Titles dealing with Eastern Americana
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    :  The Powers and Duties of the Town Officer, as Contained in the Statues of Maine.  Hallowell, Maine: Calvin Spaulding, 1825. Second Edition, Revised. Good+ in full leather covered boards with a red leather title label on the spine. The edges of the boards and head and heel of the spine are scuffed and rubbed; however, the binding remains tight and strong. The first free end paper appears to be missing and the text is lightly tanned throughout. The full title reads: "The Powers and Duties of the Town Officer, as Contain in the Statues of Maine; with forms adapted thereto including also the Powers and Duties of Plantation and Parish Officers, and other useful Matter." A 16mo measuring 7" tall by 4 5/16" deep containing 324 pages including an index.
    TB18883  $75.00




  • :  Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association Third Annual Meeting Vol. II 1902.  Albany: New York State Historical Association, 1902. . Near fine in blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and the same on the front board. The cloth at the head of the spine is rubbed and slightly worn with hints of fraying and there is a prior owner's name on the front paste down. The full title reads: "Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association Third Annual Meeting with Constitution and By-Laws and List of Members...." This 74 page book contains articles on Fort Ticonderoga, Ethan Allen, Lord Howe, the Legend of Duncan Campbell, Montcalm, and the Evolution of American Free Government. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Sir William Johnson and two photographs.
    TB19568  $40.00



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    Achenbach, Joel:  The Grand Idea George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West.  New York: Simon & Schuster, (2004). First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 black and tan paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6 1/2". In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 367 pages including an index, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with maps and a section of black and white reproductions of contemporary works of art. Washington saw the Potomac as the answer to creating less expensive canal transportation to the Ohio River area and also as the means to assure that western states stayed allied with the Union.
    TB25674  $25.00




  • Alsberg, Henry G. (Editor):  The American Guide A Source Book and Complete Travel Guide For The United States.  New York: Hsatings House, 1949. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board and with decorated map end papers. The head and heel of the spine are slightly turned in and the hinge areas at the end papers are beginning to tan due to the high acid content of the glue used in binding. This book undetakes what the WPA's American Guide Series was not able to accomplish, that is to create a tour guide for the entire United States in one volume. 1348 pages with an index.
    TB16459  $24.50



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    Andrews, William Loring:  Fragments of American History Illustrated Solely By The Works of Those of Our Own Engravers Who Flourished In the XvIIIth Century.  New York: Privately Printed for William Loring Andrews, 1898. First Edition. Near fine in a more recent, light brown calf leather 1/2 leather and marble paper covered boards with two gilt on black title labels on the spine with four raised bands and horizontal, gilt bands on either sides of the bands and with gilt rules separating the leather from the marbled paper on the boards. The top edge of the text block is gilt. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with marbled end sheets which match the paper on the boards. One of only 80 copies printed on handmade, laid paper. 69 pages of text illustrated with a hand painted frontispiece and 16 plates 3 of which are hand painted. Considered by Hoes in his bibliography U.S. Iana to be "quite scarce". (Howes, A-264)
    TB32395  $275.00



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    Baier, Bret, and Catherine Whitney:  To Rescue The Constitution George Washington And The Fragile American Experiment.  New York: Mariner Books, (2023). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with one marginal notation in light pencil on page 91. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 360 pages including an index, chapter notes, appendix and text. Illustrated with a 16 page section of images from earlier works of art and two images from photographs.
    TB33092  $25.00



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    Boren, David:  A Letter To America.  Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 red cloth and red paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 112 pages of text including chapter notes.
    TB22869  $20.00



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    Bourne, Russell:  Floating West The Erie and Other American Canals.  New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1992). First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/2 dark red cloth and bright red paper covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9" by 7 1/4". In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 232 pages including an index, bibliography, acknowledgments and text. Illustrated with two sections of contemporary works of art, maps, black and white photographs, line drawings,
    TB26638  $25.00



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    Bradford, Alden:  History of Massachusetts For Two Hundred Years From The Year 1620 To 1820.  Boston: Hilliard, Gray, And Co., 1835. First Edition. Good+ in its original 1/4 cloth and light brown paper covered boards with a printed paper label on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/2 by 5 5/8 inches with heavy rubbing to several areas of the cloth joints, but with the hinges tight and strong. The paper covered boards are marked with water stain spots and heavily rubbed at the tips. The end sheets show spots of foxing as do many of the pages throughout the text. Without a dust jacket and it is doubtful if it ever had one. 480 pages including an extensive appendix and text. The fold-out frontispiece map of Massachusetts is in very good condition with one two inch long closed tear professionally repaired with archival tape. There are no plates in this copy as called for in Howes. (Howes, B-697 Sabin, 7223);
    TB32535  $225.00



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    Brigham, William:  The Compact With The Charter And Laws Of The Colony Of New Plymouth Together With The Charter Of The Council At Plymouth And An Appendix Containing The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England And Other Valuable Documents.  Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1836. First Edition. Very good+ in full light brown sheep which has been rebacked with a complimentary calf leather with the original gilt title label laid down on the spine. A small quarto of 9 3/4 by 6 3/8 inches with an early prior owner's name at the upper edge of the fly title page. With old tape stains to the boards. One of only 1,500 copies printed for the use of the Commonwealth. 355 pages containing an index, appendix and text. (Sabin, 7962)
    TB33407  $200.00



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    Brusic, Lucy McTeer:  Amidst Cultivated and Pleasant Fields A Bicentennial History of North Haven, Connecticut.  Canaan, NH: Phoenix Publishing, 1986. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 tan and gray cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and an illustrated paper label on the front board and with illustrated end sheets. In a very near fine unclipped dust jacket with minor light wear at the ends of the spine area and a closed 1/2" tear at the upper edge of the front panel. Signed by the author on the title page. 304 pages including an index, a list of illustrations and credits, sources and notes to include a list of first 40 families in North Haven about 1715 and 1727, a list of Revolutionary War Soldiers connected with North Haven, and a list of North Haven Selectmen from 1786 to 1986. Illustrated with photographs and maps throughout.
    TB22785  $30.00



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    Bumgardner, Georgia B.:  American Broadsides.  Barre, Mass.: Imprint Society, 1971. Limited first edition. In fine condition bound in 1/4 blue and brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine with a prior owner's name and date on the first free end paper. A folio measuring 14 3/16" high by 10 1/4" deep containing 60 pages of text and 60 pages of plates. Without a dust jacket but housed in a near fine cloth and paper covered slip case with a paper label. One of only 1,950 copies printed, this one is out of series but signed by the author on the last page of text. Sub-titled: "Sixty facsimilies (sic) dated 1680 to 1800 reproduced from originals in the American Antiquarian Society." Selected and introduced by Georgia b. Bumgardner.
    TB19924  $30.00



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    Burnaby, Andrew:  Burnaby's Travels Through North America : Reprinted from the Third Edition of 1798.  New York: A. Wessels Company, 1904. Reprint from the Third Edition. Good+ in the publisher's original red cloth covered boards with faded gilt text stamping on the spine. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is worn and just beginning to fray. The spine itself is slightly faded and the cloth at the tips of the boards is rubbed. Without its issued plain paper dust jacket. One of the volumes in the Source Books of American History with an introduction and notes by Rufus Rockwell Wilson. 265 pages including an index. Originally published in London in 1775 under the title: Travels Through the Middle Settlements in North America in 1759 and 1760. Copies of the original publication are considered "quite scarce" by Wright Howes. (Howes B-995)
    TB20705  $75.00




  • Carolina Art Association:  Charleston South Carolina.  Columbia: The Carolina Art Association, 1963. Third Printing of 1969. Near fine in paper covered boards with the title stamped in gilt on the front board. A prior owner has taped on the spine of the book the typewritten title of the book. Without a dust jacket. A collection of black and white sepia photographs illustrating the City of Charleston.
    TB22303  $6.00



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    Carver, Jonathan:  Three Years Travels Through The Interior Parts of North America.  Boston: David West, 1794. Third American Edition. Recently rebound in full black leather with five raised bands on the spine and with a gilt stamped, red leather spine label. A 16mo measuring 6 11/16 by 3 3/4 inches with repaired title page and general tanning of the pages. 282 of text. Printed in Portsmouth, New Hampshire by Charles Peirce for David West the publisher. This title was first issued in London in 1778. It was not published in the United States until 1784 in Philadelphia with a second edition published in that city in 1789 which edition was reprinted in 1792. We therefore infer this to be a third American edition. (Lee's A Bibliography of Carver's Travels) According to Howes: "Carver penetrated farther into the West than any other English explorer before the Revolution." Although an American (by birth) Carver was not able to get the manuscript of his trip (1766-1768) published in this country. He went to London where it was published. (DAB) The popularity of his book lead to many translations, editions and printings in several countries. (Howes, C-215; Evans, 26745; Sabin, 11185; Lee, p165 to 169; DAB, v II, p552)
    TB28799  $450.00



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    Chalmers, Harvey, II:  The Birth Of The Erie Canal.  New York: Bookman Associates, 1960. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in gold cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and front board with illustrated end sheets. An octavo of 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches with a gift inscription on the first free end page. Very good+, price clipped dust jacket with shallow 1/8 inch deep chips at the upper edge of the spine area, two closed tears at the base of the same and nicks to the fore corners of the panels over the tips of the boards. Signed on the title page by the author without an inscription or date. 195 pages of text and illustrated with one section of black and white reproductions of contemporary works of art and with map end sheets. Written in collaboration with John H. Flandreau.
    TB33259  $20.00



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    Chalmers, Harvey, II:  The Birth Of The Erie Canal.  New York: Bookman Associates, 1960. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in gold cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and front board with illustrated end sheets. In a very good price clipped dust jacket with a 1" deep chip at the upper edge of the spine area which extends into the rear panel by 3/4". 195 pages of text and illustrated with one section of black and white reproductions of contemporary works of art. Written in collaboratio with John H. Flandreau.
    TB22228  $12.00




  • Chamberlain, Samuel:  Open House In New England.  New York: Bonanza Books, 1937, 1948. Reprint. Very good in light gray and red cloth covered boards with the spine tanned. Without its issued dust jacket. 252 pages followed by a two page map. Illustrated with 280 black and white photographs by the author.
    TB17234  $7.00




  • Coffin, Robert P. Tristram:  Maine Ballads.  New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in gray cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt text on the front board. The end papers are tanned around the edges and at the hinge areas and there are hints of rubbing of the cloth at the ends of the spine. In a good+ unclipped dust jacket with 1/4" deep chips at the corners of the spine area and at the upper and lower fore corners of the front panel and several small chips from the upper edge of the rear panel. 106 pages of text which offer a collection of 42 poems of the people of Maine.
    TB20096  $12.00




  • Condon, George E.:  Stars In The Water The Story Of The Erie Canal.  Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. Reprint of 1974. Very good+ in 1/4 light brown and tan cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and map end sheets. A small quarto measuring 9" by 6" with fading to the cloth on the spine and a prior owner's address label on the front paste down and the name written out in ink on the first free end page. Without its issued dust jacket. Signed by the author on the fly title page. 338 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated with reproductions of contemporary works of art, photographs and maps. The author relates the history of the development and construction of the Erie Canal as well as recreates life on and around the canal.
    TB23581  $30.00



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    Cooper, Rev. [William]:  The History of North America; Containing A Review of the Customs and Manners of the Original Inhabitants; the First Settlement of the British Colonies; and their Rise and Progress, from the earliest Period to the Time of their Becoming United Free and Independent States..  Albany, NY: Samuel Shaw, 1818. 1813 Edition. An ex-library copy in very good condition in a dark green cloth library binding with gilt text on the spine and white call numbers on the lower part of the spine. A 16mo of 6 5/16 by 3 7/8 inches with a library stamp on the first free end page; an early prior owner's name in ink at the upper edge of the title page, a library stamp at the bottom of the same along with a perferated library name on the same page; a call number on the first preface page; and, the ghosts of library materials on the last few end pages. With the exception of a few library stamps, the contents are clean, tight and free of foxing and tanning. 264 pages. This edition contains an appendix consisting of the Constitution of the United States; the Declaration of Independence; and, President Washington's Farewell Address. This appendix does not appear in the earlier editions of this title. (Howes, C-761)
    TB31993  $175.00



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    Damrosch, Leo:  Tocqueville's Discovery Of America.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2010). First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark blue paper covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" with what appears to be a printer's error on the title page which shows faint splotches of light gray ink in a narrow vertical line down the page resembling mouse tracks. This same error is repeated on the verso of page ix confirming a printer's error. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 277 pages including an index, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with reproductions of contemporary works of art and a map. Alexis De Tocqueville was most famous for his book Democracy in America which resulted from a nine month tour through the young United States during the years 1831 to 1832. The author brings to life Tocqueville's tour through Canada, the eastern parts of what is now Wisconsin and Michigan, the great lakes, the eastern most states and south down the Ohio to the Mississippi to New Orleans and back to New York City by way of stage coach through the south eastern states.
    TB25147  $25.00




  • Degler, Carl N.:  The Other South Southern Dissenters in The Nineteenth Century.  New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in gray cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket. 392 pages of text including an index.
    TB22306  $18.00




  • Dierks, Jack Cameron:  A Leap to Arms: The Cuban Campaign of 1898.  Philadelphia: J. B. Lippencott Co., 1970. First Edition, First printing. Fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping and decorations to the spine area. In a near fine dust jacket with a price clipped flap with the verso of the spine area dampstained but with no damage to the recto (outside) with a tiny (1/32") chip to the top edge of the spine area. The author recreates the events which lead up to "the splendid little war" and it conclusion in just three months.
    TB06887  $17.50




  • Dillard, Annie:  The Living.  New York: Harper Collins Pub, 1992. First Edition, First printing. Fine In a fine dust jacket.
    TB01869  $14.00



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    Dodd, Stephen:  The East-Haven Register In Three Parts.  New Haven: A. H. Maltby & Co., 1824. First Edition, First printing. Fair to good in full leather covered boards with the front joint broken but the front joint and text block reasonably strong and in place. The majority of the text block shows dampness staining across the upper 2/3rds of most of the pages yet the printing on each page remains easily read. There are two early prior owner's names in ink on the first free end page. A 12mo measuring 7 1/8" tall by 4 1/8" deep containing 200 pages of text. The information contained in the parts of the book include: Part I. Containing a history of the town of East-Haven, from its first settlement in 1644, the year 1800. Also, an account of its boundaries, iron-works and mills, division of lands, controversies with New-Haven, and Branford, town charters, ecclesiastisal affairs, schools, population and taxes, losses by war, natural history and curiosities, roads and public lands. Part II. Containing an account of the names, marriages, and births, of the families which first settled , or which have resided in East-Haven, form its settlement in 1644, to the year 1800. Part III. Containing an account of the deaths in the families names in the second part, from the year 1647 to the end of the year 1823. Considered by Howes to be "mildly scarce" and Sabin calls it "An extremely rare local history." (Howes D-387; Sabin 20485; Armstrong: Connecticut A Bibliography of its History; 3321)
    TB22311  $200.00




  • Duffy, John (Editor):  Early Vermont Broadsides.  Hanover: University Press of New England, 1975. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in brown cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. A narrow 4to measurinng 12 1/4" high by 9 3/16" deep. In a very good+ dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap but with minor light rubbing to the edges and folds with no chips. This is the first publication of its kind to provide a collection of the "earliest examples of broadside art printed in northern New England" from 1777 to 1821. 51 pages of text and illustrated with large, full-page photographs of the original broadsides.
    TB16984  $17.50



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    Fenning, D., and J. Collyer:  An Encyclopaedia of North and South America 1786.  Surrey, England: Unwin Brothers, Limited, (1976). Reprint of 1976. Fine in brown cloth covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine. A quarto of 11 5/8 by 8 inches. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with hints of wear at the upper edge of the spine area. One of only 500 copies printed with this copy out of series. A reprinting of volume II of the authors' book originally published in 1786 and titled: A New System Of Geography.... 159 pages of text printed in brown. Illustrated with three double page maps of what is now the United States, South America and Mexico and the Caribbean and two plates. A fine and handsome volume with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB30704  $35.00



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    Fernow, Berthold:  The Ohio Valley In Colonial Days.  Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1890. First Edition, First printing. Good in the publisher's original, printed, pink paper covered boards which are well faded around the outside edges and worn on the spine. Without a dust jacket as issued. 299 pages including an index. This volume is unread as all of the pages are uncut and un-opened. This is volume number 17 in Munsell's Historical Series. The author examines the historical struggle between the French, the English and the Native Americans to control the Ohio River Valley from its discovery in 1539 to the close of the French and Indian War. Mention is made of Simon Kenton and many other early settlers of the area. Considered by Wright Howes to be a "mildly scarce" title. (Howes F-92)
    TB20698  $125.00




  • Fleming, William H.:  Slavery And The Race Problem In The South.  Boston: Dana Estes & Company, Publishers, n.d. (circa 1906). First Limited Edition. Very good+ in 1/4 white cloth and light gray paper covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine and front board. The 1/4 white cloth is soiled, tanned and foxed, the fly title page has a 3/4" closed tear at its upper edge and there are a prior owner's notations in light pencil on the margins of a number of pages. Without a dust jacket. This copy is identified as number 395 out of only 1,000 copies printed. This copy is also signed by the publisher on the front board of the book. 66 pages of text with a frontispiece portrait of William H. Fleming. The full title reads: Slavery And The Race Problem in The South. With Special Reference To The State of Georgia. Address of Hon. Wm. H. Fleming, Before the Alumni Society of the State University, Athens, June 19, 1906.
    TB21836  $85.00



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    Fleming, Thomas:  The Great Divide.  Boston: Da Capo Press, (2015. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 pink paper and black paper covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 424 pages including an index, chapter notes and text. Subtitled: "The Conflict Between Washington and Jefferson That Defined a Nation". Illustrated with a section of 8 pages of plates with images from contemporary works of art. A very clean and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32846  $20.00



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    Flint, Timothy:  Recollections Of The Last Ten Years, Passed In Occasional Residences And Journeyings In The Valley Of The Mississippi From Pittsburg And The Missouri To The Gulf Of Mexioc, and From Florida To the Spanish Frontier.  Boston: Cummings, Hilliar, And Company, 1826. First Edition. Very good in its original paper covered boards with a printed paper label on the spine. A small quarto of 9 5/8 by 5 7/8 inches with rubbing and wear to the paper at the head and heel of the spine and minor small chipping from the paper title label. There is an early prior owner's book plate on the front paste down. Without a dust jacket. 395 pages of text. Timothy Flint (1780-1840) was a missionary and writer who traveled broadly throughout the US during his lifetime. The subject title deals with the author's descriptions of his years living in various locations in Ohio, Missouri, Arkansas and Lousiana, during the years 1815 to 1825 where he comments extensively on geography, topography, culture and conditions. Considered by Howes to be "quite scarce". Smith in his bibliography of Travels in the Old South states: "The Recollections of Timothy Flint form one of the more significant travel accounts of the early nineteenth century in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys." A very clean and handsome copy in its original binding. (Clark, Vol. 2, 26; Streeter, Vol 3, 1540; Howe, F 204; Sabin, 24794; Graff, 1359; Rader, 1420; BAL, 6113)
    TB31025  $1000.00




  • Fow, John H.:  The True Story of The American Flag.  Philadelphia: William J. Campbell, 1908. First Edition, First printing. Good in light paper printed wraps with a stapled and glued binding. The front panel of the wrapper has a number of chips at the corners. Without a dust jacket as issud. An octavo measuring 8 5/8" tall by 5 13/16" deep containing 54 pages of text illustrated with eight color plates of fifteen flags.
    TB19582  $20.00



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    Franklin (Franklin, Benjamin), Dr.:  The Way To Wealth.  Walpole, N.H.: Preston Merrifield, 1807. First Edition. Very good in light blue paper wraps over a sewn binding. A 24mo of 5 3/8 by 3 12 inches with an early prior owner's name on the front cover which is repeated on the verso of that cover. Insect predation is evident to the upper fore corner of the last two pages of text and the rear cover. Pages 27/28 has an "L" shaped portion just below the center missing measuring one inch at the spine to two inches at the fore edge. No other copies are available to create a facsimile to replace the missing text. Without a dust jacket, but this little copy is protected within a well made chimese and a 1/4 black leather and blue cloth covered slipcase with gilt text on its spine. 34 pages of text. The publisher of this title, Preston Merrifield, was a book publisher, binder and one of the earliest book sellers in this country as well as the Town Clerk for Windsor, Vermont. He moved from Massachusetts to Windsor in 1808 where he remained for the rest of his life passing in 1874 at 88 years old.
    TB32250  $240.00



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    Greenlaw, Linda:  The Lobster Chronicles Life on a Very Small Island.  New York: Hyperion, 2002. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 light blue cloth and blue paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 238 pages of text followed by a one page map. By the author of best selling book: The Hungry Ocean.
    TB22790  $30.00



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    Hall, Captain Basil:  Travels in North America, In The Years 1827 and 1828.  Edinburgh: Cadell and Co. and Simpkine and Marshall, 1829. First Edition. All three volumes of this complete set are in very good+ condition elaborately bound in full brown leather (calf) diced on the boards with a gilt border, three raised bands on the spines with gilt tooling and two black leather title blocks with gilt text. On volumes I and III the black leather title blocks are chipped with only minor losses to the gilt text. The edges of the text blocks are marbled. Each is a 7mo measuring 7 1/4" by 4 1/2" with an early prior owner's book plate attached to the front paste downs of each volume. Each volume also has the remains of silk placement ribbons sewn-in at the heads of the spines. Volume I contains 421 pages and is illustrated with hand colored fold-out map at the front of the book. The map is in excellent condition with only a small 1/3" closed tear at its margin. Volume II contains 432 pages; and, volume III contains 436 pages followed by a fold-out table of financial and census data for the various states then part of the United States of America. Considered "mildly scarce" by Howes. (Howes, H-47; Sabin, 29275; Clark III, 48)
    TB26696  $600.00



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    Hall, Donald:  Here at Eagle Pond.  New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1990. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 decorated green cloth and red paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine and blue end papers. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6". Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is contained in a near fine paper covered slip case with an illustrated paper label. The slip case is faded around its opening edges. Signed on the title page by the author without an inscription or date. 141 pages of text with woodcut illustrations by Thomas W. Nason. A collection of short essays on living on Eagle Pond Farm in Wilmot, New Hampshire.
    TB30245  $50.00




  • Hall, Edward F.:  Connecticut Invites You.  Hartford: State of Connecticut Publicity Commission, n.d.. . Very good+ in heavy pictoral wraps with a stapled binding. A twelve page advertising brochure used to promote growth in the area from nearby New York City. The brochure is illustrated with black and white photographs highlighting the tranquil, picturesque environment of the state. Although no credit is given to the photographer of these pictures there two letters laid-in which suggest that the photographer may have been Albert B. Street of New Haven, Connectiut.
    TB16591  $10.50




  • Hall, Trish:  The New Connecticut Yankees.  Cobalt, Conn: Cottage Industries, 1980. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and a gilt decoration of the Charter Oak on the front board. In a fine dust jacket. With a preface by Ella Grasso. 39 pages of text and four illustrations.
    TB16725  $10.50



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    Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison and John Jay:  The Federalist.  Washington, DC: Robert B. Luce, Inc., (1976). Bicentennial Edition. Fine in medium blue cloth covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine. A small octavo of 7 3/8 by 4 1/2 inches. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with light soiling to the rear panel. 620 pages including an index. The subtitle reads: "A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States being A Collection of Essays written in support of the Constitution agreed upon September 17, 1787, by The Federal Convention from the original text of Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison". Each essay identifies each author unlike the original volume which did not indicate who wrote which essay. A very clean and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32844  $45.00




  • Havighurst, Wlater:  Land of Promise The Story of the Northwest Territory.  New York: Macmillan Company, 1946. First Edition, First printing. Very good in green cloth covered boards with a 1/4 inch paint stain on the front board and light shelf wear. In a very good dust jacket with a price clipped jacket flap, with light spine end wear & light chipping to the panel corners. The history of that area which is now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota told by the author through "legends, anecdotes and episodes."
    TB08333  $17.50



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    Hoadley, Charles:  The Public Records of the State of Connecticut from October, 1776 to February, 1778, inclusive (Volume I Only).  Hartford: State of Connecticut, 1894. . Volume I only of this two volume set which is in very good+ condition in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stampings on the spine. There is a prior owner's name on the first free end page and date of 1932. The cloth at the ends of the spine are lightly rubbed as are the tips of the boards. The joints are strong and tight. Without a dust jacket. This volume contains the Journal of the Council of Safety from October 11, 1776 to May 6, 1778. The pages within both volumes are largely un-cut. A very uncommon set of records from the American Revolution.
    TB33287  $50.00



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    Howard, Daniel:  Glimpses of Ancient Windsor From 1633 to 1933.  Windsor, Conn.: Windsor Tercentenary Committee, 1933. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in brown-green paper covered boards with gilt embossed text and decorations on the front board. An octavo measuring 9 by 6 inches with very light wear to the paper at the head and heel of the spine. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. Laid-in is a one page reprint of Barbara B. Kennelly's address to the House of Representatives of Sept. 15, 1982 announcing the 350th anniversary of the town of Windsor, Connecticut. 104 pages including an index, text and illustrated with reproductions of early art work and images from photographs.
    TB32551  $30.00



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    Hubbell, William:  Good Fences A Pictorial History of New England's Stone Walls.  no city stated: Down East Publishing, (2006). Third Printing. Fine in royal blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An oblong small quarto of 9 1/2 by 12 inches. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 120 pages including photographic credits, acknowledgments, suggested readings and text. Illustrated throughout with images from color photographs. A very handsome, clean and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32052  $35.00



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    Jacobus, Donald Lines:  List of Officials, Civil, Military, and Ecclesiastical, of Connecticut Colony from March 1636 through 11 October 1677 and of New Haven Colony . existence; also, Soldiers in the Pequot War.  New Haven: Roland Mather Hooker for the Publication Commiettee, 1935. First Edition. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and a gilt seal on the front board. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a good glassine dust jacket with numerous chips around the edges. 65 pages of text listing in alphabetical order the names of officials in the two Connecticut colonies at the time listed in the title. This is the original printing, not a reproduction or print-on-demand version.
    TB31858  $100.00




  • Jefferson, Thomas:  Notes On The State Of Virginia.  Boston: Wells And Lilly, 1829. Reprint of 1829. Very good in full leather (calf) covered boards and superbly rebacked saving the original backstrip with its gilt text and gilt decorations. A 16mo of 6 1/4 by 4 inches with two prior owner's name on the front paste down and one written on the title page with the date of March 20, 1901 and again on the rear paste down. The first free end page has numbers written in pencil and 39 pages including the title page have an ink stain on the lower margin and page 100 has a written name or statement in the middle of the page. Pages 63, 64 and 66 have eight "x" marks in the margins. 280 pages of text. This copy includes the "Advertisement" dated February 27, 1787. A very tight and handsome copy. (Howes, J-78; Sabin, 35897)
    TB33450  $700.00




  • Jennings, S. H.:  Interest Tables, Six Per Cent., with Rules for Finding Interst at any Rate Per Cent..  Deep River, CT: Self published, 1897. First Edition, First printing. Very good in oblong black cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the front board. The front hinge is cracked and there is a small 1/4" hole in the gutter of the front joint and very slight rubbing at the fore corners and with the second free end paper torn out. 63 pages followed by 10 pages of text and photographs. Tables for finding the time between dates, counting either 360 or 365 days to the year. The interest tables were the author's main focal point for this publication; however, the photographs of his family and homes at Deep River, Connecticut and at what is now Oaks Bluff, Marthas Vineyard are of much greater interest to the modern reader. The introduction of the book contains two photographs of the authors palatial home in Deep River, one taken in the summer and the second during the winter. A third page shows the author's summer residence, "Owls' Nest", on Atlantic Avenue, Highland Bluff, Marthas Vineyard. The last ten pages of the book are dedicated to Marthas Vineyard. This section is illustrated with an a perspective map of the eastern end of the Island, two panoramic views of Ocean Park, Cottage City, the "Bathing Beach" at Sea View Avenue, East Chop Light and several ads for The Tinkham Cycle Company's standard Tricycles with three retouched photographs of the author on such a tricycle. A most unusual and fascinating piece of Americana.
    TB16335  $87.50




  • Kelly, J. Frederick:  Early Connecticut Meetinghouses Being an Account of the Church Edifices Built Before 1830 Based Chiefly upon Town and Parish Records.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1948. First Edition, First printing. Both volumes in this two volume set are in near fine condition in red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spines and across the upper edges of the front boards. Without dust jackets as issued; however, the books are contained in a very good paper covered and illustrated slip case with little if any wear. Both volumes are quartos measuring 12 by 9 inches and both volumes have a slight musty odor. Volume I contains 332 pages and volume II contains 360 pages including an index. Both are heavily illustrated with black and white photographs some with photographic details such as doors and windows augmented with floor plans and sketches of truss work. A handsome, clean and tight set with no prior ownership markings of any kind. Extremely uncommon. (Roos, 649)
    TB33194  $275.00




  • Keneally, Thomas:  The Place Where Souls Are Born.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket.
    TB02985  $17.50




  • Kennedy, Robert F.:  To Seek a Newer World.  Garden City: Doubleday, 1967. First Edition, First printing. Very good, slight fading at spine ends. In a very good dust jacket 3/4' chip at spine hinge & ends worn.
    TB02093  $35.00



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    Kotker, Norman, and Jane Sugden Editor:  New England Past Photographs 1880-1915.  New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., (1981). First Edition. Fine in navy blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine and with the blind embossed title on the front board. A small quarto of 11 by 10 inches. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 63 pages of text followed by an unpaginated section containing over 200 images from black and white photographs. A very fine, tight, clean and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32051  $35.00




  • Lathrop, Elise:  Historic Houses of Early America.  New York: Tudor Publishing Co., c1927. Reprint of 1941. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with faded gilt text stamping on the spine and front board and with decorated end papers. A small quarto measuring 11" by 8" with two prior owner's names in pencil on the verso of the fly title page. Without its issued dust jacket. 464 pages including an index of historic houses listed by location, bibliography and text. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs
    TB27429  $10.00



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    Mather, Cotton:  Magnalia Christi Americana Or, The Ecclesiastical History Of New-England From Its First Planting in the Year 1620 unto the Year of our Lord, 1698 In Seven Books In Two Volumes.  Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1820. First American Edition. This two volume set is in good+ condition in their original, full leather bindings. Volume 1 has had its joints professionally reinforced using Japanese tissue blended in color to conform to the color of the leather. Both are octavos of 8 5/8 by 5 3/8 inches with the leather at the heads and heels of the spine worn as is the leather at the edges of the boards. An early prior owner's name is written in ink on the first free end pages. A second prior owner has written his name on the front paste down of volume II. The contents of both volumes are generally clean with only occasional spots of foxing. This is the first American edition printed "from the London edition of 1702". Howes in his bibliography U.S. Iana states: "Most famous 18th century American book." (Howes, M-391; Sabin, 46392;
    TB33422  $650.00






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