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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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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. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo.; 383pp., 457pp. Illustrated, folding maps. A little foxing to title pages, but a fine unopened.. more
Price: $350.00
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. 12mo. Two volumes bound in one: viii, 234; (2), 241, (1) pp. Contemporary green cloth, gilt title on spine. Very.. more
Price: $1,250.00
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. 8vo. Original printed wrappers and self-wrappers (some chipping and soiling); almost all have either a Library of Congress duplicate stamp.. more
Price: $850.00
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. 8vo. vi, [5]-357 pp. Folding plate (separated at fold, as usual, with the loss of a few letters along the.. more
Price: $15,000.00


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