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New York: Macmillan Company, 1903. Limited edition, #44 of 100 copies on large paper. Leather and marbled paper over boards. Tall Octavo. x, 598 pages. Near fine. Some minor extremity rubs to exterior, small prior owner name stamped at top of half title and title pages. Leather spine and fore corners, marbled paper sides and endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine titled in gilt with 5 raised bands.. Photographic frontispiece plus 19 black and white plates, all with tissue guards. Handsome volume on the natural history and hunting of ducks, geese, swans, rail, and shore birds. This if copy #44 of just 100 in this large paper format. <br /> <br /> See HAND S45.

Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [xii], 153 pages. Very good in a near fine dust jacket. Prior owner name label at top fore corner of front pastedown, with several blind embossed circular seals throughout the text. Clean and sound.. Photographic plates, endpaper maps. This scarce little book is a personal narrative of the least known U. S. Naval operations--those against the Philippine Insurrectos in 1899 and 1900. The author commanded the U.S.S. Panay in these operations. <br /> <br /> The work of thses little gunboats in the infinity of channels and waterways of the Philippines was largely overshadowed by larger naval victories at Manila Bay and Santiago in the Spanish American War, but many future naval leaders got their first practical lessons in command in these boats.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904. Signed Limited Edition, #46 of 100 copies. Three quarter leather. Octavo. [xiv], 439 pages. Near fine. Bound in light green marbled boards with black leather spine and fore corners, gilt-stamped spine with four raised bands, gilt ruling to boards, top edge gilt. Light green marbled endpapers. A few light extremity rubs. An excellent copy of this scarce edition.. Black and white plates. Winfield Scott Schley graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1860, served in the Civil War and several other naval operations in his lengthy career. He is best known as the controversial hero of the Battle of Santiago in the Spanish-American War. <br /> <br /> A lovely copy of this scarce edition limited to 100 copies. This is copy #46, signed by Schley on the limitation leaf, facing half title. Well illustrated.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 336 pages. Very good in a good dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with silver stamped spine titles. Minor extremity bumps and light rubs. Jacket has edge chips, tears, and rubbed wrinkles. Spine is a bit sun faded, and there are tape repairs to underside. Still a very presentable copy of this uncommon first edition.. Black and white drawings by Alexander King. This is the book that introduced zombies into American pop culture. Just three years after its publication Hollywood released "White Zombie," the first of many zombie movies and shows to follow. <br /> <br /> William Seabrook travelled to Haiti in the 1920s to explore its dark mysteries, particularly the forbidden religion of voodoo. In the jungle-covered mountains and dark valleys he found a civilization descended from African slaves, and this is his vivid account of what he witnessed in that forgotten world of black… Read More

Buenos Aires: Peuser Ltda, 1942. Limited edition. Vellum over beveled boards. Quarto. 224 pages. A few light extremity rubs and abrasions, spotting to endpapers. Interior clean, binding sturdy. Near fine overall.. Numerous drawings throughout, with a section of black and white photographic plates. A classic on the traditions, methods, and folklore of northern Argentina's cowboys. Winner of first prize in regional literature and folklore awarded by Argentina's National Commission of Culture. Text is in Spanish. This edition is illustrated with charming line drawings throughout plus a section of photographs.<br /> <br /> This copy is bound in vellum and is decorated with a striking hand colored illustration and titles by Ramón Fernández Latapiat. Two braided vellum loop and knot closures along fore edge.

New York: Charles Magnus, 1864. Single leaf approximately 5" x 8. Fine condition.. Hand-colored lithograph headpiece. A sentimental Union Civil War song sheet with three verses and a chorus. .<br /> <br /> The hand-colored headpiece is a view of the City of Richmond from across the James River, with the Confederate Capitol prominently in the center (Magnus 61, per Wolf). <br /> <br /> Charles Magnus was a German immigrant printing entrepreneur who produced city views as well as views of camps and hospitals during the Civil War. He is well known for his postal covers and song sheets as well. <br /> <br /> Ref. WOLF 1463a.

Washington: John L. Ginck, 1877. Original printed wrappers. Octavo. 29 pages. Printed salmon-colored wrappers over sewn binding. Some minor surface soil, a tiny chip along top edge of front cover, other minor extremity wear. Binding sound.. Liberia was founded in 1821 by freed American slaves. Commodore Shufeldt describes the Navy's role in the origins and preservation of the colony. <br /> <br /> Uncommon. OCLC shows only 7 holdings.

New York: The Rudder Publishing Company, 1904. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 77 pages plus plates and ads. Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with spine titled in gilt, upper board with gilt device stamped at center. Minor extremity wear, picture of a sailing dinghy pasted to front pastedown, table of weights and strengths of Manila rope on rear pastedown. Small pencil sketches of two hulls and relevant brief notations by prior owner on rear blank leaf. Hinges sound. Attractive copy, near fine overall.. Diagrams, plates of drawings. First edition of this now classic work. Norman L. Skene was a graduate of MIT in naval architecture and worked with Starling Burgess, the designer of several America's Cup racing yachts. He later was a partner in the firm of Paine, Belknap & Skene, naval architects. <br /> <br /> Ref. TOY 4794; MORRIS & HOWLAND p.126.

New York: The Century Co, 1900. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xvi [xvii-xviii], 294 pages. A few slight extremity rubs and a small prior owner label at top fore corner of front pastedown, some darkening along fore edge of lower board. Slight browning to frontispiece and title page. A remarkably bright and clean copy. Near fine.. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian. Bright first edition of this landmark sailing narrative. Slocum was the first person to single-handedly circumnavigate the earth, doing so in his gaff-rigged sloop, "Spray," between April 1895 and June 1898. <br /> <br /> "Spray" was a wreck of a boat given to Slocum by a fellow sea captain. He rebuilt her and sailed from Boston westward around the world by way of hte Straits of Magellan and the Cape of Good Hope. <br /> <br /> Slocum's poetic perception of the world and his graceful descriptions of his vision of reality have caused this classic to be compared… Read More

London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1784. Third edition, with additions. Speckled calf over boards. Octavos. 1) viii, 499; 2) vi, 518, Appendix [5]; and 3) v, [blank], 465, [blank], Index [45], [1 (ad)] pages. Near fine. All three volumes were rehinged and given sympathetic gilt-stamped spines, likely in the early 20th century. Original speckled calf boards retained. Mild extremity wear to board fore corners. A couple of endpapers show slight separation along inner hinges but bindings remain sturdy. Interiors nearly free of foxing. A handsome and impressive set of this important Enlightenment work.. An uncommon but particularly interesting and important edition of "Wealth of Nations," whose first edition was 1776. Smith made several additions for this edition, including a new chapter "The Conclusion of the Mercantile System." It was this particular edition (the first in octavo format) which so impressed Thomas Jefferson when he acquired a set for his own library while… Read More

Buffalo: Wheeler, Matthews & Warren, 1863. First edition. Disbound. Very good. A few minor stains, faint vertical crease to booklet, remnants of binding along spine.. An interesting and well-reasoned discourse on the state of the Civil War about a month after the Battle of Gettysburg, from the Union perspective. Rev. Smith concludes with answers to objections such as that the aim of the war had shifted from preservation of the Union to the abolishment of slavery, the use of black soldiers, etc. Quite scarce. SABIN 82700.

Frederick County: Matthias Bartgis at Pleasant Dale Paper Mill, 1823. Original calf. Duodecimo. Sixteenmo. Near fine in original binding with slight edge wear. Boards somewhat splayed but hinges and binding sound.. Woodcut frontispiece portrait of Washington. Scarce imprint of this Revolutionary War history, originally published at the turn of the 19th century. Richard Snowden was a New Jersey school teacher whose works were mostly aimed at a student audience. <br /> <br /> Matthias Bartgis was a pioneering German American printer in Frederick County, Maryland. He opened the first printing office in Frederick in 1777, having apprenticed under William Bradford of Philadelphia. Prior to the Bartgis press there had been no printing press in Maryland beyond the tidewater line. <br /> <br /> Charles Griffith Haslup, a sheriff in Howard County, Maryland in the 1850s, has written his name in several places on the endpapers and first and last blank leaves. <br /> <br />… Read More

New York, 1895. Single sheet, 8" x 9 7/8", folded once. Very good. Letter has a few old folds, a slight separation along the bottom 3/4" of the central fold, and four spots of old adhesive residue on blank back side.. Suffragist pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton here writes to a Mrs. Thomas, one of the 26 women on the "Revising Committee" who, along with Stanton, wrote "The Woman's Bible." The letter is dated October 20, from Stanton's address at 26 West 61st Street in New York City. She advises Mrs. Thomas that she is asking the committee members each to order 20 copies of Part I, set to be published the following month. <br /> <br /> "The Woman's Bible" was meant to be a new version of the Christian Bible, but with women treated and portrayed as equals with men rather than the subservient role found in religious orthodoxy. It was crafted in two parts, with Part I being published in November, 1895 and Part II, finally, in April,… Read More

New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1936. Second edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [x], 269 pages. Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with illustration stamped in blind on upper board, spine titled and ornamented in gilt, dark blue topstain. No significant wear to book. Jacket has a hint of browning to spine and a short closed tear at lower fore corner of front panel. Overall fine in fine dust jacket. A very nice copy.. Historical fiction based on the life of Sir Henry Morgan, and Steinbeck's first novel, originally published by McBride in 1929.<br /> <br /> This copy is the second edition according to the standard Steinbeck reference by Goldstone and Payne, including blind-stamped ship and scroll on upper board, gilt-stamped spine, blue topstain, and dust jacket with no mention of publisher Covici Friede but with the additional statement "Author of 'Of Mice and Men'."<br /> <br /> Ref. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE A1c.

London: Henry Stevens, Son, and Stiles, 1905. First edition. Full cloth. Octavo. viii, 41 pages. Near fine. Bound in maroon cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board, top edge gilt. Minor extremity rubs. Neat prior owner bookplate on preliminary blank leaf.. An important analysis of ten early editions and piracies of the famous Map of the Middle British Colonies in America, by Welsh surveyor Lewis Evans (c.1700-1756). Henry Stevens, famous Americana bookseller, was prompted on his quest to compare various editions when he purchased a copy of the original Philadelphia edition of 1755. More broad than its specific subject, this interesting and useful bibliographical reference shows various "tricks of the trade and modes of procedure of map makers in the eighteenth century." According to the Preface, only a few copies were printed for presentation and sale. Scarce in commerce.

Cincinnati: American Reform Tract And Book Society, 1854. Wrappers. Thirty-twomo. 15 pages. Near fine. Uncommon Cincinnati imprint of this tract from Stowe, whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had appeared two years before. Hymn "Nearer My God To Thee" printed on rear cover. Bound in printed self wraps with sewn binding. Light foxing, contemporary prior ownership inscriptions on front cover and rear cover. Two minor archival tissue repairs to head and heel of spine.

Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. First Edition. Original cloth. Octavos. Near Fine. Some fading and light wear to the original cloth bindings.. A lovely copy of one of the most influential books on 19th century America. Mrs. Stowe's book and its widespread readership in the North solidified abolition sentiment and hastened the oncoming Civil War. <br /> <br /> This first edition has a scarce prospectus of the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe laid in, which she has inscribed and signed "From Harriet Beecher Stowe." The prospectus is in the original mailing envelope addressed in Mrs. Stowe's hand and postmarked Hartford, Conn. <br /> <br /> Also laid in is an early 20th century description of this item by bookseller Harry F. Marks, along with an unused book tag for Marks's shop at Rockefeller Center. Faint contemporaneous inscriptions on endpapers of both volumes. The two volumes are housed in a custom slipcase. BAL #19343 binding "B"… Read More

Bath: L. Leake and E. Curll, 1741. Half leather with marbled paper sides. Duodecimo. [viii], xvi, 48 pages. Very good. Later binding of marbled paper over boards with leather spine and fore corners.. Engraved frontispiece. A clever and amusing piece of 18th century libertine literature that describes the female anatomy in terms of topography, geography, commerce, cultivation, etc. Satirizes contemporaneous pamphlets that promoted British Colonies while simultaneously punning the name of the Colony of Maryland.

New York: Charles B. Norton, 1853. First edition. Cloth over boards. Folio. 216, (22 ads) pages. Modern binding blue cloth over boards with spine titled and ruled in gilt. Ex-Mercantile Library, with small oval stamp to title page and most plates. Faint moisture tidemarks in text. Small chips and edge tear to a few scattered leaves. Overall a very good copy of an uncommon American naval history.. Chromolith frontispiece, numerous plates. A well-illustrated chronicle of the origin, rise, progress, and triumphs of American marine steam engineering to the mid-19th century, by the Engineer-in-Chief of the U.S. Navy. Includes diagrams and statistics in addition to the text and illustrations of ships.<br /> <br /> Ref. ALBION p. 40.

Rochester: The Du Bois Press, 1928. Folded sheet, 25 3/4" x 38 5/8. Fine, with original fold creases.. Pictorial map. Large colorful pictorial map showing downtown Cleveland in 1928. Cartoons and historic vignettes decorate the map, which also gives the layout of the streets, railroad lines, and wharves along Lake Erie.<br /> <br /> Comes with original mailing envelope.