[Hampton, Va. Printed by students of the Institute, n.d., but 1894]. 8pp. Small octavo. Original pictorial self-wrappers. Minor soiling, light wear. Very good plus. A rare fundraising appeal from the illustrious Hampton Normal Institute aimed specifically at the members of the Christian Endeavor Society in 1894. The pamphlet was written.....

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.....

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.

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.....

Richmond [but actually Dresden & Berlin]: Edward Beyer [but printed by Rau & Son of Dresden and W. Loeillot of Berlin], 1858. Lithograph titlepage (with five vignettes) plus forty tinted lithograph plates. Oblong folio. Original gilt cloth boards bound in larger modern three-quarter morocco and cloth. Titlepage lightly soiled 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.....

Paris: Chez Buisson, Avril 1791. Two volumes. xl,275; [4],317pp. Half titles. Original wrappers, printed paper spine 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.....

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.....

Boston. 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 who fled from.....

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.....

Buffaloe Creek, Brooke County, Va. Printed b[y] Solomon Sala, at the Buffaloe Printing-Office, 1824. 300,[4]pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Boards heavily worn, paper partially peeled away, corners worn. Contemporary and later ownership inscriptions on front endpapers. Moderately foxed. About very good. Second edition. Monthly.....

London: Printed for R. Goadby and W. Owan Bookseller, at Temple- Bar, 1775. xxiv,iv,347,[1]pp. Folding frontis. Contemporary calf, raised bands. Minor rubbing. Slight tanning in margins of end matter, contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Overall very good. Ninth edition, after the first of 1745, and the first appearance.....

[Np. 1876]. Steel engraving, 16 1/2 x 21 inches. Minor edge wear. Image clean and bright. Near fine. Archivally matted, protected with mylar sheet. A steel engraving by John Sartain of a handsome portrait of John Randolph, after the original done by George Catlin in 1831. Randolph, a patriotic if.....