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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.; 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. 8vo.; 509pp. Illustrated. Cloth (some fading to front cover). Very good. .. more
Price: $300.00
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 With notes and an appendix, containing some interesting facts, together with a notice of an expedition through Louisiana.
Cuming, Fortescue.
Pittsburgh, (PA): Cramer, Spear & Eichbaum, 1810. 12mo. 504 pp. Three-quarter calf and marbled boards, leather spine label, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Fine copy in an attractive.. more
Price: $2,000.00
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
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


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