Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1987. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped.
127 pp. Includes 10 color plates, 33 figures, and 18 ship model photographs, several unnumbered 'draughts,' and facsimiles of documents. Bonhomme Richard, formerly Duc de Duras, was a warship in the American Continental Navy.....
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New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1905. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Boards soiled.
xiv, 328; vii, 379 pp. Two volume set. Blue cloth boards, top page ridge gilt. John Paul Jones (born John Paul; July 6, 1747 – July 18, 1792) was a Scottish-American naval captain who was the United States'.....
New York: D. Longworth, Shakspeare-Gallery, 1809. Hard Cover.
Professionally rebacked with brown cloth. Library blind stamps on margins of a few pages, no other library marks. Boards rubbed, pages lightly toned with minimal transfer.
132 pp. Early American 8vo edition (July 1809), following the original London 4to edition by just.....
New York: J. & J. Harper, 1831. First Edition. Full-Leather.
First edition (Sabin 10275; Howes C-103). Includes folding frontispiece map and facsimile Joseph Brant letter. Both fold-outs complete. Moderately foxed throughout, two closed marginal tears to map fold-out (neither affects map), letter facsimile toned, ink name and address on front.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Duane Rulison, 1858. Hard Cover.
Edges rubbed, stained, pages foxed.
515 pp. All edges gilt. Henry Clay, byname The Great Pacificator or The Great Compromiser, (born April 12, 1777, Hanover county, Virginia, U.S.—died June 29, 1852, Washington, D.C.), American statesman, U.S. congressman (1811–14, 1815–21, 1823–25), and U.S. senator.....
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924. Sturtevant, Wallis. Reprint. Hard Cover.
April 1926 printing of new illustrated edition (D-A code on copyright page). Includes scarce original jacket. Pencil gift note dated July 21, 1928 on front endpaper, three 1/2 inch closed jacket tears, rear jacket panel faintly foxed.
xii, 423.....
Auburn, N.Y. Knapp, Peck & Thomson Printers, 1887. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Includes all fold-outs and engravings. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled, ink gift note on map pocket ('Hon John Robson with compliments of J. Ramis, Aug 30/87').
xv, [1], 579, [3] pp. Tall 8vo. Includes several fold-out.....
Worcester, Massachusetts: The American Antiquarian Society, 1920. First Separate Edition. Soft Cover.
First separate edition. Some loss to spine head, pencil note on front wrapper, some tears and creases on rear wrapper.
88 pp. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for April, 1919. EXCERPT: It is a......
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1927. Half-Leather.
Corners a bit rubbed, boards faintly soiled, ink date and owner bookplate of Robert N. Cherry on front flyleaf.
iv, 325 pp. 8vo. No binder's ticket, but appears to be a contemporary custom rebinding: blue leather spine and corners.....
New London: Charles Allyn, 1882. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition, revised and enlarged (reissue of Sabin 30539, Howes H-240, of which only 100 copies were printed). Boards rubbed with fore-edge exposed, hinges weakening, pencil gift note and owner information on front flyleaf, bottom corner lightly stained, a few pages.....
New York: G. & F. Bill Inc., 1860. Hard Cover.
Lacks fold-out. Spine faded, boards a bit soiled with some loss of gilt, front and end matter and a few pages throughout foxed, pencil name and town on front endpaper.
534 pp. 8vo. Illustrations include numerous steel and wood engravings.....
Boston: E.O. Libby and Company, 1858. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition (Sabin 31816). First gathering slightly sprung but two of four sewings still holding firmly, owner bookplate, ink name, and date on front endpapers, corners lightly rubbed.
vi, [7]-295, [1]-16 pp. Brown cloth, gilt titles. Publisher's ads preceding and.....
New York: John W. Lovell Company. Hard Cover.
Popular Edition, condensing four volumes into one. Title and contents page reference illustrations that are not present--this edition was likely printed from the same plates as an illustrated edition, but omitting the illustrations. No publisher date, ink stamp on front free endpaper
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Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1982. Banus, Tudor. Reissue. Full-Leather.
Faint blemishes to boards and to gilt on edges.
585, [1] pp. 8vo. Black full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Tudor Banus. A collection of writings by.....
Cambridge, Massachusetts / North Andover, Massachusetts: The MIT Press / Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some small chips and small tears.
xxxv, 520 pp. The industrial revolution in America did not begin with billows of smoke and steam from city.....
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1899. Hard Cover.
Front hinge weak, ink gift note on front paste-down endpaper, minor pencil notes, related papers laid in.
xl, 519 pp. "A hidden history of some of the people and vessels that helped shape the earliest victories of the American Revolution and.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club editions. Jacket edges lightly rubbed with a couple minor tears, jacket spines faded.
Complete in six volumes. Malone's Pulitzer Prize winning biography of the great American president and renaissance man, still among the most authoritative works. Includes.....
Washington, D.C. United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission, 1932. Large Hardcover.
Includes original shipping box. A few minor cosmetic blemishes.
Includes 50 plates, some comprising multiple pages, others consisting of reproductions of multiple historical documents.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1903. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition (Wandell p. 154). Last panel of fold-out frontispiece loose but included, hinges just beginning to loosen.
xxiii, [24]-706, [4] pp. 8vo. "A critical narrative of Burr's projected invasion of Mexico, his plans and preparations, tour of the.....
Champlain, New York: The Moorsfield Press, 1937. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Volume II: Bottom stained, top corner of original wrapper torn. Both volumes: top page ridge soiled.
Two volume set. 311; 359 pp. First eight issues bound in two hardcover volumes with original wrappers bound in. VOLUME ONE CONTENTS: Editorial.....
Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1904. Large Hardcover.
1904 printing of 1898 second edition, with 1904 supplement. Both volumes: No jackets. Board corners bumped, pencil name on front paste-down endpaper.
534; 336 pp. Two volume set. Black-and-white map precedes text of volume one; 28 plates, some double-sided, in volume one. VOLUME.....
Lima, N.Y. A. Tiffany Norton, Publisher, Recorder Office. 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Some mottled discoloration and soiling to boards.
viii, 200 pp. Green cloth, black titles, blind-stamped borders. Engraved frontispiece of Sullivan, engraved portrait of Joseph Brant and illustration of a soldier's powder horn with a map.....
New York: Mason Brothers, 1858. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition (Wandell p. 202). Hinges loose, binding shaken, spine leans forward, spine faded, minor loss from corners.
xxiii, [24]-706, [4] pp. 8vo. "An objective biography of the much-despised Burr that is considered the best nineteenth-century life of the man because.....
Worcester: Mirick & Bartlett, Printers, 1836. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition (Sabin 68566, Howes R129). Edges stained, foxed throughout.
168 pp. Green decoratively stamped cloth, paper spine label. Frontispiece plan of Rutland and its house lots. Includes sections on the Revolutionary War, the Stamp Act, smallpox, tribal peoples, etc.
.....
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1898. Peixotto, Ernest C. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front board soiled, surface tears and plate remains on rear endpapers.
xxi, 392 pp. Grey cloth boards with gilt titles on spine and front board, top edge gilt. Illustrated by Ernest C. Peixotto. CONTENTS: Introduction;.....