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DE HASS, Wills. History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia. Philadelphia: H. Hoblitzell, 1851. 8vo. Full cloth stamped in blind with gilt lettering and front motif. Condition: browning to extremities; some detachment of front board with losses to head and tail of spine and cracking to fron hinge. Provenance: M.R. Shiers, 1872 [inscription]. first edition. [With:] [WAR OF INDEPENDENCE]. The American Museum or Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive Pieces, Prose and Poetical. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1787. 8vo. Volume 1. Full calf. Condition: foxing and browning throughout. pp. 384-480 are completely missing, appearing to have been cut out of the book, removing the spine and binding itself, only the top and bottom binding cords join the two parts together. General browning and foxing throughout, losses and bumping to covers and cracking to spine. [SCENIC BOOK] . American Views. New York: T. Nelson & Sons [n.d., circa 1850]. 18mo. Cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Condition: very severe foxing throughout, boards loose and growing detached; shelfwear to spineand covers. Provenance: Miss Helen Talbot, 1859 [inscription]. [With:] TUCKER, Beverly. The Partisan Leader. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1861. 8mo. 2 vols in 1. Cloth stamped in blind. Provenance: Joseph L. McGuigan [bookplate]. [With:] CARPENTER, W.H.; and T.S. Arthur (editors). The Baltimore Book. Baltimore: Bayly & Burns [N.d., circa 1830]. Condition: foxing throughout, especially to early pages, dampstain to front endpaper. Provenance: presented to Minerva S. Taylor by Her Mother, 1838 [presentation plate]. first edition. [With:] MORISON, Samuel Eliot. The Ropemakers of Plymouth. A History of the Plymouth Cordage Co., 1824-1949. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press, 1950. 8vo. Advance copy. Half morocco. Bound by Harcourt Bindery, Boston. Provenance: Robert Marceau [bookplate]. first edition. [With:] CURTIS, William Eleroy. The True Abraham Lincoln. Philadekphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1903. 8vo. Half morocco on marbled boards. Condition: slight foxing to preliminary pages and frontispiece. first edition. [With:] LEE, Guy Carleton . The True History of the Civil War. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1903. 8vo. Half morocco on marbled boards. Condition: minor tears pp. 9-10, slight foxing to preliminary pages and frontispiece. first edition. [With:] [POPE MANUFACTURING CO.] Columbia Bicycles. [N.p.], 1891. 8vo. Soft cover pamphlet advertising the latest bicycles from the company. Condition: some browning and dampstaining to covers, minor tears to edges and spine. first edition. [With:] Book of the Camp Fire Girls. New York: Camp Fire Girls, Inc., 1936. 8vo. Illustrated. Original soft cover pictorial cloth. Condition: crease to front cover, browning to extremities. Provenance: Elaine Hegg [bookplate]. first edition. [With:] [ORR, Nelson M. (compiler); and the Stockton Board of Trade]. The City of Stockton: its Position, Climate, Commerce, Resources etc., together with a brief sketch of the great San Joaquin Basin of California, of which Stockton is the natural business center. Comprising: Hubert Howe Bancroft. The Native Races of the Pacific States. Stockton: Independent Print, 1874. 8vo. Volume 1 of Bancroft’s five volume set. Other writings removed to leave only Bancroft’s text. Condition: dampstaining throughout, some browning and foxing; covers and other parts of book removed, spine is intact with original paper title still legible, although cut due to removal of the boards and other pages. author’s copy of this important anthropological text, first edition inscribed by the author to: “His Excellency… Santiago Gonzalez, President of the Republic of Salvador - with the profonud regards of Hubert H. Bancroft.” [With:] STEVENS, HAZARD. The Life of General Isaac I. Stevens. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1900. 8vo. 2 vols. Half morocco. Condition: very slight browning; minor loss to morocco on head of spine vol.1, and cracking to spines along