LYMAN, Albert. Journal of A Voyage to California, and Life in the Gold Diggins. And Also of A Voyage from California to the Sandwich Islands. Hartford. 1852. 192pp., including in-text illustrations. Original illustrated wrappers. Spine and corners renewed. Internally clean. Very good. In a cloth box, leather spine label lettered.....
MICHAUX, F. Andrew, and NUTTALL, Thomas. The North American Sylva; or, a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia.... Phila.: Rice, Rutter & Co., 1865. 5 Vols. The Michaux volumes contains portrait frontis., 156 handcolored engravings; and the Nuttall volumes contain 121 handcolored lithographs.....
MOLLHAUSEN, Heinrich Baldwin. Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific of the Pacific with a United States Government Expedition....London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858. 1st English ed. 2 Vols. xxx, [2], 352;x, [2], 397, [2]pp. plus eighteen plates (seven chromolithographs) including frontises......
PLATTES, Gabriel. A Discovery of Subterranean Treasure: Containing Useful Explorations, Concerning All Manner of Mines and Minerals, From the Gold to the Coal; With Plain Directions and Rules for the Finding of them in all Kingdoms and Countries. In Which the Art of Melting, Refining, And Assaying Them is Plainly.....
PONCE, Nicolas. Recueil D'Estampes Representant Les Differents Evenemens De La Guerre Qui A Procure L'Independance Aus Etats-Unis L'Amerique. Paris: chez M. Ponce et chez M. Godefroy, [1784]. Engraved throughout: title with integral text and vignettes, fifteen plates and maps with integral explanatory text (twelve views, two maps, and a final.....
PYLE, Howard. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Compiled by Merle Johnson. Illustrated with 36 full-page plates by Howard Pyle (of which 12 are in color) on glossy paper, and numerous illustrations in black and white throughout the text. xvii, [1], 247 pp. 4to. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. First.....
[SAUR, Christopher]. Biblia, Das Ist: Die Heilige Schrift Altes Und Neues Testaments, Nach Der Teutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers Mit Jedes Capitels Furtzen Summarien, Auch Bengefugten Vielen Und Richtigen Parallelen.... Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1776. [4],992,277,[3] pp. 4to. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, one clasp lacking. Hinges cracked but solid, extremities.....
[SAUR, Christopher]. Biblia, Das Ist: Die Heilige Schrift Altes Und Neues Testaments, Nach Der Teutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers Mit Jedes Capitels Furtzen Summarien, Auch Bengefugten Vielen Und Richtigen Parallelen.... Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1776. [4],992,277,[3]pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, clasps lacking. Hinges cracked but solid, extremities worn. Light.....
STEARNS, Samuel. The North-American Calendar, and Gentlemen and Ladies Diary, Being an Almanack for the Year of the Christian Ara 1773. Boston: Edes & Gill, and T. & J. Fleet, [1772]. 12 leaves. Interleaved. Sewn. Early plain wrappers. Complete. Extensive notes in early hand. Drake 3226. Evans 12566. Rare front.....
(PHILADELPHIA). STEPHENS, Thomas. Stephens's Philadelphia Directory, for 1796; or, Alphabetical Arrangement: Containing the Names, Occupations, and Places of Abode of the Citizens: with a Register of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Magistrates of the United States,...Also, An Account of the Different Societies, Charitable and Literary Institutions,...with an Alphabetical List of.....
BOLLER, Henry A. Among the Indians. Eight Years in the Far West: 1858-1866. Embracing Sketches of Montana and Salt Lake. Philadelphia, 1868. 428pp. plus folding map. Modern half morocco, gilt stamped spine. Map backed with linen, some wear along folds with partial loss, five crude tape repairs. Housed in a......
BRONSON, George Whitefield. Glimpses of the Whaleman's "Cabin."Boston: Damrell & Moore, printers, 1855. 96pp., including five wood-engraved illustrations (three full-page). 12mo. Original pictorial front wrapper, with the rear wrapper and backstrip supplied in matching modern paper. Expert repairs to closed tear in margin of final leaf and two other text.....
[BRUFF, J.G.]. A Correct Map of the Seat of War in Mexico. Being a copy of Gen'l Arista's Map, taken at Resaca De La Palma with Additions and Corrections.... New York: J. Disturnell, 1847. Folding map, 29? x 24 inches. Folded into a 12mo. contemporary cloth folder, gilt stamped front.....
CARPENTER, Thomas, comp. The American Senator, or a Copious and Impartial Report of the Debates in the Congress of the United States: Including all Treaties, Addresses, Proclamations, &c. Which Occur During the Present Session, Being the Second of the Fourth Congress. Philadelphia, 1796-97. Three volumes. 352, [4]; 355,[4]; [4],367-787,[13]pp., plus.....
FILSON, John. Histoire de Kentucke, Nouvelle Colonie a l'Ouest de la Virginie...Traduit...par M. Parraud. Paris:Buisson, 1785. 1st French edition. Small 8vo, xvi, 234pp. A fine copy in period style calf-backed marbled boards. Private library stamp. This edition follows the notoriously rare first American edition, published in Wilmington, DE, in 1784.....
FORBES, James Grant. Sketches, Historical and Topographical, of the Floridas; More Particularly of East Florida. New York. 1821. 226pp. plus advertisement leaf. Folding frontispiece map. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with leather label. Bookplate on front pastedown. Folding map backed with tissue, repairing several closed tears. Leaf.....
LEWIS, Meriwether and CLARK, William. History of the Expedition under the Command of Lewis and Clark. ... A New Edition, Faithfully Reprinted ... With Copious Critical Commentary...by Elliot Coues. New York: Francis P. Harper, 1893. 4 Vols. cxxxii,352;vi,352-820;vi,821-1298;v,1299-1364pp. Portrait frontises., facsimiles, plates, folding tables, maps (some folding). Orig. cloth. A......
[MATHER, Cotton]. Parentator. Memoirs of Remarkables in the Life and the Death of the Ever-Memorable Dr. Increase Mather. Who Expired, August 23, 1723. Boston: Printed by B. Green, for Nathaniel Belknap, 1724. [2],x,xiv,239,[5]pp. 12mo. Modern calf, spine gilt with leather label. Titlepage soiled and worn; chips and tears at edges.....
[Mitchell, John]. The Present State of Great Britain and North America, with Regard to Agriculture, Population, Trade, and Manufactures, Impartially Considered.... London. 1767. xvi,363pp. plus errata. Half title. Contemporary calf, gilt ruled, edges sprinkled red, rebacked to style. Original boards bumped and somewhat scuffed. Light foxing to outer leaves, light.....
(BROADSIDE). [MORRIS, Robert]. [Stock Certificate No. 1602 Representing Three Shares in the North American Land Company Sold to Dr. Enoch Edwards, Attending Physician to George Washington During the Revolution, Signed by James Marshall and Robert Morris]. [Philadelphia]. February 20, 1795. Engraved form, accomplished in manuscript, 9_ x 12? inches. Scalloped.....
PEARY, Robert E. The North Pole. Its Discovery in 1909 under the Auspices of the Peary Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910. xxxii,373pp. 8 color plates, 100 black and white illustrations from photographs; folding colored map. Small 4to. 3/4 crushed dark blue morocco and cloth, raised spine bands.....
SAVAGE, J. R. The Philadelphia Circulating Business Directory. for 1838. Containing the Cards of the Principal Merchants, Manufacturers, and Other Business Men of Philadelphia. Together with a List of the Different Public Institutions, with a Variety of Useful & Interesting Facts Relating to the Business Facilities, public Works, Improvements, &c.....
(WATERHOUSE, RICHARD E.). SLAUGHTER, R.F. Autograph Document, Signed Regarding Testimony in the Murder Case of Richard E. Waterhouse of San Augustine, Texas]. [San Augustine, Tx. ca. 1863]. [4]pp. Folio sheets. Three horizontal folds, some soiling and staining. Very good. A detailed, closely-written report concerning the testimony of three suspects in.....
SULLIVAN, James. The History of the District of Maine. Boston: Printed by I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews..., 1795. vii,421pp. plus folding frontispiece map. Contemporary sheep, spine gilt, leather label. Joints worn, top board and front free endpaper detached. 19th-century inscription on titlepage. Map moderately foxed and soiled, clean five-inch tear.....
WEBSTER, Daniel. A Funeral Oration, Occasioned by the Death of Ephraim Simonds, of Templeton, Massachusetts, A Member of the Senior Class in Dartmouth College; Who Died at Hanover, (N.H.) on the 18th of June 1801, AT. 26. Hanover: By Moses Davis, 1801. 13pp. Half title within funereal borders. Original printed.....