New York: Printed for the Publisher, [ 1815]. 166pp., including in-text illustrations. Frontispiece. 12mo. Original cloth-backed printed paper boards. Boards chipped, soiled, noticeably rubbed and scuffed, with printed text on front board somewhat obscured. Text tanned and foxed. Good. An expanded version of Jewitt's very rare JOURNAL KEPT AT NOOTKA.....

[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.

New York. 1837. 24pp. Later three quarter calf and boards, rebacked. Some foxing. Good. This is the third edition listed in Howes, after the first of 1835. A melancholy tale, as the title indicates. The titlepage vignette depicts a forlorn Baldwin sitting outside his hut, wrapped in a blanket...

[New York]. 1922. 36pp. Original grey paper boards, printed paper label on front board. Bookplate on front pastedown. Very minor shelfwear, else fine. Number 37 in Heartman's Historical Series, one of only eighty-one copies printed on regular paper (plus another five on Japan paper). This is the second edition following.....

Boston. 1853. 233pp. plus ads. Frontis. Plates. Original cloth. Edgeworn, chipped at base of spine, cloth soiled. Some foxing of plates, else internally very good. The author was captured at Patagonia on a schooner voyage to California, escaped after three months, and reached the gold mines in California in February.....

Fostoria, Oh. The Gray Printing Company, 1896. 70pp. 12mo. Original printed boards, cloth spine. Head and toe of spine bit worn. Leaves a bit tanned. Very good. According to Ernest J. Wessen, this reprint is rarer than the first edition of 1860 published in Cleveland. Brayton was stolen near his.....

Boston and Chicago: Congressional Sunday-School and Publishing Society, [ 1892]. xiii,[1],321pp. including illustrations. Portrait frontis. Original pictorial cloth, gilt-lettered spine and cover. Internally bright and clean. Near fine. In a half morocco box. Bookplate of noted Americana collector Frank Cutter Deering on front pastedown. A description of missionary life among.....

Boston. 1822. 108pp. Lacks view of Brainerd plate. Frontis. 16mo. Contemporary calf-backed boards, gilt title on spine. Spine ends worn, edges rubbed. Tanned, some foxing. A good copy. "The little Osage captive was rescued by missionaries from amongst the Cherokees, and given the name of Lydia Carter" - Ayer. The.....

Leyden: Pieter van der Aa, [ 1707?]. [28]pp., printed in double columns (with the actual printed foliations, totaling 50, referring to the columns). Folding map and three in-text illustrations. Folio. Modern three-quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt. Faint stain in upper outer corner of most text leaves. Closed tear.....

New Haven: Yale University Library, 1986. xi,34pp. Cloth backed boards. As new. Newly issued by the Yale Collection of Western Americana, this reprints the only known copy of the Dolly Webster captivity, purchased by Yale in 1985. Thomas Streeter noted the book in his BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TEXAS (1453), but had.....

Paris. 1785. [4],xvi,234pp. plus folding map. Half title. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt extra, leather label, patterned endpapers. Extremities rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf. Internally clean. Very good plus. The first French edition of Filson's pioneering history of the settlements in Kentucky, issued the year after.....

London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, [n.d., ca. 1810]. [5]-28pp. plus folding aquatint frontispiece. Early 20th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Spine slightly chipped and darkened. Line below imprint blacked out on titlepage. Some light soiling. Very good, with the bookplate of Frank Cutter Deering on front pastedown. One.....

Pittsburgh: Printed by S. Engles, 1825. 66pp. 12mo. Contemporary half muslin and paper boards. Boards heavily worn, chipped, and stained. Text tanned, with some stains. Lower portion of leaf C torn, touching a few letters of text, leaf F with a small tear in the upper margin, also touching a......