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(CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH). FERRAN, Augusto; and BATURONE, Jose. [Album Californianos] 5 (of 14). hand colored lithographs. Havanna: Litografia de L. Marquier, [circa 1850]. Each matted and housed in a burgundy cloth box. Howes F94; Driesbach/Jones, Art of the Gold Rush, p. 17; Peters California on Stone, p. 160. The Cuban.....
[VIVIAN, W]. Views of the Great Falls of Niagara Views of the Great Falls of Niagara [wrapper title]. 5 lithographed plates printed on chine colle and mounted, as issued. With the original tissue guards. Oblong small folio (11-1/2 x 15 inches). Philadelphia: Published by Kennedy & Lucas Lithographers ... R......
LOCKE, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Volume 1, only (of 2). Engraved frontispiece. [2], iv, [26], 372pp. 8vo. London: Printed for Arthur Bettesworth and Charles Hitch [and others], 1731. Tenth edition. Contemporary calf, front cover detached, spine worn. Housed in a morocco backed slipcase. Provenance: John Dickinson (signature on.....
WEBB, Samuel Blachley. Correspondence & Journals of...1772-1806. Collected and Edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford. N.Y., 1893-94. 4tos. Three vols. A very good untrimmed set in later two-toned cloth. Howes W-190. Limited to 350 sets. An important and scarce journal devoted largely to the revolutionary period. Webb was an aide-de-camp and.....
JONES, Rufus M. The Later Periods of Quakerism. London, 1921. 1st ed. Two vols. A detailed and excellent study of Quakerism in the 18th and 19th centuries. Scarce.
BALTZELL, E. Digby. Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, [1958]. 1st ed. ix,440pp. Orig. cloth. Spine lightly sunned, bookplate, else very good. Classic study of the development of the Philadelphia business aristocracy. Inscribed by the author.
GREGG, Josiah. The Commerce of the Prairies. Edited by Milo M. Quaife. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1926. Illus. folding map. Fine in orig. cloth, t.e.g. A reprint of Howes G-401.
DIPPEL, Horst. Germany and the American Revolution 1770-1800: A Sociohistorical Investigation of Late Eighteenth-Century Political Thinking. Translated by B.A. Uhlendorf. Chapel Hill, [1977]. Illus. maps. 448pp. Fine in d/j.
HOOLE, William Stanley, ed. Confederate Centennial studies. Tuscaloosa, AL: Confederate Publishing Co., 1956-1965. 27 Vols. 1st eds. Orig. pictorial stiff wrappers. Some spines lightly sunned, else a near fine and complete set. 1. COULTER, E. Merton. Lost Generation: The Life and Death of James Barrow, C.S.A. 114pp. 2. MONAGHAN, Jay. Swamp Fox.....
[De BOW, James]. The Interest in Slavery of the Southern Non-Slaveholder. The Right of Peaceful Secession. Slavery in the Bible. Charleston, SC: Steam-Power Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1860. 1st ed. 30pp. Disbound. Very good. P & W 5330. Work, p.366. Afro-Americana 5157. Not in Blockson. Turnbull III, p.298.
BLACKFORD, Charles M. Campaign and Battle of Lynchburg, Va. [Lynchburg, VA: Press of J.P. Bell, Co., 1901]. 1st ed. 72pp. Portrait frontis. Orig. printed wrappers. Ownership signature on front wrapper and verso of frontis., else near fine. "A concise but accurate account of the repulse of Hunter's troops before Lynchburg;.....
COWLES, Calvin D., comp. Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1891-1895. 3 Vols. Large folios. 1st eds. 175 color plates. Later 3/4 red morocco, original labels laid down on front boards, all edges marbled. Foredge of a few leaves.....
PAINE, Thomas. Sammelband of Six Pamphlets, 1791-1794. Contemporary 3/4 calf and marbled boards, raised spine bands, spine elaborate gilt, red morocco spine label. Light wear to head of spine and corners, contents in early hand on verso of front free endpaper, else a very good copy. 1. Common Sense: Addressed to.....
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION). A Complete and Accurate Account of the Very Important Debate in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, July 9, 1782: In Which the Cause of Mr. Fox's Resignation, and the Great Question of American Independence Came under Consideration . London: J. Stockdale, 1782. 2nd ed. [6],61pp. Period-style, red.....
BEAUMARCHAIS, Pierre-Augustin Caron de. Observations sur le Memoire Justificatif de la Cour de Londres. A Londres, a Philadelphie, 1779. 56pp. Modern unprinted wrappers. Minor soiling to title page and final page, early owner's name on titlepage, else a near fine copy. HOWES B-289, "aa." Sabin 4182. Goldsmiths 11907. Bell B129.....
[LANGWORTHY, Edward]. Memoirs of the Life of the Late Charles Lee, Esq., Lieutenant-colonel of the Forty Fourth Regiment, Colonel in the Portuguese Service, Major-General, and Aid du Camp to the King of Poland, and Second in command in the Service of the United States of America during the Revolution: to.....
JOHNSON, Bradley T. The First Maryland Campaign. An Address... Richmond: Wm. Ellis Jones, Book and Job Printer, 1884. 1st ed. 39pp. Original printed wrappers bound in. A very good copy. Dornbusch II, 535. Rare, Worldcat locates only 11 copies and we can find no auction records or sales in the.....
[RUSH, Benjamin]. Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle. Series A. Phila.[Press of the J.B. Lippincott Company], 1892. 1st ed. 479pp. Orig. cloth, t.e.g. (With:) [RUSH, Benjamin]. Old Family Letters Relating to the Yellow Fever. Series B. Phila.:[Press of the J.B. Lippincott Company], 1892. 108pp. 1st ed.....
(NEW HAMPSHIRE). Town and City Atlas of the State of New Hampshire. Compiled from Government Surveys, County Records and Personal Investigations. Boston: D.H. Hurd & Co., 1892. 1st ed. Folio. 337pp. Frontis., plates. Most maps hand-colored. Orig. 3/4 calf, gilt-ruled spine, some wear to corners and spine ends, wrinkling to.....
MEEHAN, Thomas. The American Handbook of Ornamental Trees. Phila.: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1853. Xv,[25]-257pp. Orig. embossed cloth, spine gilt. Rebacked, orig. spine laid down, some war to corners, bookplates on front pastedown, else very good. Dedicated "To the Memory of John Bartram, the Patriarch of American Arboriculture."
LARPENTEUR, Charles. Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872. Edited, with Many Critical Notes, by Elliott Coues. New York: Francis P. Harper, 1898. 2 Vols. xxvii,236;ix,[237]-473pp. Portrait frontises., portraits, plates, maps. Orig. cloth, spines gilt. Spines lightly rubbed, else a very.....
MALONEY, Walter C. A Sketch of the History of Key West, Florida. An Address Delivered at the Dedication of the New City Hall, July 4, 1876, at the Request of the Common Council of the City. Newark, NJ: Printed at the Advertiser Printing House, 1876. 1st ed. 85,[1]pp. Errata. Lithographic.....
ROSS, Alexander. Fur Hunters of the Far West; A Narrative of Adventures in the Oregon and Rocky Mountains. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1855. Two volumes. xv, 333pp. plus folding map and [1]p. of ads; viii, 262, [2]pp. plus 16pp. of ads. Lithographed frontispiece in each volume. Very good in.....
ROSS, Alexander. Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River: Being a Narrative of the Expedition Fitted Out by John Jacob Astor, to Establish the "Pacific fur Company"; With an Account of Some Indian Tribes on the Coast of the Pacific. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1849.....
(LEWIS, Charles Bertrand). Field, Fort and Fleet; Being a Series of Brilliant and Authentic Sketches of the Most Notable Battles of the Late Civil War, Including Many Incidents and Circumstances Never Before Published in Any Form by M. Quad. (pseudonym). Detroit: Detroit Free Press Publishing Company, 1885. 1st ed. vii.....