Chicago: Caxton Club, 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tall, slim 8vo: [4],12,[6]pp, including full-page reproductions from photographs, plus the Bewick wood-block print. Decorated gold-and-tan paper-backed boards, black linen spine, printed paper label, medium-brown laid end papers. Pristine. One of five variant bindings (collect them all!) deposited in the Newberry Library. Limited..... 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. 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

Concord, N. H. Tripp & Osgood, 1851. Early Printing. Decorative Cloth. Second Edition, expanded version of first edition published preceding year, "[m]any pages of new matter added, other routes described, and several illustrations inserted." (publisher’s preface). Foolscap 8vo (88 x 146mm): 72pp (including appendix and advertising directory), with added engraved..... more

Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher, 23 South Ninth Street, 1888 [but 1891]. First Edition. Cloth. Tall, thin 8vo: 140,[2]pp, with portrait in the text but no frontispiece photograph inserted (as issued). Original dark green V cloth, beveled covers, spine titled in gilt, upper cover stamped in gilt with tile and Whitman's..... more

Boston: [printed by Samuel N. Dickinson, Washington Street] / Published by Luther Stevens, 186 Washington Street, 1843 / [n.d., but 1848-1861]. First (and only) Edition of this scarce work (Willard) documenting the first public obelisk in the United States and the technology developed to create it. Royal 8vo (340 x...... more