Titles starting with N from William Reese Company - Americana

New York. 1858.. 122,[blank leaf],27pp. Tall quarto, printed wrappers, spine bit chipped, else very good. Intriguing case concerning the management and sale of real estate in the city of San Francisco. Price had invested Keyes with power of attorney to act as agent for the properties in San Francisco. A subsequent transfer of responsibility to Edmond Scott resulted in the present controversy, with Price claiming damages of $500,000 for property allegedly sold by the defendants. ... more information

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New York, Bufford's Lithograph, [1838].. Colored lithograph. 23 by 28 cm. Slight marginal wear, else very good. One of the plates from the abortive quarto edition of J.O. Lewis' ABORIGINAL PORTFOLIO, issued by the publisher J.P. Callender, and lithographed by John H. Bufford, in New York in 1838, the same year the folio edition was finally finished. A total of 18 plates, with text, were issued in this attempt at a quarto edition, although only one copy survives of the third of the three parts issued... more information

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Halle. 1787.. Twelve parts bound in one volume. Various paginations. Thick quarto. Contemporary calf, gilt- lettered spine. Front board nearly detached, slightly scuffed, spine cracked. Later bookplate and library label on front pastedown. Internally clean. Good. "A collected reprint of the reports of the Lutheran missionaries in America, who were sent from Germany subsequent to the year 1742. Prefixed is a brief historical account of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in America, by the editor Joha... more information

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Falun. 1869.. 60pp. plus large folding map. Printed wrappers. A fine copy. Called the third, enlarged, edition on the title although no earlier one is known to exist. It gives directions to Swedish emigrants to America, mainly directed at the upper Midwest where so many moved in the ensuing decade. ... more information

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New York: American Bible Society, 1908.. 149pp. 12mo. Contemporary limp black cloth, gilt- lettered cover. Internally clean. Fine. A translation of Genesis into the Muskogee language. Scarce. OCLC locates only six copies. OCLC 3679937. ... more information

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[Godthaab: Lars Møller, 1862-1872].. 172,[32],87,[1],54,[2],28pp. plus twenty-five lithographic tables. Modern half red calf and boards, gilt- lettered spine. Internally bright and clean. Very good. The complete four-volume series on southern and northern Greenland local councils. Of the four volumes, three discuss the southern councils and one treats those in the north. Each was produced separately, though intended to form a complete work. The folding lithographic plates include various local statis... more information

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Chicago: The Werner Company, 1893. [2],vi,[15]-306pp. including numerous in-text illustrations and twenty color plates (including frontispiece). Folio. Original brown cloth, stamped in black, gilt, and white. Cloth rubbed and worn, with 3/4 and 1/2- inch tear on front cover. pp.289/290 detached. Very clean internally. Very good. Illustrated with French color plates copyrighted by the American publisher. The plates, printed by Valadon et Cie. in Paris, are referred to in the captions as "typogravure,&qu... more information

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New York: J.K. Porter, 1832.. 195pp. Dbd. A few scattered fox marks, else very good. This work purports to be a biographical account of the adventures at sea of an Indian chief. The narrative takes place in a wide- range of places, including Canada, the West Indies, Buenos Aires, Africa, Burma, China, and the Mediterannean. An interesting work of American fiction. SABIN 59548. FIELD 1120. WRIGHT I:2031. ... more information

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London. 1839.. 488,38pp. plus ads. Original gilt cloth. Sunned, neat bookplate. Internally very nice and clean. Head was governor of Upper Canada from 1836 to 1838. His entire administration seems to have been fraught with strife. Head appears to have been a disagreeable martinet, and this work severely criticizes those whom he felt held back his administration. An important piece of Canadiana. TPL 2275. SABIN 31133. DIONNE II:1172. ... more information

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Albany. 1821.. 419,[4]pp. plus eight plates (including engraved titlepage), two of them colored, folding map. Later three quarter calf and pebbled cloth. Two closed tears to map. Foxed, a bit of pencil marginalia. Good. Plus eight plates (including engraved titlepage), one of them colored, and folding map. Lacks errata slip. "This expedition led by General Cass was one of the many that he made as governor of Michigan for the purpose of visiting and negotiating with various Indian tribes of the Old Nort... more information

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Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1829.. Two volumes. 522;6,[3]-402pp. Textual illus. Original cloth backed boards, printed paper spine labels (worn). Cloth worn in spots, foxed, a few signatures starting. Good, untrimmed. The second American edition. Heber accepted the position of Bishop of Calcutta in 1815 and during the course of his tenure travelled throughout the diocese. He visited Ceylon and Bombay, returning to Calcutta in October, 1825. The following spring he visited Madras and other nearby pr... more information

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London: John Murray, 1823.. iii-xvi,768pp., plus thirty plates (eleven in color) and four folding maps. Quarto. Mid-19th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Corners scuffed, joints rubbed. Bookplate of Henry Marquand on the front free endpaper. Scattered foxing, occasional offsetting. Text and maps are clean and bright. Overall a very good, attractive copy. With the errata slip not found with all copies. The plates in this copy are bound as detailed on the list of illustrations, entirely in th... more information

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London: John Murray, 1828.. xxiv,[4 (paginated xxi-xxiv)],320,clvii pp., plus errata leaf, six folding maps (one loosely laid in and one partially handcolored), and thirty-one plates. Thick quarto. Modern half tan morocco over marbled boards. Modern endpapers. Old and almost invisible institutional blindstamp on titlepage and dedication leaf. Occasional light offsetting from plates, otherwise quite clean internally. Near fine. This work is mainly devoted to the accounts of Richardson and Franklin in their e... more information

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London. 1835.. Two volumes. xxxiii,[1],740pp. plus thirty plates (many colored). APPENDIX...: xii,120,cxliv,cii,[1]pp. plus twenty plates (many handsomely colored). Large, thick quarto. Modern blue morocco, gilt-lettered spines. Occasional minute foxing. Overall internally bright and clean. Very good. Lacks the large folding map, supplied in photocopy. A large paper copy of this handsome work, offered with the rare illustrated appendix. Despite the failure of his trip in 1818, Ross set out in 1829 in the sm... more information

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New York. 1921.. 95pp. Original blue cloth. Fine. From an edition of 250 copies. A reprint of the 1843 edition noted by Graff, Bradford, Howes, Sabin and Wagner- Camp. Williams travelled from Indiana to the Oregon Territory in 1841, accompanying the first settlers emigrating to the Pacific Coast. He returned by the southern route via Bent's Fort and Taos. A concise, journalistic account, including Indians met with and much detail concerning the fur trade and the country. HOWES W471. TWENEY 89, 84 (note)... more information

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Philadelphia. 1818.. 228,xxxvi pp. Modern fabrikoid, paper spine label. Tanned and foxed. Good. Monroe conducted his tour at the very outset of his administration, followed shortly by another inspection of the South and Southwest. The chief aim of the tour was to allow inspection of the American defenses as they stood along the border with Canada, and it consumed three months, during which Monroe travelled as far west as Detroit. Two contemporary accounts of this tour were published; according to Howes, thi... more information

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London. 1825.. xii,478pp. plus [2]pp. of advertisements, errata page, four color plates, and folding map. Contemporary three quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light wear to edges and extremities. Front hinge starting. Some light foxing to map, else internally clean. An attractive, very good copy. The author sailed from Lisbon to Rio in 1821, visiting the Swiss settlement of Nova Friburgo. He then boarded an American brig destined for Chile and Peru, and at Callao he took another ship to the Sandw... more information

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San Francisco: The Private Press of Thomas C. Russell, 1930.. 232pp. plus facsimiles and folding map. Portrait frontis. Half cloth and boards. Rubbed, hinges loose, spine with small tear, small piece excised from titlepage and page 15, slightly affecting text. Good. A private press reprint of Simpson's famous voyages. One of 250 copies signed by the publisher. ... more information

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New York. 1854.. 376pp. plus three plates (including frontispiece). Original cloth. Slight snag at head of spine, else very good. "Most important source on the Astor adventure" - Howes. Franchère was with the party John Jacob Astor sent to the Pacific Northwest to establish a fur trading base in the Oregon country. That party was the first to use South Pass, which was to become the main pass over the northern Rockies. Franchère first published his account in Montreal in 1820. That ed... more information

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London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley..., 1831.. Two volumes. xxi,[3],392pp. plus fourteen plates and three maps (two folding); vii,[1],[393]-742pp. plus nine plates and errata slip. Quarto. Later quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Spines a bit faded. Some light edge wear. Plates and maps moderately foxed. About very good. The coveted "Admiralty" edition, printed on large paper. Beechey's expedition went to Bering Strait and beyond to meet and assist the Franklin and Parry parti... more information

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