Providence, RI: Providence Press Company, 1883. Wraps. First Edition. 31 pp. 4to. Terra cotta colored paper stiff paper wraps, small tear at head and foot of spine.
Program from the dedication ceremony for the Canonicus Memorial. Canonicus (c. 1565-1647) was a chief of the Narragansett tribe who welcomed Roger Williams into the tribe when he was driven from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and granted him a parcel of land that led to the establishment of the Providence Plantation and Colony of Rhode Island. Very Good. More

New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1921. First Edition. 30 pp. 4to. Blue cloth boards with silver embossed titling on spine, originally published in wraps and later bound in boards. Clean and crisp within.
Printed on heavy weight paper, a beautiful production highlighting turquoise discovered in a New Mexico excavation. More

London: Printed for the Author, 1791. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. [2], x, [2], 295 pp. 4to. Three quarter brown leather binding with five raised bands at spine, gold embossed titling and flower insets to panels without titles, light brown cloth insets to front and rear boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Very clean within, containing the errata sheet that precedes the folding map of the Western Countries of Canada which has very minor offsetting -- standard with this item. Two previous owners have added their name and location to the title page, a contemporary ownership inscription in black ink at the top of the title page, a 1955 ownership inscription at the foot of the title page in blue ink. [Howes L443; Streeter VI..... More

Rose, Wendy. Greenfield Center, NY: The Greenfield Review Press, 1973. Wraps. First Edition. 25 pp. 8vo. Clean, right copy with a stapled binding. Illustrated by Wendy Rose.
Inscribed on the title page to Richard "Dick" Eberhart (1904-2005) and his wife, Betty in the year of publication. Fine. More

Flagstaff, AZ: Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art, 1939. Wraps. First Edition. First Printing. viii, 120 pp. 8vo. Ivory wraps with darkening around the edges from age, very light scuffing. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, clean and crisp within.
A very nice copy of the elusive first printing of Whiting's groundbreaking work of ethnobotany. Very Good. More