New Orleans, (LA): Press of Southern Stationery Co. for the compiler, 1896. First edition. Oblong folio. (34) pp. 23 pages of ads for local businesses. Illustrated from photographs, plates, interior and exterior views of the hotel, other New Orleans architecture; includes a 23-page section "New Orleans as a Winter Resort."..... More
London: Printed by John Streater, for Henry Twiford, 1663. Fifth edition, corrected and amended (first published 1641), with an exact table of the matters therein contained. 16mo in eights. (32), 200 [i.e., 373] pp. Wing W1361. Contemporary calf (rubbed, corners and spine ends worn. Several leaves bound out of place..... More
Wheeler, AL: The compilers, nd [1902?]. 8vo. 94 pp. Original printed gray wrappers (badly chipped). First edition. A genealogy of the Wheeler family by the Confederate cavalry commander and his wife. In an appendix (pp. 49-54), Wheeler attempted to rehabilitate the reputation of his ancestor General William Hull, who surrendered..... More
St. Augustine, FL: 1873. Black lettered blue-green paperwraps. 8vo.; 31pp., (1), plus 6pp. of ads bound in on salmon colored paper. Hotel ads printed on inside of front wrap, and on both sides of rear wrap. One page roughly opened, with some loss to lower page margins of two pages..... More
New York: Willis McDonald & Co., 1893. First edition. Large 8vo. 84 pp. Portrait plates and illustrations; some manuscript additions and markings. Begins with the 17th-century New England and Massachusetts Bay ancestors of John and John Quincy Adams, among others, and continues through the 19th century. Ownership signature and book..... More
Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Co., (c1974). First edition. 4to. viii, (2), 309 pp. Illustrated from photographs, maps, and ephemera, including timetables. Signed by the compiler on the title page. Gold cloth- red-stamped spine title, color illustrated dust jacket (chipped at head of spine, a little other wear at extremities). Small..... More
New York: Privately printed (at The De Vinne Press), 1905. First edition, 1/152 copies (this #93). 8vo. (8), 208 pp. Illustrated from photographs, portrait frontispiece, mounted plate of the Hutton library; title page printed in red and black. Inscribed by Eleanor Hutton on the front pastedown in the year of..... More
Richmond, VA: Old Dominion Press, 1932. First edition. 8vo. (14), 585 pp. Frontispiece portraits, coat-of-arms plates, one in color; errata. Descendants of Peter Rucker who settled in Virginia in 1690. Some foxing, but very good. Original navy cloth (frayed at head of spine), gilt spine title (dull). (4437). More
Williamsbridge, New York City: Ambrose Lee Pub. Co., (1908). First edition. 8vo.; (2), 228pp., (3pp. ads). Gilt stamped grey cloth; gilt seal of the state of Tennessee on front board. Some wear to spine ends & corners, else very good. A compilation of lists of military organizations and officers from..... More
