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)
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)
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)
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, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volume set (complete). Volume I: xix, 242 pp + b/w illustrations from photographs, with frontispiece, folding map, gilt spine. Volume II: x, 467 pp + b/w illustrations from photographs + folding map, with frontispiece, index. Both volumes lightly... (Item #1607)
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)
Garden City: Doubleday, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. 278 pp. Upper corners lightly bumped, else a fine copy, incribed on the front free endpaper "For Mary Gormly: in warmest friendship, T.E. Mails, 7-27-80." Beneath the inscription is a hand-drawn sketch of a Native... (Item #19442)
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)
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)
Adelaide and Sydney: Government Printers, 1916-1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Near-complete set, lacking only Series A, Volume I (2 parts) and Series C, Volume I, Part III ("Parasitic Infusoria from Maquarie Island," 12 pp). Ex-library, 11 physical volumes uniformly bound in red buckram with gilt titles on spines, "Calif Inst... (Item #18331)
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: Harper & Brothers, 1864. Hardcover. Good. Third edition, revised and enlarged (with mining content not found in the first edition). 251 pp, with frontis engraving of the Mowry Silver Mines. Original brown cloth boards are edgeworn, with corners rubbed through, chips at spine ends, and cloth partially split... (Item #2696)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover. Very good. Early printing, with no date on title page, slightly enlarged from the first edition. Kimes (237) suggests a 1909 date for this printing, based on dated footnotes on pages 12 and 27. 382 pp, indexed, illustrated with 11 plates from photographs and a map... (Item #20405)
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