New York: T. Allen, 1794. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Fair Condition. Full period sheep, boards reattached with tape, worn. First volume is lacking the title and most of the first page of the first letter - separate title for volume 2. First few pages worn at edges, some scattered foxing, smal ldampstain near the end. 219pp with a separate title for vol 2 but paginated continuously. The 2nd America edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; History. Inventory No: 046754.
Mexico: La Voz de la Religion, 1849. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Full acid calf, spine label a bit worn, small burn mark to front cover, title penciled to an added endpaper, old withdrawn bookplate from Yale at rear. Details an episode where a Chilean ship the Natalia was stopped in Mazatlán during the Mexican-American war when it was believed to be carrying contraband meant for the Americans in California. Eventually it was searched and allowed to continue to Hawaii. 78pp Sabin 40135, Catálogos de la Biblioteca nacional de México 321 Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Americana. Inventory No: 046751.
Mexico: Vicente G Torres, 1848. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Original wraps, mild wear, a few light stains internally. Details a convoluted property dispute during the US occupation of Mexico City. 47pp. Rare. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; History. Inventory No: 046752.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Howe, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition. Original black cloth, corners lightly bumped, wear at spine ends, hinges splitting at head of spine on front and rear, joint splitting internally towards tail. Still about good. Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; Essays & Literary Criticism. Inventory No: 046626.
Auburn & Rochester: Alden, Beardsley, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition. Original cloth, worn at edges, faded, small tear to table of contents leaf in gutter, first signature a little loose, well read but intact, old bookplate on endpaper, portrait frontis - in a custom clamshell box. Each contribution with a facsimile signature. 309pp with 9 pages of ads. Sabin 28835, BAL 5224 Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; Inventory No: 046567.
Syracuse: J.G.K. Truair, 1689. Third Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition. Original green cloth, worn at corners and spine ends, portrait guard torn, old signature to endpaper,light dampstain to portrait, scattered foxing and browning, heavy in a few spots. In a custom clamshell box. The third edition with the added appendix, 454pp. Sabin 41824 Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; Inventory No: 046566.
Charlestown: Abraham E. Cutter, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover (rebound in cloth). Very Good Condition. Rebound in plain black library buckram, map with a tear on on corner and with two small stains but otherwise intact. A few notes to margins, many ads at rear. 228, 56pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; Inventory No: 046460.
Butte: R.L. Polk, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. A few old library marks, corners worn - a nice copy. 444pp Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; Reference. Inventory No: 046464.
Madrid, 1776. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Cedula, no wrappers, light foxing, a few wormholes, old note to rear and date to front. A Decree on maintaining peace between France and England. 4 leaves. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; Americana. Inventory No: 046310.
Madrid, 1776. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Cedula in original wrappers, light foxing, a few wormholes, old note to front wrapper. A Decree granting the Caracas Company the right to trade with the provinces of Guiana and Cumaná and the islands of Trinidad and Margarita. 4 leaves.Issued as part of: Ynstrucciones y reglamentos de Yndias Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; Americana. Inventory No: 046309.
1591. Very Good Condition. A single sheet from an early German edition of Le Moyne, likely the first German edition published in 1591, the year after the Latin. Mild foxing and age toning, tear wear removed. "Some considerable distance from the place where we have constructed our fort, rise some high mountains called Apalatcy in the Indian tongue. As can be seen from our map, these mountains give birth to three rivers in whose sand there is much gold, silver and copper. The natives dig trenches near the banks of the rivers so as to catch the sand brought down by the current. The water rapidly fills these up and goes on further. A short time later the Indians remove the sand which has gathered there with hollow reeds and convey it by canoe down the great river which runs into the sea and which we named the river of May. The Spaniards have taken great advantages of the riches coming from these places." Translation from Discovering the New World, Based on the Works of Theodore de Bry, edited by Michael Alexander (New York: Harper & Row, 1976) Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; Exploration. Inventory No: 046241.
Paris: Desaint & Saillant, 1756. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Full contemporary sponged leather, corners worn, spine dry and missing lettering piece, hinges splitting a bit, small tear to rear pastedown and top edge of front blank trimmed, binding quite sound overall; scattered minor foxing and hand soiling, generally quite clean internally. An epic poem on the discovery of America with a portrait and 10 attractive plates by Chedel. viii, 184, (2)pp. Sabin 21007 Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Americana. Inventory No: 046207.
New York: Nafis & Cornish, 1844. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Rebound in recent black buckram, front blanks retained. Old signature to endpaper, occasional browning and foxing, light dampstain to final 10 pages, frontis trimmed to plate edge but with no loss of image,"Edward Stiff" inked in on title. The frontis is the earliest view of Austin. 2 blanks, frontis, title, vii-xxii, 23-275pp. Streeter I 344 (1st ed.), Howes L 154 Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; History. Inventory No: 046060.
1591. Very Good Condition. A single sheet from an early German edition of de Bry. Hand colored scene of indigenous people's meeting with a Frigate. Contemporary or early hand coloring, chipping at edges, some browning and bleed through from text on verso, very slight fading, two old paper repairs through the text portion.The scene is a pitched battle between two groups of indigenous people in canoes, one side with a pair of Europeans with long rifles. Fine silver to the rifles and other spots, huts, a fort and a monkey in a tree in the distance. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; Exploration. Inventory No: 045845.
1591. Very Good Condition. A single sheet from an early German edition of De Bry. Hand colored scene of indigenous people's meeting with a Frigate. Contemporary or early hand coloring, chipping at edges, some browning and bleed through from text on verso, crease to upper portion through text; lovely touches of silver on the anchor, jewelry and cannons.The scene depicts a ship coming into port from Brickioka and asking for a report from Staden. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; Exploration. Inventory No: 045844.
Boston: Wm. B. Fowle and Nahum Capen, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Rebound in boards with the original cover pasted on; scattered foxing. Deals with Mann's desire to abolish corporal punishment and Common Schools. Follows Mann's Reply and a Rejoinder to his reply. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Education; Americana. Inventory No: 045821.
Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1818. Early Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Original boards, covered in paper early on with owner inscriptions, worn at corners. Lacking endpapers, frontis pasted to inside front cover, old inscription on title, mostly mild foxing; generally clean internally. 258pp Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; Inventory No: 045723.
Boston, 1837. Broadside. Good Condition. Single sheet ca. 9" x 7", chipped at the edges with loss to margin and touching the typographical border, paper browned, a few small tears. One attractive woodcut of Harry waving a tattered flag. Undated, a copy at the AAS with both poems and printed by L. Deming in Boston is suggested at 1832-1837. The Female Sailor had appeared a few years previous. The Female Sailor was a popular trope in England and then America where a woman falls for a sailor (as here, or loses her love to a press gang or some other calamity) and then dresses up as a sailor to track him down. "she was as jolly as a sailor could be/Her grog she would drink, and kiss the girls merrily." Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Americana. Inventory No: 045667.
sl: sn, 1800. Broadside. Very Good Condition. Single sheet, worn and soiled, chipping at edges, title in an old hand to verso bleeding through - with three attractive woodcuts at top. The same text as Evans 49645 with similar woodcuts, but with A Virtuous Life appended - the AAS gives a date of between 1790 and 1810. The ESTC shows only the AAS copy. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Americana. Inventory No: 045663.
Broadside. Fair Condition. Single sheet, 9 1/2" x 7 1/2", worn with loss at edges and to typographical border, burn hole with loss to a section of the second stanza, minor loss around title. By all appearances a mid 19th century edition of the old song that continued to be popular well into the 20th century. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Americana. Inventory No: 045669.