Boston: Samuel Walker and Company, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Large 4tos. Illustrated under the supervision of George T. Andrew from original designs by F. G. C. Darley, Wm. L. Shepard, Granville Perkins, etc. Half leather. Spines in 6 compartments, gilt. Marbled paper boards, edges and endpapers. Upper inner..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964-1986. First edition. Eight volumes. Large 8vo. Turquoise colored cloth, gilt spine titles. Complete. Covers the period 1820-1840. Two indices. A fine set, and the only set to date that collects the writings of the son of President John Quincy Adams. More
New York: Lewis Colby, 1845. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. viii, 254pp. Black cloth, gilt spine title. Edges, corners and spine tips well worn else a very good copy. The authors' letters published in a Boston newspaoer from 1844-1845 are here collected and published in book form for the first..... More
New York: Frank Leslie's Publishing House, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (6), 320,(4)pp. Chromolithographed frontispiece and with nearly 800 illustrations. Half leather, spine in six compartments, gilt, purple cloth in a pebble-grain pattern embossed in gilt on the upper board. Marbled endpapers and edges. Light wear to the edges, hinges..... More
Denver: Wahlgreen Publishing Company, (1927). Limited edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, 4to. 300; 280(1)pp. Full black leather, gilt spine titles and tooling, decorated edges, yellow endpapers. Spines lightly sunned else a fine set. Illustrated with engravings and maps. The limited 'deluxe' edition of an unspecified number signed by the author..... More
New York: Ferrar & Rinehart, (1942). First edition, first printing. Fine. I fine copy in a fine unclipped dustwrapper. 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
n.p. n.p., n.d. (1939). Tunnel Book. Colour pictorial upper scene with single central peep-hole, four cut-away panels and a back-scene, all printed in color, 5 by 6¼ inches. When opened accordion style it shows the Grand Concourse from the 1939 New York World's Fair, culminating in a picture of the..... More
New York: J. H. Colton, 1864. Hardcover. Lithographed map, hand-colored. Image size 29½ by 41½ inches, folded into a folder of brown textured cloth embossed in blind and gilt. The map has been reinforced on the reverse at the corners with what appears to be old archival glassine tape which..... More
Detroit: The Free Press Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 299, (2) pp. The final page contains errata. Original textured cloth, gilt spine title. Light wear to the corners and spine tips, occasional light foxing, else a very good copy. The author was Colonel of..... More
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Four volumes. 8vo. Original green T-grain cloth, gilt spine titles Frontispiece in each volume and 12 additional plates. The rear pocket of volume 4 contains the folding map called for,. A near fine set with only traces of wear at the..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First edition. Hardcover. 2 Volumes. xxi, (3), 707,(1), (6pp of ads); xvii,(3),808, (4pp)ads)pp. Brown cloth, gilt spine titles, gilt medallions on the upper boards, floral endpapers. Complete with 17 maps, 4 in Vol. 1, and 13 in Vol. 2. Scattered light foxing and..... More
