Petersburg, VA: Edmund and Julian C. Ruffin, 1841. 8vo. iv,143,[1] pp. Contemporary cloth backed plain boards, most of cloth spine gone. Sound. Lightly foxed throughout. Inscribed by the co-publisher, Edmund Ruffin, to W[illiam] H[enry] Ruffner dated 1849. First edition. Posthumously published writings of William Byrd II (1635-1744), prominent Virginia planter..... More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1871. 4to. 290 x 230 mm. (11 1/2 x 9 inches). [4], 205 pp. Illustrated with 7 chromolithographic plates, 6 micro photographs and one lithograph. Bound in contemporary pebbled morocco spine and tips over marbled paper boards; edges rubbed, but a sound and attractive copy. First illustrated..... More

Hingham, Massachusetts: Hosea Sprague, 1838. Small 4to. 165 x 125 mm., (6 ½ x 5 inches). 32 leaves with various pagination (see below). Title-page vignette, woodcuts of two thermometers, three woodcut vignettes in text. Bound in original brown cloth; some minor staining to the binding, light browning to the text..... More

New York: William Wood & Company, 1865. 4to. 290 x 225 mm. (11 1/2 x 9 inches). [ix]-xvii, [19]-139 pp. (collates per the copy at Princeton). 11 full-page lithographic plates, 9 of which are printed in colored. Publisher's green cloth, title gilt on upper board and in blind on lower..... More