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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.....
Honolulu: Published by the Board, 1922. 674pp., plus [26]pp. of manuscript notes laid in. Original tan buckram, gilt leather labels. Light shelf wear, labels starting to chip. One introductory page torn in lower margin and gutter (with no loss of text), with tape repairs. Light scattered foxing. Contemporary ownership inscription.....
New York: The Bradstreet Company, 1882. [4],50pp. plus frontispiece, sixty-eight unnumbered pages of maps, and six pages of advertisements. Oblong 12mo. Original limp dark morocco lettered in gilt. Leather rubbed, corners and spine frayed, spine beginning to separate from text block, internally clean. Good plus. Third edition of this charming.....
London: Printed for Robt. Sayer & Jno. Bennett, August 5, 1776. Engraved map, partially handcolored, 28 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches, framed to 32 x 24 3/4 inches. Old horizontal fold at center. Mild foxing, even light tanning. Very good. The original issue of William Brassier's magnificently detailed large-scale map.....
Berkeley: Schmidt, Skilling Co., [ca. 1910]. Lithographed folding map, 10 x 10 3/4 inches. Three vertical folds. Near fine. A small, unrecorded folding map showing roads, railways, and tracts of land in Berkeley, California issued in the wake of the 1906 earthquake. The map shows Berkeley, the University of California.....
[Oklahoma]. 1903-1905. Two partially-printed forms (printed on both sides), accomplished in type and signed in manuscript. Old folds. Seals of the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations on both forms. Near fine. Two allotment patents issued to members of the Chickasaw Nation in 1905, signed, sealed, and effected in accordance with the.....
Paris: Hôtel de Thou, 1785. Four volumes. [8],cxxxij,437,[3]; [4],422; [4],488; [4],552pp., plus eighty-eight engraved plates and maps, mostly folding, and folding vocabulary table in fourth volume. Half title in each volume. Quarto. Contemporary mottled Spanish calf, spines gilt with raised bands, leather labels. Boards scuffed, light shelf wear, spine ends.....
Lahainaluna: Press of the Mission Seminary, 1843. viii,464pp. plus folding engraved map. 12mo. Contemporary sheep, spine gilt, leather label. Scattered foxing and staining. Contemporary presentation inscription on front free endpaper (see below). Very good. The first edition of the "first full-scale history [of Hawaii] printed in the Islands...one of the.....
[Atlanta: Budden & Son, ca. 1890]. 68pp., including numerous in-text and full- page illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers slightly tanned, some damage to upper left corner of front wrapper, faint circular stamp on rear wrapper. Soft vertical crease. Internally clean. Very good. A very rare promotional booklet for Gainesville, Georgia.....
London, Printed by and for C. and R. Baldwin, 1809. xi,[1],203,[5]pp. including 4pp. of printer's advertisements, plus folding frontispiece map. Modern speckled calf, gilt label, raised bands. A bit of soiling and wear to upper edge of a few leaves, folding map foxed. Very good. First edition of this detailed.....
Hacienda del Colorado. June 20, 1824. [1]p. autograph letter, signed, on a folding folio sheet. Old folds. Light foxing and one small chip to outer edge without loss. Very good. A brief note written by the first Mexican emperor, Agustin de Iturbide, in the months shortly before his coronation. In.....
Venetia: Presso Marco Ginammi, 1630. [16],150,[2]pp. printed mostly in two columns, including two pages of printer's advertisements and woodcut printer's device, initials, and decorations. Small quarto. Later stiff paper wrappers. Binding lightly worn and soiled. Two small ink stains on titlepage, faint dampstain to lower right corner of text throughout.....
Jacksonville: Ashmead Bros. 1883. 122pp., including headpiece, tailpiece, and floral initial for each chapter. Original limp burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine slightly sunned, light shelf wear. Internally clean. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Near fine. A presentation copy, inscribed by Manville on the front fly leaf. True to.....
Mexico City. July 26, 1846. [48]pp. manuscript in Spanish. On stationery of the Ministerio de Guerra y Marina. Folio. Stitched, as issued, with contemporary ribbon. Upper inner corner of first two leaves chipped, without loss of text. Light soiling and wear to outer leaves; moderate soiling to final leaf, small.....
[Various places, mostly Birney, Mt. 1940-1942]. 142 mounted photographs, from 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches to 1 x 1 1/2 inches, plus fourteen laid-in photographs. Four laid-in Christmas cards or postcards, and a 5pp. original typed poem. Tall quarto photograph album. Contemporary green cloth, spine and boards gilt. Light.....
[Salt Lake City]: Deseret News Print, 1860. xxiii,xliv,75,6pp. Lacking front free endpaper. Contemporary half diced sheep and marbled boards. Binding quite rubbed and worn. Light tanning, scattered ink spotting (primarily to titlepage). Contemporary ownership inscription on rear endpaper (see below). A very good copy overall. The first edition of the.....
New York: William H. Richardson, 1849. 96pp. including one in-text illustration, plus three wood-engraved plates (including the frontispiece) and one facsimile letter. Original pictorial wrappers. Slightly chipped at foot of spine. Light scattered foxing and staining. A very good copy. The second printing of the third edition of this work.....
Otley, [West Yorkshire]: Printed by William Walker, 1842. [2],192pp. plus frontispiece. 24mo. Original ribbed brown cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt, a.e.g. Edges and spine ends worn, slightly cocked. Front hinge cracked, but holding by cords. Internally clean. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Good plus. A rather scarce.....
[Watertown, S.D. ca. 1880-1888]. [4]pp., on a folded sheet, including double- page map of Lake Kampeska, a smaller map of the Watertown area, and one illustration. Old folds, light edge wear. Ink stamp of lawyer and realtor W.H. Donaldson above map. Very good. An unrecorded flyer lobbying for Watertown, South.....
[Madrid]. 1778. 55pp. Small quarto. Modern calf, gilt leather label. Light scattered foxing, light dampstain to lower third of final eight leaves. Very good plus. A rare collection of nine Royal Decrees, Resolutions, Instructions, and other official declarations made by King Charles III of Spain between 1765 and 1778, with.....
Boston: Ferdinand Andrews, and Charleston, S.C.: Alston Mygatt, 1839-1840. Twelve volumes. Numerous single-page maps. Frontispiece in first and twelfth volumes. Contemporary calf, spines gilt. First volume rebacked with repairs to edges of boards. Boards a bit rubbed and stained, some shelf wear, some spine labels chipping, contemporary and later inscriptions.....
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., [ca. 1880]. Folding map printed on a single sheet, 18 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches, verso with fifteen panels of printed text. Old folds. Minor tanning. Slight splitting along some folds and a few cross-folds. Very good. A scarce promotional for Missouri and Arkansas published.....
[Various locations, as below. Primarily 1843-1866]. 5,909 manuscript documents, mostly on partially-printed stationery or billheads. Approximately three linear feet in total. Housed in a variety of accordion folders, manila folders, and other containers. Old folds on most documents, occasional light staining, inkspots, or minor chipping. Overall in very good condition.....
[Various places including Sapporo and Aomori Prefecture. 1945]. 298 mounted photographs on [35] leaves, most photographs 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches. Plus one laid-in photograph of Company A, with one member's picture excised. Oblong folio photograph album. Blindstamped red paper in the form of faux leather, gilt pictorial embossed.....
