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cause of the American Revolution: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) Acts of Parliament, 1763-1783. First printings. London: by the Crown Printer,1763-83. Folio, mostly modern cloth. Thirty volumes. 2 volumes (1773, 1782) in 19th century cloth, with original red leather labels laid down on spine, with bookplate of Her Majesty’s Cabinet Office and Treasury Library; 28 volumes cloth institutional bindings, with “Treasury Library” embossed on spine. |
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pivotal moment in the prelude to American Independence: [American Prohibitory Act] London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, Printers to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, 1776. 16 Anno Regni Georgii III, cap 5. Complete volume. Full contemporary calf, red leather spine label, bookplate of Rt. Honourable Earl of Portsmouth. No document played a more decisive role in the debate over independence at the Second Continental Congress than the American Prohibitory Act. |
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the founding document of Major League Baseball (BASEBALL) Constitution and Playing Rules of the National League. Philadelphia: Reach & Johnston, 1876. Octavo, original printed wrappers. Fine condition. First printing of the first publication of Major League Baseball, the founding document, issued just months before the first season of play. The other recorded copy is on display at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. |
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CATLIN, George. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians. London: by the Author, 1841. Two volumes, octavo. Two maps (one folding), one chart, and 309 illustrations. First issue with "Frederick" for "Zacharias" on page 104. Recent 3/4 green morocco over contemporary marbled boards. Very light rubbing to boards, some foxing as usual. Overall a very handsome copy. |
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[CIVIL WAR]. DAVIS, JEFFERSON. Autograph Letter Signed, to Reverend J. T. Freeman. Two pages, folded 8vo sheet with integral blank. Davis writes to Reverend Freeman thanking him for a proposed endowment to support the former President of the Confederacy. The letter provides a poignant glimpse of the fallen leader's post-war plight. Two pages, folded 8vo sheet with integral blank. Memphis, 25 November 1869. |
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Official Confederate
printing naming Robert E. Lee [CIVIL WAR]. LEE, Robert E. An Act to provide the appointment of a General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States. General Orders No. 3; Richmond, February 6, 1865. Official broadside Confederate printing with seal on top left corner appointing Robert E. Lee "General in Chief" of the Confederate forces. A highly important piece of Confederate legislation. Extremely scarce. |
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EVANS, Walker. American Photographs. New York: The Museum of Modern Art (1938). Original black cloth, original dust-jacket. First Edition of Evans' first major work. Issued in a run of just 5000, very few copies have survived with the original dustjacket intact. This copy with the original dustjacket and the front portion of the original publisher's band (the back of which is not present). One of the truly iconic American photography works of the 20th century. Seldom seen with the original dustjacket. |
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GRANT, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1885-86. Octavo, original three-quarters publisher's deluxe morocco with gilt medallions on boards. Two volumes. First edition, in rare publisher's deluxe morocco bindings, of Grant's important and fascinating memoirs, illustrated throughout with numerous steel engravings, facsimiles, and over forty maps. |
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GREGG, Josiah. Commerce of the Prairies: Or the Journal of a Santa Fe Trader, During Eight Expeditions across the Great Western Prairies... New York, 1844. Octavo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth. Two volumes. First edition, first issue (with only New York in imprint), complete with large folding map. One of the most valuable and comprehensive sources for understanding pioneer life in the Great Plains and Southwest. |
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HARDEE, William. Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics. Memphis: Hutton & Freligh, 1861. 2 vols in 1, as issued. Octavo, original cloth back boards, original label on front cover, with 58 lithographs (complete). First revised edition (1861) of the most widely used infantry manual of the Civil War. Confederate soldier Isaac Howard's copy. |
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presentation copies of Michaux's North American Sylva MICHAUX, Francois Andre. The North American Sylva, 1819-18-19. 3 volumes (parts 1-7, complete). With: Nuttall, Thomas. The North American Sylva . . . Philadelphia: J.Dobson, 1842-49. 3 volumes. Quarto, six volumes in all, mid-19th century straight grain morocco, elaborately gilt decorated spines. |
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the classic illustrated Civil War history MILLER, Francis Trevelyan. The Photographic History of the Civil War. New York: The Review of Reviews, 1911. Quarto, original blue cloth gilt. Ten volumes. First editions of all ten volumes of Miller’s famous photo-documentary of the Civil War. Miller’s work "still remains the major source for photographs of the Civil War; the greatest single collection of Brady illustrations" (Allan Nevins). The Mathew Brady photographs represent the first instance of a comprehensive photo-documentation of a war. |
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"The
United States Constitution...is a lasting tribute to the principles he
advocated" MONTESQUIEU, Charles Secondat, baron de. The Spirit of Laws... Translated from the French... With Corrections and Additions Communicated by the Author. London: J. Nourse and P. Vaillant, 1750. Two Volumes, octavo. Contemporary speckled calf, raised bands, spine ornamented in gilt, double orange and green leather labels. First edition in English of one of the central works in western political thought. |
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"The greatest historical biography of our generation" –Mark Van Doren SANDBURG, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. Volumes I-IV. New York:Harcourt, Brace, 1939. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth, original slipcase. Four volumes. With 426 half-tone photographs, and 244 illustrations of political cartoons, letters, documents. First trade edition of Sandburg’s monumental study of Lincoln, signed and inscribed by Sandburg on the title page of volume one in the year of publication. Sandburg won the Pulitzer Prize for this much-celebrated work. $2000. |
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Washington's Letters to Congress WASHINGTON, George. Official Letters To The Honorable American Congress, Written, during the War between the United Colonies and Great Britain...Boston, Manning & Loring: 1795. First edition. Two volumes, octavo, beautifully bound in modern tree-calf. |
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[WHITMAN, Walt]. Democratic Vistas. Washington, DC, 1871. New York: J.S. Redfield, 1871. Octavo, original pale green printed wrappers; housed in custom cloth box. First printing, one of only 500 copies printed, of Whitman's impassioned assessment of the future of America. |
