[Boston: T. Adams, 1792]. Broadside. 35 X 21.5 cm. Signed in type by David Cobb, Speaker, Samuel Phillips, President, and approved by John Hancock, with John Avery, jun. Secretary. A vignette [a version of the State seal] printed on the upper third of the sheet, shallow chipping to margins and..... More

[Richmond VA]: 1864. Printed broadside, 19 x 11 1/2 inches, on Confederate necessity paper. Sets forth rules for handling bonds and treasury notes. Parrish & Willingham 75 (Duke only). Not in Hummel or "More Virginia Broadsides." OCLC locates one copy (Duke). Folded; several splits at the head (affecting several letters)..... More

Philadelphia, (PA): J.L. Magee, nd [1865]. First edition. Lithograph in black-and-white, 12 1/2 x 17 inches (image size: 8 5/8 x 12 1/2 inches), "an image of John Wilkes Booth seen falling into a fire in a barn. He holds a gun in his proper right hand, his proper left..... More

[Victor, CO]: 1897. Retained copies of correspondence for seven letters (15 pages, rectos only; approx. 2500 words), plus a hand-drawn diagram for the "Nellie V. Shaft," the "April Fool Shaft," and the "Golconda No. 2 Shaft." The letterhead stationery is illustrated with a 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. printed..... More

NP: np, 1810-1830? Broadside. 23 x 23 cm. Illustrated with two relief cuts in the upper corners. Verse in eleven stanzas and two columns, separated by a decorative line. Not in American Imprints. OCLC lists a copy at AAS. The young man dreams he seduces the object of his desire..... More

Indianapolis [IN]: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (c1903). Second edition, second state, but the first Bobbs-Merrill printing of Baum's first book in the Oz series, originally published by George M. Hill as "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" in 1900. Square 8vo (8 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches). 259, (2) pp. Color illustrations..... More

Autograph letter, signed, from John M. Kumler, Co. D, 15th U.S. Infantry, to his cousin Kate. Two sheets of lined paper, folded to 7.5 x 4.5 in., 7 pp., approx. 900 words. First page of each sheet bordered with a red and a blue line on two sides, old fold..... More

London: J. Booth [etc.], 1814. 22cm. xx, 363pp., plus folding map, hand colored in outline, and seventeen tables some folding. Bound in later blue leather, spine moderately faded, rubbing to joints. On pages 70- 71 some ink and pencil annotations at margins as well as a clipping of a statistical..... More

NY: Lith. of Wm. Endicott & Co., nd [ca.1850?]. Broadside (laid down), 65 x 43 cm., depicting Robert Mills' original design for the Washington Monument, including a terrace and pantheon around its base, C.G. Crehen (lithographer?). A horse-drawn chariot decorates the pantheon's terrace roof, the obelisk is decorated with a...... More

Amsterdam: Paul Marret, 1695. Later edition in French (first published in Paris, 1676; the work first published in English in London, 1648). 12mo. 2 volumes bound as one: (24), 200, 178; (14), 318 pp. Extra engraved title pages to each volume, 16 folding maps and plates. Sabin 26304. Hill 665..... More

Boston [MA]: J. Gill, Printer to the General Assembly, 1777. The first Fourth of July anniversary oration. First edition. 8vo. [3] - 37 pp. Sewn, as issued, but without the half-title. A little worn, some ink stains, scattered foxing. With several textual correction in ink, likely by the author. [Later..... More

Paris: Chez les Libraires Associes, 1772. 12mo.; (2), x, 515, (1) pp. With 17 folding engraved maps by Robert de Vaugondy (dated 1750). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt-tooled, leather spine label, marbled endpapers and edges. Ecclesiastical supralibros, gilt, on both covers, described in an old manuscript note on a fly-leaf..... More

Paris: D. Jouaust, 1875-86. 6 volumes. Printed wraps. 4 portraits. Uncut pages. Chipping to head of spine of vol. 6. Near fine. A history of French exploration in the New World, from original reports, journals & letters of explorers, many published for the first time. HOWES M-283. More