Fighting the Whales: Or, Doings and Dangers of a Fishing Cruise
New York: D. Appleton & Co, Library of Travel and Adventure, 1871. A later printing. 12mo. 169 pages. 4 color plates. Original crimson embossed cloth.
New York: D. Appleton & Co, Library of Travel and Adventure, 1871. A later printing. 12mo. 169 pages. 4 color plates. Original crimson embossed cloth.
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1870. 4to. 52 pages; 16 pages advertisements. Folding map at front. Publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered on cover.
Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1960. 8vo. Plates and maps. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. One of 600 copies of volume XXXVIII of the Publications of The Champlain Society.
Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1973. 8vo. Plates and maps. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. One of 825 copies of volume IX from the Ontario Society of the Publications of The Champlain Society.
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928. Folio (42 x 27 cm; 16½ x 10¾ inches). 5 pages text, 24 full-page plates including frontispiece. Original quarter white patterned muslin, blue boards, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine; portions of dust jacket preserved. Provenance: Charles R. Lamb (1860-1942), American sculptor and architect.....
Richmond Springs NY: Mercury Office, F. E. Mungor, proprietor, 1886. 8vo. 106 pp. 12 plates, illustrations in text, map at end. Original cloth-backed decorated pebbled boards. Binding worn, laks front free endpaper; one plate sprung loose and chipped at edges. FIRST EDITION of this guide to the Richfield Springs in.....
Lisbon: 1972. Two volumes, large 8vo. Original printed wrappers. A near-fine set. FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy, inscribed in 1976 by the author.
Madison, WI: Calkins & Proudfit and Atwood & Rublee, 1856. 8vo. 368 pp. Original sheep. Spine perished, browned. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Coles Bashford to the Hon. William M. Robertson(?, inscription faded), Washington DC, February 15, 1856. The Republican Bashford challenged incumbent Governor Barstow’s right to the office.....
Toronto: The Champlain Society in Cooperation with the Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1987. 8vo. Plates. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. One of 1300 copies of volume XIII of the Ontario Series from the Publications of The Champlain Society.
Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1984, 1986. Two volumes, 8vo. Plates and maps. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. One of 1350 copies of volumes LIV and LV of the Publications of The Champlain Society.
Dayton: Journal Book and Job Printing Office, 1879. Square 8vo. 178 pp. Original green decorated cloth. A near-fine copy with a few small areas of wear to binding. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by the author to Pitt Cooke, brother of financier Jay Cooke who assisted in financing the Union.....
Philadelphia, Richmond, Lexington: Robert and William Care for Johnson and Warner. 4to (245 x 205 mm). 43 (of 44, lacking the final plate of Christ Church) engraved plates, some folding. Contemporary sheep, gilt-ruled on spine. Covers bowed and stained; characteristic foxing and offsetting. Second edition, following the exceedingly scarce first.....
Cañon City: Binckley & Hartwell, 1879. 8vo. 134 pp., including illustrations and advertisements. Wood-engravings in text, some double-page. Original cloth-backed printed boards. Boards a bit soiled, some minor pale intermittent dampstaining. Provenance: Everett D. Graff (small booklabel; sold Parke-Bernet, Newberry Library sale of duplicates, 4 May 1966, lot 346). THE.....
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1885. 8vo. 296 pp. 7 plates, including frontispiece. Original terracotta diapered cloth, decorated in black and gilt. Modest wear at extremities. Indistinct 1886 gift inscription on flyleaf from Newport, RI, possibly to a member of the Post family. Eighth edition. Well-written account.....
London: Sampson, Low, Son, and Marston, 1869. 4to (10.75 x 8.5 inches). 217 pages. Oval bust portrait albumen photograph of William Gilpin, Governor of Colorado, mounted as frontispiece (mount foxed). Large folding map: "Map of the Trenchara and Costilla Estates forming the Sangre de Christo Grant Situate in San Luis.....
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869. 12mo. 122 pp., [4] advertisements at end. Original plum gilt-lettered cloth. Spine sunned, pale stain on front cover, pale dampstain in second half of volume. FIRST EDITION. A scarce and early guidebook published on the occasion of the opening of the Transcontinental Railroad, which.....
Springfield, MA., New York, Boston: Samuel Bowles & Company, American News Company, Lee & Shepard, 1869. 8vo. 166, [4] pp. Original terracotta cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine. A near-fine copy. FIRST EDITION. A detailed account of travel in Colorado. Wynar 2028.
Philadelphia: William Dunlap, 1759. 8vo. viii + 242; iv + 220 pages. 20th-century brown half morocco. Provenance: John Martin (early inscripttion on front flyleaf). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. "Richardson visited America in 1701, and traveled through Virginia, Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and New England. He spent some time with.....
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1863. 8vo. xviii, 408, [12]pp., including advertisements at end. Large folding panoramic lithographed frontispiece of the Hudson River and West Point by Julius Bien, 9 plates, of which 2 folding and one in color; illustrations in text. Original blue embossed cloth, large gilt emblems on.....
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1855. 8vo. 216 pp. Lithographed folding frontispiece map. Modern green gilt-lettered cloth. Map a bit worn at edges, otherwise very good internally. FIRST EDITION of the second book on the Kansas Territory, and the first made from first-hand observation. The work includes a voyage.....
Denver: Bradford Robinson, 1949. 8vo. Original cloth. Ex-library copy, with tape on spine and markings. Internally clean. FIRST EDITION.
Ashland: Lewis Osborne, 1970. Introduction by David Lavender. Tall 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; plain dust wrapper. A fine copy. LIMITED EDITION, number 317 of 1400 copies.
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1969. Tall 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; plain dust wrapper. A fine copy. LIMITED EDITION, number 418 of 1500 copies.
New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co, 1863. 8vo. 33 pages. Original printed wrappers; blue cloth portfolio. FIRST EDITION. Bristed writes vehemently against the prospect of a railroad along Fifth Avenue: "the mischiefs which a railroad on the Fifth avenue would inflict on the residents there as householders, are so.....
Brooklyn: Grant Brower, 1894. Folio (12 x 9 inches). 24 pp. Musical notation. Original printed wrappers. Somewhat age-darkened, a few chips at edges of wrappers. Revised edition, after the first of 1891. Exercises, scale studies, arpeggios or harp chords, harmonics, slides, double fingering, velocity studies, barre, a duet for two.....