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...

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 about The Life of William J. Brown; With Personal Recollections of Incidents in Rhode Island

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

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 about Deutschland erwacht; Werden, kampf und sieg der NSDAP ["Germany Awakes, Becomes, Struggles...

Providence, R.I. Ziggurat Press, [1991]. Feldman, Walter. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 12 of 17 of the special edition, oblong quarto size, [30] pp., signed by Walter Feldman, with prospectus. Walter Feldman (1925-2017) was an art professor at Brown University and established the Ziggurat Press in 1984. This work is an... More about Lager Lieder

Lunenburg, Vermon: The Limited Editions Club, printed at The Stinehour Press, 1967. Ward, Lynd. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500 copies, quarto size, 376 pp., signed by Lynd Ward, with announcement and LEC Monthly Newsletter. This collection of the works of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) is illustrated with lithographs by... More about The Writings of Thomas Jefferson

New York: Carleton Press, A Reflection Book, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 33 pp. '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 the dust jacket). The story... More about Deep South Showman, The Story of Eddie Wilson