Hartford, CT: Published by Hutchison and Dwier, 1835. Hardcover. 576pp. Contemporary full tree calf, spine decorated and lettered in gold, marbled edges. Frontispiece and thirty-six inserted plates with two engravings each. Draws from the works of Bernard Picart and Colin Mackenzie with important additions and alterations. With chapters on the..... More

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

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

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

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

London: John Murray, 1818. First Edition. Hardcover. In two volumes. xvi, 530pp + errata; vii, 654pp + errata. Recent brown half cloth over marbled boards. Text blocks mostly clean, light foxing to first and last leaves. A near fine set. ; Quarto. More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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