Our bookshop specializes in rare and antiquarian books and ephemera with emphasis on American History, and Law. In addition to our specialties, we have a good general stock of literature, poetry, the arts, hunting and fishing, travel, books on books, and other histories from ancient to modern. Visit our store in historic Georgetown or browse and search our online stock.
WILDERNESS TRAIL; OR, THE VENTURES AND ADVENTURES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA TRADERS ON THE ALLEGHENY PATH.
NY: Putnam's, 1911. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo.; 383pp., 457pp. Illustrated, folding maps. A little foxing to title pages, but a fine unopened.. more
THE CHIMES: A GOBLIN STORY OF SOME BELLS THAT RANG AN OLD YEAR OUT & A NEW YEAR IN.
Phila: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. 1st Amer. ed. (Harper published a New York ed. the same year, priority unknown). 12mo. Illustrated. Orig. gilt-stamped blue cloth... more
WILD JIM: CAPT. W. J. FRENCH, TEXAS RANGER; THE TEXAS COWBOY & SADDLE KING.
(Mt. Hope, KS?): n.d., n.d. (ca. 1890). 1st ed., published as a promotional to help the sale of a larger work of the same title, published in.. more
TREATISE ON BRIDGE ARCHITECTURE; IN WHICH THE SUPERIOR ADVANTAGES OF THE FLYING PENDENT LEVER BRIDGE ARE FULLY PROVED; with an historical account & description of different bridges erected in various parts of the world, from an early period, down to the p
NY: the author, 1811. First edition. The first American book on the subject. Tall 8vo. 288pp. 18 engraved plates. 6 pg. subscriber's list; errata.. more
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