New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1922). Hardcover. x, [2], 285pp + [2]pp of publisher's advertisements. Original green decorated cloth stamped in black and gold on the front panel and the spine panel, and lettered in gold on the spine. Top edge stained yellow. Profusely illustrated and with several maps... More about In Old New York
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. xxii, 509pp + 4pp of publisher's advertisements. Original light brown cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine. With 160 illustrations and 6 maps (5 folding maps, 1 folding plate). Spine ends frayed, a few small white paint... More about The Greatest Street in the World. The Story of Broadway, Old and New, from the Bowling Green to...
La Haye [The Hague]: Chez P. F. Gosse, 1789. First Edition. Hardcover. xii-14, 1-518pp + errata. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, spine lettered in gold, all edges sprinkled. Title vignette. Heavy wear to spine, boards soiled and cracked at joint (but still attached). Internally clean with some sporadic spot and foxing... More about Voyage en Suede, contenant un état detaillé de sa population, de son agriculture, de son...
Buffalo, NY: Matthews & Warren, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. 512pp. Green cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine. Hinges are cracked, lacks front free endpaper, wear to extremities. A good copy. ; Octavo. More about Centennial History of Erie County, New York; Being Its Annals from the Earliest Recorded Events...
Cleveland, OH: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. 534pp. Original quarter brown leather, front panel stamped in gold, all edges gilt. Frontispiece, steel engraved portraits, illustrations and two color maps. With the bookplate of prominent Cleveland resident Wilson B. Chisholm, president of the Champion Rivet Company and... More about History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. In Three Parts: Part First. -- General History of the County....
Philadelphia: Published by M. Carey, 1807. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second American edition. 317, [2], iv-vi. Contemporary full tree calf. Boards are worn and separating at spine, spine worn, top part of title page is missing (title is still present), old inscription on front free endpaper. Internally clean with light toning... More about Letters of Junius
Amstelodami (Amsterdam): Apud Ludovicum et Danielem Elzevirios (Elzevier), 1659. Hardcover. 547, [73]pp. Full brown calf with gold decorations on the spine, edges stained red. Hand-colored engraved title. John Lind's copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper and his signature on one of the pages. Among the previous owners'... More about Justinus cum notis selectissimis variorum Berneggeri, Bongarsy, Vossy, Thysy, etc. Editio...
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. xl, 528pp. Cloth. Faint corner crease to last few leaves else a fine copy in near fine dustjacket with very mild shelf wear. ; Octavo. More about The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger. Volume 2: Birth Control Comes of Age, 1928-1939
New York: The Library of America, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Slipcased edition. Cloth. The Library of America leaflet laid in. A fine copy in fine slipcase.; Octavo. More about American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King, Jr
Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Frères, Fils et Cie, 1875. Second Edition. Hardcover. viii, 520pp. Original publisher's red decorated cloth stamped in gold on the sides, spine in red morocco lettered and decorated in gold, all edges gilt, decorated endpapers. With three hundred and fifty wood engravings after Wattau, Vanloo, Rigaud..... More about XVIIIme siecle: institutions, usages et costumes. France, 1700-1789. Ouvrage illustré de 21...
New York: Appleton Century Crofts, 1966. Hard Cover. VG+/VG+. Green cloth with silver titles on spine. Small abrasion on ffep, light shelf wear to dustjacket, front cover slightly warped. The story was written as part of the sesquicentennial observance of the State University College at Potsdam, New York, and begins... More about The Potsdam Tradition
Providence, RI: Sidney S. Rider, 1884. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second edition after the one published in 1844, enlarged and containing the most complete account of the trial. 153, [2]pp. Errata slip tipped in. Quarter leather and dark red cloth, spine lettered in gold. One foldout map of the vicinity of... More about The Trial of John Gordon and William Gordon, Charged with the Murder of Amasa Sprague, Before the...
New York: Pocket Books, 1963. First Printing. Paperback. 7023. A near fine copy. The epic of the Alamo. Includes black and white photographs. More about A Time to Stand
Milano / Napoli: Riccardo Ricciardi Editore, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. La Letteratura Italiana - Storia e Testi Volume 29. xxxvii, 1157pp. Publisher's mustard buckram, spine stamped in blue and gold, top edge stained orange, silk bookmark. Printed in the Stamperia Valdonega. Edited by Mario Bonfantini. Includes Il principe, Operette storiche... More about Opere
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. The Western Frontier Library Vol. 6. xxiii, 166pp. Boards. Introduction by Ramon F. Adams. Previous owner's name and blind stamp to front free endpaper. A near fine copy in near fine price-clipped dustjacket with mild edge wear and a short... More about A Sketch of Sam Bass, the Bandit. A Graphic Narrative. His Various Train Robberies, His Death,...
Hartford, CT: S. Drake and Company, 1853. Third Edition. Hardcover. In two volumes. 433pp, 398pp. Contemporary brown full leather with two leather labels lettered in gold on the spine. Illustrated frontispieces, inserted plates and numerous in text illustrations. Wear to extremities, toning to pages, some small stains to the edges... More about Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican: A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and...
Udine: Tipografia Editrice D. Del Bianco e Figlio, 1935. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. 120pp. Comes with the original wraparound band. Foldout map. An in-depth look at the reasons behind the second Italian-Ethiopian colonial war. A fine copy with pages still unopened. In the Italian language. ; Octavo. More about Il nostro volo al di là dei mari
Middlebury, VT: Printed by Ephraim Maxham, 1841. First Edition. Printed wrappers. 92pp. Disbound. Includes the original front wrapper. Signed and inscribed by Thomas A. Merrill on the cover to I. P. Wheeler, founder of The People's Press: "I. P. Wheeler with the respects of T. A. Merrill." The historical sketch... More about Semicentennial Sermon, Containing a History of Middlebury, VT., Delivered, Dec 3, 1840, Being the...
London: The Folio Society, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete set. Two volumes in slipcase. 301pp; 320pp. Green moiree silk lettered in gold on the spines. With numerous illustrations. Spine panels are faded. A near fine set in slipcase. ; Octavo. More about The Nile. (The White Nile. The Blue Nile
Milano: Editore Omero Marangoni, 1933. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. 396pp + index. Original wrappers. With fifty illustrations. Chip to spine head, edge wear. A very good copy. In the Italian language. ; Octavo. More about La marina italiana in guerra, 1915-1918
[Washington, DC]: 1861. Hardcover. 36th Congress, 2nd Session. Report No. 78. 365pp. Original brown cloth stamped in blind on the sides and lettered in gold on the spine. A report on the fraudulent abstraction of bonds, held by the Government in trust for the Indian tribes. Wear to extremities, old... More about Abstracted Indian Trust Bonds
Boston: Printed by Samuel Hall, 1791. Third Edition. Hardcover. Third edition, corrected. viii, [1], 10-323pp. Contemporary full calf with label lettered in gold on the spine. With seven maps. Howes notes: "First American school geography and first American book describing the western country." Lacks frontispiece map of the world. The... More about Geography Made Easy: Being an Abridgement of the American Geography. Containing Astronomical...
Camden, NJ: Printed and Published by P. Keen and E. Chandler, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. 500pp. Original brown cloth blindstamped on the front and lettered in gold on the spine. Wear to extremities, some loss to the head of the spine, foxing, short tear to one leaf. A good+ copy... More about Civil and Political History of New Jersey
New York: (Privately Printed), 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. viii, 198pp. Green cloth stamped in gold on the spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Six maps (five of which are foldout), 4 page supplement from 1876 laid in. With the bookplate of the Larchmont Yacht Club on front pastedown endpaper. Light... More about The Voyage of Verrazzano: A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America
Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. Hardcover. 288pp. Cloth. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket. ; Octavo. More about Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine. Commerce, Culture, and Community on the Eastern Frontier