![Les Relations de Voyages du XVII Siecle et L'Evolution des Idees [Relationship of 17th Century Travel to the Evolution of Ideas]. Geoffrey Atkinson.](/pictures/thumb/13071314_1.JPG?v=1496107323)
Paris: Librairie Ancienne Edouard Champion, [1924]. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 220 pp., inscribed by author, volume in French. The author was a Guggenheim Foundation recipient appointed to study the influence of accounts of America, Africa and Asia printed in French upon the thought of the French Renaissance. He was... More
New York and London: George Virtue & Co. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. [1856], title page undated, preface by B.B. Woodward dated June, 1856. Steel engravings by various artists. Three volumes, covering the following (per Woodwards' preface): "The first volume narrates the discovery and colonization of the... More
Tel Aviv: Beth Hatefutsoth, The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Ministry of Defence Publishing House, 1990. Hardcover. Quarto size, 222 pp. Nazi Germany was a time of brutality and oppression to many, for the Jews of Czechoslovakia it was particularly horrific. The Jewish population there was almost annihilated... More
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
Providence, RI: Angell & Co., Printers, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 230 pp. William J. Brown (1814-1855) was a free African American born in Providence in 1814, the son and grandson of slaves owned by abolitionist Moses Brown. William Brown wrote and published his captivating autobiography as a means... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1929. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 30 of 300 copies, folio size, 134 pp., with prospectus. Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca (ca. 1488-ca. 1560) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and this account is of the Narvaez expedition to Florida, of which Cabeca... More
San Francisco: Printed by the Grabhorn Press for Ransohoffs, 1940. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, elephant folio size, [70] pp. A grand production of seven of Winston Churchill's (1874-1965) impassioned wartime speeches given in 1940, here collected in print for the first time. Heightened by marvelous typographic... More
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
Boston: Walker, Wise, and Company, 1862. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Second printing (first printing was in 1861), duodecimo size, 131 pp. One of many voices calling for an end to slavery in the United States, Moncure Daniel Conway (1832-1907) writes an impassioned plea for the emancipation of slaves in "The Rejected... More
London: J. Debrett, 1783. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 284 pp. The Yorktown Campaign (June-October 1781) was a series of battles and maneuvers during the American Revolutionary War, culminating in the Siege of Yorktown, in which the British Army force of General Charles Earl Cornwallis (1738-1805) was forced to surrender... More
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
![[Crusades] Conquete de Constantinople; Avec la Continuation de Henri de Valenciennes: Texte Original, Accompagne d'une Traduction. Geoffroi de Ville-Hardouin, M. Natalis de Wailly.](/pictures/thumb/15101601_1.JPG?v=1530733749)
Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Freres, Fils et Cie, 1874. Second Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 640 pp., text in French. The best known work by knight and historian Geoffroi de Ville-Hardouin (c. 1150-c.1213/18), written between 1207 and 1213. This work is one of the oldest known examples of historical French prose... More
![The Book of the Indians of North America, [or] Biography and History of the Indians of North America; Comprising a General Account of Them, and Details in the Lives of all the most Distinguished Chiefs, and others, who have been noted, among the various Indian Nations upon the Continent. A History of their Wars; their Manners and Customs; and the Most Celebrated Speeches of their Orators, from their First Being Known to Europeans to the Present Time. Likewise Exhibiting an Analysis of the Most Distinguished, as well as Absurd Authors, who have Written Upon the Great Question of the First Peopling of America. Samuel G. Drake.](/pictures/thumb/18051103_1.JPG?v=1526845398)
Boston: J. Drake, 56 Cornhill, at the Antiquarian Institute, 1835. Fourth Edition. Leather bound. Octavo size, [552] pp. Samuel Gardner Drake (1798-1875), son of a minister and educated in what were then called "common schools", loved learning and the pursuit of learning. In 1828 he departed his native New Hampshire... More
Springfield, Mass. Patriot Publishing Co., 1912. Brady, Matthew. First Edition. Wraps. Sixteen parts, quarto size, approx. [32] pp. each. A complete run of this series with "photographs just discovered taken 50 years ago", illustrated with Matthew Brady's War-time photographs, and many other war photographers from both the North and South... More
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
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1936. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 550 copies, octavo size, 309 pp. This diary, written by the young Lewis H. Garrard, includes contemporary descriptions of Native Americans, traders, mountain men, with their dress, behavior, and speech, and also includes legendary characters such as... More
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
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
[Stanford, California, Printed in San Francisco]: James Ladd Delkin, Stanford University [Printed by 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... More
Chicago: The Chapman Publishing Co., 1905. Hardcover. Quarto size, 1628 pp. The state of California has a rich history filled with many diverse characters and events, from the early Spanish settlers, to the building of missions throughout the state, to the discovery of gold in 1848, to its statehood and... More
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
![Deutschland erwacht; Werden, kampf und sieg der NSDAP ["Germany Awakes, Becomes, Struggles and Wins"]. Heinrich Hoffmann, Wilfrid Bade.](/pictures/thumb/17101302_1.JPG?v=1512003305)
Hamburg: Cigaretten Bilderdienst, 1933. Hardcover. Quarto size, [152] pp., illustrated. A profusely illustrated souvenir book charting the history of the Nazi Party (the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterparte) or, in English, the National Socialist German Workers' Party) up until 1933; note that all text is in German. While we abhor the... More
Providence, R.I. Ziggurat Press, [1991]. Feldman, Walter. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited special edition, number 12 of 17, oblong quarto size, [30] pp., signed by Walter Feldman. Limited special edition, number 12 of 17 numbered copies. Walter Feldman (1925-2017) was an art professor at Brown University and established the Ziggurat Press... More
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
New York: Carleton Press, A Reflection Book, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 33 p. 'Deep South Showman' is the life-story of Eddie Wilson, an Alabama-born African-American who became known as "The Moving Picture Man" in the rural South during the Twenties and Thirties (from... More