Archaeologist William Gell’s marvelous volume of hand-colored etchings and aquatints depicting “that part of the Troad, which is more particularly connected with the Iliad of Homer.” The introduction includes Gell’s account of his journey, and is followed by the plates and maps, each of which is accompanied by descriptive text.....
First edition of a venomous critique of early 19th century American culture, written by a traveling English-born Australian. Writing the Rambles after traveling through New England, New York, the Great Lakes region, Western United States, and Eastern Canada, James was “very severe on the Americans” (Sabin), expressing his dislike of.....
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An account by the first casualty on the California front of the Mexican American War, Captain Abraham Robinson Johnston, dating from Sept. 24 to Dec. 4th 1846. Excerpted from Emory’s Notes of a Military Reconnaissance (1848), it narrates the American Army of the West’s passage along the Gila Trail. This volume.....
First edition of this scarce seventeenth-century description of New England, including valuable observations on the natural history of the region: “the earliest work on the Natural History of New England” (Rich). Josselyn visited America in 1638–39 and again from 1663 to 1671, spending most of his second sojourn with his.....
First edition, second issue (photos at front and rear). Inscribed by Matthiessen as follows: “For Dorette – Funkie Fleischmann With best regards Peter.”.
A stunning and important set of eight photo albums documenting Japanese life, scenery, and culture, as well as the activities of two American expatriate brothers in Japan and the foreign community to which they belonged. Also included are images of China, Hong Kong, and Formosa (Taiwan). These albums, compiled by.....
"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).....
The rare hand-colored issue of one of the finest of all South Pacific plate books, with twenty-five beautiful views of Tahiti, Pitcairn’s Island, the Society Islands, Samoa, and Fiji, in the publisher’s even rarer deluxe full morocco binding. “Conway Shipley was a lieutenant on the H.M.S. Calypso during its supply.....
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 scarce guide to the leisure destinations in the Boston Harbor region, including a map of the routes and a brief history of steamer travel between Boston and Hingham. “Fortunate, indeed, it is” for the poor and laboring classes of the Boston area that “there is an Elysium, and that.....
5th book of Strawberry Hill. 2nd year of press. 1 of 700 copies, edited by Horace Walpole. According to Walpole’s introductory advertisement, “Lord Whitworth’s little treatise will throw considerable lights upon the formation of the Muscovite power, and upon the plans of the extraordinary genius, Peter the Great." Whitworth’s “An.....