1855. DRAYTON, Daniel. PERSONAL MEMOIR OF DANIEL DRAYTON, FOR FOUR YEARS AND FOUR MONTHS A PRISONER (FOR CHARITY'S SAKE) IN WASHINGTON JAIL; INCLUDING A NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGE AND CAPTURE OF THE SCHOONER PEARL. Boston: Published by Bela Marsh; New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1855. First edition. Frontispiece... More
1961. DUMOND, Dwight Lowell. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANTISLAVERY IN AMERICA. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (1961). 119 pp. 4to., brown pictorial paper covred boards, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in near fine matching dust jacket with minor wear to spine at heel and crown. A life's work: Dumond spent... More
1839. DUNLAP, William. HISTORY OF THE NEW NETHERLANDS, PROVINCE OF NEW YORK, AND STATE OF NEW YORK, TO THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION. In Two Volumes. New York: Printed for the author by Carter & Thorp, Exchange Place. 1839 & 1840. First edition. Illustrated with two plates (a portrait of... More
1861. FE. DUYCKINCK, Evert A. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY OF EMINENT AMERICANS. From Original Full Length Paintings by Alonzo Chappel. With Biographical and Historical Narratives, by Evert A. Duyckinck. In two volumes. New York: Johnson, Fry & Company, (1861-1864). 4to, half leather and a.e.g, gilt rules, raised bands, gilt spine lettering... More
1809. DUYCKINCK, Evert, publ. VALUABLE SECRETS IN ARTS, TRADES, ETC. SELECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORS AND ADAPTED TO THE SITUATION OF THE UNITED STATES. New York: Evert Duyckinck, 1809. 12mo. 380 pp. + [20] pp. Index. Modern binding of mottled calf in a contemporary style, with a lettering piece and... More
1903. EARLE, Alice Morse. TWO CENTURIES OF COSTUME IN AMERICA MDCXX-MDCCCXX. Volume II. New York" Macmillan Company, (1903). First edition, vol. 2 only. 8vo., green cloth, t.e.g.. Very good. More
1865. EDGE, Frederick Milnes. MAJOR GENERAL MCCLELLAN AND THE CAMPAIGN OF THE YORKTOWN PENINSULA. With a map of the peninsula drawn expressly for this work by James Wyld, geographer to the Queen. London: Trubner & Co., 1865. First edition. Octavo. iv,203 pp. Maroon cloth, gilt-stamped title to spine, brown coated... More
1869. ELIOT, CHARLES WILLIAM. ADDRESSES AT THE INAUGURATION OF CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT AS PRESIDENT OF HARVARD COLLEGE, Tuesday, October 19, 1869. Cambridge: Sever and Francis, 1869. 65 pp. 8vo. First edition. Stab-stiched pamphlet in printed wrappers, spine reinforced with archival tape. some shelfwear, faint dampstaining to lower margin of lower... More
1952. FIGUEROA, Don Jose, with foreword by Jos. A. Sullivan. THE MANIFESTO TO THE MEXICAN REPUBLIC. Oakland, Ca.: Biobooks, 1952. One of 750 copies. 103 pp. 8vo., black cloth. Near fine, minor shelfwear to edges, faint tanning to endpapers. Deckle fore-edge. Originally printed in Alta California during the Spanish occupation, 1835. More
1948. FOLSOM, Joseph Libbey. LETTER OF CAPTAIN J. L. FOLSOM TO THE SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE AT WASHINGTON, D.C. Introductory notes by Neal Harlow. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1948. Number 8 of the Letters of the Gold Discovery; limited to 750 copies. A quarto folder produced... More
1897. FORD, Paul Leicester, ed. THE NEW ENGLAND PRIMER. A history of its origin and development. With a reprint of the unique copy of the earliest known edition and many facsimile illustrations and reproductions. New York: Dodd Mead and Co., 1897. From a total edition of 482 copies, this is... More
1723. 1723 BOSTON IMPRINT FROM JOHN CLYDE OSWALD'S COLLECTION: THE FUNERAL SERMON FOR DAME BRIDGET USHER FOXCROFT, Thomas. THE CHARACTER OF ANNA, THE PROPHETESS, CONSIDER'D AND APPLY'D. In a Sermon Preach'd after the Funeral of the Honourable and Devout Gentlewoman, Dame Bridget Usher; who deceas'd at Boston, N. E., May... More
1824. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. MELANGES DE MORALE, D'ECONOMIE ET DE POLITIQUE, EXTRAITS DES OUVRAGES DE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, et precedes d'une notice sur sa vie, par A. Ch. Renouard. Paris: Chez Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1824. Two volumes. Engraved portrait in Vol. 1. 24mo. Vol. 1: vii,252 pp. Vol. 2: [iv],186 pp. Contemporary paper... More
1794. FREEMAN, Samuel. THE TOWN OFFICER: OR THE POWER AND DUTY OF SELECTMEN... AND OTHER TOWN OFFICERS. As contained in the Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. With a Variety of Forms, for the Use of such Officers. To which are added, the Power and Duty of Towns, Parishes and... More
1863. FREMONT, Jessie Benton. DIE LIEBGARDE. EINE GESCHICHTE AUS DEM KRIEGE. Boston: Ticknor und Fields, 1863. First German-language edition of The Story of the Guard: A Chronicle of the [American Civil] War, issued in the same year and by the same publisher as the first edition. 187 pp. 18mo., publisher's... More
FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY. LOT OF TWELVE KEEPSAKE SERIES PAMPHLETS. Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California [1975-1992]. Fine condition. 8vo., wrappers. Western Americana, fiction, California History, special subjects in the Bancroft Library collection. Illustrated. No. 22. THOMES, Willam Henry. RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD TIMES IN CALIFORNIA... More
1847. FROST, John. PICTORIAL LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON. Hartford: Belknap and Hamersley/Philadelphia: Martin Bomberger/Cincinnati: Bomberger & Gillis, 1847. Illustrated from engravings. 8vo., calf decorated in blind to upper board and stamped in gilt to spine, raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers. Foxing throughout text; a small tear to bottom edge... More
1830. GALVESTON BAY & TEXAS LAND COMPANY. W. B. BOLLES CERTIFICATE FOR TEXAS LAND. New York City: October 16, 1830. Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company document signed by three trustees representing Lorenzo de Zavala, Joseph Vehlein and David G. Burnet. One page, 12 1/2 x 8 inches. Made out... More
1857. GLADSTONE, T[homas]. H. THE ENGLISHMAN IN KANSAS: OR, SQUATTER LIFE AND BORDER WARFARE. With an introduction, by Fred. Law Olmsted. New York: Miller & Company, 1857. First American edition. 12mo. lv,328 pp. In a worn publisher's binding of blue cloth which is sunned at spine, chipped at heel, crown... More
1913. A BIOGRAPHICAL CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY, With an Outline History of the National Congress, 1774-1911. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1913. 1136pp. Large 8vo., black cloth, gilt. Ex-library; bookplate to front pastedown and no other library marks. Some bumping to corners and spine tips. Minor exterior dust soil. Clean and crisp... More
1809. GRANT, [Anne] Mrs.. MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN LADY: with sketches of manners and scenery in America, as they existed previous to the revolution. New York: Printed for Samuel Campbell, by D. & G. Bruce, 1809. Same year as the two-volume first American edition published at Boston. viii,344 pp. 12mo.... More
1816. GREENLEAF, Moses. A STATISTICAL VIEW OF THE DISTRICT OF MAINE; MORE ESPECIALLY WITH REFERENCE TO THE VALUE AND IMPORTANCE OF ITS INTERIOR. ADDRESSED TO THE CONSIDERATION OF THE LEGISLATORS OF MASSACHUSETTS. Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1816. First edition. 154 pp. 8vo., quarter brown paper, blue paper covered boards/ Spine... More
1856. GRISWOLD, Rufus Wilmot. THE REPUBLICAN COURT, or American Society in the Days of Washington. With Twenty-one Original Portraits of Distinguished Women, Engraved from Orginal Pictures by Woolaston, Copley, Gainsborough, Stuart, Trumbull, Pine, Malbone, and Other Contemporary Painters. New and Revised Edition. New York; D. Appleton and Co., 1856. Small... More
1833. HALL, James, ed. THE WESTERN MONTHLY MAGAZINE. A continuation of the Illinois Monthly Magazine. Cincinnati: Published by Corey & Fairbank, 1833 (-1834). 22 issues. A nearly complete run of the first two years of this monthly periodical (January, 1833 - December, 1834), lacking only two issues (#s 13 &... More
1831. HALL, S[amuel] R[ead]. THE CHILD'S ASSISTANT TO A KNOWLEDGE OF THE GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF VERMONT. Third edition, with plates. Montpelier, VT.: Published by J. S, Walton, 1831. Folding frontispiece map of Vermont with hand-coloring, twelve wood-engraved text illustrations. 75 pp. 12mo., cloth back, illustrated paper over thin wooden... More