Search Results: Colonial America from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Octavo ( standard size) slight wear edges and corners of boards, more so to dj. Top edge of textblock a bit dusty. 348 p. w/ notes, index. A setailed look at international relations focusing on the imperial powers of Britain and Iberia and their colonies.

Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. , 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. xv, 143 p. Primairly a reference work of names and dates based on the criteria in the title.

New York, NY: The American Numismatic Society, 1953. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Slight scuffing to covers, with a small crease at top corner of front cover. Some wear at head of spine. 222 p. w/ footnotes, 3 indices, and 13 additional p. of plates of currency. Covers primarily paper currency. A very thorough history of early counterfeiting in the colony up to the Revolutionary War.

New York, NY: The American Numismatic Society, 1955. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Slight scuffing to covers, with a small crease at top corner of front cover. Some wear at head of spine. xi, 168 p. w/ footnotes, map, 3 indices. Covers paper currency.

New York, NY: The American Numismatic Society, 1957. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Slight scuffing to covers, with a small crease at top corner of front cover. Some wear at head of spine. ix, 243 p. w/ footnotes, map, 3 indices, and additional 46 plates of images. Covers paper currency.

Providence, R. I. : The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1960. First edition. Hardcover in red cloth binding. Good without dust jacket. Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to up corner of back cover. Light scuffing to covers with fading along spine and upper edges of covers. Bookplate of previous owner on rear pastedown endpaper and date in blue ink. 74 pages with illustrations, footnotes, and index.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Missing dust jacket. Faint damp stains to front cover. Not musty. Name of former owner on flyleaf. Pencil notes to margins on a few pages. One page has in notes at the end of a chapter, not affecting printed text. xiv, 448 p. w/ maps, tables in appendices, endnotes, bibliography, index. A detailed economic study of trade between Ireland and the American colonies, up to the end of the revolutionary war and the eventual tightening of British control over Irish trade.

Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo in block cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt outline of a ship on front board. Slight wear to edges of boards. Corners bumped. Stamped on first 2 endpapers, copyright page, and dedication page compliments of the Spanish Embassy to the US. 299 p. This work looks at events contributing to the US independence though Spanish newspapers of the time. Includes coverage of Pontiac, the Intolerable Acts, and the Declaration.

Williamsburg, VA / Chapel Hill, NC: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture / University of North Carolina Press, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 335 p. w/color and b&w illus., footnotes, index. A study of the Siege and Occupation of Havana by the British in 1762, along with the causes and the consequences.