Philadelphia: William Brown and Charles Peters, 1828. Second Edition, Revised, Improved, and Enlarged. Five octavo volumes; xxi, 397; [i], 435; [i], 391; [i], 372; [i], 386 pages. Bound in quarter leather over marbled boards, with spines lettered in gilt. Illustrated with black-and-white plates, including a vignette title page in each.....
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Richmond, VA: William F. Ritchie, 1862. First Edition. Octavo, 182, 34, 11, 15, [1] pages, period leather over marbled boards. Composite Civil War-era Virginia government volume containing four works: 1. Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, Passed in 1861–2; in the Eighty-Sixth Year of the Commonwealth.....
Philadelphia: John Dainty, 1866. First Edition. 18mo, 163 pages, publisher's original-gilt lettered and blind-stamped black pebbled cloth covered boards. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white, including large fold-out map. Guide to Philadelphia: Its Public Buildings, Places of Amusement, Churches, Hotels, &c., published in Philadelphia by John Dainty in 1866, is a post–Civil.....
Philadelphia: Richard Folwell, 1796. First Edition. Two octavos, 7-494, [1] p.; 576 pages, bound in full leather with gilt lettered red spine labels. The Laws of the United States of America is an important early American legal and governmental publication, comprising the first authorized collected printing of the laws enacted.....
Albany: Packard and Van Benthuysen, 1829. First Edition. Slim octavo, 84 pages, finely bound in full green leather, both boards ruled in gilt. All edges gilt, with gilt decoration along the fore edges of the boards, gilt dentelles, and marbled endpapers. Obituary Notices of the Rev. John Chester, D.D., Late.....
St. Louis: Eureka Publishing Company, 1876. First Edition. Octavo, 208 pages, paper wraps. Illustrated with frontispiece and 5 additional black-and-white plates. Augustus C. Appler’s The Guerrillas of the West; or, The Life, Character and Daring Exploits of the Younger Brothers is a scarce and sensational 1876 account of the Younger.....
New York: The American Folk-Lore Society, 1932. First Edition. Octavo, xiii, 178 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered red cloth covered boards. Bella Bella Tales, edited by Franz Boas and issued as Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, Vol. 25, is an important 1932 contribution to Native American folklore, anthropology, and Northwest.....
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1896. Third Edition Revised. Octavo, 361 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered red cloth covered boards. Top edge gilt. An important late 19th-century work of Native American mythology, comparative religion, anthropology, and American ethnology. This 1896 third revised edition, published in Philadelphia by David McKay, presents Brinton’s wide-ranging study.....
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1946. Decorations by Ralph Ray, Jr. First Edition. Octavo, viii, 199 pages, publisher's original color pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's original red cloth covered boards. Catherine Cate Coblentz’s Sequoya is a mid-century juvenile historical biography of Sequoyah, the remarkable Cherokee scholar and inventor who created.....
New York: The American Folk-Lore Society, 1917. First Edition. Octavo, xii, 205 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered red cloth covered boards. Top edge gilt. Folk-Tales of Salishan and Sahaptin Tribes, collected by James Alexander Teit, Livingston Farrand, Marian K. Gould, and Herbert Joseph Spinden and edited by Franz Boas, issued as.....
Boston: Samuel Walker & Co., 1867. Two quartos, viii, 652pp.; 648 pages, bound in period gilt-lettered and blind stamped full brown leather. Raised bands to spines. All edges gilt. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white. The Southern Rebellion by W. A. Crafts, issued in two volumes and published in Boston by Samuel.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First Edition. Two octavos, xxiii, 707pp.; xix, 808, [2] pages, rebound in gilt-lettered blue cloth covered boards. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white plates, and complete with all of the original large fold-out maps bound in the rear of volume two. The Rise and Fall.....
London: J. Bettenham, for E. Bell, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, G. Strahan, F. Fayram, J. Pemberton, J. Hooke, C. Rivington, F. Clay, J. Batley, and E. Symon, 1722. First Edition. Folio, [36], lxxi, 696 pages, bound in period full leather with raised bands and a gilt-lettered label to spine. Boards.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First Edition. 12mo, 312 pages, publisher's original gilt-decorated cloth covered boards.
New York: Henry L. Hinton, 1873. First Edition. Octavo, 349, [2] pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered and blind-stamped brick red cloth covered boards. Though the title calls for photographs, this copy appears to have been published without photographic plates. The Clubs of New York, written by Francis Gerry Fairfield and first.....
Philadelphia: John E. Potter & Co., 1866. Octavo, 494 pages, period quarter leather over blue cloth covered boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated with color plates. Thrilling Stories of the Great Rebellion is a vivid and wide-ranging Civil War–era anthology that captures the popular appetite for dramatic wartime storytelling in.....
Hartford: Printed for the Family by Case, Lockwood and Company, 1860. First Edition. Octavo, xviii, 321, [1] pages, bound in quarter leather over marbled boards. Raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Memorials of Elder John White is an important 19th-century New England genealogy tracing.....
L. Stebbins: Hartford, Conn. 1865. First Edition. 12mo, 400 pages, publisher's original gilt-decorated black cloth covered boards. Illustrated in black-and-white. Life and Death in Rebel Prisons, published in Hartford, Connecticut, by L. Stebbins in 1865, is one of the most powerful firsthand accounts to emerge from the American Civil War.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1896. First Edition. Limited Edition of 620 copies. Octavo, 202 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered and decorated purple cloth covered boards. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in black-and-white. This copy is enhanced with three original signed handwritten letters by Louis C. Madeira bound in, all addressed to.....
Philadelphia: C. P. Wayne, 1805-7. First Edition. Three octavos, vii, 516, 67p.; vii, 527, 38p.; vii, 779, 36 pages, bound in contemporary full tree calf, with gilt bands and gilt-lettered spine labels. John Marshall’s Life of George Washington is one of the earliest major biographies of Washington, written by the.....
Philadelphia: Published for Private Circulation by J. Hampton Moore, 1898. First Edition. Octavo, 128 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered brown leather over gilt-lettered green cloth covered boards. Top edge gilt. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white plates. Fiveoclockiana and Other Poems was produced in 1898 as a commemorative volume for the Five O’Clock.....
Hartford, Connecticut: Privately Printed, 1918. First Edition. Limited Edition of 260 copies, of which this is number 72. Octavo, 152 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered brown boards. Early American Folk Pottery, including The History of the Bennington Pottery by Albert Hastings Pitkin is an early study of traditional American ceramics and.....
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1888. First Edition. Octavo, 381 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered and decorated red cloth covered boards. The Sailor Boys of '61 by James Russell Soley is a classic nineteenth-century account of youthful service in the United States Navy at the opening of the Civil War. Drawing on.....
Lynchburg, Va: Gregory Brothers, 1894. First Edition. Octavo, 140 pages, publisher's original printed wraps. The Heroes in Gray. By a Confederate Soldier is a scarce late nineteenth-century Confederate reminiscence, published in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1894. Written by Robert Burcher Stratton, a veteran of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry, the work records.....
New York: Young Men's Republican Union, 1865. First Edition. Octavo, 8 pages, publisher's original tied wraps. A scarce Civil War pamphlet printing Charles Sumner’s Senate speech on the treatment of prisoners of war, delivered January 29, 1865, during the bitter national debate over whether the Union should retaliate in kind.....