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. 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 shelf wear, 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.....

Cleveland. 1860. 68pp. 12mo. Original half muslin and printed paper boards. Hinges tender. Boards a bit soiled, worn at spine ends. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. A few fox marks, but generally clean and fresh internally. A very good copy. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label. A.....

[London]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1938. 196,[3]pp. Folio. Original half red and black cloth, gilt leather label. Minor wear. Internally bright and clean. Very good plus. Untrimmed. First edition, limited to 300 copies. The personal account of Father Brebeuf, Franco- Jesuit Missionary, of his time living among the Hurons. Brebeuf.....

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. 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 never seen.....

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.....

Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, [ 1794]. [36]pp. Illustration. 12mo. Gathered signatures, stitched. Tanned and somewhat soiled. Good. In a half calf and cloth slipcase, spine gilt, with chemise. One of the earliest printings of Filson's Daniel Boone narrative, occupying eight pages of the Beers almanac for 1795. The.....

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......

Boston. 1836. 133pp.including woodcut frontispiece plus additional wood-engraved plate. 12mo. Contemporary gilt cloth. Bit frayed at head and toe of spine, ex-lib. with bookplate, some scattered dampstaining, scattered foxing (heavy at times). A good, sound copy. Holden's account of his and Benjamin Nute's two-year captivity by the inhabitants of Lord.....