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With Fly, Plug, and Bait (Signed)
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1947. Limited Edition. 8vo. A lovely First Limited edition, this being #115 of 249 printed, and signed by the author on the limitations page. Three quarter navy-blue morocco over blue cloth. Limited edition #144 of 249 copies. Envelope with six color plates at..... More
New World Dutch Studies: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America, 1609-1776 (Albany Institute of History and Art)
Albany, NY: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1987. 1st Edition. Quarto. Trade paperback. Square Tight Binding. Clean interior, from the personal library of world-renowned Architectural Historian and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation leader, Edward Chappell, with his signature. Chappell made Williamsburg, Virginia his home since 1980 when he was hired to..... More
A Treatise on Optics
Philadelphia, Pa: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837. 8vo. A very nice copy of this important 19th-century scientific text. "Sir David Brewster (1781 – 1868) was a British scientist, inventor, author, and academic administrator. In science he is principally remembered for his experimental work in physical optics, mostly concerned..... More
Sick Heart River
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941. 1st Edition. 8vo. An Excellent copy of this uncommon mystery of the Canadian Wilderness, published posthumously but written while the Scottish Buchan held the position of Governor-General of Canada. The fictional Sick Heart River is a substitute for the real Nahanni River in Canada's..... More
THE ANNUAL REGISTER, Or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1775
London: J. Dodsley, 1780. 3rd Edition. 8vo. This 1780 3rd Edition of the 1775 Annual Register features early printings of accounts of the Battles of Lexington & Concord, Bunker Hill, as well as proceedings from the ,2nd Continental Congress with this printing published during the Revolutionary War. The Annual..... More
THE ANNUAL REGISTER, Or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1781
London: J. Dodsley, 1782. 1st Edition. 8vo. This 1782 1st Edition of the 1781 Annual Register features accounts of the Battles of Kings Mountain, Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse and the Siege of Yorktown, including the surrender of Cornwallis. The Annual Register was cofounded by important Age of Enlightenment philosopher Edmund..... More
Chesapeake Duke
New York: Rand McNallly, 1965. Weiss, Emil. 8vo. A very nice 1st Edition copy of Gilbert Byron's classic children's tale of a boy and his Chesapeake Bay Retriever on the turn-of-the-century Eastern Shore of Maryland. Tan cloth. Tight binding. Clean interior. Mild rubbing and edge wear to binding. Spine..... More
These Chesapeake Men
North Montpelier, Vermont: Driftwind Press. Jack Lewis. 2nd Printing. 8vo. A beautiful 2nd printing of Byron's first book of poetry, with tipped-in pastedown illustrations by Delaware artist Jack Lewis. This edition comes with two items laid in, one a printing of the 1944 poem, "Baccalaureate', and the other..... More
Joseph Nichols and the Nicholites
Easton, Md: Easton Publishing Co, 1962. 1st Edition. 8vo. 1st Edition of this Eastern Shore of Maryland Quaker offshoot sect. Very Scarce in commerce. The Nicholites "came into being along the Maryland-Delaware border about 1760...and soon waxed strong in Caroline and Dorchester Counties in Maryland...The Nicholites progressed from being..... More
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
London: William Heinemann, 1925. Arthur Rackham. 8vo. A beautiful edition of Alice illustrated by Arthur Rackham, one of the most acclaimed and collectible illustrators of the 20th century. Red cloth boards with Rackham pictorial plate to front: "The Mock Turtle drew a long breath and said, 'That's very curious'"..... More
The Virginia Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1795-1820 ( 3 Volumes)
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977-1980. Quarto. A beautiful set, complete in three volumes, each in original dust jacket. "Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe (1764 – 1820) was an Anglo-American neoclassical architect who emigrated to the United States. He was one of the first formally trained, professional architects in..... More
Cultural Change in the Shenandoah Valley; Northern Augusta County Houses Before 1861
Charlottesville, Va: University of Virginia, 1977. 1st Edition. Quarto. The original typed manuscript by renowned architectural historian Edward Chappell for his Masters Thesis at the University of Virginia, and his own copy. From the personal library of world-renowned Architectural Historian and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation leader, Edward Chappell. Chappell..... More
History of the Hampton Battery F Independent Pennsylvania Light Artillery
Akron, Ohio: The Werner Company, 1909. 8vo. Interesting account of the Hampton battery during the Civil War with original errata slip tipped in to the front endpaper. 18 illustrations and photographs. Red cloth with gilt title on front and spine and gilt top edge. Square tight binding. Slight foxing..... More
Banking House of J.I. Cohen, Jr. & Brothers Letterhead with Invoice
Baltimore, Maryland: 1836. Jacob Cohen (1789-1869) was a banker, railroad executive and civic leader who helped win for for Maryland Jews the right to hold public office in the "Free" State. He and his colleague, Solomon Etting, won the fight for the "Jew Bill" and, subsequently elected to the Baltimore..... More
History of the New Hampshire Surgeons in the War of the Rebellion.
Concord, NH: New Hampshire Association of Military Surgeons, 1906. 1st Edition. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. Square tight binding. Clean interior. Mild rubbing and edge wear, Text block edges lightly foxed. Cloth along bottom edges a touch frayed. An attractive edition of this scarce Civil War title. More
An Account of Our Late Troubles in Virginia. Written in 1676, by Mrs. An. Cotton, of Q. Creeke.
Washington, DC: Peter Force, 1835. 1st Edition Thus. 8vo. A scarce and one of the earliest personal accounts of Bacon's Rebellion. Cotton goes into great detail to parse out the particulars of the rebellion, including the players involved, troop movements, miles travelled, and outcomes. "Ann Cotton was..... More
The Passionate Years
London: Alvin Redman Limited, 1955. 1st Edition. 8vo. A lovely copy of this scarce biography of the "literary godmother" to the Lost Generation of Paris ex-pat Authors, such as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein, and others. Crosby was also the founder of the Black Sun Press, instrumental in publishing some..... More
Catalogue of European Court Swords and Hunting Swords
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1929. 1st Edition. Quarto. An important study profusely illustrated with black and white photos. Blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. Square tight binding. Clean interior. Hinges professionally reinforced. Sporadic foxing. Mild rubbing and wear to binding. More
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself...
Hartford, CT: Park Publishing Co., 1882. 3rd Printing. 8vo. 1882 1st Edition, 3rd Printing (McKivigan, vol 3, Book 1, pg 547) of Frederick Douglass' 3rd and final autobiography, originally published in 1881. Douglass' written life story was very similar to 'Leaves of Grass', by poet Walt Whitman, in..... More
Black Metropolis: A study of Negro Life in a Northern City
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945. 1st Edition. 8vo. An important Jim Crow-era look at the lives of the Black population in Chicago in the 1940s, a "monumental study of race relations and African American social structure" (Finkelman, 90). Introduction by Richard Wright, novelist and short-story writer who..... More
Rare 1912 Sanborn Insurance Map of Easton, Maryland (Talbot County)
Sanborn Map Co., 1912. 1st Edition. A stunning 1912 Sanborn Insurance map of historic downtown Easton, Maryland, in Talbot County on the Old Line State's Eastern Shore along Chesapeake Bay. This map features a full color map of the historic district of the county seat as well as large..... More
Loterie Nationale Tourisme
Paris: Loterie Nationale of France, 1939. Edgar Derouet, Charles Lesacq. 1st Edition. This is one of a series of beautiful Art Deco posters created for the Loterie Nationale (National Lottery) in France by artists Edgar Derouet and Charles Lesacq. This Art Deco style poster is for a lottery..... More
My 60 memorable Games
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969. 1st Editon. 8vo. Beautiful 1st Edition in original first state dust jacket of one of the most influential chess books ever written. Fischer remains the greatest and most famous American player in history. "Fischer won the World Chess Championship in..... More
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1952. Early Printing. 8vo. A very nice early printing of this compelling account of a young Jewish girl's years in hiding from the Nazi regime of Germany during WW II. In her diary, Anne documents the day to day life of her and her..... More