Washington. 1848. 132pp. plus twenty-four lithographed plates and folding map. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light foxing. Closed tear in left margin of map (just intruding into image) neatly repaired on verso. Very good. One of the great southwestern government- sponsored explorations, here in its earliest form.....
Oxford. [ 1777]. 64pp. Gathered signatures. Stitched as issued. Untrimmed. Last leaf tanned. Otherwise a very good copy. Fourth edition. A reply to Burke's LETTER...ON THE AFFAIRS OF AMERICA (1777). "...if the liberty of our fellow-subjects in America are to be taken from them, it is for the ideot only.....
Oxford. [ 1777]. 64pp. Dbd. Titlepage a tad dusty, else very good. First edition. A reply to Burke's LETTER...ON THE AFFAIRS OF AMERICA (1777): "...If the liberty of our fellow-subjects in America are to be taken from them, it is for the idiot only to suppose that we can preserve.....
Oxford. [ 1777]. 64pp. Dbd. Titlepage a tad dusty. Else very good. Second edition, after the first of the same year. A reply to Burke's LETTER...ON THE AFFAIRS OF AMERICA (1777). "...if the liberty of our fellow-subjects in America are to be taken from them, it is for the ideot.....
London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1775. [12],464pp. plus folding frontispiece map. Half title. Quarto. Contemporary half green calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands. Boards rubbed and shelfworn, spine sunned. Offsetting from map to half title, occasional pencil annotations, but quite bright and clean.....
Washington. 1826. 26pp. Dbd. Very good. A basic source for early American claims regarding the disputed boundaries between the U.S. and Great Britain in the Oregon territory. Scarce, with only a dozen copies in OCLC.
Boston. 1829. 80pp. Contemporary plain wrapper. Wrap bit chipped at spine, light scattered foxing. Good. Prints correspondence originally published in the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER wherein Adams accused certain but unnamed citizens of Massachusetts of engaging in a design to dissolve the union, a response of some Massachusetts citizens, and Adams' reply.....
Philadelphia. 1797. Three volumes. 6,xxxiii,[3]-392; [4],451; [2],528,[44]pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage of first volume, later institutional blind stamps on titlepages. Light tanning and an occasional fox mark. Very good. In a three-quarter morocco and cloth clamshell box. Styled the.....
London: John Stockdale, 1794. Three volumes. 8,xxxii,3-392; [2],451,[1]; [2],528,[36]pp. Portrait in first volume. Half title in each volume. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Occasional light tanning and foxing. Overall, a very good set. The definitive final edition, after its first appearance in London in 1787. One of the most.....
Paris. 1792. Two volumes. [4],xxiv,547; [2],503pp. Half title in each volume. Bound in original wrappers of yellow printer's wastepaper, with other wastepaper used as the inner wrapper; original printed paper labels. Wrappers lightly stained. An occasional fox mark, else internally pristine. A fine set, in original, completely unsophisticated condition, untrimmed.....
Boston. 1823. x,219pp. Later three-quarter calf and marbled boards, expertly rebacked. Couple of spots, else very good. [with:] Pickering, Timothy: A REVIEW OF THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE HON. JOHN ADAMS...AND THE LATE WM. CUNNINGHAM.... [2],140pp. Salem. 1824. Modern cloth, leather label. Some foxing, minor tape repair in blank corner of.....
New York. 1814. Five volumes. Frontispiece in volumes one through four, frontispiece in volume five lacking. Original printed boards. Front board and frontispiece lacking from fifth; front hinge tender on other four volumes, spine on third volume heavily chipped. Later inscriptions on front pastedowns. Light scattered foxing, embossed library stamp.....
New York. 1884. [4],227pp. Frontis. Later gilt buckram. Ex-lib. with rubberstamps. A good, sound copy. The author read Samuel N. Townsend's letters from the West and decided to head ranchward. From 1877 to 1884 he lived on ranches and travelled in western Kansas, eastern Colorado and northern Texas. Aldridge was.....
Baltimore. 1819. Two volumes. xi,[1],592;xiii,[3],510pp. Contemporary calf, rebacked with later paper. Front hinge cracked on first volume, paper spine loose; front board detached on second volume. Boards heavily scuffed, corners worn. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Contemporary gift inscription on front flyleaf of first volume; later manuscript notes tipped in at.....
Baltimore. 1819. Two volumes. xi,[1],592; xiii,[3],510pp. Contemporary calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Extremities lightly worn, rear joint of second volume cracked but solid. Modern bookplate on rear pastedowns. Very good. Sabin states, "Although the name of Paul Allen is on the title, this work was written by John Neal and.....
Boston: S.N. Dickinson & Co., 1845. xi,[1],86pp. Dbd. Minor foxing. Very good. Gathered extracts of primary source material relating to the founding of the United States. Relatively scarce. Howes lists only a 1857 edition, not this earlier issue.
Chicago. 1903. 302pp. Portrait. Illus. Three quarter calf and marbled boards. Hinges worn and weak. Internally very good. Allen spent years hunting and travelling in Montana, Idaho and the Dakotas in the 1880s and '90s. He tangled with some Indians and ran into some bad types such as Calamity Jane.....
London. 1779. [2],400,[6]pp. Antique style calf and marbled boards, very good. The REMEMBRANCER, for the year 1778 and part of 1779, containing much material on the American Revolution. Almon, a British publisher, was the primary source for British publications concerning American political and military affairs throughout the Revolution. In this.....
New York: Williams Gowans, 1869. 125,[3],40pp. Large quarto. Original gilt-stamped cloth. Some fraying at extremities, else very good, partially unopened. Later edition, after the original of 1666, with an introduction and notes by John Gilmary Shea, issued as the fifth entry in Gowans' "Bibliotheca Americana" series. One of only sixty-four.....
Columbus: Long's College Book Co., 1951. xvii,601,[2]pp. plus frontispiece portrait and seventeen plates. Large octavo. Original pebbled maroon cloth, gilt spine title, front board with embossed portrait and title gilt. Moderate shelf wear, interior clean. Very good. This is the "special definitive edition" of the 1924 original, an expanded edition.....
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.....
Livorno: Marco Coltellini, 1763. Three volumes. xxiii,216,[1]; 256,[1]; 253,[2]pp. Seventy-eight engraved maps and plates (twenty-four of them folding). Frontis. Half title in first volume. Large quarto. Contemporary vellum, spines gilt. Some wear and light staining to boards, spine ends of first and third volumes repaired, spines a bit darkened. Occasional.....
Paris: M. Godefroy, [1784]. Sixteen engraved plates: engraved titlepage with vignettes, twelve scenes, two maps, and a final plate celebrating the peace of 1783. Quarto. 19th-century red morocco, rebacked; spine gilt, gilt dentelles. Light foxing. Very good. A very nice collection of Revolutionary views, one of the few contemporary publications.....
Antwerp [i.e. Paris]. 1776-1779. Ten complete volumes (of fifteen), plus a significant portion of the eleventh. Complete collation available upon request. Eleven volumes bound in contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, leather labels, edges painted red; plus seventeen individual issues, most in original wrappers. Bound volumes: Corners bumped, edges slightly worn.....
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.....
