Charleston Harbor. April 13, 1861. [5]pp. Significant tanning, expertly de-acidified. Very good. A fascinating letter from Dr. Aldrich to his widow's sister, relating the events of the critical opening battle of the Civil War. Edward Sherman Aldrich was born in 1811 in Providence, Rhode Island. He married Corrine Brown and.....

Charleston: J. Hoff's Wholesale and Retail Book-store, 1810. 428,[4]pp. Contemporary mottled calf, maroon gilt morocco label. Rubbed, front joint cracked, scattered foxing. Very good. Prayer for dummies. An interesting and uncommon South Carolina imprint. Shaw & Shoemaker locate only four copies. Not in Turnbull. Scarce.

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.....

Morrisania, N.Y. 1870. 13pp., printed in double columns. Folio. Original printed front wrapper, bound into later three quarter green morocco and cloth, gilt morocco spine label. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Wrapper chipped and soiled. Foredge of each text leaf reinforced with tissue. Good. Field has very kind words for this.....

Columbia, S.C. 1849. 37pp. Original pink printed wrappers. Wear and soiling to wrappers. Moderate foxing. Good. Brumby is identified on the titlepage as professor of chemistry, mineralogy and geology in the South Carolina College. In this pamphlet he attempts to broaden the range of studies available to students in the.....

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.....

Charleston: Walker, Evans, & Cogswell Co.:, 1901. 57pp. Modern half red morocco and cloth boards, spine gilt. Original printed wrappers bound in. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Text moderately tanned, otherwise clean. Very good. A revision of the charter and a short history of the Charleston Ancient Artillery Society from 1901.....

Charleston, S.C. Archibald E. Miller, 1818. 268,[1],36,22,[1]pp. Titlepage vignette of the city seal. Loose sheets, guillotined by The New York Public Library, then discarded, with their stamp on the verso of the titlepage, a.e.g. Top edge of titlepage trimmed, not affecting text. Internally clean and very good. Prints the ordinances.....

Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company, 1839. iv,467,[1]pp. Original cloth, stamped in blind, gilt title on spine. Spine ends a bit chipped, small gouge in front cover. Scattered foxing. Withal, just about very good. First American edition, translated from the third Paris edition of the previous year. Chevalier, later a well-.....

[N.p., but possibly Williamsport, Pa. Nov. 8, 1863]. Broadside, 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Minor wear and soiling. One small tear in left margin. Very good plus. A vivid Civil War broadside showing the immediacy of the news from the front, as well as how garbled or false information.....

New York. 1862. xxii,385pp. Early 20th-century buckram, gilt leather spine spine labels. Cloth somewhat dust soiled, spine labels slightly chipped. Paper shelf label on spine, institutional blind and ink stamps on titlepage. Light tanning. Good plus. Rare report on the trial of the prisoners taken from the Confederate privateer Savannah.....

[N.p., likely Beaufort, S.C. ca. July 15, 1863]. 3pp. Single folded sheet. Soft vertical center crease, light wrinkling. Clean and very good. An interesting circular written by Union Brigadier General Rufus Saxton, and printed on a military field press, laying out the procedures for prosecuting "all disputes and criminal matters.....

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.....