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[Original Cloth] An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State of Schuylkill. From Its Establishment on that Romantic Stream, near Philadelphia, in the Year 1732, to the Present Time. By a Member [bound with:] Memoirs of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, Near Philadelphia

MILNOR, William, Jr. (1769-1848) · 1830

$1,039.00 (€942.66 | £786.44 | ¥165,862)

Philadelphia Judah Dobson First Edition of this early history of America's oldest angling society, Second Issue, with portrait of Gouvernor Morris by St. Memin inserted after Introduction. Bound with the first American book on fox hunting. 8vo (220 x 140mm): viii,127,[1]; [ii]...

[Unionism] The Cripple Creek Strike, 1903-1904

LANGDON, Emma F., Mrs. (1875–1937) · 1904

$649.00 (€588.82 | £491.24 | ¥103,604)

Victor, Colo. Copyrighted . . . by Mrs. Emma F. Langdon First Edition True First Printing (Great Western Publishing Co. editions are reprints) with "unanimous endorsement of the Colorado State Federation of Labor" on p. [5]. Demy 8vo (198 x 150mm): [12],248pp, with tissue-gua...

[Letters from an American farmer] Lettres d'un Cultivateur Américain, écrites a W. S. Ecuyer, Depuis l'année 1770, jusqu'a 1781. Traduites de l'Anglois par ***

CRÈVECOEUR, Michel Guillaume St Jean de (1735-1813) · 1784

$1,624.00 (€1,473.42 | £1,229.24 | ¥259,249)

A Paris Chez Cuchet, Libraire, rue & hôtel Serpente First Edition in French, First Issue (with errata, not found in second issue) of the author's free translation (adding a second volume) of his Letters from an American Farmer, "as literature, unexcelled by any American work o...

First Editions of American Authors : A Manual for Book-Lovers [George Herbert Palmer's copy]

STONE, Herbert Stuart (1871-1915); Eugene Field (1850-1895) · 1893

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,768)

Cambridge, MA Stone & Kimball First Trade Edition (a numbered edition of 50 large-paper copies signed by the publishers also was issued) of the first bibliography of American authors. Introduced by the poet Eugene Field. Foolscap 8vo (162 x 100mm): xxiv,223,[3]pp. Publisher's ...

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among The Lowly; [offered with:] A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin : presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded : together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work

STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) · 1853

$1,024.00 (€929.05 | £775.08 | ¥163,468)

Boston / Cleveland, Ohio Published by John P. Jewett & Co. / Jewett, Proctor & Worthington [from 1852] First Edition A striking set of this early printing ("Two Hundred and Sixty-Third Thousand") in original bindings, published one year after the first edition, offered with a ...

[Old West] [Frontier Life] [Comanche Nation] Days That Are Done

SANDERS, William Perry (1881-1940) · 1918

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,217)

Los Angeles Grafton Publishing Corporation First Edition First Printing of these six accounts of the Old Southwest. Thick foolscap 8vo (178 x 123mm): 134pp, with portrait frontispiece and eight further illustrations from half-tones. Publisher's pictorial card covers printed in...

[American Revolution] Plans and Sections of the Obelisk on Bunker's Hill, with the Details of Experiments Made in Quarrying the Granite Stone; [offered with:] A Panoramic View from Bunker Hill Monument

WILLARD, S. (Solomon, 1783-1861); SMILLIE, James (1807-1885)

$1,399.00 (€1,269.28 | £1,058.93 | ¥223,331)

Boston [printed by Samuel N. Dickinson, Washington Street] / Published by Luther Stevens, 186 Washington Street Two works documenting the first public obelisk in the United States and the technology developed to create it. First (and only) Edition of the Willard, quite scarce....

PARKMAN, Francis (1823-1893) · 1931

$101.00 (€91.63 | £76.45 | ¥16,123)

New York Farrar & Rinehart First Edition thus First Printing of this edition with numerous illustrations by James Daugherty of Parkman's classic account of a summer tour, in 1846, of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas, "with a view of studying the manners and character of...

[American Indians] Die Indianer Nord-Amerikas und die während eines achtjährigen Aufenthaltes unter den wildesten ihrer Stämme erlebten Abenteuer und Schicksale . . . mit 24 vom Verfaffer nach der Natur entworfenen Gemälden [Hand-Colored] [Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians]

CATLIN, George (1796-1872) · 18461848

$2,374.00 (€2,153.88 | £1,796.92 | ¥378,977)

Brussels and Leipzig Carl Muquardt First Edition thus Translated into German by Dr. Heinrich Berghous. Imperial 8vo: x,[2],382pp, with 24 tissue-guarded hand-colored plates. Contemporary quarter calf, flat spine in five compartments, lettered and decorated in gilt, stamped in ...

[Western Americana] The Spurs; [offered with] The Espuela Land and Cattle Company : a study of a foreign-owned ranch in Texas

ELLIOT, W. J.; William Curry Holden · 1939

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.16 | ¥55,713)

Spur, Texas / Austin The Texas Spur [from 1938] / Texas State Historical Association First Edition Only printing of this western Americana, "now quite difficult to come by." (Adams) Crown 8vo (176 x 125mm): [16],274pp, with portrait frontispiece from photograph on coated turqu...

[Confederate] [Indian Wars] A Brief Sketch of the Life of a Confederate Soldier and the Ups and Downs during Pioneer and Indian Warfare in Texas [Rare Variant]

NICKELSON, B. C. (1826-1923) · 1928

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,768)

Dallas, TX Stellmacher & Clark [Printers] Scarce survival of this sole edition, the far less common variant with "Ex-Confederate" in title. Copyright date is 1928 but author portrait is dated 1929. Crown 8vo (192 x 130mm): 16pp, with portrait frontispiece. Original grey paper ...

[Confederate] My Experience In The Confederate Army And In Northern Prisons, Written From Memory

KING, John R. (John Rufus, 1842-1936) · 1917

$326.00 (€295.77 | £246.76 | ¥52,041)

Clarksburg, W. Va. Stonewall Jackson Chapter, No. 1333, United Daughters of Confederacy First Edition of this reminiscence by and infantryman who served under Robert E. Lee. Demy 8vo (227 x 143): 52pp, with frontispiece portrait of the author. Original speckled mid-brown card ...

Minnesota, its advantages to settlers. Being a brief synopsis of its history and progress, climate, soil, agricultural and manufacturing facilities, commercial capacities, and social status; its lakes, rivers and railroads; homestead and exemption laws; embracing a concise treatise on its climatology, in a hygienic and sanitary point of view; its unparalleled salubrity, growth and productiveness, as compared with the older states; and the elements of its future greatness and prosperity

HEWITT, Girart · 1869

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,096)

St. Paul [Published by the state] for gratuitous circulation, by Girart Hewitt Third Edition (originally published in 1867) of this guidebook intended to attract settlers to the state. "Notice. This pamphlet, published in January of each year, (this being its third year) is de...

[Baseball] The Fairport Nine

BROOKS, Noah (1830-1903) · 1887

$499.00 (€452.73 | £377.70 | ¥79,659)

New York Charles Scribner's Sons [from 1880] First Edition Seldom seen Second Printing (no copy appears in auction records) of this cornerstone of baseball literature. Binding and text duplicate the first printing, excepting date on title page and advertisements (eight pages v...

[Caxton Club] Fantasy In A Wood-Block Or What Occurred When John James Audubon, the Naturalist, Visited with Thomas Bewick, The Wood-Engraver in the year 1827. Being a narrative by Gordon R. Williams, together with a print taken by R. Hunter Middleton from the wood-block which Mr. Bewick was engraving at the time.

WILLIAMS, Gordon R.; [Thomas Bewick] · 1972

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,217)

Chicago Caxton Club Limited Edition Tall, slim 8vo: [4],12,[6]pp, including full-page reproductions from photographs, plus the Bewick wood-block print. Decorated gold-and-tan paper-backed boards, black linen spine, printed paper label, medium-brown laid end papers. Pristine. O...