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Our bookshop specializes in rare and antiquarian books and ephemera with emphasis on American History, and Law. In addition to our specialties, we have a good general stock of literature, poetry, the arts, hunting and fishing, travel, books on books, and other histories from ancient to modern. Visit our store in historic Georgetown or browse and search our online stock.


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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. 8vo. (1), 7 pp. Original printed wrappers, the front wrapper bordered with a Greek key-meander; some spine erosion, owner’s name.. more
Price: $3,750.00
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. 1st Amer. ed. (orig. published in England 1787). 8vo.; xvii, 328pp. Illus. by 10 engraved plans. Now first published with.. more
Price: $1,500.00
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 "Rough Proof -- Unpublished" printed on the cover and title page.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. First edition. 8vo. 79pp. "Rough Proof -- Unpublished" printed on the cover and title page. Inscribed by the author on.. more
Price: $3,000.00
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. 12mo. 223, (2) pp. Illustrated. Contemporary calf (rubbed, a little chipped at spine ends, front joint cracking from base); some.. more
Price: $1,500.00


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