New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881. Popular Edition. Hard Cover. The publisher's "Popular Edition" not dated and circa 1881, with two volumes bound in one: xxiii + 407 + ix + 392 pages, with useful index and with her traveling itineraries. Folding map at back and illustrated throughout in black.....
London, England: Printed for the Author: And Sold By Longman and Co., 1815. First Edition. Leather. xvi + 303 pages. Portrait frontispiece engraving of John Sobieski, King of Poland by C. Turner; extensive list of subscribers to the book and a list of sources cited at back. Text recalls the.....
Paris, France. Librairie Des Sciences Medicales Du Just Rouvier, Editeur, 1844. First Edition. Leather. (ii) + 297 pages. With the half-title; text in French throughout, regarding the medical treatment of gunshot wounds of various types, from pistols, cannon, various projectile arms inflicted on various parts of the human body. The.....
New York, London, Paris: D. Van Nostrand et al, 1870. First Edition. Hard Cover. iv + 137 pages + (8) pages of publishers' announcements at back (adv. pages unopened). Inscribed and signed on the front endpaper by the author, "To Prof. Andre Pory With the Compliments of the Author. Stuckle.....
New York and London: Saunders and Otley, 1837. Third Edition. Leather. The two-volume version of this set; xvi + 395 + ii + 420 pages; by Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) British writer and journalist, "...published Society in America (1837), a two-volume analysis that, other than de Tocqueville's contemporaneous Democracy in America.....
London, England: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1777. First Edition. Hard Cover. Twenty-two issues of this yearly British almanac, bound in one volume; consecutive and inclusive from the 1777 issue to 1797. These are printed in red & black, have the tax stamps on the margins of the title.....
Brooklyn, New York: Privately Printed, 1868. First Edition. Hard Cover. A presentation copy, the front free endpaper having the handwritten inscription, "Mr. Daniel Tredwell with regards of T.W.F." The author Thomas W. Field to his fellow Long Island historian Tredwell, author of "Personal Reminiscences of Men and Things on Long.....
Chicago, Illinois: L. Schick, 1891. First Edition. Flexible Cloth. Folding frontispiece plan of the inner city + 510 pages + (1) city plan showing the burned district of the Chicago Fire + (1) blank + 48 pages concerning the Suburban Stations, ports, cable rates, growth statistics, street railways & other.....
Madrid Spain: Various. Various Editions. Leather Bindings. Five volumes of this collection on early Spanish voyages to the Americas, a mixed set and bound uniformly; as below: Vol. I. Viages de Colon, Almirantazgo de Castilla. De Orden D S.M. Madrid, en la Imprenta Nacional. 1858. 593 pages; with two folding.....
Philadelphia, PA: Thomas Dobson, 1794. Various Editions. Leather Bindings. Five volumes of Benjamin Rush' Inquiries, various printings and editions as below: Volume I. Second American Edition. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson. 1794. 338 pages. Contents include "An Inquiry into the natural history of medicine among the Indians of North America.....
A Geneve: Chez J.J. Paschoud, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1807. First Edition. Leather. Complete in three volumes: xvi + 471 + (2) + 402 + (4) + (1) errata + (2) + 347 pages; all three volumes with their half-titles present. French text. Jean Senebier (1742-1809) Swiss botanist and naturalist who demonstrated that.....
New York, NY: Collins & Co. Published Under the Authority of the Physicians and Surgeons of That Institution, 1816. First Edition. Hard Cover. x + (2) contents + 180 + (2) Table IV (Finis) pages (last page blank). Title page with the ownership signature of James R. Wood at top;.....
London, England: R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, Strand, 1823. First Edition. Hard Cover. Complete in two volumes; xiv + 208 + (3) + 257 pages. All color plates accounted for, according to the contents list found in Volume I. Approx. 3 1/2" x 5 5/8" size; bound in later 19th.....
New York, N.Y. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co., 1876. Map. Hard Cover. Hand-colored folding pocket map, with decorative borders; the 1876 iteration of this popular map, originally copyrighted in this form in 1846 by Colton, with that date at lower edge of map, the later date of 1876 at.....
Richmond, Virginia: George L. Bidgood, 1865. Fifth Edition. Hard Cover. 162 pages; illustrated with small woodcuts; with alphabet, print & script handwriting, spelling and pronunciation & usage instruction for the young. "The sectional tensions in the1850s inspired among Southerners a drive to produce their own textbooks to counter the North's.....
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1865. First Edition. Soft Cover. xlix + (1) blank + 535 pages. Name of 'H.M. Wells' on front cover; our research indicates this was a U.S. Army transport vessel in use in the Southern theater of war during the conflict. The extensive Index to Appendix.....
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1864. First Edition. Soft Cover. lxxiv + 750 pages. Name of 'U.S.S. Itasca' on front cover. The extensive Index to Appendix at front is divided into the various U.S. Navy squadrons and their operations in this year of the Civil War, with detailed reportage from.....
Genova: Tipografia Del R. Istituto Sordo-Muti. 1873. First Edition. Soft Cover. 133 pages; Spanish text. The author, Jose Felix Manuel Dagnino Dassori (1834-1901) was a prominent Italian-born Venezuelan writer, educator and medical doctor, "...His studies on Yellow Fever were the first to be carried out in Venezuela, establishing him as.....
Portsmouth, New Hampshire: O.M. Knight, Publisher, 1876. First Edition. Soft Cover. 84 pages. Giving a hundred-year history of this naval yard, with a prefatory list of the Commandants of the Yard & their dates of service and a "List of Vessels of War built at this Station" for the Royal.....
New Orleans Louisiana: Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office, 1861. First Edition. Soft Cover. 18 pages; the first page inscribed at top edge, "From Dr. J.L. Riddell April 8th 1863" With information on the history of the University and the faculty; the Chair of Chemistry is noted as.....
New York, N.Y. G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1831. First Edition. Leather. 258 pages; with a folding map frontispiece of the Mulgrave Islands. Hiram Paulding (1797- 1878) U.S. naval officer with a long and sometimes very distinguished and controversial career, on this occasion "... exhibited extraordinary bravery and presence.....
Santo Domingo: Imprenta De Garcia Hermanos, 1878. First Edition. Soft Cover. 79 pages; with a folding plate illustrating inscriptions of Don Cristobal Colon and several line drawings of the Catedral de la Santo Domingo depicting the changes in the building plans over the centuries, as well as a few other.....
Santiago Chile: Imprenta De La Libreria Del Mercurio De Orestes L. Tornero, 1872. First Edition. Soft Cover. 101 pages. Spanish text. In three sections: Las Propiedades de los jesuitas en el distrito de Santiago; Adquisiciones de los jesuitas en las provincias de Chile; Diversas industrias de los jesuitas. Part of.....
Shanghai, China: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1874. First Edition. Leather. xxiv + 440 pages. William S. Frederick Mayers (1838 - 1878) British Sinologist; "...an accomplished Chinese scholar and wrote many lengthy works on Chinese government and society...a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; member of the Royal Asiatic Society of.....
London, England: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1873. First Edition. Hard Cover. vi + 338 pages; black and white frontispiece illustration and illustrated title page. Robert Gosset Woodthorpe (1844 - 1898) English military officer and amateur artist, writing of this British Indian Army expedition to the Lushai, in north-eastern India. The.....
