Americana
SERIES OF ESSAYS ON AGRICULTURE & RURAL AFFAIRS, IN FORTY-SEVEN NUMBERS.; by "Agricola," a North Carolina Farmer.
Raleigh, NC: Printed & published by Joseph Gales, 1819. 12mo. 223, (2) pp. Contemporary calf (rubbed), leather spine label; text heavily foxed, scattered old light tidelines, ownership names on the front endpapers, rear free endpaper removed. Still a solid, very good copy. First edition. Marshall, "Mythical Mayflower Competition" (North Carolina..... More
A History of Printing in North Carolina: A Detailed Account of the pioneer printers, 1749-1800, and of The Edward & Broughton Company, 1871-1946, Including a Brief Account of the Connecting Period. With an introduction by Hon. Josephus Daniels
Raleigh, NC: Edward & Broughton Co., 1946. First edition. 8vo. xxii, (2), 313 pp. Illustrated from photographs, portraits, plates, facsimiles. Thornton 10467. Original navy cloth, gilt spine title, printed green dust jacket (a little soiled). Very good. More
Letter (text in the hand of aide-de-camp Tench Tilghman) signed (“Go. Washington”), as commander-in-chief of the American Army, to General David Forman, Head Quarters, Bergen County, 4 September 1780; additionally signed by Washington on the address leaf, on the verso of an otherwise blank integral leaf.
Head Quarters, Bergen County, (NJ): 1780. Folio, one page, approximately 125 words, in part: “I perceive … that you had collected about two hundred Cattle more, and that a further number might be obtained … I cannot of right command the services of the militia … let the commanding officers..... More
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY: CONGRESSIONAL BANQUET IN HONOR OF GEO. WASHINGTON AND THE PRINCIPLES OF WASHINGTON.
Reported and published by Williams Hincks and F.H. Smith. Washington, (DC): Buell and Blanchard, printers, 1852. 8vo. 37 pp. [printed double-column]. Original printed plain pink wrappers (soiled), stitched; scattered foxing, but very good. First edition. Francis Lieber's copy with his ownership signature at the head of the front wrapper. More
THE PAPERS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, Presidential Series, September 1788 -- March 1789 [and April -- June 1789]. Edited by W. W. Abbot. [These two volumes edited by Dorothy Twohig.].
Charlottesville, VA: U. Press of Virginia, (c1987). First editions of the first two volumes in this series. 8vo. 2 volumes: xxiv, (2), 511; xxiii, (3), 533 pp. Title page vignette for each volume. Very good. Gilt-stamped back cloth, decorated dust jackets. (10834). More
ODES TO BE SUNG AT THE CELEBRATION OF WASHINGTON'S BIRTH-DAY, BY THE "WASHINGTON BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF THE COUNTY OF HAMPDEN," at Springfield, Feb. 22d, 1814. [caption title]
[Springfield, MA: 1814]. Broadside, 29 x 18.5 cm. Two odes, printed in two columns, with typographical border between the columns, and at the head and foot of text. Unevenly torn along top edge, just touching typographical border; some old spotting. Old repair on verso, using old paper, of a long..... More