Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life Written By Himself. Together with Essays Humorous, Moral & Literary, Chiefly in the Manner of The Spectator by Franklin, Benjamin; Gibelin; Stuber. Edited By Benjamin Vaughan, Preface By Richard Price] - 1793

3 volumes. xii+427 pages with frontispiece portrait, 3 plates (one folding) and folding map; xiv+454 pages with two folding plate and two folding maps; xii+409+[errata] with 4 folding tables and 1 folding plate. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5") bound in original half leather with brown label in gilt lettering over marbled boards. (Howes C884. Sabin 17501. Field 388. Monaghan 503.) First edition.This work by the author had been written in his declining years. In a biography of his great-grandfather the author alleges in his introduction that the Voyage is a manuscript found in a shipwreck-and even whole chapters of which are either lost or water-soaked beyond legibility, and that he is the translator of this work. Written with greater care than his Letters, the work, except for several fanciful chapters, offers very real interest and authenticity. The numerous notes in the three volumes have appreciable interest. In the Voyage he is still writing of an agrarian Utopia. Pastoral descriptions abound-farmlands,… Read More

New Orleans: Robert Gibbes Barnwell, 1851. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. Xii, 384 Pp. Original Red Ribbed Cloth, Gilt Lettering On Spine, Gilt Crescent Moon On Front Cover, Gilt Swan And Brood In Nest On Rear Cover. Decorative Endpapers, All Edges Gilt. 1850 Copyright Date, 1851 On Title Page, No Publisher Indicated, Copyright Page Indicates Printed In Boston At Wright & Harry's Steam Press, Apparently This Being The First Publication. A Compilation Of Prose And Verse By Several Dozen Authors. Covers Worn, All Gilt Still Present, Fraying At Corners And Along Top And Bottom Edges Of Spine, Hinges Intact. Inscribed On Second Free Endpaper With Linked Chain, Three Links With Initials [J-L-F?], Fourth Link Containing "Of", "Fidelity From P H Willan Esq. Of Long America No.L 1 To Mle. Coyle Of B. B. Sept. 24 '1855"; Book Label Of Plantation Book Shop, Natchez., Miss. On Front Pastedown. Very Scarce In The Trade, But Worldcat Locates Many Institutional Copies.

Printed For The Author, 1804. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. [Iii], 116 Pp. Second Edition, Extensively Revised To Reply To "A Reply To Aristides, By James Cheetham", With A New One Page Preface By The Author. Bound In Plum Morocco Over Plum Cloth, Gilt Title On Spine, Gilt Rules On Boards. First Printing, Of This Second Edition. Good, Wear. Closed Tear On Front Spine Edge, Fraying At Corners. "William Peter Van Ness, A Friend Of Aaron Burr, Was An Active Participant In The 1800 Presidential Campaign As A Supporter Of The Democratic-Republican Candidates, Burr For Vice President And Thomas Jefferson For President. In July 1804, Van Ness Served As Aaron Burr's Second In Burr's Duel With Alexander Hamilton And Was Present When Burr Fatally Shot Hamilton." [Pba 2016].

Brookfield: E. Merriam`, 1798. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Viii, [1], 10-139, [2] + About 100 Blank Pages Bound In At End, Of Which Have Manuscript Additions By The Author. Full Calf, Red Morocco Spine Label,5 Thin Gilt Bands On Spine. Original Text, With 100 Pages Bound In For The Author In His Personal Copy. The Book Is Not Signed By Ellis, But The Handwriting And In Particular The Elaborate Scrolling Decorations Compare Favorably With Asa Ellis's Ownership Signature In His Copy Of Jonathan Edwards' "The Salvation Of All Men, New Haven, 1790, At Harvard, Ac7.Ed969.790S, Hollis Number 005244896. The Additions Include Detailed Recipes For L. Brown, Black, Fancy Blue, Smoke Green, India Brown, Wine Colour, Ash Colour, Fawn Colour, Light Wellington Snuff, Indigo Or Blue Vat, Cotton And Linen Blue, Mauve (Woolen), Aquafortis (Woolen); The Last Page Has A Clipping About "Dr. Beebe's Remedy", A Short "Cure For Diphtheria, And A Formula For Restoring Grey. The Bottoms… Read More

[28]+344 pages with facsimile plate and map laid in. Octavo (8" x 6") bound in contemporary vellum. First edition, first issue with "PRO" catchword at end of index.Francisco Palou (1723-1789) was a Franciscan missionary, administrator, and historian on the Baja California peninsula and in Alta California. Father Palou made significant contributions to the Alta California and Baja California mission systems. Along with his mentor, Junipero Serra, Palou worked to build numerous missions throughout Alta and Baja California, many structures of which still stand today. A member of the Franciscan Order, Palou became "Presidente" of the missions in Baja California, and later of missions of Alta California. Palou's work in the Spanish mission system spans from his early twenties to his death at the age of 66.Junipero Serra Ferrer, O.F.M (November 24, 1713-August 28, 1784) was a Spanish Franciscan friar who founded a mission in Baja California and the first nine of 21 Spanish missions in California from San… Read More

[i-xx] [title, Dedication to Philip II, "Tassa" signed Christoual de Leon, "Erratas"]+1-640 pages [title to de Procuranda Indorum... dated 1588, Colophon dated 1588] Duodecimo (6 1/4" x 4 1/4") bound in contemporary full limp vellum with leather ties still intact. (Sabin 118) A reissue of the 1588 edition.Jose de Acosta (September/October 1539 - February 15, 1600), was a Spanish 16th-century Jesuit missionary and naturalist in Latin America. Born at Medina del Campo in Spain, he became a novice in the Society of Jesus at the age of thirteen at the place of his birth. Four of his brothers successively joined the same order. Before leaving Spain, he was lecturer in theology at Ocana, and in April 1569, was sent to Lima, Peru, where the Jesuits had been established in the proceeding year. At Lima, Acosta again occupied the chair of theology; his fame as an orator had preceded him. In 1571 he went to Cuzco as a visitor of the college of the Jesuits then recently founded. Returning to Lima three years… Read More

Sheet size 10 1/4 inches x 14 inches, fully margined beyond the plate mark, except the bottom edge, which is trimmed to the plate mark, a few tiny worm holes toward the right margin and lower left. The drawing has been attributed to Richard Brookshaw and the German engraver Johann Elias Haid made his own mezzotint from the same drawing.

New Orleans: Robert Gibbes Barnwell, 1851. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. Xii, 384 Pp. Original Red Ribbed Cloth, Gilt Lettering On Spine, Gilt Crescent Moon On Front Cover, Gilt Swan And Brood In Nest On Rear Cover. Decorative Endpapers, All Edges Gilt. 1850 Copyright Date, 1851 On Title Page, No Publisher Indicated, Copyright Page Indicates Printed In Boston At Wright & Harry's Steam Press, Apparently This Being The First Publication. A Compilation Of Prose And Verse By Several Dozen Authors. Covers Worn, All Gilt Still Present, Fraying At Corners And Along Top And Bottom Edges Of Spine, Hinges Intact. Inscribed On Second Free Endpaper With Linked Chain, Three Links With Initials [J-L-F?], Fourth Link Containing "Of", "Fidelity From P H Willan Esq. Of Long America No.L 1 To Mle. Coyle Of B. B. Sept. 24 '1855"; Book Label Of Plantation Book Shop, Natchez., Miss. On Front Pastedown. Very Scarce In The Trade, But Worldcat Locates Many Institutional Copies.

Printed For The Author, 1804. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. [Iii], 116 Pp. Second Edition, Extensively Revised To Reply To "A Reply To Aristides, By James Cheetham", With A New One Page Preface By The Author. Bound In Plum Morocco Over Plum Cloth, Gilt Title On Spine, Gilt Rules On Boards. First Printing, Of This Second Edition. Good, Wear. Closed Tear On Front Spine Edge, Fraying At Corners. "William Peter Van Ness, A Friend Of Aaron Burr, Was An Active Participant In The 1800 Presidential Campaign As A Supporter Of The Democratic-Republican Candidates, Burr For Vice President And Thomas Jefferson For President. In July 1804, Van Ness Served As Aaron Burr's Second In Burr's Duel With Alexander Hamilton And Was Present When Burr Fatally Shot Hamilton." [Pba 2016].

Brookfield: E. Merriam`, 1798. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Viii, [1], 10-139, [2] + About 100 Blank Pages Bound In At End, Of Which Have Manuscript Additions By The Author. Full Calf, Red Morocco Spine Label,5 Thin Gilt Bands On Spine. Original Text, With 100 Pages Bound In For The Author In His Personal Copy. The Book Is Not Signed By Ellis, But The Handwriting And In Particular The Elaborate Scrolling Decorations Compare Favorably With Asa Ellis's Ownership Signature In His Copy Of Jonathan Edwards' "The Salvation Of All Men, New Haven, 1790, At Harvard, Ac7.Ed969.790S, Hollis Number 005244896. The Additions Include Detailed Recipes For L. Brown, Black, Fancy Blue, Smoke Green, India Brown, Wine Colour, Ash Colour, Fawn Colour, Light Wellington Snuff, Indigo Or Blue Vat, Cotton And Linen Blue, Mauve (Woolen), Aquafortis (Woolen); The Last Page Has A Clipping About "Dr. Beebe's Remedy", A Short "Cure For Diphtheria, And A Formula For Restoring Grey. The Bottoms… Read More