Search Results
Your Search Criteria
|
|
| Search Within These Results: | |
- A.Y. N. Knapsack (AYH Knapsack; American Youth Hostels Kanpsack). Volumes 5 through 13.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,344.95
- Publisher: Northfield (Massachusetts): American Youth Hostels Inc., Date Published: 1940
- Description: Volumes 5 (1940) through 13 (1948), small, square octavo, each volume complete in four numbers; library markings, now in four later board bindings with cloth tape spines, all pictorial paper covers retained but a few shaved (the size of issues varies slightly), illustrated, sound copies and interiors clean; special events, places to visit, members experiences, etc., some issues have guides to various regions with numerous symbols whose meanings are not apparent to the non-hosteller, mostly travel in the United States but after the war occasional articles on European hostelling. Volumes Included: 4
- Subject: youth hostels, hostelling, United States, travel, SLT Show items similar to this.
Request a photo for this item.- Item Number: 644629
- Equity (Formerly Equity Series). Devoted to improved processes of self-government, including the Initiative and Referendum, the Recall, Proportional Representation, the Short Ballot ... (etc. etc., subtitle varies) Volumes 16-21
- ISBN: NA Price: $277.60
- Publisher: Philadelphia: C. F. Taylor Date Published: 1913
- Description: Volumes 15 (1913) through Volume 21, Number 2 (April, 1919, last issue before being absorbed by National Municipal Review); ex library in 7 later board bindings; bindings rubbed and some soiled, still a sound group with only light general age toning to interiors. Volumes Included: 7
- Subject: United States, Good Government, voting, reform movements, SLT, Big Sets Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 626122
- Travels through the States of North America, and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada during the years 1795, 1796, and 1797.
- ISBN: NA Price: $290.17
- Publisher: London: Printed for John Stockdale, Date Published: 1807
- Description: Fourth Edition; xvi, 427 pp. + 376 pp.; text only with all the maps and plates missing, later half calf bindings very badly worn at spines, text age toned with some leaves remargined at fore edge, reading set only. Volumes Included: 2
- Subject: travel, United States, Canada Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 495354
- Nouveau voyage dans les Etats-Unis de l'Amerique septentrionale, fait en 1788; par J. P. Brissot (Warville), citoyen francois.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,222.62
- Publisher: Paris: Chez Buisson, Date Published: 1791
- Description: first edition of the first two volumes, the third volume "Nouvelle edition" as issued for this set; 3 volumes, [4] (half title, title), lii, 395 pp. + [4] (half title, title), 460 pp., folding table + [4] (title, additional title leaf without imprint "De la France et des Etats-Unis, ou de l'importance de la revolution de l'Amerique pour le bonheur de la France ... par Etienne Claviere et J. P. Brissot (Warville). Nouvelle edition."; library book plates and markings, contemporary boards with leather spines rubbed, especially at joints, text age toned with some sections or leaves darker and occasional age spotting but not fragile and entirely readable, a good+ set. Volumes Included: 3
- Subject: United States, travel, CRN Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 679911
- The English-Speaking World. (Volume 20, Number 6 - Volume 44, Number 4)
- ISBN: NA Price: $221.22
- Publisher: London: English-Speaking Union, Date Published: 1938
- Description: Volume 20, Number 6 (June 1938, first issue after the title change from The Landmark) through Volume 44, Number 4 (July 1962, last published); quarto before Volume 26 and small octavo after, 12 issues a volume at first and later 6 issues a volume in the smaller format (with a few exceptions e.g. Volume 25 is complete in three issues with the first misnumbered as Volume 24, Number 13; Volume 35 is complete in 8 issues and December 1953 not issued); ex library in 13 later quarter or full cloth bondings, most front covers retained but only some back covers, some early issues are called American Edition; an illustrated magazine to promote Anglo-American friendship and mutual support. Volumes Included: 13
- Subject: United States, Great Britain, Anglo-American relations, SLT, Big Sets Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 626124
- New Travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. By J. P. Brissot de Warville. Translated from the French.
- ISBN: NA Price: $210.82
- Publisher: London: J. S. Jordan Date Published: 1792
- Description: first edition in English, the issue with the shorter title; [title leaf], xliii, [1], [45]-483, [1], [4] (contents and errata) pp., folding table; paper covered board sides rubbed and neatly rebacked in cloth, title chipped at fore edge with no loss and a full page of written verse (e.g. "Next sneaking Littleton was seen, Poor Imp! / Caught in the inglorious habit of a Pimp") on verso bleeds thorough, first text page has a long tear in margin that barely hits a few letters, occasional ink marginalia, still a good+ copy and untrimmed; Howes B 784 "A favorable view of America, attracting to its shores many Europeans.",. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Americana, travel, United States, VSL Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 543862
- Le spectateur americain, ou Remarques generales sur l'Amerique septentrionale et sur la republique des Treize Etats-Unis; suivi de Recherches philosophiques sur la decouverte du Nouveau-Monde. Par M. Jh. Mandrillon ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,766.19
- Publisher: A Amsterdam; et se trouve a Bruxelles: Chez Emmanuel Flon, Date Published: 1785
- Description: Seconde edition revue, corrigee, & augmentee de plusieurs articles & d'une table alphabetique des matieres.; [2] (half title), xx, 519 pp. 2 folding tables, folding map 'Carte generale des treize Eats-Unis independants de l'Amerique septetrionale pour servir au Spectateur americain 1785.' showing the East Coast from Maine to the Carolinas; library book plate and markings including small blind stamps on title and a few interior leaves, full calf binding worn, especially at spine and tips with front joint split and hinge cracked after title, paper defect at corner of T6 with loss of several letters on page 300, the map has light general age toning and misfold creases so that it no longer fits quite squarely into text block, there is also a short tear at stub not touching border but it is overall very good; the author was an international merchant and banker who, despite exposure to American Democracy, unfortunately supported a Constitutional Monarchy for France, he was guillotined at Paris in 1794. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, description and travel, maps, CRN Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 676597
- A Press Club Outing. A trip Across the Continent to attend the First Convention of the International League of Press Clubs, by Thomson P. McElrath, Historian of the Trip.
- ISBN: NA Price: $81.00
- Publisher: NY: International League of Press Clubs Date Published: 1893
- Description: first edition; large quarto, [150] pp., illustrations in text, very good in brown imitation leather with all edges red; a transcontinental railroad journey in January 1892 with a side trip to Salt Lake City, probably a fairly small printing as much of the material would have been of little interest to non-participants. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, railroads, travel, journalists, KFS Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 791598
- Eastern and Western Review. (Volume 8, Number 9 - Volume 9, Number 8)
- ISBN: NA Price: $113.84
- Publisher: Boston: Date Published: 1916
- Description: Volume 8, Number 9, January 1916 through Volume 9, Number 8, December, 1916, last issue published; large quarto, most issues are 64 pages and illustrated, ex library and all together in later paper covered boards with all original paper sides retained, binding dark and chipped at joints and extremities of spine, light horizontal fold marks (probably from mailing) and light general age toning to text but sound, good+ interiors; a publication of the Eastern and Western Review and Greek American Commercial Association but not limited to articles on Greece and Greek Americans. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Commerce, Greece, United States, Greek Americans, SLT Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 644695
- Travels in North America, in the Years 1841-2; with Geological Observations on the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia.
- ISBN: NA Price: $907.98
- Publisher: NY: Wiley & Putnam, Date Published: 1845
- Description: first American edition, the 2 volumes in one issue, small octavo, vi, [iii]-vii, [1], 251 pp., color frontispiece, folding plate of Niagara Falls, a few illustrations in text + vi, [2], 231 pp., folding hand colored map, folding plate, publisher also calls View of the great Coal Seam a plate but it is on the same paper as the text and included in the pagination, a few illustrations in text; lacks the hand colored single page map and one of the folding plates from the first volume, original cloth very worn with joints split and front hinge broken, frontis. and title for first volume detached, folding map dark and with splits at folds, age staining throughout, working copy only. Volumes Included: 2
- Subject: North America, United States, Canada, geology, travel, BTC Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 659541
- Travels through the Interior Parts of America. In A Series Of Letters. By an Officer.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,214.96
- Publisher: London: Printed For William Lane, Date Published: 1789
- Description: first edition; 2 volumes, [title leaf], vii, [1] (directions to binder), [19] (subscribers), [1] (errata), 467 pp., folding map with minor hand coloring as frontispiece, 5 plates with all but one of them folding + [title leaf], 558 pp., folding plate; lacks the two leaves showing American Continental American Dollars and both half titles, library book plates and markings including blind and hand stamps on both titles, flame calf very rubbed and flaking at spines and one side detached, general age toning and occasional age staining that hits the pictorial material, map has a tear at bottom margin that cuts through border but no loss and repaired from verso, some plates have splits at folds and some with old repairs but also no loss, two text leaves in first volume lack corner with one catch word touched, a few other leaves have short margin tears with no loss, good; the author was a lieutenant in Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777, taken as a prisoner of war, marched from Boston to Charlottesville, Virginia, and there imprisoned until 1780; although a low ranking officer his military account is a valuable resource and his experiences traveling as a POW are often quoted, but there are problems with parts his account. "... he no doubt witnessed most of the natural phenomena he reports, he nevertheless plagiarized large portions of his Travels from Andrew Burnaby, Peter Kalm, Abbe Raynal, and others." (Daniel J. Philippon, Landmarks of American Nature Writing, 1997). Volumes Included: 2
- Subject: American Revoltion, Burgoyne's Invasion, Canada, United States, travel, CRN Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 679964
- The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1787.
- ISBN: NA Price: $310.07
- Publisher: London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Date Published: 1778
- Description: xxviii, 184, [160], 299 pp. (each section has its own pagination); library markings, previous owner's name on title, old calf very dry and worn with most of spine covering gone, text broken into several sections, text age toned but not fragile; notable for a very early British printing of the Constitution of the United States on pages 99-109, tucked away in the Public Papers portion of the Principal Occurrences section and presented without comment. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Americana, Constitution of the United States Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 353173
- Recent Recollections of the Anglo-American Church in the United States. By an English Layman, Five Years Resident in That Republic. Vol. I.
- ISBN: NA Price: $178.56
- Publisher: London: Rivington's, Date Published: 1861
- Description: Volume 1 only; xi, [1], 318, [2] pp.; original cloth rubbed with top back joint split and front hinge repaired, a few interior leaves shaken, good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Church of England, United States Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 518106
- Statistics of the United States of America, as Collected and Returned by the Marshals of the Several Judicial Districts under the Thirteenth Section of the Act for Taking the Sixth Census ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $198.00
- Publisher: Washinton: Printed by Blair and Rives Date Published: 1841
- Description: Corrected at the Department of State, June 1, 1840. Published by Authority of an Act of Congress, under the direction of the Secretary of State.; first edition; folio (slightly longer than 60 cm.), 409 pp., mostly tabular; library hand stamps, occasional damp staining, early, late, and some internal leaves tattered with no loss, some corners and tips bent or creased, leather spine rubbed and unprinted paper sides soiled with a few margin chips, good- only; Dubuster (Census) 25. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, Census, oversize Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 584803
- Laws of the United States of America ... Corresponding with and intended as a continuation of, the edition of Bioren & Co., as published by authority of an Act of Congress. (Volumes 6-10)
- ISBN: NA Price: $389.81
- Publisher: Washington: Davis & Force (later by others) Date Published: 1822
- Description: Volumes 6 (laws 1815 to 1821) through 10 (laws1839 to 1845) only, and the main works only, the General Index published with Volume 7 is not present; large, thick octavos, the smallest over a thousand pages, library and ownership markings, contemporary tan leather darkened a spine, rubbed, and with a few peel marks, light age staining and toning to interiors but not fragile and entirely serviceable. Volumes Included: 5
- Subject: United States, laws, law Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 626424
- Field Operations of the Bureau of Soils, 1910. (Twelfth Report.) by Milton Whitney, Chief. With Accompanying Papers by Assistants in Charge of Field Parties.
- ISBN: NA Price: $194.93
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1912
- Description: 2 volumes, text, 1772 pp. in original tan cloth + Map case, 43 folding maps loose, as issued, in a folding matching cloth covered case with fabric tie; library book plates but few other markings, bindings have smudges and the text volume has some age speckling at spine and a weak front hinge, overall very good, the maps fine and give the appearance of never having been opened. Volumes Included: 2
- Subject: soil surveys, United States Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 700579
- American State Papers. Documents Legislative and Executive of the Congress of the United States ... Commencing March 4, 1789 and ending March 3, 1859 [Class I] Foreign Relations. Second Series. Volume VI.
- ISBN: NA Price: $877.72
- Publisher: Washington: Published by Gales & Seaton, Date Published: 1859
- Description: Class 1, Second Series, Volume 6 only; first edition; narrow folio, ix, [1], 1127, [1], xxv pp.; library markings, leather spine and tips rubbed and worn with both joints split but text block sound, light general age toning to text, good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, foreign relations Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 786605
- American State Papers. Documents Legislative and Executive of the Congress of the United States ... Commencing Marfch 4, 1789 and ending March 3, 1859 [Class I] Foreign Relations. Second Series. Volume V.
- ISBN: NA Price: $204.12
- Publisher: Washington: Published by Gales & Seaton Date Published: 1858
- Description: Class 1, Second Series, Volume 5 only; first edition; narrow folio, viii, 929, xv pp; library markings, leather spine and tips rubbed and worn with front cover detached but text block sound, light general age toning to text, good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, foreign relations Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 786606
- American State Papers. Documents Legislative and Executive of the Congress of the United States ...[Class I] Foreign Relations. Volume II (and) Volume III.
- ISBN: NA Price: $330.48
- Publisher: Washington: Published by Gales and Seaton, Date Published: 1832
- Description: Class I, Volumes 2 and 3 only; narrow folio, II. vii, [1], 806, xxv pp. + contemporary boards very worn with spine covering gone, damp puckered throughout, reading copy only + III, viii, [5] (as issued)-753, [1], xlii pp.; later cloth tape at spine of contemporary boards and hinges taped, good only. Volumes Included: 2
- Subject: United States, foreign relations Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 786610
- Reports of Captain L. A. Beardslee. U. S. Navy, relative to Affairs in Alaska, and the Operations of the U. S. S. Jamestown under his command, while in the Waters of that Territory.
- ISBN: NA Price: $551.75
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1882
- Description: 198 pp., 5 folding maps; issued as 47th Congress, 1st session, SED 71; light general age toning to text and a general slant to the block, light extraction roughness at spine but still well sewn in self wrappers: the reports cover the period June 1879 to September 1880 during which Beardslee exercised wide power in civil and military matters, also includes information on the hydrographic and meteorological work by the crew of the Jamestown. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Alaska, United States Navy Show items similar to this.
- Request a photo for this item.
- Item Number: 826844
