The Yosemite.
First edition, first printing. A lovely copy of perhaps the most desirable work by one of the towering figures in the conservation movement.
First edition, first printing. A lovely copy of perhaps the most desirable work by one of the towering figures in the conservation movement.
The first edition of this important book on the culture of the Penobscot people of Maine. Joseph Nicolar, a Penobscot author, undertook in this work, as he states in his preface, to answer the question “where did the red man come from?” and to “remove the fear that the life.....
First edition of this fine volume of plates depicting scenes in the White Mountains of New Hampshire by noted artist Isaac Sprague. As Oakes explains in the preface, he conceived of this work while preparing a flora of the White Mountains, to which he wanted to add an illustrated guide.....
Stated “First American From the Third London Edition,” published in the year that Owen established the utopian community of New Harmony, Indiana, in an attempt to implement the principles outlined herein. One of two American editions published in 1825. The other edition was published in Cincinnati, as the “First American.....
Second edition of this important work of pomology, by two members of the Prince family of Flushing, New York, leading contributors to the development of horticulture in America. William Robert Prince (1795-1869) was the son of William Prince Jr. (1766-1842), whose father William Prince Sr. (1725-1802), converted the personal gardens.....
A spiritualist author’s account of the spirit of a boy who died in infancy. Natty, one Nathaniel Young, died within a few weeks of his birth in the fall of 1815, but according to the author persisted as a spirit. Putnam begins with a description of a newly executed painting.....
First editions of both works. Two rare and early works by the polymath naturalist Constantine Rafinesque (1783–1840), born in Constantinople and raised in Marseilles, though his name is forever associated with American botany, zoology, and linguistics. After an American apprenticeship, Rafinesque lived in Palermo from 1805 to 1815 and published.....
First edition of Raynolds’ full-scale report on an early exploration of “the region of [the] country through which flow the principal tributaries of the Yellowstone river, and of the mountains in which they, and the Gallatin and Madison forks of the Missouri, have their source.” Raynolds’s object was “to ascertain.....
The autobiography of social reformer Jacob Riis, along with two letters from Riis to influential Ellis Island immigration doctor Victor Safford. First published in 1901, this is a 1902 printing. Riis’s autobiography begins with his youth in Denmark (including his initially one-sided bond with his beloved wife Elizabeth), and his.....
First edition of Rodell’s account of the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, based on the day-to-day notes James Madison took at the convention, inscribed by the author to the noted lawyer Thurman Arnold who is best known for his trust-busting campaign while serving in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration from.....
"Schoolcraft and one companion named Levi Pettibone left Potosi (in the lead-mining region of southeastern Missouri) on November 6, 1818, and returned on February 9, 1819, having traveled an estimated nine hundred miles. The settlers that Schoolcraft and Pettibone encountered were just beginning to build cabins and plant crops..." (Wagner-Camp).....
An in-depth and exhaustive account of the actions and legal proceedings surrounding the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Case of 1858, an important event in abolitionist history. On 13 September 1858, a federal marshal in Oberlin, Ohio detained the runaway slave John Price from Kentucky in accordance with the Fugitive Slave Law of.....
A beautiful copy in original boards of the first printing of the first furniture finisher’s manual published in the United States, reprinted from the first British edition of the same year. Described on the title-page as a “New Edition, with considerable Additions,” this first American edition provides concise instructions on.....
An interesting pamphlet promoting land along the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad, including former Indian reservation lands, with an appealing map of the rail line and its spurs. The text begins with a message to the public advertising the Elkhorn Valley Route on the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad, the.....
The first Worcester edition and the first American book printed on wove paper, in a lovely early American binding. This is Smith’s second volume of poetry, from the Sixth London edition. Dard Hunter describes it as the “first book to be issued in America on ‘wove’ paper in which the.....
First edition. One of Steele's two classic accounts of canoe expeditions through the Maine wilderness, the other title being Canoe and Camera (NY, 1880). Includes one of the first maps published specifically for the use of recreational canoeists, Map... of the Headwaters of the Aroostook, Penobscot & St. John Rivers.....
All of Strahorn’s promotional works on the great Northwest have become scarce. Most of this pamphlet discusses the opportunities in stock raising and mining in Montana, with a section on Yellowstone. It contains very early, handsome woodcut engravings of Helena and Bozeman, public buildings, Yellowstone Lake and Falls, and the.....
Abridged pamphlet version of the second edition of Judge Stroud’s groundbreaking work surveying the slave codes of the period in all twelve slave-holding states and reviewing Constitutional provisions bearing on slavery. First published in 1827, this work greatly influenced national thinking on the issue of slavery by using slave law.....
The first nine issues of this continuation in magazine form of Isaiah Thomas’ newspaper The Massachusetts Spy, a format to which Thomas resorted as a means of avoiding recently instituted tariffs on paper and taxes on newspaper advertisements. In a broadside he published addressing the matter Thomas observed “The tax.....
An important volume containing the twelve issues for 1776 of this notable 18th century British periodical, featuring an early printing of the Declaration of Independence, signed in type by John Hancock and Charles Thompson, and also including several articles and maps of American interest. Among the more salient articles relating.....
Likely the first publication of the standardized Morse code—the first widely used modern data code. First Edition. This important pamphlet was published by Alfred Vail (1807–1859) after the successful test of a Congressionally approved experimental telegraph line spanning from Baltimore to Washington D.C. On 24 May 1844, Samuel F. B......
Weld, an Irishman, arrived in Philadelphia in late 1795 at the age of nineteen. His observations during two years of travels through eastern North America and Canada, told through a series of letters, comprise one of the most popular narratives of the day. Story wrote that "his account of Canada.....
A revised edition of this work by an important abolitionist whose writings were a source of information and inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe. Originally published in 1837 in The Anti-Slavery Examiner, this Biblical argument against slavery underwent several editions. Weld’s introduction recounts how, “When first published, many copies were sent.....
A collection of anti-slavery speeches and texts, including a plan for the education and emancipation of slaves held by Kentucky Presbyterians. The volume opens with William Wilberforce’s famous 1789 Parliamentary motion for the abolition of the slave trade, and includes several other British speeches before “The Bill Passed, Abolishing the.....
Emma Willard’s rebuttal of rival text book author Marcius Willson in a debate that articulated core questions of historiography and text-book compilation at the height of the common school era. This counter-thrust, an entry in the two-year pamphlet battle between pioneering female educator and mapmaker Emma Willard and her young.....