First Images of America: The Impact of the New World on the Old 2 volumes in Slipcase by Chiapelli, Fredi (editor, with Michael J. B. Allen and Robert L. Benson) - 1976

Worcester, Mass.: Isaiah Thomas Printer. Very Good+. 1785. Second Edition. Hardcover. Convened at Hartford at the Anniversary Election, May 8th 1783 by Ezra Stiles, President of Yale College. Second Edition Corrected. Original clean marbled boards, brown leather spine decorated with gilt. Text tight, clean & intact. A few pages with a hint of foxing. Facsimile title page. 8 additional pages of other publications. Ex-Lib, Boston Public Library ink stamp. Prior owners book plate. Connecticut Election Sermon. New England ; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 172 pages .

Boston: G. Alex Emery. Very Good. 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Originally published in soft covers, rebound in marbled boards with leather corners & spine including the original covers. Early Boston imprint. Text tight, clean & intact. Eight islands, 10 miles southeast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Illustrated with 12 full page engravings. Outer covers with spine end wear, have protected the original text well. Interior VG+. New England; Engraved Illustrations; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 35 pages .

1964. 1964 Osgood, Ernest Staples THE FIELD NOTES OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM CLARK 1803- 1805 New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964 35pp, index, annotated transcription of the journal and illustrated with facsimile photographs of the original field notes Signed by Ernest Staples Osgood on blank epage opposite tpage Folio Green and black cloth stamped in gold, gold facsimile signature of William Clark on front cover Fine bright, looks unread hardcover in fine bright d/j.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, hinges cracked, dampstain at top . and bottom margins, Volume three and four boards dampstained and bowed, . volume three noticeably more sunned at spine.. 1881. Hardcover. Complete in four quarto volumes. Uniformly bound in full dark brown leather with all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Six compartments on spine stamped in blind and in gilt. Gilt-stamped turn-ins. Numerous illustrations, signature facsimiles, heliotypes, maps, index in each volume. A handsome set. Volume I: xxxii, 596pp, later printing; Volume II: lviii, 577pp, first edition; Volume III: xii, 691pp, first edition; Volume IV: x, 713pp, first edition. A sweeping history of the Boston area and sketches of some of its most famous citizens from the colonial era through the late 19th century. Howes W 576. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

[Mexican-American War] Taylor and his Generals. A biography of Major-General Zachary Taylor; and sketches of the lives of Generals Worth, Wool, and Twiggs; with a full account of the various actions of their divisions in Mexico up to the present time; together with a history of the bombardment of Vera Cruz, and a sketch of the life of Major General Winfield Scott ... Philadelphia, E.H. Butler & Co.; New York, Burgess, Stringer & Co. 1847. Gray printed wraps. 17.75 cm x 11 cm. Illustrated. Map. 326 [8 ads] pp. [3] p. of the publisher's advertisements on endpapers and back cover. Covers separated, chipped; corners bent and bumped; water spots; scattered light foxing. Good.
Dorothy Sloan calls the second edition in wrappers, with 326 pages
"rare." See Catalog 24, No. 435. The first edition with 318 pages was published the same year as the second edition of 325 pages. See Haferkorn, The War With Mexico… Read More

Philadelphia: Barker Moore & Mein Medicine Co.. Very Good+. ca. 1910. Softcover. No date: Ca: 1910. Clean soft pictorial covers with cloth spine. Text tight, clean & intact. . Pages lightly age toned. B/W drawing illustrations. Humor based on ethnic, racial or sexual stereotypes. Comic book filled with cartoons, stories & jokes - all have one of Barker's products as the punch line. Humor; B&W Drawing; Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Unpaginated pages .

J. B. Lyon, 1907. G-/None. Wear/rubbing on boards/edges; boards a bit warped/splayed; front hinge cracked; some mildew spots in the center of some of the pages; some water damage pageblock. Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1907. Fully illustrated with color plates. 000009669-X003

Port Sunlight Near Birkenhead- UK: Lever Brothers Ltd., 1870. FUNNY STORIES- Mark Twain and LETTERS TO PUNCH- Artemus Ward- Lever Brosthers, Ltd.- Port Sunlight Near Birkenhead- UK- sn,nd (1870?)- 1st Edition- Hardcover:-12mo- Original publishers maroon cloth with gilt titles on cover and spine- covers have bevelled edges- VG+- no dj as issued-light rubbing but clean and tight- Funny Stories 173pp, & Letters to Punch 195pp + 1-4pp ads for banks, elixirs, pills, transparent cement etc + 18pp of Ward Lock book ads- illustrated with pre-chapter and end of chapter illustrations/decorations- SEE PHOTOS- Contents: Eye-Openers: Funny Stories by Mark Twain- from 'Autobiography to Medieval Romance...Science vs Luck--a bevy of Mark Twain stories- + Artemus Ward- "Letter to Punch"-'Arrival in London' -to Essays and Sketches- writings in the Cleveland Plain Dealer etc- A great book and 1st Edition- World Cat states: Funny stories-Author: Mark Twain; Artemus Ward-Publisher: Port… Read More

Richmond, CA: Dietz Press, 1955. First edition. Hard cover. Published Richmond: Dietz Press, 1955, first printing. Thick 8vo., xv+934 pp., illustrated with 32 plates. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Slight spotting to the cloth, mild foxing to edges and pastedowns, name on pastedown. Very good, clean, tight, unworn.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. limited to 500, in two volumes 1851 [Number 5, Rare America Series] and 1852 [Number 6, Rare American Series], 8vo, [9x6in]; Vol. I - [2], xviii, [1], 142, [6], [2], Vol. II - [2], xviii, [1], 143, [6], [3], 24 black/white and blue toned illustrations and map, Introduction and Retrospective by Carl Wheat; Dark blue cloth backstrip with gray-blue paper boards, dark blue lettering and line designs on front, spine paper label with black lettering for both volumes, top edge trimmed and others untrimmed; Light tan dust jackets with black lettering narrative about the Rare America Series on front; Vol. I & II boards age toned along edges, darken age toning to front and rear end papers of both volumes, bookplate of Frank Howard Abbott, Jr. on front end paper in both volumes with some offset, tipped in illustration of miners in a saloon on pale blue paper with Grabhorn address; Dust jackets age toned and fragile with chips and… Read More