New York: B. Frodsham, 548 Broadway, 1861. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed to Dr. E. Parmly from the author. Presentation Copy. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Dr. E. Parmele [sic, Eleazar Parmly] / Presented by / The Author." Eleazar Parmly was a prominent 19th-century dentist. A rare presentation copy..... Read More about The Prince's Visit: A Humorous Description of the Tour of His Royal Highness, the Prince of...

Boston: February 27, 1783 - November 17, 1785. "On 30 Aug. 1783, with Anglo-American hostilities having ceased and eager to profit from the commercial opportunities offered by the Dutch-American Treaty, De la Lande & Fynje signed a five-year contract with Boston merchant and loyalist Frederick William Geyer (d. 1803). The..... Read More about Manuscript retained letterbook of the Boston merchant firm William Foster & Company,...

Ogdensburgh [N.Y.]: Published by J.C. Sprague, 1855. First edition, likely a presentation copy to the publisher inscribed on the front blank "To my good friend/Sprague/From the Author/Nov. 1855." INSCRIBED FROM AUTHOR TO PUBLISHER. An important overland narrative and a significant early account of Gold Rush life. "This account is acclaimed..... Read More about Scenery of the Plains, Mountains and Mines: or a Diary Kept upon the Overland Route to...

New York: [1918]. First English language edition, translated from the German edition issued in 1905, by Margaret and Erich Zimmerman.  Privately printed in an edition of only fifty copies. Graff's Copy -- One of 50 Copies Printed. "Scharmann started his overland odyssey on March 20, 1849, from New York as..... Read More about Scharmann's Overland Journey to California from the Pages of a Pioneer's Diary

Clarksburg, VA: Published by Joseph Israel, 1831. First edition. Complete without the four-page list of contents, which was printed later and is found inserted in some copies. Withers' book is still one of the primary sources on backwoods life in the Alleghenies and upper Ohio. Theodore Roosevelt (quoted by Larned)..... Read More about Chronicles of Border Warfare, or a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-western...