BY-LAWS AND LIST OF MEMBERS OF RICHMOND RANDOLPH LODGE NO. XIX, ANCIENT YORK MASONS.
Richmond, [VA]: James E. Goode, 1864. 14 cm. 15pp. Brown printed wrappers stitched. Parish & Willingham 8662. More
Richmond, [VA]: James E. Goode, 1864. 14 cm. 15pp. Brown printed wrappers stitched. Parish & Willingham 8662. More
(Selma, AL): From the Selma Daily Reporter, [1863]. Broadside, 8 x 5 inches, on blue paper. Old folds, a little light foxing, but a very good example. First separate edition. Chapman (1791-1863), a native of Virginia, moved to Tennessee at an early age and on to Alabama in 1818, serving..... More
NP [“Richmond?” suggested on OCLC]: np, 1863. Printed broadside, 15 1/2 x 12 inches, the headline printed in bold capital letters. An anonymous essay on the text "What are direct taxes, within the meaning of the Constitution?" The author comes down decidedly on their being unconstitutional, citing Adam Smith, arguments..... More
Charleston, (SC): Evans & Cogswell, Printers, 18[61-63]. Partially printed document, 9 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, a cut, 1 ¼ x 1 inch, of the Palmetto tree seal at the top, this copy unused. The enlistee promised to “serve [the state] … against..... More
Charleston, (SC): Evans & Cogswell, Printers, 18[61]. Partially printed document, 9 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, this copy completed in manuscript and signed by Goetz April 16, 1861. The enlistee promised to “serve [the state] … against all its enemies or opposers whomsoever..... More
New Orleans, LA:Blackmar & Co.; Augusta, GA: Blackmar & Bro. c1863 (C.S District Court, Georgia). 4to. 3 pp Music only. Publisher’s catalogue on verso of final leaf (lower edge trimmed taking final line of catalogue). Cover leaf: Southern Military Music for Piano, listing 20 titles, this one (“Washington Artillery Parade..... More
(Richmond, VA): Senate Bill No. 155, Jan. 5. [1865]. 8vo. 3 pp. 58 numbered lines to the bill which raises the pay and makes other adjustments for women working in a variety of areas: clerks, matrons and nurses in hospitals, seamstresses making military clothing, those “engaged in making or preparing..... More
New Orleans, (LA): A.E. Blackmar & Bro. nd [1861]. One of "Blackmar & Bro.'s Parlour Gems by Favorite Authors". 4to. 7 pp. Parrish & Willingham 7383, locating five copies (Georgia, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Brown, Tennessee State Library). Disbound (old staining through text). A little insect damage to several leaves (not..... More
Augusta, GA: Blackmar & Bro. nd [1864?]. One of "The Exotics: Flowers of Song Transplanted to Southern Soil.". 4to. (3) pp. Title page printed in green ("B. Duncan & Co. Lith Coilumbia S.C."). Parrish & Willingham 7309. Printed self-wrappers. Foxed, else very good. (627). More
(Augusta, GA): Augusta Constitutionalist, 1861. Broadside, 16 x 6 1/2 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, including two large display types at the head, the two columns of text separated by a thin rule. Folded, a little browning and old staining, but a very good example of an..... More
Shreveport, (LA): Louisiana State Collector’s Office, July 18, 1864. Handbill, 8 ½ x 5 ¼ inches, the supplemental instructions printed recto (13 numbered paragraphs, signed in type at the end “P. W. Gray / Agent of Treasury”), “Additional Instruction to District Collectors and Assessors of the War Tax” printed verso..... More
Charleston, SC: Evans & Cogswell, Printers to the Convention, 1860. First edition. 8vo. 13 pp. Sabin 87435. Parrish & Willingham 3761. Disbound pamphlet (lacking outer printed wrappers; text block uniformly browned); inscription or owner’s name at the head of the title page almost entirely trimmed away in binding, a good..... More
[Richmond, VA]: House of Representatives, Feb. 6, 1865. First edition. 8vo. (1) pp. In part: “If we then judged that the enemy intended to impoverish and oppress us, we now know they propose to subjugate, enslave, disgrace, and destroy us … our cause is righteous and must prevail … unawed..... More
(Richmond, VA): Richmond & Danville R.R. Co. “on the Requisition of the Quartermaster’s Department of the Confederate States”, nd [1861-1865]. Unused ticket for rail travel, 2 x 3 ½ inches, printed on mulberry card stock, with blanks for manuscript entries of place of origination and destination and number of seats..... More