Boston: Hilliard, Gray, & Co., 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 175 pp, 4.5 x 7.5 inches, in publisher's brown ribbed cloth with paper spine label. Label rubbed, some general wear to boards, old tide mark to lower margin of first 40 pages, moderate foxing throughout. Early ownership inscription (L.W. Meyer)... Item #20463
Berkeley: University of California, 1951-1964. Hardcover. Near fine. Complete set of 10 volumes, without the supplement published later. Bound in publisher's green cloth; no dust jackets. Light scuffing/shelf wear to boards; bindings tight, internals unmarked. Additional shipping charges will apply for priority or international orders. Thomas Oliver Larkin (1802-1858) was... Item #20521
Washington, DC: Press of Byron S. Adams, 1912. 6 x 9.25 inches, 72 pp, with chromolithograph frontispiece, many b/w illustrations from photographs. Near fine, with mild edgewear to wrappers. Stamp of the Bolivan Consulate in San Francisco on front endpaper. An attractive informational booklet aimed at potential investors, with description... Item #18158
London: E. Withers, 1747. Hardcover. Near fine. First edition in English. 8vo, pp. xii, 108, with folding engraved map.xii, 108 pp. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards, raised bands, red morocco lettering piece. Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701-1774), French explorer, geographer, and mathematician, spent ten years in present-day Ecuador... Item #16791
London: Strawberry Press, 1997. Hardcover. Fine. [21] pp, bound in brown cloth, with "TEL" stamped in gilt on front board. Fine. According to the colophon, "around two hundred copies of this edition have been hand set and printed by P.W.N. and A.P.F. Around one hundred copies were issued privately in..... Item #16225
London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Three volumes (288, 383, 488 pp) in period calf, cracked at the joints and rubbed at the edges; spine labels chipped. Rear board of vol. II nearly detached. LACKING the map and all but two plates, so essentially TEXT... Item #13599
Ten original photographs, 6.25 x 9 inches, of pencil sketches made by Frank Lecouvreur documenting his journey to California around Cape Horn and his experiences mining for gold in the early 1850s. The same sketches are reproduced as some of the plates in Lecouvreur’s book From East Prussia to the... Item #20559
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey/Carey & Lea, 1829-1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Complete set of 13 volumes in original rose-colored cloth. Mild to moderate foxing (depending on the volume), but no markings or loss of text. Spines partially or fully perished on some volumes, some with the letters covered in... Item #14202
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Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., [1865]. Title continues: The Most Intensely Interesting Trial on Record. Containing the Evidence in Full, with Arguments of Counsel on Both Sides, and the Verdict of the Military Commission. Correct Likenesses and Graphic History of all the Assassins, Conspirators, and Other Persons Connected with their Arrest... Item #20040
New York: Horace Greeley & Co., 1860. 32 pp, printed in double columns. Original self-wrappers. Front wrap has some restoration, an old price written in ink, and an old bookseller's description affixed to the bottom margin. Internally clean and sound; housed in a custom cloth clamshell case. An early Lincoln... Item #19922
New York: Welch, Fracker Company, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. First edition in English. 12mo, 343 pp, illustrated by Benjamin Constant and Aime Marot. Publisher's green cloth with decoration in gilt, image of a warrior on horseback on front board. Mild rubbing to extremities, a few pages chipped at... Item #14049
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp. xv, 411, with color frontispiece and numerous illustrations from photographs, index, two maps in a rear pocket. Original brick-red cloth stamped in gilt, with vignette of burros on front board. Mild rubbing to extremities, paper partially split at... Item #15504
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Number 108 of a limited edition of 150 copies, signed by Lyman on the limitation page. 394 pp, illustrated with plates from photographs, paintings and engravings, and with four folding facsimile letters not found in the trade edition. Two-toned... Item #19662
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1859. First Edition. pp xiii, 340, with illustrations, folding map. Original brown cloth with blind-stamped decoration, re-backed with spine laid down. Very good. This practical guide for overland travelers to California and other western destinations was a nineteenth-century bestseller. Marcy provides advice on selection of... Item #19410
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a good dust jacket. A very good copy in original cloth with black lettering. Mild wear to extremities (including slight fraying to corners of front board, gift inscription dated 1942 on front free endpaper; otherwise unmarked, clean and sound... Item #20314
New York: Wm. H. Colyer, 1839. Hardcover. Very Good. Pirated edition, complete in one volume (small type), following the two-volume edition issued by Carey & Hart. 8vo. 263 pp, in original cloth-backed boards with paper spine label. Moderate foxing throughout; about very good. Based on Marryat's travels in the United... Item #14931
New York: Cassell Publishing, [1892]. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. xvii, 291 pp, with two facsimile letters, many illustrations from photographs, map of the route traversed. Original brown cloth with decoration in gilt. A very near fine copy with slight rubbing to the corners. A trained nurse, Marsden (1859-1931)... Item #20270
Gardner, MA: Art Publishing Company, 1891. Cover titled simply "Souvenir." 5.25 x 7 inches, bound in paper wrappers patterned to simulate leather, tied with a shoelace, and with an illustration of a shoe on the front wrapper. Unpaginated. 23 leaves, including text and 16 leaves of plates. Light general handling... Item #19965
London: Heinemann, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo., viii 228 pp., frontispiece with original tissue guard, title-page with publisher’s windmill device, floriated initials. Original quarter parchment and “Madonna” blue paper boards, lettering and author’s symbol in gilt on upper board, lettering in gilt on backstrip. Pages unopened. Internally bright..... Item #19904
Portland, ME: David Tucker, 1858. First Edition. 48 pp, 4.5 x 7.5 inches, in original salmon wrappers illustrated with wood engraving of the unfortunate Mr. Trask. "Peru, ME." written in ink on front wrapper, otherwise clean. Very good. Leonard Trask (1806-1861) fell from his horse while in his twenties, seriously... Item #19863
Napa City, CA: Reporter Publishing House, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 356 pp, with frontispiece and 28 additional illustrations, some full-page. Original rust-colored cloth boards and heavily worn, with several tears in the cloth and places where the underlying cardboard is visible. Spine lettering is faded, some foxing to endpapers... Item #2928
New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 268 pp, illustrated with color and b/w photographs.Slight softening to spine ends, else a fine copy. Briefly inscribed and signed by Messner beneath the epigraph. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has just a.... Item #12395
London: William Heinemann, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xviii, 399 pp, with 68 plates from photographs, folding map. Original brick red cloth, stamped in gilt on the spine, vignette in white on front board. Mild rubbing to corners, some scratches to front board, spotting to fore and bottom edges... Item #14713
New York: Howe & Bates, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4 x 6.25 inches, in orignal brown cloth with mounted paper label (rubbed) on spine. Boards lightly soiled and edgeworn, foxing throughout text. Odd Fellows library bookplate ("I.O. of O.F. Library Inst.d June 1842") on front pastedown. A sensationalist anti-Catholic... Item #19884
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xvi, 368 pp, with two maps (one folding) and many illustrations from photographs. Original red cloth boards stamped in gilt and black. Spine slant, slight sunning to upper board, previous owner's name on front... Item #13051
