Brussels and Leipzig: Carl Muquardt, [1846-]1848. 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 blind; marbled covers, edges and end papers. An excellent copy, binding..... more

Copperstown: H. & E. Phinney, 1838. Original Cloth. First Edition. 12mo (177 x 107mm): 100pp. Original plain brown muslin over boards (variant not noted by Blanck), original printed paper label to front cover. Cloth, particularly spine tips, gently rubbed; light scattered foxing throughout, still a very attractive example. BAL 3886..... more

Boston: Little, Brown, 1875. First Edition. Original Wraps. Scarce printing of Frothingham's final publication. ABPC lists no copies at auction, Rare Book Hub lists seven, most recently in 1915. Small 8vo (176 x 118 mm): [8],136pp. with half-title, 15 panel-map (and 2-panel overlay) frontispiece, six-panel view of Charlestown ("An Exact..... more

Albany: printed by Henry C. Southwick, 1815. Full Leather. Tall 8vo: 349,[1]pp, with 7 folding plans (one two-sided) in the main work of armies arrayed in varying battle formations and 10 woodcuts in the text of the final work illustrating aspects of torpedo warfare. Included in the pagination, with separate..... more

London: printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, MDCCXCII. [1792]. Second Edition. Half-Calf. Thick 8vo: xvi,536pp, with two large folding maps (States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, Comprehending the Spanish Provinces of East and West Florida . . . by Joseph Purcell; and Northern and Middle States, comprehending the..... more

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931. First Edition thus. Hardcover. 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 Indians in their..... more

Boston: Allen and Ticknor, 1833. First Edition. Quarter-Cloth. First Edition of this "landmark, for Smith was the first American writer to make fishing the subject of even a short treatise." (Goodspeed) Small 8vo: vii,[1],399,[1,errata]pp (p. 365 misnumbered 265), with title-page vignette, divisional title-page vignette, and numerous woodcuts throughout. Probably the..... more

Boston: Laurens Maynard, MDCCCXCVII [1897]. First Edition. Cloth. First American Issue of the only edition, with spine imprint Maynard and title page "Published by Laurens Maynard" (later Small, Maynard). Edited, with an introduction, by Richard Maurice Bucke, M.D., one of Whitman's literary executors. Small 8vo: viii,173pp, with two inserted leaves..... more

Philadelphia: David McKay, [1882-'83]. First Edition. Cloth-Backed Boards. Second Printing (per BAL, not, as often described, second issue), with sepia photograph printed (not pasted on stiff coated paper, as in first printing) of Whitman and a butterfly tipped in facing p. 122. (The first printing only appeared under the Rees..... more