Salem, [MA]: William Ives & Co., printers, 1839. Printed wrappers. 18 cm. 36pp., [1] folded leaf of plates: map. Library sticker on front cover, Library Bureau of Railway Economics stamp on verso of title page. Front wrapper has Register and Observer Offices as printer. Thomson 2126. OCLC: Cornell, NY Hist..... More
Little Rock: Printed by William E. Woodruff, Printer to the Territory, 1834. 20 cm. 119, iii pp. Stitched signatures, unopened and untrimmed. Very good. ALLEN 33 OCLC: AAS, Univ. of AR Fayetteville, Univ. of AR Law, Georgetown Univ., Georgetown Univ. Law, Law Library of LA, Univ. of Houston, Univ. of..... More
[Richmond, VA: 1824]. First edition. 4to. 15 pp. Each line of the text is numbered. George Washington founded the Potowmack Company in 1785 to make navigability improvements to the Potomac River, with an ultimate goal of using waterways to connect the eastern seaboard to the Ohio River and the Great..... More
Washington, (DC): Printed by Davis & Force, 1819. First edition. 8vo. 575 pp. With the ownership signature of James F. Haliday, who served on the District's Common Council in the early 1840s, at the head of the title page. Sabin 20300 (“Not adopted”; a code was finally adopted in 1855)..... More
New Orleans, LA, nd [1880s and 1890s]. Advertising cards. Among the companies represented on the cards are I.L. Lyons & Co. (home remedies), Extra Dry (bar on St. Charles St.), Levy & Boswell (agents for Globe Pickle Co.), John Gauche's Sons (pottery and porcelain), Martin Weydig (saddlery, harness, and firemen's..... More
Philadelphia [PA]: printed and sold by Andrew Bradford, 1722. 18 1/2 cm.; (8), xii, 232 pp. Bound with THE OFFICE, DUTY AND AUTHORITY OF SHERIFFS, HOW AND IN WHAT MANNER TO EXECUTE THE SAME, ACCORDING TO THE COMMON AND STATUTE LAWS OF GREAT-BRITAIN, WHICH ARE NOW IN FORCE AND USE..... More
NP: np, nd [ca. 1880]. First edition. 8vo. 8 pp. Inscribed at the head of the title leaf "Return to Gen. Rosecrans / Grand Hotel." William S. Rosecrans (1819-1898), an Ohio native and West Point graduate, served in the Civil War as a Union general, commanding the Army of the..... More
G[reat] S[alt] L[ake] City, U.T. 1852. First edition. Small 8vo. 48 pp. Disbound pamphlet. Very good. More
[Great Britain]: nd [ca. 1820]. Oblong 4to (9 x 9 ½ inches). Contents leaf, listing 33 selections, characterizing each by type (song, glee, round, air, duet, or catch), generally a first verse and chorus written with the music, later verses following below the music, almost all popular tunes of the..... More
(Arlington, FL): Norman Studios, [1928]. Double-folio. (4) pp. Illustrated advertising pressbook for the 1926 Norman film; at head of front cover: "Coming to this Theater (This is exact reproduction of window card.)." Includes list of available ads (lobby cards, etc.), with sample illustrations, notes on production, address panel, etc., prepared..... More
NP [Rochester, NY? D.M. Dewey's American Fruit & Flower Plates, Colored from Nature, 2300 Varieties] Mensing & Stecher, Lith. nd [early 1880s?]. Oblong 8vo (14 x 22 cm.). Color lithographed title page and 61 color plates (two additional plates have been carefully pruned away, leaving only a stub). Remains of..... More
Charleston: Evans & Cogswell, 1863. First edition (to replace the adapted United States Ordnance Manual published in Charleston and Richmond in 1861). Small 8vo. 546 pp. (page 131 is blank, as in all copies). 33 plates; errata. Parrish & Willingham 2491. Text block toned, staining to a number of leaves..... More
London and Brussels: Willis and Sotheran; and C. Muquardt & Co. (printed in Berlin by Unger brothers, printers to the King), 1864. Second edition (first published in 1862). Folio. 45 pp. 50 colored lithotinted plates, including the frontispiece. OCLC locates one copy of this edition (Columbia), though five of the..... More
Topeka, (KS): Santa Fe Watch Co. (H.M. Ives & Son, printers), nd [1920s?]. First edition (?). 8vo. 32 pp. Illustrated, fold-out plate, the use of gold coloring applied liberally. 67 different watch models, gold emblems, gold Waldemar chains, knives, etc., are described. Santa-Fe Watch began in 1913, heavily advertised in..... More
Plaqueville, LA: Iberville Parish, August 4, 1860 - November 24, 1860. Group of eight broadside Supplements and one broadside Extra issued by the Plaquemine Gazette and Sentinel on August 4, 18, 25, September 1, September 15, 29, October 20, November 3, 24. Folio. 515 x 400 mm. (21 1/4 x...... More
Galesburg, IL: Sherman & Adams, attorneys at law, nd [1860]. Printed broadside, 24 x 18 1/2 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, the head illustrated with three small cuts of military men in uniform, one cavalryman on horseback, and two infantrymen. Sherman & Adams, a Galesburg, Illinois, law..... More
Southern Pines, NC: Eddy’s Studio, nd [ca. 1920]. Hand-colored photograph, 8 1/8 x 15 7/8 inches, lettered in white ink, “Southern Pines, N.C.” in the lower left corner and “Eddy” in the lower right corner. Diagonal seven inch crack at center of the photo, abrasion upper left corner. Still a...... More
Oblong 4to. 1 page, seal intact; docketed on verso. Burke and Huger each had prominent associations with the South Carolina branch of the Society of Cincinnati, Huger serving as first vice-president and Burke publishing a widely circulated pamphlet warning that the organization would widen the division between "the patricians and..... More
New York: William Abbatt, 1913. Second edition, Magazine of History with Notes and Queries, extra no. 24 (first published Paris, 1902). Small 4to. 96 pp. Corbin served as a staff officer to Major General Charles W. Field, the commander of Hood's old division, in Longstreet's corps. Nevins "Civil War Books"..... More
(Arcade, NY: Thomas A. Daly Studio, c1998). First edition, 1/300 copies signed by the artist/author and accompanied by an original wash drawing by the artist, signed by him. Oblong folio. 152 pp. Profusely illustrated from the artist's paintings, primarily color plates. "[Daly's] personal relationship with the natural world strikes an..... More
Philadelphia, (PA): Reprinted and sold by James Chattin , in Church-alley, 1754. First American edition (first published London, 1753). 8vo. iv, 280 pp. Sabin 25270. Evans 7194. Not in Haynes or Thornton. Clark Old South I, 81: "The author, a Quaker missionary, made three trips to America [1706-1707, 1721-1723, and..... More
Athens, GA: Wm. N. White & Brother (Printed at the Franklin Job Office, Athens), 1851. First edition. 8vo. 47 pp. “The course of this essay, will be to described the remarkable facts, which happened, and influential individuals who lived, previous to the time of the commencement of this College [1801].”..... More
(1) [A group of four Hawaiians, three women and a man, eating poi, sitting cross legged behind bowls in a studio setting]. Oval photograph, 5 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches, inset on photo paper, 6 1/2 x 9 inches, mounted on a large board. Dated in pencil on verso "circa..... More
London, New York, & Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.. (1922). 29cm. viii, 206 (1) pp. First edition with Rackham illustrations. Signed limited edition. Copy #496 of 600, signed by Arthur Rackham with 24 full-page color plates, 16 of which are tipped-in with captioned tissue guards; plus 20 in text drawings..... More
Effingham, IL: 1898 - 1899. Tall, narrow ledger book, bound in buckram, with leather corners (chipped). Hinges cracked, some staining to boards and spine, but text all legible. 38 x 15 cm., approx. 239 pp. of entries, for clothing issued to each member of Effingham, Illinois' Company G as they..... More