Americana from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Metuchen, NJ: [Privately Printed], 1929. One of 200 copies printed for the compiler. A good copy. 8vo. 39 pages. Original green printed wrappers (chipped, partly separated at spine). Lists 298 entries, following a brief introduction by Heartman. Printed as a Christmas keepsake.

Wear and staining to leather, but covers sound. Internally in fine condition. Folio ledger book (16 3/4 x 11 inches; 425 x 278 mm). Manuscript on paper: [2], 570 pages. 226 very finely drawn plot maps, with wash, ranging from small insertions on pages to full-page illustrations. Bound in original ledger leather, gilt, with label of Ackerman Co,… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. Third edition, enlarged and improved. Lacks the map, some pale staining internally and to binding, owner's name in ink on front free endpaper. 12mo. 95 pages, advertisements at end. Original salmon muslin, printed paper label on front cover. See Howes V-28; Sabin 98486.

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1954. A few scuffs to cloth, internally fine. Large folio (43 x 28 cm). [1-8] 1-86 [87-88 blank, 7 facsimile maps (6 folded) three in pocket at rear. Printed in red and black. Original red cloth. One of 530 copies printed by Lawton R. Kennedy. Includes the first publication of the "Frémont-Gibbs-Smith" map,… Read more about this item

Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Co, 1892. Slightly chipped at top edges of wrapper and text, map generally clean and fine. 12mo, 6 1/2 x 4 1/8 inches. 20 pages text. Large folding color map, 23 1/2 x 17 inches. Original tan printed wrappers. The map located the branches and divisions of the railroads, nearest mailing… Read more about this item

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1887. Some light soiling. 8vo. 37 pages. 6 full-page plates including frontispiece, 8-pages advertisements at end (with two maps). Original printed wrappers, inner rear wrapper with an advertisement. Presumed second edition. A dated first edition of 1883 was printed in Denver. "The growth of Colorado has been almost phenomenal Practically ar unknown… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Gales and Seaton, 1823. Volume xi, no. 3396. 1823. Bound with 127 issues of the paper 8 July to 31 December 1823. Large folio, 4pp. (20 3/8 x 15 1/4 in.), printed five columns to the page, decorative masthead at top of page 1, Monroe's message with American eagle woodcut at head. Disbound, spine defective, occasionally minor… Read more about this item

New York: Printed for the Author, 1881. Spine with ends frayed and light fading, hinges tender, a few leaves with marginal tears. 8vo. xii, [2]. 636 pages. 16 illustrations in text (of which 8 are full-page), folding map at end showing the original lots and farms of Harlem. Original brown blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, the author's advertisement… Read more about this item

Cincinnati: H. W. Derby & Co, 1850. Rebacked with original spine laid down, new endpapers, foxing. 8vo. Original green blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Edward Everett Ayer, bookplates, presented to the Newberry Library in 1911 and with their deaccession label (sold Parke-Bernet, 4-5 May 1966, lot 419). First edition. Garrard left Westport in 1846 in a Santa… Read more about this item

Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1893. Light wear to boards, generally a very well-preserved copy. Folio. Half-title. 61 plates, including photogravures, collotypes & halftones from photographs; lithographs, some color, of maps, pottery, etc.; drawings and diagrams of skulls, etc.; plus frontispiece portrait & map. Original half leather, printed boards. First edition in English, with more plates than… Read more about this item

Washington, D. C.: Gales & Seaton, printers, 1834. Foxed, front endpaper loose. 68 pages. Engraved folding map: "Map of the Route passed over by an Expedition into the Indian Country in 1832 to the Source of the Mississippi." Later brown half morocco. Provenance: Edward Everett Ayer, bookplates, presented to the Newberry Library in 1911 and with their deaccession… Read more about this item

Ithaca, NY: Mack, Andrus, & Co, 1849. Binding rubbed at extremities; some spotting internally. 12mo. 166 pages. Engraved frontispiece of "The Ship Boston Taken by the Savages at Nootka Sound," small cuts in text. Contemporary sheep, leather spine label. Later edition (the first was n.d., but before 1815). Pilling 1987; Sabin 36123 ("A popular book, compiled from Jewitt's… Read more about this item

New York, 1983. A fine copy. 8vo. Original blue cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, first printing, one of 1000 pre-publication copies. Signed by Nixon on the front free endpaper.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. A fine, well-preserved copy. 8vo. Illustrated by Pauline Bynes. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, first printing. The dedication copy, inscribed "Love Abigail Homans" on the half-title beneath the ownership inscription of George Casper Homans dated August 1966. The printed dedication reads "To my son / George Caspar Homans." The author's uncles were… Read more about this item

3 1/4 pages, 8vo, a bifolium on pale bluish-green paper. Evidence of folds, a marginal tear not affecting text, scant remains of former mounting on last page. The American antiquarian and historian Samuel G. Drake (1798-1875) writes to William Elliot Woodward (1825-1892), the numismatist, New England genealogist, and publisher, about the life of Samuel G. Bishop. Drake opened one… Read more about this item

Lexington, KY: J. Clarke & Co, 1836. Wear to binding, front free endpaper lacking, some toning to sheets, horizontal tear through some leaves at end. 8vo (176 x 107 mm). Later copy of Holley's frontispiece map inserted (tear along one fold). Original muslin, printed paper spine label. Provenance: William Bollaert (1807-1876), writer, chemist, geographer and ethnologist (signature on… Read more about this item

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Usual folds, but fine. One page, 8vo. The author, best known for 'Two Years Before the Mast', comments on the "air pipe" he has purchased and orders a drum. (BA).

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Trace of mounting on verso. One page, 12mo. Tourgée was a carpet-bagger judge and a best-selling author of sensational political novels, including 'A Fool's Errand'. Here (in about 155 words) he writes a playful response to a girl's request for an autograph: "My publisher handed me your request for an autograph which I… Read more about this item

New York: Bangs & Co, 1880. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Lacks rear wrapper, spine chipped with some associated loss to front wrapper. 8vo. 50 pages. Original printed wrappers; in a cloth folding chemise. Incomplete: lacks pages 35-50. A priced copy. "There is in this catalogue, fifty titles which are rare, and fifty more which are scarce. Be… Read more about this item

[New York], 1848. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Some mild staining, a few small edge tears, but in very good to fine condition.. Large folio broadside (27 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches), two long folds (one vertical, one horizontal). The top half of this broadside advertisement is a map of the area, showing the properties to be auctioned.… Read more about this item