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[Antigua & London. 1749-1761]. Twenty-one manuscript documents, ranging from one to three pages each. Most documents very good or better, occasional light tanning or minor splitting at folds. Blizard a.l.s. (see below) somewhat more tanned with considerable wear to edges and corners, causing loss of a few words. Very good.....
East Plainfield, OH: Printed at the Office of the "Practical Preacher" N.A. Baker, Printer, 1850. 192pp. 12mo. Original dark brown ribbed cloth, paper label. Somewhat rubbed, spine ends and corners worn. Scattered foxing, copyright statement pasted to verso of titlepage partially torn away. Very good. In a cloth clamshell box.....
Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826. 192pp. plus ten folding maps. 20th-century green cloth, red morocco gilt label. Boards lightly soiled. Ex-Easton (PA) Public Library with their blindstamp on the titlepage and a faded ink number on the copyright page. Light to moderate scattered foxing to the text; the.....
Albany: Charles R. and George Webster, 1823. 352pp. plus five plates (two folding) and folding map. Half title. Later polished calf by Zaensdorf, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g., spine gilt extra, gilt leather labels. Binding lightly rubbed. Text lightly tanned, occasional foxing and some offsetting from plates. Very good. This popular.....
London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1784 [i.e. 1783]. [2],52pp. 20th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, t.e.g. Minor shelf wear. Small repair to gutter of titlepage, minimal foxing and tanning. Impression of removed bookplate on front pastedown. Very good plus. The first edition of Philadelphia merchant and land speculator.....
New York: Geo. S. Evans & Co., Printers, 1882. 94pp., including two portraits. Original purple cloth, gilt, a.e.g. Some shelf wear, worn at spine ends and corners. Very clean internally. Very good. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. This is the Thomas W. Norris copy, with his.....
Cambridge: Published by John Owen, 1842. Two volumes. xvi,249; viii,240pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Moderate foxing and staining. Very good. Narrative of Richard Cleveland (1773-1860), an intrepid New England sea captain, navigator, ship owner and merchant who sailed many times around the world and was instrumental.....
London. 1783. [4],35,113,[3]pp. plus folding chart. Half title. Gathered signatures, stitched. Minor wear and dust-soiling to first and last leaves, short tear to last leaf at the stitching, otherwise very good. Untrimmed. Sir Henry Clinton's reply to Cornwallis' defense of his conduct during the Yorktown campaign and at the Battle.....
Leona Vicario [Saltillo]: [Samuel Bangs], January 9, 1830. [1]p. In Spanish. Manuscript notation in upper right corner, "N. 8" and at bottom, "Al Alcalde de Allende." Folio. Minor staining in margins, light foxing. Very good. A rare Mexican Texas legal decree regarding further measures regulating military reserves after the adoption.....
New-London: Printed by Timothy Green, 1784. 8,6,[2],265,267-307,309-315pp. Folio. Modern half cloth and paper boards, printed paper label. Inscription on titlepage. Lightly tanned. Very good. This copy bears an inscription on the titlepage reading: "presented to David Howell." Howell was a Yale College professor, State Attorney General, and a federal judge.....
Boston: Published by Charles Williams, 1812. 219pp. plus five woodcut plates. Lacks the errata leaf, as usual. Later mottled calf ruled in gilt, by Riviere & Son, spine gilt extra with raised bands, gilt leather labels, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. Light shelf wear. Light soiling to the first few leaves.....
Buffalo: Hayes Litho. Co., 1883. Chromolithograph, 16¾ x 21¼ inches. Lightly tanned. A few small closed tears in the edges of the sheet, far from the image. Affixed to board. Very good. The famous view of the execution of thirty-eight Dakota warriors following the Dakota War of 1862, still the.....
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839. xvi,352pp. plus ten plates (including frontispiece), folding map handcolored in outline, and tipped-in errata slip before p.339. Later 19th-century three-quarter red calf and cloth, spine gilt extra with raised bands, gilt leather label. Light shelf wear. Some offsetting onto the map, one fold of.....
London: Printed by S. Palmer, 1725. 219pp. Quarto. Contemporary Cambridge-style calf, rebacked in matching calf with raised bands, original label preserved. Corners repaired in matching calf. Internally quite clean. Very good. In a cloth clamshell box, spine gilt. The third edition of Wollaston's religious work, after the first of 1722.....
Paris: Chez Denys Thierry, 1685. [24],300pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt extra with raised bands, gilt leather label. Light shelf wear. Minor scattered staining. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on front free endpaper, erased ownership inscription on titlepage. Very good overall. One of the earliest obtainable editions, and first in French, of.....
New York: Printed and Sold by Christian Brown, [1831]. [16]pp. (pagination erratic), including illustrations. Dbd. Small ink ownership stamp of titlepage and following leaf; inked numeric notation at the top of titlepage. A very good copy. Untrimmed. An important account of piracy in the Age of Jackson, and the capture.....
Pittsburgh: Published by H. Patterson & Lambdin, 1820. 46,[2],47-274pp. including sixteen maps. 12mo. Contemporary half sheep and paper- covered boards, spine gilt. Worn at spine ends and corners, three small worm holes in spine, boards rubbed and paper scuffed. Modern bookplate on front pastedown, two ownership stamps on endpapers. Bottom.....
[Newburyport, London, and Cronstadt. 1813-1815]. Five autograph letters, signed, a total of [9]pp. pages. Each letter addressed in manuscript for mailing. Old folds, light foxing and soiling. Some damage from original seals, touching a few words on some pages, a few closed splits along folds. Overall very good. Housed in.....
Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, 1805. 271pp. plus five engraved plates (four folding) comprising three maps, one chart, and one view. Modern polished calf by Zaehnsdorf, ruled in gilt, spine gilt extra with raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, t.e.g. Interior very clean. Large map of Ohio with a few.....
London: T. Cadell, 1777. 16pp. including half title. Quarto. Dbd. Light scattered foxing, minor marginal damage at gutter where disbound. Very good. A firmly anti-American sermon delivered by Richard Hurd, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, on a day of general fasting and prayer appointed by George III at the end.....
Dubuque: Nonpareil Job Printing and Publishing House, 1858. 40pp. Two frontispieces and an in-text illustration. Original printed yellow wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled. Bookplate on verso of front wrapper. Foxing. Good. Denoted the "second edition" on the front wrapper, one of several versions of this pamphlet, all issued in 1858.....
New York: J. & J. Harper, 1827. 264pp. Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper label. Minor wear to binding. Text lightly foxed. Very good plus. In a cloth slipcase. Johnston and his party were captured at the mouth of the Scioto and were taken to Sandusky by a band of Indians.....
London: J. Almon, 1767. 22,[1]pp. Modern paper boards, printed paper label. Internally clean. Near fine. In a brown half morocco and cloth folder, spine gilt. An intriguing reprint of two papers drawn up and published by a 1739 association of colonial merchants headed by Sir William Keith, colonial governor of.....
[New York]. 1881. 19pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit chipped, two soft vertical creases throughout, rear wrapper partially split along spine. Mild toning to text, but clean. Still, a good plus copy. The scarce first printing of this important tract, which saw two more editions - each expanded in.....
Frankfort: William Hunter, 1809-1811. Three volumes. [2],xiii,759; [2],xvi,630; vii,621; v,[1],536pp. Contemporary sheep, tooled in blind, contemporary and later gilt labels on spine. All bindings rubbed and scuffed, labels chipped, sheep stained, hinges of second volume cracked but holding strong. Tanning and light staining, upper portion of front free endpaper of.....
