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The New World: The First Pictures of America. Made by John White and Jaques Le Moyne and Engraved by Theodore De Bry.; With Contemporary Narratives for the Huguenot Settlement in Florida 1562-1565 and the Virginia Colony 1585-1590
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1946. Extensively illustrated, including many full page and many in color. 292 pages, 4to, cloth; some fraying at spine ends. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (1946). First edition. Internally fine, a very good(-) solid copy. More
Valley of Discord; Church and Society along the Connecticut River, 1636-1725
Hanover: University Press of New England, 1976. Map. 8vo, gray cloth, d.w. chipped, rubbed, and sunned on spine portion, top and bottom of margins throughout are lightly dampstained. Hanover: University Press of New England, (1976). More
Privilege and Prerogative; New York's Provincial Elite, 1710-1776
Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995. Illlus. 8vo, black cloth, d.w. rubbed on edges. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, (1995). Very good. More
Four Centuries of Sport in America, 1490-1890.
Lanham: Derrydale, 1991. With a new foreword by Paula Welch. Tall 4to, two-toned boards, very slightly edge-worn d.w. Lanham: Derrydale, (1991). Reprint. Bumped corner, still a very good(+) copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. More
The Creation of the British Atlantic World
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Several Illus. 400pp. 8vo, gray cloth, d.w. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (2005). Fine. More
Jonathan Edwards; A Life
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 615 pages. Thick 8vo, 1/2 maroon cloth, d.w. New Haven: Yale University Press, (2003). First edition. Near fine in near fine dust wrapper. More
A History of the Colonies Planted by the English on the Continent of North America,; From their Settlement, to the Commencement of that War which Terminated in their Independence.
Philadelphia: Abraham Small, 1824. xvi, 9-486 pages. 8vo, full contemporary mottled calf with black leather spine labels, lightly worn and soiled with toned pages and some foxing throughout. Philadelphia: Abraham Small, 1824. First Separate Edition. Very good. "A revision of the introductory portion of the author's, "Life of Washington." Howes M-316. More
A Relation of Maryland
Readex, 1966. Thin 12mo, red cloth. Readex Microprint Corporation, (1966). Internally fine, a very good(+) copy. Facsimile of the 1635 edition. Printed to attract settlers to the new province of Maryland. More
Commerce of Rhode Island, 1726-1800. Volume I: 1726-1774
Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1914. Folding facsimile, facsimiles in the text. 525pp. 8vo, black cloth, spine ends and edges of corners lightly worn, right margins dampstained throughout, pages unopened at top, cloth lightly soiled and lightly dampstained. Boston: Published by the Society, 1914. First Edition Text is the published letters and business records of a Colonial Newport mercantile house which traded extensively with the West Indies. More
The Angel of Bethesda
Barre: American Antiquarian Society, 1972. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Gordon W. Jones. Frontis. 4to, blue cloth, d.w. slightly chipped, d.w. and cloth dampstained, top margins throughout wrinkled from exposure to dampness, but not dampstained. Barre: American Antiquarian Society, 1972. First printing of Cotton Mather's treatise on medicine. More
Merchants & Empire: Trading in Colonial New York
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. A few maps. x + 458 pages, 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (1998). Some rippling from moisture to bottom margins, still a very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
Jasper Mauduit; Agent in London for the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, 1762-1765
Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1918. The Charles Grenfill Washburn Collection. 4to, 1/2 black cloth, boards lightly soiled, edges of board corners worn. (Boston): Massachusetts Historical Society, 1918. One of 500 copies. Most of the text is letters to Jasper Mauduit and some letters by Mauduit. Charles Washburn inscribed this copy. He donated his collection of letters pertaining to Jasper Mauduit to the Massachusetts Historical Society and funded the publication of them in this work. More
A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and its People, 1724-1774
Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1992. Illustrated, maps. xii + 357 pages, 8vo, cloth, d.w. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1992). A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. More
Massachusetts Broadsides, 1699-1711; Fourteen broadsides previously undescribed by bibliographers here reproduced
Chicago: Privately Printed, 1939. in reduced scale from the originals in the Public Record Office, London, together with an introductory note. 14 facsimiles. 21pp. 8vo, pr. wrs. Chicago: Privately Printed, 1939. Very good One of 200 copies. More
The American Playhouse in the Eighteenth Century.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969. Illustrated in black & white with a color frontispiece. 174pp. Square 8vo, white cloth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969. Some damp stains on frontispiece, still a very good copy. More
Colonel Parke of Virginia: "The Greatest Hector in the Town".
Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1989. Illustrated. xx + 232 pages, 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w.; bookplate front free endpaper. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, (1989). First edition. A very good(+) copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. More
The Colonial Image; Origins of American Culture
New York: Braziller, 1962. 500pp. 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. lightly soiled, edges of corners worn and bumped. New York: George Braziller, 1962. More
In the Minds and Hearts of the People; Prologue to the American Revolution: 1760-1774
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1974. 22 color and 155 b/w Illus. 4to, maroon cloth, portion of d.w. pasted inside on endpaper and front flyleaf. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, (1974). Very good. More
Memoirs of the Rev. John Rodgers, D. D., Late Pastor of the Wall-Street and Brick Churches, in the City of New-York
New York: Whiting and Watson, 1813. Frontis. 432pp. 8vo, modern black cloth, scattered light foxing, mostly to margins. Frontis. and title page lightly dampstained in margins, cloth lightly soiled, page margins uncut. New York: Whiting and Watson, 1813. First Edition Rev. John Rodgers was "Among the leaders of Presbyterianism during the late colonial period and the early days of the republic...He was a friend of Gilbert Tennent, Samuel Finlay, and Alexander MacWhorter, and also of John Witherspoon..." Dictionary of American..... More
Glimpses of Colonial Society and the Life at Princeton College, 1766-1773 by One of the Class of 1763.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1903. Illus. 182pp. 8vo, pictorial cloth, tear in last page expertly repaired. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1903. First Edition. Very good From the papers of William Patterson. More
Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000. x + 358 pages, short 8vo, boards, d.w.; ownership signature on half-title page. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2000). First American edition. A near fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. More
American Furntiture in Pendleton House
Providence: Rhode Island School of Design, 1986. With the assistance of John M. Carpenter. Extensively illustrated. 228pp., 4to, cloth. Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1986. A near fine copy. More
Seaport in Virginia; George Washington's Alexandria
Richmond: Garrett and Massie, 1949. Many Illus. 4to, red cloth, top margins slightly wavy throughout, otherwise very good. Richmond: Garrett and Massie, (1949). More
The Rise and Development of the Bicameral System in America
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1895. 54pp. + 6pp. of publisher's ads. 8vo, disbound, lacks front wrapper, pages unopened, title page chipped in margin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1895. More