Maryland: 1851. 10” x 4” printed sheet; head-piece vignette at the top of the sheet; early stain. Candidates include: Comptroller of the Treasury, Philip Francis Thomas (former Governor of Maryland); Lottery Commissioner, Thomas R. Stewart; Commissioner of the Land Office, James Murray; Commissioner of the Public Works, John S. Gittings;.....
Richmond: Samuel Shepherd & Co. for Ritchie and Cook, 1830. Full Leather. Octavo. iv, 919, [1] pp. First Edition. Full calf with later spine label. Largely, a solid copy; spine is a bit chipped at the ends and the leather is darkened. Front and rear free endpapers have some significant.....
![Item #5335 [American Civil War] ADDRESSES DELIVERED BEFORE THE VIRGINIA STATE CONVENTION,...](/pictures/thumb/5335.jpg?v=1633723075)
Richmond, VA: Wyatt M. Elliott, 1861. Original Sewn Wrappers. Octavo. 64 pp. First Edition. Bound as issued in stitched wrappers; light soiling as well as some creasing to the wrappers; limited shelfwear; minimal foxing. A very nice copy of an uncommon pamphlet, presenting, as Nevins writes, “fervent pleas that the.....
![Item #5497 [Vale Press] DE CUPIDINIS ET PSYCHES, AMORIBUS FABULA ANILIS. Lucius | Apuleius, C. I....](/pictures/thumb/5497.jpg?v=1633723156)
London: Vale Press | Hacon & Ricketts printed at the Ballantyne Press, 1901. Hard Cover. Demy Octavo. xxx, [1 (colophon)], [1 (blank)] pp. Limited Edition, one of 310 copies. As issued in holland backed boards with printed title label on the front board. Text is printed in black in the.....
London: William Pickering | printed at the Government Press, Malta, 1840. Soft Cover. Quarto. [2], 70, 89, [1], 103, [1 (errata)] pp. First edition, thus. As issued, in flexible cloth with printed paper title label on the spine. Spine is fairly worn with the label largely perished, but the textblock.....
New York: V. G. Audubon, 1854. Full Leather. Royal Octavo. vi, 383, [1]; [2], 334; [2], vi, 348, [1] pp., plates. Early, perhaps mixed state of the first octavo edition. In publisher's full brown morocco with boards embellished in blind and spines titled in gold; 155 hand-colored lithographs, complete as.....
Mobile: Mobile Register Print, 1878. Quarter Leather. Octavo. xl, 338 pp., folding map. First edition. Backed in modern morocco with marbled paper over boards. An attractive copy in modern binding that reuses the original boards, though covered over in new marbled paper; bottom corner of the front board is rounded;.....
Richmond: J. W. Randolph, 1855. Hard Cover. Octavo. xx, 264 pp., frontis, plates. First American edition. As issued, in brown, embossed cloth with title in gold on the spine. Relatively light shelfwear including some fraying at the spine ends and corners as well as some insect predation that has taken.....
Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1980. viii, 40 pp., plates. Facsimile reprint. As reissued, 40 facsimile plates and an illustrated title page with explanatory pamphlet stapled into stiff, printed wrappers, all houses in publisher's clamshell box. Light wear to the box, but overall in exceptional condition. Originally issued in 1858, the.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. Hard Cover. Quarto. 32 pp. First edition. An extremely bright copy with only light rubbing to the bottom of the boards; dust jacket is fairly fresh and only a trifle worn at the extremities; price intact on the front flap. Pictorial endpapers in color.....
Petersburg, VA: printed for the author, by Dickson & Pescud [and] M. W. Dunnavant, 1804, 1805, 1816. Full Leather. Octavo. Vol. I: ii, iv, 348; II: 335, [1 (blank)], lxii; III: 469; IV: viii, 538, xv, [1 (blank)], [1 (errata)], [1 (blank)] pp. Folding plate. First edition. In contemporary calf.....
Richmond: Shepherd & Colin, 1843. Hard Cover. Octavo. [4], 79-388, [2] pp. Recently removed from library buckram and neatly rebound in cloth with printed paper spine label, original wrappers bound in. Library perforation stamp to the title page and catalog number on the verso of the title (stamped, “withdrawn”); scattered.....
![Item #5293 [Battle of Point Pleasant] INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF THE COLONY AND ANCIENT...](/pictures/thumb/5293.jpg?v=1633723060)
Richmond: B. B. Minor, Publisher, 1847. Hard Cover. Octavo. 200, viii pp. First edition. Publisher's brown embossed cloth. Binding has some wear and soiling, along with evidence of moisture along the bottom edge of the textblock; foxing throughout; 19th century owner names on the front endpapers. Binding is solid. Uncommon.....
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1934. Hard Cover. Octavo. [8], 509 pp. First American edition. As issued, in publisher's cloth. Light shelfwear to the binding, including a bit of fraying at the spine ends as well as some sunning to the spine; top corners bumped with some fraying to the.....
![Item #6362 [Vale Press] THE LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI (2 Volumes, Complete). Benvenuto | Cellini,...](/pictures/thumb/6362.jpg?v=1635803668)
London: Vale Press | Hacon and Ricketts, 1900. Hard Cover. Imperial octavo. clxxxvii, [1 (blank)]; clxxxviii, [2 (colophon)] pp. Limited edition, one of 300 copies on paper. Printed in black in the Vale font with two foliated borders around the opening page of each book. As issued, in holland cloth-backed.....
Bath: Old School Press, 2011. Hard Cover. Octavo. x, 61, [1] pp + 48 plates. Limited Edition, number 97 of 175 copies, signed by Chambers and initialed by Ould beneath the colophon. Cloth-backed, paper covered boards; printed paper title label on the spine; a very bright and fresh copy; in.....
![Item #5058 [Shakespeare Head Press] THE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER (8 Volumes, Complete,...](/pictures/thumb/5058.jpg?v=1633722930)
Oxford: Printed by Shakespeare Head Press for Basil Blackwell, 1928-9. Hard Cover. Quarto. Vol I: [6], 224; II: [6], 213; III: [6], 201; IV: [6], 217; V: [6], 177; VI: [6], 300, [1]; VII: [8], 250; VIII: [6], 252, [1] pp., with bifolium prospectus, printed on four pages, one of.....
Syracuse: Printed at the Journal Office for Hamilton Child, 1868. Hard Cover. Octavo. 240 pp. Ex-library with only markings being early 20th century bookplate in the rear pastedown; ink inscription of the gift on the front free endpaper, and a stamped number on the bottom of page 7. Sympathetically rebacked.....
Basileae (Basel): Ex Officina Heruagiana, 1539. Half Leather. Folio. 831, [1] pp. Former library copy. Backed in contemporary alum tawed leather with rolled decoration in blind over wooden boards; also alum tawed leather thongs and metal latches are still present, though one of the brass clasps is broken; later (probably.....
![Item #6369 [Minature. William Pickering, Diamond Classics] M. T. CICERONIS LIBRI, DE OFFICIIS, DE...](/pictures/thumb/6369.jpg?v=1637176988)
Londini [London]: Gulielmus [William] Pickering, 1821. Hard Cover. 9.4 cm x 5.5 cm. [4], 155, [1] pp., frontis, engraved title. Diamond Classics edition. In publisher's brick-colored cloth with printed paper title labels on the spine; textblock is partially unopened. A very nice copy with frontispiece engraving of Cicero by R......
London: Printed by Robert White for George Calvert, 1654 (1653). Quarter Leather. Small octavo. [24], 222, [2 (blank)] pp. First edition. Backed in modern speckled calf with marbled paper over boards; spine is tooled in blind with gold-stamped morocco title label; a very elegant binding. Contents are generally toned, towards.....
![Item #6907 [Dueling] THE HISTORY OF DUELLING. IN TWO PARTS. Containing the Origin, Progress,...](/pictures/thumb/6907.jpg?v=1650588358)
London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly; J. Walter; and J. Robson, 1770. Full Leather. Small octavo. [8], 176 pp. First English edition. Early calf boards rebacked in a 19th century calf spine with morocco title label; endpaper replaced at the time of repair. Boards are rubbed, with rounded, frayed.....
Sparta, NC: Star Publishing Company, 1900. Hard Cover. 12mo. First edition. Bound in red cloth with title stamped in gold on the front cover; spine a trifle sunned else only very light shelfwear; pencil scrawl on the front free endpaper has been erased but is still visible else clean...
London: printed by Luke Hansard for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1800. Half Leather. Octavo. Vol. I: xl, 470, [1, (erratum)]; II: [2], 505, [1, (errata)]; III: [2], 360, [34, (index)] pp. First Octavo Edition. Engraved portrait and folding genealogy present in Volume I. Contemporary half calf with corners.....
(Tannerville, NY): printed by Leonard Seaston at the Tideline Press, 1976. Hard Cover. Quarto. [64] pp. Limited edition, number 8 of 75 copies, signed by Crane on the colophon. As issued, in quarter cream paper with gray paper over boards; the body of the text is printed on the recto.....