(KRIDER, JOHN). Sportsmen's Depot. Established in 1826. John Krider, Gun Maker, Dealer in Fishing Tackle and All Kinds of Sporting Apparatus. N.E. Cor. 2nd & Walnut Sts. Philadelphia, Pa. Phila.: [n.p.], c. 1850. 14 x 12 inches. A Landmark in American Sport. Superb American sporting broadside, the advertisement for.....
(FAIRMOUNT PARK). Plans and Description of Properties Embraced in Revision of Park Boundary Line along Wissahickon Valley in Accordance with Resolutions Adopted by the Commissioners of Fairmount Park, August 14, 1896. [Phila.: Commissioners of Fairmount Park, 1896]. 1st ed. Oblong folio. [130]pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Front wrapper separated but present.....
(CENTENNIAL). Memorial Hall Art Gallery. Centennial 1776-1876. Bandana in blue, white, and sepia, 24 x 20-5/8 inches. Sepia and white building with legend. Blue and white striped border with white stars. Sepia and white eagle at top with sepia, white, and blue shield. Threads of History 429.
(NEW JERSEY). New Jersey's Leading Cities Illustrated. Historical, Biographical, Commercial, Review of the Progress in Commerce, the Professions and in Social and Municipal Life. New York: J.M. Elstner & Co., 1889. 1st ed. Folio. 146pp. triple-columned. Illus., portraits. Final leaf is advertisements. Orig. gilt-decorated cloth. Light scuffing to cloth, else.....
PRINCE, Thomas. A Chronological History of New-England. In the Form of Annals: Being a Summary and Exact Account of the Most Material Transactions and Occurrences Relating to This Country. ... Boston: printed by Kneeland & Green for S. Gerrish, 1736. [10], xi, [1], 20, 104, [2], 254 pp. Later 3/4.....
CARUTHERS, E[li] W[ashington]. Interesting Revolutionary Incidents: and Sketches of Character, Chiefly in the "Old North State." Second Series. Phila.: Hayes & Zell, 1856. 1st ed. 448pp. Folding map. Orig. blindstamped cloth. Light scattered foxing, else very good. HOWES C-210. Sabin 11168. Cornerstone works on the Revolutionary War in North Carolina.....
ROBINSON, Charles. Kansas Conflict. Lawrence, KS: Journal Publishing Company, 1898. 1st ed. xxiii,487pp. orig. blindstamped cloth. Fine. The story of the Missouri-Kansas border troubles and the formation of the state government. Rader 2800. Day 257: "Contains the story of the Free-State struggle by one of the principals. The last chapter.....
AUSTIN, Benjamin, Jun. Constitutional Republicanism, in Opposition to Fallacious Federalism; as Published Occasionally in the Independent Chronicle, under the Signature of Old-South. To Which Is Added a Prefatory Address to the Citizens of the United States, Never before Published. Boston; Printed for Adams & Rhoades, 1803. 1st ed. 327pp. Later.....
HUNTER, C.L. Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical. Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln and Adjoining Counties, Accompanied with Miscellaneous Information, Much of It Never before Published. Raleigh: The Raleigh News Steam Job Print., 1877. 1st ed. xii,[4],357pp. Errata. Orig. cloth. Spine lightly sunned, else.....
CUST, Mrs. Henry. Wanderers: Episodes from the Travels of Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley and Her Daughter Victoria, 1849-55. New York: Coward-McCann, 1928. 1st U.S. ed. 364pp. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Minor chipping to d/j, front board lightly speckled, else very good. Stuart-Wortley and her daughter traveled down the Mississippi and on.....
REED, William B. A Rejoinder to Mr. Bancroft's Historical Essay on President Reed. Phila.: Printed for the Author, by Wm. P. Kildare, 1867. 1st ed. 114pp. Later blue morocco-backed marbled boards, , red morocco spine label. A tiny bit of foxing, else very good.
[RIVERS, William James]. A Sketch of the History of South Carolina to the Close of the Proprietary Government by the Revolution of 1719. With an Appendix Containing Many Valuable Records Hitherto Unpublished. Charleston: McCarter & Co., 1856. 1st ed. 470pp. Orig. pictorial blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Fine. HOWES R-324.
TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de and BEAUMONT, Gustave de. Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels. Edited by Olivier Zunz. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, [2010]. 1st ed. xxxix,698pp. Illus., plates, map. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine. Collecting the surviving letters, notebooks and other texts.....
JOLINE, Adrian H. The Diversions of a Book-Lover. Contemporary 3/4 gilt-ruled red crushed morocco and marbled boards, raised spine bands, compartments rule din gilt, marbled endpapers, T.e.g. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. First edition. Signed by the author on verso of front free endpaper. Boards lightly rubbed, else very.....
JOLINE, Adrian H. Rambles in Autograph Land. Original cloth, T.e.g. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1913. First edition. Laid in is an autograph card "Compliments of Mrs. A.H. Joline." Cloth very lightly rubbed, else very good.
JOLINE, Adrian Hoffman. Edgehill Essays. Original boards, printed paper spine label, T.e.g. Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1911. First edition. Reflections on book collecting and reading. Very good.
JOLINE, Adrian Hoffman. Peapack Papers. Bound in double gilt-ruled blue crushed morocco, raised spine bands, compartments ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt decorated tuck-ins, , T.e.g. [N.P.]: Privately Printed, 1911. First edition. One of a very few copies. Reflections on book collecting and reading. Very good.
BULLARD, Robert Lee. Personalities and Reminiscence of the War. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. 1st ed. x,347pp. Orig. cloth, T.e.g . Lettering on spine dulled, else very good. Signed by the author on front free endpaper.
LIPPARD, George. Blanche of Brandywine; or, September the Eleventh, 1777. A Romance, Combining the Poetry, Legend, and History of the battle of Brandywine. Later 3/4 brown morocco, raised spine bands, housed in custom orange morocco-backed slipcase with inner cloth chemise. Phila.: T.B. Peterson, [1846]. BAL 11777. Wright I: 1680. Presentation.....
(NEW YORK). (COOPERSTOWN). BIRDSALL, Ralph. The Story of Cooperstown. Cooperstown, NY: The Arthur H. Crist Co., [1917]. 1st ed. 425pp. Frontis., illus., portraits, maps. Orig. cloth. Very good or better. Chapters on Indian, the Revolution, the Cooper family, and baseball.
KAPP, Friedrich. The Life of John Kalb, Major-General in the Revolutionary War. New York: Privately Printed, 1870. 1st ed. in English. xii, 320pp. Portrait frontis. Orig. cloth, printed paper spine label. Wear to spine ends and corners, label sunned and chipped, outer front hinge starting, some light toning, else very.....
BENEDICT, Erastus C. The Battle of Harlem Heights, September 16, 1776. Read Before the New York Historical Society, February 5, 1878, with a Preface and Notes. New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, [1880]. 1st ed. xi,62pp. Contemporary 3/ brown morocco, raised spine bands, marbled endpapers, T.e.g., original printed wrappers bound.....
BACON, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. Xii,590pp. Frontis., illus., plates. Orig. cloth, pictorial pastedown, T.e.g. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, else very good.
SARGENT, Winthrop. The History of an Expedition Against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755; Under Major-General Edward Braddock. Phila., 1855. 1st ed. 423pp. Frontis., plates, maps (most folding). Later 3/4 gilt-ruled green morocco, raised spine bands, compartments triple-ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, T.e.g. Very good.
DE LANCEY, Edward F. The Capture of Mount Washington, November 16th, 1776, the Result of Treason. New York: [n.p.], 1877. 1st ed. 32pp. Map frontis., map. Orig. cloth. Cloth lightly sunned, small spot, some wear to foot of spine, else very good. One of 150 copies. Autograph letter signed dated.....