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.....
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.....
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.....
![Item #WRCAM55051 [PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM OF WHITE MOTOR COMPANY VEHICLES]. Automobile Photographica](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM55051.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1602867487)
Chicago. [ca. 1910]. [116] photographs plus advertising leaf removed from HARPER'S MAGAZINE issue. Includes album of modern reproductions of the photographs. Oblong pebbled morocco album, gilt title on front board. Boards rubbed and worn, corners bumped, spine perished. Photographs mounted on original linen, which is slightly curled. A few small.....
Dayton. 1879. 178pp. Original gilt cloth. Wear to spine extremities, inner front hinge cracked, else very good. Inscribed by the author to Hon. George H. Pendleton. These are the author's reworked correspondences to his hometown paper, written during a jaunt of the Ohio Editorial Association in June, 1879. He and.....
![Item #WRCAM23860 THE BOATMAN OF THE OHIO [caption title]. Black Minstrel Song Sheet](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM23860.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593711416)
London: H. Such, Printed and Publisher, [n.d., but ca. 1850]. Single sheet, about 4 x 9 1/2 inches. Overall condtion is very good. Rather incongruous woodcut vignette of a Chinese man with pagoda and ship in the background. British song sheet with black minstrel song: "A Boatman leads a fearful.....
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824. [4],511pp. plus folding frontispiece map of the United States (with states outlined in color), folding chart of the straits of Niagara, folding table, and other tables in text. Modern three-quarter leather and marbled boards, gilt label. Two bookplates on front pastedown. Small tape repair.....
Cincinnati. 1867. [6],116pp. Illus. Original cloth-backed boards. Advertising matter adhered to front cover and rear covers. Wear at extremities. Several pages detached or loose, but complete. Good. A scarce Cincinnati business directory, described as the "second issue" in the introduction. Full of illustrated advertisements for all manner of industrial concerns.....
Fostoria, Oh. The Gray Printing Company, 1896. 70pp. 12mo. Original printed boards, cloth spine. Head and toe of spine bit worn. Leaves a bit tanned. Very good. According to Ernest J. Wessen, this reprint is rarer than the first edition of 1860 published in Cleveland. Brayton was stolen near his.....
Mason County, Ky. January 7, 1807. [3]pp. autograph letter, signed, on a folded folio sheet. Addressed on the blank fourth page. Old folds. Moderate tanning, small holes in second leaf. Wax residue from original seals in margin. Very good. A fascinating letter written by Charles Ward, one of the earliest.....
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.....
Sandusky, Oh. D. Campbell & Sons, 1848. 251,[1]pp. Original brown cloth stamped in blind, spine gilt. Cloth rubbed and stained, spine extremities chipping, small hole in cloth on spine, losing a few letters of spine title, joints cracked but holding. Lacking both endpapers, light tanning and staining, tear to center.....
Cincinnati. 1890. xiii,[1],425,[1]pp Original green cloth, spine gilt. Boards rubbed. Ownership signature on front flyleaf. Hinges tender but secure. Light toning. Very good. An insightful look into the infamous Girtys and their doings throughout the revolutionary period. Simon Girty, "the Great Renegade," along with most of his brothers, became notorious.....
Chicago: The Lakeside Press R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1947. xxx,181,[4]pp., plus one plate. Frontispiece map. 12mo. Original dark red cloth, spine gilt, front board gilt-ruled with gilt-stamped publisher's logo, t.e.g. Spine lightly faded. Interior clean and bright; text block warped along bottom edge. Very good. Lakeside Press edition of.....
Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1872. Colored folding map, 33 x 22 1/2 inches. Folded into original pebbled cloth. Front board detached. Bisected and mounted on linen, as issued. Old bookplate and withdrawal stamp on front pastedown, short closed tear along linen fold of upper outer section, not affecting map itself. A.....
[Racine, Wi. N.d., 1880?]. Broadside, approximately 6 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches, with engraving of the Fish Bros. Wagon. Slight curling in upper margin, minor adhesive remnants to verso, else very good. An attractive broadside promoting the Fish Bros. Wagon, described as "Second to no other Wagon in Existence." Chas.....
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.....
Llanrwst, Wales: John Jones, 1840. 48pp. Original printed wrappers. Isolated instances of scattered foxing, otherwise very good. Unopened. A scarce travel guide in Welsh with practical advice for would-be immigrants travelling to Ohio from Wales. The title translates to English as The American, which Includes a Notable Journey from the.....
Cincinnati. 1843. 36pp. Original printed wrappers. Upper fourth of front wrap lacking. Else very good. Discusses improvements, particularly the removal of obstructions, in the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to make them more navigable, with many statistics concerning the value of products transported on those rivers. James Hall was the chairman.....
Strasburg, Va: Shenandoah Publishing House Inc., 1932. 156pp. Green publisher's cloth, gilt titling and spine. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Very light toning. Near fine. A biography of frontiersman Simon Kenton. Kenton served as a scout in West Virginia and Kentucky during Dunmore's War. He was a close friend to.....
![Item #WRCAM52523 AN AMERICAN LOG-HOUSE [caption title]. Georges Henri Victor Collot](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM52523.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593711842)
[Paris. 1826 (i.e. 1804)]. Line engraving, approximately 10 1/4 x 14 inches. Matted. A few small chips and very short closed tears at edges. Numbered twice in pencil at upper left corner. Light dust soiling and dampstaining. About very good. From the atlas of Collot's famous VOYAGE DANS L'AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE........
[Paris. 1804 (but issued in 1826)]. Four engraved plates of varying lengths, all 11½ inches in height. Total length approximately 10 feet, 7 inches. Previously folded, backed on linen. Two plates edged with cloth tape. Linen backing slightly frayed in places, a few corners worn. Pencil annotations and small numbering.....
![Item #WRCAM52522 INDIAN OF THE MANDANES [caption title]. Georges Henri Victor Collot](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM52522.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593711842)
[Paris. 1826 (i.e., 1804)]. Line engraving, approximately 10 1/4 x 14 inches. Matted. A few small chips and very short closed tears at edges. Small numbered label at lower left corner, later pencil annotations on blank verso. Light dampstaining and foxing. Good plus. From the atlas of Collot's famous VOYAGE.....
