Celebrated Collections and Americana Sources a Substantial List of Bibliographies, Catalogues, and Reference Books
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Celebrated Collections and Americana Sources A Substantial List of Bibliographies, Catalogues, and Reference Books Terms Material herein is offered subject to prior sale. All items are as described and are considered to be on approval. Notice of return must be given within ten days unless specific arrangements are made. Connecticut residents must be billed state sales tax. Postage and insurance charges are billed to all nonprepaid domestic orders. Overseas orders are sent by air unless otherwise requested, with full postage charges billed at our discretion. Payment by check, wire transfer, or bank draft is preferred, but may also be made by MasterCard or Visa. Orders may be emailed to [email protected]. 1. Abbey, J.R.: LIFE IN ENGLAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770 - 1860...A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE. London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1953. xxi,427,[1]pp. Colored frontispiece plus thirty-two fine collotype plates. Large quarto. Original buckram, t.e.g. Fine. In original dust jacket. Number 80 from an edition limited to 400 copies. The most comprehensive work in its field, carefully describing over 600 books, panoramas, periodicals, and the like, depicting British life in aquatint and lithography. Beautifully illustrated. $750. 2. Adams, Thomas R.: THE AMERICAN CONTROVERSY: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF THE BRITISH PAMPHLETS ABOUT THE AMERICAN DISPUTES, 1764 - 1783. Providence & New York. 1980. Two volumes. Original cloth. Fine. $120. 3. Adonias, Isa: A CARTOGRAFIA DA REGIAO AMAZONICA. CATALOGO DESCRITIVO (1500-1961). Rio de Janeiro: Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas, 1963. Two volumes. 716; 712pp. Folding maps and facsimiles. Thick quarto. Original pictorial wrappers. Some slight soiling to covers. Else very good. An exhuastive carto-bibliography for the Amazon region. Notes and descriptions in Portuguese. $200. 4. Allen, Ronald R.: TENNESSEE IMPRINTS 1791 - 1875. Knoxville. 1987. Unpaginated. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt. Near fine. Allen's definitive bibliography of Tennessee imprints. A must-have for any collector on the subject. $75. 5. Allodi, Mary: PRINTMAKING IN CANADA. THE EARLIEST VIEWS AND PORTRAITS. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1980. xxviii,244pp. Illus. Text in England and French. Quarto. Pictorial softcover. As new. An excellent study, with extensive annotations. Contains 104 entries of views and portraits printed in Canada up to 1850. $20. 6. Alter, J. Cecil: EARLY UTAH JOURNALISM A HALF CENTURY OF FORENSIC WARFARE, WAGED BY THE WEST'S MOST MILITANT PRESS. Salt Lake City. 1938. 405pp. Facsimiles. Illus. Frontis. Gilt cloth. About fine, with news clipping laid in. Good reference, listing the newspapers by city or town, dates of publication, etc. $40. 7. [American Fur Company]: ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION...CALENDAR OF THE AMERICAN FUR COMPANY'S PAPERS PART I: 1831 - 1840...PART II: 1841 - 1849. Washington: GPO, 1945. Two volumes. vii,519-982;[2],983-1951pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spines. Minor tanning. Very good. An exhaustive of list of the American Fur Company's archives, with reference numbers and annotations. An essential research tool in the history of the American fur trade. $55. 8. Armstrong, Robert D.: NEVADA PRINTING HISTORY. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF IMPRINTS & PUBLICATIONS. Reno & Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1981/1991. Two volumes. [4],421pp. plus fourteen plates; [6],403pp. plus nineteen plates. Fine, in jacket. The first volume covers 1858-80, and the second volume covers the next decade. $70. 9. Ayer, Edward E.: NARRATIVES OF CAPTIVITY AMONG THE INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA. A LIST OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS...IN THE EDWARD E. AYER COLLECTION. [bound with:] SUPPLEMENT.... [New York. 1991]. 120,49pp. Cloth. As new. Recent reprint of the catalogue and supplement of the Ayer collection, still the best reference for Indian captivities. $25. 10. Baer, Elizabeth, comp: SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MARYLAND A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Baltimore. 1949. xxix,219pp. plus many facsimiles. Thick quarto. Gilt cloth. Fine, in a slightly worn dust jacket. One of 300 copies printed by the Anthoensen Press. With an introduction by Lawrence Wroth. A superb reference for early Americana. STREETER SALE 4304. $250. 11. Barrett, Ellen C.: BAJA CALIFORNIA 1535 - 1956. [with]: BAJA CALIFORNIA II, 1535 - 1964. Los Angeles. 1957, 1967. xx,284,[1]; xvii,250,[1]pp. Original blue cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Modern bookplate on front pastedowns. Near fine. The essential reference on Baja California. $200. 12. Bay, J. Christian: JOURNEYS AND VOYAGES TO NATURE. A SURVEY OF ONE HUNDRED BOOKS. Cedar Rapids, Ia. 1950. 67pp. plus plate. Frontis. Original cloth backed paper boards, paper label. Near fine. In original glassine, moderately chipped. Bay's informal listing of 100 important books of natural history exploration around the world. From an edition limited to 400 copies, privately printed for the friends of the Torch Press. $40. 13. [Bibliography]: BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS PUBLISHED IN CANADA, UP TO THE YEAR EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVEN, COPIES OF WHICH ARE IN THE PUBLIC REFERENCE LIBRARY, TORONTO, CANADA. Toronto. 1916. 75pp. Printed wrappers bound into new cloth. Very good. $30. 14. [Bibliography]: Alden, John, and Dennis Landis, eds: EUROPEAN AMERICANA: A CHRONOLOGICAL GUIDE TO WORKS PRINTED IN EUROPE RELATING TO THE AMERICAS, 1493 - 1750 [Volumes I - VI]. New York. 1980-1997. Six volumes. Thick quarto. Cloth. As new. The complete set of this essential reference, finally completed after more than two decades of toil by the staff of the John Carter Brown Library, led by John Alden and Dennis Landis. This is the starting point for researching any pre-1751 European imprints relating to America. The grandest American bibliographical project since Sabin and Evans. You don't have a reference library if you don't have this. Volumes I through IV and VI are available at $275 each. $1650. 15. [Boone, Daniel]: Miner, William Harvey: DANIEL BOONE CONTRIBUTION TOWARD A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WRITINGS CONCERNING DANIEL BOONE. New York: The Dibdin Club, 1901. ix,32pp. plus several interleaved blank leaves, presumably for note-taking. Original boards, expertly rebacked in contemporary style, original spine label preserved. Somewhat tanned as usual. Very good. A useful, annotated bibliography, after the style utilized by Thomas Field in his Indian bibliography. $50. 16. Boyer, Mary G.: ARIZONA IN LITERATURE. A COLLECTION OF THE BEST WRITINGS OF ARIZONA AUTHORS FROM EARLY SPANISH DAYS TO THE PRESENT TIME. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1935. 7-574pp. including musical scores. Original red cloth. Gilt stamped spine. Color frontispiece. Spine gently sunned, slight wear to head and tail of slightly rubbed spine. Very good, without the scarce dust jacket. When published, Boyer's work was, "the first and only extensive anthology of Arizona literature." CLARK & BRUNET 25. DOBIE, p.25. $45. 17. Brigham, Clarence S.: HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS 1690 - 1820. [with:] ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.... Worcester. 1947, 1961. Two volumes. 1508pp., plus 50pp. pamphlet in printed wrappers. Quarto. Original cloth, spines gilt. A few marks and light wear. Near fine. A basic reference for the period. This copy of the set is accompanied by the fifty-page supplement published in 1961. $150. 18. [Brinley, George]: CATALOGUE OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY OF THE LATE MR. GEORGE BRINLEY...FIRST PART. [through:] ...FIFTH PART.... Hartford. 1878-93. Five volumes. Original wrappers bound into 20th-century green buckram, spines gilt. Wrappers chipped. Very good, untrimmed. Lacks index volume, but includes prices realized for all five parts bound after the fifth part. A landmark sale of Americana and the greatest collection of American imprints ever formed. Includes price lists for all but the first part of the sale, which began in 1879 and concluded in 1893. An essential reference. $500. 19. Bristol, Roger P.: SUPPLEMENT TO CHARLES EVANS' AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. Charlottesville. 1970-71. Two volumes. Quarto. Red cloth. Fine. Roger Bristol's supplement volume and supplement index to Evans' AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. $35. 20. [Brown, John Carter]: BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA. CATALOGUE OF THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY IN BROWN UNIVERSITY PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND. [with:] ...SHORT-TITLE LIST OF ADDITIONS BOOKS PRINTED 1471-1700. Providence. 1919-1931, 1973. 3 volumes in 5 parts, plus supplemental volume. Original brown cloth, gilt. Hinges a bit loose, light wear at corners and spine ends. Shelf marks on spines of three parts, bookplates on all front pastedowns. Internally clean. Very good. The catalogue of John Carter Brown's important collection at Brown University. This set, complete at the time of publication, covers books in the collection up to 1674. Also with the supplemental volume published in 1973 containing a short title list of additions dating from 1471 to 1700. Later volumes would complete the catalogue of the collection up to 1800. An invaluable reference tool for early Americana. $135. 21. [Church, E.D.]: Cole, George Watson: A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS RELATING TO THE DISCOVERY AND EARLY HISTORY OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA FORMING A PART OF THE LIBRARY OF E.D. CHURCH.... New York. 1951. Five volumes. Original red cloth. A few very light scratches to boards. Internally clean. Near fine. Reprint edition of one of the most basic references in Americana, valuable for its detailed collations and descriptions of many of the primary works of early Americana. Compiled and annotated by George Watson Cole. After this was published, the Church collection was sold en bloc to Henry Huntington and is now at the Huntington Library. $200. 22. [Civil War]: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF STATE PARTICIPATION IN THE CIVIL WAR 1861 - 1866. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1913. x,1140pp. Original three-quarter red calf and cloth boards, spine gilt, edges marbled. Small bookplate on front pastedown, pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Very good. Early 20th century catalogue of Civil War materials located in the library of the War Department, organized by state. A crucial Civil War reference book. $150. 23. Clark, Thomas D.: TRAVELS IN THE OLD SOUTH. A BIBLIOGRAPHY... Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956, 1959.