History and Culture of the Americas in general, and of the United States in particular.
(Image is from The Army of the United States, 19190.)
Albany: Joseph McDonough, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 258pp. Folding map. Cloth backed boards, printed paper labels on upper board and on the spine. One of 500 copies. Howes J266. "The map, based on La Salle's Mississippi explorations, was the first accurate delineation of that river." --Jenkins Basic Texas Books..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. x,(2),287pp. Frontispiece portrait of Don Carlos. Blue T-grain cloth, gilt spine title. Neat ownership name dated 1931, a few pencil notations, else a very good copy. Definitive biography of this New Spain priest, poet, non-fiction writer, mathematician, historian, philosopher, cartographer..... More
New-York: H. C. Sotuhwick, 1807. Hardcover. Turn of the century half green morocco. Spine in 6 compartments, gilt. T.e.g. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. Bound by W. Smith, New York. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Count Pulaski. 3 discreet library stamps, one of which, on the reverse of the title page..... More
Paris: Libraire Plon, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. xvi, 292pp. Illustrated by R. J. de Boisvray. Contemporary quarter green calf, spine in five compartments, gilt, marbled paper boards and endpapers. Spine is rubbed in places, light wear to the corners and edges else this is a very good copy. Stories..... More
New=Orleans: Printed by Lyman and Beardslee, 1827. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, 8vo. lxxxiii,(1),364;xv,(1)429pp. Contemporary full leather, spines with simple rules, leather lettering labels, gilt. Half-titles present in both volumes. Ownership name, E. Rawle, on the reverse of the half-titles. The classic history of Louisiana, from the discovery of America..... More
Richmond: Peter Cotton, 1825. Hardcover. The third edition, enlarged and improved. 12mo. vii,(8)-228pp. Contemporary full calf. Illustrated. Lacks front free endpaper and lettering label; spine and head of spine worn; dampstain on the upper third of the first half of the text block, but a presentable copy of a scarce..... More
Boston: 1st: Published by the Church; 2nd: C. C. C. P. Moody, 1854; 1852. Hardcover. 8vo. (6),53,(4); 124pp. Original green cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Cloth sunned and gilt faded else a very good copy. With the signature of Sarah S. Clement dated 1896 of the prominent Rutland, Vermont..... More
Gloucester: Board of Trade, (1909). Wraps. Oblong 8vo. (84)pp. String bound. Upper wrapper printed; lower wrapper plain. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Text covers Gloucester history, fisheries, catching fish, recipes, schools, etc., With a foldout panorama of Gloucester harbor, 4½ by 32 inches. Light wear and spotting, panorama reinforced at..... More
Tucson: Letter, 1943. Stapled wraps. The December 1943-January 1944 issue of this monthly journal, replete with articles on the Home Front, Russia, India and China and Men and Women. Examples: "Shall Arizona Allow Japanese Americans to Raise Vegetables?"; "How Did Russia Grow Strong?"; "Women in Pants". 40 articles, drawings, reviews..... More
New York: George P. Putnam and Co., 1854. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original publisher's maroon marbled cloth, upper cover with elaborate blocked design in gilt and blind with large central sunken lozenge blocked with a gilt vignette of the "southern mocking bird" signed "Tompson" (in reverse), derived from the plate..... More
New York: B. M. Whitlock, n.d. (1889). Illustrated by H. A. Ogden. First edition. Hardcover. Large folio. Half leather, spine in 6 compartments, gilt; maroon colored pebbled cloth, gilt title on the upper board; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. With 44 full page chromolithographed illustrations of the uniforms of the..... More
Auburn: Derby and Miller, et al. 1853. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi,(17)-336pp. 4pp. publisher's ads inserted between the front endpapers. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards embossed in blind. Yellow coated endpapers. Illustrated with seven full page illustrations, including the frontispiece of the author. Significantly foxed, as..... More
Ann Arbor: n.p., ca. 1878. Stiff card. Original albumen photograph 6 by 8 inches and mounted to card with the handwritten captions. The photograph depicts University hall with two smartly dressed gentlemen outside. The Hall was built in 1871. In 1879 the 'pepper box' towers and balustrade were removed, hence..... More
New York, et al: Th A. N. Palmer Co., n.d. Stiff card. A complete set of fifteen cards, 8 by 17 inches, printed in black with letters and numbers in white showing the capital and lower case alphabet, numbers and symbols in the Palmer handwriting method. These cards were..... More
Philadelphia: Atkinson & Alexander, 1828. Disbound. Disbound. A fine copy. Possession of a billiard table should be fined, and tippling on the Sabbath punished by the stocks. The complete title: 'Report of a Committee Appointed by the Pennsylvania Society, for Discouraging the Use of Ardent Spirits, to Examine and Report..... More
London: Printed for Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1746. Hardcover. Folio. Extracted from third edition of Churchill's Voyages, VI, pp. 187-255. The full page engraved plate of the Draught of the Harbour of Praya (Cape Verde) is present. Bound to style with leather spine, marbled paper boards, leather lettering label..... More
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1960). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xiii,(1),177pp. Dark gray cloth, spine printed in white. Illustrated throughout with photographs. A near fine copy with only a trace of war. The dustwrapper is not price clipped and shows the original $5.00 price. It is a little rough..... More
1988. Two items relating to the groundbreaking of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs in Simi Valley, California, on November 21, 1988. The items are: 1. Official progam for the ceremony of blue card cover, 4pp., and 2.Gorham Sterling bookmark given to the invited guests, in..... More
America (Philadelphia): Printed for the Subscribers (Robert Bell), 1770; i.e., 1770-1771. First American edition. Hardcover. First edition printed in America. Three volumes. 8vo. viii,(ii),360;(xvi),374;(xlii),351,(lvii)pp., but with several errors in pagination as noted by Evans. Contemporary full sheep; spines with simple gilt rules and volume numbers in gilt; red leather lettering..... More
Washington: Richard Armstrong, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Senate Issue. 8vo. Original brown ribbed cloth blocked in blind on the boards and spine and with the title in copper on the spine. Spine sunned and title dulled, with wear to the edges and corners, else this is a very good copy..... More
Boston: Tappan and Dennet, 1843. Hardcover. 8vo. xix,(1),562pp. Illustrated with plates and maps, the plate with tissue-guards. Finely bound in full navy morocco, spine in five compartments with raised bands, intricately gilt; the boards with gilt borders and gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. The unsigned binding is almost certainly..... More
London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co, 1838. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xi,(1),380,xciv,(2)pp. Finely bound in full brown morocco, gilt spine title, decorative endpapers. Errata page present in rear after page xciv. A near fine copy. The stated purpose of the expedition was to ascertain "the actual condition of the Negro..... More
Pittsfield, Mass: E. P. Little, 1844. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 64 (i.e., 68) pp: Pp. 17-20 are repeated. Publisher's black cloth embossed in blind on the boards and in gilt on the spine. Edges and corners worn, binding and text stained but still a good copy. Second Sabbath School Series..... More
Newburyport: Repertory Office, 1804. Hardcover. Pages untrimmed. Bound in original boards covered in blue-gray paper. Later paper spine. Light foxing and staining else a very good copy and completely untrimmed. This is the first Newburyport edition, after trhe Richmond edition of the previous year. Howes W-585... More
