Mexico: Lithographic Establishment of Victor Debray & Co., Editors, 1877. Oblong folio, [4] 48 pp. (title and text in English and Spanish, French text at end), 25 chromolithographic plates (including title) of sites and towns along the Mexican Railway route, double-page map. Oblong folio, original red gilt pictorial cloth, upper..... More
London: Printed for J. Hassell, 1819. 8vo, viii, 147, (4)pp. with 24 hand-colored aquatint plates drawn and engraved by Hassell. Contemporary olive green morocco, gilt rules, decorations and lettering, a.e.g. Binding slightly rubbed, occasional foxing; a near fine copy with the bookplate of John Francis Neylan designed by William Hancock..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Large 8vo, 97 pp. Publisher's black cloth, pictorial dust jacket, with fold-out pamphlet incorporating some color photography. A near fine copy in a moderately worn dust-jacket with several closed tears and a chip. § First edition. A book of essays edited by Wallace Stegner..... More
New York: Appleton, 1875, 1878, 1879. 3 vols., large thick 4to, 488; 460; 491pp. With 63 full-page steel engravings and hundreds of in-text wood-engravings. Original half dark brown morocco, gilt-lettered backstrip, upper covers titles in gilt. Extremities somewhat worn, internally fine. § First bound edition, from the original parts as..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891. Roy. 8vo, 243pp. With a large folding map at the end, and 18 plates. Original half brown morocco, marbled boards, upper joint split but holding, internally fine. § Third Edition, seemingly very scarce. This third edition leaves out the list of maps and authorities that..... More
[Washington: Government Printing Office] 1883. Roy. 8vo, roy. 8vo, (i) ix, 333 pp. With 16 full-page and folded lithograph maps, 13 sheets with one or more profile views. Original half brown morocco, marbled boards, a very good copy (upper joint tender but not split). § Second edition according to a...... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1869. Tall 4to, 262 pp. 32 plates of which 3 are folding. Original black cloth titled in gilt, corners and backstrip ends a little worn, backstrip dulled, first and final leaves spotted, one signature loose. Plates clean and bright. § First separate edition of Davidson's important..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1869. Tall 4to, 251 pp. 8 plates of which 2 are folding. Original brown cloth titled in gilt, skillfully rebacked with original backstrip laid down, boards a little spotted, endpapers and index stained, but a sound copy. § First edition of this careful geographic survey of..... More
