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.....
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.....
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.....
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.
London: Printed and Published by Thomas Clio Rickman, 1819. First edition. Sabin 71242; Gimbel, page 136; Howes R278. An important memoir of Thomas Paine by his lifelong friend and supporter Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834), the reform-minded bookseller and poet. “Rickman's name will be forever linked with Paine, for he was.....
(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.
Lichfield: Printed and Sold by J. Jackson, for the Author; Sold also by Robinson, Cadell and Evans, [et al.], 1781. First edition. Sabin 79477; Adams, American Controversy, 81-65a; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 291; NCBEL II, 682. The second published work by poet and writer Anna Seward (1742-1809), a.k.a......
Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, The Lakeside Press, 1919. First Lakeside Press edition.
London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher; New York: Reprinted for the Booksellers, 1832. First American edition. NCBEL III, 769; Robinson, pages 197-98; Sabin 97028; American Imprints 15041; Clark, Travels in the Old South, vol. 3, 112; Colbert; ODNB. Frances Trollope (1780-1863) traveled to America in 1827 with several children in tow.....