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: 1914-1932. First edition. 17 volumes, 12mo. Illustrated with woodcuts and maps, photographic plates tipped onto leaves; six volumes include folding maps. Bound in faux birch bark paper over boards. Phillips, pp. 11-12; Plum, Adirondack Bibliography (1956) 7236 & Supplement (1973), p. xxxiv; Bruns A11-A29; Heller 1:665-683; Litchfield sale.....
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.
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.....
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.
Mexico: Fidencio S. Soria, nd. 4to. 30 pages. 63 plates, with two large folding plates. Brown cloth, original printed wrappers bound in.
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.....
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.....
Cambridge MA: John Ford at the Chronicle Office, 1857. First edition of the ninth in the series. 8vo. Engraved folding "Map of the City of Cambridge, Mass." after W.A. Mason, engineer and surveyor. Original blind-decorated brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Robert O. Fuller (pencil inscription on front flyleaf, he.....
Syracuse, NY: The Journal Office, 1868. 8vo. 235 pages. Folding map (with stitched repair to tear). Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover. Contains a long business directory of the communities of Madison County, New York, an index to advertisements, a history of the county including a section on.....
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.....
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.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1936. Royal 8vo (254 x 158 mm, 10 x 6 1/4 in.). 464 pp. Portrait frontispiece, folding diagram at end, numerous full-page illustrations to the text. Original deluxe binding of blue levant morocco by Leighton-Straker, stamp signed on rear turn-in, red morocco letteringpiece, spine and sides.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo. The author, best known for 'Two Years Before the Mast', comments on the "air pipe" he has purchased and orders a drum. (BA).
Philadelphia: Samuel Akerman, 1803. First American edition. Two parts in one volume, 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches). vii, 70; x, 81 pages. Contemporary sheep. Provenance: With the ownership signature of Daniel De Benneville on title, with his manuscript notes and underlinings throughout, and three leaves of manuscript notes.....
Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1955. 8vo. Plates and maps. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. One of 575 copies of volume XXXIII of the Publications of The Champlain Society.
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.....
Providence: H. H. Brown, 1829. 12mo. 167 pages. Folding frontis. Cloth over boards with gilt-stamped leather spine and tips. Name autographed on fly. FIRST EDITION. Folding frontispiece with a view of the ship's exterior and accompanying diagrams of two decks. This former ship-of-the-line was converted into a warehouse and finally.....
New York: Printed for the Author by Carter & Thorp, 1839-40. First edition. Two volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece, three maps (2 folding), engraved plate. 487 pages; 282, cclxvi, 2 pages errata. Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper spine labels. Howes D-572; Sabin 21301; American Imprints 55452.
Boston: Printed by Rowe & Hooper, 1816. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Contemporary sheep, green morocco spine label. First (and only) edition. A didactic novel set in New England, and with numerous references to the Revolutionary War. The author was a Methodist minister and father of Lorenzo Sabin, senator.....
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.
New York; London: Peabody & Co; O. Rich, 1831. 4to (26.5 x 21 cm). Text paginated 1-50 consecutively. Engraved title with vignette, marked "proof," three full-page engravings of St. Paul's Broadway, Trinity Church, and City Hall, printed by William D. Smith, folding map colored in outline (mounted on linen); and.....
Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1966. 8vo. Plates and maps. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. One of 725 copies of volume VIII of the Ontario Series from the Publications of The Champlain Society.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1863. 8vo (23 x 15 cm). 671 pages. Engraved portrait frontispiece of William Rosencrans, engraved title, and engraved plates. Presentation binding of brown hard-grained morocco, with gilt-lettered presentation on front cover: "Lt. Col. J. W. Taylor, with the Compliments of the Author," all edges gilt. FIRST.....