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

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

[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

London: printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, MDCCXCII [1792]. Second Edition. Half-Calf. Second Edition of this paean to the progress of the new American nation, the first American geography and an important early American cartographical work, containing "much curious reading which will never become obsolete." (Bibliotheca Americana) Thick 8vo: xvi,536pp, with..... 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

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