Johnson City, Tn. The Watauga Press, 1930. [38],508pp. plus folding map. Original blue cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g. Small bumps at toe of spine and top corners. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Else near fine. In a blue cloth slipcase. The first reprint of Adair's classic 1775 study of Native Americans, limited...
Sanford, N.C. [ 1894]. 27pp. Original printed wrappers bound into maroon three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Contents a bit tanned. Very good. A centennial address on the importance of Chatham County, North Carolina during the American Revolutionary period. London recounts "the political history of...
Raleigh: William W. Holden, 1851. 23pp. Original printed wrappers. Light wear to wrappers, spine partially perished. Minor foxing. Very good. Published by the order of the Dialectic Society, presented June 4, 1851.
Greensboro: Guilford Battle Ground Company, 1901. 17pp. Original printed wrappers bound into modern half morocco and marbled boards. Bookplate on front pastedown. Near fine. The Battle of Guilford Courthouse was fought May 15, 1781.
London. 1794. xxiv,520pp. plus eight plates (one folding) including portrait, plus folding map, [6]pp. index, and leaf of binding directions. Frontispiece portrait. Modern half speckled calf and marbled boards, red gilt morocco label, ornate gilt spine. Frontispiece, titlepage, and following five leaves with rough repair to foredge slightly affecting text...
London: Reprinted for J. Johnson, 1794. xxiv,520pp. plus seven engraved plates (one folding) and folding map, [6]pp. index, and leaf of binding directions. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Mico Chlucco. Contemporary blue paper covered boards, rebacked with period paper spine. Very good. Uncut. Styled the "Second Edition in London" on the...
Paris. [ 1801]. Two volumes. 457pp. plus folding map, two folding plates, frontispiece, and errata; 436pp. plus folding plate and errata. Half titles. Contemporary gilt mottled calf, spines gilt, leather labels. First volume expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down and labels preserved. Hinges of second volume bit rubbed. A....
Philadelphia. 1872. xvi,[25]-557pp. Contemporary publisher's cloth, gilt. Cloth spotted, extremities worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. About good. History written by the pastor of the St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wilmington, N.C.
Dublin: James Carson...for the Author, 1737. xv,408pp. plus engraved folding map, and four engraved plates. Antique half calf and marbled boards. Two plates with minor chips and tears, of which one repaired with tape on verso. Slight toning and a few light stains. Very good. Brickell accompanied provincial governor George.....
Raleigh. 1854. 27pp. Original printed wrappers. Lightly foxed. Very good. Address delivered by former valedictorian Aaron V. Brown on the great progress of the expanding United States.
Raleigh. 1839. 39pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor dampstaining and scattered foxing. Very good. A relatively early North Carolina imprint of this patriotic academic oration: "We are committed...to the support and preservation of the Union by every consideration which can address itself to our interests...."
[V.p., mostly Maryland and North Carolina. 1914-1927]. 401 photographs, varying sizes, on [50] leaves, plus over two hundred pieces of ephemera, mostly cards, news clippings, correspondence, and clipped signatures. Oblong quarto. Black leatherette album, string tied. Leaves neatly detached, slightly worn at edges. Contents mounted directly to leaves, many photos...
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...
New York. 1836. Two volumes. [2],lxxx,[9]-533;576pp. plus folding map. Original brown cloth, paper labels. Cloth soiled and stained, label on volume one chipped off, label on volume two rubbed and chipping. Edges of spine and corners bumped. Map with two small tears, foredge toned and scuffed. Light scattered foxing but.....
Philadelphia. 1856. 448pp. plus two folding maps. Original publishers cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, spine gilt. Minor edge wear and light soiling to cloth. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown, light to moderate foxing, frontispiece folding map detached but present, with one fold separation. Very good. The rare companion volume...
Washington. 1864. Three sheets, each 7 1/4 x 5 inches. Loose sheets. Two slits at gutter margins for intended binding. A couple of small creases at corners. Very good. Three interesting General Orders from the War Department at the end of 1864 relating to freedman and the organization of black...
Raleigh; Charlotte, N.C. Commercial Printing Company; Honeycutt Printing Co., 1907. 8; [29]pp. Two issues. Modern three-quarter morocco and cloth boards, spines gilt. Second part with original wrappers. Small bookplates on rear pastedowns. Wrappers slightly creased, with a small tear at foot of rear. Front wrapper with ink ownership and provenance...
London: E. and C. Dilly, 1769. [8],122pp. plus frontispiece. Folding map in facsimile. Quarto. 20th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Hinges and corners rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Minor foxing and soiling. Contemporary notation on plate. Very good. Cluny details the commerce and produce of the colonies in...
Amsterdam. 1783. [8],264pp. plus three folding tables. Contemporary patterned boards, manuscript paper spine label. Boards scuffed. Some browning. Overall quite nice, untrimmed. Small portion of folding map laid in, with map in its entirety supplied in facsimile and bound in. The second edition, following the first edition of the previous...
Amsterdam. 1783. viii,264pp. plus folding map and three folding tables. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Near fine. The second edition, following the first edition of the previous year, of Mandrillon's work on the United States and...
Augusta. 1838. 45pp. Original printed blue wrappers. Spine perished, wrappers worn, wrinkled and soiled. One signature tanned, titlepage and other leaves dust soiled. Good. Report of the second of three such commercial conventions held in Georgia during the period, attended by representatives from most of the southern states, who sought...
[Raleigh. nd, ca. 1862]. 8pp. 24mo. Self-wrappers. Minor toning, else fine. Noted as "No. 115" above the caption title, this pamphlet was apparently one of a series of religious allegorical publications. The General Tract Agency was perhaps the earliest Confederate tract publisher during the Civil War, established in mid-1861 by...
Brower's Mills, N.C. Sept. 24, 1862. Broadside, 20 x 13 1/2 inches. Neatly folded, light foxing. A near fine copy. A large and historically-important North Carolina Confederate anti- secessionist broadside, banned by the Confederates as seditious. In this circular letter, Tyson advocates a reconciliation between the Union and Confederate armies...
Richmond: Chas. H. Wynne, [ 1863]. 35pp. 12mo. Self-wrappers. Moderate edge wear. Overall very good. A charming Confederate almanac, calculated by David Richardson of Louisa County, Virginia. Richardson's ...ALMANAC... contains all of the usual useful information, including a sketch of the Confederate government and an explanation of the "Situation of...
Philadelphia: Robert P. Desilver, 1847. viii,[9]-303,[13]pp. Illustrated. Contemporary calf, gilt leather label. Noticeable rubbing and edge wear to binding, joints heavily worn. Hinges starting. Minor foxing. Good. New edition of a handbook for militiamen, originally printed in 1836. The text is divided into four sections - infantry tactic, cavalry, artillery...
