Authors starting with H from Bartlebys Books

Cambridge, (England):: University Press for the Hakluyt Society and the Peabody Museum in Salem, (Massachusetts),, 1965.. First edition thus. Folio. 2 volumes: lx, (16), 501; (6), 506-975 pp. Large folding map. Thornton 5479 (for the 1589 edition). Gilt-stamped blue cloth. Very good. (3296) ... more information

Chicago, IL:: Donohue & Henneberry; Montgomery, AL: White, Woodruff & Fowler,, 1895.. 8vo. 331, (3) pp. Illustrated, plates, maps, one folding. Original brown cloth, gilt title on spine, marbled endpapers. Very good copy. ... more information

New York:: Collins and Hannay,, 1826.. Second edition (first issued the previous year). 12mo. (2), iv, [7]-281 pp. Sabin 29662: "Methodical and correct." Contemporary calf (rubbed), leather spine label. Corner of title page clipped, else very good. (1765) ... more information

London:: Vinton & Co.,, 1902.. Second edition, revised. 8vo. xii, 323 pp. Illustrated, 28 plates, ten with hand-coloring, two folding charts, line drawings. Later navy three-quarter morocco and cloth, marbled endpapers, gilt title, angling ornaments, and rules on spine. Very good copy in an attractive recent binding. (2793) ... more information

4to. Two pages, approximately 225 words, in part: "I and one of the boys that work for us went a hunting last week. We got 30 Duck & 18 Jack Snipe. Wish you could have been with us when I was up in Alaska. I catch a Trout that weight 4 lbs. In 2 hours, 3 of us catch 33 1/2 lbs of Trout. How is that for a fish story." The remainder of the letter is taken up with family news and a report on the Alaska trip ("A fine time, was up on some of the largest Ice Mountains that thair is in the coun... more information

Edinburgh & London:: Cadell & Co. and Simpkin & Marshall,, 1829.. First edition. 4to. 20 engraved plates, two views to a plate, each with a facing page of letterpress, folding hand-colored map. Howes H-46. Sabin 29720. Clark Old South III, 47 (half of the illustrations relate to the southern part of Hall's tour). Of his narrative, published in 1830, Clark notes "his work contains many excellent descriptions of places and conditions that came under his observation." Somewhat later ... more information

Albany, (NY):: Ward, Parsons and Company, Printers,, 1873.. First edition. 8vo. vii, 252 pp. Illustrated, 14 lithographed plates of mushrooms, butterflies, and fossils, the six mushroom plates colored. Original purple cloth (spine a little faded), gilt spine title. Very good. (1718) ... more information

Charlottesville, (VA):: University Press of Virginia for the Virginia Historical Society,, (c1981).. First edition, 1/5 copies specially bound in full leather. 4to. xvi, (2), 283 pp. [printed double-column]. Profusely illustrated, full-page color plates. Includes biographical sketches for several hundred figures represented in the collection, most of them accompanied by a black-and-white portrait from a photograph or a color plate. Burgundy crushed morocco, leather spine label, t.e.g., publisher's moro... more information

Washington, DC:: Associated Publishers,, (c1949).. First edition. Small 4to. 99 pp. Black and white marginal line drawings and plates. Folk stories of Africa by a scholar devoted to that continent. Gray cloth (badly discolored along top edge0, illustrated dust jacket. ... more information

Bluffton, SC:: The author,, 1857.. Printed broadside form letter of four paragraphs, signed by Hamilton, informing correspondents of a new address ("Austin, Texas") and a need to quickly sign a "memorial" concerning military service of ancestors. The author died two weeks after this circular was issued. Not in Turnbull. Folded for mailing; addressed and docketed on verso. Very good.  ... more information

Raleigh, NC:: Edwards & Broughton,, (c1906).. First edition, the author's published dissertation for his Columbia University degree; re-issued in 1914 in a much expanded form. 8vo. 264 pp. Cf. Howes H-129 for the expanded 1914 edition. Thornton 5559. Original printed green wrappers. Several Columbia University stamps on front wrapper, else very good. (3301) ... more information

Bangor, ME:: The author,, 1896.. First edition. 8vo. viii, 196 pp. Color map, plates. Nevins I, p. 31: "Detailed study of Jackson's flanking movement; the author defends Howard's XI Corps." Original decorated wrappers (base of spine eroded). Very good ... more information

New York:: Baker, Voorhis & Co.,, 1866.. First edition. 8vo. (4), 72 pp. Inscribed by the author on the half-title to Charles O' Conor and with his ANS of presentation to the same recipient affixed to the front pastedown; O'Conor (1804-1884) was a prominent New York lawyer who defended Jefferson Davis against charges of treason following the Civil War. Thornton 5575 (for the 1867 second edition only). OCLC locates 18 copies, most of which are in major medical libraries; only two are in North Ca... more information

Concord, (NH):: Acting Asst, Provost Marshal General,, 1864.. First edition. 4to. (4) pp. Reports total number of men enrolled and available for draft in each town in the state, by districts. Signed in type at the end by Edward Hinks as the Acting Asst. Provost Marshall General and in manuscript by Solon A. Carter as Captain and Hinks's assistant. OCLC locates one copy (New Hampshire Historical Society). Original self-wrappers. Folded as for mailing, some staining. Still a good copy. ... more information

Boston:: The editor,, 1836.. First edition (only issue published). 16mo. 118, (10) pp. Map (of Massachusetts); advertisement leaf. Ads for local businesses. A wealth of details related to commerce in the Boston area, for example, lists of banks and insurance agencies and transportation information. Sabin 30188. Original marbled wrappers (spine mostly eroded), printed paper label on upper wrapper. Very good copy housed in a custom quarter blue morocco and cloth slipcase, with chemise. (731) ... more information

Selma, AL:: Times Book and Job Office,, 1879.. First edition. 8vo. 200 pp. Howes H-192. Owen, p. 968-969 (describing his own copy). Recent navy quarter-morocco and marbled boards, gilt title on spine, original printed yellow wrappers (with advertisements for local businesses) bound in; poor quality paper browned, but a very good copy of a scarce 19th-century southern town history. ... more information

Ann Arbor, (MI):: Edwards Brothers,, 1931.. Facsimile of the 1588 original, 1/315 copies, this one inscribed by Adams to Williamsburg, Virginia, historian Rutherfoord Goodwin in the year of publication. Small 4to. (6), iv, (48) pp. Randolph G. Adams's 1931 census of copies of Hariot's 1588 "Report," "the cornerstone of any collection of Americana," listed five complete copies (Bodleian, British Library, Leyden, Huntington, and Clements); we are unaware of others surfacing since.... more information

New York:: Dodd, Mead & Co.,, 1903.. Facsimile of the 1588 original, 1/20 copies on Japan paper. Small 4to. xiii, (48) pp. Randolph G. Adams's 1931 census of copies of Hariot's 1588 "Report," "the cornerstone of any collection of Americana," listed five complete copies (Bodleian, British Library, Leyden, Huntington, and Clements); we are unaware of others surfacing since. Thornton 5634 (not mentioning this issue). Printed self-wrappers, unbound sheets. Very good. (3307) ... more information

London:: Privately printed,, 1900.. Reprint of the 1588 original "Report," 1/183 copies, first edition of the "biography," 1/195 copies. 12mo. 2 volumes: xvii, 84; (16), [7]-213 pp. Vignettes. Radolph G. Adams's 1931 census of copies of Hariot's 1588 "Report," "the cornerstone of any collection of Americana," listed five complete copies (Bodleian, British Library, Leyden, Huntington, and Clements); we are unaware of others surfacing since. Thornton 5633 and 1... more information

New York:: Privately printed (at the Derrydale Press),, 1939.. First edition, 1/100 copies, this one inscribed by the author below the limitation statement. Tall 8vo. xiv, 47 pp. Illustrated with 14 plates from photographs. An engaging account of a marlin fishing expedition out of Bimini and Cat Cay in the Bahamas (featuring the use of bonefish as bait at one point), privately printed for the author and not for sale. Harkness was a financier and philanthropist; his father co-founded the Wrigley and Harknes... more information