Montreal, (Canada): Campbell and Becket: and for sale at their office, Muir's Buildings, Place D'Armes, 1839. 19 cm. iv, -142, (1) pp. Illustrated frontis. Blue paper boards with black leather spine (rubbed). Previous owner's ink notes on rear endpaper. Lande Rare and Unusual 1st Supplement, S8. OCLC: Acadia, Toronto Public..... More
(NY): William Swift, Jr., publisher; printed by C.S. Underwood, 1838. 12mo. 142 pp. Illustrated with woodcuts of buildings; ads. Folding street map as frontispiece. Original marbled boards, rebacked with new leather spine, and leather spine label; fore-edges of several leaves trimmed (pages 27-30) in binding resulting in a loss of..... More
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NP [Washington, DC?]: np, nd [ca. 1890]. We found two notices in the Washington, D.C., newspaper, the "Afro-American," both from 1937, listing a Miss Jannie Payton as financial secretary of the Monteray Club, and noting that she was hosting one meeting and participating with the executive committee in another. Photographic..... More
[Houston: Printed at the Telegraph Office, 1838]. Disbound pamphlet. 22.5 cm. 48 pp., (2 pp., index). Foxing and browning to text block. Streeter 277. More
[NP: the company? early 1870s]. Broadsheet. 45 x 16 cm. Text printed in various sizes and styles of type, in red and black. Wm. R. Barr, General Passenger Agent, and Jno. N. Abbott, Assistant General Passenger Agent, New York. On the verso is a map with caption title "MAP OF..... More
Meridian, (MS): Daily Clarion Book and Job Office, 1863. First edition (?). 8vo. 24 pp. Includes list of officer s and attendees, the address of the grand master, the grand secretary’s biennial and annual reports, etc. Not in Parrish & Willingham. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Disbound pamphlet (some binding..... More
Baltimore, (MD): Printed by James Lucas, 1847. First edition. 8vo. 25 pp. Large folding map, 51 x 68 cm., of the railroad and canal systems of Pennsylvania and Maryland, the routes hand-colored according to status (e.g., proposed routes in yellow). The Cumberland Valley Rail Road ran from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to..... More
Philadelphia, [PA]: Printed by John C. Clark, 60 Dock Street, 1839. 25 cm. 8pp., folding frontis. map and profile (one closed tear, else crisp). Green wrappers, chipped, some splitting along spine. OCLC: NY. Hist. Soc. Lib., Hagley, NW Univ., Univ. of MI, Univ. of MO, PA State, Brown, AAS. More
New York: M.B. Brown & Co., Publishers and Printers, 199, 201 & 203 William Street, [1866]. First edition. 12mo. 18 cm. 232 pp., plus ads. Original brown cloth-backed printed paper boards. A bit rubbed, spine with chipping, otherwise very good. Includes "California State Rules of the Different Jockey Clubs and..... More
[Tallahassee, Florida Territory?]: nd [1835]. Printed broadside, 19 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches, three contemporary manuscript corrections or additions. Not in Servies’s exhaustive Bibliography of Florida, Hummel, Sabin, or American Imprints. Not recorded on OCLC. However, we sold another copy in 2003 and know of one other that has passed..... More
NP [Tucson, A.T.]: n.d. [ca.1880]. Broadside newspaper supplement, 37 x 25 cm. In addition to ads, this supplement published part of the text of the "Sonora Charter" of October 20, 1877, the contract made by the minister of public works with Messrs. David Ferguson and Sebastian Camacho, representing Mr. Robert..... More
(Washington, DC: War Department, nd [1816-1818?]. 4to, 2-pages, blank integral leaf), with a section outlining provisions for granting land bounties and a paragraph, signed by Nathaniel Cutting, a clerk in the War Department, in 1818, granting "Mr. Samuel Jackson" a bounty, and with the name "Thos. N. Vinson" added in..... More
(Paris, 1805). Engraved view (“Grave par Tardieu l’aîné”), 7 x 9 in. (platemark) with margins trimmed (9 x 12 for the sheet), published as plate 18 in Georges Collot’s A Journey in North America (Paris, 1824-26). A little browning around the edges, old light tideline affecting lower corner, including image..... More
New York: Charles Magnus & Co., 12 Frankfort St. nd [1860s, Magnus is listed in New York Directories at 12 Frankfort Street from 1861 to 1867]. Titles: (1) Louisiana: New Orleans; (2) Maryland: Lunatic Asylum, at Spring Grove, Baltimore Co.; (3) Boston; (4) New York: Syracuse; (5) New York: Saratoga;..... More
Los Angeles, CA: Tight Lines publishers, 1932. First edition, 1/500 copies. 8vo. (10), 239 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, mounted portrait frontispiece of the author, line drawings, vignettes, endpaper maps. Swordfish and tuna fishing off Catalina Island. Bruns B-37 (describing a different binding). Front hinge repaired, else very good. Original..... More
4to 2 pages, approximately 225 words. In part: "I hope you will believe I am as well disposed … to conduct our business on liberal & fair principles. I have too high an opinion of your sense of justice to have any doubt upon this subject. But the cruel rapacity..... More
(Lexington, KY): Kentucky Reporter, 1828. First edition thus (an earlier printing appeared in Washington in late 1827), "Supplement to the Kentucky Reporter, Lexington January 23, 1828" at head of title page. 8vo.52 pp. Original self-wrappers, stitched, a very good untrimmed copy. Uncommon: the NUC locates but two copies (ViU, McSHi)..... More
(Paris, TX: The author, nd [1907]. First edition. 8vo. 312 pp. Portrait frontispiece. Inscribed by the author to his sister on the front endpaper. Not in Howes, Eberstadt, Graff, Decker, or Soliday. OCLC locates nine copies (New York Public, Arkansas, Yale, Library of Congress, North Carolina, Baylor, San Antonio Public..... More
Pebbled cloth, boards detached, spine perished, gilt stamped oval decoration on front board, blind stamped oval decoration on rear board. 20 cm. 38 pp. of notes, approx. 9000 words, in a neat hand. “A.B. Dundor, F & M College, Sep. 24/61” on front endpaper. The first set of lecture notes..... More
Charleston, (SC): Walker, Evans and Co., 1860. First edition. 12mo. 190 pp. [plus an additional section of blank leaves, each with a printed head, for manuscript additions, unused here]. Engraved plate of the cemetery. Cover title: "Inscriptions in the Unitarian Cemetery, Charleston, S.C." Inscribed by the editor (signed "C.G.") to..... More
Paris: Hachette, 1861. First edition. 16mo. 309, (2) pp. Half-title. Describes an 1859 visit to Canada, with special attention paid to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Bound with: Lettres sur les États-Unis d'Amérique, par Lieutenant-Colonel [Marcel V.P.C] Ferri Pisani, aide de camp de S.A.I. le Prince Napoleon. (Paris: Hachette, 1862; iv..... More
New York: Henry G. Langley, 1845. Second edition. Two volumes. 12mo. 320; 318 pp. One map, and six plates, illustrations in text. This is the issue without the large folding map, the preface, the glossary, or index, and with the title page of volume two identical to the first edition..... More
[Baltimore, MD? nd]. Stitched sheets, 19 x 15 cm., 36 pp., over 5000 words in ink in a neat hand, with several manuscript corrections. Two pieces of addendum laid in, with notes on where the lines were to be inserted into the text, written on bits of paper neatly clipped..... More
New York: Published by James J. Hewitt & Co. 137 Broadway, [1835 or 1836]. 34 cm. [2] leaves, 85 pp. Front board lacking, marbled paper rear board detached. Engraved title. "Pr. $3.50 nett" printed on title. Small rubber stamp of Fiot, Meignens Co. Phila. at bottom of title page. Lithograph..... More
Paterson, New Jersey: Alexander S. Gould, Printer, [1832-3?]. Broadside, printed on silk. 66 x 51 cm. Seven columns of text. A few pieces missing along outer margins of border, a few tears within text. Jackson attacks the South Carolina Convention that passed the nullification ordinance, denounces nullification as treason and..... More