VIRGINIANA from Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books

Williamsburg: Printed by William Rind. Printer to the Colony, 1772. . 2 volumes: [2] and 8 pp. and [2] and 51 pp. Folio in 2s, paper-covered boards, narrow leather backstrip; worn; contemporary ownership signature of Brightberry Brown on front pastedown; free endpapers lacking Berg 200 and 208; Evans 12265 and 12591. Acts in this format are extremely rare and… Read more about this item

Richmond: The Heritage Press, Inc, 1907. . 8vo, printed wrappers, front pictorial; previous owners annotation on front cover Many views of houses, bridges, farms and crops

Danville: Blair & Boatwright, 1897. . Tall 8vo, bright red cloth, extremities of spine slightly abraded; ownership signature on blank preceding title FIRST EDITION

Winchester: For the author, by J. Foster, 1814. . 12mo in half-sheets, original calf, worn; lacking free endpapers; some dampstaining and foxing to text, latter due to poor quality of the American paper used; two late 19th century bookplates on front pastedown, small paper repair to bottom outer corner of title. Wegelin 1200. The author, a medical doctor, got… Read more about this item

Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1947. . Folio, full red leather, Virginia arms in gilt on the front cover and seal on the back; spine gilt; some wear to edges ONE OF 350 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY H.V. WEDDELL.The story of the reconstruction of an English house in Richmond's up-market Windsor Farms

Portsmouth [Va.]: Printed at the Daily Transcript Office, 1856. . 8vo, yellow wrappers, front printed Not in Haynes or Swem, but now to be found in the Library of Virginia.A catalogue of God's misdeeds over the centuries, ending with the 1855 outbreak of Yellow Fever in Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia, attributed to the infested ship "Ben Franklin".The Rev. Handy… Read more about this item

Mountain Valley, Virginia: Joseph Funk & Sons, 1848. . 8vo, full mottled calf (in the Spanish manner) red spine label; light foxing throughout Haynes 17853