Diary of Charles Francis Adams
Cambridge: Harvard Univ.Press, 1964-1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, Indexes in Vols. 2 and 4. The first four volumes cover the years January 1820 - December 1832.Bookplates. More
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In The Assembly of The State of New York In The Matter of The Investigation of The Accusations Against Warren B. Hooker, etc
Albany: Brandow Printing Company, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. 1480 pp. 8vo, Fraud proceedings and conviction of Justice Warren B. Hooker. Paper spine labels on front covers and spines. Orig. green cloth. 2 vols. Very good. More
Calvert Vaux Architect & Planner
NY: Ink, Inc, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 271 pp. 272 illustrations: color and black and white plates, photographs, drawings, plans. Bibliography. Index. This is the first comprehensive narrative of Vaux's work to show the entire range of his creativity. More
Ragged Dick; Or, Street Life In New York With The Boot-Blacks
Boston: Loring, Publisher, 1868. First edition. Hardcover. 296 pages. 18 x 12 cm. This copy with ad leaf and Dick standing alone with his boot-blacking box: later issues have image of four street boys. Ad leaf here contains two titles in the "Ragged Dick Series," plus three in "Campaign Series."..... More
N.C. Wyeth The Collected Paintings, Illustrations, and Murals
NY: Crown, 1972. Wyeth, N.C. First edition. Hardcover. 336 pp. Voluminously illustrated in color and black and white. Foreword by Paul Horgan. Introduction by Edward Layton. This Catalogue Raisonne contains an invaluable 1200-entry, illustrated, complete bibliography, with detailed data on all N.C. Wyeth's pictures and published writings, etc. Index. An..... More
The Papers of Francis Gregory Dallas United States Navy Correspondence And Journal 1837-1854
NY: Navy Historical Society, 1917. Hardcover. Four illustrations. Index. A naval officer who served in the navy of the German Confederation before beingreinstated in the US Navy (he was dismissed from the US Navy for having engaged in a duel). Publications of the Naval History Society, Volume VIII. Limited edition..... More
The American Farm Book; Or Compend Of American Agriculture; Being A Practical Treatise On Soils, Manures, Draining, Irrigation, Grasses, Grain Roots, Fruits, Tobacco, Sugar Cane Rice, And Every Staple Product Of The United States
NY: C.M. Saxton, 1850. Later printing. Hardcover. 325 pages. 12mo, 19 x 12 cm. Illustrated with more than 100 engravings. Bound with Hasty-Pudding; A Poem by Joel Barlow, and A Memoir of Indian Corn compiled by D.J. Browne. 10 pps of adverts at rear. Firm, tight copy, modest text age-toning..... More
Covered Bridges Of The Middle Atlantic States
Brattleboro: Stephen Greene, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 120pages. 26 1/2 x 19 1/2 cm. More than 100 illustrations, diagrams and maps. More than 400 existing bridges located and described. Selected Bibliography. Glossary. Index. ROOS 252. "Basic history for Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, W. Virginia and Washington, DC." More
Covered Bridges Of The Northeast
Brattleboro: Stephen Greene, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 121 pages. 26 1/2 x 19 1/2 cm. More than 100 illustrations, diagrams and maps. Roster of Builders. Selected Bibliography. Glossary. Index. ROOS 253. "Basic history and reference for New York, New Jersey and New England." Bookplate. More
A Guide to the Resources of the American Antiquarian Society A National Library Of American History
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1937. First edition. Paperback. 98 pages. Illustrated. Index. More
Victorian Furniture Essays from a Victorian Society Autumn Symposium
Philadelphia: Victorian Society in America, 1983. Paperback. 254 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Profusely illustrated: photographs and prints. Owner inscription. More
Bibliopegy In the United States And Kindred Subjects
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1902. First edition. Boards. 129 pages. 8vo, 22 x 14 cm. Thirty full-page plates (color and black and white) with tissue guards. Index. Limited edition, one of 141 copies on Van Gelder paper. Treats of book-binding and kindred subjects in the United States with examples: color illustrations..... More
Remarks On Currency And Banking; Having Reference To The Present Derangement Of The Circulating Medium In The U.S
Boston: J.H. Eastburn's Press, 1857. Third edition. Hardcover. 63 pp. The"Dictionary of American Biography," notes, "Appleton wrote his masterly pamphlet, `Currency and Banking' (1841) to discuss the principles of sound finance and to show the danger from an institution of so great power." Sounds familar. More
The Girard College and Its Founder: Containing the Biography of Mr. Girard, The History of the Institution, Its Organization, etc...
Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1865. Hardcover. 85 pages. 8vo, first published 1852. An early guidebook to Girard College. Bookplate. More
The Lithography of Richard Day
NY: E. Weyhe, 1932. First edition. Boards. Small folio, 30 x 22 cm, 10 pages in text, Foreword by Carl Zigrosser. Twelve full-page plates, plus an original lithograph signed by Richard Day in pencil, and hand printed from the stone by Paul Roeher. Limited edition, copy 496 of 500. Bright..... More
Proverbial Comparisons in Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones Peruanas
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1966. First edition. Paperback. More
The Artist In America
NY: W.W. Norton, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 256 pp. Lavishly illustrated with color and black and white plates. A survey of 300 years of American Art with essays by experts. Introduction by Lloyd Goodrich. More
Boston Common in Colonial and Provincial Days
Boston: Privately Printed, 1903. Hardcover. 48 pages. 12.5 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 175 copies printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. Seven illustrations with tissue guards, most are maps from original engravings. Addenda. Index, covers slightly dusty. More
Report On Portions Of The Province Of Quebec And Adjoining Areas InNew Brunswick And Maine Relating More Especially, etc
Ottawa: S.E. Dawson, 1893. First edition. Paperback. 24 pp. With quarter-sheet map in twocolors of the Cambrian Rocks in the Counties of Temiscouata and Rimouski. More
So This Is Depravity
NY: Congdon & Lattes, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 325 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. Limited edition, copy 260 of 500 signed by Baker. As new copy. More
Journals of the Late Brevet Major Philip Norbourne Barbour * Captain in the 3rd Regiment, United States Infantry * and his wife Martha Isabella Hopkins Barbour; Edited with a Foreword by Rhoda van Bibber Tanner Doubleday
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. 187 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Barber served in the Mexican War, killed 1846 in the battle of Monterey. Limited edition, copy 297 of 1000 signed by Ms. Doubleday. Bright copy. Spine with a few age spots. More
The George Brown Toy Sketchbook
Princeton: Pyne, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 16 pages in text. 37 x 29 cm. Fifty-eight full-page, exquisite color drawings by this imaginative toymaker. Every attempt was made to reproduce the "sketchbook" in exact facsimile. Full play was given by Brown to the brilliant use of color and realistic detail in..... More
American Painting History And Interpretation
NY: Macmillan, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 717 pp. One hundred black and white plates. Notes. Index. Owner inscription. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER M489. CHAMBERLAIN 1456. "A good survey of American Painting." LUCAS p89. More
Francis Rattenbury and British Columbia; Architectureand Challenge in the Imperial Age
Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 391 pp. Copiously illustrated; more than 200 photographs, plans, drawings andmaps. Bibliography. Index. The first major critical study of a Yorkshire born, Canadian architect who had a major influence and impact on the CanadianWest. He was also chief architect for..... More
The 19th century journals & paintings of William Pope
Toronto: M.F. Feheley, 1976. Pope, William. First edition. Hardcover. 175 pp. Thirty-six four-color plates with accompanying commentary by J. Fenwick Landsdowne. Index. Pope emigrated from Kent, England and settled in PortRyerse, Ontario. Canada's first artist-naturalist, his watercolors are artistically comparable to those of his contemporary, Audubon. Selections fromPope's very literate..... More