![PRESENTATION COPY]. My Winter in Cuba. W. M. L. Jay, pseud. of Julia Louisa Matilda Woodruff](/pictures/thumb/3564.jpg?v=1631807480)
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1871. First Edition. 8vo. 296 pp. + 4 pp. ads at end ("New Books to be Published in the Fall of 1871" which also includes the present title). Original publisher's green cloth, blocked and gilt, abrasions on front fore-corner and upper joint, affecting cloth, other binding..... More
![PRESENTATION COPY WITH ALS AND ORIGINAL MEDAL]. Under the Guns: A Woman's Reminiscences of the...](/pictures/thumb/3562.jpg?v=1631807472)
Boston: E.B. Stillings & Co., 1895. First Edition. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait, 7 ff. (including title-page), 272 pp. Original publisher's green beveled cloth, gilt front cover and spine, a.e.g. trifle scuffing on cloth (mostly on lower edge of front cover), patterned pastedowns and endpapers, tissue guard between frontispiece and title-page foxed..... More
![THE FIRST DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE LIZZY BORDEN TRIAL]. The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the...](/pictures/thumb/3561.jpg?v=1631807463)
Fall River: Press of J.D. Monroe, 1893. First Edition. 8vo. [2], 312 pp., numerous illustrations in the text including portraits, diagrams, and photographs of the crime scene (soiling and signs of use throughout). Title-page detached, lacking pp. 249/250 (facsimile leaf loosely inserted) otherwise complete with all illustrations. Original publisher's cloth..... More
Mexico City: 1829 (January 12). Broadside. Folio (420 x 255 mm). Tear along inner margin with loss of several letters (see images), filled in with Japanese tissue, evidence of folding (not objectionable). GRAPHIC RESULTS OF RAW PARTISAN CONFLICTS, ALARMINGLY MODERN IN NATURE. IN THIS IMPORTANT DECREE, DATED JANUARY 12, 1829, THE..... More
![MAP / CEROGRAPH, 1845]. Mexico. [Inset]: Central America and Yucatan. Sidney Edwards Morse,...](/pictures/thumb/3558.jpg?v=1631745103)
S.l. n.d. [1845]. Engraved map (305 x 410 mm), original outline color, relief shown by hachure. Very slight toning, top margin with four short tears (not touching image), evidence of previous adhesion to matte, horizontal crease and wrinkle. This map appeared as No. 35 in "Morse's North American Atlas," 1842..... More
![COMPLETE WITH THE ATLAS]. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec: Being the Results of a Survey for a...](/pictures/thumb/3556.jpg?v=1631504905)
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1852. First Edition. Together 2 volumes including Atlas. Text volume: 295 [1 blank] pp. (small errata slip bound in between pages 294 and 295). COMPLETE with 1 folded lithograph map of the world, 1 folding diagram (thermal curves), 1 plan, 14 tinted lithograph plates..... More
![NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN AUTHOR]. Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims. Edited by Mrs....](/pictures/thumb/3368.jpg?v=1631504885)
Boston: For sale by Cupples, Upham & Co.; G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York; and by the Author, 1883. 8vo. 268 pp. Bound in green publisher's cloth with Greek-style printed border in black along top and bottom of covers. Edges slightly worn, corners bumped, minor tears at head and foot of..... More
London: Nathaniell Butter, 1611-1624. First Edition. 4to (254 x 173 mm). Three works in one volume, bound in late 19th- or early 20th-century reddish-brown hardgrain morocco, turn-ins gilt, marbled pastedowns and endleaves, a.e.g. (lower corner of front cover inexplicably worn, minor wear to other extremities). Blank leaves in all three..... More
![MEDIEVAL CRIMINAL LAW]. De Maleficiis (full title of Part 1: Angelus de maleficiis / repertorium...](/pictures/thumb/3549.jpg?v=1629065217)
Lyons: Benoist Bonyn for Jacques and Francois Giunta, 1544 (Part 1) and 1542 (Part 2). 8vo. 2 volumes in one. Collation: [pi]8 aa-cc8 dd12 a-z8 [et]8 [con]8 [rum]8 A-CC8 DD12 (O8 blank); AA-BB8 aa-nn8 oo12. Pagination: [36], ccccxxviii, [16], cxv, [1] ff. Upper corners of four leaves (fols. clxxxiii-clxxxvi) have..... More
![MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY CATALOGUE 1831]. Bibliotheque de Fourqueux / Catalogue des livres de la...](/pictures/thumb/3540.jpg?v=1629065186)
Chateau de Fourqueux (Yvelines, France): 1831. Large folio (418 x 263 mm). Manuscript on paper. 1 f. (calligraphic title-page) + 1 f. (Avis) + 64 pp. catalogue entries written on ruled paper (the majority of the pages are completely full) + 8 blank pages (numbered 65-72) + 1 fol. ("Table..... More
![IRISH BINDINGS BY THE HILLINGDON BINDER]. The History of the Life of King Henry the Second and of...](/pictures/thumb/3537.jpg?v=1629065141)
Dublin: Ad I-IV: George Faulkner, 1768-1772; Ad V: J. Williams, 1775, 1768. 5 vols. 8vo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2"). Contemporary Irish tree calf by the Hillingdon Binder: spines elaborately gilt tooled in six compartments with contrasting gilt lettered labels, boards with gilt rolled borders and gilt tooled edges, marbled..... More
![SAMMELBAND OF MEXICAN POLITICAL AND MILITARY MANUSCRIPTS]. "Documentos" (spine title). Gen....](/pictures/thumb/3525.jpg?v=1629065121)
Mexico: 1848-1860. Folio. Unpaginated (but 126 ff.) Late 19th- or early 20th century quarter sheep over buckram, red morocco spine label with title and author in gold letters, corners bumped, edges a little frayed, front hinge and joint cracked but holding. Browned and brittle on account of the poor paper..... More
![WOMAN PRINTER, 1626]. Quadragena de Sermones en loor de la Virgen Maria, y de Christo Senor...](/pictures/thumb/3493.jpg?v=1630001966)
Valladolid: Por la viuda de Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba: a costa de Antonio Vazquez de Velasco, 1626. Folio. [8], 448 [i.e. 446], pp., 1 blank f., [40] pp. (pagination skips 264-267, register continuous - see below). COLLATION: [ ]4, A-Z8, 2A-2E8, [para]8, 2[para]8, 3[para]4, COMPLETE BUT VERY WORN (see below)..... More
![CARTA EXECUTORIA MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM- Madrid 1769]. Certification of Arms and Genealogical...](/pictures/thumb/3541.jpg?v=1627181177)
Madrid: 1769. 4to (12 x 8 1/2 inches). Manuscript on vellum. 18 fols. = 1 f. (illuminated coat of arms, verso blank, large repair to outer margins, soiled) + 1 f. (illuminated title-page) + 33 pp. manuscript genealogy including 4 illuminated initials and 2 illuminated vignettes (some red borders in..... More
Providence, RI: The Providence Journal Print, 1892. First Edition. 8vo. 421 pp., with numerous illustrations. Recent wrappers. THE FIRST MURDER IN U.S. HISTORY COMMITTED THROUGH THE POSTAL SERVICE. THE SENSATIONAL TRIAL OF DR. THOMAS THATCHER GRAVES FOR THE MURDER (BY POISONING) OF JOSEPHINE A. BARNABY. DENVER, COLORADO, 1891, ILLUSTRATED WITH..... More
London: For T. Davies and T. Cadell, 1771. 2 vols. in one, 4to. vii, [1], 319, [4]; [4], 246, [2] pp. COMPLETE with 2 frontispieces and 15 plates (numbered 1-9 and 1-6), several engraved ornaments in the text, some dust-soiling or light browning; occasional staining (not objectionable). Contemporary calf, rebacked..... More
Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 1895. 8vo. 159 pp. Bound in blue publisher's cloth with gilt title on front cover and spine. Spine palm soiled, minor wear and tear along edges, corners bumped, small tears at head and foot of spine, front hinge slightly cracked. Textblock edges browned; pp. 126-127..... More
Lancaster, PA: Printed and sold by William Dickson for The Benefit of the Authoress, 1808. 12mo. 220 pp. Bound in full contemporary mottled sheep. Wear and tear along edges, corners bumped, front hinges cracked but holding. Smooth spine with double gilt roll dividing compartments, red morocco spine label in the..... More
Watertown, New York: L. Ingalls & Co., 1862. First Edition. xii, 13-294. Bound in tan ribbed publisher's cloth by John W. Gorse & Co. Corners bumped, small stains on front cover, hinges cracked (lower cords broken), wear to binding extremities. Foxing throughout as is true in all copies, pages 117-122..... More
![POLITICIZING THE VIRGIN DE GUADALUPE]. Defensa guadalupana. Manuel GOMEZ MARIN](/pictures/thumb/3479.jpg?v=1622764083)
Mexico City: Valdes, 1819. First Edition. 12mo. [10], 55 pp. Recent sympathetic wrappers. POLITICIZING THE VIRGIN DE GUADALUPE. The text of this scarce Mexican pamphlet is unusual. In it, the author Gomez Marin seeks to refute an attack on the plausibility of the apparition of the Virgin de Guadalupe, written..... More
![1863 AFRICAN SLAVES IN MEXICO]. Message of the President of the United States, Communicating, In...](/pictures/thumb/3500.jpg?v=1622658243)
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1863. First Edition. [3] pp. (final page blank). Extracted from a larger volume. Preserved in a mylar sleeve backed with lig-free board. Little-known report to Congress, referencing the estimated 450 Negro Egyptians who were rounded up off the streets, beaten and forced onto a French..... More
![1592 MANUSCRIPT: AUCTION OF QUICHE MAYA LANDS IN GUATEMALA]. Testimonio del titulo venta......](/pictures/thumb/3476.jpg?v=1622608382)
Coatepeque (i.e. Guatemala): 1592. Folio (320 x 200 mm). 6 fols. + near contemporary wrappers, stitched, front wrapper with all pertinent information in cursive. Formerly folded four times, creating 16 small panels, two of the leaves have clean tears along horizontal folds from fore-edge to gutter margin, others with shorter..... More
![1691 CADIZ MANUSCRIPT]. Letter Dr. Francisco de Velasco to the Duke of Sessa, presenting Dr. Abel...](/pictures/thumb/3473.jpg?v=1622505571)
Cadiz: 1691. Single sheet, folded once. Pencil inscription at top with small black stamp, folded along vertical and horizontal crease, another later fold along spinal edge, small dirt stains along spine and foreedge. Visible watermark on 2f. Letter address on verso of 2f. This is a letter of recommendation /..... More
Washington DC: 1850. First Edition. Large folding lithograph map with U.S. Army routes in red (659 x 500 mm). Splits at folds on left where attached to text, light browning. Text: 8vo (224 x 140 mm). 14, [2] pp. (including final blank leaf), extracted from a larger volume and repaired..... More
![PALESTINIAN HERBARIUM / ALBUM COMPOSED OF PRESSED FLOWERS]. Wild Flowers from Palestine. Flowers...](/pictures/thumb/3516.jpg?v=1622333227)
Lowell, Mass. [The Author], n.d. (ca. 1910). Oblong 8vo. (125 x 170 mm). 13 pp. text, with 17 pasted-on pressed flowers, each with descriptive text opposite. Original publisher's green and white cloth (1/3 cream cloth, 2/3 green cloth with title gilt on front cover), some abraisons / discoloration to binding..... More
