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[Frankfurt am Main-Schwanheim: Printed by Franz Jos. Henrich, November 1945]. 114pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs. Front board and titlepage printed in blue, black and red. Quarto. Original printed paper-covered boards, tan cloth backstrip. Front board and titlepage printed in blue, black and red. Some staining, moderate edge wear to boards.....
Mexico: Imprenta de Ignacio Cumplido, 1852. 31pp. plus folding map; 12pp. PROYECTOS: Original printed green wrappers. Wrappers slightly edgeworn, glue residue on spine. Text and map detached from wrappers and loosely laid in. Light soiling along lower margin of text throughout, very good overall. DICTAMEN: Original printed blue wrappers. Near.....
[N.p., likely New York: American Defense Society, ca. 1919]. 20,[2]pp. printed on a continuous accordion- fold strip, each panel 3 x 4 inches, eleven of the pages containing full-page illustrations. Light soiling and wear. Near fine. A small, unrecorded propaganda booklet produced by the nationalistic American Defense Society (ADS) in.....
London: Published by Smith, Elder & Co., 1827. [4],xxv,[1],462pp., including passages of printed music, plus fourteen pages of publisher's advertisements. [bound with:] THE CONSOLIDATED SLAVE LAW, PASSED THE 22d December, 1826, COMMENCING ON THE 1st MAY, 1827.... [Kingston]: Published for Augustus H. Beaumont by the Courant Office, 1827. xii,47,[2],3,[16]pp. Later.....
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824. [4],511pp. plus folding frontispiece map of the United States (with states outlined in color), folding chart of the straits of Niagara, folding table, and other tables in text. Modern three-quarter leather and marbled boards, gilt label. Two bookplates on front pastedown. Small tape repair.....
Mason County, Ky. January 7, 1807. [3]pp. autograph letter, signed, on a folded folio sheet. Addressed on the blank fourth page. Old folds. Moderate tanning, small holes in second leaf. Wax residue from original seals in margin. Very good. A fascinating letter written by Charles Ward, one of the earliest.....
Philadelphia: Leary, Stuart, and Company, 1913. Two volumes. xi,298; xii,303pp., plus 178 colored plates and three maps (one folding). Half title in both volumes. Tall, thick octavo. Original red and tan cloth, printed paper labels, t.e.g. Minor shelf wear, spines lightly sunned, labels soiled and chipped at edges. Closed tear.....
London, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1787. Two volumes. xv,462; xii,432pp., plus two folding maps and three folding plates. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, leather label. Quite clean internally. Near fine. The first British (and first English language) edition. A classic American travel narrative, called by Howes "the first trustworthy.....
Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Nacional, [1824]. 81pp. Small quarto. Later calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt leather labels. Binding slightly rubbed, Text lightly tanned, small stab holes in gutter from original stitching, gutter periodically reinforced with paper. Very good. Chile's short-lived but significant constitution of 1823, nicknamed the "Moralistic.....
[N.p. 1863]. 4pp., printed on a folded quarto sheet. Neat, closed splits at top and bottom of central fold. Tanned, a bit of light soiling. Very good. Produced after the Confederate failure of Morgan's Raid in 1863, the anonymous Northern author of this work suggests that, since the war is.....
New York: Published by Betts & Anstice, and Peter Hill, 1834. 232pp. Original rose cloth, gilt leather label. Cloth soiled and sunned, corners worn, label rubbed. Later 19th-century bookplate on front pastedown (see below) and pencil notes on front free endpaper. An occasional light fox mark or stain, but generally.....
![Item #WRCAM57791 PROSPECTUS OF THE HARRIS CATTLE COMPANY [caption title]. Harris Cattle Company](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM57791.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1666289589)
[N.p., but likely Boston. ca. 1899]. [4]pp., on a folded folio sheet, including illustrated title panel, masthead, and map. Old folds. Light general wear and one small edge chip. Very good plus. An unrecorded prospectus for a North Dakota ranching operation. The Harris Cattle Company was incorporated in Maine by.....
[Various places, mostly Sand Point, Id. and Victor, Mt. 1915-1938]. Two volumes. [2],142; [142]pp., nearly all filled in in manuscript. Quarto. Original three-quarter leather and pebbled black cloth, gilt. Leather rubbed, both spines perished, boards detached and most leaves of first volume loose, hinges of second volume cracked but holding.....
Buffalo. August 8, 1844. [7 1/2]pp. autographed letter, signed, on four folio leaves. Approximately 1900 words. Old folds, small holes from original wax seal. Very good. A fiery, loquacious, and fascinatingly analytical letter written by young New York Democrat James M. Smith, commenting at length about the upcoming gubernatorial election.....
Madrid: Bernardo de Villa-Diego, 1684. [32],548,[15]pp. including additional engraved titlepage. Small folio. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, later burgundy morocco gilt label. Some wear and scuffing to boards, corners bumped, a few small worm holes to spine ends, hinges reinforced. Three leaves with internal tears at the inner.....
Nashville: State Department of Education, 1935. 22pp. Original printed grey wrappers. Small dark stain along top edge throughout, otherwise internally and externally clean. Near fine. An interesting bibliography and guide for school librarians in Tennessee during the Great Depression and the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance. This edition was.....
[Tokyo and surroundings. ca. 1960]. 186 mounted photographs and postcards on [32] leaves, plus eleven loose photographs and five printed flyers. Images vary from 2 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches to 10 x 7 1/2 inches. Quarto photograph album. Original green velvet with origami crane stitched in gilt on front.....
