New Orleans: Clark & Hofeline, 1881. 64pp. 16mo. Original pebbled cloth, printed label on front board. Cloth rubbed and stained, the label chipped at the edges. Contemporary printed advertisements mounted to pastedowns, contemporary manuscript notes on rear free endpaper. Presentation inscription on verso of front free endpaper (see below). Titlepage.....

Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1835. 94pp. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, ruled in gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed. Internally clean. Fine. In a cloth chemise and red half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. A presentation copy of Adams' speech honoring the memory of Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette.....

Georgetown, Demerara: James Thomson, [ca. 1885]. Titlepage and contents leaf, followed by fifty half-tone plates. Oblong quarto. Original half diced morocco and printed paper boards, expertly rebacked with matching diced morocco backstrip. Boards soiled, rubbed and scraped, corners and edges worn. Free endpapers mended, rear endpaper torn at edges. Titlepage.....

[Boston: Edes & Gill], 1774. Broadside, 12 x 7 inches, mounted on 14 x 9¼- inch sheet. Signed in type by Benjamin Lincoln. Tanned. Large chips to upper corners and left edge, lower quarter of the sheet with loss of paper affecting five lines of text (about two dozen words).....

Mexico: Pedro Balli, 1575. 268 [of 288]pp., also lacking initial [12]pp. of preliminaries and leaves I1, I8, and R1. Small quarto. 19th-century cloth with calf spine; spine gilt, boards stamped in blind. Light wear to spine, corners bumped. With the bookplate of noted bibliographer Henry R. Wagner. Leaf A1 with.....

Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson, 1796. xi,[1],150,[2]pp. Half title. 12mo. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked in matching style, spine gilt, leather label. Bumping and wear to tips of boards. 19th-century bookplate of Lawrence D. Knowles on front pastedown, with his ownership signatures on front free endpaper. Text uniformly age-toned. Very good.....

[Washington, D.C. ca. 1898-1916]. Fifty-two leaves, each containing an autograph and a pen-and-ink portrait. Oblong small octavo. Original limp calf, gilt stamping on front cover, a.e.g. Wear to extremities, front board starting to separate from pastedown, rear board with vertical crease and cracked pastedown. A few spots of light soiling.....

Dublin: James Carson...for the Author, 1737. xv,408pp. plus engraved folding map, and four engraved plates. Antique three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt, spine gilt, leather label. Two plates with minor chips and tears (one repaired with tape on verso). Slight toning and a few light stains. Very good. Brickell accompanied.....

Wheatland, near Lancaster, [Pa.]. April 28, 1852. [2]pp. on a folded folio leaf, docketed on the fourth page. One horizontal and two vertical folds. Lightly dampstained. Two tiny edge tears. Very good. In a blue half leather and cloth folding box, gilt. A remarkable political letter from future president James.....

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1883. xii,[2],473pp., plus twelve portraits (including frontispiece) and six pages of publisher's advertisements. 12mo. Publisher's green cloth, spine gilt. Cloth a bit rubbed and soiled, neatly rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Front and rear free endpapers chipped in edges. Text slightly tanned. Contemporary presentation.....

[Aboard the H.M.S. Tonnant, off Apalachicola, Fl. ca. December 5, 1814]. [1]p. of a folded sheet, [4]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Numerous cross-outs and emendations. Old folds. Near fine. A fascinating and forceful pair of draft addresses by British fleet second-in-command Rear Admiral Edward Codrington, directed chiefly to the.....

York-town, Pa. Printed by John Dunlap, 1778. [2],520,xxvii pp. Contemporary paper boards, spine with paper loss, front board detached. Contemporary ownership inscription of Solon Stevens on front fly leaf. Light, even toning. Some minor soiling. Very good, in original unsophisticated condition. In a red half morocco and cloth box, spine.....