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.....

New York: Williams Gowans, 1869. 125,[3],40pp. Large quarto. Original gilt-stamped cloth. Some fraying at extremities, else very good, partially unopened. Later edition, after the original of 1666, with an introduction and notes by John Gilmary Shea, issued as the fifth entry in Gowans' "Bibliotheca Americana" series. One of only sixty-four.....

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.

Springland, Pa. [ 1808?]. Single-sheet engraving, 6 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches. Very good. This plate, here in black and white, appeared in colored state in Birch's well-known color plate book on country houses, THE COUNTRY SEATS OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH-AMERICA WITH SOME SCENES CONNECTED WITH THEM (Springland.....

Paris: Chez Buisson, Avril 1791. Two volumes. xl,275; [4],317pp. Half titles. Original wrappers, printed paper spine 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.....

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 a 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.....

Baltimore: Robert Geddes, 1826. 145pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Ink library stamp on titlepage, embossed blindstamp on titlepage and next two leaves, some toning. Very good. This is the first separate printing, often confused with the several reprints, of forty-three papers which originally appeared in the Baltimore CHRONICLE.....

[Np.]: June 7, 1824. 19pp. Three engraved folding maps. Dbd. Scattered foxing. A few small nicks along margins of maps. Overall quite good. Contemporary manuscript note on half title reads "From the Committee." This fifth annual report of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company is illustrated with three engraved maps.....

Philadelphia. 1779. 256pp. Contemporary calf, raised bands, handwritten paper label affixed to front board. Head of spine and outer hinges chipped. Endpapers and first few leaves lightly mildewed. Good. Churchman was a Quaker minister from Nottingham, Pennsylvania, who visited Quaker meetings in Virginia, Maryland, and New Jersey, as well. Reprinted.....