Fine and Rare Books with autographs & manuscripts

[American Imprints/NE/Law.]. 6 Titles (7 Vols). ++ CAPTAIN COOK?S THREE VOAYGES TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN... Vol II (of 2). Bos: Manning and Loring for Tho

[American Imprints/Surveying]. Robert Gibson. A TREATISE OF PRACTICAL SURVEYING... With Alterations and Amendments, adapted to the Use of American Sur

[Chesapeake & Ohio Canal]. 2 Notes, for $20 and $5. Text reads ?The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company Promise to pay on Demand at their Offi...

[Confederate Notes]. 100 Notes, which read ?Two years after ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States & the United Sta...

[Counterfeiting Detection]. THE AMERICAN BOND DETECTOR; And Complete History of the United States Government Securities; issued under the Sanction of

. HEATH?S INFALLIBLE COUNTERFEIT DETECTOR At Sight. The only Infallible Method of Detecting Coutnerfeit, Spurious, and altered Bank

[Congress (Early Debate)/Miscellany]. 3 Titles. ++ SKETCHES OF DEBATE IN THE FIRST SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, In 1789-90-91. Harrisburg: Lane S. Har

[Franklin, Benjamin]. THE PAPERS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 16 Vols: Vols I-16. New Haven: Yale Univ. Pr., 1959-1972. 8vo. Orig brown cloth, top edge sta

. Sheldon Dibble. HISTORY AND GENERAL VIEWS OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS? MISSION. NY: Taylor & Dodd, 1839. 8vo. xii, [13]-268pp. Chapters I-II cov

. George Bancroft. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, From the Discovery of the American Continent. 7 Vols only. Bos: Little, Brown, and Compan

[Jefferson, Thomas]. THE PAPERS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. 18 Vols: Vols 1-16 + Indexes to Vols 1-6 and 7-12. Princeton Univ. Pr., 1950-1961. 1st printing

[Latin America/Brazil]. 2 Titles (3 Vols). ++ Herbert H. Smith. BRAZIL: The Amazons and the Coast. Illustrated by J. Wells Champney, et. al. NY: Ch

[Latin American Archeology/Incas]. Hiram Bingham. MACHU PICCHU: A Citadel of the Incas: Report of the Explorations and Excavations made in 1911, 19

[Military/War of 1812]. William Hull. MEMOIRS OF THE CAMPAIGN OF THE NORTH WESTERN ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, A.D. 1812. Bost: True & Greene, ...

[New England/Massachusetts Printers]. 4 Titles (5 Vols). 8vo. Hardcover. ++ George Emery Littlefield. EARLY BOSTON BOOKSELLERS 1642-1711. Bos: Club

[Newspapers/Civil War/Grant]. 8 Newspaper/Magazine Issues. ++ THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. May 6, 1862. Front page coverage of battles in Williamsburg a

[Newspapers/Garfield/MicKinley Assassination]. 16 Newspaper Issues, with coverage of the assassinations, elections, Titanic sinking, and other events.

[Newspapers/WWI/WWII]. 11 Newspaper Issues. ++ DAILY PRESS. Newport News, VA: Dec. 7, 1941. Front page: ?Japs Attack Us/ Declare War: Undeclared War M

[Political Parties]. John Witherspoon DuBose. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM LOWNDES YANCEY: A History of Political Parties in the United States, fro

[Rivers of America/Signed]. Henry Seidel Canby. THE BRANDYWINE. Illustrated by Andrew Wyeth. NY/Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, (1941). #383 of 650 ...

[South Carolina]. 7 Titles (8 Vols). Vp:vp. 8vo. ++ Henry R. Thompson. OUSTING THE CARPETBAGGER FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. 1926. ++ J. C. Garlington. MEN

[Views/East]. 12 Titles. ++ William Henry Shelton. THE JUMEL MANSION: Being a full History of the House on Harlem Heights built by Roger Morris before

[Views/West]. 12 Titles. First 11 listed are published Bos: Page Co., and illustrated with plates showing landscape (mostly b/w, some in color). 8v

[Virginia/Michigan]. 3 Titles (4 Vols). ++ ADVENTURERS OF PURSE AND PERSON: VIRGINIA 1607-1624/5. Revised and Edited by Virginia M. Meyer and John Fre

[Washington, D.C./Architecture/Urban Plan]. H. Paul Caemmerer. A MANUAL ON THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF WASHINGTON. GPO, 1939. Flyleaf signed and

[Washington, George]. THE WRITINGS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799. 41 Vols total (39 Vols excluding duplicates

[West/California/Pony Express]. Frank A. Root. THE OVERLAND STAGE TO CALIFORNIA. Personal Reminiscences and Authentic History of the Great Overland

[West/California/Railroad/Hudson]. 5 Items. ++ THE RAND-MCNALLY GUIDE TO CALIFORNIA VIA THE SANTE FE. (1908). Covers edgeworn (esp. corners/spine tips

[Woman Doctors/Virginia/Miscellany]. 7 Titles (1 Signed). 8vo/4to. Hardcover (1 in dj). ++ Emily Dunning Barringer. BOWERY TO BELLEVUE: The Story of N

[WWI/Foreign Policy/Party Conventions]. 5 Titles (6 Vols), 1 signed by author, 1 sgd by ship commander. Vp:vp. 8vo/4to. First 5 listed hardcover, Demo

[Africa/Game]. Theodore Roosevelt. AFRICAN GAME TRAILS. NY: Charles Scribner?s Sons, 1910. Photo-illustrated.

. 4 Titles (5 Vols). ++ Henry M. Stanley. HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTONE: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa: Including an Account

. A. Henry Savage Landor. ACROSS WIDEST AFRICA: An Account of the Country and People of Eastern, Central and Western Africa as Seen During

. Harry Johnston. THE UGANDA PROTECTORATE: An Attempt to give some Description of the Physical Geography, Botany, Zoology, Anthropology, La

. Henry M. Stanley. THE CONGO AND THE FOUNDING OF ITS FREE STATE: A Story of Work and Exploration. 2 Vols. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1885. 49

. Henry M. Stanley. THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT: Or the Sources of the Nile around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and down the Livings

[African Game/Amwell Press]. 3 Titles. ++ Brian Herne. TANZANIA SAFARIS. Foreword by Erwin A. Bauer. Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, (1981). 8vo. Leathe

[Ancient Greece]. Herrn Barthelemy. REISE DES JUNGERN ANACHARSIS DURCH GRIECHENLAND, vier hundert Jahre vor der gewohnlichen Zeitrechnung. 7 Vols in 1

[Ancient Greece]. Victor Duruy. HISTORY OF GREECE, And of the Greek People, from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest. 4 Vols in 8 Sections (as

[Archeology/Architecture]. 6 Titles (8 Vols). ++ ANACREON: With Thomas Stanley?s Translation. Edited by A. H. Bullen. Illustrated by J. R. Weguelin. L

[Archeology/Middle East/Egypt]. 8 Titles (10 Vols). ++ Walter Tyndale. BELOW THE CATARACTS. Phila: J. B. Lippincott, 1907. Hinges slightly loose. Foxe

. Austen Henry Layard. NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or

[Arctic Exploration]. 2 Titles (3 Vols). ++ Robert E. Perry. THE NORTH POLE: Its Discovery in 1909 under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. NY:

[Arctic Exploration]. Fridtjof Nansen. THE FIRST CROSSING OF GREENLAND. 2 Vols. Translated from the Norwegian of Hubert Majendie Gepp. Lon: Longmans

[Arctic Exploration]. FRIDTJOF NANSEN?S ?FARTHEST NORTH? Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Month

[Arctic/Northern Scandanavia]. 2 Titles (4 Vols). ++ Paul B. Chaillu. THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN: Summer and Winter Journeys through Sweden, Norwa

[Asia/China/Japan]. 3 Titles (4 Vols). ++ A. Henry Savage Landor. CHINA AND THE ALLIES. 2 Vols. NY: Charles Scribner?s Sons, 1901. Thick 8vo. Orig

[Asia/China/Mideast/Africa]. 3 Titles (4 Vols). ++ M. Huc. A JOURNEY THROUGH THE CHINESE EMPIRE. 2 Vols. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1857. 8vo. Ori...

[Asia/China]. 2 Titles (4 Vols). ++ J. F. Bishop. THE YANGTZE VALLEY AND BEYOND. 2 Vols. NY: G. P. Putnam?s Sons/ Lon: John Murray, 1900. 8vo. Navy

[Asia/Chinese Printing]. 2 Vols. ++ Mustard Seed Garden (a painting and drawing manual authored by Wang). Single volume only or an abridgement