New Orleans: J.S. Rivers, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 300 pp, with six folding plates in full color. An ex-library copy, deaccessioned after donation to Abilene Christian University by the estate of Texas historian Abigail Curlee Holbrook, and also with the 1885 ownership signature of Hattie St. Clair of San..... (Item #20777)

Philadelphia: Thayer, Merriam & Co. Undated, ca. 1889. Publisher's broadsheet prospectus, 9.5 x 12 inches, for "Barnum's Own Book," apparently one of many editions of The Life of Barnum, the World-Renowned Showman, which came out under several different imprints in 1890. Printed on very thin paper, it has old tape..... (Item #20775)

New York: Published by the Authors by S. Tuttle, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 510 pp, with numerous wood-engraved plate and illustrations in the text, but lacking hand-colored frontispieces and map. Contemporary full-leather (sheep) binding, worn and scuffed but sound. Moderate foxing to first and last several leaves, the..... (Item #20773)

London: Rider and Company, 1956. Hardcover. Good. First English edition, translated from the German and with a foreword bhy John Cohen. 148 pp, with index and bibliography, in publisher's blue cloth, with no dust jacket. Mild spine slant, law school bookplate on front pastedown, Aquarian Book Service stamp on front..... (Item #20768)

Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Books, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good in a good dust jacket. 136 pp, with maps, illustrations, illustrated endpapers. Lightly bumped corners and small scuff to front board. Signed and dated by Augusta Fink on the half-title page, with previous owner's inscription dated 1967 on ttitle page. Dust jacket..... (Item #20766)

Washington, D.C. [1850]. Single sheet folded to 10.75 x 8.25 inches with text on two of four pages. Folding creases; very good. An attractive illustrated circular soliciting veterans of the Indian Wars in the Old Northwest (1792, 1795), War of 1812, Seminole Wars (1835-36), and Mexican War to retain Gage's..... (Item #20762)

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 207 pp, in original cloth boards with titles in black, brown coated endpapers. A very good copy, with the spine lightly sunned and a small split in the cloth along the front hinge. Bookplate of the noted collector Beverly..... (Item #20757)

Lyndon, VT: 1882. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 233 pp + ads, in original salmon pictorial wrappers, with frontispiece (of a burro) and additional small illustrations in the text. Chips to corners of front wrapper and lower spine, previous owner's signature on front wrapper; internally very good. A series of letters..... (Item #20755)

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 8vo, pp xii, 443; viii, 478, [2] (ads), each with engraved frontispiece and title page vignette, folding map in Volume II. Publisher's green cloth ruled in blind, with gilt figure on each front board. Account of Burton's journey from..... (Item #20752)

Berlin-Schöneberg: Langenscheidt. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. The first five volumes only. Uniformly boound in red cloth with tan suede corners and spines, black leather spine labels. Some rubbing to labels, else fine. Due to weight, shipping cost will be more than standard for priority or international orders. Other than..... (Item #20750)

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. 325 pp, indexed and illustrated. Original orange cloth decorated in gilt and green. Light rubbing to corners and spine ends, preevious owner's notation on front pastedown. The intrepid author traveled to Egypt for the first time in 1863 and discovered her..... (Item #20748)

Russian Socialist Federation, [1919]. Hardcover. Good. Oblong folio, 11 x 14 inches, string-tied, [47] pp, with half-tone photographs of scenes and people relating to the Russian Revolution. Place of publication not indicated; we have seen credible suggestions of both Petrograd and New York. We have seen other copies described as..... (Item #20744)

Philadelphia: J.H. Johnson. Broadside. Very good. Song sheet, 6 x 9.5 in., with wood engraved vignette of a bearded man (king?) removing the hat of a supplicant, decorative border. Undated, possibly late 1850s. Light foxing. A song descrying the ineffectiveness of Philadelphia's city council and the overzealous use of the..... (Item #20742)