Philadelphia: William Young, 1792. Leather. Octavo size, 436 pp. An ambitious magazine publication, "The Universal Asylum, and Columbian Magazine" contained writings, in verse and prose, on a variety of subjects, such as politics, travel, the arts, and medicine; this particular volume also has a history of the American Revolution for... More about The Universal Asylum, and Columbian Magazine: Containing, A History of the American Revolution,...

San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, Publishers / The History Company, Publishers, 1884 / 1889. Leather bound. Octavo size, 1633 total pp. These two books are Volumes XV and XVI of "The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft", a monumental thirty-nine-volume work comprising information on the Pacific coast region of... More about History of the North Mexican States (and Texas) [Volumes XV and XVI of "The Works of Hubert...

New York and London: George Virtue & Co., ca. 1856. Hardcover. Three volumes (complete), octavo size. Three volumes, covering the following (per Woodwards' preface): "The first volume narrates the discovery and colonization of the country, and the earlier and more momentous disputes respecting the possession of it...The second volume contains... More about The History of the United States of North America, from the Discovery of the Western World to the...

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 351 of 1500, quarto size, 611 pp. for both volumes. The westward explorations of Lewis and Clark remain a source of fascination, with the courage and daring it took to explore then-unknown territory. This edition of Lewis and Clark’s Expedition... More about The Journals of the Expedition under the Command of Capts. Lewis and Clark; to the sources of the...

[n. p.]: The University of Chicago Press, 1981. Hardcover. Six volumes (complete), octavo size. The correspondence between Arthur Plantagent, 1st Viscount Lisle (ca. 1470-1542), his wife, Honor Plantagenet, and numerous servants, courtiers, and friends, are gathered in these six volumes; the letters provide an intimate look at life during the... More about The Lisle Letters

San Francisco: Colt Press, 1940. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of five hundred copies, large octavo size, 119 pp., with prospectus. Mai (ca.1751-1780), was mistakenly known as "Omai" in Britain, and that is how many still think of him today. He was a young Polynesian priest who was brought... More about Omai, First Polynesian Ambassador to England; The True Story of His Voyage There in 1774 with...

Reno, Nevada: The Elms Publishing Co., 1913. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), quarto size, 1305 pp. This history of Nevada, edited by journalist and historian Samuel Post Davis (1850-1918), spans two volumes; using biographical narrative and anecdotes to tell the history of the state, and giving biographical sketches of the people... More about The History of Nevada

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, designed by Jack Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press, 1991. Sawkins, James Gay. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, oblong quarto, [126] pp., with prospectus. James Gay Sawkins (1806-1878) was a virtually unknown English artist who spent several years painting Hawaiian landscapes;... More about A Pictorial Tour of Hawaii 1850-1852: Watercolors, Paintings & Drawings by James Gay Sawkins;...

Dublin: Robert Jackson, 1790. Leather. Four volumes, octavo size, [2,246] pp. The initial volumes first published in 1789, with Volume IV being first published in 1790, a year before the author's death. The last book by English religious writer and schoolmaster John Gough (1721-1791), who was himself from a family... More about A History of the People Called Quakers; From their First Rise to the Present Time, Compiled from...

Stanford, University: James Ladd Delkin, printed at the Grabhorn Press, 1941. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, quarto size, [73] pp. An essay by Albert Leon Guerard (1880-1959) on Vichy France, the nominal government of German-occupied France during WWII. He begins: "The France of to-morrow! What do we know... More about France of To-morrow

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1982-1988), 1982. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 4320 p. Henry Adams (1838-1918), a descendant of two U.S. Presidents, became a noted political journalist and was best known during his lifetime for a 9-volume work on the History of... More about The Letters of Henry Adams (Volumes I - VI, COMPLETE

Boston: Published by Abel Tompkins, 38 & 40 Cornhill (Printed by Bazin & Chandler, 37 Cornhill), 1861. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 72 pp. A Civil War-era pamphlet which is scarce in the trade, with none online as of this writing and a single auction record which dates back to 1909, for... More about The Union Memorial [includes "Under the Washington Elm" and "Faith in the...

London and New York: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, [ca. 1870s]. Hardcover. Four volumes (complete), quarto size, 2762 pp., illustrated. This edition is a handsome nineteenth century reprint of David Hume's (1711-1776) "The History of England", of which volume one was first published in 1754. For any lover... More about The History of England, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time; Compiled From the Most...