![Item #46082 The Papers of Alexander Hamilton [Vols. I and II]. Alexander Hamilton, Harold C....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46082.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1763576070)
New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. First Edition. Two volumes; large octavos (24cm); publisher's cloth in matching price-clipped pictorial dust jackets; xvii,[5],627; xi,[5],710pp.; seven leaves of plates. Dust jacket quite rubbed and worn, top half of Vol. I rear flap fold split, old faint rubber-stamp price to front free endpapers;..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., 1838. Reprint. 12mo; publisher's black roan over blue paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine; 180pp.; woodcut frontispiece and title page vignette, full-page illus. throughout. Boards quite rubbed and worn with some loss of paper over boards at top fore-edge corner of upper cover, spotting and occasional..... More
New-Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, 1778. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 23,[1]pp. ([A]-C4, collated complete). Stock uniformly toned and a bit spotted throughout, top and fore-edge margins trimmed affecting gift inscription at head of half title page, "[...] Lee - The Gift of the Revd. James Dana D[...]." Very Good and..... More
Firenze [Florence]: Nella Stamperia Bonducciana, 1782. First Edition. Small octavo; contemporary mottled calf over marbled paper-covered boards, green and white gilt spine labels, all edges speckled red, marbled endpapers; 378pp.; woodcut title page device, initials, head- and tail-pieces. Darkened spine leather dried and starting to crack along joints, exposure at..... More
Hartford, CT: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1895. First Edition. Octavo. 53 pp. Frontis and map. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt. Light wear to extremities and spine ends a bit nudged; brief split to top of front joint. Binding sound. Contemporary ownership bookplate to front pastedown;..... More
![Item #30187 Paul Revere and the Minute Men [Inscribed and Signed by Canfield Fisher]. Dorothy...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30187.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753382567)
New York: Random House, 1950. Second Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (150/150);[6],181pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few small chips and closed tears, light dust-soil, spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, brief crayon scribble to rear free endpaper..... More
Lunenburg, VT: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club at the Stinehour Press, 1975. Limited Edition of 2000 copies signed by Lynd Ward, this being #1654. Large octavo. 268 pp. Two-color wood engravings by Ward. Bound in Schumacher cloth printed with an allover multicolor Colonial pattern with the..... More
Hartford: Elisha Babcock, 1791. First Edition. Small octavo; modern blue wrappers; 23,[1]pp. (A-C4, collated complete). Leaves trimmed mostly erasing contemporary ownership inscription at head of title page, light toning to textblock, else Very Good and sound. Ordination sermon delivered by Enos Hitchcock (1744-1803), who served as a chaplain for..... More
New-London: T. Green, 1787. First Edition. Octavo; new blue wrappers; 41,[1]pp. (lacking final blank, else collated complete). Textblock rather browned, damp-spotted and foxed with light wear to margins, contemporary ownership signature at head of title page trimmed, else a Very Good, sound copy. Post-Revolutionary War ordination sermon concluding..... More
Boston, New-England: Printed and Sold by Thomas and John Fleet, in Cornhill; and Green & Ruslell [sic], and Edes & Gill, in Queenstreet, 1763. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); removed, remnants of old sheep along spine; [4],93,[1]pp. ([A2] B4 B-M4, lacking final blank). First two gatherings separated but present, texblock a...... More
London: Printed by J. Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard-Street; And Sold by T. Cadell, in the Strand; H. Payne, Pall-Mall; C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and J. Phillips, 1779. First Edition. Two volumes; octavos (21cm.); early 20th-century brown library cloth, upper covers debossed "Mercantile Library Co." in blind, gilt-lettered spines; xii,[28],362; [8],430pp..... More
![Item #48804 Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation [Signed]. Joseph Ellis](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/48804.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1784298930)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Seventh printing. Signed by Joseph Ellis with brief inscription to previous owner. Octavo (24cm); publisher's purple paper-covered boards and ivory spine with gilt lettering in illustrated dust jacket with $26.00 price intact; [1],[x],288pp. Jacket crisp with faint edgewear; Autographed Copy sticker to front panel..... More
N.p.: Westholm Publications, 1957. First Edition, limited issue of 400 numbered copies, this being #54. Octavo. 35 pp. Map frontispiece. Red and white boards stamped in black. No dust jacket as issued. Moderate spotting to boards, with light rubbing to edges and a 1" split along front joint at tail..... More
Providence: By Bennett Wheeler, at His Office, on the West Side the River, [1790]. First Edition. Small octavo; modern blue wrappers; 27,[1]pp. ([A]-C4 D2, collated complete). Very occasional spotting to textblock, stock a bit browned, else Very Good and sound. Concludes with the minister recalling a sermon delivered at..... More
![Item #47763 George Washington [Signed]. Louis Martin Sears](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/47763.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776882352)
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company Publishers, 1932. First Edition. Thick octavo; illustrated dust jacket over dark blue cloth boards; 560pp. Signed by Sears at front free endpaper with inscription, "For Dr. Henry Selby and Charles Quarles, good friends and encouragers while the book was in progress, with the sincere..... More
![Item #30213 Days of the Commanders [Signed by Lamprey]. Louise Lamprey, Florence Choate,...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30213.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1720534782)
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1923. First Edition. Signed by Louise Lamprey with brief inscription at half title. Octavo. 368 pp. Illustrations, some in color. Blue cloth stamped in gilt; illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket. Boards worn with some scuffing and rubbing; corners bumped. Binding sound. Foxing to edges..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, [2008]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; xxiii,[1],381pp.; maps and halftone illus. in text. A Fine copy. Forms part of the Campaigns & Commanders series. More
London / Amherst, NH: Reprinted by Joseph Cushing, June, 1805. Small octavo (18cm); original blue sugar paper with crude vernacular stitching, mid-19th century ex libris of the New Hampshire Antiquarian Society to upper cover; 80pp. (collated complete). Wrappers worn with spine partly perished and occasional spots of nibbling and worm..... More
New York: Random House, 1940. First American Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket, gray topstain, map endpapers; xiii,[1],380pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few closed tears to rear panel touching text without loss of meaning, brief foxing to jacket verso, front flap..... More
[Boston], Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Printed by T. and J. Fleet, and J. Gill, 1780. First Edition. Octavo. [4], 55 pp. Stitched into modern marbled wrappers, with half title. Half-title trimmed along fore-edge, contemporary gift inscription, sparse foxing, else a Very Good and well-preserved copy. John Adams was the..... More
Printed in Boston: At the State Press, by Adams and Larkin, Printers to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1794. First Edition. Octavo; stitched self-wrappers; 31,[1],6,[2]pp. (A-D4 a4, collated complete with half title page). Foxing to early leaves, untrimmed margins a bit chipped and curled, else Very Good and sound overall... More
Burlington, VT: C. Goodrich & Company, 1858. Reissue of the 1848 L.W. Clark Edition. 16mo. Printed wraps. General wear and spotting; a few chips to edges; curling to corners; else unmarked and Very Good. Issued in 1848 under the title Memoir of Colonel Seth Warner with Jared Sparks' The Life..... More
[Washington, DC]: Printed for the Society, 1896. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's white decorative cloth stamped in navy blue and silver foil, top edge silver; xxix,[3],272pp.; portrait frontispiece. Light dust-soil, spine slightly cocked and corners nudged, text block a bit toned, remnants of ownership ex libris to front pastedown, else..... More
![Item #45324 Washington, Commander in Chief [Jacket title: George Washington, Commander in Chief]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45324.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758661483)
Boston / Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($5.00); x,[2],404pp.; portrait frontispiece. Jacket margins a bit chipped and worn, spine panel toned with small damp stain at foot, corners bumped; overall a Very Good, internally clean and sound..... More
[Mechanicsburg, PA]: Stackpole Books, [2006-2007]. Mixed Printings - Vol. I a second, Vol. II a first. Two octavo volumes (23.5cm); publisher's two-toned boards in pictorial dust jackets; eight leaves of color plates. Just a hint of edge wear, else a Fine set. Vol. I contents cover Brandywine and the..... More