[AMERICA (Michigan and Maryland)] - 5 volumes. - Lot 6

[AMERICA (Michigan and Maryland)] - 5 volumes. - BAER (Elizabeth). Seventeenth Century Maryland. A bibliography. Baltimore, 1949 (Reprint, 2000). Quarto, XXIX, 219 pp., publisher’s cloth binding. This catalog of the holdings of the John Work Garrett Library provides a comprehensive and detailed bibliography of early works on Maryland. It includes descriptions of 209 books on history, early voyages, maps, natural history, ornithology, and more. It features abundant illustrations reproducing documents and most of the title pages. The first edition, printed in a small run, is impossible to find. - WROTH (Lawrence C.). A History of Printing in Colonial Maryland. 1686–1776. Baltimore, 1922 (Reprint, 2010). In-4, [1 f.], XIV pp., [1 f.], 275 pp., illustrated cardboard binding by the publisher. Following a lengthy preface on the beginnings of printing and Maryland’s earliest printers, the book provides a description—with detailed collation, often accompanied by commentary—of the 393 books published during the period in question. Plates are included in the page count. - KARPINSKI (Louis Charles). Bibliography of the Printed Maps of Michigan, 1804–1880. With a series of over one hundred reproductions of maps constituting a historical atlas of the Great Lakes and Michigan. Historical Atlas of the Great Lakes to Accompany the Bibliography of the Printed Maps of Michigan. Lansing, 1931 (Reprint, 2002). 2 volumes in one large 8vo volume, 539 pp. + atlas, publisher’s cloth binding. - McMURTRIE (Douglas C.). Early Printed in Michigan. With a bibliography of the issues of the Michigan Press. Chicago, 1931 (Reprint, 2000). In-8, [2 ff], 351 pp, numerous illustrations, publisher’s binding. Following a history of printing in Michigan from its origins—which occupies the first 100 pages—comes the bibliography, arranged first alphabetically by city and then chronologically. This is followed by a directory of newspapers. Index. - GREENLY (Albert Harry). A Selective Bibliography of Important Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides relating to Michigan History. Lunenburg (Vermont), The Stinehour Press, 1958 (Reprint, 2011). In-4, XVII, 165 pp., illustrated cardboard binding by the publisher. 28 plates. Index.