Spreading Germs of Hate by Viereck, George Sylvester; with a Foreword by Colonel Edward M. House - 1930

1848 Mississippi Exploration Indian Wars Color MAP Western Americana Monette

'History of the discovery and settlement of the valley of the Mississippi' is the history of the Americas along and around the Mississippi river. It is told primarily from the perspective of the Indian Wars between Native Americans and France, Spain, and Great Britain.
"The first volume is principally occupied with a relation of the French and Spanish discovery of the territory, and the association of the colonial governments of these nations with the Indians, and their wars with the various tribes inhabiting it. Much of the larger portion of Vol. II. is devoted to a narration of the Indian wars of the States bordering the Ohio. The work is probably the best of the numerous class of books on the subject of western history" (Field).

This 1848 edition includes:
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First Spanish discoveries in Florida 1512 to 1538 --
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Exploration of the Mississippi River by La Salle: his colony on the Colorado 1673 to 1696 -… Read More

1834 1st ed William Wilberforce Memoir anti SLAVERY Slave Abolition America

William Wilberforce was an 18th-century British politician who is best remembered for his role in helping abolish slave trade in the western world. His campaign to abolish slavery led to the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833, which inspired author Thomas Price to publish a memoir highlighting Wilberforce's role in the slavery abolition.
This 1834 first American edition of Price's 'Memoir' was published from the first London edition, printed in 1833. It was published in Boston in hopes of contributing to the end of slavery in the United States, which at the time, was still prominent in the South.

Item number: #13859
Price: $950
PRICE, Thomas
Memoir of William Wilberforce
Boston : Light & Horton, 1834. First American edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
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· References: Sabin 65466 (second edition only, no mention of this first edition)
· Provenance: Handwritten – Sarah B. Shepherd… Read More

1822 Famous 2ed David Porter Journal USS Essex Battle of Valparaiso War of 1812

David Porter was an early American naval captain who served on the USS Constitution and the USS Essex. While aboard the Essex, Porter faced significant hardships, including the Battle of Valparaiso where the ship was ultimately disabled. Porter kept a journal of his time aboard the Essex, a journal that was quickly published after capture of the Essex.
According to Hill, the second of Porter's 'Journal' is the "best edition" and is more complete even than the first. In fact, this edition contains the first instance of the details of Porter's loss of the USS Essex in 1814. This edition also includes an expanded preface as well as folding maps and notes and illustrations on the Galapagos Islands.
Item number: #12767
Price: $750
PORTER, David
Journal of a cruise made to the Pacific Ocean by Captain David Porter, in the United States Frigate Essex, in the years 1812, 1813, and 1814 : to which is now added the transactions at… Read More

1841 Robert Merry Museum American History Voyages Indians Egypt Dinosaurs 9v SET
'Robert Merry's Museum' was a 19th-century periodical, notably collected and edited by Samuel G Goodrich. Most of the articles in this series were written for young readers, instructing them of things from around the world – animals including dinosaurs, Bible stories, American history and founding fathers, poems, Egyptian antiquities and ruins, world voyages, and even articles on Native American Indian tribes!
Item number: #14207
Price: $750
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Robert Merry's museum

New York : William K. Vaill; Boston : Bradbury & Soden; New York: Mead, [1841-1849]. 1st editions

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 9 volumes
o Heavily illustrated throughout
o Includes numerous hand-colored, full-page engravings
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight & secure
· Size: ~8in X 6in (19.5cm x 15cm)
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1843 INDIANS 1ed History of Backwoods Ohio Shawnee French Indian War Frontier
"One of the best compilations of frontier narratives!" (Howes)
A.W. Patterson's "History of the Backwoods" is a rare, 19th-century account of frontier life in the American west. This book covers some of the earliest settlements in Western Pennsylvania and Ohio. Though, perhaps the best resource this book offers is the numerous accounts of interactions with Native American Indian tribes – tribes including the Massawomees, the Allegawe, Delawares, and Shawnees. Patterson also covers major battles in the French and Indian War.
Thomson says of this work:
"a rare book of Western History…a perfectly reliable narrative of events in the West arranged chronologically from the earliest discoveries of the French to Wayne's victory."
Item number: #17854
Price: $950
PATTERSON, A.W.
History of the backwoods, or, The region of the Ohio : authentic, from the earliest accounts, embracing many events, notices of prominent pioneers,… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1896 pp xiv + 204; Six lectures with an appendix by Dr Alys Russell on Social Democracy and the Woman Question in Germany. Internally fresh subject to slight browning, binding firm, blue boards a little marked with some wrinkles (look to be from production), spine a little sunned. Moderate wear to corners and extremities of spine.

London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1777. Near Fine. [2], 311-312 p.; 31 cm. (folio). Disbound. Title page reads "Anno Regni Georgii III. . . . At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth Day of November, Anno Domini 1774, in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third . . . And from thence continued, by several Prorogations, to the Thirty-first Day of October, 1776; Being the Third Session of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain." Woodcut royal coat of arms above the imprint. Woodcut headpiece and historiated initial at the beginning of the act. "Whereas a Rebellion and War have been openly and traiterously levied and carried on in certain of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America, and Acts of Treason and Piracy have been committed on the High Seas, and upon the Ships and Goods of His Majesty's Subjects, and many Persons have been seised and taken, who are expressly charged or strongly suspected of… Read More

London: Richard Bentley, 1836. Signed first edition. 2 volumes finely bound in crimson 3/4 morocco by Stikeman with raised bands and gilt titles. Power's autograph signature bound in. Published London: Richard Bentley, 1836. Large 8vo., 6" x 9", xv+440pp.; vi+408pp., with half titles and frontispieces etched by Hervieu present. Marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Name plate of noted collector Benjamin DeForest Curtiss on front pastedown of each volume. Power was a well known Irish comedian, actor and author. He toured the Eastern U.S. extensively and was lost at sea returning home from his last tour of 1841. He was great-grandfather of the Hollywood actor of the same name. Pages clean and bright white, page block crisp. Minor rub/scuff at extremities. A fine set in an elegant binding.. Signed. 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884. First Edition. Near Fine. [9.25x6.5in]; viii, index to Miscellaneous Documents, 1046 pp., index to the Jeannette Inquiry document, facsimile of last page of De Long journal, witness statements, excerpts of De Long, Ambler and Collins journals, letters and extracts from letters, telegrams, and notes, and statements from counsel; Rebound dark brown cloth covers with original spine label of gilt lettering on red leather and additional gilt lettering on black label, all edges trimmed; Minimal shelf wear , top text block age darken, minor age toning to edges of text, book plate of Steve Fossett on front end paper. [Howgego III D4]. The Jeannette expedition (1879-81) was led by Lieutenant-Commander George Washington De Long (1844-81). The purpose was to find a route through the Bering Strait, that was warmed by the Pacific Kiro Shio current to an open polar sea. The 'Jeannette' became icebound, northwest 350 Km and sunk in May 1881 some 400 Km from the… Read More

Boston: Cummings, Hilliard & co, 1825. SOMERVILLE, William. [ADAMS, John Quincy, author]. [SOMERVILLE, William]. Suggestions on Presidential Elections, With Particular Reference to a Letter of William C. Somerville, Esq. Boston: Cummings, Hilliard & co., 1825. First edition of pamphlet attributed to John Quincy Adams in support of a letter that was written by Willam Somerville regarding the need to reform the presidential election system in the United States, following the controversial election of 1824. Octavo (8 x 5 1/4 inches; 204 x 133 mm). 32 pp. Pamphlet, disbound with stab-marks present. Some mild toning, mainly to final leaf. Overall a very good copy. The presidential election of 1824 was a controversial one. Four candidates ran, including Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and William H. Crawford. Although Andrew Jackson received the most popular and electoral votes (this was the first election that popular votes were counted), he did not have the majority as there were four… Read More