Washington DC: Printed by Ritchie & Heiss, 1845. First Edition. 8vo. 893 pp. + 1 blank f. COMPLETE with the folding engraved map of Kearny's 1845 Expedition through the Black Hills and 6 folding tables. Stitched as issued. Uncut copy, with pp. 601-893 unopened. Stained, wear along edges, folding tables..... More

S.l. 1962-1977. 109 color photos tipped in or pasted into an "Aloha Hawaii" Album (280 x 200 mm): wood covers with black lacquer, handpainted flowers, islands, a beach scene with a volcano in the distance, side stitched with brown and white thread, patterned endpapers. Binding and photographs in excellent condition..... More

Rochester, NY: Rochester Lithographing Co., ca. 1900-1905. 4to. 101 pp. Contemporary green cloth, worn along spine, abrasions along outer edges of cloth covers (SEE IMAGES), spine repaired (?) and chipped at the head, internally very good. NOT ex-library! Rochester Nurseryman's Guides such as this provide a "cornucopia" of some of..... More

New York: Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St. ca. 1870s. Original lithograph with hand-coloring (sheet size: 357 x 255 mm; image size without lettering: 315 x 200 mm), unmatted. Two marginal tears neatly repaired, one of which just touches image. Charming depicting of the Southern California coastline, being a romantic..... More

San Francisco: Published by Bell & Heymans, 1888. First Edition. Folio (350 x 258 mm). 86, ix, [1] pp., including fascinating advertisements. Original wrappers (chipped and foxed). Wrappers with two-color lithographs + 44 b/w lithographs illustrating the text (some extending over 2 pages), all by Britton & Rey, San Francisco..... More

Mexico City: 1837. Elephant folio (102.5 x 57.4 cm) composed of 6 conjoined sheets on laid paper (watermark: scales of justice). Creased where formerly folded with a few minor losses at folds, a few minor wormholes, a few ink splotches on verso. Overall very good, with contemporary ink note on..... More

Austin, TX: Gammel Book Company, 1898, 1899, 1902, 1873. First Edition. Thick 8vo. Together 12 vols., COMPLETE. Contemporary lawbook bindings (sheep with red and black labels). Original owner's names scraped off spines of vols. I-XI, but this name is present on Paschal's Digest volume ("George Powell"). Front board of vol..... More

N.p. [St. Louis?]: [Mrs. J.D. Burton], 1912. First Edition. 16mo. 2 blank ff., 32 pp., 2 blank ff. With reproductions of 5 photographs in the text. Original red printed wrappers bearing title, stapled as issued. Minor wear along spine fold, at one time folded vertically in half. In excellent state..... More

St. Louis: E.H. Ross, 1873 (or before). Lithograph map on banknote paper with original pale color wash for Arkansas counties; border to border: 86.3 x 73.2 cm; overall sheet size: 90 x 75.5 cm, ornate leaf border, folded into original brown blind-embossed pocket covers (15.5 x 10 cm), gilt-lettered on..... More

London: Printed by A.M. for C. Bates, at the Sun and Bible (etc.), 1710 (circa). Quarto (189 x 155 mm). 79 pp. + 1 p. ads. Illustrated with 16 woodcut illustrations (4 of the woodblocks are repeated). Last line of imprint cropped with loss of the words: "Spur-street, and by..... More

London (in the Savoy): Printed by Tho. Newcome, for Henry Herringman, at the Blew-Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New-Exchange, 1678. First Edition. Small 4to. [pi]2 A4 b4 B-L4, COMPLETE. [20], 78, [1] pp. Recent sympathetic red panelled calf, decorated endpapers (title-page cropped very close to title at top..... More

London: Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, 1611-1613 (i.e. 1615?). First Collected Edition. Folio in 6s (278 x 180 mm). COMPLETE. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in 20th century brown morocco, a.e.g. (corners a bit bumped, rubbing to joints). Outer margins of title-page and and A1 neatly repaired and restored, title..... More

Boerne, Texas: J.C. Reinhard, 1905 (?). Photograph (163 x 105 mm) in good condition (tiny portion of top edge nicked); mounted on thick gray card (215 x 155 mm) in good condition (edges worn, abrasions affecting two letters of the photographer's name R[EI]NHARD). RARE AND EXTREMELY EARLY PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEW OF..... More