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- Travels through the Interior Parts of America. In A Series Of Letters. By an Officer.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,215.08
- 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
- 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
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- 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: $1,222.74
- 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.
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- Item Number: 679911
- 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: $1,766.37
- 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.
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- Item Number: 676597
- Travels in North America, in the Years 1841-2; with Geological Observations on the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia.
- ISBN: NA Price: $908.07
- 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.
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- Item Number: 659541
- Old-World Questions and New-World Answers.
- ISBN: NA Price: $34.55
- Publisher: London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., Date Published: 1884
- Description: first edition; viii, 369, [1], 38 (ads) pp., small folding color map; ex library, later cloth faded at spine, map has long tear, sound and no loss but good only; an engineer's travels along the East Coast, New England, and through part of Canada. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: travel, United States, Canada Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 431666
- Impressions d'un viatge a l'est del Canada i Estats Units de l'America del Nord per T. A. Pinos. Una vista als centres hospitalaris de l'America del Nord per F. Gallart Mones.
- ISBN: NA Price: $41.75
- Publisher: Barcelona Date Published: 1933
- Description: small octavo, 71 pp.; library markings, only the front cover of paper wrappers remains, extraction roughness at spine and now entirely disbound. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, Canada, travel Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 422579
- Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office for the Year 1887.
- ISBN: NA Price: $130.12
- Publisher: Washington: GPO, Date Published: 1887
- Description: 664 pp., large folding table; portions of text age toned, block still well sewn but needs rebinding, good- only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, public lands, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 772003
- New Travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. By J. P. Brissot de Warville. Translated from the French.
- ISBN: NA Price: $210.84
- 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.
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- Item Number: 543862
- The American Gazetteer, exhibiting In alphabetical Order a much more full and accurate Account than has been given of the States, Provinces, Cities, Towns, Villages, Rivers, Bays, Harbors, Gulfs ... (etc. etc.)
- ISBN: NA Price: $3,422.52
- Publisher: London: J. Stockdale, C. Dilly, and T. N. Longman, Date Published: 1798
- Description: The Second Edition, Corrected, illustrated with Seven New and Improved Maps ... Printed in Boston, New England. London: Reprinted for J. Stockdale, C. Dilly, and T. N. Longman ...; not a reprint of a Boston second edition but a reprint of the first edition with minor changes, the most interesting of which are to the maps which have been re-engraved; viii, 634, [2] (directions to the binder/advertisements), 7 maps properly distributed with all but one of them folding; library and private book plates full flame calf rubbed and worn with front cover detached along with early leaves including the title and the map used as frontispiece, the general maps of North and South America have been hand colored British imperial pink and South America has a brown border along the coast line (intentional?), general light age toning with occasional light age staining and spotting, good+ only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: America, United States, gazetteers, geography, maps, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 679840
- Transactions of the American Ethnological Society. (Volume 1 through Volume 3 Part 1, all published)
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,243.11
- Publisher: NY: Date Published: 1845
- Description: Vol. I. New York: Bartlett & Welford; London: Wiley & Putnam, 1845; first edition; xiv, [2], 491 pp., 13 plates and tables with eight of them folding, the first five unnumbered then I-II, V-X, as issued?, some articles have small illustrations in text; library book plate and markings, later half leather faded and rubbed with front hinge broken, general light age toning with a few leaves darker, the Calendar Stone plate lacks one corner from paper defect but far from image or letters + Vol. II. New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1848; first edition; clxxxviii (a large portion devoted to the introduction to the volume's major article "Hale's Indians of North-west America, and Vocabularies of North-America .. By Albert Gallatin"), 298 pp., folding table, 5 folding maps including the hand colored frontispiece "Map of the Sites of the Indian Tribes of North America When first known to the Europeans ..." (the second issue, as it should be, with important changes from the 1836 first), two of the other maps are illustrations to "Observations of the Aboriginal Monuments of the Mississippi Valley .. By E. G. Squire" on pages 131-207, a few illustrations in text; library book plate and markings, binding to match the first but hinges sound, general light age toning with a few leaves darker, also light age toning to the Gallatin map but still very good + Vol. III. Part I. New York: George P. Putnam, 1853; [iv], 202 pp.; not stated but has the look of a facsimile reprint although the last few dozen pages do have a light pucker and speckle consistent with the fire that destroyed most of original issue; library book plate and markings, later cloth faded at spine but a sound copy. Volumes Included: 3
- Subject: United States, ethnology, archaeology, maps, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 679872
- A Continuation of the Narrative of the Missions to the New Settlements, according to the appointment of the General Association of the State of Connecticut: Together with an account of the receipts and expenditures of the money contributed, etc.
- ISBN: NA Price: $274.70
- Publisher: New Haven: Printed by T. & S. Green, Date Published: 1797
- Description: Together with An Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Money Contributed For the support of the Missionaries, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly of the State.; first edition; 15 pp., light age staining and toning with the thread tie broken, still very good in self wrappers, untrimmed and unopened; the narrative portion is mostly who preached where, self reports on the good work the missionaries are doing, and of course the need for more money lest the settlers be exposed to the seduction of sectaries and infidels, the Indians are mentioned only briefly; Evans 31968. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Congregational Churches, United States, home missions, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 679950
- First statement on the part of Great Britain, according to the provisions of the Convention concluded between Great Britain and the United States, on the 29th September, 1827. ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $223.54
- Publisher: London: Date Published: 1829
- Description: For regulating the Reference to Arbitration of the Disputed Points of Boundary under the Fifth Article of the Treaty of Ghent. (and 2 other items, see below) First Statement ... narrow folio, 43 pp. (this part was also issued with a lengthy appendix not present here) [with] Second Statement on the part of Great Britain ... 41, [3], 30 (appendix) pp. [and] Decision of the Arbiter [caption title] 16 pp. duplicate text in French and English; all in untrimmed and never bound signatures, thread ties broken or missing, Library of Congress hand stamps, very good+. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Canada, Northeast United States boundary disputes, international relations Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 532869
- Centenaire de l'assaut de Quebec par les Americains 31 decembre 1775. Compte-rendu de la seance solennelle donnee par l'Institut canadien de Québec le 30 decembre 1875.
- ISBN: NA Price: $5.44
- Publisher: Quebec: A. Cote Date Published: 1876
- Description: 118 pp.; paper wrappers detached and badly chipped, text age toned but not fragile and mostly unopened. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American invasion of Canada, Siege of Quebec, military history Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 524851
- A.Y. N. Knapsack (AYH Knapsack; American Youth Hostels Kanpsack). Volumes 5 through 13.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,345.09
- 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.
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- Item Number: 644629
- 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: $81.01
- 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
- Studies in the South and West, with comments on Canada.
- ISBN: NA Price: $3.90
- Publisher: NY: Harper & Brothers, Date Published: 1889
- Description: vi, 484, [4] (ads) pp., ex library and needs rebinding, reading copy only; St. Louis and Kansas City are about as far West as the author goes but includes material on Chicago and the Midwest. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: travel, United States, Canada, CSG Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 578291
- Studies in the South and West, with comments on Canada.
- ISBN: NA Price: $12.96
- Publisher: NY: Harper & Brothers, Date Published: 1889
- Description: vi, 484, [4] (ads) pp., ex library, library buckram, reading copy only; St. Louis and Kansas City are about as far West as the author goes but includes material on Chicago and the Midwest. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: travel, United States, Canada, CSG Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 586030
- An Account of the Reception given by the Citizens of New-York to the survivors of the Officers and Crews of the United States frigates Cumberland and Congress, at the Academy of Music, April 10th, 1862.
- ISBN: NA Price: $88.61
- Publisher: NY: The Committee of Arrangements, Date Published: 1862
- Description: first edition; small octavo, 37, [3] pp., frontis., original flexible green cloth; library hand stamps and other markings, front hinge cracked at title, overall good+; Hampton Roads is most frequently remembered as a battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac but other ships were also present, the Cumberland was rammed and sunk and the Congress actually surrendered before being destroyed but for as long as possible the officers and crews "nobly stood by their guns and their flag" while seriously outmatched and taking heavy casualties, the Committee gave them a fine reception and raised over $2600 for distribution among the men. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American Civil War, Battle of Hampton Roads, United States Navy Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 389485
- American-Turkish Claims Settlement. Under the Agreement of December 24, 1923, and Supplemental Agreements between the United States and Turkey. Opinions and Report.
- ISBN: NA Price: $465.30
- Publisher: Washington: GPO Date Published: 1937
- Description: Prepared by Fred K. Nielsen In accordance with the Act of March 22, 1935, 49 Stat. 67.; first edition; iv, 817 pp.; hardcover, ex library, else text and binding clean and tight. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: international law, United States, Turkey, American-Turkish Commission Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 530252
