Price: $3,500

New York: Charles Scribner & Company, 1867. First edition. Mrs. Badger was an illustrator with an intuitive feeling for the decorative, as she amply demonstrates in this book, a companion to her Wild Flowers published in 1859, although here focused on the greenhouse and garden. "Contains 16 very beautiful full.....  Read More Item Details for Floral Belles from the Green-House and Garden. Painted from Nature Add to Wish List

Item #366850

Price: $15,000

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. For an edition of 250 signed sets. Ordeman notes that “it is rare that one finds a complete set today”. An extremely handsome and decorative set of American sporting notables. The six portraits, each set in an appropriate background, are of: SAMUEL MORRIS, ESQ......  Read More Item Details for “FATHERS OF AMERICAN SPORT”. The ORIGINAL SIX WATERCOLORS of this famous Derrydale Press set, signed by the artist “R.L. Boyer”. Together with a set of PROOFS BEFORE LETTERS, with what is evidently the artist's modelling and coloring, each signed by him in pencil (one, unsigned, is in print state, with legend engraved in lower margin) Add to Wish List

Item #261099

Price: $5,000

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First edition, first state binding. The first part of this work, A True Story, was first published in the Atlantic in November 1874. The story is a retelling of the experiences of Mary Ann Cord (renamed “Aunt Rachel” in the story), the African-American.....  Read More Item Details for A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime. By Mark Twain Add to Wish List

Item #324788

Price: $750

Np: October 5, 1883. Autograph material by Buffalo Bill from this early a date is considerably more uncommon than signatures from later in his career. Read More Item Details for Signature, "W. F. Cody / Buffalo Bill" and date, on a small card Add to Wish List

Item #375904

Price: $4,500

Philadelphia: printed and sold by R. Aitken, Book-seller, Front-Street, 1777. Shortly after the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress recognized the necessity of publishing its proceedings on a timely basis. These volumes appeared in more or less annual volumes, but in inconsistent formats and from different printers: Robert Aitken, John.....  Read More Item Details for Journals of Congress, Containing the Proceedings from Sept. 5, 1774 to Jan. 1, 1776 Add to Wish List

Item #373113

Price: $3,500

New York: Sheldon and Company, 1874. First Edition. Read More Item Details for My Life on the Plains, or, Personal Experiences with Indians Add to Wish List

Item #374804

Price: $10,000

New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton and Mulligan. New York: 25 Park Row.-Auburn: 107 Genesee-st, 1855. First Edition. Douglass published his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life..., in 1845 in which he described his years in captivity in Maryland and his eventual escape and involvement in the abolition movement. "Published.....  Read More Item Details for My Bondage and My Freedom: Part I - Life as a Slave, Part II - Life as a Freeman...with an Introduction by Dr.James M'Cune Smith Add to Wish List

Item #368610

Price: $14,000

Boston: Printed and sold by S[amuel] Kneeland, 1754. First edition. First edition of the first great philosophical work by an American, and one of the most important texts produced in colonial America. Edwards had risen to prominence as a revivalist preacher during the Great Awakening, but this book, called by.....  Read More Item Details for A Careful and Strict Enquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will, which is Supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency, Vertue and Vice, Reward and Punishment, Praise and Blame Add to Wish List

Item #366924

Price: $25,000

London: for William Crooke, 1684–85. First editions in English of both volumes. The first English edition of the first extensive account of the pirates of the West Indies, with all plates and map present. Unusually, this copy is bound with the first edition of the first part, and the first.....  Read More Item Details for Bucaniers of America: Or, a true Account of the Most remarkable Assaults Committed of the late years upon the Coasts of The West-Indies, By the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, Both English and French. Wherein are contained more especially, The unparallel'd Exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican Hero, who sack'd Puerto Velo, burnt Panama, &c. ... [With:] RINGROSE, Basil. Bucaniers of America. The Second Volume, Containing the Dangerous Voyage and Bold Attempts of Captain Bartholomew Sharp, and others; performed upon the Coasts of the South Sea, for the space of two years, &c. From the Original Journal of the said Voyage Add to Wish List

Item #371670

Price: $1,750

Washington, D.C: Printed by Order of the Senate, by Gales and Seaton, 1845. First Edition. The Senate issue of the Fremont report, certainly one of the most important single pieces of Western Americana. In various editions this report was more widely read than any other account of the West before.....  Read More Item Details for Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843–44 Add to Wish List

Item #369469

Price: $6,500

London: Printed for R. H. Evans ... J. Mackinlay ... and R. Priestley, 1809–1812. One of 250 on Royal Paper. "An accurate reprint of the best folio [1588–1600] with the addition of those voyages which were published in the first edition, and omitted in the second. It likewise has a......  Read More Item Details for Hakluyt's Collection of Early Voyages, Travels and Discoveries of the English Nation. A New Edition, with Additions Add to Wish List

Item #323383

Price: $25,000

[Austin, Texas]: n.d. [c. 1897]. Published in McClure’s Magazine, December, 1899; later collected in Roads of Destiny (1909). This story here entitled "Whistling Sam's Christmas Stocking," was first published in revised form as "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking" in McClure's Magazine, December 1899, and later collected in Roads of Destiny (1909).....  Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript Signed of his short story “Whistling Sam’s Christmas Stocking," later published in revised form as “Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking” Add to Wish List

Item #369785

Price: $4,500

Pittsburgh: 1892. First edition. From an edition limited to fifty copies, according to Mintz. This copy contains the scarce folding blueprint map, showing the route of the Forty-Niners from Independence, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, and the political subdivisions of the West in the mid-19th century. This is one of the.....  Read More Item Details for Experiences of a Forty-Niner Add to Wish List

Item #366078