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Mexico City. 1856. 480,[4]pp. Several errors in pagination. Small quarto. Contemporary red half sheep and boards, spine gilt. Boards and extremities rubbed. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Light toning and minor foxing. Very good. An extremely valuable compilation which gives detailed data, including route, scenery, and other key information, about.....
![JOURNAL OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBON MADE DURING HIS TRIP TO NEW ORLEANS IN 1820 - 1821. [with:] JOURNAL...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM56815.jpg?v=1626103820)
Boston: Club of Odd Volumes, 1929. Two volumes. ix,234,[1]; vii,179,[1]pp. Frontispiece in both volumes. Small quarto. Original half cloth and blue paper boards, gilt stamping on front boards, printed paper labels. Mild wear to extremities, darkening to spine, interior quite clean. Very good. An attractive selection of Audubon's journals in.....
London: Printed for William Davenhill...and George Pearch, 1768. 110pp. plus one leaf of advertisements. Half title. Modern three-quarter polished calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. Old institutional stamp with cancel marking on titlepage, additional stamp in upper margin of first page of dedication, and lower margin of p.53. Internally clean.....
Newark: Printed and sold by Allin and Ridge, 1792. Three volumes. xvi,[2],[6, subscribers list],287[i.e. 295]; x,505; x,248,15pp., plus engraved portrait frontispiece of the author and two large folding maps (printed on three sheets). Large quarto. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Some rubbing to boards, extremities worn, joints.....
London: Printed for the Author, by William Richardson, 1779. [24],xvi,17-543,[1]pp. (complete as issued), plus five plates and two folding maps. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, gilt leather labels. Text a bit tanned with minor foxing in places, a few later pencil marks in the margins.....
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley... 1761. Two volumes. viii,382; viii,380,[22]pp., plus folding map and 4pp. of advertisements. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked with antique gilt-extra spine, leather labels. Corners worn. Some offsetting onto the map. Internally clean. Overall very good. Lacks the half titles. The George Brinley-Brayton Ives copy.....
Chicago: T. Ellwood Zell & Co., 1868. 197pp. (pastedowns are paginated), plus folding map and [26] leaves of plates. 12mo. Publisher's brown cloth, title in gilt on front board and in blind on rear board, expertly rebacked, retaining original backstrip. Ownership inscriptions on front pastedown and p.5. Two very small.....
Chicago. 1861. vii,[1],134pp. plus frontispiece, plates, and errata leaf. Original cloth, rebacked. Some scattered soiling and foxing. Manuscript note on frontis. Else quite good. Clark was a Chicago physician who went to Colorado to prospect for gold in 1860, without success. He describes in detail the frontier town and expresses.....
Philadelphia: E.L. Carey and A. Hart, 1835. 234pp. plus 34pp. "Catalogue of a Valuable and Useful Collection of Books in the Various Departments of Science...for sale by E.L. Carey & A. Hart...." Engraved frontispiece portrait. Contemporary pink muslin over boards, printed paper label. Noticeable rubbing to label, moderate wear and.....
Cleveland, Oh. [The author], [1913]. 115 leaves (foliation irregular), plus [80] leaves of plates, including [88] captioned photos (some colored) printed directly onto [67] leaves, and [13] stock images, five folding. Frontis. 12mo. Contemporary burgundy buckram. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Covers and hinges moderately worn but strong. Slight.....
New York: Published by J.H. Colton, 1852. 83,[1]pp. plus 18pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. Leaf with pp.77-78 bound in reversed (as is sometimes the case). Large folding map, with route marked by hand in red. 16mo. Original rust cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Slight wear to corners and spine.....
Liverpool. 1855. viii,120pp. plus folding map, thirty plates, and woodcuts in text after Frederick H. Piercy. Large quarto. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Map slightly trimmed, costing the top borderline in the map. Portraits of Willard Richards and John Taylor neatly excised from their old plate.....
Cincinnati: J.A. & U.P. James, 1851. vi,[9]-224pp., including several in-text illustrations and maps, plus two folding woodcut maps and two single-page maps (printed on the recto and verso of the same leaf). 16mo. Original brown cloth, elaborately stamped in blind and gilt. Spine ends and small portion of spine chipped.....
Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1840-1843. Three volumes. [4],383; [4],487; [4],410pp., plus sixty engravings on thirty plates, and a map of Fort Clark. Lacks the folding map. Half title in each volume. Contemporary three- quarter green morocco and cloth, gilt. Minor wear to extremities. Scattered foxing, moderately heavy at times. Very good.....
Philadelphia. 1800. 167pp. plus errata. Extra-illustrated with a folding plate and view of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 12mo. Contemporary half calf and boards, gilt leather labels. Front hinge tender, corners heavily worn, light wear to binding. Later bookplate on front pastedown. Ownership inscription on titlepage. Light toning, some scattered soiling and foxing.....
Cincinnati. 1847. 189pp. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original leather label preserved. Corners rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary inscription on fly leaf. Moderate foxing. About very good. First edition, second issue, with corrections made on pages 31 and 121 and without the errata slip tipped in at page 189. The.....
London: Published for the author, 1861. [4],140pp. plus five plates (three tinted, one colored). Later three-quarter roan and pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Extremities rubbed. Lower outer corner of final leaf expertly repaired. Very good. A humorous account of the author's tour giving theatrical entertainments mainly in the towns of Canada.....
Erlangen: Johann Jacob Palm, 1788. Two volumes. [24],644,[1]; [6],xxxii,551,[1]pp., plus folding map. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Two volumes from different sets, bound uniformly. First volume foxed and dampstained. Second volume with institutional ex-lib. on titlepage. Titlepage of each volume printed on thick paper. Nonetheless, a good set. The.....
[Various locations in Latin America. 1938]. [100]pp. containing 230 photographs, as well as postcards, maps, dozens of menus, greeting cards, and other travel ephemera. Thick folio. Contemporary brown paper-covered cloth, string-tied. Boards lightly scuffed and worn. Some leaves loose, moderate edge wear and chipping. Photographs clean and nice, annotations highly.....
Washington. 1876. 143pp. plus two folding maps, seven plates, and seven mounted photographic portraits. Quarto. Original three-quarter morocco and cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Front hinge starting, leather chipped in places, corners and spine extremities worn. Contemporary presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Some wrinkling to photo mounts.....
Chicago: Spalding and LaMontes, 1868. 288pp. including many illustrated advertisements. Colored frontis. Original green cloth, spine gilt, edges red. Corners bumped, extremities a bit rubbed. Later ownership ink stamps on endleaves. Light dampstaining in upper gutter margin, heavier toward end of volume. Minor foxing. About very good. An extensive guide.....
[Various locations in Oregon, California, and Colorado. 1897]. Seventy-nine printing out paper photographic prints, each image 6 x 8 inches on 9 1/2 x 11 1/4- inch medium weight sheets, all but two captioned in the negative. Minor surface wear to a handful of prints, several with minor emulsion chipping.....
