WHITMAN, Walt. Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman 1855...1888 Authenticated & Personal Book (Handled by W.W.) ... Portraits from Life ...Autograph. Original 3/4 green cloth and marbled boards, printed paper spine label, housed in custom red morocco-backed cloth folding box. [Camden, NJ]: 1888. [2],382,374,140,2pp., plus four plates of illustrations.....
WILLIAMSON, Peter. French and Indian Cruelty; Exemplified in the Life and Various Vicissitudes of Fortune, of Peter Williamson, a Disbanded Soldier. Containing a Particular Account of the Manners, Customs and Dress of the Savages...A Summary of the Transactions of the Several Provinces of Pennsylvania (Including Philadelphia), New York, New England...From.....
BACQUEVILLE, De La Potherie, claude Charles Leroy. Histoire de L'Amerique Septentrionale. Paris: Jean-Luc Nion and Francois Didot, 1722 [vols. 1-3]; 1721 [vol. 4]. Four volumes. Titles in red and black. [12],10,15-370,[4]; [2],356,[8]; [12],310,[6]; [2],271,[5]pp., with errors in pagination as issued. Frontispiece additional engraved title by I.B. Scotin, twenty-eight engraved plates.....
BLASKOWITZ, Charles. A Topographical Chart of the Bay of Narraganset in the Province of New England With all the Isles Contained Therein, Among Which Rhode Island and Connonicut [sic] Have Been Particularly Surveyed...to Which Has Been Added the Several Works and Batteries Raised by the Americans.... London: William Faden, July.....
CIVIL WAR, CONFEDERATE. Bound volume of 44 pieces of lithographed Confederate sheet music, mostly with illustrated covers. Richmond, Columbia, Augusta, and elsewhere: 1863-64. Quarto. Collation as below. Expertly bound to style in half dark purple morocco and purple cloth covered boards. An impressive collection of Confederate lithographed sheet music. This.....
MICHAUX, Francois Andre. The North American Sylva; Or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia.... Philadelphia: Robert P. Smith, Publisher..., 1853. Three volumes. 156 handcolored engravings. Half title in first volume. [with:] Nuttall, Thomas: The North American Sylva.... Philadelphia: Robert P. Smith, Publisher........
CAREY, Henry Charles. Complete Historical, Chronological, and Geographical American Atlas, Being a Guide to the History of North and South America, and the West Indies: Exhibiting an Accurate Account of the Discovery, Settlement, and Progress of Their Various Kingdoms, States, Province, &c. Together with the Wars, Celebrated Battles, and Remarkable.....
MOORE, Francis. A Voyage to Georgia. Begun in the Year 1735. Containing, an Account of the Settling the Town of Frederica, in the Southern Part of the Province; And a Description of the Soil, Air, Birds, Beasts, Trees, Rivers, Islands, &c....Also a Description of the Town and County of Savannah........
COXE, Daniel. A Description of the English Province of Carolana. By the Spaniards call'd Florida, and by the French, La Louisiane ... With a large and curious Preface, demonstrating the Right of the English to that Country, and the unjust Manner of the French usurping of it. London: for Edward.....
DRY, Camille N. Pictorial St. Louis: The Great Metropolis of the Mississippi Valley. A Topographical Survey Drawn in Perspective A.D. 1875. Edited by Richard J. Compton. St. Louis: Compton & Company, 1876. 1st ed. Oblong folio. 215pp. Lithographic frontis., full-page key map, view, and 110 lithographed plates (most included in.....
KALM, Peter. Travels into North America, containing It's Natural History, and A Circumstantial Account of Its Plantations and Agriculture in General...The Civil, Ecclesiastical and Commercial State of the Country. Warrington. 1770-71. Three volumes. xvi,[8],400; 352; viii,310,[14]pp. plus folding map and six plates. A very handsome set bound in later full.....
(SAUR BIBLE). Biblia, Das ist: Die Helige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments, Nach der Deutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers mit Jedes Capitels Furtzen Summarien, Ach Bengefugten Vielen und Richtigen Parallelen; Rebst dem Gewohnlichen Anhang des Dritten und Vierten Buchs Esra und des Dritten Buchs der Maccabaer. Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1743.....
(LAW, JOHN). (MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE). The Great Mirror of Folly... Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaashied Vertoonenede de Opkomst, Voortgang en Ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden... [Holland], 1720. 1st ed. Folio. 25,[1],52,26, 29-31, 8, 9pp. Title printed in black and red. 75 engraved plates including.....
BACQUEVILLE DE LA POTHERIE, Claude Charles Leroy. Histoire de L'Amerique Septentrionale. Paris: Jean-Luc Nion et Francois Didot, 1722. Four volumes. [12],10,15-126[i.e.216],227-370,[4]; [2],168,173-356,[7]; [12],158,157-310,[6]; [2],4,[4],5-271,[5]pp. plus three engraved maps (two folding) and twenty-five engraved plates (ten folding), including one double-sided music plate and frontispiece in first volume. 12mo. Titlepages printed in.....
BARTRAM, John and KALM, Peter. Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and Other Matters Worthy of Notice. Made by Mr. John Bartram, in His Travels from Pensilvania, to Onandago, Oswego and Lake Ontario, in Canada. To Which is Annex'd, A Curious Account of the Cataracts at Niagara.....
BARTRAM, John and KALM, Peter. Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and Other Matters Worthy of Notice. Made by Mr. John Bartram, in His Travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada. To Which Is Annex'd, a Curious Account of the Cataracts at.....
[BEVERLEY, Robert]. The History and Present State of Virginia, in Four Parts...By a Native and Inhabitant of the Place. London: Printed for R. Parker, 1705. Four parts bound in one volume. [12],19,[1],104; 40; 64; 83pp. Errata on verso of final table of contents leaf. Engraved frontispiece, fourteen engraved plates, all.....
FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Experiments and Observations on Electricty, Made at Philadelphia in America. London: F. Newberry, 1774. 5th ed. 4to. Complete with all seven plates (some folding) and 1/2 title. [2],v,[1],514,[16, index] pp. Contemporary gilt-chamfered calf, raised spine bands, compartments elaborate gilt, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers, housed in custom.....
GORDON, William. The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the Late War; and of the Thirteen Colonies, from Their Origin to that Period. London: Printed for the Author...and James Buckland, 1788. 4 Vols. [26],504; [8],584; [8],499;.....
(ALASKA). KEITH, Harold C. Being the Diary of a Hunting Trip in the Interior of Alaska in the Summer of 1930. Printed Privately as a Matter of Record for the Members of the Party. Illustrated with photographs. Text in two columns. 28 pp. 10-1/4 x 7 inches. Brockton, Mass: Harold.....
(PENNSYLVANIA). [MARRIOTT, Benjamin F.]. [Manuscript Title: The Journal of the Ten Mile Cabin Party][and:] [Wyoming] [and:] [Our Summer Trip, 1871]. Ink on paper, with pencil and watercolor drawings throughout, including rural scenes and pictures of camp life, 2 finely executed leaves depicting 11 and 7 named angling flies, two individual.....
OSLER, William. The Principles and Practice of Medicine Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine. Edinburgh: Young J. Pentland, 1892. 1st UK ed. xvii,1079pp. Charts. Orig. cloth, housed in blue-morocco backed clamshell box. Cloth gently rubbed, light wear to foot of spine and lower corners, inner hinges.....
[STORK, William] and BARTRAM, John. Account of East-Florida, with A Journal Kept by John Bartram of Philadelphia, Botanist to His Majesty for the Floridas; upon A Journey from St. Augustine up the River St. John's. London: W. Nicoll and G. Woodfall, [1766]. [6],xxii,23-90;viii,70pp. Antique-style gilt-ruled full calf, giltruled raised spine.....
SWIETEN, Baron von, et al. The Diseases Incident to Armies. With the Method of Cure. Translated from the Original...to which Are Added; the Nature and Treatment of Gun-Shot Wounds ...Likewise, Some Brief Directions to be Observed by Sea Surgeons in Engagements. Also, Preventatives of the Scurvy at Sea....Published, for the.....
WILD, J. C. Panorama and Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity. Embracing a Collection of Twenty Views, from Paintings by J.C. Wild. With Poetical Illustrations of Each Subject, By Andrew M'Makin. Philadelphia. 1838. [22]pp. plus 24 black and white lithographs. Quarto. Original patterned brown cloth, gilt morocco label on front.....