Category: Americana

The Bill of Rights, James Madison's Legacy.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Stanford:, Hoover Institute, (1989). : 1989

Seller ID: S12437

23 cm. 83 pp. Appendices. Blue and white printed wrappers in original envelope. AUTHOR DEDICATION INSCRIPION: "To my friend & classmate, Ham [Hamilton] Kelly. With best wishes, Dick Burress." Fine. Richard Thomas Burress (1922-2013), former US marine (WWII) and attorney, was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution with extensive background in government.
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The Saga of the Pony Express.

By: DI CERTO, Joseph J.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Missoula:, Mountain Press, 2002. : 2002

Seller ID: BL2198

ISBN-13: 9780878424528

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. ix, 245 pp. Frontis., photos and illustrations (including title and half-title), index. Printed wrappers. Burndy bookplate. Fine. ISBN: 0878424520 First Edition.
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Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country.

By: FARMER, Jared.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Tucson:, University of Arizona Press, 1999. : 1999

Seller ID: BL2207

ISBN-13: 9780816519927

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. xxviii, 269 pp. Photos, maps, index. Blue paper boards, gilt-stamped spine title, dust-jacket. Burndy bookplate. Fine. ISBN: 0816519927 Jared Farmer is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in environmental history, landscape studies, and the North American West. First Edition.
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The Italians and the Creation of America: An Exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University.

By: John Carter Brown Library; HOUGH, Samuel J. (comp.).

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Providence, RI:, [Brown University], 1980. : 1980

Seller ID: BL2590

4to. 83 pp. Three-color title with decorative border (printed in green, blue, and black), 2 color plates, 29 black and white plates, index. Printed wrappers. Bookplate of the Burndy Library. Near fine.
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Image for Wellsprings of a Nation: America before 1801. A Bicentennial Exhibition from the Collections of the American Antiquarian Society at the Worcester Art Museum, April 19 ? June 5, 1977.

Wellsprings of a Nation: America before 1801. A Bicentennial Exhibition from the Collections of the American Antiquarian Society at the Worcester Art Museum, April 19 ? June 5, 1977.

By: PARKER, Rodger D.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Worcester:, AAS, 1977. : 1977

Seller ID: BL2592

ISBN-13: 9780912296135

First printing. 8vo. v, 141 pp. Full page illustrations and reproductions. Printed wrappers; faint offsetting to front cover. Bookplate of the Burndy Library. Very good. ISBN: 0912296135 First Edition.
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Histoire Philosophique et Politique des etablissements & du commerce des Europeens dans les deux Indes.

By: RAYNAL, Guillaume-Thomas-Francois, abbe (1713-1796); Denis DIDEROT (contributor) (1713-1784.

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: The Hague:, Chez Gosse, Fils, 1774. : 1774

Seller ID: BL4658

7 volumes. 8vo. xii, 4, 604; viii, 434; xii, 612; viii, 417, [1]; xii, 416; viii, 406; viii, 448 pp. Half-titles (vols. 1, 3, 5, 7), 7 engraved plates, 7=4 [meaning 7 large folding engraved maps are present, as issued, of which 4 are unique and 3 are duplicates, again as issued] (vols. 1 & 2 and 3 & 4 have the same two maps, each marked "Tome 1&2" - or ? "Tome 3&4"), V: Gulf of Mexico; VI & VII: (2 copies) large folding eng. map of North America, errata. Original full mottled calf, ornate gilt spines, dual leather gilt-stamped spine labels; some wear to extremities. Unidentified rubber-stamps...
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Reflections on the Nature of Leadership.

By: SMITH, Page.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C.:, Anderson House; The Society of the Cincinnati, 1982. : 1982

Seller ID: BL3959

The fourth George Rogers Clark lecture, Feb. 25, 1979. 8vo. 38 pp. Portrait. Cloth. Fine.
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Benjamin Franklin and a rising people. Edited by Oscar Handlin.

By: [FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790)] CRANE, Verner Winslow (1889-1974).

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Boston:, Little, Brown, 1954. : 1954

Seller ID: BL1770

FIRST EDITION. Series: The Library of American Biography. 8vo. x, 219 pp. Index. Blue blind- and gilt-stamped cloth. Burndy bookplate. Very good. Verner W. Crane was professor of history at the University of Michigan. First Edition.
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Ferdinand V. Hayden: entrepreneur of science.

By: [HAYDEN, Ferdinand V. (1829-1887)] CASSIDY, James G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Lincoln:, University of Nebraska Press, 2000. : 2000

Seller ID: BL1579

ISBN-13: 9780803215078

8vo. xxv, 389 pp. 11 illus., bibliog., index. Black cloth, silver-stamped spine title, dust jacket. Burndy bookplate. Fine. ISBN: 080321507X Hayden was important in the scientific investigation of the trans-Mississippi West. / By 1865 the American West had been thoroughly explored, but the knowledge obtained was by no means comprehensive. Though Americans generally agreed that the West was full of opportunities, exactly what those opportunities were and how they might best be exploited was not completely clear. Agriculture as it was then practiced was unsuitable for the rugged mountains and a...
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Meriwether Lewis: A Biography.

By: [Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809)] DILLON, Richard.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York:, Coward-McCann, 1965. : 1965

Seller ID: BL2199

8vo. xv, 365 pp. Plates, index. Light orange cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, dust-jacket. Burndy bookplate. Near fine. Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery, with William Clark.
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The Great Design: Two Lectures on the Smithson Bequest . . . Edited, with an Introduction, by Wilcomb E. Washburn. Foreword by L.H. Butterfield.

By: [Smithson, James (c.1765-1829)] ADAMS, John Quincy (1767-1848).

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Washington:, Smithsonian Institution, 1965. : 1965

Seller ID: BL1309

Series: Smithsonian Publication No. 4643. 8vo. 95 pp. Two color title (printed in sienna and black), plates. Quarter navy cloth with marbled paper sides, gilt-stamped spine title, dust-jacket; jacket chipped. Burndy bookplate. Very good. English scientist James Smithson (born as an illegitimate child in France) gave the bequest that became the Smithsonian Institution. His zeal as a collector of mineral specimens, led to his wanting to benefit science. Adams, of course, was the sixth President of the United States. The editor, Wilcomb E. Washburn (1925-1997), was one of America's most versatil...
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Image for Vie de George Washington. Traduit de l'anglais, et dedie a la Jeunesse Americaine, par A.N. Girault. Seconde edition, revue et corrigee avec soin.

Vie de George Washington. Traduit de l'anglais, et dedie a la Jeunesse Americaine, par A.N. Girault. Seconde edition, revue et corrigee avec soin.

By: [WASHINGTON] Reed, Anna C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia:, Henry Perkins; Boston, Perkins, Marvin and Co., 1835. : 1835

Seller ID: BL4555

12mo. xxiii, [1], (25)-321, [1] pp. Woodcut plates. Original quarter gilt-stamped calf; marbled boards; rubbed, joints starting, foxed. Good. Ownership signatures (3) of William H. Bertholf[?], Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Category: Americana