Philadelphia [PA]: Printed by T & G. Palmer, for J. Conrad & Co., 1804. First American edition. 15.5 cm. 231pp., [1]. Full flame leather. Gilt stamped red leather spine label and gilt rules. Bookplate of George Hale Nutting who served as President of Sons of the Revolution, on front pastedown..... More
NY. Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Co., 1883. vi, 400pp. Original black and gilt-stamped green cloth. Very good copy. First edition. The collected works of the New York philanthropist whose "greatest monument is the Cooper Union at Astor Place, New York City, which he founded 1857-59 for the advancement of science..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1852. First edition. Small 8vo. xi, 212 pp. Illustrated, portraits; half-title. Original brown cloth, spine gilt with title, rules, and ornaments. Fine. Housed in a custom red quarter morocco and cloth slipcase (spine rubbed), with chemise. More
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1966. First edition, 1/100 copies (this#76) signed by the editor. 8vo. 338 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, frontispiece portrait of Decker, two folding map. Mintz The Trail 120: “Decker’s narrative does not read as smoothly as some other narratives, but more than makes up for this..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, (1961). First American edition. 8vo. 319pp., illus., maps. Very good in dust jacket with slight edgewear. More
(Mobile, AL): The author, [1902]. First separate edition, reprinted from the American Historical Magazine, April, 1902. 8vo. 14 pp. Louisiana in the first half of the eighteenth century. Not in Thompson. OCLC locates one copy (Auburn). Still a good solid copy. Original printed tan wrappers (darkened, spine partly eroded), stapled..... More
Some separations at old folds, but a good copy. More
Charlottesville, VA: U. Press of Virginia, (c1998). First edition. Small 4to. xvi, (2), 222 pp. Illustrated from photographs, old art, facsimiles, portraits, plates, some in color. Burgundy cloth, gilt spine title, color illustrated dust jacket. Very good. More
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1846. First American edition, from the ninth London edition. 8vo. 460 pp. Plates; publisher's ads. Inscribed by the publisher on the front endpaper and with a 1-page ALS from Porter to the publisher, 27 May 1846, making short references to grouse and deer hunting and promising..... More
London: Printing Historical Society, (c1990). First edition. 4to. 39, (136) pp. Reprints Davison's specimen book of available illustrations, vignettes, cuts, etc.; one folding leaf [Isaac makes a case for the book's issuance in parts, over some time, probably after 1837; at least one of the pictured ornaments must have come..... More
Staunton, VA: Kenton Harper, Printer, 1834. First edition. 12mo. 219, (3, table of contents and "revisal"). American Imprints 25892. Ownership inscription on front endpaper, persistent foxing, but a very good copy. Contemporary calf (rubbed), leather label and gilt rules on spine. (10878). More
New York and London: Paisley Press and Williams & Norgate, 1936. First edition. 8vo. (2), xv, (2), 301 pp. Illustrated, frontispiece portrait, title page facsimiles. The dedicatee’s copy, with Andrew Oliver’s ownership initials on the front endpaper, dated in the year of publication, and his check marks beside those items..... More
London: Benjamin White, 1771. First edition in English. 8vo. 2 volumes: xx, 396; (2), 367, (32) pp. 13 engraved plates; lacks half-titles. Bradley Martin sale 1772. Recent contemporary-style calf, leather labels and gilt rules on spines; ex-institutional copy, with stamps on several leaves, title-page to volume one re-margined. Still a...... More
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(Lexington, KY: , Transylvania Journal of Medicine, Vo. II, no, 2, 1838, pp. 321-342). Offprint, entirely reset. 8vo. 22 pp. The author was serving as Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy in Transylvania University at the time of publication. OCLC locates two copies (Yale, Kentucky). Original plain tan wrappers. Very good..... More
Boston, (MA): Printed by Russell and Cutler, 1801. First edition. 12mo. viii, [9]-155 pp. Original drab paper boards and tan paper spine. Soiling and cracking to paper spine, paper chipping from boards, text clean. A good, somewhat tender copy. STODDARD and WHITESELL 702. WEGELIN 1157. More
Charlottesville, VA: TJMF, 1997. New edition. Narrow 8vo. 144 pp. Illustrated from color photographs, line drawings, plans, facsimiles, etc., wrapper verso bird’s-eye view and map. Includes a section on the Hemings family and enslaved workers. Color illustrated wrappers. Very good. More
Charlottesville, VA: TJMF, 1997. Later printing of the new edition. Narrow 8vo. 144 pp. Illustrated from color photographs, line drawings, plans, facsimiles, etc., wrapper verso bird’s-eye view and map. Includes a section on the Hemings family and enslaved workers. Color illustrated wrappers. Very good. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1969). 8vo. 535 pp. First edition. Inscribed by Taylor on half-title in the year of publication to Roy Land, University of Virginia circulation librarian, 1931-1977. Gilt-stamped black cloth, illustrated dust jacket (slightly soiled, slight wear to spine ends). Very good. More
NY: Ivan Obolensky, (c1963). First edition. 8vo. 398 pp. Inscribed by the author to Randall Jarrell's mother-in-law (Mary Jarrell's mother): "To Mrs. MacAdams and our very complicated relationship - that is, to my favorite mother of a friend and/or to the mother of my favorite friends. Love from all four..... More
NY: Ivan Obolensky, (c1963). First edition. 8vo. 398 pp. Signed by the author on the title page in his later, rather shaky hand. Very good in dust jacket (white rear panel lightly soiled). More
NY: Random House, (c1957). 8vo. 177 pp. Inscribed by the author to his bibliographer, Stuart Wright, quoting Randall Jarrell: "For Stewart [sic] with best wishes Peter / This was Randall's favorite book of mine. He said: 'Some day you'll be known as a playwright who also wrote some stories.'" Tan cloth-backed..... More
NY: McDowell, Obolensky, (c1959). First edition. 8vo. 305 pp. Inscribed by the author on the title-page to his bibliographer Stuart Wright. The dust jacket is a trial issue not mentioned in Wright's bibliography; it is a quarter inch taller than the book and only the front and spine panels are..... More
