New York: C. M. Saxton, Barker & Co., 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. 386pp + 10pp of publisher's advertisements. Original light brown cloth stamped in blind on the sides, gold lettering on the spine. Collects a series of letters written to the New York Tribune. The author describes his journey through... More about An Overland Journey, from New York to San Francisco, in the Summer of 1859
Chicago: The Blakely Printing Co., 1900. Illustrated by Greenlee, W. B. First Edition. Hardcover. 230pp. Red decorated cloth stamped in gold and black on the front and gold on the spine. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece and several inserted plates. Signed and inscribed by the author to her aunt and uncle... More about As We Were Journeying. The Hawaiian Islands, Japan, China, Siam, Java and India, as Seen from a...
Dublin: Printed for the Author and Sold by T. Johnstone, 1811-4. Hardcover. Two volumes bound in one. 199pp; iv, [1], 6-48, [1], 51-216pp. Modern half calf over marbled boards, spine with four raised bands, gold lettering and decorations. Engraved frontispiece. The first title is a second edition, enlarged and continued... More about By Special Commission. The Trial of the Antichrist; Otherwise, The Man of Sin, for High Treason...
New York: Charles L. Woodward, Bookseller, 1889-95. First Edition. Hardcover. In two volumes. Limited edition. The first volume is #28 and is initialed by the author on the limitation page. The second volume does not have a number nor initials on the limitation page. viii, 449pp + index; x, 568pp... More about New York City and Vicinity During the War of 1812-'15, Being a Military, Civic and Financial...
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie. Illustrated by Rapine, M.; Benoist, Ph.; Guillemin, E. First Edition. Hardcover. xii, 470pp. Sides in red buckram stamped in blind, spine in red morocco decorated and lettered in gold. All edges gilt. White silk moire endpapers, red silk bookmark. With eleven inserted plates and seventy-eight... More about Les comètes
London: John Murray, 1820. First Edition. Hardcover. Full dark brown leather with elaborate decorations on the covers and spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Sixty-three engraved plates by John Pye, George Cooke, George Hollis, J. Landseer and others. Heavy wear to corners and edges, rodent damage to upper half of... More about A Picturesque Tour of Italy, from Drawings Made in 1816-1817
New York: Chautauqua Press, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. 312pp. Original brown decorated cloth stamped in gold and black on the front and the spine. Foldout map and several illustrations. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper, a touch of wear to extremities. A near fine copy. ; Octavo. More about History of the United States, Written for the Chautauqua Reading Circles
Washington, DC: Buell & Blanchard, Printers, 1853. First Edition. Pamphlet. 15pp. Folded sheets. Light toning to pages, smudge on title page, light chipping. A very good- copy. Sabin 29640. ; Octavo. More about Relations with Mexico. Speech of Hon. John P. Hale, of New Hampshire. Senate of the United...
New York: The New York Times, 1899. First Edition. Printed wrappers. 122pp. Original gray wrappers lettered in black. With an introduction by Francis Withing Halsey that explains how the correspondence started with a letter sent by Helen Church, a reader of The New York Times Saturday Review of Books and... More about Woman: Can She Reason? The Famous "Cynic" Correspondence in The New York Times Saturday...
Chicago: Our Possessions Publishing, Co., 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. 452pp. Original tan pictorial binding stamped in gold, red, black, and white on the front panel and the spine panel. Frontispiece and twenty-seven half-tone engravings made from photographs taken especially for this book. A few tiny spots to cloth on the... More about Life and Achievements of Admiral Dewey, from Montpelier to Manila
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. 352pp. Maroon cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine, brown endpapers. Frontispiece and two plates with photographs. Inscription on the front free endpaper by John Pierce from Company G of Lowell, Mass, in the year of publication (his name... More about Historical Sketch of the Old Sixth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, During Its Three...
Lowell, MA: Milton Bonney, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. 164pp. Brown cloth decorated in gold and stamped in blind on the front panel and lettered and decorated in gold on the spine, all edges gilt, tissued color frontispiece. Mild chipping to spine, some pencil annotations in text, light foxing. A very... More about The Ladies' Diadem or, Starry Oracles; in Which Each Day of the Year Is Designated by a Star and...
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883. Hardcover. vii, 378pp. Original publisher's brown pictorial cloth stamped in black and gold on the front panel and the spine panel, all edges gilt. Portrait frontispiece and several inserted plates with engravings. Light edge wear, contemporary owner's name on the front free endpaper. A.... More about The Poetical Works of Bret Harte. Complete Edition. Illustrated
Boston: W. P. Fetridge & Co., 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. 329pp + 16pp of publisher's advertisements. Blue cloth stamped in blind on the sides and in gold on the spine. Light rubbing to covers, mild wear to extremities, light foxing to endpapers. A very good copy. Wright II.647. ; Octavo. More about Harvestings: Sketches in Prose and Verse
Hardcover. Brown half calf and marbled boards. A collection of several pamphlets pertaining mostly to politics. Three of them bear the signature of Sir William Jolliffe, one was inscribed to him by the author, and one includes an autograph letter signed by the author. Includes the following titles: 1) Character... More about Political Tracts. With Original Autograph Letter by Edward Hawker Addressed to Sir William Jolliffe
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1872. Hardcover. 511pp. Contemporary full green morocco with triple gilt fillets and gold floral decorations on the sides, spine in compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettering and decorations, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Sections on the geology of the Missouri valley; observations on... More about Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Wyoming, and Portions of Contiguous...
Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. 21pp. Green cloth lettered in gold on the front panel. Portrait frontispiece. With the armorial bookplate of noted geologist and educator William Phipps Blake on the front pastedown endpaper. Old inscription on the front free endpaper, frontispiece tissue detached, mild scattered... More about A Filial Tribute to the Memory of William Allen Hayes, of South Berwick, Maine; Being Remarks...
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1872. Hardcover. 334pp. Original brown cloth stamped in blind on the sides and lettered in gold on the spine panel. Double wood engraved frontispiece with views of the old prison, built in 1805 and of the same in 1868. Wear to spine ends, short inscription... More about Pictures from Prison Life. An Historical Sketch of the Massachusetts State Prison. With...
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second edition, revised and enlarged. xvii, 256pp. Original decorated cloth stamped in gold and pale green on the front panel, lettered and decorated in gold on the spine panel. Light soiling to cloth, mild toning to spine panel. ; Octavo. More about Lyrics and Ballads of Heine and Other German Poets. Translated by Frances Hellman
Venezia: Presso Francesco Pitteri, 1770. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second edition in Italian. Two volumes. xx, 447pp; 400pp. There are several misnumbered pages. Recent half mottled calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, decorated and lettered in gold, edges sprinkled red. Engraved frontispiece, twenty copper-engraved foldout plates, initials and tail-pieces... More about Instituzioni chirurgiche di Lorenzo Heistero, consigliere aulico del sereniss. Duca di Bransuic e...
New York: A. B. Burdick, 1860. Hardcover. Enlarged edition. xvi, [1], 18-438pp + [2]pp of publisher's advertisements. Recent brown half morocco over marbled boards, spine with four raised bands, lettered and decorated in gold. Engraved frontispiece. Signed and inscribed by Hinton Rowan Helper on the flyleaf: "Andreas Willmann, / with... More about The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It. Enlarged Edition. (Signed and Inscribed by the...
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1869. First US Edition. Hardcover. x, 409pp. Original green cloth stamped in blind on the sides and lettered in gold on the spine, brown endpapers. A Utopian novel. Cloth mildly rubbed, a touch of edge wear. A bright, near fine copy. ; Octavo. More about Realmah
New York: The A. B. Benesch Co., (1904). Pictorial wrappers. Designed and published for the Illustrated Press Syndicate, New York. Unpaginated. Original pictorial wrappers. Compliments of The Baltimore Car Wheel Company. Previous owner's name in pencil on the front cover, spine partially split, a few smudges and light foxing to... More about Souvenir of the Baltimore Fire, February 7th, 8th and 9th, 1904, as Seen Through a Camera
London: Printed for A. Moore, 1730. First Edition. Self-wraps. 32pp. Stitched. Light toning to pages. A near fine copy. ; Octavo. More about The Case of Dunkirk Faithfully Stated, and Impartially Considered. By a Member of the House of...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. In two volumes. 220pp; 239pp + 8pp ads numbered 17-24. Brown figured cloth, paper label lettered and ruled in black on the spines. Wear to extremities, cloth is faded; volume one has a stain to front panel, a tear along the... More about The Brothers. A Tale of the Fronde