THE HISTORY OF PARAGUAY; CONTAINING AMONGST MANY OTHER NEW, CURIOUS, AND INTERESTING PARTICULARS OF THAT COUNTRY, A FULL AND AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE ESTABLISHMENTS FORMED THERE BY THE JESUITS, FROM AMONG THE SAVAGE NATIVES, IN THE VERY CENTRE OF BARBARISM: ESTABLISHMENTS ALLOWED TO HAVE REALIZED THE SUBLIME IDEAS OF FENELON, SIR THOMAS MORE, AND PLATO by Charlevoix, P. Francois-Xavier - 1769

Mena, Arkansas: Mena Star Company. N.D.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Exlibrary. ; Signed by both Chet Lauck and Norris Goff. ; Ex-Library; B&W Photographs; Unpaginated pages; Signed by All Authors .

Rutland: Rutland Historical Society, 1978. First Edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Rutland, VT: Rutland Historical Society, 1978. Oblong 4to., 9 1/4" x 12." 177 pages. Gilt lettered dark green cloth, pictorial end papers. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos, plates, some color. Very good in a dj with a 1/2" chip at the crown, a small chip at heel, and fraying/minor chipping along the edges. Pages clean, binding tight. The first book of the Rutland Historical Society. Out of print and rare.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Illus.

Scranton, PA: J. A. Clark, Publisher, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. 236pp. Later blue cloth lettered in gold on the spine panel, original wrappers preserved. With twenty-three large, cabinet-size photographs by William H. Schurch. Originally published in parts, the work was supposed to include fifteen issues but only ten were published. According to the publisher's advertisement on the wrappers, each part contained two large photographic views (which retailed for $1 when sold separately.) Laid in are several sheets of paper, probably contemporary, with a hand-written index to the text, including a complete list of the photographs, which might indicate this copy was bound with twenty-three rather than twenty-five or twenty-six photographs as in some other copies. Among the chapters included are Colonel Zebulon Butler in Command, The Pennamite War, The Ship-Building Era, Coal -- Its Origin and Formation, Colliery -- Incidents in and around Coal-Mines, Joseph H. Scranton, Delaware and Hudson Canal… Read More

Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1870. 1st Edition. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine and cover, double frontispieces. Illustrated with 234 B&W reproductions of prints, drawings, etchings qand engravings, many full-page. First edition, third printing: Pages xvii and xviii have their page numbers; the last entry on page xviii ends with the word "conclusion"; the engraved portrait of Napoleon III appears at page129; the heading on page 643 is "CHAPTER LXI"; the third page of the printed ads begins with "Illustrated History of the Bible." [McBride pg. 8]. The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain published in 1869 which humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel Quaker City through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of… Read More

North Carolina: N.p. (Manuscript), 1889. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair. Folio. 27 pages, plus 6 other handwritten page and 3 typed pages laid in loosely and paper-clipped together. The binding measures about 15 1/2 inches tall by 11 inches wide. Bound in half leather with cloth-covered boards. The spine has completely disintegrated and the boards are just barely holding on. Corners rubbed and chipped. Paper label on the front cover has "Methodism in Beaufort" handwritten in ink. The original ledge was for the "Queen (Fire) Insurance Company of Liverpool, England" with the office in New York. Three leaves have been cut out at the front, but this may have been of different material. The first page reads, "Methodism in Beaufort..." and serves as a title page. The front pastedown has (pasted down) a letter from C. P. Jones entitled "Brief Historical Statement," which is about 3 pages long. The page after the title page begins the history,… Read More

Mena, Arkansas: Mena Star Company. N.D.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Exlibrary. ; Signed by both Chet Lauck and Norris Goff. ; Ex-Library; B&W Photographs; Unpaginated pages; Signed by All Authors .

Rutland: Rutland Historical Society, 1978. First Edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Rutland, VT: Rutland Historical Society, 1978. Oblong 4to., 9 1/4" x 12." 177 pages. Gilt lettered dark green cloth, pictorial end papers. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos, plates, some color. Very good in a dj with a 1/2" chip at the crown, a small chip at heel, and fraying/minor chipping along the edges. Pages clean, binding tight. The first book of the Rutland Historical Society. Out of print and rare.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Illus.

Scranton, PA: J. A. Clark, Publisher, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. 236pp. Later blue cloth lettered in gold on the spine panel, original wrappers preserved. With twenty-three large, cabinet-size photographs by William H. Schurch. Originally published in parts, the work was supposed to include fifteen issues but only ten were published. According to the publisher's advertisement on the wrappers, each part contained two large photographic views (which retailed for $1 when sold separately.) Laid in are several sheets of paper, probably contemporary, with a hand-written index to the text, including a complete list of the photographs, which might indicate this copy was bound with twenty-three rather than twenty-five or twenty-six photographs as in some other copies. Among the chapters included are Colonel Zebulon Butler in Command, The Pennamite War, The Ship-Building Era, Coal -- Its Origin and Formation, Colliery -- Incidents in and around Coal-Mines, Joseph H. Scranton, Delaware and Hudson Canal… Read More

Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1870. 1st Edition. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine and cover, double frontispieces. Illustrated with 234 B&W reproductions of prints, drawings, etchings qand engravings, many full-page. First edition, third printing: Pages xvii and xviii have their page numbers; the last entry on page xviii ends with the word "conclusion"; the engraved portrait of Napoleon III appears at page129; the heading on page 643 is "CHAPTER LXI"; the third page of the printed ads begins with "Illustrated History of the Bible." [McBride pg. 8]. The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain published in 1869 which humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel Quaker City through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of… Read More

1822. [N.p.: S.n., 1822]. 12-1/2 x 10. [N.p.: S.n., 1822]. 12-1/2 x 10" Verse Account of a Murder-Suicide in Pennsylvania [Broadside]. [Murder-Suicide]. [Pennsylvania]. [Koppelberger, Johannes]. Ein Neues Lied von der Mord-Geschichte des Joseph Miller, Welcher im Januar 1822, Einer Sonntags Nacht Seine Schwangere Frau unde Zwei Kinder auf eine Grausame Art Ermordete, Und sich Selbst Erhing, Welches Alles, Wie man Glaubt, Aus Armuth Geschah...[Running Title]. [N.p.: S.n., 1822]. 12-1/2" x 10" broadside. Text in three columns printed within woodcut border and separated by black rules. Moderate toning and light foxing, fraying and a few chips to edges, tear to bottom edge with negligible loss to text. $650. * This sixteen-stanza "New Song of the Murder-Story of Joseph Miller" is attributed to Johannes Koppelberger. It tells the sad story of a murder-suicide committed by Miller, a German-American. The verses say he eloped from Poland with the daughter of a nobleman in 1817. The couple made their way to… Read More