GISSING, George. New Grub Street A Novel. Three volumes. Orig. dark green cloth. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1891. First edition. Sadleir 971. Wolff 2552. A good set in a 1/2 morocco folding box. One of Gissing's two best books and one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.....
HARRIS, Thaddeus M. The Journal of A Tour into the Territory Northwest of the Alleghany Mountains; Made in the Spring of the Year 1803. With A Geographical and Historical Account of the State of Ohio. Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, 1805. 271pp., plus five engraved folding plates, comprising three.....
HUTCHINS, Thomas. An Historical Narrative and Topographical Description of Louisiana and West Florida, Comprehending the River Mississippi with its Principal Branches and Settlements.... Philadelphia, 1784. 94, [1]pp. Early ownership signature on titlepage and in margin of two interior leaves. Bound in 1/2 calf, with marbled boards, spine gilt. Howes H-845.....
IMLAY, Gilbert. A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America: Containing a Succint Account of Its Soil, Climate, Natural History, Population, Agriculture, Manners and Customs... London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1797. xii,598,[28]pp. plus 3 folding maps and folding plan. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked in antique-style gilt-ruled calf, red.....
JEFFERSON, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. Philadelphia. 1801. [4],436 [i.e. 436],,56pp. plus three maps (one folding), folding plate and frontispiece portrait. Antique style calf, spine gilt, gilt leather spine label. Folding plate with foxing, offsetting from the portrait and the maps. Occasional tanning to the text, most noticeable.....
LE PAGE DU PRATZ, Antoine. The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina. London: Printed for T. Tecket and P.A De Hondt, 1763. 2 Vols. [4],vii,[1],l368pp. plus two folding maps; [8],272pp. 1/2-titles. 12mo. Contemporary polished calf, gilt morocco spine labels, raised bands, edges stamped in.....
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.....
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.....
DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. Original printed wrappers. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1852]-1853. 20 parts in 19. First American edition in original parts. Rare. No copies in parts offered at auction in the last 34 years and only two copies of the book form of this edition. Gimbel A132. Edgar.....
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.....
(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.....