WILKES, Charles. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842. Phila.: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. Five vols. plus atlas volume. 4tos. Illus. with maps and plates. A married set, the atlas supplied from another set. Withal, a very good set. Internally fine.....
(Clubs). The Philadelphia Clubs. 1890. Phila.: Keighton Printing House, 1890. 1st ed. Folio. [unpaged]. 16 lithographic plates of clubhouses. Orig. cloth, housed in custom red morocco backed marbled boards folding box. Light wear to spine ends and corners, else very good. Rare. Worldcat locates only one copy. This is the.....
PHILADELPHIA TRADE CARDS. Album of 708 chromolithographic trade cards from the 1870s to the 1890s for perfumers, ice cream parlors, shoes, coffees, soaps, dry goods, florists, glovers, clothiers, restaurants, patent medicines, milliners, pets, toys, umbrellas, among many others. A wide-ranging collection of Philadelphia area merchants and manufacturers, showing commercial lithography.....
(SAUR IMPRINT). Zionitischer Weyrauchs Hugel oder: Myrrhen Berg... Germantown: Christoph Sauer, 1739. [12],792,[14]pp. Orig. calf boards, rebacked in matching leather, housed in a custom morocco backed marbled boards clamshell box. Some minor browning, else a very good, complete copy. Evans 4466.Arndt 17. Hildeburn 617. "There are a number of facts.....
ADAMS, John. A Defence of the Constitutions of the Government of the United States of America, against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-Second Day of March, 1778. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1794. New ed. 3 vols. 8,xxxii,[3]-392;451,[1, binder's directions];528,[36, index]pp. Portrait.....
ANDERSON, James. The Interest of Great-Britain with Regard to Her American Colonies, Considered. To Which Is Added an Appendix, Containing the Outlines of a Plan for a General Pacification. London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1782. vii,[1],136,36pp.1s Half title. Original plain wrappers. Fine. Untrimmed and partially unopened. In a blue half.....
BARTRAM, William. Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscolgulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. London: J. Johnson, 1792. 1st English ed. 8vo. xxiv,520,[12]pp. Folding map, plus all seven plates (including one folding plate).....
BROWNING, Robert. Dramatis Personae. Rebound in full brown morcco, gilt, a.e.g., with marbled endpapers, by Bedford. London:Chapman & Hall, 1864. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title to "Mr. & Mrs. Benzon from theirs affectionately, ever Robert Browning, May 25'60." A fine copy.
BURGOYNE, John. A State of the Expedition from Canada, as Laid before the House of Commons, by Lieutenant-General Burgoyne, and Verified by Evidence; with a Collection of Authentic Documents.... London: Printed for J. Almon, 1780. 1st ed. viii,140,lxii pp., plus [1]p. entitled "Advertisement," five partially colored folding plans (two with.....
(HOPKINSON, FRANCIS). (DUCHE, JACOB). [BUTLER, Samuel]. Hudibras. In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended: with Additions. To Which Are Added Annotations, with an Exact Index to the Whole. Adorn'd with a New Set of Cuts, Design'd and Engrav'd by Mr. Hogarth. London: Printed.....
CATLIN, George. Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, & Condition of the North American Indians. With Letters and Notes, Written during Eight Years of Travel and Adventure among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing. London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. 2 Vols. viii,264; viii,266pp. 180 colored plates containing 360 images.....
[CLEMENS, Samuel L.]. Liber Scriptorum. The First Book of the Authors Club. Original full straight-grained morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, over thick wooden boards, T.e.g. New York: The Authors Club, 1893. First edition. BAL 3438. One of 251 copies according to the limitation, but Johnson writes, " not bound.....
CONRAD, T.A. Monography of the Family Unionidae. Or Naiades of Lamarck, (Fresh Water Bivalve Shells,) of North America. Illustrated by Figures Drawn on Stone from Nature. Philadelphia: J. Dobson, 1836. [2],iv,110 (of 118)pp. plus sixty (of sixty-five) colored plates. 19th century three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Binding slightly edgeworn.....
[DANDO, Thomas S.]. Riverton Gun Club History, 1877-1906. With numerous photogravure illustrations and portraits. 54, 52 pp. Oblong 4to. [Riverton, N.J: Dando Print. and Pub. Co, 1906]. Original three quarter red morocco and marbled boards, a.e.g. Box repaired, retaining typographic elements. No. 56 of 100 copies printed. Not in Phillips.....
[EMERSON, John S.]. He Hoakakaolelo No Ha Huaolelo Beritania, I Mea Kokua I Na Kanaka Hawaii E Ao Ana Ia Olelo. Lahainaluna: Mea Pai Palapa o ke Kulanui, 1845. x,184pp. Text in two columns. Expertly bound to style in dark blue straight grain morocco backed contemporary marbled paper covered boards.....
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. May-Day and Other Pieces. Original gilt-pictorial white linen, T.e.g. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First edition. BAL 5250. Myerson A28.1.a. One of approximately 100 copies in the gift binding. Presentation inscription from the author: "Edward Atkinson, Esq. from R.W. Emerson, May 1867." Atkinson was an industrialist, insurance.....
FADEN, William, engraver. A Plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia Survey'd by N. Scull and G. Heap. London: W. Faden, 1777. 1 sheet folio, 24-5/8 x 18-1/2 inches. Framed. A few very tiny stains at foot of sheet, not affecting map, else a very good or better copy.....
FORSTER, John Reinhold. A Catalogue of the Animals of North America. Containing an Enumeration of the Known Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, Fish, Insects, Crustaceous and Testaceous Animals; Many of Which Are New, and Never before Described. To Which Are Added, Short directions for Collecting, Preserving, and Transporting, All Kinds of Natural.....
GASS, Patrick. Journal of the Voyages and Travels of A Corps of Discovery, Under the Cpommand of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke[sic]...During the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806....Philadelphia: Printed for Matthew Carey, 1811. 262pp. plus six plates including frontispiece. Contemporary calf, spine label. Boards and spine worn slightly, hinges expertly.....
GASS, Patrick. Voyage des Capitaines Lewis et Clarke [sic], Depuis l'Embouchure du Missouri, Jusqu'a L'entree de la Columbia dans L'ocean Pacifique, Fait des les Annees 1804, 1805 et 1806.... Paris: Chez Arthus-Bertrand, 1810. xviii,443pp. plus folding map. Contemporary calf-backed paper-covered boards, vellum corners, spine with gilt Greek-key tooling, gilt morocco.....
HEAP, Gwin Harris. Central Route to the Pacific, from the Valley of the Mississippi to California: Journal of the Expedition of E.F. Beale, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California, and Gwinn Harris Heap, from Missouri to California, in 1853. Phila.: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1854. 136pp. 13 handsome lithographed plates.....
HUGHES, Griffith. The Natural History of Barbados. In Ten Books. London: Printed for the Author, and sold by most booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland, 1750. Folio (16 x 10 1/4 inches). 10pp. list of subscribers, 15-line errata printed on verso of final page of preface. 30 engraved plates (12.....
HUNTON, Eppa. Autobiography of Eppa Hunton. Richmond: The William Byrd Press, 1933. 1st ed. xx,268pp. Portrait frontis., portrait. Orig. gilt-armorial cloth. Fine. HOWES H-826. Dornbusch II, 2806. In Tall Cotton 99. Nevins I, p.109. One of 100 numbered copies. Hunton commanded a brigade in Pickett's Confederate division. This copy signed.....
[HUSKE, Ellis]. The Present State of North-America. I. The Discoveries, Rights and Possessions of Great-Britain. II. The Discoveries, Rights and Possessions of France. III. The Encroachments and Depredations of the French Upon His Majesty's Territories in North America.... London Printed, Boston, New-England, Re-printed and Sold by: D. Fowle and by.....
(WORLD WAR I). KAPPEL, Wilson. Detailed Manuscript Diary and Related Archival Materials Pertaining to the Service of Wilson Kappel of Bolivar, Ohio, during World War I, Including His Account of Service in Europe and Details of Fighting on the Front Lines in France and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. [Various locations, including.....