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Americana

- Views in America, Great Britain, Switzerland
- AMERICAN TRADE CARDS. A bound volume containing 97 Trade Advertisements printed on the versos of plates from Views in America, Great Britain, Switzerland, Turkey, Italy, The Holy Land, etc. Small folio, 268 x 203 mm, bound in publisher's full black morocco, intricate gilt tooling and lettering on covers. New York: J. Milton Emerson, 1853.
  
  A most curious album of ...
Item nr. 123649 $ 3,750.00

- Il Gazzettiere Americano. (3 vols)
- AMERICANA. Il Gazzettiere Americano, contenente un distinto Ragguaglio di Tutte le Parti del Nuovo Mondo. Three volumes. xxiii, [1], 216, [2]; 256, [2]; 253, [3] pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, 3 title-page vignettes, 40 full-page engraved plates, 38 maps and plans (many folding), plus exquisite etched tailpieces throughout. Folio, 303 x 270 mm, bou...
Item nr. 144028 $ 12,500.00

- New York: Past, Present and Future
- NEW YORK. New-York: Past, Present, and Future; Comprising a History of the City of New York, A Description of Its Present Condition, and An Estimate of Its Future Increase. [Bound with]: New York As It Is; Being the Counterpart to the Metropolis of America. [Bound with]: The American Advertiser; Designed for the Cards and Advertisements of Mercantile & Manufact...
Item nr. 123645 $ 675.00

- O-KEE-PA
- CATLIN, George. O-KEE-PA: A Religious Ceremony; And other Customs of the Mandans. [8], 52 pp. Illustrated with 13 chromolithographic plates by Simonau & Toovey. 8vo., 228 x 170 mm, bound in publisher's green cloth, covers stamped in gilt, a.e.g. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1867.
  
  First Edition, American Issue. Author and illustrator Georges Catlin (1796-1872...
Item nr. 144177 $ 8,500.00

- The world in miniature; with descriptions of every nation and country
- COLBY, Charles Galusha. The world in miniature; with descriptions of every nation and country. 239, [1] pp. With an additional engraving of Quebec tipped in as frontispiece, and 55 hand-coloured maps and charts. 8vo., 184 x 160 mm, bound in original publisher's red morocco, gilt extra. New Orleans: Published by Arthur B. Griswold, 1857 (in MS: "1858").
  
  First Edi...
Item nr. 112622 $ 2,500.00

- The German Emigrants or Frederick Wohlgemuth's Voyage to California.
- GOLD RUSH TALE. The German Emigrants or Frederick Wohlgemuth's Voyage to California. Translated by Leopold Wray (pseud. for Clara de Chatelain). [2], 39, [1] pp. Hand-coloured frontispiece and 7 hand-coloured lithographs. 12mo., 170 x 110 mm, quarter red morocco over marbled boards. Guben: F. Fechner, [ca. 1852].
  
  Rare First Edition of this poignant German lite...
Item nr. 30594 $ 1,500.00

- A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
- MUIR, John. A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. With a frontispiece portrait of Muir and 12 plates and maps. 8vo., bound in original publisher's boards, decorated with a design of a Florida sunset by Amelia M. Watson, with dust jacket. Boston & New York: Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin, 1916.
  
  First Edition, edited by William F. Badè. Muir's autobiographical ...
Item nr. 146108 $ 1,500.00

- Journals of Major Robert Rogers
- ROGERS, Major Robert. Journals of Major Robert Rogers: Containing An Account of the several Excursions he made under the Generals who commanded upon the Continent of North America, during the late war. viii, 236, plus 4 pp. ads. 8vo., 198 x 125 mm, bound in contemporary speckled calf, rebacked in brown morocco with maroon morocco spine label preserved in a half orange m...
Item nr. 144081 $ 12,500.00