Charlottesville, VA: Rockbridge Publishing / Howell Press, 1998. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's leatherette in cream pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[1],266pp.; illus. throughout. A hint of wear from handling, else Near Fine. More
Bridgewater, VA: Mountain and Valley Publishing, 2000. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's pale grey photo-illustrated card wrappers; xxi,[1],127pp.; illus. throughout. A hint of shelf wear, else Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author on half title; additionally signed by the author on title page. More
Cincinnati: Wilstach, Baldwin & Co., 1876. Later Printing of the 1873 Edition. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"); xvi, [17]-393p. Six color plates. Full leather with black title card and gilt lettering. Covers heavily chipped and frayed at spine ends, with a good but of scuffing and smudging to leather and along..... More
New York: Evert Duychink, 1821. Small octavo; 304 pp. Contemporary leather (sheep?) with red spine label. Boards a bit warped with a fair bit of rubbing, scuffing, and soiling to surface and edges. Dampstaining to initial pages and noticeable for the first 20 or so before disappearing into more general..... More
Philadelphia: C.P. Wayne, 1804-1807. First Edition. Five octavo volumes. Vol I: Frontisportrait with tissue guard; (2), xxii, 488, 45; Vol II: viii, 560, 72; Vol III: viii, 580, 28; Vol IV: iii--viii, 626, (1), 16; Vol V: vii, 779, 36. Full contemporary sheep with leather spine labels. Lacks atlas... More
Tours: A. Mame et Cie., 1847. First French Edition. Octavo; contemporary full black morocco prize binding embossed in blind and gilt, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; [4],404pp.; engraved frontispiece, illus. throughout text. Extremities scuffed with exposure at corners, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the series "Bibliothèque de..... More
London: Ward and Lock, 1863. First Edition. Slim octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards by Little Brown & Co., gilt spine in six compartments, expertly recased with spine laid down, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, original brown pictorial cloth spine and upper cover bound in rear; 112pp.;..... More
London: Thomas Tegg, 1839. 12mo; full contemporary brown gilt-tooled morocco, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; [2],xi,[1],576pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, eleven plates. Binding expertly recased, dark, shallow dampstain affecting fore-edge margin of frontispiece, plates rather foxed, else a Very Good, attractively bound copy of this uncommon illustrated edition. More
Boston: Tappan and Whittemore, 1854. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's reddish-brown blind stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine; vii,[1],256pp. Ex-Library of the University of Wooster with usual markings, spine cloth a bit sunned, endpapers toned, some foxing throughout textblock; About Very Good overall. More
New York: The F.M. Lupton Publishing Company, ca. 1899. Reprint. Small octavo. 232 pp. Frontisportrait. Printed dust jacket. Publisher's brown-orange cloth decorated in silver, yellow, and green to front and spine. Approximate date per OCLC and publisher's address on rear of dust jacket, 72 - 76 Walker Street, New York..... More
Charleston, SC: History Press, 2012. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; 591pp.; illus. throughout, including photographs. A hint of shelf wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. More
New York: Published for the Authors by S. Tuttle, 1846. Reprint. Large, thick octavo; contemporary triple-ruled reverse calf, gilt spine, all edges marbled, decorative endpapers; [2],512pp.; partially hand-colored double frontispiece, eleven plates, and over a hundred woodcut text illus. and maps, though lacking map called for by Howes. Leather quite..... More
Philadelphia: Griggs & Dickinson, 1832. Standing Edition, Greatly Improved. 24mo; 413pp. Contemporary brown leather with black title card to spine. Boards rubbed and bumped along edges and corners, with chipping at head of spine and leather worn away and cracking at bottom exposing gatherings. Split starting to front joint, but..... More
Hardcover. Boston: Wells & Lilly, 1818. States "from the last London edition." Small octavo (12.7x9cm); [xliv], 378 pp. 212 leaves. Pages 265-268 uncut. Rebound with calf retained on boards. Leather rubbed on edges with two small chips on front top edge. Binding is sound. Pages toned but clean and unmarked..... More
London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1870. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's dark blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xii,196pp. Extremities darkened, especially at spine, some marginal scuffing with brief exposure at corners, spine slightly cocked, small dampstain at top fore-edge corner of textblock; still, overall Very Good overall. Dedicated to..... More
Washington, DC: R. Farnham, 1854. Second Edition. Octavo. 121 pages + index. Printed wraps. Ex-library with "New York State Library" stamped to front wrap. Lacking map. Varnum was a Whig member of the New York State Assembly, and also, clearly had an interest in the plans and monuments..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First Edition, First Issue with missing "e" in "generosity" and "of" from bottom two lines of p. 110. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt; 272pp. Binding rather inexpertly recased, spine cocked with cloth toned to tan and gilt rather dulled, corners..... More
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Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1975. First Thus, Limited to 2000 copies of which this is no. 308. Quarto; publisher's decorative batik cloth, brown topstain, original glassine dust jacket and paper-covered slipcase; ix,[3],212pp.; twelve color plates. Glassine spine panel a shade toned and starting to split along bottom inch of..... More
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New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First Edition, Limited to 501 copies of which this is no. 155. Large, thick octavo (26.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth, white embossed paper medallion inlay to upper cover, printed paper spine label (duplicate bound in rear), top edge gilt, housed in black cloth slipcase..... More
New York: Alexander V. Blake, 1844. Octavo. 120 pages plus 18 pages advertisements.Dark brown blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Boards worn at extremities with brief exposure. Binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to top half of front free endpaper. Foxing to preliminaries and black stain..... More
Boston: J.W. Alden, 1843. First Edition. Octavo. 4 pp. Printed wraps. Dated October 12, 1843. Stained and soiled. Scarce abolitionist pamphlet, ending with colorful language, calling out the slaveholding Tyrant Paupers, who have "applied their horse-leech-suction to the pockets of every free laborer... and hatched the great cockatrice..... More
Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, & Company, 1825. First Edition. Octavo; original printed wrappers; 24pp. Some light soil to wrappers, shallow dampstain at bottom of back panel not affecting interior, small chip at spine foot, else Very Good and sound. A Fourth of July oration delineating the concerns of a young..... More
Boston: John H. Eastburn, 1832. First Edition. Octavo. Removed. 21 pages. Upper edge of title page a bit soiled. Evident ex-library copy with "Dup discard" in pencil on title and call number to rear. Quincy lectures on the American Revolution as the result of historical circumstances rather than..... More
London: Keating, Brown and Co., 1805. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 53pp. Leather remnants along spine, textblock a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. One of myriad polemical tracts penned by Catholic controversialist John Milner (1752-1826), who, after receiving his clerical training in Douais, France, returned to London where..... More
London: Frederick Warne & Co., ca. 1900. Small square 16mo (9.5cm.); full contemporary reddish-brown gilt-tooled morocco by Bayntun-Rivière, elaborate gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; [4],126pp.; color frontispiece, eleven leaves of plates, illus. throughout text printed in brown within green border. Front cover leather a bit discolored, brief ink..... More