Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1835. 94pp. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, ruled in gilt; neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Leaf tipped in preceding titlepage with presentation inscription from the author ("Gideon Hard from John Quincy Adams") and further inscriptions by several later owners passing along the book.....

[Baltimore]. 1827. 24pp. Dbd. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Some tanning and foxing. Good plus. A tract seeking to generate support around the candidacy of John Quincy Adams in the 1828 presidential election, published by the pro-Adams convention met in Maryland in 1827. The address principally defends Adams against the.....

Madrid: En la Oficina de Antonio Fernandez, 1778. 196pp. Small quarto. Modern calf, ruled in gilt, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt leather labels. One raised band scraped of its leather, bookplate on front pastedown (see below). Faint contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Very good plus. A compilation of material.....

Washington, D.C. American Automobile Association, 1941. 656pp. including maps, illustrations and advertisements, plus two large folding maps. Printed stiff pictorial wrappers. Wrappers soiled and faded, a note in ink on the front wrapper. One leaf detached. Very good. Descriptions and points of interest for fourteen Northeastern states, the District of.....

London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1776. 210,215-250,253-330,333-370,373-442,445- 470,473-614,617-654,657-678,681-828pp. Folio. Modern calf, spine gilt, raised bands. Each act has separate general titlepage; pagination and register are continuous. Slight shelf wear, occasional tanning, lacking one general titlepage and several blanks (see below). Very good. An impressive collection of the.....

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.

Baltimore. 1949. xxix,219pp. plus many facsimiles. Thick quarto. Gilt cloth. Fine, in a slightly worn dust jacket. One of 300 copies printed by the Anthoensen Press. With an introduction by Lawrence Wroth. A superb reference for early Americana.

Paris. 1797. [2],xvi,336pp. Half title. Original plain wrappers. Front joint a bit worn, old stain on rear wrapper. Near fine, untrimmed. Bayard was twenty-three when he made this trip with his wife and children to summer at Bath in the Shenandoah Valley to escape the heat of the Baltimore summer.....

Baltimore. 1837. Two volumes. xii,[9]-314;728pp. Contemporary speckled calf, leather label, speckled edges. Spines chipping, boards rubbed. Front hinges cracked on both volumes but secure. Light to medium foxing. Modern bookplate to rear pastedown. Good. Second and "best edition" (Howes) of Bozman's history, including much material on the discovery and early.....

Paris: Chez Buisson, Avril 1791. Two volumes. xl,275; [4],317pp. Half titles. Original wrappers, printed paper labels. Spines and spine labels chipped, else near fine, untrimmed and unopened. A very rare, largely unknown edition of Brissot de Warville's account, published the same year as the regular first edition, but here printed.....

New York. 1841. Two volumes. 514,[1]; xiii,[blank],[9]-516pp. plus folding map. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Additional frontis. Woodcut illus. Modern three quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. About fine. An extensive travel description by one of the better British commentators of the period. The folding map depicts the eastern United States.....

Londres. 1755. xxiv,336pp. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt tooled, leather label, edges painted red. Boards lightly rubbed, corners and edges somewhat worn, two small chips to spine extremities. Light tanning, scattered foxing. About very good. An important survey of the state of the British colonies, quickly translated into a......

Boston: Bates, Kimball & Guild, 1892. [5]pp. plus fifty plates from photographs. Folio. Fifty-three leaves loose in original three-quarter cloth portfolio with marbled boards. Portfolio scuffed and worn, lacking spine and ties. Light early dampstain in corner of preliminary leaves, not affecting text; and in seven plates, slightly affecting images.....