[AMERICANA]. -- WIRT, William. Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, Philadelphia: James Webster, 1817. 8o. Engraved portrait. Original gray-green paper boards, uncut, titled in ink on spine (front cover detached); slipcase. Provenance: Signature of "James Whatman 1818," on front pastedown and printed label of "J. Souter Importer of American Books" in London. FIRST EDITION. Howes W-586; Sabin 104882. -- CUSTIS, George Washington Parke. Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington, by His Adopted Son with Notes by Benson J. Lossing. New York: Derby and Jackson, 1860. 8o. Engraved frontispiece, 4 plates, edited by Mrs. Robert E. Lee. (Foxed). Original publisher's brown embossed cloth (slight rubbing); half red morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 18157. -- WALLACE, Lew. Ben-Hur. New York: Harper & Bros., [1880]. 12o. Original brown cloth (slightly rubbed, front free endpaper detached, bookplate removed from front pastedown); cloth slipcase). FIRST EDITION, Second Issue. BAL 20798. Together three items. (3)