Boston: Ginn and Company, 1903. Cloth. Small 8vo. Publisher's decorative cloth with gilt and stamped decorations on spine and cover. Frontispiece, photographic and text illustrations. 141 pp. Touch of rubbing to spine header. Gift inscription in pencil on front free endpaper. A near fine copy. This is an attractive early printing of..... More
Chicago: Keen and Lee, 1855. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher’s blind-stamped cloth. Advertisements in front matter. With 9 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece. 264 pp. Binder's copy. Front board and advertisements detached. Binding split between pp. 94/95, but block remains solidly bound. 1" loss of cloth at header of spine. Lacks the..... More
Washington DC: self-published, 1899. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine and cover. Several illustrated and photographic plates throughout. 72 pp. plus 3 pp. "To the Delaware Indians" poem bound in. Scuffing to edges and sunning to spine. Ex-library, with stickers on spine and cover, stickers and..... More
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company, 1893. Boards. 8vo. Flexible boards. Profusely illustrated, including text illustrations, advertisements and a folding map of the fair. 268 pp. Wear to boards, particularly edges. 1.5" loss at header and footer of spine. Front free endpaper loose and laid in. Library card pocket inside front cover..... More
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New York: Macmillan, 1918. First Edition. Cloth. Large 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, author and title within gilt design on both front covers. Gilt top edges. Color frontispiece in each volume, numerous full-page illustrations and maps. Color folding map in rear of Vol. I. Vol. I: 697 pp. Vol. II: 773 pp..... More
Johnson City, TN: Watauga Press, 1924. First Edition. Cloth. Large 8vo. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Deckle edge. Hand-pressed rag paper. Frontispiece portrait of John Sevier. 371 pp. Minor edge wear. White mark on front cover, seems to be paste residue. Inscribed by the author on..... More
Johnson City, TN: Watauga Press, 1927. First Thus. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Deckle edge.Hand-pressed rag paper. Frontispiece plus large folding map and bibliography. 197 pp. Very minor wear to corners. Signed twice by Williams, once on front free endpaper and again on colophon..... More
New York: Hastings House, 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's quarter cloth over green boards. No jacket as issued. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Green stained top edge. Folding colored frontispiece, 8 pages of photographic illustrations, map printed on back paste-down. 527 pp. Signed and numbered by the author on colophon. Touch..... More
St. Louis: James R. Albach, 1851. 2nd edition, 2nd printing. Leather bound. Large 8vo. Contemporary sheep. 818 pp. Spine professionally rebacked with cloth and hinges secured with tape. Rubbing to board edges. Ex-library with card pockets pasted inside front cover and front free endpaper. Minor foxing throughout. Tight and clean. This is..... More
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Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1906. First Thus. Cloth. Large 4to. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spines and gilt armorial device of the Virginia Company on covers. "Old Stratford" watermarked paper. Deckle edge. Facsimiles of documents. Vol. I 1619-1622: 636 pp. Vol. II 1622-1624: 611 pp. Edge wear to covers..... More
Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1928. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Gilt top edge. Deckle edge. Hand=pressed paper. Frontispiece folding map. 299 pp. Minor shelf wear and bumped corners. Ex-library with mark on spine, bookplate inside front cover, and card pocket on front free endpaper. Front hinge overopened but..... More
Portland, OR: Champoeg Press, 1960. First Thus. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine and cover. Deckle edge. Numerous maps (many folding), illustrated plates, and facsimile pages. 352 pp. A touch of rubbing to spine header. Several pages unopened. A fine, unread copy. This is a limited edition (one of..... More
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Jackson, MS: Press of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1927; 1929; 1932. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Full-page and text illustrations and maps. Vol. I covers 1729-1740, 488 pp; Vol. II covers 1701-1729, 694 pp.; Vol. III covers 1704-1743, 812 pp. All 3..... More
Hartford, CT: Dustin, Gilman & Co., 1874. Cloth. Large 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, author and title in gilt within floral design on spine and front cover. Numerous full- page and text illustrations. 604 pp. Shelf wear to corners and header and footer of spine. Hinges overopened but binding is tight. Ownership..... More
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Albany, NY: Joel Nunsell, 1867. 2nd edition. Boards. 8vo. Contemporary boards. Hand-pressed paper. Deckle edge. Printer’s device on title. 204 pp. plus errata leaf. Front board detached. Read board split but attached. Interior is excellent. Tight and clean. Pasted inside the front boards is an envelope containing a 4-page manuscript letter..... More
Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1926. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Gilt top edge. Deckle edge. Hand-pressed rag paper. Illustrated plates, including a folding map. 349 pp. Minor shelf wear, and top left corner of rear cover bumped. Ex-library, with stamp on bottom block edge, card pocket inside front..... More
Cincinnati, OH: Derby, Bradley & Co., 1847. First Edition. Leather bound. Large 8vo. Contemporary calf. Frontispiece portrait of the author. 501 pp. Binder's copy. Spine removed so both boards as well as first few leaves loose. Book is complete. Some ownership marks in front matter. Minor foxing throughout. Quite clean, excellent..... More
Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1912. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Gilt top edge. Deckle edge. Hand-pressed rag paper. With 2 full-page colored maps and a number of facsimiles. 275 pp. Fine condition. This is a rare, finely printed first edition by historians Alvord and Bidgood. (Howes A194). More
New York: Sherman Publishing Company, 1886. Cloth. Large 8vo. Publisher's illustrated cloth with gilt stamps. Red stained edges. Numerous full-page and text illustrations and maps. 843 pp. Edge wear. Curled, closed tear at header of spine. Hinges split, threatening to detach. Attractive John Crerar Library bookplate inside front cover. Several pages..... More
Hartford, CT: House & Brown, 1850. Leather bound. Large 8vo. Contemporary leather with blind-stamped floral decorations. Marbled edges and endpapers. More than 300 engravings. [5], vi-x, 836, 48 (appendix). Spine professionally rebacked. 1851 ownership signature on front free endpaper. Some browning to front and end matter and minor foxing throughout. Tight..... More
Chicago: National Book & Picture Co., 1893. First Edition. Cloth. Oblong 8vo. Publisher’s illustrated cloth, with much stamped gilt. All edges gilt. Many photographic plates and text illustrations throughout, nearly every page. Unpaginated. Cloth is fairly worn around edges, with several tears at corners and along bottom edge of front cover..... More
New York: Interland Publishing, 1972. First Thus. Cloth. Very large 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Folding frontispiece in color and enormous folding map in rear. 1099 pp. Minor shelf wear. Ex-library with sticker on cover and spine, stamps on top and bottom block edges, and card and pocket pasted inside front cover. Excellent..... More
Boulder, CO: self-published, 1949. 3rd printing. Cloth. Large 4to. Publisher's cloth. Many illustrated plates by Wolle throughout. 544 pp. Ex-library, but only indications are an unobtrusive mark on spine, bookplate on front free endpaper, and card pocket on rear free endpaper. Sunning to spine, leaving title quite faded. Hinges overopened. Signed..... More
Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, 1873. Leather bound. Large 8vo. Original blind-stamped leather. 244 illustrations, both full-page and in text. 823 pp. plus advertisements. Spine rebacked in tape, and first few leaves also repaired. Leather quite scuffed, rubbed away at corners and top edge. Card pocket on front free endpaper. Some foxing..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1898. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine and cover, plus large gilt stamped illustration on cover. Frontispiece plus 7 additional full-page illustrations and map of Florida. 326 pp. plus advertisements. Some sunning and soiling to boards. Rear hinge overopened, beginning to split. Ex-library..... More