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8vo. vi, [5]-357 pp. Folding plate (separated at fold, as usual, with the loss of a few letters along the separation). Original calf-backed boards (rubbed); except for the defect mentioned, a quite pleasing untrimmed copy of a very rare frontier book.
The Christian Advocate by a Tennesseean [sic].
(HAYWOOD, John) .
Nashville, (TN): Printed and sold by Thomas G. Bradford, 1819.
Price: $15,000.00
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12mo. 223, (2) pp. Illustrated. Contemporary calf (rubbed, a little chipped at spine ends, front joint cracking from base); some browning to text, but a very good copy.
A Series of Essays on Agriculture and Rural Affairs, in Forty-seven Numbers by "Agricola," a North-Carolina farmer:
(JEFFREYS, George W.) .
Raleigh, NC: Joseph Gales, 1819.
Price: $1,500.00
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12mo. Two volumes bound in one: viii, 234; (2), 241, (1) pp. Contemporary green cloth, gilt title on spine. Very good.
Aus dem Wanderbuch eines Oesterreichischen Virtuosen: Briefe aus Californien, Sudamerika, und Australien.
HAUSER, Miska.
Leipzig: F. Herbig, 1859.
Price: $1,250.00
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8vo. (1), 7 pp. Original printed wrappers, the front wrapper bordered with a Greek key-meander; some spine erosion, owner’s name (a Smyth) on the front cover, but a very good copy housed in a custom cloth clamshell box.
An Address Delivered to the Mississippi Hibernian Society on St. Patrick’s Day, 1827 [cover title].
SMYTH, George W.
Natchez [MS]: Printed at the Ariel Office, 1827.
Price: $3,750.00
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12mo. 2 volumes: (2), vi, 345; (4), 335, (1) pp. Half-titles, errata leaf. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine richly gilt with ornamentation, leather spine labels, marbled endpapers. Fine choice copy.
Traité des sensations.
CONDILLAC, Etienne Bonnot de.
Londres & Paris: Chez De Bure, 1754.
Price: $2,500.00
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8vo. 356 pp. Wood engravings in advertisements. Original cloth (rubbed, soiled, spine ends a bit frayed); some interior soiling, else a good solid copy.
NASHVILLE BUSINESS DIRECTORY; CONTAINING THE NAMES, BUSINESS, AND RESIDENCE OF ALL HEADS OF FAMILIES, BUSINESS FIRMS, ETC., FOR THE CITY OF NASHVILLE AND SUBURBS.
Campbell, John C. (compiler).
Nashville, TN: Smith, Camp & Co., 1857.
Price: $850.00
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12mo. 504 pp. Three-quarter calf and marbled boards, leather spine label, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Fine copy in an attractive recent binding.
SKETCHES OF A TOUR TO THE WESTERN COUNTRY, THROUGH THE STATES OF OHIO AND KENTUCKY; A VOYAGE DOWN THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS, AND A TRIP THROUGH THE MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY, AND PART OF WEST FLORIDA; COMMENCED AT PHILADELPHIA IN THE WINTER OF 1807, AND
Cuming, Fortescue.
Pittsburgh, (PA): Cramer, Spear & Eichbaum, 1810.
Price: $2,000.00
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8vo. 205 pp. Bound with: (Pike, Luther H.) IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, WARD H. LAMON, ET AL., VS. HENRY E. MCKEE:, NO. 11,238, EQUITY DOC. 28: A BRIEF [caption title]. Leather and marbled boards and endpapers, gilt title on spine; lacking outer wrappers, older endpapers repaired.
THE CHOCTAW NATION VS. THE UNITED STATES: IS AN AWARD AGAINST THE UNITED STATES, MADE UNDER A TREATY THAT DECLARES IT SHALL BE FINAL, BINDING UPON THE CONSCIENCE OF THE NATION?
(Pike, Albert).
Washington: David M'Intosh, printer, 1872.
Price: $7,500.00
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12mo. 255, (1)pp. Folding map with hand-colored outline. Original gilt-stamped purple ribbon-embossed cloth (faded). Scattered light foxing, but a very good copy.
ILLINOIS AND THE WEST, WITH A TOWNSHIP MAP CONTAINING THE LATEST SURVEYS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
Jones, A.D.
Boston: Weeks, Jordan & Co.; Philadelphia: W. Marshall and Co., 1838.
Price: $1,000.00
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8vo. Original printed wrappers and self-wrappers (some chipping and soiling); almost all have either a Library of Congress duplicate stamp or its small perforation on the title page. A more descriptive list of the pamphlets can be provided on request.
Collection of 35 pamphlets by Nimmo, concerning railroad regulation in the United States, the development of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and other aspects of American internal trade, primarily statements to government committees and agencies, as w
Nimmo, Joseph, Jr.
Washington, DC, and NY: various publishers, 1888-1909.
Price: $850.00
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First edition in French. 8vo. (4), xvi, 234 pp. Folding map (short marginal tear, skillfully repaired on verso). Original boards, rebacked in calf to style, with matching corners. A nice copy. The first edition to be published with a map. HOWES; " First book on Kentucky and most notable product from the pen of a Western pionner."
HISTOIRE DE KENTUCKE, NOUVELLE COLONIE A L'OUEST DE LA VIRGINIE: CONTENANT,1. LA DECOUVERTE, L'ACQUISITION, L'ESTABLISSEMENT LA DESCRIPTION TOPOGRAPHIQUE, L'HISTOIRE NATURELLE, &C, DU TERRITOIRE; 2. LA RELATION HISTORIQUE DU COLONEL BOON, UN DES PREMIERS
Filson, John.
Paris: Chez Buisson, 1785.
Price: $3,500.00
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8vo. 1 of 300 copies on hand-made paper. With 24 color plates. Very good in scarce dustjacket.
THE GREAT SEA-HORSE.
Anderson, Isabel.
Boston: Little Brown, 1909.
Price: $750.00
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First edition. 8vo. 79pp. "Rough Proof -- Unpublished" printed on the cover and title page. Inscribed by the author on the front wrapper: "to Senor Julio Brouta / for translation. / Very private / G.B.S. / 24th July 1929." Original gray stiff wrappers (rubbed). Very good copy housed in a red cloth slipcase with gilt title on the spine.
THE APPLE CART: A POLITICAL EXTRAVAGANZA, by a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
(Shaw, George Bernard).
(London): Rehearsed for Malvern Festival, 1929.
Price: $3,000.00
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First Edition. 1 of 150 copies, this set signed by the author on each half-title, each with his holograph couplet, the signature and couplet enclosed by an ink circle. 5 parts (each numbered "78" in ink on the rear wrapper). Small 4to. 37, 43, 48, 46, 49pp. General title page, index, and C. Henry Daniel's card of transmittal laid into part IV, as issued. Part IV, printed last, included the title page and index for placement by the binder. "Memorials of C.H.O. Daniel with a Bibliography of the Press" (Oxford, 1921) described the printing. Very rare in parts; we located but 3 copies at auction in the past 40 years (ABPC, 1955-1998: 1959, 1961, and 1977), none mentioning signatures or quotes. Original printed wrappers (some light spotting). Fine untrimmed copy housed in a custom blue quarter-morocco and cloth slipcase.
SHORTER POEMS.
Bridges, Robert.
Oxford: Printed at the Daniel Press, 1894.
Price: $3,750.00
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1st Amer. ed. (orig. published in England 1787). 8vo.; xvii, 328pp. Illus. by 10 engraved plans. Now first published with a memoir of the author & other additions. Boards, recently rebacked in cloth. Scattered foxing. Prev. owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Very good.
A HISTORY OF THE OPERATIONS OF A PARTISAN CORPS, CALLED THE QUEEN'S RANGERS, COMMANDED BY LIEUT. COL. J.G. SIMCOE, DURING THE WAR OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION...
Simcoe, Lieut. Col. J.G.
NY: Bartlett & Welford, 1844.
Price: $1,500.00
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1st ed. 8vo.; x, 403pp. Frontis. portrait (portrait & facing title page foxed). Prev. owner's name on front free endpaper. Orig. gilt-stamped green cloth (spine ends rubbed). Very good. HOWES B1062
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE EXPEDITION AGAINST SANDUSKY UNDER COL. WILLIAM CRAWFORD IN 1782...
Butterfield, C.W.
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke, 1873.
Price: $250.00
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8vo. 49 pp. Original gray printed wrappers (old staining, leaving some tidelines; front endpaper torn through, foxed. Good copy of a 19th century high spot of American literature in its original binding.
FANNY.
Halleck, Fitz-Greene.
NY: C. Wiley, 1819.
Price: $750.00
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8vo. 1st ed., 2nd issue binding. Very good with slight edgewear.
WANDERINGS IN WEST AFRICA FROM LIVERPOOL TO FERNANDO PO.
Burton, Richard F.
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863.
Price: $3,750.00
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Narrow 8vo.; (2)pp. 15 color plates with captions. Original color pictorial stiff wrappers, glassine dust jacket. A fine copy.
PHILIPPE BONNET: PEINTURES.
Tzara, Tristan (foreword).
Paris: Berggruen & Cie, (1956).
Price: $650.00
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1st Amer. ed. (Harper published a New York ed. the same year, priority unknown). 12mo. Illustrated. Orig. gilt-stamped blue cloth. Text block foxed, a few leaves severely. Plates clean save for a few spots. A woman's ownership signature.
THE CHIMES: A GOBLIN STORY OF SOME BELLS THAT RANG AN OLD YEAR OUT & A NEW YEAR IN.
Dickens, Charles.
Phila: Lea & Blanchard, 1845.
Price: $850.00
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8vo.; 509pp. Illustrated. Cloth (some fading to front cover). Very good.
BORDER SETTLERS OF NORTHWESTERN VIRGINIA FROM 1768 TO 1795 EMBRACING THE LIFE OF JESSIE HUGHES...
McWhorter, Lucullus V.
Hamilton, OH: Republican Publishing Co, 1915.
Price: $300.00
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First edition. Two volumes. 8vo.; 383pp., 457pp. Illustrated, folding maps. A little foxing to title pages, but a fine unopened copy in dustjackets and box (soiled and worn at edges).
WILDERNESS TRAIL; OR, THE VENTURES AND ADVENTURES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA TRADERS ON THE ALLEGHENY PATH.
Hanna, Charles.
NY: Putnam's, 1911.
Price: $350.00
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1st ed., published as a promotional to help the sale of a larger work of the same title, published in 1890 in Antioch, Illinois. Wraps; 15pp. Portraits on front & rear wraps. Rare. The NUC locates only the Denver Public Library copy. Orig. wraps (lightly foxed).
WILD JIM: CAPT. W. J. FRENCH, TEXAS RANGER; THE TEXAS COWBOY & SADDLE KING.
(Mt. Hope, KS?): n.d., n.d. (ca. 1890).
Price: $750.00
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First edition. The first American book on the subject. Tall 8vo. 288pp. 18 engraved plates. 6 pg. subscriber's list; errata leaf. Contemporary boards (extremities worn), recently rebacked; scattered foxing. Housed in cloth clam-shell box.
TREATISE ON BRIDGE ARCHITECTURE; IN WHICH THE SUPERIOR ADVANTAGES OF THE FLYING PENDENT LEVER BRIDGE ARE FULLY PROVED; with an historical account & description of different bridges erected in various parts of the world, from an early period, down to the p
Pope, Thomas.
NY: the author, 1811.
Price: $1,100.00
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16mo.; [8], 402pp., [2]. Engraved frontis. plate. Full leather (worn; front joint cracked); small, old institutional label at head of spine; all page edges red. Internally clean, and a very good copy overall.
RELATION DES VOYAGES ET DES DECOUVERTES QUE LES ESPAGNOLS ONT FAIT DANS LES INDES OCCIDENTALES... AVEC LA RELATION CURIEUSE DES VOYAGES DU SIEUR DE MONTAUBAN~EN GUINEE L'AN 1695.
Las Casas, Dom. B. de.
Amsterdam, J. Louis de Lorme Lib., 1698.
Price: $1,250.00
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