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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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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. 12mo. 2 volumes: (2), vi, 345; (4), 335, (1) pp. Half-titles, errata leaf. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine richly gilt with.. more
Price: $2,500.00

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. 16mo.; [8], 402pp., [2]. Engraved frontis. plate. Full leather (worn; front joint cracked); small, old institutional label at head of.. more
Price: $1,250.00

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. First edition. The first American book on the subject. Tall 8vo. 288pp. 18 engraved plates. 6 pg. subscriber's list; errata.. more
Price: $1,100.00

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. 8vo. 49 pp. Original gray printed wrappers (old staining, leaving some tidelines; front endpaper torn through, foxed. Good copy of.. more
Price: $750.00

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