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
Worcester, [MA]: Achille J. St. Onge, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Miniature book. Edition limited to 1000 copies on Old Kentucky Linen paper. 60pp. Full green decorated calf stamped in gold on the front panel and lettered in gold on the spine panel, decorated endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece. Foreword by... More about On Science and Freedom. The Letter to the Student William Greene Munford June 18, 1799, with a...
Boston: Published by Isaiah Thomas, 1813. First Edition. Self-wraps. 28pp. Disbound. A few small stains and chip to title, toning to last leaf. About very good. Sabin 36030. Shaw & Shoemaker 28836. ; Octavo. More about An Address to the Members of the American Antiquarian Society, Pronounced in King's Chapel...
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1747. First Edition. Self-wraps. 68pp. Disbound. Light chipping to the edges of the title page, light wear. A very good copy. While the collation does not match Sabin there is no evidence that this copy is missing leaves. Contains many references to the West Indian... More about The State of the Nation for the Year 1747, and Respecting 1748. Inscribed to a Member of the...
New York: Printed by Isaac Collins and Son, 1804. First Edition. Pamphlet. [4], 72pp. Disbound. Includes Historical Sketch of the Institution, Charter for Establishing the Hospital, Rules and Orders for the Government of the Hospital, Rules and Orders Concerning the Library, Catalogue of the Books, A General Summary of the... More about A Brief Account of the New-York Hospital
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....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. 327pp. Green cloth stamped in darker green and gold on the front and the spine. Light soiling and wear to cloth, small stain to front cover. A very good copy. ; Octavo. More about Woman and the Republic: A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a...
Schenectady, NY: Riggs, Printer, 1859. First Edition. Self-wraps. 30pp. Folded sheets, stitched. Missing the covers, chipping to edges, name erased on the first page, stain on last page. A good+ copy. ; Octavo. More about History of the Fraudulent Organization and Mismanagement of he Mohawk Bank of Schenectady
Chicago: Dibble Publishing Company, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. xxiii, 490pp. Original brown pictorial cloth stamped in black and gold on the front and the spine. Floral endpapers. Profusely illustrated. Front hinge a bit weak. A bright, near fine copy. ; Quarto. More about The Story of Chicago
New York: Printed and for Sale by the Publisher, 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. viii, 344pp. Recent quarter brown sheepskin over cloth, spine with vellum labels lettered in gold, sprinkled edges. Double engraved frontispiece with portrait of Eli Whitney and a view of the Robert Hoe & Co.'s manufacturing establishment in... More about Mechanics' Magazine, and Register of Inventions and Improvements. January-June 1833. Vol. I
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...
1885. First Edition. Printed wrappers. [Philadelphia]. [1], 438-456pp. Original wrappers. Foldout map. A card tipped-in reads: "With the compliments of H. Carvill Lewis". Front cover detached, map has one split at fold, chipping to edges of front cover. Internally clean. ; Octavo. More about A Great Trap Dyke Across Southeastern Pennsylvania. Read Before the American Philosophical...
Dover, NH: The Free-Will Baptist Printing Establishment, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. 516pp. Contemporary full calf, black leather label lettered in gold on the spine. Frontispiece. The biography of an itinerant Baptist minister. Wear to extremities and covers, scattered foxing throughout, contemporary inscription in pencil on the front free endpaper. A.... More about Memoirs of the Life of David Marks, Minister of the Gospel
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,...
1848. Ephemera. 1848 signed letter by John Young Mason, then Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President James K. Polk, addressed to the Honorable Henry Alexander Wise. "Sir, I have received your letter of the 28th ult. with its enclosures. The letter addressed to Mr. De Selding I.... More about Signed Letter Addressed to the Honorable Henry A. Wise of Virginia. Navy Department, July 7th, 1848
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...
Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Miniature book. Edition limited to 1000 copies on Ingres Butten paper. Published to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. 43pp. Full white calf stamped in red and gold on the front panel and lettered... More about The Mayflower Compact
[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
Concord, NH: Jacob B. Moore, 1824. First Edition. Hardcover. vi, [3]-338pp. Original boards with paper label lettered in black on the spine panel. Includes Historical Sketch of Concord, NH; Census of 1775; Note on the Penacook Indians; Continental and Militia Troops in the American War; Witchcraft in New Hampshire, 1656... More about Collections of the New-Hampshire Historical Society, for the Year 1824
Albany, NY: Published by Order of the Common Council / Printed by E. B. Child, 1832. First Edition. Hardcover. 81, [3], 111, [1], xipp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Engraved title vignettes. Text block is mostly clean with some scattered foxing throughout. Front cover split at spine, spine panel... More about Laws and Ordinances of the Common Council of the City of Albany; Revised and Revived, September,...
Albany, NY: 1865. Hardcover. Sixty six leaves. Brown leather stamped in gold and blind, all edges gilt. The book belonged to Sarah A. Baker of Earlville, Madison County, New York, a student of the State Normal School of Albany, NY. The Normal School, founded in 1844, became the College for... More about Civil War Era Autograph Book Belonging to a Student of the Albany State Normal School (Now SUNY...