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London & Toronto. 1846. [4],196pp. including eight engraved plates. 12mo. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt. Light shelf wear. Bookplate of Frank Deering on front pastedown, contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Very minor scattered foxing. Very good. Beaven, an Anglican minister, accepted an appointment as professor of.....
Auburn: Published by J.G. Hathaway, 1815. Two volumes. 228,94,[2]; 264,129,[3]pp. Contemporary calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Some wear to boards; spine on second volume worn, label lacking. Light scattered foxing. Still, a very good set in unsophisticated original condition. In a green half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. Howes.....
Montreal, Toronto, Quebec, & Ottawa. 1845-1906. Seventy-seven works, including numerous maps. Some in original wrappers, some volumes in contemporary leather bindings, some in later yellow buckram. Some map volumes supplied, at least in part, in facsimile. Overall very good. A long run of the geological survey of Canada, with some.....
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.....
[N.p. N.d., but ca. 1763]. [1]p. Quarto. Separation at old fold, repaired on verso with contemporary paper; minor wear otherwise. Very good. Croghan, a deputy Indian agent serving under British agent William Johnson, writes to an unnamed recipient concerning a map of the northern British colonies. This letter presumably accompanied.....
Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait, 1849. 21 1/2 x 29 inches, folded into 12mo. contemporary cloth folder, gilt-lettered cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Two minor tears in from left edge along folds, one three-inch tear also in from left edge; additional small separations at intersections. Occasional faint soiling. Printed color bright and clean.....
[N.p.]: September to November, 1857. Thirty-seven leaves, some with images on recto and verso, including thirty-eight original drawings of North American interest (eighteen pen and ink, five pencil, and fifteen watercolor or wash drawings), each with identifying caption, many of these dated. Oblong quarto, 9¼ x 12 inches. Expertly bound.....
[Marquette, Mi.? 1851-1852]. Twelve volumes. [40]; [32]; [32]; [36]; [34]; [36]; [38]; [32]; [34]; [40]; [40]; [32]pp. Approximately 54,000 words in total. Oblong octavo. Plain paper wrappers, handstitched, manuscript title on front wrappers. Faint old vertical fold to center of each volume; occasional light soiling and chipping and even tanning.....
[Washington. 1854]. Thirty-seven (of forty-four) maps, plans, and views. Contemporary calf, red and black gilt morocco labels. Internally clean. Very good. An exhaustive collection of congressional documents, including many maps from President Pierce's message to Congress. The documents range in subject matter from survey maps of Arkansas, Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan.....
Silver Creek, N.Y. Greenleaf & Montgomery, 1853. Letterpress broadside, 12 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches. Moderate edge wear, minor loss near top edge. Some creasing, minor soiling and staining. Overall, very good. A seemingly-unrecorded early industrial broadside from the town of Silver Creek, New York. Silver Creek, on the shore.....
London. 1761. Two volumes bound in one. [8],132,*129- *142,[133]-168 (as issued); [4],246pp. plus eighteen folding maps and plans. Errata overslip on p.80 of second volume. Folio. Antique-style speckled calf, tooled in gilt, spine gilt, raised bands, gilt morocco label. Minor toning and foxing. A handsome copy in very good condition.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868. 39pp. plus color folding map, 23 1/4 x 44 3/4 inches. Original printed wrappers. Presentation inscription on front wrapper (see below). Wrapper edges chipped, minor soiling and tanning to wrappers, spine partially chipped, old vertical fold to pamphlet. Light foxing and tanning and occasional soiling.....
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1824. Two volumes. xii,[1],[9]-439pp. plus four plates, frontispiece, and folding map; vi,[5]- 459pp. plus frontispiece and nine plates. Half calf and marbled boards. Scattered foxing in both volumes. Map with a few delicate repairs on verso along folds. A good copy. First edition of the primary.....
The Hague: Chez les Freres l'Honore, 1703. Two volumes. [24],279pp. plus frontispiece, two folding maps, and eleven plates (two folding); 220,[17]pp. plus folding map and eleven plates (three folding). 12mo. Later 19th-century half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Extremities rubbed. Large folding map reinforced at folds. Some light toning.....
St. Paul. 1852. [2],98,[12]pp. Frontis. Original calf-backed printed boards. Spine worn and chipped. Front hinge cracked but holding. Edges a bit rubbed. Still a clean nice copy. Good plus. A very nice copy of the second MINNESOTA YEAR BOOK. Le Duc, a Saint Paul bookseller, was a vigorous promoter of.....
[Amsterdam. 1720]. Single-sheet map, 9¾ x 7¾ inches. Minor foxing. Near fine. A scarce early map of the Mississippi River Valley, depicting the American region between the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes, taken from HET GROOT TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID... [THE GREAT MIRROR OF FOLLY], a scathing account of.....
Montreal: John Lovell, 1865. 297pp. plus frontispiece portrait and three engraved plates. Half title. Original three- quarter morocco and marbled boards, gilt, spine gilt. Edges and corners worn, hinges starting, spine rubbed. Half title repaired and mounted on last front free endpaper. Contemporary presentation inscription in pencil on front free.....
![Item #WRCAM37407 [MANUSCRIPT MAP OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA]. Pennsylvania, Robert Lettis Hooper, Jr](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM37407.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593711545)
[N.p., but likely northwest Pennsylvania. ca. 1770]. Two joined pieces of paper, 15 x 15 1/2 inches total. Old folds. Three very small separations at folds with no real loss, some wrinkling, else near fine. An intriguing, detailed, and very rare manuscript map of northwestern Pennsylvania, created by noted surveyor.....
Boston: Published by the Prince Society, 1885. vi,[2],385pp. plus original subscription form. [with:] Campbell, Henry Colin: RADISSON'S JOURNAL: ITS VALUE AND HISTORY. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1895. [87]-116pp. Quarto. 20th- century polished calf, gilt, spine gilt with raised bands. Mild shelf wear. Small ink ownership inscription on front.....
Paris: [Imprimé par Thunot et Ce.], 1857. [4],112pp., plus one folding plate. Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, gilt label. Light shelf wear. Minor foxing throughout. Very good. First edition, apparently never translated into English, of this significant study of Lake Superior's copper mines. Louis Edouard Rivot was a French.....
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. Millan, 1765. viii,236pp. Half title. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt leather label, board edges tooled in gilt. Label largely chipped away, small chip to head of spine, front joint tender. Small tear in leaf B3 (touching three.....
Chicago. 1856. 20pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, spine stamped in brown and gilt. Text trimmed close at fore-edge, costing portions of words throughout. Good. A rare and important polemic "written in bitter hostility to the Hudson's Bay Company, and exposing their operations on the Pacific Coast and among.....
