[Henry CLAY] SARGENT, N. (Oliver OLDSCHOOL)

Life of Henry Clay

Philadelphia, R. G. Berford, 1844. Cheap Edition. Wraps. Green printed wraps with 15 double-column text pages. Browning along edges of text, wraps bright and clean. Very Good .

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Book number: 018560

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Political Biography, Americana, Henry Clay, 19th Century American History, Politics Henry Clay 19th Century American History Americana Politics

[ROUSSELOT de SURGY, Jacques Philibert]

Histoire Naturelle Et Politique de la Pensylvanie, Et de L'établissement Des Quakers Dans Cette Contrée

Paris, Ganeau (de l'imprimerie d'Houry), 1768. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (3-3/4" x 6-1/2") bound in contemporary full calf with a gilt-decorated spine with raised bands and leather spine label, marbled endpapers and edges; xx, 372, [4], pages. Complete with half-title page and folding map of eastern Pennsylvania including portions of Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York. Translated from the German, this work is based on that of the botanist Peter Kalm for the natural history and on the journey of Gottlieb Mittelberger for the part devoted to the Quakers. Several other works, in French and English, are mentioned as supplying information in the introduction. HOWES R-471; SABIN 73490. Contents clean; minor wear to joints. Near Fine .

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Book number: 021259

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Americana, Amercian History, Pennsylvania, Quakers Pennsylvania Quakers Americana American History

SWEET, Alex E. & KNOX, J.Armoy

On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas, from the Gulf to the Rio Grande

Hartford, S. S. Scranton & Company, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated mustard cloth with fancy gilt designs on the front cover and spine; 672 pages. Illustrated with many plates and facsimiles. Sixguns 2174; Adams HERD 2217: "Scarce"; Jenkins BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 201: "the best volume of 19th century Texas humor." Later state of the Contents section and with all of the imprints noted by Jenkins on the title page except Cleveland & New York. Hinges neatly reinforced; early owner ink stamp on front blank. Light soiling to covers. Very Good and increasingly uncommon in this condition .

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Book number: 020035

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: 19th Century, American Humor, Western Americana, Travel, Texas Americana Western Americana Travel Humor

THOMAS, Frederick W

The Emigrant, or Reflections While Descending the Ohio. A Poem

Cincinnati, J. Drake, 1872. First Edition. Softcover. Printed green wraps; 48 pages. Reprint of the 1833 edition with an added memoir of the author. Repair to upper front corner; faint old marginal stain. Still Near Fine for this fragile item, housed in a cloth clamshell box .

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Book number: 017982

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Americana Americana Travel Ohio Rivers

WALLACE, E. C

St. Clair: A Nineteenth-Century Coal Town's Experience with a Disaster-Prone Industry

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. hardcover. Illustrated with photographs. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 000530

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Americana, Pennsylvania, Coal, Business Pennsylvania Coal Business Economics

[WASHINGTON, D.C.]

Brumidi's Allegorical Picture Within the Canopy of the Dome of the U.S. Capitol at Washington

n.p. n.d. [1880s]. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated cloth, bound accordion style, 3-1/4" x 4-3/4". Contains 11 images with captions printed on glossy paper. Rather scarce. Near Fine .

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Book number: 004694

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Americana, View Books, Washington, D.C. View Books Illustrated Books Southern Americana Washington, D.C.

WISTAR, Isaac

Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar 1827 - 1905. Half a Century in War and Peace

Philadelphia, The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1937. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; blue cloth lettered in gilt. Illustrated with 7 plates and a folding map. Graff 4724; Howes W-598; New Howes W-597: "Largely devoted to the opening and development of the far West from 1849 to 1860"; Nevins I-181; Wheat Gold Rush 234: "Significant and engaging narrative by a man of great native attainments. Very Good, lacking a dustwrapper if it ever had one .

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Book number: 004911

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Indians, California Western Americana Native Americans Biography Civil War