Search Results: Authors starting with W from George S. MacManus Company

(AFRICA). WACK, Henry Wellington. The Story of the Congo Free State: Social, Political and Economic Aspects of the Belgian System of Government in Central Africa. N.Y., 1905. 1st ed. Illus. with photos. very large folding map in color. xv, 634pp. Orig. cloth; extremities a bit rubbed and hinges tender, else a very good copy.

1968. WACKER, Peter O. The Musconetcong Valley of New Jersey. A Historical Geography. New Brunswick, [1968]. Illus. maps. 207pp. A fine copy in d/j.

WADDELL, William C[oventry] H[enry]. A Paper Read Before the American Geographical and Statistical Society. New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855. 1st ed. 48 pp. Eight engraved plates, folding map. Orig. printed wrappers. Disbound. Some light scattered foxing, else a very good copy. Presentation inscription on front wrapper, "Frederick DePeyster, Esquire, with the respectful regards of the Author. April 1876." A paper on northern New York State, particularly Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, and Warren counties.

1960. WADDELL, James I. C.S.S. Shenandoah: The Memoirs of Lieutenant Commanding James I. Eaddell. Edited by James D. Horan. New York: Crown Publishing, [1960]. 1st ed. 200pp. Frontis., illus., portraits, map endpapers. Orig. clothbacked boards, priceclipped d/j. Spine panel of d/j sunned, d/j lightly foxed, else very good. "Interesting and authoritative, but lacking in candor" Nevins I, p. 257.

1886. WADDELL, Joseph A. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, with Reminiscences Illustrative of the Vicissitudes of Its Pioneer Settlers; Biographical Sketches of Citizens Locally Prominent, and of those Who Have Founded Families in the Southern and Western States; a Diary of the Ar, 1861-'5, and a Chapter on Reconstruction. Richmond: Wm. Ellis Jones, Book and Job Printer, 1886. 1st ed. vii,374pp. Map frontis., folding map. Later cloth, all edges marbled. Ex-library, bookplates, stamps, perforated stamps, inner hinges repaired, else very good. HOWES W-2, "aa" "This country, up to 1770, extended from the Blue Ridge mountains to the Mississippi, and embraced present West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois." "Reliable and detailed, in spite of its age; contains much data on Staunton, Va., and the 5th Virginia" Nevins II, p. 246. .

1888. WADDELL, A[lfred] M[oore]. The Last Year of the War in North Carolina, including Plymouth, Fort Fisher and Bentonsville. An Address before the Association Army of Northern Virginia. Richmond: Wm. Ellis Jones, Book and Job Printer, 1888. 1st ed. 88pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Disbound, else very good. Nevins II, p.245.

1886. (VIRGINIA). (AUGUSTA COUNTY). WADDELL, Joseph A. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, with Reminiscences Illustrative of the Vicissitudes of its Pioneer Settlers.... Richmond, 1886. 1st ed. Map. viii, 374pp. Orig. cloth. Howes W-2. Very good copy.

1890. (NORTH CAROLINA). WADDELL, Alfred Moore. A Colonial Officer and His Times. 1754-1773. A Biographical Sketch of Gen. Hugh Waddell, of North Carolina.... Raleigh, N.C.: Edwards & Broughton, 1890. 1st ed. Engraved portrait on mounted India paper. 242pp. Very good copy in orig. purple gilt-lettered cloth. Howes W-1. Waddell was born in Ireland and came to North Carolina as a young man, entered military service in 1754, negotiated with the Indians during the French and Indian wars, built Fort Dobbs at the age of twenty-one; gives a good account of the colony's resistance to the Stamp Act (with previously unpublished documents) and an historical account of Brunswick. A lively picture of colonial North Carolina.

1958. WADE, H.T. and LIVELY, R.A. This Glorious Cause: The Adventures of Two Company Officers in Washington's Army. Princeton, 1958. 1st ed. Maps. 254pp. Fine in d/j.

WADE, Herbert T. A Massachusetts Soldier of the Revolution. Offprint from the Essex Institute Historical collections, Vols. 89 & 90 (1953-4). 40;19;40pp. Plates. Orig. cloth. Fine.

[WADE, John]. The Black Book. Supplement to the Black Book; or Corruption Unmasked!! London: Printed and published by John Fairburn, 1823. iv,426 pp. 2 Vols. Orig. full morocco with gilt lettering, rules, and decorations on the spines. Light wear to corners, name stamps on the front endpapers of both volumes, lengthy marginalia by a rather impassioned defender of the Irish, else bright and nearly fine. While the first volume is sometimes found on the market, the supplement is quite scarce; sets in contemporary bindings are very difficult to obtain. Black was the preferred color of binding for this work. A note at the base of the advertisement leaf in the first volume reads as follows: "It is suggested to purchasers, for the sake of uniformity, and as being most appropriate to its name and contents, that the Black Book be bound in black." James Kirke Paulding's set with his signature at the head of both title pages and his engraved bookplate on both front pastedowns. His bookplate bears a likeness of… Read More

(LONGSTREET, AUGUSTUS BALDWIN). WADE, John Donald. Augustus Baldwin Longstreet: A Study of the Development of Culture in the South. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. 1st ed. ix, 392 pp. Portrait frontis. Biography of the lawyer, educator, and humorist, best known for his book Georgia Scenes.

2008. (SOUTH CAROLINA REGIMENTAL). WADSWORTH, Mike. The 13th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry C.S.A. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, [2008]. 1st ed. 333pp. Portraits, maps. Orig. gilt-armorial cloth. Fine.

(CONNECTICUT). WADSWORTH, Rev. Daniel. Diary of...Seventh Pastor of the First Church of Christ in Hartford 1737-1747. Hartford, 1894. 149pp. Fine.

WAFER, Lionel. A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America. Giving An Account of the Author's Abode There...the Indian Inhabitants...With Remarkable Occurrences in the South-Sea and Elsewhere. The Second Edition. To which Are Added, the Natural History of Those Parts...and Davis' Expedition to the Gold Mines, in 1702. London: James Knapton, 1704. [16],283,[13]pp. plus folding map and three engraved folding plates. 19th-century three-quarter black morocco and pebbled cloth, spine gilt with leather labels. Extremities rubbed. Closed tears discreetly repaired to large folding plates. Light scattered foxing. A few leaves trimmed a bit closely. About very good. SABIN 100940. HILL 1797. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 704/168. JCB (1)III:62. The second edition of this important narrative. Wafer, a British surgeon, abandoned the trading party with whom he had sailed for the West Indies in 1679, joining up with the celebrated buccaneers, Lynch and Cook. In their company he crossed the Isthmus, where he remained… Read More

1903. WAFER, Lionel. A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America. Edited by George Parker Winship. Cleveland, 1903. Reprinted from the original edition of 1699. Illus. folding maps. Fine in orig. cloth. Limited to 500 copies.

1935. (CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.). WAGENKNECHT, Edward. Mark Twain The Man and His Work. Orig. cloth. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935. First edition. A near fine copy.

1935. (CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.). WAGENKNECHT, Edward. Mark Twain: The Man and His Work. Original cloth. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1935. First edition. BAL Vol. 2, p.253. Very good or better.

(SNYDER CO.). WAGENSELLER, George W., comp. Snyder County Annals, Vol. 1: A Collection of All Kinds of Historical Items Affecting Snyder County from the Settlement of the First Pioneers in This Section, to the Names of the Soldiers in the World War, 1917-19. Middleburgh, PA: The Middleburgh Post, 1919. 1st ed. 364 pp. Illus., portraits. Orig. cloth. Spine lightly sunned, library bookplate, else very good or better. Contains records of soldiers in every war from the Revolutionary War to World War I. Only volume published.

(NEW YORK). (ROME). WAGER, D[aniel] E. Men, Events, Lawyers, Politics and Politicians of Early Rome. Utica, NY: Ellis H. Roberts & co., Printers, 1879. 1st ed. 47 pp. Orig. printed wrappers. A very good or better copy. Early history of Rome, NY.