Lexington, Ky. 1836. 23pp. Dbd. Chipping to fore-edge of first leaf, toned and somewhat brittle overall. Good. A rare address on George Washington and the American character delivered in Lexington in 1836. OCLC records only three copies, at the Huntington Library, the Filson Historical Society, and the University of Kentucky.....
Frankfort, Ky. Printed for the author... 1842. 152pp. 12mo. Original half calf and paper boards, printed paper label. Mild chipping to spine ends, boards foxed and lightly soiled. Small leather bookplate of Frank Cutter Deering on front pastedown, otherwise clean internally. Very good. In a blue half leather slipcase. Atherton.....
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London: Robert Havell, Jr., 1837. Handcolored engraving with aquatint and etching by Robert Havell, Jr., on J. Whatman paper with the "Turkey Mill" watermark. Sheet size 25 1/4 x 38 1/4 inches. From the first edition of THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, plate CCCLXXI (371). Very good condition. One of Audubon's.....
New York. 1926. 349pp. Mezzotint portrait by Cruikshank. Original cloth. Bookplate removed from front pastedown, else clean and very good. This is one of forty-two special large paper copies with a 19th-century mezzotint portrait of Audubon by Cruikshank inserted as the frontispiece. The most convenient sampler of Audubon's writing, combining.....
London. 1926. 349pp. Portrait. Cloth. Slight shelf wear. Bookplate to verso of front free endpaper. Very good. The most convenient sampler of Audubon's writing, combining episodes from his various writings, with many scenes set in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.
New York. 1926. 349pp. Portrait. Cloth. Slightest shelf wear. Very good. The most convenient sampler of Audubon's writing, combining episodes from his various writings, with many scenes set in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.
Edinburgh: Adam Black, 1831-1835. Various paginations. Modern three-quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light shelf wear. Bookplate on front pastedown. Some unobtrusive ink underlining on titlepage. Minor foxing and age-toning. Very good. These extracts from ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY pull together in one volume all sixty of the short travel.....
Edinburgh. 1831-1839. Five volumes. A few in-text illustrations. Half title in each volume. Large, thick octavos. Modern buckram, printed paper labels. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Some light foxing, primarily to first and last few leaves. Tear in half title of second volume, repaired with tape.....
[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......
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...
Lexington, Ky. 1843. 16pp. Original printed wrappers, rear wrapper lacking. Front wrapper chipped and toned. Institutional stamp on first text leaf, minor foxing. Good. A rare lecture on "the Love of the Beautiful" delivered to the Lexington Lyceum in 1843 by a Lexington doctor. Rare, with only seven copies recorded.....
Auburn and Buffalo: Miller, Orton, and Mulligan, 1854. 390pp. plus publisher's advertisements. Original brown publisher's cloth, blind stamped, spine gilt. Tail scuffed. Binding lightly rubbed. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Light scattered foxing, heavier on plates and endleaves. Very good. First edition. An account of Daniel Boone's exploration and attempts.....
1936. 486pp. Library cloth. Very good. This is a typescript, complete with revision marks, of this unpublished mansucript on the life of one of America's most colorful historical figures. Contains reproductions of some primary sources.
New York: The Dibdin Club, 1901. ix,32pp. plus several interleaved blank leaves, presumably for note-taking. Original boards, expertly rebacked in contemporary style, original spine label preserved. Somewhat tanned as usual. Very good. A useful, annotated bibliography, after the style utilized by Thomas Field in his Indian bibliography.
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Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, [1794]. [36]pp. Illustration. 12mo. Gathered signatures, stitched. Tanned and somewhat soiled. Good. In a folding cloth chemise and a half calf and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. One of the earliest printings of Filson's Daniel Boone narrative, covering eight pages of the Beers almanac for.....
Pittsburgh. 1814. 304pp. Modern calf, spine gilt, leather label. Contemporary ownership inscription and later blindstamp on titlepage. Very minor toning and foxing. Very good plus. Brackenridge left St. Charles, Missouri in the spring of 1811 in company with fur trader Manuel Lisa. His journal describes his trip up the Missouri.....
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1932. [16],205,[6]pp. Folding map of Kentucky. Original pictorial boards, paper label. Minor scattered foxing. Untrimmed. Very good. John Bradford's NOTES ON KENTUCKY, first appeared in the KENTUCKY GAZETTE, published in Lexington beginning on Aug. 25, 1826 and then in the extremely rare WESTERN MISCELLANY (Xenia.....
New York. 1926. 278pp. Illus. Gilt pictorial cloth. Very good, without dust jacket.
Stuttgart. 1854. Two volumes. [6],390; [6],381pp. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Light scattered foxing. Very good. An important travel narrative by a learned German who was keenly interested in American customs, religions, politics, and folklore. The author's training in theology explains his interest in American.....
Louisville, Ky. 1852. 255,35pp. Antique-style half calf. Folding frontispiece map. Scattered foxing and light staining. Darker persistent stain in bottom portion of second half of text. Good. A detailed history from colonial times to date of publication, with much on the government, institutions, and resources. The map depicts Louisville and.....
Columbus, Oh. 1842. 192pp. Original half cloth. Hinges cracked. Stained and foxed. Near good. Champlin was no more than twenty-one years old when he published this autobiography. He had already been licensed as a "public exhorter" in the Methodist church, and his work is full of religious admonitions and warnings.....
Paris. 1837. [4],xvi,439; [4]504pp. plus folding map. Two volumes. Contemporary red half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Corners rubbed. Unopened. Near fine. Fourth edition, augmented and corrected. Chevalier, later a well known economist, went to America to study public works for the French government. He spent two years in.....
Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company, 1839. iv,467,[1]pp. Original cloth, stamped in blind, gilt title on spine. Spine ends a bit chipped, small gouge in front cover. Scattered foxing. Withal, just about very good. First American edition, translated from the third Paris edition of the previous year. Chevalier, later a well-.....
[Various places, including Ohio, Kentucky, and Georgia, but mostly Tennessee. mostly 1861-1864]. Five cloth-bound manuscript ledgers, two printed books, and over 100 documents, letters, and related forms, either wholly manuscript, printed, or partially-printed. Some soiling and staining to bound volumes, some bindings partially perished. Typical folds, some edge wear and.....
Washington: J. & G.S. Gideon, 1842. Broadside on silk, 19 x 15 inches. Light wear at edges, some light soiling; small tear minutely affecting a few letters of text. Very good. In a cloth folder. An elegant silk broadside printing the text of Henry Clay's farewell speech, resigning his position.....
