June 4, 1787. Manuscript petition, 29.5 x 18.5 cm., 5 pp., approx. 1000 words. Stitched sheets (stitching pulled). Browned, old staining and fraying, some short separations along folds, chips and tears to the final leaf, affecting a few of the signatures. This is a petition written by the selectmen of..... More
New York: Charles Magnus, nd [ca. 1850]. Lithograph letter sheet, 10 3/8 x 8 3/8 inches, in black and white, the title and illustration of the declaration taking up the top 8 inches of the cover sheet, leaving just 2 3/8 inches and a blank integral leaf for a message..... More
(Edenton, NC: Printed by the Chowan Herald for the) Edenton Woman's Club, (1953). First edition. 8vo. (32) pp., including 10 pages of local ads. Illustrated from photographs of important city homes, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and government buildings, each accompanied by descriptions, double-page street plan locating the buildings. Includes homes..... More
Washington, (DC): GPO, 1928. First edition. Tall 8vo. iii, (2) 77, (1) pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, 4 folding maps. Joints and edges a little rubbed, but very good and uncommon in this binding. Publisher's black three-quarter pebbled leather and navy cloth, gilt spine title, blue marbled endpaper and edges..... More
Washington, (DC): GPO, 1928. First edition. Tall 8vo. iii, (2) 77, (1) pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, 4 folding maps. Very good. Original gilt-stamped navy cloth. (10449). More
4to. 32 pp. Bound with: Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia; Begun and Held in the Town of Richmond, in the County of Henrico, on Monday, the First Day of October, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-One. 4to. 74..... More
Westmoreland and Bedford Counties, PA: 1777-1787. 8vo. (42) pp., of which 38 have been employed to record the surveyed lands (2 1/2 for the Westmoreland records, the balance for Bedford). Interleaved, but those leaves used only occasionally for stray calculations. Approximately 18 names are recorded on each page, listing individual..... More
Richmond: Ritchie, Trueheart & Du-Val, 1816. 4to.; 8pp. Bound with: THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION OF DELEGATES FOR THE COUNTIES AND CORPORATIONS IN THE COLONY OF VIRGINIA, HELD AT RICHMOND TOWN, IN THE COUNTY OF HENRICO, ON MONDAY THE 17th OF JULY 1775. 4to.; 54pp. Bound with: THE PROCEEDINGS OF..... More
NP [New York?]: John I. Donlevy, intaglio-chromographic and electrographic engraver, nd. Calligraphic bust-length oval portrait of George Washington, engraved by Donlevy, platemark 16 1/2 x 13 7/8 in. Matted, glazed and framed. Within the oval portrait which is based Stuart's "Lansdowne" image, Washington's face has been hand-colored. His birth and..... More
[various places in Rhode Island, Massachusetts & Connecticut: 1771-1780]. Contemporary American binding, plain leather (rubbed). A few ink margin notes, some overall toning to text, but a remarkably crisp, clean set of late colonial and Revolutionary War era almanacs, superbly preserved, with Paul Revere engravings, a map of New York's..... More
Charleston, SC: 1785. Engraved by Thomas Abernethie in Charleston for David Ramsay's "History of the Revolution of South-Carolina" (Trenton, 1785). Broadside map, 7 3/4 x 12 inches, illustrating the Battle Fort Moultrie which is pictured being fired upon by the British fleet offshore, the Actaeon and Sphinx having run aground..... More
[Philadelphia, PA]: 1775. Printed broadside, 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches. Pennsylvania and New-Jersey Quakers are urged to stay true to the crown, in part: "The Divine Principle of grace and truth which we profess, leads all who attend to its dictates, to demean themselves as peaceable subjects, and to..... More
1809. Manuscript deed of sale for 68 acres in Harrison County, Virginia for the sum of $200. 39 x 32 cm. 2pp. Signed on the second page, with their marks, by Elias, Charity and Sotha Hickman. Recorded in the Harrison County January Court 1810. Signature of James H. Neal, of..... More
Boston [MA]: Printed by White and Adams, next door to the Cromwell's Head-Tavern, in School-Street, 1780. Stitched sheets, 21 cm. 18 pp., including half-title, [final blank leaf lacking]. Signed in type by James Bowdoin, President, and Samuel Barrett, Secretary. Overall toning and old tidelines, two small holes in half-title. This..... More
Hand sewn calf covers, well worn. 16cm. 118 pp. Short, near daily entries between July 1775 and Sept. 1777, then scattered from 1778-1788, in a legible hand. A wealth of local names are recorded amongst the listings of court cases and other legal transactions. According to the Carlisle County Historical Society..... More
Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1917. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: 358, 396 pp. Color maps. Howes A-195. Original blue cloth, gilt title on spines, top edge gilt, others untrimmed; some foxing to endpapers, else a very good set. More
Paris: A. Sauton, 1872. First edition (an English translation was published in Philadelphia in 1891). 8vo. viii, 237 pp. Plates, portrait frontispiece of Rochambeau, large folding map (torn in margin, completely separated along one vertical fold). Howes B-55. Larned 1233 (for the English translation): "Narrative of the doings of the..... More
Paris: chez P. Didot, L'Aine, 1816. 1st ed. 12mo.; xliv, 184pp. With two portraits & a map. Full tree calf with elaborate gilt decoration on spine. Joints cracked, with a bit of loss to bottom of front board, at joint. Prev. owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A clean, tight copy..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, (c1961). First edition. 8vo. x, (2), 289 pp. Portrait plates, in-text maps and plans, endpaper maps. Very good. Gilt-stamped black cloth, illustrated dust jacket (price-clipped). (10382). More
(New York): Henry Holt, (c1959). First edition. 8vo. x, 275 pp. Portrait plates, endpaper maps. Very good. Rust cloth. (10381). More
(New York): Henry Holt, (c1959). Second printing (same year as the first). 8vo. x, 275 pp. Port. plates, endpaper maps. Light foxing, but very good. Rust cloth.(10385). More
London, printed. Boston: Re-printed and sold by B. Edes and Sons, in Cornhill, 1783. First American edition. 19 cm. [18], 159, [1] pp. Nice example of a period leather American binding with raised bands on spine. Moderately scuffed, corners worn through. Owner's lengthy inscription on front free endpaper, in part..... 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
Pendleton, SC: Foundation for Historic Restoration in Pendleton Area, 1973. First edition. Oblong folio. 128 pp. [printed double-column]. Illus. from photographs, drawings, old prints, maps, and advertising, etc. Bookplate, rather persistent foxing, else very good. Rebound in gilt-stamped blue-gray cloth (soiled), patterned endpapers (originally issued in wrappers). (#8069). More
Raleigh, (NC): Edwards & Broughton Co., 1927. First edition. 8vo. viii, 508 pp. Illustrated from photographs of title pages and other documentary material, plates. Reprints 12 rare colonial and Revolutionary-era pamphlets and broadsides (and two period manuscripts printed and published much later) related to North Carolina, issued 1740-1791. With the..... More
