Baltimore: M. Curlander, 1924. First printing. Black and white frontispiece portrait, one plate. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 211 pages. Authoritative history of the struggle to remove the civil disabilities of Jews in Maryland. Much coverage on the passage of the "Jew Bill" in 1826 and its non-Jewish champion, Thomas..... More
Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1802. First edition. Octavo. 44 pages. Loose signatures. Two Jeffersonians--Bacon of Massachusetts and Nicholson of Maryland--argue in favor of the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801, which stacked the federal judiciary with Federalists appointed by the departing President John Adams. Joseph Hopper Nicholson..... More
Baltimore: The Patapsco Land Company, (1874). First edition. Large fold-out map. Hardcover. Octavo. 100 pages. This is a detailed prospectus seeking investment in the newly reorganized Patapsco Land Company, which intended to turn its holdings at Curtis Bay into a major seaport and railhead. The background information included therefore gives..... More
[Tokyo]: The Hokuseido Press, (1949). First edition. Fully illustrated, fold-out tissue-guarded frontispiece. Decorated cloth over boards. Octavo. iv, 230 pages. Senryu are haiku-like expressions of moments of vision into human nature, and this is a masterful study and explanation this Japanese literary art form. Blyth also provides translations of hundreds..... More
Philadelphia: William Bradford, [1746]. First edition. Modern leather over boards. Octavo. viii, 253 pages. Scarce first edition of David Brainerd's famous account of missionary work among the Native Americans of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Jonathan Dickinson is the person who encouraged Brainerd to become a Presbyterian missionary..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. First printing. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. xiv, 261 pages. Important Christian Pacifist book in the wake of World War I. Reverend Brewster was an Episcopal clergyman in California. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, (1956). First edition. Paintings, some color. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 302 pages. Chamberlain's memoir details his personal adventures in Mexico and the American Southwest before, during, and after the Mexican War. It is the primary source for Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece, "Blood Meridian." Though nearly all..... More
Winchester: [Privately published], 1939. Illustrated map. Single sheet. 22" x 29" This 1939 map of New York City is a stunning piece of graphic art by Ernest Dudley Chase. Features the city's famous skyscrapers and other structures. Various ships and watercraft decorate the rivers. The city skyline and seal appear..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1941). First US Edition. Black and white frontispiece portrait. Half leather and marbled boards. Octavo. x, 462 pages. Handsomely bound volume of Mr. Churchill's speeches made from May, 1938 to February, 1941, as England was dragged into World War II. Churchill's earlier speeches, as..... More
London: Jaques and Wright, 1825. Engraved black and white plates. Marbled paper over boards with leather spines and fore corners. Octavos. [iv], 488 and [ii], 457 [1] pages. A complete narrative of Cook's three voyages of discovery, illustrated with a frontispiece and engraved title page in volume I plus 12..... More
Havana: Francisco Rojo Garcia, [c.1940s]. Color map, monochrome vignettes. Single sheet. 25 1/8" x 35 1/4", folds into 5" x 8 3/4" printed covers. A very attractive map of Havana, printed in blue and yellow, bordered photographic vignettes of important buildings and sites in monochrome. Reverse has a complete road..... More
London: E. & F. N. Spon, 1861. First edition. Illustrated throughout with mechanical drawings. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. xlii, 558 pages [plus 7pp ads]. An important book on the vain search for perpetual motion. Dircks was a British engineer and here gives a thorough study of the quest for..... More
London: Printed by J. Watts, 1737. First edition. Half leather. Octavos. [xii], 420 pages and [ii], 369, [xxx] pages. A detailed 18th century study of the Jewish people of Biblical times, designed to aid in the reading and understanding of the Holy Bible. Title pages printed in red..... More
Phliadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856. First edition. Profusely illustrated with engraved drawings by Kane, along with maps--two of which are fold-outs. Full leather. Octavos. 464 and 467 pages. History of the second expedition sponsored by Henry Grinnell in an attempt to learn the fate of Sir John Franklin and his..... More
(New York): Cowles, (1968). First printing. Black and white photographic portrait on mass card, black and white photographs in book. 8 1/2" x 11" letter paper, 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" cards. Hardcover. Octavo. 272 pages. A small lot of items related to Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 Presidential campaign and..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1897. First edition. Original cloth. Duodecimo. viii, 245 pages [ii ads]. Story of a boy washed overboard from a steamship and rescued by a fishing schooner off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. The accident, rescue, and subsequent work on board the fishing boat transform fifteen..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, (1932). First printing. Black and white frontispiece portrait. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. viii, 269 pages. The first biography of Abraham Lincoln by an African American. The author was an attorney in Chicago who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and educated at Howard University..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 233 pages. An inscribed and signed copy of this collection of 11 powerful stories. Munro is an acknowledged master and innovator of the short story, and this volume was nominated for a Governor General's Award in 1982... More
Washington, DC: Published by the author, 1968. Limited edition, #316 of 400 copies. Black & white and color plates of armorial crests. Original cloth. Octavo. viii, 188 pages. A thoroughly researched reference on the usage, meaning, and lineage associated with various seals, shields, and coats of arms of Maryland gentry..... More
Louisville: Bellarmine College Press, (1993). First printing. Wrappers. Octavo. [xiv], 191 pages. The essential exploration of the historical and arcane sources of Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece, "Blood Meridian." One of 700 copies printed for the first scholarly conference devoted to Cormac McCarthy, which was hosted by Bellarmine College in 1993... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. Engraved frontispiece portraits, plates, fold-out maps. Cloth over boards. Octavos. xiv, 500 and xii, 486 pages. A military classic. Sheridan covers not only his early years in the west (like most other Civil War commanders on both sides), but also his experiences..... More
New York: [1895]. Single sheet, 8" x 9 7/8", folded once. Suffragist pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton here writes to a Mrs. Thomas, one of the 26 women on the "Revising Committee" who, along with Stanton, wrote "The Woman's Bible." The letter is dated October 20, from Stanton's address at 26..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. Second edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo[viii], 141 pages [1 ad]. Stevenson gained world-wide success with this defining tale of Gothic horror, which explores dual personalities and the problem of evil. Such was the impact of this story that term "Jekyll and Hyde" is..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1958. First edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 442 pages. First printing of this omnibus of Rex Stout mysteries featuring Nero Wolfe. Included here are the novels "Some Buried Caesar" and "Too Many Women," and the collection of three short stories originally published as "Trouble in..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. First edition. Frontispiece portrait, 3 other portrait plates. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 398 pages. Fascinating collection of letters between the Sherman brothers over a period that includes the Mexican War, Civil War, the administration of President Grant, the assassination of President Garfield..... More