Washington, D.C. Washington Photo Co., 1942. Panoramic photograph, 32½ x 10½ inches. Black- and-white photograph with captions printed below the image. Mild toning and fading. Three one-inch tears and two three-inch creases starting to split, not affecting image); moderate insect damage to upper left and rear (where rolled photo had.....
Boston. 1922. x,371pp. plus plates. Portrait. Maps. Large octavo. Half cloth and paper boards, paper label. Some edge wear, else near fine. Lyman served on the staff of Gen. Meade, who commanded the Army of the Potomac, from 1863 until the end of the Civil War; this volume consists of.....
Madrid: En la Oficina de Antonio Fernandez, 1778. 196pp. Small quarto. Modern calf, ruled in gilt, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt leather labels. One raised band scraped of its leather, bookplate on front pastedown (see below). Faint contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Very good plus. A compilation of material.....
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New York: Published by the American Missionary Association, March & April 1866. pp.49-72; 73-95 [pagination consecutive across issues]. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled and worn. Both issues quite clean internally except for minimal foxing and stain at top of gutter, not touching text. Very good. Two consecutive postwar.....
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 with raised bands. Each act has a 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.....
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.....
London: Printed for William Lane, 1789. Two volumes. [4],vii,[21],467; [4],558pp., plus partially handcolored folding map and eight plates (five folding). Half titles. Modern half mottled calf and contemporary paper boards, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt red morocco label. Boards rubbed and shelf worn, corners bumped, spines a bit sunned.....
New York: H.P. Kraus, 1978. 87pp. Boards. Fine. Interesting conglomeration of documents for sale, from records of Andros' first foray into America to the bill for his funeral.
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.....
Paris. 1797. [2],xvi,336pp. Half title. Original plain wrappers. Front joint a bit worn, old stain on rear wrapper. Near fine, untrimmed. Bayard was twenty-three when he made this trip with his wife and children to summer at Bath in the Shenandoah Valley to escape the heat of the Baltimore summer.....
Petersburg, Va: Fenn & Owen, 1892. [2],xxiv,335,[5]pp. including two pages of errata, plus frontispiece, twenty plates, and three maps (two folding). Original grey pictorial cloth, spine gilt. Cloth a bit faded and rubbed, corners and spine ends worn. Front blank leaf coming loose. Internally quite clean except for tanning where.....
Amsterdam: Thomas Lombrail, 1707. [6],432,[16]pp. plus folding table and fourteen copper plates. Frontis. 12mo. 18th-century calf, spine gilt with raised bands and tan morocco gilt label. Some wear and light soiling to boards, corners bumped, spine creased from cracked textblock (textblock expertly and discreetly repaired), front hinge starting to separate.....
London. 1722. [8],284,[28]pp. plus fifteen engraved plates including frontis. Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt, edges sprinkled red. Front board detached, rear hinge cracking, spine scuffed and slightly chipped at extremities. Corners and edges worn, boards lightly rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary manuscript annotation on p.31. Light tanning, scattered foxing.....
Norfolk: Privately printed at the Virginian Office, 1872. 8pp. Original blue printed wrappers. Some contemporary manuscript corrections in text. Near fine. A quite scarce tribute to Binney as one of the world's great lawyers. DAB says "he was for nearly thirty years the acknowledged leader of the Pennsylavania bar, and.....
Harrisonburg: Laurentz Wartmann, 1818. x,[4],409,[2]pp. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label, remnants of metal clasps. Binding lightly worn. Contemporary notation on endpapers. Light dampstaining to first and last few leaves, some light scattered foxing. A good, solid copy. Johannes Braun (1771-1850), sometimes anglicized as John Brown, was a leading minister.....
Dublin: James Carson...for the Author, 1737. xv,408pp. plus engraved folding map, and four engraved plates. Antique three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt, spine gilt, leather label. Two plates with minor chips and tears (one repaired with tape on verso). Slight toning and a few light stains. Very good. Brickell accompanied.....
Paris: Chez Buisson, Avril 1791. Two volumes. xl,275; [4],317pp. Half titles. Original wrappers, printed paper 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 printed.....
Petersburg, Va. 1822, 1816. Four volumes. Folding table in third volume. Late 19th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, rebacked in calf, spines gilt. Some light wear to extremities. Light scattered foxing and soiling, even toning. Very good. Untrimmed. The scarce second issue of Burk's important history of Virginia, comprised of.....
Petersburg, Va. 1804-1805, 1816. Four volumes. Modern half calf and marbled boards, gilt. Scattered foxing. Ownership signatures in three volumes. Without folding table at pages 88-89 of third volume. Very good. An important history of Virginia, here present with the very rare fourth volume. The latter volume, issued years after.....
London. 1777. Two volumes. [6],xii,324; xii,308pp. Folding frontispiece map in each volume. Later speckled calf, maroon and black gilt morocco labels, ornate gilt spines. Front board of second volume detached, but present. Covers slightly bowed. Armorial bookplate and early 19th-century ownership signature on front paste down of each volume. Later.....
Boston: Fetridge and Company, 1854. 86pp. plus [12]pp. of advertisements. Early 20-century buckram, leather label. Cloth somewhat dust soiled, spine label slightly chipped. Remnants of paper shelf label on spine, institutional ink stamp on titlepage. An occasional fox mark. Lacking original pictorial wrappers. Good. Burns was an educated African American.....
New York: Baker & Godwin, 1862. 108pp. plus three portraits (including frontispiece). Original brown cloth tooled in blind, front board gilt. Light shelf wear. Scattered foxing and tanning. Very good. An early Civil War book eulogizing three of the first conspicuous casualties of the conflict (Ellsworth, Lyon, and Baker, two.....
Londres. 1755. xxiv,336pp. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt tooled, gilt leather label, edges painted red. Boards 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.....
Richmond: Printed by Thomas Nicholson, 1801. [10],[3]-588,16pp. Contemporary calf, spine rather crudely silked. Significant chipping to spine and corners. Front free endpaper excised. Titlepage with two one inch horizontal tears from gutter margin. Leaves tanned and foxed. Fair. An early Virginia volume of case reports for the Federal period, covering.....
Bethany: Printed and published by A. Campbell, 1829. 286,[2]pp. Dbd. Moderately foxed. Good. Monthly periodical issued by reform preacher Alexander Campbell (1788-1866). Campbell, a Scottish immigrant to the United States in 1809, was part of the Restoration Movement and founded Bethany College in West Virginia. He edited the CHRISTIAN BAPTIST.....
