Boston, [MA]: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. 12mo. 8, 243 pp. Original brown cloth, faded spine and edges, worn on spine ends. BAL 1578, with two new poems, including one on Lincoln, plus a dedication to Farragut, and end notes. Inscribed in pencil by "the author" to Edward Colt, likely the..... More
New York: Oxford U. Press, (c1940). First edition, American Guide Series. 8vo. xxix, 699 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, maps, several double-page, large folding map in pocket at rear. Opening essay by Douglas Southall Freeman. Owners' name and label on front endpaper, a very good copy in a worn dust..... More
New York: Macmillan Co., 1899. First edition. 8vo. 434 pp. Portrait frontispiece of the author. Wise served as Governor of Virginia, 1856-1860, and as a Confederate brigadier general throughout the war. Howes W-590. Nevins II, p. 102: "Fair accurate biography by a grandson of a distinguished figure in Virginia and..... More
Boston, (MA): Privately printed, 1860. First separate edition, 1/100 unnumbered copies, from the American Antiquarian Society's "Transactions," Vol. IV. 4to. 45 pp. Howes W-565: "First printing of a 1613 manuscript." One of the original patentees for a colony in Virginia, Winfield (flourished ca. 1560-1613) sailed with the first settlers for..... More
(Marion, VA?): Published in connection with the Centennial Celebration of Smyth County, Virginia (Printed at the Kingsport Press, Kingsport, Tenn.), 1932. First edition. 8vo. xi, 397 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portrait frontispiece of Alexander Smyth (1765-1830), for whom the county is named. A general in the War of 1812..... More
(Richmond, VA): William Byrd Press (for the Institute of Early American History and Culture), 1958. First edition thus, a "limited edition". 8vo. (2), 12 pp. 18th-century type used for a "sub-title" opposite the title page and ornament used on the front cover and title page "were found in 1939 during..... More
Washington, DC: A. Jackson, Publisher, 1868. 8vo. (6), 29, 4 [schedule of property], 10 [notes], 15 [publisher's notes] pp. Title page portrait vignette of Washington. Owner's name at head of front wrapper, a good copy. Original printed gray wrappers (spine and edges worn), illustrated with a portrait of Washington. (10943..... More
(Charlottesville, VA): U. of Virginia Library, (1999). First edition, 1/1000 unnumbered copies. 8vo. 31 pp. Illustrated from images of the material mentioned above. Very good. Original color decorated black glossy wrappers, stapled. (10926). More
Charlottesville, VA: U. Press of Virginia, (c1987). First editions of the first two volumes in this series. 8vo. 2 volumes: xxiv, (2), 511; xxiii, (3), 533 pp. Title page vignette for each volume. Very good. Gilt-stamped back cloth, decorated dust jackets. (10834). More
Charlottesville, VA: F. Carr & Co., 1829. First edition. 8vo. viii, 293 pp. Prepared from lectures given at the University of Virginia, 1827-1828; at publication Long had left for the University of London, leaving behind Dunglison on the U.V.A. faculty. Among the earliest books published in Charlottesville, printed the same..... More
New York and Washington: Neale Publishing Co., 1908. First edition. 8vo. 501 pp. Illustrated from photographs, portraits, frontispiece portrait of Thomas Jefferson. Krick 92: "The first quarter of this book is a biography of Thomas Jefferson ... [with] details of his work on the University of Virginia. Culbreth's personal recollections..... More
Charlottesville, VA, and Philadelphia: Clement P. M'Kennie and Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1834. First edition. 8vo. xxvi, 631, (1, errata) pp. Illustrated with calculations and diagrams. Bonnycastle (1796-1840) was professor of natural philosophy and mathematics at the University of Virginia, from the school's opening in 1825 to his death; this..... More
Richmond, VA: Dietz Press, (c1948). First edition. 8vo. 51 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, folding map of the campus. Inscribed by the author in 1960. Laid in is a folded copy of the 12-page offprint, the first separate edition of the history, from the February, 1945, issue of the "Southern..... More
(Richmond, VA: The university), 1932. First edition. 8vo.92 pp. Illustrated from photographs, views, portraits, mounted plates. Cover title: "The First Hundred Years, 1832-1932." Very good. Original printed blue-green wrappers. (10901). More
Boston, (MA): D. Lothrop and Co., 1882. First edition thus. 8vo. xvi, 386 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, plates. Beverley D. Tucker's copy with his inscription "to his loving son / H. St. George Tucker / as a testimonial of his / faithful & arduous work / while a student..... More
Richmond, VA: J.L. Hill Printing Co., 1903. First edition. 8vo. 911 pp. Portrait frontispiece of the author, portrait plate from a photograph, small portraits and in-text illustration from wood engravings, map; errata leaf. Howes S-1133. Owner's markings on front endpapers, else very good. Original gilt-stamped black cloth (a little rubbed)..... More
Wellsburgh, VA: Printed at the Office of the Gazette for the author, 1824. First edition. 12mo. (10), [v]-316 pp. Howes D-390: "Best of the many secondary sources on these border wars." Sabin 20490: "Interesting, authentic work, drawn from original sources." American Imprints 15990. Field 437: "Drawn from original sources, mostly..... More
Abingdon, VA: The author, 1929. Second edition, with a new title and greatly expanded (originally published 1903). Thick 8vo. 1757 pp. Portrait frontispiece of the author, illustrated from photographs, plates, large folding maps. Howes S-1133 ("aa"): "Best edition." Very good. Original gilt-stamped black cloth. (10852). More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. First edition. Tall 8vo. 300, (4, ads) pp. Illustrated from wood engravings. Sketches of the Virginia mountain country. Howes S-1084. Sabin 93092. Owner's name on title page, scattered foxing, but very good copy. Original green cloth, gilt spine title. (10868). More
Williamsburg: Printed by William Parks, 1747]. First edition, Sabin's "Edition B" with its second pagination and printing errors corrected. 8vo. viii [but these four leaves lacking], 304, 295-331; v, 34 [appendix, with this separate title page] pp. Sabin 91860: "Stith's 'History' covered the period up to 1624 ... its value..... More
Richmond, VA: Published by the author, John O'Lynch, Printer, 1810. First edition. 8vo. vii, (1), 446, (1, index) pp. Sabin 79089. Howes S-289. American Imprints 21322. Larned 3079: "Considered an invaluable history, as it conserves so much material regarding individual churches." Note concerning this copy's 1843 purchase on an endpaper..... More
Charlottesville, VA: U. Press of Virginia, (c1986). First edition. 8vo. (10), 435 pp. Illustrated from photographs and period paintings, portraits, facsimiles, double-page map. Biography of the French botanists, father and son, both travelers and observers in the South, each responsible for important accounts of exploration, Andre's "Journal" covering the years..... More
Richmond, VA: William Byrd Press and James River Garden Club, 1927 and 1930. First edition of the first volume, revised edition of the second (first published in 1923). 4to. 2 volumes: "xxiii, 503; xxiv, 376 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, plans, color garden plans in the second work. Despite the..... More
Philadelphia, (PA): Printed by Simon Probasco, 1821. Second American, from the Tenth London Edition, in which is included the posthumous volume, containing "The History of Virginia, to the Year 1688"; and of "New England, to the Year,1652". 8vo. Two volumes: 306; 293 pp. With a 1958 American Robertson family related..... More
Paris: Levrault, Schoell et Compagnie, An X --, 1804. First edition. 8vo. (4), xi, 312 pp. Lacks the folding map. Inscribed on the verso of the half-title "Pour Monsieur J. J. / Himely, de la part de / l'auteur"; Himely was a Charleston watchmaker (in ca. 179-1810) who purchased a...... More
