A Collection of 5 early stereoviews of New Orleans: Algiers Dry Dock. (nr. 201); French Opera, Bourbon Street. (nr. 544); St. Louis Hotel, St. Louis Street. (Nr. 554); Mechanics Institute, Dryades Street. (nr. 536); University of Louisiana, Common Street. (nr. 512). by [New Orleans] Blessing, S.T. (Photographer) - (ca. 1866-1869)

NY: Scribner, 1937. SIGNED first edition. Limited to 920 copies. Not numbered. Signed by author on limitation page. Brown was founder of the Museum of the City of New York. Published NY: Scribners, 1937. Large folio, 12 1/2" x 16 1/2", xiv+319pp., profusely illustrated with b/w and tipped-in color plates - most full page, (the 15 color plates are all present). Cream cloth with gilt titles in green block, deckle edges and top edge gilting. Mild soil to the cloth, bookplate on pastedown, else very good plus, clean, crisp, attractive copy. . Signed by Author. 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Folio.

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Banchard. Very Good+. 1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes in one. 212 & 238pp. Rebound in orange leather with an ornate gilt border on front cover. Black spine label. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Scattered foxing. First edition in English, originally published in German the same year. Bernhard of aristocratic military rank traveled throughout America & made in-depth observations of the developing country. Americana, Usiana; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 450 pages .

1852 1st ed Louisiana History French Colonization New Orleans Charles Gayaree

Charles Gayarré was a 19th-century American historian who is best remembered for his historical works relating to Louisiana and French colonization. 'Louisiana: Its History as a French Colony' is a series of lectures and reports on the foundations of Louisiana, the exploration of the Acadians, the military prowess of Charles III, and important descriptions of Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

This 1852 first edition of 'Third Series of Lectures' is a complete work on its own and features a folding engraved plan of New Orleans. From the preface: "embracing the period which extends from its discovery to 1769."
Item number: #6526
Price: $499
GAYARRE, Charles
Louisiana : its history as a French colony, third series of lectures
New York : J. Wiley, 1852. First edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o volume 2 complete work
o xi, 380
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Language: English
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Binding: Cloth; tight and… Read More

1857 1ed American SLAVERY Abolition Christian Slavers Slave Trade 3 Prize Essays
"Three Prize Essays" is a collection of works each dealing with the outcry of slavery in the pre-Civil War America. In includes the following three works, each of which calling for immediate abolishment of slavery:
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"The Error and the Duty in regard to Slavery", R.B. Thurston
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"Friendly Letters to a Christian Slaveholder", A.C. Baldwin
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"Is American Slavery an Institution Which Christianity Sanctions and Will Perpetuate?", Timothy Williston
Item number: #16479
Price: $499
Various authors
Three prize essays on American slavery.
Boston: Congregational Board of Publication, 1857. First edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
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iv, [2], 138
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
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Cloth
· Size: ~7in X 4.75in (17.5cm x 12cm)
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New York, Robert M. de Witt, 1873.. FIRST EDITION 1873. Small 8vo, approximately 170 x 110 mm, 6¾ x 4½ inches, pages: [4] - adverts, 1-128 plus another 4 pages of adverts, adverts to both pastedowns, 11 wood-engraved figures and 4 diagrams, publisher's original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Spine slightly worn at head and tail, hinges rubbed, tiny split to top of lower hinge, neatly re-glued, pictorial boards rubbed, edges showing shelf wear, corners worn with card showing, a little colour restoration to binding, 2 advert leaves at front beginning to work loose, but still holding, no loose pages within, Roger Hancock's coloured bookplate on first pastedown, show business agent and brother of Tony Hancock of Hancock's Half Hour fame. A good copy. Henry Chadwick, the 'Father of Baseball', is credited with devising the baseball box score, adapting it from the cricket scorecard. As the editor of Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player and Spaldings' Official Base Ball Guide, he had a continual influence on the… Read More

no place: Privately Published, 1984. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. Near Fine condition but for a few tiny check marks in the margin. SEE PHOTOS. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Adams' family history with genealogical info on members of the Caudill, Tolliver, Goode, Hogg, Hall, Osborne, Spears, Combs, Marcum, Kiser, Manning, Mullins, and Galloway families. Photo illustrated. Bound in the original red cloth, with gold titles. Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail.. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No jacket, probably as issued. 195pp.

Harper Collins?. Fine with no dust jacket. c1997. First Edition. Comic book. art; Color Illustrations; Elephant Folio 23" tall; 1 pages; UNTRIMMED PRESS SHEET OF SENDAK BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS 19 X 15" COLOR [FROM SENDAK'S PRIVATE ARCHIVES] FOR "PENTHESILEA". Untrimmed press sheet of Maurice Sendak illustrations shown in the corresponding image (s). This is the complete series of 12 full-page illustrations to Heinrich von Kleist's tragedy "Penthesilea," printed in full color and published in book form 1998 by HarperCollins. This full sheet, printed only on one side and measures 19 x 25 inches, each design 4-5/8 x 3-1/4 inch arranged in four columns of three, with a vertical color-strip at the right fore-edge for accurate reproduction of the artist's original pencil and watercolor images. Whether this was intended for binding up into book format with the printed text or for use in creating a separate suite of images (for a deluxe edition, which was… Read More

1860 Prairie & Rocky Mountain Adventures Indians Mormons GOLD RUSH California

John Van Tramp's book 'Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures' is a glorified view of 'manifest destiny' and the union of the America's from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean. Van Tramp covers the history and present day (1860) of the American west including:
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The Mississippi River
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Historical sketches
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Life on the frontier
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Western scenery,
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California and the Mines;
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The California gold rush
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Indians Territory, Antiquities, and Mounds
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Pioneers of Tennessee
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The prairies and prairie hunting
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The desert
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Mountain regions explored
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Pacific region explored
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Rocky Mountains
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Geology
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Rivers
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Utah and the Mormons
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Early history of Missouri
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Territory of Kansas and Nebraska
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Iowa and Minnesota Territory
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Ohio, Oregon, and Wisconsin Territory
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1821, London, first edition in English. Modern fine binding of half leather and marbled boards by Starr Bookworks. An underappreciated volume likely due to this first English translation. The modern translator, Seeber, describes this translation as the "product of a prosaic and incompetent literary hack" (please tell us how you really feel). It also omits about 40% of the original work leaving out daily interactions with Americans, Native Americans, and the most colorful events. Condition is Very Good: modern fine binding is excellent. Interior has scattered foxing and toning, no writing or old ownership marks. Marginal pencil mark on final page. Frontis edge conserved. Paginates: frontis, [2], 102, 5 plates, modern blanks. Six plates total. Other engravings in text. The Mammoth Skeleton plate is a modern copy. The frontis is a fairly spectacular aquatint of New York harbor. Copies with color plates are uncommon. See Howes M757. Please see images of the book you will receive. Feel free to inquire.… Read More

1824 American Revolution Annals Jedidiah Morse INDIAN WARS Battle Illustrated

Jedidiah Morse was an important and prominent geographer known for his American textbooks, books that earned him the name 'father of American geography.' This 'Annals of the American Revolution' is a chronological history of the early settlement of America, the Indian Wars, and the Revolution, with biographical sketches of army officers, and six illustrated plates depicting various battles and events.
Larned states,
"This was for many years the standard book on the Revolution…"
Item number: #16481
Price: $499
MORSE, Jedidiah
Annals of the American Revolution; or, A record of the causes and events which produced, and terminated in the establishment and independence of the American Republic...
Hartford: [1824].

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [4], 400, 50
o 6 engraved plates
· References: Howes M 840; Sabin 50927; Field 1097; Larned 1440
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