(FREEMASONS). Address delivered by the M. W. Anson Jones, Esquire, Grand Master of Masons within the Republic of Texas, Before the W. Holland Lodge, No. 1., Held at the City of Houston, Under the Jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of the Republic of Texas, at the First Annual Visitation, on.....
BACON, Thomas, comp. Laws of Maryland at Large, with Proper Indexes. Now First Collected Into One Compleat Body, and Published From the Original Acts and Records, Remaining in the Secretary's Office of the Said Province. Annapolis: Printed by Jonas Green, Printer to the Province, 1765. [733]pp. including final errata leaf.....
BARTON, Benjamin Smith. A Memoir Concerning the Fascinating Faculty which Has Been Ascribed to the Rattle-Snake, and Other American Serpents. Phila.: Printed, for the Author, by Henry Sweitzer, 1796. 70pp. Later gilt-ruled polished calf, gilt-ruled raised spine bands, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, T.e.g, with contemporary 18th-century marbled wrappers bound.....
(ISLAM). GIBBON, Edward. The Life of Mahomet with Sketches of the Reigns of His Successors Abubeker, Omar, Othman and Ali. Leominster, [MA]: Printed by Salmon Wilder for John Whiting, 1805. 1st Am. ed. 171pp. Full contemporary calf, red morocco spine label (chipped). Lacking front flyleaf, front hinge cracked but holding.....
HAVILAND, John and BRIDPORT, Hugh. The Builder's Assistant, Containing the Five Orders of Architecture... Philadelphia: John Bioren, 1818-1821. 1st ed. 3 vols. 148 plates (lacking 2), some folding. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, black morocco spine labels. Lacks pp. 201-208 in vol. 3, with duplicates of pp. 193-200 inserted.....
JAMES, Edwin. Account of An Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820...Under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers. Compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Party, By Edwin Thomas, Botanist and.....
[KOLLNER, Augustus]. The Child's Book of Animals. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, [c.1850]. Oblong 4to. 6 lithographic plates, with "The Duck" partially colored in watercolor, and facing page text. Original pictorial wrappers. Spine chipped, foxing and toning, large dampstain affecting most leaves, else very good in custom slipcase and chemise. Kollner.....
KOTZEBUE, Otto Von. A Voyage of Discovery, into the South Sea and Bering's Straits, for the Purpose of Exploring a North-east Passage, Undertaken in the Years 1815-1818, at the Expense of His Highness the Chancellor of the Empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, Under the Command of the Lieutenant.....
POSTLETHWAYT, Malachy. In Honour to the Administration. The Importance of the African Expedition Considered: with Copies of the Memorials ... To which are Added, Observations, Illustrating the Said Memorials, for the Peculiar Benefit and Advantage of all British African and West-India Merchants and British Planters. London: C. Say, 1758. 8vo.....
STANSBURY, Howard. Special Session, March, 1851. Senate. Executive. No. 3. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route through the Rocky Mountains. Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States. Phila.: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852.....