Paris: Chez Barrois l'ainé, 1786. [4],viii,290 [i.e. 390]pp. plus [4]pp. errata and folding letterpress table. Without the map. Half title. Contemporary marbled boards, neatly rebacked in three-quarter antique-style calf. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good. The first edition of NOTES... was printed privately for Jefferson in 1785 in an edition.....
A Londres [but actually Paris or Amsterdam]. 1784. [2],xxii,[2],314,[1]pp. plus frontispiece portrait. 12mo. Contemporary spotted calf, boards ruled in gilt, rebacked with portion of original spine laid down. Corners worn, some scuffing to boards. Contemporary ownership markings in signatures, slightly later ownership inscription on front free endpapers. Occasional dampstaining at.....
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. Half speckled calf and marbled boards, spine with raised bands, bands and ornaments tooled in gilt, leather.....
New York. 1867. [40]pp. Quarto. Original three-quarter cloth and glazed paper boards, printed spine label. Boards lightly rubbed. Internally clean. Very good plus. One of fifty large paper copies, from an overall edition limited to 250 copies, this copy unnumbered. The excellent Sabin reprint of the rare 1609 original edition.....
New York. 1867. [22]pp. Quarto. Original glazed boards. Lightly chipped at extremities. Spine label chipped. Very good. From an edition limited to 250 copies. The excellent Sabin reprint of the rare 1609 original edition, attributed to Robert Johnson. This edition includes a prefatory note by F.L. Hawks.
Washington: Department of State, 1889. xiv,157pp. Quarto. Original printed wrappers bound into modern three quarter green morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Wrappers stained in the lower edge, chipped around the edges and mounted to new paper. Text lightly tanned, titlepage with some small chips in the.....
[Nottingham: Printed and Published for Private Circulation, 1896?]. [8],292pp. plus numerous half-tone illustrations. Quarto. Original gilt decorated cloth. Cloth bit scuffed, but very good. Kendall's account includes descriptions of his travels from New York to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Virginia, New Orleans, Chicago, Buffalo and Boston, well illustrated with half-tones. He.....
New York. 1853. 223pp. plus advertisements. Original cloth, spine gilt. Some fraying at extremities, spine repaired. Internally very good. The author and four companions set out in 1851 on a fishing trip to the remote headwaters of the Blackwater, Cheat and Potomac rivers. Kennedy offers descriptions of the natural beauty.....
Washington. 1905. 215pp. Folio. Uncut, bound in later buckram. Fine.
Des Moines. 1860. 15pp. Dbd. Minor soiling and wear. Very good. One of the most important documents regarding the John Brown Conspiracy. Coppic fled to Iowa after riding with John Brown at Harper's Ferry on October 16, 1859. One month after his arrival in Iowa, where he was met with.....
Paris. [ 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 title. Scattered foxing. Map of the U.S. has a very narrow strip of loss (1/16 inch) along the center fold, replaced with reinforcing tissue.....
Cambridge: Boston Athenaeum, 1897. xi,566pp., plus frontispiece portrait and one plate. Quarto. Original red cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g. Light edge wear, bookplate on front pastedown. Very good. Catalogue of books from George Washington's library purchased for the Boston Athenaeum in the mid-19th century. Also includes lists of other books from.....
Paris: Chez Barrois L'Ainé, 1822. xx,399,[1]pp. Half title. Original calf, boards blind stamped, spine gilt, edges sprinkled green. Boards slightly soiled, front hinge cracked but holding, rear hinge starting. Light but persistent dampstaining and occasional foxing. Top portion of p.181 torn away, affecting four lines of text. About good. A.....
Boston. 1846. 35pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers sunned and soiled, rear wrapper chipped and detached. Small center hole throughout, else internally good. "On the resources of Virginia, the tariff, and the cotton manufacture" - Sabin.
New York: W.I. Pooley & Co., [ 1863]. xii,291pp. Original textured cloth. Rear free endpaper lacking, armorial bookplate. Overall very good. This British author managed to get himself arrested while trying to smuggle himself into the Confederacy. Arrested west of Harper's Ferry, he was taken to Wheeling, thence to Washington.....
Richmond: West and Johnston, 1863. 251pp. Modern half morocco. 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 published by Capt. De Hart in 1846.....
Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1941. 358pp. Cloth. Very good. Unopened.
Baltimore. 1812. 326pp. including two portraits. Contemporary calf; rebacked, preserving original label. Light tanning and foxing. Very good. In a black morocco and cloth clamshell case. The so-called "Apocrypha edition" of Lewis and Clark, bearing the name of compiler William Fisher on the titlepage. In response to the growing curiosity.....
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Philadelphia: Hubbard Lester, 1809. 300pp. plus five engraved plates. Without the folding map, seldom present. Five engraved plates. Antique-style half calf and paper boards, leather label. Slight paper loss in margin of final four leaves, not affecting text, else very good. First edition of the so-called "Apocrypha edition" of Lewis.....
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London. 1809. ix,309pp. plus folding map. Contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original spine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Titlepage tanned. Some scattered foxing, but generally clean internally. Very good. In a brown cloth slipcase. The first London "Apocrypha edition," as denoted by Elliott Coues. In response to the growing curiosity of the.....
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London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. ix,309pp., plus folding frontispiece map. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine richly gilt, burgundy morocco label. Some wear to boards and extremities. Front hinge loose but holding, free endpapers renewed. Offsetting from map onto titlepage. Moderate foxing and tanning. About.....
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Baltimore. 1813. 266pp. plus two portraits and four plates. Modern half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Tanning and foxing throughout. Some minor paper loss (repaired) to three of the four plates. Still, about very good. In a half calf clamshell box, leather label. A slightly later printing of the.....
Philadelphia: James Sharan, 1812. 300pp. plus two portraits. Contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt leather label. Corners heavily worn, boards scuffed. Light to moderate toning and soiling throughout. Good. The second American printing of the so-called "Apocrypha edition" of Lewis and Clark, bearing the name of compiler William Fisher on the titlepage.....
[N.p., perhaps Virginia. Late 1863 or early 1864]. 3pp., on a single folded sheet. [with:] OATH OF ALLEGIANCE. [N.p., perhaps Harper's Ferry, Va., 1864]. Single sheet, 3 x 7 3/4 inches. The OATH affixed to a partial manuscript ledger report recording lost military stores for an unidentified unit in 1863.....
Washington: Henry Lindenkohl & Charles G. Krebs, 1864. Map, 19 x 30 1/2 inches. Printed in blue and black. Matted. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good. An important military map showing the area around Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia, all the way to the Chesapeake Bay, and including the Northern Neck.....
