1 Volume. Andrew C. Haggard, Remarkable Women of France.

1 Volume. Mrs. Steuart Erskine, Beautiful Women in History and Art. Bound in full brown morocco with boards displaying gilt corner and border detailing...

1 Volume. Edward Fitzgerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Bound in full blue morocco with the cover displaying a central floral crest in gilt-too...

Parton, James. Life of Andrew Jackson. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876. Three volume set, later printing. Rebound in ¼ calf and matching blue cloth boards with gilt titles, stamps, and raised bands to spine. With matching archival blue cloth slip case with ribbon and inlaid portrait of Jackson on the cover. Presented is an 1876 printing of James Parton’s three volume biography of President Andrew Jackson. First published in 1859-60 by Mason Brothers of New York, this is a later printing by Boston-based James R. Osgood and Company. James Parton's biography of the life of Andrew Jackson is one of the most important and best accounts on the early American president. In fact, Bunn and Williams call this work "the first serious biography of the [Jackson]" (Bunn). Parton’s biography appeared in print amid the escalating political crisis of 1860, providing readers and pundits with a historical lens through which to view current events. Born in England and raised primarily in the United States, James Parton (1822-1891) was among the leading biographers of the mid-nineteenth century. His Life of Horace Greeley (1855) and Life and Times of Aaron Burr (1857) garnered widespread acclaim, and he would later publish books on Benjamin Butler...

The Remarkable Hands, An Affectionate Portrait. New York: Foundation of the Federal Bar Council, 1983. Limited edition hardcover with glassine overlay. 199 pp. A scarce biography of ...