Dallas: Banks, Upshaw and Company, 1935. [10],274pp. Contemporary pictorial cloth. Fine. A children's book that encourages "boy and girl readers" to "keep your eyes and ears alert, you can find here the most interesting wild things in America." With many photographs and illustrations.
[Washington. 1838]. 438pp. Modern cloth, gilt leather label. Fine. A scarce government report regarding one of the events that became a cause celebre during the undeclared, bloodless "Aroostook War" along the Maine boundary with Canada. Specifically, this collection was prompted by the arrest by British authorities in New Brunswick of.....
London. 1809. 316,[4]pp. Contemporary mottled calf, expertly rebacked with antique calf spine, leather label. Some light foxing (mostly affecting index leaves). Overall very good. The one volume edition, issued one year after the original three volume edition in 12mo. Ashe was a slippery character. According to Clark, "his entire career.....
Maplewood. 1967. xvi,307pp. Cloth. Very good. In slightly torn dust jacket. Includes 150 color prints by Audubon and his son of American Quadrupeds.
[New York: William H. Coyler, 1836]. [29]-56pp. Lacking initial twenty-eight pages. Antique-style half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Good plus. The second half of an important pamphlet that was instrumental in bringing detailed information about the Texas Revolution to the United States, containing the second printing of Stephen F......
[San Felipe de Austin: Printed by G.B. Cotten, 1829]. Printed document, 6 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, completed in manuscript. Signed by Samuel M. Williams. Small tear along old fold, slightly affecting a few letters of printed text, else very good overall. In a half morocco and cloth box. A.....
Melbourne. 1944. 99pp. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Very good, although printed on bad paper. A collection of outlaw tales of the outback.
[New York. 1991]. 120,49pp. Cloth. As new. Recent reprint of the catalogue and supplement of the Ayer collection, still the best reference for Indian captivities.
Washington. 1916. 96pp. Maps. Illus. Cloth. Some pencil underscoring, contemporary inscription in pencil dated 1925 on titlepage, else very good. Includes material on the Pottawattamie Indians and the Mormons.
London. 1836. x,[2],663pp. plus sixteen plates on India paper and folding map. Thick quarto. Modern three-quarter blue morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Minor rubbing, spine slightly sunned. Minor marginal foxing to plates. Very good. A large paper copy of this major source both in the early exploration of the Far.....
Philadelphia. 1836. [4, ads],456pp. plus folding map. Original half blue cloth and calf boards, original calf labelon spine. Noticeable edge wear, front hinge almost detached. Minor foxing. Good. Untrimmed. Back went in search of Sir John Ross, travelling through north central Canada to the Great Slave Lake, and up the.....
Leipsic. 1904. ciii,660pp. plus sixty maps and plans, most in color, some folding. 12mo. Original gilt cloth. Minor fraying to toe of spine. Otherwise a bright and near fine copy. The third, revised American Baedeker, after the first of 1893. A classic travel guide, and as with all Baedekers, full.....
Mannheim: Churfurstl. Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey, 1772. [16],358,[1]pp. plus two engraved plates (on one sheet) and folding map. Small octavo. Modern half vellum and marbled boards, spine gilt. A bit of light age toning and an occasional light fox mark. Three small purple ink spots in lower portion of map. Near fine.....
Mannheim: Churfurstl. Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey, 1773. [16],358pp. plus two engraved plates and folding map. Contemporary patterned paper boards, expertly rebacked and recornered to style, preserving original leather label. Internally clean. Very good plus. Second issue, with some corrections, after the first printing of the previous year, of this rare account of.....
Mannheim: Churfurstl. Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey, 1773. [16],358pp. plus two engraved plates and folding map. Contemporary black half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities lightly worn, small paper label at foot of spine. Small ink stamp on titlepage and verso of map. Minor scattered foxing. Very good. Second issue with some.....
New York. [1859]. 114,87,[1],94,[2],96pp. including more than one hundred engravings, plus interspersed advertisements. Original stamped, pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Slightly cocked, worn at extremities. Very good. An extensive guidebook for the Anglo-American tourist, divided into four sections, addressing "The United States," "Scenes and Scenery," "Upper and Lower Canada," and "Things.....
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1859. xxxiv,735,[1],55,[4],738-64pp. plus eighty-seven engraved plates, of which twenty-eight are colored. Large, thick quarto. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Minor foxing to plates, else clean internally. A very good copy. An overview of North American mammals in three parts, assembled from two previously published.....
Magdalena Bay, Lower California. November 10, 1870. [4]pp. on a folded folio sheet, including a map on the final page. Small tape repair in foredge of first leaf. A bit of offsetting from the masthead and the map. Near fine. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt.....
Boston. 1895. 38pp. Engraved portrait plus full-sheet woodcuts and in- text illustrations. Original gilt cloth. Some light foxing. Overall, just about very good. A presentation copy, with an ink stamp completed and inscribed by the author: "Hon. Robert Coit / With Compliments of / Nicholas Ball...May 20th 1895." This book.....
San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Compy. Booksellers & Stationers, 1873. 32 x 35 inches, with full period color, folding into original stamped brown cloth covers. Covers repaired along spine, corners lightly worn. Advertisement for Bancroft laid down on inside front cover. Expert tissue repairs to splits along folds and cross-folds.....
New York. 1875-78. Five volumes. Cloth, leather labels. Very good. A later printing of one of the classics of American Indian history. Still useful as a reference, here in a very serviceable set.
Columbus, Oh. F.B. Toothaker, 1911. 48pp., plus eight full-page plates from photographs. Original printed wrappers, cloth backstrip, typed paper label affixed to lower portion of backstrip. Wrappers lightly stained and worn. Very clean internally. Very good. A rare and engaging account of a hunting trip to northwest Canada in the.....
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London: Printed by Reed and Pardon, [1850]. [20]pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers lightly chipped around edges. Internally clean. Very good. A scarce biography and promotional pamphlet for John Banvard, the American painter, panoramist, and promoter whose lasting fame came from the massive panorama of the Mississippi River that he created.....
London. 1848. 48pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled and stained, mild chipping to spine. Minor dust-soiling to text. Good plus. First English edition. In 1840 Banvard began his project of painting a panorama of the Mississippi. The immense work took him seven years, and was agreed to be.....
Boston: John Putnam, 1847. 48pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled and dusty, front joint partially split, spine a bit chipped. Foxed and toned. Good plus. An extensive promotional description of John Banvard's famous three- mile panorama of the Mississippi River, the most successful exhibition of its kind. Large-scale.....
