SIMCOE, John Graves. Simcoe's Military Journal. A History of the Operations of a Partisan Corps, called the Queen's Rangers, Commanded by Lieut. Col. J.G. Simcoe, During the War of American Revolution. New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1844. 1st American ed. xvii, [4], 14-328 pp. 10 folding lithographed battle plans. In.....
SMITH, James L. Autobiography of James L. Smith, Including, also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, Etc. Norwich: Press of the Bulletin Company, 1882. 2nd ed. xv,150pp. Portrait frontis., plates. Orig. cloth. Spine ends worn, some rubbing to edges, uniform toning.....
TUCKERMAN, Bayard. Life of General Lafayette with a Critical Estimate of His Character and Public Acts. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1889. 1st ed. 2 Vols. xi,275;iv,266pp. Portraits frontises., plates. Orig. cloth. Small library stamps on titlepage, else very good or better. Gephart 13787.
POLK, William M. Leonidas Polk, Bishop and General. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1915. New ed. 2 Vols. x,385;viii,464pp. Portrait frontises., portrait, plates, maps (some folding). Orig. cloth. Fine in cloth slipcases. Dornbusch II, 3060. Expanded edition with new material. "Written by Bishop Polk's son and others; some value.....
[YEAGER, Abraham Hoss]. Jacob Klodsoe, One of the Nobodies. How He Came Home from the War--How He Grew Up and into It. Cleburne, TX: T.L. Sanders, Printer, 1899. 1st ed. 129pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Small chip to front wrapper, housed in custom red morocco-backed box, else near fine. Rare. Not.....
PHILBRICK, Nathaniel. Bunker Hill: A city, a Siege, a Revolution. New York: Viking, [2013].1st ed. xvii,398pp. Illus., portraits, maps. Orig. boards, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine. The background to the first major battle of the Revolution.
SMITH, Samuel. The History of the Colony of Nova-Caesaria, or New-Jersey: Containing, an Account of Its First Settlement, Progressive Improvements, the Original and Present Constitution, and Other Events, to the Year 1721. With Particulars Since; and a Short View of Its Present State. Burlington, NJ: Printed and Sold by James.....
WALLACE, Willard M. Soul of the Lion. A Biography of General Joshua L. Chamberlain. N.Y., (1960). Illus. Maps. The only biography of this famed Union officer. Fine in slightly worn d/j.
WASHINGTON, George. The Diary of George Washington, from 1789 to 1791; Embracing the Opening of the First Congress, and His Tours through New England, Long Island, and the Southern States. Together with His Journal of a Tour to the Ohio, in 1753. Ed. by Benson J. Lossing. 1st ed. Frontis.....
(PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENTAL). [RAWLE, William B., et al.]. History of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, Sixtieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in the American Civil War, 1861-1865. Phila., 1905. 1st ed. Folding map. 614pp. Orig. cloth. Very good.
STOTZ, Charles Morse. The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania. A Record of Building Before 1860. Based upon the Western Pa. Architectural Survey...etc. Pittsburgh, 1936. Large 4to. Profusely illus. 290pp. A fine copy. Limited to 1,000 copies.
(NEW YORK CITY). WILSON, James Grant. The Memorial History of the City of New York from Its Settlement to.... N.Y., 1892. 4 vols. Profusely illus. Very good set in later cloth; a.e.g, Howes W-527.
STOBO, Major Robert. Memoirs of...the Virginia Regiment. Pittsburgh, 1854. 12mo. Folding map. 92pp. A very good copy in orig. cloth. Howes 1015. Sabin 91869. Major Stobo was the engineer who laid out Fort Necessity at Great Meadows for Washington, and was one of the hostages surrendered to the French when.....
TYLER, Moses Coit. The Literary History of the American Revolution. 1763-1783. N.Y., 1897. 2 vols. xxxi, 521 & xix, 527pp. Very good in orig. cloth.
VANDERSLICE, John M. Gettysburg: Where and How the Regiments Fought and the Troops They Encountered. An Account of the Battle Giving Movements, Positions and Losses of the Commands Engaged. Phila., 1897. 1st ed. Folding map. 246pp. A very good copy in orig. cloth.
WINSOR, Justin. Narrative and Critical History of America (to 1850). Boston, [1889]. Eight vols. in 16. A very good set in orig. cloth. Howes W-578. Individual volumes on the following subjects: Aboriginal America; Spanish, French and English Explorations and Settlements; English and French in America 1689-1773; &c. "...most useful single.....
PHILLPOTTS, Eden. Children of the Mist. Orig. cloth. London: Innes, 1898. First edition. The author's best book, on A.E. Newton's list of 100 good novels. A very good copy in a morocco backed box.
(MARYLAND). SCHARF, J. Thomas. History of Maryland from the Earliest Period to the Present Day. Baltimore: John B. Piet, 1879. 1st ed. Three vols. Illus. Maps. A very good set in orig. 1/2 leather and marbled boards. Howes S-144. "The most valuable history of this state." Very scarce...
YOUNG, Jesse Bowman. The Battle of Gettysburg. A Comprehensive Narrative. N.Y., 1913. 1st ed. 463pp. Illus. maps. Very good in orig. cloth.
SLOCUM, Charles E. The Life and Public Services of Major-General Henry Warner Slocum. Toledo, Ohio, 1913. Illus. maps. 391pp. Fine in orig. cloth, in a slightly worn d/j.
WEYGANDT, Cornelius. The Red Hills. A Record of Good Days Outdoors and In. With Things Pennsylvania Dutch. Phila., 1929. 1st ed. xvi, 251pp. Illus. Fine in orig. cloth.
WEYGANDT, Cornelius. The Plenty of Pennsylvania: Samples of Seven Cultures Persisting from Colonial Days. N.Y., 1942. 1st ed. Illus. 319pp. Fine in d/j. Signed by the author.
WEYGANDT, Cornelius. The Dutch Country. Folks and Treasures in the Red Hills of Pennsylvania. N.Y., 1939. 1st ed. xx, 352pp. Illus. Fine in d/j.
WEYGANDT, Cornelius. The Blue Hills, Rounds and Discoveries in the Country Places of Pennsylvania. New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1936]. 1st ed. xxi,434pp. Frontis., plates. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Light wear to d/j, very good.
ROBERTS, Job. The Pennsylvania Farmer; Being a Selection from the Most Approved Treatises on Husbandry, Interspersed With Observations and Experiments. Phila.: A. Bartram, 1804. 1st ed. A very good copy in orig. full calf. Roberts, a pioneer agriculturalist, was born in Montgomery County, Pa. "...full of interesting material, and still.....