Stockholm: Tryckt i Kongl. Tryckeriet, 1797. Folio broadside, approx. 21" x 17", text in triple column in Swedish, French, and English; previous folds in quarters, else near fine. A handsome folio broadside in three languages concerning the administration of the Island of St. Bartholomew, a Swedish colony between 1785 and..... More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868. First edition, 8vo, pp. 10; large folding celestial chart tracking the meteors; original printed blue wrappers; ex-Franklin Institute with a small accession label at the top gutter corner of the front wrapper, Institute bookplate and rules inside front wrapper, and a number of small rubberstamps..... More

Washington: G.P.O., 1904. First edition, 8vo, 148pp., 6 facsimile plates; some light scuffing, else near fine in contemporary full red morocco gilt, the name of "James Thompson McCleary" in gilt on the upper cover. The correspondence came to LC through Peter Force and "covers a very interesting period in the..... More

London: for Baldwin and Cradock, 1828. A new edition with the translator's last corrections and improvements, 12mo, viii & 270pp. plus 2pp. publisher's catalogue, folding frontispiece map of the West Indies; very good in old red quarter morocco, gilt spine, light wear to extremities, especially at corners, which are bumped..... More

New York: Charles Scribner, 145 Nassau Street, 1852. 12mo, pp. xii, [1], 14-271, [1]; tinted lithograph frontispiece of Charlotte Amalie, folding map of the island by H. B. Hornbeck, M.D. in Danish; original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine; cloth cracked along the upper joint, spine a bit dull, one gathering..... More

Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill, [1942]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 335; frontispiece portrait, 8 plates; a fine copy in a dust-jacket that has a slightly faded spine and a 2" x 1" piece missing from the top panel of the back panel. The author was a Jamaican-born novelist, poet, historian..... More

Philadelphia: Joseph Cruikshank, 1772. First edition, 12mo., pp. xvii, [1], 184, 4, [1]; endpapers foxed, occasional foxing and dampstaining; mid-19th century sheep-backed boards, black morocco label on spine, gilt; boards spotted, extremities rubbed and worn, but the binding remains sound. A Quaker minister's travels throughout American and the West Indies..... More