Alexandria, VA: [1987]. Watercolor on art paper, 8 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches, matted. Abbott (1920-1988) was a longtime resident of Alexandria, Virginia, working at Fort Belvoir while leading various Audubon Society activities, including bird counts. He wrote and illustrated a number of books and pamphlets concerning the ornithology of..... More
Charleston, SC: The compilers. (Walker, Evans & Cogswell printed), 1888. First edition. 12mo. 36, (9, ads for Camden businesses) pp. Illustrations from wood engravings, public buildings, churches, monuments, scenery, etc. Turnbull IV, p. 243. Uncommon, OCLC locating 11 copies (including South Carolina, S.C. Historical Society, College of Charleston, Furman, Francis..... More
![Item #57754 [Printed circular begins]: St. Augustine, November, 1829. / Sir, / The nature of the...](https://bartlebysbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/57754.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1737245596)
[St. Augustine, FL?, or New York?]: np, 1829. First separate edition (?). 4to. Printed circular on two pages of a bi-folium, with integral leaf docketed on verso "Andrew Alexander, M.D." Anderson, a physician who had served as a "Physician at the N.Y. 'Infirmary for Diseases of the Lungs,'" (Servies 1430)..... More
Boston: Timothy Bedlington, 1829. First American with Leland's notes. (First published in America 1821). 8vo. [8], 5-559pp. Full leather binding with black leather spine label title and author stamped in gilt, gilt rules on spine. Spine rubbed wear to edges some foxing. OCLC lists copies in US at Transylvania, Dartmouth..... More
Montgomery, AL: M'Cormick & Walshe, printers, 1847. First separate edition. 8vo. 22 pp. With three pencil annotations by the author, amounting to approximately 100 words, each refining his observations and arguments; one manuscript ink correction. Not in Ellison or Owen. OCLC locates three copies (Library of Congress, Harvard-Countway, National Library..... More
Boston, (MA): Published by Abel Tompkins, 1852. First edition. 12mo. 404, (4, publisher’s ads) pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the subject. Ballou (1771-1852), originally a Baptist, converted to Universalism in 1789, preached in several New England states, published widely, and became known as a father of American Universalism. Inscribed on..... More
![Item #67681 THE LEGEND OF THE WIZARD CLIP [cover and caption title]. R. Helen BATES, Mrs. F. M....](https://bartlebysbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/67681.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701470167)
NP: NP, nd [1930s?]. Unrecorded edition. 8vo. (8) pp. [the other editions, mentioned below, were issued with four or six pages]. Prints three different versions of this Jefferson County legend concerning the casting out of vengeful witches. OCLC locates single copies of three editions (with attributed dates of “1800s,” 1925..... More
Paris: Chez Cocheris, 1797. 8vo. xvi, 336pp Half-title. Recent quarter-leather and marbled boards, leather spine label; old institutional stamp on title page and several interior leaves. Attractive copy. First edition. Howes B-255. Sabin 4022. Clark Old South II, 77: "Sympathetic, sentimental, leisurely picture of society at a forgotten watering place..... More
Paris: Chez Batilliot, [1798]. Second edition. 8vo. xxv, [i], 349 pp. [error for 347, p. 345-346 being omitted]. Half-title. Somewhat recent blue paper-covered boards, rubbed. Leather spine label. Very good. Howes B-255. Sabin 4022. Clark Old South II, 77: "Sympathetic, sentimental, leisurely picture of society at a forgotten watering place..... More
Philadelphia, [PA]: Times Printing House, 610 Chesnut St. nd [ca. 1873?]. 22.5 cm. 4pp., 3 plates. Gray printed covers. Back cover illustrated with an image representing the engine house, boiler house and stand pipe of the Erie Water Works that was built under his supervision. More
(Far Hills, NJ): Meadow Run Press, (c1997). First edition, the deluxe issue, 1/75 specially printed and bound copies signed by the author and illustrator. Thick 8vo. ix, 573 pp. Frontispiece by Rice, color illustration signed by Rice laid in. Fine. Publisher's black quarter-morocco and patterned boards, leather spine label, slipcase..... More
(Lynchburg, VA: J.P. Bell Co.), 1901. First edition. 12mo. 72 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Confederate Brig.-Gen. John McCausland who commanded the Confederate cavalry in the battle. Nevins II, p. 212: "Concise but accurate account of the repulse of Hunter's troops [in 1864] before Lynchburg; Blackford was not present, but he..... More
Richmond, VA: John Knox Press, 1949. First edition. 8vo. xi, (1), 416 pp. Tables. Help for a church group "deciding whether to preserve certain older patterns ... [or] to change such of the older patterns as stand in the way of a more Christian democracy, in church, in industry, and..... More
Paris: Desenne Libraire, 1841. First separate edition, "Imprimee par extrait dans la Biographie universelle. 8vo. (4), 167 pp. Inscribed by "l'auteur" at the head of the front wrapper. OCLC locates five copies in the United States (Yale, Society of the Cincinnati, American Antiquarian Scoiety, Lafayette, Clements). Later burgundy quarter-cloth and..... More
Baltimore, (MD: Printed by Schaeffer & Maund, 1817. Second edition (first published Pittsburgh, 1814). 12mo. 323 pp. Prints an 1816 letter from the author concerning New Orleans flooding that did not appear in the first edition, but without Brackenridge's journal of an 1811 trip up the Missouri River that did..... More
Knoxville, (TN): Printed by James Williams, 1842. First edition. Small 8vo. 256 pp. Ownership signature Frank M. Fulkerson / Rogersville, Tenn” on front endpaper; Fulkerson, a native of Virginia, moved with his family to Tennessee as a boy, served as an ordinance sergeant with the 4th Tennessee in Mexico, read..... More
NY: Burr Brothers, 1893. 4to.; x, (11)-210pp. Gilt stamped black spine label; blue cloth. Very good. First edition. No.142 of 725 copies, signed by author. More
Philadelphia: Printed for the Author by Fry and Kammerer, 1810. 8vo. Second Edition. [1–3], 4, [5–7], 8–23, [1]pp. Pamphlet. 8 x 51 2 inches. Disbound, wrappers absent, minor wear to first leaf; toning; good. The ready availability of commercial credit and the allied phenomenon of investment speculation is not new..... More
[Philadelphia, PA: np, Aug. 24, 1831]. 25 cm. 8pp. Single sheet folded, stitched. Unopened. Old tidelines. American Imprints 6413. Carey seeking to organize "The Society of Political Economists," includes a brief constitution for the group. He also discusses the South and nullification. To tariff or not to tariff. More
East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1937. First edition. 12mo. 34 pp. Illustrated from photographs, ten plates, map. Carpenter's 1936 Kenyan safari, led by white hunters Donald Ker and Sidney Downey, hunting buffalo, rhinoceros, lion, and other game. Czech African Hunting, p. 32: "This privately printed work was undoubtedly published in a...... More
Charleston, WV: Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics of the State of West Virginia, July 1934. First edition (an enlarged edition, including other cities in the state, was issued in 1938). 8vo. 21 pp. Illustrated from photographs, maps, charts. Not in Blockson catalogue. Original printed gray wrappers, stapled. Very good..... More
Williamsburg, VA: College of William and Mary Bulletin, Vol. 32, No. 7, November, 1938. First edition, complete issue of the Bulletin. 8vo. (2), 131 pp. Plate illustrating Chapin’s bookplate. Brief descriptions of 1816 items. Original printed gray wrappers. Very good. More
Savannah, (GA): Printed by Edward C. Councell, 1845. First edition. 8vo. 19 pp. Inscription from the Georgia Historical Society at the head of the title page (partly trimmed away by a binder). Disbound pamphlet. More
Washington, DC: R.O. Polkinhorn, Printer, 1880. irst edition. 8vo. 32 pp. Historical sketch of Marshall County, Mississippi, founded in 1836; a note at the head of the front wrapper “Defense of the South / p. 21,” leads one to a 12-page rationalization of the South’s cause in the Civil War..... More
Paris: A. et W. Galignani, 1836. First edition (published simultaneously, in English, in London and New York). 8vo. (4), xvi, 394 pp. Illustrated, facsimiles, frontispiece plate. Inscribed by "l'auteur" at the head of the title page. Sabin 13772: "Written at the request of Mr. Isaiah Townsend, of Albany, and translated..... More
