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.
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.
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 4to, integral blank leaf docketed on verso. In 1758, British General Amherst (1717-1797) was put in command of an expedition sent against the French in North America. Here Amherst discharges transcripts that are no longer needed. The recipient could be Thomas Hancock who.....
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.....
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.
Mexico: Fidencio S. Soria, nd. 4to. 30 pages. 63 plates, with two large folding plates. Brown cloth, original printed wrappers bound in.
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.
Denver: Bradford Robinson, 1949. 9.25 x 6.5 inches. 333 pages. Boards. 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.
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.....
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1968. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Tall 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; plain dust wrapper. A fine copy. LIMITED EDITION, number 694 of 1400 copies.
Colorado Springs: 1893. Oblong 4to. Photogravure plates and a profusion of illustrations in text. Original cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered on front cover. Light soiling to covers, internally very clean and fresh. The second edition, after the first of the previous year. A lavishly illustrated work with descriptions and views of famous.....
Buena Vista, CO: Times Book and Job Rooms, 1882. Small 8vo (6 1/2 x 5 inches). [5], 6-37, [38-40] pp., including advertisements. Original printed wrappers; quarter morocco slipcase. Some soiling, a few discreet paper repairs. FIRST EDITION of this scarce pamphlet on Buena Vista, published three years after it was.....
Barre, Mass. Imprint Society, 1971. Folio. Sixty black-and-white plates. Original blue cloth-backed boards; publisher's slipcase. Near-fine. FIRST EDITION.