DICKINSON, John. A Speech, Delivered in the House of Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, May 24th, 1764....On Occasion Of A Petition, Drawn Up By Order, And Then Under Consideration, Of The House; Praying His Majesty For A Change Of The Government Of This Province. With A Preface.... Philadelphia Printed.....
DUFF, Joseph. Traveller's Guide: A Map of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, Extending from Pittsburgh to the Gulf of Mexico. Folding map in orginal paper boards, chipping to spine, tear along fold. Cincinnati: George Conclin, 1841. Later printing. Very good. Shaw Shoemaker 41-1672. Woodcut map 23-1/2" x 9-3/8". The left.....
[FLANNIGAN, MRS.]. Antigua and the Antiguans: A Full Account of the Colony and its Inhabitants From the Time of the Caribs to the Present Day...Also, an Impartial View of Slavery and the Free Labor Systems; The Statistics of the Island, and Biographical Notices of the Principal Families. London: Saunders and.....
[FLEURIEU, Charles Pierre Claret]. Discoveries of the French in 1768 and 1769, to the South-East of New Guinea, With the Subsequent Visits to the Same Lands by English Navigators, Who Gave Them New Names. To Which is Prefixed, An Historical Abridgement of the Voyages and Discoveries of the Spaniards In.....
(FRANKLIN IMPRINT). CHALKLEY, Thomas. A Collection of the Works of Thomas Chalkley. In Two Parts. Phila.: B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 1749. 1st ed. (16), 590pp. Contemporary paneled calf decorated in blind, rebacked in period-style calf, raised spine bands, red morocco spine label. Light scattered foxing and toning, foredge of.....
FREMONT, John C. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44. Washington, 1845. 693pp. plus twenty-two plates and five maps (three folding, one in rear pocket). Original blindstamped cloth. A clean very good copy with.....
GEORGE, Henry. Our Land and Land Policy, National and State[wrapper title]. San Francisco. 1871. 48pp. plus folding colored map. Original printed wrappers. Textblock stitched together and loosely laid into wrappers, and apparently never bound in. Wrappers a bit soiled and worn. Map with a long closed tear, with no loss.....
GREGOIRE, H[enri]. An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties, and Literature of Negroes; Followed with an Account of the Life and Works of Fifteen Negroes & Mulattoes, Distinguished in Science, Literature and the Arts. Translated by D.B. Warden. Brooklyn: Printed by Thomas Kirk, 1810. 1st American ed. 253,[2]pp. Later.....
HAMILTON, Alexander. Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq, President of the United States. New York: Printed for John Lang, by John Furman, 1800. 54pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. An occasional light fox mark. Very good. Third edition. The.....
HARDY, Thomas. The Woodlanders. Three vols. Orig. green cloth. London: Macmillan & Co., 1886. First edition, secondary binding. Wolff 15674. A fine set with the Borowitz bookplate. In a half-morocco slipcase.
(PERRY, Matthew C.). HAWKS, Francis L., comp. Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, Under the Command of M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by Order of the Government of the United States.... Washington, 1856. Three.....
[HICKS, Elias]:. Observations on the Slavery of the Africans ande Their Descendents, and on the Use of the Produce of Their Labour,[wrapper title]. Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Rakestraw, 1823. 19pp. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Small hole in titlepage, not touching text. Strong vertical tideline to center throughout; tanned, scattered.....
HUMPHREYS, David. An Essay on the Life of the Honorable Major-General Israel Putnam: Addressed to the State Society of the Cincinnati in Connecticut. Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1788. 1st ed. 12mo. 187pp. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full red crushed morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt, richly.....
JACKSON, Joseph. Broad Street Philadelphia as It Was. Original manuscript for an unpublished work. Title page in watercolors with vignette looking north to City Hall and 59 leaves of mounted illustrations with captions in manuscript. Housed in blue morocco-backed clamshell box. Fine. Unique. Jackson was the author of several works.....
[JOHNSON, Samuel]. Taxation No Tyranny; An Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress. London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1775. [4],91pp. Half title. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Scattered minor foxing. Very good. Second edition, published the same year as the first, of this.....
M'MURTRIE, H[enrico]. Sketches of Louisville and Its Environs; Including, among a Great Variety of Miscellaneous Matter, a Florula Louisvillensis; or a Catalogue of Nearly 400 Genera and 600 Species of Plants, that Grow in the Vicinity of the Town, Exhibiting Their Generic, Specific, and Vulgar English Names. Louisville, [Kentucky]: Printed.....
MacCABE, Julius P. Bolivar. A Directory the Cities of Cleveland and Ohio City, For the Years 1837-38: comprising historical and descriptive sketches of each place-an alphabetical list of inhabitants, their business and residence...and a variety of other useful information. Cleveland, 1837. [42], 144pp. A 12mo. Original publisher's half cloth and.....
[MATHER, Samuel]. Memoirs of the Life of the Late Reverend Increase Mather, D.D. Who Died August 23, 1723. With A Preface by the Reverend Edmund Calamy, D.D. London: Printed for John Clark and Richard Hett, 1725. [8],88pp. plus engraved frontispiece portrait of Increase Mather. Modern polished calf, spine gilt. Minor.....
McMURRAY, John. Recollections of a Colored Troop. [Brookville, PA: n.p.], 1916. 1st ed. 93,[1]pp. Portraits. Orig. printed wrappers. Near fine. Rare. Not in Blockson or Nevins. Dornbusch II: 1727: "Printed in `a very limited edition, probably two hundred' from the type used for publication in the Jeffersonian Democrat." The author.....
(CALIFORNIA). (SACRAMENTO). MEARS, Leonard, comp. Mears' Sacramento Directory, for the Years 1863-4: Embracing a General Business Directory of Residents; Together with Historical References and a Vast Amount of Useful Information Appertaining to the United States, the State of California, and the City and County of Sacramento. Sacramento: Printed by A......
MELVILLE, Herman. Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. Orig. cloth. New York: Harper & Bros., 1849. 2 vols., 8vo. First American edition. BAL 13658. Spines lightly faded. A very good set.
MOULTON, William. Concise Extract, from the Sea Journal of William Moulton; Written on Board of the Onico, in a Voyage from the Port of New-London in Connecticut, to Staten-Land in the South Sea; Together with Strictures and Remarks on Various Subject Matters which Came within His Notice, on the Coast.....
PERKINS, John. A Profitable booke of Mr. Iohn Perkins, felowe of the inner Temple treating of the lawes of Englande. London: Richard Tottell, [1593]. 8vo. [20], 168 leaves. Preface in Latin, text in Law-French. Contemporary manuscript annotations. Title reinforced at outer edge, minor voids at edges of first few leaves.....
RAMSAYE, Terry. A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1926. 1st ed. 2 Vols .Small 4to. lxx,400;401-868pp. Portrait frontises., portraits, plates. Orig. pigskin-backed batik boards, spine ruled in blind, T.e.g. A few small library stamps, one page opened carelessly, else a......
REED, Thomas Barton. A Private in Gray. Camden, AR: T.B. Reed, 1905. 1st ed. 128pp. Portrait frontis., portrait. Orig. cloth. Light stains to front board, uniform toning, else very good. Dornbusch II, 460. Rare. Reed, a native of Bluntville, Alabama, joined Co. A, 9th Louisiana Infantry, in the spring of.....