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London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1953. xxi,427,[1]pp. Colored frontispiece plus thirty-two fine collotype plates. Large quarto. Original buckram, t.e.g. Very good. In worn dust jacket. Number 80 from an edition limited to 400 copies. The most comprehensive work in its field, carefully describing over 600 books, panoramas, periodicals.....
Boston: Club of Odd Volumes, 1929. Two volumes. ix,234,[1]; vii,179,[1]pp. Frontispiece in each volume. Small quarto. Original half cloth and blue paper boards, gilt stamping on front boards, printed paper labels. Mild wear to extremities, darkening to spine. Internally quite clean. Very good. An attractive selection of Audubon's journals from.....
[Boston. 1891]. One page of letterpress and thirty albertype plates. Folio. Thirty-one leaves in original green cloth portfolio with title stamped in gilt. Light spotting on front cover, else near fine. Number twenty of the limited edition of 500 copies. Similar in appearance and presentation to the 1883 SKETCH BOOK.....
[London]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1938. 196,[3]pp. Folio. Original half red and black cloth, gilt leather label. Minor wear. Internally bright and clean. Very good plus. Untrimmed. First edition, limited to 300 copies. The personal account of Father Brebeuf, Franco- Jesuit Missionary, of his time living among the Hurons. Brebeuf.....
[San Francisco: H.S. Crocker & Co., 1874]. [10],viii,393pp. Titlepage printed in brown, red, and gold. Text printed in brown ink, each text page with a red printed border. Half title. Quarto. Original blindstamped morocco, spine gilt, raised bands, a.e.g, marbled endpapers. Light wear to corners and spine ends, hinges a......
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.....
San Francisco: John Howell, 1929. xxii,422pp. including numerous in-text decorations and illustrations, plus thirty- six plates, color frontispiece, and two two- page color plates printed on thick card stock, one bound in at the beginning of the text, the other at the rear. Royal octavo. Red levant, elaborately gilt, spine.....
Wormsloe: Privately Printed, 1931. Three volumes. xxxiii,[3],448; x,[3],449-896; ix,[3],897-1395,[1]pp., with frontispiece in each volume, plus [4]pp. prospectus laid in. Large quarto. Original green cloth. Some moderate edge wear and soiling to bindings. Internally clean. Overall a very good set. Copy number 52 from an edition limited to 300 numbered copies.....
Bryan, Tx. 1982. 20pp. Pictorial wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled, internally clean. Very good. A checklist of titles worth collecting, with an accompanying essay by the author. From an edition limited to 535 copies, with thirty-five reserved by the printer, signed by Dykes.
South Orange, N.J. Investment Research Press, 1954. x,86pp. plus two promotional items, one supplement, and two investment reports laid in. Publisher's blue cloth with silver gilt title on front board, spine gilt. Occasional pencil annotations and underlining. In original printed blue dust jacket. Small pen mark to front of dust.....
Berlin: Paul Gottschalk, 1927. 89pp. plus 130 facsimiles. Folio. Original half vellum and brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Covers slightly bowed, boards a bit stained. Light foxing. Very good. In a plain dust jacket. From an edition limited to 172 copies, 150 of which were offered for sale. A very important.....
Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid, 1885-1890. Sixteen volumes in 124 [of 126] original parts as issued. This set lacks volume 10, part 4, and volume 14, part 2, both of which have been replaced with duplicates of volume 9, part 4 (for a total of three copies of that part.....
Austin: Overland Press, 1981. Folio. Three-quarter calf and cloth, t.e.g. Fine, signed and numbered by Ron Tyler on the colophon. A handsome reprint of this classic work, of which Thomas W. Streeter said, "For a long time I have regarded it as one of the Texas classics." Beautifully designed by.....
Austin: Overland Press, 1981. xii,[2],92pp. plus folding map. Folio. Crimson morocco, gilt. Fine. In slipcase. This is copy "L"and is signed on the colophon by Ron Tyler and the book's designer, Tom Whitridge. A special limited edition reprint of this classic work, of which Thomas W. Streeter wrote, "For a......
[Saint Louis. 1912]. 239pp. plus plates. Portrait. Original cloth backed boards. Spine a touch darkened. Corners worn. Else clean, tight, and very good. In a plain cloth slipcase. A presentation copy of this privately printed book, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper dated 1912, limited to an.....
New York. 1898. Two volumes. xxvii,[1],236; viii,[2],[237]-473pp., plus eighteen maps and plates, plus advertisements. Portraits. Original cloth. Near fine. From an edition limited to 950 copies. A classic account of the Missouri fur trade, edited by Elliott Coues.
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1893. Three text volumes plus atlas, totaling 1,364pp. Facsimiles, plates, and maps (some folding). Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Inner hinges on each text volume cracked, cloth a bit worn at extremities. Internally clean and very good. One of 800 sets on "fine.....
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1954. [4],86pp. plus seven facsimile maps (six folding). Large folio. Original red cloth. Lightly rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Near fine. A vital reference on the impact of the great fur trade leader and explorer on the cartography of the West, by the two foremost.....
Denver: The Old West Publishing Company, 1964. [4],liv,341pp. plus plates and folding map. Frontis. Folio. Three-quarter calf and brown buckram, spine with raised bands, gilt red morocco label. Fine. Copy number 108, from an edition limited to 250 copies signed by Dale Morgan, without slipcase. Ashley was an early American.....
Garden City. 1929/1931. Two volumes. Illustrations and facsimiles tipped in. Large thick quarto. Modern buckram, with original cover titles applied to new binding. Else very good. From an edition limited to 501 copies, of which 450 were for sale. "A Chronicle of the Firm, and of the Artists and their.....
Charleston: Steam-Power Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1861. viii,430pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt morocco label. Boards edgeworn. Early discreet library stamps (properly deaccessioned), remnants of library pocket on rear pastedown. Author's name supplied in ink on titlepage, with two dates written in ink.....
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1895. Three volumes. Six folding maps laid into pocket in third volume. Original cloth and boards, paper labels. Boards shelfworn, spines darkened, rear hinge of second volume cracked. Very clean and fresh internally. A very good set, unopened. From the special edition limited to 150.....
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.....
[New York. 1918]. 114pp., including illustrations. Frontis. 16mo. Original green cloth, spine gilt. Moderate wear at spine ends and joints, corners bumped. Clean internally. Very good. First English language edition, translated from the German edition issued in 1905, by Margaret and Erich Zimmerman. Privately printed in an edition limited to.....
London: En la casa de Trübner y Compañia, [1857]. [8],208pp. Without the portrait of Ferdinand V, not issued with all copies. Small folio. Original plain green wrappers, later paper spine label. Front wrapper detached but present, wrappers chipped at edges and lightly soiled. Very clean internally. Very good overall. Untrimmed.....
