Americana

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CATLIN, George (1796-1872)

[American Indians] Die Indianer Nord-Amerikas und die während eines achtjährigen Aufenthaltes unter den wildesten ihrer Stämme erlebten Abenteuer und Schicksale . . . mit 24 vom Verfaffer nach der Natur entworfenen Gemälden [Hand-Colored] [Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians]

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

Price: $3,650.00

[Caxton Club] WILLIAMS, Gordon R., Thomas Bewick

Fantasy In A Wood-Block Or What Occurred When John James Audubon, the Naturalist, Visited with Thomas Bewick, The Wood-Engraver in the year 1827. Being a narrative by Gordon R. Williams, together with a print taken by R. Hunter Middleton from the wood-block which Mr. Bewick was engraving at the time.

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

Price: $135.00

DANA, Katherine Floyd (1835-1886)

[African-Americana] Our Phil and Other Stories

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

Price: $115.00

FROTHINGHAM, Richard (1812-1880)

[American Revolution] The centennial : Battle of Bunker Hill ; with a view of Charlestown in 1775, Page's plan of the action, Romane's exact view of the battle, and other illustrations

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

Price: $265.00

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)

The Song of Hiawatha

Boston: Ticknor and Fields [through 1856], M DCCC LV [1855]. Early Printing. Original Cloth. Thirtieth Thousand (1856), "printed on large paper from the same stereotype plates as the first edition." (Livingston) 8vo: iv,316,[4],12pp, including notes, a Chippewa vocabulary, and advertisements. Publisher's chocolate ribbed cloth, covers framed in blind with intricate... more

Price: $215.00

MACHIAVELLI [Machiavel], Niccolò [Nicholas] [and Robert Fulton?]

[Torpedo Warfare] The art of war in seven books . . . to which is added, Hints relative to torpedo warfare by a gentleman of the state of New York

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

Price: $965.00

MARSHALL, John (1755-1835)

[Revolutionary War] Atlas to Marshall's life of Washington

[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

Price: $665.00

MORSE, Jedidiah (1761-1826)

The American geography; or, A view of the present situation of the United States of America containing astronomical geography, geographical definitions, discovery, and general description of America and the United States . . . with a particular description of Kentucky, the Western territory, and Vermont . . . to which is added, an abridgment of the geography of the British, Spanish, French and Dutch dominions in America and the West Indies . . .

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

Price: $2,650.00

RICHARDSON, Charles

[Civil War] Chancellorsville Campaign : Fredericksburg to Salem Church

New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1907. First Edition. Original Cloth. First Printing. Crown 8vo:124pp. Publisher's forest green textured cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt and ruled in brown, top edge gilt. Slight sunning to spine, else Fine. Dornbusch III, 1687. Nevins I, p.42. The Chancellorsville Campaign was fought... more

Price: $465.00

SMITH, Jerome Van Crowninshield (1800-1879)

Natural History of the Fishes of Massachusetts : Embracing a Practical Essay on Angling

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

Price: $665.00

SWETT, Samuel (1782-1866)

History of Bunker Hill Battle, With a Plan; [bound with] Notes to his sketch of Bunker-Hill battle

Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1827 /. Wraps. 8vo: 58; 34pp, with large folding map of the battle engraved by Annin & Smith. Bound in plain blue wrappers. The 34-page "Notes to His Sketch of Bunker Hill Battle" is complete with its own title page. A superb, untrimmed copy, quite fresh... more

Price: $365.00

WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892)

As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. And Other Poems [First Issue]

Washington, D. C. n. p., 1872. First Edition. Original Cloth. Myerson's First Issue (without the Trubner imprint rubber-stamped in black and with all edges trimmed). 8vo: x,[4]14,[2],(blank inserted),8(advertisements)pp. Original dark green V cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, grey end papers. A superior copy, almost pristine, and quite uncommon thus..... more

Price: $2,850.00

WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892)

Calamus. A series of letters written during the years 1868-1880 by Walt Whitman to a young friend (Peter Doyle)

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

Price: $585.00

WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892)

November Boughs [Presentation Copy]

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

Price: $1,865.00

WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892)

Specimen Days & Collect [Unrecorded]

Philadelphia {London]: David McKay [Trübner & Co.], 1882-'83]. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Second Printing (per BAL, not, as often described, second issue), with sepia photograph printed (not pasted on stiff coated paper, as in the first printing) of Whitman and a butterfly tipped in at p. 122. (The first printing..... more

Price: $565.00

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