rubbed. Old institutional stamps on titlepage. Internally quite clean. Very good. Departing San Francisco in 1866, Bechtinger travelled to Hawaii and remained there for one.....
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Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846. 94pp. including 5pp. of publisher's advertisements, plus engraved frontis. and titlepage after George Cruikshank. Dbd. 12mo. Small bookseller's stamp in lower margin of engraved titlepage. Foxed, else very good. First American edition of the first part of the brilliant legal satire by Gilbert Abbott à.....
Paris: Amedee Bedelet, Libraire-Editeur... [ 1858]. 51,[1]pp. plus twenty-three chromolithographs and in-text illustrations. Frontis. Half title. Oblong quarto. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Slight offsetting on text; illustrations clean and bright. Occasional light foxing and soiling. A lovely copy. The handsome lithographs by J. Bocquin, after drawings by Leloir and Fossey.....
