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New York. October 4, 1869. [1]p. in purple ink on a folded quarto sheet, with original envelope (addressed in Anthony's hand) including canceled stamp. Old folds, a few light fingerprints, light soiling to envelope. Very good. A brief note from Susan B. Anthony, part of a larger conversation discussing a......
New York. 1795. 184pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, leather label. Shelf wear, head of spine chipped Front free endpaper excised. Some light foxing, a few small holes in one leaf not affecting text. Else internally good. The first American edition, with the preface which was suppressed in many copies. The author.....
Glendale, Ca. The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1947. Three volumes. 412; 446pp.; atlas volume of seventy-seven plates and three maps. Original red cloth, spines gilt, t.e.g. Spines a touch sunned. A near fine set. Untrimmed. In black cloth slipcases. A handsome set of this well-illustrated and thoroughly detailed history, one.....
Greenwich. May 29, 1568. [1]p. manuscript on an 11 3/4 x 16 1/4-inch sheet. Verso with embossed paper seal and address panel. Oblong folio. Previously framed, old folds, old expert repairs to two tears along center vertical fold (no text affected). Light tanning. Very good. An important letter from Elizabeth's.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. 190,[2]pp. 16mo. Original printed wrappers. Small chips at spine ends and edges of wrappers. Early ownership inscription of "Adelaide Forrester" in upper margin of first text page. Very clean internally. Near fine overall. This book chronicles an exciting year by anyone's standards, the life.....
Pittsburgh: Printed by S. Engles, 1825. 66pp. 12mo. Contemporary half muslin and paper boards. Boards heavily worn, chipped, and stained. Text tanned, with some stains. Lower portion of leaf C torn, touching a few letters of text, leaf F with a small tear in the upper margin, also touching a......
Lexington, Ky. J. Clarke & Co., 1836. [2],viii ,410pp. plus folding engraved frontispiece map of Texas on onionskin paper, 26.8 x 34 cm., with original handcolored outline and shading. Original tan muslin, printed paper label (chipped). Cloth faded and with some wear. Moderate foxing. Map with a short closed tear.....
Mexico: Reimpresso por la Viuda de D. Joseph Hogal, 1750. [28],146,[2]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary limp vellum, later manuscript title on spine, ties lacking. 19th- century ink notes on front free endpaper. Some worming, mostly in lower gutter, not really affecting text. Previous owner's small, discreet blindstamp in upper outer corner.....
London: John Murray, 1899. [2],xvii,[3],289pp., copiously illustrated with in-text illustrations, plus fifty plates (six of them double-page) and a large chromolithographic folding map. Large quarto. Original orange cloth and illustrated paper-covered boards, spine gilt. Some shelf wear, boards a bit scuffed, hinges cracked, but holding. Folding map beginning to split.....
Cologne [actually Amsterdam]: Jean L'Ingenu [i.e. Holland], 1678. 248pp. [bound with:] de la Roche-Guilhen, Anne: ALMANZAIDE NOUVELLE.... Paris: Claude Barbin [i.e. Holland], 1676. 96pp. 12mo. Contemporary plain paper boards, spine renewed to style. Light wear to extremities. Very good. Evidently the first edition of this scarce work, offering three fictional.....
London. 1853. Two volumes bound in one. xix,[1],311; vii,344pp. Original cloth, spine elaborately gilt, covers stamped in blind. Some minor edge rubbing. Upper forecorner of front free endpaper torn with some loss. Old book prize slip. A very good copy. Reminiscences of an early settler and land agent in the.....
Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring, for E. Larkin, 1805. Three volumes. xii,447; vii,[1],412; vi,[2],475pp. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with raised bands, leather labels stamped in gilt. Evenly tanned, light scattered foxing, occasional minor chipping or worming to margins, not touching text. Very good. This excellent account.....
New York: Published for the Author by Fowler & Wells Company, 1885. [4],178pp. Original red cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Spine lightly faded and soiled, extremities lightly worn. Bookplate on front pastedown. Final forty pages bound out of order but all present. Very good. A quite rare privately printed.....
St. Louis: Becktold & Co., 1885. xiii,[1],409pp. printed in double columns. Illus. Frontis. Quarto. Original gilt pictorial pebbled purple cloth, spine gilt. Cloth faded, worn at spine ends and corners, a few nicks on spine. Library bookplate on front pastedown. Internally clean and tightly bound. Overall, about very good. A.....
Baltimore: Lucas Brothers, [ 1855]. 133,[1],95,[1]pp. plus six color plates, including numerous illustrations. Two ornate extra color titlepages. Quarto. Contemporary red cloth, ornate gilt covers and spine, a.e.g. Moderately rubbed. Plates slightly tanned. Contemporary binder's label on rear pastedown. Very good. Later edition, after the first illustrated edition of 1837.....
