UNITED STATES. Third Congress of the United States: At First Session... An Act making Appropriations for the support of the Military Establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety four. [Phila.: Francis Childs and John Swaine, 1794]. Small folio. 2pp. Signed in print by.....
WHEELOCK, Eleazar. Plain and Faithful Narrative of the Original Design, Rise, Progress and Present State of the Indian Charity-School at Lebanon, in Connecticut. Boston: Richard and Samuel Dravper, 1763. 1st ed. Small 4to, 55pp. Stitched as issued. Early inscription and name on title page, short closed tear to margin of.....
WILKES, Charles. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1842. In Five Volumes with Thirteen Maps. Phila.: Lea & Blanchard, 1850 5 Vols. Illus., engraved plates, folding maps. Original cloth. A fine set. HOWES W-414. Sabin 103994. Hill 1867. David B. Tyler, The Wilkes.....
WINSHIP, George Parker. The First American Bible: A Leaf from a Copy of the Bible Translated into the Indian Language by John Eliot and Printed at Cambridge in New England in the Year 1663. With an Account of the Translator and His Labors, and of the Two Printers Who Produced.....
WINTERBOTHAM, William. An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies. New York, 1796. Four volumes. vi, [2], 590; [4], 493; [4], 519; [4], 516, [19]pp. plus twenty-five (of twenty-six) plates (one in color). Lacks the.....
ZENGER, John Peter. The Trial of John Peter Zenger, of New-York, Printer: Who was charged with having printed and published a libel against the Government, and acquitted. With a Narrative of his Case. To which is now added, being never printed before, the Trial of Mr. William Owen, Bookseller, near.....
[BIBLE]. The German Bible in America. With 25 Original Leaves. Introduction by Don Yoder. New Haven; Bryn Mawr; New York. 2012. 20; 20pp. text in both English and German, plus twenty-five original leaves tipped into accompanying folders. Large folio. Fine. In a custom clamshell box. The German Bible in America.....
OEHLER, Andrew. Life, Adventures, and Unparalleled Sufferings of Andrew Oehler: Containing An Account of His Travels Through France, Italy, The East and West Indies, and Part of the United States; His Imprisonment in France, Germany and Spain: And the Latitude, Soil, Climate, Productions, Manners and Customs of the Different Countries.....
BENEZET, Anthony. Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants. With an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave-Trade.... [Bound with]: SHARP, Granville. Extract from a Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery.... Phila.: Joseph Crukshank, 1771. 1st.....
[BOURNE, George]. Slavery Illustrated in Its Effects Upon Women and Domestic Society. Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1837. 1st ed. [4],[i]-viii,[9]-127pp. Orig. cloth-backed boards, printed paper label. Chip to spine, spine and foredge varnished, boards rubbed, corners worn, a bit of faint scattered foxing, else very good. Rare, no copy has been.....
(FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN). CARMONTELLE, Louis Carrogis de. On l'a Vu Desarmer les Tirans et les Dieux. Paris: Chez Nee, [1781]. Engraving, 14 x 8-1/2 inches, framed to 17-1/2 x 11-3/4 inches. Fine. Sellers, Benjamin Franklin in Portraiture, pp. 215-216. Portrait of Benjamin Franklin engraved by Francois Nee after a watercolor.....
CHAPPE D'Auteroche, Jean. A Voyage to California, to Observe the Transit of Venus...Also, A Voyage TO Newfoundland and Sallee, to Make Experiments on Mr. Le Roy's Timekeepers.... London. 1778. [8],215pp. (final page misnumbered 315), plus folding frontispiece plan of Mexico City. Half title. Contemporary speckled calf boards, ruled in gilt.....
CHASTELLUX, Francois J. Travels in North-America, in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782 ... Translated from the French by an English Gentleman, Who Resided in America at that period. With Notes by the Translator. London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1787. 1st English ed. 2 Vols. xv,462; xii,432pp. Folding.....
CUMING, F[ortescue]. Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country, Through the States of Ohio and Kentucky: A Voyage Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and a Trip Through the Mississippi Territory, and Part of Western Florida, Commenced at Philadelphia in the Winter of 1807, and Concluded in 1809. With.....
ELIOT, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Three vols. Orig. cloth. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1866. First edition. Sadleir 814. Wolff 2058. A fine set.
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. Original blue blindstamped cloth, spine gilt, housed in custom cloth slipcase. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. First edition, second issue with "lifted" corrected on P. 21, line 3. BAL 7606. Clark A.18.1.b. Slight rubbing to spine ends, small bookplate on front.....
(OHIO). (CUYAHOGA CO.). LAKE. D. J. Atlas of Cuyahoga County. Phila.: Titus, Simmons & Titus, 1874. 1st ed. 205 pp. 52 colored maps (many folding), 48 lithographic plates. Folio. gilt-ruled 3/4 black polished calf and marbled boards, original black leather title laid down on front board.. A very good copy.....
LITTELL, William. Statue Law of Kentucky; with Notes, Praelections, and Observations on the Public Acts. In Three Volumes. Frankfort: William Hunter, 1809-1811. Three volumes. 1st ed. [2],xiii,759; [2],xvi,630; vii,621; v,[1],536pp. Contemporary sheep, tooled in blind, contemporary and later gilt labels on spine. All bindings rubbed and scuffed, labels chipped, sheep.....
(KENTUCKY). [MARSHALL, Humphrey]. History of Kentucky. Exhibiting an Account of the Modern Discovery; Settlement; Progressive Improvement; Civil and Militry Transactions; and the Present State of the Country. Frankfort, 1824. Second edition, enlarged. 2 vols. [iv], [48], 465, 8; vi, 524pp. A very good set in later antique style full calf.....
MILLS, John. A New System of Practical Husbandry. Vol. V only. London: Printed for J. Johnson & B. Davenport, 1767.1st ed. 342 [i.e. 366], [98]pp. Contemporary full polished calf with raised bands and gilt-tooled edges. A superior copy. John Adams's copy with his autograph ownership inscription on front free endpaper.....
[MITCHELL, S. Weir]. The Wonderful Stories of Fuz-Buz the Fly and Mother Grabem the Spider. Large 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Illustrated. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867. First edition. One of 170 large paper copies. BAL 14065. Peter Parley to Penrod 145. Some light wear to extremities, but a very.....
(VIRGINIA REGIMENTAL). MYERS, Frank M. Comanches: A History of White's Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Laurel Brigade, Hampton Div., A.N.V., C.S.V. Baltimore: Kelly, Piet & Co., 1871. 1st ed. 400pp. Orig. gilt pictorial cloth, housed in custom cloth slipcase. Rebacked, original spine laid down, else very good. HOWES M-930, "aa." Dornbusch II:1272.....
ROWLANDSON, Mary. Narrative of the Captivity and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Who Was Taken by the Indians at the Destruction of Lancaster in 1676. Written by Herself. 100pp. 12mo. Lancaster, [Mass.]: Carter, Andrews, and Co, 1828. The scarce 6th edition, 2nd Lancaster edition. Later quarter brown morocco-backed marbled boards.....
SANDBURG, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, [1926]. 1st ed. 2 vols. xvi,480; vi,482pp. Frontises., illus., portraits, plates, maps. Orig. linen-backed paper boards, printed paper spine labels, T.e.g. Set of fresh extra labels. HOWES S-81, "b" One of 260 numbered copies on rag paper.....
[SANDERS, Daniel, Clarke]. A History of the Indian Wars with the First Settlers of the United States, Particularly in New-England. Montpelier, Vt.: Wright & Sibley, 1812. 319pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gilt label. Boards rubbed and a bit scuffed. Text tanned, light foxing and soiling throughout, occasional horizontal tears into text.....