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New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947. First printing. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 249 pages. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Bound in tan cloth over boards with spine titled in dark brown. Jacket has chipping at head of spine but no loss of text. Jacket extremities show a few spots of minor rubbing. An excellent copy.. … Read more about this item

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1944. First printing. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [vi], 244 pages. Good in a good dust jacket. Bound in red cloth over boards. Some minor extremity rubs, a bit of water tiding to top edge of some leaves and boards. Textblock mildly age toned. Jacket has some edge chips, rubs along joint and… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: George R. Graham, 1843. Marbled paper over boards with leather spine and fore corners. Octavo. iv, 320 pages. Mild rubs to extremities, occasional foxing and browning inside. Very good to near fine overall.. Engravings, some colored. The July through December 1843 issues of Graham's Magazine, of which Edgar Allan Poe had recently been editor. This volume contains… Read more about this item

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1844. First printing. Unbound, tied with string. Octavo. iv, 44 pages. Fine, with just slight toning.. Thom was a British Crown judicial officer, and makes a very able argument in favor of British ownership of the Oregon Territory. He refutes the American claims advanced by Robert Greenhow in his 1840 Memoir of the… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey, by Lang & Ustick, 1795. Unbound sheets tied with old thread. Octavo. 51 pages. A copy that apparently was never bound, but whose signatures are tied together in three places along spine with sturdy thread. Moderate soil to external leaves, a few edge chips to untrimmed fore and bottom edges.. This is a… Read more about this item

New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910. First Edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 206 pages. Near fine. Bound in burgundy cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board, top edge gilt. Contemporaneous prior owner name neatly penned to front free endpaper. Light rubs to extremities with a few shallow bumps. Hinges sound. Clean and bright… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856. First edition. Three quarter leather with pebbled cloth sides. Octavo. 356 pages. Near fine. 19th century binding of calf spine and fore corners with brown pebbled cloth sides, spine ornamented and ruled in black, red leather spine label titled in gilt. Rubs to extremities, a bit of chipping to title label on spine but… Read more about this item

Raleigh: Printed at the "Daily Confederate" Office, 1865. Stitched without wrappers. Octavo. 102 pages. Very good with mild uniform toning and some light soil, and minor extremity wear. Top fore corner of first leaf has a neat tape repair from back side. Original stitched binding holding well. A few leaves unopened.. The Grand Lodge met in Raleigh the… Read more about this item

Annapolis: Printed by J. Hughes, 1822. First edition. Modern quarter Morocco and cloth over boards. Octavo. 92 pages. Very good, with foxing to title page and a few following. Spine is titled in gilt. Comes in a custom marbled paper slipcase.. Two fold-out tables. Scarce report on the affairs of the Potomac Company in 1821, as investigated by… Read more about this item

Lincoln: The Woodruff Press, 1913. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 311 pages. Bound in light blue cloth over boards with ornamental titling in white to upper board. White spine titles quite faded. Minor extremity rubs. Slightly cocked, hinges sound. Very good to near fine overall.. Black and white photographic frontispiece plus 15 other plates (16 in… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1873. First printing. Cloth over bevelled boards. Octavo. xii, 13-521 pages. Extremity rubs with a bit of fraying to corner tips. Binding sound, hinges not cracked. Faint splitting to rear endpaper along inner margin, though not significant. Prior owner name and inscription dated 1902 on preliminary blank leaf. Near fine overall.. John… Read more about this item

Washington: John L. Ginck, 1877. Original printed wrappers. Octavo. 29 pages. Printed salmon-colored wrappers over sewn binding. Some minor surface soil, a tiny chip along top edge of front cover, other minor extremity wear. Binding sound.. Liberia was founded in 1821 by freed American slaves. Commodore Shufeldt describes the Navy's role in the origins and preservation of the… Read more about this item

Washington, 1859. Sheets of stationery folded once to approximately 8" x 12 3/4. Near fine condition overall, with original fold creases and some minor toning to paper.. Three letters from Lord Napier to American attorney James Mandeville Carlisle while Napier was British Minister to the United States in Washington, DC. Two of the letters seek the advice of… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Magnus, 1864. Single leaf approximately 5" x 8. Fine condition.. Hand-colored lithograph headpiece. A sentimental Union Civil War song sheet with three verses and a chorus. .<br /> <br /> The hand-colored headpiece is a view of the City of Richmond from across the James River, with the Confederate Capitol prominently in the center (Magnus… Read more about this item

Hartford, Conn: Park Publishing Co, 1882. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [i-iii], iv-xx, [xxi-xxii], (13)-518 pages. Very good. Bound in rust colored cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and blind-stamped boards. Skillfully rebacked retaining original spine and endpapers. A handsome copy.. 18 engraved plates (2 steel, 16 wood). Frederick Douglass's third, final, and most complete autobiography. His earlier… Read more about this item

Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club, 1891. Limited edition, #84 of 250 copies. Leather and marbled paper over boards. Tall octavo. 111 pages plus 8 pages of publisher ads. Leather spine and fore corners with marbled paper sides, five raised bands. Spine titled and ornamented in gilt, both boards with gilt rules, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. A few tiny rubs… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, 1795. Framed item. 16" x 25 3/8" overall. Document approximately 9 5/8" x 12 1/2. Fine. Not examined out of frame.. Robert Morris, the influential financier of the American Revolution and signer of the United States' three most important documents--the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution--here signs a stock certificate as President of… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii, 307, [blank], viii pages. Bound in green cloth over boards with yellow and red title and illustration blocked on spine and upper board, pale yellow topstain. Old adhesive residue on front pastedown, mostly hidden by front jacket flap. Minor extremity rubs, quarter-sized dampstain to top edge of textblock.… Read more about this item

London: The Argonaut Press, 1928. Limited edition of 975 copies, this copy not numbered. Hardcover. Quarto. cvi, 182 pages. Bound in tan cloth over boards with vellum spine, integral ribbon bookmark. Ralegh's coat of arms stamped in gilt on upper board, spine titled in gilt. Some spotting at lower fore corners of both boards and at bottom of lower… Read more about this item

San Francisco: The Wine Advisory Board, 1942. Singe sheet 31 1/2" x 41", professionally mounted on linen to 35" x 44 3/4. Near fine, with some insignificant edge wear and old creases rendered nearly imperceptible by the professional backing.. Pictorial map. One of the more famous of the colorful pictorial maps by brilliant artist of the genre, Ruth… Read more about this item