Boston: Little, Brown, 1877. First edition. BAL 8; Howes A-51. ¶ A major historical work by Henry Adams (1838-1918), and a precursor to his famous histories of the United States. Documents of New England Federalism is a remarkable chronicle of the events and correspondence involving the rise and fall of...
Firenze: Nella Stamp. De Pietro Allegrini, 1788. First edition. Sabin 10704; Palou 42410. A treatise by Florentine historian and mathematician, Stanislao Canovai (1740-1811), that attempts to restore the reputation of Amerigo Vespucci as the founder of the new world, which was named for him, but he was not generally credited...
Philadelphia, 1820-28. Theophilus Ransom Gates (1787-1846) was a self-styled visionary, itinerant preacher, author, utopian and advocate for free love and birth control, who published his memoirs and collected writings by age 30. Driven by unconventional religious beliefs, Gates collaborated with Philadelphia printer Joseph Rakestraw in 1820 to establish a radical...
Austin: Wind River Press, (1979). First edition, one of 450 numbered copies; this one is designated "review copy." ¶ A handsome work on the evolution of frontier clothing in 19th century Texas. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie Belch.
Austin: Wind River Press, (1979). First edition, number 37 of 50 numbered copies, signed by David Holman. ¶ A handsome work on the evolution of frontier clothing in 19th century Texas in its deluxe issue with the cloth samples. Prospectus laid in. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie Belch.
Austin: Roger Beacham, 1974. First edition, large paper copy, one of 120 copies (of a total edition of 295). From the introduction: "If, as Plato said, poverty be the parent of meaness and viciousness, then the wonder is that Texans as a people have any reputation remaining for generosity and...
Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, (1829). First edition. Not found in American Imprints, but OCLC records eight copies. ¶ An anonymous life of scholar and theologian Philipp Melancthon (1497-1560), issued as one of the many publications of the American Sunday School Union. On the front paste-down in a contemporary hand...
Newburyport: From the Press of Ephraim W. Allen, (1810). First edition. American Bibliography 20505. A spirited 4th of July oration by one of the more interesting and colorful literary figures of his time, Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (1783-1838), who praises Washington and Hamilton, but not Jefferson. See the DAB.
(Austin:) Duncan & Gladstone, 1985. First edition, number 71 of 22 numbered copies, printed by David Holman of the Wind River Press. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie Belch.
Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, The Lakeside Press, 1919. First Lakeside Press edition.