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Harrisburg, Pa: Gedruckt und zu haben bey G. S. Peters, ca. 1830. 140 x 90 mm. [5.5 x 3.5 inches]. 18 leaves, printed on one side only. Eight full-color illustrations. Original orange paper printed wrappers. Light edge wear with a slight crease down the front. The words 'Sept 1940' and..... More
New York: Koch, Sons, & Co., 1887. Folio. 480 x 405 mm., [19 x 16 inches]. Printed index of plates followed by 12 chromolithographic images after original drawings by L. K. Harlow. Each image is mounted to a cardboard mat, 11 of which have lithographic vignettes in the lower corner..... More
Philadelphia: J. L. Sibole, Co., [1877]. [1877]. 4to. 295 x 225 mm., [11 ¾ x 9 inches]. 36 ff. Illustrated with four color lithographic plates, 8 tinted lithographs with gray and tan backgrounds, and 4 smaller black and white engravings. Bound in publisher’s green cloth, gilt title on upper board;..... More
London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., (1832). 8vo. 190 x 110 mm., [7 ½ x 4 ½ inches]. xxxi, 275 pp. plus 2pp. ads. Illustrated with six color plates. Contemporary cloth; expertly rebacked preserving spine, new endpapers. One plate loose in text. Fifth edition with additions. With faults an attractive copy..... More
Philadelphia: Butler & Williams, 1845. 4to. 250 x 215 mm. (9 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches). Title and imprint appear on the front board. 18 double-page maps of the sky, 12 of which are colored by stencil. Original printed boards, black cloth spine; wear to edges boards and spine a...... More
New York: Wiley and Putnam, [1853]. Sq. 4to. 248 x 220 mm., [ 9 ¾ x 9 inches]. Illustrated with 53 illuminated pages (hinged boards), with highly gilded and decorated borders; all edges gilt. Orig. beveled brown morocco, with gilt title in shield on front cover in blind on rear..... More
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1874. Oblong 4to. 230 x 275 mm., [9 x 11 inches]. 12 leaves, (ten color printed plates plus front and rear wrappers). Printed on card stock the corners and edges of which are chipped with minor loss to the margins; the stapled cover wrappers nearly loose..... More
Harrisburg, Pa. Gedruckt und zu haben bey G. S. Peters, [1830s]. 140 x 90 mm. (5.5 x 3.5 inches). 18 leaves, printed on one side only. Eight full-color illustrations. Original orange paper printed wrappers. Light edge wear with a slight crease down the front. The words "Sept 1940" and "Mrs..... More
Troy, N.Y. Nims and Knight, 1887. Folio. 320 x 230 mm., (12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches). 48 leaves of text and 10 full-page colored lithographic plates. Original publisher's decorated binding, some minor scrapes to the boards; paper lightly toned by age and one plate with outer margin and corner..... 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
