Greater Texas and the Coast Country. de International & Great Northern Railroad - 1910: Houston-Galveston District, the Winter Garden

London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1926. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. First Edition, no additional printings; 8vo, blue cloth, no dj; good+ (cocked; shelfworn; front board bowed with spot to side edge; black border on front board worn; rear board worn with bump and crease to bottom corner at joint; spine sunned and yellowed; spine ends bumped and crimped; cloth on spine head torn, reveals board; corners bumped and worn; bottom front corner worn to board; dyed top edge faded and stained; several brown spots on bottom edge; owner's name and date on ffep; cracked at p160; bottom corners of last one hundred pages creased along bound edge; feps browned; eps, pages, and plates toned); 312pp + ads and numerous b&w photographs. Adams' Herd 442.

New York: The World Publishing Co., 1971. Signed on the title page by James Welch. First edition / First printing. Brown paper-covered boards, Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Poems. The author's first book. A beautiful copy.

New York: Nafis & Cornish, 1843. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good Hardcover;/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Professorially rebound in polished half-leather to maroon cloth with new endpages. 12mo; 7.75 inches tall; 1 p. l., (i) vi-xxxv, (1) 37-311 p. 3 other plates included in pagination. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning with some foxing. A handsome book. First Edition, First Printing.. A treatise on the Asiatic origin of the North American Indian, with comparisons of physiognomy, language, religion, dress, rites.. [From the title page] With a Faithful Description of their Manners and Customs, both Civil and Military, Their Religions, Languages, Dress, and Ornaments. To which is prefixed a brief view of the creation of the world, the situation of the garden of Eden, the Antediluvians, the foundation of Nations by the posterity of Noah, the progenitors of the N. Americans and the discovery of the New World by Columbus. Concluding with a… Leer más

This unique and limited edition book is in excellent condition. It is hardcover with a nice dust jacket. The dust jacket has a couple of small tears and is otherwise in mint condition. Several pages in full color, some showing rare collectibles. The names of former owners are inscribed in the front of the book.

Original newspaper, dated Honolulu, November 1, 1879. Illustrated with decorated masthead. 4to. (9½ by 12½ inches). Original self cover, 8 pages. 19th century newspaper from Hawaii that bills itself as "The Oldest Paper in The Pacific." This newspaper was printed by the missionary community in the Sandwich Islands, as the future state was then called, while the kingdom was still governed by its native Kings and Queens. Its content chronicles their progress and includes much general news of the island and its people, the South Seas and the sailors that frequented the islands and that part of the globe. There are also U.S. news items, some of them months old, and some interesting advertisements on the last pages. Complete, with large margins, uncut and untrimmed, attached at the top. Small ¼-inch tear at the top, in the blank margin, and several "micro-pinholes," o/w in pristine condition. Fine. Rare.

London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1926. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. First Edition, no additional printings; 8vo, blue cloth, no dj; good+ (cocked; shelfworn; front board bowed with spot to side edge; black border on front board worn; rear board worn with bump and crease to bottom corner at joint; spine sunned and yellowed; spine ends bumped and crimped; cloth on spine head torn, reveals board; corners bumped and worn; bottom front corner worn to board; dyed top edge faded and stained; several brown spots on bottom edge; owner's name and date on ffep; cracked at p160; bottom corners of last one hundred pages creased along bound edge; feps browned; eps, pages, and plates toned); 312pp + ads and numerous b&w photographs. Adams' Herd 442.

New York: Nafis & Cornish, 1843. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good Hardcover;/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Professorially rebound in polished half-leather to maroon cloth with new endpages. 12mo; 7.75 inches tall; 1 p. l., (i) vi-xxxv, (1) 37-311 p. 3 other plates included in pagination. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning with some foxing. A handsome book. First Edition, First Printing.. A treatise on the Asiatic origin of the North American Indian, with comparisons of physiognomy, language, religion, dress, rites.. [From the title page] With a Faithful Description of their Manners and Customs, both Civil and Military, Their Religions, Languages, Dress, and Ornaments. To which is prefixed a brief view of the creation of the world, the situation of the garden of Eden, the Antediluvians, the foundation of Nations by the posterity of Noah, the progenitors of the N. Americans and the discovery of the New World by Columbus. Concluding with a… Leer más

New York: Sol Lewis, 1981. First Edition. Slipcased. Near Fine. Limited to 350 numbered copies, #347, Reprint of 1931 Grabhorn edition (158), [14x10in]; [10], 272 pp., frontispiece fold out illustration of Pueblo de Los Angeles, 15 illustrations with three fold out, two fold out and color maps, several vignettes in text and margins; Tan full leather with brown lettering on spine with rib designs, all edges trimmed, red and black ink title page, light blue silk moire doublures end papers, dark brown ribbon marker; Light brown-rust buckram cloth slipcase; Near fine covers and text with negligible wear, a very good slipcase with little fading along edges and minor fraying at top and bottom seams. [Kurutz 515, Hill 1379 and 1434 (1931 edition)]. H. M. T. Powell wrote one of "... the most important and highly celebrated overland narratives." on the California Gold Rush. He left Greenville, Illinois in April 1849 with a small group of others seeking fortune in California. Eight months later, after… Leer más

This unique and limited edition book is in excellent condition. It is hardcover with a nice dust jacket. The dust jacket has a couple of small tears and is otherwise in mint condition. Several pages in full color, some showing rare collectibles. The names of former owners are inscribed in the front of the book.

Philadelphia: S. A. Mitchell Jr., 1868. First State. Very Good. [12.25x15.25in sheet, 11.75x14in neatline] Colored map of Alaska with part of British America (Northwest) and Russia Asia (Siberia), with the Arctic and North Pacific Oceans, relief in hachures with Greenwich prime meridian, detailed features of rivers, mountain ranges, Russian and native settlements, and geographic features, wide border design, copyright date of map 1867, no plate number on map, verso blank; some age-toning along edges and mild toning in general with a few soiling spots [Rumsey 0579.000] CS. Samuel Augustus Mitchell, Jr. (---) was a publisher of maps and atlases. His Father (1790-1880) was a teacher, geographer and publisher of maps, atlases, travel guides, textbooks and other related geography works. The publishing company was transferred to his son in 1860 and Mitchell continued to publish popular atlases. In 1860, the "New General Atlas" was published with 81 colored maps on 47 plates. He continued to update, almost… Leer más