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

Spur, Texas / Austin: The Texas Spur [from 1938] / Texas State Historical Association, 1939 / 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 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 turquoise stock, three further..... more

St. Paul: [Published by the state] for gratuitous circulation, by Girart Hewitt, 1869. Wrappers. 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 designed to keep up with..... more

[Philadelphia]: Published by J. Crissy. Philadelphia, 1832. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. First Edition of this atlas issued to accompany the second Philadelphia edition of Marshall's Life of George Washington. Slim 8vo: 10 double-page engraved maps, hand-colored in outline (excepting map of Boston with its environs), with copper-engraved title page (vignette..... more

New York: The Century Company, MCMXII [1912]. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. First Printing (MCMXII on title page) of this scarce account of the park, its landmarks, seasonal climes, and wildlife, by Yosemite's best known advocate and explorer. 8vo (206 x 126mm): x,284pp, with 3 folding maps and 32 (including frontispiece)..... more

Boston: Little, Brown [from 1849], 1872. Early Printing. Pictorial Cloth. Fourth Edition, Revised, 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 primitive state." 8vo (208 x 132mm): xii,381 Original..... more

New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, only 150 of which were for sale. Crown 8vo (188 x 130mm): [6],8,[2]pp, with line-drawn portrait frontispiece of Bernard Kavier Phillippe de Marigny de Mandeville (1785–1868). Publisher's black cloth-backed gray decorative paper-covered boards, cream paper..... 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