MICHAUX, Francois Andre and NUTTALL, Thomas. North American Sylva; or A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia. Phila.: D. Rice & A.N. Hart, 1859. 5 Vols. 257 hand-colored plates (the Michaux vols. contain 156 handcolored engravings and the Nuttall vols. 121 hand-colored lithographs).....
MILFORT, Louis. Memoire Ou Cou-D'Oeil Rapide Sur Mes Diferens Voyages et Mon Sejour Dans La Nation Creck. Paris: de l'imprimerie de Giguet et Michaud, 1802. [4],331,[1]pp. Half title. Original boards, expertly rebacked to style, morocco label. Occasional marginal dampstaining, light scattered foxing, small, darker, stain in margin of first few.....
[SAUR, Christopher]. Biblia, Das Ist: Die Heilige Schrift Altes Und Neues Testaments, Nach Teutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers Mit Jedes Capitels Furtzen Summarien, Auch Bengefugten Vielen und Richtigen Parallelen.... Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1763. [4],992,277,[3]pp. printed in double columns. Quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards; metal clasps lacking. Dampstaining and wear.....
SCOTT, Joseph. The United States Gazetteer: Containing an Authentic Description of the Several States. Their Situation, Extent, Boundaries, Soil, Produce, Climate, Population, Trade and Manufactures. Together with the Extent, Boundaries and Population of Their Respective Counties. Also, An Exact Account of the Cities, Towns, Harbours, Rivers, Bays, Lakes, Mountains, &c.....
STOCKWELL, William. The Eventful Narrative of Capt. William Stockell, Comprising an Authentic and Faithful Detail of His Travels in Different Countries. Of His Various and Signal Engagements...and of His Adventures and Achievements in The Whale Fishery. Cincinnati: S. Ward & Co., 1840. 1st ed. 326,[2]pp., plus twelve plates, including frontispiece.....
TITFORD, William Jowit. Sketches Towards A Hortus Botanicus Americanus; Or, Coloured Plates (with A Catalogue and Concise and Familiar Descriptions of Many Species) of New and Valuable Plants of the West Indies and North and South America. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones; 1812. xiv,xiii-xvi,viii,132,[cxxxiii]-cxxxvii,[4]pp. plus seventeen handcolored plates of trees.....
VEGETIUS, Flavius Renatus. De Re Militari Libri Quator. Sexti Julii Frontini Viri Consularis de Strategematis Libri Totidem. Aeliani de instruendis aciebus liber unus. Modesti de vocabulis rei militaris liber unus. Item picturae bellicae CXX passim Vegetio adiectae. Collata sunt omnia ad antiquos codices, maxime Budaei, quod testabitur Aelianus. Paris: Sub.....
VENEGAS, Miguel. A Natural and Civil History of California: Containing An Accurate Description Of That Country...The Customs Of The Inhabitants...Translated from the original Spanish.... London. 1759. Two volumes. [20],455pp. plus folding map and two plates, including frontispiece; [8],387pp. plus two plates, including frontispiece. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines.....
XANTUS, Janos. Utazas Kalifornia deli Reszeiben. Budapest: Kiadjak Lauffer es Stolp, 1860. 1st ed. [x],192pp. Chromolithograph frontis., illus., seven chromolithograph plates, folding map. Orig. pictorial boards. Spine mostly abraded. Boards rubbed, wear to edges and corners, else a very good copy in a custom cloth clamshell box. HOWES X-2. Graff.....
(WATER WORKS). Report of the Joint Committee of the Select and Common Councils, Appointed to Receive Information on the Subject of Watering the City, and to Employ Agents, When Necessary, for Promoting that object. Printed by Order of the Corporation of Philadelphia. Phila.: Zachariah Poulson, Junior, 1799. 1st ed. 7pp.....
FUNNELL, William. A Voyage Round the World. Containing An Account of Captain Dampier's Expedition into the South-Seas in the Ship St. George, in the Years 1703 and 1704...Together with the Author's Voyage from Amapalla on the West-Coast of Mexico, to East-India...The Cape of Good Hope, &c. London: W. Botham, for.....
KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. (With:) The Second Jungle Book. Two vols. Orig. pictorial cloth. London: Macmillan & Co., 1894, 1895. First editions. Stewart 122, 128. A fine bright set in a half morocco slipcase.
[LEWIS, Meriwether, and CLARK, William.]. The Travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke[sic], from St. Louis, By Way of the Missouri and Columbia Rivers, to the Pacific Ocean; Performed in the Years 1804, 1805, & 1806...Containing Delineations of the Manners, Customs, Religion, Etc. of the Indians.... London. 1809. ix,[1],309pp. plus folding.....
[MANHEIM, Frederick]. Affecting History of the Dreadful Distresses of Frederic Manheim's Family: To Which Are Added, the Sufferings of John Corbly's Family.--An Encounter between a White Man and Two Savages.--Extraordinary Bravery of a Woman.--Adventures of Capt. Isaac Stewart.---Deposition of Massy Herbeson.--Adventures and Sufferings of Peter Wilkinson.--Remarkable Adventures of Jackson Johonnot.....
(NORTH CAROLINA REGIMENTAL). RAY, Neil W. Sketch of the Sixth Regiment N.C. State Troops Infantry. [N.P.: n.p., 1901]. 1st ed. [1],44,[1]pp. later cloth, orig. printed front wrapper mounted on front board. Very good. Rare. Worldcat locates one copy. Dornbusch II: 775. Thornton 11562. Brief memoir of service and defense of.....
SMITH, William. History of the Province of New-York, from the First Discover to the Year M.DCC.XXXII. To which is Annexed, a Description of the Country, with a Short Account of the Inhabitants, their Trade, Religious and Political State, and the Constitution of the Courts of Justice in that Colony. London.....
(BRITISH PAMPHLET TRACTS). Five Sammelbands containing Forty-One Pamphlets on Political and Religious Affairs in late 17th to early 18th century Great Britain, including material concerning the Jacobite Rebellion and Anti-Catholic Sentiment]. London; Edinburgh: 1681-1735. 5 Vols. Slightly later calf bindings. An assemblage of five sammelbands collecting over forty English and.....
BRADBURY, John. Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811; Including A Description of Upper Louisiana, Together with the States of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee, With the Illinois and Western Territories. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819. xiv,[17]-346pp. plus folding map. Modern drab paper.....
[CROCKETT, Davy]. "Go Ahead!!" The Crockett Almanac 1839. Containing Adventures, Exploits, Sprees & Scrapes in the West, & Life and Manners in the Backwoods. Nashville: Ben Harding, [1838]. 36pp. including twenty woodcut illustrations (twelve full-page). Contemporary plain brown wrappers, stitched. Wrappers a bit soiled and stained. Manuscript notes on final.....
[CROCKETT, Davy]. "Go Ahead!!]. The Crockett Almanac 1839. Containing Adventures, Exploits, Sprees & Scrapes in the West, & Life and Manners in the Backwoods. Nashville: Ben Harding, [1838]. 36pp. including twenty woodcut illustrations (twelve full-page). Self-wrappers, stitched. Minor foxing and dust-soiling. About very good. A rare Crockett almanac. "It was.....
(VATICAN). Collection of 26 Hand-colored Engravings of the Vatican and Two Original Watercolors. Folio. Orig. calf-backed paper-covered boards cornered in cloth, spine decorated in gilt. Some rubbing to binding, all plates fine. Scenes of ceremonial occasions, portraits of the pope, cardinals, bishops, and priests all shown in a variety of.....
(BIBLES). The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues; and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. New-York: Printed and Sold by Hugh Gaine, 1800. [Second title]: The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Newly Translated Out of the.....
[CUTLER, Jervis]. Topographical Description of the State of Ohio, Indiana Territory and Louisiana. Comprehending the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Their Principal Tributary Streams; the Face of the Country, Soils, Waters, Natural Productions, Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral; Towns, Villages, Settlements and Improvements; and a Concise Account of the Indian Tribes.....
CARVER, Jonathan. Travels through the Interior Parts of North America. In the Years 1766, 1767, AND 1768. London: Printed for the author, 1778. [20],xvi,543,[1]pp. plus two folding maps and four plates. Contemporary sprinkled calf, expertly rebacked, leather label. Endpapers stained, moderately tanned. Very good. HOWES C215. FIELD 251. STREETER SALE.....
CATLIN, George. Nord-Amerikas Och De, Under Ett Attaarigt Vistande Bland De Vildaste Af Deras Stammar Uppefvade Afventyr Och Oden...Stockholm. 1848. [12],320pp. plus 23 colored lithographs. 4to. Contemporary half calf and pebbled boards. Backstrip expertly relaid. Some minor edgewear. Except for some minor foxing to preliminary text leaves, internally clean. Plates.....