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Wilmington, Delaware: Printed by the Star Publishing Company, (1947). First edition. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), x & 69 pages plus 6 illustrations on 4 plates. Publisher's blue cloth with an applied gilt label on the upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket.
Slight edge wear, sporadic foxing, previous owner's name & date in pencil at the half-title page, otherwise very good in soiled dust jacket with edge wear including nicks & a couple of short tears without loss, a good or better example.
"This account presents a novel point of view and an arresting tale of this little known history of the first state in the union." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

New-York: Printed and published by I. Riley, 1811. First American edition. Volume II only. Octavo (8.75" x 5.5"), 377 pages. Publisher's full sheep with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label. This copy from the library of Miss Sidney I. Heiskell of Winchester, Virginia with her nearly contemporary signature in old ink at the front free endpaper.
Binding rubbed & scuffed, shallow losses mostly at the top of the spine, previous owner's name & place at the ffep, text toned, sporadic foxing, withal a very good copy.
Previous owner Sidney Isabella Heiskell (1805 - 1882) was the daughter of John Heiskell, a journalist & publisher of the Winchester Gazette from 1811 to 1826. She married Samuel Ott who was "one of the pioneer merchants of Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia).
An important book, albeit volume II only, which provides "researches relative to the geography of Mexico, the extent of its surface and its political division into intendancies, the physical aspect of the country, the population, the… Read More