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

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 about The Rejected Stone; or, Insurrection vs. Resurrection in America; By a Native of Virginia

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 about Crusades] Conquete de Constantinople; Avec la Continuation de Henri de Valenciennes: Texte...

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 about Wah-To-Yah & The Taos Trail, Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances [with Map and Prospectus}; With...

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), octavo size, Volume I published in 1885 with 584 pp., Volume II published in 1886 with 647 pp. Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) is arguably one of the most important generals in U.S. history, at times referred... More about Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

[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 about France of To-Morrow

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...

Tokyo: Published by K. Ogawa [printed by C. B. Woodward, St. Louis], 1893. K. Ogawa. First Edition. String Binding. First printing, folio size. K. Ogawa (1860-1929), an innovative Japanese photographer known for his portraiture and masterful use of collotype, presents examples of costumes in Japan prior to the Meiji Restoration... More about Japanese Costume Before the Restoration [with] Military Costume in Old Japan