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

Philadelphia: [Theodore Holland], 1888. Pictorial Wrappers. First edition of this manual, including playing instructions, rules interpretations, and history. (Cover title: Chadwick's baseball manual). Foolscap 8vo (160 x 113mm): 64pp. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers with wraparound color image of a player attempting to steal second base as the catcher attempts to..... more

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1889. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing Small 8vo: viii,147pp, with frontispiece and illustrations throughout by E. W. Kemble (who also illustrated the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the Uncle Remis stories). Publisher's French blue pictorial cloth, upper cover stamped in..... 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

[none given]: [none given], 1905. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing of this comprehensive insider's account of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition, which explored the region of northwestern Wyoming that became Yellowstone National Park. Presentation copy, inscribed in an elegant hand by the author: “Mrs. Charles A. Stott / Compliments of /..... 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: Allen and Ticknor, 1833. First Edition. Quarter-Cloth. First Printing 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[p. 365 misnumbered 265],[1]pp, with title-page vignette, divisional title-page vignette, and numerous woodcuts throughout. Probably the Brinley..... 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