Hoffman, Charles Fenno. Wild Scenes in the Forest. Two volumes in One. London: Richard Bentley, [1842?]. Howes H-567. Spine-top nicked, forecorners rubbed, else very good in late 19th-century 3/4 crushed red morocco over navy blue marbled boards, marbled endpapers, spine extra gilt with sporting motifs (fish and fishing gear, dog’s head, horsehead).

Hough, Franklin B. History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, New York, from the Earliest Period to the present time. Albany: Little & Co., 1853. Howes H-678. Stout royal octavo in orig. 3/4 calf over cloth. Good (only) and sound, with pretty good examples of the folding maps.

Carmer, Carl, ed. The Tavern Lamps are Burning: Literary journeys through six regions and four centuries of New York State. New York: David McKay Co., [1964]. Very good in orig. cloth. Half-title inscribed by the author: “To Betty and Bill Rockefeller remembering a happy evening at De Bar, Carl Cormer”.

Cadbury, Warder H., ed. Journal of a Hunting Expedition to Louis Lake 1851. Blue Mountain Lake: Adirondack Museum, 1961. Photographic facsimile of the manuscript and its illustrations, plus historical introduction and transcription. Very good copy in orig. cloth.

Burke, Carleton. Home in these Hills, being a pictorial essay and commentary on time and living in the valley and hills of the Chemung Country of New York State. [Rochester: Printing House of Leo Hart, 1949.] Thinnish folio in the orig. box. Box dust-soiled and split. Book itself very good in orig. cloth. Half-title inscribed by author: “For William A. Rockefeller with the very best wishes of the author, Carleton Burke”.

Together with four related books.

All volumes from the library of William Avery Rockefeller III (1896-1973).