New Orleans: Harmanson, 1946. 8vo. 56 pages. 5 full-page illustrations. Original yellow wrappers. Second edition. Riddled with racist commentary, the author tells of a voodoo doctor known as Ol' Evil Eye, or Uncle Crackermeyer. Supernatural events and magic potions permeate the text, which went through numerous printings in the 40s.....
New York: James Miller, 1863. 8vo. Original green cloth. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Provenance: Edgar Conkling (1812-1881), financier from Cincinnati, presentation inscription on front free endpaper to "His Namesake C. Edgar Kinne of Ovid, Seneca Co. New York. May 8 1863. Remember that Abraham Lincoln was once a poor.....
New York: Rimington & Hooper, 1928. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches). Facsimile edition with a foreword by Phillips Russell. Original tan buckram; black buckram slipcase with printed paper label. Provenance: May H.C. Rimington, presumably a relative of the publisher (signature on pastedown within Ex Libris, inscription gifting it.....
New York: Orange Judd Company, 1878. 12mo (7.5 x 5 inches). 220, [3, index] pages. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's gilt-stamped pictorial cloth (minor spotting). Early edition Phillips, p.36 records two 1878 editions (New York and Philadelphia) but not this. A practical guide to American hunting and trapping, with ample information on.....
London: Published by the Author, 1841 [but 1892 reprint]. Two volumes, large 8vo (10 x 6.25 inches). 400 color plates and 3 maps. Publisher's brown cloth gilt (rebacked preserving original spine panels). The 1892 reprint from the 1841 sheets of Catlin's important narrative of his travels in the Mississippi and.....
New York: Irving Publishing Co., 1888. Thick 8vo. 684, [1], xx, [1] pages. Frontispiece and nearly 50 plates. Publisher's gilt-lettered and -decorated bevelled green cloth. A fine copy, the spine ends gently rolled and a few small spots of wear to the joints, unobtrusive pencil note on flyleaf verso by.....
Philadelphia: Richard Folwell [III]; William Ross [IV], 1796-98. The third and fourth volumes of the collected laws of the United States. Together two volumes, 8vo. Contemporary calf (rebacked). FIRST EDITIONS, comprising the "first collected laws of the United States and including the acts of Congress still in force passed by.....
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New York: James Parker [I]; William Weyman [II], 1752; 1762. Together two volumes, folio. Vol. 1: Title, 3-page list of subscribers, Preface [i-iii], 1-488, Errata leaf. Vol. 2: [1], [1], [3], 268 pages. Contemporary calf, leather spine labels on volume 1 (one a modern replacement). Provenance: Swann Galleries, 21 October.....
Brooklyn: John Hutchings, 1857. Small folio. Title-page, facsimile of accounts throughout, lithographed by Boell & Michelin. Original half black leather, brown cloth, front cover gilt-lettered and with gilt portrait of Washington at center. Covering the period from June 1775 to June 1783, these records detail Washington's day-to-day expenditures in his.....
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1839. 8vo. 24 pages. Stitched, unopened. SUPERB PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO JOHN QUINCY ADAMS on the front wrapper: "President Adams with the best respects of Edward Everett." After his presidency, Adams was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts (1831-48). Everett had been.....
New York: Thomas P. Low, 1818. 12mo. [2], [3]-9 pages. Stitched. The report marks the importance of the movement of certain land owners against the plan adopted by the Corporation for "regulating the surface of the ground of that village... as it soon will become united to, and make a......
Washington, D. C. A. & C. Way, 1808. Folio. 8 pages. Three large folding tables. Disbound. The report, soon after the establishment of the Navy Pension Fund in 1808, under the direction of Secretary of the Navy Robert Smith. Showing: the amount of stock on the books of the treasury.....
Philadelphia: Reprinted, by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 1759. 8vo. iv, 43 pages. Disbound. Provenance: Jacob Lunig (1760 inscription on last blank). First American edition of this Quaker tract, originally published in London in 1648. The Society of Friends of Philadelphia requested Overseers Anthony Benezet and John Reynell to arrange.....
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Boston: Printed and Sold by the Printers and Booksellers, [1770]. 12mo. 24 pages. Original self-wrappers, sewn. Contains the first appearance in print of Franklin's mock epitaph composed when he was 22 years old in 1728. Ames provides the humorless introduction: "Mr. Franklin's Epitaph on himself curious for conveying such solemn.....
New York: J. H. Colton, 1844. 12mo. iv, 112 pages. Original embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover. Provenance: library stamp on title, manuscript identification on text leaf. An early guidebook to the United States Military Academy, with map.
Roxbury, Massachusetts: Printed for W. Elliot Woodward, 1865-66. Two volumes, small 4to. Later half blue morocco, fore and bottom edges uncut. First editions, each of 250 copies from an edition of 303. By Philadelphia numismatist, philologist and translator (1838-1895), for many years either secretary, curator or librarian of the American.....
New York: Thomas Greenleaf, 1792. Two volumes, 8vo. [4], 511; [4], 521, [15] pages. Woodcut arms on titles. Contemporary mottled sheep, spines with red and black gilt labels and gilt floral ornaments, gilt roll on edges. An unusually attractive set of Greenleaf's octavo edition of the laws of New York.....
Washington, D. C. Published by the Editor; Philadelphia: William S. Martien; New York: Baker & Scribner and William S. Martien, 1847. Folio. Half-title: "Farmers’ Souvenir. Washington’s Agricultural Correspondence." 198 pages, including facsimiles. Engraved frontispiece portrait, 4 plates and one map. SIGNED AMERICAN BINDING by D. W. Gihon, Philadelphia, dark brown.....
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New York: Doubleday & Co, 1963. Together two volumes, 8vo. 650; 741 pages. Illustrated. Original cloth; acetate wrappers; publisher's slipcases. First edition, deluxe limited editions, each boldly signed by Eisenhower. Numbers 326 and 375 of 1,434 copies. The President's in depth account of his first administration.
