Ephrata, Lan. Co. PA: P. Martin Heitler, Printer and publisher for the author, 1868. First edition. 15 cm. Original cloth backed yellow paper boards, title printed in black on front board. Two printed slips laid down on front pastedown: "Please notice and send copy containing notice to the publisher. Your..... More
[Washington, Pa: 1828]. Broadside. 45 x 29 cm. Text in four columns, signed in type by A. Lacock at Spring Dale, [Pa.], June 28, 1828, at end, along with a printed note: "Let us read this and then lend it to our neighbors." Docketted on verso: "Lacock v Jackson 1828."..... More
[Pennsylvania]: zusammen getragen, MDCCXXVII. Und aufs neu abgeschrieben, 1747. A. Manuscript German-American songbook for use by a Pennsylvania family, written in black ink in a careful hand; without musical notation. Neat manuscript shoulder notes, corrections, additions, and deletions scattered throughout. Small 4to. (4), 316, (39) pp. Decorative initial letters. Text..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Chandler, Pr., 306 & 308 Chesnut Street, [Girard Building], 1864. 8vo. 19 cm. 25 pp., [3]. Disbound. Stitched sheets. Venango County, Pennsylvania was the center of oil production in the 1860s. The first successful commercial oil well in the United States was completed by E.L. Drake near..... More
Lancaster, (PA): Gedrucht bey Johann Albrecht, nd [1799]. 8vo. 15 pp. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched. Very good untrimmed copy. First edition. Evans 35450: "A Federalist pamphlet, advocating James Ross for governor." This was the first of three failed gubernatorial attempts in his active political career that included helping to settle..... More
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NP [Allegheny County, PA?]: nd [ca. 1858]. Broadside, 49 x 23 cm. Text in two columns, with caption title in large, bold type. Old fold lines, a few tiny holes and some toning, previous owner's pencil margin notes. The text reads, in part: "From necessity, Fellow Citizens, we are compelled..... More
Allentown, PA: Printed and sold by Saeger & Leisenring, 1864. Illustrated broadside, 17 x 14 inches, a partially printed birth certificate completed in red ink, with a central cut of an eagle (2 1/2 x 7 ½ inches] below the top edge, Angels (4 x 7 inches) flanking the certification..... More
Philadelphia: A. Finley, nd [1829]. Broadside map, 15 x 21 in. the counties and enclosing border hand-colored. Folded into 12mo brown straight-grain morocco boards (rubbed, spine ends chipped), printed ad for Finley on front pastedown; several long separations at folds, half-inch hole at one fold, a good copy. More
Philadelphia, (PA): Ringwalt & Brown, Steam-Power Book & Job Printers, 1865. First edition (?). 12mo. 16 pp. A printing of the by-laws and general description of the Dawson's Run Oil Co., Harmony Township, Venango County, in western Pennsylvania, organized under the act of 1854. The company owned a tract of..... More
in a series of 37 typed letters, signed by Stackpole, from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Edwards, in Chicago, Illinois, 30 April 1951-1 April 1953. 4to. 53 pages, single-spaced on Stackpole letterhead, approximately 10,000 words. Accompanied by 46 retained carbon-copies of Edwards's replies and prompts to Stackpole's letters (4to, 78 pages, single-spaced..... More
