New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. Third edition, enlarged and improved. 12mo. 95 pages, advertisements at end. Original salmon muslin, printed paper label on front cover. See Howes V-28; Sabin 98486.
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Co., 1892. 12mo, 6 1/2 x 4 1/8 inches. 20 pages text. Large folding color map, 23 1/2 x 17 inches. Original tan printed wrappers. The map located the branches and divisions of the railroads, nearest mailing points, money-order post offices, telegraph stations.....
Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, n.d. [ca. 1887?]. 8vo. 37 pages. 6 full-page plates including frontispiece, 8-pages advertisements at end (with two maps). Original printed wrappers, inner rear wrapper with an advertisement. Presumed second edition. A dated first edition of 1883 was printed in Denver. "The growth of Colorado.....
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1954. Large folio (43 x 28 cm). [1-8] 1-86 [87-88 blank, 7 facsimile maps (6 folded) three in pocket at rear. Printed in red and black. Original red cloth. One of 530 copies printed by Lawton R. Kennedy. Includes the first publication of the "Frémont-Gibbs-Smith".....
Washington, D.C. Gales and Seaton, Wednesday, 3 December 1823. Volume xi, no. 3396. 1823. Bound with 127 issues of the paper 8 July to 31 December 1823. Large folio, 4pp. (20 3/8 x 15 1/4 in.), printed five columns to the page, decorative masthead at top of page 1, Monroe's.....
New York: Printed for the Author, 1881. 8vo. xii, [2]. 636 pages. 16 illustrations in text (of which 8 are full-page), folding map at end showing the original lots and farms of Harlem. Original brown blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, the author's advertisement leaf mounted on rear pastedown. First edition.....
Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1893. Folio. Half-title. 61 plates, including photogravures, collotypes & halftones from photographs; lithographs, some color, of maps, pottery, etc.; drawings and diagrams of skulls, etc.; plus frontispiece portrait & map. Original half leather, printed boards. First edition in English, with more plates than in.....
Washington, D. C. Gales & Seaton, printers, 1834. 68 pages. Engraved folding map: "Map of the Route passed over by an Expedition into the Indian Country in 1832 to the Source of the Mississippi." Later brown half morocco. Provenance: Edward Everett Ayer, bookplates, presented to the Newberry Library in 1911.....
Cincinnati: H. W. Derby & Co., 1850. 8vo. Original green blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Edward Everett Ayer, bookplates, presented to the Newberry Library in 1911 and with their deaccession label (sold Parke-Bernet, 4-5 May 1966, lot 419). First edition. Garrard left Westport in 1846 in a Santa Fe.....
Ithaca, NY: Mack, Andrus, & Co., 1849. 12mo. 166 pages. Engraved frontispiece of "The Ship Boston Taken by the Savages at Nootka Sound," small cuts in text. Contemporary sheep, leather spine label. Later edition (the first was n.d., but before 1815). Pilling 1987; Sabin 36123 ("A popular book, compiled from.....
New York: 1983. 8vo. Original blue cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, first printing, one of 1000 pre-publication copies. Signed by Nixon on the front free endpaper.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. 8vo. Illustrated by Pauline Bynes. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, first printing. The dedication copy, inscribed "Love Abigail Homans" on the half-title beneath the ownership inscription of George Casper Homans dated August 1966. The printed dedication reads "To my son / George Caspar Homans.".....
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. Millan, 1765. 8vo (206 x 125 mm). viii, 236 pages, [4, advertisement and list of books]. Contemporary English speckled calf, red morocco lettering-piece on spine, spine compartments gilt-ruled. Provenance: unidentified early inkstamp and armorial bookplate; Everett D. Graff (1885-1964), Chicago Western.....
Lexington, KY: J. Clarke & Co., 1836. 8vo (176 x 107 mm). Later copy of Holley's frontispiece map inserted (tear along one fold). Original muslin, printed paper spine label. Provenance: William Bollaert (1807-1876), writer, chemist, geographer and ethnologist (signature on title, see below); Edward Everett Ayer, presented to the Newberry.....
London: J. Robinson, 1744. 4to (278 x 215 mm). Large engraved folding map "New Map of Part of North America" (some minor offsetting). 20th-century brown half morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt. Provenance: Edward Everett Ayer, presented to the Newberry Library (bookplate, with Newberry removal label). First edition of this.....
3 1/4 pages, 8vo, a bifolium on pale bluish-green paper. Evidence of folds, a marginal tear not affecting text, scant remains of former mounting on last page. The American antiquarian and historian Samuel G. Drake (1798-1875) writes to William Elliot Woodward (1825-1892), the numismatist, New England genealogist, and publisher, about.....
Mexico: Fidencio S. Soria, nd. 4to. 30 pages. 63 plates, with two large folding plates. Brown cloth, original printed wrappers bound in.
[Richmond, VA]: [Hockaday], ca late 1860s-early 1870s. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Some foxing. Hockaday goes on to report that "prospects are favorable for a HEAVY DECLINE in grain and flour especially, and as Produce generally sells better and commands higher prices when new.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 12mo. Tourgée was a carpet-bagger judge and a best-selling author of sensational political novels, including 'A Fool's Errand'. Here (in about 155 words) he writes a playful response to a girl's request for an autograph: "My publisher handed me your request for an.....
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1893. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece and plates. Original midnight blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered and decorated, all edges gilt.
