New York. 1814. Five volumes. Frontispiece in volumes one through four, frontispiece in volume five lacking. Original printed boards. Front board and frontispiece lacking from fifth; front hinge tender on other four volumes, spine on third volume heavily chipped. Later inscriptions on front pastedowns. Light scattered foxing, embossed library stamp.....
Boston & Cleveland: Damrell, Moore, G. Coolidge and John P. Jewett, [ 1856]. 128pp. including four full-page wood-engraved illustrations with green-tinted backgrounds plus twenty pages of advertisements, primarily illustrated, before and after the text. 16mo. Original red publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, a.e.g. Spine worn at top and.....
Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1917. Two volumes. 358; 396pp. including maps. Frontispiece maps. Original blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Light offsetting to front cover of second volume, corners lightly rubbed. Bookplate to rear pastedowns. Internally bright and clean. A very good copy. A thorough study of British imperial practices.....
Washington, D.C. American Automobile Association, 1940. 640pp. including maps, illustrations and advertisements. Large folding map affixed to rear wrapper. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Wrappers soiled and beginning to pull away from the text block, spine cracked. Good, lacking the second folding map. Gives descriptions and points of interest for fourteen northeastern.....
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.....
[New Haven: Sherman Converse, 1823]. 23pp. Printed self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Review of the reports for the years 1818 through 1823, gathered from the Christian Spectator. The Society attempted to alleviate the problem of slavery and degradation of free blacks by establishing a colony for them outside the United States.....
Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Kincaid His Majesty's Printer, 1764–1776. Five separately printed acts, pagination given below. Folio. Dbd. Numbering in ink to head of titlepage of first four of the five acts. Ink inscription cropped at head of A2 of the final act. Some soiling. Overall very good. A collection.....
St. Louis. 1912. 32pp. Printed wrappers. Minor chipping to corner of wrappers and leaves not affecting text. Very good. Ameringer was a member of the Socialist Party and became editor of the AMERICAN GUARDIAN. His socialist views were specifically geared toward agriculture in the Midwest. Number 15 of the "Rip-Saw".....
Washington. 1854. viii,851pp. Original cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Toe of spine frayed. Overall very good. The Senate issue, published a year after the House issue, of Andrews' extensive report on trade between the United States and Canada, with information on internal improvements in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida.....
Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826. 192pp. plus ten folding maps. 20th-century green cloth, red morocco gilt label. Boards lightly soiled. Ex-Easton (PA) Public Library with their blindstamp on the titlepage and a faded ink number on the copyright page. Light to moderate scattered foxing to the text; the.....
Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1975/1978. Two volumes. xxiii,[3],837;xiii,[3],978pp. plus folding map. Original green wrappers. Spines slightly sunned. Very good. Begins with an account of George Rapp's quest to find suitable land for his planned community and ends with the Harmony Society's move to Economy, Pennsylvania. An exhaustive collection of documents.....
Boston: Thomas and Andrews, October 1, 1805. Title-leaf, index leaf, sixty-three maps (three folding). Quarto. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt. Boards scuffed, rubbed, and edgeworn. Hinges tender, first few leaves creased. Mostly minor foxing throughout. Overall, a very good copy. An early 19th-century American atlas.....
London. 1809. 316,[4]pp. Contemporary mottled calf, expertly rebacked with antique calf spine, leather label. Some light foxing (mostly affecting index leaves). Overall very good. The one volume edition, issued one year after the original three volume edition in 12mo. Ashe was a slippery character. According to Clark, "his entire career.....
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, bookplate of C.R. Sanders to rear pastedown, otherwise clean internally. Very good.....
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.....
New York. [1859]. 114,87,[1],94,[2],96pp. including more than one hundred engravings, plus interspersed advertisements. Original stamped, pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Slightly cocked, worn at extremities. Very good. An extensive guidebook for the Anglo-American tourist, divided into four sections, addressing "The United States," "Scenes and Scenery," "Upper and Lower Canada," and "Things.....
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 Orleans. 1824. [8],327,[1]pp. plus errata slip. Contemporary blue boards, rebacked at an early date with a crude sheep spine. Spine faded and worn, head of spine chipped. Modern bookplates on front endpapers. Faded institutional ink stamp on titlepage and page one; pp.[iii]-v loose. Minor foxing. Untrimmed. Good. The rare.....
Philadelphia. November [i.e. December] 14, 1790. [2]pp. on recto and verso of a single sheet. Very good. In a half morocco clamshell case. An intriguing letter from Egbert Benson, New York's first attorney general after independence, a leading New York jurist, prime mover in the push for a new federal.....
Nashville. 1838. 36pp. Dbd. Benton's signature on titlepage. Light scattered foxing. Very good plus. A speech given by Senator Thomas Benton of Missouri, to the United States Senate regarding the separation of the government from the National Bank. The divorce of government from the banks was an issue which Benton.....
Montréal. 1848. 309pp. plus errata slip. Later three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, original front wrapper mounted onto paper and bound in. Original wrapper chipped at edges. Very good. A biography of illustrious Indian chiefs of North America, preceded by an "Index of the Mythical History of that Continent." "This work.....
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1818. xv,[1],114,[10]pp. Contemporary boards. Spine perished, new endpapers. Internally very clean, and in very good condition, untrimmed. In a green slipcase, black gilt morocco label. First London edition, after the first American edition of the same year. "These letters were written to friends and inquirers in.....
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1818. xv,[1],114pp. Dbd. Internally clean. Very good. Self-styled second London edition, after the first London and first American editions of the same year. "These letters were written to friends and inquirers in England and contain a wealth of information about economic and social conditions in the.....
Dublin. 1818. xv,112pp. Early 20th-century brown cloth, spine gilt. Head and foot of spine rubbed, small gouge out of cloth at edge of spine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Internally quite clean. Very good. In a blue half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. Birkbeck, who encouraged British settlement in Illinois.....
Chicago: The Lakeside Press R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1918. [2],xxiv,186,[4]pp. plus portrait with printed tissue guard. 12mo. Original dark green cloth, spine gilt, front board gilt-ruled with gilt-stamped publisher's logo center, t.e.g. Light shelf wear, rear board lightly rubbed. Ex-library, with glue residue and scratched out pen signature on.....
